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away May 15, 1909, the funeral services being conducted by the Cleveland Grays, of which he was long an honored member. He was a man of sterling and forceful personality. His mental vision was keen and he readily recognized the possibilities of any situation whether of a political or commercial character. Moreover, his position was never an equivocal one, for he stood as the stalwart champion of whatever he believed to be right. In his business career he made steady progress, but was no less esteemed for the traits he displayed in the rela- tions of social life and of citizenship.
HENRY L. CROSS.
Among those who are bound to Cleveland by long association is numbered Henry L. Cross, who though still financially identified with many of the city's leading industries is now retired from active association with business affairs. He was here born in 1851. His father, D. W. Cross, was one of the city's pion- eers, having come to Ohio from the state of New York in 1836. He was a lawyer by profession and for many years served as deputy collector of the port of Cleve- land. He became extensively interested with the late Senator Henry B. Payne in the development of the Ohio coal fields and was also identified with several of Cleveland's largest manufacturing industries. He was president of the Winds- low Car Roofing Company, which was subsequently absorbed by the Page Car Wheel Company, of which he also became president. He was likewise chief officer of the Kilby Manufacturing Company and aside from business won dis- tinction in other lines. He was one of the organizers and first secretary of the Cleveland Grays and remained throughout his life an active member of that military organization. He was also a true sportsman of that fine old type which our latter-day, strenuous living has nearly obliterated. An authority on rod and gun, he was a contributor to the various sportsman publications and also pub- lished a limited edition of a volume descriptive of his fifty years' experiences with rod and gun, which was a source of deep interest to his many friends. His social qualities endeared him to many who have tenderly cherished his memory since he passed away April 9, 1891.
Henry L. Cross acquired his early education in the public schools and then entered the South Williams Preparatory School. His higher education was secured in Williams College, in which he was a member of the class of 1874. His college course was interrupted in 1873 by an opportunity to travel abroad, of which he wisely took advantage, spending three years in Europe and the Holy Land, visiting all the principal European cities and studying the life, the customs and the languages of the different nations. Possessing decided linguistic gifts, he became proficient in many foreign tongues. In 1876 Mr. Cross returned to America and became associated with his father in manufacturing interests. These enlarging in scope and intricacy with the progress of the years have proved ma- terial for the exercise of his fine executive ability and have been benefited in no small measure by his capable direction and keen discrimination. He is now retired from active life, free to cultivate those finer things which he is especially fitted by nature to enjoy.
In 1877 Mr. Cross was united in marriage to Miss Stella W. Wood, of Pen- insula, Ohio, and three children, two sons and a daughter have been born to them. The eldest son, Charles W., born in 1879, after completing his preparatory course at University School entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated in 1901. He took a special course in mechanical engineering and was graduated six weeks before his class in order that he might accept a position with the Dia- mond Rubber Company of Akron. After continuing with them for four years he resigned and became associated with the Crocker-Wheeler Electric Company of Ampere, New Jersey, which he represented in Detroit, Michigan, and the sur-
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rounding territory. He was married in 1906 to Miss Lora Hoyt, of Binghamton, New York. The second son, Jay Lee, was born in 1885, and after preparing for college at University School he became associated with the Cleveland News in the advertising department and remained in that capacity one year. At the end of that time he and his uncle F. C. Wood of Akron bought the Youngstown (Ohio) Evening Telegram. They sold out a year later, however, and J. L. Cross returned to Cleveland, where he took charge of the local advertising for the White Automobile Company. In January, 1909, the Cross-Morton advertising agency was organized with Jay Lee Cross as president. This concern conducts a general advertising business and has contracts with some of the largest manu- facturing companies in northern Ohio. He is a member of the Cleveland Adver- tising Club. On the 30th of November, 1909, he married Miss Miriam Peebles of Portsmouth, Ohio, a daughter of John Peebles. The daughter, Loraine C. Cross, is a junior in the Hathaway-Brown School.
Mr. Cross, when leisure indulges him, gives manifestations of his marked hunting and fishing proclivities. He belongs to a number of Cleveland's promi- nent clubs, the most of them reflecting his love of sport and out-of-door life. He is a member of the Cleveland Gun Club, the Craine Creek Shooting Club, the Castalia Trout Club, the Euclid Golf Club and formerly belonged to the Cleve- land Grays. He is public-spirited and broad-minded and ever loyal to the best interests of the city which has so long been his home.
ARTHUR GOUGH.
England has given this country some of its best and most reliable citizens. Cleveland has received a fair share of these natives of the mother country, among whom may be mentioned Arthur Gough, who was born in Shefland, England, in January, 1851, a son of Charles and Ann Gough.
Until he was fourteen Mr. Gough attended public school and then leaving Eng- land came to Buffalo, New York, where he remained for three years. At the expiration of that time he came to Cleveland to go into partnership with his brother in renewing files. Through their excellent work and honorable methods these brothers have built up a good business and have a desirable standing among their competitors.
In July, 1884, Mr. Gough was married in Cleveland to Miss Mina Clark, and they have two children : Charles, twenty-four years old; and Julia, eighteen years old. The family have a pleasant home at No. 4240 Archwood avenue. Mr. Gough is a Knight of Pythias, and politically he is a republican, although he has never been willing to accept public office. Hard working and thrifty, he has been able to succeed and deserves a full amount of credit for his efforts.
STEPHEN CHUBBUCK.
Stephen Chubbuck, well known in the business circles of Cleveland as mana- ger for the White Sewing Machine Company, passed away on the 10th of January, 1904. He had attained the age of sixty years, his birth having occurred in Ware- ham, Massachusetts, on the 22d of June, 1843. His parents were Stephen and Lucy (Spaulding) Chubbuck, the latter a descendant of the famous Spaulding family of Massachusetts. Timothy Chubbuck, the great-great-grandfather of Stephen Chubbuck, was a Minuteman of the Revolutionary war and made his home in Massachusetts. He married Sally Faunce about 1803. She was a lineal descendant of Elder Faunce, one of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to this country
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in a ship following the Mayflower and was very prominent in the councils of the Massachusetts colony.
Stephen Chubbuck pursued his early education in the district schools of Ware- ham and later attended Dr. Mott's private academy, from 1856 until 1859. He then became a student in the Pierce Academy at Middleboro, Massachusetts, where he remained for one term, pursuing a business course. He afterward engaged in teaching school for a year and at the age of eighteen years he accompanied his father's family on their removal to Troy, New York, where he remained for about two years, assisting his father in the building of a nail factory there. In 1861 he came to Cleveland with his parents and aided in erecting a nail factory in this city. In 1863 he went with his father to Buffalo, where he remained until 1865, when he returned to Cleveland and was again his father's associate in business here for about two years. In 1867 he turned his attention to the manufacture of iron fences and continued in that business until 1879. He was afterward con- nected for a few years with the Domestic Sewing Machine Company and later was for fifteen years office manager for the White Sewing Machine Company in Cleveland and in Buffalo. He remained in the latter city for about nine years and continued in the employ of the White Sewing Machine Company until his demise. He was systematic, accurate and methodical in all his business manage- ment and dealings, and his enterprise and industry well qualified him for the im- portant position which he held.
On the 28th of August, 1864, Mr. Chubbuck was married to Miss Nellie Mill, a daughter of Nathaniel and Ann (Sleep) Mill, natives of England who came to Cleveland in 1860, the father here engaging in the insurance business. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Chubbuck were born five children: Stephen E., who was born Septem- ber 6, 1871, and is now manager for the Welsbach Light Company in Baltimore, Maryland; Arthur Warren, who was born December 2, 1878, and is with the Adams Express Company ; Nellie A., who was born May 31, 1866, and died Sep- tember 1, 1867 ; Lucy Alice, who was born July 31, 1868, and died March 28, 1870; and Florence Sarah, who was born August 20, 1888, and is a kindergartner in the schools of Cleveland.
In his political views Mr. Chubbuck in early life was a democrat but afterward espoused the cause of the republican party. He was also a believer in prohibi- tion principles, the cause of temperance finding in him a stalwart advocate. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, the Maccabees Tent, the Royal Arcanum and the Baptist church, and the humanitarian principles and moral teachings of these organizations found endorsement and exemplification in his life.
JOHN L. GARTLAND, M. D.
Dr. John L. Gartland, who since 1898 has been numbered among the medical practitioners of Cleveland, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, April 19, 1869. His father, James Gartland, was a native of England, and in that country engaged in commercial pursuits. He also continued in the same line of business in the new world but died when his son was only five or six years of age. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Ellen Daly, died April 19, 1909.
Dr. Gartland pursued his early education in the public schools of Waterbury, Connecticut, and his professional training was received in the medical department of the University of New York, from which he was graduated in 1891, with the M. D. degree. He afterward spent one year in post-graduate work in London and Paris and also in Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, from which he re- ceived the degree of L. M. Following his return to his native land he located in Meriden, Connecticut, where he engaged in the private practice of medicine until 1898, in which year he sought the broader opportunities of a city of the middle west and came to Cleveland, where he has since successfully followed his profes-
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sion. He has been assistant surgeon at St. Alexis Hospital for the past nine years and is accorded a liberal patronage, for his ability is pronounced and he is num- bered among the capable physicians who are in close touch with modern scientific methods of practice. He belongs to the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
On the 17th of September, 1903, Dr. Gartland was married to Miss Anna Lavan, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Lavan, formerly of this city, but now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Gartland now have an interesting little son, Charles, born January 17, 1907. The family residence is at No. 7705 Hough avenue. The parents are members of St. Agnes Catholic church and Dr. Gartland belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is a man of strong individuality, of keen discernment, marked business ability and profes- sional skill, and in his chosen field of labor has made steady and substantial progress and is well entitled to a liberal and profitable practice.
REV. CHARLES ANTHONY RENCK.
Rev. Charles Anthony Renck, was born in Cleveland, May 30, 1883, a son of Charles and Elizabeth (Knor) Renck. The former was born November 6, 1848, in Muhlhausen, Alsace, Germany, although Alsace at that time belonged to France, and crossing the Atlantic to the United States in 1872 made his way direct to Cleveland, where he became manager of a yeast manufactory. His wife was born in Solothurn, Switzerland, April 28, 1847, and came to America forty-one years ago, making her way to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and coming to Cleveland two years later. It was in this city that Charles Renck and Elizabeth Knor were married.
Rev. C. A. Renck pursued his early education in St. Mary's parish school of this city and afterward attended St. Ignatius College and St. Mary's Semi- nary, both of Cleveland. He was ordained May 25, 1907, by Bishop Horstmann and said his first mass on the following day in St. Mary's church. He was assigned to duty as assistant pastor at St. Francis' church in Cleveland, where he remained for a year. He was assistant pastor of St. Michael's church, of Cleveland, from July, 1908, until October 28, 1909, when he was transferred to St. Anne's church, Toledo, Ohio. He has always found favor with his parishioners through his devotion to his duty and his interests in their material and spiritual welfare.
ALBERT R. DAVIS.
The annals of the material development of Cleveland supply incidents of engrossing interest in the promotion of the men whose ability has gradually evolved the present gigantic concerns which control world-wide business and assist in sustaining American supremacy as a manufacturing center. These men have risen because of their own innate power to shape conditions to meet the exigencies of modern progress. Perhaps no better example of the position now occupied by the young American business man of this century is found than that afforded by the successful operations of Albert R. Davis, manager of the Stude- baker Auto Company of Cleveland.
Mr. Davis was born in Delaware county, Ohio, in 1878, a son of Albert R. Davis, who was born in 1840 in Columbus, Ohio, and spent nearly all of his life in that city, where he was engaged in the manufacture of shoes, being one of the earliest manufacturers of this line of goods in his locality, operating as he did under the title of The Ohio Shoe Company. His death occurred in 1895, but he is survived by his widow, whose maiden name was Jennie Christy. She was born
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in Coshocton, Ohio, in 1849, was married in 1865 and now makes her home in Cleveland.
Albert R. Davis, our subject, was educated in the schools of his native county and upon leaving school started in to learn the shoe business under his father's supervision. For three years he remained with him, but then moved to Ravenna, Ohio, where for two years he conducted a retail shoe business. His father dying, he removed to Cleveland in 1896 and established the Grant Tool Company, which he was associated with as secretary until 1901, when he organized the Garford Company with himself as sales manager. During the years which followed until 1907 Mr. Davis built up the sales of this concern to such purpose that he was made secretary of the Cleveland Motor Car Company and that same year was appointed the Cleveland representative of the Studebaker Company. His terri- tory extends over Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and as far east as Philadelphia and south as far as a part of Kentucky. The business has been steady in its growth and owing to the remarkable foresight of Mr. Davis the Cleveland house is the second largest distributing station the company possesses. Some idea of the vast volume of business controlled by him can be obtained from the statement that during the season of 1909 his branch handled four million dollars worth of the products of the company. There are one hundred and eighty-four sub agents who do business through the Cleveland branch.
Mr. Davis belongs to a number of clubs, including the Union, the Euclid, Cleveland Athletic, Century Auto, Cleveland Auto, Auto of America, New York Auto, Buffalo Auto and Columbus Auto Clubs. He is a Mason, having attained to the thirty-second degree, belonging to Lake Erie Consistory and Al Koran Tein- ple of the Mystic Shrine. Politically he is a republican.
In 1899 Mr. Davis married Hortense Tello, who was born in Cleveland, and two children have been born to them, namely: Dorothy, born in 1904; and Hor- tense, born in 1906. The grasp Mr. Davis has upon the details of his immense business is remarkable and comes of close attention to his work and a keen per- ception of the character and demands of his territory. Being a man of more than ordinary executive ability, he is able to control others and to get from them the best possible results. Possessing the high courage and undaunted perseverance which are prime factors in the making of a successful business man, Mr. Davis has reached a position where he can rest upon the laurels won, although his ambi- tion will without doubt urge him forward to fresh ones.
BARTON R. DEMING.
Barton R. Deming, a member of the firm of Deming Brothers, needs no intro- duction to the readers of this volume. A young man of marked enterprise, he contributed his share to the success of this firm-in many respects the leading real-estate concern in Cleveland. He was born in Windsor, Canada, August 21, 1875, and has therefore but little more than completed a third of a century. He comes of English lineage, his grandfather, John Deming, being a representative of an old New England family that was established in Wethersfield, Connecti- cut, in 1641. The father, who was born in Watertown, New York, July 3, 1830, came to Cleveland in the year 1849, remaining in this place but a year, during which time he served as contractor on the Atlantic Railway between Cleveland and Pittsburg. In 1850 he removed to Canada where he became identified with the mercantile and lumber business there, being thus engaged for some time. Sub- sequently he became connected with the government customs department in an official capacity, in which relation he remained for thirty years, or until his death, which occurred October 5, 1903. He had married Susan B. Wigle, a daughter of Windle and Hannah (Hearsine) Wigle, her birth occurring the 4th of Feb- ruary, 1835, while she passed away on the 3d of April, 1879.
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Barton R. Deming, whose name introduces this review, largely acquired his education in the schools of Sarnia, Canada, he being a graduate of the high school of the class of 1892. After leaving school he came to Cleveland in 1893, securing a position in the order department of the Mechanical Rubber Company. He was next with Oglebay, Norton & Company as bookkeeper and subsequently spent two years in the west. In 1903 he joined his brothers in the organization of The Deming Brothers Company, of which he was chosen secretary and treas- urer, and in 1908 he was elected to his present position as president and treasurer. He is now bending his energies to administrative direction and executive con- trol. The real-estate operations of the firm have constituted an important chapter in the history of Cleveland for the past six years, the development, upbuilding and adornment of the city being largely promoted through their efforts. They have opened up many of the finest additions in Cleveland and have erected-residence property of the highest grade.
On the 8th of July, 1908, Mr. Deming laid the foundation for a happy home life in his marriage to Miss Helen Rice, a daughter of T. J. and Eliza A. (Allen) Rice, of Chicago. The Allens were among the pioneer families of Mahoning county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Deming reside at No. 174 Carlyon road. He finds delight in motoring and yachting, gives stalwart support at the polls to the republican party, cooperates in the progressive movements for municipal welfare instituted by the Chamber of Commerce and finds social delight in his member- ship in the Euclid Club.
ELDEN J. HOPPLE.
Elden J. Hopple, a member of the law firm of Mccullough, Alden & Hopple, was born in Crawford county, Ohio, February 5, 1881. His grandfather, Reuben Hopple, was a native of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and came of French ancestry, the first representatives of the name in America crossing the Atlantic with Lafayette during the Revolutionary war and taking part in the battle of Trenton. After the close of hostilities between the colonies and the mother country the two brothers, who had done military service, decided to remain in the new world, and the family was thus established in Pennsylvania. Reuben Hopple continued a resident of Northampton county until 1856, when he removed to Ohio, where he followed the occupation of farming. His death occurred February 27, 1899.
Jeremiah Hopple, the father of Elden J. Hopple, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, December 5, 1847, and was only a young lad when he accompanied his parents to Crawford county, Ohio, where he was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He carried on general farming as his life work and in com- munity affairs was also interested. He filled the position of township trustee and other offices and gave his political support to the democracy, while his reli- gious belief was indicated in his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and his active work for its advancement. He married Martha Schieber, who was born in Crawford county, Ohio, July 7, 1854, and is still living. Her father, Christopher Schieber, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1820 and soon after arriving in the United States established his home in Ohio, where he lived until his death on the 15th of December, 1889.
After attending the public schools of Crawford county Elden J. Hopple con- tinued his education in Heidelberg College at Tiffin, Ohio, for three years. He afterward spent some time as a student in a law office and completed his course in the Franklin T. Backus School of Law, which is the law department of the Western Reserve University. In 1905 he was admitted to the bar and in the fall of that year began practice alone in Cleveland. On the Ist of January, 1906, he
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became a member of the present firm of Alden & Hopple and has since continued in general practice, the firm of Mccullough, Alden & Hopple being formed on the Ist of September, 1909. He taught in the rural schools during a part of the time for four years while pursuing his college course, thus providing for his own support and meeting the expenses of his education. This was an indication of the elemental strength of his character, a strength that has since carried him into important relations with the legal fraternity of Cleveland, for he is winning for himself a creditable position as one of the younger representatives of the bar of this city.
Mr. Hopple is an active worker in the ranks of the democratic party and has served as a delegate to the county and state conventions. He also belongs to the Twenty-second Ward Democratic Club and is a charter member of Brenton T. Babcock Lodge, No. 600, F. & A. M. It seems that his choice of life work was wisely made for he is advancing steadily in the field of his chosen labor and, at the same time, he is not unmindful of the duties and obligations of citizenship, but labors at all times for what he believes to be the public welfare.
T. D. MCGILLICUDDY.
As long as the American people have interest in the history of the country so long will the loyal citizen thrill with the story of him whose bravery and loyalty were manifest on the battlefields of the south when the country became involved in the greatest civil war that the world has ever known. T. D. McGillicuddy now historian of Post No. 141, G. A. R., and a compiler and publisher of many military histories, wore the blue uniform throughout the period of hostilities be- tween the two sections of the country, and in the years which have since elapsed has been accorded distinction and honor in. the ranks of that splendid association which is formed of veterans of the Union cause.
Mr. McGillicuddy was born in Louisville, Kentucky, December 1, 1835. The name of McGillicuddy is traced back in history to 234 A. D. and in the early cen- turies of the Christian era the McGillicuddy estates were vast. The branch of the family to which Mr. McGillicuddy belongs is descended from the McGillicuddys of McGillicuddy Reeks, Ireland. Representatives of the name during the Span- ish and French wars in 1640 served in both armies with the rank of general. Cap- tain McGillicuddy is the president and compiler of the McGillicuddy Association, a volume which he completed in 1907. This association holds its yearly reunion in the east and Captain McGillicuddy has succeeded in locating and bringing to- gether hundreds of the descendants of the family. The McGillicuddy coat of arms was officially recognized by the Irish authorities August 23, 1688.
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