A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 10

Author: Orth, Samuel Peter, 1873-1922; Clarke, S.J., publishing company
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: Chicago-Cleveland : The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1150

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It was on Christmas Day of 1851 that Mr. Cox was married in England to Miss Ellen Oswin, and with the passing of the years they became the parents of five children, four sons and one daughter, all of whom survive with the ex- ception of the second son, Joseph Sheppard. The others are William O., John Henry, Samuel E. and Nellie S., all residing in Cleveland.

Mr. Cox owns the home which he occupies and was formerly the owner of a quarter of an acre of land adjoining this property, which he sold some time ago. He made purchase of this real estate in 1859 and has been the owner of the residence to the present time.

In his political views Mr. Cox has long been a stalwart republican and though now well advanced in years yet maintains a deep interest in the vital questions and issues of the day. He holds membership with the Grand Army of the Republic, thus maintaining pleasant relations with the boys in blue, and he attends the Euclid Avenue Christian church. While he has now reached the age of eighty years he is still young in spirit and interests, and although born across the water there is no native son of America who has been more loyal to the interests of this land. He has ever felt the strongest love for America and her free institutions, and his interest is centered in Cleveland, where for so many years he has made his home, manifesting genuine delight in those move- ments and measures which have promoted her substantial upbuilding and wel- fare.

CHARLES R. BUTLER, D. D. S., M. D.

Dr. Charles R. Butler has attained to a position of distinctive precedence as one of the most skilled and able practitioners of dentistry in Cleveland, having since the close of the Civil war been a well known representative of the profes- sion here. He was born in Portage county, Ohio, June 28, 1835, and comes of Huguenot ancestry. His grandfather, David Butler, located in Atwater town- ship, Portage county, Ohio, at an early period in the development of that portion of the state. He brought his family with him to the middle west and since that time representatives of the name have figured actively in connection with the substantial growth and improvement of Ohio. His son, Rufus Butler, was born in Branford, Connecticut, and accompanied his parents on their westward re- moval. They arrived in Portage county a short time after Mr. Atwater, who had come from Connecticut and had taken up an entire township, the tract being named in his honor. Rufus Butler became actively associated with the agricul- tural development of the county in pioneer times and remained a factor in the farming interests of that locality until his death. He wedded Mary Russell, a native of North Branford, Connecticut. She was of English lineage and a de- scendant of Lord John Russell. Her father, as well as the paternal grandfather of Dr. Butler, was a soldier of the American army in the Revolutionary war. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Butler was celebrated in Connecticut ere they sought a home in the "far west," as Ohio was then known. Upon the farm in Portage county they reared their family, numbering seven sons and three daugh- ters, of whom three sons and two daughters are yet living, namely : Charles R., of this review; Fredrick, a railroad contractor and builder of Iowa; Willis, a carpenter, also living in Iowa ; Eliza ; and Mrs. Delia Streator, of Lansing, Mich- igan.

Dr. Butler, the eldest of the family, spent his youthful days in Portage county, assisting in the arduous task of developing new land and profiting by the instruc- tion accorded in the public schools of that day. At nineteen years of age he

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began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. M. L. Wright, of Cleve- land, and in 1855 he took up the study of dentistry with Dr. W. H. Atkinson, a physician and dentist. Further pursuing his course, he was graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in Philadelphia with the class of 1858, at which time the degree of Doctor of Dental Science was conferred upon him. He then continued.with his preceptor until 1861, after which he opened an office on his own account where the Cuyahoga building now stands. While practicing dentistry he continued the study of medicine and in due time completed a course in the Western Reserve Medical School, being graduated therefrom with the M. D. degree in 1865. During his college days he gave his attention principally to general surgery under the instruction of Dr. Elisha Sterling, for at that time he seemed to prefer surgical to other lines of professional work. However, he had already gained a good foothold in the practice of dentistry and continued his labors in the latter line, although for several years he administered anaesthet- ics for various surgeons in the city. In time, however, he withdrew entirely from that field of practice, concentrating his energies upon dentistry, owing to the con- tinued growth of his business in that connection.

At the time of the Civil war, however, Dr. Butler put aside professional and personal relations, enlisting in 1864 as a member of Company H, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Hayward. Five brothers of the family had offered their services to the country at the beginning of the war, two of whom had died while in the army, while the others remained at the front until mustered out, as did Dr. Butler. While in the army he had consid- erable professional experience, being on duty in a brigade hospital near Wash- ington, D. C.

When the war was over and the country no longer needed his aid Dr. Butler returned to Cleveland and resumed practice, from which time he has given his attention almost exclusively to dentistry. Thus for over fifty years, with the exception of the interruption that came through his military service, he has been continuously connected with the profession in Cleveland and with one exception is the oldest representative of the calling in this city in years of uninterrupted service in professional lines. He has enjoyed a patronage equaled by few and for twenty-nine years was located at Euclid avenue and Huron road, in the heart of the best residence district of the olden times, having among his clientele the largest number of the leading old families of any member of the dental fraternity in Cleveland. He also had many patrons among residents of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburg and other cities, who in visiting Cleveland availed them- selves of the opportunity to benefit by his service.

Dr. Butler has ever been regarded as a most progressive representative of the profession, at all times keeping in touch with the latest scientific researches and discoveries, while his office displays the most improved equipments that are an aid to dental practice. In 1864 he held the chair of clinical dentistry in the New York Dental School and in 1865-6 occupied the same chair in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, while in 1892-3 he was dean of the dental de- partment of the Western Reserve University. That he enjoys national promi- nence is indicated by the fact that he was honored with the presidency of the American Dental Association and has also been chosen presiding officer of the Ohio State Dental Society, the Northern Ohio Dental Association and the Cleve- land Dental Society. At the present writing he is serving on the board of direc- tors of the state society and he has been a frequent and valued contributor to scientific journals.

In Portage county, Ohio, Dr. Butler was married to Miss Sarah E. Eddy, a daughter of the Rev. Ira Eddy, a pioneer Methodist Episcopal preacher of Port- age county, Ohio. Mrs. Butler died in 1893 and five years later Dr. Butler was married at Fargo, North Dakota, to Mrs. Jane E. Eddy, of that place. Dr. Butler held membership in the Cleveland Art Club until its discontinuance. He is a thirty-third degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine and has held vari-

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ous offices in the different departments of Masonry, being one of the most active and honored representatives of the craft. He is also secretary of the board of trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal church, which office he has filled for many years, his labors and influence being a potent factor in the substantial growth of the church, while at all times he gives active cooperation to those measures and movements which tend to promote the material, intellectual, social and moral progress of the city.

JOHN ZIPP.

John Zipp, who has never feared to venture where a favoring opportunity has led the way, is now the president of the Zipp Manufacturing Company, in which connection he is guiding the destinies of an important manufacturing en- terprise that deserves classification with the leading productive industries of Cleveland. Step by step along the path of orderly progression he has made his way, and the course which he has followed has won him the respect and con- fidence of his colleagues and associates. His birth occurred at the old family homestead in this city, December 13, 1857, his parents being John and Catherine (Kreckel) Zipp, the former born in Germany September 10, 1823, and the lat- ter on the 5th of November, of the same year. They came to America in their minority, however, and John Zipp made his way westward on the Erie canal, which was then much used for travel between New York city and Cleveland. He was a building contractor and also conducted a stone, coal and wood busi- ness, having a yard at the corner of Canal and Commercial streets. With the passing years his business interests developed to extensive proportions. The date of his arrival was 1842 and in 1846 he wedded Miss Catherine Kreckel, who long survived him, passing away in 1890. His death occurred in Cleveland in 1864.

John Zipp, whose name introduces this review, pursued his education in the Brownell Street school, which he entered on its opening day, therein pursuing his studies until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he began learning the more difficult lessons in the school of experience by starting out in the bus- iness world. He was first employed in a flour, feed and grocery store, where he continued until January, 1879. His next step brought him intimate knowledge of the business that has had to do with shaping his later career. He entered the employ of John H. Cause & Company, owners of coffee and spice mills and manufacturers of flavoring extracts, baking powder and grocery sundries. For one year he acted as bill clerk and afterward took charge of the books and office. remaining with that firm as a most competent and trusted employe until it went out of business in 1885.

Believing that the time was ripe for his embarkation in business on his own account Mr. Zipp, on the 2d of September, 1885, opened an establishment at No. 64 Woodland avenue for the manufacture of flavoring extracts and baking powder. The business has developed along substantial lines until it is one of the extensive and important manufacturing concerns of the city. In 1896 papers of incorporation were taken out under the name of the Zipp Manufacturing Company. The growth of the business necessitated the removal to the large brick building at Nos. 747 to 751 Woodland avenue, which the company now occupies. The house is represented on the road by eleven traveling salesmen. and the territory extends from New York to Oklahoma. The best known brand of their extracts is "Zipp's U. S. P."-United States Pharmacopoeia. An im- portant branch of the business is that of the manufacture of Zipp's crushed fruits, syrups and flavoring extracts for soda-fountain use. The growth of this department has been marvelous, owing to the high quality of the product, and it has also had rapid increase since so many of the states have adopted the local

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option law. Mr. Zipp has ever maintained a high standard in the excellence of the output, regarding satisfied patrons as his best advertisement, and as the years have gone on his increasing patronage has made him one of the substan- tial manufacturers of the city. During the year 1910 the company expects to erect a new plant on the site of the old family homestead at the corner of Web- ster and East Thirteenth streets, fully equipped in every detail for the manu- facture of those products which have made the name of Zipp familiar in many households throughout the country.

On the 27th of December, 1881, Mr. Zipp was married to Miss Catherine Emig, who was born in Mansfield, Ohio, but during her girlhood days was brought to Cleveland by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Emig. Her death occurred October II, 1908, two children surviving: Helen, who is now Mrs. F. L. Fisher, of Cleveland, and lives with her father, and John, who was born January 2, 1901, and is attending the Giddings school.

Mr. Zipp has been a life-long republican and while always an interested member of his party has never held nor sought office. He belongs to the Cham- ber of Commerce and cooperates in its various projects for the city's commercial growth and its improvement. He also holds membership relations in the Tippe- canoe Club and with the Commercial Travelers. Always a resident of this city, he is widely known here as a man whose enterprise has been his dominating quality, advancing him from an obscure position in the business world to a place which has made his name an honored one on commercial paper.

JAMES RITCHIE.

James Ritchie, a civil engineer of the firm of Ritchie & Ruple, has thus been associated in the practice of his profession since 1900. More than thirty-one years have passed since he won his Bachelor of Science degree and entered upon his chosen calling, and through the intervening period his progress has been of a steady and healthful character. Massachusetts numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Roxbury, that state. His father, James Ritchie, was a native of Needham, Massachusetts, and was of Scotch descent. Representatives of the name, however, left the land of hills and heather and emigrated to the north of Ireland, whence the progenitors of the family came to America in 1689, settling in New Hampshire. The family has included a num- ber of prominent ecclesiastics. James Ritchie, Sr., however, became a civil en- gineer and followed the profession in early life but later turned his attention to mercantile and educational pursuits. He left the impress of his individuality upon the different lines of activity with which he was connected, and he was also prominent in politics, being recognized as a leader of his party. He held several important state and federal offices, and he stood as a worthy exponent of good citizenship and of loyalty, fidelity and efficiency in positions of public trust. He wedded Mary Kimball, also a native of Massachusetts. In the ma- ternal line she was connected with the Gages, a very prominent family known in America from early colonial days. She was a direct descendant of Sir Thomas Gage, colonial governor of Boston during the Revolutionary war. His brother was a soldier of the American army in that struggle. His daughter was the grandmother of Mrs. Ritchie. The death of Mr. Ritchie occurred in 1873. while his widow long survived, passing away in 1897.

James Ritchie of this review attended the Roxbury Latin school, which pre- pared him for entrance into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Bos- ton. He matriculated in that school, wherein he continued his studies until he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in the class of 1878, having pursued a course in civil engineering. He entered upon the active practice of his profession in connection with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Com-

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pany as assistant engineer at Aurora, Illinois, and later he became assistant chief engineer of the Big Four Railway system, having in the meantime been pro- moted through various positions to that of assistant chief engineer of the line. In 1893, however, he resigned his position to engage in private practice in Cleve- land and was alone until 1899, during which time he was engineer for the con- struction and design of the dry dock for the American Ship Building Company, at Lorain, Ohio. He also began the Baltimore dry dock at Baltimore, Mary- land, in 1899, completing the work in 1901. These are but examples of the large undertakings which claimed his attention in this field of labor, the Baltimore dry dock being with one exception the largest in the United States. This, therefore, indicates his high standing in the profession, as he has attained to a position that places him in the foremost rank among the civil engineers east of the Missis- sippi. He acted as city engineer of Cleveland in 1900 and 1901 and was also engineer of the grade-crossing commission from 1900 until 1902, during which period the most important work done was that of the grade-crossing separation. In 1900 the firm of Ritchie & Ruple was organized and has so continued. Recently they have completed a seven-hundred-foot dry dock at Lorain for the American Ship Building Company, the second of this character which Mr. Ritchie has built for the company. He has also been consulting engineer for various projects, including electric railways, and is highly regarded by the pro- fession. He looked after the Detroit water-works tunnel for the contractors, and aside from his individual interests he is the vice president and one of the directors of the C. H. Fath & Sons Constructing Company, of Cleveland.

Mr. Ritchie was married in 1886 to Mrs. Sarah E. Ruple, of Cleveland, and they are well known socially in the city. He was formerly identified with its military interests as a member of the Cleveland Grays, has been an active and efficient member of the Chamber of Commerce and has membership interests in the line of his profession, belonging to the Cleveland Engineering Society, of which he was formerly the president, and to the American Society of Civil En- gineers. Possessing a nature that could never be content with mediocrity and actuated in all that he has done by a laudable ambition and, moreover, recogniz- ing the fact that advancement must depend upon ability and merit, he has grad- ually worked his way upward until the consensus of public opinion places him in a prominent position in the ranks of the profession which he has chosen as a life work.

FRANK L. BOYNTON.

Frank L. Boynton was born February 29,. 1872, at Elyria, Ohio, a son of Milton S. and Mary M. (Eldred) Boynton. He was educated in his native city until he had mastered the work of consecutive grades and finished the high-school course, which completed his literary training. Endowed by nature with musical talent, which he has cultivated under the direction of able instructors as well as by more than sixteen years' identification with bands and symphony orchestras, during which time he played with Innes's Band and was a member of the Wash- ington Symphony Orchestra for four years under the direction of Reginald De- Koven, he has attained an unusual degree of efficiency in the field of musical art.

On the Ioth of October, 1901, Mr. Boynton was married to Mrs. Elsie Fell Fulton, a native of Philadelphia and a daughter of William Jenks and Harriet (Troutman) Fell and granddaughter of George M. Troutman, who was for more than thirty years president of the Central National Bank of Philadelphia. Mrs. Boynton is descended from an old Quaker family of Pennsylvania. Her father was a member of the firm of C. J. Fell & Brother, who in their time were well known wholesale dealers in spices in Philadelphia. By her first marriage Mrs. Boynton became the mother of one daughter, Harriette Fell Fulton, who

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was born July 26, 1893, now a student in the Hathaway-Brown school of Cleve- land. Two children have been born unto Mr. and Mrs. Boynton: Eldred Trout- man, November 7, 1902; and Delano King, June 18, 1908.

In 1906 Mr. Boynton became a resident of Cleveland and besides making sev- eral real-estate investments he soon began the manufacture of violins and bass viols, in which business he continues with excellent success. His own musical talent and correct ear and keen appreciation of harmony enables him to easily judge the value of his own products not only in their practical workmanship but also in tone and quality. The enterprise which he has established is a growing one, for the instruments of his manufacture have taken a high position among the best of modern construction.

Mr. Boynton is a member of the Hermit Club and his political views are manifest in the stalwart and unfaltering support which he gives to the republican party at the polls. His wife is a member of Emanuel Protestant Episcopal church. The family home at No. 1902 East Eighty-ninth street, is a most mod- ern and pleasantly appointed residence, while their summer home, on the lake shore about twenty miles west of Cleveland, is one of the most attractively located and delightful country homes in that section. Mr. Boynton is numbered among the progressive and thrifty of the young business men of Cleveland, where sub- stantial success has come to him as the legitimate and logical reward of intelli- gence and well directed effort.

ARTHUR J. WENHAM.

There remains to the enterprise, commercial integrity and business ability of Arthur J. Wenham a monument in the Wenham grocery house, one of the leading wholesale establishments of Cleveland. He was for many years recog- nized as one of the foremost representatives of trade relations of this city, and the sterling traits which he displayed in other relations of life gave him a hold upon the regard and affections of his fellowmen that causes his memory to be tenderly cherished by those who were his friends and associates. He was a native of England. His mother, Mrs. Sarah (Crowther) Wenham, was a very prominent woman in that country and for some years prior to her marriage was at the head of a young ladies' school in London. At the age of five years Arthur J. Wenham was brought by his parents to the United States, and for a time they resided in New York, subsequently removing to Cleveland. Here the father, James Wenham, conducted an extensive business as a gardener and was the owner of property where the Edgewater Park is now located. Entering the public schools of this city, Arthur J. Wenham pursued his education through consecutive grades and after putting aside his text-books learned the drug busi- ness. Having acquainted himself with the trade, he opened a store of his own which he conducted successfully for a time and then sold out to engage in the wholesale grocery business under the style of the A. J. Wenham Grocery Com- pany. From the beginning the new enterprise proved a profitable one, for it was founded upon a safe, substantial basis, its progressive business policy being tem- pered by a safe conservatism, while the methods of the house were not ques- tioned as to reliability. After some years Mr. Wenham admitted his sons to a partnership, at which time the firm name of A. J. Wenham & Sons was assumed. From the establishment of the business Mr. Wenham devoted his entire time and attention to its upbuilding and succeeded in developing a very large trade. His house became one of the foremost in this line in Cleveland, and at his death he turned over to his sons a most profitable concern. In his business judgment he was seldom if ever at fault, and his keen discernment enabled him to make ju- dicious investments in real estate from time to time.

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Mr. Wenham was married twice. He first wedded Miss Mary Allison and they had three sons: Arthur Allison and Frederick L., of Cleveland, and George B., of Chicago. Having lost his first wife, Mr. Wenham was married to Miss M. M. Putnam, of Canada, and they became the parents of a daughter and son : Mrs. Grace Crowell and John K., of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company. The death of the husband and father occurred September 30, 1885. He was among the honored and faithful members of St. John's church and was a very charitable man who gave freely of his means in the aid of the poor and needy. His assist- ance was not prompted by his sense of rigid duty but by the earnest desire to be of aid to his fellowmen, for he recognized a brotherhood of the race and took very genuine interest in those with whom he came in contact. In his business affairs he wrought along well defined lines of labor, manifested intelligent appre- ciation of opportunity and throughout his entire career displayed an habitual regard for what is best in the exercise of human activities. Mrs. Wenham still occupies the old home on Franklin avenue, where she lives with her two children and her grandchildren.

CHARLES P. MOORE.

Charles P. Moore was born at Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1858 At the usual age he entered the public schools there and after completing the course started upon his business career with the rolling mills at Canal Dover, Ohio. He afterward spent ten years in the west and southwest in the real-estate business, and in 1894 he came to Cleveland, where he engaged in dealing in real estate, organizing the Lake Shore Land Company, of which he is secretary and treas- urer. This company makes a specialty of erecting homes for working- men, which are sold on the installment plan and in this direction Mr. Moore's labors are of practical benefit to his fellowmen in that through this method many workmen secure homes of their own where otherwise it could not be done.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 10

Author: Orth, Samuel Peter, 1873-1922; Clarke, S.J., publishing company Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Chicago-Cleveland : The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1150

Author: Orth, Samuel Peter, 1873-1922; Clarke, S.J., publishing company
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: Chicago-Cleveland : The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1150