Cuyahoga County OH

Biographical Sketch of Frank T. Cullitan

Cullitan, Frank T.; lawyer; born, Cleveland, March 5, 1880; son of David and Anna Cullitan; educated St. Ignatius College, Law Dept. Baldwin-Wallace University, 1906, LL. B.; married, Cleveland, Nov. 21, 1907, Anna Marie Millard; one daughter, Catherine Frances; active in civic affairs; admitted to bar, June, 1906; practiced in Cleveland since; chosen by Citizens Committee to stand for Constitutional delegate, 1912; treas. and director Columbian Bldg. Co.; member Ohio State Bar Ass’n; member Delta Phi Delta Legal Fraternity; Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters, and Ancient Order of Hibernians; district deputy for 1st Ohio District, Knights of Columbus.

Biographical Sketch of Maxwell Vernon Emerman

Emerman, Maxwell Vernon; attorney-at-law; born, Cleveland, Nov. 17, 1867; son of Benjamin and Lena Luntz Emerman; educated, public schools, Central High School 1905, and University of Michigan, 1908, degree LL. B.; married, Baltimore Md., Nov. 3, 1912; member executive committee Progressive Republican party, Cuyahoga county, 1912; sec’y and treas. The Esplande Apartments Co.; sec’y North American Export Co.; director Ohio Adjustment Co., Weger Motor Co., Akron Scrap Iron Co., Akron, O.; general counsel Erie Iron & Steel Co., Erie, Pa.; member Cleveland Shakespeare Club, and Knights of Pythias.

Biographical Sketch of Charles R. Pheneger

Pheneger, Charles R.; dentist; born, Cleveland, March 15, 1881; son of Benjamin H. and Emma Easty Pheneger; educated in public schools of Columbus, Cleveland high schools, Ohio State University, and Western Reserve Dental College; married, Cleveland, Dec. 1, 1908, Florence I. Gillmore; member Psi Omega.

Biographical Sketch of Russell Emmett Burdick

Burdick, Russell Emmett; merchant; born, Alfred, N. Y., May 28, 1848; son of Russell W. and Malvina A. (Middaugh) Burdick; educated, Alfred University; married, Ashland County, O., May 24, 1874, Mary H. McCutchen; two daughters and one son; captain commanding Troop A, O. N. G., 1895; capt. 1st Ohio Vol. Cavalry, war with Spain, 1898; aid-de-camp to Gen. Horace Porter, 1897; to Gen. G. M. Dodge, 1897; to Gen. J. F. Bell, 1909; pres. and treas. the Bowler & Burdick Co., jewelers; established, 1873.

Biographical Sketch of Eugene K. Hays

Hays, Eugene K.; merchant; born, Cleveland, Jan. 3, 1872; son of Joseph and Rosetta Swartzenburg Hays; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, Dec. 4, 1907, Edna Feiss; two daughters, Carrie Feiss, born Sept. 17, 1909, Virginia Jean, born Jan. 27, 1912; member firm of K. & E. Blouse Makers; pres. Aetna Realty Co.; member Excelsior and Oakwood Clubs, and Chamber of Commerce.

Biographical Sketch of Harold E. Smith

Smith, Harold E.; patent lawyer; born, Lebanon, N. H., May 2, 1882; son of Wilbur F. and Marie Antoinette Sargent Smith; educated, Dartmouth College, A. B., 1903, A. M., 1906; National University Law School, LL. B., 1908; LL. M., 1909; George Washington University, M. P. L., 1909; married, Washington, D. C. Oct. 5, 1909, Annie Stratton; one son; instructor in physics at Dartmouth College, 1903-1906, asst. physicist, National Bureau of Standards, 1906; examiner U. S. Patent Office, 1906-1910; member of firm of Hull & Smith, patent lawyers, junior partner; member Hanover Scientific Ass’n; member Gamma Alpha and Sigma Nu Phi … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Dan Freeman Bradley

Bradley, Dan Freeman; clergyman; born, Bangkok, Siam, March 17, 1857; son of Dan Beach and Sarah (Blachly) Bradley; educated, Oberlin College, 1882, Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1885, Oberlin Honorary Degree Doctor of Divinity, 1909; same degree, Cornell College, 1904; married, Oberlin, O., July 9, 1883, Lillian Jaques; three sons, Dwight J., Robert G., and Theodore Bradley; pastor Steubenville Ohio, Congregational Church, 1885-1887; Yankton, S. D., 1887-1892; Grand Rapids, Mich., 1892-1902; pres. Iowa College, Grinnel, Ia., 1902-1905; pastor Pilgrim Church, Cleveland, 1905 to date; has gymnasium, branch of public library cooking school and mothers club; has been instrumental in the organization of … Read more

Biographical Sketch of George Lorenzo Fairbank

Fairbank, George Lorenzo; merchant; born, Cleveland, Nov. 7, 1874; son of Ammi Palmer and Adelia Harriet Parker Fairbank; common school and commercial college education; married, Cleveland, Sept. 12, 1894; Alcenia Jane Van Tassel; two daughters; at the age of 16, began work as office boy and stenographer for Weidman-Holmes Co.; at different intervals later was stenographer for the receivers of The Valley Railway, E. C. Pope, iron ore and pig iron business, and The Hill Clutch Co.; went with the Struthers Furnace Co. about seventeen years ago, as stenographer, advanced to bookkeeper; later elected sec’y and about seven years ago … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Ezra Selig Brudno

Brudno, Ezra Selig; author; born in Lithuania, May 28, 1877; son of Issac and Hannah (Model) Brudno; attended Adelbert College (Western Reserve University), 1896-1897; at Yale, 1898-1900, reading law and at same time pursuing academic studies; finished law studies at Western Reserve University, 1900; unmarried; began practice of law in Cleveland, 1901; assistant district attorney since 1909; Republican. Author: The Fugitive, 1904; The Little Conscript, 1905; The Tether, 1908. Contributor to magazines.

Biographical Sketch of William Henry Garlock

Garlock, William Henry; laundryman; born, North Greece, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1842; son of Elisha and Lucy Wilkinson Garlock; educated, common schools and Falley Seminary, Fulton, N. Y.; married, Fulton, N. Y., Florence Adell Ingell; Republican; spent seven winters teaching district school; engaged in men’s furnishing business 1873; started in the laundry business, 1880; pres. The Garlock-Frazee Laundry Co.; trustee Dorcas Invalid’s Home; Mason and Knight Templar. Recreation: Travel.

Biographical Sketch of Hon. Willis Vickery

Vickery, Willis Hon.; lawyer; born, Bellevue, O., Nov. 26, 1857; son of William and Sarah Perkins Vickery; no schooling until the age of 19, excepting three months in the winter; then entered the Clyde, O., High School, graduating in 1880, valedictorian of class; studied law in the office of Everett & Fowler, at Fremont, O.; continued law studies combined with teaching in the schools of Clyde and Castalia, O., in 1882, entered the law dept. of Boston University; graduated in 1884; admitted to the Ohio bar in 1885; married three times; three children by first wife, who was Anna L. … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Michael A. Fanning

Fanning, Michael A.; construction work; born, Cleveland, Aug. 26, 1857; son of Michael Fanning, Sr.; common school education at St. Patrick’s Parish School, but graduated from The University of the Printing Office; in 1885, married Miss Octavia Dix, of New Orleans; issue, two daughters and one son; early business life spent in newspaper work in St. Louis, Mo., Columbus, O., and political correspondent for a number of western papers; came back to Cleveland, and in 1899, made sec’y of the Municipal Ass’n; in 1900, state agt. for the Barber Asphalt Co., and later took agencies of Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri; … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Augustus C. Knight

Knight, Augustus C.; lawyer; born, New York, March 24, 1877; son of Augustus Knight; educated, public schools and St. Ignatius College, Cleveland, Cleveland Law School, Baldwin University, LL. B.; married, Cleveland, June 26, 1907, Marie Agnes Bauer; issue, three daughters, Agnes Marie, Adele Irene, Arline Helen; preferred and signed the charges against Fred Kohler, Chief of Police, in May, 1910, causing his suspension by Mayor Baehr, acquittal by the Civil Service Commission; member Cleveland Bar Ass’n, State Bar Ass’n, and Cleveland Law Library Ass’n; member Knights of Columbus, Gilmour Council, Cleveland Humane Society, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, The City Club, … Read more

Biographical Sketch of George C. Lang

Lang, George C.; furniture and undertaking business; born, Dunkirk, New York, Sept. 27, 1870; son of John A. and Theresa Fischer Lang; married Emma M. Stocker of Cleveland; lived on a farm until 21 years old; two years at the German-Wallace College; at 23, entered the coal and stone business, at Chicago Junction, Ohio; two years at Dunkirk, N. Y., in the ice and coal business; in 1897, went into the furniture and undertaking business in Cleveland, at Lorain Ave. and W. 95th St.; supt. of the German M. E. Sunday school; trustee of The German-Wallace College; member of the … Read more

Biographical Sketch of George A. Bingham

Bingham, George A.; real estate and insurance; born, Eaton, Lorain County, O., Nov. 24, 1872; educated, district and Elyria public schools, and Cleveland Spencerian Business College; came to Cleveland in 1888, as a clerk in Fries & Schuele Dry Goods Store; in 1890, started in the grocery and meat business for himself; engaged in that business for 20 years; manufacturer and inventor of “The Tru-Kut Cutter,” for lard and butter; in 1904, became identified in the real estate business with his father, under the firm name of A. L. Bingham & Son, located in The Arcade; since the death of … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Warren Hervey Cowdery

Cowdery, Warren Hervey; mfgr.; born, Perry, O., May 21, 1853; son of Lyman Hervey and Sarah Holmes Cowdery; educated, High School, Painesville, O.; married, Geneva, O., Sept. 19, 1878, Hattie Kelley, two sons and two daughters; at 21 years of age, sec’y The Geneva Tool Co.; organized The Ashtabula Tool Co. in 1880; was sec’y and treas. of the company until 1902, then became 1st vice pres. of The American Fork & Hoe Co.; became pres. of the Company in 1908; pres. The National Handle Co.; trustee Hiram College; Ohio Christian Missionary Society; member Willowick Country Club.

Biographical Sketch of Thomas Henry Geer

Geer, Thomas Henry; general insurance; born, Ledyard, Conn., Sept. 3, 1840; son of Nathaniela Bellows and Julia Davis Geer; educated, common schools, Ledyard, Conn.; 1854, Irving Institute, Tarrytown, N. Y.; 1857, State Normal School, Westfield, Mass.; graduate, 1861-1862, Norwich Academy, Norwich, Conn.; married, Poquetanuck, Conn., June 30, 1868, Fanny Halsey Brewster; one daughter, Mary Brewster Geer; Republican in polities; 1859, teacher Grammar School, West Gloucester, Mass.; 1860, principal of High School, Rockport, Mass., 1862-1865, teacher Burlington College, Burlington, N. J., 1866 to date, general insurance business, Cleveland; pres. The Thomas H. Geer Co.; sec’y The Triton Steamship Co.; sec ‘y … Read more

Biographical Sketch of Eugene Edwin Neale

Neale, Eugene Edwin; insurance; born, Mt. Pleasant, Ia.; March 31, 1865; son of Richard W. and Emma Lennox Neale; public school education in Cleveland; married, Cleveland, April 16, 1890, Lucy W. Hubbell; issue, three sons, Harold Hubbell, Robert Dudley, Eugene Edwin, Jr.; married, Cleveland, Nov. 21, 1905, Elizabeth L. Hubbell; issue, one son, Sterling Lennox; vice pres. Neale-Phypers Co.; member Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Athletic, Mayfield, and Willowick Clubs; member Cleveland Grays since 1886.

Biographical Sketch of D. Edward Dangler

Dangler, D. Edward; mfr.; born, Cleveland, Feb. 23, 1858; son of David A. and J. Clark Dangler; educated in the schools of Cleveland and Philadelphia; married, Cleveland, Oct. 20, 1885, Effie M. Scofield; issue, three sons, C. S., Oct. 9, 1886, Frank, June 23, 1888, C. E., April 25, 1895; formed first company for the manufacture of gasoline stoves, 1880; has made this his business ever since; enlarged plants of the Dangler Stove Co., of which he is manager and director, from time to time; company has also taken up the manufacture of oil and gas stoves and now sell … Read more

Biography of Preston B. Plumb

In the words of his biographer, Preston B. Plumb was a pioneer in Kansas. He was one of the founders of Emporia. He was in the Union army, and both major and lieutenant-colonel of the Eleventh Kansas. He was long United States senator from Kansas. In the Senate he was one of the men who accomplished things. He was the father of the ides of the conservation of the natural resources of America. It was his law that created the National Forest Reserve and extended aid to irrigation and the reclamation of arid lands. Many of the laws on the … Read more