PAUL DAVID JONES Since 1900 Paul D. Pones has given his energies to banking interests and during much of that period he has been associated with the Guarantee Title & Trust Company, which he has served in the capacities of vice president and director since 1915, thus figuring prominently in financial circles of Cleveland. A product of the east, he was born in East Bangor, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1876, and is the younger of the two sons of William David and Melinda Jones, his brother being Daniel W. Jones. The father was born in Wales, June 27, 1849, and at the age of nine years came alone to America and located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and went to work in the coal mines of that region, so so continuing until 1867. He then went to East Bangor, Penn-sylvania, and while there he was married to Miss Melinda Weidman, whose father, Jacob Weidman, owned slate quarries in that district. William D. Jones was connected with the business of his father-in-law for a time and afterward was employed in other quarries near East Bangor. Coming to Cleveland in 1888, he joined the sales force of Auld & Conger, miners of roofing slate, and remained with them until his death in 1924. In the Keystone state Paul D. Jones pursued his education until he was a lad of eleven, when he came with the family to Cleveland, and here continued his studies for four years. Leaving school at the age of fifteen, he secured a situation as post and office boy with the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency, for which he worked for a year, and afterward spent eight - 801 - 802 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS months with the Valley Railroad, discharging the duties of a clerk. He was next a bookkeeper for Auld & Conger, severing his connection with the firm at the end of five years, and during 1898 and 1899 was with E. B. Tidd, engaged in the general insurance business, having charge of the fire insurance department. In June, 1900, he resigned to become secretary and treasurer of the Genesee Savings & Banking Company, of which he was one of the organizers, and acted in the dual capacity until it was absorbed by the Reserve Trust Company. Due to his experience and capability, he was made assistant secretary of the two branches of the above consolidation, serving until 1909, when he became assistant treasurer of The Depositors Savings & Trust Company and in May, 1910, came with the Guarantee Title & Trust Company, as assistant treasurer, and in 1911 was elected treasurer. In 1915 he was called to the office of vice president and is one of the executives who are responsible for the growth and success of this large financial institution. In addition to serving on the board of the Guarantee Title & Trust Company he is a director of the Cleveland Securities Corporation and a director and member of the finance committee of the Citizens Mortgage Investment Company. On the 27th of June, 1900, Mr. Jones was married in Cleveland to Miss Georgia A. Hauxhurst, by whom he has two sons, Paul D., Jr., and Robert W. The residence of the family is 29844 Lake road in Bay Village, Ohio, and Mr. Jones' office is in the Guarantee Title building of Cleveland. Loyal and patriotic, he was connected with the American Protective League, serving in the department of justice, during the World war. In 1922 he was elected a councilman of Bay Village and occupied the office until 1925. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce he has stimulated Cleveland's growth and progress. Golf and fishing afford him the needed relaxation and diversion. He belongs to the Lakewood Country Club and the Rotary Club, while his Masonic affiliations THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 803 are with the lodge, chapter, commandery and shrine. A financier of high standing, Mr. Jones has demonstrated what may be accomplished when effort and ambition combine and has worthily won the distinctive title of "self-made man." FREDERICK WILLIAM STECHER The constructive and initiative faculties predominated in the career of the late Frederick William Stecher, who wrote his name on the pages of Cleveland's business history in terms of honor and of success. Born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, November 25, 1866, he was the youngest in a family of eight children whose parents were Rev. Antone Daniel and Margaret (Bachman) Stecher, who were natives of Germany. His father, a Lutheran minister, served as pastor of churches in Huntington, Indiana, and Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where his death occurred in 1894, after which his widow lived with a daughter in Springfield, Illinois, until 1920, when she passed away at the age of ninety-six years. Frederick W. Stecher was a pupil in a Lutheran school and attended high school in Sheboygan. When his course was completed he took up the study of pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin and was graduated with the class of 1887. He provided the funds for his higher education by work in vacations, spending two summers in the drug store of his brother, Henry W. Stecher, in Cleveland. On becoming a registered pharmacist Frederick W. Stecher went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he entered the employ of the Hofflins Drug Company, and later was with the Palace Drug Company of that city. Early in 1892 he returned to Cleveland and purchased a half interest in his brother's drug store, of which he became sole proprietor in September, 1900. Versatile, re-sourceful and methodical, he was one of the few men who could do a number of things and do them well. While still a druggist he built up an extensive barber supply busi- - 805 - 806 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS ness and was the organizer and first president of the Barber Supply Dealers Association of America. Mr. Stecher's outstanding achievement was in perfecting and marketing- a product known to millions, though comparatively few of the users were aware of the fact that he was the man responsible for its phenomenal success. In June, 1901, after sixteen months of study and experiment, he perfected the formula for Pompeian massage cream, a toilet preparation which soon found favor with the public. The perfection of the formula was only one step toward success, since the manufacture and sale of the preparation involved the consideration of large capital. Mr. Stecher systematically and intelligently directed the advertising and sales work. Some of his business friends advised him to give up the project but he labored on, bringing to bear all of his energy and resourcefulness and a remarkable degree of faith and tenacity. Within his lifetime Pompeian massage cream was to be found on the display shelves of upwards of seventy-five thousand drug stores in America and in nearly all barber shops in this and in foreign lands, since it was sold in every civilized part of the globe. The bulding up of a national and international demand for this Cleveland-made product has been one of the great achievements in American business history. Into other channels of activity Mr. Stecher directed his creative efforts. He was one of the founders of the American Multigraph Company, of which he became vice president, and was called to the presidency of the International Multigraph Company, also serving as vice president of the Multigraph Sales Company. He owned stock in the Pearl Street Savings & Trust (now the Cleveland Trust) Company, of which his brother, Henry W. Stecher, is the president ; was also a stock-holder in the National City Bank, the Baker-Rauch & Lang Company and the National Woolen Company, and was financially interested in other Cleveland concerns. He owned real estate in Cleveland and in Lakewood, erecting their beautiful home at 12960 Lake Avenue, in the latter city in 1909. THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 807 On the 30th of October, 1895, Mr. Stecher was married in Cleveland to Miss Lue Morgan, a descendant of James Morgan, who emigrated to America from Wales in 1636 and set-tled at Roxbury, Massachusetts. Among his children was John Morgan, whose son, Joseph, became the father of Dr. Consider Morgan, a Yale graduate, who practiced medicine in Connecticut. His son, Dr. Isaac Mosley Morgan, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Stecher, was a pioneer of the Western Reserve and the founder of the family at Brecksville, Ohio. In politics a stanch whig, he filled a number of offices, among them one of the early judges of the court of common pleas in Cuyahoga county in 1824. He married Sally Harris, and five children were born to them, the second of them being Consider Morgan, grandfather of Mrs. Stecher. He became the father of four children : Moses Isaac ; Henry Goodwin Morgan, M. D. ; Sid Othneal Morgan, M. D.; and Ella Marana, who married William Hanna, of Cleveland. Moses I. Morgan was born in Brecksville, Ohio, February 1, 1835, and married Laura E., daughter of William Briggs Greene, who came from New England. Five children were born to this union, Mrs. Stecher being the only one living. Moses I. Morgan died in 1895. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Stecher became the parents of two sons, the eldest of whom is Robert Morgan Stecher, M. D. He was born December 1, 1896, attended Dartmouth College where he received his B. A. degree in 1919. His M. D. degree was from the medical department of Harvard University in 1923. On April 7, 1926, in the Little Church Around the Corner in New York he was married to Miss Florence McCarthy, and they have two children, Mary Louise and Robert Morgan Stecher, Jr. The other son, Paul Frederick Stecher, was born July 31, 1901, and died October 30, 1909. In 1911 Mr. and Mrs. Stecher adopted a daughter, Edith Downing, who was born at Clyde, Ohio, July 2, 1907, and died November 27, 1927. Frederick W. Stecher gave his political support to the republican party and in all matters of citizenship was loyal 808 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS and progressive. His civic spirit prompted his effective efforts as a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Industry. Keenly interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, he made possible the purchase of the building on the west side which has since been owned and occupied by this organization. In religious belief he was an Episcopalian and attended the Church of the Ascension in Lakewood. In his leisure hours Mr. Stecher was a student of the science of botany, and fishing was his favorite sport. He belonged to the Castalia Trout Club, the Rockwell Spring Trout Club, the Clifton Club, the Cleveland Advertising- Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Masonic fraternity. His activities were far-reaching and most beneficial in their effects. He belonged to that class of men who excel in every-think that they undertake—the real leaders who constitute the strength and the motive power of every city in which they are found. In every relation he was true to high principles, never faltering in his choice between right and wrong, and at all times followed the course sanctioned by conscience and honor. His life of usefulness was terminated September 27, 1916, at the age of fifty years, and he was laid to rest in Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland. His influence for good still survives and his memory lives to inspire future generations. ROBERT HAMLIN YORK Varied lines of commercial activity were stimulated by the initiative and energy of Robert Hamlin York, who was accounted one of Cleveland's most enterprising and capable business men and desirable citizens. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, October 29, 1866, he was a son of Barney Hamlin and Julia (Harkness) York, the former born at York Settlement, near Sodus, New York, September 23, 1833, and the latter a native of Bellevue, Ohio. Of English lineage, Barney H. York was a son of James York and a grandson of Robert York, who was the founder of the family at York Settlement, near Sodus, New York. In the decade of the '30s, James York came with his family to Ohio, purchasing land in Sandusky county and building his home in what is now the thriving little city of Clyde. By his first wife he had three children : James, Rachel and Sally Ann. His second wife was Eliza Hamlin, the mother of Barney H. York. With the lumber and salt industries of Michigan, Barney H. York was identified as a business associate of Henry M. Flagler, who had married a sister of Julia (Harkness) York. Her father, Dr. L. G. Harkness, was a pioneer physician of Bellevue, Ohio. Mr. Flagler was engaged in the grain busi-ness in the Buckeye state, and lost his modest fortune of fifty thousand dollars in the salt industry at Saginaw, Michigan. Afterward he acquired wealth as an officer of the Standard Oil Company and during the last thirty years of his life was extensively engaged in development work in Florida. For a number of years Barney H. York was engaged in the grain and elevator business at Clyde and in 1867 removed to Cleve- - 809 - 810 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS land, where he became junior member of the firm of Flagler & York. Subsequently he was a partner of the late Dr. Otis in the Otis Elevator Company. Following the burning of their plant in the early '70s, he became a member of the firm of Gardner, Clark & York, owners of the Union Elevator Company, and maintained that connection until his death, which occurred in 1884. He also furthered the progress of the Forest City as vice president of the old board of trade and as president of the Chamber of Commerce, to which office he was called in 1873. He regularly attended services at the Old Stone Church and was identified with the Masonic fraternity. His widow survived him for nearly forty years, passing away at Cleveland in June, 1922. They were the parents of two sons and a daughter : Georgie, the widow of John D. Maclennan of Toronto, Canada; Robert Hamlin ; and Roy F., who made his home in Cleveland. In infancy Robert H. York was brought by his parents to Cleveland and here he was a pupil in the city schools and in the old Bridgeman Academy. At Andover, Massachusetts, he completed a course in Phillips Academy, one of the most exclusive preparatory schools in the east, and passed all the entrance examinations to college but did not continue his education due to the death of his father. Going to St. Augustine, Florida, he started to work in the office of his uncle, Henry M. Flagler, who was then building the Ponce de Leon Hotel, the first of the enterprises by which he did so much to develop the east coast of that state. After the hotel was completed Mr. York traveled abroad for a time and later spent two years in Colorado. With his return to Cleveland he entered the employ of the Standard Oil Company, working in the cooperage department under Martin Snyder, and was with the cor-poration for several years. Afterward he was one of the organizers and officers of the Phoenix Paint Company and next engaged in the brokerage business under the style of R. H. York & Company, successfully administering its affairs for fifteen years. Into other channels his energies were directed THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 811 with equally gratifying results. He was a leading spirit in the formation of the Ivanhoe Bank of Cleveland Heights and became its president, occupying the office until his death on the 1511 of March, 1924. In addition he served as president of the Berkshire Manufacturing Company, which he had aided in organizing; president of the Metropolitan Motor Insurance Company; vice president of both the Securities Com-pany and the Sterling-Knight Motor Company ; and a director of the Ritters Trust Company. Methodical, systematic and well poised, he had the faculty of scattering his efforts without lessening their force and, moreover, his keen, intuitive mind enabled him to readily grasp the possibilities and opportunities as well as the difficulties of a business situation, so that he carefully avoided the latter while utilizing the former to the fullest extent. On the 3d of October, 1892, Mr. York was married in Cleveland to Miss Clara Gordon, born in Cincinnati and a daughter of Oliver Franklin and Gertrude (Harwood) Gor-don, the former born on the eastern shore of Maryland and the latter in the Queen City. The Harwoods lived in Rhode Island during the colonial epoch in the history of this nation. Mrs. York's grandmother was Miss Julia A. Daggett, reared at New Haven, Connecticut, by her uncle, Judge Daggett, and she was also a descendant of Thomas Mayhew, an American colonial governor. Born in England in 1592, he was a merchant in Southampton before his emigration to the new world in 1631. He settled first at Watertown, Massachusetts, and in 1641 secured from the agent of Lord Stirling a grant of the larger part of the island of Martha's Vineyard and the title of governor. He founded Edgartown in 1647 and his death occurred on the island of Martha's Vineyard in 1681. Mr. York also came of early colonial stock, for he traces his genealogy in the maternal line to William Harkness, who established his home in this country in the year 1650. When his daughter Clara was but four years old Oliver Franklin Gordon came with his family to Cleveland and was here engaged in 812 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS the wholesale chemical business. He built the glycerine works of the Marsham-Harwood Company, with which he was associated for a number of years. Rather late in life he took up the study of medicine at Western Reserve University and won prominence as a physician, practicing successfully until shortly before his death on the 13th of January, 1897. His daughter Clara attended the Brooks School for Girls, completing her studies in Mrs. Salsbury's select school. Mr. and Mrs. York were the parents of three children. Gertrude Kathleen, the first born, was a pupil in the Laurel School of Cleveland and graduated from the Master's Boarding and Day School at Dobbs Ferry, New York. She is the wife of Thomas H. White, of Cleveland, and has become the mother of three children : Windsor T. White (II), Robert York White and Thomas H. White, Jr. Barney Hamlin York attended Phillips Academy at Andover before entering Yale and is a graduate of that university. He married Marie Leisey and they now live in Arizona, where he is operating a large ranch devoted to the raising of registered cattle. Gordon Follette, named for his forbears in both the paternal and maternal lines, pursued his studies at Asheville, North Carolina, and at Andover, Massachusetts, prior to enrolling in Yale University, which numbers him among its alumni. He married Miss Beatrice Bickford, a daughter of General Bick-ford, and a son, Robert Hamlin York (II) , was born to them. With his wife, a Christian Scientist, Mr. York attended the services of that church in Cleveland, and his political allegiance was given to the republican party. While never an office seeker, he took a deep interest in matters of public moment and as the promoter and head of several large business corporations he furthered the advancement and prosperity of his city to a marked extent. Although not a carpenter by occupation, he enjoyed doing work of that character at home and gardening also afforded him relaxation and diversion from the cares of business. By nature genial and compan-ionable, he belonged to a number of social organizations, in- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 813 eluding the Manhattan and Brook Clubs of New York city, and the Cleveland Country, Mayfield Country, Kirtland Country, Pepper Pike Country, Chagrin Valley Hunt, Roadside, Tavern and Union Clubs, all of Cleveland. His kindly philosophy, his high standards of conduct and exemplary traits of character endeared him to all who were brought within the sphere of his influence and his abrupt passing was mourned throughout the city in which he had spent practically his entire life. Mrs. York resides in the family home at 2648 Berkshire road, Cleveland Heights. Socially prominent, she has membership in the Union, Hunt and Intown Clubs of Cleveland. JOSEPH FOLKMAN Joseph Folkman is the president and manager of the Akers-Folkman Company, the travel department of the Union Trust Company of Cleveland, who arrange travel service all over the world. He was born in Neu Sandec, Galicia, Aus-tria, December 10, 1866, a son of Herman and Sarah (Goldfinger) Folkman. The mother died in Austria in 1880 but the father eventually joined his Son Joseph in Cleveland, as did also the other children of the family. Herman Folkman, a grocer, passed away in this city in 1911. Joseph Folkman, the eldest of eight children, was a youth of fourteen and one-half years when his father said to him : "Well, son, what do you want to do? Do you want to finish your education?" He replied : "I hear a lot about America. Maybe I could get there ; if so, I could help support the family." The necessary money for the trip was procured through the sale of a cow for thirty-two dollars, which the father gave to his son. The latter landed in New York with six cents in his pocket, a cup, a spoon, a mattress and an extra pair of shoes. One of Mr. Folkman's many interviewers in later years wrote : "Sea travel was quite different in those days. The small vessel on which Mr. Folkman sailed from Hamburg to London, where he was to embark for America, was caught in a storm for two days and given up as lost. The young traveler, unaccustomed to the ways of an angry sea, thought this was just one of those things that happens every day in the life of a sailor and was not frightened until safe in London. Storms also delayed the Canada of the old National Line, no longer in existence, on which he embarked from Lon-. - 815 - 816 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS don. Scheduled to make the crossing in eleven days, the little steamer was ten days late in arriving at New York. Mr. Folkman arrived in the eastern metropolis July 13, 1881. Six weeks later, after vain efforts to get a start there, he heard of some people in Cleveland who had come from the same city and came here thinking they might help him. This they did —and soon he was shining shoes and selling newspapers near the old Prospect House where the Bailey Company building now stands. Searching about for a wider field for his endeavors, Mr. Folkman found it in the old Prospect House, where, in addition to selling papers and polishing shoes, he acted as bellboy and porter. For this he received two dollars a week and his board and room. But to an ambitious young immigrant bootblack fees and bell-hop's tips were merely dribbles in the bucket. He wanted money in more than five and ten-cent lots. About this time Henry Lewis, an agent for several steamship lines, offered him four dollars a week to make himself generally useful about his office. Mr. Folkman accepted the place, liked it and decided that here was a field with a future. Ever since that day he has been forging ahead in the travel profession. After several years of ap-prenticeship, during which success smiled upon him to such an extent that he sent for his family in the old country to join him, Mr. Folkman, in 1898, with the late Edwin A. Akers, formed the firm of Akers & Folkman, of which he is president." In 1919, on the retirement of Mr. Akers from the firm, the Union Trust Company became interested in the undertaking, which has since constituted its travel department, under the same firm name, with Mr. Folkman at the head. In 1895 Mr. Folkman organized the Cleveland Independent Aid Society, of which he became the first president, and was still the executive head when the organization celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary. From the beginning he has been a trustee of the Cleveland Independent Aid Society, formed for the assistance of immigrants in time of sickness THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 817 and need and for the cultivation of friendship among the members. More than five hundred people attended the banquet which marked the silver anniversary of the organization, and among the speakers on that occasion were, Warren G. Harding, then United States senator; Theodore E. Burton, then United States congressman ; Joseph Folkman ; Mayor William S. FitzGerald; Judge Manuel Levine; Judge Maurice Bernon ; and Governor James M. Cox. Following his election to the presidency of the United States, Mr. Harding sent Mr. Folkman an autographed program of the banquet. Interesting articles concerning the varied activities of Mr. Folkman have appeared in the local press from time to time. The following is reprinted from the Cleveland Leader of February 21, 1904, during the height of the immigration influx: "On Sunday morning of each week the foreign population of Cleveland sends money to friends in the old country. Or, if there is no friend or relative on the other side who needs attention or care, the foreigner comes downtown and deposits his savings. The foreign population of Cleveland speaking the Slavic and other tongues has made Joseph Folkman its depository and its agent, through whom these commitments to friends abroad are made. The scene in his office of a Sunday morning is one of the oddest spectacles in the city. Women come there attired in the peculiar garbs known more to the foreign cities than to Cleveland. The combinations of color are sometimes striking, while the dashes of brighter hues here and there add a touch of youth and something of beauty to a scene naturally picturesque. The men, some appearing in their Sunday best, their enormous but agile mus-cles moving uneasily in the restraint of a coat, and the head, accustomed to the ease of a slouch hat, seeming confined in a derby, stand elbow to elbow with the man whose clothes are covered with iron ore dust. The purpose, however, is the same. They have come to send money to help sustain their families or their friends on the other side. "Mr. Folkman is the center of the group. He says in a 818 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS quiet sort of way that he can flounder along in almost any language. Better than that, however, there is not a dialect in all Europe which he does not understand, and in which he cannot express himself. He is at home in the Slavic tongue, and his English is now broken with a strong leaning toward his mother accent. These foreigners stand in a long row in front of his counter, and as they pass and make their deposits, he recalls most of them. Those whom he does not know, he hears and answers in their own tongue and their own peculiar dialect. It is part a trick—this adaptability of tongue—part a study and part a matter of inheritance, but he catches the whole range of the European tongue and reproduces it perfectly. Over in a certain little city in Austria, they call him a saint; here in Cleveland, among the foreign population, they call him the guardian angel, and in Cleveland politics they say that he is a mighty handy fellow to have on the right side of an election. . . . He has been able, in his time, to make a vast change in the aspect of the foreign element toward the political leaders, and in his archives he has stowed away some very warm letters of thanks and congratulation from the leaders of the forces both local and national." Among his many letters is one from the late Senator Mark Hanna. In 1888 Mr. Folkman was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Sicherman, of Cleveland, who passed away in 1894, leaving a daughter, Sylvia, who became the wife of Eugene Fischer, now deceased. In 1895 Mr. Folkman was again married, his second union being with Bertha Sicherman, of Cleveland, and to them was born a son, Sanford, who is associated with his father in business. At the time of the World war Sanford Folkman served with the One Hundred and Twelfth United States Engineers in the Thirty-seventh Division under General J. R. McQuigg. He is president of the Cleveland Independent Aid Society, founded by his father. He married Miss Anna Grossberger, of Cleveland, and has two children, Shirley Jane and Lloyd. In January, 1925, Joseph Folkman made a trip to Eu- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 819 rope, after an absence of forty-four years, to visit his mother's grave at Neu Sandec, Galicia, which was formerly in Austria but is now a part of Poland. He is a member of the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Knights of Pythias, the H. B. S. U., and for many years was a member of the board of trustees of Heights Temple. He has been identified with a travel bureau for a longer period than any other man in Ohio and is recognized as the best informed man in the United States on the subject of travel. His articles on travel in the Holy Land were published in the Plain Dealer in 1927. He has arranged transportation for several hundred thousand people. WILLIAM HOWLAND QUINBY By intuition William Howland Quinby grasped the prob-abilities of life and turned them into certainties. His early career, like that of most leaders in the business world, was a struggle with adversity, manfully made and triumphantly crowned. For nearly forty years a resident of Cleveland, he fostered the growth of the city by the upbuilding of the mercantile establishment which bore his name and was widely known as a dealer in women's furnishings. Mr. Quinby was born in Westchester county, New York, January 27, 1843, and inherited the sterling qualities of his Quaker ancestors. The Quinby family is supposed to have come into England with the Danish invasion. The name originated at Quarmby or Quermby, near Hotherfield, Yorkshire, where, according to an old record, Hugh de Quarmby was living in 1341. Branches of the family removed to Farnham, in Surrey county, near London, and in the south tran-sept of the old church there is a tablet to Robert Quynby, one of the first bailiffs of Farnham, who died in 1670. In America, William H. Quinby traced his genealogy to William Quinby, who emigrated from England to this country in 1638 and settled in Stratford, Connecticut, of which he was one of the founders. His son, John Quinby, who was also born in England, became one of the principal proprietors of New Castle, Westchester county, New York, and in 1662 was appointed magistrate by Governor Petrus Stuyvesant. John Quinby married Deborah Haight and they had a son Josiah, who married Mary Molyneux in 1689. They had a son Moses Quinby and he became the father of Josiah Quinby - 821 - 822 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS II, a birthright Quaker who married Phoebe Vail and their son William was born in 1766 and married Phoebe Howland, whose son Thomas Quinby married Susan Hunter and they were the parents of William Howland Quinby of this review. He represented the eighth generation of the Quinby family in America. William H. Quinby supplemented his district school edu-cation by two years of study in the Friends' Meeting House in Westchester county and a year's attendance at the Thir-teenth street public school in New York city. He was the oldest son and due to his father's failing health early assumed the burden of caring for the farm, which he began to cultivate at the age of fifteen, so continuing until he was twenty-two. In 1865 he went to New York city, where he obtained a situation with Calhoun, Robbins & Company, wholesale merchants, with whom he had an opportunity to master the details of the business in which he was destined to achieve prominence. He started as a stock boy at a salary of twenty-five dollars per month but paid eight dollars a week for his board and room, for his mother always insisted that he live as well as possible. Industrious, capable and trustworthy, he was promoted to the position of traveling salesman and covered the state of Ohio for Calhoun, Robbins & Company. While in New York he had sold notions and trimmings for the house and one day went into a little hall where a man was conducting business, obtaining from him a small order. It was doubtful but he assured his company that the customer was able to pay for the goods and this proved a profitable account for the house, for the new patron was B. Altman, who became one of the merchant princes of the United States. In the spring of 1879 Mr. Quinby was made general agent for the Butterick Pattern Company for northern Ohio, with Cleveland as his headquarters, and two years later opened a ladies' furnishing store on Seneca, just off Superior street, but retained the Butterick agency for a time. He started on a cash basis, a policy from which he never deviated. From THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 823 Superior street he moved to Euclid avenue, conducting business in the old Williamson home (the site of the present Williamson building), which had been remodeled. In 1898 the old building was demolished and in March, 1899, Mr. Quinby secured a desirable location at 500 Euclid avenue, where he erccted a building and where his mercantile activities were continued until his retirement in 1913. He never had a partner, sharing neither labor nor responsibility with anyone, and from a modest beginning created a successful business. He dealt exclusively in women's furnishings and developed his business without the aid of advertising, relying rather on the quality of goods and service to stimulate its growth. In 1913 Mr. Rainie, for many years in the employ of Mr. Quinby, took over the business in association with S. C. Barbour and together they continued it under the name of the W. H. Quinby Company, the founder of the enterprise, however, retaining stock therein until his death, which occurred at his residence, 14724 Terrace road, East Cleveland, October 27, 1918, at the age of seventy-five years. This country home he had purchased in 1890, securing a tract of twelve acres on the ridge just beyond the Rockefeller estate. For his relaxation and diversion he set to work to beautify the grounds, and the estate, which now embraces twenty-five acres, is one of the finest in this locality. In 1914 he built a desirable home in Rockledge, Florida, and there resided during the winter months until his death. In his home life Mr. Quinby was most happily situated. On the 7th of May, 1878, in New York city, he was married to Miss Janet Lawson Freeland, a daughter of John and Catherine Freeland. May Cameron Quinby, the only child of this marriage, resides with her mother in the East Cleveland home which her father delighted in beautifying and adorning. Of a deeply religious nature, Mr. Quinby was for years a deacon and elder of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. He was an adherent of the republican party and although never an aspirant for political office, gave substantial proof 824 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS of his public spirit in many ways. He served on the boards of the A. M. McGregor Home for the Aged and the East Cleveland Public Library, was active in the work of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and lent the weight of his support to all movements and projects destined to prove of benefit to his adopted city. His standards of life were high and he possessed the sincere affection of all with whom he came in contact. FRANK M. KIRK Frank M. Kirk, a substantial citizen of Cleveland who is now retired, was for many years prominently and success-fully identified with the coal business in this city. He was born in Jackson, Ohio, November 5, 1863, his parents being Isaac and Mary J. (Kernohan) Kirk, also natives of this state. The paternal grandfather, Isaac Kirk, Sr., was a native of Scotland who emigrated to the United States and took up his abode among the pioneer settlers of Ohio. His son and namesake became a successful lumberman. Frank M. Kirk attended the public schools of Warren, Ohio, and also pursued a commercial course. After putting aside his textbooks he was associated with his father in the lumber business but eventually came to Cleveland and here entered the service of the Young & Herrington Coal Com-pany. Subsequently Mr. Kirk and James H. Wood purchased the interests of Messrs. Young and Herrington, forming the Kirk-Wood Coal Company. The senior partner later disposed of his interests in this firm and for a number of years was an independent owner and operator of coal mines in various parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Mr. Kirk was the first dealer to bring Pocahontas coal into Cleveland, and has been agent for the original Pocahontas operators to the time he retired. During the period between 1903 and 1907 he engaged in mining in Nevada, his being the fifth tent at Goldfield. He and his associates acquired mines in all parts of Nevada but eventually sold his interests in that state and returned to Cleveland. He has now disposed of most of his properties and, largely retired from active business affairs, - 825 - 826 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS is enjoying the fruits of his well directed labors in former years. In October, 1888, Mr. Kirk was united in marriage to Miss Netta Peate, of Jamestown, New York, who passed away in 1927. Their daughter, Hazel Ruth, is the wife of Tyler W. Carlisle, of Cleveland, and the mother of two children, Jean and Ann. Mr. Kirk has been a member of the Union Club of Cleveland since 1902 and also belongs to the Lucerne Club in Quebec, the Gatineau Fish and Game Club, also of Quebec, to the Copper Lake Trout Club and Shaker Heights Country Club. His many friends attest his sterling worth, speaking of him in terms of the warmest regard. JOHN P. WHITE Advantageously using his powers of initiative and administration, John P. White is well known in Cleveland as the president of the American Finance Company and the founder of this business. It has been in existence for a period of twenty-three years and is closely allied with the automobile industry. At one time Mr. White walked the streets of this city in search of work and his record of achievement proves what may be accomplished by the man who has the will and the courage to dare and to do. Born in Somersetshire, England, November 7, 1866, Mr. White was but five years of age when he was brought to America by his parents, James and Susan (Chambers) White, who settled at Berea, Ohio, in 1871. The father was identified with a stone company of Berea and both he and the mother spent their remaining years in the Buckeye state, passing away toward the close of the decade of the '80s. John P. White attended the public schools of Berea and when a lad of twelve years became an apprentice in the flour mills of his maternal uncle, Thomas Chambers, in Lorain county, Ohio. There he was thoroughly trained in the milling industry and during his spare time attended school for about five years. Eager to advance, he made further preparation for a commercial career by taking a course in the Oberlin Business College, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1884, being the youngest member of the class. This was followed by a year's service as bookkeeper for the Berea Stone Company, now controlled by the Cleveland Stone Company, and it was at this juncture that Mr. White began - 827 - 828 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS his quest for a situation in Cleveland. Arriving here in 1886 he obtained employment with the Gibbons-Pinkett Company, known as the Fulton Market Company, and a year later became cashier for the W. P. Southworth Company, wholesale and retail grocers. His worth was at once recognized and at the end of twelve months he was made bookkeeper. He was next assigned the duties of assistant secretary and treasurer but had the authority of secretary and treasurer and remained with the Southworth Company for twenty-two and a half years, materially promoting their interests. In 1909 Mr. White tendered his resignation and with Frank M. Gregg formed the American Commercial Company, of which he was secretary, treasurer and a director. The new enterprise prospered from the start and within a few years was transacting a business amounting to several million dol-lars annually. At one time General Motors was part owner in their organization. In 1923 the name was changed to the American Finance Company and as its president Mr. White has instituted well devised plans for the continued growth and expansion of the business. His pioneer organization was formed for the purpose of financing the automobile dealer through the manufacturer and operated throughout the United States and Canada, ranking with the largest and most reliable corporations of the kind in this part of the country. Mr. White was also elected a director of the Arthur H. Clark Company, engaged in the publishing business in Cleveland, the Cleveland Worm & Gear Company and the Cleveland Macaroni Company. On the 10th of September, 1890, Mr. White was married in this city to Miss Mae Reed, a daughter of Capt. Seymour S. and Mary Reed, the former a cousin of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Sr. During the Civil war Mr. Reed was a gallant officer in the Union Army, serving as a captain with the Seventh Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. To Mr. and Mrs. White were born three children : Betty Mae, who is a grad- THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 829 uate of Smith College and lives at home; Gladys, the wife of Howard K. Nichols, of Lorain, Ohio, and the mother of twin daughters, Lois and Betty; and Marion Reed, who graduated from Laurel School and attended the Beechwood School for Girls near Philadelphia and is now Mrs. Philip M. Martin, of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. White are close friends of Mr. Rockefeller and each year are guests at his Florida home. Mr. White is a steward of the Epworth Euclid Methodist Church, and in politics is a republican with independent views. He belongs to the Manakiki Country Club. He is pushing forward the wheels of progress in the city which has been his home for more than four and a half decades. He has a wide acquaintance in Cleveland and well merits the respect which is ever accorded the self-made man of upright life. CHARLES LEZIUS Charles Lezius, president of the Lezius-Hiles Printing Company of Cleveland, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1858, a son of Lewis and Dora Lezius. The father, a native of Neuenburg, Germany, crossed the Atlantic to the United States on attaining his majority and after residing in Cincinnati for a number of years brought his family to Cleveland in 1875. He was long active in the brewing business and passed away in this city on the 20th of February, 1909. Charles Lezius acquired his initial experience in the printing business under Henry Watkins in Cincinnati and was a youth of seventeen years when in 1875 he came with his parents to Cleveland. In 1888 he established the Forest City Printing House and with three employes began the conduct of a job printing business at the corner of West Third and Champagne streets. As a practical printer he performed nearly all of the work in connection with the business, which gradually grew and in 1914 was incorporated as the Lezius Printing Company and was moved to the present location at 1125 Rockwell avenue. In 1920 the Lezius Printing Company purchased the interests of the Hiles & Coggshall Company, which had been established in 1883, and the two con-cerns were consolidated under the name of the Lezius-Hiles Printing Company. In recent years the general printing business has been transformed into a direct mail advertising or advertising printing business. Charles Lezius, now seventy-four years of age, has retired from active control, but his work is being successfully carried forward by his two sons, George W. and Carl F. Lezius, the former being secre- - 831 - 832 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS tary and treasurer and the latter general manager of the company. A history of the Lezius-Hiles Printing Company may be found elsewhere in this work. In early manhood Mr. Lezius was married in Cleveland to Miss Rosalie Zanting, a native of Germany, who arrived in this city when a maiden of thirteen years in company with her father, a printer and lithographer of Germany prior to his emigration to America. Mr. and Mrs. Lezius are the parents of three children, namely : Carl F. ; George W. ; and Linda, who is the wife of Herman H. Wesley, of Cleveland, and the mother of a son, Robert. Charles Lezius still holds his card in the Printers Union, is also a member of the Ger-mania Turnverein Vorwaerts, and fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. His wife was for years actively interested in the Altenheim or old people's home of Cleveland, raising considerable money therefor and otherwise promoting its beneficent purpose. Mr. and Mrs. Lezius reside at 24801 Lake Shore boulevard and are well known and highly esteemed in Cleveland, where the circle of their friends is almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. Carl F. Lezius, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lezius, acquired his public school education in Cleveland and subsequently attended Ohio Wesleyan College for a period of eighteen months. Thereafter he became associated with his father in the printing business and, as above stated, is now active in the management of the Lezius-Hiles Printing Company in the official capacity of general manager. He is a member of the Cleveland Advertising Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Chagrin Valley Country Club, the Ben Franklin Club and the Graphic Arts Club, being president of the last named. A worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity, he belongs to the following bodies : Iris Lodge, F. & A. M., Chapter and Commandery. He has made a splendid record as a member of the citizens committee of the board of education and is widely recognized as one of Cleveland's enterprising and progressive citizens as THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 833 well as a successful business man. It was in this city that he married Miss Elsie Stephan, a native of Cleveland and a daughter of Jacob and Emma (Hornung) Stephan, the former having come to Cleveland as a young man. Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Lezius are the parents of a daughter, Ruth, who is the wife of Richard Fulmer. George W. Lezius, second son of Charles Lezius, became associated with his father and brother in business and is now secretary and treasurer of the Lezius-Hiles Printing Company. Like his brother, he is a member of Iris Lodge, F. & A. M., and also belong's to the Cleveland Athletic Club. He married Miss Harriet Fraelich and has two sons, George Richard and Carl Raymond Lezius. JAMES C. WILMOT For more than sixty years the name of Wilmot has figured prominently in commercial circles of Cleveland in connection with the paint and wall paper business, and the enterprise established by the father is now successfully controlled by the son, James C. Wilmot (II) , who is also a dealer in pianos. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 6, 1866, and from the age of five years has lived in the Forest city. His father, James C. Wilmot, (I), was born in London, England, in 1831 and remained in that city until he was a young man of twenty-one, acquiring a knowledge of painting and decorating. In 1852 he emigrated to America, locating at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and spent nineteen years in that city, where he was engaged in painting and decorating from 1859 until his removal to Cleveland in 1871. Here he continued along the same lines, purchasing the John Worley stock and store, and later moved to J. J. Tracy's building on the public square. Experienced and capable, Mr. Wilmot gained a large patronage and continued active as a painter and decorator until shortly before his death, which occurred in 1905. In 1852, while living in Fort Wayne, he had married Helen Hood, who was born in London, England, in 1837, a daughter of Alfred Hood, likewise a native of that city. As passengers on a sailing vessel the family made the voyage across the Atlantic, settling at Fort Wayne, where Alfred Hood followed the trade of a carriage builder, and in the meantime developed a farm in that locality, where both he and his wife resided until called to their final rest. Their daughter Helen was a young girl of thirteen when the family emigrated to the - 835 - 836 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS United States in 1850, and her death occurred at Cleveland in May, 1916. For a number of years she had survived her husband, who was identified with the Masonic fraternity and gave his political support to the republican party. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot were born five children : Alfred, who died in boyhood ; Charles H., who became connected with the May Company of Cleveland ; Cornelia O., who passed away in this city in 1914 ; Newton J., who was with the Standard Oil Company and died at Cleveland in 1898 ; and James C. (II). The last named hid limited educational advantages, leaving school when a lad of fifteen to enter the employ of his father, under whom he was thoroughly trained, and soon became invaluable as an assistant. Steadily his responsibilities were increased and when the father laid aside the burden of management James C. Wilmot (II) was well qualified to assume control of the business. Under the laws of the state of Ohio it was incorporated as the J. C. Wilmot Company, of which he is the president and treasurer. In July, 1923, the concern moved to the present location at 1025 Huron road. They carry a complete line of wall paper and paint and are also decorating contractors. Widely recognized as an organization of specialists, they have decorated most of the fine resi-dences in Cleveland, also drawing their patronage from other cities in Ohio and even. from outside the state. Steadfastly adhering to the high standards set up by his father, Mr. Wil-mot has steadily expanded the scope of the business and in addition is successfully administering the affairs of the Dreher Piano Company, of which he is the president, while his name likewise appears on the directorate of the Security Savings & Loan Company of Cleveland. Mr. Wilmot's first wife was Miss Hattie May White, now deceased, to whom he was married in Cleveland in September, 1888. On the 18th of December, 1929, he married Mrs. Nellie (Ashley) Dreher, of this city, and they reside in the attractive home which he built at 1499 East boulevard in 1914. Mr. Wilmot worships in the Calvary Presbyterian THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 837 Church and casts his ballot for the candidates of the republican party. He belongs to the Rotary Club, the Colonial Club, the Builders Exchange and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. In the life of the city he fills an important place and is accounted one of its most progressive and capable business men. HERMAN R. NEFF Resolute and purposeful, Herman R. Neff bent every energy toward the attainment of his objective and his is a record of continuous progress and successful achievement. His work has always been along constructive lines and as an industrial and institutional architect and engineer he has played a conspicuous part in Cleveland's upbuilding and improvement. He was born in this city January 28, 1879, a son of Frank and Rosa (Mayer) Neff, whose parents emigrated to this country from Germany in the '50s, settling in Cleveland. Jacob Neff and Simon Mayer, the paternal and maternal grandfathers of Herman R. Neff, came to America to avoid military service in Germany and both were Union soldiers in the Civil war, in which their sons also participated, Frank Neff joining the Fourth Regiment of New York Cavalry. After the war he entered the employ of the Lake Shore Railroad Company, becoming yardmaster, and met an accidental death in 1881, leaving a widow who is now eighty-six years of age. Herman R. Neff, one of a family of six children, left high school at the end of his junior year and when a lad of sixteen started to work for Henry C. Rouse, at that time president of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad and receiver for the Northern Pacific. Assigned to the office of George S. Rider, who was his early instructor in engineering and architectural work, Mr. Neff continued under him until the organization of George S. Rider & Company, and in 1900 was admitted to a partnership in that concern, which was engaged in industrial work. On the death of Mr. Rider - 839 - 840 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS in 1917, Mr. Neff incorporated the company, of which he has since been the president, and under his leadership and control this has become one of the foremost organizations of industrial and institutional architects and engineers in the Cleveland area. His company designed the Orphan Village of Parmadale, the St. Alexis, Charity and Huron Road Hospitals, and did all of the work for the W. S. Tyler Company. They were the engineers for the Cleveland Hospital of the Salvation Army; the buildings owned and occupied by the Cleveland Twist Drill Company, the Cleveland Hardware Company, the National Acme Company, the Foote-Burt Company, the Cleveland Tractor Company, the Coburn Machine Tool Company, the Eaton Axle & Spring Company, the Cleveland Worsted Mills Company, the Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Company, John Carroll University, the sub-mall, garage and exposition buildings for the city of Cleveland, the food terminal at Buffalo for the Erie and Nickel Plate Railroads, and many other large and imposing structures. The George S. Rider Company has a staff of forty or more experienced arch-itects and engineers and enjoys the distinction of being the oldest organization of the kind in Cleveland, having been in continuous operation here for a period of thirty-two years. In addition to the capable performance of his duties as the executive head of this large corporation Mr. Neff is a director of the Morris Plan Bank of Cleveland and also of the Lamson & Sessions Company of this city. In 1905 Mr. Neff was married to Miss Carrie J. Allen of Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, and four children were born to them : George Rider, Elizabeth Allen, Allen H. and John C. The residence of the family is at 1058 Homewood drive and Mr. Neff's offices are in the Marshall building. His devo-tion to his city has been expressed in terms of actual achievement in its behalf. He is a past vice president of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and has served on its railroad, finance and executive committees. From the time it was started he has been captain of the Community Fund, of which THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 841 he is also a trustee. In the organization of the Catholic Charities Corporation he was a moving spirit and became one of its trustees. With the assistance of Judge Dempsey, he raised money for the Salvation Army, and in association with J. J. Burnett secured two and one-half million dollars for John Carroll University during the campaign of 1929-30. Mr. Neff is in charge of the large gifts committee and head of the drive. He is a past president of the Westwood Club, a past director of the Rotary Club, a director of the Cleveland Athletic Club at this writing, and also belongs to the Mid-Day Club and the Cleveland Engineering Society. His life has been devoted to the mastery of one line of endeavor and his post-graduate work in the school of experience has carried him to a point of leadership in his chosen field of usefulness. MARTYN BONNELL Coming to Cleveland when a young man of twenty-two years, Martyn Bonne11 played a conspicuous part in the development of her steel industry and was classed with those desirable citizens who make their private business enterprises public assets. Born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1852, he was a son of William Bonnell, a native of Bradford, England, and Sarah (Scott) Bonnell, who was also born in that country. As passengers on a sailing vessel they crossed the Atlantic and established their home at Newcastle, Pennsylvania. Some years later they settled at Youngstown, Ohio, where the father embarked in the iron business as one of the officers of Brown, Bonnell & Company, and was thus engaged until his death. During the early childhood of Martyn Bonnell the family removed to Youngstown, where he attended school until he was sixteen, and then enrolled as a student in Western Reserve University, from which he was graduated at the age of twenty years. With his return to Youngstown he started to work for Brown, Bonnell & Company and spent two years in their plant, rapidly assimilating the details of the business. In the interests of that corporation he came to Cleveland in 1874, associating himself with Cleveland, Brown & Company, distributors of iron ore, and owned considerable stock in that concern, which was subsequently taken over by the Republic Steel Corporation. Familiar with every phase of steel manufacturing, he utilized his knowledge and experience for the benefit of his company and for many years was a forceful factor in its management and control. About 1910 - 843 - 844 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS he disposed of his steel holdings and during the remainder of his life enjoyed a well earned rest. On the 17th of October, 1877, Mr. Bonne11 married Miss Sarah A. Arms, who was born in Youngstown, a daughter of Charles D. and Hannah M. (Wick) Arms, the latter a native of the same city. The father was born in Sodus, New York, and when a young man came to Youngstown and was identified with the mining of coal. In the early days he aided in bringing. to light the rich mineral resources of the west, developing valuable silver and gold mines in Colorado and Arizona, and was an extensive operator, with mining interests all over the country. His family was of English origin but has long been represented on American soil. His daughter Sarah ac-quired her early education in her native city, continuing her studies in Englewood, New Jersey, and at Miss Bradford's School in New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Bonnell were the parents of two daughters. Florence, the first born, attended a private school at Dobbs Ferry, in Westchester county, New York, and also studied abroad. Her first husband was Henry Hall Christian, now deceased, and a son, Henry Bonnell Christian, was born to them. He married Elizabeth Bolte, by whom he has three children : Henry B. ; and Elizabeth and Peter Christian, twins. A number of years after the death of Henry Hall Christian his widow became the wife of Edward N. Saunders, Jr., and their children are : Florence B. Saunders, a graduate of the Bennett School of New York ; and Edward N. Saunders (III). Virginia Bonnell, the sec-ond daughter, a graduate of a select school at Dobbs Ferry, is the wife of Merwin Clark Harvey and the mother of three children : Sarah, Henry Clark and Martyn B. Harvey. Mr. Bonnell was a member of the Country Club and the Union Club. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and in religious belief he was a Presbyterian. He was greatly interested in the old stone church, with which he united in 1876, and became one of its trustees in 1892. He succeeded W. S. Tyler as president of the board in 1917 and THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS - 845 occupied the office until his death on December 23, 1930, at the age of seventy-eight years. He had been elected an elder of the church in 1928 and also served as treasurer of the endowment funds of the First Presbyterian Society of Cleveland. An earnest, sincere Christian, he led an exemplary life and enjoyed to the fullest extent the confidence and respect of his fellowmen. Of him it was said : "The serenity and dignity of character of Martyn Bonnell were outstanding Wisdom and loyalty made him one on whom others could lean." In the church calendar of December 28, 1930, we find this tribute to Mr. Bonnell : "No one was more loved." To those who knew him personally his passing was a great loss. The following testimonial to his worth was paid by an old friend, who said : "Martyn Bonnell never failed in courtesy or kindness and he had a quaint humor that could bring a twinkle to his eye. Of fine carriage, with snow-white hair, he attracted attention in any assembly. A fine citizen and a steadfast friend, his presence was an inspiration, and his memory is enshrined in the hearts of those who were brought within the sphere of his influence. Rare fidelity, keen and discriminating judgment, painstaking care and efficient management were characteristics of his business life. In his relations with his associates he was always frank, cordial, thoughful and friendly." BERTRAM H. SHEIBLEY Starting in business life as a railroad employe, Bertram H. Sheibley abandoned that line of work to enter the bank of the Cleveland Society for Savings, with which he has contin-ued for thirty-two years, and is now its auditor. He was born in Alinda, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1869, a son of Simon B. and Emily M. (Snyder) Sheibley, who are now deceased. His youthful days were spent on the home farm and in the schools of that district he pursued his education. Leaving the Keystone state at the age of twenty, Mr. Sheibley came to Ohio and first located at Shelby, where he worked for Colonel John Dempsey intermittently for three years, attending Ohio Northern University during the winter months. In 1892 he removed to the Forest city and obtained a situation in the accounting department of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad. He started at a salary of twenty-five dollars per month and remained with the road for about eight years. His connection with the Society for Savings dates from January 2, 1900, when he entered the bank as a bookkeeper, and was paid eighty-five dollars per month. His accuracy, dependability and close application were rewarded by promotion to the position of assistant auditor and about 1919 he was made auditor. For these important duties his training and experience well qualified him and he renders to the institution the services of an expert. In 1898 Mr. Sheibley was married in Shelby to Miss Jane A. Easly and two sons and a daughter were born to them : John W., a sales representative of the Medart Manufacturing Company of St. Louis and a resident of Cleveland; Emma - 847 - 848 - THIS CLEVELAND OF OURS Jane, who was graduated from the Cleveland School of Art and is an artist of recognized ability; and Frederick E., who received the degree of Mechanical Engineer from the Case School of Applied Science. Fraternally Mr. Sheibley is an Elk and his membership in the Pine Ridge Golf Club is indicative of the nature of his recreation. WILLIAM HOWARD BOYD A man of high professional attainments, William H. Boyd has done notable work as a trial lawyer and as a corporation attorney during the forty-two years of his connection with the Cleveland bar. He has also figured conspicuously in civic affairs and in both state and national politics. Born in Lon-donderry township, Guernsey county, Ohio, August 11, 1864, he was reared in the home of his parents, George W. and Mary A. (Campbell) Boyd, and obtained his elementary instruction in the district school near his father's farm. He attended the public schools of Fairview and, entering the legal profession by way of the educational field, he devoted four years to teaching.. At St. Clairsville, Ohio, he began the study of law under private instructors, spending three years in the office of Judge Albert Lawrence, and in June, 1887, was admitted to the bar. It was in 1890 that Mr. Boyd began his career as a lawyer in the Forest city. Though he came to Cleveland a comparative stranger, he soon gained a foothold in his profession, becoming recognized as one of the most resourceful advocates before a jury among. the younger generation. In 1906 Mr. Boyd and Judge D. C. Westhaver, later on the federal district bench, were attorneys for the low fare interests in the traction fight which led up to the Tayler grant under which the Cleveland Railway Company still operates. Mr. Boyd continued in individual practice until 1907, when he became a member of the firm of Westenhaver, Boyd & Brooks, and in 1917 when Mr. Westenhaver was elected to the Federal bench, a change in the personnel led to the adoption of the - 849 -