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D. S. HUSTED. One of the oldest active members in the dental pro- fession in Lorain County is Dr. D. S. Husted of Oberlin. He was gradu- ated in dentistry thirty years ago and for fully a quarter of a century has been continuously at work in his profession at Oberlin.
Born at Clarksfield, Huron County, Ohio, March 17, 1861, he repre- sents some early pioneer stock in Ohio. His parents were Hoyt and Anna C. (Stone) Husted. His grandfather Samuel Husted came to Ohio from Connecticut and was an early farmer. The maternal grand- father Daniel Stone was born at Danbury, Connecticut, and followed the trade by which Danbury has become famous as an industrial center, being a hatter, but in 1829 he came west to Ohio, making the journey by the Erie canal, which had been in operation then only about four years. After coming to Ohio he followed farming. Hoyt Husted was born in Connecticut in 1813 and died in 1866. By his first marriage to Sarah Gray he had four children, and two of his sons, Henry and Evelyn, were both soldiers in the Civil war. Henry was reported missing at Goldsboro, North Carolina, while Evelyn was wounded at Gettysburg and died soon afterward. Hoyt Husted was married at Clarksville, Ohio, after the death of his first wife to Anna Stone, who was born at Danbury, Con- necticut, November 6, 1823, was brought to Northern Ohio by her parents when about six years of age and she died September 23, 1909. After the death of her first husband she married Samuel Gray. Hoyt Husted and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and in politics he was a republican. He was a miller and carpenter by trade.
Doctor Husted, who was the only child of his parents, acquired a liberal education, having attended Oberlin College three years, after
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which he entered the dental department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated D. D. S. in 1885. Returning to Oberlin, he was for two years engaged in practice with a half-brother, and then practiced for three years at Troy, Ohio. He permanently located at Oberlin in 1890 and has made his profession his chief interest and has always enjoyed a large and profitable practice.
On April 25, 1889, Dr. Husted married Elizabeth Hurlburt. She was born in Decorah, Iowa, but was reared in Amherst, Lorain County. Her father, Elijah Hurlburt, was an attorney by profession, but died when Mrs. Husted was only a few weeks old. To their marriage have been born three children: Howard, who was graduated from Oberlin College in 1914, and is now teacher of physical training in the Public Schools in Cincinnnati; Edith, who graduated from Oberlin in 1915, is teacher of German and Latin in an Academy in South Dakota, and will sail August 26, 1916, for Kobe, Japan, where she is to take up work as a missionary ; Anna is still attending school. Doctor and Mrs. Husted take a very active part in the First Congregational Church of Oberlin, and in politics he is a republican.
SAMUEL S. LEONARD. The spirit of twentieth century enterprise which has stimulated and produced in such an important degree the development of many industrial centers has one of its conspicuous illus- trations at Elyria in The Western Automatic Machine Screw Company. This concern, which was established in 1873, has done not a little to increase the prominence of Elyria industrially and make the city known for its products far beyond the boundaries of the home state. While the main office and factory are located in Elyria, the company main- tains a branch office and warehouse at Cleveland and a branch sales office at Detroit. This company manufactures practically any type of screw machine product, including set and cap screws, plain and cas- tellated nuts, automobile, gas and gasoline engine parts, besides a large amount of special work in iron, steel or brass.
As vice president and manager of The Western Automatic Machine Screw Company, Samuel S. Leonard is one of the forceful men of the industrial community, and has shown no less public spirit in connection with all the important movements and undertakings that have helped to make Elyria a city during recent years. Mr. Leonard, who comes of a family of industrial workers, was born in New Bedford, Massa- chusetts, February 20, 1854, a son of Thomas W. and Sarah E. (Schenck) Leonard, who were also natives of Massachusetts. Some generations back three brothers named Leonard came from England and settled in the vicinity of Taunton, Massachusetts. They were among the first to engage in the iron business in New England, operating a large plant near Taunton, and the iron industry which they established and built up continued as a flourishing enterprise until about 1912. Thomas W. Leonard had become identified with manufacturing with his father many years ago in New England, but later became an oil merchant in New York City, and that was his business until his death in 1890, when about fifty-eight years of age. His widow is still living, a resident of Mont- clair, New Jersey, and at the time of this writing (1915) is eighty-four years of age. Of the seven children in the family, three daughters and four sons, one died in infancy, and the four now living are S. S. Leonard; Charles H., a resident of New York; Louise Cuyler, wife of George G. Gleason of Montclair, New Jersey; and Carrie W., a school teacher in Bayonne, New Jersey.
The only one of the family living in Ohio, Samuel S. Leonard spent most of his early years in New York and New England, but has since
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been identified with a number of the larger cities in the Middle West. He obtained his early education in the public schools of Brooklyn, attended a military school at Stamford, Connecticut, and his first train- ing in a business way was acquired by three years of work in a broker's office on Wall Street in New York City, and with a facetious reference to this time Mr. Leonard sometimes says that if he had hung around Wall Street until the present time there might have been a firm known as "Morgan & Leonard." However, he seems to have followed his better destiny, and from the broker's office went into the firm of Howard Sanger & Company, extensive importers of notions and hosiery. He was with them two years, and then went West to Mount Sterling, Illi- nois, and for eight years was a clerk in the general store of E. F. Crane. About that time Mr. Crane organized and established the First National Bank of Mount Sterling, and Mr. Leonard was active as an assistant to the banker. He also started his own home while at Mount Sterling. In that town on November 18, 1875, he married Miss Priscilla D. Adams, daughter of Thomas S. and Sarah (Birdsall) Adams, of an old family in that Illinois locality, where her father was an extensive cattle dealer and had also served as county treasurer. Mrs. Leonard was born at Mount Sterling, educated in the public schools, and also at the seminary for young women located at Jacksonville, Illinois.
His employment in the First National Bank at Mount Sterling Mr. Leonard continued until about 1880. He then removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was located in that metropolis of the Northwest for eight years, four years of which time were spent as manager for the Brush Electric Light Company. From Minneapolis he moved to Chicago where he had his headquarters for about a year, and then located at Cleveland, where he engaged in manufacturing as secretary of The Hill Clutch Company. Mr. Leonard's name as a manufacturer is also as well known in Cleveland as in Elyria, since he was one of the active men of that city for about sixteen years. In February, 1906, he came to Elyria, and has since been one of the live men in the building of The Western Automatic Machine Screw Company and is now its vice president and manager. This company employs a large number of skilled workers, and at the present time its business is so large that the plant is operated night and day.
During 1913 Mr. Leonard was president of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, and is now on its advisory board, an office to which each out- going president automatically succeeds. He is also a director of The National Bank of Elyria, is vice president of the Young Men's Christian Association and one of those most active in the campaign for raising money to construct the splendid Young Men's Christian Association Building, which is an object of pride to all Elyria citizens. He is also a member of the Elyria Memorial Hospital Association. In politics he is a republican, and is both a York and Scottish Rite Mason. He is affiliated with Halcyon Lodge No. 498, Free and Accepted Masons at Cleveland ; Thatcher Chapter No. 101, Royal Arch Masons of Cleveland; Elyria Council No. 86, Royal and Select Masters; Forest City Com- mandery No. 40, Knights Templar at Cleveland; Lake Erie Consistory of the thirty-second degree Scottish Rite and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, both of Cleveland. He is a past commander of Forest City Commandery of the Knights Templar. His church home is the First Congregational at Elyria, in which his wife is one of the most active workers and is now a deaconess. Mr. Leonard finds his chief recreation in golf and gardening, and is one of the directors of the Elyria Country Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard have one daughter, Louise A., who was born
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at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is now the wife of J. H. Black of Mason City, Iowa, manager there for the Lehigh Portland Cement Company. They have one child, Richard Leonard Black. Mrs. Black was edu- cated in Cleveland, is a graduate of the West High School of that city with the class of 1905, and in 1907 completed the course in the Kinder- garten School of Oberlin College.
ALFRED E. HALE. One of the most competent citizens and business men in the district surrounding Oberlin is Alfred E. Hale, recognition of which fact has recently been made in his election to the office of county commissioner in 1914. He is now giving an excellent administration of that office. Mr. Hale has kept his career closely identified with the coun- try life of Lorain County for many years, has been a factor in the cheese and butter industry and for a number of years has operated a high class dairy near Oberlin.
He was born in Henrietta township, Lorain County, March 23, 1864, a son of George and Margaret (Smith) Hale. His father was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1815 and died in 1899. The mother was born in 1818 and died in February, 1893. The father came to Lorain County about 1855, at which time his entire capital amounted to not more than $2.50. He worked as a farm laborer, and in 1856 he married near Birmingham in Lorain County, and a little later bought a small farm. His first wages on coming to Lorain County were only $15.00 a month. He finally sold his first farm and moved into Carlisle Township, where he bought another place and pursued agriculture there until his death. He was reared a member of the Episcopal Church, but for thirty- six years was identified with the First Congregational Society at Oberlin. In politics he was a republican. There were three children: Rosena, a widow living in Lorain County; George, who is living retired at Lorain; and Alfred E. Alfred E. Hale attended the schools in the country and at Elyria, and when quite a youth got an experience which led him into the cheese and butter business, which he followed for about twelve years. He finally sold his factory in 1904. In 1896 Mr. Hale bought his father's old homestead, and now has a well improved farm of 145 acres. He has put up several excellent barns, especially equipped for the dairy busi- ness, and has about twenty cows which supply a product that gives him a steady and regular revenue.
In January, 1886, Mr. Hale married Beulah B. Peabody. Her father, M. B. Peabody, was an early settler in Henrietta Township of Lorain County, where he is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have two children : Cassie finished the high school at Elyria, also took the training school course and three years in Oberlin College, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Elyria. The son, Gilbert Neil, was graduated from the Elyria public schools, the Oberlin Business College, and spent one year in Oberlin College, and is now in charge of stock in the great Ford automobile plant at Detroit. Mr. Hale is affiliated with Oberlin Lodge of Masons and with Elyria Lodge No. 465, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
R. D. A. GUNN, M. D. A physician of fully thirty years' experience, Dr. Gunn was for tyenty years of that time located at Cleveland, but since 1906 his home has been in Oberlin, where he owns a comfortable home and has a large professional business.
He comes of that old Scotch stock that so freely settled Washington County in Southwestern Pennsylvania during the early days. He was born in that county March 10, 1859, a son of Alexander A. and Mary (Burns) Gunn. His grandfather, John Gunn, was born near Aberdeen,
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Scotland, and coming to America when a young man settled in Washing- ton County Pennsylvania. The maternal grandfather, John Burns, born in 1797 in Pennsylvania, was related to the same family as the poet, Robert Burns. Dr. Gunn's parents were both natives of Washington County, where his father was born in 1822 and his mother in 1824. They were married in that state and spent their active careers on a farm in the rugged and picturesque district which has figured so conspicuously in American history since the whiskey rebellion. The father died there in 1900 and the mother in 1907 at a good old age. They were members of the United Presbyterian Church, and in politics Alexander Gunn was republican. During the Civil war he entered Company K of the Pennsyl- vania Cavalry, served as second lieutenant, but was severely wounded and was sent home and was never able to re-enter the service. He was a man of many excellent qualities, was well read, was strictly honest, and though he made a great deal of money in his active lifetime, he was too liberal with it to accumulate a fortune.
Doctor Gunn was the fourth in a family of ten children, eight of whom are still living. He acquired his early education in the Washington County common schools, graduated from Waynesburg College in 1884, and then entered the medical department of Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he took his M. D. degree in 1887. Almost imme- diately he set up in practice in Cleveland, and remained there for twenty years, ten years of that time serving as medical examiner for the Pennsyl- vania Railway Company, a work which took a great deal of his time. In 1906 he moved to Oberlin and is one of the capable general prac- titioners of Lorain County.
On October 10, 1888, Doctor Gunn married Miss Lora C. Conner, who was born in Cumberland, Ohio. They are the parents of four children. John Burns, was graduated from Oberlin College in 1913 and is now connected with the Goodyear Rubber Company at Akron. Helen, who still lives at home attended high school and also was a student in Oberlin College for a time. Ross, is a freshman in Oberlin College. Nolan Conner is still attending school. The family are members of the First Congregational Church, and in politics Doctor Gunn is an independent republican. Professionally he is associated with the county and state medical societies and the American Medical Association.
ADOLPH GLATTSTEIN. In June, 1915, the Cleveland Plain Dealer had an article describing the rapid growth of the Hungarian population in Elyria. During the last ten or fifteen years the rapid growth of industrialism in that city has attracted a number of foreign peoples, and not least among them in number and in influence are the Hungarians, who are now found to the number of about 600. Their names are identi- fied in a business, professional and social relation with the life of the city, and by character, activities and ideals they are a most wholesome group of American citizens.
One of the pioneers among the Hungarians to locate in Elyria is Adolph Glattstein, who came to America more than thirty years ago and for a number of years has been well established as a local business man. Mr. Glattstein has not only been a leader among his own people but all classes recognize his ability and true worth. He was born in Hungary May 15, 1865, a son of Bernard and Julia Glattstein. His grandfather Glattstein, was a Jewish minister in Hungary, while his maternal grand- father Zaltzman owns a tannery. Bernard Glattstein was a teacher of languages in the old country and the mother was also a college graduate. Adolph has four brothers named William, Leo, Morris and Isadore, and a sister Catherine.
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Reared in a home of culture and of comfort, Adolph Glattstein obtained his early education at Kashau, Hungary, and attended the Kashau College Gymnasium. In 1882 he set out for America, and soon_ afterwards located in Cleveland. Learning the cigar trade, he engaged in business for himself in 1885 as a general merchant. He finally left Cleveland and took his family to Kansas City, and after living there twelve years his wife died, and he then returned to Cleveland to lay her to rest in that city. From Cleveland Mr. Glattstein moved to Elyria, where he was among the first of his nationality and soon afterward established his place of business where he has since remained, at 146 Woodford Avenue.
Mr. Glattstein is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Elyria Lodge No. 465, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Elyria Lodge No. 431, and is a member of the Jewish Church. On March 1, 1887, he was married at Cleveland to Theresa Havre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Havre. She also had sisters named Margaret, Rosella and Sadie, and two brothers named Anthony and Edwin. Mr. Glatt- stein has a daughter Hermina Glattstein, now the wife of Louie E. Fischman, and they have one child, Theresa Louise.
In the article in the Plain Dealer already mentioned Mr. Glattstein is referred to as one of the leaders among the Hungarian people, and he fathered the movement by which an aid society was established, which later merged with the Elyria Branch No. 107 of the Verhovay Aid So- ciety, which has now been in existence for six years. Its membership has grown to about 130. Later a branch of the Court Batthanyi Hun- garian Aid Society was organized, and through this organization public entertainments have been given, many of which feature picturesque Magyar costumes and customs, and furnish interesting glimpses of typ- ical Hungarian social life to native Americans. Of Mr. Glattstein's personal influence the article in the Plain Dealer said : "Mr. Glattstein, who was among the first Hungarians to come to Elyria has personally assisted many of his countrymen in familiarizing themselves with Eng- lish, American customs, and in generally preparing them for American citizenship." He speaks four different languages.
L. T. DAVIS is proprietor of the North Eaton Lumber and Coal Company at North Eaton. While a native of Lorain County, Mr. Davis was a farmer and business man in Missouri, but some years ago returned to this county and has since occupied a fine country home in Eaton Township and has also built up a large business in lumber and builders supplies. He is regarded as one of the substantial citizens in that section of the county.
His birth occurred December 24, 1861, on what is now known as the Fauver Farm in Eaton Township. Mr. Davis takes much interest in local history and it was at his suggestion that a paragraph was inserted in this history regarding the old Revolutionary soldier, George Fauver, who is buried in the Butternut Ridge Cemetery in Eaton Township. Mr. Davis is a son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary (Brooks) Davis, both of whom were natives of St. Lawrence County, New York. Mary Brooks was brought to Lorain County by her parents in 1831, when she was about one year old. Thomas J. Davis grew up in New York State, mar- ried his first wife there, and after her death and when he was about thirty-five years of age he came to Lorain county, and established a wagon shop at Eaton Center. Here he met and married Miss Brooks. He was an expert mechanic, and continued his wagon business until he removed to Hodgman County, Kansas, where he secured quite a tract of land and spent a number of years in developing it. From Kansas he
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removed to Carroll County, Missouri, where he remained until his death on February 11, 1903, at the age of about eighty years. His widow died about fifty days later in Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Davis' mother was a daughter of Alva Brooks, who was one of the early settlers of Lorain County. He gave her a farm of about eighty- four acres at the center of Eaton Township, and it is still owned in her name and belongs to the estate. It was on this farm that L. T. Davis spent his boyhood. He attended country schools, also took one year in Baldwin University at Berea, and at the age of seventeen went to live with an uncle in Carroll County, Missouri. While in Missouri he attended a college at Avalon. His uncle was administrator of the property left him by his grandfather Brooks, and after a time he bought 200 acres of farming land in Carroll County and applied himself with characteristic industry to its cultivation and management.
While in Carroll County, Missouri, Mr. Davis was married September 1, 1886, to Miss Mida Roberts of Livingston County, Missouri. By this marriage he has two daughters: Jessie, wife of Newton Hoskin of Eaton Township and the mother of four children; and Freda, wife of Don Cook, also of Eaton Township, and the mother of three children.
During his residence in Missouri Mr. Davis acquired about 360 acres of fertile farming land and was also interested in a planing mill at Car- rollton. His wife died at Carrollton and on January 23, 1894, he was married in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Miss Elizabeth Shearer. Mrs. Davis was born on a farm in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Hiram and Frances (Garrard) Shearer. She grew to womanhood in Pennsylvania, received a common school education, and met her husband during a visit with a friend in Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have two children, both of whom were born in Carroll County. Frances is a graduate of the Elyria High School and also took a course in the Kent Normal, has taught one term, and is still at home. The son James Garfield is a graduate of the Elyria High School and is also at home.
In 1903 Mr. Davis sold out his interests in Missouri and moved to North Eaton, where he now occupies the farm which his mother for- merly owned and in which he has a half interest. After a year or so as a practical farmer, in 1905 he established his present business as a coal and lumber merchant at North Eaton and has succeeded in building up a very profitable trade in that section of the county. Mr. Davis is also the heaviest stockholder in the North Eaton Telephone Company, which was organized in 1908 and of which he has since been secretary. As a republican he cast his first presidential ballot for James G. Blaine in 1884, and claims that he has always remained true to the essential principles of the party. In 1914 the progressives nominated him for the office of county commissioner, and while he was not elected he had the satisfaction of leading his ticket. He is a member and elder in the Disciples Church, while Mrs. Davis is a Methodist. He also belongs to the Grange in Columbia Township.
H. B. WOOD. One of the most attractive points on the rural landscape of Lorain County, is the H. B. Wood farm, four miles northeast of Ober- lin, in section 11 and township 5 north, range 17 west, and on rural route No. 2 out of Oberlin. It has been the home and center of activities for the Wood family for two generations, and the site of the old homestead and a considerable body of the land comprised in the origi- nal estate is now owned by Marshall A. Wood, whose father's name is still familiarly associated with the place.
It was on this farm that Marshall A. Wood was born September 1,
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1852, a son of Harrison Burchard and Gracia C. (Pember) Wood. Har- rison B. Wood, who was born near Albany, New York, was a son of Jeremiah Wood, who married a Miss Dimick, and came to Lorain County when his son Harrison was about fourteen years of age. It was the grandfather who first acquired the tract of land now included in the H. B. Wood Farm.
After growing to manhood and after his father's death, H. B. Wood acquired from the other heirs the old farm and added to it as a nucleus until he was the owner of about 500 acres. Three hundred acres of this estate are still owned by the family and Marshall A. Wood's individual farm comprises about 102 acres. IIarrison B. Wood was a man of many excellent qualities and one of the leading citizens of his time in Carlisle Township. He was not a seeker after official honors, though a loyal democrat, and did his best work in preparing intelligently for his busi- ness interests, in providing for his family, and in fulfilling his obligations as a neighbor and friend. He lived to be seventy-eight years of age, and his death caused a profound shock since he was killed on the Lake Shore Railway. He died September 13, 1897.
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