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THE
WARNER & SWASY COMPANY. No institution in Cleveland
has more of the distinguishing assets and characteristics of
age, strength, integrity and tested and proved reliability of
status than the Warner & Swasey Company.
Employment with that company has always been regarded as a badge
of efficiency and of honor. The two men whose names are
borne in the company title are subjects of sketches elsewhere,
and the following paragraphs represent an effort to give briefly
and concisely some idea of the scope and the history of this
business.
The partnership of Warner and Swasey was
established at Cleveland in 1881. The firm were designers
and manufacturers of machine tools and special machinery.
That was a rather general field and the company did not long
remain without important departures in specializations therefrom.
The accomplishments of Warner & Swasey in
mechanical and engineering lines early brought them commissions
for the construction of great telescopes and other scientific
instruments for astronomical observatories. That has ever
since been one of the distinguishing features of the company's
equipment and facilities and output.
While the design and construction of astronomical
instruments has made the Warner & Swasey
Company renowned in the scientific world, the manufacture of
machine tools has brought equal reputation in the world of
manufacturing, until today machine tools manufactured by this
concern are in use in the leading factories of practically every
manufacturing country in the universe.
Among the most noted telescopes designed and
constructed by this company are included the great 36-inch Lick
Telescope, of the Lick Observatory, University of California.
This telescope was completed in 1887 and for years was the
largest refractor in the world. In 1893 the 40-inch Yerkes
Telescope at Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, was
completed, and this telescope still remains the largest
refractor yet constructed. Other large telescopes include
the 26-inch telescope of the United States Naval Observatory at
Washington, and many others.
The Warner & Swasey Company
recently completed a 72-inch reflecting telescope for the
Dominion of Canada, containing the largest reflector yet
completed. It is also manufacturing a 60-inch reflecting
telescope recently designed and now under construction for the
Argentine Republic.
The products of the Warner & Swasey
Company have been awarded high honors at every exposition
where they have been exhibited, beginning with the Paris
Exposition of 1889. Grand prizes for separate exhibits of
machine tools and astronomical instruments—outranking the gold
medal—were awarded at the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition in San Francisco.
In 1900 the Warner & Swasey Company
was incorporated. With a world reputation as manufacturers
of machine tools and optical instruments of precision, the
facilities of their great plants have been tested to full
capacity in recent years in the production of optical
instruments for the army and navy. In addition to the
works and main office in Cleveland the Warner & Swasey
Company has branch offices in New York, Boston, Buffalo.
Detroit and Chicago and sales agencies in the principal foreign
countries.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 14 - Vol. |
Clayton H. Warner |
CLAYTON
H. WARNER. Business achievements and associations
have formed rapidly for Clayton H. Warner, who came to
Cleveland loss than ten years ago, and for several years was a
law student. While studying law he operated on a small
scale in real estate and soon abandoned his idea of a profession
in order to work out his ideas and finds the best scope for his
unusual talents in the field of real estate and general finance.
It is repeating only the current testimony of real estate
circles to say that he is one of the successful young operators
in the city.
Mr. Warner was born at New Haven,
Connecticut, Nov. 15, 1889, a son of Frank B. and Myra (Rochford)
Warner. Through his mother he is descended in the
fifth and sixth generations from Grand Marshal
Roehforte of France, as the name was spelled. Frank
B. Warner has been a resident of Geneva, Ohio, since 1902,
and is one of the directors of The Chamberlain Clothing
Company, a large and wealthy concern of that city. He is
also a deacon in the Disciples Church at Geneva.
Clayton Warner's mother died in New Haven,
Connecticut, when he was eighteen months of age and for his
second wife the father married Miss Lillian
Brainard, of Geneva, Ohio.
The only child of his parents, Clayton H. Warner
was educated in the public schools of New Haven, Connecticut,
and from the age of thirteen attended the public and high
schools of Geneva, Ohio. He graduated with the class of
1908, and during his high school course showed a general all
around ability in other matters than his studies. He was
secretary and general business manager of his graduating class,
had much to do with getting out the creditable class Annual of
1908, and was also a leader in the theatrical enterprise of the
high school during that year.
After leaving high school Mr. Warner came
to Cleveland and entered the Western Reserve University Law
School, where he spent eight months. The next two years he
spent studying law with Attorney Glen E. Griswold,
keeping up his studies for his own personal benefit, knowing
that a knowledge of the law would be of inestimable advantage to
him in his business career. At the same time he kept an
office in Collinwood, where he spent the mornings and evenings
as a real estate operator and there developed an extensive
collection business almost before he had formally launched into
a business career. Since Nov. 1, 1909, he has been dealing
in real estate, mortgages and insurance, and has always been an
individual operator, never connected with anyone else nor
working for anyone else. He specializes in first and
second mortgages, real estate, general insurance and bonds, and
has demonstrated splendid ability in the general financial field
and in handling many important business investments.
Mr. Warner is a member of the Cleveland
Real Estate Board, and is secretary and treasurer of The
Warner-Davis Building Company, general building
contractors and cement construction work. He is also secretary
and treasurer of The Woodruff-Warner Engineering Company, a
director of The Park Heights Realty Company, president of The
Commercial Motors Company, and was one of the organizers and is
director and general manager of The Economy Investment Company,
dealers in second mortgages. Mr. Warner is
rated as being the largest individual dealer in second mortgages
in Cleveland today. In 1918 Mr. Warner and
associates organized a $1,000,000 company to be known as the
Ohio Mortgage Company, which corporation will deal exclusively
in Cleveland second mortgages. He has directed his
influence to the building up of Cleveland Heights, where he has
erected over $50,000 worth of various types of buildings.
In politics he is a republican and was formerly quite
active and for four years was a judge of the election board of
the Twenty-sixth Ward in Collinwood. In late years
business matters have proved too exigent for him to do much in
party politics. Mr. Warner is a member of
the Tippecanoe Club. He is a member of the Disciples
Church at Geneva, Ohio, and is unmarried, living at 9608
Parmelee Avenue.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 306 - Vol. |
Franz C. Warner |
FRANZ CHILDS WARNER,
architect, Hippodrome Building, Cleveland, has become prominent
in his profession as architect and designer of educational and
institutional buildings. During the past four years he has
designed thirty school houses in Northern Ohio. An
important commission which he is now executing is designing the
Andrews Institute for Girls, a group of fifty-five buildings at
Willoughby, Ohio. His critical judgment and skill are well
exemplified in the modern school architecture of the villages of
Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights.
Mr. Warner was born at Painesville, Ohio,
Sept. 6, 1876, and is member of a pioneer family in the original
Western Reserve of Ohio. His Warner ancestors
came out of England and were colonial settlers in Connecticut.
The pioneer Warner in Ohio was his great-grandfather, Daniel
Warner, a native of Connecticut. He spent his last
years at Painesville. The grandfather, Field D. Warner,
was born at Hampden, Ohio, in 1837, died at Painesville in 1892,
and was a large property owner and had varied interests in and
around Painesville.
F. G. L. Warner, father of the Cleveland
architect, was born at Painesville in 1856 and has spent his
active life there as a merchant. He is a democrat, a
member of the Congregational Church and the Masonic fraternity.
He married Isabelle Childs, who was born at
Ashtabula in 1856. They have three children: Franz C.;
Wurt, who is deputy county auditorof Hancock County,
Ohio, living at Findlay; and Childs, a student in the
Painesville High School.
Franz C. Warner graduated from the Painesville
High School in 1896. He then entered the Case School of
Applied Science at Cleveland, from which he took his Bachelor's
degree in 1900. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi
college fraternity. He took up architecture with the well
known firm of Owsley & Boucherle at Youngstown,
and later was associated with the firm of Frank L. Packard
at Columbus until 1908, when he entered the profession for
himself at Cleveland. He is well known in professional
circles, a member of the American Institute of Architects, the
American Federation of Art and the Cleveland Engineering
Society. He also belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce, the Old Colony Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, City
Club, Civic Club, Automobile Club, Cleveland Yacht Club and
Country Club, is a member of the Congregational Church and in
politics a democrat.
His home is at
2237 Demington Drive. Mr. Warner married at
Youngstown Miss Hazel Virginia Ward, daughter of
S. Eugene and Ellen (Wyans) Ward.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 345 - Vol. III |
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WORCESTER REED
WARNER, senior member of the old partnership and the
present corporation of the Warner & Swasey
Company, bears, together with his honored partner, one of
the most honored names in American industry.
He was born at Cummington, Hampshire County,
Massachusetts, May 16, 1846, a son of Franklin J. and Vesta
Wales (Reed) Warner. His Americanship is a matter of
two centuries of family residence. The first American of
the name was Andrew Warner, who settled at
Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 1632, and moved to Hadley in
1650. The successive heads of generations with their wives
are as follows: Andrew Warner married Esther
Selden; Daniel, who married Martha Boltwood;
Daniel, who married Mary Hubbard; Joseph,
who married Mary Whipple; Joseph, who
married Olive Holbrook; Franklin J., who
married Vesta Wales Reed; and Worcester
Reed Warner, who married at Cleveland June 26,
1890, Cornelia F. Blakemore of Philadelphia. Mr.
and Mrs. Warner have one daughter, Helen Blakemore
Warner.
Mr. Warner was born on a farm, was
educated in the district schools of Cummington and left home at
the age of nineteen to serve as an apprentice machinist.
He learned his trade at Boston, Massachusetts, and Exeter, New
Hampshire, where he worked as a mechanical draftsman, and in
1869 went to the shops of the Pratt & Whitney Company as
foreman. He was with that company at Hartford,
Connecticut, from 1870 to 1880, and while in Exeter, New
Hampshire, met AMBROSE SWASEY, beginning an acquaintance and
comradeship which they recently celebrated as forty-eight years
of partnership. While at Hartford Mr. Warner
pursued studies in astronomy and other scientific branches and
experimented in telescope building as a recreation. He and his
partner, Mr. Swasey, made their first independent
venture together in Chicago with a capital of $10,000, but soon
discovered that it was impossible to secure trained workers that
far west, and therefore in 1881 they began their partnership as
machine tool makers at Cleveland.
Mr. Warner, like his partner, has enjoyed
many individual distinctions both in Cleveland and elsewhere. In
1897 the Western University of Pennsylvania conferred upon him
the degree Doctor of Mechanical Science. He served as
manager from 1890 to 1893 and as president in 1896-97 of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is past president of
the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, is a past president of
the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Association
for the Advancement of Science, member of the British
Astronomical Society, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society,
trustee of Western Reserve University and of the Case School of
Applied Science. He is a director of the Guardians Savings
and Trust Company, and the Cleveland Society for Savings, member
of the Union Club, Country Club, University Club, Sleepy Hollow
Country Club of New York and is a republican in politics.
Mr. Warner's
home is at Tarrytawn-on-Hudson, and he also maintains offices
both in Cleveland and in New York.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 15 - Vol. |
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CHARLES A. WARREN
is president of the Euclid Superior Auto Supply Company at 13444
Euclid Avenue, one of the most complete organizations and best
equipped establishments of its kind in the city. Mr.
Warren is an expert machinist and business man, and has
had a wide and varied experience that qualifies him for
successful handling of his present company.
Mr. Warren was born on a farm at
Colebrook, Ohio, Oct. 29, 1896. He is of English ancestry.
His grandfather, George Thomas Warren, born in
Devonshire, England, came to the United States in 1850 and
settled on a farm at Newburg, now a part of Cleveland.
George Warren, father of Charles A., was born
on Guernsey Island in England in 1845, and was a very small boy
when his parents came to Cleveland. He grew up on a farm
and was working in a rolling mill at Cleveland when the Civil
war broke out. Though very young at the time he enlisted
in 1861 in Company I of the Forty-First Ohio Infantry.
From that time until the battle flags were furled at the close
of the war he was almost constantly on duty and exposed to
danger in some of the greatest battles of the conflict. He
fought at Shiloh, at Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary
Ridge, to name only a few of the principal engagements of his
regiment. He was twice wounded. After the war he returned
to Cleveland, but in a few years bought a farm at Colebrook,
Ohio, and was busy with its management and cultivation for
twenty years, after which he retired and came to Cleveland where
he died in 1917. He was a republican and a man very much
interested in local affairs, serving as township trustee and
assessor in Colebrook. He belonged to the Grand Army of
the Republic and was a member of the Baptist, Church.
George Warren married Elizabeth Lawrence, who
was born at Cleveland in 1860 and is still living in this city.
She was the mother of nine children: George, who served
as an American soldier in the Spanish-American war, was a
railroad man by trade, lived at
Conneaut, Ohio, and was killed in a railroad wreck at
Rocky River, Ohio. Gertrude, living at Cleveland,
is widow of J. L. Cook, a Baptist minister. Edith,
who died at Colebrook, Ohio, was the wife of Bry Webb,
who now lives at Buffalo, New York, and is service man for the
International Harvester Company. William G., who is
in the automobile business with his brother Charles. J. L.,
a jeweler living at San Francisco. Charles A. Earl,
who died at the age of thirteen. E. A., who is also
associated with the Euclid Superior Auto Supply Company.
Walter, in the engineering department of the National
Lamp Company at Nela Park, Cleveland.
Charles A. Warren spent most of his boyhood at
Colebrook, Ohio, left the public schools there at the age of
nineteen and served a four years' apprenticeship as a machinist
in the Lake Shore Railroad Shops at Collingwood. His
introductory experience in the automobile business was acquired
with the Brock Electric Company at Fortieth Street and Payne
Avenue in Cleveland, with whom he continued three years in this
city, and then represented the same firm in Rochester, New York,
two years. In 1915 Mr. Warren returned to
Cleveland and established the Euclid Superior Auto Supply
Company, which he and his associates have made one of the chief
business concerns of its kind. The company is
incorporated, C. A. Warren, president; E. A. Warren,
secretary; and W. G. Warren, treasurer.
Mr. C. A. Warren is a republican and a member of
the Baptist Church, is affiliated with the East Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce and Cleveland Lodge No. 63, Loyal Order of
Moose. At Cleveland in 1910 he married Miss Margaret Howard,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howard, both now
deceased. They have one child, Marie, born in 1911.
William G. Warren is treasurer of the Cleveland
Auto Supply Company, was born at Colebrook, Ohio, July 11, 1886,
was educated in the public schools and reared on a farm.
At the age of seventeen he left farming and put in seven years
as a painter and seven years as a carpenter at Akron.
After this varied experience he came to Cleveland
and became associated with his present business. He is a
republican and a Baptist. He married at Cleveland in 1907
Miss Eleanor Clute, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Clute, her father still living a resident of Colebrook,
Ohio, where he is a farmer.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 528 - Vol. |
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DUDLEY
BALDWIN WICK. The active useful career of the late
Dudley Baldwin Wick, pioneer resident of Cleveland, and
known and honored as a prominent and valued banker, was a factor
in the commercial and civic progress of Ohio, and may well find
consideration in the noting of the more salient points that have
marked his life and labors. He was long and dominating
power in connection with the banking interests of the state's
metropolis, where he was engaged in the banking business for a
period over thirty-five years, and aside from this field of
operations he conducted other extensive enterprises, achieving a
position as one of the substantial capitalists of his native
state, gaining his success through normal and legitimate means,
and he stood for more than half a century as a singularly
admirable type of the progressive, honorable and broad-minded
man of affairs. Mr. Wick's career was complete and
rounded in its beautiful simplicity, he did his full duty in all
the relations of life, and was beloved by those near to him and
was universally esteemed.
Mr. Dudley Baldwin Wick was born in
Youngstown, Ohio, Oct. 3, 1846. He was a son of Henry
and Mary S. (Hine) Wick, both of English origin.
John Wick, great-great-great-great- grandfather of the
subject of this memoir, was the first to come from England to
the American Colonies, in 1620, locating on Long Island.
Henry Wick, Sr., grandfather of our subject, came
to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1795 as a pioneer settler, becoming a
merchant of that frontier post. Henry Wick, Jr.,
was the father of Dudley Baldwin Wick, and was born in
Youngstown, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1807, and died in Cleveland May 22,
1895, at the age of eighty-eight years. He had devoted
most of his life to the banking business, and was also
interested in many important financial enterprises.
Henry Wick, Jr., was twelve years old when he left school to
enter his father's store, and at the age of twenty he became
sole owner of the business, conducting the store with
ever-increasing success for twenty years, when he came to
Cleveland, in 1848, and engaged in the banking business, under
the firm name of Wick, Otis & Brownell, then located on
the corner of St. Clair Avenue and Bank Street. His
brother, Hugh B. Wick, was interested in this bank, and
the other partners were W. A. Otis, W. F. Otis and
Hon. A. C. Brownell.
In 1854 the Wicks purchased the interests of
their partners and the name of the house was changed to H. B.
and H. Wick. In 1857 Henry Wick bought out his
brother and the bank became known as Henry Wick &
Company. After more than forty years of continuous success
the institution was incorporated under the state laws of Ohio in
1891 as the Wick Banking & Trust Company. He was a
potent factor in the general upbuilding of Cleveland during its
more progressive period, being a power in financial circles and
had many extensive interests. He was one of the builders
and for a number of years treasurer of the Bellefontaine &
Indianapolis Railroad, which later became a part of the Big Four
system.
Henry Wick was married on Dec. 10, 1828, to
Mary S. Hine of Youngstown, Ohio, daughter of Homer Hine,
one of the prominent lawyers of Youngstown and Northeastern
Ohio. They were married sixty-six years, celebrating their
golden wedding anniversary. Mr. Wick was survived
by his widow who was then eighty-six years of age, and six
children. These six children were: Henrietta Matilda,
deceased wife of F. W. Judd; Alfred H., deceased;
Mary Helen, widow of Warren H. Corning; Florence,
deceased wife of D. B. Chambers; Dudley B., subject of
this sketch; and Henry C., of Cleveland.
Dudley B. Wick enjoyed good
educational advantages. He attended Punderson's
Private School, and Cleveland public schools and Oberlin
College. With patriotic spirit he allowed his educational
career to be interrupted by the breaking out of the Civil war.
When but a lad he enlisted as a drummer boy in Company D, One
Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His regiment
was stationed at Fort Saratoga, and later he was transferred to
light artillery duty and stationed near Washington D. C., in
defense of the capital. Mr. Wick continued on duty
until the close of the war, being honorably discharged and
mustered out in 1865.
His army service was a prelude to a long and active
business life. He became associated in 1865 with his
father's bank, Henry Wick & Company, and was for many
years a partner in the firm. Mr. Wick built the
Wick Block on the Public Square, which was occupied by the
bank in 1883. Many old time Clevelanders, will also recall
the Lyceum Theatre, which was located in the Wick Block.
The twelve story Illuminating Building now occupies this site.
Mr. Dudley B. Wick was president of the Wick
Banking and Trust Company up to 1901, when he retired from
active business and the bank was sold to the State Banking and
Trust Company. From that time until his death he devoted
his time to his extensive private interests.
Mr. Dudley B. Wick was one of the organizers of
the North Electric Company, and vice president and director of
same. He was treasurer of the International Telegraph
Company, of New York, and president of the Wick
Investment Company. Mr. Wick was a very active and
influential member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and was
an untiring worker at all times for the city's best interests.
He was also an officer and director of many of the leading
institutions of Cleveland. He was a director of the
Roadside Club, and a member of the Union Club. He was
charitably inclined and did much for the deserving poor of his
home city. In any particular charitable task to be
performed he was often sought to head the movement, because he
was ever liberal and obliging with his time and means in his
efforts to help humanity and ameliorate the conditions of those
whom fortune had favored less. But he always gave in a
quiet, unostentatious manner, never to win the plaudits of the
public. While a loyal republican, he never consented to
hold public office.
Some of his happiest associations were with the Old
Stone Church, where he was an active member. Mrs. Wick
was for several years organist in this church and Mr. Wick
sang tenor in the quartette during this period. Of the
institutional charities of Cleveland, his name is especially
associated with Huron Road Hospital in Cleveland. He was
chairman of its executive committee for a period of twenty-nine
years. Of late years he was a member of the board of
trustees. This important institution is one of the oldest
of its kind in Ohio and its splendid work was largely due to the
commendable efforts of Mr. Wick. Fraternally he was
a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the Oriental
Commandery, Knight Templars and the Scottish Rite Consistory
and, judging from his daily life, he lived up to its sublime
teachings and precepts.
Dudley B. Wick was fortunate in his domestic
life. On July 28, 1875, he married Miss Emma L. Steele,
and their married life, existing over forty years, was a happy
union of both heart and mind. Mrs. Wick is a member
of an old Painsville, Ohio, family, daughter of Horace
and Lydia (Blish) Steele. Horace Steele was a very
prominent and active business man of Painesville. Mrs.
Wick is a talented musician, being exceptionally
accomplished as an organist and pianist. Her devotion to
her family and home has won for her the highest goal obtainable
in the realm of woman, namely, an ideal and exemplary mother and
wife. Mrs. Wick's executive ability and untiring
patience have enabled her to accomplish valuable results for her
many welfare interests. She has been a member of the Lady
Board of Managers of Huron Road Hospital for over twenty-five
years and an active worker in Trinity Cathedral, having formerly
been the organist there. Mr. and Mrs. Wick's
congeniality created a happy atmosphere, not only for those
nearest and dearest to them, but for all who enjoyed their warm
hospitality. Mr. Wick possessed a wonderful nature,
so tender and lovable. No one could come in contact with
him in his home life without recognizing his sincere devotion to
his family. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Wick was
blessed by the birth of the following children: Dudley B.,
Jr., deceased, Helen Alma and Warren Corning.
Dudley B. Wick was summoned to his eternal rest on
Apr. 10, 1917, at the age of seventy years, after a constant,
successful, useful and honorable life.
Dudley B. Wick was summoned to his eternal rest
on Apr. 10, 1917, at the age of seventy years, after a constant,
successful, useful and honorable life.
Dudley Baldwin Wick, Jr.'s career was made
notable by his early achievements and promise of great continued
usefulness. He was born at Cleveland July 23, 1876, and
died Mar. 1, 1905, before he was thirty years of age. He
attended the public schools, University School and Case School
of Applied Science in Cleveland. He graduated from
Cascadilla School, Ithaca, New York, and completed a special
course in telephony at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
As a student he made a brilliant record and was a young man of
great promise. He prepared himself for the profession of
electrical engineer and it was along that line that his
practical energies were concentrated.
He had from early youth a strong bent toward scientific
pursuits, especially in the direction of electricity. In
1894 he took up a special course in electrical engineering at
Case School of Applied Science. Although only eighteen
years of age, the surprising results which Dudley B. Wick,
Jr., was achieving in his investigations and experiments
with X-rays were closely followed and prominently described in
the newspapers and electrical, and technical publications of the
country from 1894 to 1896. In referring to his research
work with X-rays and shadowgraphing, the Cleveland World of Feb.
24, 1895, said, "Mr. Wick" has made a careful study of
the science and probably understands it as thoroughly as any
scientist and discusses with the uninitiated the technical
details of the subject in a manner which makes this new and
extremely technical matter highly instructive and entertaining."
He prepared himself for the profession of electrical
engineer and in 1899 he became identified with the North
Electric Company of this city. By his tireless energy he
speedily worked up from a subordinate position to that of chief
of the engineering department. This very responsible
position he filled with distinguished success, winning for
himself a high place among his business associates and
foreshadowing an unusually brilliant career. His technical
ability was supplemented by original qualities of mind and
several of his ideas were expressed in devices secured by patent
rights.
He possessed many social qualities that made him a
favorite, and was a finished musician, a master of several
instruments, and from early boyhood he gave much of his musical
talent to church and charity. His bright, cordial manner,
his frank sincerity and his constant thoughtfulness for others
were characteristic of him. He was an active member of the
Second Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the Euclid Club,
Roadside Club, Chamber of Commerce and several electrical
engineering societies.
June 21, 1904, he married Miss Ruth A. Sutphen
oldest daughter of Rev. Dr. Paul E. Sutphen pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. They had one
child, Ruth Dudley, born Apr. 11, 1905.
The daughter of Dudley B. and Emma (Steele) Wick,
Helen Alma Wick, was born Nov. 8, 1880, at Cleveland.
She is a graduate of the Hathaway-Brown School of Cleveland and
of Miss Hersey's School of Boston. She has a
charming personality, a happy nature which imparts sunshine and
is gifted with a beautiful soprano voice. She married
Charles T. Dukelow of Boston, Massachusetts, on Jan. 12,
1903. They have four daughters and one son as follows:
Helen, Margaret, Adele, Ruth and Charles Wick, and
these attractive children bespeak the devotion of their mother.
Their residence is 249 Dean Road, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Warren Corning Wick, third of the children of
Dudley B. and Emma (Steele) Wick is one of the younger
business men of Cleveland but has demonstrated much of that
sterling ability and forcefulness which characterized both his
honored father and grandfather.
He was born at Cleveland Nov. 23, 1885. His early
education was obtained as a student of the University School of
Cleveland, from which he graduated in 1906. During his
senior year he was business manager of the University School
News and Record, was president of the University School Music
Clubs, president of the Dramatic Club, manager of the basket
ball team, and secretary of the University School Athletic
Association. His fraternity was Delta Phi Delta.
From the University School he entered the Sheffield
Scientific School of Yale University, and received his degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy in 1909. In the enlarged sphere
which he entered at Yale his talents and abilities won him
scarcely less conspicuous notice. He was a member of the
quartet in the Freshman Glee Club of Yale, was a member of the
university orchestra, the City Government Club of Yale, was
business manager of the Yale Scientific Monthly, on the Class
Book Committee, was a member of the Executive Committee of
Sheffield Young Men's Christian Association, and is now
secretary and treasurer of the Yale Alumni Association of
Northern Ohio. His Yale society was "Book and Snake" and
his fraternity home was with the Cloister Club.
Mr. Wick is unmarried and resides with his
mother at 8205 Euclid Avenue. At the close of his
university career he returned to Cleveland and spent a little
more than a year with the advertising department of the
Sherwin-Williams Company. Following that for five years he
was advertising manager of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company,
after which he assumed larger responsibilities with the Ferro
Machine and Foundry Company as export sales manager. After
two years in that industry Mr. Wick entered the First
National Bank and the First Trust and Savings Company, and since
February, 1917, has been manager of the New Business Department
for both institutions. He is also secretary and a director
of the Wick Investment Company, of which his father was
formerly president, and is vice president of the North Electric
Company of Galion, Ohio.
Many of his activities and interests have conformed to
the exigencies of the American nation at war. He was one
of the active volunteers in the Liberty Bond campaign, and is
treasurer of "Uncle Sam's Salesman," a national organization
comprising some of the most effective workers in the various
movements to finance war and patriotic activities. Mr.
Wick is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, is
a member of the Cleveland Advertising Club, University Club,
Roadside Club, American Institute of Banking, is a republican in
politics and a member of Trinity Cathedral Church. Mr.
Wick's sincere and conscientious nature wins him hosts of
friends and he possesses a personality which endears him not
only to his social acquaintances but also to all who are
associated with him in the business world.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 559 - Vol. |
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J. W. WILSON,
president and treasurer of the Wilson Florist Company,
has an experience covering thirty-five years in the gardening
and greenhouse industry at Cleveland, and is proprietor of one
of the larger establishments producing flowers for the general
trade. His extensive greenhouses are familiarly known by
all who pass along the Woodworth Road near One Hundred and
Forty-first Street.
Mr. Wilson comes of a family of gardeners
and landscape artists. He was born in County Down,
Ireland, Sept. 22, 1868. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry
and a number of generations back there was a common ancestor
from whom his own family are descended and also that of
President Woodrow Wilson. His father,
James Wilson, was born in County Down in 1834.
He was a skilled and highly famed gardener, and after coming to
the United States in 1878 and locating in Cleveland was employed
in his business in Gordon Park for many years. He died in
Cleveland in 1906. As a voter he was an independent
republican, and was a very active supporter and member of the
First Glenville Methodist Episcopal Church. He also
belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. James
Wilson married Nancy McBurney, who was born
in County Down in 1833 and died at Cleveland in 1908. They
had five children: William, who resides at Bratenahl and
for the past thirty years has been a gardener at the large
Cottingham grounds; J. W.; A. B. Wilson, who
owns greenhouses at Painesville, Ohio; R. A. Wilson, a
farmer at Mentor, Ohio; and C. A. Wilson, who lives at
Mentor and for many years was gardener for Horace Andrews
and is now employed in the same capacity by D. C. Norton.
Mr. J. W. Wilson was ten years old when his
parents came to Cleveland and here he finished his education in
the public schools. He began work at the age of fourteen,
and ever since has been connected with some of the practical
phases of gardening and greenhouse management. He
established his first greenhouse in 1893 on Eddy Road, but in
1908 removed to his present location on Woodworth Road, and now
has greenhouses covering two acres. He has one of the
chief businesses of its kind in Cleveland and supplies a large
part of the market for cut flowers and potted plants in
Cleveland and vicinity.
Mr. Wilson is a democrat in politics.
As a resident of the suburb of Glenville he has served on the
school board and on the health board. He is a member of
Woodworth Lodge Free and Accepted Masons and the Royal Arcanum.
His home is at 14113 Woodworth Road. Mr.
Wilson married at Cleveland in 1896 Miss Nellie
Sutherland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Sutherland, the latter now deceased. Her father is a
retired machinist now living in California. Mr. and
Mrs. Wilson have one son, Kenneth, born Jan. 22,
1897, a graduate of the Technical High School of Cleveland and
now assisting his father in the florist business.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 522 - Vol. II |
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SIDNEY S. WILSON,
only living son of the late Sidney V. Wilson, was made a
partner in the mercantile firm of S. V. Wilson & Son in
1889, nearly thirty years ago. He was then twenty-three
years old, fresh from college, and with the average young
American college man's ambition and aspirations for achievement
and influence.
He was born at Willoughby July 22, 1865. His
educational and home advantages were of the best. In 1882,
at the age of seventeen, he graduated from the Willoughby High
School. Further preparation for college was made during
the following year at the Buchtel Academy in Akron, after which
he entered Western Reserve University, where he graduated with
the class of 1888. His student record needs no comment
from the fact that he was elected to the honorary scholarship
fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa. The interval of a year
between his graduation and his entrance into business with his
father was spent as a teacher in the high school at Willoughby.
The important thing for the public to know is how a man
of education, initiative, and financial ability uses his talents
and opportunities. In the case of Mr. Wilson
this fact is reflected partly by his notable record as a
merchant, financier and business promoter, but even more by the
influential place he occupies in the business and civic
community of his home town and in Cleveland, where he is
recognized as a leader as well as in his own community.
Mr. Wilson remained an active associate
with his father until the latter 's death in 1903. In 1904
he organized the Sidney S. Wilson Company at Willoughby,
taking over the entire interests of the old firm and adding the
purchased stock of two competitors besides admitting to the firm
several young men who had been identified with the business for
a number of years. This organization developed one of the
best equipped and best managed general stores in Northern Ohio.
About the same time Mr. Wilson organized the
Willoughby Hotel Company, which took over and thoroughly
refitted the old Gibbons House, transforming it
into the modern "Kingsley."
The Willoughby Banking Company was another organization
in which Mr. Wilson participated. This
business was subsequently sold to the Cleveland Trust Company.
Besides his interests at Willoughby Mr. Wilson is
now interested in several Cleveland industries. or several
years he owned and managed the A. C. Rogers Printing
Company and also edited and published School Topics, a monthly
school journal.
With all his other work there has been no keener
student and more consistent advocate of good government and
civic improvement in Willoughby than Mr. Wilson.
For some years he had a part in local school management, but
otherwise refused political honors until the fall of 1909, when
he was prevailed upon by his friends to accept the nomination
for mayor of Willoughby, and was elected without opposition on
the municipal ticket. He held that office with credit and
with much advancement to the town from Jan. 1, 1910, to Jan. 1,
1914, two terms. Mr. Wilson is general manager of
the Andrews Institute for Girls at Willoughby, and for eighteen
years was member of the board of education and part of the time
president.
He is now trustee of the Western Reserve Historical
Society. It is his distinction to be the first trustee of
that society ever elected outside of Cleveland, the affairs of
the society always having with this exception been entrusted to
the management of Cleveland men. He is a member of the
Alumni Association of Western Reserve University and of the
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Other organizations that claim his
membership and some of his time are the Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce, Willowick Country Club, of which he is a charter
member, Hermit Club, the Cleveland Advertising Club of which he
is president at this writing (1917-18), is a Mason and member of
the Knights of Pythias. Any worthy charity in Willoughby can
count upon him in advance for support.
During the last year war work has especially enlisted
his sympathy and earnest endeavors, especially has he been
helpful in forwarding the Young Men's Christian Association
campaigns and the Liberty Loan.
Mr. Wilson was organizer of the first
street fair ever held on the Western Reserve—at Willoughby—and
was long secretary of the Willoughby Chamber of Commerce.
His knowledge of men and affairs is not restricted to his home
locality, and at different times he has accepted an opportunity
to travel over the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 507 - Vol. II |
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SIDNEY V. WILSON
was for half a century a resident, business man and power in
civic affairs at Willoughby, one of the interesting and
prosperous units of population and commercial affairs in the
Cleveland district.
Third in a family of thirteen children he was born at
Norway in Herkimer County, New York, Oct. 15, 1823. The
family migrated to Chautauqua County to a farm which was later
incorporated in the grounds of the Chautauqua Assembly. In
early youth he sought a home in the West. At
Crawfordsville, Indiana, he learned the wheelwright's trade.
He soon decided to return to Willoughby, Ohio, a place toward
which he had been especially attracted on his way out by the
knowledge that it was named in honor of Dr. Willoughby
the family physician who assisted in bringing him into the
world; and by the sign of "S. Smart," which hung over the little
red grocery, and the striking appearance of hotel painted in
alternate colors of red, blue and green, known to the traveling
public as the "Zebra Inn."
His first work at Willoughby was the manufacture of
wagons. His shop stood at what is now the corner of Erie
and Spaulding streets. He made the wagons entirely by
hand. One of them was in use on the plains as late as
1890. However, he soon assumed the management of the Zebra
Inn. Among other guests to whom he stood host he
entertained the officials of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern Railroad Company, who met there when the last spike
connecting the Chicago and Buffalo divisions was driven.
From 1854 for six years Mr. Wilson and K. S. Baker
conducted a general merchandise store at Findlay, Ohio, being
the first Yankees to go among that old Dutch settlement.
On his return to Willoughby he was a partner with his
brother-in-law, S. W. Smart, as a merchant from 1860 to
1872. At the latter date he engaged in business alone, his
store being on Erie Street opposite Vine Street. In 1889
he removed it to the Carrel Block and enlarged his operations,
admitting his son Sidney S. to copartnership under the
firm name of S. V. Wilson & Son. In 1892 his
younger son Ray Wilson came into the firm and at the same
time they bought one of the Bond stores. Ray Wilson's
death in1898 was a great loss to the firm as well as to the
community at large. The business expanded in 1899 by the
purchase of two stores and the entire stock of Dickey &
Collister. From that time until his death Sidney
V. Wilson was the leading merchant of Lake County and after
a brief illness of a week from pneumonia he died Feb. 14, 1903,
aged seventy-nine.
Mr. Wilson was a man of strong individuality,
among his most notable traits being his undoubted integrity,
rigid scruples of honor, genial courtesy and his unbounded
hospitality. Sympathetic and charitable, he had also a
keen sense of humor, making him a most delightful companion, and
was especially loved by the young people. No man, it is
safe to say, ever had a better sense of the true value of wealth
and ease, and no man exacted from it and imparted from it a
greater amount of happiness.
Sidney V. Wilson married Feb. 3, 1856, Miss
Hepzibah B. Smart, who came with his family to Willoughby,
Ohio, in 1836 and for many years was proprietor of the little
red grocery store over which was displayed the sign "S. Smart."
She was a woman of culture and refinement; educated in the old
Willoughby Seminary, now Lake Erie College, and until her death
which occurred Mar. 10, 1903, at the home of her daughter Mr.
E. E. Flickinger at Indianapolis, Indiana, she held her
membership and her interest in the Alumnae Association.
Six children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson,
of whom two sons and a daughter died in infancy, and Ray
in July, 1898. The two living children are Florence,
wife of E. E. Flickinger of Indianapolis, and Sidney
S. of Willoughby.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of
New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago
and New York - 1918 - Page 507 - Vol. II |
Howell Wright |
HOWELL WRIGHT
was elected a senator from Cuyahoga County in
1916, but his more important activities and distinctions are
connected with the broad program of social service begun in his
native State of Massachusetts and subsequently continued in
Cleveland as superintendent of the Associated Charities, then,
under appointment from Mayor Newton D. Baker, as
superintendent of the City Hospital, and for the past two years,
since its organization, as executive secretary of the Cleveland
Hospital Council.
Mr. Wright was born at Swansea,
Massachusetts, Jan. 21, 1882, a son of Rev. Otis O. and Anna
(Kingsbury) Wright. Both parents are still living at
Swansea, and his father, after an active experience of forty-one
years in the ministry of the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut, is now living retired. The
father was a native of Rhode Island and the mother of Maine, and
they were married in the State of Massachusetts. The
maternal grandfather of Mr. Wright was Capt.
Henry Kingsbury, who brought the first load of
coal up the Merrimac River to Newburyport. Another
distinguished member of the Kingsbury family was
the famous Cleveland pioneer, Judge Kingsbury. Rev.
Otis Wright is a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution, his Revolutionary ancestor having been
James Wells, a first lieutenant in the Rhode Island troops.
Rev. Mr. Wright has been very active in republican
politics, and one of his brothers served as a senator in Rhode
Island and another was a state representative in New Hampshire.
Howell Wright was the third in a family
of three sons and one daughter: Henry Kingsbury, who died
at the age of eighteen in Connecticut; Lucy, who is
general superintendent of the Massachusetts State Commission for
the Blind, living at Boston; and Cecil, an organist and
choir director at Glens Falls, New York.
Howell Wright, being a minister's son,
grew up in a home of culture and refinement, but had to depend
upon his own exertions to secure the liberal education which he
craved. In 1902 he graduated from the Cheshire Military
School at Cheshire, Connecticut, and while in that school was
captain of the football and baseball teams. After that he
worked his way through Yale University by shoveling coal and
looking after furnaces and was too busy earning his board and
tuition to take any part in athletics. He had about as
strenuous a career of self-help while in university as his noted
classmate and friend, James E. Evers, and both these men,
singularly enough, are prominent in public welfare work at
Cleveland. Mr. Wright, with all his working
responsibilities, kept up with his classes at Yale and' was
given the degree Bachelor of Arts in 1906 and in 1907 received
the Master of Arts degree. Mr. Wright has a
splendid fund of physical and mental energy for the work he has
undertaken and performs so adequately. He has lived a
clean, moral life and has found pleasure in wholesome physical
recreation, especially as a fisherman and hunter.
Every fall he takes some time away from his duties to hunt deer
during the open season.
For five years after leaving Yale Mr. Wright
was employed as a special agent of the Massachusetts Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at Boston, and he also put
in part of the time at New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he
organized the first branch office of that society. The
following year he spent as general secretary of the Norwood
Civic Association at Norwood, Massachusetts, and in 1912 came
west to Cleveland to take up his duties as superintendent of the
Cleveland Associated Charities. He attracted the favorable
attention of Secretary of War Baker, then mayor of
Cleveland, and at the end of eight months the mayor appointed
him superintendent of the Cleveland City Hospital. That
was a big responsibility, but he handled it with credit to
himself and the city, and only left it to take up a work of
broader significance and value to the city when, on Jan. 20,
1915, he became executive secretary of the Cleveland Hospital
Council. The Cleveland Hospital Council was formally
organized in March, 1916. During the two preceding years
the hospitals of the city had co-operated with one another
through informal conferences, but after the organization of the
council they worked together through regular monthly meetings,
and the council has justified itself by its record of solving
many individual and collective hospital problems. The
purpose of the council, as stated in its constitution, is "To
Promote the Efficiency of and Cooperation between the various
interested hospitals to the end of better meeting the hospital
needs of the community." There are twenty institutions
represented in the council. Without reciting the various
changes already effected and the broad program of proposed
reform, it is possible to assert that the Hospital Council has
fully justified the hopes of its founders and promoters and is
in fact "the center for hospital coordination and progress" in
Cleveland. The council is probably the first organization
of its kind in any large city of the country.
In politics Mr. Wright is a democrat, and
so far as the information serves, is the only member of the
family in several generations to be identified with that party.
On coming to Cleveland he at once took an active part in local
politics in the Seventh Ward, as a member of the Tom L.
Johnson Club, and has been secretary and is now president of
the club in that ward. He was a delegate to the democratic
state convention in 1916, and in the same year a delegate from
the Twentieth District to the national convention at St. Louis,
and cast his vote for Woodrow Wilson. In the
fall of 1916 he was elected a member of the State Senate from
the Twenty-fifth District. In the session of 1917 he was
made chairman of the senate public health committee, and his
long experience in public welfare work gave him a position of
special authority in connection with every legislative matter
involving public health, medical practice, hospitals, etc.
On May 13, 1917, Mr. Wright delivered before the
annual meeting of the Ohio State Medical Association an address
on medical license, medical practice and the Legislature, and in
commenting and quoting from this address in the Interstate
Medical Journal, the editor said: "No layman has ever been in a
better position to understand the real questions at issue, and
it is to such men as Mr. Wright, standing as he
does as the interpreter of the medical profession's true aims to
the public and legislative possibilities and dangers to the
medical profession, that we must look for counsel as to our own
attitude."
Senator Wright is a member of the Western
Reserve Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the
City Club, the Columbus Athletic Club of Columbus, and he and
his wife are identified with Pilgrim Church on the South Side of
Cleveland. His home is at 1416 Hentor Avenue. On
Dec. 19, 1907, at Newtown, Connecticut, he married Miss Mabel
Morris, who was born and educated in Newtown, being a
graduate of the high school. Her parents, Levi C. and
Fanny (Peck) Morris, are still living and are
of old New England ancestry. The Pecks have lived
in Connecticut from the time of the Indians. Mrs.
Wright's father is a merchant at Newtown and is active in
republican politics and in church affairs. Both Senator
Wright and Mrs. Wright are devoted to their home and Mrs.
Wright is busy with the rearing and training of her three
young sons: Edwin Kingsbury, who was born in New
Bedfordshire, Massachusetts; Francis Howell, born
at Norwood, Massachusetts; and Morris, born at Cleveland.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 306 - Vol. III |
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MARTIN L. WRIGHT.
Two generations of Ohio people have utilized and appreciated the
services of Dr. Martin L. Wright as a dentist, and he is
almost the dean of the profession at Cleveland, where today he
is still carrying the burdens and responsibilities of
professional work with offices in the People's Bank Building on
West Twenty-Fifth Street. He comes of a professional
family. His father was both a physician and a dentist, and
one of the very first to devote all his energies to the practice
of dentistry in Cleveland. Representing the third
generation, Doctor Wright has several sons who are
dentists, one of them associated with him in partnership.
A native of Cleveland, Dr. Martin L. Wright was
born Nov. 19, 1846. His father also bore the name of
Martin L. and was born in the north of Ireland in 1806 and
was brought in infancy to the United States by his parents, who
first located in Massachusetts. He came as a pioneer to
Northern Ohio, married in Huron, Ohio, and was one of the early
graduates with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Western
Reserve University. He practiced medicine in Huron for
several years, and in 1842 located at Cleveland, where he was
almost exclusively a dentist. Dr. Wright,
Sr., died at Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1863. He was a
democrat in politics. The maiden name of his wife was
Maria Remington, who was born in Vermont in 1815, and
during the greater part of her life lived in Cleveland, dying
while on a visit at Paynesville, Ohio, in 1882. She was
the mother of five children: Jennie M., who married
Chester Stoddard, a lake engineer, and both are now
deceased; Mary, who married Lansing Ford, a
locomotive engineer, and both of whom died in Cleveland; Dr.
Martin L.; Maria, who died in Cleveland, the wife
of John Mullen, an undertaker; Nellie, who
lives on East Seventy-Ninth Street in Cleveland, wife of
Henry Kein, a hardware merchant.
Martin L. Wright, Jr., was educated in the
Cleveland public schools, graduating from high school, and in
that early and interesting period of his youth many of his
thoughts naturally turned upon the great struggle then engaging
the North and South. In 1863, at the age of seventeen, he
enlisted in the Cleveland Grays, and in 1864 was called into the
National service with the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry
for a hundred days. The regiment was sent to Washington
and did its duty in repelling Early's attack on the defenses at
Washington. After the war Doctor Wright
returned to Cleveland and for two seasons enacted with some
success the role of an actor with John A. Ellsler.
He then zealously applied himself to the study of dentistry and
has now practiced that profession for almost half a century.
He was located at Paynesville and at Chardon, Ohio, but in 1890
returned to Cleveland and has had all the patronage he could
well attend to.
Doctor Wright is a democrat in politics.
He usually supported the party organization in state and local
affairs, but several times has exercised his decided
independence when national problems were at stake. Thus he
voted for Grant and many years later was a Roosevelt
supporter. Doctor Wright is a member of the
Christian Science Church and his fraternal affiliations are with
Halycon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Thatcher
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Forest City Commandery, Knights
Templar, Wellington Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows at
Wellington, Ohio, Red Cross Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and
he is a member of Memorial Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Dr. Wright owns a modern home at 1376
Cook Avenue in Lakewood. He has an interesting family.
In 1868 he married Miss Elvena Rogers, who was
born in Ohio and died at Cleveland in 1893. She was a
granddaughter of Eber D. Howe, founder of the Cleveland
Herald in 1819, the first newspaper published at Cleveland. Dr.
Wright by his first wife has four children: Harry,
a dentist practicing with his father; Alta, wife of
Dr. John B. Gillette, a Cleveland dentist; Mabel, who
married Walter Walsh, a salesman living at Los
Angeles, California; and Dr. W. W., who is a graduate of
Western Reserve University and is also a practicing dentist at
Cleveland.
In 1894 Dr. Wright married for his second
wife, Lucy Purdee, a native of Ohio. She
died at Cleveland in 1895, the mother of one son, Richard W.,
who is now a first lieutenant in the aviation corps with the
United States forces in France. In 1896 Dr.
Wright married for his present wife Miss Nellie
Bruce, daughter of Charles and Mary (Whitworth) Bruce,
both now deceased. Her father was a railroad man.
Dr. and Mrs. Wright have two sons, Bruce and Mark,
the former, who was a student of Case School of Applied Science,
joined the Naval Reserves in the spring of 1918, and the latter
is a student at Lakewood High School.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New
Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and
New York - 1918 - Page 208 - Vol. III |
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