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Edward G. Buckwell pursued his education in preparatory schools and in the University of Tennessee but was compelled to abandon his studies in his sophomore year because of his health. At the age of seventeen years he became connected with the hardware business as a clerk and there remained for nine years. In 1884 he went to New York, where he was employed as a traveling salesman with the hardware manufacturing house of Sargent & Company. He filled that position until 1892, when he returned to Knoxville and became a member of the hardware firm of McClung, Buffet & Buckwell, retaining that interest until 1899, when he removed to Cleveland to accept the position of sales manager with the Cleveland Twist Drill Company. Upon the incorporation of the business in 1905 he was elected secretary and has since occupied this position of executive control, his views and plans constituting important factors in the successful management of an enter- prise which, because of its proportions and extensive trade relations, is accounted one of the leading industrial concerns of the city.
On the 17th of February, 1887, Mr. Buckwell was married to Miss Lucia Au- gustin, a daughter of John and Emile (Dupree) Augustin, of New Orleans. They now have two children, Hilda and George Dupree, who are with them in a pleasant home at No. 1820 Ninety-seventh street. Mrs. Buckwell is active in church and social work, being especially interested in the Association for the Blind, acting as one of its visiting board and doing much to further the work of that institution. Both Mr. and Mrs. Buckwell hold membership in St. Paul's Episcopal church and he likewise has membership relations with the Union Club and the Chamber of Commerce. The subjective and objective forces of life are in him well balanced, making him cognizant of his own capabilities and powers, while at the same time he thoroughly understands his opportunities and his obligations, utilizing the for- mer and fully meeting the latter.
EDWARD BINGHAM ALLEN.
Edward Bingham Allen as general manager and secretary of The Adams Bag Company occupies a position as executive head of the oldest concern of the kind in America, the business having been founded in 1858. Mr. Allen was born in Cleveland, October 2, 1878, and is the oldest of the three children of Luther Allen and Julia Bingham Allen.
Edward Bingham Allen pursued a preparatory course in the University School of Cleveland and entered Cornell University in 1897, being graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1901. While in college he became a member of the Kappa Alpha society. He also served as business man- ager of the 1901 Cornellian, and during his junior and senior years, as regi- mental adjutant in the Cornell Cadet Corps.
Following his graduation, Mr. Allen became general contract and right of way agent for The Consolidated Telephone Company of Cleveland, which company operates telephone exchanges and long distance lines through central and southern New York state. Upon the removal of this company's offices to Buffalo in 1902, Mr. Allen resigned this position. He then became secretary of the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad, then in process of construction, which position he held until 1904, when he was chosen general manager and secretary of The Adams Bag Company.
This enterprise was begun in 1858 under the name of Adams, Jewett & Com- pany. It was organized and incorporated in 1898 under the title of The Adams Bag Company. The capital stock was increased from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to three hundred thousand dollars in August, 1905, at which time the capacity of the plant was doubled. The energies of the company are de- voted exclusively to the manufacture of paper from old manila rope, which paper the company makes into bags for packing flour and cement. The company
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is the pioneer in America in this form of manufacture. The paper mill and fac- tories are located at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the output of the mill being about three thousand tons of paper, and that of the factories about thirty million bags per amnum.
While Mr. Allen devotes the major portion of his time to the bag business, he is interested actively in a number of other corporations, being president of The Columbia Fire Clay Company ; president of The Inland Grocer Publishing Company ; vice president of The National Land Company ; and assistant treasurer of The Caxton Building Company. He is also a director of The International Purchasing Company of Boston and of The Phoenix Supplies Company of Rochester, New York. To all of these interests, Mr. Allen brings unfaltering energy and sound judgment, coupled with an excellent executive ability which would be creditable to many a man of more advanced age.
In his political views, Mr. Allen is a stalwart republican, taking a general interest in the questions of the day and never neglecting to support his party principles at the polls. He is deeply interested in matters of municipal progress and cooperates heartily in the various movements for municipal advancement instituted by The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a life mem- ber. He also holds membership in the Union Club, the Country Club, and the University Club, all of Cleveland, and in the Livingston Club, of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
JACOB THEOBALD, SR.
Jacob Theobald, Sr., whose ability, energy and enthusiasm have largely been responsible for the development of the flour industry of Cleveland, has won his present position in the the business world through sound and con- servative methods. He was born in this city in 1850 and is a son of Jacob Theobald, a native of Germany, who came to the United States about 1849 and located immediately in Cleveland. Having been a glazier in Germany, he soon found employment at his trade but died soon after his arrival here, about 1850. His widow, who bore the maiden name of Marie Pfeifer, was born in Germany in 1825 and came to America with her husband, dying in Cleveland in 1905.
Mr. Theobald of this review was educated in Cleveland and when a lad began working in a grocery store owned by relatives. Later he embarked in the grocery business for himself and continued in it for fifteen years, when he disposed of his interests and founded the Theobald Flour Company, which is one of the oldest flour jobbing concerns in the city. At first he was interested in the manufacturing of flour, but aften ten years sold out and became connected with the Pillsbury people, being their Cleveland agent, for about twenty years. His territory spread until the company controls Cleveland and adjacent towns and the volume of trade is immense, the results being extremely gratifying.
In January, 1910, Mr. Theobald promoted the organization of the Cleve- land Milling Company, with a capital of two hundred thousand dollars, of which company he was elected vice president, treasurer and a director. It has taken over the property of the Commercial Milling Company, operating the Herkel Mill, one of the largest producing mills in Ohio. In the future Mr. Theobald's activities will be confined to this new interest, the active manage- ment of the Jacob Theobald Flour Company reverting to his sons, Jacob, Jr., and Walter. This arrangement largely increases the company's importance in the commercial life of Cleveland, making them leaders in the flour industry of the city. Mr. Theobald is also interested in the Lorain Street Savings bank, of which he was an incorporator and is now a director, and he is also connected with other concerns of importance. A republican, he has been active
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in party work and a recognized factor in local affairs. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Franklin Avenue Circle.
On October 15, 1872, Mr. Theobald married Louise Herbster, who was born in September, 1850, in Germany, but was brought to the United States when an infant. They have two children: Jacob T., vice president of his father's company, married Belle Hall; and Walter, secretary and treasurer of the above company, married Myrtle Weideman.
Mr. Theobald is a man who was optomistic enough to realize the great opportunities offered by the flour business and to profit by them. He has made his house a dominant one and has firmly established it with the trade. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and motoring is his chief recre- ation.
ALBERT HENRY FIEBACH.
Albert Henry Fiebach was born in Brownhelm, Lorain county, Ohio, August 28, 1876, his parents being Peter and Sarah (Leuszler) Fiebach. The father, a native of Germany, came to America in 1853 and located in Lorain county, where he is still engaged in farming.
Mr. Fiebach received his early education in the district schools of his native county and afterward attended Oberlin Academy, where he prepared for college. In 1895 he became a student in Oberlin College and afterward spent two years in the University of Michigan, returning to Oberlin for his senior work. He was there graduated in 1899 with the Bachelor of Arts degree, after which he matric- ulated in the Harvard Law School, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Law in June, 1902. In December of the same year he was admitted to the bar and entered upon general practice in Cleveland, where he has since given his attention to the work of the profession.
Mr. Fiebach is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and serves on the be- nevolence committee of that body. He has been active in charitable work, serving as a member of the executive committee of the Legal Aid Society, since its organ- ization and also of the legal committee of the Associated Charities.
On the 30th of November, 1905, Mr. Fiebach was married in Shenandoah, Iowa, to Miss Louise June Bogart, a daughter of George Bogart, of that place, and they reside at 10510 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
MOSES MONTAGUE HOBART.
Moses Montague Hobart, one of Cleveland's most experienced, successful and learned corporation lawyers, whose signal ability has won him enviable reputation in the presentation and conduct of his cases, is a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, born on the 26th of March, 1846. His father, Edmund Hobart died in Amherst, on the 6th of April, 1908. The mother, whose maiden name was Esther Mon- tague, died in the year 1852.
The preliminary education of Moses Montague Hobart was acquired in the pub- lic schools of his native town and subsequently he pursued his studies in the Wil- liston Seminary, a preparatory school at East Hampton, Massachusetts. In 1868 he matriculated in Amherst College, where he pursued the four years' course and was graduated in 1872. He then attended the Columbia Law School of New York city. At Amherst College he was granted the degree of Master of Arts, while Columbia conferred upon him the LL. B. degree. In July, 1875, he was ad- mitted to the bar in Cleveland on credentials from the Columbia Law School and thus was permitted to practice his profession throughout the state. He was also admitted to the practice of law in the state of Massachusetts. For a little more
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than a year he followed his profession alone and then formed a partnership with U. H. Birney, who passed away a short time later. In 1887 Mr. Hobart formed a partnership with Richard Bacon under the firm style of Hobart & Bacon, this being maintained until the year 1900, when he associated himself with Lindey Fogg under the firm style of Hobart & Fogg. For four years they were together in the conduct of important litigated interests and since that time Mr. Hobart has been alone.
In 1882 Mr. Hobart was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Peckham, a native of Connecticut, and to them were born two children: Marion Montague, who is the wife of Wilbur Dunham, a resident of Columbus, Ohio; and Harold Peckham, who was born August 22, 1888. Having completed a course of study in the University School he is now attending Yale College.
Mr. Hobart is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine and at one time was president of the Masonic Club. He is also a member of the Union and Euclid Clubs. He is a republican in politics and during his earlier years was very active in the affairs of the party, having also taken quite an interest in municipal matters. He served as city prosecutor for several years and also on the board of education, and in 1880 was supervisor of the census for the sixth district, having jurisdiction over ten counties in northern Ohio. In 1888 he was chosen president of the city council and his official prerogatives constituted a salient force in the promotion of municipal interests that were wrought through that avenue. He is a member of the Calvary Presbyterian church and his life in its entirety has been one of great usefulness and honor, proving of signal service to the com- munity in his advocacy of the projects and movements for the benefit of the city at large and in his support of all those interests which work for individual advancement. While his success has given him leisure for the enjoyment of travel and other interests which are a source of pleasure and intellectual stimulus to him, his ability in his profession, and especially in the department of corporation law, is such that the city and his fellow members of the legal fraternity greatly desire his return to active practice.
ALONZO MITCHELL SNYDER.
Alonzo Mitchell Snyder, attorney at law of the firm of Ford, Snyder & Til- den, who though engaged in general practice are making a specialty of corpora- tion law, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, July 23, 1865. The family is of Ger- man lineage and was established in America by his grandfather, Michael Snyder, who was born at Darmstadt, Germany, and on coming to the United States settled in Pennsylvania, where he spent a few years. He then removed to Ohio, taking up his abode on a farm near Mansfield.
His son, George Snyder, the father of Alonzo M. Snyder, was born in Wash- ington, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1835, and is now living in Galion, Ohio. When a young man, however, he removed from the Keystone state to Mansfield, Ohio, afterward becoming a resident of Galion. He had been locally prominent in poli- tical circles, serving as a member of the board of education and as a member of the city council of Galion, while at the present time he is a member of the board of tax review. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and his elec- tions have indicated his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him, for he lives in a democratic city. His business connection has been along mercantile and financial lines. He is very active in Masonic circles, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He married Harriet Mitchell, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, January 10, 1840, and they became the parents of three sons, the brothers of our subject being: Frank J., who is engaged in the grocery business in Galion, Ohio, and is also president of the county board of
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elections ; and Charles A., who is connected with the auditing department of a big steel manufacturing plant at Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
Alonzo M. Snyder pursued his education in the Galion public schools, complet- ing the course by graduation from the high school with the class of 1880. In Ken- yon College he won his Bachelor of Arts degree as an alumnus of 1885 and also first honors, standing highest in a class of seventy, and in 1887 he completed the course in the Cincinnati Law School, at which time the Bachelor of Law degree was conferred upon him. He began practice in Galion and for a time was alone but afterward became a partner of Sylvester Price under the firm style of Price & Snyder. This was maintained until January, 1888, when his health failed and he went to California, there remaining until May, 1899. He then returned to Ohio and in October of the same year came to Cleveland. Here he entered into part- nership with Harry L. Vail as a member of the firm of Vail & Snyder and so continued until 1891, when he became associated with the firm of Squire Sanders & Dempsey. On the Ist of January, 1900, he became a partner in the firm of Ford, Snyder, Henry & McGraw, which relation was maintained for about five years, when Mr. McGraw withdrew and Mr. Henry went upon the circuit bench in 1905. The partnership was then maintained as Ford & Snyder until 1906, when they were joined by Judge Tilden, who had recently retired from the bench, form- ing the present law firm of Ford, Snyder & Tilden. While they engage in general practice their specialty is corporation law and they number among their clients many prominent business firms and houses of the city.
Mr. Snyder was married to Clara Brightman, a daughter of Latham Bright- man. His son, Gaylord Kenyon, is now attending Stanford University. Mr. Sny- der is a republican in his political views and an Episcopalian in religious faith. He belongs to the Beta Theta Pi Greek letter society and to the Theta Nu Upsilon sophomore society in college. His social relations with Cleveland are represented in his connection with the Union, University and Colonial Clubs, and he is a mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce. For twenty years he has practiced at the bar of this city and is no less esteemed for his professional success and prominence than for his social qualities, which win for him a constantly broadening circle of friends.
CHARLES EDWARD BINGHAM.
The life record of Charles Edward Bingham covered only thirty-six years. He was born in Cleveland, August 26, 1845, and here passed away September 25, 1881. Though more than a quarter of a century has since come and gone, he is yet remembered by many of the friends of his boyhood and early manhood who appreciated his good qualities, recognized his forcefulness in business and knew him as a loyal friend and devoted husband and father.
A descendant of New England ancestry, his father, Elijah Bingham, was born in New Hampshire, February 24, 1800, and in 1835 arrived in the little city of Cleveland with his wife, Mrs. Thankful Bingham, who was born in June, 1805, and was owner of the first Chickering piano in the state of Ohio. She was a lady of superior culture and her musical talent did much to promote a love of the art in the little city. The family numbered seven children : Ellen H., Samuel, Frances W., Truman Elijah, Mary Emily, James H. and Charles Edward.
The last named was reared in Cleveland and pursued his education in the schools here. Throughout his business career he was connected with the iron trade, handling pig iron and iron ore, and became an important factor in promot- ing this industry, which has been one of the foremost in advancing the commer- cial activity and consequent prosperity of Cleveland and northern Ohio. He al- ways closely studied the processes of the trade, was watchful of every indication pointing to success and became conversant with every detail of the business so that he knew how to best combine his forces to produce maximum results. There
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were no unusual chapters in his life record, but it is the history of a man who learned to correctly value his own capacities and powers and to judge with accu- racy those experiences which make up life's contacts. Day by day he faithfully met his duties and thus commanded the respect of his fellowmen.
On the 9th of June, 1870, Mr. Bingham was united in marriage to Miss Isa- bella Taintor, a daughter of Jesse F. Taintor, who came to Cleveland from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1837, establishing his home on the west side of the city. He was a son of Charles and Sarah Taintor, formerly of Colchester, Connecticut. In the year 1834 he wedded Eunice S. Pierce, also of Colchester, Connecticut, and following his removal to Cleveland he engaged in the lumber business with the firm of S. H. Fox & Company. In 1849 he became teller in the old Merchants National Bank and later was cashier of the institution for a number of years. In 1861 he was appointed cashier of the postoffice, which position he filled for twen- ty-two years in a most acceptable and honorable manner. He was thus closely associated with concerns of public moment and his fidelity to duty was at all times one of his salient characteristics. He built a fine house on Euclid avenue, sur- rounded by spacious grounds, adorned with beautiful shrubs, and he found his greatest recreation there in attending and watching his flowers. His love of the beautiful was one of his strongly marked traits and was manifest in his apprecia- tion of all the varied forms and colors which nature presents for the pleasure of mankind. His religious connection was with the Presbyterian church. In the family were seven children: Mrs. H. M. Peckham, of Brooklyn, New York; Anna, deceased; Sarah, who became the wife of H. W. Boardman and has passed away; Mary; Isabella, now Mrs. Bingham; Jessie, the wife of James Hoyt; and Mrs. Catherine (Kittie) Andrews.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bingham was blessed with two children, but the older, Isabella, is now deceased. The living daughter, Edith Emily, is yet with her mother, and they are prominently known in social circles in the city, having many warm friends here.
For a long period Mr. Bingham was a member of the National Guard and he served for three months in the Civil war with the One Hundred and Fiftieth Reg- iment of the Ohio Guard. In his political views he was ever a stalwart republican and never wavered in his allegiance to the party. He belonged to the Union Club and to the Presbyterian church, and his life displayed those sterling qualities of character which in every land and clime command respect and honor.
A. W. STADLER.
A. W. Stadler, proprietor of the Cuyahoga Rendering & Soap Works, was born in Germany, June 9, 1856. His father, Louis E. Stadler, also a native of that country, came to America in 1857. He was a potter by trade but after his arrival in the new world first worked as a laborer and later turned his attention to the soap business. He met death in an elevator accident twenty-five years ago. In early manhood he had married Dorothy Fraber, also a native of Germany, who is still living in Cleveland at the age of eighty-three years.
A. W. Stadler was only a year old when brought by his parents to the United States and in the schools of Cleveland pursued his education until he reached the age of fourteen years. He had attained his majority when he established his present business, the Cuyahoga Rendering & Soap Works. He has since con- ducted the enterprise in a very successful manner and it has long since become one of the profitable industries of the city. As 'ne has prospered in his under- takings he has made judicious investments in real estate and is now an exten- sive owner of Cleveland property.
Mr. Stadler has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Charlotte Theo- bald on the Ioth of October, 1877. She died on the 29th of December, 1890,
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and is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Gunther, of Cleveland, while the other child of the marriage is deceased. On the 20th of July, 1900, Mr. Stadler was joined in wedlock to Miss Anna Barbara Splitorf, of Cleveland, and they have one son, Adelbert Wilson, who at the age of eight years is attending school. Mr. Stadler is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Chamber of Industry and is actively affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at the present time. He has led a busy and useful life and his diligence and energy have constituted the foundation of his success. His discernment in business affairs has resulted in careful management and the results which have followed his labors have been most satisfactory.
REV. THEODORE YALE GARDNER.
Theodore Yale Gardner, whose life was closely identified with moral progress in various communities, while his memory remains as a blessed benediction to all who knew him, was born in Cleveland, December 23, 1841. He was a de- scendant of Elihu Yale, the founder of Yale University, and a representative of a family that has numbered many prominent and worthy members. His parents were Colonel James and Griselda (Porter) Gardner. The father came to Cleve- land in 1838 from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to engage in the manufacture of furniture in this city. He was one of the pioneer business men here and up to that time Cleveland had few industrial enterprises. He became a member of the firm of Gardner & Vincent and thus founded a business which has become one of the most important productive industries of the city, being now conducted under the name of The Vincent-Barstow Company.
The Rev. Theodore Y. Gardner was graduated from the Central high school with the class of 1859 and afterward attended the Western Reserve College, then located at Hudson, Ohio. He received his first degree from that institution in 1864 and was graduated with the second honors of his class. While a student there he became a member of the Beta Theta Phi, a college fraternity. While at the Western Reserve College his studies were interrupted by the Civil war. A body of students formed a company with one of the college professors as their captain and went to Cleveland, where they enlisted for one hundred days. They were not called to the front, although they stood ready to serve. On the expira- tion of their term they returned to college and, following his graduation at Hud- son, Mr. Gardner joined the sanitary commission with headquarters at Knox- ville, Tennessee. There he made an honorable record by his faithful and con- scientious work.
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