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BIOGRAPHIES
† Source:
A. History of Northwestern Ohio
A Narrative of Its Historical Progress and
Development
from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and
Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of
Lake Erie, down to the Present Time
by Nevin O. Winter, Litt. D.
Assisted by a Board of Advisory and Contributing Editors
Illustrated
Vol. II
Published by
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1917
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CHARLES
THOMAS LEWIS, besides his conspicuous position
in the bar of Northwest Ohio, where he has practiced steadily for
over thirty years, is also one of the men responsibly connected with
the direction of large corporations and business affairs, and for
years has been interested in all public movements for the betterment
of Toledo.
He was born at Marietta, Ohio, Oct. 9, 1850, a son of
James and Nancy Jones Lewis. Mr. Lewis graduated with
honors from Marietta College in 1872, receiving the A. B. degree and
becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. During the
next five years he applied himself to banking, being vice president
and cashier of the Noble County National Bank at Caldwell, Ohio,
which he organized. He continued with that bank in different
capacities until 1882. In the meantime he took up the study of
law, was admitted to the bar and practiced for five years, and then
came to Toledo in 1882. From 1884 to 1896 he practiced law as
a member of the firm of Doyle, Scott & Lewis,
and from 1896 to 1914 Mr. Lewis and Judge John H.
Doyle practiced under the firm name of Doyle & Lewis.
Since 1914 the firm has been Doyle, Lewis, Lewis
& Emery, composed of John H. Doyle, Charles T.
Lewis, Howard Lewis, Frank S. Lewis and Judge
Ralph Emery.
Mr. Lewis is one of the leading railway
attorneys of Ohio, taking part in many important railroad cases, and
since 1896 has been general counsel and a director of the Toledo &
Ohio Central Railway Company, the Kanawha & Michigan Railway Company
and the Zanesville & Western Railway Company, now part of the New
York Central System.
He was vice president of the Toledo & Ohio Central and
the Zanesville & Western Railway companies from 1908 to 1909, and in
the following year was president and general counsel of those
railroads, and also of the Kanawha & Michigan Railway Company.
He represents a number of large corporation interests,
and is a director in the Northern National Bank of Toledo.
His public spirited citizen has led him to become
identified with every movement for progress and upbuilding in his
home city, and in 1896-97 he served as president of the Toledo Board
of Education. As a democrat he was a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention of 1880, held at Cincinnati, but sine
1896 he has been entirely independent in politics. He stands
high in Masonry, being a member of the Toledo bodies in both the
York and Scottish Rite, and in 1898 was given the honorary
thirty-third degree. He is a member of the Country,
Toledo, Middle Bass and Columbus clubs, and has long been closely
identified with the activities of the of the Ashland Avenue Baptist
Church, being one of its founders. He was for four years
president of the Ohio Baptist Convention, and is also prominent in
the Northern Baptist Convention.
On Oct. 25, 1876, at Caldwell, Ohio, Mr. Lewis
married Dora Glidden, daughter of William W. and Sarah
(Davis) Glidden. Their children are five in number:
Howard, a Toledo lawyer, who married Caroline M. Palmer; Frank
S., a Toledo lawyer, who married Ethel Chesbrough;
William G.; Gertrude, who married Solon O. Richardson
III; and Charles T., Jr.
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History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - 1917 - Page 1104 |
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FRANK
STUART LEWIS. One of the best known law
firms in Northwest Ohio is that of Doyle, Lewis, Lewis & Emery
of Toledo. The senior members are John H. Doyle and
Charles T. Lewis, both of whom have for years sustained a
reputation that ranks them among the best lawyers of the state.
The younger members of the firm are Howard Lewis and Frank
S. Lewis, both sons of Charles T. Lewis, and Ralph
Emery. The offices of the firm are in the Nicholas
Building.
A son of Charles T. and Dora ( Glidden ) Lewis,
Frank Stuart Lewis was born June 18, 1879, in Caldwell, Noble
County, Ohio. He was liberally educated, attended the Toledo
public schools, graduated A. B. from Denison University with the
class of 1902, and LL. B. from Harvard Law School in 1905. He
was admitted before the Supreme Court at Columbus in December, 1905,
and at once took up active practice with his father at Toledo, and
in 1910 was admitted to membership in the firm. He is now
serving as general attorney for the Toledo and Ohio Central Railway
Company. He and his brother Howard are connected with a
number of enterprises in Toledo, and recently they bought ten acres
at Fort Miami, a Toledo suburb, and on that historic ground they are
beginning improvements which will make magnificent country homes.
Mr. Lewis is a member of the Sigma Chi
Fraternity and is affiliated with Center Star Lodge Fort Meigs
Chapter of Masonry. He also belongs to the Toledo Club, the
Toledo Country Club, the Toledo Automobile Club, is a trustee of the
Toledo Commerce Club, and belongs to the Lucas County Bar
Association and the Ohio State Bar Association. His
church is the Ashland Avenue Baptist.
One of the brilliant social events in Toledo in recent
years was the marriage on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1909, of Miss
Ethelyn Belle Chesbrough and Frank Stuart Lewis. The
wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Abram M.
Chesbrough on Robinwood Avenue. The Chesbroughs are
an old and very prominent family in Toledo. Mrs. Lewis
has been one of Toledo's most attractive society leaders and she
came into special prominence a short time before her marriage, when
chosen queen of the Wamba Carnival at Toledo during August, 1909.
This was the first big Mardi Gras festival of the North, and was an
event of much importance in Toledo and Northwest Ohio. Miss
Chesbrough was selected as queen on account of her personal
beauty and also because of her social prominence. Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis have two children, both born at Toledo, Nancy Jane
Lewis and Dorothy Chesbrough Lewis.
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History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - 1917 - Page 1291 |
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GEORGE
HERBERT LEWIS. As a vigorous and
ambitious lawyer, one possessed of sufficient ability so that he
never has to resort to pretense or display in order to hold his own,
and as a citizen of large public spirit, George H. Lewis,
during his six years of membership in the Toledo bar, has made an
excellent reputation professionally and otherwise. His offices
are in the Nicholas Building.
He was born in that district of Southern Ohio known as
the Hanging Rock Iron region. His birth occurred in Jackson
Township of Jackson County, Dec. 28, 1879. His parents were
R. O. and Julia A. (Greene) Lewis, the former a native of
Jackson County, Ohio, and the latter of Hocking County, Ohio.
Both are still living retired at the old homestead in Jackson
County, where they were married. The Lewis family comes
from Wales and grandfather Lewis and wife left that country
in the early days and settled in Southern Ohio. Mrs. Julia
Lewis' parents came from New England, her father Christopher
H. Greene afterwards serving as a soldier in the Civil war.
This is the same branch of the Greene family which produced
the great revolutionary leader, Nathanael Greene.
George Herbert Lewis is the only survivor of his parents' three
children. His older sister, Bertha M., who died at her
home in Columbus, Ohio, in 1907, was the wife of Henry Eversbach.
Oscar M., a younger brother, died at the old home in Jackson
County at the age of twenty-four in 1904, having previously been a
teacher and just before his death was pursuing a preparatory course
in the Ohio State University.
George H. Lewis grew up on a farm in Jackson
County, Ohio, and lived in the country until he was seventeen.
His education came from the district schools, and at the age of
seventeen he began teaching, an occupation which he followed in the
winter times until he was nineteen, and occupied his vacations and
summer seasons in farm work. Thus he made his own way into a
professional career, and early learned the valuable lessons of self
reliance. For two years he was a student in Dennison
University, and then entered the Ohio State University where he was
graduated A. B. in 1904. He continued in the State University
in the law department until graduating LL. B. in 1907.
Mr. Lewis was admitted to the bar at Columbus
before the Supreme Court in 1907 and in the fall of that year began
practice at Bowling Green with E. G. McClellan under the firm
name of McClellan & Lewis. Mr. Lewis
came to Toledo in the spring of 1910, fortified with three years of
active experience at Bowling Green, and has since looked after a
general practice without a partner. also handles the claim work in
the Toledo district for the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford.
Mr. Lewis is a member of the Delta Chi Law
fraternity, and is affiliated with Bowling Green Lodge No. 818 of
Elks at Bowling Green. He also belongs to the Toledo Commerce
Club.
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History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - 1917 - Page 1288 |
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GEORGE R. LOVE, M. D. In
no line has medical science, the world over, been so taxed or made
such notable progress as in that pertaining to the care, protection
and scientific treatment of that sad army of unfortunates suffering
from impaired conditions of their mental functions. Perhaps
there is no more deplorable page in history than that relating to
old-time superstitions concerning the insane and the inhumanities
practiced in restraining them. Happily, in every country in
modern days, where civilization has made advances, a flood of light
has been turned in this direction and in the United States are to be
found protective public homes for all these sufferers and in many
states, especially Ohio, the enlightened treatment that trained
scientific medical men can give.
One of the best equipped institutions of the kind above
referred to is the Hospital for the Insane, at Toledo, Ohio, which
has been called a model in all its departments. Its imposing
structures are beautifully located and surrounded with attractive
grounds of large extent, in which shrubbery and winding walks and
driveways give the appearance of a peaceful park. Its various
buildings are well adapted to the purposes for which they were
especially constructed and every effort is made here to provide the
best mental atmosphere as well as physical, to restore reason to
irresponsibles or to mitigate the condition of those whose mentality
has been destroyed. For this task no more sincere or better
qualified physician could have been secured than Dr. George R.
Love, the present superintendent.
George R. Love, superintendent of the State
Hospital for the Insane, at Toledo, is a native of Ohio, born at
Plainfield, January 21, 1869. His parents were Joseph and
Margaret (Rusk) Love, the latter of whom, born at Cambridge,
Ohio, died in 1898 in Coshocton County.
Joseph Love, father of Doctor Love,
was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after ward became a farmer
and in early manhood came to Ohio. During the Civil war he
served in the commissary department and also as a musician. He
was married after locating at Jacobsport, now Plainfield, and of his
family of eight children there are seven surviving. For a
number of years he has been the public librarian at Coshocton, Ohio,
his present place of residence.
After completing the public school course in Coshocton
County, George R. Love became a student in the Ohio State
University, and afterward in Starling Medical College, Columbus,
from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1897.
Shortly afterward he was appointed house surgeon in the Miami Valley
Hospital, where he continued one year and then came to Toledo, and
for some time was house surgeon in the Toledo Hospital. In
October, 1898, he was appointed a member of the staff of that
institution and served as assistant to Dr. H. H. Tobey, then
superintendent, for six consecutive years. Retiring then from
institutional work, Doctor Love embarked in private
practice, in which he was engaged for eighteen months, when a
vacancy occurred in the office of superintendent of the State
Hospital for the Insane. On Feb. 19, 1906, Doctor
Love was selected for this responsible position, one in which
he has served with marked efficiency ever since. In large
measure the present satisfactory conditions prevailing at the
institution must be attributed to his administrative ability as well
as his medical capacity. He is in perfect accord with the
reasonable non-restraint method of treatment of patients advocated
by modern medical scientists, and believes that the prevention of
insanity will be one of the greatest medical problems to solve in
the future, adopting, with other of his learned brethren, new
methods of curing some of the oldest of maladies.
Doctor Love was married October 11, 1904,
to Miss Helen Josephine Deering, and they have one son,
George Deering, who was born Apr. 26, 1907. Mrs.
Love was born at Saco, Maine, and was educated at LaSalle
Seminary, in Massachusetts.
Doctor Love is a member of the Toledo
Academy of Medicine and is a life member of the Ohio Archaeological
and Historical Society. He owns what is probably the finest
private library in the. city, one that includes some rare and
valuable works. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
A thirty-second degree Mason, he is widely known in the fraternity.
† Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - 1917 - Page
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