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1918
 

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  GEORGE H. SCHRYVER.   The particular place of usefulness occupied by Mr. Schryver in Cleveland's life and affairs is as an insurance specialist.  It is significant that Mr. Schryver regards insurance not only as his regular business but also as his hobby.  To it has gone out the best enthusiasm and creative energy of his active years.  He has had nineteen years of active experience in the business and each year had a large volume of personal business to his credit before he gave up representing one company or one line to furnish the value of his study and experience to the public at large covering the entire field of insurance.
     An interesting little booklet tells the vital points in the Schryver Service.  It discusses facts which are generally admitted that the average person has a most casual knowledge of the contents of his insurance policies and that while careful business men call in expert opinion on matters of law, engineering, architecture, real estate and personal illness, the buying of insurance is left largely to the persuasive eloquence of the representative of a certain company or a certain contract.  The Schryver Service is a medium between the buyer of insurance and the entire range of companies and organizations offering insurance for sale, and in his selective capacity he is in a position to pick and choose the best contract and company for the specific protection needed by each individual client.
     Since establishing his service as an insurance specialist Mr. Schryver has been exceedingly careful to maintain the high standards and ideals under which he started, and has developed this unique service to such proportions that it is now availed by many of the most careful individuals and corporations in Cleveland, who leave to his judgment the kind and type of insurance covering their special needs, whether in fire or life, accident or health, or any of the multitudinous risks which at the present time are covered by insurance organizations.
     George H. Schryver is a native of Cleveland, born Sept. 5, 1878, son of George L. and Fannie (Hapgood) Schryver.  His father was born at Napanee, Ontario, Canada, and is still living at Cleveland.  He has been identified with different business firms in the city and is now in the real estate department of the Cleveland Trust Company.  The mother was born at Warren, Ohio, was married in Cleveland and died in this city Sept. 4, 1907.  Their children, Florence M., Mrs. R. T. Sawyer, Albert A. and George H., are all natives of Cleveland and all were educated here.  George H. Schryver graduated from the University School of Cleveland in 1897.  He then attended Cornell University two years, and in 1899 took up insurance as his chosen vocation.  In 1900 he became a member of the firm of Neale Brothers & Schryver, general insurance.  He was member of that general agency until 1910, and then utilized his varied experience and study of insurance to good advantage as state manager of the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company.  In 1914 Mr. Schryver established the Schryver Service as an insurance specialist, and along the special lines above described he is the only business man of the kind in Cleveland.
     Mr. Schryver is a republican in national politics, is a member of the Cleveland Y. M. C. A., the Kappa Alpha Society of Cornell University and of the Cleveland Advertising Club.
     On Washington's birthday, Feb. 22, 1916, at Cleveland, he married Miss Fannie Irene Sheppard, of Cleveland, daughter of William and Almacia (Demory) Sheppard.  Her parents have lived in Cleveland since 1914, her father being a building contractor.  Mrs. Schryver was born in Virginia and was educated at Washington, D. C.  They have one daughter, Fannie Alberta, born in Cleveland.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 418 - Vol.
  ALBERT WILLIAM SMITH since 1891 has been professor of chemistry in Case School of Applied
Science at Cleveland.  He is one of the distinguished men in scientific circles in America, and his services have conferred distinction upon Cleveland as an educational center.
     Mr. Smith was born at Newark, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1862, son of George H. and Mary (Sanborn)
Smith
.  His father was born in Ohio in 1819 and died at Newark in 1865.  He was a carpenter and contractor, and during the Civil war served as a captain in the State Militia.  His wife Mary Sanborn was born at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1829 and died at Cleveland in 1910.
     Albert William Smith graduated from the
University of Michigan with the degree Ph. C. in 1885 and in 1887 received his Bachelor of Science degree from Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland.  Later he went abroad and has his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Zurich conferred in 1891. He is a member of two scientific Greek Letter fraternities, the Tau Beta Pi and the Sigma Psi.
     On returning from abroad Doctor Smith took his present chair as professor of chemistry at Case School of Applied Science.  Besides his heavy duties as teacher he has found time to participate in the conventions and gatherings of scientific men all over the country and has contributed a number of technical papers to such conventions and also to scientific magazines.  He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Electro-Chemical Society, the Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, the French and English Societies of Chemical Industry and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
     Doctor Smith resides at 11333 Belleflower Road, with Judge John C. HaleProfessor Smith married at Cleveland on June 5, 1890, Miss Mary Wilkinson.  He is the father of four children, and two of his sons are now in the army.  The oldest child, Cara Hale, is a graduate of the College for Women of Western Reserve University and is the wife of Russell C. ManningMr. Manning is a captain in the Ordnance Department of the United States Army.  Kent H., the oldest son of Doctor Smith, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and of Case School of Applied Science, having the degree Bachelor of Science from both institutions.  He is now a lieutenant in the aviation service of the army.  Vincent Kinsman, the second son, graduated Bachelor of Science from Dartmouth College, is a first lieutenant in the Heavy Artillery.  Kelvin is a member of the junior class of Dartmouth College.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 544 - Vol. II
  ALLARD SMITH, general manager of the Cleveland Telephone Company, is a graduate electrical engineer and has spent nearly twenty years in practical telephone work, and is today one of the leading executive telephone men of the country.
     He was born at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, June 23, 1876, a son of William H. and Catherine
(Fox) Smith
, now retired at Eau Claire, where they have been residents for over sixty years.  Mr. Smith's great-grandfather Smith was a captain in the Revolutionary army, and the family removed to Wisconsin from the northern part of Maine.
     Allard Smith, fourth of five children and the only one of the family a resident of Ohio, was educated in the public schools of Eau Claire, graduating from high school in 1894 and then entering the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  He received his degree as electrical engineer in 1898, and went direct from university to Chicago, where he was assigned to a place as a night employe in the switchboard department of the Chicago Telephone Company.  He was one of those fortunate young men who find a congenial sphere of work immediately on leaving college.  He was promoted from time to time, and finally was superintendent of construction of the Chicago Telephone Company.  From 1911 to the end of 1913 he was employed as construction engineer of the Bell Telephone System, covering the five states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.  In March, 1914, Mr. Smith came to Cleveland as general manager of the local Bell Company, and has since been also a director of the company.
     Mr. Smith had some military training in his younger years, being a member of the Wisconsin National Guard from 1896 to 1899.  At the time of the Spanish-American war he was accepted as an ensign in the navy, but the war was over and the nearest he got to the front was Old Point Comfort.
     He is well known as a citizen of Cleveland and is a director of the Morris Plan Bank of Cleveland, director And vice president of the City Club, and is active in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Union Club, University Club, Advertising Club and Shaker Heights Country Club.  Mr. Smith is independent in politics and has no active partisan affiliations.
     June 30, 1901, at Viroqua, Wisconsin, he married Miss Margaret Elizabeth Butt, daughter of Colonel C. M. Butt, who is now living retired at Viroqua.  Mrs. Smith was born in that Wisconsin town, graduated from the Viroqua High School, and was a member of the class of 1899 in the University of Wisconsin.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith reside on Ashbury Avenue.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 354 - Vol. II

Frank Smith
FRANK WARREN SMITH was installed chief of police of the City of Cleveland Jan. 1, 1918.  His appointment by Mayor Davis was only a promotion, since Chief Smith has been a tried and seasoned veteran of the city police force for nearly a quarter of a century.  Mr. Smith has made the police business a profession, an object of thought and study, ever since he was put on the force as a patrolman, and being a man of brains as well as brawn, he is easily distinguished today as one of the most efficient police heads in the country.  He has the right equipment for a man in that position.  A man of action himself, he has also the qualities of leadership, possesses judgment and decision, and understands how to get his orders executed with a minimum of friction.  He has increased the effectiveness of the police department, has rigidly enforced all laws against gambling and vice of every description, and it has been the chief effort of Mr. Smith to make Cleveland a clean and safe city, and in this he has the heartiest support and co-operation of the mayor.
     Accepting the office with a due appreciation of the responsibilitie involved, Mr. Smith has in addition to taking vigorous hold of the routine administration, already planned extensive improvements with an especial view to training and educating the force under him to a better degree of efficiency.
     Frank Warren Smith was born at Flint, Michigan, Nov. 20, 1869, son of Romanzo Orville and Josephine (Jenks) Smith.  The residence of the family was only temporary in Michigan and Chief Smith grew up at Pearl Creek, near Rochester, New York.  In that locality his family have lived for many generations.  Chief Smith was recently quoted as of the opinion that his native locality was the original home of the Smiths, and there were so many of the name that it was necessary to get some other distinguishing mark than a mere Christian name, numerals being frequently employed to designate the different Franks and Williams and others.
     Chief Smith is descended from Isaac Smith, who fought as a soldier with Washington in the Revolutionary war.  His great-grandfather, Josiah Smith, was born on the old Smith homestead at Attica, Wyoming County, New York.  The grandfather of Chief Smith was Warren Smith, who grew up on the old farm, and was widely known in that section of the state as the champion collar and elbow wrestler.  He lived to be eighty-two years of age.
     Chief Smith's father, Romanzo Orville Smith, was born at Attica, New York, in 1847, and is now living retired, in his seventy-first year, at Wolcott, New York.  For many years he was active as a farmer and livestock dealer, as was his father before him.  Shortly after his marriage, Romanzo O. Smith yielded to an inspiration to come West, and from 1868 to 1873 was in Michigan, part of the time at Flint, where his son was born, and also at Saginaw and Bay City.  He was in the lumber business while in Michigan.  Frank W. Smith's mother was of Welsh ancestry.  She died at Wolcott, New York, in 1917, at the age of seventy-one.  There were eight sons and five daughters in the family, ten of whom are still living, five sons and five daughters.  Two of the children died young.  The only two in Ohio are Frank W. and his sister, Mrs. George Fairchilds, also of Cleveland.
     Frank W. Smith grew up on his father's farm and received his primary education in the little white schoolhouse at Amity, and afterwards attended the Rochester Business College at Rochester.  During his early residence in Cleveland he took a course in the night school of Baldwin-Wallace College.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 256 - Vol. III
  HARRY G. SMITH.  When the Pennsylvania Rubber & Supply Company, now one of Cleveland's most important business enterprises, was launched in 1908, its manager was Harry G. Smith, who not only has served continuously through its great expansion as such, but at the present time is also treasurer of the company.  Mr. Smith has many of the qualities indispensable to the successful business man and his success in the management of this enterprise, from its beginning until less than a decade later when it does a million-dollar business annually, has been notable.
     Harry G. Smith was born in the great city of London, England, Dec. 31, 1871.  His parents are William Thomas and Elizabeth Jane Smith.  He attended the public schools until eleven years old and then began to be self-supporting.  For three years he worked in a London barber shop and then found employment in a pawnbroker's shop, where he remained for two years.  He then crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Canada, and for twelve years worked in his grandfather's meat market in Fort Erie.  He was not yet satisfied with the outlook for his future and decided to come to the United States, hence he located at Akron, Ohio, in order to become an employe of the Diamond Rubber Company and learn the trade of tiremaking.  That his work was entirely satisfactory may be adduced from the fact that in December, 1904, the company sent him to Cleveland in charge of their repair shop and also as demonstrator of their new double tube tire, which was then first being offered to the public.
     In 1906 Mr. Smith was made manager of the Diamond Rubber Company's racing crew and in that capacity traveled all over the United States.  In 1908 he returned to Cleveland and in the same year became identified with the Pennsylvania Rubber & Supply Company, of which he was both manager and secretary in 1913 and since 1915 has been treasurer as well as manager.  Mr. Smith has additional business interests, and is a director in the Peters Machine and Manufacturing Company.
     Mr. Smith was married at Fort Erie, Canada, June 25, 1895, to Miss Susan Patterson, who died Jan. 14, 1915, survived by two sons, Henry George and David WilliamHenry George Smith, who was born in 1897, attended Oberlin College, and at present is machinist mate, second class, of the Naval Reserves at Newport, Rhode Island.  David William Smith, who was born in 1900, is a graduate of the Cleveland High School and at present is a student in Culver Military Academy.
     In politics Mr. Smith believes in the principles of the democratic party.  He is a Royal Arch Mason and he and sons are members of the Episcopal church.  He has led a busy life and is practically a self made man.  Talent and industry have placed him in positions of trust and responsibility and his performance of every duty has not only been creditable to himself, but of incalculable benefit to his associates in the enterprise in which they are mutually interested.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 161 - Vol. III
  JOHN ALVARO SMITH, senior member of the law firm of Smith, Griswold, Green & Hadden, is in point of years of continuous service one of the oldest members of the Cleveland bar.  He was graduated from the Ohio State and Union Law School at Cleveland in 1872, with the degree LL.B., was admitted to the Ohio bar in the same year and to the United States courts on the 4th of July of that year.  During his practice he had gained the reputation and the influential connections of the successful lawyer, and of his later enviable eminence at the bar nothing could be said that would more distinguish him than his present position at the head of the firm above named.
     Mr. Smith was born at Plain City, Ohio, Dec. 12, 1848.  His parents, John Whitmore and Esther Ann (Keys) Smith, were early settlers in Union County, Ohio, where his father had a large farm.  Both parents died in Union County.  Of the ten children eight are living today.
      John A. Smith acquired a liberal education as a preparation for his chosen career.  He was graduated A. M. and B. A. from the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware in 1871, and in the following year graduated in law at Cleveland. Mingling with his strict professional activities as a lawyer have come many business and civic interests.  He is a director in bank and commercial corporations, including the following: The Guarantee Title and Trust Company, the Pearl Street Savings & Trust Company; the Forest City Savings & Trust Company, the State Banking & Trust Company, the Columbia Savings & Loan Company, the McLean Tire & Rubber Company, the Detroit Street Investment Company, the Merchants Banking & Storage Company, the Citizens Mortgage Investment Company, and the C. S. Realty Company.
     He is an honored member of the Cleveland Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association.  For 6 x 4 years he served as a member of the Cleveland Library Board, was a member of the city council one term, 1888-90, and was president of the East Cleveland Council and vice mayor of East Cleveland from 1911 to 1913.  Mr. Smith is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Holyrood Commandery of the Knights Templar, and of Lake Erie Consistory.  He also belongs to the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Castalia Trout Club and the Masonic Club.  His church is the Windemere Methodist Episcopal.
     Mr. Smith was married in Cleveland, July 18, 1876, to Marietta Edmondston, now deceased.  The one child of their union is John William Smith, an attorney and now a member of the law firm of Smith, Griswold, Green & Hadden.
     On Dec. 18, 1915, Mr. Smith married Elizabeth A. Williams, daughter of the late Thomas H. and Mary (Lewis) Williams.  Her parents were married in Wales and about a year later came to the United States, locating at Hubbard in Trumbull County, Ohio, where her father was a coal operator.  She was educated in the grammar and high schools of Hubbard, Ohio, took preparatory work in the Baldwin-Wallace University at Cleveland, and is a graduate of the Cleveland Law School.  She was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1908 and is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association.  Mrs. Smith is active in the Woman's Suffrage Movement, is a member of the Woman's Club of Cleveland and was a delegate to the National Convention held at Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1916, by that organization.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 165 - Vol. II
  JOHN H. SMITH, of the firm Smith Brothers, marine architects, surveyors and appraisers, in the Rockefeller Building, represents one of the most noted families of ship builders around the Great Lakes.  This is a class or profession whose services the world now appreciates as never before in history.  The responsibilities of Mr. John H. Smith were never heavier than at the present time, since in addition to his regular duties he is a superintendent of the United States Shipping Board.
     A son of the late John H. Smith, Sr., one of the most eminent ship builders in the Middle West, whose career is told on other pages, John H. Smith was born at Cleveland Mar. 17, 1882. He was educated in the Cleveland public schools, graduating from the West High School with the class of 1900.  He and his brothers have all become identified with some phase of the ship building industry.  Mr. Smith at the age of seventeen entered the service of the Cleveland Ship Building Company at its Lorain plant.  His abilities and responsibilities have always outdistanced his years.  In 1903 he became foreman on construction with the Chicago Ship Building Company at Chicago.  In 1906 he was made manager of the Ship Owners Dry Dock Company at North Chicago.  In 1909. he became general manager of the Chicago Ship Building Company and the Ship Owners Dry Docks Company.  In the plant of the former company he built in eighty-eight days and placed in commission one of the big car ferry steamers that operate across Lake Michigan.
     In 1912 Mr. Smith became assistant manager of the Western Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company at Port Arthur, Ontario.  That plant was then only partially completed and its full installation was effected under his personal supervision.  In 1913 he was advanced to general manager and a number of large and important contracts were carried out under him.  One of the vessels built under his direction was the steamer Noronica, the largest single screw passenger steamer on the lakes.  Another was the steamer W. Grant Morden, the largest bulk lake freight carrier, with a length of 625 feet.
     In 1914 Mr. Smith returned to Cleveland and formed his present partnership with his brother, Allen A. Smith.  The services of the Smith brothers have been widely sought in marine circles all over the country, and in addition to the general work of their profession they are managers for the Vessel Fire Register, a classification for wooden boats, revised for underwriting purposes.
     His intensive and practical experience in all phases of shipbuilding gives to Mr. Smith 's judgment and suggestions the weight of authority.  He has contributed much valuable data toward the solution of a peculiarly insistent problem of modern transportation, the design of an economical and efficient type of vessel for shallow water inland navigation, suitable to the canals and river ways of the country.  Perhaps his most notable public discussion of this subject was contained in the Marine News of April, 1915, presenting a technical study and description of practical types of freight barges adapted to coast and inland navigation. In September, 1917, Mr. Smith was appointed superintendent of the United States Shipping Board.
     While a thorough business man and wrapped up in his profession, Mr. John H. Smith is esteemed for his good fellowship and has always been active socially in the various communities where he has made his home.  He is unmarried and lives at the Smith homestead on Franklin Avenue.  He is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, is a charter member of the Shuniah Club of Port Arthur, Ontario, is affiliated with Golden Link Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Chicago, of Harbor Lodge No. 781, Free and Accepted Masons, at Chicago; Calumet Commandery, Knights Templar, Chicago, and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Chicago.  His chief recreation and hobby is shooting and fishing.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 38 - Vol. III
  JOHN H. SMITH, SR. who was born at Pembroke Dock, South Wales, in 1846, and died at Cleveland Oct. 21, 1893, was for many years manager of the Globe Iron Works Company of Cleveland, and did pioneer work in shipbuilding, especially in the construction of iron vessels for the Great Lakes, which gives him lasting fame in American marine circles.  He was liberally educated in his native country
and while there served an apprenticeship in an iron shipbuilding firm at Hull, Yorkshire, and also at London.  While in the government shipyards at London he worked on the warships Northumberland, Minotaur, Agincourt, Black Prince and others.  For a time he was employed in private dockyards.  He had the Welsh genius for skillful details and neglected no opportunity for observation, and study which would be of practical benefit to him in the future.
     John H. Smith came to the United States in 1869.  In 1871 he assisted in the construction of the steamer Japan at Buffalo, New York.  Soon afterward he was in the employ of the Anchor Line.  One of the Anchor steamers was docked at Erie, Pennsylvania, for repairs.  Instead of taking it to dry dock and requiring much time and expense, Mr. Smith successfully carried out the plan of listing the boat on shore and making all necessary repairs to the bottom at a minimum of delay and expense.  This added not a little to his growing fame around the Great Lakes.  Finally the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway officials secured his services to superintend the construction of the iron car ferry steamer International at Buffalo, and later a second ferry boat, the Hudson, at Point Edward.  For some time he was located at Point Edward as chief engineer of the Grand Trunk.  He also was superintendent of the construction of bridges for that railway company.  In the meantime he constructed a blast furnace on Lake Champlain, New York, and in a remarkably short time had it in full and perfect operation.
     After his employment with the Grand Trunk Railway, Mr. Smith came to Cleveland and became general superintendent of the Globe Shipbuilding Company's yard, the office he filled until his death.
     The late John H. Smith was eminently qualified to carry out many great projects.  While he was quiet of demeanor and never sought attention outside his immediate work, his place in the Globe Iron Works Company was regarded as so important that his death was a real calamity to that industry.  The first large iron steamer, the Onoko, was built by Mr. Smith for the Globe Iron Works Company.  This was the first iron vessel constructed in Cleveland for the Great Lakes and was the largest among the first metal steamers for that purpose.  It was constructed under Mr. Smith's immediate supervision.  This vessel foundered in 1916 in Lake Superior.  He also built the car ferry Sarana, which is still in service.  Later he superintended the building and launching of over fifty steel steamers.  These boats cost from $150,000 to $250,000 apiece.  During one year he launched a steel steamer every month.  Much of his success is attributable to the fact that to the very last he made it a rule to exercise supervision over the smallest details as well as the largest plans of construction in the ship yards.  Besides his position as a general superintendent he was also a stockholder in the Globe Company and he practically grew up with that industry at Cleveland.  The steamers of the Northern Steamship Company, regarded as the best type of ship construction of the time, derived many of their splendid qualities from the knowledge and skill of John H. Smith.  This was particularly true of those designed for passenger traffic.
     John H. Smith was a master and general of efficiency long before the "science of efficiency" was a phrase in common every day use.  When invitations were sent out to friends of the ship building industry to attend a launching at a certain hour, Mr. Smith was always ready for the event to a minute.  He was a master of organization, never seemed to have a surplus number of men engaged on any one piece of work, and always kept a project moving along evenly and without break or halt. While he used men to the best advantage he also had the faculty of retaining their support and good will.
     It is said that in the work of repairing steel ships the late Mr. Smith had no superior in any yard of the country. In this respect he so gained the confidence of owners and underwriters that they entrusted matters of the greatest value to his integrity.
     Of the esteem which he enjoyed from men it was a simple but significant testimony in the thousands of all classes who gathered to pay their respects at the time of his funeral.  He was an honored member of the Cambrian Society, composed of his Welsh countrymen.  He was a Royal Arch Mason and an Odd Fellow. 
     In 1874 he married Miss Margaret Allen, of Amherst Island, one of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence in Canadian waters.  She was born there and is still living, residing at the old family homestead, 6710 Franklin Avenue.  Mrs. Smith was the mother of eight children, one son dying in infancy.  The others are all living, five sons and two daughters.  The sons are all shipbuilders and eminent in their respective lines.  A brief record of the children is as follows: A. G. Smith, now general manager of the American Shipbuilding Company of Cleveland; Mrs. Will L. Sherman, of Cleveland; Allen A., of the firm Smith Brothers; John H., also of Smith Brothers, marine architects, surveyors and appraisers; Mrs. Will Shaffer, of Cleveland; Samuel S., of Toronto; and Chester A., who is in one of the United States navy yards.  The three older children were born in Canada and the others at Cleveland.  The Smith family have lived in Cleveland since 1882.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 37 - Vol. III

Matthew Smith
MATTHEW SMITH.    Newcomers to Cleveland frequently express surprise that they find nowhere in the city any of the stores of the great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, a retail selling organization which is one of the marvels of the age, and which has extended its service within the last five or ten years to nearly all the larger towns and to practically all the big cities of the United States.  Why such a tremendous organization should not be represented in Cleveland is in fact a peculiar tribute to the forceful ability of one of its former managers.  Five years ago the great Atlantic and Pacific Company had its chain of stores at Cleveland.  For over thirty years the local business of the company had been directed by Matthew SmithMr. Smith had increased the number of stores from two to seventeen, and apart from the general plan and system which are distinctive features of the great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, the local business was altogether due to the exertions and management of Mr. Smith.
     The company undoubtedly recognized this fact when it agreed to sell to Mr. Smith the local business, and to give him a free hand in the sixth city of the United States to continue a business similar in character but impressed with the special efficiency of his individual organization and under his name.  Thus it is that at the present time it is the Matthew Smith Tea, Coffee & Grocery Company rather than the great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company that operates "stores all over the city" and furnishes all the service and more which people from the outside have come to associate with the stores of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Company.
     Matthew Smith is one of the most interesting personalities in the business field of Cleveland.  Like many successful American merchants he rose from a humble sphere to position of responsibility and influence.  He was born in the Parish of Thornhill, County Tyrone, Ireland, Nov. 9, 1856.  He attended the national schools of Ireland and at the age of sixteen came to the United States in 1872, for three years lived in New York City, and while there made his first connection with the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.  His first employment was addressing envelopes. Since then he has been through every department and detail of the business and for forty years he gave all his abilities and energies to a corporation which has attained a rank as the greatest retail grocery house in the world.  From 1875 to 1880 Mr. Smith was located at New Brunswick, New Jersey, as manager of one of the branch stores in that city.  On Jan. 12, 1880, he entered upon his new duties as general manager of the company's business at Cleveland, which at that time consisted of only two stores.  He remained general manager until Mar. 1, 1913.  In the meantime he had promoted the business of the company in Cleveland, gradually adding new stores, until in 1913 he negotiated the sale which brought under his individual management and control all the interests of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in Cleveland and he acquired seventeen stores.  Mr. Smith then incorporated the Matthew Smith Tea, Coffee & Grocery Company, of which he is president, and in five years' time has extended the scope of his organization until it is no longer mere rhetoric when the company claims "stores all over the city," since there are in fact sixty-one stores at the time of the present writing and other new ones are in prospect. The company also have stores at Lorain, Painesville and Willoughby, Ohio.  Mr. Smith has the headquarters of his vast organization in the Ninth Street Terminal Warehouse, from which the business of his three score stores are managed.
     That he has eminent business ability would be accepted without question in face of the facts briefly reviewed.  He is also a man of great geniality and has a personality which attracts and wins many friends.  The best evidence of this is that he is one of the few men to enjoy the dignities and honors of the supreme honorary Thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry.  He holds this degree in the Northern Masonic jurisdiction, and is grand senior warden of the Grand Lodge of Ohio.  His other Masonic affiliations are with Emmanuel Lodge No. 605, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is past master, Cleveland Chapter No. 148, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is past high priest, Cleveland Council No. 36, Royal and Select Masons, Holyrood Commandery No. 32, Knights Templar, of which he is past eminent commander, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine.  Mr. Smith is also a trustee of the Ohio Masonic Home.  He has been a member of the Knights of Pythias since he was twenty-one years of age, and also belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.
     He married in 1887 Miss Irene M. French, who was born and reared in Cleveland.  They have a family of two sons and two daughters, and four grandchildren.  Both sons are now doing service for their country in France.  The names of the children in order of age are Emily M., Matthew, Jr., William McKinley and Irene. Emily, who was educated in the public schools and Miss Mittleberger's private school, is the wife of Nicholas C. Broch, manager of the Matthew Smith Tea, Coffee & Grocery Company.  Mr. and Mrs. Broch have four children.  The son Matthew, Jr., is now a sergeant in the quartermaster's department of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, while William McKinley is with the Red Cross service in France.  Mr. Smith for many years gave the closest attention to his business, and well earned the comparative leisure which he now enjoys.  He keeps in close touch with all his business affairs but is usually in Cleveland during the summer only two days in the week, the rest of the time being spent in his fine summer home at Salida Beach at Mentor, Ohio.  The city residence of the family is at 12832 Euclid Avenue * in East Cleveland.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 428 - Vol. III
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Stiles C. Smith
SAMUEL LEWIS SMITH.  Sixty years ago the late S. C. Smith came to Cleveland and entered the tea, coffee and spice wholesale trade.  He also later, in 1868, became one of the founders of the Cleveland Malleable Iron Company, the manufacturing business that is  now carried on as part of the National Malleable Castings Company, with plants and offices in Cleveland and four or five other large cities, and the family interest in this connection is still continued by his son Samuel Lewis Smith, who has continued in the malleable iron and steel casting industry for nearly thirty years.
     The memory of the late Stiles Curtiss Smith is still fresh in Cleveland, because he was not only one of the solid business men of the town, but also gave of his time and talents for the benefit of his fellow men and the community at large.
     Representing an old New England family, Stiles Curtiss Smith was born at South Britain, in the Town of Southbury, Connecticut, Mar. 20, 1831, and died at his home in Cleveland Dec/ 5, 1907, at the age of seventy-six.  He finished his education in a private academy in his birthplace, and first came out to Cleveland shortly after 1850 and moved here in 1857.  In a few years he was senior member of Smith & Curtiss, wholesale tea, coffee and spice merchants, and it was this business, conducted with steadily increasing prosperity, that proved the foundation of his fortune.  Later his efforts extended into other business fields.  He was a director of the First National Bank for many years and vice president and director of the Cleveland, Southwestern & Columbus Railway Company, and was identified with several of those companies which constitute a large and important group in the malleable iron industry, including the National Malleable Castings Company and the Eberhard Manufacturing Company, being a director of both companies.  As a business man he was noted among his associates for his fairness and high integrity and he was generally recognized, when actively at the head of the firm of Smith & Curtiss, as a remarkable judge of teas and coffees.
     Also, few men ever realized more fully the responsibilities of a moderate fortune, and, as he prospered in his undertakings, he gave generously to many measures for the public good. He was a trustee of the Associated Charities, of the Children's Fresh Air Camp, the Jones Home, the Huron Street Hospital,
the Western Seaman's Fund Society.  His usefulness did not cease with advancing years, and, practically, up to the time of his death he was associated with a number of charitable and financial undertakings.  He was a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was one of the organizers and for some years served as treasurer of the New England Society of Cleveland.  He was also a member of the Union Club and of the Country Club.  In politics he was a republican, never a seeker for office, but always regarding politics as the business and duty of every private citizen and was keenly interested in every movement for the public good.  He was a prominent member and chairman of the board of trustees of Plymouth Congregational Church for many years. In Cleveland he married Miss Catherine Gleeson, who was born near Cleveland Apr. 22, 1831.  Her father, Moses Gleeson, was a pioneer resident of Cuyahoga County.  Five children were born to their marriage:  George S. and Caroline M., both, deceased; Anna, who married Henry S. Abbott of Columbus; Samuel Lewis; and Flora M., wife of Frank R. Gilchrist.
     Samuel Lewis Smith, only living son of his father, was born at Cleveland Aug. 22, 1867, and attended the local public schools until the age of fourteen, after which his education was continued in the Cleveland Academy and at the age of sixteen he entered Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts,
where he completed his preparatory course in 1885.  Entering Yale University, he graduated A. B. in 1889 and all the years since then have been filled with business duties.  On returning to Cleveland from the university he started to work for the Eberhard Manufacturing Company and on July 1, 1891, became clerk to the sales manager of the National Malleable Castings Company.  He later was traveling salesman in the railway sales department, manager of the coupler sales department, and was finally elected vice president in charge of sales.  He is now a director both in the Eberhard Manufacturing company and the National Malleable Castings Company and also in the Cleveland, Southwestern & Columbus Railway Company.  Mr. Smith spent a large part of his time from 1900 to 1912 in Europe, representing his company in the railway sales department.
     Like his honored father he has found interests outside of business not only in social lines but in organizations that express the cultural and educational features of life.  In Cleveland he is a past president and director of the Tavern Club, member of the Union Club, Athletic Club, Roadside Club, Country Club, Mayfield Country Club, Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, and also has membership in the University Club of Chicago, Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, University Club of New York City, Yale Club of New York City, Engineers Club of New York City, Graduates Club of New Haven, University Club of New Haven, Sons of the American Revolution, New England Society of Cleveland and Western Reserve Historical Society.  He is well known as a Yale alumnus and has given much of his time to the promotion of the interests of his alma mater.  He is president of the Western Federation of Yale Clubs, a member of the Alumni Advisory Board of Yale University and a member of the Committee on Plan for Development of Yale University.  He also belongs to the Automobile Club, Civic League and Chamber of Commerce at Cleveland, attends Trinity Episcopal Church and in politics is a republican.
     On Oct. 14, 1896, at Philadelphia, Mr. Smith married Miss Ellen Bown Lucas of Philadelphia.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 423 - Vol. III
ALFRED BURNS SMYTHE, president of The A. B. Smythe Company, real estate and insurance, has been an active figure in local real estate circles practically since he left college.  While personally responsible for the splendid position his company now enjoys in business circles, Mr. Smythe is a man of varied interests, was at one time a professional baseball player, and has long been prominent in musical and philanthropic affairs in this city.
     He was born at Nevada, Ohio, Aug. 4, 1874, and has some very substantial family associations, all Scotch-Irish.  His paternal grandfather, William Smythe, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1807 and died at Holton, Kansas.  His wife, Mary (Story) Smythe, was born in. Ohio in 1808.  Marcus M. Smythe, father of Alfred B., was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1837.  He married Mary Comfort Burns, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1846.  Her grandfather was an own cousin of the great poet Robert Burns.  Her father, Rev. John Burns, was graduated with the degree Master of Arts from Kenyon College in 1856, and for a number of years was principal of the Milford Academy.  Marcus M. Smythe and wife had three daughters and one son.  The daughters are Mrs. Josiah Catrow of Germantown, Ohio; Mrs. E. V. Wells of Cleveland, and Mary Alice Smythe of Berkeley, California.
     As a boy Alfred B. Smythe attended public schools in his native town, took a course in the Ohio Business College at Mansfield, and spent four years teaching in country districts.  In 1898 he was elected principal of the high school at Nevada, but soon resigned to enter Oberlin College as a member of the class of 1902.  He was in Oberlin until he completed three years of work and left college to take up the real estate business in Cleveland.
     His early successes as a real estate man attracted such attention that his services were secured by The Cleveland Trust Company, to organize and manage its realty department.  He filled that position until Aug. 1, 1914, gathering thereby a broad experience and widening his acquaintance throughout the city, at which time he resigned to resume business for himself.  Today The A. B. Smythe Company is one of the best known real estate firms in Northern Ohio.  Its main office is in the Erie Building.
     Mr. Smythe is also president of the following:
     President and treasurer of The Smythe Building Company; president of The Glengariff Realty Company; president and treasurer of The Crucible Steel Forge Co.; president of The Loop Realty Company; president of The Land Security Company; vice president of the Bankers Guaranteed Mortgage Co., and director in the following companies: National Mortgage Company, Builders Investment Company, The Shore Acres Land Company, Colonial Savings & Loan Company.
     While at Oberlin Mr. Smythe was the star pitcher on the baseball team.  He and his teammates had the distinction of winning the championship of Ohio Colleges in 1898 and 1899.  His work as a pitcher was of such character as to attract the notice of Jimmy McAleer, at that time manager of the Cleveland Baseball Club, and in 1900, while still in college, as the result of a favorable proposition made him, Mr. Smythe signed up with the Cleveland Baseball Club for a year.  Thus it was professional ball that really first brought him to Cleveland.
     Mr. Smythe is gifted with musical talent and fortunately had thorough training during his early youth.  For three years he was a member of the Oberlin College Glee Club Quartet, for six years was director of the Adelbert Glee Club, for two years was with the Shubert Quartet, and three years was tenor soloist of the Pilgrim Church Quartet.  Another four years he was director and tenor soloist of the Windermere Presbyterian Church. Another prominent interest has attracted him into settlement work.  At one time he had charge of the music at Goodrich House and also at Alta House, and for one year was a director of the Glee Club of the T. M. C. A.
     Mr. Smythe is a member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Lakewood Chamber of Commerce and National Chamber of Commerce.  Socially he belongs to the Hermit Club, the Clifton Club, Union Club, Castalia Trout Club, and the Old Colony Club.  Mr. Smythe and his family are members of the Lakewood Congregational Church, of which Mr. Smythe is one of the trustees.
     Nov. 13, 1902, he married Miss Catherine Loomis of Oil City, Pennsylvania, daughter of Charles and Ida E. Loomis.  Her father, a native of northwestern Pennsylvania, was secretary and treasurer of the Oil City Trust Company until his death.  Her mother is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Mr. and Mrs. Smythe have two sons, Charles Loomis Smythe, born Oct. 23, 1903, and Marcus Loomis Smythe, born Mar. 12, 1905.  Mr. Smythe and family reside in Clifton Park, Lakewood.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 152 - Vol. II

Martin Snider
MARTIN SNIDER, the eldest son of Abijah and Martha Snider, was born in Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 16th, 1846, and died in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 1st, 1918.
     After a course in the public schools and the Dayton Business College, he gave his entire attention to his father's timber and cooperage business.  Early in his career the business became of great importance due to the phenomenal growth of the oil industry. The increased demand for products of this factory necessitated the Snider 's removal, first to Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1868 and from there to Cleveland in 1871, where they had built, what was for those times, an extensive plant.
     By 1878, dependable and sufficient cooperage had become so essential to the Standard Oil Company's success in the transportation of oil, that they recognizing Mr. Snider 's unusual knowledge and ability, invited him to sell his business to, and become associated with them.  This he did, becoming at once manager of their cooperage department.
     This became Mr. Snider 's life work as he remained the executive head of that branch of the Standard Oil Company business, until his retirement on Aug. 16th, 1916.
     During Mr. Snider 's residence of nearly fifty years in Cleveland he was identified with many of its business and civic interests.  He was particularly interested, however, in The Guarantee Title and Trust Company, of which he was at one time president, The Cleveland Trust Co., of which he was a director for many years, and the Riverside Cemetery, of which he was treasurer.
     He was a member of The Union and Mayfield Clubs of Cleveland, The Castalia Sporting Club, and the Ohio Society of New York.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 500 - Vol. II

Harvey R. Snyder
HARVEY R. SNYDER, member of the law firm J. R. and H. R. Snyder in the Williamson Building, has had an active and successful career in the law and in real estate and is probably one of the best known college and university men of Cleveland.  He is especially well known in athletic circles both as a former Harvard University football man and football coach.
     He was born at Mapleton, Stark County, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1880, son of John J. and Maria (Shearer) Snyder.  His father, who died July 2, 1914, at Paris in Stark County, had spent practically all his life within a few miles of that locality.  He gained a national reputation as a stockman and was the owner of a five hundred acre stock farm in Paris Township of Stark County.  He was for about twenty years president of the Stark County Agricultural Association, and his farm produced some of the finest specimens of thoroughbred cattle, hogs and horses.  This important stock business is still continued by one of his sons.  The mother is still living at Louisville, Ohio.  The parents were both born at Mapleton, the Shearers having come to Ohio from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  Grandfather Snyder came from Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, about 1826, being at that time six years of age.  His parents settled in Ohio, and he died at Mapleton May 5, 1915, at the advanced age of ninety-five.  John J. Snyder was a director of a savings bank in Canton and was affiliated with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.  He and his wife had four sons, all living: John R.; A. Talmage, an attorney at Canton; Irvin A., who runs the old stock farm; and Harvey R.  All the sons were born at Mapleton.
     Harvey R. Snyder was educated in the public schools of Paris, Ohio, took his preparatory work in Mount Union College, Alliance, and in the fall of 1902 entered the sophomore class of Harvard University.  He received his A. B. degree in 1905 and in the fall of the same year took up the study of law at Harvard Law School.  He played on the Harvard football team in 1905, and he also excelled at basketball.  He received his law degree from Harvard in 1908.  During the seasons of 1906 and 1907 he coached the Oberlin College football team, returning to his studies at Harvard after the close of the season and completing the full year of work.  In 1908, after the conclusion of his law studies, he again coached
the football team at Oberlin and then took charge of the Akron Realty Company at Akron, with which firm he was connected until August, 1909.  At that date he opened a law practice in the Williamson Building and in 1910 formed a partnership with his brother, John R., under the title above given.  As a diversion Mr. Snyder was coach at Oberlin in 1909 and 1910, and each year gave that college a state championship football team.  In 1911, 1912, and 1913 he was football coach of Western Reserve University.  There has probably not been a season in the past ten years when Mr. Snyder has not returned to his alma mater at Harvard, either to assist on the coaching staff or to witness some of the games.  He is a member of the Harvard Varsity Club, the Harvard Club of Cleveland, the Cleveland and Ohio State Bar Associations, the Cleveland Real Estate Board, of Iris Lodge No. 259, F. and A. M., Webb Chapter No. 14, R. A. M., and a member and an officer in the Pythian Star Lodge No. 526, Knights of Pythias.  He is a member of its third rank team, which won first honors in the State meet at Columbus, Ohio, May 12, 1917.  Mr. Snyder is an active churchman, elder and trustee in the Lakewood Presbyterian Church, and assistant superintendent of its Sunday School.  He also belongs to the Alpha Nu Chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity.
     Mr. Snyder married at Alliance, Ohio, Mar. 20, 1910, Miss Charlotte BracherMrs. Snyder was born at Alliance, daughter of John and Katherine (Kolb) Bracher, who now live at Lakewood, Cleveland.  Mrs. Snyder graduated from the Alliance High School in 1900 and from Mount Union College with the degree of A. B. in 1905.  She is a member of the Alpha Psi Delta Sorority, the Cleveland Alumnae Association of Mount Union, of the College Club, and Cleveland Chapter of the Eastern Star.  Mr. and Mrs. Snyder reside at 1361 Gill Avenue, Lakewood.  Their two daughters, Mary Katherine and Grace Olive, were both born in Cleveland. 
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 112 - Vol. II
  JOHN ROYAL SNYDER, head of the well known Cleveland law firm of J. R. and H. R. Snyder, with offices in the Williamson Building, has enjoyed a good living practice and a growing reputation as a lawyer and citizen of Cleveland for the past six years. 
     Mr
. Snyder was born in Stark County, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1876, son of John J. and Maria (Shearer) Snyder and a brother of his law partner, Harvey R., under whose name will be found other details of this well known old family of Stark County.
     Mr. J. R. Snyder completed his literary education in Mount Union College at Alliance, where he graduated A. B. in 1899.  After leaving college he became active in Stark County politics, served as deputy county treasurer from 1899 to 1902, was then elected county treasurer, filling that office with credit from 1902 to 1906.  From 1902 to 1904 he was also treasurer of the City of Canton.  He studied law in Harvard Law School and was graduated LL. B. in 1909.  Mr. Snyder is a life member of Lodge No. 68, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Canton and is also affiliated with Canton Lodge No. 60, Free and Accepted Masons, Minsilla Lodge No. 39, Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Canton,
and Junior Order of United American Mechanics, No. 171.  He belongs to the college fraternity Alpha Tau Omega and finds his recreation in the sports of tennis, baseball and football and also as a practical farmer.  Mr. Snyder owns one of the finest 160 acre farms in Ohio, located in Stark County.  While he is not able to give it his personal supervision on account of his law practice, he spends considerable time there during certain periods of the summer and fall helping to harvest the crops, and this is partly a source of good wholesome exercise and is also almost a necessity on account of the great scarcity of good farm hands.  Mr. Snyder is a splendid specimen of physical manhood and keeps himself fit by much exercise. In college life he was a participant in all classes of good clean sport, and has carried the ideals of good sportsmanship into his professional and civic life at Cleveland.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 111 - Vol.
  ARTHUR ADELBERT STEARNS is a senior member of the firm Stearns, Chamberlain & Royon in the Williamson Building.  This is one of the most important law firms in Ohio, and besides his work as a practicing lawyer Mr. Stearns's reputation is also widely extended through his long service as a law educator and as a legal author.
     He was born at North Olmsted, Cuyahoga County, a son of Edmund and Anna (Marsh) Stearns.  He acquired a liberal education. graduating A. B. from Buchtel College with the class of 1879.  That institution, now a part of the Akron Municipal University, conferred upon him the degree M. A. in 1883 and LL. D. in 1908.  Mr. Stearns took his law course in the Harvard Law School, completing it in 1882.  He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1882 and has since been in active practice at Cleveland.  From 1884 to 1890 he was associated with Herman A. Kelley in the firm of Stearns & Kelley, and for the past fifteen years has been associated with John A. Chamberlain.  The firm of Stearns & Chamberlain was subsequently enlarged by the admission of William F. Carr and Joseph C. Royon.  Mr. Carr died in September, 1909, leaving the firm in its present form as Stearns, Chamberlain & Royon.  Besides the three principal partners other lawyers are associated with the firm.
     Throughout his long career in the law, Mr. Stearns has constantly cultivated the highest ideals and ethics of the profession, and has been devoted to its welfare.  For a period of ten years, from 1894 to 1904, he  was professor of the law of suretyship and mortgages and of bills and notes in the Western Reserve University Law School.  He has contributed many articles to the Western Reserve Law Journal and other legal publications and is author of a treatise on the "Law of Suretyship" and of "Annotated Cases in Suretyship."  Both widely used in law schools.  The "Encyclopedia of Law and Procedure" contains a chapter on the "Law of Indemnity" by him.
     Outside of his profession Mr. Stearns has sought none of the many honors open to the able lawyer.  He has for many years secretary and in 1907 was president of the Cleveland Bar Association.  In May, 1908, the Municipal Traction Company chose him as its representative in the arbitration of the Cleveland street car strike.  The institution to which he has given his time liberally is Buchtel College, his alma mater, which he served eighteen years as a trustee, and during 1887-88 was its financial agent.  Since 1914 Mr. Stearns has been a member of the Cleveland Public Library Board.
     His chief recreation is travel, and he made seven trips to Europe before the war, covering practically every point of interest in Europe.  He is a republican in politics, a member of the Union Club, Country Club, University Club, and the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.
     He has three children, Elliott E., Helen H. and Dorothy D.  The son Elliott has also taken up the law as a profession and is associated with his father.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 178
  FRANCIS L. STEVENS.   Prominent among the representatives of the legal profession of Cleveland is Francis L. Stevens, whose career has been a somewhat remarkable one.  The common, every-day man, engrossed in the business avocation which brings him his daily sustenance, is representative, perhaps, of the nation's citizenship.  This is the normal type, and his life begins and ends, in many cases, with nothing more distinctive than is the ripple on the stream when the pebble is thrown into the water.  It is the unusual type that commands attention and it is his influence exerted on his community and the record of his life that are interesting and valuable as matters of biography.  In the professions, and especially in the law, the opportunities for usefulness and personal advancement depend almost entirely upon this unusually-gifted individual, and here natural endowment is as essential as is thorough preparation.  The bar of Cleveland has its full quota of brilliant men, and one of its foremost members is Mr. Stevens.
     Francis L. Stevens was born at Alvinston, Ontario, Canada, Apr. 5, 1877, and is a son of Elijah and Louise J. (Oke) Stevens.  His father was born at Nilestown, near London, Ontario, and spent his boyhood there, while his mother was born at Whitby, Ontario.  They met and were married at Alvinston, where the father was engaged in the bakery and confectionary business, but subsequently went to Wallaceburgh, Ontario, and May 9, 1899, came to the United States and located at Lorain, Ohio, where Elijah Stevens also followed the bakery and confectionery business.  About the year 1907 they came to Cleveland, where Mr. Stevens was employed by the George Worthington Company, a wholesale hardware concern, until his death, which occurred Feb. 19, 1916.  Mrs. Stevens still survives her husband and is a resident of Cleveland.  Mr. Stevens was widely known in fraternal circles of the city, being a member of King Solomon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Elyria; Elyria Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Elyria Council, Royal and Select Masons; Holy Rood Commandery, Knights Templars.  Cleveland; Lake Erie Consistory, Select Royal Masons; and Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Cleveland; Cleveland Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; Suydenham Valley Lodge No. 120, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Wallaceburgh, Ontario, and the Encampment of that order at the same place; the Independent Order of Foresters; the Canadian Order of Foresters; the Ancient Order of United Workmen; the Canadian Order Woodmen of the World; and Rokeby Lodge No. 19, Knights of Pythias, of Wallaceburgh.  He was very active in religious work and a helpful member of the Peoples Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland.
     Francis L. Stevens, his parents' only child, attended the graded schools of Alvinston and the high school at Wallaceburgh, Ontario, where he was graduated in the class of June, 1891.  After going to Lorain, Ohio, he learned the machinists 's trade, at which he worked for nine years, holding a stationary engineer's license and working at various places all over the country.  Finally he took a position as foreman in one of the Erie shops, and it was while he was thus engaged that he became interested in the law and decided to enter upon its practice.  He was compelled to work and to support a wife and three children, but despite this fact he not only graduated from the law department of Baldwin-Wallace College, but was one of the honorary members of the graduating class of 1911.  He commenced practice at once, even before hearing that he had successfully passed the examination before the Supreme Court, and from that time to the present has been in the enjoyment of a constantly-growing clientele.  He carries on a general practice, being equally familiar with the various branches of his profession, and maintains offices in suite No. 1126-29, Williamson Building.  His success in his profession has been remarkable and he enjoys the esteem and friendship of his fellow practitioners and his fellow members in the various orders of the law with which he is connected.
     Like his father, Mr. Stevens has been greatly interested in fraternal orders and their work.  He is now a member of Euclid Lodge No. 599, Free and Accepted Masons; Garrett Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Garrett, Indiana; Apollo Commandery, Knights Templars, Kendallville, Indiana; and Garrett Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; Anchor Lodge No. 908, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Cleveland; Holman Lodge No. 699, Knights of Pythias, of Lorain, Ohio, and several insurance orders. He has been twice noble grand of Anchor Lodge of Odd Fellows, and has the distinction of having presided at the largest meeting of any one lodge ever held in Ohio, this being Dec. 19, 1912, at a special meeting of Anchor Lodge to confer the third degree upon fifty-seven candidates.  Politically Mr. Stevens is a republican.  With his wife and children he belongs to Calvary Evangelical Church of Cleveland.  Mr. Stevens is so much of a home man that this may be said to be his hobby, but this must be shared with a love for mechanics, which he has retained since his youth.
     Mr. Stevens was married at Lorain, Ohio, Mar. 26, 1902, to Miss Loreetha E. McCleary, of that city, daughter of Clayton A. and Henrietta (Holmes) McCleary, the former of whom died when Mrs. Stevens was about two years old.  Mr. and Mrs. McCleary came from Harrison County, Ohio, where they lived in the vicinity of Cadiz, and the former's people traced their ancestry back to the Mayflower band, while the latter 's earliest ancestor in America came about ten years after the arrival of that ship.  Mrs. Stevens was educated at Science Hill School, near Cadiz, and  graduated in elecution from Franklin College.  She belongs to the Order of the Eastern Star, the Rebekahs and the Pythian Sisters, and is widely known in religious and club circles of Cleveland.  Mrs. Stevens is descended from the same common ancestry as was President Lincoln, both being descendants from Obediah Holmes, who came to America in 1638.  Among his ten children were Lydia, from whom President Lincoln descended, and Jonathan, Mrs. Stevens' ancestor.  Her ancestry to Jonathan Holmes runs through the male line with the exception of her mother.  Mrs. McCleary still survives and is making her home at Columbus, Ohio, with her eldest daughter.  To Mr. and Mrs. Stevens the following children have been born: Harold L., born Mar. 8, 1905, at Garrett, Indiana; Waldo Holmes, born Mar. 29, 1907, at Columbus, Ohio; Clayton Perrine, born Aug. 8, 1910, at Cleveland; and one child who died in infancy.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 171 - Vol.

Frank E. Stevens
FRANK E. STEVENS, judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Eleventh Judicial District, has been an active member of the Cleveland and Ohio bar over twenty years, and for the greater part of that time has been identified in some capacity with the public business of Cleveland.
     Judge Stevens was born at Tarentum, Pennsylvania, Sept. 12, 1870, a son of Rev. W. D. and Harriet E. (Brooks) Stevens.  His father was born at Ravenna, Ohio, and his mother at Norwich, New York.  They were married in Salem, Ohio, in 1861.  Rev. W. D. Stevens was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and had a long and active career in the ministry, filling many pulpits in Eastern and Southeastern Ohio, was for a brief time located in Pennsylvania, and from 1880 to 1882 was pastor of the Miles Park Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland.  He gave forty-four years of his life to the ministry and died at Cleveland Oct. 14, 1906. his wife following him in July, 1907.  Of their four children, Judge Stevens was the only one born in Pennsylvania, the others claiming Ohio as their native state.  These children were: Sarah B., of Cleveland; Edgar D., who died in Harrison County, Ohio, at the age of twenty, while teaching school;  Frank E. and Emma, wife of John Hemming, of Cleveland.
     As is true of all ministers' sons, Judge Stevens had his early educational advantages in many different schools and localities.  Most of the schools he attended were in the southeastern part of Ohio.  From public school he entered Franklin College, graduating A. B. with the class of 1892.  He taught school three years, being principal of a school at Bridgeport, Ohio, two years.  While teaching he was also studying law, and in 1896 was admitted to the bar and removed to Cleveland.  Judge Stevens then engaged in private practice until 1901.  In that year he was made secretary of the Municipal Association of Cleveland, now known as the Civic League, and handled much of the executive and routine work of the organization until 1906.
     In 1906, Newton D. Baker, now Secretary of War, appointed him an assistant in the city law department, and he was Mr. Baker's assistant until Jan. 1, 1913.  Judge Stevens was elected to the Court of Common Pleas in the fall of 1912 for a term of six years.  He began his duties on the bench in January, 1913, and still has over a year to serve.  He has commended himself to the bar and public by his conscientious thoroughness and impartiality and the legal and human wisdom which he brings to every case brought before him.    
     Judge Stevens is a democrat, a member of Glenville Lodge, No. 618, Free and Accepted Masons, Knights of Pythias, City Club, Council of Sociology, Cleveland Bar Association, Cleveland Automobile Club and outside of his home and profession finds his chief recreation in motoring and fishing.
     June 26, 1902, at Cleveland, Judge Stevens married Miss Fanny Swingler.  They have one son, Joseph Brooks, born at Cleveland Jan. 23, 1904.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 66 - Vol. III
  GARRETT STEVENS first came to Cleveland as representative of an insurance company and was identified with the claim departments of several companies both in Cleveland and elsewhere until 1916, when he opened his office for the private practice of law in the Guardian Building.  Mr. Stevens has been a lawyer for many years, and grew up in the atmosphere of that profession and in close association with democratic politics in Old Berks County, Pennsylvania.
     Mr. Stevens was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, Dec. 19, 1877, a son of Garrett B. and Catherine Mary (Zeller) Stevens.  His father was born on a farm near Feasterville in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, while the mother was a native of Reading, and in that city they were married.  Both parents are now deceased.  Garrett B. Stevens practiced law at Reading for more than thirty years, and for twenty years was the recognized democratic leader in Berks County.  He never held an office for himself.  His death occurred in 1910 at the age of sixty-five, while the mother passed away in 1911, aged sixty-six.  During most of the time Garrett B. Stevens practiced law alone, but subsequently was associated with Judge W. Kerper Stevens under the firm name of Stevens & Stevens.  These partners were not related.  Later he had his son John B. Stevens as a partner under the firm name of Stevens & Stevens.  There were five children in the family, Garrett being the oldest.  Wallace, who took special work in Harvard University, graduated in law from the University of New York and is now an attorney and vice president of a bonding company at Hartford, Connecticut.  John B., still in practice at Reading, graduated A. B. from the University of Pennsylvania and studied law under his father.  The two daughters are Elizabeth B. and Catherine M., both living in Philadelphia.  Elizabeth holds the degree Bachelor of Domestic Science from Drexel Institute of Philadelphia while Catherine is a graduate of the Reading High School.  Elizabeth is now a teacher of domestic science in the public schools of Philadelphia while Catherine is secretary of the correction department of Municipal Court at Philadelphia.  All the children were born at Reading, and all the sons are successful lawyers.
     Garrett Stevens graduated from the Reading High School in 1895, spent two years in the literary department of Yale College and from there entered Dickinson College of Law at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated LL. B. in 1899.  In 1898 at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war his entire class with the exception of two members enlisted in Company G of the 8th Pennsylvania Infantry.  Mr. Stevens got only as far as Camp Alger at Washington, where he suffered a sunstroke and after three months was sent home.  He then resumed his studies, and on Dec. 20, 1899, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar.  He at once began practice at Reading, and had an office alone for about six years.  He then became connected with the Maryland Casualty Company and came to Cleveland as resident claim manager for two years.  He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1908.  From Cleveand he was transferred to New York City and then to Baltimore, where he was assistant manager or examiner of claims.  Mr. Stevens again came to Cleveland, this time as claim attorney for The General Accident, Fire and Life Insurance Corporation, Limited.  He returned to Cleveland Sept. 17, 1912, and in September, 1916, he gave up his work with the insurance company to engage in the general practice of law.  He is secretary of The International Motors Accessories Company of Cleveland and secretary and a director of The H. E. McMillan & Son Company of Cleveland.  While connected with insurance companies he tried cases in thirty-seven states of the Union.
     Mr. Stevens is a noted orator and was on the National Board of Speakers of the democratic party during three of the Bryan campaigns.  He was nineteen years old when Bryan was first a candidate for president, and during the summer and early fall of 1896 he went all through the New England states speaking for Bryan and was widely known as the '' schoolboy orator.''  He was also a member of the campaign committees of Berks County, Pennsylvania, and for several years was his father's right hand man in politics in that section.  It is characteristic that he has never been a candidate for office himself.  Mr. Stevens is a member of Reading Lodge No. 549 Free and Accepted Masons at Reading, Pennsylvania, and was formerly a member of the Berks County Bar Association.  His church is the Presbyterian.
     Sept. 4, 1901, he married Miss Sarah S. Stayman of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, daughter of Joseph B. and Mary S. (Shelley) Stayman, both deceased.  Her people were retired farmers and an old family of Carlisle.  Mrs. Stevens was born at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where she received her early education, and graduated from an academy at Carlisle.  Mr. and Mrs. Stevens reside at 1608 East 84th Street.  Their two children are Garrett Barcalow, born at Reading, Pennsylvania, and Mary Catherine, born in New York City.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 278 - Vol.

J. J. Sullivan
COL. JEREMIAH L. SULLIVAN.    In many of those broader movements and enterprises which have in their results brought about the greater Cleveland of today, Colonel Jeremiah J. Sullivan has expended his efforts and influence to the permanent advantage of the community and in such a way as to redound to his lasting credit as a Cleveland man.
     Taking his life as a whole it has been a long and useful one and of versatile service and experience.  His birth occurred on a farm near Fulton, Stark County, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1845.  He had only a public school education, and he first passed the horizon of the great world when in his seventeenth year he enlisted as a private in the Third Ohio Independent Battery.  He was one of the youngest of the volunteer soldiers of Ohio.  This battery was recruited largely from Stark and Columbiana counties.  He went into the war before the climax and in time to participate in those eventful and decisive campaigns of Vicksburg, Atlanta and Nashville.  After more than two years of service he was granted his honorable discharge July 31, 1865.  He was not yet twenty years of age when he returned home a veteran of the great war.
     In 1867 he became part owner of a general store at Nashville, Holmes County, Ohio.  Two years later he bought his partner's interest and continued the business alone until March, 1878.  He then sold out and moved to Millersburg in the same county, and there for a number of years he was known successfully as a general hardware merchant.  In 1889 Mr. Sullivan closed out his business in Millersburg and removed to Cleveland, where he has been an active citizen for over a quarter of a century.
     He became well known in the public life of the state before he came to Cleveland.  In 1879 he was elected on the democratic ticket to the Ohio State Senate from the district comprising Wayne, Holmes, Knox and Morrow counties.  With the close of his first term he declined a renomination.  In 1885, however, he was again made a candidate and was elected without opposition.  The work by which his service in the Senate should be especially remember was in connection with legislation affecting the various state institutions.  Mr. Sullivan had charge of the bill which resulted in establishing the Soldiers Home at Sandusky.  Not long afterward he became a trustee of the Soldiers Home and served until August, 1911, when all the state institutions were placed under the direct control of a general board of administration.
     In 1887, while a member of the Senate and without his knowledge or solicitation, President Cleveland made Mr. Sullivan a national bank examiner for the State of Ohio.  In that position he gained a very thorough and technical knowledge of banking affairs, a business to which he has since devoted his time and energies with such conspicuous success.  He resigned after three years as national bank examiner to become managing director of the Central National Bank of Cleveland.  He had taken a leading part in the organization of this bank in March, 1890, and from the beginning to the present has been its controlling spirit, wisely directing its policies and fortifying by his individual character and resources its splendid prestige in the Cleveland financial district.  Since April, 1900, Mr. Sullivan has been president of this bank.
     In 1898 he bought the controlling interest in the First National Bank of Canton, Ohio, was its president until July, 1911, and since his resignation he has continued as a member of its board of directors.  In 1904 Colonel Sullivan established the Superior Savings and Trust Company of Cleveland, and has been its president and directing officer throughout the twelve years of its prosperous existence.  The two Cleveland financial enterprises which owe their origin to his ability and experience as a financier are among the strongest and most representative in the city and in the state.  Colonel Sullivan would in fact be named among any group of prominent American bankers.
     His opinions have long been quoted as authoritative utterances on the general currency and financial problems of the country and also on many technical phases of banking and bank administration.  While the banks with which he has been connected have always been known as conservative institutions, Colonel Sullivan himself has exhibited decided progressiveness in his views on financial subjects.  While the average banker perhaps over emphasizes his conservatism, Colonel Sullivan has expressed it with a decided tinge of optimism.  This was revealed during the current discussions and criticisms of the currency legislation, before Congress during the summer of 1913.  Colonel Sullivan was able to recall from his own memory similar apprehensions felt at the time the National Banking Act was passed in 1863. In a published interview he said:  ''We will not discuss the merits or demerits of the so-called administration bill or Federal Reserve Act, but whatever its defects may be we regard it as a long step forward.  If enacted into law its practical workings will reveal its weaknesses and a future Congress will eliminate its defects."
     After the currency bill of 1913 was adopted Colonel Sullivan was made chairman of the committee of Cleveland citizens in the movement to secure one of the Federal Reserve banks for Cleveland.  The successful result was largely due to efforts put forth by Mr. Sullivan.
     Any number of large organizations and movements have benefited by his active participation and membership.  He has served as president of the National Board of Trade, the Ohio State Bankers Association, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Cleveland Clearing House Association.  He has been treasurer since organization of the Merchant Marine League of Cleveland, and is himself interested in Great Lakes snipping as a director and officer of several steamship companies.  He also belongs to many of the leading social organizations of the city, and the title by which his friends and associates know him is the result of service as colonel of the Fifth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, an office to which he was elected in 1893.  Colonel Sullivan married in 1873 Miss Selina J. Brown.  He is the father of one son and two daughters.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 24 - Vol. III

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