A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 34

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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Mr. Hower was very public spirited, interested in all that pertained to the city's welfare or was a matter of civic virtue or civic pride. For many years he was a trustee of the Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, and his life was ever an upright and honorable one. His qualities of friendliness, geniality and deference for the opinions of others were such as to make him loved wherever known and most of all where he was best known. His business associates hon- ored and respected him for his commercial integrity and reliability, his friends for his faithfulness, and his family for his exemplification of the qualities of an ideal husband and father. His example was one well worthy of emulation and his name is now on the honor roll of Cleveland's citizens.

WILLIAM CASE NORTH.

Macaulay has said that "the history of a country is best told in the lives of its people," and Carlyle writes that "biography is the most universally interesting as well as the most profitable of all reading." The record of William Case North cannot fail to prove of interest to many inasmuch as he was the maker of some of the oldest daguerreotype portraits in Cleveland, when that pioneer step to modern photography was first known. At different times he was associated with other im- portant business and public interests here and therefore left the impress of his individuality upon the growth, development and progress of the city.

A native of Kingston, New York, he established his home in Oberlin on his removal to Ohio, and although he resided there for but a brief period, it was during that time that he met the lady whom he made his wife. In 1850 he came to Cleve- land and in connection with Messrs. Ryder and Green opened a studio in which they made daguerreotype pictures, their place of business being on the site of the present Wilkshire building. Although the making of a daguerreotype seems very primitive in comparison with the modern and instantaneous processes of photog- raphy at the present time, it was a notable step in the field of invention as hitherto a likeness of an individual could only be transferred through painting or drawing. Mr. North continued in this business for years, keeping in touch with the processes that were evolved following the first pioneer steps, and he was one of the first men in Cleveland who ever took outdoor views of the places which were notable in the early history of this city. Subsequently he engaged in the gasoline-stove business, which he carried on successfully for some time.

WILLIAM C. NORTH

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In public affairs, aside from any business connections, Mr. North was also active and prominent. He was elected a member of the city council and it was a speech which he delivered while a member of that body that was instrumental in the building of the first viaduct. His political allegiance was given to the repub- lican party from the time of its organization and he did all in his power to promote its growth and secure its success. He possessed moreover an inventive turn of mind and perfected several patents. He continued active until his death, his life ever being a busy and useful one.

Mr. North was married twice and by the first union had one son, Allen North, who died twenty-seven years ago in Toledo, Ohio. In Oberlin, Ohio, he met and married Miss Anna Mahan, who has been secretary of the Lakeside Hospital for over thirty years. Her father, the Rev. Asa Mahan, was a minister of Cincinnati, Ohio, and went to Oberlin as the first president of the Oberlin College, which position he filled for twenty years. At the time of his death he was making a trip in England and there passed away at the age of ninety years. Miss Sarah Mahan, his daughter, was among the women who did most valuable and efficient work among the soldiers during Civil war times and her name is among those engraven on the soldiers and sailors monument in the public square of Cleveland. Unto Mr. and Mrs. North were born six children: William C .; George Mahan ; Paul ; Charles Asa ; Mrs. Kent, of Kent, Ohio; and Mrs. Mary Dix Gage.

The death of Mr. North occurred on the 9th of March, 1890, when he had reached the age of seventy-four years. He was at one time a member of the First Methodist church but later removed to the south side of the city and assisted in the building of a church of that denomination there, taking a great interest in the same. Christianity was to him more than a matter of profession; it was a matter of daily living, and his belief found exemplification in his kindly spirit, his generous nature and hs earnest efforts to assist the poor and needy. He was a very charitable man and no tale of sorrow or distress was ever told to him in vain. Many who knew him have reason to bless his memory for his timely assistance in the hour of need. He remained for many years an interesting figure in the life of Cleveland, and wherever known he was honored and esteemed.

MAJOR FREDERICK A. KENDALL, U.S.A.

Major Frederick A. Kendall, a retired United States army veteran and now general agent for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company in northeastern Ohio, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, August 28, 1838. He is a descendant of Francis Kendall, who arrived in New England in 1630 and was prominent in his day. He is likewise a descendant in the eighth generation of Francis Ken- dall, of Woburn, Massachusetts, who was likewise an influential factor in his community and aided in shaping the colonial history of that time. The family record is equally creditable for military service as representatives of the name were soldiers of the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812 and the Civil war. Through generations the characteristics of the family have been strongly marked and their ability has carried them into important public relations.

Major Kendall acquired his preparatory education in Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire, and in 1860 was graduated from Bowdoin Col- lege. During his college days he developed a taste for journalism, but at the first call for volunteers for service in the Civil war he put aside all business and per- sonal considerations and enlisted in the army, becoming a private of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry. When his three months' term had expired he joined the Fourth New Hampshire Infantry as lieutenant and remained in the service until the close of the war, having risen to the rank of captain. In 1866 he entered the regular army as second lieutenant and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1867, while in 1879 he became captain. He was on detached service from 1876 until

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1880 as professor of military science and tactics at Brooks Military Academy in Cleveland and during the same period was aid-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staffs of Governors Young and Bishop in the Ohio National Guard.

Because of disability Colonel Kendall was retired from the regular army in December, 1884. He was promoted to major on the retired list April 23, 1904. In 1885 he entered the life insurance field as general agent for the Penn Mutual Company for northeastern Ohio, and has achieved marked success in this connection, doing much more business than any other western agent of the com- pany and therefore reaping abundant pecuniary rewards. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Cleveland Underwriters' Association and assisted in founding the National Association of Life Underwriters in Bos- ton in 1890. After serving on the national executive committee of fifteen for nine years he was elected second vice president at the last convention in Cincin- nati, Ohio. His active association with various interests is extensive, and at all times he has been loyal and progressive in citizenship. While never an aspirant for office he has always been a strong member himself and takes keen interest in advancing the growth and success of the republican party. His interest in the public-school system was manifest in his active and effective service as a member of the Cleveland board of education from 1897 until 1901, being presi- dent of the board in 1898 and 1899. He was elected a companion of the military order of Loyal Legion by the New York Commandery in 1868 and became a charter member of the Ohio Commandery when it was established in 1883. He has been very active in the order and has assisted greatly in promoting its growth in northern Ohio. In 1896-97 he was junior vice commander of the Ohio Com- mandery and was elected senior vice commander in May, 1904. He is also a member of the Union and University Clubs of Cleveland, the Army and Navy Clubs of Washington and New York city, and in 1909 was elected president of the New England Society of Cleveland.

It was in 1864 in Milford, New Hampshire, that Major Kendall was mar- ried to Miss Virginia N. Hutchison, and unto them have been born five children : Nathan, a graduate of Dartmouth College; Florence A., the wife of Hermon A. Kelley ; Katherine P., deceased ; Susan E., the wife of Walter S. Root; and Hay- ward H., a graduate of Cornell University. All are residents of Cleveland. Major Kendall is a large, athletic man, well preserved and active although he has reached the Psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten. His friends, and they are many, know him as a cultured, refined gentleman, dignified and courteous, with much of the military in his bearing, while at the same time he has the alert, enterprising spirit of the successful business leader.

JOHN JAMES RICKARD MACLEOD.

John James Rickard Macleod, M. B., Ch. B., D. Ph., whose various degrees are indicative of his scholarship and his qualification for responsible professional service, was born in Dunkeld, Scotland, September 6, 1876. His father, the Rev. Robert Macleod, is a minister of the church of Scotland and is still active in his chosen life work at Aberdeen at the age of sixty-seven years. The mother, Mrs. Jane (McWalter) Macleod, is still living.

After attending the grammar schools of Aberdeen, Scotland, Dr. Macleod continued his studies in Aberdeen University and was graduated therefrom in 1898 with the degrees of M. B. and Ch. B. As a class honor he received the An- derson traveling scholarship and went to Leipsic and Berlin where he spent over a year in the study of physiology. He next entered the London Hospital where he acted as demonstrator of physiology for about four years. Meanwhile he obtained the Mackinnon scholarship for research from the Royal Society and took the D. Ph. degree at Cambridge, England, in 1902.

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Dr. Macleod came to Cleveland in September, 1903, to accept the position of professor of physiology in the medical department of the Western Reserve Uni- versity, which position had been proffered him and which chair he has since filled. His duties here are purely of an educative character and mostly in the line of re- search work concerning physiology and physiological chemistry. Dr. Macleod has become a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, the American Phys- iological Society, the American Society of Biological Chemists, the Society of Experimental Biology & Medicine, and the British Physiological Society. Since coming to Cleveland he became a member of the Nu Sigma Nu. He is also the author of the chapters on Biochemistry in Practical Physiology, which was pub- lished by Edward Arnold in London in 1902 and is now in its third edition. He also wrote the chapters on Haemolysis, Metabolism of Purins and of Carbo- hydrates in Recent Advances in Physiology, edited by Leonard Hill, F. R. S., 1906. He is also joint author with Dr. H. D. Haskins of Organic Chemistry, published by J. Wilie & Sons, New York, in 1907. He has been a contributor to various medical journals, including a series of articles on Experimental Glycosuria in the American Journal of Physiology, and also articles on Caisson Disease, Chemistry of the Carbamates, and the Metabolism of Purin Bodies.

On the 22d of July, 1903, Dr. Macleod was married in Paisley, Scotland, to Miss Mary McWalter, a daughter of the late Robert McWalter, of that city. Mrs. Macleod is an artist of merit and is prominent in the art circles of Cleve- land. They reside at No. 10910 Ashbury avenue. Dr. Macleod is a lover of golf, which constitutes his chief source of recreation. He belongs to the University Club and to the Second Presbyterian church. Since coming to America he has won recognition as one whose scholarly attainments and research place him with the eminent medical educators of the county.

J. V. DAWES.

In the list of men who have now departed this life but who were once active and influential factors in the business circles of Cleveland is found the name of J. V. Dawes, who won success and also the unqualified esteem and confidence of his business associates and colleagues while he was the secretary and treasurer of the Garfield Savings Bank. He had become identified with business interests in September, 1887, and so continued until his demise. He was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, on the 30th of May, 1870, and represented a family who were among the earliest settlers of New England. Charles W. Dawes, the father of our subject, was connected with agricultural pursuits throughout his entire life, with the exception of a period which he spent in the service of his country during the Civil war, being on active duty in the south through the greater part of that period. He married a daughter of P. Bates, who was also a descendant of New England pioneers, and they became the parents of three children, two of whom remain resi- dents of the Old Bay state.

J. V. Dawes, who was the second in order of birth, spent his boyhood and youth on his father's farm and was educated in the country schools. His final school work was obtained in the Cummington high school, from which he was graduated at the age of seventeen years. Believing that he would have better business opportunities in the middle west he then came to Cleveland in 1887 and here remained until his demise. He was at first connected with the Cozad, Belz & Bates Abstract Com- pany and continued in its service until his election as secretary and treasurer of the Garfield Savings Bank Company, on the Ist of July, 1892. The bank was at that time a new institution, having recently been established with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars all paid up. From the beginning the success of the bank was as- sured, for at its head were men of well known reliability and business enterprise.

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The efforts of Mr. Dawes contributed in no small degree to the growth and pros- perity of this institution, and he became recognized as a valuable figure in financial circles, honored and respected by all because of his thorough understanding of the banking business, his reliable methods and his spirit of undaunted and honorable determination.

Mr. Dawes was married in Cleveland on the 3d of June, 1891, to Miss Helen H. Fay, the daughter of Byron and Eliza A. (Williams) Fay. They had two chil- dren, Byron F. and Dorothy.

Mr. Dawes continued in the bank up to the time of his demise and was re- garded as a very thoroughgoing, conservative and reliable business man. H. Clark Ford often said of him that he would rather trust Mr. Dawes' judgment concern- ing a piece of real estate than that of any other man he knew. He never gave an equivocal expression of an opinion but said straight out what he thought, basing his ideas upon a thorough understanding of the subject under discussion. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and he regarded it as the duty as well as the privilege of citizenship to support the men and measures that he believed would constitute agencies for the country's welfare. He was a very active member of the Congregational church on Euclid avenue, and while business interests made heavy claims upon his time and attention he did not allow his finan- cial interests to exclude active participation in work for the moral progress of the community. His name stood as a synonym for commercial integrity, and his entire life conformed to a high standard of commercial ethics.

ADDISON HILLS.

The life record of Addison Hills covered almost the entire nineteenth cen- tury, beginning with the 6th of April, 1807, and extending to the 7th of May, 1898. He was born in Enfield, Hartford county, Connecticut, and was a descend- ant of William Hills, who in 1632 settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, while sub- sequently he became a resident of Hartford, Connecticut. Jedediah Hills, the father of Addison, was in the prime of life when he became a resident of Paines- ville, Ohio, arriving in June, 1814, accompanied by his family. His life evidenced many characteristics of sterling worth, and he became prominent and influential in the business circles and public life of the community in which he passed his life. While living in Painesville he creditably filled the offices of postmaster and justice of the peace.

Addison Hills was a youth of seven years when the family came to this state, and when a young lad of thirteen he began his business career, making his initial step as clerk in a general mercantile store. While thus employed he gained a good knowledge of the business, thoroughly familiarizing himself with the meth- ods of the mercantile world. Gradually he worked his way upward until his in- creased salary and his careful expenditure enabled him, at the age of twenty years, to engage in business for himself. In 1832 he was appointed the first re- corder of Lake county, of which Painesville was the county seat, and proved a competent and trustworthy official in that position. The year 1835 chronicled his forceful activity in various lines relating to the public welfare. It was in that year that he became one of the incorporators of St. James Protestant Episcopal church, and throughout his entire life he remained an influential factor in the work of moral development in the communities in which he lived. It was also in 1835 that he assisted in organizing the Painesville & Fairport Railroad and in the same year he became president of the Bank of Geauga. He was one of its organizers and aided in founding a substantial moneyed concern which was con- tinued under original name for over half a century and is now known as the First National Bank of Painesville. From 1840 until 1844 Mr. Hills conducted a warehouse business at Fairport, Ohio, and in the latter year removed to Buffalo,

ADDISON HILLS

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where he entered the employ of Kimberly, Pease & Company, who were con- ducting an extensive commission business. During his later years, however, his activities were most largely directed along the line of railway traffic and man- 'agement, and as early as 1834 he became auditor of the Painesville & Fairport Railroad. Later he entered the service of the Erie Railway Company at Dun- kirk, Ohio, in 1852 having charge of the company's business in that place and in other districts. This position, with all of its responsibilities, he capably filled, and his broadening experience in railway lines qualified him for further respon- sibility. In 1855 he came to Cleveland to take charge of the local freight busi- ness of the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad and of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad Company. He afterward became general freight agent for both roads, having supervision of the freight business at the same time. He thus continued until 1858 when the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula and the Cleveland & Toledo lines were consolidated under the name of The Lake Short & Michigan Southern Railway. At that time Lucien Hills, a son of Addison Hills, was appointed general freight agent of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway. Addison Hills was made general freight agent of The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company and the Northern Indiana Railroad Companies, both of which companies are now operated under the name of The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Com- pany. Mr. Hills continued as such general freight agent and so remained until 1881, when he was appointed assistant general manager of the road. On the Ist of December, 1886, further promotion came to him in his appointment as as- sistant to the president of the road, and he was retained in that connection until he passed away. It is interesting to recall the fact that as a railroad traffic man he was the first to conceive the idea of and put into practice in the early days the most important and useful plan now in universal use of transferring loaded cars from one railroad to another without unloading the contents of the car.

Mr. Hill's first marriage was in 1828 to Miss Emily Tracy, daughter of Rufus Tracy, of Springfield, New York. She died in 1835, leaving two children, Lu- cien and Emily Malvina. Lucien married Miss Mary Andrews, only one of their children, Mrs. E. A. Foote, of Bratenahl, surviving. On June 6, 1836, Mr. Hills was again married, his second wife having been Olivia Prudence Tracy, sister of his former wife. Of this marriage two children were born, Eliza Tracy and Albert E. Of his children only one survives him, Miss Emily M. Hills. She is a member of the Poets Club of Rome and has published several volumes of her poetic writings, which have received much praise. She has been 1 an extensive traveler and much interested in fine art.

Mr. Hills continued his residence in Cleveland until called to his final rest on the 7th of May, 1898, at the age of ninety-one years. He was a member of Trinity church, and his life was in harmony with his profession. He possessed a most charitable and kindly nature, was devoted to the welfare of the city in which he made his home and was never neglectful of his obligation to his fellow- men. A long, upright and useful life was brought to a quiet close and left a memory which is enshrined in the hearts of those who knew him and may well serve as an inspiration to those who have regard for all that is best and most honorable in the activities of life.

JAMES M. HAMILTON.

James M. Hamilton, well known as an architect, was born in Fort Wayne, In- diana, June 27, 1876. He is a son of Allen and Celia (Fink) Hamilton, and while spending his boyhood days under the parental roof he pursued his education in the public schools, passing through consecutive grades until he was graduated from the high school with the class of 1894. His professional training was received in

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the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, where he pursued a special course in architecture and thus became well qualified for the duties that have since devolved upon him. In 1901 he came to Cleveland and spent the years 1903-4 in foreign travel, making extended study of continental architecture and gaining many valuable ideas, which he has brought to practical use in following his pro- fession since his return to his native land. On again reaching Cleveland he became identified with Meade & Garfield, architects, and has proven a valuable and impor- tant factor in this firm's organization. He is very thorough and systematic in everything that he undertakes, and, brooking no obstacle that can be overcome by determined and persistent effort, he has made for himself a creditable name as a representative of architectural interests in Cleveland.

Mr. Hamilton is independent politically yet is not remiss in the duties of citizen- ship and in a quiet way exerts his influence along the lines of general advancement, reform and improvement. He belongs to the Hermit Club and to the Second Pres- byterian church. Outdoor sports awaken his interest and participation, and he also finds delight in recreation in books, of which he is very fond, many of his leisure hours being spent in reading. His taste, therefore, is somewhat literary, and yet he is also an alert, energetic business man who is making steady progress in his chosen field of labor.

JOSEPH HENRY SNOW.

Joseph Henry Snow, deceased, was numbered among the veterans of the Civil war, although but seventeen years of age at the time of his enlistment. In the latter years of his life he became a well known representative of gen- eral insurance in Cleveland, and the success which he won enabled him to spend his last days in honorable retirement from labor. He was a direct descendant of John White, who came to the Massachusetts Bay colony from England between the years 1630 and 1636. He was then a wealthy and prominent Englishman and in the new world became a large land and cattle owner. Born on the 7th of May, 1843, at Batchellerville, New York, Joseph Henry Snow was a son of Joseph Lysander and Fannie E. (Jones) Snow, of Batchellerville, New York. The father was a school teacher there and when his son Joseph was a lad of eleven years removed to Albany, New York, where for some time he filled a position in the comptroller's office.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 34

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