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Edward C. McKay

EDWARD CREIGHTON McKAY, a son of the late Capt. George A. McKay of Cleveland and Margaret Adam (Creech) McKay, has played a successful and important role in Cleveland, first in the development and management of several industries, and latterly as a real estate man.
     He was born in Cleveland Nov. 19, 1876, was educated in the public schools, and after graduating from the Central High School entered the employ of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce under Ryerson Ritchie, who was then its secretary.  He was with the Chamber of Commerce four years and during that time profited by his position in gaining a close insight into the business organization and acquaintance with business men.  When Mr. Ritchie organized The American Trust Company he went with his old employer.  The American Trust Company has since been merged with The Citizens Savings & Trust Company.  When Mr. Ritchie left the bank, Mr. McKay became chief clerk of the local office of the Carnegie Steel Company and later held the position of chief clerk and local auditor with The United States Steel Corporation.  He was in this office during the period that Andrew Carnegie acquired the great iron ore mines and transportation facilities on the Great Lakes.
     In 1901 he left the steel corporation to become secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Rubber Company and was with that firm three yeas, or until selling out his interest.  He then became principal owner of the business conducted under the name of the Bodifield Belting Company.  In the three years time increased the business of this company nearly ten times.  In 1909 he withdrew from this business to devote his time  exclusively to real estate, immediately specializing in downtown and ninety-nine-year leases, also railroad and factory sites.  He practically secured under option all the property for the new terminal being promoted by O. P. & M. J. Van Sweringen in the territory from the Public Square to East Ninth Street, Hill Street and between Ontario and West third streets.
     Rather a remarkable thing in connection with the real estate business he devoted nearly all his time to buying and optioning property for others.  Very seldom offered any property for sale.  He has clienteles who are familiar with his ability to tactfully option property.  Due to his wide experience and his keen sense of values he has been able to have satisfied clients.  One of his favorite expressions is "Property bought right is half sold."  He believes taht it takes an entirely different character of real estate man to buy than it does to sell, and that sooner or later the buying public will realize this and when in the market to buy will turn this class of work over to a specialist.
     Since the beginning of the World war Mr. McKay has been very much interested in military affairs.  He is a member of the old Gatling Gun Battery and for two years a member of the Naval Reserve.  It has been his good fortune to meet many foreign as well as American officers.  As a result he is practically conducting a military business under his own name, publishing the following books: "Machine Gun Fire Control," by Maj. Glenn P. Wilhelm of the Regular Army; "Military Map Reading and Intelligence Training," by Capt. C. D. A. Barber, C. E. F., and "The New Platoon Instructor," by Capt. T. H. Gillman, C. E. F.; Milometer ballistic slide rule designed by Maj. Glenn  P. Wilhelm for calculating all problems in triangulation where United States service ammunition is used.  Recently he received a letter from Col. James H. Parker of the One Hundred and Second Infantry, A. E. F., regarding the foregoing books and tools, an extract of which is as  follows:  "There is no text book published that begins to compare with Captain Wilhelm's book on the 'Machine Gun Fire Control,' and I have not seen any platoon instructor as good as Gillman's.  'The Military Map Reading' is by far better than anything else I have ever seen and it brings down to date a lot of valuable information which is not collected in any other book.  These four items of equipment should be in the possession of every officer of infantry.  When their contents are mastered by a young ofcer his military training needs only experience to make it complete.  You are welcome to use this comment and I trust that your distribution of the equipment mentioned may be entirely successful."
     In addition to the publishing of books he is producing a tool called the Bowen sighting disc to teach raw recruits how to shoot.  Major Brookhart, assistant chief instructor of rifle practice in the United States Army ahs stated that he has trained over two thousand instructors for the army with the use of this tool.  There is a book of instructions which goes with the tool.  It might be of interest to state that in this book there is introduced a new low position of firing for sharp shooters and snipers which is much lower than the present American position.
     Recently Mr. McKay has produced a tool designed by Maj. Glenn P. Wilhelm of the Regular Army called the True North Finder for getting the true north instead of the magnetic north.  A very interesting booklet accompanies this tool.  In addition Mr. McKay is also producing a very complete line of protractors for the use of all branches of the service.  These are produced in celluloid.  There are two designs of round protractor eight inches in diameter for the use of infantry and machine gunners; one semi-circular for the same purpose and one semi-circular for the use of artillery.
     Mr. McKay recently submitted for the marines a design of artillery protractor which undoubtedly will be accepted by that branch of the service.  In addition to that he has been requested by the machine gun section of the army to submit a design for protractor for teaching the raw recruits the mil system of angular measurement.  He believes that he will secure the work of producing this tool.
     It might be of interest to state that the milometer slide rule which he is delivering to the army in this country and France will do all the mil scale rule will do; all any fire control computing slide will do and more, and the milometer can be used equally as well as mil scale, a protractor or slopeboard.  It has nine or ten exclusive features that no other known rule has.  This rule will mechanically figure range, angles, determine widths, calculate any sight setting or elevation for direct fire, indirect fire, searching fire, combined sights overhead control and map problems.  Will also convert the metric system to English and vice versa.
     Mr. McKay has been working on a loader for the Lewis machine gun for over a year and finally after working and developing some foreign models which proved unsatisfactory he acquired the interest in a loader designed by Frank M. Case of this city, which has been developed successfully, and in test before United States and British governments have broken all records for loading ammunition into the pans, equally as well from boxes, clips or by hand.  This machine unloads the pans as well as loads them.  The machine can be attached in a moment to a flat surface or box or caisson or can be screwed to flat surface.  It can be dismantled quickly and put in small box container.  Colonel Applin of the British War Mission in this country has given his recommendation to the British Government to adopt this machine.  He is expecting orders from the navy department of United States Government and in the event the Lewis gun is used for ground service by the army will undoubtedly receive orders.
     Mr. McKay served as deputy United States marshal in registering alien enemies in Northern District of Ohio.  He is a member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board and of the Loyal Legions.  On June 20, 1905, he married Miss Louise Patten of Plainfield, New Jersey.  They have two daughters, Margaret and Louise.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 348

George A. McKay		 CAPT. GEORGE A. McKAY.  A resident of Cleveland almost seventy-five years, a veteran of the railway service and also a local employe of the Federal Government, the late Capt. George A. McKay was doubtless most widely known for his brilliant record as a soldier and officer in the Union army and for the influential part he took in association with and in behalf of many patriotic and Grand Army enterprises at Cleveland after the war.
     Few men live their lives so strenuously and to such good purpose as did the late Captain McKay.  He was born at Oswego, New York, June 16, 1841, and died in Cleveland, Jan. 28, 1917.  His parents moved to this city when he was an infant, and he was educated in the grammar and high schools and took a special collegiate course.  Among his classmates as a boy at Cleveland were John D. Rockefeller and M. A. Hanna.
     On finishing his education he entered the service of what is now the Big Four and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railways, and was employed in a clerical capacity until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion in 1861.
     He was one of the first to respond to the call for three months troops.  He had already been a private in the Cleveland Light Guard Zouaves, and he was mustered into the service of the Federal Government in what afterwards became Company A of the Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  During the three months service he was appointed second sergeant.  At Camp Dennison he re-enlisted for three years in the same regiment, and his courage and soldierly qualifications brought him rapid promotion, so that he served as orderly sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant and captain in that regiment, and subsequently was transferred to the staff as assistant inspector general, continuing in that capacity until he left the service.
     A brief reference to the battles in which he participated shows that he was in some of the hardest fighting of the entire war.  These battles were Cross Lanes, Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, second Bull Run campaign, Dumfries and Chancellorsville, Virginia, Antietam, Maryland; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee; and Ringgold, Georgia.  It is said that he was present in seventeen major battles, and he was wounded nine times in six of them.  He was present in every engagement, skirmish and march of the regiment until dangerously wounded wounded through both legs at Ringgold, Georgia.
     The incident of his service which has been told most frequently was when he bore the order that took the First Brigade, Second Division, Twelfth Army Corps, into the unfortunate charge of Taylor's Ridge at Ringgold.  Col. W. R. Creighton, commanding the brigade, notified him that as he had delivered the order he would have to see it executed.  He did so, and went with the regiment until wounded in the manner above noted.  Creighton, turning to his brigade, said:  "I expect to see you roosters walk right over that ridge," and was answered by Capt. E. H. Bohm, commanding Company I, "Colonel, we can but try."  They tried, but failed, although they did all that brave men could do to succeed.
     He was mustered out of the service at the expiration of his second term of enlistment July 6, 1861, although unable to walk on account of his wounds.  When they were healed sufficiently so he could perform any work, he re-entered the service of the railways that had employed him at the breaking out of the war, and continued with them, faithful and diligent in all matters entrusted to his performance for a period of nearly thirty years altogether.  After mar. 5, 1890, Captain McKay was employed in the United States Custom service.
     The general testimony of his comrades is that he was a thoroughly brave, energetic and capable officer and soldier.  His record of military service in the war shows that all promotions were for conspicuous bravery in the face of the enemy or for meritorious service.  In the fifty years after the close of the war he devoted much of the time in the interest of the welfare of the widows and orphans of the soldiers and sailors of Cuyahoga County.  He was several times appointed president of the Memorial Day services in the City of Cleveland and repeatedly served as Commander or adjutant general of the Memorial Day parades.  A thing that gave him much pride was the fact that he was selected as Commander of the Grant Boys in Blue at the time General Grant ran for president.  Under him in this volunteer organization were more than 10,000 veterans of the Civil war, all of them boosting the candidacy of General Grant.  A large delegation of the old soldiers were taken by him to Philadelphia to participate in a big rally there in favor of their old commander.  By his comrades of the Seventh Regiment he was known as "The Royal American."  He had the honor, love and respect of all the old soldiers of Cuyahoga County.
     In the history of the Seventh Regiment the Historian has devoted a paragraph particularly to him which indicates a little of the respect he was held in by this regiment.  The paragraph is as follows.  "Captain George A. McKay, who with his marked ability as a military critic and writer is peculiarly well qualified to write to the days when we marched and fought and successfully bore the Stars and Stripes through many states, as witness his highly interesting articles covering Pope's retreat from Culpepper, Second Bull Run and Antietam as well as the transfer of the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps from the Rapidan to Chattanooga, and the eminently successful battles of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, where this gallant officer was torn and mangled upon the field of battle and made a cripple for life.  He also complied many of the personal sketches of officers and men found herein, and has shown himself to be as efficient and helpful in time of peace as he was faithful, brave and true in time of war."
     A very touching letter was received by the widow at the time of his death, in which appeared the following:  "As I think you known, I have admired for years his great personal worth and his flaming devotion to his country - his courage in battle and his modesty.  Death can do nothing to such a man.  Long ago he had lived his life beyond its power to injure or detract.
     Captain McKay was proud that he was one of the original thirty that organized the Grand Army of the Republic of Ohio.  He was one of the founders of Memorial Post, Grand Army of the Republic, a member of the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Commission and the Loyal legion, and was a member of the commission responsible for the soldiers and sailors monument on the Public Square.  Some of his happiest associations came from his membership in the Old Settles Association.  He enjoyed the acquaintance of all the early settlers of Cuyahoga County, having lived in Cleveland since it was a town of 6,000 or 7,000 inhabitants.
     Dec. 20, 1865, Capt. McKay married Miss Margaret Adam Creech, who survives him.  Five children were born to their union and the three now living are Addison Hills, Edward Creighton, and John Howard McKay.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 346

Geo. R. McKay		 GEORGE ROBERT McKAY has made success through his own strivings.  He inherited nothing except the sterling honesty and intelligence of a Scotch father and the optimism of an Irish mother.   He began to mingle with men and affairs when a boy, and work put him through school and has put him through the successive stages of a very satisfying career as a lawyer and business man.
     He was born at Cleveland Dec. 12, 1862, son of Robert George and Jane (Greenlese) McKay.  His father was born in Scotland and when only nine years of age began following a sea as a sailor.  He sailed over all the oceans and closed his career as a sailor on the Great Lakes.  about the time his son, George Robert,  was born he left the lakes and began work as a machinist and master mechanic.  About 1870 was sent to South Chicago by the late Henry Chisholm, who then owned the South Chicago Rolling Mills, as general superintendent of that plant.  He had been there only six months when he lost his life by being caught in a roll.  He was killed July 2, 1870, at the age of thirty-seven.  George R. McKay, though only eight years of age at the time, has a distinct remembrance of the day when the tragical news reached the family in  Cleveland.  Mrs. Jane (Greenlase) McKay was born at St. Catherines Canada, and her father and mother were natives of Ireland.  She and her husband were married at Cleveland and she died in this city Nov. 21, 1884.  There were two sons and two daughters in the family, one son dying in infancy.  One daughter, Nellie Deane, died in May, 1893, leaving two children, Grace and Mabel, the former now deceased, and the latter making her home with Mr. George R. McKay.  The only living sister is Mary J., widow of I. J. Worton, of Cleveland.
    George R. McKay acquired his early education in the Cleveland public schools and at the age of twelve years went to work, and thereafter his education was due to earnest diligence in night schools and private study.  In 1883 he entered the Western Reserve Academy at Hudson, completing the course in 1885.  In the fall of that year he entered Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, a few months later went to Oberlin College, and from there to the Ohio Northern University at Ada.  In these three institutions he was a student until June, 1886.  The necessity of earning his own way was always present during these years.  He worked as shipping clerk for the Otis Still Company until 1887 and then gave up that position to take up the study of law.  Mr. McKay was admitted to the Ohio bar June 6, 1889.  From 1887 to 1889, while a student of law, he was bailiff of the Common Pleas Court under Judge Sanders.  He studied law with the firm of Sherwood & Dennison.  His work as bailiff required his time in the day, but he managed to put in several hours every night in the law offices.  Another experience while a student of law was as deputy United States Marshal under Benjamin F. Wade of Toledo, then United States marshal for the Northern Ohio District.
     In November, 1889, Mr. McKay was elected a justice of the peace in Cleveland and filled that office 5˝ years, having been re-elected in 1892.  His resignation from that office in May, 1895, is the first recorded instance of a justice resigning before the end of his term.  Mr. McKay next accepted the office of assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio under Samuel E. Dodge.  His appointment  was conferred by President Grover Cleveland.  One of Mr. McKay's best friends was the late Virgil P. Kline, who was very insistent that Mr. McKay should accept this office 4˝ years, until January, 1900, and then resumed private practice, in which he has been engaged ever since.
     While in the United States attorney's office in 1898 Mr. McKay was a candidate for mayor of Cleveland, being defeated by John H. Farley.  During the Spanish-American war period he was lieutenant commander of the United States Naval Reserves, which was a part of the Tenth Ohio Regiment, but he was never in active service outside the state, being in camp at Columbus for a brief time.  He was major of one battalion of this organization.  He also gained the rank of major in the Ohio National Guard.
     For years Mr. McKay has been one of the foremost democrats in point of influence and value to the party in Cleveland.  From Jan. 1, 1912, to June 1, 1913, he was assistant director of law in Cleveland under Mr. Wilcox.
     Much of his time at present is taken up with large business affairs.  IN 1914 he organized the Associated Investment Company of Cleveland, a $1,000,000 corporation, formed for the purpose of engaging in the creative field of real estate development and building.  It has had a most prosperous career since the beginning of operations in June, 1915, has carried out some important development work in several real estate allotments, and has furnished a safe and conservative medium for investors and home builders.  Mr. mcKay is secretary and manager of this company.  In February, 1916, he also organized the Investment Securities Company, also capitalized at $1,000, 000.  The purposes of this company are the buying and dealing in approved stocks, bonds, and the handling of leaseholds and mortgage loans, and also the organizing and financing new companies and the securing of additional capital for enterprises of proved earning capacity.  Mr. McKay is secretary and treasurer of this company.
     He is now head of the law firm McKay & Poulson, attorneys, with offices in the Guardian Building.  His partnership with Mr. F. W. Poulson was formed Jan. 1, 1916.
     November 8, 1893, Mr. McKay married Miss May Kimberley, daughter of David H. and Elsie A. Kimberley.  Her father, now deceased, was formerly county treasurer of Cuyahoga County.  Mr. and Mrs. McKay have two daughters, Jane G. and Martha K.  The former was educated in the Laurel School at Cleveland and in 1816 graduated from the National School of Domestic Science and Arts at Washington, D. C.  The daughter Martha attended the Laurel School, the Oberlin High School, and is now a student of dramatic art at the American School of Dramatic Art, New York.  Mrs. McKay died at her home in Cleveland Dec. 23, 1914.
     Mr. McKay has long been actively identified with the social and civic life of Cleveland.  He is a member of the Beta Theta Phi college fraternity, Forest City Lodge No. 388, Free and Accepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter No. 148, Royal Arch Masons; Oriental Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar; the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry.  He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Yacht Club, one of the charter members of the Cleveland Athletic Club, and served as a director 4˝ years, during which time the new club building was erected on Euclid Avenue.  He is a member of the Shaker Heights Country Club the Willowick Country Club, and the Cleveland Bar Association.  Mr. McKay is the personification of energy and hard work, and for that reason he finds business a real recreation.  When away from his office and home he also enjoys golf and yachting.  His home is at 2052 East Ninetieth Street.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 384
  ROBERT HUNTER McKAY is a young Cleveland lawyer of a family largely devoted to the legal profession, and in a comparatively brief period has reached a substantial position in the law and has numerous influential connections with business affairs and corporations.
     Mr. McKay was born at Cleveland Oct. 29, 1884, a son of Robert and Agness (Hunter) McKay.  His father was for many years active as a mechanical engineer.  The son was liberally educated, attending the South High School, the Spencerian Business College, Adelbert College of Western Reserve, also of Ohio State University and finished his university career at Yale College.  On beginning practice he was associated with the law firm of George R. and Robert H. McKay, and later was in practice with David R. Ruthkopf under the firm name of McKay and Rothkopf.  He is now in partnership with George H. Burrows, with offices in the Guardian Building.  Mr. McKay is a member in good standing of the Cleveland Bar Association and the Law Library Association of Cleveland.
     He is connected as a legal adviser or in executive capacities with the following companies:  The Information Company, secretary and director; the M. K. Patent Development Company, secretary and director; the Western Reserve Adjustment Company, director and legal adviser; the American Remedies Company, and teh Reserve Coal and Timber Company, director; the Doty-McKay Company, director and president; the Cleveland Sales Company, director and the Huston Brick & Clay Company, director and treasurer.
     Mr. McKay resides in the Village of Berea, and from 1914 to 1916 as village solicitor.   He is a republican, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Woodward Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, McKinley Chapter, Royal Arch Masons Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Yale Masonic Club, and is a member of the Alpha Tan Omega, Theta Nu Epsilon and the Phi Alpha Delta of Yale and also the Book and Gavel Society of Yale.  Other social connections are with the Three K Club, Western Reserve Kennel Club, and Cleveland French Bull Dog Club.  Mr. McKay is a member of the Disciples Church.
     At Cleveland Apr. 26, 1910, he married Jessie K. Jones.  They have one son, Hunter J. McKay.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 178
  FRANK J. MERRICK.   Though one of the youngest members of the Cleveland bar, the record of Frank J. Merrick since his admission to practice has been one of such attainment as to practically assure a most successful future.  Mr. Merrick is senior member of a vigorous and aggressive young partnership, Merrick, Jaglinski & Miller, attorneys and counselors at law with offices in the Engineers Building.
     Mr. Merrick was born in Cleveland Dec. 1, 1894.  His father, the late William Merrick, who died at Cleveland Oct. 10, 1904, was born in Tipperary, Ireland, came to the United States alone at the age of eighteen, and at New Britain, Connecticut, met and married Miss Mary McDonnell.  She was born in Limerick, Ireland, and came to the United States in young womanhood.  About three months after their marriage in 1872 William Merrick and wife came to Cleveland, and here he learned the trade and became an iron moulder.  He was a skilful workman and by a career of industry provided well for his large household.  His widow is still living in Cleveland.  There were twelve children in the family, Frank J. being the youngest.  Of the three daughters and nine sons, two of the former and five of the latter are still living.
     Frank J. Merrick attended the Lincoln public school in Cleveland and in 1912 graduated from the high school department of St. Ignatius College of this city.  Then at the age of eighteen took up the study of law, attending night classes in the Cleveland Law School and graduating with the degree Bachelor of Law in 1915.  Besides his work in night school he put in every day diligently employed and at study in the office of Col. H. J. Turney.  Colonel Turney had his office in the Engineers Building where Mr. Merrick is practicing today.
     Mr. Merrick was graduated in law before reaching his majority and was not permitted to take the State Bar examination for about a year.  He was admitted July 1, 1916, and a month later he left the office of Colonel Turney and formed a partnership with Joseph P. Jaglinski and William C. Miller under the firm name of Merrick, Jaglinski & Miller, who are now handling a large and choice general practice as lawyers.
     Mr. Merrick is a member of the Cleveland and Ohio State Bar associations.  He is one of the prominent young democrats of Cuyahoga County, is the party leader in the Sixteenth Ward and secretary of the Young Men's Democratic Club of that ward.  While interested in all forms of outdoor sports Mr. Merrick's special hobby is baseball and since Jan. 1, 1917, he has been secretary of the Cleveland Amateur Baseball Association.  He is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and is a member of the Catholic Church of St. Edward at Cleveland.  Mr. Merrick is unmarried and lives with his mother at 2547 East Eighty-second Street.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 171 - Vol. III
  J. HAMILTON MILLAR.    Among the representative business men of Cleveland today, the banking interests find in J. Hamilton Millar, cashier of the University School, an example of financial ability and high and trustworthy character. He has served with honor in both public and private capacities, and has a military record covering twenty-three years, of which he may well be proud.
     J. Hamilton Millar was born in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1850.  His parents were James and Sybilla C. (Jackson) Millar.  James Millar was of French descent but his birth took place in England, in 1819, and his death occurred at Philadelphia, in 1868.  He came to the United States and located at Philadelphia in early manhood, and there became an accountant.  He was married to Sybilla C. Jackson, who was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died at Philadelphia in 1888.  They had the following children: Robert Nicholas, who died when fourteen years old; J. Hamilton, who was so frail in health in his youth that his parents feared he would not outlive boyhood; William S., who is a very prominent citizen of Scranton, Pennsylvania, for fifteen years being postmaster and for twenty succeeding years an alderman, and at present is agent for the Government Industrial Commission; Mardula, who died young; Sallie, who died in Philadelphia, was the wife of Thomas Wynn, who is librarian of the library at Hessianville, which is a suburb of Philadelphia; and Maggie B. and Eli, both of whom died in youth.  These children were reared in the Episcopal Church.
     When twelve years old, J. H. Millar was taken out of school by his solicitous parents because of his delicate health, and he spent the next three years on a farm and during that time grew strong and sturdy.  He did not return to school, however, but on the other hand began to be self supporting and worked as a newsboy on the Pennsylvania Railroad for about seven months.  In a position of that kind, a steady, quick-witted youth acquires a large amount of practical knowledge and this was the case with Mr. Millar and that he was capable of properly using knowledge thus gained was proved by his appointment as superintendent of the Union News Company on the above road, and his remaining there for seven years earning and receiving many promotions until he became an auditor for the company.  Later he was appointed superintendent of the home office of the railway division with which he had so long been connected, from which he retired in 1898 to enter the war with Spain.  Mr. Millar became a resident of Cleveland in 1883, upon his retirement from the office of auditor, and this city has been his home ever since Mr. Millar's military career began on Mar. 27, 1893, when he enlisted as a private in Troop A, Ohio National Guards.  His first promotion was to corporal and on Mar. 17, 1904, he was appointed quartermaster-sergeant of this troop and was honorably discharged Mar. 27, 1908.  His troop was called out for service in the Spanish-American war and he was sent to Lakeland, Florida.  He re-enlisted in the Guards on Mar. 26, 1911, and was retired May 5, 1911, with a commission of second lieutenant of cavalry and was placed on the retired list of officers on June 6, 1913. In addition to regular war service, Mr. Millar was called out on many occasions when rioters had to be dispelled and when order had to be preserved during strikes and on one occasion to disperse the night-riders in Kentucky troubles.
     After returning from the Spanish-American war, Mr. Millar returned to Cleveland and went with the Pickands-Mather Company, in the Western Reserve Building, Cleveland, and was cashier at the N. Y. P. N. O. dock until 1911, in which year he accepted his present position, that of cashier of the University School.
     Mr. Millar was married first in 1874, in Philadelphia, to Miss Elizabeth Meyers, who died at Cleveland in 1903.  They had two children: Joseph H., who resides at Lakewood, Ohio, and is on the stock exchange, representing the Hayden Miller Company; and Daisey C., who is the wife of Laurence P. Bassett, who is president of the Forman-Bassett Company, wholesale stationers and printers.  Mr. Millar was married second, June 23, 1917, to Miss Hermine Root, who was born at Toledo, Ohio.  The beautiful family residence is at Euclid Heights.
     In politics Mr. Millar has always been a republican.  Since 1883 he has been a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, at Cleveland, unostentatiously contributing to its many worthy movements and quietly but helpfully giving to its faithful rector the practical kind of encouragement that never comes amiss in a large parish.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 524 - Vol. II
  ALBIN J. MILLER is owner of The A. J. Miller & Company at 5408-12 Bragg Road, an industry which he established in 1906, and which has steadily grown in facilities and output and with a standard product now commanding recognition in all the important markets of the country.  The company manufactures solder, babbit and terne metals, and all that the factory can produce is sold over a territory extending from New York to Chicago and St. Louis and into Canada.
     Mr. Miller is a business man of wide and varied experience.  He has spent most of his life in Cleveland, but was born at Mumliswil, Canton Solothurn, Switzerland, June 22, 1876, and lived with his parents on the famous (Weehten) dairy and cattle farm of his grandfather, Victor Bloch, on which place is situated the attractive mountain known as the Vogel-Berg, which, with its waterfalls was an ideal spot for tourists.  His father, Francis Xavier Miller, was born at Liesberg in Canton Bern, Switzerland, in 1838, and Albin J. lived there for a short time before his parents came to Cleveland.  Francis Xavier learned the trade of carpentry and followed it at Liesberg, later was a farmer at Mumliswil and then returned to Liesberg to resume his trade.  In 1879 he brought his family to the United States and located at Cleveland, where for two years he was employed by the Cleveland Rolling Mills Company.  He then joined the Globe Iron Works as ship carpenter.  He was the first carpenter taken on the pay roll by John Smith first superintendent of the Globe Works, and he remained with the great industry, now part of the American Ship Building Company, until his death in 1890.  After acquiring American citizenship he voted with the republican party.  He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, and belonged to the Swiss Helvetia Society.  Frank X. Miller married Agatha Bloch, who was born at Mumliswil, Switzerland, Feb. 4, 1839, and died at Cleveland May 13, 1906.  She was the mother of five children: Adele, who died in Cleveland in 1889 at the age of twenty; Lena, who died when thirteen years old;  Albin J.;  Achilles John, who is head of the Sanitary Tinning & Manufacturing Company at Cleveland; and Oscar Cornelius, who lives at Cleveland and is a traveling salesman for a New York dry goods house.
     Mr. A. J. Miller was educated in the parochial schools of Cleveland, where his parents located when he was three years old.  He also attended St. Ignatius College.  When sixteen years old he went to work with the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, and was employed in capacities of increasing responsibility in the general offices of that company for seven years.  For another three years he was salesman with the Kinney & Levan Crockery House, after which for three years he was shipping clerk with the Otis Steel Company.  A very important item of his business training and experience came from his services of ten years as bookkeeper with the Acme Machinery Company.
     In 1905 Mr. Miller took a well earned vacation and spent eight months traveling over Europe in France, Switzerland, Italy and the Orient.  On returning to Cleveland in the winter of 1905, he was secretary and treasurer for the Ideal Bronze Company until after his mother's death.  Then in 1906 he established the A. J. Miller Company, building the plant on Bragg Road. He is sole owner of this business.  He is also a director in the Cleveland Drilling and Development Company and has various other business interests.
     Mr. Miller votes as an independent, is a member of the Catholic Church, the Catholic Knights of Ohio and was formerly a member of the Knights of Columbus.
     His modern home at 2921 East Fifty-fourth Street was built by his mother in 1895.  Mr. Miller married at Cleveland Nov. 12, 1907, Miss Agnes B. Pechloefel, a native of Cleveland.  Four children were born to their marriage.  Cornelia, born in 1909;  Mercedes, born in 1911;  Bernice, born in 1913, who died when two years old; and Adele, born in 1916.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 543 - Vol. II
  BURT A. MILLER.   Few men engaged in the bond and surety business have had a broader or more varied experience than Burt A. Miller, who is now conducting operations along this line at Cleveland, where he is well known in business and professional circles.  He is a well qualified lawyer and as a citizen has been prominent in a number of movements which have benefited the city commercially and in other ways.
     Mr. Miller was born at Canton, Ohio, Mar. 17, 1871, a son of William K. and Sarah (Burwell) Miller, both now deceased.  His father was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, of English parentage and his mother at Niles in Trumbull County, Ohio.  She was a first cousin of the late President William McKinley.  The Burwell family occupied while living at Niles a double house, one-half by the Burwells and the other by the McKinley family.  William K. Miller was for many years engaged in the manufacture of reapers and mowers and threshing machines, having a long and active connection with the firm of Russell & Company of Massillon, Ohio, and later with the Peerless Reaper Company of Canton.  He originated many inventions applied to reaping and mowing machinery, including what is known as the Hinge bar.
     Burt A. Miller was educated in the public schools of Canton, also attended Cornell University, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in May, 1895.  For a time he practiced law with the firm of Miller & Pomerene of Canton.  This firm consisted of the late Charles R. Miller and Hon. Atlee Pomerene, present United States Senator.
     In 1897 in addition to practicing law Mr. Miller became agent for the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore, a surety corporation then just organized.  For several years Mr. Miller was second lieutenant in the Eighth Regiment, Ohio National Guard.  At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he assisted in the organization of another regiment which was not called into the field.  During the winter of 1898-99 he went to Cuba and was one of the pioneers in the surety bond business, organizing it when the flag went up for the first American occupation.  He remained in Cuba until the fall of 1901.  While there he prepared the Insurance Deposit Law under which all foreign insurance companies do business in Cuba.  This law fixes the amounts of their deposits to be made with the treasurer of Cuba.
     On leaving the island Mr. Miller came to Cleveland in 1901 and for three years was connected with the organization of the Bankers Surety Company.  The surety bond business has been his chief business ever since and he is now manager at Cleveland for the New Amsterdam Casualty Company of Baltimore.  He is also vice president of the Surety Association of Cleveland.
     The only secret society to which Mr. Miller belongs is Canton Lodge of Masons. He is a Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and the Cleveland Rotary Club.  He is Presbyterian by adoption.
     At Canton Dec. 27, 1899, Mr. Miller married Miss Jane Rabe, daughter of Thomas H. and Josephine S. Rabe.  Her parents still live in Canton, her father being president and treasurer of the Canton Malleable Iron Company.  To their marriage have been born two children: Thomas Rabe Miller, now a student in University School; and Jane Katherine Miller, a student at Laurel School.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 200 - Vol. II
  MAJ. CHARLES RUSSEL MILLER attained many of the distinctions and dignities of the world though he was only fifty-eight years of age when he died at his home in Cleveland, Dec. 18, 1916.  In the generation that came up after the Civil war he was one of Ohio's most prominent military men.  Of the success and honors that came to him as a lawyer it is perhaps only necessary to recall that he served as president of the Cleveland Bar Association and also of the Ohio State Bar Association.
     The late Major Miller was born at Canton, Ohio, Oct. 1, 1858, a son of William K. and Sarah (Burwell) Miller.  His mother was born at Niles in Trumbull County, Ohio, and was a first cousin of the late President William McKinley.  At one time the Burwells and the McKinleys occupied a double house at Niles.  William K. Miller who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, was for many years a manufacturer of reapers and mowers and threshing machines, and had a long and active connection with the firm of Russell & Company of Massillon, Ohio, and later with the Pearless Company of Canton.  He originated many inventions applied to reaping and mowing machinery.  William K. Miller also managed all of the congressional campaigns of William McKinley, and for a number of years the late Major Miller was secretary of the campaign committee.
     Major Miller was educated in the Canton High' School and the Canton Academy and afterward entered the law offices of William McKinley as a student, and remained there two years, being admitted to the bar Dec. 3, 1879, at the age of twenty-one.  As a young attorney he read law with the late President McKinley and afterwards was associated with Atlee Pomerene at Canton, the latter now Ohio's senior United States senator.  On coming to Cleveland Major Miller was in the law offices of Estep, Dickey & Squire for a year, and then opened an office of his own in Canton.
     At the time of his death Major Miller was senior member of the law firm of Weed, Miller & Rothenberg.  This firm name is still retained, although both the senior partners are gone.  The business of the firm is now carried on by Mr. William Rothenberg and Mr. William R, Miller, the latter a son of Major Miller.
     Major Miller not only contributed exceptional ability to the active practice of his profession, but was also widely known as a legal writer and author.  His best known work was "Law of Conditional Sales."  Major Miller was honored with the office of president of the Cleveland Bar Association from 1913 to 1916, and he was the honorary head of the lawyers of the state as president of the Ohio Bar Association in 1915-16.
     As a young man he took an active interest in military affairs and was a member of the Eighth Ohio Infantry, in which he rose to the rank of captain.  He was captain and assistant adjutant general on staff duty with the First Brigade, First Division, Second Army Corps, in the Spanish-American war and later was raised to the rank of major.  He asked for his discharge Jan. 1, 1899, after the Cuban war was ended.  He served as a judge advocate general of the Spanish War Veterans in 1900-01 and in 1906-07 was commander-in-chief of the United Spanish War Veterans.
     He did much service in behalf of the republican party, though he was not a seeker of its honors in the form of office.  He was a presidential elector in 1896, when William McKinley was first nominated for the presidency.  Mr. Miller was president of the Commercial Law League of America in 1899.  He was a member of the Loyal Legion, was an active Mason, was one of the founders and the first president of the Cleveland Rotary Club, belonged to the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the Sons of Veterans, the Spanish-American War Veterans, the Army and Navy Club at Washington, the Union Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Colonial Club and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He was a trustee and active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland.
     At Cleveland May 9, 1883, Major Miller married Miss Alice Evelyn Rose, daughter of the late William G. Rose, a former mayor of Cleveland.  They became the parents of three children: William R., Charles R., Jr., and Mrs. H. C. Hyatt, Jr.
 Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 18 - Vol. III
  CLOYD W. MILLER, active head of the Miller- Wells Lumber Company of Cleveland, while a young man in years is a veteran in experience in all branches of the lumber business, from the woods of Arkansas and Michigan to the wholesale offices of his present company in the American Trust Building.
     Mr. Miller was born at Goshen. Indiana, Feb. 7, 1883. His father, Charles M. Miller, was a native of the same town and died when his son Cloyd was a child.  His mother, Alma R. (Weaver) Miller, is also a native of Indiana, and for thirty-five years was a successful teacher in that state and is still living at Goshen.  Her father, Solomon Henry Weaver was a Union soldier in the Civil war and was killed in battle.  His remains lie in the National Cemetery at Nashville, Tennessee.
     Cloyd W. Miller attended the grammar and high schools of Goshen, and as a boy learned stenography and was employed in that capacity with a local heavy hardware firm.  He entered the lumber business at the age of nineteen and learned to inspect lumber in the milling districts of Arkansas.  He next was employed at Ford River, Michigan, as bookkeeper and also had charge of a company
store.
     Mr. Miller has been a resident of Cleveland since 1907.  He was connected with the Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company until Jan. 1, 1910, when he organized the present business of the Miller-Wells Lumber Company.
     His associate in this business, practically a "silent" partner, is Mr. Daniel Wells, a wealthy young man of wealthy parents, who with leisure and wealth at his command has never shown a disposition to be merely a son of luxury, and has distinguished himself in many ways.  He was with the United States forces in the Philippines during the American occupation of those islands and is now serving with the American Ambulance Corps somewhere in France.  His wife and family live at Detroit during his absence abroad.
     The Miller-Wells Lumber Company does a wholesale lumber business in carload lots.  It supplies material from all parts of the country. The business is largely conducted on the brokerage plan and the service of the company is offered at a fixed rate to the dealer with such connections as to insure a prompt and satisfactory service from the mills to the buyer.  Mr. Miller has developed this business largely on a plan suggested by his experience and he might in fact be classed as a lumber engineer.  Mr. Miller is in close touch with all the known sources of lumber supply in this country, and with all conditions governing the production, the transportation and the grades of supply.
     Mr. Miller also organized the Cloyd W. Miller Company, a real estate firm, which built the apartment corner of Ninety-seventh Street and Newton Avenue.  This is a four-story modern brick sixteen apartment structure, constructed at a cost of $75,000.  Mr. Miller owns a majority of stock in this company.  In matters of politics he is a democrat without special party activity, and belongs to the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers.
     On Sept. 19, 1906, at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, he married Miss Stella I. Burke, a native of that state.  Her father, John Burke, was superintendent of the Peshtigo Lumber Company and recently retired after fifty years of continuous service with his corporation.  Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two daughters and one son, Jean, Peggy and Dan.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 136 - Vol. III
  GEORGE H. MILLER.    To George H. Miller is credited a large share of the financial and business planning and work which developed the Musterole Company from a small basement manufacturing concern of local dimensions into one of the biggest proprietary medicine institutions of Cleveland.  Today, as a result of slow and steady growth, nation-wide advertising, "Musterole" is a trade name recognized in the most remote sections of America and the distribution and use of the product is co-extensive with the fame of the name.
     Mr. Miller was born at South Allen, Michigan, Aug. 25, 1878, and when two years of age his parents moved to Lorain, Ohio, and seven years later to Cleveland, with which city his entire career since early childhood has been identified.  His father, Charles W. Miller, was of Scotch and German descent, of an old American family and Revolutionary stock.  He was born in Ohio, was a carpenter by trade, and died in October, 1915.  The mother, whose maiden name was Salinda Jane Brownell, was born in Michigan and is now living at Cleveland.  She is also of an old American family of English descent, and the Brownells were pioneers in the State of Michigan.
     George H. Miller grew up at Cleveland and acquired his education in the public schools.  From school he entered a hardware store, and in 1900 went into business for himself with John S. Rendall as a partner.  This firm, Rendall & Miller, had their store at 1511 Cedar Avenue, now the corner of Ninety-eighth Street and Cedar Avenue.  Mr. Miller was connected with this business for eight years.
     Eighteen months before he left the hardware business he furnished financial backing to Mr. A. L. MacLaren, a druggist at Cedar Avenue and East Ninety-seventh Street, for the increased production of a special formula worked out and perfected by that druggist for the manufacture of "Musterole."  At first this product was put up at the drug store as a prescription, and its use was practically restricted to the patronage of that store.  The preparation had undoubted merit and seemed only to require some money and good business judgment to get wider use and distribution.  It was at this time that Mr. Miller agreed to finance the proposition.  It was all experimental work for Mr. Miller and the business was extended only as results justified.  Mr. Miller furnished an increasing amount of capital, and after eighteen months sold his interest in the hardware store in order to devote his complete resources, financially and as a manager, to the manufacture of Musterole.  The business went along on a modest scale until 1908, when the company was incorporated.  The present officers of the Musterole Company are: Charles F. Buescher, president; Matthew Andrews, vice president; and George H. Miller, secretary-treasurer.
     It is hardly necessary to speak of the remarkable success made by the Musterole Company.  Mr. Miller realizes how slow and hard the work was for five or six years.  With increased capital and with the substantial reputation made in a restricted territory, advertising and distribution agencies were increased and with the endorsements of the preparation by many well known physicans the business grew until it is now one of the chief proprietary medicines manufactured in America.  It is distributed to all parts of the United States and Canada, and the present plans are to introduce Musterole into various foreign countries as soon as the war is over.  The products used in the manufacture come from Japan, China, European countries and Sumatra.
     At first the product was entirely manufactured in the basement of the drug store at Ninety-seventh and Cedar Avenue.  Later a store room was used at One Hundred and Third Street and Cedar Avenue.  From there they moved to a new building at 4612 St. Clair Avenue.  It was supposed this factory would meet all demands for years to come.  But the business was growing by leaps and bounds and in two years larger quarters had to be secured.  The company then built their present manufactory at Twenty-seventh Street near Payne Avenue.  It is a three-story brick and steel structure, absolutely modern and with all mechanical facilities and equipments. It has a daily capacity of 50,000 packages of Musterole.
     Sept. 11, 1902, at Cleveland, Mr. Miller married Miss Cora Belle Nichols, a native of Medina, Ohio.  Her father, the late John Nichols, was a farmer and with five other brothers served in an Ohio regiment during the Civil war.  Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two children: Albert L., attending the Miami Military Institute at Germantown, Ohio, and Martha Dawn Miller, in the primary grades of the public schools.
     Politically Mr. Miller is an independent republican. He is affiliated with Penlaptha Lodge No. 636, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Holyrood Commandery, Knights Templar Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite! Al Sirat Grotto No. 17, M. O. V. P. E. R., and Mount Olive Chapter.  He is also active in social and club affairs, a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the Automobile Club, the Museum of Arts, the Willowick Country Club, the Cleveland Rotary Club, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Snow Lake Fishing and Hunting Club, and attends worship at the Fairmount Presbyterian Church.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 173 - Vol. III

Hervey E. Miller		 HERVEY E. MILLER.   From the crucible of hard and difficult experience Hervey E. Miller has attained a successful position in the Cleveland bar.  His career is another example of what a youth of exceedingly limited means and unlimited energy and determination can accomplish.
     He was born at Valier, a village in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, May 21, 1878.  He has behind him solid and substantial American ancestry.  In the paternal line he is of Swiss stock, where the name was spelled Mueller.  These Muellers caifte out of Switzerland to Pennsylvania along with some of William Penn's colonists.  In the maternal line the Bair ancestry is Holland Dutch and has been in America many generations.  Mr. Miller's parents, Henry S. and Mary A. (Bair) Miller, were both natives of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.  The greater part of their lives they lived on a farm near Valier, where the father died Dec. 27, 1915, at the age of eighty-four, and the mother on March 24, 1917, aged seventy-eight.  Henry S. Miller in his earlier days assisted his father in operating a ferry at Braddock, Pennsylvania, also operated a ferry on the Allegheny River, but his chief work was farming.  For over forty years he was in continuous service in the Sunday school of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Valier, and was its superintendent when he died.  He and his wife were married at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and became the parents of sixteen children, ten sons and six daughters.  Two of them died at the age of twelve and fourteen, all the others grew up and ten are still living.  The only members of the family in Ohio are Hervey E. and his next younger brother, Ira A. Miller, of the Miller Studios at Cleveland.  Hervey E. Miller was twelfth in age of this large family.
     As a boy and member of a large household there was little opportunity to acquire an education in Pennsylvania.  For several years he attended a school conducted in a log schoolhouse close to home.  At the age of fourteen he left home and went to New York City, where he willingly accepted any opportunities to work and earn an honest living and thereby secured the means of further education.  In New York City he became one of the proteges of William R. George, founder of the George, Jr., Republic, which was started as a fresh air camp for boys from the slums of New York.  The history of that institution is well known.  Mr. George gathered together some 500 or 600 boys, taking them out to Freeville, New York, and from them organized the George, Jr., Republic.  Young Miller was assistant helper with Mr. George when only sixteen years of age and spent about three years at Freeville.  During a portion of that time he attended high school at Dryden, three miles away, and later spent a year at Fabius, where he was graduated in the high school in 1898.
     On leaving high school Mr. Miller went to Pittsburgh and found work in the steel mill district.  The object of working there was to secure funds for a college course. Just about that time the Spanish-American war broke out.  Young Miller rented a hut near the steel mills, boarded himself, doing his own cooking, since he was unable to put up with the food eaten by the foreign laborers in the boarding camps Only those who have actually lived in such an industrial community can appreciate Mr. Miller's experience.  There is perhaps no more desolate environment than that around the steel mills.  In such an atmosphere not a tree nor a blade of grass grow.  Work in the mills is always hot and tedious toil, and the conditions in the summer season would seem almost intolerable.  As Mr. Miller describes it, there was nothing to do but eat, sweat and work and try to keep clean.  That chapter of his life is one that Mr. Miller will never forget.  After working there for some months he was stricken with the typhoid fever, but even this did not put a stop to his determination to attend college.
     From Pittsburgh he went to Ada, Ohio, and presented himself at the doors of the Ohio Northern University.  His funds then consisted of two $20 bills.  He worked while in college to pay his way, and during vacations earned money in the Schoen Steel Car Works at Pittsburgh.  He gave unremitting diligence to his studies, "double teamed" both the scientific and law courses, and in June, 1904, received the degrees Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws.  He was admitted to the Ohio bar in June of the same year.
     The following year he spent as a teacher in the Winona Agricultural Institute at Winona Lake, Indiana, and then returned to Cleveland to enter the service of the Land, Title and Abstract Company, with whom he remained three years as title attorney and assistant secretary, lie left that firm to take up tax work with Mr. Guy Warson, who had a contract for looking after the tax dodgers in Cuyahoga County.  Mr. Miller went at this business with characteristic aggressiveness and brought many Standard Oil stockholders to time, and in three months collected $274.000 previously withheld from the tax returns.  The tax dodgers then woke up and through the courts secured a decision that the tax law was unconstitutional.  As a result Mr. Miller and associates were denied their fees of 20 per cent on
collections, and he has never received anything for the work he did.
     After this experience he entered the general practice of law in Cleveland, and since 1909 Ins offices have been in the Society for Savings Building.  Mr. Miller handles a large amount of real estate, tax and title matters and is one of the best informed men on those subjects among the Cleveland bar.  He is secretary of The Suburban Building Loan & Savings Company, of Berea, which was incorporated in 1916 with a capital stock of $100,000, and is also legal adviser and a stockholder in several other business organizations.
     Mr. Miller has always been a keen student of public problems and was formerly quite active in politics.  To describe his politics it would be necessary to use the three words democratic progressive republican.  In the main doctrines of his political faith he is a republican, but he voted for President Wilson and was formerly a leader of the progressive party.  In 1911 he was candidate for councilman of the Sixteenth Ward of Cleveland.  In 1914 he was on the progressive ticket as candidate for Congress from the Twenty-first District, his opponent being the present Congressman Crosser, democrat.  The turmoil of politics has been merely an experience of Mr. Miller's career, and he feels that he is completely cured of any desire for participation so far as office seeking is concerned.  After his campaign for Congress the press of the country referred several times to Mr. Miller's experience.  A brief article from Washington correspondents might properly be quoted: "In filing the account of his expenses as required under the Corrupt Practices Act, Hervey E. Miller of Cleveland, progressive candidate for Congress in the 21st District, indulged in soliloquy which reached Clerk Trimble of the House of Representatives today.  After saying he had expended eighty-three dollars seventy-five cents, Miller reported: 'I received large quantities of advice of no practical value, many pledges of support (uncollectable), generous donations of criticism from enemies and good wishes from friends.  No promises made except never to do it again, I'm cured.' "
     Since 1915 Mr. Miller has had his home at Berea, a town twelve miles from Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, and in a scholastic atmosphere, he is now one of the councilmen of Berea, and a movement was recently instituted to get him to accept the nomination for mayor of Berea in the fall of 1917. In matters of social reform Mr. Miller has always been on the side of prohibition, and in 1915 had charge of the dry campaign organization in the first six wards of Cleveland and the towns and townships west of the river in Cuyahoga County.  While at Cleveland he was superintendent of the Sunday school of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church seven years and was teacher of one of the largest Baraca Bible classes in Cleveland, consisting of seventy-five young men.  This class won the city baseball championship cup two years in succession.
     Mr. Miller has been admitted to practice in the United States courts and has a rapidly growing general practice.  He is a member of the Civic League of Cleveland, the Cleveland Bar Association and the Berea Methodist Episcopal Church.  He was a charter member of the Chapter of the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity at Ohio Northern University.
     At Detroit, July 4, 1904, he married Miss E. Blanche Slaugenhaupt. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were children together in Valier, Pennsylvania.  She was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania, daughter of E. H. and Harriet M. (Daubenspeck) Slaugenhaupt, both of whom are now living in Berea.  Mrs. Miller was educated at Jamestown, New York, a graduate of the high school there, and also of the Jamestown Business College.  They are the parents of five children, the first two born in Newark, Ohio, the next two in Cleveland and the youngest in Berea.  Their names are: Hervey E., Jr., Melvin Van Lehr, Leila Ruth, Alfred Frederick Byers and Harriet Lucile.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 297 - Vol. II
  PLINY MILLER.   In variety and extent of experience Pliny Miller is one of the oldest grain and live stock merchants in the State of Ohio.  For many years he has been a partner in the well known firm Swope, Hughes, Benstead & Company, with offices in the Live Stock Exchange Building at Cleveland.
     Mr. Miller was born in Hancock County, Ohio, Apr. 7, 1846.  His people were among the earliest pioneers of that section of Ohio.  His father, Joseph Miller, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1809, located in Union Township of Hancock County when there were few other permanent settlers in the entire county.  For several years he had to haul the surplus of his grain crops a distance of fifty miles to Tiffin.  Indians were still numerous and were frequent visitors at his log cabin home in the early days.  He was a hardy and industrious pioneer, developed his land wilderness into a good farm, and was successful in combating the hardships and in making provision for his growing family.  In politics he was a democrat.  He married Anna Stratton, who was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1809.  Her father, Daniel Stratton, was born in England in 1776, and was one of the first settlers in Wayne County, Ohio, where he died in 1856.  It was one of the diseases familiar to pioneer times, milk sickness, epidemic over a large portion of Northwestern Ohio in 1852, which caused the death of Joseph Miller, his wife and several of their children.  Their family consisted of eight boys and girls: Hiram, who became a farmer and died in Union Township of Hancock County; Daniel, who died about the same time as his parents and of the same disease at the age of twenty years; Philena, who died at Mount Cory, Ohio, at the age of fifty, wife of Mathias Markly, a farmer also deceased; Theodore, who was shot while in the Union army at the battle of Pittsburg Landing and several days later died from his wounds at Covington, Kentucky; Joseph, who for many years was a grain merchant at Continental, Ohio, and died at Columbus in 1915;  Pliny;  Salina and Vashti, who died at the respective ages of four and three years.
     Pliny Miller was only six years of age when his parents died, and for several years after that he lived in the home of his brother-in-law Mathias Markly.  All the education he had was that supplied by the common schools of his native township.  From the time he was ten years of age he has made his own way in the world, working at any honorable occupation that would give him a living, and having a varied experience and often living close to the border line of poverty.  He finally got into the grain business at Bluffton, Ohio, and was the pioneer in building up a grain market at that place.  He built an elevator in 1872 and shipped the first grain from Bluffton to distant markets. He continued as a grain merchant at Bluffton until 1883. Then for several years he was connected with the Board of Trade at Toledo, and in 1889 removed to Buffalo, New York, where he was in the live stock business at the Buffalo Stock Yards until 1898.  In that year he moved to Cleveland and entered the service of Swope, Hughes, Benstead & Company as manager of the Cleveland branch of the business.  In 1904 he was made a partner in the firm and some years later, owing to advancing years, gave up the active management.  His firm still operates a branch house at Buffalo and it was the pioneer live stock commission business in that city.  The offices of the firm at Cleveland are in Room No. 1 of the Cleveland Live Stock Exchange Building.
     Mr. Miller owns a dwelling house on "West One Hundred and Eleventh Street in Cleveland and his own home is at 8415 Clark Avenue. Politically he votes as a democrat.  He is affiliated with DeMolay Lodge No. 498, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Buffalo, Buffalo Chapter No. 71, Royal Arch Masons, Buffalo Council No. 17, Royal and Select Masters, and is a former affiliate of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
     Mr. Miller has been twice married.  In 1867, in Union Township of Hancock County, Miss Mary McConnell became his wife.  She died in 1877, the mother of four children.  Bertha, the oldest, died at the age of sixteen.  Nettie first married George H. Cable, deceased, and is now the wife of Doctor Stoner, a physician and surgeon living at Grand Rapids, Michigan.  G. A. Miller lives at Denver, Colorado.  Vivian is the wife of George W. Sigafoose, a merchant at Sycamore, Ohio.  In 1883, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Mr. Pliny Miller married Miss Emma Fansler.  She had formerly been a teacher in the high school at Bluffton.  To this union have been born two sons: C. F. Miller, who lives on his father 's farm at Rock Creek;  and P. Ray, who for the past fifteen years has been cashier of the live stock firm Swope, Hughes, Benstead & Company.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 537 - Vol. II

Sampson H. Miller		 SAMPSON H. MILLER, with offices in the Society for Savings Building, is one of the good substantial lawyers of Cleveland of the younger generation, and a man of high principles and good connections who has performed excellent work in whatever field his energies have been engaged.
     Mr. Miller has spent most of his life in Cleveland, but was born in New York City, Oct. 3, 1887, son of Joseph H. and Esther F. (Engelman) Miller.  Both parents were born and married in Germany and for their honeymoon trip they came to America.  They landed in New York in 1885 and that city was their home for several years.  The father was engaged in the picture frame and portrait business in New York and also for a brief time in Baltimore, and for several years he traveled and sold frames and portraits in Ohio.  It was a chance visit to Cleveland that caused him to select this city as his permanent home and he brought his family here in 1889.  At Cleveland he engaged in the wholesale liquor business with the firm of J. and S. J. Firth, wholesale liquors, and was one of their salesmen for seventeen years.  Later he engaged in the same line of business for himself for seven years at 917 Woodland Avenue.  Selling out that establishment he became city salesman for the Adler Company, wholesale liquor merchants, but on July 1, 1917, retired from business.  At one time he was a director of The Double Eagle Bottling Company of Cleveland.  The family consisted of nine children, five sons and four daughters, all living, Sampson H. being the oldest.  All the others were born in Cleveland, as follows: Rose M., at home; Gussie S., wife of Edward H. Goldfein, an architect with offices in the Garfield Building; David E. at home; Albert E. with the East Ohio Gas Company; Edna, Edward T., Beatrice and Orville W., who are all members of the family circle.  The children were all educated at Cleveland and all graduated from the high school except David and the two youngest who are still in school.
     Sampson H. Miller graduated from the Central High School of Cleveland with the class of 1906. For about two years he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and after that spent a year in Columbia University at New York City and then began his preparation for the law in Western Reserve University Law School.
     In 1911 Mr. Miller left school to take up social work as local secretary of the Industrial Removal Office, a New York philanthropic organization for the purpose of distributing emigration from the eastern seaboard cities to the interior.  He continued in that work until shortly after the world war began, when, owing to the difficulty of getting funds from France, the organization suspended.
     At that time Mr. Miller resumed the study of law with the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin- Wallace College, graduating LL. B. in June, 1915, and was admitted to the bar on the 1st of July of the same year.  He has been in the general practice of law since October, 1915.  Mr. Miller is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Owatonna Lodge of Knights of Pythias, is a Zeta Beta Tau college fraternity man. and also belongs to the B'nai B 'rith, the Euclid Avenue Temple and his wife is active in the Euclid Avenue Temple Sisterhood, and is a member of the Cleveland Council of Jewish Women and has done much in the organization known" as the Jewish Infant Orphans Home at Cleveland.
     Mr. Miller and family reside at 10218 Ostend Avenue. Oct. 17, 1916, he married Miss Jeanette Feinstein, of Cleveland, daughter of Charles and Freda Feinstein and they have one child, Sheldon H., born Oct. 13, 1917.  Both of Mrs. Miller's parents are living in Cleveland and her father conducts a cigar factory on 105th Street.  Mrs. Miller was born and educated in Cleveland, graduating from the Central High School in 1907 and for several years was connected with The Standard Sewing Machine Company as statistician.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 319 - Vol. II

W. C. Myers		 WALTER C. MYERS.    In the coal trade of Cleveland few men in recent years have come to the forefront so rapidly as has Walter C. Myers.  He has been connected with this line of' business only since 1910 and as an official only since 1915, yet he is already recognized as an influence and a force and is associated with several prominent and successful companies here.  Mr. Myers is typical of the busy, energetic spirit of Cleveland, as this is his native city, and here his training, both educational and business, has been received.
     He was born July 22, 1886, at 407 Garden Street (now Central Avenue).  His father, Christopher Myers, was born in Cleveland in 1851.  The founder of the family here was Grandfather Myers, who in the early '60s enlisted his services in the Union army for the Civil war.  In one of the battles in which he engaged he was among those reported missing, and his family never received any definite intelligence as to his end.  Christopher Myers lived from the age of seven to eighteen at Wellington, Ohio, but in 1869 returned to Cleveland, and after being employed at various occupations engaged in business for himself in 1881 as a dealer in coal and wood.  His headquarters were first at 768 Central Avenue and later at 39 Richland Avenue.  He was a business man of the city until his death in 1897.  In politics he was a democrat.  Christopher Myers married Margaret Jane Crowe, who was born at Douglas on the Isle of Man in 1854 and died at Cleveland in 1916.  They had two children, Harry and Walter C.  The former for the past sixteen years has been connected with the Pennsylvania Railway Company and lives at Cleveland.
     Walter C. Myers was educated in the public schools at Cleveland and in Wickliffe and Willoughby, Ohio.  He left school at the age of thirteen, and the greater part of his education has been secured in the school of experience.  After his father's death it became necessary that he go to work, and his first contact with the affairs of the business world came while wearing a messenger boy's uniform for the Western Union Telegraph Company.  He was ambitious, industrious and capable, and was soon promoted to clerk.  He was with the Western Union about three years and, in 1901, went to work in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad, beginning as yard clerk and being promoted to agent's chief clerk in the Kinsman Street yards.  He was in the railroad service until April, 1910, when he entered the coal business as traffic manager and city salesman of the Goshen Coal Company.  Later he was identified with the Goff-Kirby Company until Aug. 1, 1915.  In that year he organized the Myers Coal and Coke Company.  Nov. 29, 1916, the company was incorporated under the laws of Ohio with the following officers: D. P. Loomis, president; Fred Storm, vice president; W. C. Myers, treasurer; and G. F. Johnston, secretary.  The company is in the wholesale coke and coal business, having a market all over Northern Ohio and in the state of Michigan.  Much of its business is of a brokerage character, handling the gas house coke and shipping No. 8 and No. 6 Ohio coal, West Virginia coal and Kentucky coal.  The offices of the company are in the Arcade.  Mr. Myers is also secretary of the Brown Coal Mining Company, owning properties at New Philadelphia.
     On July 25, 1906, at Cleveland, Mr. Myers married Miss Anna M. Ernst, a daughter of Andrew and Rosa Ernst, who reside on Rozelle Avenue in East Cleveland.  Mr. and Mrs. Myers have three children: Ralph Ernst, born Dec. 18, 1907, Walter J., born Apr. 9, 1909; and Eleanor Rose Margaret, born Feb. 13, 1915.  In politics Mr. Myers is a republican and has taken an active interest in political affairs in his home community, although merely as a good citizen and in support of his friends and not as a seeker for personal preferment.  He is affiliated with Woodward Lodge No. 508, Free and Accepted Masons; Al Sirat Grotto No. 17, and with Buckeye Lodge No. 312, Independent Order of Foresters.  He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 438 - Vol. III

Walter E. Myers		 WALTER EDWARD MYERS, a rising and able lawyer of Cleveland, is also nationally known because of his work in behalf of the fraternity of Sigma Nu.  He is a native son of Ohio, having been born at Alliance, Apr. 29, 1875, and is a son of Jonathan and Emma (Coppock) Myers.
     Mr. Myers was educated in the public schools of Alliance, graduating in June, 1893, from the Alliance High School.  In the following year he entered Mount Union College, where he earned his way through college by teaching in intervening terms, and graduated with the class of 1899, securing the degree of Bachelor of Science.  Mr. Myers then proceeded to secure his law education.  He was still short of means, but found employment in a lawyer 's office and thus was able, through rigid economy and great industry, to complete a course in law at the Western Reserve University, from the law department of which he was graduated in 1902, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.  Two years later he began practice at Cleveland, forming a partnership with David E. Green under the firm name of Myers & Green.  This firm continued until January 1, 1913, when William C. Keough was admitted to partnership, and continued as Myers, Green & Keough until Feb. 1, 1917, when Mr. Myers withdrew from the firm to give part of his time to several business interests with which he was connected.  Mr. Myers is one of the clean-cut, reliable attorneys of Cleveland and stands high in his profession.  His offices are in the Guardian Building.  In addition to being a good lawyer, he has numerous substantial business connections, being president of The Ohio Royal Building and Loan Company of Cleveland, treasurer of the Federal Mortgage Finance Company of Cleveland, president of the Alexandria Company, director in a number.  of corporations, and has many other business and legal connections.
     Mr. Myers' fraternity record is one of active, arduous and continued work As treasurer of the Beta Iota Building Association the brunt of raising the funds which purchased in 1901 a home for its chapter—the first of any fraternity in the State of Ohio to own its own house—fell upon Mr. Myers' shoulders and he piloted its business affairs for fourteen years.  As one of the charter members he was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Alumni Chapter, and assisted in establishing Delta Alta and Delta Zeta Chapters at Case School of Applied Science and Western Reserve University.  He has long been prominent in Sigma Nu, serving as chairman of the extension committee from 1909 to 1913, chairman of the jurisprudence committee from 1913 to 1915, and in 1915, at the Denver Grand Chapter, was elevated to a seat in the High Council and given the title of Grand Counselor.  He has recodified the laws of Sigma Nu several times and has spent much thankless and unpaid time in shaping up the laws to meet the conditions under the reorganized plan.  To Walter J. Sears, regent of the fraternity, and Mr. Myers, the grand counselor, belong the credit for redrafting the reorganization plan of government and retouching it into the present well-ordered system which was successfully carried without opposition in the Denver Grand Chapter, and has already placed Sigma Nu in the vanguard of the national fraternities.  In a recent talk Mr. Myers voiced the need of a constructive national policy for his fraternity in the following words: "Think broadly, not narrowly; think nationally, not locally; and Sigma Nu will always stand first among fraternities."  Mr. Myers is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, City Club and many other civic and social organizations. 
     At Alliance, Ohio, May 23, 1904, Mr. Myers was married to Miss Etta May Salmon, and they have two sons: Walter Edward, Jr. and Salmon Coppock Myers.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 143 - Vol.

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