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employed in pumping wells was being wasted by the pumps then in use. In 1904, therefore, he abandoned his activities in the oil fields in order to devote his entire attention to the invention of a double throw pump, with which twice the fluid could be pumped with the same power. His invention has been an undoubted success. He organized the American Pump Company for the manufacture of his invention and as its vice president is devoting his energies to the development and upbuilding of the business, which has already assumed extensive and profitable proportions.
Thoughout his business career Mr. Lippert has never judged conditions nor opportunities by their surface indication and his keen insight into situations and his clear perception have enabled him to reach logical deductions that would never be done by a more superficial observer. As the result of this characteristic on the part of Mr. Lippert he wrote and published an article which appeared several years ago under the caption, "Don't be Fooled." It was a clear exposition of the subject of oil development through the agency of thousands of companies that were incorporated in other states than Ohio and were therefore subject to less rigid laws and scrutiny. As the result of this article over fifty fake oil companies were forced to suspend business and thus thousands of dollars were saved to probable investors. Mr. Lippert is also the author of a serial article on Modern Banking, which was published recently and indicates the same clear investigation and understanding of the subject, his lucid exposition of facts making strong ap- peal even to the dullest minds.
On the 7th of September, 1887, Mr. Lippert was united in marriage to Miss Julia A. Lamont of Saginaw, Michigan, a daughter of John B. Lamont, the chief of the fire department of that place and a distant relative of Daniel S. Lamont, ex-secretary of the treasury of the United States. Seven children have been born unto Mr. and Mrs. Lippert. John P., who will be twenty-two years old on September 28, 1910, seems to have inherited his father's genius and has already won some distinction as an inventor, doing original work in connection with the improvement of gasoline engines, wireless telephones and telegraphs. He completed his education in Shaw Academy. Samuel, twenty years of age, is an engineer and takes great interest in the fine arts. William, aged eighteen, is a mechanical engineer and, like his elder brother, possesses much mechanical in- genuity. Earl, seventeen years of age, attends the public schools and is an art student under the direction of Miss May Ames and also shares the family's mechanical genius. Arthur, aged fifteen, David M., thirteen and George Dewey, eleven, are all pupils in the public schools. The family residence is at No. 41 Stanwood Road.
Mr. Lippert and his family attend the Christian church, in which he holds membership. He gives his political allegiance to the democracy and affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He enjoys the esteem and admira- tion of his friends and business associates and in business circles has made substantial progress, so utilizing his time, opportunities and native talents that he has risen to a prominent position in manufacturing circles. Moreover, his wide reading and research and his keen analytical mind have made him to a considerable extent a molder of public thought and action in the city of his residence.
SAMUEL P. ORTH.
Samuel P. Orth, attorney, was born in Capac, Michigan, August 1, 1873. His father was a German Evangelical clergyman. Mr. Orth graduated from Oberlin College in 1896, studied law at the University of Michigan in 1896-7, was called to the chair of political science in Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, in 1897 and remained there for five years. In 1902 he was appointed honorary university fellow in public law at Columbia University, and in 1903 received the degree of Ph. D. from the
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university, in the department of public law. Mr. Orth came to Cleveland in the summer of 1903 and began the practice of law. In 1904 he was elected a member of the board of education and chosen president of the board on its organization in January, 1905. During 1905 and 1906 he was assistant United States attorney.
Mr. Orth is the author of "Centralization of Administration in Ohio" and "Five 'American Politicians," is a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and other literary magazines, as well as to professional journals, and is well known as a lecturer and public speaker. During 1906-7 he was lecturer on political economy in Case School of Applied Science, and in 1907-8 special lecturer on political science in Oberlin College.
As a member of the board of education Mr. Orth has stood for aggressiveness in educational affairs. When he was inaugurated president of the board on the 2d of January, 1905, he recommended the appointment of an educational commission to be composed of representative citizens, to study the schools of the city with a view of bringing them into closer harmony with the needs of the community. The report of this commission marks an epoch in the development of the educational work of the city. On February 15, 1906, Mr. Orth introduced the resolution au- thorizing the sale of bonds for establishing the Technical high school; on March 5, 1906, he introduced a resolution establishing the teachers' pension fund; on June 18, 1906, he presented the resolution that has resulted in greatly simplifying the courses of study in elementary schools. On May 27, 1907, as chairman of the committee on athletics, he reported the plan that placed athletics under the department of instruc- tion ; and on October 21, 1907, he presented a comprehensive plan for a playground system for the schools. On November II, 1907, he called the attention of the board to the need of a new normal school and of a high school of commerce. A new nor- mal school is now under construction, and, through his initiative, a high school of commerce was opened in the fall of 1909. On December 9, 1907, Mr. Orth intro- duced a resolution which resulted in the forming of evening classes for machine- shop practice in the manual training buildings. On February 17, 1908, he intro- duced a resolution reorganizing the courses of study in the Normal School. These were the larger movements he was instrumental in helping along as a member of the board of education.
LOUIS F. DIEZ.
Louis F. Diez, one of the respected and representative German citizens of Cleveland during the years of his residence here, was born in Niederpollnitz, Germany, August 12, 1856. He reached the age of but forty years, his death occurring on the 16th of February, 1897. His parents were Karl and Julia Diez, who were also natives of Niederpollnitz, where the father followed the shoe- maker's trade.
Louis F. Diez attended the public schools of his native country to the age of fourteen years, thus complying with the compulsory educational law of that land. He afterward entered his father's shoe shop and under his direction learned the trade. After mastering the business and again in accordance with the laws of his native country, Louis F. Diez entered the army and served for three years, being connected with an infantry division stationed at Jena, Germany. After his retirement from the army he opened a shoe shop in his home town and there engaged in business for a number of years. He prospered as the months passed by and continued successfully in business until 1892, when with a substantial cap- ital he crossed the Atlantic to America and took up his abode in Cleveland. Here his remaining days were passed. Soon after reaching this city he entered the employ of Ferdinand Paillon, located on West Twenty-fifth street, there remain- ing for about a year. On the expiration of that period he entered business for himself but continued for only a few months, when he retired owing to illness.
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He suffered from ill health for about three years and then passed away on the 16th of February, 1897.
Mr. Diez had been married in Wenigen, Jena, Germany, to Miss Anna Hebestreit, a daughter of Christian and Caroline (Manger) Hebestreit, of Buchau, Germany. The father was quite prominent in community affairs, acting as dis- trict superintendent of the police force. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Diez were born three daughters : Agnes B., Mrs. Lena Hudson and Mrs. Emma Turk.
In his political views Mr. Diez was a stalwart republican, his study of the situation of the country and the vital issues of the day leading him to the belief that the principles of the party were best fitted to subserve the general interests of the nation. He held membership in the United Brethren church and his life was an upright and honorable one, devoted to worthy purposes and high ideals.
WILLIAM H. BROWN.
William H. Brown, who in the years of an active business career represented the firm of McNeury & Claffin, paving contractors, as their foreman, was born in Auburn, Geauga county, Ohio, June 24, 1830. He was a son of John Brown, born in 1796, and Mary (Haden) Brown. They came from the Empire state to Ohio, settling in Newberry, Geauga county, in 1809. There the father engaged in farming for six years and in 1815 went to Auburn, where he continued to carry on general agricultural pursuits, making his home there for over sixty years. He served his country as a soldier in the War of 1812. His parents were Abner and Desire (King) Brown, both of whom were natives of New York.
William H. Brown pursued his education in the public schools of Auburn, where he prepared for college, and then attended Hiram College, taking a Latin course. He was a well educated man and became well known and greatly re- spected in the business circles of Cleveland. After leaving school he went to Coldwater, Michigan, where he became connected with the dry-goods business, continuing in that field of activity until after the outbreak of the Civil war, when his patriotic spirit was aroused by the continued attempt of the south to overthrow the Union. He then enlisted as a private of the Sixth Michigan Cavalry, in 1862, and served for three years, taking part in a number of hotly contested battles, while his valor and meritorious conduct on the field won him promotion to the rank of captain. In one engagement he was wounded but he continued at the front until the expiration of his three years' term of service, when he was 'hon- orably discharged.
Following his military experience Captain Brown came to Cleveland and ac- cepted the position of foreman with the firm of McNeury & Claffin, paving con- tractors, with whom he continued until his demise, which occurred about ten years later. He was a most faithful and efficient representative of the firm and his business integrity and enterprise were well known factors in his honorable life. On the 8th of June, 1865, Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Mary C. Castillo, a daughter of John and Helen (Hale) Castillo, the former a native of New York, while the mother came from England. They resided in Oswego, New York, and John Castillo was a captain on packet boats on the canal, making trips from Oswego to Albany. He was a son of John Castillo, of Mexican de- scent, and a soldier in the early Mexican wars. Mrs. Brown was born in Oswego, New York, December 29, 1842, and came to Cleveland in 1852 with her mother, her father's death having previously occurred. For more than half a century Mrs. Brown has remained a resident of this city, is well known on the west side and is a member of the Old Settler's Association. By her marriage she became the mother of one son, George U. Brown, who is employed by the Baker Print- ing Company.
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Mr. Brown was a prominent Mason and was also equally well known and popular in the Odd Fellows society. His political allegiance was given to the re- publican party and his religious faith was manifest in his membership in the Christian church. Wherever known he was held in high esteem and he is yet re- membered by many friends, although a third of a century has passed away since he was called to his final rest. He was devoted to the welfare of his family, was faithful to every trust reposed in him, and by reason of his upright life left an untarnished name.
JOHN M. GUNDRY.
John M. Gundry, occupying a position of distinctive precedence in financial and business circles, being widely known as the president of the Lake Shore Banking & Trust Company of Cleveland, was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, September 7, 1859. The natal day of his father, Joseph Gundry, a native of England, was May II, 1822, and in 1845, when a young man of twenty-three years, he crossed the Atlantic to America, settling in the zinc and lead mining sec- tion of southwestern Wisconsin, where he became largely interested in the smelt- ing and manufacturing of the former metal and also conducted business there as a merchant. He retired from active business some thirty years prior to his death, which occurred in 1899. His wife, Mrs. Sarah Gundry, was a daughter of Rich- ard Perry, of England.
In the private and public schools of Mineral Point, John M. Gundry pursued his early education and afterward entered the preparatory school of the North- western University in 1875. The following year he became a student in the uni- versity proper and left the college at the end of his junior year. Later, however, he pursued a three years' course in law at the Baldwin University, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Law degree in 1903 and was admitted to the bar the same year. The year following his abandonment of his studies at the Northwestern University he spent in Chicago and in the spring of 1881 he took up his residence at Silverton, Colorado, in the fall of which year he entered busi- ness circles in connection with the San Juan County Bank. He spent one month at that institution, leaving it for the east with the agreement that he should be made a partner the following year. This arrangement was consummated in 1882, at which time he entered upon official relations with the bank as cashier, continuing in that capacity until the bank was sold to what is now the First National Bank. He afterward became temporarily acting cashier in the Union Savings Bank of Lincoln, Nebraska, and subsequently filled a similar position in the Schuyler Na- tional Bank of Schuyler, Nebraska. In 1888 he engaged in a coal prospecting enterprise in the Santa Anna mountains of southern California, but left there in the early part of 1889, spending the following summer on Puget sound.
The year 1890 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Gundry in Cleveland and, contin- uing in active connection with financial interests, he became secretary and treas- urer of the Mechanics Savings bank, of which he was one of the organizers. In 1892 he was elected to the presidency, which position he has filled since, contin- uing so when the bank was succeeded by the Lake Shore Banking & Savings Company and later the Lake Shore Banking & Trust Company. Since that time he has been largely instrumental in placing this bank among the strongest and soundest financial institutions of the city. It is today one of the leading moneyed concerns of Cleveland, established on the sane, conservative policy which insures it a liberal patronage and argues well for its continued success
On the 5th of September, 1894, Mr. Gundry was married to Miss Frances Ruth Gilchrist, a daughter of Joseph C. and Alice (Devin) Gilchrist, of Cleve- land. Unto them have been born five children: John Murton, Joseph Perry, Willoughby Devin, Alice Devin and Francis Bentinck. John Murton and Joseph
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Perry are at present studying in Germany, having previously, with their brother Willoughby, spent two years at Sceaux, Paris, attending the Lycee Lakanal. The city residence of the family is at No. 6903 Euclid avenue and they have an at- tractive summer home, called Quahaug Farm, at East Orleans, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Mrs. Gundry is active in charity circles and is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She likewise belongs to the Lyceum Club of London and Paris. She is a graduate of the Cleveland Art School and is an author of considerable note. Her talents have thus been cul- tivated in several lines, while in charitable work she manifests a tact that is the outcome of keen and helpful sympatthy. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gundry are as- sociated with St. Paul's Episcopal church and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. He belongs to two college fraternities, the Phi Kappa Sigma and the Delta Gamma Chi, while in club circles he is well known as a rep- resentative of the Union, University, Hermit and Euclid Clubs and is a veteran of Troop A. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and his coopera- tion is a tangible factor in the promotion of many movements instituted by that organization for the welfare and upbuilding of the city. Naturally fond of sports, golf is his present favorite pastime, while the musical side of his nature is catered to by his violin. While his outside interests are many and varied, he never allows any interference with the important business concerns which demand his time and attention and which have placed him prominently before the public in finan- cial circles. The subjective and objective forces of life are in him well balanced, and to make his native talents subserve the demands which conditions of society impose at the present time is the purpose of his life.
HENRY REYNOLDS HATCH.
The subjective and objective forces of life have ever been in Henry R. Hatch well balanced, making him cognizant of his own capabilities and powers, while at the same time he thoroughly understands his opportunities and his obligations. To make his native powers subserve the demands which conditions of society impose at the present time is the purpose of his life and by reason of the ma- ture judgment which continuously characterizes his efforts, he stands today as a splendid representative of the merchant and capitalist to whom business is but one phase of existence and does not exclude his active participation in and sup- port of the other vital interests which go to make up human life. Mr. Hatch is descended from two of the old families of New England. His father, Abijah Hatch, was born at Highgate, Vermont, and, having arrived at years of maturity, wedded Abigail Lyon, who was born in Charlotte, Vermont, and was a daughter of the Rev. Asa Lyon, who represented his district in congress for two years and was long prominent in the work of the ministry. Their son, Henry R. Hatch, was born at Grand Isle, Vermont, October 8, 1831 and his youthful days were passed on his father's farm until he attained his fifteenth year, when he secured a situation in the mercantile establishment of John Brown at North Hero, Vermont. From early childhood it was his desire to enter commercial circles but he did not find his first position a desirable one and returned to the farm, where he continued for two years longer but never put aside his ambition to enter mer- cantile life. He made his next essay of that character as an employe in the store of C. F. Staniford at Burlington, Vermont, but promised his father to return to assist him during the busy seasons on the farm as a compensation for time, as he had not yet attained his majority. During the year spent with Mr. Staniford he received his board and forty dollars. The next year was an advance in his business career, as in the employ of S. L. Herrick, a dry-goods merchant of Bur- lington, Vermont, he was given a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars and his board, making his home with his employer. He proved capable and efficient, so
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age was dependent entirely upon his own resources. He was still quite young when he accepted a clerkship and through that avenue gained much business ex- perience. In 1843, when a young man of twenty years, he went to Massillon, Ohio, with a small stock of groceries, but competition and lack of capital caused him to close out his business and return to Cleveland. He afterward spent some time in Milwaukee, but again came to his native city and entered the employ of S. L. & M. H. Petrie. In the fall of 1848, still ambitious to engage in business on his own account, he purchased a stock of goods from L. L. Beardsley and was shortly afterward joined in a wholesale enterprise by Solon Burgess, an elder brother, under the firm style of L. F. & S. Burgess. The latter remained with the house for a long period but retired some time prior to his death, which occurred about twelve years ago. The business was owned and conducted solely by L. F. and S. Burgess until 1890, when George K. and T. W. Ross were ad- mitted to the firm, and the name was then changed to Burgess & Ross, while later it became Ross, Sprague & Company, William Sprague, a nephew of Mr. Bur- gess, being admitted to the firm at that time. For many years Mr. Burgess re- mained at the head of this undertaking, which by reason of his capable direction, executive force and the ability which he displayed in gathering around him an able corps of assistants, became one of the leading mercantile enterprises of the city. He thus advanced from a humble to a prominent position in financial cir- cles, and as his resources increased he utilized his means for the benefit of others as well as himself.
On the Ist of September, 1853, Mr. Burgess was married to Miss Renda L. Lyon, who survived her husband for about seven years, passing away in March, 1909. The only member of the family now living is a daughter, Miss Anna Bur- gess.
In public life Mr. Burgess was prominently known, having been connected with numerous institutions of importance in the life of the community. He be- longed to the Early Settlers' Association and gave his political allegiance to the re- publican party, for which he was always an earnest and indefatigable worker. He served as one of the directors of the workhouse for a number of years and at one time was president of the board. He was likewise the president of the Humane Society and treasurer of the Children's Aid Society, and was greatly interested in charitable and benevolent work. He acted for some years as a trustee in the Third Presbyterian church, and throughout his life he sought opportunities of do- ing good to his fellowmen, both in ways of individual assistance and in coop- eration in measures for the general good.
CHARLES A. McDONALD.
Charles A. McDonald, secretary of the James Mullins Coal Company, was born in Allegheny city, Pennsylvania, on the 4th of April, 1862. His father, Duncan McDonald, was a native of Wellsville, Ohio, and a son of Angus Mc- Donald, who was born in Scotland and was a wholesale grocer. Duncan McDonald died in 1867 at the age of fifty-two years. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary Ann Mccullough and was a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Nesley) Mccullough.
Charles A. McDonald was educated in private schools of his native city prior to 1878, when he entered Worcester University, pursuing a philosophical course. He left college, however, before the time of graduation and took up the reading of law, but did not complete his studies in that direction. He became instead interested in the coal business in 1883 in connection with the James Mul- lins Coal Company in the capacity of salesman. He has remained in active con- nection with the company to the present time and in 1906 was elected its secretary, having active charge of the Cleveland branch of the business. He has made his
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home in this city since 1902, and in him are recognized the salient, forceful qualities that mark the man of enterprise and determination. He is now re- garded as one of the representative business men of the city, handling his in- terests with the accuracy that comes from broad knowledge and experience, while his laudable ambition prompts him to reach out along new lines that promise large success.
On the 13th of January, 1895, Mr. McDonald was married to Miss Minnie L. Carrothers, daughter of James and Ida (Price) Carrothers, of Mansfield, Ohio, and they now reside at No. 10010 Lamont avenue. Mr. McDonald finds his recreation in outdoor sports and is interested in all manly athletics. He belongs to the Coal Club and the Hermit Club in this city and has attained high rank in Masonry, being a Knight Templar of the Commandery and thirty-second degree Mason of the Consistory and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. His political al- legiance is given to the republican party, and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, especially those vital problems which concern the trade relations of the country. In matters relating to the municipal welfare he occupies a progressive stand, manifest in his cooperation with many move- ments for the public good.
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