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In 1886 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Moore and Miss Minnie Dear- dorff, a resident of Canal Dover, and unto them have been born two children: Genette, a graduate of the Central high school, who afterward became a student at Rogers Hall in Lowell, Massachusetts; and Katharine, who is a student in the Hathaway Brown school. The parents and elder daughter are members of the Emanuel Episcopal church. Mr. Moore is well known as a prominent represent- ative of real-estate interests in Cleveland and his success, substantial as it is, has come as the direct and merited reward of his labor.
BURT W. CORNING.
Burt W. Corning, who has been aptly termed one of the most successful architects of Cleveland, started upon life's journey as a country boy and was reared as a farm lad. His ambition, however, sought broader fields of labor and in the profession which he has chosen as a life work he has made substantial and satisfactory progress. He now maintains offices in the Schofield building and has a liberal and growing patronage. His birth occurred in Mecosta county, Michigan, May 29, 1865. The Corning family is of Irish lineage but was founded in America at early date. Ephraim A. Corning, the father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania and arrived in Michigan in 1848. There he turned his attention to general agricultural pursuits, which he has since successfully followed. In the community where he resides he is well known, his sterling traits of char- acter gaining him the respect and confidence of those with whom he is brought
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in contact. He was united in marriage to Miss Amelia M. Sweet, a native of the Empire state, and she, too, is yet living.
Burt W. Corning was reared upon his father's farm and attended the country schools to the age of fifteen years. He displayed special aptitude in his studies and then began teaching in the district schools, but his interests lay in other directions and he entered upon an apprenticeship to the builder's trade. In 1891 he began business along that line on his own account as a contractor and builder at Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he remained for five or six years. He after- ward began study in an architect's office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and in 1899 he became a practicing architect, opening an office in Cleveland where he has met with gratifying success from the start. Here he has designed and erected many apartment houses, including the Republic apartment house, the Poinciana, the Adelmar Glenola, and the Crawford Tilden. He was the first man to erect apart- ment houses with private porches in Cleveland, and he has introduced many new and novel features and many which contribute much to convenience and comfort. In addition to those mentioned he has built many other apartments and terraces and he is a director of the Niagara Realty Company.
On the 25th of May, 1885, occurred the marriage of Mr. Corning and Miss Flora B. Haney, of Grand Rapids. They have two children: Verne H., born in 1890; and Leo H., in 1897. Mr. Corning gives little time to outside interests, concentrating his energies upon his profession, with the result that he has made rapid advance therein. Important contracts are annually awarded him and the amount of his business and the nature of his work both indicate him to be one of the foremost architects of Cleveland.
CLARENCE L. NEWELL.
The public spirit of Clarence L. Newell has found tangible expression in many ways, for in his real-estate activities he has done much to improve the sections of the city in which he has operated. When Cleveland contained not more than two or three thousand people and this section of the state was just emerging from pioneer conditions. Mr. Newell was born in Brecksville, Cuya- hoga county, September 5, 1839. His grandfather, Rufus Newell, came from the Mohawk valley, in New York, and settled in Cuyahoga county about 1805. His father, Thaddeus Newell, also came to the Western Reserve at that time, and at his death his remains were interred in the family lot in Brecksville cem- etery, where four generations of the family now lie buried. John Newell, the father of C. L. Newell, was born in this county in 1812 and was reared amid the wild scenes and environments of the frontier. As his years and strength in- creased he assisted in the early progress and development of this portion of the state. In 1858 he removed to Buchanan county, Iowa, and purchased a farm near Quasqueton, ten miles from Independence, the county seat. There his second wife, who is over ninety years of age, is still residing.
Clarence L. Newell began business at an early day, assisting his father in getting out special timbers for dock and ship building purposes. He followed that pursuit for a number of years, or until about 1880. In 1882 he built an oat-meal mill in Cleveland, being one of the first to see the possibilities of that business, in which he continued for eight or ten years, enjoying a constantly in- creasing patronage as his output grew in general favor. At length the business was merged with that of the American Cereal Company, of which he became a director. In later years his attention has been largely given to real-estate oper- ations. Before disposing of the oat-meal mill he had purchased a tract of forty acres in Lakewood and there laid out the C. L. and L. R. Newell subdivision, of Lakewood. He also built Lakeland avenue, making a fine pleasure driveway. He also donated the right of way for Lake avenue and Clifton boulevard
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through this allotment to Lakewood. The former is one hundred feet wide and the latter is one hundred and twenty feet wide. In his real-estate operations here Mr. Newell works along the lines of modern city building, promoting and fostering all improvements possible toward making this one of the beautiful districts of the city. He is also a proprietor of the Newell Quarry Company, which is engaged in crushing stone into silica sand, a product used largely for molding and art stone work. This business is practically in its infancy but it is coming rapidly into public favor and promises to be a very profitable investment. Mr. Newell is also president of the Century Oil Producers Company and vice president of the National Adding Machine Company. He sees and recognizes opportunities which others pass by heedlessly and finds in a laudable ambition for success the stimulus for active effort. Even at an age when many men put aside business cares he is still an enterprising factor in the world's work and his success is well merited.
In 1863 occurred the marriage of Mr. Newell and Miss Marinda Sanborn, of Ridgefield, Summit county, Ohio, and unto them have been born three sons, namely : Harry F., Charles L., and George S., all of whom are associated with their father in business. The first named is a graduate of Oberlin College and the other sons attended the city schools. Mr. Newell is not strictly partisan in politics and in fact considers the capabilities of the candidates rather than his party affiliations where only municipal interests are involved. He has always desired everything that is best for the city and county in which he has spent his entire life and of whose growth and upbuilding he has been an interested wit- ness and at times a cooperant factor.
REV. ANDREW BARCLAY MELDRUM, D. D.
Rev. Andrew Barclay Meldrum, D. D., pastor of the Old Stone church (First Presbyterian) of Cleveland, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, September 9, 1857. The family is distinctively Scotch as far back as the ancestry can be traced, early representatives of the name living in the Highlands. His grand- father, Robert Meldrum, was a shipbuilder of Dysart in Fifeshire and reared a family of five sons and seven daughters, all of the sons becoming seafaring men. His father was Captain Robert Meldrum, commander of a merchant ves- sel, sailing between London and Hong Kong. He went down with his ship, all hands lost, in 1861, presumably on the China seas. No more was ever heard from him after that year, or from any on board, and no trace of the vessel was ever found. The mother bore the maiden name of Agnes Ness Grant, and she, too, was a native of Scotland.
Dr. Meldrum spent his early boyhood days in the land of the crag and glen, of mountain peak and mountain lake, of lowland heath and plain, of liberty, poetry and song, of religious and educational zeal; of the home of Wallace and Bruce, Scott and Burns; of those heroes who have honored Britain's flag on every field from Waterloo to the Crimea and Lucknow; the ancestral home of so many of America's brightest, best and most distinguished men. He lost his father during his early childhood, and when twelve or thirteen years of age he accompanied his mother, who had married again, to Goderich, Ontario. There he continued his education and later attended Knox College in Toronto and the Toronto University, being graduated from the college with the class of 1881. In the meantime, however, he had engaged in teaching school, following the profession from 1874 until 1877, at Grand Bend, Ontario, when, with a desire to further advance his own intellectual development, he entered Knox College. Leaving Canada, he made his way to San Francisco, where he took his last year's theological work and was graduated on the completion of the course in 1884. In May of that year he was ordained to the ministry and accepted a call
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from St. John's church of that city, of which he had been assistant pastor for about two years. He remained in pastoral charge until 1887, when he resumed temporary charge of the Central Presbyterian church at Rock Island, Illinois. After two years he was called to the pastorate of Grace Presbyterian church in Evansville, Indiana, where he continued for six years and then went to St. Paul, Minnesota, to take charge of the Central Presbyterian church. His labors there covered a period of six and a half years and were terminated in 1902, when he was called to succeed Dr. H. C. Hayden of the Old Stone church, one of the historic churches of Cleveland. Here he has labored continuously since and is recognized as one of the ablest divines of the Presbyterian ministry in the middle west. In 1894 the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was con- ferred upon him by Hanover College of Indiana.
In 1885 Dr. Meldrum was married in Oakland, California, to Miss Laura R. Rison, a daughter of Judge R. C. Rison, and unto them were born four chil- dren, all yet living; Andrew B., who is now a student in Wooster University, Wooster, Ohio; Helen M .; Douglas Grant; and Dorothy Laura. The wife and mother died on Christmas day of 1903, and in December, 1907, Dr. Meldrum married in Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Ella Hoyt Herrick, a daughter of the late Gamaliel E. Herrick. Dr. Meldrum was at one time a Knight Templar Mason. His entire life since entering the ministry has been devoted to the upbuilding of the church. At this point it would be almost tautological to enter into any series of statements as showing him to be a man of intelligence and genuine public spirit, for these have been shadowed forth between the lines of this review. Strong in his individuality he never lacks the courage of his convic- tions, but there are as dominating elements in this individuality a lively human sympathy and an abiding charity, which, taken in connection with the sterling integrity and honor of his character, have naturally gained for him the respect and confidence of all men. His zeal, his consecration and, above all, the char- acter of his own life, have made him a man of great influence among his own people.
WILLIAM E. PEASE.
William E. Pease, a civil engineer by profession, has won an enviable repu- tation in this connection as a member of the F. A. Pease Engineering Company of Cleveland. His birth occurred at Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, on the 27th of July, 1875, his parents being H. H. and Mary Elizabeth (Barnum) Pease, likewise natives of Kingsville. The father, who in early manhood became identi- fied with industrial interests as a mason and contractor, met with success in his business affairs and is now well known as a leading contractor and enterprising man.
William E. Pease attended the public schools of his native town in pursuit of an education that would equip him for the practical and responsible duties of life. For three years after leaving school he was connected with the old park commission and had charge of the field work in the improvement of University Circle and the building of the Nickel Plate bridge. He was afterward associated with C. W. Pratt for more than a year and in 1902 became identified with the F. A. Pease Engineering Company, of which his brother, Fred A. Pease, is the vice president and general manager. At that time he took charge of outside work, including that at Davenport, Iowa, and also devoted some attention to park and boulevard plans. In 1907 he entered the service of the Huntington Land Company of Los Angeles, California, designing parks and likewise making plans for subdivisions. On severing his connection with that concern he once more became identified with the F. A. Pease Engineering Company of this city and has since had charge of the engineering work at Oakwood on the Lake. Recently he has devoted considerable time to designing the grounds and making
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estimates for the Cleveland Art Museum. His superior ability and knowledge in the line of his profession are widely recognized and he well deserves mention in this volume as a prominent factor in engineering circles of Cleveland.
Mr. Pease belongs to the Cleveland Grays and is also a member of the Rock Island Commercial Club of Rock Island, Illinois. He is a man of many friends here and has made for himself a creditable place in professional circles, his capability and efficiency winning him both recognition and prosperity.
JAMES L. CAMERON.
James L. Cameron, a Cleveland architect who in the practice of his profes- sion has made a specialty of designing apartment houses, maintains an office at No. 1232 Schofield building, giving his time in almost undivided manner to the prosecution of his professional duties and the interests of his clients. He was born January 30, 1881, in Augusta, Ohio, in the same house which was the birthplace of his father, Thomas E. Cameron. The paternal grandfather was a native of the Empire state. The mother bore the maiden name of Rebecca A. Love.
James L. Cameron, reared under the parental roof, pursued his education, in the public schools, completing a course in the Malvern high school, and fol- lowing his graduation therefrom took a special course in architecture in the Ohio State University. At the age of twenty-four years he arrived in Cleveland and entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he has since continued with gratifying success. He was not long in demonstrating his ability, and the skill and efficiency which he has displayed have constituted his best and most effective advertisement. He has made a specialty of designing apartment houses and has introduced much that is now original and attractive in the construction of this modern type of building. Many of the apartment houses which he has designed constitute attractive features in the best residence sections of the city. More- over, he is one of the organizers of the Murray Hill Building Company and is a director of the Buckeye Building Company. Mr. Cameron is a member of Pythian Star Lodge, Knights of Pythias, is independent in politics, unmarried, and gives his attention chiefly to his profession, in which he has already attained prominence and which is continually opening before him a still broader field of opportunity.
GEORGE B. CLEMENT.
George B. Clement is connected with various companies and corporations having to do with the improvement and upbuilding of Cleveland, for he is well known in real-estate circles, the extent and importance of his operations gaining him prominence in this connection. He was born in Medina, Ohio, May 28, 1865, and comes of English lineage. His grandfather, Edward Clement, a native of Sheffield, England, was the founder of the family in America, arriving in this country about 1840. His son, Charles R. Clement, was born in Medina, Ohio, in 1845 and through his active business career followed farming and stock rais- ing. He is now living in retirement at Medina, his earnest labor and industry of former years bringing him the comfortable competence that now enables him to enjoy well earned rest. He married Sophia W. Benjamin, a daughter of Daniel Benjamin, of Brunswick, Ohio.
It was in the schools of Brunswick that George B. Clement acquired his early education, while subsequently he attended the high school at Medina. Entering business circles he became employed by B. H. Wood & Company of Medina as
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foreman of the planing mill and there remained for two years. In 1890 he ar- rived in Cleveland and engaged in the shoe business with the firm of Seamon & Smith as salesman for four years. He was afterward with W. H. Peck & Com- pany and there remained for eight years, acting as manager of the retail depart- ment. Gradually he was working his way upward, and each forward step brought him a broader outlook and wider opportunity. He next embarked in the real-estate business, becoming one of the organizers of the Girard Company, of which he was elected president. He was also one of the organizers and the president of the Citizens Real Estate Company, is likewise identified with the Citizens Company and the Citizens Land Company, but the last named has now been reorganized under the name of the Citizens Land & Improvement Company. Through these various connections Mr. Clement has contributed in no small measure to the upbuilding and progress of the city, for he studies closely the future of Cleveland as foreshadowed in the indications of the present, and as the years have gone by his keen discrimination, well directed energy and unfaltering persistency of purpose have won for him substantial rewards of labor.
In November, 1898, Mr. Clement was married to Miss Carrie B. Barnard, a daughter of Giles and Belle S. Barnard, of Cleveland. They reside at No. 1818 East Seventeenth street, and both are much interested in church and charitable work. They hold membership in the Methodist church, and Mrs. Clement is particularly active in behalf of the Protestant Orphans' Asylum, to which she devotes much thought, care and labor. Mr. Clement has attained high rank in Masonry, holding membership in Iris Lodge, No. 229, F. & A. M .; Webb Chap- ter, No. 14, R. A. M .; Oriental Commandery, No. 12, K. T .; Lake Erie Con- sistory, of which he is a life member; and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. He is greatly interested in horses, finding his recreation in driving, and is a member of the Roadside Club.
HENRY STEINBRENNER.
Henry Steinbrenner, who may be aptly termed a man of purpose, is today one of the most successful representatives of business life in Cleveland, and the story of his career is the story of honest industry and thrift. In the twentieth century, other things being equal, the men of substance are the stronger forces in the progress of the world. With means at hand they can establish and control extensive business concerns which furnish employment to many and constitute features in the material development of the cities in which they reside. Such a one is Mr. Steinbrenner, who may well be termed one of the captains of in- dustry of this city, being today closely connected with navigation interests as partial owner of some of the largest vessels on the lakes. A native of this city, he was born May 20, 1849. His father, George M. Stei.ibrenner, was a native of Germany, but came to America in early life, and was well known in this city as a shipbuilder and vessel owner. He married Magdalena Kilmer, a native of Germany, who came to America in her maidenhood. They were quiet. modest people, thrifty and successful, but both are now deceased.
Henry Steinbrenner, the eldest in a family of four children, all of whom are living, although not residents of Cleveland, obtained his education in the public schools of this city, after which he read law for two years in the office of Gran- nis & Henderson, well known attorneys. Abandoning the profession at the age of twenty-four years, however, he engaged in the real-estate business on his own account and, about the same time, was united in marriage to Miss Sophia F. Minch, a daughter of the late Captain Philip Minch, one of the three largest vessel owners on the lakes. Mr. Steinbrenner continued in the real-estate bus-
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iness until 1900, when upon the death of Captain Minch he was obliged to leave the field of real-estate operations and take charge of the estate of his father-in-' law. He acquired large interests in real estate, but as necessity demanded that he take up his present line of business he gave to it his whole attention, and his concentration of purpose and his ability in securing the cooperation of employes of marked ability have constituted important features in his success in the devel- opment of these interests. In 1901 he constructed a seven thousand ton boat and has built a new boat every two years since that time, each succeeding one being larger than its predecessor. In 1907 they built a boat of eleven thousand tons, which is one of the largest freighters on the lakes. In 1905 Mr. Steinbren- ner organized the business under the name of the Kinsman Transit Company, with a capitalization of one million, five hundred thousand dollars. He is also interested in various other enterprises in Cleveland, all of which have profited by his sound judgment, his keen discernment, his clear insight into intricate bus- iness problems and his ability to coordinate and combine forces into a harmon- ious whole. He is today the secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Kinsman Transit Company, a director of the Tonopah Steamship Company, a director of the Pioneer Steamship Company, and a director of the State Bank & Trust Company. He has been very active in commercial and financial circles, and was at one time vice president of the Reserve Trust Company. He is also director of the Minch Transit Company and the Nicholas Transit Company. He is likewise the president of the Cayahota Motor Car Company and is himself an ardent lover of motoring, which furnishes his principal recreation. While he is still the owner of much valuable real estate he has been gradually disposing of his interests in that connection and investing his capital in his present business.
As the years have passed Mr. and Mrs. Steinbrenner have become parents of six children: Carl, who is on a ranch in New Mexico; George, who is a member of Henry Steinbrenner & Company ; Phillip, who is now a student in the law department of the Western Reserve University; Frank, who died August 29, 1908, at the age of seventeen years ; Jessie, the wife of Herbert Snyder, man- ager of the Doane Exchange Bell Telephone Company, of Cleveland; and Ger- trude, at home. Mr. Steinbrenner has erected a fine residence on Bellflower Road. It was built about 1906 and is one of the palatial homes of the city, its attractive furnishings being suggestive of the wealth and cultured taste of the inmates. Aside from motoring Mr. Steinbrenner finds recreation and interest in baseball. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Colonial Club and of the Masonic fraternity. He also belongs to the Woodland Avenue Pres- byterian church. He does not care for public life, giving his attention to his business, and is modest and retiring in manner. His ability, however, is widely recognized, for it is manifest in the control of important interests which are proving elements in the business development of the state, as well as a source of substantial revenue for himself. He has carved his name deeply upon the commercial history of Cleveland, and the straightforward policy he has followed in his business career commends him to the confidence and good will of all with whom he has come in contact.
DAVIS HAWLEY, JR.
Davis Hawley, Jr., numbered among the most successful of the young attor- neys of Cleveland, his native city, was born October 5, 1878, his parents being Davis and Mary Switz Hawley. After acquiring his preliminary education in the public schools he attended the University school, from which he was grad- uated with the class of 1806. He then entered Cornell University in the same year and was graduated with the class of 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, in the meantime pursuing a law course which he completed in the same
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college in 1901. Thus liberal literary as well as professional training well quali- fied him for the onerous duties of the profession which demands a knowledge of almost every phase of life and the motive springs of human conduct. He was admitted to the bar July 13, 1901, and at once entered upon the general practice of law, but has always specialized in the department of corporation law, and is thoroughly well informed concerning this branch of the profession. He has served as counsel for J. H. Somers & Company, the Cuyahoga Savings & Loan Company and numerous other local and financial business interests which have tested his ability and have constituted the proof of his legal learning and skill. He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, and his contemporaries acknowledge his ability in his chosen field of labor.
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