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Biographies
Source:
History of Cleveland and its Environs
The Heart of
New Connecticut
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New
York
1918
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Arthur Stanlely Davies |
ARTHUR STANLEY DAVIES
is secretary and director of the Ideal Tire &
Rubber Company, a $2,000,000 dollar Ohio corporation, with a
model plant now in course of construction in the Cleveland
district to be operated for the manufacture and production of
tires, the first and most promising large organization to bring
this branch of the rubber industry to Cleveland.
Mr. Davies is a man of much financial and
accounting experience, and has achieved a commendable business
position at the age of thirty.
He was born at Wadsworth, Ohio, Apr. 23, 1888, a son of
Isaac and Miriam (Thomas) Davies. His father died
in September, 1917, and the mother is still living in Cleveland.
Arthur S. Davies was educated in grammar and high
schools, and left school to take up the occupation and
profession of accountant. For five years he was an
accountant with a contracting concern, and for another five
years was office manager of a manufacturing business. On
taking up his duties as secretary of the Ideal Tire and Rubber
Company he resigned his position as auditor of the Buckeye
Engine Company of Salem, Ohio, a community where his ability and
services were most highly appreciated and esteemed.
Mr. Davies is a member of the Cleveland
Automobile Club, is a republican voter, a Baptist, and a member
of the Independent Order of Foresters. Apr. 15, 1916, at
Cleveland he married Margaret Ann Hodges,
daughter of William Hodges. They have one
daughter, Rachel Margaret Davies.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 189 - Vol. II |
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DANIEL R. DAVIES
is an important figure in Cleveland industrial circles.
For about thirty years he has been identified with the Acme
Machinery Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer.
He has held that office with the company for nearly twenty years
and for the past ten years has assumed the major part of the
business responsibilities of the company. This is one of
Cleveland's notable industries, has a large plant at 4533 St.
Claire Avenue, Northeast, and is one of the standard concerns in
America manufacturing bolt, nut and special machinery.
Mr. Davies comes of a race of people who
from time immemorial have been noted for their skill and
efficiency in mechanical lines. He was born in South
Wales, at Merthyr Tydfil, on Feb. 16, 1867. However, since
he was two years of age he has been an American, his parents
having come to this country at that time. Both parents
were natives of Wales, and on coming to America lived four years
in Cleveland, then moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and also
lived at Girard, Ohio. His father was a blacksmith by
trade, and was connected with rolling mills at different points
in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The family also lived at Canal
Dover, Ohio, and from there returned to Cleveland, where the
father spent the rest of his days. Daniel R. Davies
and his oldest sister, Elizabeth, were both born in
Wales, while the other children are natives of America, some of
them born in Cleveland one in Pittsburgh, two in Girard, Ohio,
and one in Canal Dover. Mr. Davies' brother
David A. is purchasing agent for the Acme Machinery
Company. The six sisters are Elizabeth, Margaret A.,
Rachel, Jennie L., Edith H., and Mabel Grace. Elizabeth
is now Mrs. Elizabeth Davies Lewis of Cleveland.
She has two sons, the older, Albert Wayne Lewis, being
connected with the M. A. Hanna & Company of Cleveland.
Her younger son, William G., is with the First Regiment
of American Engineers, and has been in France since August,
1917. Mrs. Lewis also has two daughters. Mr.
Davies' sisters Rachel and Jennie are
teachers in the Cleveland public schools, and Margaret
and Mabel are also residents of Cleveland. The
other sister, Edith, who was formerly a Cleveland
teacher, is now Mrs. John Morris of Youngstown, Ohio.
Daniel R. Davies received most of his education
in the public schools of Cleveland and since leaving school has
followed work along mechanical lines, practically his entire
career having been devoted to the Acme Machinery Company.
He is also a director of the State Banking & Trust Company of
Cleveland, and a director of the Welker Supply Company.
He is one of the prominent Masons of Cleveland, active
both in the York and Scottish Rite. He is an honorary
member and past master of Cleveland City Lodge No. 15, Ancient
Free & Accepted Masons, and gave up his membership in that lodge
to organize and install Glenville Lodge No. 618, Ancient Free &
Accepted Masons, which he served as master for two years.
In appreciation of his services the Glenville lodge presented
him with a beautifully engraved gold watch. He also
demitted from Cleveland Chapter to become a charter member of
Glenville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He has membership in
Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory of
the Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
Since the age of twenty-one he has been identified with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has social membership in
the Cleveland Athletic Club, Willowick Country Club and belongs
to the Credit Men's Association and the Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce. Mr. Davies is a very active
outdoor man, fond of sports, including both golf and baseball,
and for years has made a close study of Masonry in all its
branches.
Feb. 28, 1894, he married Miss Elizabeth Donald
Paton, who was born and educated in Cleveland, daughter of
Robert W. Paton, the story of whose long and interesting
career is told on other pages. Mr. and Mrs. Davies
have two children, Marie Loveday and Catherine Paton.
The former graduated, from the Laurel private school for girls
at Cleveland in 1914 and is a member of the class of 1918 at
Vassar College, the younger daughter is now a member of the
junior class of Laurel School. Both daughters were born in
Cleveland. The Davies family have a pleasant
home on East One Hundred and Eighth Street. Mr.
Davies is president of the Glenville Masonic Temple Company,
Incorporated, and this company is now planning under his
direction the construction of a new temple for Glenville.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 433 - Vol. II |
I. R. Davies |
I. R. DAVIES
is treasurer and manager of The Ideal Tire and Rubber Company,
the first large branch of the rubber industry to be located at
Cleveland. It is an Ohio corporation, capitalized at
$2,000,000. The company was organized and the campaign for
sale of securities started in August, 1917, and by the end of
that year the company had over 1,500 shareholders, had raised
over $500,000. The company have a model factory in course
of construction, so far carried out toward realization as to
present every reasonable assurance that manufacturing operations
will begin early in the year 1918.
The organization of The Ideal Tire and Rubber Company
is an important step in a movement to give Cleveland, with its
immensely superior natural advantages, its proper share of the
great rubber industry. Fortunately for the company men of
seasoned experience and expert ability have been attracted to
its executive offices and directors. The superintendent of
the factory is B. E. Frantz, formerly superintendent of
another large rubber company in Ohio, and with an experience of
twelve years in executive positions with some of the largest
tire companies in the United States. The president of the
company is Eli W. Cannell, who is a man of wide
experience and president of The Provident Building & Loan
Company.
Mr. I. R. Davies, who as head of the finance
department, has already achieved a remarkable record in getting
the financial organization of the company thoroughly and broadly
founded, has had an extended experience of many years with the
rubber and other manufacturing industries. He was born at
Doylestown, Ohio, Dec. 6, 1881, a son of I. Davies and Miriam
(Thomas) Davies. His father died at Cleveland in
September, 1917, and his mother still lives in this city.
I. Davies was for twenty-five years a steel worker, and
had lived retired about four years before his death. He
was a resident of Cleveland nearly thirty years.
I. R. Davies attended the common grammar school
and the high school at Cleveland, also a commercial college, and
began business as an accountant. For ten years he was in
the employ of the United States Steel Corporation, and also had
two years of banking experience. For four years he was
employed in executive capacities with some of the large rubber
industries and is a stockholder in both steel and rubber
corporations, and an officer and director in two large rubber
companies. Mr. Davies is affiliated with the
Masonic Order, Knights of Pythias and a number of social and
business organizations. He belongs to Rockton Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, at Kent, Ohio, and Kent Chapter No. 192,
Royal Arch Masons. He is a member of the Baptist Church.
At Cleveland, Apr. 21, 1913, Mr. Davies married
Mabel Reese, daughter of John Reese of Cleveland.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 212 - Vol. II |
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SYDNEY ADDISON DAVIES.
One of the able and rising lawyers of Cleveland, Sydney
Addison Davies has spent his entire career in the
Forest City, where he is rapidly gaining a substantial
reputation in the field of real estate law. Still a young
man, he has so impressed his abilities upon the community that
he has gained recognition from a number of the larger realty
concerns of the city, which he has represented either as special
or general counsel. He is a native son of Cleveland
and was born Dec, 22, 1892, his parents being John S. and
Elizabeth (Williams) Davies.
John S. Davies was born in Wales, and was four
years of age when brought to Cleveland by his parents.
When he was twelve years of age he became identified with the
steel castings business, with which he has been connected ever
since, being at this time manager of the Cleveland Steel
Castings Company, and a resident of Lakewood, a suburb of this
city. He was married at Cleveland to Elizabeth
Williams, who was born here, a daughter of Thomas
Williams, who fought as a soldier during the Civil war.
The Williams family is one of the oldest of the
city, Mrs. Davies' grandparents, farming people
and of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, having come from Pennsylvania
with the old Lorenzo Carter colony of pioneers.
John S. and Elizabeth Davies have two sons: Sydney
Addison; and Howard E., who is attending the
Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Sydney Addison Davies is a graduate of the
public schools of Lakewood, and after leaving the high school
there in 1910 became a student of the Western Reserve
University, remained one year in the College of Arts, and then
entered Cornell University where he completed his studies.
During his college career he had a brilliant record as an
athlete and finally won his "C" as a member of the varsity
football squad, although he also took an active and prominent
part in other sports. When he received his degree of
Bachelor of Laws m 1915, and received admission to the bar of
New York in June of that year, he returned to Cleveland, and in
June, 1916, was admitted to practice before the bar of Ohio.
Here he has since continued alone, having opened his present
office in the Engineers Building Aug. 25, 1916 and has
specialized in real estate law. During his first year
after leaving Cornell, Mr. Davies acted as office
counsel for the Land Title Abstract and Trust Company, of which
he has been general counsel for two years, in addition to which
he is one of the attorneys for the Union Mortgage Company and
secretary and attorney for the W. H. Randall Building
Company. He also has other business interests and is
president of the Mayeta County Oil Company. He is a member
of the Ohio State Bar Association, and in his profession is
known as a man of brilliant talents, a clean-cut, progressive
representative of the younger generation of Cleveland lawyers.
In political matters he is a republican, and while he is not an
office seeker has shown a keen interest in the matters that
affect his community, and is active in the Lakewood Chamber of
Commerce. He belongs to the City Club and the Lakewood
Tennis Club; is a member of Lakewood Lodge No. 601, Ancient,
Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Cornell Alumni Association,
and has numerous friends in the Delta Gamma Beta of Lakewood the
Delta Upsilon Association of Northwest Ohio, and the Delta
Upsilon, Cornell Chapter in all of which he holds membership.
He also belongs to Lakewood Congregational Church and is
secretary of the board of trustees thereof, and, all in all, is
a young man who touches and improves life on many sides.
Mr. Davies was married Aug. 4, 1917, to Miss
Lula C. Hess, of East Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of D. Ray
and Lula C. (Whip) Hess, Mr. Hess being a real estate
and general insurance broker with offices in the Williamson
Building. Mrs. Davies was born at
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, graduated from Glenville High School
in 1911, and then studied music at Cleveland under the
instruction of Prof. Karl Reimenschneider.
For several years prior to her marriage she was engaged in
teaching instrumental music.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 341 - Vol. |
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HARRY L. DAVIS.
To be the mayor of a great city like Cleveland is a great honor.
But more than that it involves responsibilities more closely
connected with the welfare of a large number of people than the
office of governor of a state. Recognition of that fact
was expressed by Mayor Davis of Cleveland recently
when during an enthusiastic republican banquet some admirer
voiced a hope as well as a prophecy that he would be the next
governor of Ohio, to which Mayor Davis responded
that he had no further ambition than to serve the City of
Cleveland.
That Mayor Davis has made his office an
instrument of service to the City of Cleveland since he took
charge of municipal affairs on Jan. 1, 1916, is a matter of
general appreciation by the people of the city and perhaps never
in the history of the city has a mayor in the course of a single
year been able to point out so many specific economies and
betterments of municipal service and a finer record of efficient
administration and a more constructive program.
Mayor Davis has lived in Cleveland
practically all his life, and his family have been identified
with the city over half a century. Harry Lyman
Davis was born in Cleveland Jan. 25, 1878, a son of
Evan H. and Barbara (James) Davis. The
late Evan H. Davis was a prominent figure in the life of
Cleveland. By sheer force of will and ability he rose from
the humble environment to which he was born to a position where
he exercised a large influence and commanded the respect of an
entire state. He was born in 1843 in Wales, had only the
advantages of the National schools until eleven years of age,
and then began work in rolling mills. In 1861 at the age
of eighteen he came to the United States with his parents, first
living in Pennsylvania and in April, 1865, moving to Cleveland.
From that time forward until his death with the exception of
three years Cleveland was his home. A laboring man, he was
from the age of eighteen identified with labor movements and
labor organizations, though his party affiliation was as a
republican. On that party ticket he was elected a member
of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly of Ohio in 1887. As
representative from Cuyahoga County he was chairman of the house
committee on labor and was author of several important measures
in the interest of the working people of Ohio. In 1889
Governor Foraker appointed him district factory inspector,
an office he filled seven years. For three years he was
secretary of the International Association of Factory
Inspectors. In 1897 Evan H. Davis was again elected
to the Legislature, as a member of the Seventy-third General
Assembly. Chosen on the republican ticket, he was given'
the highest majority accorded by Cuyahoga County to any of its
legislative candidates. He served from 1898 to 1901
inclusive.
Like his honored father, Mayor Davis was
a working man and thoroughly understands the attitude of people
who toil for their bread. He attended the public schools
of Cleveland and for several years was employed in the rolling
mills of Newburgh. He afterwards had a position with the
Cleveland Park Board, was solicitor for the Bell Telephone
Company, and later became president of the Davis
Telephone Rate Adjustment Company. During 1912 he was
national organizer for the Loyal Order of Moose, and from 1913
to 1915 inclusive was a member of the firm Davis &
Farley, general insurance.
For a number of years his influence has been an
increasing factor in the municipal life of Cleveland. During
1910-11 he served as treasurer of the city. In November,
1915, he was elected mayor, and took office on Jan. 1, 1916.
In order to carry out the broad and constructive program of
municipal administration upon which he is embarked, he announced
his candidacy early in 1917 for a second term.
While an active leader in the republican party, Mr.
Davis was elected to his present office on a non-partisan
ballot. He is chairman of the republican executive
committee of Cuyahoga County and is a member of the Ohio
Republican State Central Committee. He is well known in
local organizations, being a member of the Cleveland Athletic
Club, Cleveland Advertising Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce,
South End Chamber of Enterprise, Cleveland Automobile Club,
Young Men's Business Club, the Elks and is a thirty-second
degree Mason. He is now president of the Welsh Society of
Cleveland. He is affiliated with the Baptist Church.
Mayor Davis was married July 16, 1902, at
Cleveland to Lucy V. Fegan. They have a son,
Harry L. Davis, Jr., now in his second year.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 216 - Vol. II |
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WILLIAM E. DAVIS,
vice president of the Cleveland Construction Company, engineers
and contractors, and commissioner of the Department of Public
Utilities in the City of Cleveland, is one of the oldest
electrical engineers in the world. The career of Mr.
Davis, who is only 55 years old, serves to indicate for how
very brief a time—less than half a normal lifetime—the world has
been accustomed to the practical application of electricity for
lighting and other industrial purposes.
It was about thirty-five years ago that Mr. Davis
began working for the old Edison Electric Light Company.
Thomas Edison first began using a crude form of
electric light in his laboratory at Goerck Street, New York
City, about 1879, and it was only two or three years later that
Mr. Davis entered the then virgin field of
electrical engineering.
While his home for many years has been at Cleveland,
and he is counted as one of the city's foremost and most dynamic
men of affairs, his work as an electrical engineer has taken him
all over the United States, and he has superintended
construction of plants and railroads in every part of the
country.
He was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, Mar. 21,
1862. The fireplace in the old home of his birth stood
immediately on the state line between Rhode Island and
Massachusetts. His parents were William Wallace and
Lydia Westgate (Borden) Davis. Both were natives of
Fall River and both died there in venerable years, the father at
eighty-four and. the mother at ninety-two. Lydia
Borden's mother, Hannah Borden, had a unique
distinction in American industry since she is credited with
having woven the first cotton cloth by power loom in the western
hemisphere. She did that work in a factory owned by her
father, Joseph Borden, at Westport. The
story of this interesting woman and the beginning of power loom
manufacture of cotton cloth in America is interestingly told in
a recent issue of Munsey's Magazine. Mr. Davis'
father was a master mechanic throughout his active career. In
the family were one son and three daughters, and the only
daughter now living is a resident of California.
William E. Davis was educated in the Fall River
public schools, graduating from high school in 1879. Since
then he has acquired a great deal of education in the college of
experience. The mainspring of his life has been work and
more work. Satisfaction has come to him not through the
accumulation of money but in keeping his faculties apace with
the magnificent development of those industrial lines in which
he engaged when a boy. For two years after leaving high
school Mr. Davis was employed by the famous yacht
building plant of the Herreschoff Manufacturing Company
at Bristol, Rhode Island, manufacturers of pleasure yachts, and
practically all the national "Cup Defenders" of recent years.
From that he entered the employ of the Edison Electric
Light Company, and was foreman and superintendent. He
spent four years with the United States Navy installing electric
light and power plants on naval vessels. Since then his
experience has been acquired through an ever-widening field.
He first came to Cleveland in 1883. As a contractor he installed
twenty-one pumping stations for the Standard Oil Company.
In 1888 he built the electric railway at Akron, and in 1889 came
to Cleveland and became employed by the Cleveland Construction
Company, of which he is now vice president. This is today
one of the foremost firms of engineers and contractors in the
country. "With offices in the Citizens Building the
company represents an important organization of electrical,
mechanical and civil engineers, and their work in the
construction of electric railroads, electric light and power
stations is exemplified in plants in perhaps the majority of the
States of the Union.
Mr. Davis has been a permanent resident
of Cleveland since 1897, coming here in his capacity as
superintendent of the Lorain & Cleveland Railway. From
1891 to 1894 his home as an engineer was at Toronto, Canada, and
he was in Detroit from 1894 to 1895.
Among other business connections Mr. Davis
is vice president of the "Warren Bicknell Company,
is consulting engineer of the Youngstown & Ohio Railway, of the
Springfield & Xenia Railway and of the Gary & Southern Railway.
He is also a member of the cabinet of Mayor Davis
of Cleveland, having been appointed by the mayor on Jan. 1,
1916, for a term of two years as commissioner of light and heat
of this city. His term ending Jan. 1, 1918, he was
reappointed by Mayor Davis to another term of two
years.
Mr. Davis is a member of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, of the Electric League, the
Cleveland Engineering Society, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the
Tippecanoe Club, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the West
Side Chamber of Industry, and he is a thirty-second degree Mason
and historian of the jubilee class of the Lake Erie Consistory.
He is also a Knight of Pythias and socially is a member of the
Clifton Club, the Dover' Bay Country Club, the New England
Society and the Canadian Club.
Feb. 20, 1892, at Toronto, Ontario, he married Miss
Meta Gallon, of Toronto. Her father,
James Gallon, was at one time high sheriff of the
Dominion of Canada. Mrs. Davis was born at
Lindsey, Ontario. They have three children: Ruth,
now a student in Smith College in Massachusetts; Louise,
in Lakewood High School, and William, who is five years
old.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 145 - Vol. 3 |
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