A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 45

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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demonstration of the fact that success is the outcome of clear judgment, exper- ience and unfaltering enterprise. He is a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce and is popular in the Union and Ottawa Shooting Clubs. He is a republican in his political views, a Unitarian in his religious faith.

On the Ist of March, 1865, Rollin Charles White wedded Miss Lizzie Sarah Warner, a daughter of Ebenezer and Olive G. (Coleman) Warner, of Hubbards- ton, Massachusetts. Mrs. White is active in the charities of her church, being especially interested in the work of the Dorcas Society. The only daughter is now Mrs. Fannie Baker, the wife of Walter C. Baker, president of the American Ball Bearing Company.

Fred Rollin White, the only son, was educated in the public schools, until he had completed the course in the Central high school, and afterward prepared for college at Phillips Exeter Academy and entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895, with the LL. B. degree. Returning to Cleveland he took up the management of his father's private interests and in 1897 became identified with the organization and financing of the Baker Motor Vehicle Company. In 1903 he entered into active relations with the business as vice president and general manager, and the success of this important commer- cial interest of Cleveland is largely attributable to his ready and correct solution of the business problems which are to be met in the conduct of every large and important enterprise. He is also identified with the American Ball Bearing Com- pany. Well known in club circles, Fred Rollin White is connected with the Union, Roadside, University, Country, Sugar Valley Hunt, Ottawa Shooting, Knowlwood Country and Cleveland Automible Clubs, and is likewise an affiliated member of the Automobile Club of New York. Further recreation is found in driving, motoring, golf, hunting and fishing, to which interests his leisure hours are devoted. He is a republican but without political ambition, preferring to con- centrate his energies upon the management of business interests, which are of growing importance and in the control of which he displays keen discernment and marked enterprise.

CHARLES H. CARLETON.

The lumber business is one of the most important industries of Cleveland and The Mills-Careleton Company is one of the oldest concerns of the kind in the city. Charles H. Carleton, its president, has been connected with it for more than a score of years, being a factor in making it what it is now-enterprising, progressive and firmly established financially. He was born in St. Clair, Michi- gan, September 18, 1859, a son of George W. and Emeline P. (Smith) Carleton. The father was born in North Granville, New York, but became one of the prom- inent lumbermen of Michigan, being the operator of a sawmill at St Clair. His wife, to whom he was married in that city in 1858, was a native of North Am- herst, Massachusetts. She is still living at St. Clair, well preserved and very active, despite her many years, but her husband died in July, 1904.

Charles H. Carleton was educated in the common and high schools of St. Clair, Michigan, and at the age of twenty-one became connected with the lumber business. First he entered the employ as bookkeeper of B. W. Jenks & Company, of Allegan, Michigan, with whom he remained five years, or until the firm went out of existence. Thereupon, in May, 1885, he came to Cleveland, becoming associated with N. Mills & Company as traveling salesman. He had held this position for only one year when two members of the concern severed their con- nections and Mr. Carleton was brought into the firm in 1886. In 1893 the name was changed to Mills-Carleton & Company, four years later uniting with Pack- Gray & Company when the business was incorporated as The Mills-Gray-Carle- ton Company, continuing under that designation until 1905, when it was again

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changed to its present title, the Gray interests having been secured by the other members of the firm. Nelson Mills remained its president until his death in 1906, whereupon Mr. Carleton succeeded to that office, Cleveland is one of the most important distributing points for lumber along the great lakes and the con- cern of which our subject is the head does an extensive business in that field, both wholesale and retail.

Mr. Carleton was married in January, 1889, to Miss Janet L. Morrison, of Wayne, Michigan. She is a daughter of Dr. Thomas Morrison, who was a sur- geon in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Carleton are the parents of three children : George M., who is nineteen years of age and engaged in the auto supply business in this city ; Margaret and Jean, who are pupils in the Hathaway-Brown school.

Mr. Carleton is independent in his political views and interested in, though not actively identified with, public affairs. He is president of the Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association and a member of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association of New York. He is also one of the underwriters of the Lumber Underwriters. His social diversion is obtained in the Euclid Club, of which he is a member.

WILLIAM EVANS BRUNER, M. D.

Dr. William Evans Bruner, a distinguished oculist of Cleveland, practicing in this city since 1894, was born in Columbia, 'Pennsylvania, January 8, 1866. His father, Abraham Bruner, was a lumber merchant, who resided in Columbia until his death in 1905. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah Jane Brene- man, has also passed away.

In his native city Dr. Bruner spent his youthful days and attended the public schools there, while for one year he was a student in Dickinson College at Car- lisle, Pennsylvania, and later attended the Western University at Middletown, Connecticut, being graduated therefrom in 1888 with the Bachelor of Arts de- gree, while three years later his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Mas- ter of Arts. Determining upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he became a student in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and completed the course in the medical department in 1891, winning his degree of M. D. His professional career has been characterized by continuous progress as his ability. has been developed through study and experience. He was interne in the Phila- delphia hospital from 1891 until 1893, thus putting his theoretical training to the practical test and gaining that broad, varied and valuable experience which hos- pital practice brings. He was private assistant to Dr. G. E. de Schweinitz in 1893 and during the same year became assistant in ophthalmology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

In the year 1894 Dr. Bruner removed to Cleveland and entered upon private practice, confining his attention exclusively to the treatment of the eye. He has become widely known as an expert oculist, for his research, investigation and experience have carried him far beyond the average practitioner. He has been connected with the Western Reserve University since locating in Cleveland, be- ing at first clinical assistant and now instructor in ophthalmology in the medical department of that institution. He is also ophthalmologist in charge of the Lake- side Hospital Dispensary, ophthalmologist to St. Vincent and Maternity hospit- als and formerly also to the Cleveland City Hospital. He is now oculist of the United States pension board and has been a frequent contributor to the medical journals, being now on the editorial staff of the Annals of Ophthalmology. The profession accords him high rank in the field of his specialty and by his fellow practitioners he has been called to various official positions in their different or- ganizations. In 1904 he was vice president of the Cleveland Academy of Medi- cine, was treasurer of the Cleveland Medical Library Association from 1907 un-

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til 1909, chairman of the eye, ear, nose and throat section of the Ohio State Med- ical Association in 1907 and 1908 and is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cleveland Academy of Medi- cine, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, the American Ophthalmologi- cal Society and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology.

On the 18th of February, 1897, Dr. Bruner was married in Columbia, Penn- sylvania, to Lydia S. Clark, a daughter of William Clark, of that city, and they had one son, William Evans, Jr., who was born in 1901 and died in 1903. In his political views Dr. Bruner is a republican but does not feel himself bound by party ties and votes independently if his judgment sanctions such a course. He holds membership relations with the Phi Beta Kappa, the Alpha Delta Phi and the Nu Sigma Nu; also with the University, Union and Euclid Clubs and the Chamber of Commerce. He holds membership in the Epworth Memorial Meth- odist Episcopal church, in which he is serving as steward and he takes an active interest in matters of general progress and in charitable work, serving as a mem- ber of the executive committee of the Society for the Adult Blind and one of the advisory committee of the Ohio State Medical Society for the Commission for the Blind. Connected with a profession, the tendency of which is to awaken keenest sympathy, Dr. Bruner stands as a high type of the medical fraternity, his broad humanitarianism as well as his comprehensive knowledge constituting an important force in his life work. By nature retiring and studious, he finds his chief recreation in his library. .

HENRY CHISHOLM OSBORN.

This is preeminently the age of invention and America has been the foremost representative of the spirit of the age. Men of keen discernment, marked en- terprise and mechanical ingenuity have not only met the needs of the world in perfected machinery and labor-saving devices but have anticipated the needs and have been ready at the moment to supply the demands of the hour. One is led to this train of reflection in investigating the enterprise with which Henry Chisholm Osborn is connected and which is conducted under the name of the American Multigraph Company. As its president he is bending his efforts to effective control and his executive ability and administrative powers are consti- tuting a most potent element in the successful management of this concern.

A native of Cleveland, Mr. Osborn was born May 10, 1878, and is a son of Alanson T. and Katherine (Chisholm) Osborn. The latter was a daughter of Henry and Jean (Allen) Chisholm, who are mentioned elsewhere in this volume as are Mr. and Mrs. Alanson T. Osborn. The public schools and University of Cleveland afforded Henry C. Osborn his preliminary educational privileges and later he attended the Case School of Applied Science, where he pursued a special course in mechanical engineering. Leaving college he became connected with the Amstutz-Osborn Company, later the Osborn-Morgan Company, and soon be- came actively interested in developing and perfecting the Gammeter multigraph. At length the business of the Osborn-Morgan Company was taken over by a new company-the American Multigraph Company, of which Mr. Osborn was chosen president. The manufacture of the multigraph was begun. This remarkable and ingenious device, a multiple typewriting and office printing-press, met with instantaneous approval and acceptance on the part of the commercial world, with the result that the growth of the business has been little less than phenom- enal. It is today one of the city's most important manufacturing industries, the trade having reached mammouth proportions. The company maintains sales de- partments in over sixty of the largest cities of the United States, Canada and Europe and employs over three hundred expert workmen in its manufacturing plant, which is one of the most important and complete in the country. There

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are at present nearly ten thousand of the machines in use, shipments having been made to every part of the civilized world. In March, 1909, the American Multigraph Company took over the business of the Universal Folding Machine Company, which is now owned and conducted by the former corporation. The remarkable success which has attended the Multigraph Company is in large part due to the skill, business energy and keen insight of the president. He has devel- oped the enterprise along modern business lines, employing judicious advertis- ing to place the product on the market and, having an article of practical value, which is manufactured along lines of thoroughness, a ready sale has been secured.

On the 25th of April, 1905, Mr. Osborn was married to Miss Marion De- Wolf, a native of Escanaba, Michigan, and a daughter of Dr. James Horace and Marion (DeWolf) Tracy. Mrs. Osborn was educated at Miss Peebles' school of New York city and is greatly interested in the various charities of her church and is secretary of the Sunbeam circle. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn are prominent socially, their home at No. IIIOI Magnolia Drive being the scene of many attractive social functions, as is their country place Nottingham on Lake Shore boulevard. Mr. Osborn holds membership in the Euclid Avenue Baptist church, and belongs to the Union, Mayfield and Country Clubs and finds recreation in tennis, golf and fishing. He was also one of Cleveland's early motorists and he takes delight also in the best literature and works of art. Progressive in his citi- zenship and at all times public-spirited, his cooperation in matters of municipal progress is largely through the activities of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a member. His political allegiance is given to the republican party but the extent of his business would preclude active service in political office even had he ambition in that direction. He prefers, however, to concentrate his energies upon other interests and is a splendid type of the American business man, who is alert, energetic and successful, and yet finds time and opportunity for participa- tion in other interests of life.

GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG GARRETSON.

The name of General George Armstrong Garretson is widely known in con- nection with the military history of the country and also as the president of the Bank of Commerce, National Association. Enlisting when but eighteen years of age for service in the Civil war, he afterward attended West Point, did military service where assigned for duty, was later associated with the national guard and at the time of the Spanish-American war was among the first to offer his aid to the country, taking part in the Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns. He is a man of fine military bearing, enjoying at all times the respect of his fellow officers and honored and esteemed by his subordinates. He was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, January 30, 1844. In the paternal line he comes of Dutch ancestry, the first of the name in America sailing from Holland in 1670 and settling in New Jersey. They became Quakers and were prominent in that society.

Hiram Garretson, the father, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1817, and died May 7, 1876. He was the son of George and Anne (Griffith) Garret- son, who came to Ohio in 1820, settling at New Lisbon, Columbiana county, where the former entered the field of merchandising. Hiram Garretson, after receiving a common-school education, entered his father's store as clerk. At the age of nineteen he took charge of a trading boat on the Ohio river, making sev- eral trips between Pittsburg and New Orleans. Returning to New Lisbon he established the business which he conducted until 1851, when he came to Cleve- land and engaged with Leonard and Robert Hanna in the wholesale grocery bus- iness, under the firm name of Hanna, Garretson & Company. The business was successfully conducted until 1862, when the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Garret-

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son immediately organized the firm of H. Garretson & Company for the transac- tion of a Lake Superior forwarding and commission business, building a line of steamers for the trade and at the same time securing the agency for most of the Boston and New England mining companies located on Lake Superior. As their representative he purchased their supplies and transported their products from the mines to the eastern markets. In 1866 ill health compelled him to relinquish this important business, and he turned his attention to banking, in association with J. H. Wade, Amasa Stone, George B. Ely and Stillman Witt. He thus organized the Cleveland Banking Company, of which he was elected president and manager, the bank opening for business February 1, 1868. Two years later this institution was merged with the Second National Bank, and he was elected cashier. In 1873 ill health compelled his temporary retirement from active bus- iness, and he went to Europe under appointment of President Grant as commis- sioner to the Vienna exposition. The American department of the exposition was in bad condition, reflecting discredit upon the United States government, when the commissioner was removed and Mr. Garretson took his place. He brought order out of chaos, and so highly was his work esteemed that the em- peror of Austria decorated him with the imperial order of St. Francis Joseph. Upon his return to Cleveland he was elected president of the Second National Bank. He also served as director of the Citizens Savings & Loan Association. During his long business career he was a conspicuous member of the remarkable coterie of strong and influential men who had much to do with laying the founda- tion for Cleveland's commercial greatness.

Hiram Garretson married Miss Margaret King Armstrong, a lady of Scotch- Irish parentage and a daughter of General John and Isabella (McKaig) Arm- strong. General Armstrong was one of the early settlers of Columbiana county, having come from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1804. The family were of Scotch descent, representatives of the name coming from Scotland in the seventeenth century, when settlement was made in Pennsylvania. Seven members served with distinction in the Revolutionary war, and others saw service in the war of 1812 and the Mexican war of 1846. Mrs. Margaret King (Armstrong) Garret- son had three children, of whom General Garretson is the only survivor. The mother died May 16, 1852, and on the 8th of September, 1856, Hiram Garretson married Mrs. Ellen M. (Howe) Abbott of Springfield, Massachusetts. Of their three children Ellen G. became the wife of J. H. Wade.

General Garretson attended the public schools and later a private academy at Cornwall on the Hudson, New York, thus pursuing his studies until after the outbreak of the Civil war. Returning to Cleveland he enlisted on the 26th of May, 1862, when but eighteen years of age, in the Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a member of Company E. He was mustered in at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, and served in Maryland and West Virginia until September of the same year. About that time a vacancy occurring in the United States Mili- tary Academy at West Point, he was tendered a cadetship by the Hon. A. G. Riddle, member of congress, which he accepted. He entered West Point June 20, 1863, and was graduated on the 17th of June, 1867. On the same day he was appointed second lieutenant of the Fourth United States Artillery and served at various posts in 1867 and 1868. The following year he was appointed signal officer on the staff of General John Pope, commanding the department of the lakes at Detroit, Michigan. On account of slow promotion and inactivity, he decided to resign and enter commercial life, which he did on the Ist of January, 1870.

Returning to Cleveland General Garretson began with the Second National Bank in the capacity of clerk. Earning rapid promotion he became successively assistant cashier, cashier, and when the National Bank of Commerce succeeded the Second National Bank General Garretson became its cashier, vice president and president, and also succeeded to the presidency of its successor, the Bank of Commerce, National Association. For almost four decades he figured as one

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of the notable representatives of financial interests of Cleveland, doing much to uphold the financial status of the city and at all times maintaining the highest standards in connection with the interests of the different institutions with which he has been associated. He is also the vice president of the Guardian Savings & Trust Company, director of Citizens Savings & Trust Company, and is financi- ally and commercially interested in many important corporations which have direct and extensive bearing upon the commercial, industrial and financial activ- ity of the city. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Great Lakes Towing Company, a director of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company and of the Cleveland Stone Company. He is likewise a trustee of the Lakeside Hospital, of the Children's Fresh Air Camp and is interested in these and many other, charities, which are directly helpful to the community at large.

General Garretson was among the first to volunteer his services in the Span- ish-American war and was commissioned by the president brigadier general of volunteers and commanded the brigade at the Porto Rican invasion, which made the first landing under General Nelson A. Miles. The following is a record of his services :

"Prior to the war with Spain, enlisted as a private in Company E, Eighty- fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, May 26, 1862, and served in the Civil war. in Western Virginia and Maryland until honorably discharged, September 20, 1862. Was appointed cadet at the United States Military Academy, West Point, July I, 1863; served four years; graduated June 17, 1867; was appointed second lieutenant, Fourth Artillery, United States Army, and served until January 1, 1870; resigned. Aid-de-camp, with rank of colonel, to Hon. Charles Foster, governor of Ohio, 1880-1884; captain, First Cleveland Troop (Troop A, Ohio National Guard), from September 12, 1887, to January 1, 1892; resigned.

"In the war with Spain was appointed brigadier general, United States Vol- unteers, May 27, 1898; assigned to command of Second Brigade, First Division, Second Army Corp (composed of the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the Sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry), June 5, 1898, at Camp Alger, Virginia. Left Camp Alger with brigade, July 5, 1898, to reinforce General Shafter at Santiago, Cuba. Sailed from Charleston, South Carolina, with two regiments (one regiment of brigade sailing from New York), July 8, 1898, and landed at Siboney, Cuba, July 11, 1898. Took part in the demonstrations against the Spanish works at entrance to Santiago Harbor before the surrender. After the capitulation of Santiago, joined General Miles' expedition to Porto Rico. Landed at Guanica, Porto Rico, with two regiments of brigade (Sixth Massachusetts and Sixth Illinois), July 25, 1898,-the first United States troops landed on the island. Was in command of United States troops (seven companies of Sixth Massachusetts Infantry and one company of the Sixth Illinois Infantry) in action with Spanish forces, between Guanica and Yauco, Porto Rico, July 26, 1898, in which action the enemy were driven back and evacuated the city of Yauco, leaving the terminal of the railway to Ponce in our hands and causing the surrender of the city of Ponce, two days later. Was recommended by Lieutenant General Miles and Major General Guy V. Henry, United States Army, to be brevet major general of volunteers for gallantry in this action. Participated in the Porto Rican campaign until the signing of the Peace Protocol, marching with brigade as far north as the city of Utuado. After the cessation of hostilities was relieved from duty in Porto Rico. Was honorably discharged November 30, 1898. Was again recommended to be brevet major general of volunteers for gallantry in the action at Guanica by board of regular army officers specially constituted to inquire into the recommendations made by various commanding officers for brevets and medals of honor during the war with Spain."

General Garretson is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, also of the Spanish War Veterans, the Society of the Porto Rican Invasion, the Military Order of Foreign Wars and the Naval and Military

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Order of Spanish-American War. In more specifically social lines he is con- nected with the Union, Country, Roadside, Euclid and University Clubs of Cleve- land and the University Club of New York.

On the 21st of September, 1870, General Garretson was married to Miss Anna Scowden, who died in 1886. In 1888 he wedded Emma R. Ely, a daughter of Hon. George H. and Amelia R. Ely. Their children are Margaret, George and Hiram, who are with them in an attractive home at 3716 Euclid avenue. General Garretson devotes his leisure hours, aside from those which he spends most happily at his fireside, in motoring and golf. As an active head of one of Cleveland's leading banks, he may properly be placed among the most prominent financiers of the country. He is a leading figure in the business and public affairs of the metropolis of Ohio and has demonstrated his ability by making the com- pany of which he is the president one of the most stable financial institutions of the state. In military circles he has also won high honors and may well be proud of the title to which he has attained, yet he wears his honors with becoming modesty.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 45

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