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PAUL G. KASSULKER Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
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JOSEPH B. KEENAN,
formerly of the firm Morgan & Keenan, with offices
in the Guardian Building, is now a member of Headquarters
Company, One Hundred Thirty-fifth United States Field Artillery,
Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama.
Mr. Keenan came to Cleveland immediately
after completing his law course in Harvard University. He
was born at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Jan. 11, 1888. That
city has been the home of the Keenan family for three
generations, and the mother is still living there. He is a
son of Bernard A. and Sarah A. (Berry) Keenan. His
father, who died in November, 1916, was without doubt one of
Pawtucket 's best known and most admired citizens. His
bigness of heart, his kindliness and impulsive generosity made
him hosts of friends and admirers among all classes. For a
number of years he held the office of commissioner of licenses
in Pawtucket an office similar to police commissioner in Ohio.
He was as well known for philanthropy and charitable work as he
was in politics, and he did much in behalf of the prisoners in
the state penitentiary of Rhode Island. He died suddenly
of heart failure at the age of sixty-four. The five
children, all living, were born in Pawtucket. John, the
oldest, now has charge of the advertising department of the
Providence Journal. Bernard J. has received the
degree Doctor of Philosophy at Brown University and has spent
three years in special research abroad. The third in age
is Joseph B. The two younger children, both
daughters, are Sarah and Mary, the former at home
and the latter known as Sister Beptille, a nun in
St. Xavier Convent at Pawtucket.
Joseph B. Keenan attended the public schools of
Pawtucket, graduating from high school in 1906, and in 1910 he
completed the classical course in Brown University, receiving
both the degrees A. B. and A. M. He has since taken
special work largely along lines of political science during
summer terms at Cornell University, University of Wisconsin.
University of Michigan and University of Chicago. His law
course was taken at Harvard University, from which he received
the degree Bachelor of Laws in 1913.
He then came to Cleveland and in December, 1913, was
admitted to the Ohio bar. In this city he began practice
with the law firm of Stanley & Horwitz, a firm in
the Williamson Building, but on Apr. 1, 1916, entered
practice for himself. Apr. 1, 1917, he and Robert D. Morgan
established the present firm of Morgan & Keenan in
the Guardian Building.
Mr. Keenan is unmarried and for the past
three years has made his home at the University Club. He
is a veteran of Troop A, Ohio National Guard, an organization
comprising some of the best citizens of Cleveland. He has
also served his troop as its secretary. He is active and
influential in the republican party and when Roosevelt
came to Cleveland in 1916 Mr. Keenan and two
others organized the Hughes League of Cleveland. Mr.
Keenan has given much time and thought to the union labor
investigations and during his summer course at the University of
Chicago he specialized in the subject of labor unions. He
is a member of the University Club and the Knights of Columbus,
the Cleveland Bar Association and St. Agnes Parish of Cleveland.
He has been admitted to practice in the United States District
Court.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
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ALFRED KELLEY.
Local history gives Alfred Kelley the distinction of
being the first resident attorney of Cleveland, the first
president of its village government, active in the organization
of its first bank, and in several other things a priority of
action and influence. However, his life is not to be
measured by these minor evidences of leadership. It was in
connection with the broader, more permanent and significant
issues of early Ohio and the City of Cleveland that his life and
work were most important. No other man was so vitally
identified with that great movement, common to the entire United
States at the time, known as the era of internal improvements,
which began early in the eighteenth century and came to a
somewhat disastrous conclusion in the middle '30s, the great
financial panic of 1837 coming as a consequence upon this period
of industrial building and inflation rather than a cause of the
decline. One notable result of this era of internal
improvements was the construction of the old Ohio Canal, a
transportation route largely conceived and carried out by the
genius of Alfred Kelley. This canal was soon superseded by
railroads, but in the meantime Cleveland, at the northern end of
the canal, had been fortified against all time as one of the
great cities of Ohio.
Hardly less important was the service rendered by
Alfred Kelley during the hard times that followed the
panic of 1837. When state credit was at a low ebb and when
citizens everywhere were clamoring for a relief from the burdens
of an onerous state debt, Alfred Kelley set
himself sternly against repudiation and largely through his own
resources and his personal credit he saved the financial honor
of Ohio.
Alfred Kelley was born in Middlefield,
near Middletown, Connecticut, Nov. 7, 1789. He was the
second son of Judge Daniel and Jemima (Stow) Kelley.
A more complete account of his family connections will be found
on other pages. Alfred Kelley was a New
Englander and had the best characteristics of its people.
From his mother's family he inherited intellectual force,
tenacity of purpose and a strong will. Through his father
he was left with a cool judgment, a disposition for thorough
investigation and an evenly balanced temperament. His
early associations were with the sturdy and well ordered
inhabitants of New England. His early life was also spent
in what might might be called the heroic age of America.
It was a time when the brilliant success of the independence
struggle filled men's hearts and minds and when Americans
carried their patriotic zeal almost to excess and were possessed
of indomitable energy and enterprise for conquering the
obstacles and dangers of environment and the new fields of the
West.
Alfred Kelley had the advantages of the
common schools and of Fairfield Academy. When he was about
ten years old his parents moved to Lowville, New York. In
1807 he entered the law offices of Judge Jonas
Piatt, of the Supreme Court of New York. In 1810,
being well qualified by his previous studies, he came out to
Cleveland, fourteen years after the first settlement had been
planted there. He rode horseback from New York in company
with his uncle, Judge Joshua Stow, and with
Jared P. Kirtland, who was then a young medical student.
When they arrived at Cleveland they found a settlement
containing three frame houses and six log houses. Mr.
Kelley was the first attorney to become a permanent
resident of Cleveland. He was admitted to the bar Nov. 7,
1810, and on the same day the court appointed him prosecuting
attorney. By successive appointments he held that office
until 1822. His career as a lawyer is obscured by his more
important activities as a statesman and financier, but all
accounts agree that he was a man of power in the advocacy of the
interests entrusted to him professionally, and for a number of
years he enjoyed as large and lucrative a practice as any
attorney in Northern Ohio.
Cleveland was chartered as a village Dec. 23, 1814, and
on the first Monday of June, 1815, its first village election
was held. There were twelve votes and all of them were
cast for Alfred Kelley as president of the
village. He filled that office only a few months,
resigning Mar. 19, 1816. and being succeeded by his father.
Judge Daniel Kelley, who was the second
president of the village.
On Aug. 25, 1817, Alfred Kelley married
Mary Seymour Welles, of Lowville, New York.
To bring his bride out to the Ohio wilderness and the Village of
Cleveland, then containing 100 inhabitants, Mr. Kelley
bought a one horse chaise made in Albany, New York, and some
days after the marriage he and his bride drove through the
Village of Cleveland, and the villagers not only showed a
cordial greeting to the bride and groom, but expressed
admiration over the first carriage brought to the town.
Mr. and Mrs. Kelley went to live in a
brick house on Water Street, now West Ninth Street, near
Superior Street. It was the best residence district and
also the business center of the town. Mr. Kelley
's home was the second brick house of the village, and a picture
of the old house is still extant. Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Kelley had eleven children.
In 1814 Mr. Kelley had been elected a
member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He and
William H. Harper represented a district then comprising the
counties of Cuyahoga, Ashtabula and Geauga. The
Legislature was still meeting at Chillicothe, the first capital
of the State of Ohio. In the session following his
election Mr. Kelley was the youngest member of the
House. He continued at intervals a member of the
Legislature, first as representative and then as senator, from
Cuyahoga and adjoining counties until 1823.
When the Commercial Bank of Erie, the first bank in
Cleveland, was organized in 1816, Alfred Kelley
was elected its president. In 1818, while a member of the
Legislature, he introduced the first bill, either in the United
States or Europe, providing for the abolition of imprisonment
for debt. This bill failed to pass but was a notable step
toward a great reform, which was not long delayed, and sending
people to prison for debt is now so obsolete that the custom has
passed almost from traditional memory.
In 1823 Mr. Kelley became one of the
State Canal Commission. This commission accomplished its
great task of building the Ohio Canal from Cleveland, its
northern terminus, to the Ohio River. In many respects the
canal was a monument to the enterprise, energy and sagacity of
Alfred Kelley, and as already stated it did more
than anything else to fortify Cleveland's position as a great
shipping center and commercial city. During the
construction of this canal Mr. Kelley removed
first to Akron and then to Columbus, and he spent the last years
of his life at the state capital. When the canal was completed
he resigned from the commission to recuperate his health and
look after his private affairs.
In October, 1836, Mr. Kelley was again
elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from
Franklin and re-elected for a succeeding term. He was
chairman of the Whig State Central Committee in 1840 and did a
great deal to arouse support in Ohio for the presidential
candidate Harrison, who was the first whig sent to the
White House.
From the beginning of the great panic of 1837 for a
number of years Mr. Kelley worked unceasingly to
strengthen and preserve the credit of the state at home and
abroad. In 1840 he was appointed state fund commissioner
and held that office until 1842. He did everything in his
power to combat that growing popular influence in the state
which advocated the non-payment of interest on the state debt
and even argued for repudiation of the debt itself. Rather
than have Ohio face dishonor Mr. Kelley went to
New York and to Europe and on his personal credit raised the
money to pay the interest, and in later years, when a saner
reaction followed, he was designated as the "savior of the honor
of the state."
In 1844 Mr. Kelley was elected to the
State Senate and served two consecutive terms. While in
the Senate he originated the bill to organize the State Bank of
Ohio and other banking companies. This measure, so
carefully drawn up by him, afterwards became the basis of the
national banking law prepared by Secretary of the Treasury Chase
and known as the National Bank Act of 1863. Mr.
Kelley closed his public career as a member from Columbus of
the State Senate in 1857. His health was gradually
declining, yet it was characteristic of his fidelity to his work
that he went daily to the Senate and helped carry out a number
of important measures. He was especially concerned with
financial legislation, and at every opportunity sought to
improve the condition of the state treasury and secure the
safety of the public funds. He also recognized the heavy
burdens borne by the people and was active in remodeling the tax
laws so as to relieve land owners from excessive taxation.
He should also be remembered as a constructive factor
in the upbuilding of Ohio's system of railways. He was
president of the Columbus and Xenia Railroad, and in 1845 he was
elected president of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati
Railroad, most of which was constructed under his direction. The
Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati was one of the first two
railroads built out of the City of Cleveland. It is now part of
the Big Four system. A great celebration occurred in
Cleveland on Feb. 21, 1851, attended by Governor Wood
and many other prominent officials. This was the occasion
of the running of the first train on the Cleveland, Columbus &
Cincinnati. It is said that when Alfred Kelley
was elected president of the road he assumed tremendous
responsibility in the task of raising money for its completion.
By his influence the city voted $200,000. Mr.
Kelley then called a mass meeting in Empire Hall, had the
doors locked, and it was announced that no one should be allowed
to leave until enough money had been raised to make a start on
construction work. Subscriptions came so rapidly that in a
short time the doors were opened. In 1850 Mr. Kelley
was elected president of the Cleveland, Painsville &
Ashtabula Railroad, now a part of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern of the New York Central lines. This road began
operating east from Cleveland in 1851. Mr.
Kelley finally resigned his executive offices with these
railroad companies, but remained a director until his death.
Alfred Kelley died at Columbus Dec. 2,
1859, a few weeks past the age of seventy. He had given
nearly half a century of his life to Ohio and its interests.
He was a strenuous worker, accomplished big things, and
practically wore himself out by faithful attention to his duties
as a financier and public official.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
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DANIEL KELLEY,
was one of the most prominent of the early settlers of
Cleveland, and numerous references to his name and career are
found elsewhere in this publication. To concentrate a few
of the more important facts of his personal history the
following sketch is given:
He was born at Norwich, Connecticut, Nov. 27, 1755.
He was a son of Daniel Kelley and
Abigail Reynolds Kelley, and a grandson of
Joseph and Lydia (Caulkins) Kelley. These grandparents
were among the early settlers of Norwich, Connecticut, where
they established their home in 1698.
Judge Daniel Kelley moved to
Middletown, Connecticut, where in 1787 he married Jemima
Stow. Her brother, Joshua Stow, was
one of the thirty-five original members of the Connecticut Land
Company and one of the surveying party which with Moses
Cleaveland founded the City of Cleveland in 1796.
In 1798 Daniel Kelley removed to
Lowville, New York, and while there was elected first judge of
Lewis County. In the fall of 1814 he came to Cleveland,
whither his previous reputation followed him, so that he was
almost at once a man of importance in the community.
In March, 1816, he was elected to succeed his son
Alfred as president of the Village of Cleveland, an office
to which he was re-elected in 1817, 1818 and 1819. He was
also postmaster of Cleveland until 1817, when he was succeeded
by his son, Irad Kelley. In 1816, with his
son, Alfred, Datus and Irad, Judge
Kelley was among the incorporators of a company for the
building of the first pier at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.
In many other ways he was a factor in movements of
importance in the early life of the city and he lived here until
his death on Aug. 7, 1831.
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HARMON A. KELLEY.
It would be difficult to find in Ohio or in any other state a
group of lawyers with a higher degree of specialization of
ability and more thoroughly covering the general branches of
jurisprudence than those who are members of or practicing under
the firm Hoyt, Dustin, Kelley, McKeehan
& Andrews in the Western Reserve Building at
Cleveland.
Of this firm Hermon A. Kelley has long enjoyed
first rank as an admiralty lawyer. Besides his well won
distinctions in the profession, his career is interesting in a
history of Cleveland because he represents family names of the
oldest antiquity and prominence in Northern Ohio. In his
paternal line the record goes back to Joseph Kelley,
who was born in 1690 and was one of the early settlers at
Norwich. Connecticut, where he died in 1716. Of a later
generation Daniel Kelley was born in Norwich Mar.
15, 1726, and died in Vermont in 1814. He was the
father of Judge Daniel Kelley, the
great-grandfather of Hermon A.
Judge Daniel Kelley was prominent in Cleveland's
early history. He was born at Norwich, Connecticut, Nov.
27, 1755, and died at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1831.
Judge Daniel Kelley was the second president
or mayor of the Village of Cleveland. The first president
of the village upon its incorporation in 1814 was Judge
Daniel's son, Alfred Kelley, to whose career a
special biography is devoted on other pages. Alfred Kelley
resigned his post as village president on Mar. 19, 1816, and was
succeeded by his father, Judge Daniel, who
received a unanimous election. Considering his standing as
a man and other qualifications it is not strange that he was the
unanimous choice of the twelve voters who then composed the
electorate of the village. Thus members of the Kelley
family had an active part in shaping the policy of Cleveland
when it was in no special way distinguished from other
settlements along the Lake Erie shore.
Judge Daniel Kelley married Jemima
Stow. Her father, Elihu Stow, was a
soldier of the American army throughout the period of the
Revolutionary war. On account of that service his
descendants in the Kelley family have eligibility
to membership in the Sons and Daughters of the American
Revolution. Joshua Stow, a brother of
Jemima, was a member of the Connecticut Land Company which
acquired by purchase most of the Western Reserve from the State
of Connecticut. Joshua Stow was a member of
the surveying party which, under the leadership of Gen.
Moses Cleaveland, landed at the mouth of the
Cuyahoga River and founded the City of Cleveland in 1796.
Datus Kelley, oldest son of Judge
Daniel Kelley and grandfather of the Cleveland lawyer,
was born at Middlefield, Connecticut, Apr. 24, 1788. For a
number of years he lived on his farm near Rocky Run, but in 1833
bought the entire island since known as Kelley 's Island in Lake
Erie, near the City of Sandusky. That island comprises
about 3,000 acres. Datus Kelley moved his
family to this island in 1836, and with the aid of his six sons
most of the early development of that island was carried on. Datus
Kelley died at Kelley 's Island Jan. 24, 1866.
Besides his six sons he had three daughters. Of his sons
Alfred S. Kelley, father of Hermon A., was the
business head of the family.
Alfred S. Kelley was born at Rockport, Ohio,
Dec. 23, 1826. He planned and put into execution the
cultivation and improvement of Kelley 's Island, and the
industrial development there even to the present day has been
influenced by his work. He was also a prominent business
man, was a merchant, banker, owned docks and steamboat lines,
and in his time was considered one of the most prominent
business men of Northern Ohio.
Alfred S. Kelley married Hannah Parr.
She was born at Rockport, Ohio, Aug. 9, 1837, and died Feb. 4,
1889. Her ancestry is traced back to Stephen
Farr of Acton, Massachusetts, who was married May 23, 1674.
The line of descent comes down through Joseph Farr,
Sr., of Acton, Joseph Parr, Jr., who was
born at Acton Aug. 3, 1743, Eliel Farr, who was
born at Cummington, Massachusetts, June 16, 1777, and died at
Rockport, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1865, and Aurelius Farr,
father of Hannah Farr Kelley, who was born
Sept. 18, 1798, and died Dec. 11, 1862.
Hermon A. Kelley began life with the heritage of
a good family name and with all the advantages that considerable
wealth and social position can bestow. He was born at
Kelley 's Island May 15, 1859, was educated in public schools
and Buchtel College at Akron, where he graduated A. B. in 1879
and soon afterwards put into execution his plan to study law. In
1882 he was granted the degree of Bachelor of Laws by Harvard
Law School, and he also had the privileges of a student
resilience abroad, during which time he took special work in
Roman law at the University of Goettingen, Germany. In
1897 his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree
Doctor of Laws.
Mr. Kelley began practice in 1884 at
Detroit, but a year later removed to Cleveland, where he was a
partner with Arthur A. Stearns until 1891. In that year
Mr. Kelley became first assistant corporation
counsel of Cleveland, and on retiring from that office in 1893
became junior partner of the firm of Hoyt, Dustin
& Kelley. During its existence of more than twenty
years this partnership has grown in strength and ability until
it is reckoned as second to none among the law firms of the
state. Later Homer H. McKeehan and Horace
Andrews were admitted to the partnership.
Mr. Kelley 's specialty, as already
noted, is admiralty law. His knowledge of marine law and
affairs is so comprehensive and exact that his opinions have
come to be accepted as authority by his fellow lawyers and are
seldom seriously questioned in courts.
While devoted to his profession and strictly a lawyer.
Mr. Kelley has taken a commendable interest in
public affairs in his home city, and at every opportunity has
sought to strengthen the arms of good government and extend the
work and prestige of the city. He is an active republican,
is a member of the Union Club, University Club, Country Club,
Roadside Club and Euclid Club. He also belongs to the
Cleveland, Ohio State and American Bar associations. Mr.
Kelley is president
of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and
also of the Western Reserve Society of the same order. He
is a trustee and is secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland
Museum of Art and was a member of the building committee which
had charge of the erection of the beautiful new Art Building.
He is also a member of the board of trustees of Buchtel College,
now the Municipal University of Cleveland.
Mr. Kelley was married Sept. 3, 1889, to
Miss Florence A. Kendall. Her father was Maj.
Frederick A. Kendall of the United States Regular Army.
Her mother, Virginia (Hutchinson) Kendall, was a daughter
of one of the noted Hutchinson family of singers
of New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley have three
children: Virginia Hutchinson, Alfred Kendall
and Hayward Kendall.
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HORACE KELLEY.
Every citizen of Cleveland knows and appreciates
the name and services of Horace Kelley if for no other
reason than because his liberality gave the bulk of the fortune
which enabled the city to erect and maintain its magnificent
museum of art.
Nearly all his fortune ,estimated of upwards of
$600,000, Horace Kelley left to trustees for the purpose
of founding a museum of art in Cleveland. This sum,
together with subsequent accumulations, was combined with funds
given by the late John Huntington and made it
possible to found in Cleveland a museum of art that is today one
of the chief sources of civic pride among the people of
Cleveland.
Horace Kelley was born at Cleveland July
18, 1819, and spent his life in that city, where he died Dec. 4,
1890. He was a member of the Kelley family
that from the earliest times in Cleveland have been factors in
its history and development. He was a son of Joseph
Reynolds and Betsey (Gould) Kelley and was a grandson of
Judge Daniel Kelley, who with his sons Datus,
Alfred, Irad, Joseph R. and Thomas Moore
Kelley inaugurated the Kelley family
activities in Cleveland during the years from 1810 to 1814.
Horace Kelley spent his active life
largely in the management of extensive properties, including
lands in the heart of Cleveland, and also the Isle St. George,
now North Bass Island. One of the wealthy men of the city,
he employed his means not only as a public benefactor but also
in following his tastes as a traveler, and altogether he spent a
number of years of his life abroad. Horace
Kelley married Fanny Miles, of Elyria, Ohio.
Mrs. Kelley is now living at Los Angeles,
California. They had no children.
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S. W. Kelley |
SAMUEL WALTER KELLEY.
American physicians and surgeons generally hardly need to be
informed about the attainments and the work of Doctor
Kelley of Cleveland, and a very great number of people even
outside the profession know something of what he has done and
the influence he has exerted as an eminent surgeon and
pediatrist.
Doctor Kelley was born at Adamsville in
Muskingum County, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1855, a son of Walter and
Selina Catherine (Kaemmerer) Kelley. His schoolboy
life was spent at Zanesville, Ohio, and St. Joseph, Michigan.
In 1874, when only nineteen, he made definite choice of the
medical profession, but after two years of study failing health
compelled an outdoor life and the following five years were
spent as a sailor at sea and on the southwestern frontier in the
cattle and Indian country.
Returning then to Ohio, he resumed his studies in the
medical department of Western Reserve University, and graduated
M. D. in 1884. He soon became attracted to the teaching
force of the college, working first in the surgical and
gynecological clinics and afterwards for seven years, from 1886
to 1893, was chief of the Department of Diseases of Children of
the Polyclinic of Western Reserve. During that time he
conducted a clinic that came to be recognized as the largest of
any in the city.
In 1893 he was made Professor of Diseases of Children
in the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, then the
Medical Department of Wooster University. That position he
held until 1910. In addition to active practice Dr.
Kelley was for sixteen years editor of the Cleveland Medical
Gazette, 1885 to 1901.
Doctor Kelley pursued post-graduate work
in his specialty in New York and London and found time for much
general study and travel in the West Indies, Europe, Mexico and
the Orient. During the Spanish-American war he entered the
army as a civilian surgeon and was recommended to Washington
"for efficiency in the field under the most trying
circumstances." He was commissioned brigade surgeon, with
the rank of major, Aug. 17, 1898.
In the twenty years since that brief war Doctor
Kelley has specialized his practice at Cleveland in
orthopedics and surgical diseases of children, and it is through
his work in that field that his name is most widely known both
at home and abroad. He has served as pediatrist and
orthopedist of St. Luke's Hospital, and chief of staff of that
hospital, was secretary of the medical staff of the Cleveland
City Hospital from 1891 to 1899, and its president from 1899 to
1902, and was pediatrist for the City Hospital from 1893 to
1910. He also served as pediatrist and orthopedist at St.
Clair Hospital and surgeon in chief to Holy Cross Home for
Crippled and Invalid Children. He served as chairman of
the section on Diseases of Children in the American Medical
Association in 1900-01, was twice president of the Ohio State
Pediatric Society, in 1896 and 1897, and when at Atlantic City a
new medical organization was perfected known as the Association
of American Teachers of Diseases of Children, Doctor
Kelley was the first to be honored with the office of
president, which he held during 1907-08. He is also a
member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United
States, the Ohio State Medical Association and Fellow of the
American College of Surgeons, is a republican and belongs to the
Cleveland Athletic Club.
When the United States entered the world war against
Germany, Doctor Kelley, though his age was a bar
to entering the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States Army,
went to France early in May, 1917, and volunteered in the
American Field Service as surgeon. With that organization
he did duty with the French army in the Zone Avanceѐ,
until after the arrival of the American Expeditionary forces.
He then donated his abilities to the American Red Cross in
hospital work and other activities until late in December, 1917,
when he returned home to Cleveland. During 1918, in the
interests of the war program, he delivered numerous lectures
based on his observations and experiences.
July 2, 1884, Doctor Kelley married
Amelia Kemmerlein, of Wooster, Ohio. They had two children,
Walter Paul deceased; and Catherine Mildred wife of
Mr. William Reed Taylor of Cleveland.
For all the immense value of his personal services it
is fortunate that the scope of his influence has been greatly
broadened through his work as a teacher and also as an author.
Dr. Kelley 's first book was "About Children,"
published in 1897, and consisting of six lectures delivered to
nurses in training. Of this book the Medical Standard
said: "It furnishes a vast amount of practical information in
small compass and will be invaluable to intelligent parents,
nurses, students and practitioners. The author's style is
clear, strong, and condensed. He has a very happy way of
impressing important facts indelibly upon his readers. He
is always entertaining, often epigrammatic and never prolix or
wearisome."
It was rather a surprise when Doctor Kelley's
next book appeared, since it had the facinating form of a
conventional novel, and was published in the Doctor's Recreation
Series under the title "In the Year 1800." Its subtitle
was "The Relation of Sundry Events Occurring in the Life of
Dr. Jonathan Brush During that Year," and
while there were various threads of romance woven into the
story, the book fundamentally was an exposition of medical
science and method at the beginning of the nineteenth century
described in such a way as to show most effectively the
wonderful advance in medical and surgical knowledge and skill
during the past century.
While less well known to the general public the Magnum
Opus of Doctor Kelley is "Surgical Diseases of
Children," first published in 1909, with a second edition in
1914. The work, as one of the medical journals stated,
"marks an important epoch in pediatrics in this country, for it
is the first of its kind by an American author." It became
the subject of reviews, editorials and other discussions in all
the leading medical journals. The American Journal of
Clinical Medicine speaking of the second edition said: "Dr.
Kelley stands almost alone so far as the literature of
this country is concerned in his demonstration of the deep lying
difference which distinguish and separate the surgical diseases
of children from those of adults, and in his clinical
application of these differences. We have no hesitation in
declaring that Doctor Kelley's book is a great
work, not alone in its actual contents, but in the broad
viewpoint in which it puts the whole subject of which it treats.
Clinically it is as complete as care and judgment could make it.
Scientifically it is almost epochal."
Up to the time of the appearance of the first edition
there was no compact and readily accessible work in the English
language on surgical diseases of children. Many such
complications appeared after Doctor Kelley's
pioneer undertaking, but as a writer in the Post Graduate of New
York indicated, there was not one "whose author has covered the
ground so thoroughly or with the same unerring instinct, one
might say, as to the choice of material and manner of
presentation, as the pioneer writer in this field." The
same reviewer, referring to the revised edition, states that it
has resulted in "firmly establishing the book as the most
authoritative as well as the most popular work on the surgical
diseases of infants and children in this country, if not
throughout the English speaking world."
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 389 - Vol. III |
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JOHN T. KELLY.
About twenty years ago John T. Kelly entered the office
of Capt. W. C. Richardson at Cleveland as a stenographer
and by close and faithful attention to the details of duty and
by learning everything there is to learn in the general field of
Great Lakes transportation, he has advanced to a partnership in
W. C. Richardson & Company and is today one of the best
known figures in transportation circles around the Great Lakes.
Extended reference is made on other pages to the operations of
W. C. Richardson & Company as vessel owners and brokers
and marine insurance agents.
Mr. Kelly was born in Cleveland May 1, 1876, a
son of Peter and Mary E. (Boyle) Kelly. Both
parents were born in Ireland and were brought to America when
about seven years of age. They have lived in Cleveland
since 1871 with the exception of a few years spent at
Titusville, Pennsylvania, and since 1889 Peter Kelly
has been employed at the Perry Paine Building.
John T. Kelly, youngest of the five children of
his parents still living, was educated in St. Joseph 's Academy
at Titusville, Pennsylvania, whither his parents removed when he
was about four years of age. The family returned to
Cleveland in 1889, and John continued his education in
the Cathedral School for one year and subsequently attended
Caton 's Business College.
His first practical training in business was acquired
as an office boy for the Babcock and Wilcox Boiler
Company. He remained with that firm four years, and then
in March, 1895, went to work as stenographer for Capt. W. C.
Richardson, when the latter 's offices were in the Perry
Paine Building. Prom the first Mr. Kelly
did his work with enthusiasm and soon proved not only a master
of routine and detail, but with every opportunity fitted himself
for the responsibilities and endeavored to anticipate all
possible demands that might be made of him. The result
might have been foreseen and in January, 1908, he was made a
member of the firm and since then has become the real executive
and has assumed an increasing burden of the responsibilities
from the shoulders of Captain Richardson.
Today nearly all the decisions regarding the operating end of
the business conducted by W. C. Richardson & Company are
referred to and made by Mr. Kelly.
Considering his years, he is undoubtedly one of the best known
men around the Great Lakes. He knows practically everyone
in the vessel business and there is probably not a
transportation office from Buffalo
to Duluth where Mr. Kelly would be unknown.
He was associated with Captain Richardson in some
of the most important sales of lake boats during the winter of
1915-16, when this company acted as brokers in the transfer of
twenty-two large lake vessels.
Mr. Kelly is a republican in politics, is
a member of Cleveland Lodge No. 18 Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks, and of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish of the Catholic
Church. On Feb. 16, 1907, in St. John's Cathedral at
Cleveland he married Miss Mary E. McGlynn. Mrs.
Kelly was born in England of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was
eight years of age when she came with her parents to the United
States. Both parents have been dead a number of years.
She received her first advantages in a school at Hanley,
Staffordshire, England, and completed her education in the
Cathedral School at Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly
reside at 1398
East Ninety-fourth Street. Their three children are:
John T., Jr., Marion Katherine and Clarence E.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 213 - Vol. II |
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SHELDON
QUAYLE KERRUISH, a Cleveland lawyer since 885, is now
active head of the firm Kerruish, Kerruish, Hartshorn &
Spooner, one of the largest and most important legal firms
in Northern Ohio. The senior partner is William S.
Kerruish, who as elsewhere mentioned is the oldest
practicing attorney of the Cleveland bar today, and while
in his office daily he has gradually turned over to his son and
other partners the heavier responsibilities of practice.
Sheldon Quayle Kerruish was born at Cleveland
Feb. 26, 1861, a son of William S. and Margaret (Quayle)
Kerruish. As a boy he attended public and private
schools in Cleveland, graduating from the Brooks School in 1878.
He then entered Yale College, from which he received the
bachelor of arts degree in 1883. Mr. Kerruish took
up the study of law in his father's office and was admitted to
the bar in 1885 and later became a partner with his father.
After some years the firm of Kerruish & Kerruish was
enlarged by the admission of George E. Hartshorn and
George W. Spooner, making the firm title as above given.
The offices are in the Society for Savings Building. The
firm does general practice in all courts and in all branches of
the civil law.
While his profession has called upon him for almost constant
devotion and study, Mr. Kerrruish has formed connections
with various business corporations in which he is serving as a
director. For seven years he was a member of Troop A of
the Ohio Cavalry. He is a democrat in politics, a member
of the Masonic Order and Psi Upsilon College Society and belongs
to the Union Club of Cleveland, the Yale Club of New York City,
the Nisi Prius Club of Cleveland and the Cleveland Bar
Association. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. Mr. Kerruish is unmarried.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New
York - 1918 - Page 161 |
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WILLIAM
SHELDON KERRUISH. Those lawyers who were concerned
with the Cleveland bar before the great civil conflict which
rent the nation have almost without exception long since laid
down their briefs and have either retired or have been called to
the greater bar. A notable exception is William S.
Kerruish, now recognized as the oldest practicing attorney
in Cleveland. Eight-six years of age, he is still hale and
vigorous, and has much of the versatility and the fluency which
so long characterized his splendid efforts as a trial lawyer.
He has been a member of the bar almost sixty years.
Mr. Kerruish was born in Warrensville, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, Oct. 30, 1831. His parents, William and
Jane (Kelly) Kerruish, were born born in the Isle of Man.
After their marriage they emigrated to the United States in
1827, locating in Warrensville, Ohio, where the father followed
farming. The mother died in 1883, having outlived her
husband; and Mr. Kerruish's only sister, Mrs. Jane
Caine, is now deceased.
William S. Kerruish owes his long and
industrious life partly to the inheritance of sturdy stock and
partly to his wholesome rural environment when a boy.
There is hardly a finer exemplar of "mens sana in corpore sano."
He has not only possessed a vigorous body and a vigorous mind,
but a mind of unusual range of interest and attainments.
As a boy he attended the public schools at Warrensville and
prepared for college in the Twinsburg Institute. In 1852
he entered the sophomore class of Western Reserve College,
continued his studies there two years, at the close of which he
was admitted to the senior class of Yale College. He was
graduated from Yale with the class of 1855, and is now one of
the last survivors of that class. The year following his
graduation from Yale he taught languages in Twinsburg Institute,
and in 1857 began the active study of law in the office of
Ranney, Backus & Noble. Admitted to the bar in 1858 by
examination before the Supreme Court at Columbus, he at once
became a competitor for the professional honors in the Cleveland
bar and has outlived practically all of his many eminent
contemporaries. After practicing alone for a time he
became a member of the firm of Hayes & Kerruish, and was
again alone after the dissolution of the partnership. He
became head of the firm of Kerruish & Heisley, and later
was a partner of George T. Chapman as Kerruish &
Chapman, and in time his son, S. Q. Kerruish, was
admitted to partnership. On the death of Mr. Chapman
in 1906, the firm became Kerruish & Kerruish. In
1912, George E. Hartshorn and George W. Spooner
were admitted to the partnership, whose title continues as
Kerruish, Kerruish, Hartshorn & Spooner,
with the offices in the Society for Savings Building in the City
of Cleveland.
In his early career Mr. William S. Kerruish took
an active part in political live. He was a republican in
those days, and still leans to that party, though his actions in
the main are independent. In time his law practice became
so extensive and involved so much of his study and attention
that he felt obliged to forego the privilege of participation in
political affairs.
As a lawyer he has especially excelled in the trial of
cases. As a trial lawyer his work was difficult and
onerous for many years, and he has been connected with the trial
of as large and important a volume of litigation as perhaps any
other lawyer in Northern Ohio. He early distinguished
himself by his success in murder cases. He is an orator of
no mean ability, and a power to express himself forcibly and
fluently was a large factor in his professional reputation.
Many times he has appeared on public occasions as a speaker, and
he has been as much at home in discussing economic and civic
questions as in the logical and persuasive dialectics of the
court room.
Cleveland perhaps has no more gifted student and master
of languages. Gaelic was his mother tongue and he is one
of the few living Americans who have a perfect familiarity with
that language and its literature. He also acquired the
German; and the Latin language and literature have been
subjects of life-long study with him. In other realms of
knowledge his interest has been attracted by economics, and for
years he has carried on a careful investigation of economic
problems and has used his broad information in promoting public
progress and in behalf of various local organizations.
Mr. Kerruish is the father of an interesting
family. He was married in 1859 to Miss Margaret Quayle,
a native of the Isle of Man. She came to the United States
when a young girl. Nine children were born to them and six
are still living: Sheldon Q., law partner of his father;
Mona, at home; Maud, now Mrs. M. S. Towson;
Grace Antoinette, now Mrs. E. S. Whitney; Miriam
G., now Mrs. C. W. Stage; and Helen Constance,
now Mrs. F. D. Buffum. Mr. Kerruish has ten
grandchildren. He and his family attend St. Paul's
Episcopal Church.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 160 |
F. R. Klaus |
FRED R. KLAUS.
There is a measure of justifiable pride that a man may have in
knowing that he has built up his own fortunes and has secured
position and independence, not through the help of someone else,
but through his own efforts, and this is as it should be.
One of the responsible business men of Cleveland, now occupying
a high position in the iron industry, is Fred R. Klaus,
who is vice president of the Cleveland Welding Company.
America has been his home since boyhood and he has enjoyed
American opportunities, but these alone would not have been
sufficient to advance him very far without his own perseverance,
industry and wholesome way of life.
Fred R. Klaus came to America from Germany,
where he was born Aug. 26, 1873, when he was eleven years old.
His parents were Frederick and Margaret
Klaus, both of whom died in Germany. Of their four
children, Fred R. and three daughters, the son, the
second in order of birth, is the only one who ever came to the
United States. He accompanied his uncle, Charles
Baus, from Saxony, and they came to Cleveland. The
uncle was not able to do much for the boy except see that he
attended the Lutheran school, and very early Fred became
self-supporting, working at anything that he could find to do
until he was fifteen years old, when he went into the country
and for two years was employed on a farm.
Perhaps had Mr. Klaus remained on the
farm he might have become one of the agricultural barons of
Cuyahoga County, but he early showed strong leanings in an
entirely different direction, mechanical aptness and facility
with tools, that strongly indicated the line in which he might
be most successful. After he returned to Cleveland he
became an employe of the Standard Tool Company in this city and
remained with that concern in the drill works for the next ten
years, through self-denial and hardship gradually advancing
until he was recognized as an expert worker. Mr.
Klaus then went with the Standard Welding Company and worked
there until 1912, developing special ability, and then came to
the Cleveland Welding Company. Of this plant he is now
general manager and is vice president of the company. It
is a fact to be proud of that in comparatively so short a time,
through his own ability and diligence, he has been able to climb
from the bottom of the industrial ladder to a position of such
great importance. He has under his supervision this entire
plant, one of the larger concerns of the city, that gives
employment to 550 men, and is responsible for the smooth working
of men and machinery, for the steady output and, in a way, for
the profitable continuance of the business.
Mr. Klaus was married at Cleveland, July
14, 1895, to Miss Margaret Fenzel.
Her parents were Frank and Catherine
Fenzel, the former of whom followed the trade of molder He
is now deceased, but the mother of Mrs. Klaus
still lives in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Klaus
have three children: Gertrude, who was born Nov. 6, 1900;
Fred, who was born July 13, 1914; and Elizabeth,
who was born Oct. 13, 1917. Miss Gertrude is
a high school graduate and as she possesses musical talent, her
father is giving her an opportunity to perfect herself in the
art. Mr. Klaus owns the attractive family
home situated at No. 3112 West Boulevard. Although an
independent voter, Mr. Klaus is a careful and
earnest citizen and takes pride in Cleveland's industrial
prominence and her many advantages as a place of residence and
is ever ready to do his share in adding to the general welfare.
He belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters, and to
National Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 404 - Vol. III |
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VIRGIL P. KLINE.
One of the most distinctive personalities and for years an
eminent lawyer of Ohio was the late Virgil P. Kline,
whose sudden death at his home in Cleveland Jan. 18, 1917,
brought a long and eventful career to a close.
Mr. Kline had been a resident of
Cleveland nearly half a century, for many years was personal
attorney of John D. Rockefeller, and for thirty years was
attorney for the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. The last
professional work he did was obtaining an injunction against the
collection of taxes on Rockefeller's personal property in
East Cleveland. He was noted as being as powerful and
resourceful in intellect as he was vigorous and determined in
contesting the interests of his clients before court or jury.
He was a master of many involved and complicated branches of
learning aside from the law itself, and had made a close study
of financial and economic questions. He served the
Standard Oil Company in all its legal fights in Ohio.
No lawyer in Ohio was a more ready or powerful
advocate, or more industrious as a student of his cases.
To a remarkable degree he commanded the confidence of the court
and enjoyed many warm friendships among the judges and members
of the bar. He possessed an extraordinary talent for
effective work and was a genius for quick and comprehensive
perception and safe judgment. Wherever he went he was
recognized as a man of forceful ability, of decided opinions and
distinctive personality. In physique he resembled
Napoleon and that resemblance was frequently noted since he
possessed the same qualities as a fighter as did the Little
Corporal. In his personal relations he was regarded as
most approachable and kindly, and many younger members of the
Cleveland bar have reason to be grateful for his assistance and
advice. Speaking of Mr. Kline's individual
traits one who was a very close friend says: "I have known many
men, but he less than any man of my acquaintance manifested the
least jealousy of rivals. He was so big, strong and
courageous he did not need to see or fear them."
Virgil P. Kline was born at Congress in Wayne
County, Ohio, Nov. 3, 1844, and was in his seventy-third year
when he died. His parents were Anthony and Eliza Jane
(Montgomery) Kline. When he was a boy his parents
removed to Conneaut in Ashtabula County, and he grew up and
received his early education in the public schools there.
At Conneaut in 1860, when not yet sixteen years of age, young
Kline and a boy companion O. M. Hall also an Ohioan
by birth and who afterwards attained distinction as a
Congressman from Minnesota, started a little newspaper,
publishing it as partners under firm name Kline & Hall,
editors and proprietors. It was a full year of national
destiny, when Lincoln & Douglas were the rival candidates
of their respective parties in the North. The boys
published the paper until the opening of the presidential
campaign. Young Kline was an ardent Douglas
democrat and Hall was equally zealous in behalf of the
republican party. Differing in politics, the boys
determined to break up partnership. Kline told
Hall he would pay him two dollar and a half if the latter
would publish the remaining two issues of the little paper which
they had been issuing monthly. Hall accepted the
offer and the next two issues were highly colored with his views
on politics and with his fervid republican principles. The
paper was called "The Young American," and was devoted to
literature, news, fun, poetry, etc. While it did not have
a large circulation, it was an enterprise of considerable
distinction considering the youth of the editors, and was read
in many family circles. The paper contained four pages,
and was a nine by eleven inch sheet. Not long afterward
Hall moved to Minnesota and became a democrat himself, and
he and Mr. Kline were always the best of friends.
During the early '60s Mr. Kline pursued
preparatory studies in the Eclectic Institute at Hiram, Ohio,
and in 1866 was graduated from Williams College. His first
important responsibility in life was as a teacher, and for two
years he was superintendent of schools at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
He then came to Cleveland and took up the study of law in the
office of Albert T. Slade. Admitted to the bar of
Ohio Sept. 15, 1869, he began practice in association with Mr.
Slade under the firm name of Slade & Kline,
and that partnership continued until the death of the senior
partner in 1876. Subsequently Mr. Kline was
associated with John M. Henderson, and when S. H. Tolles
joined the firm it took the name of Henderson, Kline
& Tolles. Mr. Henderson withdrew in
1895, and a year later W. F. Carr and F. H. Goff
were admitted, making the firm title, Kline, Carr,
Tolles & Goff. This was succeeded by
Kline, Tolles & Morley. At the time of
his death Mr. Kline was senior member of the firm
of Kline, Clevenger, Buss & Holliday.
Their offices were in the East Ohio Gas Building.
Mr. Kline was a lifelong democrat.
He had a reputation as an orator that was not confined entirely
to the court room. He always took a lively interest in
public questions and affairs, and his addresses on various
topics were accorded the closest of attention as expressions of
the unusual personality of the orator and also because they were
full of information and meaning. In 1891 he was mentioned
as the democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, and on several
occasions was the candidate for his party for the Common Pleas,
Circuit and Supreme Benches. Mr. Kline was a
member of the Union and University Clubs and the Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity; was a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
and belonged to the Castalia Fishing Club of Castalia, Ohio, and
the University Club of New York. Much of his wide
information he gained by reading in his private library, which
is said to have been one of the finest in Cleveland.
Though a man of wealth, he led the simple life and his tastes
ran chiefly to books, bronzes and oriental rugs. He was
one of the founders of the Cleveland Bar Association, and at its
first meeting in March, 1873, was elected corresponding
secretary. Subsequently he served as president of the Ohio
Bar Association. He did much to elevate the courts of Ohio
to their present high standards.
Mr. Kline was survived by his widow, one son and
two daughters. Mrs. Kline was formerly Miss
Effie Ober. The son, Virgil P. Kline, Jr.,
is a resident of Parkersburg, West Virginia. The
daughters are Mrs. Charles S. Brooks of New York City and
Mrs. Carlyle Pope of Cleveland, wife of Dr. Carlyle
Pope.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 13 - Vol. II |
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