TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 177 and money ; and more recently donated to the new Nurses' Home of St. Vincent's Hospital the well appointed and beautifully equipped library which was natned The Hannah Jacobson Library, in honor of his mother. Realizing the importance of his thorough medical training, he was invited to lecture on the subject of physical diagnosis by the faculty of the Toledo Medical College in 1899 and was later made a professor f surgery, which chair he held until the close of the college. Dr. Jacobson became very active throughout the state of Ohio in the general reorganization of the medical profession, which occurred in every part of the United States during the year 1902 and in the year 1903. At the age of twenty-four he was elected the first president of the Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, which was organized according to the national plan by merging The Toledo Medical Association and The Lucas County Medical Society. He was also elected, at this time, by The Ohio State Medical Association to serve as its first councilor for the fourth district, which comprises about ten counties in northwestern Ohio. He was elected to this office three times and served six years. He also served as the chairman of the surgical section and was twice elected a member of the board of trustees of the Academy of Medicine of Toledo, which latter office he held at the time of his death. He was president of the Northern Tri-State Medical Association during the last six months of 1917 and the first six months of 1918 and was a member of The Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, Northwestern Ohio Medical Association, the Northern Tri-State Medical Association, Ohio State Medical Association, American Medical Association, American Urological Association, American Gynecological Association, and a fellow of The American College of Surgeons ; and during the recent war served as a member of The United States Medical Advisory Board in this district. His national acquaintance with surgeons of unquestioned ability was a source of great pleasure to him, and it was his habit to visit them at frequent intervals to ex-change ideas, and for the purpose of advancement. Dr. Jacobson again visited the European capitals for the purpose of studying surgery in 1904 and 1913 ; and was absent from Toledo about five months on each occasion. His contributions to surgical literature during his professional life were numerous and highly respected by the surgical profession and have been freely quoted by writers of note. The contributions to surgery by which he is probably best known are: The Jacobson-Stamm pole ligation operation for exophthalmic goiter ; operations for hernia under local anaesthesia, upon which subject he was about to write a monograph ; and his extensive work on the subject of cancer. His efforts during the last five years directed towards the establishment of a home for The Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, and dedicated to humanity, are well known to his colleagues in this community and are deserving of the highest praise. The attributes which stand out most prominently in the life of Dr. Jacobson are : He was a surgeon of unusual skill and attainments ; was charitable to a fault, and an indefatigable worker in the uplift and advancement of the medical profession ; a benefactor to the younger members of his profession and an inspiration to all who knew him ; a deep thinker, a student of literature, art and music and was extremely devoted to his family. It was his earnest desire to live to see the time when the city of Toledo would realize the necessity for a large and modern non-sectarian hospital. It can truthfully be said that Dr. Julius H. Jacobson lived up to the motto which he had adopted--- 'Let your light so shine just a little ahead of the next!—Kipling.' Dr. Jacobson was one of a hundred members of the medical fraternity who were invited to form the American College of Surgeons, thus signifying the esteem in 178 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY which he was held by the profession. Not only did St. Vincent's Hospital place a memorial tablet in his honor but the Academy of Medicine had a portrait painted in oil by an English artist to be hung in its rooms as a constant reminder of the valuable contribution which Dr. Jacobson made to the profession. Dr. Jacobson gave his political allegiance to the republican party, nor did he lightly regard the duties of citizenship but formed his opinions after close investigation into conditions and issues before the public. He was a loyal follower of Masonic teachings and a consistent member of the Collingwood Avenue temple and in the faith of his fathers passed away on the 11th of December, 1918. Sixteen years earlier Dr. Jacobson was married in Montreal, Canada, on the 22d of July, 1902, to Miss Regina L. Landau of that city, a daughter of Isador and Pauline Landau of Germany, who crossing the Atlantic, settled at Richmond, Virginia, where their daughter Regina was born. There were three children of this marriage : Annette L., Herbert G. and Helen P. Mrs. Jacobson was educated in Montreal, attending the high school and the McGill University, where she pursued a medical course and won the M. D. C. M. degree. She afterward went to Edinburgh, Scotland, where she became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and she also took postgraduate work, in Paris, Berlin and in other noted medical centers of Europe. She then returned to Montreal, where she practiced in connection with the medical relief work in the settlements. When the Woman's Club was formed in Montreal she became one of its first members. She was .a pioneer in her advocacy of higher education for women and she was early identified with club movements and everything that meant progress and advancement for womankind. She belongs to the Council of Jewish Women, was a member of the Montreal Medical Society and also a member of Temple Emanuel. After coming to Toledo she gave up the practice of medicine but. continued her good work along many lines. She is a member of the Toledo Woman's Club and a member of the Council of Jewish Women, of which she is president. She is also a member of the Educational Club and of the Agnes Morris Shakespeare class. She is serving on the city board of the Federation of Women's Clubs, is a member of the Social Hygiene Council, a member of the Sisterhood of the Collingwood Avenue temple, a member of the Americanization Board and also a member of the Toledo City Club, a new organization. Although not actively identified with the medical profession any longer, she has not lost her interest therein and is chairman of the health education committee of the Federation of Women's Clubs. On December 2, 1922, Mrs. Regina Landau Jacobson became the wife of Dr. I. H. Lewkowicz of Youngstown, Ohio. Most beautiful and merited were the tributes that were paid to Dr. Jacobson from men and women in every walk and station in life. He held the love and confidence of young and old, rich and poor. Alfred B. Koch said of him : "The demise of Julius Jacobson caused a great loss in the community in which he lived. He was a moral factor, he was a moral force in the city of Toledo. He believed in the golden rule of helping others to help themselves and it shall go down as part of the medical history of Toledo that Julius Jacobson was responsible for the start that was given to many of the young doctors. He always held out a helping hand to them and by his counsel taught them the way to the goal which he himself had achieved. In doing this for the medical profession he had a vision—he saw across the stream and knew that in a growing community someone must help to provide that community with the proper medical background. He was a cultured gentleman—a man who saw something beautiful in the everyday walk of life. To TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 179 know him personally was to love him and this enkindled in all the spirit to do one's own work in a better way. Even those who did not come into intimate contact with Julius Jacobson—who did not know him personally,—respected the man's work. It is appointed to every man upon this earth that he must die, and in that statement alone is the only consolation that one in the prime of his life should be taken from us. May God rest his soul in peace and give us strength to carry on in all the walks of community life as he would have it done." One of the most beautiful and highly deserved tributes was the dedicatory note in the little memorial volume written by Louis Eppstein, as follows : "Dr. Julius H. Jacobson was my friend. I knew him well, so well that I loved him dearly as one of nature's noblemen. I appreciated and enjoyed his unselfish friendship. There is little I can say that would add to his fame and glory. But as a token of my esteem, I am sending this memorial." One of the most notable editorial recognitions of Dr. Jacobson and his great ability appeared in the Toledo News-Bee, as follows : "What is a man's worth? Not how much money he is worth. Not how much land, how many buildings and bonds, how much stock or other material wealth he owns. But what is the worth of the man himself to humanity ? The material evidences of wealth indicate what he has taken out of humanity's common fund. And we say he is worth a thousand, a hundred thousand or a million dollars. But a man's real worth is not what he. takes for himself but what he gives—what he gives in service, not dollars. We have measured man's worth too long by the false standard. We have fooled ourselves, but we have never for an instant fooled God. When it was said that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, it didn't mean the man rich in the milk of human kindness, rich in love, rich in those qualities of the soul that make men truly great. It meant the man vulgarly rich—materially, not spiritually rich. That kind of a rich man couldn't buy his way into heaven, and all of his tribe couldn't keep the man rich in spirit out. I have in mind as I write one of the richest men in Toledo, yet I don't know whether he left one thousand or one hundred thousand dollars behind when he died. What he was worth to himself I do not know. It doesn't matter. But he was worth more than millions of dollars to this community. His death means more than the great grief of his immediate family and his many friends. It means a loss, a great loss, to the great human family of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children which we call Toledo. For they have lost one of their greatest servants. If Dr. Julius H. Jacobson, had accumulated a hundred million dollars during his life, his death would have meant no material loss to the community. All of the wealth would be here, though he were gone. But his riches that we shall miss were not material. They were riches of the mind, the senses, the heart, the soul, expended in service. As the old order of things falls apart into chaos, in the old world, when thrones are toppling over and hereditary monarchs tumbling into the mud, when those who gained yower and distinction through the accident of birth became, almost over night, outcasts from the human family, there is democratic satisfaction in contemplating the brief but brilliant career of Julius Jacobson. Here was no man born to the purple. Here was no man for whom it was proudly claimed that the blue blood of titled nobility coursed through his veins. He came into the world under no more favorable auspices than many millions of babes are born in this democracy. And his blood was plain, common, healthy human red. But he had mind, spirit, soul, ambition. Through his own earnest, determined efforts he became a surgeon—a really great surgeon, one whose achieve- 180 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY ments earned for him the profound respect of the fellows of his own profession. There could be no envy of his distinction, for there was no selfishness in it—the more he got the more he gave. The more he learned the more he wanted others to learn. As he approached the top of his profession he turned back to lift others up and help them on. Probably one thing for which he was most admired among his fellows was his thoughtful consideration and generous assistance of the younger and struggling members of his profession. And this was a service to the community that will go on beyond our ability to compute. Probably the best explanation of Dr. Jacobson's genius is that to him his chosen work was a profession a noble calling to duty and service, a labor of love. And there was real glory in the consciousness that as he leaned to his work at the operating table a human life depended upon his clear brain, keen eye, alert senses, skillful fingers and superior knowledge. There was the joy of mastery, there genuine kingship, there real royalty. And if you would measure the success of this man by material standards, know then that over fifty per cent of his professional work was so-called charity work--unpaid for in money but well paid for in the joy of service, the delight in giving to humanity the skill that God had given to him. This is not written merely as a tribute to Dr. Jacobson. It is not written under the influence of the emotions aroused by the loss of a personal friend. It is written rather in the hope that others may see the great value to themselves of service, and that they may measure more accurately the value of real worth in real men. There is inspiration, too, for young men in the knowl-edge that there is no royal road to fame, but that the highest distinction awaits him who earns it through service. What was Julius Jacobson's nationality ? No matter. What was his religious belief ? No matter. Where was he born ? No matter. How much was he worth? No matter. What was he ? He was a man, a real man, a teacher, a lover of his fellowman, a servant of humanity, a master in a profession of service." JAMES BENTLEY James Bentley, vice president of The A. Bentley & Sons Company, is one of Toledo's prominent business men whose activities have had much to do with the city's growth and development, and he belongs to a family that for over fifty years has been identified with the building and contracting business in this city. James Bentley was born in Lenawee county, Michigan, November 1, 1871, a son of Anderton and Elizabeth (Robson) Bentley. Anderton Bentley was born April 22, 1845, in Bradford, England, and was a young man of about twenty-six when he came to America, first locating near Adrian, Michigan. In 1872 he located in Toledo, entering business here as a contractor and builder. He was one of the pioneers in this field and at first conducted his interests under the style of A. Bentley. Subsequent changes have been made in the name of the firm, as A. Bentley & Son, and later, A. Bentley & Sons, while since 1907, when the business was incorporated, it has been A. Bentley and Sons Company. Anderton Bentley's progressive spirit, combined with his executive ability and comprehensive knowledge of the business, placed him in a position of leadership and as the years passed the firm name became well known throughout the country. He was recognized as one of the foremost business men of Toledo, and his demise on the 23d of September, 1916, marked the passing of one of the city's chief upbuilders and promoters. His wife died in 1912. Their three children are : Ethel, James and Thomas. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 183 James Bentley was but a child when his parents moved to Toledo, where he attenued the Central high school and early in life entered into active connections with the building operations carried on by his father. He readily adapted himself to the work and was taken into the firm, which then became A. Bentley and Son. In 1907, when the business was incorporated, he was elected vice president, and as such he has continued to the present time. During the fifty years of their existence, the operations of the Bentleys have not merely been abreast of the times, but well in advance of them and these years have witnessed more progress in building construction than was displayed in the entire century which preceded them. In 1883, when Anderton Bentley undertook the rebuilding of the Hall block, at the corner of St. Clair and Jefferson, the word "skyscraper" was unknown and buildings of steel and tile construction had not been dreamed of. The Hall block. five stories in height after it was rebuilt, was regarded as almost the last word in business blocks. A little more than twenty-five years later, the employes of the Bentleys could look down from the twenty-first story of the Second National Bank building, then being constructed, and see the Hall block as merely a low, flat-roofed. structure, with scarcely an outer characteristic of present-day ideas. Among the principal Toledo structures that stand as examples of Bentley construction are : The Secor Hotel, the Bostwick-Braun building, the Second National Bank building and the Nicholas building. In addition to the company's extensive operations in Toledo, they have built many notable structures in the central and eastern states. The plant of the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is another of the many big concrete jobs they have completed. This is a building, one hundred by eight hundred, and four stories high. The main shops of the company are located at Thirteenth and Lucas streets, while its executive offices are in its building at Belmont avenue and Thirteenth street. The organization, equipment and facilities of The A. Bentley & Sons Company are as modern and complete as those possessed by any company in its line in the country, while the class and extent of its operations have long since given it a foremost position among the big builders of the country. In 1917 the Bentley Company was selected by the United States government to build at Chillicothe, Ohio, one of the large national cantonments, at that time so urgently needed to house the troops who had been drafted for service in the World war ; also Camp Joseph E. Johnston at Jacksonville, Florida, and concrete ships at that place. Mr. Bentley has been an important factor in the growth and development of the company and for years has had charge of all of its out-of-town operations. Among his other business connections, he is one of the directors of the Commerce-Guardian Trust and Savings Bank, a director of the Fifty Associates Company and the vice president of the Richardson Company, investment bankers of Toledo. Politically Mr. Bentley is a republican, giving stanch support to the party, but he has never been an aspirant for office. His interests are broad and varied and his activities have brought him to a prominent position in the business circles of the city, where he is regarded as one of Toledo's strong and capable business men. Fraternally he is identified with the Elks and the Masons, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the latter order, and he is also a member of the Toledo Club, the Toledo Country Club and the Rotary Club. On the 15th of January. 1914, Mr. Bentley was united in marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth (Doyle) Scott of Toledo, a daughter of Judge John Hardy Doyle, mentioned elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Bentley is a lady of liberal education and has 184 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY long occupied a prominent position in social circles of the city. By her first marriage she had one child, Isabel Scott, who was educated in the Smead School for Girls of Toledo and is now the wife of Ceilan Herbert Rorick of Toledo. Mr. Bentley's residence, "Innisfail," is one of Toledo's most attractive homes. HERMAN ALBERT STOCKSTILL Herman Albert Stockstill, lawyer, real estate dealer and loan agent of Toledo, was born in Sidney, Shelby county, Ohio, April 3, 1878, and is a son of Thomas and Martha (Mitchell) Stockstill, the former a farmer by occupation but now deceased. Herman A. Stockstill mastered the branches of learning taught in the public schools of his native state and afterward attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada. He pursued his law course in the Lincoln and Jefferson Law School at Hammond, Indiana, from which he was graduated with the class of 1911. Since that date he has engaged in the real estate and loan business. However, he was admitted to the bar in 1921 and is now devoting a portion of his time and attention to law practice, while his knowledge of the law is of much value to him in the conduct of his business affairs along other lines. He has been a.a residentf Toledo since 1897 and through the intervening years has made steady progress in business and in his profession and also in gaining the regard and goodwill of his fellow townsmen. On the 10th of June, 1920, Mr. Stockstill was married to Miss Alma Lang of Toledo and they have become parents of a daughter, Thelma Madeline. Mr. Stockstill belongs to the Knights of Pythias, also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and to the National Union. He possesses various substantial qualities and social characteristics that have gained for him warm friendship and high regard among those with whom he has come into contact during the quarter of a century of his. residence in this city. WALTER STEWART oledo gained a citizen who has been an asset in her business life and development when in 1909 Walter Stewart came to this city. Through the intervening period he has been associated with the Overland Company and later with various financial and business concerns which have profited by his cooperation and benefited by his judgment and foresight. Mr. Stewart was born in Quincy, Illinois, May 29, 1864, and is a son of William and Margaret (Kay) Stewart. His youthful days were passed in his native city, where he acquired his education, and started out in the business world as a representative of finance and credits. Throughout his life he has been closely associated with banking, with real estate interests and with manufacturing, and has been a thorough and discriminating student of business conditions at all times and of all the varied phases of the interests which have specially claimed his attention. On leaving Quincy, Illinois, he was located in Buffalo, New York, for a time, removing to Elmira in 1900, and then to Albany. In 1909 he came to Toledo as treasurer of- the Willys-Overland Company, with which he remained through TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 187 the establishment and building up of the business. In 1917 he severed his connection with the Overland, to give his attention to pefsonal business interests, which are varied and extensive. Among his other interests Mr. Stewart is vice president of the Commercial Savings Bank and Trust Company, vice president of The E. H. Close Realty. Company and president of the Rollaway Motor Company. On the 21st of November, 1898, at Brantford, Ontario, Canada, Mr. Stewart was united in marriage to Miss Ann Blackburn Crompton, a daughter of Edwin Blackburn Crompton. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have two sons : Carter Crompton, born June 3, 1905, in Elmira, New York and Robert G. Kay Stewart, born June 27, 1910, in Toledo. Mr. Stewart belongs to the Toledo Club and to various golf and commercial clubs. His military record covers a three-year period of service with the Illinois National Guard. His political activity has been largely confined to the performance of his duties as a private citizen, but he rendered most valuable service to Toledo as finance director under Mayors Milroy and Brough. Of Episcopal faith, he is now a vestryman of Trinity church of Toledo and he is interested in all of those forces which make for legitimate business progress in city and state, or for the advancement of the intellectual and moral welfare. His support is withheld from no project which he deems essential to the advancement of the city's interest 2.nd the maintenance of high civic standards. Mr. Stewart's residence is at No. 2001 Collingwood avenue. FLOYD JONES SMITH Floyd Jones Smith, organizer and head of the Toledo Fence & Post Company, in which connection he has developed a business of gratifying proportions, comes to this state from Michigan, his birth having occurred at Lapeer on the 21st of October, 1875. His father, Charles Alfred Smith, was a millwright, who followed that trade throughout his life. He married Kate Rachel Jones and for many years they resided in Michigan. It was in the public schools of that state that Floyd J. Smith pursued his early education, supplemented by a special course of study in Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. When his college course was completed he went on the road as a traveling salesman for the De Laval Cream Separator, which he represented in that way for ten years. He afterward became supervisor of the traveling men for the Vermont Farm Machinery Company and occupied the position for a period of ten years, having thirty men under his supervision. Laudable ambition, however, prompted him to engage in business on his own account and he organized the Toledo Fence & Post Company in 1919, capitalizing the busi-ness for twenty-five thousand dollars. From the beginning he has been the president of the company, which has made steady progress and now occupies grounds two hundred by two hundred feet at Summit street, extending to the twenty-nine hundred block on Erie street. The factory is forty by eighty feet. The company manufactures various styles of steel fencing, steel and wood posts, ornamental gates and trellises, plain and ornamental, and the business is steadily growing. Mr. Smith is also the owner of the business conducted under the name of the' Superior Post Company. On the 16th of January, 1900, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Smith and 188 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Miss Edna H. Robinson of Poughkeepsie, New York, and they have one daughter, Ruth Muriel, who belongs to the class of 1925 of the Scott high school. Mr. Smith is a member of the First Congregational church and makes his religious faith a working principle in his life. He enjoys trout fishing and finds pleasure in the comradeship that comes to him through his membership in the Masonic and Odd Fellows societies. In the former he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Exchange Club, the Commerce Club, the Toledo Automobile Club and the Lumbermen's Club and is regarded as a valuable asset in the membership of these different organizations. His home is at No. 2405 Maplewood avenue. JAMES V. DAVIDSON Business development in Toledo has found stimulus in the efforts of James V. Davidson, who established his home in this city in 1903, and as president of the Davidson Lumber & Cedar Company he is controlling an enterprise of large proportions, which stands as a monument to his progressive spirit and executive ability. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 3, 1881, and his parents were James and Mary (Brown) Davidson, who were also natives of that city. James Davidson and his father became pioneer contractors of Grand Rapids and contributed in large measure to the upbuilding and improvement of that city, in which the former passed away in 1921, while the mother died during the infancy of the subject of this review. In the family were four children, three of whom survive : Stanley, who is living in Rochester, Michigan ; Zoe F., who is still a resident of Grand Rapids ; and James V. In the acquirement of an education James V. Davidson attended the grammar and high schools of Grand Rapids and afterward entered the University of Michigan, in which he completed a course in mechanical engineering, graduating in 1903. Immediately afterward he came to Toledo, where he embarked in the contracting and building business, with which he was identified until 1908, when he organized the Davidson Lumber & Cedar Company and has since been its executive head. They operate planing and saw mills in northern Michigan and maintain their headquarters in Toledo, limiting their output to cedar posts, telegraph poles and railroad ties and selling only to the wholesale trade. Mr. Davidson has always carefully planned his business, while he also possesses the administrative ability necessary to carry it forward, and with the passing years his trade has steadily developed until he is now controlling one of the largest and most important undertakings of the kind in the state and one which is lending added prestige to his city. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the 9th of October, 1906, Mr. Davidson was married to Miss Alice B. Dickinson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Dickinson, prominent residents of that city, and, they have a son, Robert D., who was born in Toledo in 1911 and is attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson are members of the Presbyterian church and his public spirit finds expression in his membership N., it h the Toledo Chamber of Commerce. He is a Royal Arch Mason and is also connected with the Rotary Club and the Credit Men's Association and has served as president of the last named organization. He is a man of well balanced capacities and powers who has made steady advancement since his initial effort was made TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 189 in the field of business and his labors have found culmination in the development of one of Toledo's successful industrial enterprises. His spirit of initiative and progress has constituted an important feature in the city's upbuilding and advancement and his influence is one of broadening activity and strength in the field in which he is operating. PETER SATTLER There is tangible evidence of the business ability of Peter Sattler in the organization which he has built up for the manufacture of harness and saddlery. He started the business with a cash capital of thirty-five dollars and the enterprise is now incorporated for twenty-five thousand dollars. Working steadily and persistently he has accomplished these results and his business is still steadily growing. Mr. Sattler was born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 8, 1856, and is a son of John and Katherine (Dahlheimer) Sattler. The father, a native of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, came to the new world in 1848, settling in Cleveland. He had previously learned the harness-maker's trade in his native country, engaging in a pursuit which has long been followed by the family. In fact, adding the business experience of Peter Sattler in harness-making to the record of former members of the family, gives a total of more than three hundred years in which the Sattlers have devoted their attention to harness-making. Following his arrival in the new world John Sattler took up his abode on a farm near Perrysburg, Wood county, Ohio, and there conducted his business of harness and saddlery manufacturing for a time but later removed to the town. In June, 1875, he came to Toledo and here his son, Peter, was associated with him in business for a brief period. Peter Sattler was at that time a youth of nineteen years and after two years connection with his father's business he started out independently in 1877, organ izing his interests under the style of Peter Sattler, harness and saddlery manufacturer. At that time he had but thirty-five dollars but he borrowed two hundred from his uncle and five hundred from his father and thus with a capital of seven hundred and thirty-five dollars he secured necessary machinery and equipment and began the business which he now carries on. His trade has steadily increased, leading to the continuous development of his plant and the business is now incorporated for twenty-five thousand dollars, the entire stock being owned by his family. From the beginning Mr. Sattler has been the president of the company and its directing spirit. He is also the president of the General Fire Proof Storage Company and vice president of an insurance company. Mr. Sattler was married on the 19th of October, 1880, to Miss Mary Schlagheck. a native of Minster, Ohio, who came to Toledo by canal boat in 1858. Six children have been born to them : Edward G., who is the secretary and treasurer of the company of which his father is the head and who married Laura Schlachter of Toledo ; Peter H., who is one of the directors of the company and who married Rosa Fagany ; Florian A., who is likewise a director of the company and who wedded Cecile Mathews ; Christena, at home ; Eleanor, the wife of Vinton Schlachter, manager with the Buckeye Paper Company ; and Irene, who is the wife of John Rumpf. The father, Peter Sattler, belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and to the Knights of Columbus, the latter association indicating his religious faith as that of the Catholic church. He is the vice president of the insurance com- 190 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY pany of the Catholic Knights of Ohio, which has a surplus of over one million dollars and he is the treasurer of the Toledo Driving Club, a position which he has occupied for eight years, and has likewise been treasurer of the St. Peter Benevolent Association for fifteen years. In 1913, Mr. Sattler, with his wife and daughter Christena, made a European trip, during which he visited nine different countries, and included a visit to the birthplace of his father at Frankfort-on-the-Main, but was not able to find a living person who was contemporaneous with his father. In all the organizations with which he is identified Mr. Sattler is called to positions of trust and responsibility, a fact indicative of the sterling worth of his character and the high position which he occupies in the regard of his fellowmen. SCHUYLER C. SCHENCK The specific and distinctive office of biography is not to give voice to man's moderate estimate of himself and his accomplishments but rather to leave a perpetual record, establishing his character by the consensus of opinion on the part of his fellowmen. Throughout Toledo Mr. Schenck was spoken of in terms of admiration and respect. His life was so varied in its activities, so honorable in its purposes, so far reaching and beneficial in its effect that it became an integral part of the history of the city and left an impress upon the annals of the state. In no sense a man in public life, he nevertheless exerted an immeasurable influence on the city of his residence. In business life as a dealer in fuel, as a financier and as a promoter of other commercial enterprises ; in social circles by reason of a charming personality and unfeigned cordiality ; and in those departments of activity which ameliorate hard conditions of life for the unfortunate, through his benevolence and his liberality. He was an active factor in the development of a number of the institutions which were established to look after the welfare of those who needed assistance and his life was fraught with many good deeds. Schuyler C. Schenck became identified with Toledo when a young man of twenty-eight years. He was born in Fulton, Oswego county., New York, March 9, 1842, and was of Holland lineage, his ancestors having come to the new world about 1650. His father devoted his attention to farming and the lumber business and having a large family of eight children he was able to give his sons and daughters only such educational opportunities as the country schools afforded. When not busy with his textbooks Schuyler C. Schenck assisted in the operation of the home farm and in his father's business activities in the town of Fulton. He was for a time employed in a general store there and later clerked in a hardware store. He remained with that concern for ten years and on attaining his majority was admitted to a partnership. His early experience and training were comprehensive and thorough and well qualified him for later successes. In the year 1870 Mr. Schenck arrived in Toledo, where he became engaged in the coal and fuel business as agent for the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. He remained in active connection with that line of business to the time of his death, conducting a wholesale and retail trade in coal and fuel not only as selling agent for the Lackawanna but also for other companies. On the 1st of May, 1898, he was appointed sales agent by the Lackawanna Company of Chicago and at the time of his demise had charge of the company's fuel distributing department in Toledo and was a representative of the company in Chicago. TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 193 He also extended his efforts into other fields, becoming president of the Toledo & Indiana Railroad, a director of the Union Savings Bank of Toledo and for several years served as vice president and president of the First National Bank of Toledo, thus coming into prominence in the financial circles of the city. His business discrimination was notably keen and his judgment sound. In the year 1871 Mr. Schenck was married at Baldwinsville, New York, to Miss Harriet Elizabeth Dow and they became the parents of four children : Daniel D., who succeeded his father as the head of the business at Toledo but has since passed away ; Mrs. B. S. Hamilton ; Lewis R., who is now at the head of the various business interests left by his father and brother ; and Margaret L., the wife of Walter L. Haskell of Toledo. Mr. Schenck had passed the Psalmist's span of threescore years and ten when on the 3d of June, 1913, death came to him in this city. He had not only made for himself a large place in commercial and banking circles but had always given a portion of his time to activities having to do with public need and with the welfare of his fellowmen. He was an earnest worker in behalf of the Lucas County Children's Home, of which he served as a trustee and he frequently acted as guardian to orphans who possessed small estates. From 1882 until 1884 he was a member of the city council and at one time served on the city park board. He did everything in his power to uphold and advance high civic standards and his labors were far-reaching and resultant. He and his wife were most particularly helpful in relation to the Toledo Hospital, aiding largely in its maintenance and in its development. Almost from the beginning Mr. Schenck served on the hospital advisory board and Mrs. Schenck served as one of the trustees of that institution. She was president of the hospital for many years and honorary president at the time of her death in 1919. Kindly and generous in spirit, both qualities combined with his splendid business ability made Mr. Schenck a most valued factor in the successful management of any institution or Interest with which he became identified. While he won a substantial measure of success he always felt with Lincoln that, "There is something better than making a living—making a life." The simplicity and beauty of his daily life as seen in his home and family relations constituted an even balance to his splendid business ability. JOHN W. HACKETT John W. Hackett, now practicing as a member of the firm of Hackett & Lynch, is numbered among the successful attorneys of Toledo and he enjoys in large measure the confidence and respect of his fellow practitioners, owing to his pronounced ability and adherence to high professional standards. He was born October 21, 1884, and his parents were Michael and Katherine (Kelley) Hackett, both of whom were natives of Norwalk, Connecticut. In early life they came to Ohio, settling in Toledo, and the father has since devoted his attention to mechanical pursuits. He is still a resident of the city but the mother's demise occurred on the 11 th familyruary, 1905. In their famliy were six. children, all of whom are living in Toledo : Mary ; John W. ; Katherine ; Phyllis, the wife of Dr. Thomas Higgins, a prominent physi-cian ; Frank M. ; and Anastasia. As a boy John W. Hackett attended the St. Francis de Sales parochial school and he then entered the law department of St. John's University, from which he was 194 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY graduated in 1910, with the LL.B. degree. Following his admission to the bar he was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Toledo under John C. D. Alton, filling out a portion of an unexpired term, and from 1916 until 1918 he served in a similar capacity under Allen J. Seney. In 1914 he associated himself in practice with Edwin J. Lynch and they have been entrusted with important litigated interests, their clientele now being a large and lucrative one. While advancement at the bar is proverbially slow, Mr. Hackett has made substantial progress, readily mastering the intricacies of the law and preparing his cases with great thoroughness, precision and skill, his ability in the presentation of a cause having won for him many favorable verdicts. On the 11th of July, 1911, Mr. Hackett was married to Miss Irene C. Sawkins, a daughter of George W. and Maria Sawkins, prominent residents of this city, and Mr. and Mrs. Hackett have three children : Jane Marie, whose birth occurred November 14, 1913, and who is attending St. Ursula's Academy ; Dorothy. who was born January 4, 1915, and is also a pupil at that institution ; and John Wallace, Jr., born April 28, 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Hackett are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and he is a prominent member of the Knights of Columbus, in which he has taken the fourth degree. He is a past grand knight of the order and is now presiding officer of the fourth degree. He has never allowed his professional interests so to monopolize his attention as to prevent his participation in movements for the general welfare and as a member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce he is active in furthering the commercial expansion of the city. He is also a member of the Inverness Club and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and his professional relations are with the Lucas County, Ohio State and American Bar associations. He is accorded a prominent position in the ranks of the legal fraternity of Toledo and his life record is proof of the fact that success at the bar is not a matter of fortunate circumstances, nor f genius, but is the outcome of clear judgment, careful preparation for the work in hand, experience, and that keen discernment which enables the individual to recognize and separate the essential from all the incidental elements of a case. CLARE VERNON SKINNER Clare Vernon Skinner is at the head of the Toledo Wheelbarrow Company of Toledo. It is true that in this connection he entered upon business already established but in enlarging and controlling this many a man of less resolute spirit and of more easily daunted courage would have failed. Mr. Skinner, however, has always recognized his opportunities and has pushed steadily forward to his objective, never failing to reach his goal. There have been no unusual or spectacular phases in his career and an analyzation of what he has accomplished shows that he has based his success upon the qualities of industry and energy which all may cultivate. He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of September, 1873, his parents being John Marion and Henrietta (Myers) Skinner. The father came to Toledo in the year 1884 with his family and from that period until his death was a resident of this city. He was with the Brigham-Lamson Company as a partner in the bending works, which in the course of time were conducted under the firm style of Lamson & Skinner. In the summer of 1882 TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 199 W. O. and Frank Brigham and Edward Scovill of Toledo, together with Albert Hartley Lamson of Edgerton, Ohio, formed a partnership and organized the firm of Brigham-Lamson & Company for the purpose of manufacturing bent rims. This company purchased a ten acre tract of land from a Mr. Page in a section then known as Pagetown, the estate extending from the present site down to the river. The building on this site had been operated by Mr. Page as a Tight Barrel Stave Mill and the estate was purchased for ten thousand dollars. This building having been almost entirely destroyed by fire they began the erection of another in August of the same year and commenced the manufacture of bent rims in February of the following year. The company continued to operate until July, 1883, when Mr. Lamson closed down, as he found that they had lost ten thousand dollars on the venture. However, later on the firm was reorganized, Frank Brigham and Edward Scovill having in the meantime retired from the business, and in the fall of 1883 the building was reopened under the firm name of Brigham & Lamson, which they continued to operate until the spring of 1884, at which time John M. Skinner entered into partnership with them, the firm name then being changed to Brigham, Lamson & Company. In 1885 or 1886 Mr.. Brigham severed his connection with the company, selling his interest to the other two members of the firm and again the name was changed, this time becoming Lamson & Skinner and so continued until the death of Mr. Lamson, which occurred April 9, 1888. Charles T. Lewis, of the firm of Doyle, Scott & Lewis, having been made administrator of the Lamson estate, the firm was then incorporated as a stock company under the style of the Lamson & Skinner Bending Company, with John M. Skinner as president and treasurer, Charles T. Lewis, secretary, John M. Cleveland, vice president, the directors being J. M. Skinner, J. M. Cleveland, Chit-les T. Lewis, Celia L. Lamson and Henry Hegner, in accordance with an agreement made with Mr. Lamson prior to his demise that this concern was to be carried on as a stock company, under the style of the Lamson & Skinner Bending Company, for a period of ten years after his death, which promise was faithfully kept by Mr. Skinner. In 1902 Mr. Skinner purchased the interest of the Lamson estate, becoming sole owner and continued the business under the name of the J. M. Skinner Bending Company, the partnership consisting of himself, his son and two daughters. Two years later, or in June, 1904, the firm was incorporated under the above name, John M. Skinner becoming president, Clare V. Skinner of this review, vice president, and F. B. Anderson, secretary and treasurer. In 1907 the officers of the J. M. Skinner Bending Company, together with William L. Schumacher, organized and incorporated the Toledo Wheelbarrow Company, its factory being built on the Bending Company's land, and so continued until January, 1921, when the two corporations were consolidated and are now operated under the style of the Toledo Wheelbarrow Company. Steadily Mr. Skinner developed the enterprise, its continued growth making it one of the important productive industries of the city and remained president thereof until his death, which occurred in October, 1913. Clare Vernon Skinner spent the first eleven years of his life in the Keystone state and then accompanied his parents to Ohio, where he has since made his home. His education, begun in the public schools of his native city, was continued in Toledo and after his textbooks were put aside he became associated with his father in the conduct and management of the business enterprise which claimed the attention of John M. Skinner. With his father's death Clare V. Skinner succeeded to the presidency of the Toledo Wheelbarrow Company and is now directing head of this mammoth concern. The other officers of the company are : W. L. Schu-