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On the 8th of January, 1889, Mr. Wieber was married to Miss Martha E. Dietz, a daughter of George Dietz, one of the prominent and pioneer Ger- man residents of Cleveland. Their four children are: Charles L. F., Jr., Alvina E., Martha and Walter D. Mr. Wieber is a republican, supporting the party at the polls, yet not active in its ranks. He is well known in different frater-
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nal and social relations, having attained the Knight Templar degree in Forest City Commandery, while he has also crossed the sands of the desert with the nobles of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise a member and di- rector of Clifton Club and a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club. His religious faith is indicated through his church relations with the Presbyterian denomina- tion. He has a fine home on Lake avenue with five acres on the lake front, erecting there a handsome residence about two years ago. He is a man of athletic build and fine personal appearance and of dignified manner, impressing one at once with the force of character that has enabled him to reach the enviable position which he today occupies in the business circles of the city.
HENRY JACKSON SHERWOOD.
Henry Jackson Sherwood, one of Cleveland's pharmacists, was born in this city May 5, 1863. His father, Henry Jackson Sherwood, a native of New York city, came to Cleveland in 1859 and was engaged in the real estate business to the time of his death, which occurred in 1891. His widow, Mrs. Mary (Glass) Sher- wood, survived until 1904.
In the public schools Henry Jackson Sherwood pursued his studies through successive grades until he entered the high school, in which he spent two years, not finishing the course. He was seventeen years of age when he made his initial step in the business world as a clerk in the drug store of W. H. Flood, with whom he continued for six years, during which time he gained a comprehensive knowl- edge of the methods in vogue in the commercial world and also of the compound- ing and medicinal properties of drugs. He was well qualified by long and varied experience when he entered business on his own account, opening a drug store at the corner of Fifty-fifth street and Woodland avenue, in January, 1886. He has remained at this location continuously since and carries a large line of physicians' supplies, while he sends upon the road traveling salesmen who cover the entire northwestern section of the state. This is one of the largest retail pharmacies of the city and the company are wholesale agents for numerous pharmaceutical man- ufactures. From a comparatively small beginning Mr. Sherwood has developed a business of extensive and profitable proportions and the well kept and attractive appearance of the store is one of the salient features in the growth of the trade.
Mr. Sherwood is well known among the druggists of Cleveland and was one of the organizers of the Mutual Drug Company of this city, an organization whose membership includes about three hundred retail druggists. The company con- ducts a large wholesale trade and from the beginning Mr. Sherwood has been at its head as the president. That he is interested in municipal affairs and public progress is indicated in his long continued membership in the Chamber of Com- merce. He cooperates in many movements for the general good and his labors have been a resultant factor along lines of public benefit. He resides at No. 7413 Carnegie avenue.
FRANK T. MITCHELL.
Frank T. Mitchell was born December 26, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan, and is the youngest of a family of two sons and two daughters whose parents were James I. and Henrietta Mitchell. The father, who died January 22, 1888, was at one time engaged in the grocery business in Detroit, where he was also somewhat prominent in political circles, serving as register of deeds and as city alderman for two terms. His widow still survives.
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Frank T. Mitchell was a public school pupil in Detroit to the time of his com- pletion of the course by graduation in June, 1895. He entered business life as a clerk in a cigar store of that city, where he remained for a year, after which he was employed for another year in Detroit as assistant bookkeeper for John T. Woodhouse, wholesale dealer in cigars and tobacco. He left his native city to become cashier in the English Woolen Mills Company of Cleveland, August 15, 1897. He was then sixteen years of age and received a salary of eight dollars per week. Merit gradually won him promotion, however, to the successive positions of salesman, assistant manager, manager and vice president, being called to the latter position in February, 1903. He worked in Cleveland from August 15, 1897, until March, 1902, when the English Woolen Mills Company opened a store in Detroit and he was sent there as assistant manager, while later he was advanced to the position of manager and remained in that capacity until September 15, 1903, when the company opened their Cincinnati (Ohio) store and through the suc- ceeding year Mr. Mitchell was the manager at that point. In September, 1904, he returned to Cleveland, which is the headquarters for the five stores of the com- pany, and has remained as manager at this point to the present time or for about six years.
In his political views Mr. Mitchell is a republican but aside from exercising his, right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the party is not an active politician. He belongs to Tyrian Lodge, No. 370, F. & A. M., which he joined in the year 1906 and soon after became a member of Cleveland Chapter, No. 148, R. A. M. He was formerly a member of the Colonial Club and is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church. He is unmarried. Realizing at the outset of his career that merit wins and that advancement is secured through capability and fidelity, he has made those qualities the keynote of his success. Gradually he has risen in the commercial world to a remunerative position and one of large respon- sibility.
JOHN MARVIN INGERSOLL, M. D.
The tendency of the age is toward specialization. In all professional lines knowledge has been so broadened through investigation and research and has become so complex as a result of existing conditions that it would be impossible for any individual to thoroughly master every branch of any profession. With comprehensive knowledge of the basic principles of the practice of medicine and surgery, Dr. Ingersoll, in accordance with the tendency of the times, has made a specialty of otology, rhinology and laryngology, in which connections he has become widely and prominently known both as an educator and practitioner. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, March II, 1869. His father, Rev. W. M. In- gersoll, a native of the state of New York, located in Youngstown in the '60s. He was a minister of the Baptist church and followed that holy calling until his retirement a number of years ago, much of his labor in behalf of the church being done in Youngstown, Ohio, and in Washington, D. C. He is now living in Cleveland at the age of eighty-two years. His wife bore the maiden name of Rose C. Stone and was a representative of an old Connecticut family, her parents, however, coming to the Western Reserve in pioneer times.
Dr. Ingersoll, in pursuing his education, attended successively the Columbian College Preparatory School at Washington, D. C., Brooks Military Academy of Cleveland and Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1891. Subsequently his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. His literary course completed, he next entered the medical department of the Western Re- serve University and was graduated on completion of the regular course in 1893. His first practical experience in the line of his profession came to him through more than a year's service in the City Hospital, where his labors were varied
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and of an important nature, bringing him broad and comprehensive knowledge. Subsequently he traveled in Europe, studying in Vienna, Berlin and London, two and a half years being devoted to research and investigation there, especially in the treatment of the diseases of the nose, throat and ear. Following his re- turn to his native land he located in Cleveland and was appointed assistant in the nose, throat and ear department of the Western Reserve University dis- pensary. He was also made lecturer on otology, rhinology and laryngology in the medical department of that school from 1895 until 1903 and since the latter year he has been assistant professor of those branches. He has also been sur- geon in charge of the nose, throat and ear department at the Lakeside Hospital since its establishment and he is likewise laryngologist of the City Hospital. His extensive and thorough investigation along the lines of his specialty has made him one of the foremost representatives of that department of professional ser- vice in Cleveland.
Dr. Ingersoll is moreover a member of the council of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, also a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine and a member of the American Laryngological Association, the American Laryn- gological, Rhinological and Otological Society, the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Association for the Advance ment of Science. For a number of years he has been doing original work in the comparative anatomy and development of the nose and throat and has written many valuable papers relative thereto for publication in various profes- sional journals.
In October, 1900, Dr. Ingersoll was married in Franklin, Pennsylvania, to Miss Catharine L. Garvin. Although his professional services make constant demands upon his time, Dr. Ingersoll is a member of the Union, University and Country Clubs.
THOMAS JOPLING.
On the honor roll of Cleveland appears the name of Thomas Jopling. In his life splendid business ability and broad humanitarianism were well balanced features. He was one of those whose activity and enterprise were elements in pushing forward the wheels of progress but never were his attention and activities so self-centered that participation in movements for the public good found no place in his life. On the contrary organized charity received his ready assistance and his generous aid was given in hundreds of individual cases. His sympathy was quick and his heart and hand made ready response, nor was he lacking in that strength of purpose and firm resolve which are so essential in the business life.
He was born in Northumberland county, England, January 10, 1841. The death of his father, occasioned by an accident, left a family of seven young children without provision for their support but they were adopted by relatives and Thomas Jopling became a member of the family of his mother's brother, Thomas Halliday, a man of unusually fine character, who conducted an exten- sive and profitable business in connection with the coal and iron industries. He provided Thomas Jopling with opportunities for acquiring a good practical English education and then took him into his own office that he might receive there the business training necessary for the active affairs of life. After two years Mr. Halliday obtained for his nephew another position where he would have opportunities for acquiring a broad and varied experience and he entered the Sheepbridge Iron Works, then managed by the late William Fowler, M. P., a brother of Sir John Fowler, an eminent English civil engineer, who built the London underground railway. For four years Mr. Jopling continued in the
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office of the Sheepbridge Iron Works and his training and experience there constituted a splendid foundation upon which to build future success.
In the meantime he was looking over the business world and, believing that the United States offered excellent advantages, he resolved to come to the new world and sailed for this land in 1864. Interested in agricultural pursuits, he purchased a small farm near Enon Valley in Pennsylvania, but as he had no practical knowledge concerning the work of tilling the fields it required but a brief experience for him to become convinced that farming was not his voca- tion. It was well that he early came to a realization of this fact else Cleveland might have been denied the assistance and stimulus which he gave to her busi- ness circles. The future held in store for him larger opportunities than were offered in agricultural lines and his intelligent appreciation of advantages and chances was one of his strong and salient characteristics. On leaving the farm he secured a situation in the office of Freeman Butts, a coal operator in Penn- sylvania, who was once a resident of Cleveland. In this connection Mr. Jop- ling bent every energy toward the mastery of the duties that devolved upon him and to the acquirement of knowledge that would serve him well in business circles. With a nature that could not be content with mediocrity and with laud- able ambition which awakened in him the desire to one day engage in business on his own account, he put forth every effort to obtain the capital necessary to this end. As the result of his industry and careful expenditure he was at length enabled to join William A. Robinson of Cleveland in a partnership and they opened a coal mine near Palestine, Ohio.
While thus engaged Mr. Joplin formed the acquaintance of C. A. Otis, founder and proprietor of the Otis Iron Works of Cleveland. Mr. Otis, not- able as a judge of men, quickly recognized Mr. Jopling's fine business talents and capabilities and made him a proposition to come to Cleveland and take charge of his office. The offer was accepted and Cleveland gained a citizen whose worth was widely acknowledged, his abilities carrying him into business rela- tions, while his unswerving integrity and genial kindliness gained him the honor, respect and sincere affection of those with whom he came in contact.
Entering upon his duties in Cleveland, Mr. Jopling had charge of the office of the Otis Iron Works until they were sold, when he entered into partnership with Mr. Otis in the building of the Otis Steel & Iron Works, which were put into operation about 1874 with Mr. Jopling as financial manager. Later he was influential in successfully negotiating and completing the sale of this large concern to an English syndicate. He retained an interest in the works, however, and was one of the managing directors of the new company-a position which he held at the time of his death. A man of resourceful ability, quickly recog- nizing opportunities and coordinating forces into a harmonious whole, his worth and work made him a valued factor in the industrial development of Cleveland, upon which the prosperity of the city has so largely rested. He became one of the founders and the president of the American Wire Works, also one of the city's mammoth and important manufacturing enterprises. He was likewise the vice president of the East End Savings Bank and a director in the Citizens Savings & Loan Association, now the Citizens Savings & Trust Company. He was also largely interested in the Mutual and Orient lines of lake boats, like- wise in the Cleveland street railways and various other enterprises in this and other cities. His wonderfully clear and direct business insight, his sound and experienced judgment as well as his well known disposition to render aid and lend his influence to all worthy purposes, caused him to be frequently called upon for advice and assistance and also became the means by which he ac- quired various interests in many corporations and companies.
In 1864 Mr. Jopling was united in marriage to Miss Mary Clayton, a daughter of John Clayton, one of the prominent coal operators and highly re- spected citizens of the ancient town of Chesterfield, England. Mrs. Jopling was born at Stone Middleton, which place is known as the Switzerland of Eng-
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land because of its beautiful scenery. Three children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Jopling, two sons and a daughter. Reginald F., the eldest, born October 27, 1866, was graduated from the Central high school of Cleveland with the class of 1885. He then entered the Columbia School of Mines in New York and was graduated with the class of 1889 with the degree of E. M. He after- ward became identified with the Otis Steel Company and the American Wire Company-with the former as a chemist and the latter as president and general manager until the corporations were sold to the United States Steel Company. Since that time Mr. Jopling has been engaged as a consulting engineer. He is one of the organizers and a director and secretary of the Meridian Publishing Company, which publishes the Cleveland News. He is one of the organizers and the president of the Ingersoll Amusement Company, owning Luna Park, and an organizer and director of the Tavistock Building Company. He be- longs to the Union and University Clubs and is a member of St. Paul's Epis- copal church. He married Anna Mitchell, of Cleveland, and they have three children : Catharine Heller, Thomas and Anita. Thomas Halliday, the second son, a man of excellent ability, has on account of ill health been compelled to relinquish business connections. He married Florence M. Dixon and with their son, Thomas Reginald, they reside at Willoughby. Florence M., the daugh- ter, is the wife of Francisco Escobar, a Spanish South American, and they reside in New York. They have three children: Mary Mercides, Francisco Ennis and Florence Leonora.
For some years prior to his death, Mr. Jopling had in mind the development of an estate patterned after the English country homes and with that idea in view he purchased several hundred acres of land at Willoughby but death claimed him before he had opportunity to begin the work of development there. The family carried out his plans, however, and Willoughby Hall is now one of the most beautiful places in this section of the state and is the family homestead.
The death of Mr. Jopling occurred February 18, 1894, his remains being interred in Lakeview cemetery. While he was a very successful man in his business ventures and established and promoted enterprises which grew to large proportions and became among the most important sources of revenue for Cleveland-in that the prosperity of every city depends upon its business inter- ests-it was not alone what he accomplished by reason of his initiative and executive ability that gained him a high place in the regard of his fellowmen. Many other traits of his character were equally pronounced and of equal value. He possessed a broad spirit of humanitarianism and no man ever more fully realized the obligations and responsibilities of wealth. He gave generous and ready assistance to all movements looking toward the upbuilding of the city and the enlargement of her industrial and commercial importance, his pat- riotic devotion to her welfare being manifest in many tangible ways but above and beyond this he possessed an eminently sympathetic and charitable nature, responding readily to every appeal that was made to him for the aid of the poor and needy and the discouraged and distressed. His benefactions were many and he made no distinctions in creeds or beliefs in his charity. He gave freely not from any sense of duty but from sincere interest in his fellowmen, and his charity was of a most quiet and unostentatious nature, many of his acts of kindness being known not even to the members of his family until after his death. While he did not formally unite with any religious organization after coming to America he followed the teachings of his youth and the spirit of Christianity found embodiment in much that he did. In manner he was most genial, courteous and kindly, enjoying life and its opportunities, his friends and their companionship. He was a valued member of the Union, Roadside and Country Clubs and delighted in meeting the members of those organizations in social converse, but his greatest interest centered in his home. He never regarded it as beneath his dignity to join his children in any game of childhood and he stood as a high type of the devoted husband and loving father. He also
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held friendship inviolable and his loyalty to a friend was never questioned. He found his chief recreation in travel, usually spending his vacations with his family in Europe, where he did not follow the paths usually taken by the tourist but wandered from place to place as fancy and inclination dictated. He was a man of broad, general culture, of marked strength in business connec- tions, of high purposes and lofty ideals, and the influence which he exerted upon the world's work was no inconsiderable one.
GEORGE D. COWLEY.
George D. Cowley, who has been connected with the commercial tile inter- ests of Cleveland for a long period of years and has been a conspicuous figure in some of the more popular clubs here, is now the treasurer of the- Hill Clutch Company, with offices at the foot of West Fifty-eighth street. He was born in Galion, Ohio, July 23, 1863, a son of John R. and Cicelia P. (Deming) Cowley. The former was a building contractor and died in this city February 3, 1906. The mother has also passed away, her death having occurred July 6, 1892. They were numbered among the older settlers of this section of Ohio, having come here from New York state.
George D. Cowley was five years old when he came with his parents to take up his residence in Cleveland. At the usual age he became a pupil in the public school, and having passed through the successive grades entered the high school, in which he completed his practical preparation for life. When he embarked upon his business career, he secured a position with J. C. Batchelor & Company dealers in coal, remaining with them eight years. Later he entered the Union National Bank and was connected with that institution for the next twenty years. From October 1, 1907, he has been identified with the Hill Clutch Company, as treasurer. The Hill Clutch Company was organized as a partnership in 1884 and incorporated in 1888. They manufacture transmission machinery, their clutches being the best on the market, and where severe service is required they are gen- erally specified. The United States government specified their clutches for use in the Panama canal work and their product is sold all over the world. Theirs is a splendidly equipped plant and employment is furnished to between four and five hundred people. Mr. Cowley has the satisfaction of knowing that he has contributed materially to the advancement of the concern, in this way promoting the development of Cleveland enterprises as well.
When the American Institute of Bank Clerks was organized in Cleveland some years ago, Mr. Cowley was elected its first president. His executive abili- ties again found exercise during the term he acceptably occupied the president's chair of the Tippecanoe Club. He still is a member of that organization and of stalwart defendant of their principles, but never one who aspired to official pre- the Euclid Club as well. Politically the republicans have always found him a ferment as a reward for party fealty.
C. J. MANIX.
C. J. Manix, deceased, who at one time was general manager of the Planet Oil Company and a member of the Ohio legislature during Governor Herrick's administration, died on the 3d of February, 1908. He had lived in Cleveland during the greater part of his life, coming to this city in 1852 from La Fayette, Indiana. He was born in the Hoosier state in 1851 but the following year his parents removed to Cleveland, where he acquired a portion of his education, also pursuing his studies for a time in Chicago. On entering business life he was
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first engaged as bookkeeper in the office of an oil company but gradually work- ing his way upward as his ability, fidelity and trustworthiness won recognition, he eventually reached the responsible position of general manager of the Planet Oil Company. His father died when he was only a year old and from an early age he was dependent upon his own resources and could well be termed a self- made man. Although he met with difficulties and obstacles at the outset of his career, he steadily worked his way upward in the face of opposition that always constitutes a feature of business life, and became known as a leading representa- tive of commercial interests in Cleveland. He never made engagements that he did not keep nor incurred obligations that he did not meet, and among his busi- ness contemporaries and associates he was regarded as the soul of commercial honor.
Mr. Manix was united in marriage in Circleville, Ohio, to Miss Mary F. Moss, whose father, John Moss, was one of the early settlers of Ohio. He be- came a large cattle man, dealing extensively in live stock at the Chicago Stock Yards. He was also the organizer of the stock yards at Omaha, Nebraska, and in his business connections became known from coast to coast. To Mr. and Mrs. Manix were born four children, namely : Helen, Elizabeth, Mary and John, all living. Since 1906 the family residence has been at what is now No. 49 Bright- wood street.
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