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this branch of jurisprudence he is particularly well versed, his research, investi- gation and experience bringing him knowledge that is far above the average. He is assistant general attorney of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad and is president of the Youngstown & Ohio River Railroad Company; vice president of the Denison Allotment Company, vice president of the Pittsburg, Wheeling & Lake Erie Coal Company and a director in many others, especially subsidiary companies of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company.
On the IIth of October, 1899, Mr. Denison was married to Miss Elizabeth Brainerd Thomson, a daughter of George H. Thomson, a civil engineer of New York, for many years bridge engineer and later consulting engineer of the New York Central Lines. Her mother was in her maidenhood a Miss Brown, of Lee, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Denison have two children, Robert Borodel and Elizabeth St. John.
The family are communicants of the Episcopal church and Mr. Denison gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He belongs to the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa, a scholarship fraternity and to "Gargoyle," the Williams College senior society. He is also a member of the Union and University Clubs and of the Nisi Prius Club. His ready adaptability and resource enables him not only to perform the services entrusted to his care in professional lines but also consti- tutes him an important factor in the management of various corporate inter- ests, and his success finds its route in an ability which his colleagues and con- temporaries recognize and which has already brought to him substantial reward in both legal and financial circles.
REV. RAYMOND MYLOTT.
The Rev. Raymond Mylott, pastor of St. Augustine's Catholic church of Cleveland, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, May 23, 1870, a son of Patrick and Sabina (Burke) Mylott. Patrick Mylott was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1848, but came to the United States in 1868 and spent six months in the vicinity of Troy, New York, whence he removed to Youngstown, Ohio. His father was Raymond Mylott, who was born and died in Ireland. Patrick Mylott is an ex- pert on rolling mill contracting and is an adviser of the purchasing department of the Republic Iron & Steel Manufacturing Company. He was a member of the city council of Youngstown for years and city commissioner for three terms. His wife, a daughter of Stephen Burke, was born in Ireland but was brought to the United States when five weeks old. They were married in Youngstown and there were eight sons and two daughters in their family, seven sons and one daughter still surviving. One of these, Dr. John P. Mylott, who was born in 1872, became a practicing physician of Cleveland but died in 1900. Another son, James H., is an undertaker of Cleveland, belonging to the firm of Flinn & Froelk.
Father Mylott attended the parochial schools of St. Columba's and Youngs- town and then entered St. Charles' College at Ellicott City, Maryland, where he spent six years. He then spent five years in St. Mary's seminary of Cleveland, and was ordained December 14, 1895, by Bishop Horstmann at the seminary. His first mass was celebrated December 15, 1895, at St. Columba's church at Youngs- town and he first had charge of a mission in that city. In addition to this mis- sion, which was at Warren, he had fourteen stations and continued to minister to them all for nine months, when he was made assistant priest of St. John's cathedral, of Cleveland. Here he remained from September 12, 1896, until No- vember, 1900. On that date he became assistant priest of St. Columbkill's church of this city and was retained in that capacity until February, 1904, when he was made pastor of St. Mary's of the Annunciation. Until January 6, 1907, he re- mained in charge there, when he was sent to his present church.
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It used to be a custom of Father Mylott to do considerable speaking at meet- ings of the Knights of Columbus but since coming to St. Augustine's church his time is fully taken up with parish matters. He has five hundred and fifty families in his charge, and in his school are three hundred and forty-eight pupils, who are taken care of by six efficient teachers. The eight-room school building is a fine one, built of brick with stone trimmings, and is of concrete and steel, being therefore fireprof. The brick church has a seating capacity of eight hun- dred people. There is a substantial parish house, and everything is in excel- lent condition financially. Father Mylott is an eloquent speaker and organizer and has accomplished much since taking charge of his present church.
EDWIN A. DUBS.
Among those who contribute materially to the strength of Cleveland's vast manufacturing life is Edwin A. Dubs, for the past eight years superintendant of the Bardons & Oliver Company, manufacturers of turret machines, located at 1133 West Ninth street. He was born in Cleveland, October 19, 1869, his par- ents being Rudolph and Elisabeth Dubs, and on both sides is of German extrac- tion. His maternal grandfather, Carl Wabrietz, was born in Germany but, de- siring to test the resources of a newer country, came to America in 1842. He ultimately settled in Iowa, on a farm in Louisa county, near Grandview, and there spent the remainder of a long life, his death occurring in 1905. Our subject's father was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, who also came to the United States and in 1868 took up his residence in Cleveland. As a minister in the German United Evangelical church, he held several important charges prior to receiving the high- est honor in the bestowal of the church, the appointment to the bishopric, with residence in Chicago. He remained in this high capacity for the following dec- ade, when he was called by the church to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to assume the editorship of the "Stutshift," the official organ of the United Evangelical church.
Edwin A. Dubs received his education in the public schools of Cleveland, which he attended until his eighteenth year. He then laid the foundation of his business career by a five years' apprenticeship to Warner & Swasey, manufacturers of machine tools, becoming a journeyman at the end of that time. In a short time he entered the employ of the Bardons & Oliver Company, of which he is now su- perintendent, a fact which speaks eloquently of the value of his services. Mr. Dubs upholds the principles of what its supporters term the "grand old party," and is a member of the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Dubs was married, September 15, 1892, the lady of his choice being Miss Louise J. Flick, a daughter of J. J. Flick, of the J. J. Flick Dressed Beef Com- pany, a wholesale meat business. In this concern, Mr. Dubs is a director. One child has been born to this marriage, a daughter, Ruth A., who attends the pub- lic schools. The family residence is at 1445 Coliasett avenue, Lakewood.
WILBUR J. WATSON.
Wilbur J. Watson, a civil and architectural engineer of Cleveland, has been connected with the design and construction of many large and important bridges and buildings, his work being scattered all over the eastern section of the United States. His birth occurred in Berea, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1871, his parents being David R. and Maria (Parker) Watson, who were likewise na- tives of this state. The Watson family was early represented in this county, the paternal grandfather of our subject, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, tak-
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ing up his abode in Strongsville in 1828. Later the family moved to Berea. The maternal grandfather of W. J. Watson, Dr. Lemuel Parker, settled in Medina county in 1832, coming from Naples, New York.
Wilbur J. Watson obtained his early education in the public schools of his native town and afterward entered Case School of Applied Science, from which institution he was graduated in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. The higher degree of Civil Engineer was conferred by his alma mater in 1901. Prior to entering the Case School he served for five years in the engineering department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, and after his graduation he spent nine years in the employ of the Osborn Engin- eering Company. In 1907 he embarked in the practice of his profession for himself as consulting and designing engineer for the construction of bridges and buildings. He has been employed as consulting engineer for the city of Cleveland on the proposed reconstruction of the new viaducts and by many other cities, counties and corporations for similar work. In the line of his profession he is identified with the Cleveland Engineering Society, the Ohio Engineering Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers.
In the year 1900 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Watson and Miss Martha Barnes, also of this city. They are now the parents of two daughters, Emily and Sarah. Mr. Watson belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is also a member of the Phi Delta Theta and Tau Beta Pi (honorary) fraternities. Mr. and Mrs. Watson reside in a beautiful home on Rosemont Road, East Cleveland.
ADAMS B. L. HOWARD, M. D.
Dr. Adams B. L. Howard, who in his practice has specialized in the treat- ment of nervous and mental diseases, occupies a prominent place among those who in recent years have given their attention to this branch of practice, doing a work that is of untold benefit. Dr. Howard was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 7, 1860. His father, Noble Howard, was a native of the same state and for many years followed merchandising but died twenty years ago. The family are descended from John Howard of England, the ancestry in America being traced back to 1625, in which year John Howard crossed the Atlantic and made his home with Miles Standish. He took up arms in 1640. Locating in Brockton, Massachusetts, that town has since been the home of his descendants and is also the site of the well known Howard Seminary. Members of the family were also soldiers of the Revolutionary war. The mother of Dr. Howard bore the maiden name of Catherine R. Lathrop and died about eighteen years ago.
Spending his boyhood days in Massachusetts, Dr. Howard there acquired his early education in public and private schools and also attended the high school at Wareham, Plymouth county, Massachusetts. Later he became a student in Pierce Academy at Middleboro, Massachusetts, and on leaving there came to Cleveland in 1885. For three and a half years he occupied a position in connec- tion with railway service but, believing that a professional career would prove more congenial, he entered the medical department of Wooster University, from which he was graduated in 1892. He afterward opened an office on the south side and engaged in practice there until assigned to a position on the staff of the Cleveland State Hospital for the Insane, in which capacity he served until 1896, when he went to Cuyahoga Falls. There he established a private institu- tion for the insane, which he conducted until 1897, when he was appointed by Governor Asa A. Bushnell to a trusteeship for the State Hospital for the In- sane at Massillon, Ohio. In 1899 he received appointment from Governor Bush- nell to the superintendency of the Cleveland State Hospital for the Insane, fill- ing that position until April, 1907, when he resigned. Going to Europe he spent
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the greater part of a year attending clinics and lectures on mental and nervous diseases and on the Ist of January, 1908, he opened an office at No. 736 Rose building, where he has since devoted his attention to the practice of his specialty -- mental and nervous diseases. On previous trips to Europe he visited hospitals for the insane in England, Scotland, Switzerland, France and Italy, as well as many private and public institutions for the insane in this country. Thus study and personal investigation have brought him broad knowledge and made him most efficient in his chosen field of labor.
For several years Dr. Howard gave clinical lectures on mental diseases at the Cleveland State Hospital for the Insane and to the students of the College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medi- cine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Medico-Psychological Association. He also belongs to the Cleve- land Medical Library Association and utilizes every means at hand to advance his knowledge and promote his efficiency. His labors have been of a valuable character and in all of his professional practice he works toward high ideals.
On the 4th of October, 1902, Dr. Howard was married in Wooster, Ohio, to Miss Margaret Armor, a niece of a retired United States Supreme Judge and Ex-Lieutenant, Governor Welker, of that place. Mrs. Howard is a grad- uate of Wellesley College and is a lady of liberal education, who presides with gracious hospitality over their pleasant home at Hudson. Dr. and Mrs. Howard are members of the Cedar Avenue Baptist church and in Masonry he has at- tained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and in this connection takes an active interest in everything pertaining to the welfare, growth and progress of the city and in all movements which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride.
LEMUEL STOUGHTON POTWIN, D. D.
Lemuel Stoughton Potwin, scholar, theologian and educator, was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, February 4, 1832. He came of Huguenot stock, the name Potwin being Anglicized from Poitevin, native of Poitiers or Poitou. His name was Potwine until his senior year in college, when he dropped the final letter. His family early came to this country, and his great-grandfather was born in Boston, graduated at Yale College in 1751, and was for nearly half a century pastor of the Congregational church in East Windsor, Connecticut. Mr. Potwin prepared for college at Monson Academy of Monson, Massachu- setts, and entered Yale College in January, 1851, the second term of freshman year. From the very first he took a high rank in scholarship, gaining in his first term a mathematical prize. He also gained other prizes for excellence in math- ematics, Latin and English composition. In a competitive examination he re- ceived the Bristed scholarship, then the most valuable scholarship in the college and awarded for excellence in Greek, Latin and mathematics. He was also a member of the famous boat crew of 1854. At his graduation in 1854 he re- ceived high honors. After his graduation he taught for two years in Norwalk, Connecticut. Then for two years he studied theology at the theological seminary in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut, an institution now located at Hartford. He was then appointed tutor in Greek at Yale College, a position which he held for two years, from 1858 to 1860, meanwhile completing at New Haven his theo- logical studies.
On September 12, 1860, Mr. Potwin married Miss Julia H. Crane, of Cald- well, New Jersey, and on October 3d of the same year was ordained as pastor of the Congregational church in Bridgewater, Connecticut. This position he held for nearly three years but was obliged to resign because of ill health. On
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'August 31, 1863, he became acting pastor of the Congregational church at North Greenwich, Connecticut. After laboring there a year and six months he was in- vited to do editorial work for the Boston Tract Society. The North Greenwich people reluctantly released him from his engagement. He removed to Boston in March, 1865, and continued his editorial work there for six years. He then for a short time did editorial work for "The Congregationalist." In 1871 he was called to Western Reserve College, then at Hudson, Ohio, as professor of Latin and instructor in English literature. From 1877 to 1892 this second title was changed to instructor in English philology. In 1892, by his own choice, he gave up the work in Latin and was elected professor of the English language and literature. In 1906 he resigned his professorship and was elected professor emeritus.
In the year 1897, in company with Mrs. Potwin, he made an extended Eu- ropean trip covering a period of fourteen months. In 1898 he brought out a collection of his studies in New Testament exegesis under the title "Here and There in the Greek New Testament," published by The Revell Company. This work was marked by sound scholarship and rare spiritual insight. Yale Uni- versity, in recognition of the worth of his theological studies, conferred upon him in 1886 the degree of Doctor of Divinity, a recognition eminently deserved. He died on January 9, 1907. After his death a volume of selections from his editorial writings was made and published by his wife.
Professor Potwin was a man of great industry. Always frail, for much of the time he bore uncomplainingly the heavy burden of ill health, and yet the amount of work he accomplished was amazing. One of his colleagues at Hud- son, Professor Thomas Day Seymour, afterward of Yale, declares that person- ally he had known no other scholar who, under equal disadvantages, had achieved so much as Mr. Potwin. He had but little strength, but he never wasted the smallest modicum of what he had, and he used it all to the very best advantage. As a scholar he was thorough and accurate, and in giving the results of his scholarship to others as a teacher and writer he was remarkably clear and in- cisive. He was a man of remarkable breadth of vision and sanity of judgment. What he said or wrote always carried weight. Whenever he spoke, he spoke with authority ; not with the authority of an offensive egotism, but with the au- thority of wisdom and truth. Yet with all his scholarship he was a man of the utmost modesty. This sketch would be strangely incomplete if the greatest emphasis were not laid where every student and friend of Mr. Potwin would say it belongs-upon the simplicity and purity of his manhood. His students highly respected and admired his scholarship and attainments, but they respected and admired even more his transparent genuineness and purity. In his presence they felt that they were face to face with the greatest thing in the world-a true man ; and that this true man was the friend of anyone who came to him for help in trouble or in doubt. The influence he exerted upon many generations of college students abundantly justifies the wisdom of those administrators of our institutions of learning who insist that the instructors of our youth shall have scholarship, and united with scholarship something of far higher worth, a pure and true personality.
JOHN HASKELL DEXTER.
John Haskell Dexter, the secretary and treasurer for the Society for Sav- ings, to which position he was elected in 1905, is numbered among Cleveland's native sons. His father, Benjamin F. Dexter, was a native of Vermont and came to Cleveland in 1835, devoting many years of his business life to the ser- vice of the Lake Shore Railway Company.
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Spending his youthful days under his father's roof, John H. Dexter during that period pursued his education in the Cleveland public schools, eventually be- coming a pupil in the West high school. After leaving school he entered the Peoples Bank as messenger and during twenty years connection with that in- stitution served successively as teller, assistant cashier, cashier and vice presi- dent. In 1905 he was elected to the position of secretary and treasurer of the Society for Savings, which is recognized as one of the strong and reliable finan- cial concerns of the city. Mr. Dexter is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Union and Euclid Clubs.
REV. AUGUSTIN TOMASEK.
Rev. Augustin Tomasek, pastor of St. Wendelin's Catholic church (Slovak) of this city, was born in St. Sidonia, Moravia, August 25, 1881, and is a son of Francis and Maria (Bodolay) Tomasek. The father, who was born in the same place in 1843, died in 1885, never having come to the United States, but spent his life as a teacher in the schools of his native land. The mother was born in 1847 and died in 1897.
Father Tomasek was educated in the state schools of Moravia until he was thirteen and then, entering the gymnasium, he spent eight years studying there, after which he took a two years' course at Olomonc, where he studied theology and philosophy. In 1904 he came to the United States and entered the St. Mary's Seminary of Cleveland. His ordination took place in the cathedral Oc- tober 13, 1905, Bishop Horstmann officiating. Father Tomasek said his first mass October 15, 1905, at St. Wendelin's church after which he was made as- sistant priest of St. Ladislas school, being connected with it for six months. Following this he was pastor of SS. Cyrill and Method's church for about six- teen months, in Barhelon, Ohio, and for the next ten months he was pastor of the church of the same name at Lakewood.
In 1908 he was appointed pastor of his present church, where he has done a good work. He has three hundred pupils in the school, taught by four teachers, and there are about one thousand souls in the parish. The church has a seating capacity of three hundred people. The school building has four rooms, two of which are used for school purposes and two as a parish house. This was for- merly a residence transformed into its present shape. There are five residences on the church property which are rented.
Father Tomasek is an earnest man, devoted to his work and always busy help- ping his people, many of whom come to him from foreign lands without any knowledge of the language or customs of this country, and they depend upon him for much outside his spiritual offices. It is needless to say that he never fails them and is doing a magnificent work in transforming them into good Ameri- can citizens, faithful to their church and to the laws of the United States.
HENRY F. EHLERT.
Henry F. Ehlert, who conducts an extensive and successful business as a manufacturer of mirrors at No. 4036 Hamilton avenue in Cleveland, was born in this city on the 28th of August, 1863, his parents being Henry and Mary Ehlert. His father died when he was but seven years of age, but his mother is still living at the age of sixty-eight years and continues to make her home in Cleve- land.
Henry F. Ehlert attended the German Lutheran schools until fourteen years of age and then for six months remained in the employ of Mr. Farthman, a
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flour and feed merchant. Subsequently he entered the service of the Standard Oil Company, with which concern he continued for five years, working in vari- ous capacities. He next started out in business with his brother, August E. Ehlert, as a retail grocery merchant, being thus successfully engaged for five years, on the expiration of which period they became identified with their pres- ent line of activity as manufacturers of mirrors. They first conducted a factory on Sheriff street for four years and then removed to Champlain avenue, where they remained for two years, while during the following four years they con- ducted business on Bank street. They then came to their present location at No. 4036 Hamilton avenue, where they are engaged in the manufacture of a general line of mirrors, also doing beveling, silvering and resilvering. Ener- getic and progressive, Henry F. Ehlert has won a well deserved and highly grati- fying measure of prosperity in the conduct of his manufacturing interests, and he has long been numbered among the representative and enterprising business men of the city.
On the 4th of January, 1891, in Cleveland, Mr. Ehlert was united in mar- riage to Miss Annie Haker, by whom he has three children, as follows: Carl, seventeen years of age, who attends the Central high school; Flora, who is fif- teen years old and also attends the Glenville high school; and Henry Luther, a lad of twelve, who is a student in the Lutheran parochial schools. The family residence is at No. 10729 Lee avenue.
Mr. Ehlert is not bound by party ties and casts an independent ballot at the polls, supporting the candidate whom he believes best qualified for the office in question. He belongs to the Cleveland Commercial Travelers and is also a de- voted member of the German Lutheran church, the teachings of which he ex- emplifies in his daily life. A resident of Cleveland from his birth to the present time, he has a wide acquaintance here and his many excellent traits of character have won him an extensive circle of friends.
EDWARD TRACY SCOVILL.
Edward Tracy Scovill, who for many years followed the profession of civil engineering but is now living retired, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, 'August 12, 1846, a son of Edward and Catherine (Sholl) Scovill, who are mentionel else where in this volume. The son was a pupil in the public schools of his na- tive city, and after his education was completed spent three years on the fron- tier with an engineering corps. Up to this time he had had some special pro- fessional and scientific training, but, desiring to thoroughly qualify for his chosen life work, he entered Yale, where he studied civil engineering. Subsequently he went west and for several years was engaged in making locations for several railroads, including the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Oregon Rail- road and the west end of the Canadian Pacific. In 1872 he went to Peru, South America, and there remained for three years as civil engineer and locater of railroads which Henry Meigs was building.
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