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VIRGIL G. MARANI
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Buffalo, where he won almost immediate and notable success, having an extensive practice as the assistant to a Mr. White of that city.
, In 1895 Mr. Marani came to Cleveland and received a minor appointment from Mayor Farley in the engineering department. Ere he left the city service he had worked his way gradually upward until he became assistant engineer in charge of sewers under Walter P. Rice. In 1896 he was appointed construct- ing engineer for the Cleveland Gas Light & Coke Company and during his con- nection therewith rebuilt their entire plant, more than doubling its capacity. He was with the company for ten years, or until 1906, resigning his position when the business passed into other hands. He then opened an office on his own account as constructing engineer and gas expert. He now has a large practice in building construction and is acting as assistant to Mr. Hamilton, who is engaged on the erection of the Cuyahoga county courthouse. To this position he was appointed by the building commission. He is a member of the Amercan Gas Institute and a director of the Vandalia Gas Company at Casey, Illinois. In January, 1910, Mr. Marani was appointed city building inspector of the city of Cleveland under Mayor Baehr.
In 1895 Mr. Marani was married to Miss Mary Barr, daughter of the late Rev. Barr, of Brantford, Canada, and their two children are Giovanina and Vir- ginia. Mr. Marani belongs to the United Commercial Travelers. His social qualities are the source of a growing popularity that has made him many friends. His professional skill and ability, based on comprehensive study and broad experi- ence, constitute the foundation of a satisfactory success for he is today widely known as a civil and construction engineer and is accorded an extensive patronage.
ALBERT I. CIVINS, M. D.
Comprehensive knowledge of the science of pharmacy, as well as of the prin- ciples of the medical profession, well qualify Dr. Albert I. Civins for the duties which he has taken upon himself as his life work. He was born in Russia, Novem- ber 28, 1875. His father, Dr. Samuel Civins, was a physician, who served as a surgeon in the Russian army, his death resulting from an accident while he was still in the service in 1885. He was at that time fifty-four years of age. His wife, who in her maidenhood was Anna Fischer, is also a native of Russia, and is still living at the age of sixty-five years, her home being now in Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Albert I. Civins spent his youthful days in his native town of Riga and pursued his education in the gymnasium there to the age of fifteen years. He then crossed the Atlantic to the new world, setting first in Philadelphia, where he took up the study of pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated with the degree of Ph. G. in 1895. Immediately after- ward he came to Cleveland and began preparation for the work that now devolved upon him as a student in the medical department of the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1901. He then went to New York and served as interne in the New York Lying-in Hospital in 1901- 02. He did post-graduate work in the Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital of Philadelphia in 1902-3 and in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy the same year. He has always held high standards in his profession and has thus utilized every means to broaden his knowledge and promote his efficiency. In September, 1903 he returned to Cleveland, where he entered upon the general practice of medicine, in which he still continues. He has now a good patronage which he has won by reason of his comprehensive understanding of the principles of medi- cine and surgery and his conscientious performance of all professional duties. He is not unknown to the medical fraternity through his occasional contributions to medical journals and keeps in touch with the profession as a member of the
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American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cleveland Academy of Medicine and the Germ Medical Society of Cleveland, of which he is treasurer.
In more specifically fraternal lines Dr. Civins is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Royal League. He resides at Fifty-fifth street and Woodland avenue and is a gentleman of becoming modesty, of unfailing courtesy and of geniality. These qualities have won him the friendly regard of all with whom professional or social relations have brought him in contact and the number of his friends is constantly increasing as the circle of his acquaintance broadens.
On October 19, 1909, Dr. Civins was united in marriage to Miss Bertha, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Zsupnyik, by Rabbi Moses J. Gries. She grad- uated from the Central high school in 1899 and from the Normal school in 1901.
GUSTAVE FROEHLICH.
Gustave Froehlich is entitled to the esteem of his fellow citizens for he has always worked faithfully and hard, and done his full duty wherever he has been employed. Now he is conducting a business of his own, doing a gen- eral horse-shoeing and carriage-making business. He was born in Alsace-Lor- raine, Germany, April 29, 1857, a son of Mattheus and Magdalina Froehlich. He went to school until he was fourteen, in his native land, after which he learned the carriage-making and horse-shoeing trades, continuing as an appren- tice for three years. Later he served for three years in the German army.
After his discharge, he came to Cleveland where he easily obtained employ- ment with the Lake Shore Railroad as freight handler for eighteen months and subsequently worked for the Otis Steel Company, for another eighteen months as a helper. He then was with Martin Haas, carriage maker, for two years. By this time he had gained a good knowledge of the language and cus- toms of the country, had saved a little money and was thus ready to start into the carriage making and horse-shoeing business which he is now conducting so successfully at No. 2317 St. Clair avenue.
On May 17, 1883, Mr. Froehlich married Miss Lena Miller and they have two children : Lilly and Minnie. He is a member of the Alsace-Lorraine Verein. In politics he is independent, voting for the man he thinks will give the city the best government. In religious matters he affiliates with the German Lutheran church. In his life Mr. Froehlich has shown how useful the Germans are to their adopted country, and what good citizens they develop into.
CHARLES HENRY MORLEY.
Charles H. Morley, one of the active and enterprising business men of Cleve- land, whose close application and intelligently directed energy led him to a prom- inent position in commercial circles, was born in Painesville, Ohio, March 15, 1837. His father, Albert Morley, was a native of New York state, and his mother bore the maiden name of Esther Healey. Reared in the city of his nativity, Charles H. Morley pursued his education in its public schools and at Hudson, Ohio. He afterward went to Davenport, Iowa, where he engaged in business for some time and subsequently removed to Kansas. The year 1886 witnessed his arrival in Cleveland and he joined his brother in the J. H. Morley White Lead & Paint Company. In this connection they built up a very extensive and profit- able business, which was conducted by them until it was absorbed by the trust. Charles H. Morley, however, remained in business in Cleveland until his death and became recognized as a reliable man of marked enterprise and unfailing
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energy. He was always interested in the growth of Cleveland and its business development and had great confidence in the city. He recognized, moreover, that its progress must depend upon its citizens and he therefore did his full share in promoting the work of general upbuilding. In addition to his other business pur- suits Mr. Morley was a stockholder in the First National Bank of Cleveland and also in the Gas Company and his business judgment was regarded as sound and reliable by all his associates and colleagues.
In Painesville, Ohio, on the 7th of September, 1864, Mr. Morley was united in marriage to Miss Mary Lee Perkins, who was born and reared in Ohio. They became the parents of two children, Julia and Margaretta, the latter now Mrs. Wilcox, of Hamilton, Ontario. Mrs. Morley was a daughter of William L. Per- kins, a native of Connecticut, who became a very prominent attorney of Pains- ville who not only figured in the practice of law but was also active in framing the legislation of the state, being called by his district to the general assembly. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Marguerite Oakley, was a native of New York city. Their daughter, Mrs. Morley, has made her home in Cleveland since 1886 and has a large circle of warm friends here.
The death of Mr. Morley occurred October 9, 1889. He was a member of the Union Club, in which he had many friends and he also atttended St. Paul's Epis- copal church. His political belief was in accord with the principles of the re- publican party and though he never sought nor desired office, few men have been more deeply interested in the welfare of the city or state to bring about its sub- stantial growth and upbuilding in greater measure. He was widely recognized as a man of genuine personal worth, whose strength of character was at once felt in the city of his adoption, his general usefulness and activity making his worth so widely acknowledged that his death was the occasion of deep and widespread regret.
DAN PFAHL.
Some men become leaders through natural ability and their grasp of situa- tions and their knowledge of events naturally force them into accepting offices of a public character. To their skillful hands are relegated the affairs of state and through them comes much of our best legislation. Cleveland is a city noted for its magnificent public works, its miles of paved streets, its unsurpassed police force and the many splendid ordinances passed by its wise city fathers. One of those who has lent his influence toward securing the best of everything for the city both as a private citizen and member of the council, is Dan Pfahl, whose offices are conveniently located at 814 Columbia building, while his resi- dence is at No. 4011 Riverside avenue.
Mr. Pfahl was born in Glenville, Ohio, August 16, 1875, a son of Fred- erick and Amanda Pfahl, the former of whom was born in Germany in 1846. He came to America with his parents when four years old, they locating in Cleveland. There Frederick Pfahl grew up, learning the trade of a cooper, and he followed it until machinery replaced much of the hand work, after which he began manufacturing bolts but is now retired from business and lives in Lake- wood. His wife was born in Cleveland in 1848, a daughter of Daniel Stanard, a pioneer lake captain. Her uncle was one of the first lighthouse keepers on Lake Erie, once owning and residing on the present site of the Central armory. Stanard Rocks in Lake Huron was named for the Stanard family. His mother died when our subject was three years old, having borne her husband five children. These little ones, left motherless at a tender age, were placed in the Father Sampson Home on Detroit avenue where Dan Pfahl lived intil six years old.
Being a bright, attractive child, he was adopted by Benjamin Smith and wife, being taken by them to Stafford county, Kansas. There he went to school
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until he was fourteen years old. From the time he was fourteen until he was seventeen, in 1892, he worked on a farm, but in that year he returned to Cleve- land and for a year worked for the Lamson & Sessions Nut & Bolt Company, after which he became associated with the Upson Nut & Bolt Company. At the expiration of three years, he learned the hardwood finishing trade with the Auld-Conger Company, of Cleveland, leaving them on account of ill health. In order to secure outdoor work, Mr. Pfahl painted houses for one season and then became manager of a bowling alley, when that sport first became so popu- lar. He next entered construction work, the building of pavements and sewers, being associated with the Trinidad Paving Company and the Vorce Engineering Company, with whom he remained until 1907, when he commenced the business of handling sand and gravel for himself. In all of these changes, he endeavored to better himself and in every instance gave the best of his efforts for the party employing him. In this way he made many friends, was brought into contact with men, and grew to realize his political power.
Therefore when he was placed on the democratic ticket as the candidate for alderman from the seventh ward, Mr. Pfahl was elected in April, 1903, by a good majority, for a term of one year. During his occupancy of the office, the term was extended seven months by act of the legislature. So remarkably popular had he become by this time with the people of his ward, that he was elected for a two-year term, serving his ward until 1907, when he was chosen a councilman-at-large. Among other measures, Mr. Pfahl is the father of the famous Pfahl anti-fireworks ordinance, which prohibited the sale and use of fireworks in the city and placed Cleveland among the advanced communities upon this very important matter. He is chairman of the building code com- mittee and member of other important committees, his long service rendering him a very valuable addition to any of them.
On September, 17, 1901, Mr. Pfahl was married to Gertrude Panther, a daughter of F. W. Panther, a dealer in hardware of this city. One child was born of the marriage but died in infancy.
Mr. Pfahl belongs to the Sycamore Club, of which he was president in 1904; is a member of the Tuxedo Club and the Heights Maennerchoir, one of the old- est organizations of its kind in the city. Mr. Pfahl has taken an active part in shaping public sentiment whenever the welfare of the city has been at stake and is a representative of its best type of citizen.
CHARLES J. DECKMAN.
Charles J. Deckman was born February 21, 1861, in Stark county, Ohio, and is a son of George and Mary B. Deckman. He received his education in the pub- lic schools at Malvern, Ohio, and, on leaving school at the age of eighteen, became associated with his father in the manufacture of furniture.
In 1887, he became general manager, secretary and treasurer of The Malvern Clay Company, and in 1907, on the consolidation of the Collinwood Shale Brick Company. The Carrollton Granite Brick Company, and The Malvern Clay Com- pany, as The Deckman-Duty Brick Company, he was elected vice president and secretary, which positions are being filled by him at this writing. Mr. Deckman is recognized as a successful business man, and the company with which he is associated is the largest and most important industry of its kind in the city.
On the 21st day of February, 1883, Mr. Deckman was united in marriage, in Hicksville, Ohio, to Miss Rachel Miller, a daughter of Simon and Samantha Mil- ler, of Minerva, Ohio. To this union have been born two sons: Frank Miller, who was born January 1, 1885, and died April 26, 1889; and Charles George, born December II. 1890, who is now attending the University of Notre Dame,
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Indiana, and resides with his parents at the family residence, No. 2120 East Eighty-third street.
Mr. Deckman is a member of several secret and fraternal societies: Nimicilla Lodge, No. 39, I. O. O. F .; Canton Tent, No. 1I, K. O. T. M .; Lookout Camp, No. 466, Sons of Veterans; Malvern Lodge, No. 294, K. P .; Preux Chevalier Company, No. 3, U. R. K. of P .; Jan Ben Jan Temple, No. 27, D. O. K. K .; Bankers Lodge, No. 377, Pathfinder ; Forest City Lodge, No. 388, F. & A. M .; Cleveland Council, No. 36, R. & S. M .; Webb Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M .; Orien- tal Commandery, No. 12, K. T .; Elidah Lodge of Perfection 14º and Lake Erie Consistory, S. P. R. S., 32°. Of these fraternal organizations, Mr. Deckman has served as commander of the Ohio Division Sons of Veterans in 1890 and 1891, and grand chancellor of the domain of Ohio Knights of Pythias, in 1902 and 1903.
In politics he is a republican and in religion, a Protestant. His home and social relations and his interest in public affairs constitute an even balance in his business ability.
AUGUSTINE R. TREADWAY.
Augustine R. Treadway, who since 1879 has been connected with manu- facturing interests of Cleveland and is now president of the Peck, Stow & Wil- cox Company, in his life history illustrates the possibilities for successful ac- complishment when the individual is possessed of a will to dare and to do, brooking no obstacles that can be overcome by determined, persistent and hon- orable effort. Through the stages of gradual advancement Mr. Treadway has worked his way upward until his business interests, active and financial, are of an extensive and most important character.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he is a descendant of one of New Eng- land's oldest families and a son of Russell and Mary (Wilcox) Treadway. Her parents were Francis W. and Pauline (Andrus) Wilcox. The former was one of the founders of the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company and a descendant of an early colonial family.
Augustine R. Treadway was educated in the New Haven public schools and the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Connecticut, and on leaving school started in business life in the employ of an uncle who was in the stove and furnace business in New Haven. Later he engaged as a clerk in the hardware busi- ness at Hartford, Connecticut, and later in the wholesale hardware trade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained until his twenty-first year, when he returned to New Haven and engaged in the furnace and stove business on his own account. He soon became interested in manufacturing lines at South- ington, Connecticut, and, coming to Cleveland in 1879, here embarked in the manufacturing business under the firm name of Wilcox, Treadway & Com- pany. A year later the interests of this firm were merged with those of the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company and Mr. Treadway became one of the active officers of the amalgamated interests. Subsequently he was chosen vice presi- dent of the new company and in 1899 was elected to the presidency, in which he has since continued. Thoroughly conversant with every department of the business as chief executive officer, he displays an aptitude for successful man- agement that has made the undertaking one of the large productive industries of this city and one of the most successful. He is also vice president of the Union Rolling Mill Company, a director of the Union Savings & Loan Com- pany, of the State Banking & Trust Company, of the Cleveland National Bank and has a multitude of other financial and business interests. A cooperant factor in projects for the city's development, he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, serving for some years on its board of directors.
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In 1859 Mr. Treadway was married to Miss Sarah E. Hambright, of Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, who died in 1865. Later he was married to Miss Mary L. Mansfield, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Bradley) Mansfield, of an old New England family. Mrs. Treadway is deeply interested in the work of charities and her church and especially in Jones Home, of which she has served for a number of years as a director. The family numbers three sons and a daughter: Lyman H., general manager of the Cleveland works of the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company; Francis W., lieutenant governor of Ohio and a mem- ber of the law firm of Treadway & Marlatt; Charles F., of the firm of Sanford & Treadway, of New Haven, Connecticut; and Mary Elizabeth, the wife of James Mathers, of Cleveland.
Mr. Treadway attends the Plymouth Congregational church. He is fond of travel both in this country and abroad and delights in literary research, with special interest in history. His charities, although many, are strictly of a private nature and, unspoiled by success, he is a plain, unostentatious man, though one of large business affairs.
REV. LEWIS BURTON, D.D.
The world instinctively pays deference to the man whose life has been devoted to service for his fellows, whose ideals have been high and whose principles have been founded upon those religious truths which have stood the test of time without variation or shadow of turning. With firm and unwavering faith in Christianity, his activity is allied with the Protestant Episcopal church, Dr. Lewis Burton labored for almost half a century for the moral development and Christian progress of Cleveland, being connected with the west side churches from 1847 until his death, October 9, 1894.
The home of the Burton family was situated about four miles south of the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, at the time of the birth of Dr. Burton on the 3d of July, 1815. He represented a family which in lineal and collateral branches has been distinctively American through many generations. His great-great-grand- father, Solomon Burton, married in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1687. His great- grandfather, Judson Burton, married a daughter of Benjamin Lewis, who arrived in Stratford about 1676 or 1677. On the distaff side Dr. Burton traced his lineage through the well established Miller family of western Connecticut, to Captain Joseph Rockwell and to the latter's grandfather, William Rockwell, who came to this country in 1630. His parents removed to Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and there, amidst the surroundings of rural life, Dr. Burton was reared, devel- oping that robust physique and the regular habits that until his last illness. made his whole career one of almost unbroken health and hearty vigor. At the same time his religious character received its permanent bias from the Christian in- fluences that were strongly marked characteristics of that home. Entering Alle- gheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, in which his brother william was a professor, he was graduated from that institution with the Bachelor of Arts de- gree in 1837; and in due course of time his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. During his college days he won the high regard of the faculty, was the recipient of academic honors and was popular with his fellow students as the result of personal qualities which were afterward to prove im- portant factors in the larger work of practical life.
It was in Petersburg, Columbiana county, Ohio, on the 8th of July, 1841, that Dr. Burton wedded Miss Jane Wallace, a daughter of the late Hon. James Wallace, of that town, and a sister of the Rev. John S. Wallace of the United States Navy, and of Mrs. Eliza Jennings and Mrs. Minerva Wetmore, of Cleveland. On the occasion of the golden wedding anniversary celebration of Dr. and Mrs. Burton, in 1891, their children erected in St. Mark's church a handsome stained
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window in commemoration of and as a thankoffering for this event. The children born unto Dr. and Mrs. Burton are Mrs. Amelia Wallace Leslie and Mrs. Eliza Jennings Backus, both of Cleveland, and the Rt. Rev. Lewis William Burton, D.D., bishop of the diocese of Lexington, in the state of Kentucky. Mrs. Burton sur- vived her husband until April 15, 1901.
It was six years after his marriage that Dr. Burton entered actively upon the work of the Protestant Episcopal church, being ordained by Bishop McIlvaine to the deaconate June 17, 1847, while on the 9th of May of the following year he was made presbyter. He succeeded his brother, the Rev. William Miller Burton, as rector of St. John's church of Cleveland, July 27, 1847, and continued in that important parish for twenty-four years. Under his wise and energetic ministry there was a steady advance, both in the spiritual and temporal prosperity of St. John's church, fully commensurate with the phenomenal growth in area and popu- lation of the section of the city west of the Cuyahoga river. When the Rev. Lewis Burton took charge of St. John's church, Cleveland, his parochial jurisdiction em- braced the whole territory now known as the south and west sides. It extended to Parma on the south and to Rocky river on the west, some seven miles in each direction. He was a man of far-seeing vision, excellent business judgment, zealous missionary spirit and indefatigable energy. He conducted for years a monthly service in Parma, facing all kinds of weather to reach the schoolhouse in which it was held. He was a faithful pastor and by frequent visits to the houses of families in all that region south of Walworth Run bound them to their allegiance to the Protestant Episcopal church. But perhaps by cottage meetings more than by any other one instrumentality he laid the foundations for All Saints' parish. At last a union Sunday school which had been held on the south side, west of Columbus street, resolved itself into a Sunday school of the Episcopal church and put itself under Dr. Burton's rectorship. Steps were shortly taken to provide for it a home, and to build a chapel that would accommodate the congregation that was surely to grow out of the school. A commodious lot was purchased on Vega avenue and a tasteful church building erected by 1870. Dr. Burton after twenty- four years of ministry in St. John's parish resigned that charge August 1, 1871. At the same time that he had built All Saints' he had also founded St. Mark's on Franklin avenue. In 1871 both became independent parishes under the laws of both the church and the state. Immediately on his resignation of St. John's he took joint charge of All Saints' and St. Mark's. Within exactly three years, by his wise management and tireless industry, he had gotten All Saints' out of debt and had had the satisfactory reward of seeing the church consecrated. Ac- cording to his original purpose when he took charge of it, he thereupon resigned All Saints' August 1, 1875, to take sole charge thenceforth of St. Mark's church.
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