Cleveland Ohio

Biographical Sketch of James Hotchkiss Rogers

Rogers, James Hotchkiss; pianist, organist; born, Fair Haven, Conn., Feb. 7, 1857; son of Martin L. and Harriet (Hotchkiss` Rogers; educated, Lake Forest, Ill.; studied music, Berlin and Paris, 1875-1880; married Alice Abigail Hall, of Indianapolis, Oct. 20, 1891; composer of about 150 compositions, including songs, piano pieces, anthems and part songs; two cantatas: “The Man of Nazareth”; “The New Life”; as well as part songs and music for organ and violin.

Biographical Sketch of Charles William Wason

Wason, Charles William; retired; born, Cleveland, April 20, 1854; son of Charles and Matilda Parker Wason; graduated, Cornell University, 1876; married, Paris, France, January, 1882, Jettie Anna Morrill; issue, two daughters, Jettie, now Mrs. Harold Edwards, Velda, now Mrs. John A. Rithet; married, Cleveland, September, 1896, Margaret Wright; married, Hamilton, Canada, February, 1901, Mabel Breckenridge; director Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern; Northern Ohio Traction and Light Co., Williamson Building Co.; trustee Cleveland Associated Charities; member Kappa Alpha, Carnellian Council, Cleveland Engineering Society, Bibliophile Society, Union, Country, Mayfield, Willowwick and Rowfant Clubs.

Biographical Sketch of Orlof T. Brown

Brown, Orlof T.; insurance; born, Cambridge, O., Aug. 16, 1870; son of Joshua and Annie E. Tingle Brown; common school education; married, Columbus, O., Aug. 16, 1904, Alberta E. Fowler; one son and one daughter; observer United States Weather Bureau; state examiner, Ohio; chief deputy State fire marshal, Ohio; examiner city of Cleveland; bookkeeper Ohio National Bank, Washington, D. C.; sec’y Cleveland National Fire Insurance Co.; member Loyal Legion, Sons of Veterans, Modern Woodmen of America, Loyal Order of Moose, Woodmen of the World, Brooklyn Lodge, No. 454, F. & A. M.; member Tippecanoe Club.

Biographical Sketch of Max P. Goodman

Goodman, Max P.; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, Aug. 28, 1872; son of Jacob and Rosa (Herskovitz) Goodman; educated, public schools; married, Cleveland, Dec. 14, 1909, Julie E. Baumberger; one son, Julian M. Goodman, born, Jan. 1, 1913; councilman 5th district, 1899-1901; left school at 12 and worked at a fruit stand; at 15, drove a coal wagon; at 17, worked in a grocery and studied music; began to play the violin with an orchestra and became director; at 19, went to business college, continuing music study; became a stenographer; wrote The Ohio Governor’s March for McKinley’s Inaugural; obtained employment in the … Read more

Biographical Sketch of George F. Murphy

Murphy, George F.; S. T. D.; Catholic priest: born, Cleveland. Oct. 20, 1864; son of William and Mary O’Neill Murphy: educated, St. John’s Parochial school, Cathedral, Cleveland; St. Charles College, Ellicott City, Md., 1881-1886; North American College, Rome, Italy, 1886-1892; ordained, June, 1892, S. T. D.; asst. Immaculate Conception, Cleveland, 1892-1893; asst. St. John’s Cathedral, 1893-1895; prof. St. Mary’s Seminary, Cleveland, 1895-1908; pastor St. Columbkille’s Cleveland, August, 1908, to November, 1909; pastor Immaculate Conception, Cleveland, appointed November, 1909.

Biographical Sketch of Charles W. Chase

Chase, Charles W.; trustee of The Estate of Edwin Cowles; born, Edinburg, O., Aug. 8, 1846; son of Charles W. and Eliza Brown Chase; attended public school in Portage county, O., and High School at Newton Falls, O.; married, Cleveland, Aug. 1, 1872, Almira F. Cowles; one daughter, Helen (Mrs. E. C. Bassett) ; treas. of the City, April, 1895-1899; in clothing and men’s furnishing business from 1870 to 1890, at No. 15 Public Square; director Chamber of Commerce, 1905-1906; pres. of The Cleveland Leader Co., 1901-1905; sec’y, treas. and director The Electric Smelting & Aluminum Co.; sec’y and director … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Edwin Augustus Stevens

Stevens, Edwin Augustus; painting contractor; born, Cambridgeport, 1862; son of Edwin Augustus and Sarah E. Lincoln Stevens; educated, private schools, Cleveland, 1868-1870; Kentucky St. School, 1870-1878; Forest City Business College, 1878-1879; married, Cleveland, June 14, 1893, Carrie S. Penney, of Saginaw, Mich.; issue, three daughters; painting contractor; in 1895, succeeded his father, who established the business in 1866; business incorporated March 11, 1912; Edwin A. Stevens, pres.; vice pres., Frank R. Marvin; sec’y and treas., Carrie S. Stevens; directors, Hylas S. Janes, John H. Smart; member Builders’ Exchange, house committee, Unitarian Church, and usher of Unitarian Church; member Knights of … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Justin Grant Sholes

Sholes, Justin Grant; sec’y-treas. the Ohio Chemical & Mfg. Co.; born, Cleveland, Feb. 9, 1871; son of Thomas G. and Harriet Estee Sholes; educated at Brownell St. School and Central High; married, Cleveland, Dec. 16, 1908, Alice Everrett; issue, one son, Justion Everrett Sholes, born April 29, 1910; with the Grasselli Chemical Co., 1886 to 1900; reorganized the Lennox Chemical Co., Cleveland, sec’y and treas. to 1910; organized the Ohio Chemical Co., Cleveland, 1910, and sec’y-treas. of that firm to date; vice pres. Western Terminal Co.; has served three enlistments in Troop A., O. N. G.; member Chamber of Commerce, … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Henry Ebenezer Handerson

Handerson, Henry Ebenezer; physician; born, Orange, O., March 21, 1837; son of Thomas and Catherine Potts Handerson; A. B., Hobart, 1858; A. M., 1866; capt. and asst. adj. gen. 2d La. Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A., 1861-1865; M. D., College Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia), 1867; married Juliet Alice Root, of New York, Oct. 16, 1872; 2d, Clara Corlett, of Cleveland, June 12, 1888; prof. hygiene and sanitary science, Cleveland College Physicians and Surgeons, 1893-1906, prof. emeritus, 1906; member Cleveland Academy Medicine, Cuyahoga County Mem. Society (pres., 1895), Cleveland Medical Library Ass’n (pres., 1895-1904). Editor: Baas’s Outlines of … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Welles Kirk Stanley

Stanley, Welles Kirk; lawyer; born, Portsmouth, Nov. 12, 1873; son of Rev. T. W. and Amanda Kirk Stanley; A. B., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1895; LL. B., Yale University, 1900; married, Cleveland, June 8, 1905, Grace Hiles; issue, one daughter, Ann; in the office of Attorney W. H. Boyd three years; formed partnership with P. L. A. Lieghley in October, 1911; sec’y the Lewis Jewelry Co., the A. J. Fawcett Co., the W. H. Noble Co.; member Beta Theta Pi, Book and Gavel (Yale), Cleveland Athletic Club.

Biographical Sketch of Benjamin D. Nicola

Nicola, Benjamin D.; attorney; born, Italy, March 17, 1879; son of Vincenzo and Pasqua Miraldi Nicola; educated, Urichsville, O., High School, 1897; Ohio State University 1897-1901, LL. B., 1900; married Midvale, O., June 29, 1905, Harriet M. Stuckey; issue, four children, Kenneth, Esther, Margaret and Samuel; has practiced law in Cleveland since Jan. 1, 1905; member Chamber of Commerce, Odd Fellows, Tippecanoe Club.

Biographical Sketch of Willard A. Collie

Collie, Willard A.; supt. car service, N. Y., C. & St. L. R. R.; born, Martin, Mich., Nov. 28, 1871; public school education in Plainvill, Mich.; married, Fort Wayne, Ind., Sept. 20, 1897, Ella Crosby; two sons, Murray and Wayne; entered service of N. Y., C. & St. Louis R. R. March 10, 1890 as telegraph operator; then car distributor, chief clerk to division supt. and chief clerk to supt. transportation; appointed supt. car service, January, 1911.

Biographical Sketch of William Howard Brett

Brett, William Howard; librarian, Cleveland Public Library; born, Braceville, O., in 1846; son of Morgan Lewis and Jane Brokaw Brett; educated, public schools, Warren, O., studied Western Reserve College, Hudson, O., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; graduated from Hiram College, Hiram, O., degree A. M.; married, Cleveland, 1879, Alice L. Allen; issue, 6 children, 1 deceased; appointed to his present position in 1884; devoted to the cause of public libraries, and a student with a broad general knowledge; instrumental in forming the Ohio Library Ass’n, pres., 1895 and 1896; in 1897, pres. of the American Library Ass’n; chairman, in … Read more

Biographical Sketch of William H. Evers

Evers, William H.; civil engineer; born, Cleveland, Nov. 18, 1871; son of Henry C. and Elizabeth Metzger Evers; graduated from the public schools of Cleveland with a scholarship to Case School of Applied Science; married, Cleveland, Sept. 17, 1895, Ottilie H. Niemam; three children, Julie, Esther, and Willie; county engineer of Cuyahoga county from 1899 to 1906; pres. The W. H. Evers Engineering Co. and The Concrete Flooring Co.; member Ohio Engineering Society and Cleveland Engineering Society; member of the Lutheran Church.

Biographical Sketch of Ernest Ludwig

Ludwig, Ernest; Consul of Austria-Hungary for Ohio and Michigan; born, Pozsony, Hungary, 1876; son of John and Sophia L. Ludwig; educated, College of Pozsony, Hungary, and Oriental Academy, Vienna; married, Peking, China, 1903, Sarah Edith Kendrick; military service in the 9th Hussar Regiment (Count Nadasdy); service in China ten years attached to Austro-Hungarian Legation, Peking; 1902, in charge of Legation; 1903, Judge of the mixed court in Shanghai; 1905, Consul in Tientsin; 1908, in Peking, as Chinese sec’y of the Austro-Hungarian Legation; since 1910, Consul in Cleveland, O.; author of numerous books and reports; member of the Imperial Royal Geographical … Read more

Biographical Sketch of George C. Groll

Groll, George C.; supt. Morgan Lithograph Co.; born, Cleveland, Aug. 2, 1861; son of J. C. and Margaret (Schubert) Grail; public schools until 16, then went abroad and studied art in Paris and Holland for two years; married, June 25, 1901, Mabel Caroline Bell; upon coming to Cleveland, entered the employ of the Morgan Lithograph Co., in 1879; now supt. and stockholder in the Company; Mason; member Art Club.

Biographical Sketch of Edward Belden Greene

Greene, Edward Belden; banker; born, Cleveland, July 26, 1878; son of John E. and Mary E. (Seymour) Greene; educated, Yale University, B. A., 1900; married, Cleveland, Nov. 18, 1908, Helen Wade; issue, one daughter, Helen W. Greene, born Nov. 12, 1911; enlisted in Troop A, 1st Squadron, Ohio Cavalry, November, 1900, and resigned as 2nd lieut. February, 1912; began work with Cleveland Trust Co. in 1900, immediately after graduation from College, rising through the grades of messenger, clerk, teller and secretary to the vice presidency; director Wade Realty Co., vice pres. and director Ohio Chemical Mnfg. Co.; director National Discount … Read more

Biographical Sketch of George C. Todd

Todd, George C.; railroad division supt.; born, Flushing, O., June 7, 1867; started as telegraph operator with the C. L. & W. Ry., in August, 1883; train dispatcher, October, 1887, to September, 1889; train dispatcher, Northern Pacific Ry., September, 1889, to Jan. 1, 1890; from that date to April, 1902, train dispatcher N. Y. S. & St. L. Ry.; chief train dispatcher, 1902 to 1907; chief dispatcher to April, 1908; train master to June, 1912; supt. telegraph to date; now division superintendent same road.

Biographical Sketch of William Rowland Hopkins

Hopkins, William Rowland; lawyer; born, Johnstown, Pa., July 26, 1869; son of David J. and Mary Jeffreys Hopkins; educated, Western Reserve Academy, 1892, Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, 1896, A. B.; Law School, Western Reserve University, 1897, LL. B.; married Cleveland, June 11, 1903, Ellen Louise Cozad; member City Council, 1897-1899; active in promotion and construction of the Cleveland Short Line B. R., working out a system of rapid transit for Cleveland; director The Cleveland Short Line R. R. Co.; vice pres. and treas. the Belt & Terminal Realty Co.; pres. The Cleveland Underground B. R. Co., the Subway Realty … Read more

Biographical Sketch of James B. Shields

Shields, James B.; cigar mnfr.; born, New Castle, Pa., Nov. 1, 1874; son of Louis and Lena Winternitz Shields; educated, New Castle High School; married, Cleveland, March 6, 1902, Fannie M. Meisel; issue, two sons; J. B. Shields & Co., started in business in 1895; incorporated under the name of Shields-Wertheim Co., 1906; at that time he was elected pres. of the company, and still continues in that capacity; pres. Southern Ohio Coal Co., and Superior Slide Co; director Up-to-Date Laundry Co., H. R. Pollock Co , J. E. Meisel Co.; member Elks, Chamber of Commerce, B’Nair B’rith, Cleveland Commercial … Read more