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History of Cleveland and its Environs
The Heart of
New Connecticut
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New
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1918
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Robert W. Paton |
ROBERT
WILSON PATON. One of the
pioneers in the rolling mill industry of Cleveland, long
identified with manufacturing, the coal trade, and real estate
interests, Robert Wilson Paton is a true son of
old Scotland, and, venerable in years, still represents many of
the stanch and hardy elements of his native character fused with
a sturdy American loyalty and patriotism. Mr.
Paton has been a resident of Cleveland for over sixty years.
He was born in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland, Mar.
10, 1834. About eighteen months later in the same village
was born Andrew Carnegie, whose achievements have filled
many of the brightest pages in American industrial life and
world wide philanthropy. The Carnegie family
immigrated to America about 1848, but Robert Wilson
Paton clung to the ties of the old country until he was
past his majority. His parents were James and
Elizabeth (Donald) Paton, the former a machinist by trade
and for twenty-five years foreman in the Dunfermline foundry.
Both he and his wife died in the old country before their son
came to America.
Mr. Paton had a limited education. He
attended one of the familiar pay schools of Scotland, taking his
week's tuition with him and turning it over to the teacher every
Monday morning. At the age of fifteen he went to work
under his father's direction in the Dunfermline foundry. At the
age of twenty he began work in a foundry at St. Trolix. He
was there three years. That was a period of industrial
depression and of much hardship in Scotland, and it was
considered a rash venture on the part of Mr. Paton
's friends when he gave up what was regarded as a substantial
position to come to America.
It required three weeks to cross the ocean in one of
the sailing vessels of that period, and in July, 1857 he arrived
at Cleveland, first visiting one of his brothers who had in the
previous year located at Newburg. As a machinist and
foundryman he went to work in the old mill of Stone,
Chisholm & Jones at Newburg, and later he and his
brother and others associates took an active part in the
operation of the Union Iron Works. In 1873 Mr.
Paton retired from iron manufacturing to enter the coal
business, and soon afterwards he invested some of his capital in
several allotments at Cleveland, eventually acquiring
considerable property in the Newburg district. His good
business judgment and financial skill enabled him to develop and
market the property to advantage, and he was an important
operator in the real estate field for a number of years.
He has now sold nearly all his real estate, retaining only a few
lots. Success of a substantial nature has been enjoyed by
him, and he came to old age with an ample competence and with a
record of complete honor and integrity in all his relationships.
He was until 1913 a director of the Columbia Savings & Loan
Company. Mr. Paton retired from active
business in 1899. As an American citizen he has always
supported the republican party, and has remained true to the
religious observance of his forefathers as a member of the
Presbyterian Church. He is now the oldest surviving member
of the Odd Fellows in the south end of Cleveland and while never
active as an official in the order has always kept his dues paid
up promptly. He is also the oldest member of Cataract
Lodge No. 295, Free and Accepted Masons.
At Cleveland Feb. 12, 1868, Mr. Paton
married Miss Mary Loveday, who was born in
Leicestershire, England, daughter of James and Sarah (Hurlbut)
Loveday. Her father was a contractor and took his
family to America in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Paton
enjoyed a marriage companionship of many years, until it was
interrupted by her death on Aug/ 28, 1914. For a number of
years they lived in a fine home at 1952 East Eighty-first Street
in Cleveland, but they finally sold that and in 1909 went to
live with their daughter. Mrs. D. R. Davies, where
Mrs. Paton died and where Mr. Paton
is spending his declining years in every comfort which his own
prosperity justifies and surrounded by the affection and
devotion of his daughter and her family. Mr.
Paton has reached that time in life when interests become
contracted, and though without the companionship of his wife and
deprived of the pleasures of reading through failing eyesight he
still retains a vigorous optimism and endures his burdens
uncomplaining.
Mr. Paton is the father of three
children. His daughter Elizabeth is the wife of
Dr. R. Davies, secretary and treasurer of the Acme Machinery
Company of Cleveland. James Loveday, the older son,
is treasurer of the Columbia Savings & Loan Company.
Willis, the youngest child, is connected with the Fenn-Farr
Automobile Company. In 1910 Mr. and Mrs.
Paton made a trip back to Scotland and England, leaving
America on the 3rd of July and returning on the 3rd of
September. During their absence they visited their
birthplaces and also many other points of interest in Great
Britain.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 434 - Vol. II |
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CHARLES A. PATTERSON
is one of Cleveland's leading foundrymen, and that is a business
which both he and his father have followed through an aggregate
of nearly half a century. Charles A. Patterson is
now manager and secretary of the Fulton Foundry & Machine
Company. This is one of the big and important industries
of its kind in the city. It was established in 1872 by
Samuel Carpenter. In 1889 it was taken over by
C. J. Langdon and S. W. Tecker and in 1901
incorporated with Mr. Born as president, C. J. Langdon
vice president and manager, and S. W. Tucker
secretary and treasurer. Mr. Langdon succeeded to
the position of secretary and treasurer resigned by Mr.
Tucker in 1905. E. E. Manning came into the
corporation in 1915 as president and treasurer, C. J. Langdon
returning to the former position as vice president, while at
that time Mr. C. A. Patterson became identified with the
business as secretary and general manager. In January,
1917, at the death of Mr. Manning, C. F. Mead was
elected president and treasurer.
The Fulton Foundry & Machine Company manufactures gray
iron castings and specializes in an acid-proof material which
they have been putting on the market for forty years or more.
They also specialize in machinery castings and castings for
rolling mills and furnaces. It is a business which employs
from 170 to 185 men, and the plant covering two acres of space
has been in complete and continuous operation for a number of
years.
Charles A. Patterson was born at Cleveland Mar.
6, 1872. His father, Charles Patterson, Sr.,
who was born in Cavan, Ireland, Nov. 8, 1838, was brought to
Cleveland by his parents in 1848. Here he continued to
attend public schools until the age of eighteen, and learned the
foundry trade by an apprenticeship of five years with the old
firm of Pettingail & Glass. Following that
he traveled throughout the South and West as a journeyman
foundryman until 1868, in which year he accepted an opportunity
to engage in the grain business at San Francisco. A few
years later selling out his interests in the West he returned to
Cleveland and here he first took up contracting and in 1882
established the City Foundry Company. This was operated by
him until 1898, when he sold the plant and established The
Patterson Foundry Company. This industry was sold to
the Ajax Manufacturing Company in 1907. After that Charles
Patterson lived retired until his death in 1909. He
was independent in polities and a member of the Catholic Church.
At Cleveland in 1862 he married Eliza Farrell.
She was born on Bolivar Street in Cleveland in 1840. One
of a family of seven children, Charles A. Patterson
acquired a liberal education as a preparation for his life work.
He attended the local grammar schools, the West High School from
which he graduated in 1890, and in 1894 he completed his
literary education in Assumption College at Sandwich, Ontario,
Canada. From that time forward he has been identified with
some phase of the foundry business at Cleveland. He first
served an apprenticeship of two and a half years as a moulder
with the City Foundry Company, which at that time was owned by
his father. He gradually assumed more and more
responsibilities in connection with the management of this until
it was sold in 1898. He was an active associate with his
father and other brothers in establishing the Patterson
Foundry Company, and was its manager until the business was
acquired by the Ajax Manufacturing Company in 1907. For
the past ten years his associations have been with the Fulton
Foundry & Machine Company, first as assistant manager, and since
1915 as secretary, manager and director. He is also
secretary and director of the Atlantic Foundry Company.
Mr. Patterson is a member of the Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce, votes his politics independently, and with
his family worships in the Catholic faith. At Cleveland
Oct. 11, 1899, he married Margaret M. Deasy. Their
three chilcren are: Charles J., Kent J., and
Margaret M. The two sons are both in high school and
the daughter is attending Notre Dame Convent.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 298 - Vol. II |
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JOHN WILLIAM PERRIN
who has been librarian of the Case Library of Cleveland since
June 1, 1905, possesses the thorough scholarship, the
familiarity with library work and technic, and the broad
interests which enable him to make the Case Library an
institution of the broadest and most effective service to the
city.
Mr. Perrin is a native of Indiana, a son of
William Jasper and Susan (Allen) Perrin. After
graduating Master of Arts from Wabash College at Crawfordsville
in 1889, he pursued graduate studies in Johns Hopkins University
from 1890 to 1892 and was a graduate student and honorary fellow
in the University of Chicago, 1892-93. Mr. Perrin
has his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of
Chicago, awarded him in 1895.
He held the chair of history and politics at Allegheny
College of Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1894 to 1898, and from
1898 to 1904 was professor of history at Adelbert College
(Western Reserve University) at Cleveland. In 1904 he was
Albert Shaw lecturer on American Diplomatic
History in Johns Hopkins University, and in 1905 was lecturer on
American History at Allegheny College.
Besides looking after the administration of the Case
Library, Mr. Perrin has done much original work in
other lines. He is author of the History of the Cleveland
Sinking Fund of 1862, a History of Compulsory Education in New
England, and has been a frequent contributor to historical and
educational journals on historical, educational and biographical
subjects. From Jan. 1, 1912, to Jan. 1, 1916, he was a
member of the Cleveland Heights Board of Education, and was its
president the last two years. His home is at
2982 Somerton Road in Cleveland Heights.
In 1899 he organized and until 1903 was chairman of the
Conference of Collegiate and Secondary School Instructors of
Western Reserve University. He was secretary of the
department of higher education in the National Education
Association in 1902, was president of the Ohio Library
Association in 1907-08, and is a member of the American
Historical Association, The American Political Science
Association, the American Library Association, and in politics
is a republican. Mr. Perrin was married Apr.
6, 1890, to Harriet Naylor Towle at
Evanston, Illinois. Mrs. Perrin died Jan.
25, 1910.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 219 - Vol. II |
W. E. Perrine |
WILLIAM E. PERRINE.
Assistant general manager and director of production of the
Standard Parts Company, while still a young man has had a most
unusual and varied business experience and training, and his
record is one of consecutive advancement from minor roles to
those higher places which are familiarly associated with
business success.
Mr. Perrine was born at Freehold,
Mommouth County, New Jersey, July 22, 1879, a son of William
Augustus and Annie (Conk) Perrine, and a descendant from one
of the early Jersey families. William A. Perrine
learned the iron molding trade and stove making in Freehold, and
for some years was general superintendent of the Abraham Cox
Stove Corporation at Philadelphia. For a number of
years past he has been general manager of the Thatcher Furnace
Company at Newark, New Jersey, and president of the Peerless
Flask and Molding Machine Company of Newark.
In 1883, when William E. Perrine was four years
old, his parents moved to Brooklyn, New York, in which city he
grew up and received his education. While attending
school, during vacation periods, and for the first few years
after leaving school, he gained business experience in many
fields, as follows: Manufacturing jewelry, lithographing and
engraving, wholesale drugs, fire insurance and wholesale dry
goods.
Mr. Perrine 's early manufacturing
experience was with the American Can Company, beginning as
factory clerk, and during the eight years of his connection with
that corporation he was frequently promoted, finally becoming
factory manager of several of their different plants throughout
the country, resigning from the American Can Company to accept a
position with the F. B. Stearns Automobile Company,
Cleveland, Ohio, as assistant production manager. This
position he held for 4½
years and resigned to enter the employ of the Perfection Spring
Company as manager of their No. 2 plant.
In 1917 the Perfection Spring Company was consolidated
with the Standard Parts Company, and in September of that year
Mr. Perrine was made director of production of the
Standard Parts Company. He has under his immediate control
the twelve plants situated in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and
Missouri. In March, 1918, Mr. Perrine was
appointed assistant general manager of the Standard Parts
Company, also continuing in the capacity just mentioned.
Mr. Perrine is well known in Cleveland
civic and social circles. He is a non-commissioned officer
of Cleveland Chapter of the Red Cross Society, a member of the
Sons of the American Revolution, the Society of Automotive
Engineers, of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Rotary Club, Shrine
Club, Willowick Country Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,
City Club, Civic League, Automobile Club, Detroit Athletic Club,
and the Toledo Club. In Masonry he is affiliated with Iris
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Webb Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons: Cleveland City Council, Royal and Select Masters;
Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar; the various Scottish Rite
bodies and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
Politically he is a republican. At Chicago, Illinois, July
19, 1905, Mr. Perrine married Florence
Madline Strick. They have had three children,
William Craig, born June 20, 1906; Florence
Elizabeth, born June 12, 1912, and Elinor
Thorel, born Apr. 6, 1915, died May 1, 1916. The son
is a student in the Cleveland public schools and has spent his
summer vacations in Culver Military Academy in Indiana.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 283 - Vol. II |
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REGINALD G. A. PHILLIPS.
To be identified with the growth and business development of the
sixth city is an advantage that has been fully appreciated by
many men now prominent in the city's many activities, who are
today occupying positions of responsibility, the fruit of
energetic and well directed effort.
It is to this position in Cleveland commercial affairs
that Reginald G. A. Phillips has attained during the
twenty-eight years of his residence in the city. He is a
native of England, born at Surbiton, Middlesex, July 15, 1873,
son of George W. and Nellie (Martin) Phillips. He
was educated in the Cavendish House Private School at
Hammersmith, Middlesex, and on leaving that institution in 1890
came to America and found employment with the Brown Hoisting
Machinery Company. He was seventeen years of age, and his
first responsibilities were as time record clerk. He was
subsequently put in the cost keeping department, was billing
clerk, assistant in the crane department, and after that was
manager of the crane department until January, 1907.
Mr. Phillips left this old and notable
industrial organization of Cleveland to take an active part in a
new industry whose subsequent record of growth and development
is one of the marvels of American industrial affairs. He
became assistant general manager with the American Multigraph
Company, and for the past ten years has been actively associated
with Mr. H. C. Osborn, president of the company, in the
management and the building up and broadening out of the
business. In 1908 he became secretary and director, and in
March, 1917, was elected vice president, secretary and assistant
general manager, the offices he holds at present.
Mr. Phillips is also vice president and
director of the Cleveland Railway Supply Company, is director of
the American Fire Clay and Products Company, and a director of
the Guarantee Savings & Loan Association. In social
affairs he is a member of the Country Club, Cleveland Athletic
Club, Automobile Club, Chamber of Commerce.
On Nov. 30, 1898, Mr. Phillips married at
Cleveland, Jean Osborn, member of one of the
oldest and most prominent families in Cleveland's industrial and
civic history. They have two children, George
Howe, a student at Cornell University, and Catherine
Chisholm, attending the Hathaway-Brown School.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 74 - Vol. III |
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John H. Price |
JOHN H. PRICE.
Only exceptional personal ability, including a rare combination
of practical efficiency with exact knowledge and orderly
processes of thinking, could have brought John H. Price
so early to the position he now enjoys as lawyer, citizen and
public leader in the City of Cleveland.
Mr. Price was born at Youngstown, Ohio,
July 31, 1878, a son of Morgan P. and Margaret (Davis) Price.
His parents were Welsh. He was educated in the public
schools of Youngstown, graduating from the Rayen High School in
1897. As a boy in the grammar school he sold newspapers
and that experience probably gave him the active sympathy with
newsboys which has enabled him to do much for that class of
youth in the City of Cleveland. Possessing an eager mind,
quick in comprehension, he had no special difficulty in making a
place for himself as a newspaper worker, and during his high
school course was employed by the papers of his home city.
It was as a reporter that he also paid his way largely through
Mount Union College, where he was graduated A. B. in 1900.
At Mount Union he became a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and
Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities, was city editor of the Alliance
Review, was editor in chief of the College Annual and the
College Monthly paper. He early distinguished himself as a
debater, won the annual debate of his college and received
honors in oratory. He also served as manager of athletic
teams. Soon after graduating from Mount Union Mr. Price
accepted the opportunity to cross the ocean as cow puncher on a
cattle boat, and spent several months roughing it in Europe,
paying his expenses largely as a newspaper correspondent.
A still earlier experience was his service as a
volunteer soldier during the Spanish-American war in 1898.
He was with the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the siege
of Santiago, Cuba, and for three years served as lieutenant of
engineers.
After returning from Europe in 1901 Mr. Price
entered the law school of the Ohio State University at Columbus,
and while in the capital city did special work for the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. He subsequently was transferred to Cleveland
by the Plain Dealer entered the law school of the Western
Reserve University and while there edited a history of the Ohio
National Guard and Ohio Volunteers in the war with Spain.
He also edited the law school Annual. In 1903 Mr. Price
was admitted to the Ohio bar and in 1909 admitted to practice in
the United States Supreme Court. As a lawyer he has made a
specialty of corporation, insurance and constitutional law.
He has looked after the interests of a large clientage, and has
few peers in his special lines of legal work. Mr.
Price is now senior partner in the law firm of Price,
Alburn, Crum & Alburn, with offices in the
Garfield Building. In 1909 the Ohio attorney general
appointed him special counsel to the attorney general for
Cuyahoga County, and for several years he handled all legal
matters for the state in this county. His legal services
have naturally brought him into close relationship with business
affairs, and he has served as officer and director of many
corporations.
He has become known as perhaps the chief among the
leaders of the "Young Men 's Movement" in republican
politics in the City of Cleveland. Under his leadership
much has been done to translate youthful enthusiasm and
progressiveness into the councils and practices of the local
republican organization. He served as chairman of the
republican party of Cuyahoga County in 1906-07 and as member of
the Republican County and City Executive committees from 1906 to
1912. He was the youngest man ever chosen as chairman of
the county committee, being twenty-seven when first elected, and
was frequently referred to by the local press as the "boy
chairman." Through his influence the republican party in
1906 conducted the first "moneyless campaign" in local politics,
and that successful campaign was widely noted throughout the
country as a noteworthy exception to the policy of campaigning
which involved an increasing burden of expense.
He is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Scottish
Rite Consistory and of Al Koran Mystic Shrine, and is affiliated
with the Knights of Pythias, the Elks and the Woodmen of the
World. For a number of years he has been a director of the
Tippecanoe Club and was one of the committee on arrangements
when the Tippecanoe Club took part in the occasion of the
memorial erected to President McKinley at Canton.
He is a member of the Union and City clubs of Cleveland, and of
Calvary Presbyterian Church. Civic and sociological problems
have received a great share of his attention and study.
The welfare of the newsboys has been perhaps his most cherished
object of practical philanthropy. For two years he was
president of the Cleveland Newsboys' Association and brought his
influence especially to bear in obtaining such recreation and
educative influences for the newsboys as were provided for boys
of larger means through the instrumentality of the Young Men's
Christian Association.
On June 3, 1903, Mr. Price married
Miss Floride Gaillard Staats, daughter of
Henry N. Staats. They have four children.
John H. Jr., Newman Staats, Emily Louise and Robert Rutledge.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 130 - Vol. |
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