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History of Cleveland and its Environs
The Heart of New Connecticut
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company
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1918
 

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JACOB HALLER.  The fact that identifies Jacob Haller most conspicuously with the business life of Cleveland is his long and competent service as secretary of the West Side Savings and Loan Association.  For over twenty-five years he has been performing the duties of secretary, and as that office brings him in touch with all the hundreds of patrons of the association, the record of prosperity which the organization has enjoyed may be credited in no small degree to his very able efforts and the confidence inspired by him in the trustworthy management.
     The West Side Savings and Loan Association has now completed thirty-one years of history.  It was founded in December, 1886, and was first known as the West Side Bauverein, being primarily, as the name indicated, a building association. In later years the savings and loan features of the business have been emphasized.  Within the last seven years the association has increased its total assets more than in all the previous quarter of a century of its existence.  Fifteen years after the company was founded its assets were less than $150,000, and it was in the twenty-fifth year, about 1911, that the assets climbed to the million-dollar mark.  Since then the growth has been rapid and most gratifying.  In 1915 the total assets were over $2,300,000, while in 1916 they totaled $3,000,000, and by November, 1917, the total assets were over $3,500,000.  Nearly all the resources of the company are represented by loans secured by first mortgages in Cuyahoga County.
     The home offices of the association are at 2025 West Twenty-fifth Street.  The officers are: Fred Linn, president; Joseph Schenkelberg, vice president; Jacob Haller, secretary; George J. Baum, assistant secretary.
     Mr. Jacob Haller was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, Nov. 1, 1865, but has lived in Cleveland since he was a youth of seventeen.  His father, Christian Haller, who now resides at 6514 Colgate Avenue in Cleveland, was born in Wurttemberg in 1838, was a farmer in that country, and in 1882 brought his family to the United States and after locating at Cleveland was for twenty-five years connected with the firm of Herrman & McLean Company on West Twenty-fifth Street in Cleveland.  He is now living retired.  He is a democrat, a member of the Evangelical Church and of the Knights of Pythias.  In 1865 Christian Haller married Christina Lauffer, who was born in Wurttemberg in 1844.  Their children are: Jacob; Anna, a widow living on West Ninety-fifth Street; and Christina, who lives with her parents.
     Jacob Haller was educated in the public schools of his native land and while there he learned the trade of tailor.  After coming to Cleveland he continued to follow his trade in this city until 1893, at which time his duties as secretary of the West Side Savings and Loan Association required all his time.  He had become secretary in 1891.
     Mr. Haller has other important business interests, being a stockholder and director and treasurer of the Excelsior Brewing Company, is a director of the Modern Laundry Company, and owns some valuable real estate, both improved and unimproved, on Lorain Avenue and the Lake Front, and has his own modern home, which he built in 1912, at 2182 West Ninety-eighth Street.  Mr. Haller is a democrat, a member and treasurer of the Evangelical Church, and is affiliated with the Cleveland Chamber of Industry and Concordia Lodge, No. 345, Free and Accepted Masons.
     At Cleveland, in 1887, he married Miss Elizabeth Glunz, daughter of Frederick and Marguerite Glunz, whose home is in Germany.  Mr. and Mrs. Haller have four children.  Matilda, who is a graduate of the Edmiston Business College and is bookkeeper for the city government at the Market House, is the widow of William Glunz, a bookkeeper, who died at Cleveland in 1915.  The daughter Elizabeth married George Baum, who is assistant secretary of the West Side Savings and Loan Association, and they reside on West Ninety-fifth Street in Cleveland.  Mrs. Baum is a graduate of the Edmiston Business College.  Albert, whose home is on Lorain Avenue, is a graduate of the public schools and a patternmaker by trade.  Edward, who besides his public school education had a private course in bookkeeping, is cashier of the West Side Savings and Loan Association.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 243 - Vol. 3

  FRED E. HANSEN.  When the layman, as ultimate consumer, pauses a moment to examine even the smallest of the utilitarian articles which he daily makes use of in his business, his pleasure or his home, he finds these tools, objects or implements so perfectly fitted for the use for which it is intended that he is frequently amazed, particularly if he be possessed of no inventive genius himself.  Perhaps it may occur to him that someone, better equipped, must have had wonderful genius in order to make possible the fashioning of so complete a thing, from a bit of iron, wood or steel into an adaptive article that is absolutely necessary in some branch of industry.  The initial invention may have been crude, but for any one to so improve on this as to practically supplant the first tool, by one that can do the work more effectively requires the possession of mechanical knowledge combined with inventive talent.  The advent of the automobile has made necessary the invention of countless new parts and appliances, and to Fred E. Hansen, vice president of the Hansen manufacturing Company, belongs the credit for the devising of a number of specialties which have met a large number of specialties which have met a large and receptive field all over the country.
     Fred E. Hansen was born at Grant's Pass, Oregon, Apr. 1, 1886, and is a son of Charles and Betty Hansen.  He attended the public school until he was sixteen years of age, at which time he enrolled as a student at the Oregon State Agricultural College, where he remained for two years.  Coming to Cleveland from Oregon, he secured employment as mechanic in the service department of the Winton Automobile Company, where he remained four years, and then transferred his services to the J. W. Frazier Engineering Company, where he was made inspector of steel construction.  One year later he returned to the Winton Automobile Company, in the same capacity, in which he remained one year.
     Mr. Hansen
, in the meantime, had not been content to go along in a rut.  His industry and general ability had led to  his promotion from position to position as his employers had recognized his value, but he was still dissatisfied with his state and was constantly casting about for an opportunity to better himself.  His inventive genius pointed the way.  As he came in contact with the various appliances incidental to the automobile trade, he made a close study of each piece of equipment and began to experiment on his own hook with the end in view of producing something better.  This led to the invention of a number of specialties and to the formation of the Hansen Manufacturing Company, of which J. W. Frazier is president and treasurer; Fred E. Hansen, vice president; and W. A. Gilliland, secretary.  The company manufactures all the articles invented by Mr. Hansen, including automatic air valves, air line equipments and valve stems and parts.  In addition the young inventor is constantly working on new articles which he expects to patent, and the manner in which his company's products have been received by the general market has encouraged him to extend his genius to the full.  Mr. Hansen is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and one of the rising young men of the city.  He votes for the candidates of the republican party.
     Mr. Hansen was married at Cleveland, Aug. 5, 1916, to Miss Frances Jordan of this city ,and they have one child, Laurence Jordan Hansen.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 94 - Vol. III

George C. Hansen
GEORGE C. HANSEN.  Among the members of the Cleveland bar none has a better record for straightforward and high professional conduct, for success earned with honor and without animosity, than George C. Hansen, of the firm of Blake, Hansen & Gillie.  He is a man of scholarly attainments, exact and comprehensive knowledge of the law, and, while an active republican taking part in important civic affairs, has of late years concerned himself chiefly with the pressing and constantly broadening duties of his profession.
     Mr. Hansen was born May 30, 1868 in the province of Sehleswig, Germany, of Danish parents, and was five years of age when he was brought to the United States by his parents Henry William and Catherine (Petersen) Hansen, the family arriving at New York July 4, 1873, and immediately making their way to Wood County, Ohio, where they located on a farm.  In his native land he had been a schoolteacher, but in the United States Mr. Hansen always followed farming and continued to be engaged in that calling until the time of his death, which occurred when he was seventy years of age.  The mother still survives and makes her home on the Wood County farm.  Henry W. Hansen was one of the men who had made his own way in the world, having come to the United States with but $100 in gold, with which to build up a home and business and take care of a family of seven children.  Therefore he believed that all should start to work as soon as they were able, not only for the income which might be made, but also as a means of education.  There were twelve children in the family, four being sons and eight daughters, of whom nine lived to years of maturity, and four daughters and two sons still survive, although George C., the fifth in order of birth, is the only resident
of Cleveland.
     The district schools of Wood County furnished George C. Hansen with the preliminary part of his education, and when he was fourteen years of age he began making his own way in the world.  It was his father's belief that if the children wished greater educational training than that furnished by the public schools they should themselves earn it, and this the youth set about to do.  In 1889 he secured a position as teacher of a country school in Wood County, remaining there through that and the two following years, and then went to Hoytville, Ohio, where he taught from 1892 until 1894. In the meantime, in 1891, he had been able to secure a commercial course in the Toledo Business College.  He was a teacher in the University of Florida for one year, and superintendent of the Perrysburg, Ohio, schools from 1896 to 1897.  During this time he had attended the Ohio Northern University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895 and the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and next entered the law department of the University of Michigan, where he completed the regular three-year course in two years, graduating in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.  He was admitted to the bars of Ohio and Michigan, as graduation from the University of Michigan was the only thing necessary during those days for such admission, and began the practice of law in June, 1898, in the same building at Cleveland in which his offices are now located.  He has since been admitted to practice in the United States and Federal Courts.  Mr. Hansen has carried on a general practice and has been a member of several legal combinations, in June, 1917, becoming a member of the firm of Blake, Hansen & Gillie, with offices at 632 Society for Savings Building.  He belongs to the Cleveland Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the National Bar Association, and is a director in numerous banks and corporations, in which his knowledge of the law is considered a valuable asset.  Politically a republican, and very active in the affairs of his party, his only public office has been that of assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, which he filled from 1908 to 1910, under John Cline.  During the year 1912-3 he served as president of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce; and from 1908 to 1910 was president of the Cuyahoga County Sunday School Association.  At this time he belongs to the Lakewood Christian Church, and his fraternal connections are with the Odd Fellows and Lakewood Lodge No. 601, Free and Accepted Masons.  The beautiful family home of Mr. Hansen is located at 12612 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, five miles from the Public Square, and is situated on a tract of about two acres of land, which forms one of the real show places of the suburbs of Cleveland.  The spacious home, while built nearly fifty years ago, has been made modern in every way and is very attractive, but the real attraction of the estate is found in the grounds.  All his life Mr. Hansen has been a great lover of the outdoors, and on his grounds are planted specimens of every native tree that grows in this section, about every hardy tree of the country and some of them nearly seventy years old, and a wealth of vines, hedges, bushes and shrubbery of every kind.  While at college he taught botany and geology and he has retained in full degree his love for flowers and all growing things.  Another of his hobbies is natural history, and his library in this connection is said to be one of the largest and most complete in the country.  Mr. Hansen is still an active man and one of the best players of the Lakewood Tennis Club.
     On June 29, 1904, Mr. Hansen was married to Miss Orra Phillips, of Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Ross and Mary Phillips, now residents of Cleveland but formerly of Columbiana County, where the Phillips family is an old and honored one, having been the first Orangemen of that locality.  Mrs. Hansen was born in Columbiana County and educated there and at Salem High School.  She taught in the Cleveland public schools prior to her marriage and is an intellectual and well-informed woman.  Her home is her chief interest in life, yet she finds time to take an active and helpful part in the work of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.  Mr. and Mrs. Hansen have three children, Paul G., Ruth M. and George Phillips, all born at Lakewood, where they are attending the public schools.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 145 - Vol. II
WILLIAM HARPER.    In reviewing the careers of the notable men of a community, the thoughtful person is impressed by the number of foreign-born individuals who have risen to high places among the leaders in almost every line.  The question naturally arises whether the older countries give their men a better early training than can be obtained here, or whether in the United States those who have labored under disadvantages of a more constricted form of government expand under the liberal laws of this republic.  But, whatever the cause, the effect seems to be the same, the men of foreign birth who have succeeded exceed those of strictly American stock.  In the great coal industry one of the best known figures in Ohio is William Harper, who is of foreign birth although thoroughly Americanized.  He was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and there attended a private school.  His first business experience was connected with the coal industry, for he was in his young manhood a salesman for a coal company.  In 1883, on immigrating to the United States, he settled first at Chicago, where he became a salesman for the Brazil Block Coal Company, an enterprise with which he was identified for twelve years.  He then went to Columbus, Ohio where he became manager of the Cambridge Consolidated Coal Company.
     Mr. Harper came to Cleveland in 1896, and here became associated with the Ellsworth Morris Coal Company as manager of the company's mines at Cambridge.  In 1897 the name was changed to the Morris Coal Company, with the following officers: Calvary Morris, president; John E. Newell, vice president; and William Harper, secretary and treasurer.  In 1912 upon the death of Mr. Morris, Mr. Harper succeeded him as president and retains also the position of treasurer, H. C. Steffen being secretary and P. T. White, vice president.  This company owns two mines, one known as Black Top and the other as Cleveland, located at Cambridge in Guernsey County, Ohio, where there are still left over 45,000 acres of fields to mine.  There are 350 people employed, and the headquarters of the company are located at Cleveland, with executive offices in the Citizens Building.  Mr. Harper is also secretary and treasurer of the Morris Poston Coal Company of Cleveland, a subsidiary company of the Morris Coal Company.  He belongs to the Union Club, is a republican, and attends the Presbyterian Church.
     Mr. Harper was married in December, 1895, to Miss Edith Murchy, of Chicago, and they are the parents of two children: Wallace, who is twenty-one years of age and now attending Dartmouth College; and Evelyn, a graduate of the Laurel School for Girls, Cleveland, and now attending Smith College.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 274 - Vol. II
  FRANK GRANT HOGEN has been a working factor in Cleveland's business and industrial affairs for the past forty years.  A successful business man, he has also found time to serve the public and has been interested in every movement for Cleveland's progress and welfare.
     Mr. Hogan was born in Cleveland May 22, 1863, son of Andrew C. and Mary T. Hogen.
His father was of Pennsylvania Dutch and his mother of Scotch ancestry.  His father was born Oct. 5, 1829, and his mother Aug. 26, 1830.
     Mr. Hogen was a boy attended the Bolton School in East Cleveland and finished the work of the eighth grade nearly forty years ago.  His first business connection was in the auditing department of the Standard Oil Company.  In 1887, thirty years ago he became connected with the firm of Auld & Conger.  In 1903 he organized the F. G. Hogen Company and in 1910 organized the Cuyahoga Roofing Company in which he is still a stock-holder.
     Mr. Hogen served as director of public safety in Cleveland during 1910-11, and since 1912 has been director of schools.  For five years he was a member of the Brooks Corps.  He is an active republican, is affiliated with Woodward Lodge of Masons, Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Oriental Commandery, Knights Templars, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine.  He is well known in club and social affairs, being a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Willowick Country Club, Cleveland Gun Club and the City Club.  He recently exhibited at the City Club an interesting old time firearm, a gun more than a hundred years old and which was bought by his grandfather in the latter part of the eighteenth century.  This gun was originally a flintlock rifle, but his grandfather had part of it sawed off and the muzzle bored out, converting it into a powder and cap shotgun.  Mr. Hogen is a member of the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church.
     On Oct. 17, 1895, at Cleveland, he married Miss Louise Jane Kelly, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Connell) Kelly.  They have two sons, Frank Grant Hogen, Jr., and Harry Kelly Hogen.  The Hogen family residence is at 1823 East 97th Street.*
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 70 - Vol. III
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* The home at 1823 East 97th Street, Cleveland, Ohio is no longer standing.
  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOPKINS is a Cleveland business man of many associations, being vice president of The Grant Motor Car Corporation, president of The Grant Truck Sales Company, secretary of The Belt & Terminal Realty Company, secretary and treasurer of The Hopkins Holding Company, secretary and treasurer of The Columbia Axle Company, director of The Cleveland Underground Rapid Transit Railroad Company, and director of The Republic Motor Sales Company.
     Mr. Hopkins for a number of years found his chief work in the building of railroads.  He was one of the promoters of the Belt Line Railway at Cleveland.
     Mr. Hopkins was born at Cleveland, June 13, 1876, son of David J. and Mary (Jeffreys) Hopkins.  He is a brother of the prominent Cleveland lawyers, William R. Hopkins and Evan Henry Hopkins.
     He was educated in the Cleveland public schools including Central High School, attended Western Reserve Academy and Adelbert College of Western Reserve University.  Mr. Hopkins is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Cleveland Automobile Club, Clifton Club, Cleveland Engineering Society, is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and a member of Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  June 5, 1912, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, he married Miss Evelyn Brooks Lower.  They have one child, David Jeffreys Hopkins.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 343 - Vol. II

D. H. Hopkins
DAVID HARRIS HOPKINS, an attorney at law with offices in the Engineers' Building, is also principal and instructor in mathematics at the Cleveland Preparatory School, which he founded and which is now under the auspices of Baldwin-Wallace College.
     The Cleveland Preparatory School occupies a rather unusual and a most useful place in the Cleveland educational system.  "The purpose of the schools," to quote the college Bulletin, "is to give young men and women a chance to secure a high school education without interfering with their daily occupations.  The school is planned to accommodate those who work during the daytime but who are deficient in their high school education and desire to complete the necessary work for the bar examination and other examinations where a high school education is the minimum requirement."  Thus it performs a part which the much agitated "continuation school" movement contemplates and the experience of the last seven years shows that this school has more than proved its usefulness in affording opportunities to acquire a high school education by night study.  Several hundred young men and women have been assisted to higher education, and many of them are found today in the active walks of business and professional life.
     David Harris Hopkins was born at Granger, Medina County, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1882, a son of Chauncey I. and Allie (Harris) Hopkins.  One of his paternal ancestors, Stephen Hopkins, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and was descended from John Hopkins, who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1630 and later removed to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636.  Stephen Hopkins was a brother of Esek Hopkins, the first commander-in-chief of the navy, and of the first American fleet, with rank of admiral.  After his naval experiences he settled near Providence, Rhode Island, where he exerted great political influence, having been for many years a member of the Assembly.  He graduated from the Granger High School in 1900 and the following year attended the Ohio Northern University at Ada and in 1911 received his law and Ph. B. degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College.
     Mr. Hopkins opened a law office and began the practice of law in the Engineers' Building in November, 1911.  In June of the same year he organized The Cleveland Preparatory School, which began with an enrollment of a few students, but has grown and prospered until it enjoys an established place in the educational system of the city.  In August, 1914, the school became an organic part of Baldwin-Wallace College, and is an extension department of the academy proper and directly under the supervision and control of the college.
     Mr. Hopkins is a man of many interests and successful in them all.  He is interested in farming, owning a splendid stock farm where he is breeding Holstein-Friesian cattle, Poland-China hogs and fancy poultry.  He was formerly a director of the Cleveland Poultry Breeders' Association.  Mr. Hopkins is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the Maccabees and with the Sigma Kappa Phi college fraternity.  His home is at Berea, seat of Baldwin-Wallace College.
     At Granger, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1904, he married Vira Marie Kerstetter, the daughter of William J. and Amelia (Turner) Kerstetter.  On her mother's side she is a descendant of Revolutionary stock and a long line of teachers and ministers.  Her father was a soldier in the Civil war, a scientist and a lecturer.  Mrs. Hopkins is a singer, and an active club woman.  She was president of the Berea Literary Club, is now treasurer of Commodore Perry Chapter, United States Daughters of 1812, and a Red Cross worker.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 198 - Vol. II
  EVAN HENRY HOPKINS is a member of the law firm Herrick, Hopkins, Stockwell & Benesch, in the Society for Savings Building.  Has been an active member of the Cleveland bar for over a quarter of a century.  He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Nov.  4, 1864, a son of David J. and Mary (Jeffreys) Hopkins.  He was reared and received his early education in Pennsylvania and in 1885 graduated from the Western Reserve Academy and continued his college work in Adelbert College at Cleveland, which awarded him the bachelor of arts degree in 1889.  Mr. Hopkins then entered Harvard Law College and was graduated LL. B. with the class of 1892.  In October preceding his graduation he was admitted to the Ohio bar and on leaving Harvard began active practice as junior partner of the law firm of Herrick & Hopkins.  His senior associate is Mr. Frank R. Herrick.  The firm of Herrick & Hopkins continued unchanged for nearly a quarter of a century.  In January, 1916, John N. Stockwell, Jr., and Alfred A. Benesch was admitted to the firm.  In 1892 Mr. Hopkins was appointed to a professorship in the Western Reserve Law School, which position he held until 1910.  From 1892 to 1895 he was registrar, and from 1895 to 1910 he was also dean of the school.
     Mr. Hopkins has for a number of years been a regular contributor to legal publications.  Many of the young lawyers who received their training in Western Reserve University acknowledge their indebtedness to him as a teacher and adviser.  He has frequently appeared before the higher courts both in the state and the federal judiciary.
     From the time he began practice at Cleveland Mr. Hopkins has evinced a ready and willing co-operation with every movement for the betterment of the city.  He was a member and secretary of the Cleveland Public Library Board from 1892 until 1898 and in 1900 was appointed a member of the board of park commissioners, serving one year.  He is a republican, a member of the University Club and of the Presbyterian Church.  He married Dec. 27, 1892, Miss Frances P. M. Shain, of Cleveland, and has four daughters.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 168 - Vol. II

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