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TOLEDO
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LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO
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Chicago and Toledo
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1923
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JOHN S. SAALFIELD
John S.
Saalfield, actively engaged in the practice of law in
Toledo since his admission to the bar in 1906, was born on
the 1st of November, 1883, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and is
a son of Henry and Mary (Lewis) Saalfield. He
pursued his education in the public schools of Toledo and in
the Ohio Northern University at Ada, in which he spent one
year in the literary department. His review of the
broad field of business with its limitless opportunities
along agricultural, industrial, commercial and professional
lines led him to the determination to become a member of the
bar and with this end in view he pursued his law studies
under private instruction from 1902 until 1905. His
reading was thorough and comprehensive, qualifying him to
pass the examination required for admission to the bar.
He was licensed to practice in 1906 and through the
intervening years has given his attention to professional
interests in Toledo, trying all kinds of cases and trying
them well. His knowledge of the law is being
constantly augmented by his broad reading and further study.
Source: Toledo and Lucas
County, Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 630 |
John A. Schultz, Jr. |
JOHN ANDREW SCHULTZ, JR.
John Andrew Schultz, Jr., vice president of the
Toledo plant of the Doehler Die Casting Company and
manager of the business at this point since the 155th of
June, 1922, has worked his way upward through ability, close
application and untiring diligence, his life record
indicating what can be accomplished through individual
effort when there is a will to dare and to do. Mr.
Schultz was born in Newark, New Jersey, Feb. 9, 1884,
and is son of John Andrew and Mary (Seidel) Schultz,
the father being a hat finisher by trade, devoting many
years of his life to the business.
Having completed the course in the public schools of
his native city, John Andrew Schultz, Jr., also
studied in technical schools of the east but in 1897 put
aside educational activity in order to learn the lessons in
the school of experience by providing for his own support.
However, he later attended night schools of mechanical
engineering and thus his training was thorough and
comprehensive. He served an apprenticeship in machine
shops and also at the millwright trade, being thus employed
until 1902. He then entered the service of the
Gilchrist Manufacturing Company of Newark, New Jersey, and
during the four years of his association with that house
worked his way upward to the position of foreman and master
mechanic. From 1906 until 1912 he was superintendent
and assistant manager of the New York Bottlers Supply
Manufacturing Company at Hoboken, New Jersey, and in 1912
and 1913 was superintendent of die construction with the
Doehler Die Casting Company in Brooklyn, New York.
He afterward spent two years as vice president of the
American Die Casting Company at Newark, New Jersey, at the
end of which time the business was taken over by the
Doehler Die Casting Company of New Jersey and Mr.
Schultz was made vice president and general manager.
His business career was interrupted by his service in
the World war. He became the first lieutenant in the
Engineering Division of the Ordnance department as a die
casting expert and was on duty for the government until
November, 1918. He afterward came to Toledo as
assistant manager at this place for the Doehler Die
Casting Company and on the 1st of January, 1922, he was made
manager, while on the 15th of June following he was promoted
to the vice presidency in charge of the Toledo plant and is
one of the directors and members of the executive committee
of this corporation. The business is one of the large
enterprises of this character in the country and the Toledo
plant is constituting an important source of revenue, a very
substantial business having been built up.
Mr. Schultz was married June 5, 1904, to Miss Mary
Theresa Bleyhl of Newark, New Jersey, and they are
parents of a daughter and a son: Mary Margaret and
Charles Andrew. Mr. Schultz is particularly fond
of motor boating and athletic sports and is a member of the
Toledo Yacht Club, in which he is now fleet captain.
He has membership with the Masonic fraternity and with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Society of
Automotive Engineers and the Independent Order of Foresters,
and loyally follows the teachings and purposes of these
organizations. The sterling traits of his character
are such as will bear the closest investigation and
scrutiny. He has been found thoroughly reliable as
well as progressive in business, dependable in citizenship,
faithful in his friendship and judged by the consensus of
opinion on the part of his fellowmen John Andrew Schultz
is a representative and valued resident of his adopted city.
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ALEXANDER L. SMITH
Alexander L. Smith, senior member of the law
firm of Smith, Beckwith & Ohlinger of Toledo, was
born June 16, 1855, in Columbus, Ohio, a son of Josiah D.
and Ann Eliza (Osborn) Smith. He attended the
public schools of Columbus, Ohio, while later he
matriculated in Amherst College and received the Bachelor of
Arts degree, upon graduation with the class of 1876.
Subsequently he went to Germany, where he studied in the
Berlin University and also in the Heidelberg University in
the years 1878 and 1879. He then began to course in
law under private instruction and was admitted to the Ohio
bar in 1882, while later he was admitted to practice in the
United States courts. In 1897 he formed a partnership
with George H. Beckwith that has since been
maintained. They practiced has long been of a most
important character and he occupies a place in the foremost
ranks of the legal fraternity in this city. He is
likewise one of the directors of the Commerce Guardian Trust
& Savings Bank.
On the 9th of December, 1885, Mr. Smith was
married to Miss Alice Doolittle, a daughter of
General Charles C. Doolittle of Toledo. Mr.
Smith died on the 28th of March, 1906. Mr. and
Mrs. Smith became parents of three children:
Donald P., Emily H. and Elizabeth D.
Mr. Smith is a member of the First Unitarian church
and has been signally honored with a membership on the
national council of the Unitarian Laymen's League, one of
the highest honors which can be conferred on a layman of
this denomination. His interest in the public welfare
and progress of the city is comprehensive and vital.
Source: Toledo and Lucas
County, Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 624 |
Barton Smith |
BARTON SMITH.
Prominent among the distinguished representatives of
the Toledo bar is Barton Smith, who completed his law
course in the University of Michigan in 1875 and has since
devoted his attention to active practice. His
birthplace was a farm at Channahon, Will county, Illinois,
and his natal day June 2, 1852. He was the eldest in a
family of ten children whose parents were Charles
Claibourne and Corinza (Burr) Smith, the father being a
farmer and stock raiser of Will county, Illinois, where he
passed away in 1892. The mother, a native of Indiana,
had become a resident of Will county, in 1832 and at the
time of her demise was the oldest continuous resident of
that county. She was a descendant of the well known
Burr family of Hartford, Connecticut, whose ancestors
were established on American soil in 1630.
Liberal educational advantages were accorded Barton
Smith, who supplemented his early public school.
training by study in the University of Michigan, there
completing his literary course with the class of 1872, at
which time the Bachelor of Science degree was conferred upon
him with commencement honors for scholarship. The
succeeding year was spent on his father's farm and in that
period he became thoroughly convinced that he desired to
enter upon a professional career. Accordingly he
returned to Ann Arbor and there pursued his law course to
his graduation in 1875, receiving his LL. B. degree.
It was upon the advice of Judge Cooley, one of the
most eminent American lawyers and jurists and formerly an
instructor in the University of Michigan, that Mr. Smith
came to Toledo immediately after the completion of his law
course. Here he entered into partnership with
Frederick L. Geddes and when that firm was dissolved in
July, 1881, he became a partner in the firm of Baker,
Smith & Baker, in November, 1894. the practice was
then continued by Barton Smith and Rufus H. Baker
under the style of Smith & Baker until 1914, when
they were joined by Erwin R. Effler and Maurice
Allen, and later LeRoy E. Eastman was admitted to
partnership under the present style of Smith, Baker,
Effler, Allen & Eastman, recognized as one of the
leading law firms of Ohio. At an early period of his
professional career Mr. Smith became attracted by
real estate law, in which he specialized, his marked ability
soon obtaining for him a substantial degree of success.
Regarding Mr. Smith's professional experience and
character, the well known Judge John H. Doyle said:
"He possesses the clearest and most analytical mind of any
man of his age that I have met. He is great in the
solution of intricate legal questions involving
philosophical study. He has a peculiarly logical mind
and is a great student of the authorities. He is very
popular and successful. He is an intense man, earnest,
self-sacrificing in his duties; thorough, working out every
detail and examining every authority, even at the sacrifice
of his health. He is very strong before a jury, a
fascinating speaker- logical, clear, pointed and impressive,
always courteous toward opposing counsel. He is a man
of spotless character. I known no man who is his
superior in personal integrity and none who has a higher
sense of professional honor." Possessed of these
qualities, it is not remarkable that Mr. Smith has
so long maintained a most honored and honorable position as
a representative of the legal profession in Ohio. He
has long specialized in corporation law and with this branch
of jurisprudence is notably familiar. He has
represented some of the most important business interests
operating in the state, including the Connecticut Mutual
Insurance Company, the Milburn Wagon Company, the Toledo
Blade Company and the Sun Oil Company. Mr. Smith
has been identified with the Toledo Blade Company since
1879, became a director in 1883 and in 1920 was made
president of the corporation. He has conducted much
important litigation in behalf of the city, winning success
for Toledo in the memorable case that arose out of the City
Pipe Line litigation. He was also instrumental in
sustaining the validity of the legislation under which the
present splendid filtration plant of Toledo was constructed.
He became attorney for the street railway companies upon
their consolidation and for thirty-two years occupied the
position of corporation lawyer with the street railway
interests, promoting in a measure much of the development of
the line, leading ultimately to the present organization.
Aside from his profession Mr. Smith has rendered
most active service in behalf of public welfare along many
lines. Such is the public regard for his opinion that
his endorsement of a measure is sure to secure for it a
strong following. He has always given his political
allegiance to the democratic party and has been a thorough
and discriminating student of the important issues that have
divided the two great parties. He served as a delegate
to the democratic national convention in Chicago, where he
opposed bimetallism. He has never consented to serve
in political office, however, and has held no positions of
public preferment save that of member of the school board,
the cause of education finding in him a stalwart champion
and one whose labors have been indeed far-reaching and
beneficial. In May, 1921, Mr. Smith was
appointed by President Harding representative of the
United States on the arbitral commission for the
determination of the claim of the Landreau against the
republic of Peru and sat at the hearing and determination of
the commission at London, England, in October, 1922.
On Christmas day of 1877, Mr. Smith was united
in marriage to Miss May Searles, a native of Kendall
county, Illinois, and they became parents of a son and a
daughter. The former, Clifford Charles, was
graduated from the Toledo high school in 1897 and afterward
became a student in the University of Michigan but near the
close of his freshman year was drowned, on the 6th of June,
1899, when but twenty years of age. A young man of
splendid prospects, strong intellectual powers and most
pleasing personality, his death was deeply deplored.
The daughter, Mildred Barton, was graduated from
Smead Seminary in Toledo, studied for a year at Geneva,
Switzerland, and is now the wife of Maurice Allen,
who is one of her father's law partners.
Mr. Smith is very prominent in Masonic circles,
having joined Sanford L. Collins Lodge, No. 396, F. &
A. M., in 1876. He at once began to study the great
basic principles upon which the order is founded and they
called forth his keenest endorsement. He was soon
elected to a minor position in the craft and since that time
has steadily advanced until he is one of the most widely
known Masons in the entire country. When a contest was
on between the Masonic bodies and the spurious branch known
as Cerneauism he was employed to conduct the litigation and
was the constant adviser of the grand master in this
particular. He won victory in the contest in both the
grand lodge and in the courts. His valuable service to
the fraternity is indicated in the fact that in 1887 the
honorary thirty-third degree was conferred upon him and in
1894 he was crowned an active member of the Supreme Council
thirty-third degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite,
Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, U. S. A. Two years
later he was made grand master of the grand lodge and grand
commander of the grand commandery of Ohio, filling both
positions at the same time with marked capability.
In 1907 he was a delegate to the Conference of Supreme
Councils of the World in Brussels and was vice president of
this conference, which met at Washington three years later
and again at Lausane, Switzerland, in 1922. He was
deputy for Ohio from January, 1906, until appointed puissant
grand lieutenant commander in 1909. In September,
1910, he was called to the highest office - that of most
puissant sovereign grand commander, continuing therein until
September, 1921. In fact, Mr. Smith has filled
every office within the gift of the Masonic order and some
of his other honors in this connection are as follows:
He was made an honorary member of Detroit Commandery, No. 1,
K. T., in 1881; honorary member of the Supreme Council for
France in May, 1912; honorary member of the Supreme Council
for Mexico, Nov. 27, 1912; honorary member of the
Supreme Council for Greece in December, 1912; honorary
member of Delaware Consistory, Wilmington, Delaware, May 23,
1913; honorary member of the Supreme Council of Canada, Oct.
23, 1913; honorary member of the Masonic Veterans
Association of Illinois in 1915; honorary life member of
Ohio Consistory, Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1916; honorary
member of the American Consistory Club, organized from
members of the soldier class from Camp Meigs at
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November, 1917; honorary
member of Barton Smith National Defence Class, organized
from this class of three hundred and thirty-seven members of
the Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg, New York, Nov.
24, 1917; honorary member of the Supreme Council for
England, Wales and the Dependencies of the British Crown,
May 15, 1918; and honorary member of the American Masonic
Club, U. S. A., P. O. 708, A. E. F., June 1, 1918.
This is a club of Master Masons, representing about one
hundred and seventy-five lodges throughout the United
States. He was likewise made an honorary member of the
Scottish Rite Association of Norwalk, Ohio, in February,
1919; honorary sovereign grand commander of the Supreme
Council of Italy, Apr. 30, 1919; honorary president of the
Masonic Committee of the Jubilee at Rome, Sept. 20, 1920;
and honorary member of the Supreme Council of Colon for
Cuba, Mar. 12, 1921. He is an honorary member of
Barton Smith Lodge, No. 613, F. & A. M., of Toledo, named in
his honor, and he has been termed "the most eminent Masonic
statesman and the greatest Masonic executive of his time."
In every field of labor to which he has directed his efforts
results highly satisfactory have been obtained. He
never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his
purpose and thus it is that he has rendered signal service
to mankind, because at all times he has been actuated by the
highest principles and most advanced ideals. Few men
have so fully realized and met the obligations of life or
have realized to a greater degree the opportunity for
service. No opportunity of this character has he
neglected and throughout the years of his residence in
Toledo his course has reflected credit and honor upon the
people who have honored him.
Source: Toledo and Lucas
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FLOYD JONES SMITH
Floyd Jones Smith,
organizer and head of the Toledo Fence & Post Company, in
which connection he has developed a business of gratifying
proportions, comes in which connection he has developed a
business of gratifying proportions, comes to this state from
Michigan, his birth having occurred at Lapeer on the 21st of
October, 1875. His father, Charles Alfred
Smith, was a millwright, who followed that trade
throughout his life. He married Kate Rachel
Jones and for many years they resided in Michigan.
It was in the public schools of that state that Floyd J.
Smith pursued his early education, supplemented by a
special course of study in Cornell University in Ithaca, New
York. When his college course was completed he went on
the road as a traveling salesman for the De Laval Cream
Separator, which he represented in that way for ten years.
He afterward became supervisor of the traveling men for the
Vermont Farm Machinery Company and occupied the position for
a period of ten years, having thirty men under his
supervision. Laudable ambition, however, prompted him
to engage in business on his own account and he organized
the Toledo Fence & Post Company in 1919, capitalizing the
business for twenty- five thousand dollars. From the
beginning he has been the president of the company, which
has made steady progress and now occupies grounds two
hundred by two hundred feet at Summit street, extending to
the twenty-nine hundred block on Erie street. The
factory is forty by eighty feet. The company
manufactures various styles of steel fencing, steel and wood
posts, ornamental gates and trellises, plain and ornamental,
and the business is steadily growing. Mr.
Smith is also the owner of the business conducted under
the name of the Superior Post Company.
On the 16th of January, 1900, was celebrated the
marriage of Mr. Smith and Miss Edna
H. Robinson of Poughkeepsie, New York, and they have one
daughter, Ruth Muriel, who belongs to the
class of 1925 of the Scott high school. Mr.
Smith is a member of the First Congregational church and
makes his religious faith a working principle in his life.
He enjoys trout fishing and finds pleasure in the
comradeship that comes to him through his membership in the
Masonic and Odd Fellows societies. In the former he
has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite
and has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the
Exchange Club, the Commerce Club, the Toledo Automobile Club
and the Lumbermen's Club and is regarded as a valuable asset
in the membership of these different organizations.
His home is at No. 2405 Maplewood avenue*.
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Jerome H. Smith |
JEROME H. SMITH
Jerome H. Smith, deceased, a prominent figure in
the confectionery industry for nearly half a century and
founder of the Smith-Kirk Candy Company of
Toledo, belonged to that class of business men in whose
career there are no spectacular phases. However, he
achieved success not only in the accumulation of worldly
goods, but as well in leaving a good name and having lived a
clean life marked by a strict devotion to his duty as
husband, father and citizen.
Jerome H. Smith was born in Rochester, New York,
Feb. 17, 1845, of English parents, and was one of ten
children, four of whom lived to maturity. His mother
died when he was about eight years old and it was but a
short time afterward that he began to earn his own living,
first as a newsboy on the streets of Rochester, New York.
Later he worked as a baker's boy. Thus early thrown on
his own resources, he learned the necessity of saving more
than he spent and for years kept a daily account of his
earnings and expenditures. He took full advantage of
his limited opportunities for an education, attending night
school, reading the best literature obtainable and attending
Shakespearian plays nightly when given in his town.
Mr. Smith first came to Toledo in 1869 as foreman of
the old Worts, Kirk and Bigelow bakery,
then located on St. Clair street, opposite what is now the
Rivoli theatre. In 1875 he went to Cincinnati and a
year or two later became a member of the firm of John J.
Perkins & Company, wholesale grocers, bakers and
confectioners. Retiring from that firm in 1890, he
bought the Forster bakery, which he subsequently sold
to the U. S. Baking Company, later the National Biscuit
Company. Mr. Smith became interested in the
National Biscuit Company as a heavy stockholder and in 1892
returned to Toledo, where for a number of years he was
manager of the Toledo unit of the National Biscuit Company.
In 1902 he organized the Smith-Kirk Candy
Company, becoming its president, and remained its executive
head until January, 1919, when he relinquished active
management of the business, becoming chairman of the board
of directors.
He was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1882, to Miss
Helen Ridlon of that city, a member of a
prominent Ohio family. Mr. Smith passed
away on Aug. 26, 1919, leaving a widow and three sons and
three daughters. The sons are: Derby R., who is
mentioned elsewhere in this work; Hiram A., who is
also referred to on another page; and Roger R., who
is an official of the Smith-Kirk Candy
Company. The daughters are: Mrs. Harry Daiber
of Toledo; Mrs. Frank Kapp of Toledo; and Miss
Lois Smith.
Mr. Smith belonged to the Masonic
fraternity and in his political belief was a republican.
He was a prominent member of the Ohio Confectioners Club and
for a number of years was one of the officials of that
organization. His greatest interest aside from the
welfare of his family was his business. During
business hours he was all business, but at home his time was
given to his wife and children. His home life was
ideal and there he found his greatest happiness and
pleasure. He was modest and refined and always endeavored to
rear his family by example. He was much interested in
Toledo and had implicit confidence in the city's future.
For a number of years he had owned a considerable tract of
unimproved land in the west end of the city. He laid
out Maplewood avenue and from there out to Whitney avenue,
this property being known as the Cushing subdivision.
Many of the stately elm trees and beautiful maples on the
west side give evidence of his civic pride and forethought,
for he planted them. For several years prior to his
death Mr. Smith resided on the River road,
near Perrysburg, and while he traveled to some extent in his
latter years, he was always glad to get back to his home,
the care and upkeep of which was his hobby. He was
quiet and unostentatious in his charities, which were often
unknown except to the recipients, and a worthy object seldom
appealed to him in vain for aid. Mr. Smith
was in his seventy-fifth year at the time of his death and
was exceptionally vigorous for one of his age.
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MALCOLM HOWARD SMITH
Malcolm Howard Smith,
a veteran of the World war, who is now conducting business
as the head of the M. H. Smith Lithographing Company,
was born Feb. 20, 1896 , in Toledo, where he yet makes his
home, his parents being Howard Mandeville and Ida
(Howard) Smith, who are also natives of Toledo, where
the father is engaged in lumber manufacturing.
The son, Malcolm Howard Smith, attended the
public schools and was one of the first graduates of the New
Scott high school. When his textbooks were put aside
he turned to the business world for the opportunities
therein presented. He secured a position in the
clerical department of the Willys-Overland Company
and was thus employed until after America entered the World
war. In 1917 he enlisted in the artillery department
as a member of Battery A, One hundred and Thirty-fifth Field
Artillery, becoming a private but winning promotion to the
rank of second lieutenant. He was sent overseas in
June, 1918, and from the 12th to the 23d of October was on
active duty in the Troyon sector and from the 28th of
October to the 11th of November was on duty in the St.
Mihiel sector in France, receiving his discharge on the 9th
of April, 1919, about six months after the war closed.
With his return to his native land and city Mr. Smith
organized the M. H. Smith Lithographing Company, of
which he is the president. In this connection a
substantial business has been developed, now giving
employment to twenty-five people and high grade work is
turned out.
On the 2d of March, 1918, Malcolm H. Smith was
united in marriage to Miss Frances Eleanor Southard
of Toledo and they have a son, Junior. Mr.
Smith belongs to the Rotary Club, a fact that
establishes his position as a representative member of the
lithographing profession. He belongs to the Country
Club, also to the Carranor Hunt and Polo Club and he is
likewise a member of the American Legion. He is also a
captain of the Toledo Troop of Cavalry, Headquarters 107,
and thus maintains an active interest in military affairs.
Thoroughness and system in his work, combined with an
enterprising spirit, are makng for steady advancement
in his business life, while the sterling traits of his
character are continually leading to extension of his circle
of friends.
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County, Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 247 |
Henry J. Spieker |
HENRY J.
SPIEKER
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