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Moses G. Carrel was educated in the common and high schools and in Hills- dale College, at Hillsdale, Michigan. After leaving school he learned telegraphy and took a position on the Lake Shore Railroad, acting as operator and agent from 1870 until 1880. He came to Cleveland as agent at the Union depot in 1880 and held that position until 1891. He was afterward associated with the Merchants Bank & Storage Company as secretary and treasurer and subse- quently became connected with the publication of a paper called the Station Agent. He was also for a time financial editor of the Cleveland Press but in 1894 returned to railway circles as general passenger agent with the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway. Eight years thus passed and in 1902 he was appointed division passenger agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in which capacity he still continues. The foregoing brief account of his business record indicates clearly that his advancement has followed as the logical sequence of earnest ef- fort and capability. He has made good use of his time and opportunities, and his determination and indefatigable labor, together with his sound judgment and business tact, have been important forces in his continued and gratifying progress.
On the 8th of June, 1875, Mr. Carrel was united in marriage to Miss Jennie E. Bailey, a daughter of Washington and Iantha (Darks) Bailey, of Reading, Michigan. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Carrel have been born three children : Lou Eliza- beth, the wife of J. I. Tod, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; F. Leroy, who obtained his education in the public and high schools of Cleveland and the Case School of Applied Science and is now acting as assistant ticket agent; and Elsie B., who is now the wife of Dr. G. I. Bauman, of Cleveland. The family residence is at No. 112II Hessler Road in the St. Thomas apartment. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carrel are prominent socially. Mr. Carrel is one of the few thirty-third degree Masons of the country and one of the widely known and distinguished represen- tatives of the craft. He is past commander of Holyrood Commandery Knights Templar, a past potentate of the Shrine and a director of the Masonic Temple Association. He also belongs to the Royal Arcanum and the National Union. He is past president of the Masonic Club and also of the Transportation Club, and the official honors which have been conferred upon him indicate his personal popularity as well as his executive ability. He holds membership in the Euclid Avenue Congregational church and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. His wife, who is also a member of the church, is active in the Dorcas Society and in the Sorosis and Century Clubs. Mr. Carrel is very fond of litera- ture and is an accomplished elocutionist, widely known as a gentleman of broad general culture, appreciative of the social amenities of life, while in business circles he manifests the firm resolve, indefatigable energy and keen insight which are so necessary to success in any line.
CHARLES KRAMER FARBER, M.D.
Dr. Charles Kramer Farber, physician and surgeon of Cleveland, his native city, was born September 17, 1877. His father, Ephraim Farber, a native of Cin- cinnati, came to Cleveland in 1876 and engaged in the wholesale and retail prod- uce business at the old Fulton market for twenty years. He died in 1901 at the age of fifty-two years. His widow, Mrs. Margaretta Farber, is still living. She was a daughter of Dr. Charles Martin Kramer, a pioneer homeopathic physician of Xenia, Ohio, who was also a graduate of the allopathic and eclectic schools of medicine.
Dr. Farber was a public-school student in Cleveland until he completed his course in the Central high school with the class of 1898. His professional train- ing was received in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, which he en- tered in the fall of that year as a member of the first class that pursued the
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four years' course, bringing him to his graduation in 1902, when the M. D. de- gree was conferred upon him. He entered at once into general practice, in which he has since continued, and he has gained local renown as an able ex- ponent of advanced scientific knowledge in this line. He held the chair of materia medica at the Cleveland Homeopathic College from 1904 until 1906 and was visiting physician to the Salvation Army Home for two years. He also in- stituted the first maternity ward there, which has developed into a large and important institution. A strong believer in the efficiency of medicine and the needlessness of surgery in many cases, he has proven the value of his ideas in the success which has attended his efforts in the treatment of many important cases. While he is known as a homeopathic practitioner, he is also thoroughly conver- sant with the teachings of the allopathic school, and his professional record is creditable to the history of a family that has numbered among its members sev- eral very capable and successful physicians. He belongs to the Cleveland Home- opathic Medical Society.
Dr. Farber gives his political allegiance to the republican party but without desire for office. He belongs to the Episcopal church and resides at No. 953 Lyman avenue in Collinwood.
BIRD W. HOUSUM.
Again and again the history of American men indicates the fact that it is only under pressure of adversity and the stimulus of necessity that the best and strongest in men is brought out and developed. The record of Mr. Housum is another exemplification of this fact, and with appreciation of the spirit of the old Greek philosopher who said: "Earn thy reward: the gods give naught to sloth" he has worked persistently and untiringly to win the opportunities which, intelligently utilized, lead to prosperity. He was born in 1861 in Miami county, Ohio, and was a little lad of five years when in 1866 he was brought to Cleve- land by his parents. Here he attended the public schools, but his educational opportunities were somewhat limited although in the school of experience he has gained practical, comprehensive and valuable knowledge. At fifteen years of age he entered the service of George A. Stanley who was engaged in the oil business. He acted as salesman for Mr. Stanley and while thus employed gained a knowledge of the business and recognized its opportunities. In 1885 he en- tered the business on his own account as representative of the oil department of Armour & Company, and in 1889 he was joined by J. F. Grace in organizing the firm of B. W. Housum & Company. In 1893 the business was reorganized, two companies being formed. The original company was changed to Grace & Housum, the purpose of this organization being to conduct a general oil busi- ness. The firm of The B. W. Housum Company was also organized and in- corporated and now represents the American Sugar Refining Company, the Postum Cereal Company, Armour & Company, the Fels-Naptha Soap Company and many other important concerns in the conduct of a successful, extensive and growing commission business. The boy of fifteen years has become the man of affairs, prominently and actively associated with business interests in Cleveland, recognized as one of the leading representatives of trade and finan- cial interests in this city.
Mr. Housum was united in marriage to Miss Ada Weber, a daughter of Randal M. Weber, of Nashville, Tennessee. The wedding was celebrated in 1882 and has been blessed with one son, Charles Robert. Mr. Housum is a member of Woodward Lodge, No. 508, A. F. & A. M .; Lake Erie Consistory ; Oriental Commandery ; and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He like- wise holds membership with the Royal Arcanum, the National Union, the Royal League and the Cleveland Commercial Travelers. His appreciation of social
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amenities is further indicated in his identification with the Union, Tavern, Coun- try and Roadside Clubs and the Ohio Society of New York. His political al- legiance is given to the republican party, and while thoroughly informed con- cerning the questions and issues of the day he does not seek office, preferring to devote his energies to other interests. He is a member of the Baptist church, and moral progress as well as social and business affairs awaken his coopera- tion. The activity and integrity of his life are widely recognized and, combined with these, is a pleasing personality that has attracted the attention and won the confidence and friendship of all his fellow citizens.
CHARLES BROWN STOWE.
Carefully devised and well executed plans in connection with the manage- ment of the Stowe-Fuller Company attest the business ability of Charles Brown Stowe, who is its president. He is widely recognized as a man of keen insight and undaunted enterprise as well as of practical and conscientious methods, and his position in the business world is due to his persistent purpose and capable control of the interests with which he is connected. He was born in Cleveland, July 18, 1862. His father, Thomas A Stowe, was a native of Hudson, Ohio, and, becoming a resident of Cleveland, was connected with the Plain Dealer for thirty years, or until the time of his death in 1877. He occupied a prominent position in journalistic circles, was also a member of the board of education and was exceedingly active in public matters. During the Civil war he served as an officer of Company E, of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
The Stowe family has been identified with the development of this section of the state from a period antedating the founding of Cleveland, Charles Brown Stowe being a direct descendant of Joshua A. Stowe, who was commissary of the surveying party who came to Cleveland for the Connecticut Land Company in 1796 with General Moses Cleveland, the founder of the city. He belonged to one of the oldest families in Connecticut, the original American ancestor having settled in Middletown in 1634. He was a sea captain and built the boats at Buffalo Creek that brought the party to Ohio. The first house built in the Western Reserve after landing at Conneaut Creek was called Castle Stowe in honor of Joshua Stowe. Captain William Stowe, who was born in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1776, came with his wife, Margaret (Gaylord) Stowe, and her brothers, Samuel and Jonathan Gaylord, to the Western Reserve in 1809. They reached Cleveland at a time when the only frame building in this city was the postoffice, and it was a little structure twelve feet square. They did not remain in the village, but went to Stowe township, settling on the land which had pre- viously been entered by Joshua Stowe from the Connecticut Land Company, for which he had traded a sailing vessel and a piece of tilled ground in Connecticut. He was quite a traveler for those times, as it is said he made a trip to Ohio in forty-one days with an ox-team and one horse. He built a house at Monroe Falls in 1809, which is still standing, and there he raised his family of seven sons, one of whom, William Stowe II, was the father of Thomas A. Stowe. Later Captain William Stowe came to Cleveland and rigged the first boat on Lake Erie, built at Cleveland. Albert Stowe, an uncle of Thomas A. Stowe, was one of the first white children born in the early settlement of the Western Reserve at Stowe Corners in 1810.
The mother of Charles B. Stowe bore the maiden name of Maria Mckenzie. She was born in Elmira, New York, but was brought to Cleveland when a little girl of six years. The marriage of Mrs. Stowe occurred in this city in 1842. She was a niece of Irad L. Beardsley, who for many years was librarian of the Cleveland public library and is still living in this city.
C. B. STOWE
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Charles Brown Stowe was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, com- pleting his course by graduation from the high school in 1878. He had pre- viously been connected with the Plain Dealer as commercial reporter for a year, but shortly afterward became connected with the Lake Erie Iron Com- pany. A year later he engaged as bookkeeper with the Dover Fire Brick Com- pany, with which he was associated for about eight years, and in 1889 he estab- lished his present business under the name of C. B. Stowe & Company. In 1891 the firm style was changed to the Stowe-Fuller Company, and in 1897 it was incorporated. From the beginning the business has been successful and has grown until its operations extend all over the country. The company owns and controls four plants, manufacturing magnesite, chrome, silica and fire-clay brick. These products are exclusively for steel and iron works, smelters and other work requiring high heats. All of the products manufactured by the company are those requiring the highest refractory materials. This is the largest independent concern of the kind in the country and the second largest of any kind that produces this grade of material. Factories are maintained at Stras- burg and Empire, Ohio, and Alexandria and Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, while the general offices are at Cleveland, and the company has executed some of the largest contracts for this class of work in the country. While giving much time and attention to the business of the Stowe-Fuller Company, Mr. Stowe is also connected with many other business concerns of importance, being president of the National Fire Brick Company and of the Minor Fire Brick Company and a director in a number of others.
On the 18th of September, 1892, occurred the marriage of Mr. Stowe and Miss Franc Cary at Norwalk, Ohio, and they have three children: Gaylord T., who was born July 9, 1895; Margaret, who was born January 27, 1889; and Rosamund, born in June, 1902.
Mr. Stowe is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is identified with a number of social organizations, including the Clifton, Cleveland Automobile, the Lakewood Yacht and the Westwood Golf Clubs. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, cooperating in the various movements which that organization institutes for the benefit of the community at large. He is pre- eminently a man of action rather than of theory, and the salient qualities of leadership are his. He has therefore taken an active and important part in everything with which he has connected himself and possesses, inoreover, exec- utive ability of a high order. He is conscientious in his attitude toward his employes and in the development of mammoth business enterprises has dis- played those qualifications that entitle him to rank with Cleveland's captains of industry, giving to the city stimulus in many lines of manufacture.
ADOLF KOEPFF.
Adolf Koepff, who was well known among the German-American citizens of Cleveland and found in the new world the business opportunities which he sought and which led him to success, was born in Goeppingen, Germany, on the 28th of January, 1849, and died August 19, 1902. His parents were Jacob and Kath- erine Koepff. The father was engaged in the wine and bakery business in Goep- pingen, and there in the private schools Adolf Koepff pursued his early education and later pursued a higher course. In his youthful days he also learned book- keeping, which he followed as a profession for several years, being employed in a large metal factory. At the age of nineteen years, he came to America to avoid serving in the army, for military service is compulsory in that country. In 1868 he located in Cleveland and for six years was shipping clerk for the Weideman Company, wholesale grocers. During this period he carefully saved his earnings until his industry and economy had brought to him a sum sufficient
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to enable him to engage in business on his own account. In 1874 he entered the wholesale liquor business on Pearl street, where he continued for twenty-seven years, or until his death, when the business was sold. In that period he had built up an extensive trade and had enjoyed among his patrons the reputation of being thoroughly reliable in all of his sales and in the representation of the goods which he handled.
On the 7th of June, 1876, Mr. Koepff was married to Miss Lena Konz, a daughter of Fred and Anna (Rubender) Konz, who came to Cleveland at an early day and located at the corner of Scranton road and Clark avenue. There he engaged in the manufacture of cooper tools, having one of the early industrial concerns of the city. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Koepff were born four children: Mrs. Cora Ernst; Mrs. Alma Eppler; Rupert and Carl, all of whom are residing in Cleveland.
Mr. Koepff was one of the prominent German residents of this city, being recognized as a leader among people of his own nationality. He belonged to the German American Club, to the Concordia Heights Männerchor, the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Pioneer Club and the German Evangelical church. His political views accorded with the principles of democracy. He never had occasion to regret his determination to seek a home in the new world for he here found the opportunities which he sought and which, by the way, are always open to ambitious, energetic young men, for in this land labor is not hampered by caste or class, and the individual by steady and persistent effort may steadily work his way upward. This Mr. Koepff did, and thus at his death he left his family in comfortable financial circumstances.
REV. DAN FREEMAN BRADLEY, D. D.
Rev. Dan Freeman Bradley, bending the energies of a strong intellect and forceful nature to the task of stimulating and promoting the world's progress through education in both secular and sacred lines, has since 1905 been pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church of Cleveland. The strength of his intellect, combined with his broad sympathy and consecrated purpose have made him a power in the fields wherein he has labored, and he is today numbered among the strongest representatives of the Congregational Ministry of the country. His birth occurred at Bangkok, Siam, on the 17th of March, 1857. His father, Dr. Dan Beach Bradley, M. O., was a missionary to that country, sailing from Boston in 1835. His second wife, Sarah Blachly, was among the first women graduates of Oberlin College to take the Bachelor of Arts degree, which was conferred upon her in 1843. Both parents died in Siam and were laid to rest there, Dr. Bradley passing away in 1874, while his wife survived until 1893. In the paternal line the ancestry of the family is traced back to William Bradley, of Yorkshire, Eng- land, who arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1640. Brought to the United States for the purposes of education, Dr. Bradley of this review pursued his studies at Oberlin, and is a graduate of the academy college and divinity school. He completed the college course with the class of 1882 and is an alumnus of the seminary class of 1885. In the meantime he had learned the printer's trade in Siam, but his desire to enter the ministry led him to begin preparation for this field of labor. His father, grandfather, brother and brother-in-law were all preachers, and for eight generations the family have been members of the Con- gregational church.
Immediately after his graduation D. F. Bradley was ordained to the ministry and engaged in preaching until 1889, when he became acting president of Yank- ton College at Yankton, South Dakota, there remaining for three years. In 1892 that college conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity and from Cornell College, of Iowa, he received the same degree in 1903. On severing his
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connection with Yankton College in 1892 he accepted the pastorate of the First Congregational church at Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he continued for ten years. He then again entered the educational field as president of Iowa College, where he remained from 1902 until 1905, inclusive, and in October, 1905, he was called to become pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church at Cleveland, where he has since labored. Always interested in education, he is a trustee of Oberlin College. In politics he has always been a republican, and the work of good citi- zenship finds in him an able exponent. He believes it to be the duty as well as the privilege of every American citizen to exercise his right of franchise in support of principles which he believes will work for good government. He does not be- lieve in the blind following of a party leader, however, and while he usually votes the republican ticket, he will not give his support to a man whom he thinks unworthy of office.
In 1883, in Cleveland, Rev. Bradley was married to Miss Lillian Jaques, who was at the time a teacher and soloist in Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Their three sons are: Dwight Jaques, now a junior at Rollins College, Florida ; Rob- ert Gamble, a freshman in the same college; and Dan Theodore, who is attending the public schools. Those who meet Dr. Bradley entertain for him warm friend- ship, for they at once recognize his ready sympathy and his broad humanitarian- ism. While thoroughly versed in the doctrines of the church it is the Christ spirit rather than theology which he teaches, and that his words carry influence is seen in the lives of those who have come under his ministry. He is an able and fluent speaker and one whose study of the great sociological and economic questions is enabling him to help solve for mankind many of the vital problems of the day.
GEORGE WILLIAM COTTRELL.
George William Cottrell, attorney at law with the firm of Hoyt, Dustin, Kel- ley, McKeehan & Andrews, was born in one of the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, June 24, 1876. The ancestral history of the family is a most interesting one. They come of Pennsylvania Dutch stock of the name of Hoover. The father, mother, and a baby girl were killed by the Indians and one son was taken by the red men, who made their way into Canada, where they reared the boy. There Major Cottrell, an Englishman and a member of the English army, bought him of the Indians, adopted him, and gave him the name of George H. Cottrell. This was the great-great-great-grandfather of George W. Cottrell of this review. The great-grandfather also bore the name of George H. Cottrell, as did the grand- father, who was born and died in Marine City, Michigan. The date of his birth was in November, 1816, and his death, April 1907. He was captain of a sailing vessel on the lakes and also a farmer by occupation, but lived retired for twenty- five years prior to his death. At the time of the Mexican war he espoused the American cause and served with the rank of first lieutenant. Eber W. Cottrell, the father of George W. Cottrell, was born in Marine City, Michigan, February 17, 1841, was engaged in the timber business and located in Detroit as an ex- tensive operator in timber. He has been prominent in political circles in the state and in 1879 became a member of the Michigan legislature, in which he served for two terms. His ambition, however, has never been in the line of office hold- ing, for his extensive business interests have made full demand upon his time. He was director of the live-stock exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, but resigned before the close of the fair. He wedded Ellen Smith, who was born in Devonshire, England, October 4, 1848, and was brought to the United States in 1851. They were married in Detroit in 1868. Her father, William Smith, was also born in Devonshire.
In the public schools George W. Cottrell pursued his education, being gradu- ated from the Detroit high school, with the class of 1894. He afterward entered
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the University of Michigan, where he won the Bachelor of Science degree in 1898. He was also in the University of Michigan Law School for a year, but finished his course in the Detroit College of Law, which in 1901 conferred upon him the Bachelor of Law degree. He then came to Cleveland and has since been associated with the firm of Hoyt, Dustin, Kelley, McKeehan & Andrews. He makes a specialty of admiralty law and enjoys a good practice.
On the 22d of October, 1902, Mr. Cottrell was married to Miss Florence Helen Chamberlain, a daughter of Marvin H. and Ellen ( Wilson) Chamberlain, of Detroit, Michigan. They have two children, George William, who was born September 16, 1903; and Eleanor. Mr. Cottrell belongs to the Psi Upsilon fra- ternity, to the Union Club and to the Nisi Prius Club. He also holds member- ship in the Episcopal church and gives his political allegiance to the republican party but is not an active worker in its ranks.
JAMES B. WILBUR.
Several lines of business engrossed the attention of James B. Wilbur, and at all times he was a busy man, in whose life there were comparatively few leisure hours, and those with whom he was associated found him to be reliable as well as energetic. He was born in Batavia, New York, a son of Eliam and Mary (Edson) Wilbur, who came from the Empire state to Cleveland at an early day. They were among the pioneer people here, and the father served for a considerable period as sexton of the Erie Street cemetery, which he laid out. His father was one of two brothers who came from England in the eighteenth century and settled at Jersey City, New Jersey. The Wilbur family was an old and prominent one in England, the ancestry dating back to Cromwell's time.
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