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History of Cleveland and its Environs
The Heart of
New Connecticut
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company
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1918
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JACOB
HALLER. The fact that identifies
Jacob Haller most conspicuously with the business
life of Cleveland is his long and competent service as secretary
of the West Side Savings and Loan Association. For over
twenty-five years he has been performing the duties of
secretary, and as that office brings him in touch with all the
hundreds of patrons of the association, the record of prosperity
which the organization has enjoyed may be credited in no small
degree to his very able efforts and the confidence inspired by
him in the trustworthy management.
The West Side Savings and Loan Association has now
completed thirty-one years of history. It was founded in
December, 1886, and was first known as the West Side Bauverein,
being primarily, as the name indicated, a building association.
In later years the savings and loan features of the business
have been emphasized. Within the last seven years the
association has increased its total assets more than in all the
previous quarter of a century of its existence. Fifteen
years after the company was founded its assets were less than
$150,000, and it was in the twenty-fifth year, about 1911, that
the assets climbed to the million-dollar mark. Since then
the growth has been rapid and most gratifying. In 1915 the
total assets were over $2,300,000, while in 1916 they totaled
$3,000,000, and by November, 1917, the total assets were over
$3,500,000. Nearly all the resources of the company are
represented by loans secured by first mortgages in Cuyahoga
County.
The home offices of the association are at 2025 West
Twenty-fifth Street. The officers are: Fred Linn,
president; Joseph Schenkelberg, vice president;
Jacob Haller, secretary; George J. Baum,
assistant secretary.
Mr. Jacob Haller was born in Wurttemberg,
Germany, Nov. 1, 1865, but has lived in Cleveland since he was a
youth of seventeen. His father, Christian Haller,
who now resides at 6514 Colgate Avenue in Cleveland, was born in
Wurttemberg in 1838, was a farmer in that country, and in 1882
brought his family to the United States and after locating at
Cleveland was for twenty-five years connected with the firm of
Herrman & McLean Company on West Twenty-fifth
Street in Cleveland. He is now living retired. He is
a democrat, a member of the Evangelical Church and of the
Knights of Pythias. In 1865 Christian Haller
married Christina Lauffer, who was born in
Wurttemberg in 1844. Their children are: Jacob;
Anna, a widow living on West Ninety-fifth Street; and
Christina, who lives with her parents.
Jacob Haller was educated in the public
schools of his native land and while there he learned the trade
of tailor. After coming to Cleveland he continued to
follow his trade in this city until 1893, at which time his
duties as secretary of the West Side Savings and Loan
Association required all his time. He had become secretary
in 1891.
Mr. Haller has other important business
interests, being a stockholder and director and treasurer of the
Excelsior Brewing Company, is a director of the Modern Laundry
Company, and owns some valuable real estate, both improved and
unimproved, on Lorain Avenue and the Lake Front, and has his own
modern home, which he built in 1912, at 2182 West Ninety-eighth
Street. Mr. Haller is a democrat, a member
and treasurer of the Evangelical Church, and is affiliated with
the Cleveland Chamber of Industry and Concordia Lodge, No. 345,
Free and Accepted Masons.
At Cleveland, in 1887, he married Miss Elizabeth
Glunz, daughter of Frederick and Marguerite Glunz,
whose home is in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Haller have
four children. Matilda, who is a graduate of the
Edmiston Business College and is bookkeeper for the city
government at the Market House, is the widow of William
Glunz, a bookkeeper, who died at Cleveland in 1915.
The daughter Elizabeth married George Baum,
who is assistant secretary of the West Side Savings and Loan
Association, and they reside on West Ninety-fifth Street in
Cleveland. Mrs. Baum is a graduate of the
Edmiston Business College. Albert, whose home is on
Lorain Avenue, is a graduate of the public schools and a
patternmaker by trade. Edward, who besides his
public school education had a private course in bookkeeping, is
cashier of the West Side Savings and Loan Association.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 243 - Vol. 3 |
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FRED E. HANSEN.
When the layman, as ultimate consumer, pauses a moment to
examine even the smallest of the utilitarian articles which he
daily makes use of in his business, his pleasure or his home, he
finds these tools, objects or implements so perfectly fitted for
the use for which it is intended that he is frequently amazed,
particularly if he be possessed of no inventive genius himself.
Perhaps it may occur to him that someone, better equipped, must
have had wonderful genius in order to make possible the
fashioning of so complete a thing, from a bit of iron, wood or
steel into an adaptive article that is absolutely necessary in
some branch of industry. The initial invention may have
been crude, but for any one to so improve on this as to
practically supplant the first tool, by one that can do the work
more effectively requires the possession of mechanical knowledge
combined with inventive talent. The advent of the
automobile has made necessary the invention of countless new
parts and appliances, and to Fred E. Hansen, vice
president of the Hansen manufacturing Company, belongs
the credit for the devising of a number of specialties which
have met a large number of specialties which have met a large
and receptive field all over the country.
Fred E. Hansen was born at Grant's Pass, Oregon,
Apr. 1, 1886, and is a son of Charles and Betty Hansen.
He attended the public school until he was sixteen years of age,
at which time he enrolled as a student at the Oregon State
Agricultural College, where he remained for two years.
Coming to Cleveland from Oregon, he secured employment as
mechanic in the service department of the Winton Automobile
Company, where he remained four years, and then transferred his
services to the J. W. Frazier Engineering Company, where
he was made inspector of steel construction. One year
later he returned to the Winton Automobile Company, in the same
capacity, in which he remained one year.
Mr. Hansen, in the meantime, had not been content
to go along in a rut. His industry and general ability had
led to his promotion from position to position as his
employers had recognized his value, but he was still
dissatisfied with his state and was constantly casting about for
an opportunity to better himself. His inventive genius
pointed the way. As he came in contact with the various
appliances incidental to the automobile trade, he made a close
study of each piece of equipment and began to experiment on his
own hook with the end in view of producing something better.
This led to the invention of a number of specialties and to the
formation of the Hansen Manufacturing Company, of which
J. W. Frazier is president and treasurer; Fred E. Hansen,
vice president; and W. A. Gilliland, secretary. The
company manufactures all the articles invented by Mr. Hansen,
including automatic air valves, air line equipments and valve
stems and parts. In addition the young inventor is
constantly working on new articles which he expects to patent,
and the manner in which his company's products have been
received by the general market has encouraged him to extend his
genius to the full. Mr. Hansen is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce and one of the rising young men of the city.
He votes for the candidates of the republican party.
Mr. Hansen was married at Cleveland, Aug. 5, 1916, to
Miss Frances Jordan of this city ,and they have one child,
Laurence Jordan Hansen.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 94 - Vol. III |
George C. Hansen |
GEORGE C. HANSEN.
Among the members of the Cleveland bar none has a better record
for straightforward and high professional conduct, for success
earned with honor and without animosity, than George C.
Hansen, of the firm of Blake, Hansen &
Gillie. He is a man of scholarly attainments, exact
and comprehensive knowledge of the law, and, while an active
republican taking part in important civic affairs, has of late
years concerned himself chiefly with the pressing and constantly
broadening duties of his profession.
Mr. Hansen was born May 30, 1868 in the
province of Sehleswig, Germany, of Danish parents, and was five
years of age when he was brought to the United States by his
parents Henry William and Catherine
(Petersen) Hansen, the family arriving at New York
July 4, 1873, and immediately making their way to Wood County,
Ohio, where they located on a farm. In his native land he
had been a schoolteacher, but in the United States Mr.
Hansen always followed farming and continued to be engaged
in that calling until the time of his death, which occurred when
he was seventy years of age. The mother still survives and
makes her home on the Wood County farm. Henry W. Hansen
was one of the men who had made his own way in the world, having
come to the United States with but $100 in gold, with which to
build up a home and business and take care of a family of seven
children. Therefore he believed that all should start to
work as soon as they were able, not only for the income which
might be made, but also as a means of education. There
were twelve children in the family, four being sons and eight
daughters, of whom nine lived to years of maturity, and four
daughters and two sons still survive, although George C.,
the fifth in order of birth, is the only resident
of Cleveland.
The district schools of Wood County furnished George
C. Hansen with the preliminary part of his education, and
when he was fourteen years of age he began making his own way in
the world. It was his father's belief that if the children
wished greater educational training than that furnished by the
public schools they should themselves earn it, and this the
youth set about to do. In 1889 he secured a position as
teacher of a country school in Wood County, remaining there
through that and the two following years, and then went to
Hoytville, Ohio, where he taught from 1892 until 1894. In the
meantime, in 1891, he had been able to secure a commercial
course in the Toledo Business College. He was a teacher in
the University of Florida for one year, and superintendent of
the Perrysburg, Ohio, schools from 1896 to 1897. During
this time he had attended the Ohio Northern University, from
which he was graduated with the class of 1895 and the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, and next entered the law department of the
University of Michigan, where he completed the regular
three-year course in two years, graduating in 1898 with the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bars of
Ohio and Michigan, as graduation from the University of Michigan
was the only thing necessary during those days for such
admission, and began the practice of law in June, 1898, in the
same building at Cleveland in which his offices are now located.
He has since been admitted to practice in the United States and
Federal Courts. Mr. Hansen has carried on a
general practice and has been a member of several legal
combinations, in June, 1917, becoming a member of the firm of
Blake, Hansen & Gillie, with offices at 632
Society for Savings Building. He belongs to the Cleveland
Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the National
Bar Association, and is a director in numerous banks and
corporations, in which his knowledge of the law is considered a
valuable asset. Politically a republican, and very active
in the affairs of his party, his only public office has been
that of assistant prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, which he filled
from 1908 to 1910, under John Cline. During
the year 1912-3 he served as president of the Lakewood Chamber
of Commerce; and from 1908 to 1910 was president of the Cuyahoga
County Sunday School Association. At this time he belongs
to the Lakewood Christian Church, and his fraternal connections
are with the Odd Fellows and Lakewood Lodge No. 601, Free and
Accepted Masons. The beautiful family home of Mr.
Hansen is located at 12612 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, five
miles from the Public Square, and is situated on a tract of
about two acres of land, which forms one of the real show places
of the suburbs of Cleveland. The spacious home, while
built nearly fifty years ago, has been made modern in every way
and is very attractive, but the real attraction of the estate is
found in the grounds. All his life Mr. Hansen
has been a great lover of the outdoors, and on his grounds are
planted specimens of every native tree that grows in this
section, about every hardy tree of the country and some of them
nearly seventy years old, and a wealth of vines, hedges, bushes
and shrubbery of every kind. While at college he taught
botany and geology and he has retained in full degree his love
for flowers and all growing things. Another of his hobbies
is natural history, and his library in this connection is said
to be one of the largest and most complete in the country.
Mr. Hansen is still an active man and one of the
best players of the Lakewood Tennis Club.
On June 29, 1904, Mr. Hansen was married
to Miss Orra Phillips, of Cleveland, Ohio,
daughter of Ross and Mary Phillips, now residents of
Cleveland but formerly of Columbiana County, where the
Phillips family is an old and honored one, having
been the first Orangemen of that locality. Mrs.
Hansen was born in Columbiana County and educated there and
at Salem High School. She taught in the Cleveland public
schools prior to her marriage and is an intellectual and
well-informed woman. Her home is her chief interest in
life, yet she finds time to take an active and helpful part in
the work of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Mr.
and Mrs. Hansen have three children, Paul G., Ruth M.
and George Phillips, all born at Lakewood, where they are
attending the public schools.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 145 - Vol. II |
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WILLIAM HARPER.
In reviewing the careers of the notable men of a community, the
thoughtful person is impressed by the number of foreign-born
individuals who have risen to high places among the leaders in
almost every line. The question naturally arises whether
the older countries give their men a better early training than
can be obtained here, or whether in the United States those who
have labored under disadvantages of a more constricted form of
government expand under the liberal laws of this republic.
But, whatever the cause, the effect seems to be the same, the
men of foreign birth who have succeeded exceed those of strictly
American stock. In the great coal industry one of the best
known figures in Ohio is William Harper, who is of
foreign birth although thoroughly Americanized. He was
born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and there attended a private
school. His first business experience was connected with
the coal industry, for he was in his young manhood a salesman
for a coal company. In 1883, on immigrating to the United
States, he settled first at Chicago, where he became a salesman
for the Brazil Block Coal Company, an enterprise with which he
was identified for twelve years. He then went to Columbus,
Ohio where he became manager of the Cambridge Consolidated Coal
Company.
Mr. Harper came to Cleveland in 1896, and here
became associated with the Ellsworth Morris Coal Company
as manager of the company's mines at Cambridge. In 1897
the name was changed to the Morris Coal Company, with the
following officers: Calvary Morris, president; John E.
Newell, vice president; and William Harper, secretary
and treasurer. In 1912 upon the death of Mr. Morris,
Mr. Harper succeeded him as president and retains also the
position of treasurer, H. C. Steffen being secretary and
P. T. White, vice president. This company owns two
mines, one known as Black Top and the other as Cleveland,
located at Cambridge in Guernsey County, Ohio, where there are
still left over 45,000 acres of fields to mine. There are
350 people employed, and the headquarters of the company are
located at Cleveland, with executive offices in the Citizens
Building. Mr. Harper is also secretary and
treasurer of the Morris Poston Coal Company of
Cleveland, a subsidiary company of the Morris Coal
Company. He belongs to the Union Club, is a republican,
and attends the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Harper was married in December, 1895, to
Miss Edith Murchy, of Chicago, and they are the parents of
two children: Wallace, who is twenty-one years of age and
now attending Dartmouth College; and Evelyn, a graduate
of the Laurel School for Girls, Cleveland, and now attending
Smith College.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 274 - Vol. II |
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FRANK GRANT HOGEN
has been a working factor in Cleveland's business and industrial
affairs for the past forty years. A successful business
man, he has also found time to serve the public and has been
interested in every movement for Cleveland's progress and
welfare.
Mr. Hogan was born in Cleveland May 22, 1863,
son of Andrew C. and Mary T. Hogen.
His father was of Pennsylvania Dutch and his mother of Scotch
ancestry. His father was born Oct. 5, 1829, and his mother
Aug. 26, 1830.
Mr. Hogen was a boy attended the Bolton School
in East Cleveland and finished the work of the eighth grade
nearly forty years ago. His first business connection was
in the auditing department of the Standard Oil Company. In
1887, thirty years ago he became connected with the firm of
Auld & Conger. In 1903 he organized the F. G. Hogen
Company and in 1910 organized the Cuyahoga Roofing Company in
which he is still a stock-holder.
Mr. Hogen served as director of public safety in
Cleveland during 1910-11, and since 1912 has been director of
schools. For five years he was a member of the Brooks
Corps. He is an active republican, is affiliated with
Woodward Lodge of Masons, Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons,
Oriental Commandery, Knights Templars, and Al Koran Temple of
the Mystic Shrine. He is well known in club and social
affairs, being a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club,
Willowick Country Club, Cleveland Gun Club and the City Club.
He recently exhibited at the City Club an interesting old time
firearm, a gun more than a hundred years old and which was
bought by his grandfather in the latter part of the eighteenth
century. This gun was originally a flintlock rifle, but
his grandfather had part of it sawed off and the muzzle bored
out, converting it into a powder and cap shotgun. Mr.
Hogen is a member of the Euclid Avenue Congregational
Church.
On Oct. 17, 1895, at Cleveland, he married Miss
Louise Jane Kelly, daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Connell) Kelly. They have two sons, Frank Grant
Hogen, Jr., and Harry Kelly Hogen. The Hogen
family residence is at 1823 East 97th Street.*
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOPKINS
is a Cleveland business man of many associations,
being vice president of The Grant Motor Car Corporation,
president of The Grant Truck Sales Company, secretary of The
Belt & Terminal Realty Company, secretary and treasurer of The
Hopkins Holding Company, secretary and treasurer of The Columbia
Axle Company, director of The Cleveland Underground Rapid
Transit Railroad Company, and director of The Republic Motor
Sales Company.
Mr. Hopkins for a number of years found
his chief work in the building of railroads. He was one of
the promoters of the Belt Line Railway at Cleveland.
Mr. Hopkins was born at Cleveland, June 13,
1876, son of David J. and Mary (Jeffreys) Hopkins.
He is a brother of the prominent Cleveland lawyers, William
R. Hopkins and Evan Henry Hopkins.
He was educated in the Cleveland public schools
including Central High School, attended Western Reserve Academy
and Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. Mr.
Hopkins is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club,
Cleveland Automobile Club, Clifton Club, Cleveland Engineering
Society, is a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner and a member of
Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
June 5, 1912, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, he married Miss
Evelyn Brooks Lower. They have one child, David
Jeffreys Hopkins.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 343 - Vol. II |
D. H. Hopkins |
DAVID HARRIS HOPKINS,
an attorney at law with offices in the Engineers' Building, is
also principal and instructor in mathematics at the Cleveland
Preparatory School, which he founded and which is now under the
auspices of Baldwin-Wallace College.
The Cleveland Preparatory School occupies a rather
unusual and a most useful place in the Cleveland educational
system. "The purpose of the schools," to quote the college
Bulletin, "is to give young men and women a chance to secure a
high school education without interfering with their daily
occupations. The school is planned to accommodate those
who work during the daytime but who are deficient in their high
school education and desire to complete the necessary work for
the bar examination and other examinations where a high school
education is the minimum requirement." Thus it performs a
part which the much agitated "continuation school" movement
contemplates and the experience of the last seven years shows
that this school has more than proved its usefulness in
affording opportunities to acquire a high school education by
night study. Several hundred young men and women have been
assisted to higher education, and many of them are found today
in the active walks of business and professional life.
David Harris Hopkins was born at Granger, Medina
County, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1882, a son of Chauncey I. and Allie
(Harris) Hopkins. One of his paternal ancestors,
Stephen Hopkins, was one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence, and was descended from John Hopkins,
who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1630 and later
removed to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636. Stephen
Hopkins was a brother of Esek Hopkins, the
first commander-in-chief of the navy, and of the first American
fleet, with rank of admiral. After his naval experiences
he settled near Providence, Rhode Island, where he exerted great
political influence, having been for many years a member of the
Assembly. He graduated from the Granger High School in
1900 and the following year attended the Ohio Northern
University at Ada and in 1911 received his law and Ph. B.
degrees from Baldwin-Wallace College.
Mr. Hopkins opened a law office and began the
practice of law in the Engineers' Building in November, 1911.
In June of the same year he organized The Cleveland Preparatory
School, which began with an enrollment of a few students, but
has grown and prospered until it enjoys an established place in
the educational system of the city. In August, 1914, the
school became an organic part of Baldwin-Wallace College, and is
an extension department of the academy proper and directly under
the supervision and control of the college.
Mr. Hopkins is a man of many interests and
successful in them all. He is interested in farming,
owning a splendid stock farm where he is breeding
Holstein-Friesian cattle, Poland-China hogs and fancy poultry.
He was formerly a director of the Cleveland Poultry Breeders'
Association. Mr. Hopkins is affiliated with
the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Knights of the Maccabees and with the Sigma Kappa Phi college
fraternity. His home is at Berea, seat of Baldwin-Wallace
College.
At Granger, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1904, he married Vira
Marie Kerstetter, the daughter of William J. and Amelia
(Turner) Kerstetter. On her mother's side she is a
descendant of Revolutionary stock and a long line of teachers
and ministers. Her father was a soldier in the Civil war,
a scientist and a lecturer. Mrs. Hopkins is
a singer, and an active club woman. She was president of
the Berea Literary Club, is now treasurer of Commodore Perry
Chapter, United States Daughters of 1812, and a Red Cross
worker.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 198 - Vol. II |
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EVAN HENRY HOPKINS
is a member of the law firm Herrick, Hopkins,
Stockwell & Benesch, in the Society for Savings
Building. Has been an active member of the Cleveland bar
for over a quarter of a century. He was born in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, Nov. 4, 1864, a son of David J. and Mary
(Jeffreys) Hopkins. He was reared and received his
early education in Pennsylvania and in 1885 graduated from the
Western Reserve Academy and continued his college work in
Adelbert College at Cleveland, which awarded him the bachelor of
arts degree in 1889. Mr. Hopkins then entered
Harvard Law College and was graduated LL. B. with the class of
1892. In October preceding his graduation he was admitted
to the Ohio bar and on leaving Harvard began active practice as
junior partner of the law firm of Herrick & Hopkins.
His senior associate is Mr. Frank R. Herrick. The
firm of Herrick & Hopkins continued unchanged for
nearly a quarter of a century. In January, 1916, John
N. Stockwell, Jr., and Alfred A. Benesch was admitted
to the firm. In 1892 Mr. Hopkins was appointed to a
professorship in the Western Reserve Law School, which position
he held until 1910. From 1892 to 1895 he was registrar,
and from 1895 to 1910 he was also dean of the school.
Mr. Hopkins has for a number of years
been a regular contributor to legal publications. Many of
the young lawyers who received their training in Western Reserve
University acknowledge their indebtedness to him as a teacher
and adviser. He has frequently appeared before the higher
courts both in the state and the federal judiciary.
From the time he began practice at Cleveland Mr.
Hopkins has evinced a ready and willing co-operation with
every movement for the betterment of the city. He was a
member and secretary of the Cleveland Public Library Board from
1892 until 1898 and in 1900 was appointed a member of the board
of park commissioners, serving one year. He is a
republican, a member of the University Club and of the
Presbyterian Church. He married Dec. 27, 1892, Miss
Frances P. M. Shain, of Cleveland, and has four daughters.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 168 - Vol. II |
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