A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 99

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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After attending the common schools the only son pursued a course in the Ohio Business College at Mansfield and later engaged in teaching in the country districts for four years. In 1898 he was elected principal of the high school at Nevada, Ohio, which position he resigned to enter Oberlin College. He joined the class of 1902 and pursued the course until he had completed three years' work, when he left school to engage in the real-estate business in Cleveland. His suc- cess was so rapid and thorough that he attracted the attention of the Cleveland Trust Company and was called to take charge of their realty department, which he has since managed. His previous experience well fitted him for the responsi- bilities that devolve upon him in this connection and he is widely recognized as a business man of marked acumen and enterprise, never deviating from a course which his judgment sanctions, but with persistent purpose pursuing his way until the desired end is attained. He is also identified with other important business concerns of the city, his ripe judgment and quick perception of values making his cooperation sought in the control of important business affairs.

Mr. Smythe has always been interested in athletics and while in college was pitcher on the baseball nine. He and his team members had the distinction of winning the championship of Ohio colleges in 1898 and 1899 and Mr. Smythe's work as a pitcher was of such character as to attract the notice of Jimmy Mc- Aleer, who was at that time manager of the Cleveland team. In 1900, while still in college, as a result of a favorable proposition made him, Mr. Smythe signed with the Cleveland team for a year. Mr. Smythe is also widely known in musical circles. He has wisely cultivated the talents with which nature en- dowed him and for three years he was a member of the Oberlin College Glee Club quartet, while for six years he was a director of the Adelbert Glee Club. For two years he was a member of the Shubert quartet and for three years was tenor soloist of the Pilgrim church quartet, while for four years he was a director and tenor soloist of the Windemere Presbyterian church. He takes a deep interest in settlement work and formerly had charge of the music

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at Goodrich House and at Alta House and was for a year a director of the Glee Club of the Young Men's Christian Association.

On the 13th of November, 1902, Mr. Smythe was married to Miss Katherine Loomis, of Oil City, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Charles and Ida E. Loomis, the former a native of North East, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The father, until his death was secretary and treasurer of the Oil City Trust Company. Mrs. Smythe has two sisters, Harriet and Susan Loomis, and by her marriage she has become the mother of two sons: Charles Loomis Smythe, born October 23, 1903; and Marcus Loomis Smythe, born March 12, 1905. Mr. Smythe belongs to the Hermit and Clifton Clubs, in which he is de- servedly popular. He is also a member of the Methodist church and in its work takes active and helpful part. He is a man of well rounded character and while he has won for himself a creditable position in business circles he recognizes the fact that commercialism is not all there is to life and has extended his ac- tivities to other fields, being deeply interested in the grave sociological and econ- omic problems. He has given tangible proof of his spirit of helpfulness as a co- worker in the organization of settlements, demonstrating his opinions of such questions by practical aid.

JOHN C. HIPP.

John C. Hipp is the president of the Hipp Delivery Company, in which connection he has built up a large and profitable enterprise. He is also interested in the Regal Motor Sales Company, selling agents for various motor manufac- turing concerns, and although this is a comparatively young enterprise the ini- tiative spirit which he has displayed and the carefully formulated plans for its conduct promise for it the same success which attends his other business.

His father, Martin Hipp, was one of the pioneer residents of Cleveland, com- ing here in 1848. For a long period he was connected with the grocery business, and he also left the impress of his individuality upon the public life through his service as a member of the city council from the tenth ward in 1876 and through his cooperation in the work of the republican party, of which he was an active representative. His wife, Magdalena Hipp, came from Woodenburg, Germany, which was also his birthplace, and in 1894 she passed away at the age of sixty- five years, while Martin Hipp survived until 1901, reaching the age of seventy- two years before his demise.

John C. Hipp, born in Cleveland, April 7, 1859, was educated in the public schools and entered business life as a clerk in the employ of A. J. Wenham & Son, wholesale grocers, with whom he remained for five years. His industry and careful expenditure during this time enabled him to then engage in business on his own account and he opened a retail grocery house near the corner of Clark and West Fifty-third streets. There he continued in business until 1891, when he disposed of his store and established a wholesale commission business on Broadway, where he remained until 1900, when he organized the Hipp Delivery Company, of which he has since been the president. The business has grown to be the largest in this line in Cleveland, having the contract for delivery with one hundred and forty-five retail houses. He seeks success along the lines of close application, unremitting diligence and the improvement of each opportunity pre- sented and has recently extended the scope of his activities by becoming inter- ested in the Regal Motor Sales Company.

On the 7th of June, 1882, he was married in Cleveland to Miss Charlotte E. Weidemann, a daughter of J. J. and Elizabeth (Schneider) Weidemann. To them was born one daughter, Elsie May, who is now the wife of E. R. Seager, of Cleveland and has one child, Elizabeth Jane. Mr. Hipp was again married in 1893, his second union being with Nettie J. Swayer, a daughter of W. J. Swa-

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yer, a pioneer resident of the west side, and they now reside at No. 1354 Eighty- ninth street.

Mr. Hipp is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs also to the Mystic Shrine, the Royal Arcanum and to the Westwood Golf Club. The forceful man of the present is he who accomplishes his plans and not theorizes about them and the alert, enterprising spirit of today is manifest in the life record and work of John C. Hipp.

CHARLES J. ALDRICH, M. D.

Dr. Charles J. Aldrich, deceased, a distinguished neurologist, whose re- searches, comprehensive study and broad experience caused his opinions to be largely accepted as authority by members of the medical profession in Cleveland, was born in Spencer, Ohio, October 13, 1861. He was a representative of an old American family, his great-grandfather, Adolphus Aldrich, serving in the war of 1812. His grandfather, Charles W. Aldrich, traveled overland by team from New York to Ohio and, passing through Cleveland, took up his abode at Brunswick in pioneer times. He devoted his life to general farming and reached the remarkable old age of ninety-nine years. His son, C. W. Aldrich, who wedded Mary Reed, also became a prominent and well known farmer and he still makes his home at Spencer, Ohio, where the mother of our subject died December 5, 1908.

Under the parental rooftree Dr. Aldrich spent his youthful days, pursuing his preliminary education in the public schools of Spencer and of Wellington, Ohio, after which he entered Baldwin University at Berea, this state. Later he attended lectures at the Western Reserve Medical College in 1881, receiving his professional diploma in 1882, upon his graduation from the medical depart- ment of Wooster University. He then removed to Middlebury, Indiana, where he continued in practice for about six or seven years, after which he returned to Cleveland and opened an office in this city. Throughout his life he embraced every opportunity for advancing his professional knowledge, and thus pro- moted his efficiency in practice, and in 1896 and again in 1906 he attended lec- tures and hospital clinics in London, Berlin and Paris, thus obtaining intimate knowledge of the methods of some of the most distinguished practitioners in the old world. In addition to private practice he did considerable professional service of a public nature. In 1890 he was elected to the staff of the Cleveland General Hospital and in the same year was appointed lecturer on nervous dis- eases in the University of Wooster. In 1893 he was made visiting neurologist to the Cleveland City Hospital and became consulting neurologist and psychiatrist to St. Luke's Hospital; professor of neurology in the Cleveland College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1905; and professor of nervous and mental diseases in the same institution in 1906.

Dr. Aldrich was a very able and prolific contributor to current medical litera- ture and among the more important articles which came from his pen were those on Caisson Disease, The Nervous Complications and Sequellae of Pneumonia, Bead Nodding, Tic and Trap-Drummer's Neuroses. In 1901 he was honored by election to the presidency of the Cuyahoga County Medical Society, was chosen president of the Medico-Legal Society of Cleveland in 1902, and of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine in 1905. He also held membership in the American Medical Association and the Ohio State Medical Society. He was recognized as one of Cleveland's most noted nerve specialists and his opinions were accepted as authority on many important cases. At the time of his death he was making a study of the teeth and their relation to the nervous system. Among the host of readers in the United States and even in Europe who knew the late Dr. Charles J. Aldrich as an authority in neurology, there have been but

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few who were aware of his talents as a writer of fiction. He was not only a constant student and a man of wide reading, but he had marked creative ability and was a ready writer along other lines than those of medicine. Story-writing was a fad of the author's, but none of his stories have ever been published though they afford more than ordinary enjoyment to the reader of tales. More- over, many of them are of absorbing interest to the physician and student of psychology, being founded on facts which came into the Doctor's possession through special cases, criminal and otherwise, to which he was called in the capacity of an expert.

On the 27th of May, 1883, Dr. Aldrich was married to Jessie E. Hutchinson, a daughter of Thomas and Ethelinda Critchfield. Her father, a native of Ken- tucky, was a member of the famous Critchfield family of that state. He re- sided for some time in Middlebury, Indiana, and was a prominent farmer there. His wife was a native of England. Unto Dr. and Mrs. Aldrich were born two daughters: Mrs. Leona Crawford, who was born May 31, 1884, and has one child, Charles Aldrich Crawford; and Frances A., who is now the wife of Howard Jackson Seymour, of Detroit, Michigan, and has one son, Richard Aldrich Seymour.

Politically Dr. Aldrich was a republican. He held membership in the Co- lonial Club and was a charter member of the Foresters Club. He took great delight in hunting and fishing and had many trophies of the chase in his home. He was also an art critic of considerable renown and his broad culture made him a most entertaining and agreeable companion. He died April 29, 1908, honored by the profession and the general public.

WALTER J. RICH.

Walter J. Rich, the organizer and president of the Climax Refining Company of Cleveland, is a native son of England, his birth having occurred at Rodbourne, Wiltshire, February 12, 1869. His education was acquired in public and private schools. For the benefit of his health and also as a recreative measure he planned a three months' trip to the United States in 1885. At that time his uncle, John Teagle, was engaged in the oil business in this city as president of The Cleve- land Refining Company, and on the Ist of February, 1886, Mr. Rich entered the employ of that company in a clerical capacity. By close application to business, unfaltering energy and firm purpose he worked his way steadily upward and ultimately became secretary and treasurer of the company, with which he was connected until November 30, 1897. On the following day he organized the Climax Refining Company, conducting a manufacturing and jobbing business with branch houses in Denver, Colorado, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. They also have an agency in India to facilitate their export trade in the orient and are doing a specialty business with brands that are recognized for quality and uni- formity throughout the entire United States. Adhering closely to strict business principles of honor and progressiveness, this company has become a factor in their line of trade, known throughout the country. Mr. Rich is also identified with various other industries of this city. His three months' trip to the United States has been extended to a permanent residence for he here found good busi- ness opportunities and in their utilization has won a substantial measure of success.

He has, however, at various times visited his native land and on making a tour around the world in 1893 visited the principal British possessions in various parts of the globe. He has made altogether nine trips acress the Atlantic.

On the 6th of November, 1896, Mr. Rich was married to Miss Grace Wed- dell, a daughter of H. P. Weddell and a representative of one of the old pioneer families of Cleveland. They have two children: Horace, thirteen years of age,

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now a student in the University School; and Jeannette Victoria, who was born on the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth and was, therefore, so named. She is seven years of age and is now a pupil in the Laurel School, a private institution. The family are associated with St. Paul's Episcopal church and Mr. Rich belongs to the Union, Roadside, Euclid and Mayfield Outing Clubs and is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He greatly enjoys outdoor sports and horses, riding to hounds when in England and playing golf over various courses in this country. His variety of recreations keeps him a well balanced man and as travel always does, brings him into touch with the wider range of thought and activities, traveling being in itself a course of broad educa- tion.

CHARLES FREDERIC LANG.

Charles Frederic Lang, lawyer and a member of the law firm of Lang, Cas- sidy & Copeland, was born in Cleveland, March 27, 1871, his mother's parents being among the pioneer residents of Cleveland, settling here when its popula- tion was less than twenty thousand, and the easterly city limits were at East Ninth (formerly Erie) street, Erie street cemetery being considered "way out in the country."

Mr. Lang studied law in the offices of the firm of Sherman, Hoyt & Dustin and was admitted to the bar in 1896, standing third in a class of ninety at the bar examination of the first class after the rule requiring three years of study before admission was adopted. Beginning practice in January, 1897, in the of- fices of Chapman & Howland, two years later he formed a partnership with Hon. James H. Cassidy (member of congress from the twenty-first district of Ohio), which partnership continued until November, 1909, when Mark A. Cope- land became associated with them under the firm name of Lang, Cassidy & Copeland. The firm has a large general business, Mr. Lang devoting himself mainly to the office practice, representing the legal interests of a number of coal and mining and manufacturing concerns.

Mr. Lang is equally active in business matters, having a voice in the man- agement of a number of local interests. He is now president of The Real Estate Investment Company; vice president of The Ohio Ceramic Engineering Company, The Greenlund-Kennerdell Company and The McKelvey Machinery Company ; secretary of the American Crude Oil Company ; and secretary and treasurer of The Lake Shore Realty Company, as well as being a director of The George A. Rutherford Company and The Holmes Furnace & Stove Com- pany.

Mr. Lang was married June 20, 1900, to Miss Minnie A. Grayell, a daughter of Joseph G. Grayell and a teacher in the Cleveland schools. They hold mem- bership in the Euclid Avenue Baptist church, of which he is a trustee. Mr. Lang is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Cleveland Athletic Club. He is a republican in politics but has never taken any very active part in party affairs.

ALFRED M. BONHARD.

Alfred M. Bonhard is numbered among the exceptionally successful busi- ness men of Cleveland who are materially assisting in maintaining the city's commercial and industrial prestige. He was born in Russia, in July, 1869, a son of Marcus Bonhard, also a native of Russia, and a grandson of Max Bon- hard, who was born in Germany and was taken to Russia by his family There

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they engaged in the manufacture of furniture, being so successful that they located permanently in their new home. Max Bonhard did most artistic work in that line and was engaged as private cabinetmaker to the court of Albertin. Marcus Bonhard followed the same business, and Alfred M. Bonhard is in the fourth generation of furniture-makers in the family. The father of our subject died when the latter was eleven years of age.

Reared in Russia, and there educated in the school and seminary at Slonin, Alfred M. Bonhard was trained in the furniture business from his youth. In young manhood he traveled through Russia and other parts of Europe, studying the business of furniture-making. He worked in the best shops abroad, and was in England for six months.

Therefore, with a ripened experience, a full knowledge of the business in all its details, and an artistic perception of the beautiful, he came to the United States in 1895 and for two years found ready employment in some of the eastern cities. Upon coming to Cleveland he established a repair shop until he could secure acquaintances and show what he was capable of producing. Gradually from this small beginning he developed his present business and now has one of the best stores in the city. He designs all of his goods which are sold chiefly in the city, although he receives orders for special work from outside parties. He has furnished some of Cleveland's most beautiful homes and is recognized as an authority in his line. His exquisite art furniture has won for him a de- lightful prestige and he has reaped a very gratifying return for his endeavors.

On July 22, 1898, Mr. Bonhard married Rebecca Weberman, of Pennsylvania, and they have two children: Marcus and Florence who are attending school. Mr. Bonhard is a member of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. His cour- tesy, geniality and deference for the opinions of others has made him a valued friend in the social circles in which he moves while his business activities have gained him a wide acquaintance. He takes as much pride in producing an ar- tistic piece of furniture as a painter does in a canvas which is regarded as a masterpiece. His sense of proportion, adaptation and design, as manifest in his productions is most marked and the notable ability which he has displayed well entitles him to the extensive patronage accorded him.

CLARENCE CLARENDEN SMYTH.

Clarence Clarenden Smyth was the youngest of three sons born to Washing- ton R. Smyth and his wife, Malvina Jenkins Smyth, who were married in Wells- ville, Ohio, September 27, 1844. His mother was the daughter of Hon. John M. Jenkins, of Wellsville, Ohio, who was a lawyer and a pioneer resident of Colum- biana county and who represented his district in the Ohio legislative senate during four terms. The Smyths were pioneer residents of Beaver county, Pennsylvania.

Clarence C. Smyth was born February 2, 1849, at Service, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and after an academic education in the local schools was graduated from the Eastman Business College of Poughkeepsie, New York, in class No. 680, on the Ist of August, 1873. The following month he located and secured employ- ment at Cleveland, Ohio, and after proving his ability as an accountant was ap- pointed chief clerk of the motive power department of the Big Four Railway Sys- tem, holding this position for about fifteen years. He was advanced to a higher position in the service of the Erie Railway and was about to enter upon his duties when he was called to the higher life, his demise occurring at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, on the 15th of August, 1892, when he had attained the age of forty- two years. His remains were interred in the Riverside cemetery of Cleveland, Ohio.

On the 18th of October, 1877, Mr. Smyth was united in marriage to Miss Helen A. Miller, a daughter of James Madison and Melissa (Delamater) Miller, of

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Meadville, Pennsylvania, both families being pioneer residents of Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Representatives of the Miller family came from Connecticut to the frontier in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The paternal ancestors of the Delamaters can be traced through history, cyclopedias and accepted genea- logical data to an ancient house in Brittany, The Lords of Garlaye. The first known records are of Arthur LeMaitre (now Delamater), Lord of Boiswert in the parish of Aubrey, in the district of Nantes, who was knight chamberlain to John II, Duke of Brittany, between 1286 and 1312, A. D. Members of the family were eminent in state, church and law in France and England. Claude LeMaitre (Dela- mater), the ancestor of the Delamaters of the new world, was prosecuted and imprisoned with others, at Amiens, in 1588, for being a Protestant. In 1593 John LeMaitre, who was of the family of Claude, was president of the parliament of Paris (see Guizot's History of France, volume 5, pages 52 and 53). Louis Isaac LeMaitre translated the Bible, which caused his imprisonment in the Bastile for two years. He was a defender of the cause of Henry IV and successfully de- fended the University of Paris against the Jesuits in 1594. He died in 1618 and was esteemed as the greatest lawyer of his time, for which he was highly honored.

To Clarence C. Smyth and his wife, Helen Miller Smyth, were born two sons in Cleveland, Ohio, namely : Howard LaVerne, whose birth occurred September 24, 1882; and Malcolm Maurice, whose natal day was July 6, 1884. Howard L. Smyth completed the civil engineering course in the Case School of Applied Science in the class of 1906, and in September of the same year married Maude Cooper, of Union City, Pennsylvania, a daughter of E. A. Cooper. Malcolm M. Smyth is a corporation accountant, and both young men manifest sincere interest in their chosen vocations.

Clarence C. Smyth was a member of the Masonic fraternity and belonged to the Oriental Commandery of Knight Templars in Cleveland, Ohio. He and his wife were among the first residents of Cleveland to accept Christian Science and were members of the first incorporated church of that faith in 1888. The richest lives are often those reflected upon their own immediate circle, and bless all who are within their touch, and their good works will unfold until the end of time, after they pass on to higher and holier work and nearer to God, who is Love.

EDWARD G. BUCKWELL.

Cleveland has become the center of pulsing, industrial interests and its ramify- ing trade relations reach out to all sections of the country. Controlling its impor- tant manufacturing and commercial interests are men of keen discrimination with ability to plan and to perform, men who deserve to be termed patrons of industry. To this class belongs Edward G. Buckwell, the secretary of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company. Numbered among the native sons of Tennessee, his birth occur- red in the city of Knoxville, September 6, 1858. The family is of English lineage, the paternal grandfather being Edward G. Buckwell, a clock manufacturer of Eng- land. His father, George E. Buckwell, also a native of England, came to America about 1832, settling in Philadelphia, where he engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, becoming widely recognized as a skilled and eminent surgeon. He followed his profession in both Philadelphia and St. Louis and at the time of the Civil war served as a surgeon in the Confederate army, meeting his death in front of Murfreesboro in 1862. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Bell, was a daughter of Captain James and Nancy (Stephenson) Bell. The Bell fam- ily were natives of Virginia and were among the pioneer residents of Tennessee, settling there in 1820. Captain James Bell served as an officer in the war of 1812 and was prominent among those who became active in formulating the early policy and shaping the destiny of the state of Tennessee.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume II, Part 99

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