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HALBERT D. SMITH
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world, together with a partial preparation, led him to the determination to make the practice of law his life work, and in 1891 he resumed the study of law and completed a course in the Cincinnati Law School, winning the Bachelor of Law degree. The same year he was admitted to the bar and at once began practice in Cleveland. He remained alone for a short time and then joined George S. Adams, now judge of the juvenile court of this county ; with whom he was asso- ciated for a few years under the firm style of Smith & Adams. In the year 1896 he entered into partnership with Judge Edwin T. Hamilton and his son Walter J. Hamilton under the firm style of Hamilton, Hamilton & Smith. Since the death of the senior partner the firm continues as Hamilton & Smith and is engaged in general practice.
Mr. Smith was married on the 23d of September, 1896, to Miss Sarah Jane Wilson, a daughter of Hiram and Sarah Jane Murray Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one child, Wilson Woodbury, born October 25, 1900. Mr. Smith gives his political support to the republican party when called upon to exercise his right of franchise, but otherwise is not active in politics. His citizenship, his professional service and private life alike entitle him to the respect and good will which are entertained for him by those with whom he has been brought in contact.
GOTTLIEB J. MAURER.
Gottlieb J. Maurer, the sole Cleveland agent of the Almanaris Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin, has been successfully engaged in the sale of mineral and spring waters at No. 2085 West Twenty-fifth street for the past nineteen years, and is likewise a prominent representative of financial interests as the treasurer and one of the directors of the Cleveland West Side Bauverein Company. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 25th of May, 1853, a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Maurer. He attended the public schools of his native land until six- teen years of age and then secured a position as waiter in a fine hotel at Geneva, being thus engaged during the summer months, while in the winter seasons he
was employed in the southern part of France. In the year 1875 he went to Lon- don, England, where he was employed as waiter in a hotel for two years, on the expiration of which period he returned to Switzerland and again accepted a posi- tion as waiter. In this capacity he has served several famous and world re- nowned people, including General Grant and the Prince of Wales. He remained in Switzerland until 1880 and then crossed the Atlantic to the United States, being employed as a waiter in a New York hotel for a year and a half.
At the end of that time Mr. Maurer came to Cleveland and started out in business life on his own account as proprietor of a restaurant, conducting an establishment of this character on the south side for five years. He then pur- chased property at No. 2085 West Twenty-fifth street, where he has since been engaged in the sale of mineral water, being the sole Cleveland agent of the Almanaris Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Almanaris is a natural mineral water, unexcelled for table use, and many of its constant users testify to the fact that it is the safest diuretic and purest water in the world. Mr. Maurer is likewise the treasurer and one of the directors of the Cleveland West Side Bauverein Company, which has an authorized capital of two million dollars and assets amounting to more than four hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. In all of his business dealings he has shown good judgment and marked enterprise and has made his efforts count to the utmost, utilizing every opportunity to the best advantage.
In February, 1877, in Switzerland, Mr. Maurer wedded Miss Maria Beuhler, by whom he has four children, namely: Clara, at home; Arnold, twenty-six years of age, who is the collector for the Excelsior Brewing Company ; Emma,
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who is likewise under the parental roof; and Walter, a lad of fifteen, who is attending the public schools.
In his political views Mr. Maurer is a socialist and in religious faith is a Pro- testant. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Concordia and Pioneer Verein and is a director in the American Grigby Bond. His personal characteristics render him popular with many friends and he is most esteemed in social and business circles of Cleveland.
ISRAEL D. WAGAR.
From youth to old age a resident of Ohio, Israel D. Wagar, who started upon life's journey when the nineteenth century had completed but two decades, lived to witness the remarkable growth which was wrought in the interests of civiliza- tion as the white race established homes on the frontier and utilized the natural resources of the country in the development of business interests and enterprises.
He was born in what was then called Troy, but is now Avon, Lorain county, Ohio, February 21, 1820. Hardly had the pioneer homes of the white settlers begun to replace the Indian wigwams when the Wagar family was founded in this state. Mars Wagar, the father of our subject, was born in one of the primi- tive log homes that were first built in the dense forest near the shore of Lake Erie. He wedded Keturah Miller, and when their son Israel was less than a year old they removed to East Rockport, now Lakewood, where he spent the greater part of his life. During his youthful days he performed the strenuous task of aiding in clearing the land, cutting away the heavy timber, grubbing up the stumps, burning the brush and using the main part of the trees for wood. As this task was accomplished land was plowed and planted and converted into rich fields.
As opportunity offered Israel Wagar attended the district schools and after- ward pursued an academic course. Although his educational advantages were few, his natural love of learning and his retentive memory enabled him to ac- quire a knowledge seldom obtained by those who do not have the benefit of thorough instruction in the schools of higher grade. He was always interested in study and in time became a man of broad general information. He was still a young man when he was qualified for teaching, which profession he followed for several years, being a most thorough and interesting instructor with ability to hold the attention of his pupils while he imparted to them knowledge which left an ineffaceable stamp upon their minds. His father was a noted mathe- matician and linguist and his mother a lady of unusual intelligence and forti- tude, and thus the intellectual prowess of his parents was inherited by the son in an ardent love for knowledge. He was a great reader, and moreover took lively interest in the discussion of all the vital questions of the day.
On the Ist of January, 1843, Mr. Wagar was married to Miss Elizabeth Pyle, a daughter of Michael and Isabella Pyle. She was born in Wayne county, Ohio, September 7, 1822, and possessed many beautiful traits of character, an unselfish nature, a kindly, progressive spirit and a genial disposition which en- deared her to the entire community in which she lived.
After his marriage Mr. Wagar settled on the land on which he continued to make his home until called to his final rest. The fifty years which he de- voted to its cultivation transformed it from a forest tract to fertile fields, and in time it became a beautiful residential section of Cleveland. In his early years he gave his attention mostly to farming and fruit raising and later he also dealt quite extensively in real estate. His business judgment was sound, his discern- ment keen and his sagacity enabled him to make judicious purchases and profit- able sales.
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While thus conducting a successful business Mr. Wagar continued to reside at the old homestead, which is a spacious stone dwelling of pleasing architectural design. There he reared his family of eight children, five daughters and three sons : Lura M., the eldest, is now the widow of Dr. C. D. Ashley, of Meadville ; Adah I. is the widow of Rev. M. G. Browne, of Cleveland; John M., deceased, married Harriet Hotchkiss; Jessie A. is the wife of G. E. Loveland, living in Kansas; George E. is the next of the family ; Caroline D. is the wife of Dr. D. F. Baker, of Cleveland; Elizabeth is the widow of Dr. Goodell, of New York; and Charles A. is deceased.
Mr. Wager gave his political allegiance to the whig party, having been reared in that faith. He remained one of its stanch advocates until its dissolu- tion and in 1865 he joined the ranks of the democracy. He served most ac- ceptably as justice of the peace and his counsel and advice were frequently sought in matters of importance to the individual and to the community. He enjoyed public confidence and respect in an unusual degree. He was broad-minded and liberal in religious faith, believing that in the end all men will be saved; that the eternal purpose of the Almighty will never be thwarted or turned aside by his creatures; that "He is good to all and His tender mercies are over all his works;" that the human mind is so organized that it will yield to treatment and in the end the wicked by association, discipline and punishment under the guid- ance of the Divine wisdom will at length be saved. His charity was broad and words of harsh condemnation were seldom, if ever, heard from his lips.
In 1876 Mr. Wagar spent several months in travel abroad, visiting various points of scenic, modern and historic interest in Europe, and, possessing an ob- serving eye and retentive memory, this trip enabled him to store his mind with many interesting reminiscences. Throughout the greater part of his life he enjoyed good health and retained a mind strong and vigorous in his old age. His memory formed a connecting link between the primitive past and the pro- gressive present, for he lived to witness the wonderful changes that occurred from the time when this district was an almost unbroken wilderness until it became one of the rich and fertile tracts of the state, and in its midst stands a city whose population places it with the ten largest cities of the Union. In 1893 Mr. and Mrs. Wagar celebrated their golden wedding, on which occasion many relatives and friends were present. They were separated in death in 1902, when Mr. Wagar was called to his final home. Reviewing his past he ascribed his success to industry, contentment and a firm reliance on the Divine guidance, be- lieving that to each man is given the strength to perform the tasks which come to him. His life was beautiful and noble in its purposes and the memory which he left behind is one that is cherished by all who came into intimate association with him while he was yet an active factor in the world's work.
LA QUINIO RAWSON.
La Quinio Rawson, attorney at law of Cleveland, was born in Fremont, Ohio, October 28, 1871, and is of Puritan ancestry. His grandfather, Dr. La Quinio Rawson, came to Ohio from Massachusetts in 1826 and settled at Lower Sandusky, now Fremont. He took an active and prominent part in public af- fairs and was president of the Lake Erie & Louisville, now the Lake Erie & Western Railroad Company. Mr. Rawson's father, Joseph L. Rawson, was born in Fremont in 1835 and was a civil engineer by profession, but had other business interests, having been engaged for a number of years in the whole- sale grain trade. His death occurred in July, 1906, when he had reached the age of seventy-one years. His mother, Margaret Amelia Gelpin, a daughter of Judge Lyman Gelpin, was born near Bellevue, Ohio, in 1839 and died in Fre- mont in October, 1908. The military record of the family is a most creditable
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one. Joseph L. Rawson was in the government employ during and after the Civil war in connection with the revenue department. Dr. Milton Rawson, an uncle, was a surgeon in the Union Army. Another uncle, Eugene Allen Raw- son, while attending college in New York, put aside his text-books and, con- trary to his father's wishes, enlisted in the army. He was transferred to the Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was promoted several times and was killed in battle at Tupelo, Mississippi, while serving as major of his regiment. He was very young to hold that rank, his advancement coming to him in recog- nition of his bravery. Dr. Peter Beaugrand, a great uncle of La Quinio Raw- son in the paternal line, was an army surgeon in the Mexican and also the Civil war. He was born in August, 1814, and is still living in Fremont, hale and hearty, retaining all his faculties at the venerable age of ninety-five years.
After leaving the high schools of his native city, Mr. Rawson accepted a position in the county auditor's office, where he continued for a year. He then became an employe in the office of Gusdorf Brothers, pork packers of Fremont, with whom he remained for a year and a half, during which period he devoted his evening hours to the study of law. Afterward he studied in the office and under the direction of James H. Fowler, an attorney at law in Fremont, and going to Cincinnati, he successfully passed the examination that admitted him to the senior class of the Cincinnati Law School. He was graduated at the close of the year 1892 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws and entered upon active practice in Cleveland in the same year with the firm of Russell & Rice. After the dissolution of that firm he continued with its senior member, L. A. Russell, until 1900, after which he was alone for about one year, becoming the senior partner of the law firm of Rawson & Gentsch in 1901. This partner- ship was dissolved in October, 1909, Mr. Rawson assuming an active connec- tion with The Cleveland Life Insurance Company as its secretary and general counsel. He has given his attention largely to corporation law, making a spe- cialty of the law of insurance.
Mr. Rawson is a republican in politics and was elected to the general as- sembly of Ohio in 1903. While a member of the house he served as chairman of the insurance committee, during which period the insurance laws of the state were practically rewritten, a number of very important and beneficial changes being made. He was also a member of the finance committee and was recognized as one of the active working members of the house.
He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Tippecanoe Club, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Masons and several other fra- ternal organizations. He is also a communicant of the Episcopal church and these associations indicate much of the nature of his interests and the principles that guide him in life's relations. On the 26th day of December, 1895, he mar- ried Miss Beatrice Frances Floyd, of Cleveland, and they have one daughter, Beatrice Rawson.
DAVID MORROW.
Ere the first third of the nineteenth century had been brought to a close, David Morrow had become a resident of Cleveland. Of Scotch-Irish descent, he was a native of Belfast, Ireland, and there pursued his education. In the year 1832, he and his brother William started for the new world, accompanied by their sister and aged parents. They left Belfast on one of the old-time sailing vessels that plowed the Atlantic waters in those days. The journey was a long and tedious one, being dependent upon winds that were often variable, but at length the fam- ily arrived safely upon American shores. They did not tarry long in the east, however, but came to Cleveland, and for two years the family home was near what is now the city square. Cleveland, at that time, had but little business rating, being a small village of about seventeen hundred inhabitants.
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In 1834 David and William Morrow purchased sixty-two acres of land, then heavily timbered with the native forest trees, on what is now known as Eddy Road, and there the family removed. Since that time this place has been the home of the Morrows in Cleveland. With characteristic energy, they began the development of the land, by clearing away the timber, and in course of time plowed and planted, so that good crops were ultimately harvested. As the years passed and the growth of the city extended its boundaries, this tract of land was no longer remote from the business center of Cleveland.
The aged father, whose name was also David Morrow, died in 1836, followed within a year by his wife, Rebecca. The brothers and the sister Abigail contin- ued to reside upon the old homestead until their demise. Abigail Morrow died about 1860.
On the 6th of October, 1863, David Morrow was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Shade, who was born in Germany and came to America in 1856. By their marriage there were three children, Abigail Rebecca, David William and Eliza Lillie. The two brothers continued the work of the farm together until the death of William Morrow, which occurred in 1872. Throughout the period of his residence in Cleveland, David Morrow was regarded as an active, honorable and upright man, whose life at all times was guided by his religious belief and principles. He was a Presbyterian and attended the East Cleveland Presbyterian church, to which the family belong. In all of his business affairs he was thor- oughly reliable and adhered closely to a high standard of commercial ethics. Mr. Morrow continued to engage in farming on the old homestead until his demise, which occurred December 19, 1879, at the age of eighty years. Mrs. Morrow, who is still living at the old home, yet owns eighteen acres of the original tract, while the remainder of the property has been sold for building purposes.
The son, David William Morrow, was born at the old home, October 3, 1866. He was graduated, in 1893, from the Case School of Applied Science, on the com- pletion of the civil engineering course and received the degree of Bachelor of Science. He has taken his place among the representative and progressive busi- ness men of the city, and his operations in the real-estate field have contributed to the substantial progress and upbuilding of Cleveland.
On June 28, 1905, he married Miss Jessamine Adams, whose grandfather came from Connecticut to Ohio in 1816 and settled in Brecksville. In his politi- cal views Mr. Morrow has always been an earnest republican, with firm faith in the principles of the party, and served for one term as a member of the village council of Glenville, taking a deep interest in all those affairs which are matters of civic pride and civic virtue. A Presbyterian in religious faith, he is active in the work of the church, and manifests a well directed energy in connection with every work which he undertakes. For seventy-seven years, the Morrow family has figured prominently in Cleveland, and the name is synonymous with progressive citizenship, enterprise and reliability in business, and close conformity to a high standard of commercial esthics.
WILLIAM HOPKINS TUTTLE.
Before the city of Cleveland had emerged from villagehood William H. Tut- tle became numbered among its residents. He was born in East Adam, Connect- icut, February 6, 1818, and the following year was brought to Cuyahoga county by his father, Jesse W. Tuttle, who settled in the country about five miles from Cleveland. There he built a log cabin in the midst of the forest and began clear- ing his farm, whereon he lived for the remainder of his life. He was long asso- ciated with agricultural interests and was one of the promoters of the country's development along that line.
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Reared under the parental roof, William H. Tuttle acquired his education in the common schools here and on attaining his majority started in business on his own account, becoming identified with ship-building interests. He was for twenty-five years engaged as patternmaker with the old Cuyahoga Furnace Com- pany, of which he remained a stockholder throughout the residue of his days. He was active in the management of the business for a considerable period but re- tired some years prior to his death. He thus figured prominently along mechan- ical lines in the city's business progress and lived to witness a remarkable change in the trade interests of Cleveland. He helped to set up the first engine and the first water-works plant of the city and was identified with other acts that con- stituted epochs in the history of Cleveland.
Indeed Mr. Tuttle was regarded as a very public-spirited man, withholding his aid and cooperation from no movement which he deemed of public benefit. He assisted in building St. John's church, of which he was a very active and helpful worker, doing all in his power to promote its growth and extend its in- fluence. He remained one of its worthy representatives until his death, which occurred in 1882 and his entire life was actuated by his Christian faith and belief.
Mr. Tuttle was married in Elyria, Ohio, to Miss Mary E. Pritchard, of Ohio, whose father came to this state when it was largely an unbroken wilderness. He made a home for himself in Cleveland and once owned fifty acres of timber land on what is now Detroit street. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle was born two daugh- ters : Mrs. Ella Weaver, who is yet a resident of Cleveland; and Permelia M. Peck, deceased. The former became the wife of Will P. Weaver, a son of Jabez Weaver, one of the pioneer lumbermen of this city, who for years was associated with the firm of House & Davis. He married Julia Gordon, the wedding being celebrated in Cleveland and unto them were born seven children: Curtis, Will P., Mrs. Climo, Mrs. MacCallum, Frank, Charles Homer and Charity L. The father died in October, 1906, and thus passed away one of the oldest pioneer set- tlers of the city, Mr. Weaver having been identified with its business interests from an early period in its development. He lived to witness remarkable changes here as did Mr. Tuttle, both bearing their part in the work of general improve- ment and progress and contributing to the material prosperity through their indi- vidual business interests.
CONRAD LUDWIG HOTZE.
Conrad Ludwig Hotze, attorney at law and imperial German consular agent of Cleveland, was born in Mayence on the Rhine, September 1, 1839. His father died when the son was but four years of age and by his mother's death he was left an orphan at the age of eleven years. He comes of a family of mixed German and Austrian strains. His eldest brother, Frederick Hotze, who was born May 6, 1833, was feld marschallieutenant, an office equivalent to that of major general, or the second highest position in the Austrian army. He died in 1900. Another brother, Peter Hotze, was one of the oldest citizens of Little Rock, Arkansas, where for many years he engaged in business as a cotton merchant but died there in April, 1909. He was a prominent resident there, well known and highly re- spected by all.
These three brothers constituted the family. Conrad L. Hotze was a young man of twenty-one years when he came to the United States, making his way to Little Rock, Arkansas. He had acquired his primary education at Innsbruck, in Tirol, and continued his studies in Germany and in Paris, France. He went to Little Rock on a visit to his brother, who had been a member of the state militia there and who with his company, went into the southern army at the time of the Civil war, thinking his military service would not cover more than ninety days. He begged Conrad L. Hotze, who wanted to return to Paris, to remain for the
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time being and take care of his property in Little Rock. The younger brother consented to do so and managed the interests of Peter Hotze until the southern congress passed a law compelling aliens to enter the Confederate army. Mr. Hotze, of this review, however, was a strong Union man and opposed to fighting for the Confederacy. He therefore left Little Rock as a fugitive from southern compulsion to military service, entering the lines of the Union army at Helena, Arkansas, after which he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became a teacher in the Hughes high school, which position he filled until a committee of the board of education of Cleveland arrived in Cincinnati and suggested that Mr. Hotze should go to the former city, which he did in 1867. For eleven years he was con- nected with the Central high school, teaching physics and chemistry. In 1871 he compiled and published two elementary text-books for teaching physics and phys- iology in the grammar grades of the public schools.
In the meantime he had devoted his leisure hours to the study of law and in June, 1878, was admitted to the bar of Ohio and also to practice in the United States courts, since which time he has been an active member of the legal pro- fession. He makes a specialty of life insurance law and the collection and regu- lation of foreign estates. Having been counsel for the imperial consulate at Cin- cinnati since 1882, the consulate deemed it advisable to make Mr. Hotze its agent in Cleveland and he was appointed to that position on the 4th of October, 1906, since which time he has ably served in that capacity. He is also counsel for the Austro-Hungarian consulate in Cleveland and has made a close study of law bear- ing upon international affairs. He has also conducted much interesting litigation in insurance and done much work in the settlement of foreign estates and is a man whose professional honor and integrity have never been called into question.
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