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Source: Past and Present of the
City of Zanesville, and Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The
S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. - 1905 - Page 249 |
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LEO T. HARDEN.
The true measure of success is determined by what one has
accomplished and as taken in contradistinction to the old adage that
a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, there is
particular interest attached to the career of Leo T. Harden,
for he is a native son of Zanesville and has here directed his
efforts in such a manner as to win a creditable position in business
circles although yet a young man. He was born in1878 and is
now proprietor of the New Star Laundry. His father, Thomas
Harden, as born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and came to
Zanesville at an early day, where he secured the position of foreman
in the Kearn & Gorsuch Glass Factory in which capacity he was
serving at the time of his death, when his son Leo was only
nine months old. He was a member of the Catholic church and
was a republican in politics. He married Ann Crowley,
who was born in Zanesville and is still a resident of that city.
She, too, is a communicant of the Catholic church.
Leo T. Harden is the youngest in a family of
seven children and was educated in the parochial schools of
Zanesville, after which he secured employment in the laundry of
B. L. Taylor, of this city, where he remained for eleven years.
On the 22d of November, 1904, he formed a partnership with M. C.
Brown and purchased the Star Laundry, changing its name to the
New Star Laundry, under which title he is now carrying on business.
His plant is located on Commissioner street and he employs fifteen
people, while two wagons are utilized in the collection and delivery
of the laundry. The business is growing encouragingly and he
has recently installed a new collar ironing machine, which is the
finest in the city. The laundry is operated by steam power and
the excellent work turned out will insure a continuation of the
liberal patronage.
Mr. Harden possesses considerable talent as a
musician and is the leader of the Harden Orchestra. He
has devoted considerable time to the study of music and figures
prominently in musical circles of the city. In politics he is
a democrat. He belongs to the Catholic church, to the Knights
of Columbus, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Y. M. I. and the
Musicians' Union.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1905 - Page 839 |
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John Hoge |
JOHN HOGE.
The oldest reference to the name of Hoge is in the year 1425.
The name was originally DeHaga and Sir Andrew Haig the
"Laird of Bemerside," was the first to drop that style of spelling.
Hoge is only another variant for Haig or Hage
and this latter reaches back to the days of Petrus de Haga
who came from Normandy in 1150. About the close of the
seventeenth century, William Hoge came from
Berwickshire, England, to America to escape the persecutions under
the Stuarts. He married Barbara Hume, a
fellow passenger on the ship and whose parents died from a virulent
disease which broke out aboard the overcrowded vessel.
William Hoge and his young wife settled
first at Perth Amboy and finally in the Cumberland valley,
Pennsylvania. Here his eldest son John founded the village of
Hogetown in 1734. From this John Hoge descended
the Hoge family of Pennsylvania. In 1835
William Hoge, although advanced in years, removed to
Frederick county, Virginia, settling on the Opequon branch of the
Potomac. Here he made his home, gave the land for the old
Opequon church and the first regular pastor was his grandson, the
Rev. John Hoge, son of John who had settled in the
Cumberland valley. William, the second son, married a
Quakeress and they lived in Frederick county, Virginia.
Alexander Hoge, another son of William, was a member of
the first congress and also of the Virginia convention which
ratified the constitution of the United States. The family was
one of the most noted in the Old Dominion and furnished a large
number of clergymen, lawyers, physicians and prominent men.
From William Hoge is descended the subject of
this sketch, who is the second son of Israel Hoge and
Betsey A. Doster, both natives of Frederick County, Israel
Hoge located in Zanesville in 1832 and was for some years
engaged in the drug trade. Under the administration of
President Tyler he was appointed postmaster of the city and
served two terms. He died at an advanced age. The wife
passed away some years before.
John Hoge inherited from his parents a strong
constitution. In his veins flows the blood of a sturdy race,
Scotch and Quaker predominating. As a boy he attended the
schools of his day and grew to manhood strong in body, quiet in
manner, methodical in habits - perhaps grew up as most American boys
of his time without special ambitions or purposes in life.
Certain it is that he was always well poised, thoughtful and
industrious. At the early age of fifteen years he began his
business career without especial opportunities for the
attainment of great things, simply as an employee in the soap works
of the late William Schultz, a relative by marriage.
Very early in life he gave evidence of that0 constructive genius
which comes to the fore once in a generation or two in families and
on which one is liable to stumble in seeking for a reasonable
explanation. John Hoge before he became a voter
determined to make that business grow. And it grew to very
large proportions, a sure foundation on which to build a most
honorable and successful commercial and manufacturing structure.
No product of a manufacturing establishment was better known in a
large section of this country than certain brands of soap so
essential in the household economy produced by Schultz &
Company, the title of the firm of which Mr. Hoge was an
important factor for so many years. The domination influence
of his life was the secret of the marvelous success attending his
career as a manufacturer - absolute integrity in dealing with the
public. He originated many novel plans for attracting public
attention and interesting purchasers of his goods. He thus
took high rank among the great advertisers of the country and in a
broad sense pioneered some of the most popular and effective means
employed to this day. One need not go far to see the reason
for commanding success. He believed in the value of the
products of the factory operated by his firm, confidently and
continuously appealed to the purchasing public, made good and won.
That is stating the abstract facts, but back of the winning was a
world of patient, systematic and effective planning and execution.
The doing - that is the secret after all.
But this four square man of business was not only a
manufacturer and advertiser. As the years went on his
interests and his ideas broadened. Other enterprises claimed
his attention and never in vain. He loved his native city and
here all his years have been spent. In 1879 with his partner
the late Robert D. Schultz, the then best appointed opera
house in this country was built in connection with an imposing
business block of most charming architectural appearance, one of the
handsomest in Ohio. During almost all his business career he
has been foremost in banking circles; is enrolled in the list of
stockholders of nearly all the leading manufactories of the city;
president of The American Encaustic Tiling Company; president of the
Brown Manufacturing Company; vice president of the Peoples Savings
Bank; president of the Guardian Trust & Safe Deposit Company;
president of The Courier Company; president of The Griffith & Wedge
Company; president of the Homestead Building and Savings Company;
and a director in numerous corporations in various cities east and
west. In a word his means and his time have been freely
bestowed in building up the industrial interests of his home city.
It is doubted if, off hand Mr. Hoge can call the roll of
the enterprises with which he is associated.
Mr. Hoge came of a democratic ancestry but in
politics he has been a republican since casting his first vote about
the close of the Civil war. Never a partisan, tolerant of
other views, intensely patriotic he stands for honor and purity in
public affairs. He never held an office nor aspired to public
position, although repeatedly urged to accept places of distinction.
In his relations to industrial enterprises he has sought to be fair
in his dealings with his fellowmen whatever their stations in life.
John Hoge has lived a busy life and continues to
so live from choice. In temperament and habit, he is a worker
and like most great "captains of industry" finds his chiefest joy in
adding to the bettering of conditions - personal and general.
With him there is no standing still and in all enterprises with
which he is connected he insists upon growth and expansion. He
has made large investments in real estate in various cities from New
York to Seattle. With him a well settled rule controls in
these business ventures: - "The most valuable properties are located
on the avenues of commercial activity; the laws of trade cannot be
safely ignored nor easily changed; at these points one may safely
invest his money and then he must keep abreast of the demands of a
progressive people in providing modern improvements."
Conservative in action, never hasty in judgment, Mr. Hoge
does not hesitate at large figures nor unusual expenditure. A
careful student of local conditions with singularly clear judgment
as to future growth he seldom makes a mistake in acquiring real
estate and it is characteristic of his whole business life that the
speculative is never a factor in deciding a given problem. To
accumulate property has never been a "passion" with him, but an
earnest of a successful life, an evidence of usefulness and the
industrious use of the powers committed to him by the Creator.
With him there is no standing still; one must go forward or
backward. Enlarged opportunities and increasing wealth bring
broader responsibilities which are not to be put aside. Men of
means of they rightly appreciate their duty, should keep their
capital as well as their minds actively employed to the end that the
state may be enriched, the interests of the community enhanced and
the rising generation taught the lessons of progress and thrift upon
which the enduring fortunes of this country are as largely built.
In all the relations of life John Hoge has been content with
his station, mindful of his duties as a citizen, desiring the good
opinion of his neighbors and always willing to aid in promoting the
highest and best interests of his fellows.
Source: Past and Present of the City of
Zanesville, and Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J.
Clarke Publishing Co. - 1905 - Page 246 |
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