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TOLEDO
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LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO
1623 - 1923
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VOL. II
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Chicago and Toledo
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1923
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Colonel
George P. Waldorf |
COLONEL GEORGE
PLUMB WALDORF
Source: Toledo and Lucas County,
Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 122 |
Christopher F. Wall |
CHRISTOPHER FRANKLIN
WALL
The life record of Christopher Franklin Wall
touches many lines of activity which have had to do with
Toledo's development and welfare. While he started out
in the business world a lad in his teens, without special
advantages or opportunities, he is now a prominent figure in
business circles, being president and general manager of the
Toledo Transfer Company. Mr. Wall was born in
this city Dec. 25, 1856, a son of Edward and Alice (Ryan)
Wall, the father connected with the Toledo Transfer &
Bus Company, which was organized about 1848. Christopher
F. Wall obtained a public school education, pursuing his
studies to the age of about fifteen years. When he was
a lad of eleven his father met financial reverses and for
some time the family had a difficult struggle, so that when
a youth of fifteen Christopher F. Wall began learning
the machinist's trade, at which he worked for four years.
He was afterward employed by the American District Telegraph
Company as a clerk and in that connection worked his way
upward to the position of manager. Throughout this
period he was also a member of the fire department and was
advanced to the positions of captain, assistant chief and
chief, holding the latter position at the time he resigned
in August, 1900. It was then that he spent four and a
half years with the American Linseed Company as manager of
its insurance department. Subsequently he purchased
the Boody House, which he conducted for five
years. For years he has been interested in the Toledo
Transfer Company, of which he is now the president and
general manager, and under his direction the business of
this corporation is being wisely and profitably conducted.
He is also the secretary-treasurer of the Toledo Baseball
Club and is much interested in the national game.
Mr. Wall was married in Toledo to Miss Betsy
Osterman of this city and they have become parents of
three children, Richard John and Alice
Margaret. They lost another son, Christopher
Franklin, who died Oct. 4, 1921, at the age of
twenty-six years, his death being the occasion of deep
regret to many friends as well as to the immediate family.
Mr. Wall has long been a prominent figure
in connection with public service and public interests in
Toledo and few men in the city have enjoyed a wider
acquaintance than Mr. Wall. For some
time he was a director of public safety and he remains a
close student of all those activities and projects which
have to do with the city's welfare and advancement.
Fraternally, too, he is widely known, for he is a
thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine,
is a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, to the
Loyal Order of Moose and to the Order of Eagles. He is
a faithful follower of the beneficent teachings upon which
these orders are based and he is ever loyal to any cause
which he espouses. In many ways his life has been one of
usefulness and benefit to the community and in business
circles his steady progress has brought him to an enviable
position where a business of gratifying proportions now
returns to him a substantial annual income.
Source: Toledo and Lucas
County, Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 566 |
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JAMES LYMAN WATSON, M. D.
Dr. James Lyman Watson was a man whose
constantly expanding powers brought him to the field of
large enterprise and activity in connection with the medical
profession in Toledo, where he practiced throughout the
period of his active life. His great love for his
fellowmen and his interest in their welfare contributed in
marked measure to his success in the treatment of disease
and he was ever the exponent of the most progressive and
scientific methods known to the medical fraternity.
James Lyman Watson was born at Lamar,
Pennsylvania, Sept. 1, 1857, and was a son of James l.
and Margaret F. (McClellan) Watson, goodly Christian
people who, removing to Ohio, became residents of Toledo,
making their home at 1820 Franklin avenue, where in his
later life the father lived retired.
Dr. Watson pursued his education in public
schools, becoming a resident of Tiffin, Ohio, in early life.
Later removing to Toledo, he attended the Toledo Medical
College until graduated in 1891, with the M. D. degree.
As the years passed he became one of the best known
physicians. He started in practice with Dr. John D.
Howe, with offices on Superior street, near St. Paul's
church. Later he was located in a small one-story building
which was afterward torn down to give place to the
Gardner building. Eventually he maintained offices
at his home at No. 2130 Fulton street, erecting his
residence there in 1895. From 1893 he was medical
examiner for the Toledo Traveling Men's Association, now the
Toledo Travelers Life Insurance Company, and continued to
act as medical examiner to the time of his death. This
covered a period of a quarter of a century and his service
was of the utmost worth to the organization. He also
filled the presidency of the Toledo Academy of Medicine at
one time. He was likewise one of the board of
directors of the Toledo Travelers Life Insurance Company,
which he aided in organizing, and he maintained an office in
connection therewith on the seventh floor of the Second
National Bank building. His private practice was
extensive and of an important character and he was also a
member of the staff of the Robinwood Hospital for twelve
years. Following his demise, as a memorial to her
husband Mrs. Watson equipped the new operating room
on the fourth floor of the Robinwood Hospital, supplying it
with all of the latest appliances known to modern medical
and surgical science. a bronze tablet was placed in
the operating room, giving the dates of Dr. Watson's
service on the staff of the hospital, and the room has been
called The James L. Watson Operating Room.
On the 25th of June, 1891, Dr. Watson was united
in marriage to Miss Minerval Olds, a daughter of
Edward M. and Emma (Gephart) Olds of Circleville, Ohio.
They became the parents of five children, of whom James
O., the eldest died in 1900. The others are:
Margaret, who was educated at Wellesley College and
is now the wife of Leland Boyd Monroe; Della Marie,
who attended Simmons College in Boston and is now a domestic
science teacher in the Toledo schools; William
Edward, who completed his education at Cornell
University and is now connected with the First National Bank
of Toledo; and Elizabeth Boyd, who is at
student at Wellesley.
Dr. Watson gave his political endorsement to the
republican party and he served as a member of the city
council and was president of the board of aldermen at the
time the new form of city government was adopted, serving
for the second term as one of the aldermen of the city.
He was likewise on the charter commission that drafted the
present city charter and he ever manifested a most patriotic
devotion to the welfare and interests of city, state and
nation. Fraternally he was connected with the Rubicon
Lodge of Masons. He belonged to the various medical
societies, including local, state and national, and he had
membership in the Yacht Club and in the Commerce Club of
Toledo. For an extended period he was one of the
trustees and most active and earnest workers in the First
Westminster Presbyterian church, his entire life being
characterized by his Christian faith. He passed away
at Clear Lake, Indiana, on July 11, 1918, and some time
afterward his sister, Mrs. William H. Laird,
presented to the church a triple illumination, given in
memory of her parents and her brother. In all his life
Dr. Watson displayed a marked recognition of the
responsibilities and obligations of his profession and of
his duty to his fellowmen. He was of most kindly
spirit, doing good and carrying comfort wherever he went.
He exemplified the highest ideals of his profession, of
citizenship, of friendship and Christian service, and
nowhere were the sterling traits of his manhood more
strongly exemplified than in his home relations.
Source: Toledo and Lucas
County, Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 287 |
Thomas J. Watson |
THOMAS JEFFERSON WATSON.
Business duties and opportunities brought Thomas
Jefferson Watson to Toledo where he arrived in April,
1890, as representative of the Craig Oil Company. For
a considerable period he was connected with refining and oil
interests and in later years became prominently associated
with financial affairs and other business concerns here.
Moreover, he became an integral part in the social life of
the city and its moral development, as well as in its
material progress, and when he passed away Toledo recorded
the loss of one of her representative residents.
Mr. Watson was born near Carrollton, Ohio, Jan.
26, 1842, and his death occurred May 5, 1915, when he was
seventy-three years of age. He attended the district
schools and soon after the outbreak of the Civil war he
enlisted as a private, joining the Third Independent Battery
of Ohio Light Artillery, with which he served until the
close of the war. He was in a number of hotly
contested engagements and went with Sherman on the
celebrated march from Atlanta to the sea. After the
war his first business venture was in the establishment and
conduct of a grocery and general store at Smith's
Ferry, Ohio, and it was at this place that he first turned
his attention to the oil business, building a refinery
there. The success of this enterprise attracted the
attention of the Standard Oil Company who purchased the
business. Following ten years' experience along that
line he went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained
an active factor in connection with the oil industry,
operating in the Pittsburgh Oil Exchange. His
identification with the development of the oil business of
northwestern Ohio dates from April, 1890, when he came to
Toledo as representative of the Craig Oil Company, being a
personal friend of Mr. Joseph W. Craig. Mr.
Watson became manager and director of the company here,
they erecting a refinery in 1891. Later he became vice
president of the corporation and so continued until his
death. He first located at Ironville, on the east
side, after a year and a half he brought his family to
Toledo, which at that time was still very much of a muddy
town, backward in its development, for the wonderful natural
advantages of geographical location and resources had not
become well known to the world as yet. While he
contributed in substantial measure to the successful
management of the interests of the Craig Oil Company, he
also extended his efforts in other fields, becoming
identified with a number of the city's prominent business
interests. He made for himself a creditable
place in financial circles as vice president and one of the
directors of the Ohio Savings Bank and other corporations
also profited by his business sagacity and enterprise.
Mr. Watson was married at Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, to Miss Kathryn Kirkpatrick, a daughter
of John and Margaret (Beatty) Kirkpatrick, the former
a business man of Pittsburgh. Four children were born
of this marriage: Nellie, now the wife of Jay
Armstrong of Chicago; Mrs. Maud Richards; Mary,
the wife of Oliver Snell of Toledo; and Kathryn,
now the wife of Samuel Watson of Cleveland.
Mr. Watson at one time was a member of the
Pittsburgh Oil Exchange and was widely and prominently known
among the oil men of the country. He belonged to the
Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh and also to the Pittsburgh Club,
while in Toledo he held membership in the Toledo Club and
the Country Club. However, it was in his own home that
his happiest hours were spent and to the interests of his
family he devoted all of his time practically outside of
business. He was an ideal husband and father, finding
his greatest joy in promoting the welfare and comfort of
those of his own household. His entire life was
actuated by his Christian faith as a member of the First
Congregational church, in which he served as a trustee.
Source: Toledo and Lucas
County, Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 148 |
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WILLIAM ELMER WHITE
William Elmer White, organizer and president of
the White Cross Radiator Company, manufacturing and handling
radiators and doing expert work on radiators, bodies,
fenders and gas tanks, has through a period of five
years built up a business of very gratifying proportions.
Commendable ambition and desire for legitimate success have
prompted him so to direct his efforts as to gain a place
among the representative iron merchants of the city. Piqua,
Ohio, numbers him among her native sons, his birth having
there occurred Apr. 15, 1883, his parents being William
and Sarah (Marietta) White. The father is a
decorator and painter, who has conducted business along
those lines for a long period.
The youthful experiences of William Elmer White
were such as come to most boys, and play and work occupied
his attention until after he had completed his education in
the public schools of his native city. He then faced
the business world and took his initial step therein as an
employe in the iron mills. After working for a time in
that connection he took up sheet metal work and as a young
man removed to Dayton, Ohio, where he was employed in the
car shops of Barney & Smith. Throughout
practically his entire life he has been identified with
mechanical pursuits and his training and experience in the
employ of others have constituted an excellent foundation
upon which he has built his later success.
The year 1910 witnessed the arrival of Mr. White
in Toledo, in which year he entered the employ of the
Overland Company, with which he was associated until 1917.
He then felt that his capital and his experience justified
him in establishing business on his own account and with the
money saved from his earnings he capitalized the White Cross
Radiator Company, of which he has been president since its
organization. The business is located at No. 720 and
722 Champlain street and there, in connection with the sale
and manufacture of radiators, Mr. White does all
kinds of expert repair work on radiators, bodies, fenders
and gas tanks. His business has steadily grown and
developed and is now one of the most important in its line
in the city.
On the 8th of March, 1904, Mr. White was married
to Miss Alice Saner of Piqua, Ohio, and they have
become the parents of six children: Etelka, Myrtle,
Catherine, Edith, Wilma and William
Stewart. Mr. White's interest
centers in his family and in his business. He has
never been a club man nor active in politics but has
concentrated his efforts upon the upbuilding of a
substantial trade, and now employs from six to ten workmen.
Source: Toledo and Lucas
County, Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 312 |
Christopher P. Whitwham |
CHRISTOPHER
PLATT WHITWHAM
Source: Toledo and Lucas County,
Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 - Page 646 - 647 |
Charles G. Wilson |
CHARLES
GRANVILLE WILSON Source: Toledo
and Lucas County, Ohio 1623-1923 - Vol. II - Publ. 1923 -
Page 374 - 380 |
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