TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 225 daughter of Toledo, her parents being Frederick and Shaal Raitz. Dr. Jacobi adheres to the religious faith in which he was reared, that of the Roman Catholic church, and he also belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He has a wide acquaintance in Toledo, where his life has been passed and his capability in the profession, as well as his personal qualities have gained him popularity and high regard among his fellow townsmen. EMIL THEODORE KOEPP Emil Theodore Koepp, president of the United Merchandise Company, wholesale dealers in paper, paper bags, twines, notions, woodenware, etc., in Toledo, is one of the young business men of the city who, actuated by laudable ambition and a progressive spirit, is moving steadily forward to the goal of success. He was born in this city, February 4, 1892, and is a son of Emil T. and Bertha (Reiter) Koepp, the father a dealer in meats. The son obtained his education in the public schools of Toledo and then became associated with his father in business, continuing with him until the latter's death. He afterward engaged in the meat business on his own account and was so engaged until August, 1918, when he enlisted for service in the World war, becoming a private in the Three Hundred and Seventh Motor Transport Corps, with which he remained until discharged on the 17th of March, 1919. He afterward became one of the organizers of the United Merchandise Company for the purpose of conducting a wholesale business in paper, paper bags, twines, notions, woodenware and similar merchandise, and in July 1920, he was elected president and general manager of the corporation. The other officers of the concern are : Max Woodka, vice president ; H. D. Snyder, secretary ; and Leo S. Kozlowski, treasurer. They incorporated for one hundred thousand dollars, Mr. Koepp being the principal stockholder. They are confining their activities to northwestern Ohio, as they realize the large field there is for their product in that district. Mr. Koepp has proven himself a capable executive and enjoys the respect of all who know him. The business has been established on a very substantial basis and is enjoying a steady and gratifying growth. Mr. Koepp belongs to the Toledo Tennis Club and greatly enjoys the game. He is also identified with the Masonic fraternity and he belongs to Argonne Post of the American Legion, thus maintaining pleasant relationship with those who, like himself, wore the khaki uniform of the nation during the struggle to suppress German militarism and promote the cause of world democracy. CARL S. LANDGRAF Carl S. Landgraf, a member of one of the old and prominent families of Toledo, is well known in mercantile circles of the city as secretary and treasurer of the J. W. Greene Company, dealers in musical instruments, and is recognized as an enterprising and progressive business man whose efforts are resultant factors in whatever he undertakes. He was born in Fremont, Ohio, January 16, 1880, and his parents were John and Anna C. (Howe) Landgraf, the former a native of New York state and the latter of Ohio. In early life the father came to the Buckeye 226 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY state, settling at Toledo during the early '80s, and he became connected with transportation interests. He was auditor for the Ohio Central Railroad for a number of years, and was widely and favorably known in business circles of the city. His death occurred in Toledo in 1914. The mother is still a resident of this city. In their family were two children : Mrs. Joseph W. Young, whose husband is a prominent physician of Toledo ; and Carl S. Carl S. Landgraf acquired his education in the public schools of his native city and on starting out in life for himself he decided to adopt the line of work in which his father had specialized, becoming auditor of disbursements for the Ohio Central Railroad Company. For fifteen years he was connected with that corporation, tendering his resignation in 1915, and has since been secretary and treasurer of the J. W. Greene Company, one of the leading music houses of Toledo, handling the Mason-Hamlin and Chickering pianos and Victor talking machines and records. His cooperation and keen sagacity have stimulated the development of the trade and he is bending every energy toward furthering the success of the business, which is one of large proportions. On the 17th of September, 1917, Mr. Landgraf was united in marriage to Miss Ruth I. Reynolds, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Reynolds of this city. In politics Mr. Landgraf maintains an independent attitude, voting for the man whom he considers best qualified for office, regardless of party ties, and he is a member of the Inverness and Commerce clubs. In the management of his business affairs he has displayed marked capability, enterprise and determination and the years have chronicled his progress along lines which lead to success. He is highly regarded in business circles of the city and has many friends whose esteem he has won and retained by reason of his high principles and fine personal qualities. IRVING WIGHTMAN COLBURN In the passing of Irving Wightman Colburn on the 4th of September, 1917, there was lost to the glass industry of Toledo and the world the mind of a truly constructive genius, of a man who thought and worked in terms of glass and who lived to know that the value of his life work was so great that his invention of a process of drawing sheet glass was an unqualified success, to the extent of revolutionizing the methods used in the glass industry up to the time of the perfection of his process. Mr. Colburn was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1861, the son of Henry Joseph and Eliza Ann (Sines) Colburn. His ancestry was English, and through the maternal side was descended from Governor William Bradford, who came over in the Mayflower. Those of his mother were all engaged in the manufacture of fabrics and of his father were of an inventive or mathematical turn of mind. Early in the history of the state of Massachusetts we find three Colburn brothers, Warren, Joseph and Richard, living in the manufacturing city of Lowell, Massachusetts. Warren became noted as a mathematician—the author of Colburn's arithmetic, which is known throughout the United States. Joseph and Richard became employed by the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, owners of the Merrimack Print Works and the pioneer fabric makers of Lowell, of which Warren Colburn was at this time president. Their activities were along special lines and inventions, one of which was the watch clock so universally used by mill owners, shop owners TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 229 and owners of great industries where the hourly service of a night watch is demanded, and was the first of its class. Of these brothers Joseph E. Colburn was the father of Henry Joseph Colburn. He was married September 22, 1833, to Ann W. Kimball of Derry, New Hampshire, and died March 5, 1840, leaving his wife and two children, Elvira A. and Henry Joseph Colburn, who was born February 22, 1838. For a time Henry lived in the family of a Mr. Combs, who was a brickmaker and owned large brickyards and many brickmaking machines. The Colburn mechanical instincts here began to be aroused and those brick machines became a living, throbbing part of his consciousness ; and though a child of less than six years, he became so familiar with them that though he never saw another until over forty years of age, he could have made drawings and built duplicates almost from recollection. When thirteen years of age he went to live in the family of Samuel W. Brown, a mechanical engineer and inventor of considerable note who came to Lowell from Waltham and was the superintendent of the Boott Mills in Lowell. Under his supervision was the large machine shop and all the engineering work of this corporation. After attending school until the age of seventeen years, young Colburn went into the machine shop to learn the machinist's trade, becoming familiar with the process of Making and repairing a large variety of machinery, especially for the manufacture of cotton. He was also employed on new and special inventions of Mr. Brown. In 1858 he moved to North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where he was employed by the firm of Gag & Silver, who were then regarded as one of the most advanced machinery making firms in the country. Many of these were the inventions of Mr. Silver. On the 21st of March, 1859, he was married at Lowell to Eliza Ann Siner. Soon after their marriage they moved to Groton Junction, where was being manufactured Ericsson's famous hot air engine, in which Mr. Colburn engaged early in the year 1860. Later he moved his family to Fitchburg and engaged with the Putnam Machine Company in the manufacture of machinists' tools for about five years, when he became associated with a stock company whose business was the manufacture of woodworking machinery, in which he became the inventor and designer of many woodworking improvements which have been acknowledged to be the best of their kind. Mr. Colburn was president of the Fitchburg common council in 1874 and designed the Fitchburg city seal, which was accepted February 18, 1873. He was for many years superintendent of the Rollstone Machine Works. He came to Toledo in 1890 and was superintendent of the Baker Brothers factory for a number of years. His demise occurred on the 29th of June, 1902. It was while the family resided in Fitchburg that Irving W. Colburn was born. At an early age he manifested an inventive turn of mind, giving his attention to electrical and mechanical engineering, manufacturing dynamos and electroplaters. He was one of the pioneers in the development of the telephone, the electric light and electroplating in the United States ; he installed the first telephone in Fitchburg and also the first electric light. However, the bent of his mind led him into experimentations in the fashioning of glass by mechanical means and during the last twenty years of his life his attention was devoted exclusively to the development of glass-making processes, of which continuous sheet drawing became a hobby and attracted to him world-wide attention. In 1898, at Frankford, a suburb of Philadelphia, upwards of seventeen thousand dollars were spent developing ideas which proved to be impractical, but as a result of the money and labor expended, valuable facts regarding the relation of molten glass to mechanical means were ascertained. Leaving Frankford in 1908, he went to Franklin, Pennsylvania, and for a time 230 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY devoted his attention to a process for blowing tumblers and chimneys. It was while thus engaged that he conceived the idea of continuous sheet drawing, in which he was backed up by a number of prominent Franklin capitalists. Experimentations were carried on at Franklin for several years and a large amount of money was expended, against which the only financial return was the proceeds from about four thousand boxes of glass of an indifferent quality, which had been placed on the market. Feeling that better results could be obtained by the use of a larger melting tank, better lehr equipment, etc., operations were transferred to Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, where a large melting tank formerly employed in the manufacture of handmade glass was remodeled and all necessary equipment put in for the manufacture of sheet drawn glass on a commercial basis. As at Franklin, unforeseen difficulties were encountered and after extensive experimentations, out of which came only about seven thousand boxes of marketable glass, Mr. Colburn's backers lost interest in the proposition, declined to continue to put up money and the plant was closed down never to resume. Shortly afterward, on the 6th of February, 1912, his patents were sold to a party who, it subsequently turned out, represented the Toledo business men who had developed the world renowned Owens bottle-blowing machine. A specially constructed factory was built in Toledo for their development, and with Mr. Colburn, Mr. M. J. Owens and others directing operations, experimentations were started which proved sufficiently satisfactory to the moneyed men backing the enterprise to cause them, in 1916, to begin the erection of a two million dollar plant at Kanawha City, a suburb of Charleston, West Virginia, where several units have been in successful operation for five years. So far reaching and so revolutionizing was the process found to be that already machines have been installed in Canada, Japan and elsewhere, and negotiations are pending for placing the machines in nearly every. foreign glass-making country. Nothing which has ever been conceived of in the making of window glass even approximates the Colburn machine in value, and the surface of the possibilities of the machine has only been scratched. During much of the time while Mr. Colburn was experimenting with the principle which he felt must be successful, he met with but little encouragement from the glass fraternity, as his process was an entirely new departure from the existing methods and principles used in the art. However, his efforts were finally crowned with success and his process has become the basis on which the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company of Toledo was founded. Mr. Colburn's process effects a great saving of labor and cost of manufacture. In the study of his problem Mr. Colburn attacked it from every conceivable side, expended large sums in experimenting, built and destroyed machine after machine and at last succeeded in building the first commercially successful apparatus for drawing sheet glass of any reasonable width and of any desired thickness, surface and polish. At the new plant there are no gatherers, blowers, snappers or flatteners. The cutters and the superintendents are the only skilled men employed and the cutters will some day be replaced by automatic devices. The essential novelty of Mr. Colburn's machine is to be found in the devices for draw-ing a sheet of uniform width from the melting pot, and the Scientific American supplement of May 16, 1908, devotes several pages to the intricacies of this marvelous process. Mr. Colburn's close application to the perfection of his process seriously impaired his health and he spent the winter of 1916 in California and Honolulu in search of health. Returning to Toledo in May, he decided to motor to his boyhood home in Fitchburg and the trip was undertaken but came to an end at Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he lay ill for eight weeks, when he was TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 231 brought back to Toledo ; but he did not long survive the trip and his death occurred at his home at No. 111 Prescott street, at the age of fifty-six years. A pathetic feature of his passing—a man who had worked so hard, so intelligently and so faithfully to a given end—is that he at a premature age should enter the shadows on the very eve of the apparent successful culmination of his life's ambition. Socially he was a prince of good fellows. He was honorable and straightforward in all his dealings and will be sadly missed by a host of friends who had learned to love and respect him. He was a member of the Charles W. Moore Lodge, F. & A. NI. at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and a charter member of the Inverness Golf Club of Toledo. His political faith was in the republican party. While not a member f any church, he was broad-minded and generous aid not bound by any creed. He is survived by his wife, Ida E. (Hamlin) Colburn, who belonged to a pioneer family of Toledo, and by four brothers. WILLIAM ARTHUR MARTIN In the main outlines the life record of an individual is largely similar to that of hundreds of others. It is in the detail that the variation is seen. Opportunity comes to all, but it is the man who keeps his eyes open, who is ambitious to succeed and who is not afraid to pay the price of success—the price of energetic and unfaltering effort—who ultimately reaches the goal of prosperity. The outstanding features in the life record of William Arthur Martin are such as have at all times commanded the respect and confidence of his fellowmen and today he is associated with two of the prominent commercial and manufacturing interests of Toledo as the treasurer of the Landers Brothers Company and also as treasurer of the American Buckram Weaving & Finishing Company. A native f Prince Edward Island, Canada, William Arthur Martin was born in the city of Charlottetown on the 24th of February, 1873, and while spending his youthful days in the home of his parents, A. D. and Jane Martin, he attended the grade schools of his native city. He also enjoyed the advantage of three years' training in the Prince of Wales College in Canada and the further lessons of life he has learned in the school of experience, where he has been an apt pupil, readily mastering the lessons to be learned day by day. He is now a well known figure in wholesale and retail dry goods circles, having come to Toledo in 1908, since which time he has made his home in this city. Here he entered into active association with the Landers Brothers Company,. prominent merchants of the city, and is now the treasurer and one of the directors of the corporation. After two years, or in 1910, he became one of the promoters of the American Buckram Weaving & Finishing Company, today controlling one of the important manufacturing concerns of the city, and through a period of more than twelve years he has been actively identified with both interests. Of the latter he is also treasurer and a director and his time and attention are largely given to constructive efforts, to administrative direction and to executive control. On the 9th of October, 1902, Mr. Martin was married in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to Miss Annie R. McClure, a daughter of J. B. and Sara McClure. They are members of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church and they have gained many warm friends in this city, their sterling worth of character constituting the key which has unlocked for them the hospitable doors of Toledo. Mr. Martin 232 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY is also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he belongs to the Toledo Automobile Club, to the Commerce Club, the Inverness Club, the. Art :Museum, the Optimist Club and to some of the trade organizations of the city, including the Toledo Credit Men's Association and the Transportation Club. His personal qualities make for popularity in all of these organizations and his sound judgment often constitutes an influential factor in management and control, or in shaping opinion concerning concerted action in these societies. The qualities which have most strongly dominated his career, however, are those sterling principles which have their root in the Christian religion and are manifest in fair treatment and honorable dealing with one's fellows at all times. GEORGE BUTLER STORER There are few men whose lives have touched more closely or helpfully many and varied interests in Toledo than did that of George Butler Storer, and yet in his entire career there was not one spectacular phase. Persistency of purpose, a ready recognition of opportunity and wise utilization of the chances that came to him, for the promotion of his own fortune and for the upbuilding of the community as well, gained for him the high position which he occupied in the regard of his fellow townsmen. There is much of inspirational value in his life story, as it indicates what may be accomplished through individual effort, intelligently directed. George Butler Storer was born in Ohio, at Cuyahoga Falls, on the 1st of January, 1866. His life record spanned the intervening years to the 5th of December, 1920, when he passed away in Toledo. He was a son of Daniel Webster and Fannie C. (Butler) Storer, both of whom are deceased. He had one sister, Mrs. Grace Storer Langell, who resides in Anderson, Indiana. The ancestral history of the family can be traced back to Maine, where representatives of the name have been prominent in connection with the public interests of the state from early colonial times. The mother's people, too, were well known in connection with events that figure in the history of New England, and were among the early settlers of the Western Reserve in Ohio. The maternal great-grandmother of Mr. Storer was the first white child born in Summit county. During the early boyhood of George Butler Storer his parents removed to Shelby, where he began his education, while later he attended a preparatory school and eventually entered Oberlin College, there completing his studies. With his return to Shelby he became associated in business with his father, who was the founder and the president of the Shelby Milling Company. In this connection an extensive business was developed, owing to the high quality of the products of the mill, and "Storer's Best" became one of the most popular brands of flour in that section of the country. The father remained in active connection with the business until 1888, when he retired and his son, George B. Storer, engaged for a time in the grain business at Pendleton, Indiana, and a paper mill at Anderson, Indiana. A little later he removed to Champaign, Illinois, where he established a plant of the Twin City Ice & Cold Storage Company, developing this into one of the large and profitable business enterprises of that locality. He also became identified with other commercial interests of Champaign and was regarded as one of the fore- TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 235 most business men of that city, alert and energetic, ready for any emergency and for any opportunity. When a vacancy occurred in the office of the secretary of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, representative business men here induced Mr. Storer to come to this city and accept the position. He soon gave evidence that the faith reposed in him was well placed. He brought to the performance of his new duties indefatigable energy, broad vision and high ideals, and in the organization of the work of the Chamber of Commerce and the prompt execution and extension of its plans, Mr. Storer accomplished great good, reaching out along lines of constantly broadening usefulness and service. He proved the need of bringing about the amalgamation of several civic bodies with the main organization, thus avoiding duplication and waste of effort and giving the Chamber greater influence and powers. His conception of the responsibilities and opportunities of a city commercial organization extended far beyond the range of mere business, and under his leadership the Chamber of Commerce entered the fields of charity, education and civic development. While filling the position of secretary he conceived and developed the idea of the King Wamba Carnival, which was so successfully held under the auspices of the society in 1909. The carnival plot was based on an old Spanish story connected with Toledo, Spain, and the affair was one of the most interesting and spectacular things ever produced in this city. For four years Mr. Storer continued to act as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and then resigned in order to give his attention to private business interests, becoming identified with the Standard Steel Tube Company of Toledo, which he reorganized and of which he became president and general manager. He held these offices at the time of his death. His executive ability, his initiative and his enterprise enabled him to achieve remarkable results in this connection, and his business ability and integrity made it one of the most favorably known tube companies of the country. On the 16th of March, 1887, Mr. Storer was married to Miss Mabel M. Mozier of Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, a daughter of David Carson and Martha (Rishtine) Mozier, representatives of prominent pioneer families of Morrow county, both of whom, however, are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Storer became the parents of three children : Frances Louise, who married John Harold Ryan of Toledo ; Martha Grace, the wife of Conyers Goddard of Chicago ; and George Butler, who resides with his mother, and who succeeded his father as president and general manager of the Standard Steel Tube Company. A biographer of Mr. Storer wrote of him : "Though essentially a business man, and remarkably Successful in the enterprises to which he directed his efforts, Mr. Storer did not believe in confining his efforts solely to financial affairs, and his mind found relaxation in other interests, in which he was equally successful. Probably his greatest hobby was his library, which was unique and most interesting. He was especially interested in American history and his collection f books bearing on this subject was wonderfully complete, including many rare volumes. Besides the general subject of American history, he was collecting material on the history of individual states.' His library reveals his discriminating taste and judgment. Mr. Storer was not only a collector of books, but a reader also, and possessed a vast fund of accurate information on a wide range of topics. He was an intense lover of nature and found his greatest enjoyment out-of-doors. He was fond of landscape gardening and showed a decided talent for this ordinarily difficult art. The summer home of the family is at Sentinel Point, on the Maumee river near Toledo, one of the historic spots in this section, which during the War of 236 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY 1812 was known as Battery Point. In laying out, planning and beautifying these grounds Mr. Storer carried out his own ideas, and Sentinel Point became one of the beauty spots of the locality. At this place he spent some of his most enjoyable days. He was an active member of the First Congregational church of Toledo, and was a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association, in the activities of which he took an interested part, especially in the boys' work. The camp at Stony Lake, Michigan, was named Camp Storer in his honor. Besides his membership in the Chamber of Commerce, he was a member of the Toledo Club, the Rotary Club, the Toledo Yacht Club, the Country Club of Toledo and the Detroit Athletic Club, as well as the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. "During the World war Mr. Storer bent his every effort to the furtherance of all local measures for the support of the government, being a member of the Council of National Defense and a liberal supporter of the Red Cross. He was generous in his support of all charitable and benevolent enterprises, but was characteristically modest and unostentatious in his giving. He was never heard to boast of his successes or his accomplishments, but derived the keenest pleasure from his ability to assist in the advancement of the community along any legitimate line. As an evidence of the high appreciation in which he was held, the following quotation is given from resolutions passed by the board of trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association: 'Whereas, it has pleased an all-wise Providence to remove from an earthly scene of splendid usefulness and activity, our respected and beloved coworker, George B. Storer, and Whereas, we are faced by the certainty of sorely missing his farsighted, friendly and wise counsel, looking to the performance of public duties and the fulfilling of large and important community needs, and Whereas, in this community loss we shall inevitably feel the grief of a personal bereavement, in view of our appreciation of the true and upstanding character of this man ; Be it resolved that we, the members of the board of trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association, do declare in these resolutions our sense of loss ; and Be it resolved further, that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the regular minutes of this meeting and a copy sent also to the family of our departed colleague.' " A most deserved, fitting and beautiful tribute paid to Mr. Storer by the directors of the Standard Steel Tube Company is appended herewith : "Mr. Storer was the dominating spirit of the Standard Steel Tube Company from the day he first became connected with the company. He was elected vice president, treasurer and general manager on January 8, 1912 ; on January 4, 1915, he was elected president and manager ; on July 29, 1917, he was elected treasurer, and on July 8, 1918, he was elected president, treasurer and general manager, offices which he held until the time of his death. He gave to this company the highest services of which he was capable. He was possessed of an unusually active mind and by temperament never ceased working and looking forward for better things. While he was careful and cautious, his ideas were progressive. He was never satisfied with anything short of real success, which he attained. He was justly proud of the record and standing of his company in manufacturing circles. "In paying loving tribute to the memory of George B. Storer, the directors of the Standard Steel Tube Company are imbued with a feeling of personal loss that seems irreparable. During all the years through which he served so faithfully and well as an officer and in this directorate, his unfailing courtesy, his genial kindliness, his broadminded outlook on men and things, endeared him to all of his TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 237 associates, each one of whom was proud to be called his friend. Always a potent factor in the growth and development of the best in civic life, the influence of his sterling character, his devotion to family and friends, his unstinted service to his city, his church and his social obligations, ever will be remembered with grateful appreciation by the people among whom he spent the later part of his useful, unselfish and eminently successful life." PRATT EMERY TRACY Pratt Emery Tracy, president of the Air-Way Electric Appliance Corporation, one of the city's highly prosperous and widely known industrial organizations, occupies a position of prominence in manufacturing circles. Mr. Tracy is a native of Toledo, born December 31, 1885, and is a son of Thomas H. Tracy, senior member of the law firm of Tracy, Chapman & Welles, and one of the foremost corporation lawyers of the middle west. Pratt Emery Tracy received his education in the public schools of Toledo and later continued his education in the Phillips Exeter Academy and in Oberlin College. Early in his business career, by reason of his thorough educational training and ready adaptability, he became superintendent of the wholesale department of the Brown, Eager & Hull Company, dealers in notions, toys, etc. He remained with that house for two years and on the expiration of that period felt that his capital and experience justified his embarking in business on his own account. He became one of the organizers of the Gross & Tracy Photo Supply Company, of which he was secretary and treasurer. He was then active in the successful management and. conduct of the business until 1915, when he sold his interest therein and formed other commercial connections by becoming president of the Toledo Screw Products Company, with which he remained during the World war period, the company being engaged in government work during that time. After the war his company formed a merger with the Arrow Manufacturing Company, resulting in the establishment of the Air-Way Electric Appliance Corporation, manufacturers of vacuum sweepers, electric appliances and radio equipment. Of the new organization Mr. Tracy became the president and remains the executive head of the business, which has developed with notable rapidity until its annual sales are now most extensive. On the 12th of May, 1909, was celebrated the marriage of Pratt E. Tracy and Miss Katharine Crowfoot of Troy, Ohio, whose parents were Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Crowfoot, well known residents of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Tracy have two children : Virginia and Richard Pratt, born May 13, 1922, in Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Tracy is nationally known as a sportsman, particularly in connection with the ownership of fine blooded horses. He has won many blue ribbons at horse shows throughout the country, possessing some of the most valuable stock placed an exhibit. He is well known in club circles, having membership in the Toledo Club and in the Rotary Club, and he is also connected with the Toledo Chamber of Commerce. In politics he is a republican and fraternally is identified with the Masons, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Tracy's well directed efforts have resulted in the development of a manufacturing industry which is of direct value and benefit to the city as well as a source of individual prosperity. Mr. Tracy's residence comprises a seven-acre tract on the 238 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY Maumee river, just below old Fort Miami. The residence, of colonial design, is situated on a knoll, commanding an excellent view of Fort Meigs, as well as a broad view down the river. ELMER HARRY CLOSE Toledo's development has been largely stimulated, directed and promoted by her real estate men and foremost in this class is Elmer Harry Close, whose activities have been not only a most substantial contribution to the final results but most comprehensive and valuable as well. His commanding position in real estate circles and his increasing business has made him one of the most successful real estate men in Toledo. Mr. Close was born in Bellevue, Ohio, December 9, 1875, and is a son of Joseph W. and Gertrude (Hannum) Close. His father was engaged in the grain trade in Bellevue and later he devoted his attention to the insurance business in Duluth, Minnesota, whence he came to Toledo, arriving in this city during the early boyhood of his son Elmer, who largely acquired his early education in the public schools of this city. Later he became a student in the University of Michigan and his college training has constituted the broad basis on which he has developed his success in later years. He was first identified with the insurance business in Duluth, Minnesota, and in 1897, in Toledo, he entered into partnership with George E. Pomeroy in the real estate business. They were thus associated for twelve years and it was while thus engaged that Mr. Close became identified with the development of subdivisions, one of his first being Harvard Terrace, near Walbridge Park. In January, 1909, Mr. Close withdrew from the partnership relation and organized the E. H. Close Realty Company, of which he has since been president and treasurer. Several of the employes of the company, recognizing that Mr. Close was a "coming man" in real estate, preferred to continue in his employ and many of the clients of the firm also continued to give him their patronage. With the organization of the new company he entered upon a systematic and comprehensive plan of advertising and it is said that almost every fence and barnyard wall in Toledo carried his placards until the name Qf the firm was almost a household word. There are few that approach and still fewer who equal Mr. Close in the extent and importance of his realty work in connection with the actual development and improvement of the city. He has platted and developed fifteen hundred acres in and near Toledo. In addition to Harvard Terrace he has placed upon the market Ottawa Hills, Homewood Park and Home Acres and he has constructed hundreds of residences in this city. Large and unsightly vacancies he has transformed into beautiful residential districts and in the downtown section of Toledo are seen many splendid structures whose transfer of ownership has been promoted by Mr. Close. He erected a large office building known as the Close building, at Nos. 513 and 515 Madison avenue, having his own office on the ground floor. While he has built up a most excellent business organization and has a large number of employes, he is always approachable and ready to talk business with any client or prospective purchaser and this is one of the strong elements in his success. During his connection of more than a quarter of a century with the real estate business in Toledo he has acquired a wonderfully intimate knowledge of realty values and his judgment of such carries as much or more significance TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 241 than that of any other man in Toledo. He is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges and he belongs to the Toledo Real Estate Board, of which he has formerly served as president. Among his other business connections Mr, Close is a director in the Commerce Guardian Trust & Savings Bank and at all times he is wide-awake, alert and energetic, ready for any emergency and for any opportunity. In October, 1898, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mr. Close was united in marriage to Miss Nell Kempf, a daughter of Hon. Reuben Kempf of that city, and they have two children, Susanne Gertrude and Joseph H. Mr. Close is a member of the Commerce Club and he belongs also to the Toledo Club, the Country Club, the Toledo Yacht Club and the Inverness Club. He finds his greatest pleasure on the water and is the owner of a big lake cruiser, the Tillicum. Mrs. Close is an active worker in the Trinity church. Mr. Close supports all projects and enterprises promoted by the Chamber of Commerce for the city's upbuilding and development and for the advancement of those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. In politics he is a republican and, while never an office seeker, he has ever endorsed those well defined projects which have to do with city planning and the systematic and harmonious development of Toledo along the lines of beauty as well as utility. A notable record of success is his and an analyzation into his career shows that his prosperity is the direct outcome of clean business methods, close application, keen insight and a thorough understanding of every phase of the business to which he gives his attention. Mr. Close's residence is on Ridgewood road, Ottawa Hills. ISAAC KINSEY, JR. Isaac Kinsey, Jr., of the firm of Kinsey & McMahon, one of Toledo's well known investment security houses, has achieved an enviable place in business circles. He was born in Toledo, July 7, 1894, a son of Isaac and Katherine (Menzies) Kinsey. His father, now retired from active business, is one of the city's successful business men. During a portion of his youth Isaac Kinsey, Jr., lived in Dayton, Ohio, where he attended the public schools and continued his education in the high school of Toledo. He afterward entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated with the class of 1916. He then started out in the business world with the export sales department of The Willys-Overland Company, with which he was thus associated for fifteen months. At the time of the World war he entered the Officers' Training Camp and was commissioned a second lieutenant in August, 1917. He was then sent to the Artillery Training School in France and assigned to duty with the One Hundred and Third Field Artillery of the Twenty-sixth Division. He spent eighteen months in France and received his discharge on the 15th of April, 1919, so that he is now numbered among the veteran officers of the great international struggle. With his return to his native country Mr. Kinsey again became connected with the Overland in the sales department of Toledo and continued to act in that capacity for sixteen months. Later he entered the investment bond business. The firm of Kinsey & McMahon includes Lewis P. Kinsey and Isaac Kinsey, Jr., of Toledo, and George P. McMahon of Detroit, senior partners ; and J. Dwyer Kinnucan and 242 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY John F. Reynolds of Detroit, junior partners. The Detroit office is at No. 618 Penobscot building. The firm enjoys an unassailable reputation for reliability as well as progressiveness and the sound judgment of its members enables them to pass with accuracy upon the value of investment securities. On the 3d of November, 1919, Mr. Kinsey was married to Miss Phyllis. Bigelow of Toledo and they have one son, Isaac (III), born September 7, 1920. Mr. Kinsey is a loyal follower of Masonic teachings and he belongs to the Toledo Post of the American Legion, of which he was elected commander for the year 1922. He also has membership in the Toledo Country Club, in the Kiwanis Club and in the Chamber of Commerce. ROBERT A. STRANAHAN With the establishment of the Champion Spark Plug Company in Toledo, Robert A. Stranahan became an active factor in the business life of this city and the constant development of his powers and the extension of his commercial connections have brought him to an enviable place in the front ranks of those who control the commercial and financial destinies of northwestern Ohio. Forceful and resourceful, his activities have ever been of a constructive character, resulting in the building of important enterprises, which make substantial contribution to the notable growth and prosperity of the community. It was in 1910 that Mr. Stranahan became a resident of Toledo, previous to which time his residence had largely been maintained in New England. He was born, however, in Buffalo, New York, on the 7th of July, 1886. His father, Robert A. Stranahan, was at one time proprietor of the Genesee Hotel at Buffalo and subsequently of the famous Tremont House at Boston, Massachusetts. His death occurred in Sharon, Massachusetts, in 1898. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Whitehill, is a resident of Brookline, Massachusetts. Robert A. Stranahan attended the public schools of Boston and of Brookline and subsequently was graduated from Harvard College with the Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the class of 1908, having set a new record for the university by taking the regular four years' course in two and a half years. His first position after leaving college was in the office of George Dill, a realtor, but later in the same year he became interested in automobile parts and began the manufacture of magnetos, spark plugs, coils, etc., so essential to the locomotion of automobiles. In 1910, associated with his brother, Frank D. Stranahan, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Stranahan, he organized the Champion Spark Plug Company and in the same year removed the business to Toledo, where he has since operated, developing in this one of the important productive industries of the city. Aside from being the active president of the Champion Spark Plug Company Mr. Stranahan is also a director of the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, president of the Champion Porcelain Company and a director of the Columbia Motors Company of Detroit, president of the Champion Spark Plug Company of Canada, Limited, of Windsor. Ontario, and president of the Jeffery-Dewitt Insulator Company of Kenova, West Virginia. His business interests thus cover a wide territory and have assumed a large importance with the passing years and success has enabled him to extend his investments. His opinions are ever regarded as a valuable asset TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 245 in the capable control of the various corporations with which he is identified, for his judgment is sound and discriminating. Mr. Stranahan has been married twice. On the 3d of June, 1908, he wedded Agnes McColl of Brooklyn, New York, and they became the parents of five chil-dren: Elsie, Nancy, Dorcas, Robert and Marcia. Following a legal separation from his first wife Mr. Stranahan was married on the 18th of March, 1920, to Page Ellyson Lewis of Danville, Virginia, and they have one son, Frank Richard, born August 5, 1922, in New York. Mr. Stranahan is a member of the Toledo Club, the Inverness Club, the Country Club, the Sylvania Golf Club, the Toledo Yacht Club, the Toledo Rotary Club, the Toledo Automobile Club, the Commerce Club and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at Washington, D. C. He is also identified with the Masonic fraternity, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, is a member of Toledo Commandery, K. T., and of the Mystic Shrine. He is also well known through connection with business organizations, including the Society of Automotive Engineers and in 1921 he served as president of the Automotive Equipment Association, which numbers in its membership practically all of the leading automotive manufacturers and jobbers in the United States with headquarters in Chicago. His personal qualities and his business capacity have thus brought him to leadership in this field, his opinions carrying weight in the organization and among those who are connected with similar industrial lines. NORMAN E. HASCALL Norman E. Hascall, the secretary and general manager of the J. J. Freeman Company, jewelers of Toledo, was born in Goshen, Elkhart county, Indiana, March 28, 1863, and is a son of Melvin Barns and Mary Emily (Moore) Hascall, who were natives of the states of New York and Vermont, respectively. In early life the parents went to Indiana and were pioneers of Elkhart county, where for many years the father successfully engaged in merchandising, there remaining to the time of his death. His widow is still living and has reached the advanced age of eighty-nine years. In his youthful days Norman E. Hascall attended the public schools until he reached his thirteenth year, pursuing his studies in his native city but at that time the urge of necessity forced him out into the business world, as he was obliged to assist in the support of the family. He became an apprentice to the jeweler's trade in an establishment at Goshen, Indiana. Later he came to Toledo, where he entered the employ of J. J. Freeman, with whom he continued as an employe until 1908, when the business was incorporated and he became secretary and general manager, which position he has since occupied, while his connection with the house dates from 1885. There is no phase of the jewelry trade with which he is not thoroughly familiar and his enterprise and progressive methods have been dominant elements in the continued success of the undertaking. They have a well appointed store and carry a large and carefully selected line of jewelry, while their reasonable prices and honorable business methods have been dominant features in the attainment of their present day prosperity. On the 24th of June, 1891, Mr. Hascall was united in marriage to Miss Flora Alice Freeman of Toledo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Freeman. They have become parents of two children : Norman, born in Toledo, was educated in the 246 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY schools of this city and in Denison University and is now engaged in the jewelry business with his father and maternal grandfather. He is descended from ancestors who served in the Revolutionary war and his paternal grandfather was a member of the Forty-eighth Indiana Regiment during the Civil war and won the commission of colonel. It is not strange, therefore, that Norman Hascall, Jr., responded to the call for troops during the World war, and was commissioned a second lieutenant of the Thirty-seventh Division, while later he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He served in the Meuse-Argonne and in the Ypres-Lys offensives. His valor and loyalty were many times demonstrated and he received honorable mention as well as the French War Cross. Following the close of the war he received his discharge at Chillicothe and returned to Toledo, where he is now connected with the J. J. Freeman Company. He married Miss Leonora Strassburger of St. Louis, Missouri, on the 11th of February, 1922. The daughter, Suzanne Hascall, born in Toledo in 1902, is now attending the Smead school.  Mr. Hascall of this review is well known in club circles, belonging to the Toledo, the Toledo Country and the Inverness Golf clubs. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and has always proven a faithful follower of the teachings and the high purposes of the craft since becoming a member of the order. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution and is also a valued member of the Retail Merchants Association, of which he has been elected president annually for the past three years, a fact which proves conclusively that he has made an excellent presiding officer and one who has greatly furthered the aims of the organization. He ranks with the prominent and representative merchants of the city, actuated at all times by a progressive spirit and his position of prosperity is in marked contrast to his financial status when at the age of thirteen years he started out in life to provide for his own support. His success has come as the direct reward of his own efforts and labor and his example is indeed well worthy of emulation. JACOB J. FREEMAN An integral chapter in the history of Toledo is that written by the life work of Jacob J. Freeman, one of the pioneer jewelers of the city and long accounted one of the foremost merchants and business men here. He has passed the seventy-third milestone on life's journey, but is still active in commercial circles and his life record should put to shame many a man of much younger years, who, grown weary of the struggles and trials of business life, would relegate to others the burdens that he should bear. Mr. Freeman has achieved success through earnest purpose, close application and unremitting diligence. He was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, September 21, 1849, and is a son of Samuel and Hanna (Heitz) Freeman, who were also natives of the Keystone state, whence they removed to Oxford in northern Wisconsin. The father there became a prominent figure in the community, engaging in school teaching and also conducting stores at Oxford and at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, his last days being spent in the latter place. The mother afterward removed to Aurora, Illinois, where she made her home with a daughter. Jacob J. Freeman went to Michigan City, Indiana, in young manhood, where he entered a machine shop, having decided to learn the machinist's trade. After a brief period, however, he gave up work of that character, as he did not find it TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY - 247 a congenial occupation. He then secured a position in a bank, where he worked for his board until September, 1869, when he came to Toledo. He had previously started to learn the jeweler's and watchmaker's trade in Michigan City, Indiana, and after reaching Toledo he secured a position in which he completed the trade and for several years continued to work for others along that line. He carefully saved his earnings until his industry and economy had brought him sufficient capital to enable him to establish business on his own account, which he did on the 1st of March, 1877, opening a very small store with a limited stock. Through the intervening years, however, he has developed this into the present magnificent establishment of The J. J. Freeman Company, of which he is the president. This is today Toledo's leading jewelry house and employment is there furnished to more than forty people. The store contains an extensive and carefully selected line of jewelry and precious gems, Libbey cut glass, china and fancy goods, the latter of both domestic and foreign manufacture and the splendid line carried and the attractive arrangement of the store as well as the reasonable prices, have secured to the firm a most liberal and gratifying patronage. Year by year the business has grown and developed until, exceeding all other establishments in this line in Toledo, it has for a number of years been the leading jewelry house of the city. In 1870 Mr. Freeman was united in marriage to Miss Alice Freeman and they have become parents of two children : Flora A., educated in the high school of Toledo and in Radford Academy, is now the wife of Norman E. Hascall, secretary and general manager of The J. J. Freeman Company and they have two children, Norman F., and Suzanne ; the son, Reno S., born in Toledo, after completing his educational training here, attended the Peekskill Military Academy at Peekskill, New York. He is treasurer of The J. J. Freeman Company. He married Miss Esther McMillan, who was born in Clinton, Missouri, and died in Tucson, Arizona, December 24, 1921. Mr. Freeman has voted with the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise and has ever been a loyal follower of its principles but never a seeker for public office. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias, with the National Union and with the Masons. Mr. Freeman is a member of the First Baptist church, and has been Sunday school superintendent for the past thirty years. He is at all times a loyal follower of the teachings and purposes of, these organizations. His has been a most creditable record, for through the years he has been the architect of his own fortune and has builded wisely and well. His entire course has been marked by constructive effort and his path has at no time been strewn with the wreck of other men's fortunes. He has labored diligently, intelligently and perseveringly for the success which is his and the most envious cannot grudge him his prosperity, so worthily has it been won and so wisely used. MALCOLM HOWARD SMITH Malcolm Howard Smith, a veteran of the World war, who is now conducting business as the head of the M. H. Smith Lithographing Company, was born February 20, 1896, in Toledo, where he yet makes his home; his parents being Howard Mandeville and Ida (Howard) Smith, who are also natives of Toledo, where the father is engaged in lumber manufacturing. 248 - TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY The son, Malcolm Howard Smith, attended the public schools and was one of the first graduates of the New Scott high school. When his textbooks were put aside he turned to the business world for the opportunities therein presented. He secured a position in the clerical department of the Willys-Overland Company and was thus employed until after America entered the World war. In 1917 he enlisted in the artillery department as a member of Battery A, One hundred and Thirty-fifth Field Artillery, becoming a private but winning promotion to the rank of second lieutenant. He was sent overseas in June, 1918, and from the 12th to the 23d of October was on active duty in the Troyon sector and from the 28th of October to the 11th of November was on duty in the St. Mihiel sector in France, receiving his discharge on the 9th of April, 1919, about six months after the war closed. With his return to his native land and city Mr. Smith organized the M. H. Smith Lithographing Company, of which he is the president. In this connection a substantial business has been developed, now giving employment to twenty-five people and high grade work is turned out. On the 2d of March, 1918, Malcolm H. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Frances Eleanor Southard of Toledo and they have a son, Junior. Mr. Smith belongs to the Rotary Club, a fact that establishes his position as a representative member of the lithographing profession. He belongs to the Country Club, also to the Carranor Hunt and Polo Club and he is likewise a member of the American Legion. He is also a captain of the Toledo Troop of Cavalry, Headquarters 107, and thus maintains an active interest in military affairs. Thoroughness and .system in his work, combined with an enterprising spirit, are makng for steady advancement in his business life, while the sterling traits of his character are continually leading to extension of his circle of friends. IRA GARRETT WINEGAR Ira G. Winegar, secretary and treasurer of the Ohio & Michigan Paper Company, is one of Toledo's representative business men whose connection with the wholesale paper trade dates back nearly thirty years and includes comprehensive experiences in almost every branch of the business. Mr. Winegar was born on a farm in Vergens township, Kent county, Michigan, February 24, 1875, his parents being Ashabel and Mary (Roberts) Winegar, the former a farmer by occupation. Ira G. Winegar spent his youthful days on the old homestead farm, early becoming familiar with the duties and tasks that fell to the farm bred boy of forty years ago. He was but four years of age when his father died and was a lad of only thirteen years when his mother passed away, both parents being fifty-two years of age when called to their final rest. Ira G. Winegar at that early age started out to provide for his own living in the only line of business with which he was familiar, working as a farm hand. He was thus employed through the succeeding five years, beginning his tasks in the fields at the time of early spring planting and continuing until crops were harvested in the late autumn. During the winter months, he had the opportunity of attending school and thus acquired the education which has constituted the foundation for his later advancement. He came to Toledo in 1893, when a youth of eighteen, and spent one year here. He next went to Detroit, Michigan, where he secured employment in a wholesale paper