(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 750 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY Knights of Columbus. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects and his tireless energy and pronounced ability insure his continued progress in his profession, while his personal qualities are such as inspire esteem and friendship. HENRY KINSON Among the prominent and successful contractors of Summit county, one of the best known is Henry Kinson, of Akron, who specializes in churches and school buildings, also other public structures and has also done a vast amount of building in this section of the state. Mr. Kinson was born in Staffordshire, England on the 9th of January, 1877, and is a son of Edward and Mary Ann (Warren) Kinson, who were lifelong residents of England, where the father was widely known as one of his country's leading potters. To him and his wife were born eleven children, of whom five are living : Robert, Arthur, Mrs. Agnes Dawns and Mrs. Polly Parkes, who remain in England, and Henry. The last named attended the public schools of his native country and started to learn the pottery trade, which he followed from his eleventh to fifteen years, after which he became an apprentice to the brickmason's trade. He followed that line of work in England until thirty years of age, when he came to the United States and located in Akron. Immediately on his arrival in this city he went to work for the Carmichael Construction Company as a brickmason, being employed on the Summit county courthouse, which was then in course of construction. He worked continuously on that job from 1906 to 1910, after which he became a member of the firm of Barker, Kinson & McAlonan, contractors and builders, with whom he remained until 1914 and after the dissolution of that firm he remained in partnership with Mr. McAlonan until 1917, when he began contracting on his own account. During subsequent years he has been very successful, having erected a number of important buildings, among which are the Forest high school building, St. John's Evangelical church, and the First Church of Christ, Scientist, all in Akron; the Methodist Episcopal church in North Akron; Sacred Heart church, Akron; St. Joseph's school, in Cuyahoga Falls; the school at Charleston, Ohio; the school in Orange township, Cuyahoga County; the First United Brethren church and also the Andrew Jackson school and many other structures. Possessing a thor- AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 753 ough practical knowledge of the building business, he is careful and painstaking in everything he undertakes and has won a well merited reputation for trustworthiness in his business affairs. In November, 1898, in Staffordshire, England, Mr. Kinson was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Chell, a daughter of Alfred and Celia Chell, and they are the parents of two children : Arthur, born in England, January 2, 1900, was educated in the public schools of Akron and follows the brickmason's trade in this city. He married Miss Elsie M. Huber, of Akron, and they have two children, Betty Winifred and Reva. Winifred, born in Staffordshire, England, May 27, 1904, was educated in the Akron public and high schools and is with her parents in the family residence at 39 Schrop avenue. Mr. Kinson is a Mason, identified with the blue lodge, chapter and council, and belongs to the Akron Builders Exchange. His religious connection is with the Second Church of Christ, Scientist. By a straightforward and commendable course he has made his way to the front rank of the successful contractors of this city, while in his private life his record has gained for him the uniform regard and esteem of all who have come in contact with him. HARRY A. COCHRAN Resourceful, energetic and farsighted, Harry A. Cochran has achieved success in varied lines of activity and is one of Macedonia's substantial business men and influential citizens. He was born in Ligonier, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1866, and his parents, Huston and Rachel Walker (Scroggs) Cochran, were also natives of that state. The father of Huston Cochran was likewise born in Pennsylvania and his forebears were Scotch and Irish. The maternal grandfather, Rev. Joseph Scroggs was a minister of the United Presbyterian church and served for sixty years as pastor of the old Fairfield church in Ligonier. He was an earnest follower of the faith he preached and the family was noted for religious fervor and loyalty to the church. One of his sons devoted his life to the spread of the Presbyterian faith, two were physicians and four of the daughters became the wives of Presbyterian ministers. Huston Cochran was born in Latrobe, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, about the year 1830 and remained in that state until 1885, when he came with his family to Ohio, locating in North- 754 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY field township, Summit county. He first settled on what was known as the Lemon place and in 1887 purchased one hundred and sixteen acres of improved land, which became the Cochran home farm. His life was useful and upright and in 1905 he responded to the final summons. Mrs. Cochran, who was also of Scotch-Irish lineage, was born in Ligonier, December 8, 1833, and attained the venerable age of eighty-eight years. Her demise occurred at Latrobe on the 20th of June, 1922, and her remains were interred in the family burial ground in Northfield township. Although blind during the last eight years of her life, she bore that affliction with patience and cheerfulness and gave to her many friends an inspiring example of Christian faith. Sympathetic and unselfish, she was always happiest when doing a service for others. Her talents found expression in the writing of verse and shortly before her death she composed the following poem: "It really seems strange to me to relate I have passed my milestone of eighty-eight. This is something new in our family tree, But God has mercifully meted out to me And spared me to this unusual age, Which makes my life seem like a long unwritten page; A page of joy and a page of cheer, With many a sorrow and full many a tear. "But sometimes I think the chariot wheels turn rather slow. Some time they will stop and I shall take my flight To the home where the blind shall receive their sight, And where no candle is needed for light." Harry A. Cochran is one of six children and has two sisters but his three brothers have passed away. His rudimentary instruction was obtained at Latrobe and his high school studies were pursued at Northfield. When a young man of twenty-one he joined his father in the purchase of the homestead and assisted in making this one of the most desirable farms of Northfield township. As an agriculturist he has prospered, closely studying soil and climatic conditions and utilizing the most effective methods in cultivating his land. He has found dairying a profitable industry when conducted along scientific lines and is a good judge of live stock, which he has bought and sold quite extensively. During the World war he was a heavy shipper of milch AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 755 cows to the government base hospital at Camp Funston, located near Manhattan, Kansas. He has also engaged successfully in custom milling and is now a director of the Macedonia-Northfield Bank, one of the strong financial institutions of Summit county. In 1902 Mr. Cochran was married at Northfield, Ohio, to Miss Myrtle Nesbit, a daughter of James and Rebecca (Patterson) Nesbit. The Nesbits lived in the Ligonier valley of Pennsylvania, which they left about 1825, and they had much to do with the early settlement of northern Ohio. Mrs. Nesbit's forbears were also Ohio pioneers and her family is related to that of Mark Hanna of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran became the parents of three daughters but Lucille, the second in order of birth, is deceased. Helen, the eldest, was a public school teacher prior to her marriage to Dr. Wesley Laughlin, of Burton, Ohio, and they have two children, Bettie and Jennie. Martha Laura Cochran is attending Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, and preparing for the career of an educator. Mrs. Cochran was a devoted wife and mother and her death in August, 1925, brought deep sorrow to her family and many friends. A Presbyterian in religious faith, she was keenly interested in the missionary work of the church and served as superintendent of the children's department of the Sunday school. She was president of the Woman's Literary Club and figured prominently in social, political and cultural activities, exerting a strong influence for good in her community. Mr. Cochran is an adherent of the republican party and an earnest member of the United Presbyterian church. At one time he was a school director and was also elected a member of the village council, discharging his duties in a manner that won for him strong commendation. He has always been ready to serve his community when needed and is esteemed for his integrity, enterprise and public spirit. WILLIAM F. PETERS As a civil engineer of proven worth and ability William F. Peters has done much important work in the field of public service and Akron numbers him among its most prominent and useful citizens. He was born in Oberlin, Ohio, April 12, 1886, and his parents, William H. and Mary Peters, were natives of Massachusetts. They spent the greater part of their lives in the Buckeye state and the father achieved prominence as a civil engi- 756 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY neer. He followed that profession until his demise in 1913 and the mother passed away in the same year. They left a family of three children : A. W. and William F., of Akron; and Mrs. Clara Phiehl, a resident of Elyria, Ohio. After the completion of his high school course William F. Peters matriculated in the University of Wisconsin and was graduated with the class of 1910, receiving the degree of Civil Engineer. He was then appointed city engineer of Wadsworth and county engineer of Medina county, Ohio, acting in those capacities for one term, and was also assistant state highway engineer during that time. On retiring from office he located in Akron and became chief engineer of public service, a position which he filled with distinction for five years. Since 1926 he has followed his profession in a private capacity and the prestige which he won in public service has enabled him to gain a large clientele. He has been intimately associated with important development projects in various parts of Ohio and his technical knowledge and skill enables him to readily solve the many difficult problems which are constantly arising in his work. Mr. Peters was married July 9, 1916, in Akron, to Miss Adele L. Carpenter, a daughter of A. L. Carpenter, and they now have two children : Barbara, who was born in 1917; and Jean, born in 1921. Both are natives of Akron and public school pupils. Mr. Peters is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Masonic Club, the City Club and the Portage Country Club. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce he is working for Akron's best interests. His professional connections are with the Ohio Engineers Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers, while his religious views are indicated by his affiliation with the First Congregational church. His efficiency, energy and devotion to duty have brought him to the front rank in his chosen vocation and his genuine worth is attested by all with whom he has been associated. CHRIS V. NAUM Among the successful and growing business concerns of Akron is the Naum Company, at 391 South Main street, dealers in automobile tires and accessories. The prosperity of this business reflects the industry, determination and sound judgment of Chris V. Naum, who is entitled to a large meed of credit for what he has accomplished, for he came to this country but a few years AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 759 ago, practically penniless and ignorant of our language and customs. However, he had before him a definite goal and his ambition and perseverance have carried him on to success. Mr. Naum was born in Hochist, Devol, Albania, on the 20th of November, 1895, and is a son of Vasil and Ephrosine Sophia Naum, who also were natives of that country, where the father is still living, the mother being deceased. The father is engaged in a mercantile business. To him and his wife were born two children, Chris V., of this review, and Peter, who still lives in Albania. Chris V. Naum attended the public schools of his home neighborhood to the age of fifteen years, when, determined to make his own way in the world, he ran away from home and came to the United States. He first located in Jamestown, New York, where he attended night school and found employment. He remained there until 1912, when he came to Akron and went to work for the B. F. Goodrich Tire and Rubber Company, With which he remained for two years. He then began selling insurance and real estate, which line he followed for a short time, when he became associated with the Starkey Supply Company, dealers in automobile accessories. He was with that concern until 1924, when he formed a partnership with W. H. Salsbury, under the name of the Salsbury & Naum Company, of which he became vice president and manager, and engaged in the tire and automobile supply business. This proved a successful venture and in 1928 Mr. Naum bought Mr. Salsbury's interest in the business, becoming president, treasurer and manager of the concern, which is now known as the Naum Company. He carries a large stock of goods and has shown ripe judgment and keen sagacity in the management of the business, which is enjoying a healthy and steady growth. Mr. Naum is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Grotto, the United Commercial Travelers and the Akron Automobile Club, and in his political views maintains an independent attitude, voting according to the dictates of his judgment. During the World war he showed his loyalty to his adopted country, by enlisting in the United States Army at Akron. He was sent to Valparaiso, Indiana, then to St. Louis, where he was assigned to the Washington University training school and later to artillery branch of the service and went into training at Camp Custer. He was not ordered overseas and was honorably discharged in 1919. Mr. Naum arrived in Akron in 1912 with a cash capital of three dollars and his record since then has been one of steady 760 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY and continual advancement, so that today he commands the genuine respect of his fellowmen for his success and the possession of those qualities which have made his success possible. WILLIAM CLARENCE T. PARKER, D. C. Dr. William C. T. Parker, engaged in practice as a chiropractor of Hudson, his service proving of great value to his fellow townsmen by reason of his wide knowledge and skill along professional lines, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a son of William T. and Jemena (Gordon) Parker. The father died when a comparatively young man. The mother was of Canadian birth and ancestry. Her father was born in Scotland and was a world navigator, while a number of years prior to his death he entered the service of the Canadian government as captain of a mail ship. Dr. Parker acquired his early education in the Kinsman school of Cleveland and following his graduation on the completion of his course of study there he secured a clerical position with the Republic Iron Company of that city, with which he remained for two years. He next entered the merchant marine service and when he had completed his term of enlistment he became a student in the Cleveland Spencerian Business College, where he took the full course and thus further qualified for life's practical responsibilities and duties. For five years thereafter he was associated with the steel trust of Cleveland and he also spent two and one-half years in railroad work. His next venture was in the field of construction work in the employ of Emanuel Sidlo. His desire to enlist for overseas duty in the World war was thwarted by his failure to pass the required physical examination. However, he did service as war-time inspector in power plants controlled by the government. When the country no longer needed his aid in that connection he entered Akron College, taking up the study of chiropractic and graduating therefrom on the completion of a four years' course as a member of the class of 1926. He enjoyed the distinction of being president of his class, was graduated with honors and received the degree of Doctor of Chiropractic. In April, 1927, the Ph. C. degree was conferred upon him and he also holds a certificate for proficiency in the La Grange method of reducing dislocations. On the 21st of January, 1926, Dr. Parker was married to AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 761 Miss Laura M. Parkin, of Cuyahoga Falls, who is a graduate of the Warren City Hospital and is a registered nurse of both Ohio and Oklahoma. She has served as superintendent of various hospitals and as principal of nurses' training schools and has attained a high degree of efficiency in her chosen field. She is of English and Welsh lineage, her father having been born in England, while her mother was a native of Ohio. Dr. Parker is a man of affairs and liberal education who has enjoyed the advantages of wide travel and the experiences therein gained. Fraternally he is a Mason, loyal to the teachings and purposes of the craft. He is also the secretary and treasurer of the Akron College of Chiropractic and he makes his professional duties and obligations his chief interest, giving undivided attention to his work and performing each professional service with a marked sense of conscientious obligation. BENJAMIN HILBISH Benjamin Hilbish, son of Henry and Susan Hilbish, was born in Freeburg, Pennsylvania, in the year 1828. He was bred a farmer and received his education in the Freeburg Academy. He remained on the farm with his father, who was a wealthy, prosperous man, until he reached the age of twenty-two. He married Miss Wilhelmina Smith, of Sunbury, Pennsylvania, and then came to Akron, Ohio. He bought one hundred and twelve acres of land east of Akron when the city was in its infancy. Later he purchased two adjoining farms, so that at the time of his death he was the owner of three hundred and fifty acres which had greatly increased in value and which was sold for allotment purposes at an average of fifteen hundred dollars per acre. Wilhelmina Smith was born in Mahanoy, Pennsylvania, in 1830, was educated in the schools there and at the time of her death at the age of seventy-two years was the mother of seven children: William, of Painesville, Ohio; Angelina Schrop, of Akron; Elizabeth Bender, Henry Hilbish, G. A. Hilbish, J. H. Hilbish and F. E. Hilbish, all of Akron and all living at the time of this writing. William, the eldest, is seventy-seven years of age and F. E. Hilbish, the youngest, fifty-three years. Benjamin Hilbish followed farming and stock raising to the time of his death, departing this life at the age of seventy-six 762 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY years. He and his wife were hard working and economical people. They gave liberally to all deserving causes, especially to the church and to the poor. They lived to witness the development of Akron from a city with a population of two thousand to two hundred thousand and at all times were interested in those projects which had to do with the growth and development of the county in every way. As the years passed Mr. Hilbish prospered in his undertakings, so that he was able to leave his family in comfortable financial circumstances. He led a busy, useful and well spent life and merited and received the confidence and respect of all with whom he came in contact. ELMER V. SCHINDLER Elmer V. Schindler, manager of the Telling-Belle-Vernon interests in Akron, is an excellent type of the aggressive business man developed in the present age. He, has been prominently identifid with manufacturing operations in Akron for a period of fourteen years and occupies a position of leadership in his line. He was born August 13, 1891, in Cleveland, and is a son of John and Laura (Van Lehn) Schindler, natives of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where they were married. They afterward established their home in Cleveland, where they still reside. The father was one of the organizers of the well known Telling-Belle-Vernon Company, and is vice president of the corporation, playing a conspicuous part in the upbuilding of one of the largest concerns in its line in this part of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Schindler have five children : Herbert J., who is engaged in the baking business in North Homestead, Ohio; Mrs. Helen Carkhoff, a resident of Cleveland; Mrs. Edith Thorpe, who lives in North Homestead; Elinor, who resides with her parents in Cleveland ; and Elmer V. The last named was educated in his native city and after completing his high school course entered the employ of the TellingBelle-Vernon Company. His experience involved various departments, and he acquired a detailed knowledge of the industry and was intrusted with important duties. In 1914 he was sent to Akron in charge of the Telling-Belle-Vernon branch in this city for the manufacture and distribution of ice cream, and he has since been manager of the plant, which is located at No. 231 East Exchange avenue. It is completely equipped and efficiently operated. Mr. Schindler is a tireless worker and has developed a AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 763 large business in this city, manifesting the poise and foresight of the true executive. The Telling-Belle-Vernon. Company, whose home office is in Cleveland, transacts a business of extensive proportions and since 1928 has been affiliated with the National Dairy Company. Mr. Schindler was married Decemer 3, 1913, in Akron to Miss Gertrude Winkler, and they became the parents of four children. Merle, the first born, died in 1922, when six and a half years old, and John H. (II) died in the same year at the age of two. The surviving children are : Elmer V., Jr., who was born November 21, 1923 ; and Norma Jane, born February 14, 1925. Mr. Schindler is a Mason and belongs to the Grotto. His other fraternal connection is with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Automobile Club and the Silver Lake Country Club, while his religious membership is with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Schindler has closely identified his interests with those of Akron and is looked upon as one of the city's capable business men and best class of citizens. His residence is at 1086 Emma avenue. JOSEPH NEWTON WELLER, M. D. Dr. Joseph N. Weller, one of Akron's foremost physicians, was born November 5, 1877, in Greenfield, Ohio, a son of Charles I. and Mary Elma (Grim) Weller, lifelong residents of this state. The father was a native of Montgomery county and the mother was born in Highland county. They are survived by three children : Etta Marie, who is the widow of William 0. Overman and resides in Greenfield; Dr. Joseph N. Weller; and F. Adelbert Weller of Greenfield. Dr. Weller was reared on his father's farm and obtained his rudimentary instruction in a district school of Highland county, and then entered Ohio Wesleyan University from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1898. His studies were continued in the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, graduating in the class of 1901. For two years he was an interne in the Quaker city, serving in the Jefferson and Philadelphia General Hospitals, and in 1902 located in Akron. He was a general practitioner for eighteen years and since 1920 his practice has been limited to internal medicine. Dr. Weller is a member of the staff of the City Hospital and in 1925 served as chief of staff. 764 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY On October 15, 1902, the Doctor was married in Akron to Miss Metta Dague, a native of Doylestown, Ohio, a daughter of W. Carman and Melissa (Duley) Dague. W. C. Dague was for many years a well known merchant of Akron, a member of the firm of Dague Brothers & Company. Dr. and Mrs. Weller are parents of a son, Joseph Carman, who was born January 7, 1907, in Akron and completed a course in the West high school. He was graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1928. In 1927 he received the New York Times Current Event prize. He is now doing postgraduate work at Columbia University. Dr. Weller is affiliated with the First Congregational church, and his interest in Akron's development and prosperity is indicated by his connection with the Chamber of Commerce. He is identified with the Masonic order, the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, the Alumni Association of the Jefferson Medical College, the Portage Country and Akron Automobile Clubs, the Summit and Ohio State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. Dr. Weller is a distinguished representative of his profession and in 1916 served as president of the Summit County Medical Society. His residence is on Ridge road, Fairlawn. FRED HORIX Alert to his opportunities, Fred Horix converted them into tangible assets and was successful in all of his ventures. For many years he was an outstanding figure in business circles of Akron and is now enjoying the ease and comfort purchased by a life of industry and thrift. He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, October 3, 1843, and his parents, Carl and Philipina (Born) Horix, were lifelong residents of that country. He received a public school education and afterward was apprenticed to a maltster. Mr. Horix acquired a thorough knowledge of the business and followed that line of work in his native land until he reached the age of twenty-four, when he sailed for America. For two years he was employed in one of the large breweries of Cleveland, Ohio, and then came to Akron, establishing a plant on East Exchange avenue. Prosperity attended the undertaking and later he purchased the old Overholtz brewery, which he successfully operated until 1888, when he disposed of it to George C. Renner, who organized the Renner Brewing Company, now known as the Renner Products Company. Mr. Horix next became a AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 765 manufacturer of brick and developed a large industry which he later sold, opening a wine and delicatessen store on East Market street. He conducted a high class establishment, patronized by the most discriminating customers, and built up an extensive trade. In 1915 he sold the business and has since lived retired although he is serving as vice president of the Akron Brewing Company but acts merely in an advisory capacity. Mr. Horix was married September 18, 1869, to Miss Julie Kern, who was a daughter of Martin Kern, and theirs proved an ideal union, but was severed by the death of Mrs. Horix on the 2d of July, 1926. She had become the mother of four children. Emma, the first born, died in 1903. Otto, who was born in Akron and resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is married and has two children, Fred Horix (II) and Mrs. Helen Fairbanks. Carl Horix and Mrs. C. S. Brown, the other members of the family, are also natives of Akron and live in the city. Although eighty-four years of age, Mr. Horix appears much younger and is able to read without glasses. He is remarkably well preserved and since the death of his beloved wife has made four trips to Germany, the last one in 1928. Along fraternal lines he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and is the oldest member of the Turner and Liedertafel Societies of Akron. Time has wrought many changes since he came to the city, whose progress he has watched with deep interest, rejoicing in what has been accomplished. On the stage of life he has played well his part and is esteemed and honored by all who have been brought within the sphere of his influence. M. DIETRICH LIES, M. D., D. O. For many years Dr. M. Dietrich Lies was engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery and as an optometrist he has been equally successful, being generally regarded as Akron's leading specialist. He was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1870, and his parents, Gustin and Anna Katherine (Kerchner ) Lies, were natives of Germany. In early life they left that country and came to the United States, settling near Germantown, Pennsylvania. The father was a merchant tailor and engaged in that business until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Lies are survived by four of their five children : Gustin, who lives in Germantown; 766 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY John, whose home is in Ohio; Mrs. Anna Kray, of Germantown; and M. Dietrich. Dr. Lies attended the public schools of his native city and the German Lutheran College, also located in Germantown. In 1900 he completed a course in the Eclectic Medical College and began his professional course in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he practiced successfully for sixteen years, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Going to Kansas City, Missouri, he matriculated in the Needles Institute of Optometry and was graduated with the class of 1920. Soon afterwards Dr. Lies located in Akron and has since devoted his attention to examining eyes and fitting glasses. In this branch of the profession he is an acknowledged expert and his practice has assumed extensive proportions. Dr. Lies advocates compulsory examination of the eyes of all who drive automobiles, as a safeguard against accidents. He states that many drivers can not see beyond the hood and motorists who side-swipe other cars and are alternately on and off paved roads have what optometrists call the Ben Turpin eye. Dr. Lies was married in Pittsburgh to Miss Eva Johnson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson, of Steubenville, Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. Lies have two children. Their daughter, Mrs. Ella Lowe, was born at Magil Junction, Ohio, in 1898, and received her education in Pittsburgh. She is the mother of one child, Lucretia. The son, Thomas Lies, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1916 and attended the public schools of Kenmore, Ohio. The Doctor adheres to the Lutheran faith and his fraternal connections are with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Knights of the Maccabees. His deep interest in Akron's progress is indicated by his affiliation with the Chamber of Commerce and he is also a member of the Automobile Club and the Ohio State Association of Optometrists. His talents have been dedicated to the service of humanity and a useful, upright life has won for him a secure place in the esteem of his fellowmen. HARRY P. MORAN Harry P. Moran, president of the Moran Construction Company of Akron, occupies a foremost position among the general builders and contractors of this city, as a result of a successful career in that line of business which dates back more than thirty years. AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 767 Mr. Moran reversed the usual procedure in removals, for he came from the west eastward, his birth having occurred in Springfield, Missouri, March 14, 1880, his parents being John J. and Katie (Maier) Moran. The father was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the mother in Illinois, but in early life they became residents of Missouri, in which state they have ever since resided. Their home has been in Springfield for many years. John J. Moran has long been identified with the transportation department of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad system in that section of the country. He and his wife were the parents of five sons : Harry P., of this review; J. A., who resides in Chaffee, Missouri ; B. E., who is identified with the Moran Construction Company of Akron; F. E., a resident of Los Angeles, California ; and R. L., who lives in Springfield, Missouri. Harry P. Moran was reared in Springfield, Missouri, attending the schools of that city. He early entered the contracting and building business, at first in a minor position with a large firm. From time to time he was advanced to positions of increased responsibility, readily proving himself capable in the various branches of the business. It was in 1915 that Mr. Moran came to Akron and organized the Moran Construction Company, doing a general building and contracting business. He has been the executive and directing head of this company since its organization and its operations have been an important factor in Akron's upbuilding. Among the numerous structures in this city that stand as evidence of the high class work of the Moran Construction Company are the Akron City Hall and the Akron Beacon Journal building as well as many of the important buildings of the large rubber manufacturing companies. Among the more recent work done by this company is the building of a high-power transmission line for the Cleveland Illuminating Company, which cost one million five hundred thousand dollars. This involved the construction of a line ninety miles long and the erection of four hundred and fifty steel towers carrying three hundred miles of copper wire. There is no principle of construction with which Mr. Moran is not familiar and the fine organization that he has built up is a high tribute to his thorough knowledge of the business and ability as an executive. On the 6th of July, 1906, Mr.. Moran was married to Miss Nellie Warner, of Springfield, Missouri, and they have one son, Harry P., Jr., who was born in Akron, October 30, 1919. Fraternally Mr. Moran is a member of the Elks, and is also 25-VOL. 3 768 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY a member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce. In club circles he is well known, belonging to the Portage Country Club, the Akron City Club, the Fairlawn Country Club, the Silver Lake Country Club and the Akron Automobile Club. Mr. Moran is an excellent example of the type of business man developed in the present age, quick to perceive an emergency, decisive in his methods and keenly alive to the possibilities of a business proposition. He is not only regarded as one of the city's strong and able business men but is accorded a most creditable position among Akron's very best citizens. His residence is at No. 630 West Market street. GIRARD S. BERENY Although comparatively a newcomer to Akron, Girard S. Bereny has already become a power in local automobile circles and typifies the progressive spirit of the age. He was born January 21, 1886, in Bedford, Ohio. His father, Gustave A. Bereny, was a native of Germany. In 1860 he came to the United States, settling in Ohio, and was married to Miss Jennie E. Spafford, a native of this state. Afterward Mr. Bereny became a produce commission merchant of Cleveland and prospered in his undertakings. He continued in business in that city until his death in 1911 and is survived by Mrs. Bereny and their two children, Laura and Girard S. The son was reared on a farm in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and in 1902 was graduated from the Bedford high school. For two years he attended the Western Reserve University at Hudson, Ohio, and also took a course in the Spencerian Business College and the Case School of Applied Science, both located in Cleveland. His boyhood ambition was to become a chemical engineer but he decided to follow the advice of his father and chose a commercial career. Starting as a clerk for the Mutual Transit Company of Cleveland, he spent about one year with the firm and then entered the Cleveland establishment of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, becoming connected with the sales department. He proved well adapted to that line of work and at the end of a few years was made manager of the Youngstown district. This responsible position he filled for eight years, materially increasing the sales of the corporation in his territory, and in November, 1926, decided upon an independent venture. In that year he AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 769 organized the Nash Akron Company, of which he is president and general manager, and in less than two years has developed one of leading automobile agencies of the city. The business was started on East Market street and recently was moved to the new quarters at No. 370 West Market street. It is located opposite Neptune Park, on the site formerly occupied by the O'Neil residence. The new home of the company contains one of the largest and most modern display, sales and service departments in Akron. Mr. Bereny has ten experienced salesmen in his organization and each of his mechanics is a Nash expert. The firm handles one of the best automobiles on the market and its chief aim has ever been to serve an intelligent, appreciative public in a creditable, satisfactory manner. In Cleveland, Ohio, March 3, 1908, Mr. Bereny was united in marriage to Miss Jeannette A. Graf, a daughter of Fred J. and Jennie Graf of that city. Mr. Bereny is identified with both the York and Scottish Rite bodies of Masonry and has received the thirty-second degree. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Akron Automobile, City and Masonic Clubs, the Portage Country Club, the Youngstown Country Club and the Cleveland Athletic Club. DONALD M. PFEIFFER Donald M. Pfeiffer, whose early environment and training laid the foundation for a character that in its developing strength carried him steadily forward to the goal of success, enjoys an enviable position as one of Akron's progressive young citizens and has attained prominence in business circles as assistant secretary and assistant manager of The Duncan Oil Company and The Akron Soap Company. He was born at Dover, Ohio, June 2, 1892, a son of Professor John W. and Emma (Morris) Pfeiffer. The father, a native of Germany, was a lad of seven years when he accompanied his parents on their emigration to the new world, the family home being established in Ohio. In this state he continued to reside until the time of his death, becoming well known as an educator and man of letters, as a writer and historian. He made an excellent record as superintendent of schools at Dover, Ohio, and later as a high school professor of Akron. Many of the present generation of business men of this city retain pleasant recollections of his enthusiastic interest in their proper early 770 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY training and of the wholesome influence which his teachings and example exerted upon them. His own children, during their impressionistic years, received his most wise and careful guidance. Though stern and strict, he was at the same time a kind and loving father and a real companion to his children. It has been said of Professor Pfeiffer, that while he was a Oman of powerful physique, he never used his strength to thrash unruly pupils. Both Professor Pfeiffer and his wife have passed away, and two of their four children survive : Donald M., of this review; and Mrs. Marie P. Watts, a resident of Akron. It will be seen that in his early youth Donald M. Pfeiffer had the advantage of parental influence which fitted him for a worthy place in society. He pursued his preliminary education in a grade school of Dover, later attended high school in Akron and subsequently spent three years as a student in Buchtel College. His initial experience in the business world came to him during three years' connection with the B. F. Goodrich Company. In 1917 he resigned this position in order to associate himself with The Akron Soap Company and four years later, in 1921, he was made assistant secretary and assistant manager of this concern as well as of The Duncan Oil Company. In these official capacities he has represented both companies through the intervening period of seven years and has contributed in substantial measure to their success. In 1917, in Akron, Mr. Pfeiffer was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Duncan. He belongs to the Lone Star fraternity and is a consistent member of Trinity Lutheran church. LOUIS LOEB One of Akron's oldest and most highly respected merchants is Louis Loeb, president of The J. Koch Company, which is classed with the city's leading clothing establishments. His career, from the time he arrived in Akron at the age of seventeen years, has been a record of loyal and efficient devotion to the interests of the business of which he is now the head and with which he has been actively identified for fifty-eight years, and no citizen of Akron commands to a greater degree than he the uniform confidence and esteem of the people. Mr. Loeb was born in Alsheim, Germany, on the 6th of February, 1853, and is a son of Jacob and Johanna (Stern) Loeb, His AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 771 father, who was engaged in the manufacture of soap, died in 1858, and on reaching his teens young Loeb was compelled to assume the responsibility of the support of the family, consisting of his mother and five other children, of whom one sister was older than he. He courageously bore his share of the burden, but his opportunity for individual advancement in his home community was limited and in 1870, determined to seek a wider field, he came to the United States. He was unacquainted with the English language and decided to seek employment with the Levi & Koch Company of Akron, Mr. Levi being also a native of Alsheim, Germany, and an acquaintance of his father. He was accepted and at once came to Akron and for a year worked without salary, his only remuneration being his board and room. He quickly acquired a knowledge of the English language, worked hard for his employers, by whom he was advanced through various departments, and in 1878, on Mr. Levi's retirement from the business, was made junior partner in the concern, at which time the name of the company was changed to J. Koch & Company. The trade grew and the store was moved to larger and better quarters. In 1907 J. Koch retired and on the incorporation of the business as The J. Koch Company, Mr. Loeb became president, which position he has filled to the present time. In 1918 a removal was made to the present location at 111 South Main street, where a modern store for men and boys has since been conducted. The enterprise has now been in continuous existence for eighty years, having been established in 1848. Mr. Loeb is also a director of the Central Savings & Trust Company of Akron and is interested in several other corporations. On the 16th of August, 1882, Mr. Loeb was united in marriage to Miss Alice Moss, who was born in Akron, Ohio, March 28, 1860, and was educated here. Her parents were Herman W. and Rosina (Wolf) Moss, the former having been a partner in the Akron clothing firm of Hopfman & Moss. Mr. and Mrs. Loeb became the parents of two sons and two daughters, namely : Edna, who is the wife of A. L. Abt and the mother of four children; Joy, associated with his father in business, who married Ruth Geiger and has two children ; Walter, deceased; and Irene, who is the wife of Dr. Bernard Goldmann and the mother of one child. Mr. and Mrs. Loeb have seven grandchildren. Mrs. Alice Loeb has manifested an active and helpful interest in charitable and philanthropic organizations and has done valuable service in connection with hospitals and children's welfare societies. She now enjoys 772 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY the distinction of being the sole surviving member of the Jewish Schwester Bund, the oldest organization of its kind in Akron, and is honorary president of the Council of Jewish Women, which she organized. She also organized the Sisterhood, which is an auxiliary of Temple Israel and she is a member of the Women's City Club. Mrs. Loeb is very active in the work of both the City Hospital and the Peoples Hospital of Akron and was at one time president of the Children's Hospital. Mr. Loeb was made a citizen of the United States in 1875 and no native-born citizen of the country has ever been more loyal to its interests or stood more stanchly for its institutions. He holds well defined opinions on public questions and expresses the conviction that failure to vote is one of the greatest handicaps of good government. Mr. Loeb is a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Adoniram Lodge No. 517, F. & A. M., and Washington Chapter No. 25, R. A. M., and also has membership in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Rosemont Country Club and the Akron City Club. He is a director of the Jewish Social Service Federation and is interested in many other charitable and civic organizations looking toward the general welfare. Mr. Loeb is president of the Hebrew congregation of Temple Israel, is a member of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith and is a director of the Jewish Orphans Home in Cleveland. Kindly and affable in manner, and in appearance many years younger than his actual age, he possesses an attractive personality and is extremely popular wherever known, while in the business circles of Akron he is regarded as one of the city's most substantial and dependable men. WILLIAM E. WRIGHT Mr. Wright was born in Wadsworth, Ohio, August 22, 1874, and is a son of William Henry and Christina (Eichelberger) Wright, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. For many years they have continuously resided in the Buckeye state, where the father has long successfully engaged in farming, and is still in good health, although now seventy-eight years of age, while his wife has reached the age of seventy-four. In a family of eight children William E. Wright was the second in order of birth. He attended the graded schools of Summit county. He is pleasantly situated in his home life, having AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 773 been married in Akron on the 7th of June, 1909, to Miss Ida May Beck, a daughter of Charles and Anna Beck, of Columbia City, Indiana. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He belongs to the Akron City Club, the Portage Country Club and the Rotary Club, as well as to the Akron Chamber of Commerce. He served as vice president of the last named organization in 1927 and was chosen its president for 1928. WILLIAM A. BAKER William A. Baker, vice president of the Firestone Steel Products Company, is an excellent example of the type of business man developed in the present age, and combines much of the vision, business judgment and resourcefulness, so essential in this day of big business. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, July 4, 1891, his parents being Ralph and Nancy (McFarland) Baker, also natives of that state. The father was for a number of years engaged in the lumber business and also engaged in the retail automobile business at Springfield, Illinois„ and there passed away in 1920. To him and his wife, who still survives, were born four children : William A., Ralph N., Jr., Mrs. Clara Backus and Mrs. Janet Jones. William A. Baker was reared in Springfield, Illinois, and attended the schools of that city, subsequently matriculated in the University of Illinois, being graduated from the academic department of that institution in 1914. In association with his father he engaged in the lumber and retail automobile business at Springfield, Illinois, until 1917, when he entered the first officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan and was commissioned second lieutenant of field artillery. He was assigned to Camp Grant at Rockford, Illinois, as commanding officer of Company A Ammunition Train, and stationed there until January 18, when he was transferred to the Chicago depot, and promoted to first lieutenant. In July, 1918, he was transferred to Washington, D. C., and placed in charge of purchases of spare parts and accessories for the quartermaster, and promoted to the rank of captain and stationed in Washington. Following his honorable discharge from military service in June, 1919, he became connected with the Bethlehem Steel Company of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1920 he was transferred to Detroit as a representative of that corpora- 774 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY tion. In 1922 he became identified with the Firestone Detroit Company, which he represented as sales manager until 1923. He then came to Akron as sales manager for the Firestone Steel Products Company, in which capacity he continued until 1926, when he was elected vice president. Mr. Baker's advancement has come as the recognition of work well done and his capacity for assuming greater burdens and responsibilities. On the 27th of April, 1916, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Baker married Miss Marion Jenkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jenkins, of a prominent and well known family of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are the parents of three children : Marjorie, who was born in Springfield in 1917; William A., Jr., born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1921; and Charles, who was born in Detroit in July, 1922. All are students in the Old Trail school of Akron. Mr. Baker manifests a public-spirited interest in community affairs and is an active member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce. His appreciation for the social amenities of life is indicated by his membership in the Portage Country Club, the Turkeyfoot Island Club, the University Club, and the Akron Automobile Club. Fraternally he is a Mason. Personally he is a genial and companionable gentleman, and has made many warm friends since coming to Akron. Mr. Baker's residence is on Western avenue, Fairlawn. CLETUS G. ROETZEL Cletus G. Roetzel, one of the prominent members of the Akron bar whose professional career in this city has been marked by unusual success, has practiced in Akron since 1912. He was born in Suffield, Ohio, July 24, 1889, and is a son of John T. and Mary (Schuck) Roetzel, the former a native of La Salle, Illinois, and the latter of Ohio. The father came to the Buckeye state to take up educational work and was a teacher of both public school and of music. After a time, however, he gave up that occupation and established a general store at Suffield, Ohio. He later disposed of his mercantile interest and removed to Akron, where he now holds a responsible position with the M. O'Neil Company. His wife is also living and of their eight children six survive, namely: Frank J., who is a resident of Cleveland, Ohio; Arthur John, living in Havana, Cuba; Cletus G., of this review; Sylvan J., a resident of Akron; Marie, a school teacher of Akron; and Ruth, who also follows the profession of school teaching in Akron. AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 775 Cletus G. Roetzel attended the public schools of Suffield, the high school at Randolph, Ohio, and was graduated from Buchtel Academy in Akron, and attended Buchtel College. He began reading law in the office of Wilcox, Parsons, Burch & Adams and was admitted to practice in December, 1912. He first entered into partnership with Clarence W. May under the firm style of May & Roetzel, but this connection was discontinued when Mr. Roetzel was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit county in November, 1916. He occupied that position for two terms and made a most creditable record by his fidelity and capability in office. He then began practicing law independently and so continued until the organization of the present firm of Roetzel & Olds. This firm has 'a large and representative clientele and has been connected with some of the most important litigation before the courts of Ohio during the past decade. Mr. Roetzel was elected president of the Akron Bar Association in 1927 and is also a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and American Bar Associations. He belongs to the Roman Catholic church and is a third degree member of the Knights of Columbus. During the World war he responded to the call to the colors and was commissioned a second lieutenant of field artillery, being stationed at Camp Taylor. In matters of citizenship he is always allied with the progressive citizens who are seeking advancement of public welfare, and his substantial contributions to worthy and needy projects attest his genuine interest and broad sympathy. He is a trustee of the Akron Law Library; a director of the Municipal University of Akron; a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity; a member of the American Legion; the Akron Automobile Club; the Akron City Club; the Fairlawn Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Roetzel's residence is at No. 89 Dick avenue. THOMAS FRANCIS WALSH As Chicago has become the synonym of the meat packing industry of America, Detroit of automobile manufacturing and Hartford the center of the insurance business, so Akron has gained world wide fame as the American center of rubber tire manufacturing, in connection with which have sprung up some of the largest and strongest corporations known to the trade. 776 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY One of the well known concerns manufacturing rubber tires and rubber goods in Akron is the Swinehart Tire & Rubber Company, which entered the field during its pioneer epoch and which has ever maintained the highest standards in connection with its products and in the employment of skilled workmen. Its business principles, too, have their root in the old adage that honesty is the best policy. As head of this institution Thomas Francis Walsh is justly accounted one of the foremost manufacturers of Ohio. This state claims Mr. Walsh as a native son, his birth having occurred in Cuyahoga Falls on the 1st of October, 1858, his parents being William and Rosanna (Carlin) Walsh, both of whom were natives of Ireland. On coming to America they settled in Ohio and the father engaged in paper manufacturing, being a pioneer in that industry in this section of the country. He died in Cuyahoga Falls and the mother has also passed away. In their family were eight children, five of whom are still living : C. M., Margaret, Rose and Mrs. Mary Donaldson, all living in Cuyahoga Falls; and Thomas F. The last named was a pupil in the grade and high schools of Cuyahoga Falls and in his youthful days, when not busy with his textbooks, worked with his father in the paper mills. While thus employed he devoted the hours that are usually termed leisure to further study, working part nights in the mill and attending school in the daytime, making every effort to advance his education, for he realized how essential this was to success in later life. He continued to apply himself for some time to paper manufacturing and in the meantime took up the study of law, which he pursued in the evening hours or whenever opportunity permitted. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and entered upon his professional career, engaging in general practice, in which he continued successfully until 1902. In the meantime he had entered into an agreement with the promoters of a rapid transit railway line extending from Kent to Barberton by way of Akron. This was in 1892, and when the original promoters faced financial disaster Mr. Walsh was called upon to fulfill his guarantee to the stockholders and to the public at large. To do this he had to sacrifice a growing and important law practice, but he carried out the task with credit to himself and satisfaction to all concerned, completing the line, which now constitutes an important link in one of the great rapid transit systems of Ohio. He was directly responsible for the completion of that section between Barberton and Kent, Ohio. In 1901 he sold his interests to some eastern AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 777 capitalists who in turn sold it to the Northern Ohio Power & Light Company. About that time he was offered a responsible position by the same eastern capitalists and went east, constructing several electric roads in New Jersey and Rhode Island for the Radel interests. In 1905 he disposed of his interests in that state and two years later undertook the construction of an electric road from Providence to Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. It is characteristic of Mr. Walsh that he never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his purposes and wherever he has labored his work has been attended by results beneficial to the community as well as to himself. In the year 1910 he disposed of his interests in the east and returned to Akron, purposing to retire, but fate seemed to intervene in his plan, as his cooperation was sought in other business lines. He became interested in the Swinehart Tire & Rubber Company, which at that period was on the verge of bankruptcy. He rehabilitated the property and in 1912 was elected to the presidency of the corporation, in which position he has since continued, directing its interests and activities with a careful hand guided by sound judgment that is manifest in the continued growth and success of the enterprise. In all business affairs he readily discriminates between the essential and the nonessential, and his efforts have been broadly resultant, benefiting the districts in which he has operated and at the same time bringing him the substantial rewards of persistent labor intelligently directed. Aside from his prominent association with the rubber industry he is a director of Akron's foremost financial institution, the First Trust & Savings Bank. On the 18th of July, 1884, Mr. Walsh was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Mahar who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas F. and Anna Mahar. They have become parents of four children. Richard T., who was born in Cuyahoga Falls in 1887 and pursued his education in the schools there and in eastern universities, is now living in Los Angeles, California. He is married and has three children : Mary, Joseph and Richard. Charles J., born in Cuyahoga Falls in 1892, supplemented his preliminary education by graduating from Holy Cross College of Worcester, Massachusetts, is now associated with his father and in charge of sales of Swinehart Rubber Company; William A., born in Cuyahoga Falls in 1894, was also graduated from Holy Cross College and during the World war period he received a commission as lieutenant in the United States navy and was an instructor at Camp Pelham. He is now a prominent attorney of 778 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY Akron, and a member of the law firm of Nelan and Walsh; Isabella, now Mrs. Albert M. Fiala, of Akron, born in Cuyahoga Falls in 1897, was educated in the schools of Akron and Villa Maria College at Canton, Ohio, and has three children : Mary, Thomas and William. Adhering to the Catholic faith, Mr. Walsh and his wife are communicants of St. Mathas church. He has never sought to figure prominently in connection with political activity but for two terms served as mayor of his native city. He belongs to the Akron City Club and to the Akron Chamber of Commerce and is interested in every plan and project having to do with the up-building and benefit of Akron. He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished. When quite young he started out to provide for his own support and steadily he has worked his way upward, utilizing every opportunity that has been presented and seeking out other chances for progress and improvement. The spirit of determination which enabled him to acquire a liberal education through night study has carried him forward to success in every field in which he has labored. A career as a capable lawyer was cut short when he entered into active connection with railway construction, but in this he found a broad field and he measured fully up to the requirements thereof. An American philosopher has said : "An institution is but the lengthened shadow of a man," and judged by this standard, Thomas F. Walsh, president of the Swinehart Tire & Rubber Company, is one of the "big" men of Akron, occupying a notable place in her commercial and industrial development. Mr. Walsh resides in Tallmadge township, near Bettes Corners, and his residence "Home Farm" erected in 1910, is one of the attractive country estates in this section. This property comprises one hundred acres, and a considerable portion is given over to fruit growing that includes about every known variety adaptable to this climate. This is a hobby of Mr. Walsh's, in fact his chief recreational diversion. JAMES BURTRAM HUBER James B. Huber is a partner in the well known law firm of Slabaugh, Seiberling, Huber & Guinther, of Akron, and in his professional career has made steady advancement. What he has accomplished should serve to inspire and encourage others, AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 779 showing what may be done through industry, persistency of purpose and laudable ambition. Akron is proud to number Mr. Huber among her native sons. He was born here December 12, 1878, his parents being Henry and Rachel (James) Huber, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Wales. They came to America in early life and the father established a grocery business in Akron, continuing in that line to the time of his death, which occurred when he was fifty-two years of age. His wife survived him to the age of seventy-eight years. Their home at the time of the birth of their son, James B., was on North Main street, where the tracks of the Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railway Company now crosses that thoroughfare. They had a family of nine children, all of whom are yet living, namely : James B. ; Harry J., who is a resident of Akron; Charles P., living in Detroit, Michigan; Rev. Dr. David R. Huber, of Los Angeles, California; and Marian, Lillian, Roberta, Nina and Mrs. C. J. Alpeter, all of whom reside in Akron. Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, James B. Huber attended the Bowen school and afterward continued his education in the Jennings and in the Central high schools, being graduated from the latter with the class of 1896. He then entered the employ of the B. F. Goodrich Company, with which he remained for a year. The hours which are usually termed leisure he devoted to the study of stenography and typewriting at home, and when he became acquainted with those branches of learning he obtained a position as stenographer in the law office of Slabaugh & Seiberling. He faithfully performed his stenographic duties and he also utilized every available moment for the study of law, remaining with the firm for two and a half years. He then went to Washington, D. C., as assistant secretary of the rivers and harbors committee of the house of representatives and he also performed secretarial work for Congressman Theodore E. Burton, who secured his appointment in the national capital, where he remained during the long congressional session of 1901-2. With his return to Akron he resumed his law studies in the office of Slabaugh & Seiberling, passed the required examination and was admitted to the bar at Columbus in December, 1902. On the 18th of the same month he opened a law office in the Everett building. Advancement at the bar is proverbially slow, but steadily he progressed as he gave evidence of his capability, thoroughness and fidelity to the interests which he represented. He 780 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY continued alone until 1908, when he was admitted to a junior partnership by his former employers, the firm becoming Slabaugh, Sieberling & Huber. In 1919 Robert Guinther joined the firm, which has since been Slabaugh, Seiberling, Huber & Guinther except for a period of two years, during which time the late W. E. Young was also a member. Mr. Huber attributes not a little of his success to the influence of his partners, W. E. Slabaugh and Francis Sieberling, who was his Sunday school teacher in a class taught by the latter in the Trinity Lutheran church. He is a member of the Akron, Ohio State and American Bar Associations. Mr. Huber has become an official in various important interests of Akron, having served at one time as president of the Chamber of Commerce and now chairman of the special airport committee of that body. He is vice president of the Mohawk Rubber Company; president of the Akron Rubber Reclaiming Company and a director of the Akron Standard Mold Company, director in the Equity Savings Association and director of the Akron Morris Plan Bank. He is also a director of the SieberlingLatex Company of Barberton; its president and a director of the Fairlawn Heights Company; a director and secretary of the Crouse Clay Products Company and also officially connected with several other important industrial and commercial concerns of the city. On the 17th of October, 1921, Mr. Huber was married to Mrs. Rebecca (Fleming) Holmes, of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Robert and Grace Fleming, of New Castle, Pennsylvania. By her former marriage Mrs. Huber had two children, both born at New Castle, Pennsylvania : William Holmes, now attending Northwood school, Lake Placid, New York; and Rebecca Jane Holmes, who attends Fairlawn Heights school. Mr. Huber, whose home is in Fairlawn Heights, finds recreation in fishing, golf and in travel. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, the Knight Templar degree in the York Rite and is a member of the Shrine and the Grotto, of which he is a past monarch. He belongs to the Akron City Club and the Portage Country Club and has been a trustee of the Better Akron. Federation since its organization. His support and cooperation can be counted upon to further any plan or project for the public good. He is a trustee of the Young Women's Christian Association and a trustee of the Colored Community Organization. These connections indicate the nature of his in- AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 781 terests and activities and the rules which govern his conduct. He is one of the most highly esteemed residents of his native city, enjoying the good will, the confidence and the warm friendship of those with whom he has been brought in contact. CLARENCE L. HYDE, M. D. Dedicating his talents to the service of humanity, Dr. Clarence L. Hyde has achieved noteworthy success in his efforts to check the progress of the "white plague" and possesses exceptional qualifications for the post of superintendent of the Springfield Lake Sanatorium, which he has filled with distinction for a period of eight years. He is a native of Buffalo, New York, and of English and Dutch lineage. His parents were the Rev. Melancthon and Elizabeth (Stoutenburgh) Hyde, the latter a member of one of the old Dutch families of Long Island. The father was also born in the Empire state and served in the Union army during the Civil war. He was an Episcopal clergyman and in 1877 founded All Saints church of that denomination at Buffalo, starting it as a mission. Dr. Clarence L. Hyde attended the public schools of Buffalo until he was twelve years of age, when the family went to Warsaw, New York, and in 1896 he was graduated from the high school of that city. For several years he was employed in a bank and was next a clerk in a jobbing house. He prepared for his profession in the University of Michigan and in 1906 was graduated from the homeopathic department of that institution. During 1906-7 he was an interne of the Montreal Homeopathic Hospital in Canada and then returned to Buffalo, where he practiced until 1913, specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis, a subject in which he had become profoundly interested. He was special consultant in tuberculosis for the City Hospital and other institutions of that character in Buffalo and from 1913 until 1920 was superintendent of the J. N. Adam Memorial Hospital at Perrysburg, New York, also acting as special examiner of United States troops during the World war. In 1920 he came to East Akron as superintendent of the Springfield Lake Sanitarium, which was established for the treatment of tubercular cases. Carrying his researches far and wide into the field of medical research, Dr. Hyde has acquired an exhaustive knowledge of this dread disease and his scientific treatments and re- 782 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY markable skill have attracted widespread notice, gaining for both himself and the institution national prominence. Dr. Hyde was married June 16, 1909, in Montreal, Canada, to Miss Baca L. Chisholm, who was born in that city. Her father, Alexander Chisholm, and her mother, Margaret (Raffan ) Chisholm, were born in Scotland. Dr. and Mrs. Hyde have become the parents of two children, Cleveland Chisholm and Elizabeth Margaret, twins. Dr. Hyde is one of the vestrymen of St. Paul's Episcopal church of Akron and his wife is also an active worker in its behalf, serving as president of St. Agnes' Guild and secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary. His fraternal connections are with Akron Lodge, No. 363, B. P. 0. E., the blue lodge of Masons and Tadmor Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Torch and Exchange Clubs of this city. Along professional lines he is affiliated with the Tuberculosis Clinic of Akron and Summit County, of which he is a director; the Summit County Medical Society, of which he is president ; the Ohio State Medical Society; the American Medical Association ; the American Sanatorium Association; the American Public Health Association; the National Tuberculosis Association ; the American Society of Bacteriologists and the American College of Physicians. Intensive study and superior ability have placed Dr. Hyde with the foremost lung specialists of the country. He has chosen for his life work a field of broad usefulness and loves his profession for the good which it enables him to do. WARREN C. ARNOLD Development work in Summit county has received marked impetus from the well directed labors of Warren C. Arnold, a well known realtor and contractor and a sagacious, farsighted business man who has been both the architect and builder of his fortunes. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, April 21, 1889, a son of Smith and Rosa (Bodager) Arnold. His father was a native of the same county and spent the latter part of his life in Stark county, Ohio, where he passed away June 13, 1903. The mother was born in Switzerland and was nine years of age when her parents settled in Wayne county, Ohio. She was reared and educated in that county and now resides in her home at Akron. AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 785 Warren C. Arnold was the fourth in order of birth in a family of ten children, consisting of six sons and four daughters, all of whom survive save one who died in 1919. He attended the rural grade schools in Wayne and Stark counties and began to provide for his own livelihood when a boy of eleven. At the time of his father's death he assumed the burden of providing for the family, and at the early age of fourteen he proved equal to the duties and responsibilities of manhood. To this early training Mr. Arnold attributes much of the credit for his success and rapid advance in his many diversified lines of work and his various undertakings. During the first two years of his married life he rented a farm of one hundred and ten acres in Stark county and did most of the work in connection therewith. This was very necessary, as he had gone in debt for all his stock and farm equipment. The property proved very productive. He raised a large amount of corn, oats, wheat, hay and potatoes, and as he had worked in the onion swamps in Orrville and there was some muck land, he raised some onions with good success. He kept a few cows and a large herd of sheep and hogs, yet his farm hobby was buying and raising and training colts and selling them at a good profit. He won a gratifying measure of success in his farming operations, but his wife's health was poor and the doctor advised that he leave the farm and locate in town where he might have a modern house and his wife would not find her duties beyond her strength. Mr. Arnold therefore disposed of his farm and in December, 1912, came to Akron, where he obtained employment in the machine shop of the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company, with which he spent nearly two years, working on three fifteen-thousand horsepower turbines that are now installed in Montreal, Canada. He found the work much to his liking and in addition to gaining experience that has proved of value to him in his present field of endeavor, he was promoted over many who had been in the service of the company for ten years. During the period of his connection with the company he obtained his first experience in handling real estate, buying and selling two homes for himself and working on other real estate transactions as a side line. In October, 1914, he took an option on a tract of land comprising eighty-nine acres on Hudson road with the hope that the future would bring developments which might enable him to have an acreage subdivision of his own. He felt, however, that this hope would not be realized soon and therefore began converting the place into a dairy farm, draining the land and remodeling and making an addition to the 786 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY barn. Though he soon received a good income from the dairy, it was insufficient to cover his needs and to meet the deficit he drove the school wagon in the mornings and evenings. Then came the advent of the United States into the World war, and as Mr. Arnold was a farmer and also had a family, he was classed by the government among those citizens who could do the most good for the country by raising crops. He was determined to do his "bit" and vowed he would double his wheat production each year as long as the war lasted. In 1918 he had leased all the idle land near his farm and sowed it to wheat and found time besides to sell his full quota of War Savings Stamps and to perform any other patriotic duty when the opportunity presented itself. With the end of the war came high prices for real estate, and Mr. Arnold was offered more for his eighty-nine acre tract that he had ever expected to receive even by subdividing it. He therefore decided to sell, accepting a small down payment. He believed, too, that three small tracts, if combined, would bring profit in the future and purchased them, but it took some time to get a proper title and he did not care to sell until this was secured, although several good offers were made. He believed that he could sell at any time. Just then his dream home and farm were offered for sale—one of the finest homes in Summit county, which had always been his first choice of a property. It represented a deal of over one hundred thousand dollars, but he believed that if he could collect on the mortgages he held he could handle this easily. However, he decided to take an option for two years and play safe and thereupon took possession of the two hundred and sixty-five acre farm in March, 1920, equipping it with improved farm machinery and good horses in addition to those he had on his eighty-nine acre farm. To his herd of high-grade Holsteins he added a large herd of pure bred Holsteins, both being tuberculin tested. These are housed in an excellent modern barn and he soon found a ready sale for Grade A milk for infants' use to the Telling-Belle Vernon Milk Company of Cleveland, shipping about one hundred and forty gallons per day and receiving therefrom from fifteen to twenty hundred dollars per month. Affairs seemed to be progressing splendidly with Mr. Arnold until the latter part of the first year, when the slump came and all pay on mortgages was stopped. Notwithstanding this he continued to the end of the second year, making milk and testing his high producing cows for milk and butter-fat records, having one with a world's record for both milk and butter. He developed his herd until it was one of the best in the county and, moreover, he was made vice chair- AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 787 man and sales manager of the Summit County Holstein Association. He also remains a life member of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. In the spring of 1922 the company that had purchased his former farms dissolved and there remained for him only one thing to do—to give up the option, hold a sale and return to the land he had formerly owned. Six days before the sale he had his cattle tested for tuberculosis, as the law required, and there was such a large reaction that he thought best to cancel the sale, although it involved the loss of twenty thousand dollars. He had considerable real estate holdings but could not sell property in 1922, yet giving up the option relieved him of the necessity of paying ninety thousand dollars. Visiting his creditors, to whom he owed fifty-five thousand dollars, he told them that he was broke, but they pointed out that he had started with nothing and had made good and there was no reason he could not make good again. Thus encouraged, he continued with the determination that he would pay off his creditors one hundred per cent and thus maintain a reputation for unassailable honesty and leave to his children a good name if he could leave them nothing else. However, his determination and capability have enabled him to steadily progress since that time. In 1923 he laid out ninety-four acres in Stow township, under the name of Arnold Acres, in from one to five-acre tracts, which found a ready sale, and in the fall of 1925 the old home farm, purchased in 1914 with the hope that some day it would be an acreage subdivision, was subdivided in fifty-five tracts, the largest of which were two and one-half acre tracts. By this time he had so managed his finances that he was able to do some building and this encouraged other building operations, so that at the present time he has sold all but five lots and there are fifteen fine new homes on the allotment, while a number of others are also built on the first allotment. Both have electricity, improved roads and sewer drainage, so that homes can be built with all modern conveniences. He has taken care of his creditors and has the keenest appreciation for the encouraging words which were offered him and which have enabled him to again reach the goal of success. Mr. Arnold was married November 25, 1909, to Miss Fannie V. Singer, a daughter of Cyrus and Lydia (Martin) Singer, the last named a member of one of the old families of Wayne county, Ohio. Mrs. Arnold's father was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and is one of a family of seven children. The six sons are all living, ranging in age from seventy-seven to ninety-two 788 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY years, and the daughter is about seventy-five. To Cyrus and Lydia Singer were born twelve children and all are living, varying in age from thirty-six to fifty-nine years. The parents reside in Stark county and recently celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold had seven children: Viola Marie, Elverda May and Lester L., at home; Clifton Alvin, who died at the age of four years; and Carl M., Howard W. and Victor A., who are public school pupils. The members of the family are affiliated with the Church of Christ and in politics Mr. Arnold follows an independent course, casting his ballot for the candidate whom he considers best qualified for office irrespective of party ties. For three consecutive terms he has been one of the trustees of Stow township and formerly was chairman of the board. Unselfish, broadminded and public-spirited, he is always ready to serve his community when needed and belongs to that desirable class of citizens who constitute the strength and the motive power of every locality in which they are found. Courageously battling against adverse conditions, he has pressed steadily onward to the goal of success and stands deservedly high in the esteem of his fellowmen. Mr. Arnold has no hobbies and belongs to no clubs or lodges but greatly enjoys motoring with his family and always spends his evening hours which are not taken up with his business at his own fireside, finding his greatest happiness in the companionship of the members of his own household. JOSEPH V. O'CONNOR A leading figure in the lumber circles of Summit county, Joseph V. O'Connor is president of the O'Connor Lumber Company, of North Akron, a concern that has made rapid strides to the forefront of the prosperous business enterprises of this locality. He was born in Marietta, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of April, 1889, and is a son of Arthur P. and Susan (Dunn) O'Connor, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The father came to this country in boyhood and located in Pennsylvania, where he was reared to manhood and spent his remaining years. During the greater part of his active life he was engaged in the teaming and contracting business, and he and his wife are now deceased. To them were born eleven children, of whom five are living, namely : Marie, of AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 789 Wilmington, Delaware; Mrs. Marguerite Miller, of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania; Joseph V.; Charles J., of Marietta, Pennsylvania; and Edward, of Baltimore, Maryland. Joseph V. O'Connor attended the schools of East Donegal township, Lancaster county, and the Central high school of May-town, that county, from which he was graduated in 1905. Later he entered the Franklin Commercial School, taking the preparatory course. Before completing his course, however, he laid aside his textbooks and went to work for a lumber company in Marietta, Pennsylvania, with which concern he remained until 1913. During this period he took a thorough commercial course in the Pennsylvania Business College. In 1913 Mr. O'Connor came to Summit county, Ohio, and went to work for the Walsh Lumber Company, of Cuyahoga Falls, with which firm he continued until February of the following year, when he resigned his position and became a salesman for the Brown-Graves Lumber Company, in which line of work he continued until the end of 1916. On January 1, 1917, he formed a partnership with W. A. Schraegle, under the name of the O'Connor Schraegle Lumber Company, and the business was continued under that style until November 17, 1924, when it was reorganized under the name of the O'Connor Lumber Company, of which he is president, having also been the executive head of the old company from 1922. In the yards, which are located at Cuyahoga Falls, is carried a large and complete line of lumber and dimension stuff, and, under Mr. O'Connor's sound management, the company's business has steadily increased until today he enjoys a large patronage throughout the surrounding territory. Mr. O'Connor is a director of the Depositors Savings and Loan Company of Cuyahoga Falls and a director and vice president of The Citizens branch of the Depositors Savings & Trust Company. On May 27, 1918, in Cuyahoga Falls, Mr. O'Connor was united in marriage to Miss Isabella R. Donaldson, a daughter of Jacob W. and Mary A. Donaldson, of a prominent and well known family of that locality. They are the parents of three children, all born in Cuyahoga Falls : Richard Joseph, born July 11, 1920; William Edward, born October 20, 1921; and John Aloysius, born May 16, 1923. Mr. O'Connor is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Cuyahoga Falls Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a director, the Builders Exchange, the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, the National Lumber Dealers' Association, and the Akron Associated Lumber Companies, of which he was president in 1926. He is also secretary of the Akron Building 790 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY Trade Credit Association and has recently been appointed chairman of the Gorge viaduct committee. In every relation of life he has shown a loyal and manly spirit which has gained for him the uniform respect of his fellowmen and he has proven a worthy citizen of his community, to the best interests of which he has given his hearty support. He resides at 623 South Front street. JOSEPH E. TANKEY Joseph E. Tankey, who proved his courage and patriotism by gallant service in the World war, has conquered many obstacles and difficulties in his struggle for ascendancy in the business world and his indomitable spirit and tireless energy have placed him with Akron's successful business men and leading real estate brokers. He was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1892, and his parents, Eli Edward and Emily (Obodobic) ( Tankosich) Tankey, were natives of Bosnia, Austria-Hungary, now Serbia. Soon after their marriage they came to the United States, settling in Duquesne, where the father followed the trade of a carpenter, and was also employed as a wheelwright. In 1895 Mr. and Mrs. Tankey returned to their native land and remained there until their demise. Their son, Joseph E. Tankey, was put on his own resources at the age of twelve years. He attended the public schools of Duquesne and being desirous of securing a good education, enrolled as a pupil in a night school, also taking up a correspondence course, devoting all of his leisure hours to study. Meanwhile he saved as much as possible from his earnings and when he had acquired sufficient capital opened a grocery store in Woodland, Pennsylvania, continuing as its proprietor for two years. After disposing of the business he sold insurance in Duquesne, McKeesport and other towns of Pennsylvania, operating independently, and then served an apprenticeship in a machine shop at Woodland. In 1913 he came to Akron and worked for six months for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. For a year he was with the Akron Dry Goods Company and for a similar period was in the employ of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. In 1916 he enlisted in the Ohio National Guard and served as First Class in Headquarters Company 8th Ohio Infantry, and was a member of the expeditionary force that pursued Villa, the Mexican rebel, at the time of the border uprising. After his release from mili- AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 791 tary duty he returned to the Rubber city and for a brief period was connected with the Miller Rubber Company. In 1917 he reentered the army as sergeant of his company, and served with distinction on the Bourmont, Baccarat and Marbache fronts and in the Ypres-Lys, Meuse-Argonne and other notable campaigns. During the memorable conflict in the forest of Argonne, he was severely injured and after his recovery returned to the front. At the battle of St. Mihiel he was again wounded and also while stationed in a sector in Belgium but continued to "carry on" refusing to go to a base hospital for treatment, and as a result of his injuries was permanently crippled. After his honorable discharge Mr. Tankey returned to the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company and later was in the employ of the Akron Baking Company for a short time. Seeing an opening in the real estate field, he located in the vicinity of the Firestone plant and has succeeded beyond his expectations. Since its inception the business has enjoyed a rapid growth and he is now sole owner of the J. E. Tankey Realty & Construction Company, and incorporated, The Rex Lake Realty & Construction Company, of which he is president and general manager. He has handled the Clearview sub . division, Hills Acres, Garden Farms, T. & E. allotment and Orchard Acres, which is the pride of his development and the site he has chosen for his home, all of which have been sold, and has greatly enhanced the value of property in the districts in which he has operated. As 'a contractor Mr. Tankey is equally well known and wisely controls the affairs of this branch of his business and has erected many of the fine homes and other buildings which are Akron's adornment. As an executive he is sagacious, forceful and farsighted and his influence is one of broadening activity and strength in the field in which he is operating. He has built and sold about one hundred homes and in development projects looks beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities and needs of the future. Mr. Tankey was married August 6, 1922, in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, to Miss Diana Gloria Petrovich, a daughter of Mark and Anna Petrovich, and they have two children : Bertha Julie, who was born July 1, 1923, and Josephine Diana, born June 30, 1928. Mr. Tankey is a member of the South Akron Board of Trade and the Akron Automobile Club, and his Masonic connections are with the Henry Perkins Lodge, Washington Chapter, Akron Council and Grotto. He also belongs to the association of Veterans of Foreign Wars and is a consistent member of the 792 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY Episcopal church. Strong and determined, he has overcome circumstances, bending them to his will, and is accorded the respect which the world ever yields to the self-made man of high principles and progressive spirit. HARRY JAMES BLACKBURN Closely applying himself to the work in hand, Harry James Blackburn rose from a minor position to one of broad influence and usefulness and enjoyed an enviable reputation as a business man and financier. For thirty years Akron was the scene of his activities and during that period he won a secure place in public confidence and esteem. He was born in Hudson, Summit county, Ohio, December 1, 1871, and was a son of Thomas Blackburn and a grandson of William Blackburn. The father of Harry J. Blackburn was born October 9, 1833, near Gainsborough, on the river Trent, in Lincolnshire, England, and spent his youth in that country. In 1858 he sought the opportunities of the United States, locating in Peninsula, Ohio, where he joined his brother, John Blackburn, who had come to this country four years prior to that time. There Thomas Blackburn remained until the outbreak of the Civil war and in September, 1861, offered his aid to the Union, becoming a member of Battery D, of the First Ohio Regiment of Light Artillery. His commanding officer was Captain Conkle and on the expiration Of his term in 1863 he reenlisted. He was first assigned to the Western Army but was transferred to the southern force after the Atlanta campaign, and was honorably discharged July 15, 1865. Mr. Blackburn returned to Peninsula and on April 10, 1865, married Miss Hannah Cowley, also a native of England. When a child she came to the United States with her parents, Joseph James and Hannah ( Hunt) Cowley, who settled in Middlebury, Summit county, where her father followed the trade of a blacksmith. Mr. Blackburn took his bride to a farm owned by his father and leased the place for five years. It was located in Hudson township and originally comprised sixty-six acres. The father purchased sixty-eight acres adjoining and to this his son added eighty acres, eventually becoming the owner of a farm of two hundred and fifteen acres. It was well stocked and the fertile land yielded rich harvests. Mr. Blackburn was an earnest member of the Congregational church and gave his political support to the republican AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 793 party. In public affairs he manifests a keen interest and was a trustee of Hudson township for twelve years. He was a member of W. T. Sherman Post of the Grand Army of the Republic and his wife served for many years as president of the Woman's Relief Corps. His father died during the Civil war and afterward the mother made her home with her son Thomas, passing away at the advanced age of ninety-three years. Her son John lived in the vicinity of Peninsula and Harry, another son, resided in Cleveland. Harry J. Blackburn of this review was reared on the homestead and received a public school education, also having the benefit of a commercial course. In 1889, when a young man of eighteen, he came to Akron and for four years was a bookkeeper for the firm of Akers & Harpham, roofers. In 1893 he entered the First National Bank in the capacity of a clerk and in the same year joined the Ohio National Guard, becoming a member of Company B of the Eighth Regiment, and was rapidly advanced. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was called upon for active military duty, leaving Columbus, Ohio, May 13, 1898, as first lieutenant of Company B, attached to the Eighth Regiment, which was sent to Falls Church, Virginia, and on July 4 following was ordered to New York City. From that point the troops were transported to Cuba, reaching the island in time to participate in the winding up of the Santiago campaign, and were there stationed for three weeks. During that period the members of Company B showed the valor justly attributed to American soldiers and were then sent to Montauk Point, New York, which they reached on August 26. Mr. Blackburn went home on a furlough and was mustered out of the service November 21, 1898. He was a gallant officer, well versed in military tactics, and subsequently was appointed regimental adjutant, an honor worthily bestowed. After his discharge he returned to the First National Bank and with characteristic energy applied himself to his duties. His ability and faithfulness were rewarded by successive promotions and in 1902 he was made assistant cashier of the institution, with which he remained until 1911, when it was consolidated with the Second National Bank. At that time his services were sought by the Motz Tire & Rubber Company, with which he was connected for two years, and from 1913 until 1924 was assistant treasurer of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He then became secretary and treasurer of the Great Northern Building & Loan Company of Barberton, succeeding C. A. Bitzer, and was 794 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY also secretary and treasurer of the Barberton Mortgage & Securities Company, treasurer of the Burt Manufacturing Company, secretary and treasurer of the Akron Manufacturing Company and president of the Comet Milling Company, and treasurer of City Hospital for many years. His capacity for detail was supplemented by the wisdom and forcefulness of the true executive and his name was a guarantee of the stability and success of every institution which he represented. In 1899 Mr. Blackburn married Miss Clara Schaeffer, a daughter of George G. Schaeffer, who was born March 12, 1846, in Alsace, then, as now, a province of France. He was a son of John and Mary (Good) Schaeffer and learned weaving from his father, following that occupation until he was eighteen years of age. In 1864 he came alone to the United States, and worked for three years for John T. Good, an oil refiner of Akron. Mr. Schaeffer was similarly employed in Oil City, Pennsylvania, for a year and was next a clerk in the store of Jacob Good, later entering the employ of Cook & Sons, with whom he spent six years. In 1878 he opened a grocery on West Hill and prospered in the venture. In 1880 he erected a two-story structure at No. 96 West Market street, following his own ideas in its construction and carefully avoiding the mistakes made by others. The result was a pleasing combination of beauty and utility and an elaborate description of this distinctive building was printed in the Daily Beacon. He died in November, 1916. On January 29, 1874, he married Miss Caroline Buchman, a native of Wayne county, Ohio, and three children were born to them, two sons and a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn became the parents of five children : Grace A., who is the wife of Theodore J. Boecker and the mother of two children, Alice Alita and Theodore J., Jr.; M. Alene, who is Mrs. W. Blaine Wallace ; Helen P. and June Marie, at home; and Harriet Elizabeth, deceased. Mr. Blackburn was a consistent member of Trinity Lutheran church, with which his widow and children are also affiliated. A Scottish Rite Mason, he held the thirty-second degree in Lake Erie Consistory and was also identified with the York Rite bodies. He was an exemplary representative of the order, in which he held important offices, serving as master of Adoniram Lodge in 1908, and was made captain general of Akron Commandery. Mr. Blackburn was a Noble of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Cleveland and became secretary of the Masonic Temple Company, acting in that capacity until his death on July 20, 1925, AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 795 when he was fifty-four years of age. He was likewise identified with the Knights of Pythias, the Fairlawn Country Club and the City Club of Akron. Chivalrous by nature, he was always considerate of others and honorable and straightforward in his dealings with his fellowmen. Generous alike in thought and in deed, he was as incapable of an unjust suspicion as of an unjust act. Mr. Blackburn was a good citizen, a devoted husband and father and a loyal, steadfast friend and his memory is revered by all who were brought within the sphere of his influence. JESSE LEE LAMBRIGHT Throughout his entire life Jesse Lee Lambright was a conscientious, efficient worker and his even-paced energy carried him steadily forward to the goal of success. Much of his life was spent in Akron, which numbered him among its most progressive business men, and his real estate activities were of direct benefit to the city. A native of Ohio, he was born in Canal Fulton, Stark county, March 3, 1869, and was a son of Stephen Whipenor Lam-bright. The father was born near East Palestine, Pennsylvania, in November, 1842, and in his youth came to Ohio. For a number of years he was identified with the David Jackson Lumber Company of Canal Fulton in the capacity of a builder and at one time was partner in the Hollenstine jewelry store. He was next a member of the Jasper, Kittinger, Lambright & Kittinger Lumber Company of Canal Fulton, a firm which built homes in addition to selling lumber. On severing his connection with that corporation Stephen W. Lambright located in Akron and for about twelve years was occupied with the task of making shipping boxes for the B. F. Goodrich Company. On the expiration of that period he became a contractor and successfully conducted the business until his retirement. Mr. Lambright's first wife was Katherine Gilcher and their son, Halliard Montreville, follows the trade of a cabinetmaker in Cleveland, Ohio. By his second wife, Nancy Buckmaster, Mr. Lambright had seven children. Florabell, the eldest, married the Rev. A. H. Johnston and they became the parents of four children : Minnie, whose husband is B. F. Stauffer, assistant superintendent of the B. F. Goodrich Company; Roy, who married and has a daughter, Alice Flo; Helen, who is the wife of Verne White and the mother of one child, Marjorie; and Paul, who married Dorothy 26-VOL. 3 796 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY McClure and has a son, William. Amelia, the second daughter, died at the age of seventeen. Eva Grace was married June 18, 1887, in Akron to Benjamin Franklin Butts, who was born in Ravenna, Ohio, September 7, 1866. His father was Samuel F. Butts, an oatmeal miller, and his mother was Hannah Colton. Benjamin F. Butts obtained his early instruction in Ravenna and at the age of thirteen enrolled as a pupil in one of the grammar schools of Akron. His education was completed in Mount Union College and for about two years he worked for a tea and coffee house of Akron. At the end of that time he went to Kansas City, Missouri, becoming a bookkeeper for the firm of Flint & Wallings, implement dealers. Endowed by nature with a tenor voice of rare sweetness, he joined a quartette and for a number of years his singing was a feature of evangelistic services. He has passed away and his widow resides at No. 788 Kenyon street in Akron. To Mr. and Mrs. Butts were born two children. Their daughter, Bessie Ailene, is the wife of Howard T. Funk and the mother of two children, Eleanor Vera and C. Elton. The son, Chester Ashley Butts, who is connected with the Eagle. Rubber Company of Ashland, Ohio, married Gertrude Alice Kerr and they have three children : Frances Louise, Elizabeth Alice and Margaret Ann. Jesse Lee Lambright was the fourth in order of birth. Bessie Estelle is the wife of William Carter. The father of these children was a zealous member of the Methodist church and was also affiliated with the Christian & Missionary Alliance. He attained the ripe age of eighty-two years, passing away in Akron, March 10, 1915. The family came to Akron during the boyhood of Jesse L. Lambright and his education was acquired in the public schools of the city. His first commercial experience was gained in the Goodrich cooperative store and later he was transferred to the office of the company. For some time he worked in the surgical and sport goods departments and was then sent on the road. He traveled for the corporation for twenty years, selling drug sundries and stationery, and was one of the most successful representatives of the house. Mr. Lambright then resigned his position and opened a real estate office in Akron. As the years passed he bought and sold many pieces of property and also erected a number of homes which are the chief ornaments of the neighborhoods in which they are situated. His advice in regard to real estate investments was sound and practical and he was likewise agent for many of the old line insurance companies. His affairs were AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 797 systematically and efficiently managed and his business constantly expanded. Mr. Lambright was married November 10, 1892, in. Akron, to Miss Maude J. Conn, who was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. Her father, Dr. Eli Conn, was a Union soldier during the conflict between the north and the south and her paternal grandfather fought in the War of 1812. Mrs. Helen (Kingsbury) Conn, the mother of Mrs. Lambright, was born in Medina county, Ohio, and represented one of the oldest families of that part of the state. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lambright, Helen Grace, the eldest, is the wife of Professor E. F. Schaefer, head of the bureau of tests of Akron University, and they have two children, Robert and Patricia. Dorothy A. married E. F. Ferriot, a member of the firm of Ferriot Brothers, engravers and die stampers, and to this union has been born a daughter, Florence. Nancy J. is the wife of R. J. Riley and lives in Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Lambright was affiliated with the Methodist church and cast his ballot for the candidates of the republican party. He took a keen interest in politics and worked in the election booths for many years. The Chamber of Commerce numbered him among its influential members and he was also connected with the United Commercial Travelers and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He erected a fine office building on Main street near Thornton and utilized every opportunity to exploit Akron's resources and advantages. Mr. Lambright was a model citizen and as a business man he enjoyed the highest reputation. Generous, sincere and unassuming, he readily won friends and his death on September 5, 1917, was mourned throughout the city. His widow occupies the home at No. 524 Storer avenue and is highly esteemed in the community in which she has so long resided. ADAM J. FULMER Adam J. Fulmer, whose death occurred at his home in Springfield township, October 28, 1905, was a man of strict integrity, persistent industry and mature judgment and ranked among the substantial and highly respected men of his community. He was born in Green township, this county, on the 20th of October, 1846, and was a son of Adam and Christina Fulmer, both of whom were natives of Germany but had accompanied their respective families on their emigration to this country, locating 798 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY in Stack county. There their marriage occurred, after which they settled in Green township, Summit county, but later came to Springfield township, and established their home in Brittain, where their deaths occurred. They became the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters. Adam J. Fulmer was reared on the home farm and received his educational training in the district schools. He accompanied his parents on their removal to Brittain and, after his marriage, in 1881, settled on the home farm in Springfield township, to the operation of which he devoted his efforts during his remaining active years. He was a good farmer, maintained his place at a high standard of excellence in the way of improvements and cultivation, and was rewarded with a due measure of success. On January 4, 1881, Mr. Fulmer was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ruth, a daughter of Charles and Catherine (Vogel-man) Ruth. Both of her parents were born in Germany and after coming to this country they settled in Oneida county, New York. To Mr. and Mrs. Fulmer were born two children, Raymond C. and Mary Ruth. Mr. Fulmer was a busy man, but never permitted his individual affairs to interfere with his obligations of citizenship, standing consistently for the best things in the life of his community and cooperating with his fellowmen in all measures for the betterment of the public welfare. He served his township as a member of the school board, as road supervisor and trustee, discharging his official duties in a capable and satisfactory manner and winning the uniform respect and confidence of his fellowmen. Raymond C. Fulmer was born on the home farm in Springfield township, now the site of the new Akron airport, on March 28, 1882. He was there reared to manhood, graduated from the North Springfield schools, and from Central high school of Akron in June, 1901. He entered the University of Michigan, in which he pursued the literary and law courses and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1905. He devoted his attention to farming for about two years, during which period he purchased and operated a number of tractors, the first ones used for farming in Summit county. In 1920 he became treasurer of the Amazon Rubber Company of Akron and in 1922 was made president of the company. In March, 1928, he took over the plant and business, of which he is now the owner, conducting it under the name of the Amazon Rubber Corporation, of which he is president. On November 3, 1909, in Springfield township, Mr. Fulmer AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 799 was united in marriage to Miss Modena Brewster, who was born in Akron, Ohio, and is a daughter of James and Mary ( Davies) Brewster. The Brewster family, whose American progenitor was a passenger on the "Mayflower," has long been established in Summit county, and Mrs. Fulmer's grandfather, David Davies, was a famous Welsh preacher, widely known as the "Welsh bard." He wrote poems dear to the hearts of his countrymen and used the nom de plume of "Dewi Emlyn." Mr. and Mrs. Fulmer have two children, Maurine and James Adam, both of whom are attending school. Mr. Fulmer has taken a live interest in the general welfare of his community and has rendered effective service as trustee of his township and a member of the school board. He is a progressive, energetic and wide-awake business man, who has met with success and commands the confidence and respect of his fellowmen. He and his family are members of the First Congregational church of Akron, in the various activities of which they are interested, and they live in a commodious and attractive home at 2307 East Market street. KYLE SMITH Kyle Smith, president of the Workers Savings & Loan. Company, and a well known figure in Akron's financial and insurance circles, was born February 16, 1889, in Wheeling, West Virginia, a son of H. M. and Carrie (Stephens) Smith, both of whom were also natives of that city. For a number of years they were residents of Akron and H. M. Smith was a well known contractor and builder. His death occurred February 1, 1925, and his widow now resides in Wheeling. Kyle Smith received his education in the Wheeling public schools, the Lindsley Military Institute and the Akron Law School. In 1922 he organized the Workers Savings & Loan Company and as its executive head since that time has been an important factor in the steady growth of the institution. This enterprise is located at 181 South Main street and is regarded as one of the strong and ably managed financial institutions of its kind in the city. Among his other business interests Mr. Smith is a partner in the Smith & Jones Agency, handling general insurance and surety bonds, and is a director of a realty company. Mr. Smith was married in 1914 at Wheeling, West Virginia, 800 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY to Miss Dolores Craig, who passed away in 1918. She was the mother of three children, one of whom is deceased. The others are : Kyle Stephens (II), who was born in Wheeling in March, 1917; and Dolores Craig, who was born in Wheeling, December 1, 1918. At Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Smith was married March 9, 1921, to Miss Mollie I. Salesgiver, a daughter of John and Annie Salesgiver and a member of a prominent Pennsylvania family. Mr. Smith is secretary of the Optimist Club and also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is an excellent example of the type of business man developed in the present age, quick to perceive an emergency, decisive in his methods and keenly alive to the possibilities of a business proposition. Mr. Smith's residence is at 75 Adolph avenue. HON. CHARLES DICK Hon. Charles Dick, distinguished member of the Ohio bar and a prominent figure in connection with the political and military history of Ohio, has practically spent his entire life in Akron, although his activities have been far-reaching and his influence has constituted one of the constructive forces in the state. He had no special advantages at the outset of his career, but unfaltering effort and a determined and laudable ambition have carried him steadily forward. He was born in Akron, November 3, 1858, his parents being Gottlieb and Mary M. (Hendel) Dick, the former a native of Germany, while the latter was of German lineage. Coming to the new world, Gottlieb Dick established his home in Akron and both he and his wife continued residents of this city until called to their final rest. Here Charles Dick was reared and educated, attending the public schools until he had passed through consecutive grades and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1876. Ere he had put aside his textbooks, however, he was earning his living and for a time acted as clerk in the store of Chipman & Barnes, dealers in men's furnishing goods. He acquired considerable knowledge of salesmanship and business methods during the two years spent with that firm and then he entered another field which brought him wider experience, for he became bookkeeper and teller with the old Citizens Savings & Loan Association, which was afterward merged into the Second National Bank. For six years he was active in, the financial field as rep- AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 801 resentative of that corporation and in 1879 he accepted the position of bookkeeper for the J. F. Seiberling Company, manufac turers of mowers and reapers. In this connection, too, he acquired business knowledge of a still different character and, moreover, he was learning much concerning human nature and was becoming an excellent judge of men and motives. In 1881 he became associated with Lucius C. Miles, under the firm style of Dick & Miles, in the conduct of a grain and commission business which steadily developed until it had become one of extensive and profitable proportions. Mr. Dick remained active in the control and direction of their trade until the political duties which he had assumed demanded his time. For an extended period Mr. Dick has been a recognized leader in the ranks of the republican party. He cast his first presidential vote for James A. Garfield in 1880 with little intention at that time, and equally little expectation, of becoming one of the directing forces of the political organization of the state. However, in 1886 his fellow townsmen showed their faith in him by electing him county auditor and so acceptably did he discharge his duties that in 1889 he was reelected, his incumbency covering a period of six years. He discharged his duties promptly, capably, efficiently and without fear or favor, and although it was necessary for him to proceed against some of Akron's wealthy and influential citizens because of their failure to list personal property for taxation, he did not hesitate but met his responsibilities fearlessly and loyally. Though this may have awakened the enmity of a certain few, it established him most firmly in the confidence and good will of the majority and led to his reelection. While serving as auditor he took up the study of law and with his retirement from office in 1893 was admitted to the bar, while four years later he was licensed to practice before the United States supreme court. For a decade he was senior partner in the well known firm of Dick, Doyle & Bryan, retaining that connection until Mr. Doyle was elected judge of the court of common pleas and the partnership was dissolved. Mr. Dick has ever remained an outstanding figure in connection with the activities of the republican party in Ohio. From 1887 until 1891 he was chairman of the county central committee and the public thus came to know of his powers of organization, leading to a popular demand for his service in a still broader field. In 1892 he was made chairman of the republican state executive committee and so continued until 1894, when he again 802 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY filled that office from 1899 until 1907. In 1895-96 he was actively associated with Senator Hanna in promoting the canvass of William McKinley for the presidential nomination and during the national campaign of 1896 acted as secretary at the Chicago headquarters of the republican national committee, continuing as secretary of the committee until 1900. In 1892 and again in 1896 he represented his district in the national convention of his party and was delegate at large from Ohio at the conventions of 1900 and 1904. When the congressional convention met in Warren in June, 1898, Mr. Dick was nominated for congress, won the election and served from March, 1899, until 1904. In February of the latter year he was chosen to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Hanna and was elected for a full term in the United States senate, receiving the unanimous support of his party in the legislature. He continued in the senate until 1911 and left a deep impress upon the legislative history of the nation as a member of both the upper and lower houses. His innate tact and courtesy make for forcefulness in handling delicate political situations and his entire record has been such as to inspire confidence and trust, while the integrity of his position has never been seriously questioned. As a representative of the military interests of the state Mr. Dick has also gained prominence and it has been said of him that "outside of the staff of the regular army the country has no abler authority and adviser on military affairs than General Dick." He was but eighteen years of age when in 1876 he became a member of Company B, Eighth Regiment Ohio National Guard. Subsequently he was chosen captain of his company and in 1888 became major of the regiment, later was advanced to the colonelcy and in 1899 became brigadier major general. When America entered upon war with Spain he was a lieutenant colonel of his regiment and went to the front with the Eighth Ohio, participating in the Cuban campaign. General Shafter chose him as special commissioner to President McKinley and the war department to report on the condition of the United States troops in Cuba following active hostilities. He has not only been the head of the Ohio National Guard but has also been president of the Interstate National Guards Association. During his congressional career he was the author of the Dick militia law that led to a complete reorganization of the National Guard and was the first practical move toward coordinating its discipline and service with the regular army. For a number of years AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 803 his law remained the groundwork of the National Guard system of the country. On the 30th of June, 1881, General Dick was united in marriage to Miss Carrie R. Peterson, of Akron, and of their family of seven children five are yet living, namely.: Carl P., James E., Lucius A., Grace and Dorothy. Such in brief is the history of General Charles Dick, long .a commanding figure in the legal profession, in political and military circles. He has ever been the promoter and the follower of constructive methods and his labors have been an effective force in advancing the public. welfare. His worth as a man and citizen is attested by the fact that he has been accorded the warm friendship of many of the nation's leaders and in his home town, where he is best known, he has the entire respect and unqualified good will of those among whom he was reared and among whom his life has practically been spent. CHARLES LANDON KNIGHT A journalist of high purpose, a congressman of high ideals, a citizen who believes in civic virtue and in civic progress, Charles Landon Knight has done much to mold public thought and action and to advance standards in Ohio. He has studied the problems and issues of the day not only from the theoretical but from the practical standpoint and his naturally analytical and inductive mind has brought forth solution for many questions that have to do with the public good. In a word he has long figured prominently in political as well as journalistic circles in Ohio. A native of Georgia, Mr. Knight was born in Milledgeville, Baldwin county, June 18, 1867, his parents being William and Sarah (Landon) Knight. He traces his ancestry back to Saint John Knight, who served as a soldier under Cromwell and became a resident of Massachusetts in 1662. His grandfather, Thomas Knight, was a leading resident of Georgia, where as a member of the senate in 1837 he introduced a bill providing that the slaves of the state be freed within twenty-five years, and to his own slaves, he gave liberty in 1857. Beginning his education in the south, Charles Landon Knight continued his studies in New York city and was graduated from Columbia College with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1889, while two years later his alma mater conferred upon him the Bachelor 804 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY of Laws degree. He also studied politics and social institutions in Europe for two years after the completion of his law course and for five years he practiced law in Bluefield, West Virginia. Attracted, however, to the journalistic field, he accepted a position on the Philadelphia Times under Alexander K. McClure, remaining on that paper from 1896 until 1900. In 1903 he became the editor of the Woman's Home Companion and in 1904, associated with Major T. J. Kirkpatrick, purchased the Beacon Journal of Akron, thereby becoming owner of a newspaper that had been in existence under different names and different ownerships from 1839. The present name was assumed in 1879 and the paper has long been a vital force not only in the development of Akron but in shaping the policies and the opinions of the state. Mr. Knight continued as business manager until 1905, when he acquired the interest of his partner in the paper, of which he has since been publisher and proprietor, making the Beacon Journal one of the strongest daily papers in Ohio. He has also become owner of the Springfield Morning Sun at Springfield, Ohio, and his business interests have broadened in scope and volume to include large stock holdings in various banks and corporations of which he is a director. He likewise has an extensive stock farm near Akron. On the 21st of November, 1893, in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Mr. Knight married Miss Clara Irene Shively, a daughter of Colonel James K. Shively, a Civil war veteran. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have two sons : John Shively, born October 26, 1904 ; and James Landon, born July 21, 1909. The former served as a lieutenant of infantry in France during the World war and on November 19, 1922, married Kathryn McLean, of Massillon, Ohio. Mr. Knight has long figured prominently in the social life of Akron and has membership in the Akron City Club, the Portage Country Club and the Fairlawn Club. He belongs to the Ohio Society of New York and has membership in the Episcopal church. Outside of business, politics has perhaps been the chief field of his labor. In 1914 he became a member of the republican state central committee and was chosen vice chairman of that body. In 1916 he was elected a delegate to the republican national convention and in July, 1917, was appointed by Governor Cox to the district exemption board of northern Ohio, where he served without pay, giving valuable aid in that connection. In 1920 he was elected to congress from the fourteenth district and in 1922 he finished second in a race of nine for the candidacy for governor. AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 805 Mr. Knight regards his work as a member of the district exemption board as his greatest public service, together with the campaign he made in 1923 against the law increasing state taxation. He was commissioner of Ohio for the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926. While a republican, he has not always subscribed to all the views of party leaders and at times has been in violent conflict with them. A friend and supporter of President Harding, he nevertheless voted against the tariff and the ship subsidy bills in congress. Following the delivery of the president's message to congress he became a warm supporter of Mr. Coolidge, who asked him to be a candidate for delegate at large from Ohio. He has ever regarded a public office as a public trust —and no trust reposed in him has ever been betrayed in the slightest degree. He has been termed the Moses would could lead the republican party out of the wilderness in Ohio. One of his strong admirers, urging that he become a candidate for governor, wrote of him : "One of the most commendable traits of character in Charles L. Knight is that he is not a bigot. No man is more ready to grant to the other fellow the right to his religious, moral or political belief than is Mr. Knight. He is politically a republican but he is every ready to applaud the good work in government done by those of a different belief. Neither does he spare those of his own party in office who he believes are following out ideas detrimental to the best interests of all concerned. Charles L. Knight is a moralist but not puritanical. He remembers that we are dust. And while he advocates and practices a clean life he does not believe in howling incessantly about people because they do not measure up to the plumb line of elite morals. Mr. Knight is strong for moral decency but charitable to error. Charles L. Knight gives to everyone full right to his religious creed. He does not care a rap what church you belong to. He'll respect your faith and asks only that you respect his beliefs. He is not swayed by prejudice and in this great age only that kind of men are sure to preserve the liberties of this nation. God help the day that this state or nation falls into the hands of men elected upon the basis of religious prestige or hatred. And that goes for any creed at all. Ohio republicanism needs such a man as Mr. Knight if we are ever to get Ohio government back to a real honest to God government. We have tried men from every angle and they have been found wanting. Ohio needs another McKinley in its governor's chair." Charles L. Knight is a hard hitter, a clean fighter and honest foe. He works untiringly for what he 806 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY believes to be right, and his belief as to what is right is founded upon thorough study, earnest consideration and comprehensive understanding of the situation. He has written largely for the public press. He has made the Beacon Journal one of the strongest forces on the side of good citizenship in Ohio and his work is not yet finished. GUSTAVE A. LANDWEHR Starting at the bottom, Gustave A. Landwehr steadily ascended the steep ladder which leads to success, placing his dependence upon the essential qualities of industry and perseverance, and is now at the head of the Day-Lo Sign Company of Akron, while he also has other business interests of importance. He was born in New Melle, St. Charles county, Missouri, October 11, 1885, and is a son of J. Herman and Mary (Buescher) Landwehr, natives of Germany. In early life they came to the United States, settling in Missouri, and for fifty-six years the father followed the trade of a stone mason. He has reached the venerable age of eighty-two years but the mother passed away in 1927. They had a family of eight children, one of whom is deceased. The others are : Oscar H., sales manager for the Holland Furnace Company and a resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; August H., who is president of that corporation and lives in Holland, Michigan ; Charles H., who is assistant sales manager of the Holland Furnace Company and makes his headquarters in Chicago, Illinois; Gustave H.; Herman H., who is vice president of both the Holland Furnace Company and the Holland Washing Machine Company and resides in Newark, New Jersey; Edgar H., who is one of the sales managers of the Holland Furnace Company and lives in Holland, Michigan; and Mrs. Carl B. Swift, also of Holland. Gustave A. Landwehr was a pupil in a country school in Missouri and attended the Actual Business College of Akron, Ohio. After his graduation he secured a position in a general store at New Melle and was paid six dollars per month, also being provided with his board. Later his salary was increased to thirty dollars and he remained in the store for two years. He then came to Akron, intending to open a lunch room, but entered the shoe department of the B. F. Goodrich Tire & Rubber Company and at the end of six months was promoted to the position of AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY - 807 assistant sales manager of the Cleveland branch. His services were next sought by the Holland Furnace Company and he was placed in charge of the sales department of their Akron establishment, with which he was connected until January, 1928, when he tendered his resignation. Meanwhile he had become financially interested in the Day-Lo Sign Company, which was organized in 1926, and is now its president. W. C. Manning acts as general manager and H. 0. Traver is sales manager. The company specializes in electric display and ornamental signs and has a fine plant at No. 861 East Tallmadge avenue in North Akron, where all the equipment is assembled. Under the able administration of Mr. Landwehr the industry has enjoyed a remarkably rapid growth and an increased sales force is contemplated for the near future. The factory has been enlarged and the firm recently installed a complete Neon department. Mr. Landwehr is also vice president of the Northern Ohio Printing Company, a consolidation of the Canton and Akron Multigraph Companies; and the Metalite Corporation, which makes springs and special couplings for automobiles. Methodical and systematic, he has been able to cover a broad field in his business operations without lessening their force, and derives pleasure from the solution of intricate and involved business problems. Mr. Landwehr was married March 1, 1911, in Chicago to Miss Ellen Matson, a daughter of Edward E. Matson, and they have one child, Edward E., who was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1912 and is attending the West high school. Mr. Landwehr is a member of the Akron Chamber of Commerce, the Masonic Club, the Silver Lake Country Club and the Automobile Club. In politics he is a republican and lends the weight of his support to all movements destined to prove of benefit to Akron. He is an enterprising business man of hieh standing and a live factor in his community. EDWARD C. BANKER, M. D. Dr. Edward C. Banker, surgeon, was born October 11, 1895, in Topeka, Kansas, a son of John Philip and Mary (Fueger) Banker. His father, who was a native of Pennsylvania, went to Kansas when a young man and engaged in ranching, finding cattle raising a profitable occupation. His demise occurred in Colorado in 1926. The mother of Dr. Banker was born in Iowa 808 - AKRON AND SUMMIT COUNTY and now resides in Colorado Springs. To Mr. and Mrs. John P. Banker were born nine children, seven of whom survive : Charles, Harry, William, Mrs. Florence Bayles, Fred and Edward C. Banker, twins, and Miss Amy Banker. Dr. Banker attended the public schools of Topeka and his classical course was completed in the University of Kansas, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1909. He was next a student in the medical department of the University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1913, and for two years thereafter served as an interne in Akron City Hospital. In 1915 he opened an office in the city and has established a large practice during the intervening period. Dr. Banker was married April 17, 1915, in Akron to Miss Cecelia Walsh, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Walsh. Dr. and Mrs. Banker have a family of three children : Edward C. Jr., who was born in Akron in 1916 ; Mary Helena, who was born in 1919 ; and Robert Joseph, born in 1924. Dr. Banker is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church and holds the fourth degree in the Knights of Columbus. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Portage Country, Kiwanis and Automobile Clubs, the Summit County and Ohio State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. His interest centers in his profession and through concentrated effort and the wise use of the talents with which nature endowed him he has steadily advanced toward the goal of success. Dr. Banker considers Akron a desirable place of residence and has proven a valuable addition to its citizenship.