|
BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II -
by G. Frederick Wright
1916
<
CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO 1916 BIOGRAPHICAL
INDEX >
< CLICK HERE TO GO TO LIST
OF BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES >
|
|
ALBERT V. HAGEMAN.
A native son of Lorain, Albert V. Hageman
has passed his entire career in this city, among
whose business men by his learning, industry,
ability and character he holds a high place, while
he is no less valued in the community as a
liberal-minded and enterprising citizen.
During his business life here, Mr. Hageman's
hands have taken hold of incipient enterprises and
have guided them to success; he has been honored by
his associates with election to positions of trust
not because of his self-seeking or importunity, but
because such positions seek one who has shown rare
intelligence and fidelity in the management of his
own affairs.
Mr.
Hageman was born at Lorain, Oct. 12, 1871,
and is a son of Conrad and Catherine (Claus)
Hageman, natives of Germany, the father
having come to this country in 1845 and settled in
Ohio, where his subsequent career was passed in
farming in the vicinity of Lorain. After
attending the public schools of Lorain,
Albert V. Hageman entered a commercial
college at Oberlin, Ohio, where he completed a
business course. His first position was that
of bookkeeper for the Amherst Stone Quarries, where
he remained three years, subsequently becoming clerk
in the Lorain Savings and Banking Company, in
October, 1894. In 1901 he was made secretary
and treasurer of this institution, positions which
he held until it was sold to the Cleveland Trust
Company, in 1905, when Mr. Hageman
was made manager of the new ownership and held that
position until October, 1907. In 1897 he had
been elected treasurer and general manager of the
Black River Phone Company, which under his direction
has grown and developed rapidly and now has 3,600
subscribers. Various other positions have been
and are held by Mr. Hageman.
He is president of the Amherst Home Telephone
Company; was one of the organizers of the Cleveland
Life Insurance Company, of which he served as a
director two years and then resigned; was formerly a
member of the advisory board of the Cleveland Trust
Company; was one of the purchasers of the Hoffman
Heater Company when that company had failed, and
assisted in bringing it to success, when he sold out
his interests, in 1911; is a director of the
Citizens Home and Savings Association and a member
of the finance committee of that enterprise, and was
one of the organizers of the Wickens Company.
He has shown by faith in the future of Lorain and
its industries by investing his means in realty and
other holdings, and for some years has been the
medium through which some large and important real
estate transactions have been carried through.
As a city servant he has ever been ready to do his
full share toward advancing the community's welfare,
and in 1915 his abilities were recognized by his
appointment to the position of trustee of the Lorain
Sinking Fund. He belongs to the Cleveland
Athletic Club and is also well and favorably known
in fraternal circles being a Knight Templar and
Shriner in Masonry, and a member of the Knights of
Pythias, the Knights of the Maccabees and the
Improved Order of Red Men. With his wife, he
belongs to the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, at
Lorain, in which he is serving as vestryman.
Mrs. Hageman was
formerly Eleanor M. Cunningham, of
Clyde, Ohio.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II
by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 671 |
|
|
WILLIAM HAZLETT HAMILTON.
A successful young business man of Lorain, Mr.
Hamilton has been chiefly identified with this
community n connection with the Wood Lumber Company,
of which he is secretary. The present large
business, which is both a mercantile and
manufacturing concern, is the outgrowth of the old
B. H. Wood & Company, which was started in
1892. In 1900 a reorganization occurred, at
which time the name was changed to the Wood Lumber
Company, with a capital stock of $100,000.
H. O. Wood is president, D. H. Aiken is
vice president, and W. H. Hamilton is
secretary treasurer. While the company deals
extensively in lumber and building material, it also
maintains a large plant for manufacturing purposes.
The mill for the manufacture of sash, doors and
other planed and milled materials is a two-story
building, 64 by 106 feet. The yards occupy a
total space of six acres and about forty men find
regular employment in the different departments.
A resident of Lorain County only a few years,
William Hazlett Hamilton was born in Muskingum
County, Ohio, on a farm May 10, 1879, a son of L.
C. and Rebecca (Hazlett) Hamilton. His
father was a miller and grain merchant, and is now
living at Barberton, Ohio. The son received
his education in the country schools and in the high
school at Barberton and in a business college at
Warren, Ohio. For two years he was employed as
a stenographer and bookkeeper and then for two years
was cashier of the American Strawboard Company at
Barberton. Following that for seven years he
was bookkeeper and draftsman in the Jackson Lumber
Company, and in that way gained a thorough knowledge
of the lumber and woodworking industry in all its
details. For a time he was at Akron connected
with the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company, but in 1907
came to Lorain, first as clerk, later as bookkeeper,
and since Jan. 1, 1911, as secretary and treasurer
of the Wood Lumber Company.
While practical business affairs have claimed his
attention during most of his years since boyhood,
Mr. Hamilton is also a man of many interests,
and is exceedingly popular at Lorain. He is a
member and director of the board of commerce and in
1915 served as chairman of the industrial committee
and is especially active in the Knights of Pythias
order at Lorain. On Oct. 21, 1903, he married
Miss Elnora McFarlin of Barberton, Ohio.
They have a daughter, Marian Elizabeth, born
Nov. 5, 1912.
Source: A Standard
History of Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G.
Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 591 |
|
|
WILLIAM HELDMYER.
It is given to few men to impress their enterprise,
their resources, more effectually upon a community
than was true of the late William Heldmyer
of Elyria. His was the familiar story
of the poor boy who makes his own opportunities and
who succeeds as a result of hard and persistent toil
and intelligent management. For more than
thirty years Mr. Heldmyer was one
of the foremost merchants of Lorain County, was a
business builder who built up a number of
organizations which are still vital factors in the
commercial life of the community, and for years
exercised a controlling power in the business
affairs of this section.
Partly owing to the early death of his father, the
early lot of William Heldmyer was
one of hard circumstance and limited opportunity.
He gained the rudiments of an education in the
country schools, and as far back as his memory could
recall he was employed in some of the duties of farm
work. Coming to Elyria in 1867 he found
employment as a carpenter with the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railroad. He was careful,
economical, faithful to his obligations, and wisely
laid the foundation for his permanent success.
In 1880 he became associated with the firm of
Wright & Semple,
under the name of Heldmyer, Wright & Semple
in the hardware business was chief among his
interests. In 1890 John Krantz
became associated with him, and after that the style
of the company was William Heldmyer
& Company. In 1897 the business was
incorporated as the Heldmyer
Hardware Company, with Mr. Heldmyer
as secretary and treasurer of the corporation.
He was also a third owner and vice president of the
Elyria Hardware Company. He also owned stock
and was a director in the Lorain Hardware Company
and the Krantz Hardware Company,
both at Lorain.
For many
years his activities in the business world covered a
large field. He was president of the Elyria
Savings & Bank Company and one of its organizers;
assisted in organizing and became president of the
Lorain County Building & Loan Association; was also
president of the Andwur Hotel Company. At one
time his interest also extended to the lake marine
and he was part owner in several vessels. The
large Heldmyer Block where his
hardware store was conducted in Elyria was erected
by Mr. Heldmyer and in 1897 he
organized the Elyria Building Company and
constructed the Elyria Block. The burning of
this central feature of the business section in 1909
caused him heavy losses and the many worries
connected with the rebuilding of the new Elyria
Block, which was completed in 1910 did much to
undermine his health. Soon after its
organization Mr. Heldmyer became a
director in the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and was
also a member at one time of the city council.
The immediate cause of Mr. Heldmyer's
death was a fall from the fourth floor fire escape
in the rear of the Elyria Building, and he was
killed almost instantly. This sad loss to the
business and civic community occurred July 2, 1912.
In his will Mr. Heldmyer named his
daughter Mrs. Hannaford as trustee
of his entire estate, and for those large
responsibilities she is eminently fitted, being one
of the most capable business executives in Lorain
County. In 1874 Mr. Heldmyer
married Mary Beese, who was born at
Elyria and died July 19, 1908, at the age of
fifty-two. The children born to their marriage
were: Florence J., Leona M., Alice C.
and Harry M. The oldest
daughter, Florence, had married
Albert M. Hannaford just two weeks
before her father's sudden death. She was
married June 15, 1912, and she now has a son,
John Roy Hannaford II, born June 16, 1913,
and named for his grandfather Hannaford.
Mrs. Hannaford has assumed active
control of all the business and property interests
of her father, succeeded to his place on the board
of directors of the Elyria Savings & Banking
Company, and is now the only woman in the State of
Ohio to hold such a position. The daughter,
Leona M., married James
Garnett Tyler, and they now live in Los
Angeles, California. Alice C.
is the wife of Willard M. Taylor of
Elyria. The son, Harry, also
resides at Elyria.
Source: A Standard History
of Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G. Frederick
Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page
568 |
H. H. Hitchcock |
HENRY
HOBART HITCHCOCK. For the greater part
of half a century Henry Hobart Hitchcock has
been one of the leading farmer citizens of Grafton
Township. About forty-six years ago he located
on his present home place, which is situated on the
Grafton Pike, one mile south of the village of that
name. With a farm of 245 acres he carried on
an extensive business in general agriculture,
dairying and stock husbandry.
He came to Lorain County after his marriage. He
was born on a farm in Montville Township of Medina
County, Ohio, Dec. 14, 1843, a son of Daniel
Bristol and Sarah E. (Welton) Hitchcock.
The father was born near Amboy, New York, where he
grew to manhood and where he became a skilled
workman in the fabrication of such articles as
spinning wheels, rakes, etc. When he was about
twenty-one years of age he came to Ohio with his
parents Daniel and Martha (Thayer) Hitchcock,
who located in Medina County in 1836.
Daniel Hitchcock was born in Connecticut while
his wife was a native of Massachusetts. In
Medina County, Daniel Hitchcock acquired a
fifty-eight acre farm and his only son, Daniel B.,
inherited that place and spent his days there as a
successful farmer until his death when about
fifty-one years of age.
Henry Hobart Hitchcock spent his early life on
his father's farm and had such advantages as the
local schools could bestow. After his father's
death he bought from his sister Mary her
interest in the homestead. His sister is now
the wife of Samuel Rosenberry and lives on a
farm in Fulton Township of Kalamazoo County,
Michigan.
After reaching manhood Mr. Hitchcock made a
visit to his grandfather who was then living on the
farm where Henry H. Hitchcock now lives, and
there became acquainted with Miss Eleanor S.
Breckenridge. Their acquaintance ripened
into love and on Aug. 17, 1867, they were united in
marriage. Mrs. Hitchcock was born on
the farm where she and her husband now reside, and
is a daughter of Justin Breckenridge, while
her mother was a Miss Pohlman. Both
were natives of New York State and early settlers in
Lorain County.
About two years after his marriage Mr. Hitchcock
sold his farm in Medina County and bought the place
where he now lives, paying $40 an acre for land that
is now worth several times as much. His wife's
father Mr. Breckenridge built the home
residence in 1851. Its walls were
substantially constructed of brick and they still
stand solid, and the house is almost as god as new.
The outside buildings Mr. Hitchcock has
remodeled since taking possession and has always
kept his own farm apace with the advancement in
agricultural methods.
To him and his wife were born four children.
Clarence Pohlman born Aug. 30, 1868, and now a
successful insurance man at Lorain, married and has
two children, Marie and Ralph. Willis
Nelson, the second child, was born Oct. 14,
1870, and is his father's capable assistant on the
home farm; he married Miss Mary Benzing and
has two children Eleanor S. and Nelson G.
Howard Hobart, the third son, was born June 18,
1879, is a farmer in Brunswick Township of Medina
County and married Della Stearns.
Dwight Bristol, the youngest child, was born
Apr. 19,1880, and still lives at home.
Since early manhood Henry Hobart Hitchcock has
been a devoted adherent of republican principles in
politics. He cast his first presidential
ballot in 1868 for President Grant. He
served as trustee of the township two terms and was
land appraiser one term. He was reared in the
Episcopal Church, and his middle name was given in
honor of Bishop Hobart of New York, whose name is
also preserved by Hobart College at Geneva,
New York. When Mr. Hitchcock removed to
Grafton, in the absence of any Episcopal Church, he
put in his membership with the Congregational
society at Grafton, and has always been one of its
active members of is serving as a trustee and
deacon. His son Willis was at one time
superintendent of the Sunday School.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II
by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 951 |
George W. Hollingsworth
Mrs. George W. Hollingsworth |
GEORGE W. HOLLINGSWORTH.
Source: A Standard History of
Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G. Frederick Wright
- Publ. 1916 - Page 1003 |
J. W. Houghton |
JOHN WESLEY HOUGHTON
Source: A Standard History of
Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G. Frederick Wright
- Publ. 1916 - Page 1012
|
|
|
THOMAS JAMES HUME.
Among the followers of any of the leading trades, no
better recommendation may be secured than employment
by a reliable firm and the possession of the trust
and confidence of their employers. Since May,
1914, Thomas James Hume has been identified
with the well known contracting firm of L. A.
Burgett & Company, at Lorain, where through
ability and fidelity he ha won standing for himself
as a master workman and as a young man of ability
and enterprise who will accomplish much in the line
of his chosen calling.
Mr. Hume was born at Cuylerville, Livingston
County, New York, Apr. 26, 1886, and is a son of
James and Bridget (McKinnon) Hume. His
parents, lifelong residents of that county, were
farming people and Thomas J. was reared in an
agricultural atmosphere, his education being secured
in the public schools. As a youth he displayed
a mechanical bent, preferring work with tools to the
tilling of the soil, and accordingly he was placed
with a carpenter to learn the trade, which he
mastered thoroughly and in a due length of time
began to work as a journeyman carpenter.
Subsequently he spent some years in the East, but in
May, 1914, came to Lorain, Ohio, where he secured a
position with the firm of L. A. Burgett &
Company, one of the leading contracting concerns in
this part of Ohio. During his connection with
this company, Mr. Hume has been engaged in
work on some of the leading structures erected at
Lorain, particularly school buildings, in the
erection of which the firm specializes. In
this connection he was one of the force which built
the new Lorain High School, in 1915, a $275,000
edifice which is one of the finest of its kind in
the state. Mr. Hume is a young man of
energy and industry, of pleasing address and
courteous manner, and since his arrival at Lorain
has succeeded in attracting to himself a large
number of friends.
Mr. Hume was married first to Miss Florence
Burroughs, who died leaving one child - Elmer
Thomas, who was born Apr. 8, 1912. On June
2, 1915, Mr. Hume was again married, being
united with Miss Blondena U. Burgett, of
Lorain, daughter of L. A. and Josephine B.
(Miller) Burgett. Mr. Burgett is
one of the leading contractors and builders of
Lorain Conty, and president of the firm of L. A.
Burgett & Company. Mr. and Mrs. Hume
are members of Saint Mary's Catholic Church.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II
by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 682 |
W. R. Huntington |
COMMODORE W. R. HUNTINGTON.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II
by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 946 |
|
