A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 43

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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ADAM FUHRMAN

CHARLES FUHRMAN

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sitting in a chair. He used to say the street cars were made for lazy people and healthy persons should walk, and such was the course of life which he marked out for himself and always followed. He was known as a reliable and enterprising bus- iness man and never had occasion to regret his determination to come to America, winning here a goodly measure of success which came as the merited reward of his labor. He was a communicant of St. Michael's church and his funeral ser- vices were held by Rev. J. M. Koudelka, pastor of that church. His widow, who survived him for some time, has since passed away in Cleveland. The family is an old and prominent one here, its members occupying a leading position in so- cial circles.

DEMALINE LEUTY.

Among the names around which centers the financial history of Cleveland is that of Demaline Leuty. The records show that he has long been closely, prom- inently and helpfully connected with banking interests and at the present writ- ing, he is one of the vice presidents of the Citizens Savings & Trust Company. The improvement of opportunities in the line of straightforward and honorable effort has led to his success. Born at Mayfield, Ohio, on the 9th of November, 1835, he is a son of Isaac and Mary (Demaline) Leuty, both of whom were natives of England. Immediately after their marriage they came to America, locating in Mayfield, Ohio, about 1830. The father conducted a general store at Gates Mill until 1847, when he removed to Lexington, Michigan. Both passed away at Port Hope, Michigan, where he had engaged in business in mer- cantile lines, in the lumber trade and in the operation of a sawmill. The son spent his boyhood in Mayfield to the age of twelve years and during that period was a pupil in the public schools, but when fourteen years of age he began work in his father's sawmill in Lexington, Michigan, giving his time to that labor and to work in his father's store until sixteen years of age. He next entered the em- ploy of the late John L. Woods, a lumberman who owned a general store at Lexington, in which Mr. Leuty continued for a year. He next became associ- ated with W. R. Stafford and C. Haywood, proprietors of a general store in Lexington, remaining there as an employe for four years and afterward as a partner until 1865 .. In the meantime the firm extended the scope of its activities, becoming extensively engaged in the lumber business. In 1865, however, Mr. Leuty withdrew from that business connection and came to Cleveland, where he established a lumberyard under the firm name of Stafford, Haywood & Leuty, continuing in the lumber business until 1878, when the firm was dissolved. A few months later Mr. Leuty became associated with H. R. Newcomb and his father, O. P. Newcomb, in the wholesale lumber business. This venture proved highly successful, and in the spring of 1883 they sold out and began the organi- zation of a banking business afterward known as the Savings & Trust Company. They made their start in a residence known as the Benedict home on the north side of Euclid avenue opposite Sheriff street. There the business was conducted for two years, but in the meantime the company bought land at the corner of Euclid and Hickox street and erected the building now occupied by the Union National Bank, into which they moved in May, 1885. At the time of the organ- ization of the company Mr. Leuty was made a vice president and, upon the re- tirement of C. G. King in 1893, he was elected president, in which position he continued until 1903, when, because of ill health, he resigned and spent some time in travel. At that time the Savings & Trust Company and the Citizens Savings & Trust Company consolidated, and Mr. Leuty was elected vice presi- dent and, though not officially supposed to perform any duties or take active part in the work, he has made his headquarters at the bank and is at his desk just as regularly during business hours as any employe. Now at the age of seventy-

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four years he still continues this practice, except during the coldest months, when he leaves the city and goes south in search of a warmer clime. He is still very active and well preserved, and, aside from his connection with the Citizens Savings & Trust Company as vice president, he is still a director and member of the finance committee or the executive board. He continues to work because it is the habit of his life and he does not enjoy idleness or sports. He was one of the trustees of the city sinking fund, a director in the Guaranty, Title & Trust Company, is interested in the Brown Hoisting & Conveying Company and is a stockholder in several of the national banks and trust companies in Cleveland.

In January, 1868, at Lynn, Massachusetts, Mr. Leuty was married to Miss Sarah Frances Vennard, who died March 7, 1901. Their only child died in in- fancy. For twenty years Mr. Leuty has made his home at No. 3900 Prospect avenue. He has long given stalwart support to the republican party and for years has attended St. Paul's Episcopal church. He has attained the Knight Templar degree in Masonry and is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, while his membership relations also extend to the Chamber of Commerce and the Union and Roadside Clubs. He is a most courteous gentleman of the old school, whose genuine worth has gained him the high place which he holds in the regard of his fellow citizens.

SAMUEL EDISON PUTNAM.

Cleveland has drawn a notable number of her enterprising business men from Canada-young men who have come across the border to enjoy the better business opportunities of the United States, where competition is greater, but where success is more quickly secured. Samuel Edison Putnam arrived in Ohio in 1880, being then a young man of twenty-one years. He was born in Vienna, Canada, May 2, 1859, his parents being Mulford M. and Elizabeth J. (Edison) Putnam. The father, a native of Penn Yan, Yates county, New York, was born in 1814 and died in 1891. His wife was a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Yokum) Edison.

In the public schools of his native city Samuel E. Putnam pursued his educa- tion until such time as he engaged with his father in the lumber business. They were together associated in that undertaking until the son reached the age of twenty-one years and then sought the freedom and appreciation of the rapidly developing middle west. In 1880 he came to Ohio, settling at Lorain, where he engaged with his uncle, S. O. Edison, in the lumber business, there remaining for four years. He then sought the still broader opportunities offered by Ohio's metropolis and came to Cleveland, where he was engaged in the wholesale gro- cery business for four years. He then returned to the lumber trade, becoming traveling representative for Haywood & Company, with whom he continued for four years, after which he accepted a similar position with Fisher, Wilson & Company. He continued somewhat in the same line when he entered the ser- vice of the Cleveland Sawmill Company. Later he became a member of the J. M. Hastings Luniber Company, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and continued in connection therewith until ill health compelled him to abandon his labors for a short period. Returning to Cleveland with health improved he then joined Hunter Savidge in organizing the firm of Putnam & Savidge, since which time he has been actively engaged in conducting an extensive wholesale business in hardwood and building material. His long identification with the lumber trade has brought him knowledge that is now of good value to him in the conduct of his own enterprises. He has become an excellent judge of lumber, keeps informed concerning all phases of the trade and is thus able to give to his patrons that which they demand. The business is enjoying a healthful growth, and while the methods of the firm are progressive they are tempered by sound judg-

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ment on the part of Mr. Putnam and his associate, Mr. Savidge, both of whom are practical, thoroughgoing and systematic business men.

On the 20th of May, 1893, Mr. Putnam was married to Miss Gusta Engel, a daughter of William Engel, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and they have one child, Harwood E., who is with them at their home at No. 1494 Grace avenue in Lakewood. Mr. Putnam enjoys fishing and hunting, to which he devotes many of his leisure hours. He belongs to the Lumbermen's Club, votes the national republican ticket and gives generous support to the Episcopal church, which he attends. The salient features of his life are such as are re- garded as vital elements in that type of manhood which in every land and clime awakens respect and admiration.

EDWARD Y. MOORE.

Ambitious to advance in his chosen field of labor, Edward Y. Moore has con- tributed largely to the success of the Chisholm & Moore Manufacturing Company, who have reached the top in their line as the most extensive manufacturers of portable hoisting machines in Cleveland. He was born on Long Island, New York, September 17, 1847. His ancestry is distinctively American in its direct and collateral lines, since John Moore became the founder of the family in America. He landed at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1640 and in 1670 removed thence to Long Island, where he erected the dwelling in which Edward Y. Moore was born. The old house is still standing, one of the most ancient of the landmarks of that local- ity. His descendants for seven generations lived in this house and were promi- nent and wealthy land owners of that district. A number of the family were active as soldiers of the Revolutionary war. Samuel H. Moore, the father of Edward Y. Moore, was born on Long Island, May 29, 1822, and was a son of John and Martha (Manwaring) Moore.

Edward Y. Moore pursued his education in the public schools of New York city and in the Flushing Institute, Long Island, and put aside his text-books in order to enter the commission business in New York city, with which he was connected for nine or ten years. In 1873 he removed to Chicago, where for fif- teen years he was engaged in the iron business. Later he became connected with manufacturing interests in Milwaukee, where he operated for ten years, and in 1897 he came to Cleveland, where he organized the Chisholm & Moore Manufac- turing Company, manufacturers of hoisting apparatus and malleable iron cast- ings. They have a plant thoroughly equipped with modern machinery, and the reliability of the products of the house secure a ready market and good prices. On the organization of the company Mr. Moore was chosen its vice president and has held that position continuously since. They are now one of the two or three most extensive manufacturers of portable hoisting machines in America. They manufacture under patents, which are inventions of Mr. Moore, who possesses not only the executive ability that enables him wisely to direct the interests of the company, but also marked mechanical ingenuity, whereby the success of the house has been materially advanced.

On the 16th of December, 1880, Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Jane Forsyth Armistead, a daughter of George and Jane (Forsyth) Armistead, of Florence, Alabama, the father being a wealthy planter of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have become parents of three children: Samuel H., vice president of the Republic Belting Company ; Janet A., the wife of Howard S. Williams, president of the Man-Sherwood Supply Company ; and Margaret E., who is with her parents in their home at No. 1896 East Eighty-fourth street. Mr. Moore is interested in fishing and bridge whist, when leisure gives him opportunity for the enjoyment of those interests. He belongs to St. Paul's Episcopal church and votes with the republican party at elections where national issues are involved.

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Otherwise his ballot is cast regardless of party ties in the interests of good citi- zenship and municipal honor and integrity. He belongs to the Chamber of Com- merce and manifests a public-spirited devotion to the general welfare. In more strictly social lines he is connected with the Union, Euclid and Mayfield Country Clubs.

EDGAR EUGENE STRONG.

Edgar E. Strong, president of the Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Company, is one of the best known men in the supply and machine tool line in this country. He represents one of the old American families, his ancestors having come from England in 1636 and settled in Northampton, Massachusetts. They were among the founders of that town and prominent in the affairs of the Massachusetts colony. Caleb Strong was governor of Massachusetts for twelve years, filling the position for five successive terms of one year each, and later for seven con- secutive years, when he refused to accept the office again. He was also first United States senator from Massachusetts and took an active part in that state's acceptance of the Declaration of Independence. New England was the home of the family for eight generations.

Mr. Strong was born in Manchester, Connecticut, in 1841. He was gradu- ated from the Providence Conference Seminary, a boarding school at East Green- wich, Rhode Island, and also from the Manchester Academy. It was his wish to become a surgeon but the Civil war shaped another course. In response to further call for troops, in August, 1862, Mr. Strong was enlisted in the Union Army,-a private of Company H, Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He saw active service with the Army of the Potomac under Generals Mcclellan, Burnsides and Hooker. He was honorably discharged in July, 1865, at Wash- ington, D. C., with the rank of first lieutenant.

In August of the same year, Mr. Strong came to Cleveland for a temporary visit but being offered a situation with William Bingham & Company accepted it. He was made manage later of their retail department. He continued in this posi- tion for six years, when he was given the management of the wholesale depart- ment. In 1883 Mr. Strong felt the necessity of out-door employment and with M. G. Browne established the lumber firm of Browne, Strong & Company. The yards of this firm, located on the flats, were destroyed in one of the worst fires the city has ever known. This fire left Mr. Strong with nothing but a family and the necessity to begin again. He at once reentered the employ of William Bingham & Company, continuing there until March 1, 1887, when the partner- ship was formed of Strong, Carlisle & Turney. This partnership agreement was terminated February 1, 1893, when with no change in the personnel, the business was incorporated as The Strong, Carlisle & Turney Company. Later Mr. Tur- ney retired and in 1898 the corporation became The Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Company, which today operates one of the most extensive business concerns in Cleveland and occupies a foremost position in the supply and machine tool trade. At the organization of the original partnership the three partners managed the business and did all the work, having a small store at 82 Water street. They re- mained there two years, when increasing trade necessitated removal. For nine succeeding years they were situated near the corner of Bank and Frankfort streets, from where they removed to their present location 326 to 344 Frankfort avenue. The development of the business is indicated by the fact that at the present time the firm employs one hundred and fifty men and women, with twenty-five travel- ing salesmen, who represent the company in the United States and Canada. Mr. Strong has been president of the company since its organization and is also pres- ident of the Clark Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of steam specialties. He was chosen president of the National Supply and Machinery Dealers' Associa-

E. E. STRONG

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tion, serving for the first two years after its organization in 1905, since which time he has been a member of the advisory board.

In 1869 Mr. Strong was married to Miss Mary Ella Clarke, of Cleveland, a daughter of Aaron Clarke of this city. They had four children: Clinton Eu- gene, the eldest, was drowned at the age of twenty-two, while a senior in Cornell University. Herbert William, the second, is a graduate of Cornell Uni- versity, class of 1894. He has been associated with his father in business since graduation and since 1897 has been secretary of the Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Company. He married Miss Gladys Mosher, daughter of Dr. George C. Mosher, of Kansas City. Edith, the elder daughter, died in childhood. Elizabeth, the second daughter, is a graduate of Smith College. In 1906 she married Warren Sherman Hayden, senior partner of the bond house of Hayden, Miller & Com- pany of Cleveland. They have one son, Sherman Strong Hayden. Mr. Strong is a veteran member of Tyrian Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and of Cleveland Chapter, R. A. M. He is also a member of Memorial Post, G. A. R., and the Ohio Com- mandery of the Loyal Legion.

LEIGH K. BAKER, A. M., M. D.

Recognizing fully the possibilities for attainment, Dr. Leigh K. Baker in all of his professional service has been actuated by laudable ambition to reach a high place in his profession, not only that his services shall be remunerative. but that they shall be of signal benefit to his fellowmen. His services in behalf of school hygiene have been of the most important character, the benefits of which are immeasurable. He is now winning growing fame as an oculist, having studied largely along this line, his research, scientific investigation and exper- ience bringing him knowledge and skill. He was born on Prospect street, oppo- site Cheshire, in Cleveland, October 12, 1862. The Baker family is of Scotch- German lineage, the original American ancestor being Heinrich Baker, who came over from Esen, Germany. The paternal great-grandfather was Heinrich Baker, a cousin of Albert Krupp, of Germany, the gun manufacturer whose fame has spread throughout the world. Henrich Baker came to America to avoid service, through draft, in Napoleon's army. Henry Baker, father of Dr. Baker, was a native of Kingston, Canada, and removed thence to Cleveland, where in 1836 he engaged in merchandising. In 1849, attracted by the discov- ery of gold on the Pacific coast, he made his way overland to California, after which he returned to Cleveland, while some years later he removed to Missouri, at the close of the war in 1865. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary A. Knowlton, was a native of Utica, Ohio, and died in 1901. She was of French-English lineage, the family being established in Glastonbury, Connecti- cut, at an early day. Her father was a resident of Holyoke, Massachusetts, and one of the early settlers in Ohio.

Dr. Baker pursued his early education in the public schools of Chillicothe, Missouri, and afterward attended Wooster University, at Wooster, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1887 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Attracted by a professional life he determined to enter upon the practice of medicine and to this end became a student in the Western Reserve University Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1890, winning his degree at that time. He afterward spent two years as medical and physical director of the Young Men's Christian Association, having previously had one year's experience in that line of work. Resigning his position in 1892, he removed in the fall of that year to Washington, Pennsylvania, where he supervised the completion of the college gymnasium, of which he was medical and physical director until January, 1896, at the same time engaging in the private practice of medicine. During 1895

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after correspondence and conference with L. H. Jones, superintendent of the Cleveland public schools, Dr. Baker returned to Cleveland to undertake the cre- ation of a department of school hygiene within the Cleveland schools in Janu- ary, 1896. During the first six years of his connection with the schools he supervised and taught not only those phases of school hygiene grouped under the term physical education but gradually introduced other school-hygiene features until, two years before its recognition by the board of education in 1901, there was in point of fact a department of school hygiene in operation within the schools. When the board of education officially recognized this new department at the close of the school year of 1900, assistants were added, and during the succeeding three years its supervision was extended and enlarged.

During his service with the schools Dr. Baker was not only an adviser and supervisor but an incessant teacher of teachers and of pupils in the schoolrooms throughout the city, daily teaching and examining pupils in all of the school buildings. He not only completed the introduction of the Swedish system of educational gymnastics but revised the course in physiology and hygiene and taught these subjects to the pupils as well as supervising the work of the teach- ers in methods of instruction.

Dr. Baker organized the Teachers' Physical Education Association and was president of this and of the Cleveland Society of the American Physical Educa- tion Association and thus the recognized leader in the movement for better school sanitation in Cleveland during the decade from 1895 to 1905. Through these and other civic organizations he agitated ceaselessly for more liberal financial assistance for the schools and for legislation in restraint of the grosser forms of neglect of sanitation, constantly endeavoring to educate the teaching force, the board of education and the general public to accept the higher ideals of school hygiene. Since his work was advisory rather than executive, the progress was slow, but results were accomplished as shown by the fact that during this decade several millions of dollars were spent in the erection of new schoolhouses, the number of buildings and rooms were more than doubled and the estimated value of the school property at its close was about three times as great as at its begin- ning. It was during this decade that the interest of the social settlements, the Young Men's Christian Association, the medical societies, the Chamber of Com- merce and other organizations was greatly increased in all matters of school san- itation, and the daily papers were full of discussions along these lines, reflecting the increase of public interest in such matters. The movements for larger play- grounds, well lighted, heated and ventilated schoolrooms, the abolition of base- ment and relief building schoolrooms, athletics and gymnastics in the parks and medical inspection of school children were all introduced and popularized as part of the work of the school-hygiene department.

Numerous blanks for use in recording and reporting various school-hygiene matters were formulated and printed and extensively used, and a very complete system of supervision of school hygiene was perfected. After teaching and supervising physical training and school hygiene from 1886 to 1904 Dr. Baker re- tired from the teaching profession to become an oculist. Of these years six were spent in college work, three in the service of the Young Men's Christian Association and nine in the service of the public schools.

During the last five years of his connection with the schools, finding defects of vision and eye diseases the most extensive and detrimental of all school diseases, Dr. Baker undertook to some extent the medical examination of these cases. thus introducing to a limited extent medical inspection of schools. During this period he personally examined with the ophthalmoscope, at the various school buildings, over seven thousand pupils reported by teachers as having defects of sight or hearing. Subsequently, for the boards of education for East Cleveland and Lakewood, he examined the eyes and ears of over three thousand school children, thus completing a record of over ten thousand ophthalmoscopic exam- inations of the eyes of school children.

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The following publications by Dr. Baker are characteristic of his liter- ary work, showing as they do, that while he was interested in a wide range of subjects, his life has been devoted largely to the interests of preventive medicine : Value of Psychology to Teachers, Scientific Man Measuring, Place and Power of the Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium, Anthropometric Chart, A New Game-Basket Ball, Athletic and Gymnastic Charts, Annual Reports of Physical Department of W. & J. College, Teachers' Manual of Physical Education, Hygiene of the Eyes, Med- ical Supervision of Schools, Syllabus of Lectures on School Sanitation, School Hygiene in the Cleveland Schools, Comments on Eye Testing in the Cleveland Public Schools, Essential Requirements of a Sanitary School Building, Cleveland Public School Course in Physical Training, Physiology and Hygiene, State San- itary Legislation Affecting Schools, Relation of the Medical Profession to Public Education, The Health School, Construction and Sanitary Regulation of School Buildings, Shot Gun versus Rifle Practice, Indoor Playgrounds for Winter, Re- fraction and Eye Strain in the Case of Two Hundred and Six Second Grade School Children, Waste of Time Incident to Defective Vision, Defective Vision and Several of Its Effects, Practical Suggestions for Testing Vision and Hearing, Examination of the Eyes of Five Hundred and Thirty-eight School Children, Notes on Examination of the Eyes of Ten Hundred and Forty-Eight East Cleve- land School Children, Ocular Conditions among Village Children, Notes on the Examination of the Eyes of Thirty Hundred and Ninety-eight Village School Children, Consulting School Sanitarians, Extent and Varieties of Refraction (Eye Glass) Cases, etc., etc.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 43

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