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Mr. Smith is well known in Masonic circles as a member of Iris Lodge, No. 229, F. & A. M., and Webb Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M. He also belongs to the Cleveland Athletic Club and is interested in all manly outdoor sports. He was one of the organizers of the Foundry and Manufacturers Supply Association, which annually holds an exhibit, displaying all modern foundry machinery. This association originally had a membership of fifteen firms while today it has been increased by over one hundred concerns, the membership including some of the most prominent supply houses connected with the trade. That the association is one of recognized value is shown in the fact that the attendance at these con- ventions has increased from a few hundred to twenty-five hundred at the last meeting. Mr. Smith is now a director of the association and has been most active in promoting its interests, realizing the value and importance of such an or- ganization.
WILBUR H. HYDE.
The institution, development and conduct of substantial industrial and com- mercial enterprises constitute the basis of city growth and building. In this connection Wilbur H. Hyde deserves mention in that he is secretary-treasurer of The Abner Royce Company, one of the city's staple industries.
A native of Cleveland, he was born October 30, 1872, and secured his educa- tion in the public schools of Willoughby, Ohio, and later at Caton's Business College of this city ; thus coming to the starting point of his business career well equipped for practical and responsible duties. Securing a position with The Cleveland Rubber Company, he remained in that service for a year, after which he entered the general offices of the Erie Railroad Company. Resigning from this position in 1892, he entered the employ of Abner Royce, a manufacturer of pure fruit flavors, perfumes and toilet requisites, and ten years later, when the business was incorporated, became its secretary-treasurer.
The business of the company is unique in that its immense output of nearly two hundred preparations is placed in the hands of the consumer through its
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thousands of direct representatives who operate throughout the entire country. From Mr. Hyde's earliest association with his company, he has been at the head of its sales department, during which period he has successfully extended the local fame of Royce's Good Goods into practically every state and city of the Union.
Mr. Hyde is a member of Forest City Lodge, F. & A. M .; Webb Chapter, R. A. M .; and Cleveland Council, R. & S. M .; as well as Euclid Council, No. 181, Royal League, of which he has been treasurer for years. His interest in municipal affairs is manifest in his membership in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Sociological Council, as well as the republican county committee. A further indication of his interest and associations is furnished by his membership in the Cleveland Athletic and the Tippecanoe Clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. Hyde, with their daughter, Frances Louise, aged six, reside at 32 Cadwell avenue, Cleveland Heights.
THOMAS G. MOUAT.
Thomas G. Mouat is well known in business circles of Cleveland as the presi- dent of the Mouat-Squires Company, steam fitters and heating and ventilating en- gineers. He was born at Edinburg, Scotland, in 1867, his parents being Thomas and Mary Ann (Goudie) Mouat. The father, who was likewise a native of the land of hills and heather, passed away in Australia in 1867, when about forty years of age. He was connected with the custom house service near Melbourne, Australia. His widow, whose birth occurred in the year 1847, still survives and makes her home with her son Thomas in Cleveland.
Thomas G. Mouat crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1882 anl took up his abode at Detroit, where he spent about eight years and learned the trade of a steam fitter. Subsequently he came to Cleveland and entered the service of E. H. Jones & Company in the capacity of superintendent, being thus employed for eight years. After severing his connection with that concern he embarked in business on his own account, organizing the firm of Mouat & Hill, which relation was maintained for about a year. The business was then conducted under the name of the T. G. Mouat Company for about three years, at the end of which time Mr. Mouat became associated with C. E. Squires, the Mouat-Squires Com- pany being incorporated in October, 1901. In 1905 Mr. Mouat purchased his partner's interest but still retains the old firm name. The present officers of the company are as follows: Thomas G. Mouat, president; M. J. Kelley, vice presi- dent ; T. W. Hill, treasurer ; and C. J. Deex, secretary. They conduct an exten- sive business as steam fitters and heating and ventilating engineers and their op- erations are confined principally to Cleveland and its vicinity. Among the many important structures which they have equipped in this connection may be men- tioned the following: the Rockefeller and Whitney buildings; St. Luke's Hos- pital ; the plants of the Warner & Swasey Company, the Standard Welding Com- pany, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the White Automobile Company ; and some of Cleveland's finest residences. Mr. Mouat is the inventor and patentee of the Mouat vapor heating system, with which many of the best buildings in Cleveland are equipped.
In his political views Mr. Mouat is a stanch republican, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Builders' Exchange and the Cleveland Engineering Society. Starting out at the outset of his career with laudable ambition and looking at life from an un- prejudiced standpoint, he soon came to the conclusion that all desirable success comes as the result of well directed energy, and that advancement or failure in the business world depended upon the individual rather than upon the circum- stances. Never losing sight of the fact throughout his entire life that he, and not
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others, nor environments, was responsible for his success or failure he has grad- ually progressed until he occupies a most creditable position as one of the promi- nent citizens of Cleveland, with a business that has long since enabled him to leave the ranks of the many and stand among the prosperous few.
WILLIAM BOSTWICK WHITING.
William B. Whiting is an active factor in the working force of the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. He was born in Vincennes, Indiana, January 16, 1866, the son of Samuel Cowles Whiting and Emily (Caddington) Whiting. He was educated in the public schools of La Porte, Indiana, and Cleveland, Ohio. He left school at the age of eighteen years, studied shorthand and was a court reporter for three years. He afterward became associated with Estep, Dickey & Squire, attorneys of Cleveland, and when the present firm was formed, in 1890, he entered their employ and is still with them. He studied law in the office and was admitted to the bar in 1894. In his practice he has made a spe- cialty of corporation law.
On the 25th of September, 1889, Mr. Whiting was married to Miss Gertrude M. Dewstoe, a daughter of Colonel C. C. Dewstoe, now (1910) postmaster of Cleveland, and Gertrude (McNitt) Dewstoe. By her marriage Mrs. Whiting has become the mother of two children: Samuel Charles, born November 24, 1890, and now a senior in the East high school; and Dorothea, who died in infancy. 1
Mr. Whiting is a republican in politics and is identified with various social organizations, belonging to the Union and Hermit Clubs, the Oho State Archaeo- logical Society, the Indiana Society of Ohio, and the Nisi Prius Club.
GEORGE RANDERSON.
George Randerson, superintendent of the city market houses, has been en- gaged in the meat business for thirty years, beginning in that field of labor when but twenty years of age. He was born in Cleveland in 1860 and pur- sued his education in the common schools and the West high school in which he spent a year, after which he engaged in business with his father in 1880. They conducted a meat market, selling largely to those who were connected with marine interests. On the Ist of January, 1910, Mr. Randerson entered upon the duties of superintendent of the city market houses under appointment of Mayor Baehr. His father, George Randerson, Sr., had been the first super- intendent of markets in Cleveland, receiving his appointment in 1866 from Mayor Stephen Buhrer. He was also prominent and influential in other con- nections. He belonged to the Volunteer Firemen's Association of which he was one of the original members, retaining his connection therewith until his death which occurred in 1908. He was also one of the city's pioneer business men and supplied meat for the government camp which was located near Cleveland during the war. He gave his political allegiance to the democratic party but his son George is an advocate of republican principles-the first of the family to become allied with the "grand old party."
In January, 1889, Mr. Randerson was married to Miss Mary Bailey, of Ver- milion, Ohio, and unto them was born a daughter, Edith, who is a graduate of the Hathaway-Brown school and also of the West high school. She was mar- ried in 1908 to Harry Duracher, a prominent young business man of the west side.
Mr. Randerson obtains his recreation in outdoor sports, the nature of his in- terests being indicated in the fact that he is a member of the Carp Hunting Club,
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the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Clifton Club. He also belongs to Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, B. P. O. E., to Edgewater Camp of the National Union and to the Chamber of Industry. The years of his business career have been marked by steady advance and his long experience in the one line of trade well qualifies him for the duties that devolve upon him in his present official relation.
ARCHIBALD McKEE.
Archibald McKee, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Pom- peian Massage Cream Company, was born in 1855 on a farm which is now al- most entirely within the corporate limits of Dennison, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. He supplemented his literary education by the study of law and was admitted to the bar by the district court in the city of Cleveland in March, 1878. He then engaged in practice in Kansas for three years but, as he expresses it, "the grass- hoppers preempted his claim" and he removed to Kansas City. His previous experiences rendered his financial resources of but small moment and to meet present expenses he accepted a position in a wholesale hardware house, where the duties were so strenuous that Blackstone was crowded out and commercialism took the lead.
After five years with the hardware house he entered the employ of the Deer- ing Harvester Company, of Chicago, and was soon manager of their branch house at Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spent twelve years in their service, at the end of which time he associated himself with the business of manufacturing and selling Pompeian Massage Cream. About eight months after the first of the product was marketed the business was incorporated, he was elected secretary and treasurer and appointed general manager, which positions he still fills. The product has been thoroughly advertised and its excellence finds it a ready sale on the market so that the business is one of continually growing proportions
In 1891 Mr. McKee was married to Miss Jennie M. Dixon, of New Phila- delphia, Ohio, a daughter of Thomas Dixon, a prominent manufacturer of har- vesting machinery and a public-spirited citizen. They have one son, Archibald, who is of the fourth generation that bears that name and is now a student in the Warren Road school in Lakewood.
Mr. McKee is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is identified with other interests of the city. His advancement is due to the fact that he has al- ways taken advantage of the business opportunities that have been offered and each forward step in his career has brought him a wider outlook and greater advantages.
ALVA B. JONES.
In the year 1804 Benjamin Jones removed from New Jersey to the Western Reserve and since that time through five generations the family has been rep- resented here, taking active part throughout the ensuing years in all the projects which have worked for good citizenship and substantial upbuilding of this sec- tion of the state. Benjamin Jones became the owner of many hundred acres of land on the site of the present cities of Forest Hill and East Cleveland, becoming the possessor of this property when it was covered with the native timber, no previous title of ownership being held by any individual.
Joel Jones, son of Benjamin and the grandfather of Alva B. Jones, was only four years of age at the time of the removal of the family to what was then the western frontier. Reared amid the environment and usual conditions of pioneer life, he here attained manhood and through his marriage became iden-
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tified with another pioneer family, wedding Miss Brainard, whose parents were among the first settlers of this section. He died in 1882 at the age of eighty- two years. He had been a playmate and companion of Abner McIlrath, the famous hunter of the Western Reserve, and in a more quiet way his wife was as closely associated with pioneer life in this community.
Their son Alva Jones, today one of the oldest living settlers of Cleveland in years of continuous residence here, was born in what is now East Cleveland September 1, 1824. He married Miss Sarah M. Motts, of this city, and devoted his attention to farming and to dealing in farm lands. Mr. Jones is still living at the advanced age of eighty-six years, while his wife passed away March 14, 1900. He is still a hale and hearty man, with keen memory of pioneer times and, yet, unlike many of advanced years, he does not live wholly in the past, yet maintaining a deep and unabating interest in the affairs of the - present He has always been a public-spirited citizen but has never sought or desired of- fice. A member of the Disciple's church, he has lived the life of a consistent Christian gentleman, commanding at all times the respect and honor of his fellowmen.
Alva B. Jones was born in Cleveland in 1863 and, after pursuing his pre- liminary studies in the public schools, he entered Shaw Academy, from which he was graduated with the class of 1882. Throughout his life he has engaged in farming and in real-estate dealing, largely handling his own property. At the present time he is developing a fifteen-acre allotment to East Cleveland, bordering Euclid avenue. It has building restrictions that will tend to make it the finest residence district of that section of the city. Mr. Jones has been very successful in his real-estate transactions, has made judicious investments and profitable sales and has comprehensive knowledge of property values. More- over, his efforts have been largely of a character that have indicated recognition of the needs of the city and the opportunities for its improvement and adornment.
In 1887 Alva B. Jones was married to Miss Minnie G. Rand, of East Cleve- land, and they have a son and daughter. The former, Alva R. Jones, born in 1888, was a pupil in the grammar schools and afterward a student in Gambier Military Academy until it was destroyed by fire. He then pursued a course in the Spencerian College, after which he became a bookkeeper in the Garfield Bank and later was with the Society for Savings for three years. At the pres- ent time he is associated with his father in the real-estate business. The daugh- ter, Gertrude S., is a very enthusiastic and proficient pupil in music in Oberlin College.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones hold membership in the Congregational church, in the work of which they are interested, and Mrs. Jones is serving as treasurer of the Ladies Aid Society. Mr. Jones is a great hunter and holds membership in the Cleveland Gun Club. His record has been in harmony with that of an honored ancestry, and the family well deserve mention among those who have been ac- tive in guilding the destinies of the city and upholding its political, legal and moral status.
CHARLES H. BRANDT.
To every youth comes the dream of the future. To most boys, especially those who are reared in homes where financial resources are limited, such a dream usually takes the character of success in business in later life, and the management and control of extensive commercial, industrial or professional interests. In time such a dream may become a dominating influence, the source. of ambition which carries the lad to the goal of prosperity in subsequent years. Left fatherless at an early age, Charles H. Brandt is truly a self-made man. shaping his own career without the advice, influence or assistance of a father.
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Mr. Brandt was born in Cleveland in 1864 and was educated in the public and in the Lutheran parochial schools. He then faced the necessity of provid- ing for his own support and on putting aside his text-books began learning the brass molder's trade. His close and unremitting attention to every task assigned him and the adaptability which he displayed enabled him to work his way upward until in time he became superintendent of the brass foundry of the American Ship Building Company, in which position he remained for four years and then joined with some of his associates in that business in organizing and incorporating the National Iron & Wire Company, of which Mr. Brandt became a director on its organization in 1891. He was also made head of the contracting department and bent every energy toward the upbuilding of the business and the extension of its trade interests. In 1903 he was elected vice president, which is still his official connection and since that time he has had active voice in the management of the business, while to the present time he has continued in charge of the contracting department. The company has made substantial advance, progressing with such rapidity that the business is now one of the important rep- resentatives of the iron and steel trade of the city, a fact which is due to capable management combined with thorough understanding of the processes of manufac- ture and of the market.
In 1898 Mr. Brandt was married to Miss Mary Crennell, a native of Cleve- land and they have two children, Charles C. and Louise M., aged respectively eleven and seven years, and now pupils in the public schools. Mr. Brandt and his family reside on the west side and he takes a public-spirited interest in every- thing pertaining to the city's growth and development. He is identified with the Chamber of Industry, is a director of the Builders Exchange, and, extend- ing his activities to political fields, is a member of the First Ward Republican Club, serving at the present time on its advisory board. He is also affiliated with Tippecanoe Club and with Cleveland Lodge, No. 18, B. P. O. E. His interests touch those things which are essential and valued factors in the life of every community and everything with which he is connected feels the stim- ulus of the progressive spirit which has actuated him in his business career.
TITUS N. BRAINARD.
For more than eighty-four years a resident of Cleveland, Titus N. Brainard was born in this city, July 15, 1825, and is therefore one of the oldest pioneers still living here. For a long period he was active in business affairs but is now retired, spending the evening of his life in the enjoyment of well earned rest.
His father, Marvin Brainard, was born February 9, 1799, while his mother, Mrs. Betsey Brainard, was born January 9, 1802. The former came to Cleveland with his father, Asa Brainard, in 1814, making the trip across the country from Connecticut with ox-teams, two yoke being hitched to one wagon, while another yoke with a horse in the lead drew the second wagon. They were forty days on the journey from New England, traveling at times over almost impassable roads, their way being occasionally scarcely more than a forest trail. Streams had to be forded and at times the party camped out along the way at night. At length, how- ever, they reached their destination, Asa Brainard settling in what is now the west side, purchasing a farm which included the present site of the Riverside cemetery and also the site of the present residence of Titus N. Brainard. With character- istic energy he began farming and aided in the cultivation of wild land. His son, Marvin, also carried on general farming and both were active in pioneer times in reclaiming the region for the purposes of civilization. Asa Brainard died when seventy-four years of age, while Marvin Brainard passed away in 1853.
Titus N. Brainard was born in a log house within a stone's throw of his pres- ent home and was about three years of age when the present residence was built
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as a homestead and tavern, it being for many years a famous stopping place on the Medina and Wooster pike, which was the main road from Cleveland to Co- lumbus years before railroads were ever dreamed of.
On the old homestead farm Mr. Brainard was reared, early becoming famil- iar with the duties and labors incident to the life of an agriculturist. He, too, took up farming as his life work and was continuously engaged in tilling the soil until 1875, when he sold a portion of his farm for burial purposes, it being converted into what is now known as Riverside cemetery. After this sale he retired from all active business and has spent his remaining days at the old homestead in the pursuit of such interests as afford him recreation and enjoyment. It is in these days a rare thing that a man lives continuously in one house for over eighty years.
In 1857 Mr. Brainard was married to Miss Clarissa Thompson, a native of Canada, who was, however, brought to Cleveland by her parents when only three months old. Five children graced this marriage: Ella M., who was a student in Delaware College and is now the wife of Frank A. Radcliff, president of the Ohio Brass & Iron Manufacturing Company ; Marvin A., who was a graduate of the Brooklyn schools and is now deceased; Bettie C., who was a graduate of the Brooklyn schools and is the wife of H. M. Farnsworth, the secretary and treas- urer of The Brooklyn Savings & Loan Company; Jennie D., who completed her education in the Brooklyn schools and is the deceased wife of Gurdon Barnett ; and Frank J., who after attending the common schools was graduated from the Spencerian Business College and is now engaged in stock farming in Medina county. He was married in 1902 to Miss Mattie E. Slater, of Cleveland. The only child of this union is Frances C., born in 1904. Harley Brainard Barnett, a son of Mrs. Jennie D. Barnett, became a member of his grandfather's family at his mother's death when he was but three weeks old and has lived with them continuously since, being now a young man of twenty-three years. After grad- uating from the Lincoln high school he became a student in Adelbert College and is at present engaged as secretary and treasurer of The Domestic Vacuum Cleaner Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Brainard are members of the Brooklyn Memorial Methodist Episcopal church and are held in the highest esteem for the many good traits which have characterized their entire lives, kindliness, generosity and justice sup- plementing the good business ability and integrity which Mr. Brainard ever dis- played in carrying on his agricultural interests.
ALBERT C. BAILEY.
Albert C. Bailey, assistant purchasing agent for the Grasselli Chemical Com- pany, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 30, 1876, his parents being Daniel and Lucretia (Grasselli) Bailey, the latter a daughter of Eugene Grasselli. Daniel Bailey is mentioned elsewhere in this volume.
In the public schools of Cincinnati and Cleveland Albert C. Bailey pursued his preliminary education and was afterward afforded the benefit of instruction in the University School and the Case School of Applied Science, where he pursued special engineering courses, which he completed in 1897. He then ac- cepted a position with Bowditch of Boston, being engaged on special work in connection with the Euclid Heights allotment. In 1898 he became connected with the Grasselli Chemical Company in the auditing department and in 1901 was advanced to his present position as assistant purchasing agent. His develop- ing business powers and his laudable ambition, together with his close application, well entitle him to the responsible position which he is now filling, and he is making for himself a creditable name in the business circles of this city.
Mr. Bailey is well known and popular in a social way, holding membership in the Roadside, Euclid and Hermit Clubs and the Zeta Psi fraternity. His political
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allegiance is given to the republican party. He has keen appreciation for the social amenities of life and his friends find him a genial, companionable gentle- man, whose many excellent traits of character have given him firm hold upon the regard of those with whom he has been brought in contact.
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