A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume III, Part 49

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: 1106

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to return to private practice here and established an exclusive sanitarium for a few selected cases of mental diseases conducted on similar lines to that of Dr. MacDonald in the east. This was opened in the fall of 1902 on Noble Road in Cleveland Heights, where he has five acres of land and an excellently equipped institution, accommodating six patients. He has come to be widely recognized in Cleveland and by the profession throughout the country as one of the most eminent and capable physicians in the treatment of mental and nervous diseases.

On the 31st of October, 1900, at Ironton, Ohio, Dr. Ruedy was married to Miss Bertha Wilson, a daughter of the Hon. E. S. Wilson, now editor of the Ohio State Journal. She is a graduate of Lake Erie College at Painesville and the Women's Medical College at Philadelphia. She served three years as assist- ant physician to the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane, has given much study to mental diseases and has proven an able and enthusiastic assistant to Dr. Ruedy in his work, both at the New York institution and his sanitarium here, where she is continually in charge. Unto Dr. and Mrs. Ruedy have been born two sons, Wilson and John Edward, aged respectively eight and six years. The parents are members of the Episcopal church and the Doctor belongs to the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. In professional lines his connection includes the Cleve- land Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medi- cal Association and the Cleveland Medical Library Association. He has been an occasional contributor to the current literature of his profession, was lecturer on nervous and mental diseases at the Ohio Medical University at Columbus for three years and at the Cleveland College of Physicians & Surgeons for two years. In 1904 he was appointed to the United States board of pension examining sur- geons, of which he is secretary, and still holds that position.

FREDERICK COLES HERRICK, M. D.

Dr. Frederick C. Herrick, who by thorough study at home and abroad has become splendidly equipped for the practice of medicine, winning a gratifying patronage in Cleveland, while to the profession he has become widely known by his contributions of a number of valuable articles to medical literature, was born in this city, October 31, 1872. His father, Henry J. Herrick, was a native of Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, born in 1833. He was graduated from Rush Medical College with the class of 1860 and about 1865 located in Cleveland, where he opened an office and continued in the practice of medicine and surgery until his death, which occurred in 1901 when he was sixty-eight years of age. He was a prominent member of the medical fraternity and was very active in college, hospital and society work, being one of the founders and a professor in the Charity Hospital Medical College, also holding a professorship in the Western Reserve Medical College, while of both the Cleveland and Ohio Medical Societies he was president. His ability placed him in a foremost rank among the represen- tatives of the profession in this state. He wedded Mary Brooks, a native of Kaskaskia, Illinois, who died August 14, 1909.

Dr. Frederick C. Herrick pursued his early education in the Central high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1890. He completed the course in Amherst (Mass.) College with the class of 1894, winning the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while in 1897 the M. D. degree was conferred upon him in the medical department of the Western Reserve University. He afterward spent one year in post-graduate work in the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and subsequently matriculated in the University of Gottingen, Germany, where he spent the larger part of the years 1899 and 1900. He then returned to Cleve- land and entered upon the private practice of general medicine, in which he con- tinued for five years, or until 1905, when he again went abroad, spending that and the succeeding year in the London General Hospital, doing special work in abdom-

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inal diseases, to which he has confined his practice since he returned. He has been connected with the Western Reserve University Medical School since his return, first as demonstrator and now as instructor in surgery. He is associate visiting surgeon to Charity Hospital and has charge of the surgical dispensary, having been connected therewith in that capacity for the past eight years.

Dr. Herrick has also done considerable original work and has been an occa- sional contributor to the medical journals and pamphlets, his more valuable articles including those on obstruction of the common bile duct; contribution to the tech- nique of the eck fistula ; experimental study into the cause of the increased portal pressure in portal cirrhosis; a study of one hundred cases of gastric ulcer, and a new field latrine which has been accepted by state troops in small camps. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine; the State Medical Society ; the American Medical Society ; and the Cleveland Medical Library Association. He is also surgeon of Troop A of this city and examiner for the National Life Insur- ance Company of Vermont and the Prudential Insurance Company.

On the 22d of July, 1908, in Paris, France, Dr. Herrick was married to Miss Anne Bayard Crowell, a daughter of Henry B. Crowell, of Chicago. They reside

at No. 1906 East Eighty-fourth street. He finds his chief sources of recreation in tennis and horseback riding and also in the social relations with the University and Union Clubs. He likewise belongs to the Delta Tau Delta and is a member of the Third Presbyterian church. A man of scholarly attainments, his re- searches and investigations have been carried on along constantly broadening lines and added to his comprehensive knowledge is the keen discrimination, and unfailing tact which the successful surgeon must always possess.

EDWARD AUGUSTUS FOOTE.

Edward Augutus Foote, attorney at law of the firm of Cook, McGowan & Foote, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 1, 1869, and represents an old family of this state. His grandfather was Ezra Foote, while his father was Edward A. Foote, Sr., who was born at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, in 1822 and died in Cincinnati in 1876. He was well known in the financial circles of that city as assistant cashier of the Commercial Bank. His wife bore the maiden name of Sarah A. Bowler.

In the public schools Edward A. Foote of this review pursued his education to the age of thirteen years, after which he devoted thirteen years to service in railway offices and thereby gained comprehensive knowledge of railway inter- ests which has proven of untold value to him in the conduct of legal interests in later years. Having studied law, he was admitted to the bar in 1894 and entered upon active practice in Cincinnati, occupying a clerical position in a law office for eighteen months. He was then connected with the legal department of the Big Four Railroad at Indianapolis for three years, acting as claim agent and trial lawyer in the investigation of accidents.

Mr. Foote came alone to Cleveland and for four or five years was connected with the firm of Kline, Tolles & Goff. In 1907 he entered upon his present part- nership relations as member of the firm of Cook, McGowan & Foote. While he engages in general practice he yet gives much of his attention to railway law and is well versed in that department of jurisprudence, his previous service as a rail- way employe proving of worth to him in the conduct of railway litigation. The firm with which he is now associated is regarded as one of the most important in the city and Mr. Foote has been fortunate throughout the entire period of his residence in Cleveland in being connected with lawyers of well known reputation and of marked ability so that he has gained comprehensive knowledge of the methods pursued by them in the conduct of court work or the management of legal interests through advice and counsel.

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On the 9th of April, 1904, Mr. Foote was married to Miss Mary L. Hills, a daughter of Lucien and Mary (Andrew) Hills and a granddaughter of Addison Hills. They have two children: Edward Addison, who was born March 19, 1905 ; and Mary Hills, born April 4, 1909.

Mr. Foote belongs to the Union, Country and Tavern Clubs, to the County Bar Association, and the Nisi Prius Club, an organization of attorneys. He like- wise belongs to the Trinity Episcopal church and to the Chamber of Commerce. Endowed by nature with keen intellectual force, he is recognized as a lawyer of astute mind, who is continually promoting his knowledge through reading and investigation, not only of legal principles but of subjects of general interest which give him an insight into the motives and purposes of men, constituting thereby a valuable element in the conduct of litigation.

HAMILTON L. LINDSAY.

Hamilton L. Lindsay, president and manager of the Lindsay Wire Weaving Company, is a native of Scotland, his birth having occurred October 14, 1866, in the city of Glasgow. Having secured his education in the schools of his native place, he came to the United States in 1883, when a youth about seventeen years of age, and for a short time lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Upon coming to Cleveland he secured employment with the John Walker Manufactur- ing Company, his association with them being of some duration. In 1892 he removed to Painesville, Ohio, and took the superintendency of the Paige Machine Company, which he held for two years. At the end of this time he returned to the Forest city and was engaged first with the Kilby Machinery Company and then for one year wth Columbia Elevator Company.

Mr. Lindsay next accepted a position with the W. S. Tyler Wire Works Company, the charge of the broad loam department being placed in his hands, and with this important concern he remained for seven years. While thus iden- tified he patented a machine for weaving wire cloth, and not being able to make satisfactory terms for the use of his machine with the W. S. Tyler Company, he resigned his position and in 1904 organized the Lindsay Wire Weaving Com- pany, Mr. Lindsay taking the position of president and manager. The company en- gages in the production of various wire products, making a specialty of wire cloth for paper mills. Its growth has been most gratifying and three years after its in- auguration it was found necessary to enlarge the plant to three times its original capacity. The dimensions of the old factory were forty by one hundred and ninety-five feet and it was but one story in height. The addition is of brick, is two stories high and seventy by one hundred and eighty-five feet in dimension. The employes are particularly fortunate in that it is equipped with all the modern conveniences for their use.

The Lindsay Wire Weaving Company is the only one in the world using Mr. Lindsay's patented wire weaving machine, which is a tremendous labor-saving factor, the same work being done with only one third of the labor necessitated by the old method. The company has twenty-five large power looms in continual operation. While still a young corporation it is an important one and bids fair to one day lead the world in its product. Its sound and steady growth is due largely to Mr. Lindsay's patented machine, which the company controls.

In 1892 Mr. Lindsay was united in marriage to Miss Lillie Buell, a native of Cleveland, and they have one daughter, Mary Evelyn, who attended Glenville high school until her junior year and is at present a student in Scio College in, Scio, Ohio.

Notwithstanding the great inroads made upon his time by business duties, Mr. Lindsay finds occasion for the enjoyment of fraternal relations, these extend- ing to the Masons, with membership in Forest City Lodge, No. 28, and Cleve-

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land Chapter, and to the Independent Order of Foresters. He and his family are members of the Parkwood Methodist Episcopal church and give their sym- pathy and support to its campaigns for the accomplishment of good. Mr. Lindsay has the advantage of a knowledge of his business acquired in the school of ac- tual experience, for beginning in this line when a youth he has served in every capacity from the lowliest to the highest. And when with this is coupled the gift of initiative and a remarkable inventive capacity, together with irreproach- able ethics and a fine consideration for his employes, the secret of his success becomes an open one.

REV. HUMBERT ROCCHI.

The Rev. Humbert Rocchi, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua church, was born near Rome, Italy, May 23, 1869, a son of Camillo and Sestilia (Provveduto) Rocchi. The father was born near Rome in 1844, being a landowner and actively engaged in business. He was a son of Edward Rocchi, who also owned land and was a business man. The birth of the latter occurred in 1824 and he passed away in 1894. The mother of our subject was born in 1843 and died in 1903. She was a daughter of Dr. Francis Provveduto, a physician. A cousin of the Rev. Humbert Rocchi, Philip Rocchi, also entered the priesthood and is now secretary to Cardinal Rampolli at Rome. A maternal uncle, Gustavo Provveduto, is rector of the Leonian College at Rome and he too is a monsignor. There were three sons in the family in addition to Father Rocchi, the others being: Xavier, who is with his father at Rome and is a landowner; Cæsar, who is with the Washburn-Crosby Company at Cleveland; and William, a bookkeeper, who lives in New York. The family is a very old one in Italy. Antonio Rocchi be- longed in 1430 to the city council of Olevano Romano, a famous place for tourists at present. An American college for artists is now located there and during the summer it is a great resort.

Father Rocchi was educated at Rome in the Capranipa College, being or- dained December 21, 1891, by Cardinal Parocchi. He celebrated his first mass the same day at St. Sylvestor's church in Rome. For several years Father Rocchi's work consisted in holding missions in different Italian places until 1898, when he was sent to the United States and for five years worked in the missions of Brooklyn. In 1903 he was sent to Cleveland and was stationed at his present church. The parish is an Italian one, containing five hundred families, and is in a prosperous condition. The brick church edifice, which has a capacity of one thousand people, was built by Father Rocchi in 1904. Owing to his influence over his people and his comprehension of matters concerning them, he is often called upon to address them upon various occasions. He has their confidence and they feel they can rely upon him for sympathetic appreciation of their needs.

JOHN I. SAXER.

John I. Saxer, the general manager of the Climax Cleaner and Cleveland Paste Company, was born in this city on the 25th of September, 1868, his parents being Jacob and Frances Saxer. The father, whose birth occurred in Switzer- land in 1831, crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1845 and took up his abode in Cleveland, Ohio. He first worked as a painter in the employ of the Big Four Railroad Company and later embarked in the wall paper and paint business on his own account, doing contract work until the time of his demise in 1899.

John I. Saxer attended the Catholic school until fourteen years of age and then entered St. Mary's College at Dayton, Ohio, where he continued his studies

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for two years. On returning to Cleveland he became a partner in his father's business and was thus actively engaged until 1898, when he organized the Climax Cleaner Company, continuing the paint business as a department thereof until 1901, in which year they sold out that branch of the business. In 1905 the Cli- max Cleaner & Cleveland Paste Company was incorporated and the following officers were selected : Alois Saxer, president ; L. F. Riott, vice president ; R. M. Saxer, secretary ; A. J. Saxer, treasurer ; and John I. Saxer, general manager. The main office of the Climax Cleaner and Cleveland Paste Company is located at the corner of Lorain avenue and Columbus road, and they are the manufac- turers of the celebrated Climax wall paper cleaner, Climax dry paste and Cleve- land steam paste. They are the largest manufacturers of wall paper cleaner in the world and their plant is the only one of its kind in America. The Climax wall paper cleaner is used in millions of homes and the products of the company are sold in all parts of the United States. As the general manager of this im- portant enterprise Mr. Saxer of this review has proven himself a man of resource- ful business ability, who carefully formulates his plans and is determined and resolute in their execution. His methods will bear the closest scrutiny and in- vestigation and his well known business probity has gained for him the respect of all.

On the 26th of June, 1898, in Cleveland, Mr. Saxer wedded Miss Elizabeth Pierce, by whom he has two children, Irene and Raymond, who are eleven and nine years of age respectively. They are now attending the Catholic school. In his religious belief he is a Catholic, and he is also a member of various local fra- ternal organizations. His home is at No. 2905 Jay avenue, and in the city where practically his entire life has been spent he has a host of friends.

GEORGE DWIGHT UPSON, M. D.

Dr. George Dwight Upson, a physician of Cleveland, was born at Tallmadge, Summit county, Ohio, July 23, 1866. His father, James W. Upson, was born in Worthington, Ohio, and engaged in the coal business with his father, Dr. Daniel Upson, whose birth occurred in Southington, Connecticut, in 1786. He was a descendant of Stephen Upson, who as a passenger of the sailing vessel "Increase" made the voyage from London, England, to the new world in 1635 and landed at Boston. Daniel Upson removed from New England to this state in 1805, set- tling at Worthington. He was the first to introduce coal for fuel in Cleveland, making shipments here by way of the canal in 1837 from the mines of Tallmadge, Summit county, to which place he had removed in 1809. He was also one of the pioneer physicians of that section and likewise engaged in the coal business to a large extent, continuing his operations in the coal fields of the state until his death, which occurred in 1863, when he was seventy-seven years of age. In 1857 Tallmadge held its semi-centennial celebration on the site of Dr. Daniel Upson's farm. In developing and operating the coal fields of Ohio, James W. Upson was engaged throughout his entire life, carrying on business on an exten- sive scale first in Summit county and later in Perry county. He died in 1906 at the age of seventy-nine years, while his wife survived until 1907, passing away at the age of seventy-eight years. She was in her maidenhood Clarinda D. Fenn, a daughter of Joseph Fenn, who was born in Connecticut in 1802 and was one of the early settlers of Tallmadge.

Dr. Upson spent his early boyhood in the place of his nativity and when twelve years of age became a resident of Cleveland, where he continued his studies until he was graduated from the Central high school with the class of 1885. He after- ward pursued a course of chemistry at the Case School of Applied Science and later took the full chemistry course at Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University. This proved an excellent preparation for his medical studies, which

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were pursued in the Western Reserve University until he had completed the reg- ular course with the class of 1889, receiving his M. D. degree. He afterward had the benefit of broad practical experience and training in St. Bartholomew Hospital in London, England, and in the General Hospital at Vienna. Upon his return in 1892 he entered upon the private practice of medicine, giving special attention to surgery, and in a calling where advancement depends entirely upon individual merit he has won a gratifying position as a leading representative of the medical fraternity. He is now visiting surgeon and president of the staff of the Cleveland City Hospital, having been connected with that institution since its establishment in 1892. He is likewise chief medical examiner of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York. On the Ist of March, 1910, he was appointed surgeon for the Cleveland Street Railway Company, taking effect since its reorganization. He belongs to the Cleveland Medical Library Associa- tion, to the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

On the 29th of June, 1893, Dr. Upson was married in Cleveland to Miss Florence Wick Judd, a native of Michigan and a daughter of Frederick W. Judd, and they now have two children: Henrietta, born in 1897; and Florence Judd, born in 1900. They reside at 2100 East Fortieth street, which residence was erected by Dr. Upson in 1902.

Republican in his political views, he takes no active part in the work of the party, yet is keenly interested in the public welfare. He belongs to the Zeta Psi, a college fraternity, and to the Union and Euclid Clubs, while he is also a mem- ber of the Case Avenue Presbyterian church. He is a man of commanding pres- ence, dignified but courteous and approachable to all and at all times signally modest and unassuming. He enjoys a large practice and high standing in his profession, his ability being recognized by the medical fraternity as well as by the laity.

CHARLES P. SCOVILL.

Charles P. Scovill as paying teller for the Society for Savings and as a repre- sentative of one of the oldest Cleveland families, needs no introduction to the readers of this volume. He was born September 24, 1854, a son of Oliver Com- stock and 'Adaline (Clarke) Scovill. He is descended from Revolutionary stock and from one of Ohio's pioneer families. His father was born on Superior street in this city in 1823, was here reared, and at the age of nineteen being fond of travel and adventure sailed around Cape Horn on a sailing vessel. He also went to California in 1849, following the discovery of gold on the Pacific coast, and opened the first printing establishment in San Francisco. He had previously been a member of the Leland band, of Cleveland, in 1843, and at one time was cemetery trustee of this city. He married Adaline Clarke and they became parents of four children : Caroline, now the wife of George J. Gibson; Kate, the wife of C. S. Cornig ; and Josephine, who died at the age of nineteen years. The only son is Charles P. Scovill, who acquired his early education in the public schools of Cleveland and afterward entered West Point Military Academy, where he pursued his studies to the age of twenty-one years. He then returned to Cleveland and entered the First National Bank, of which his grandfather was the founder. He became paying teller in that institution where he remained for fifteen years and then accepted the position of paying teller in the Society for Savings, with which he has since been associated. His entire business career has been devoted to banking and he is a well known figure in financial circles. He is also a stockholder in the Haserot Canneries Company.

In 1884 Mr. Scovill was married to Miss Ella Rees, a daughter of John H. and Elvira (Warner) Rees. Her father was a member of Battery K of the Ohio

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Artillery during the Civil war and died shortly after the cessation of hostilities. Her maternal grandfather, W. J. Warner, was a prominent early resident of Cleveland and built the postoffice here in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Scovill have two children, Olive M. and Catherine, who were graduated from the Hathaway- Brown School.

Mr. Scovill is a republican in his political views and is interested in all pro- jects and movements for the city's welfare, cooperating to a considerable extent in many measures for the public good. Fond of hunting and fishing, he spends his vacation periods in Canada, indulging his love of those sports. His life has been quietly passed but he is recognized moreover as a worthy representative of one of the old families that from pioneer times has upheld the legal and politi- cal status of the city.

JAMES B. SHIELDS.

James B. Shields, president of the Shields Wertheim Company, cigarmakers, is numbered among the progressive men of Cleveland and one who has done much to elevate the condition of his employes, having worked out some very original plans with regard to them. He was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, November I, 1873, being a son of Louis and Lena Shields. His great-grandmother, Mary Ginther, was born in New Castle, in 1779, and died in 1883 at the remarkable age of one hundred and four years. His maternal grandfather, David Winternitz, was born in 1817 and became a farmer in New Castle, Pennsylvania, but later was connected with a grocery business, controlling a large wholesale trade. His death occurred in 1887. On the paternal side our subject's grandfather was Benjamin Shields, who was born in Korback, Germany, in 1817. For many years he was very prominent, being a banker, then mayor until his appointment as judge in 1878, which office he held at the time of his demise in 1898.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume III, Part 49

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: 1106

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: 1106