A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume III, Part 61

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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After his return to the United States Mr. Scovill had charge of engineering corps for several roads in the west and subsequently spent three years in Brit- ish Columbia in connection with railway construction. In 1886 he returned to Cleveland, where he became associated with the Brown Hoisting Company as secretary, continuing in that connection with one of the most important industrial enterprises in the city until 1902, when he retired from active busi- ness and has since enjoyed well earned and well merited rest. He is still, how- ever, a stockholder in the Brown Hoisting Company. As a locater of railroads he seemed to possess natural discrimination as to the best points over which the line should pass. He made such a close study of the country that while his opinions were formed with rapidity they were always correct and reliable.

VIRGIL P. KLINE

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In 1896 Mr. Scovill was married to Miss Florence Sholes, a daughter of Thomas G. and Harriet (Este) Sholes. They have become parents of two children, Edward, born April 3, 1897; and Justine, born May 26, 1898, now stu- dents in the University School of Cleveland. In 1898 Mr. Scovill built his present residence on Park Lane, Northeast, and he also has a summer home at Danville, New York.

In his political views Mr. Scovill is a republican and in his religious faith an Episcopalian. He belongs to the Union, Rowfant and Country Clubs and to the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a member of the Second Rank, Loyal Legion, and the Delta Psi Sigma Chapter, a college fraternity. He is fond of hunting and traveling, and business and pleasure have taken him not only to all sections of this country but also to many points in Europe, Japan and Egypt, so that his knowledge of the western world is comprehensive and exact. Moreover, his travels have stored his mind with many interesting mem- ories and reminiscences so that now, when no longer business interests claim his attention, he has rich mental resources from which to draw.

CHARLES FRANKLIN HOOVER, M. D.

Dr. Charles Franklin Hoover, an eminent member of the medical fraternity in Cleveland, his comprehensive study and broad experience having carried him into important professional relations, was born in Miamisburg, Ohio, August 2, 1865. Investigation into the ancestral history shows that the Hoovers came to America from Switzerland in 1780, the family home being established in Penn- sylvania, near Lancaster, whence a removal was made to Ohio about 1816. John Houts, great-grandfather of Dr. Hoover in the paternal line, was one of the early bankers and manufacturers of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who lost his fortune through the failure of the old Jacksonian Bank. He then removed to Ohio and became one of the pioneers of Troy, this state, and turned his attention to farming and distilling.

David Hoover, the grandfather, and Abel Hoover, the father of Dr. Hoover, were both engaged in the manufacture of harvesting machinery in Miamisburg and both were natives of this state. After the successful conduct of business interests for many years Abel Hoover retired some years ago and is now enjoy- ing well earned rest in Miamisburg. His wife bore the maiden name of Clara Hoff and is a native of Pennsylvania. She is descended from both Holland and German ancestry, the family being founded in Philadelphia betwen 1770 and 1780, being residents there during the occupation of that city by the British at the time of the Revolutionary war.

Dr. Hoover spent his boyhood days in Miamisburg and by reason of the comfortable financial position of the father was relieved of the necessity for arduous labor in youth in which so many boys engage. On the contrary, ex- cellent educational opportunities were afforded him, which he fully improved. After attending the public schools of his native city he entered Harvard, in which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1887 and in the fall of that year he matriculated in the Harvard Medical School, where he continued his course until February, 1890, when he went abroad, spending four years in further preparation for his profession by study in some of the best universities and under the most eminent professors and practitioners of Vienna, Prague and Strassburg. He remained abroad until 1894, save for a brief period in 1892 when he returned to take his M. D. degree from Harvard. After finish- ing his studies in Europe he located for practice in Cleveland in September, 1894. His training was particularly thorough and comprehensive and moreover he possesses a nature that could never be content with mediocrity. He, there- fore, applied himself most earnestly to the mastery of the problems which con-

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tinually confront the physician and his superior ability was soon manifest in the splendid results which attended his professional labors. He became recognized as one of the most skilled representatives of the profession in northern Ohio and broad experience and constant research have continually promoted his effi- ciency. From 1894 until 1907 he was visiting physician to the City Hospital, after which he resigned and became a member of the visiting staff at Lakeside Hospital. Since 1895 he has been a member of the faculty of the Western Reserve Medical School and has been very active in the teaching of medicine, proving as capable an educator as he is a practitioner. He was also visiting physician to St. Alexis Hospital from 1896 until 1900, has been a frequent contributor to the current literature of the profession and has lectured frequently be- fore different organizations and societies. His interest in the scientific research and experiemental work of the profession is indicated in his membership in the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society and the Cleveland Medical Library Association. He now limits his practice to general internal medicine, having largely become recognized as an authority upon questions of vital interest in this branch of practice.

On the 9th of August, 1900, at Kincardine, Ontario, Dr. Hoover was mar- ried to Miss Katherine Fraser, a daughter of Murdock and Christine (Mc- Kenzie) Fraser, natives of Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and among the pioneers of Bruce county, Ontario, locating there about 1850. Dr. and Mrs. Hoover now have a daughter, Katherine, born June 30, 1901. The family residence is at No. 1903 East Seventy-fifth street, where Dr. Hoover has owned his home since 1906. Dr. Hoover is independent in his political views. He holds membership with the Unitarian church, in the Union and University Clubs and was a member of the Pi Eta fraternity of Harvard. He is a man of wide general culture, broad minded and liberal in his views, seeking progress at all times along the lines that are substantiated by thorough scientific investigation.

REV. CASSIMIR REICHLIN.

The Rev. Cassimir Reichlin, priest in charge of St. Stephen's church of Cleveland, has spent thirty-eight years of his useful life here and not only is the only pastor his parish has had but this is his first assignment. He was born in Switzerland, December 16, 1843, a son of Charles and Bridget (Rickenback) Reichlin, neither of whom ever came to the United States. A brother, Joseph Leonard Reichlin, who was a priest at Eteinerberg, Canton Schwyz, was born June II, 1841, and died March 21, 1906. Father Reichlin has a nephew who is rector of St. Joseph church at Lorain, Ohio.

Father Reichlin attended in the Benedictine convent at Engleberg, Switzer- land, and was graduated in philosophy at Brig, Canton Wallis, before he came to the United States and entered St. Mary's Seminary of Cleveland, Ohio. He was ordained priest by Bishop Loers, of Fort Wayne, in April, 1870, saying his first mass the following day at St. Peter's church of Cleveland. Immediately fol- lowing he was sent to St. Stephen's church, where he has since remained, and during the years which have followed he has accomplished a great work.

Father Falk built a brick structure with the church above and a school under- neath, but it was left for Father Reichlin to inaugurate and carry out plans which have resulted in the present sacred edifice and parish buildings. Under his energetic management the present large, beautiful stone structure has been built, at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars, which has a seating capacity of twelve hundred people. He has also built a brick schoolhouse of fifteen rooms; a large brick parish house; a brick Sisters' home with enough room for fifteen Sisters ; a big frame house for four Brothers; and he has installed a heating plant for all

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the structures. There are two smaller houses for the sexton and other purposes and all are substantial and well fitted for their several requirements. The Brothers teach the larger boys, having classes in history and commercial courses.

There are two assistants connected with the church, the Rev. Joseph Trapp and the Rev. Emil Scheider. There are fifteen teachers in the school and seven hundred pupils. The parish contains seven hundred families and thirty-five hundred souls. Church and school matters are in a flourishing condition for Father Reichlin is a good executive.

BELDEN SEYMOUR.

Though more than two decades have passed since Belden Seymour was called to his final rest, he is still remembered by many of Cleveland's residents as one of the city's leading business men and public-spirited citizens He was born in 1826 at his grandfather's place, Comfort Hill, in Vergennes, Vermont. His grandfather, also Belden Seymour (named for his maternal grandparent Ruth Belden) had driven in his own coach with his wife, Abigail Beers, from the birthplace of the Seymours family in America-Norwalk, Connecticut, to Ver- gennes early in the century. Belden Seymour's father was Harry Belden Sey- mour and his mother was Mary Lazell Ward, a daughter of Major Trowbridge Ward, of Cummington, Massachusetts.

His father dying when he was but fourteen years old, an uncle, Charles Sey- mour, who was a merchant in New York sent for Belden, and he remained with that uncle until he came west about 1845. His maternal uncle, Horatio Ward, having come to Cleveland and married the daughter of Judge Barber, who had received a grant of land in Ohio City from The Connecticut Land Grant Com- pany. Belden finally located in Ohio City with this uncle in 1848 and sent to Vergennes for his mother, brother and two young sisters.

Then, especially in the Barber and Lord allotment, he began his active career in the real estate and insurance business, being recognized as an authority on real estate matters all through his life and meeting with a gratifying and well merited degree of prosperity.

He was greatly interested in the erection of both business and residence structures, and bought much land for the railroads. It was largely through his efforts that the ground was secured and the plans consummated for the erection of the Superior street viaduct. He was one of the organizers of the People's Gas Light Company and of the People's Savings & Trust Company, of both of which companies he remained a director until the time of his death, as he had also been for many years of the Citizens Savings & Loan Association, now the Citizens Savings & Trust Company, of which his son Belden Seymour and his son-in-law Andrew Squire are now directors.

Although centering his interests to a large extent in the west side, Mr. Sey- mour gave hearty aid and cooperation in all measures of reform, improvement and progress on both sides of the river.

He was a stanch republican, an early member of the Cleveland Light Ar- tillery Company, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Union Club. For many years he was a member of the vestry and junior warden of St. John's Episcopal church, the land for which having been given by Judge Barber and Richard Lord, and the erection of which having been in part the early work of his and his wife's family.

His activity in the Barber and Lord allotment early brought him into associa- tion with Richard Lord, the brother-in-law of Judge Barber, and in 1853 he married Mrs. Lord's niece, Eleanor Herrick, whose father S. N. Herrick, a civil engineer from Albany, had come to Cleveland with his cousin William Har-

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back, when Harback, Stone & Witt were building the Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- cinnati and Indianapolis Railroad.

Mr. Seymour died very suddenly in January, 1889; twenty years later his - life would have been saved undoubtedly by an operation to remove his appendix. Mrs. Seymour survived him more than twenty years, living. always in the old family home on the corner of Franklin avenue and Thirty-eighth street, West, and taking an active part in the social and charitable life about her. Her long life of seventy-nine years in Cleveland endeared her to a widespread circle of warm friends on both sides of the river.

Belden Seymour, Jr., the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Seymour was early sent to complete his education by a couple of years of travel in Europe. On return- ing to Cleveland he went into the employ of his uncle John E. Greene, then one of the firm and now the president of the William Bingham Company. Subse- quently he spent some years in Chicago and Minneapolis but returned to Cleve- land at the time of his father's demise. He took up at once the management of his father's estate and affairs, and has been engaged actively and extensively ever since in the real-estate and insurance business, being elected immediatly to fill his father's position in various business and banking associations. Mr. and Mrs. Belden Seymour left one other child, Eleanor, whose second marriage to Andrew Squire, head of the well known firm of attorneys, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, brought her back to Cleveland in 1896, after an absence of about fif- teen years, largely spent in travel.

Belden Seymour's brother, Henry Beers Seymour, who also lived in Cleve- land a good many years and was with his brother in business, is still living (in 1910) in New York. Of Mr. Seymour's two sisters who came from Vermont to live with him, the younger, Mrs. John E. Greene, died during a little visit to the home of her childhood, Vergennes, in 1901 but the other, Miss Helen M. Sey- mour, still lives in the old Seymour home on Franklin avenue.

FREDERICK KING.

Frederick King, who occupies a pleasant residence at 13645 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, is actively engaged in the coal business in this city. He was born in Burgess Hill, Sussex county, England, February 28, 1852, a son of Frederick and Fannie (Adams) King. The latter was a daughter of Adam Adams, of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex county, a famous botanist and florist, and a man of con- siderable reputation in his community, largely because of his generous hospi- tality and his ability to provide acceptable entertainment for his friends. He passed away in 1868. Frederick King, Sr., was a contractor and brickmaker in the old country and when his son Frederick was about two and a half years old came to America. He settled in Adrian, Michigan, but after living there for five years returned to England, owing to the death of his brother, Thomas King. There he spent the remaining years of his life. He died in 1892.

As a child Frederick King accompanied his parents when they came to the United States. He returned to England with them when he was a little more than seven years of age and in the country of his birth received an education which was to qualify him for the responsibilities of life. At the age of fifteen, however, he relinquished the pursuit of lessons, and then went to work with his father at brick-making. He was about twenty years of age when he came to America for the second time. He settled in East Cleveland about thirty-five years ago and engaged in the grocery and meat business. Some years later he sold his store to his brother and turned his attention to the coal and feed busi- ness. This he sold in the course of the next few years to the Goff, Kirby Coal Company, by whom he was retained as manager. The concern has twice changed hands in the last ten years, and is now known as the Pittsburg Coal Company,

W. E. CHAPMAN

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but Mr. King still holds the position of manager. He is possessed of undeni- able business ability, as the fact of his remaining in a responsible position, not- withstanding the change of owners, attests.

After coming to Cleveland, Mr. King married and is now the father of three sons : Herbert D., who was born March 12, 1882; Paul F., who was born March 21, 1885; and Kenneth R., who was born October 21, 1893. Mr. King and his family are members of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of East Cleveland, and consistently attempt to make their religious training effective in their daily lives. Mr. King has done good work in connection with various public interests and projects. He was the prime mover in securing the switch from the Nickel Plate Railway at Windermere and, while this was done more than sixteen years years ago, it is still known as King's switch. He was the first man to success- fully secure the required support for the first telephone system installed in the postoffice in East Cleveland, then kept by Mrs. Steele. While his sympathies may be said to be with the republican party he is not strongly bound by party ties and in local matters regards the issue rather than party organization. In national and state politics, however, his support usually goes to the republican candidates. Soon after its organization he became a member of the Cleveland Church Club, with which he has since been identified. His years have marked a steady progress not only in the financial position to which he has attained but also in the attainment of that high regard which is only accorded in recognition of individual merit. He has ever exercised those characteristics which make for good fortune, respect and honor and the circle of his friends is being con- stantly extended.

EDWIN HERBERT SEASON, M. D.

Dr. Edwin Herbert Season, who has been numbered among the successful and able medical practitioners of Cleveland since the fall of 1899, was born in Stowe township, Summit county, Ohio, on the 13th of September, 1872. His paternal great-grandfather, John Season, was an officer of the English royal navy, while the grandfather, James Season, whose birth occurred in New York in 1812, was a wagon maker by trade. The latter wedded Miss Martha Coles, a native of England. The maternal grandparents of our subject were Moses Dan- forth and Martha (Starr) Call, the former of Warren, Massachusetts, and the latter of Middletown, Connecticut. The great-grandfather, Josiah Starr, was the first white man to fell a tree in Summit county, this state, and participated in the war of 1812, acting as a drummer boy at the battle of Detroit. His wife was a Miss Cannon-a representative of an old family of Ohio. Edwin Austin Sea- son, the father of Dr. Season of this review, was born in Somersetshire, England, on the 20th of October, 1837. He was brought to the United States in 1844, the family home being established in Stowe township, Summit county, Ohio, where he subsequently became identified with general agricultural pursuits. He still survives and now makes his home in Hudson township. In early manhood he wedded Miss Emma Augusta Call, whose birth occurred in Stowe township, Summit county, on the 22d of December, 1847. She is also yet living.

Edwin H. Season was graduated from the high school at Hudson, Ohio. with the class of 1890 and spent the years 1890 and 1891 as a student in the Western Reserve Academy of Hudson. He then taught a district school for two years and in 1895 entered the medical department of the Western Reserve University, from which institution he was graduated in 1898, winning the degree of M. D. He afterward spent twenty-two months as interne at the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland and in the fall of 1899 entered upon the private practice of his pro- fession in this city, opening an office at the corner of Doan and Euclid avenues, where he has since remained. From 1899 until 1908 he acted as physician in

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charge of the Lakeside Hospital Dispensary, his duties in this connection includ- ing instruction in physical diagnosis. His attention is given principally to the practice of internal medicine, in which connection he has gained an extensive and lucrative patronage as his skill and ability have become recognized. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical So- ciety, the American Medical Association and the Cleveland Medical Library Association.

On the 19th of June, 1901, in Akron, Ohio, Dr. Season was united in mar- riage to Miss Anna S. Alexander, a daughter of David Alexander, of that city. They now have two children, namely: John Alexander, five years of age; and Sarah Hale, who is one year old. The parents are members of the Euclid Ave- nue Congregational church and reside at No. 1948 East One Hundred and Six- teenth street. The Doctor maintains his office at No. 10406 Euclid avenue.

FRANK P. WHITTON.

Frank P. Whitton, who has been successfully engaged in business as a gen- eral contractor of Cleveland since 1905, was born in Canada on the 21st of July, 1876. His father, A. J. Whitton, whose birth occurred in England in 1850, crossed the Atlantic to the United States when a young man of twenty-one years. He is still actively engaged in business as a contractor of New York and has met with a well merited and gratifying measure of prosperity in his undertak- ings. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Brennan and whom he wedded in Canada, passed away in 1905. She was a native of that country, having been born in 1850.

Frank P. Whitton obtained his early education in the schools of his native land and-afterward entered the St. Louis Institute, where he completed a scien- tific course in 1892. For ten years following his graduation he was employed by a construction company in New York and in 1903 embarked in business on his own account at New Castle, Pennsylvania, where he remained for two years. On the expiration of that period he came to Cleveland and for the past five years has here continuously carried on his interests as a contractor, his business consisting of railroad construction work throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania. His superior ability in his chosen field of labor has secured for him many impor- tant contracts and, though still a young man, he has already won a prominent position among the representatives of industrial life in this city. He is the president of the Whitton Construction Company and also of the Logan County Real Estate Company.

In 1899 Mr. Whitton was united in marriage to Miss Muriel J. McLean, of New York. They are both faithful communicants of the Catholic church. Mr. Whitton is likewise a member of the Knights of Columbus, the Cleveland Ath- letic Club and the Cleveland Automobile Club. In a calling where advancement depends upon individual skill and merit he has gained creditable recognition and from his labor has derived substantial benefits.

LAWRENCE S. LORD.

One of the younger generation of Cleveland's progressive citizens whose achievements already presage a brilliant career is Lawrence S. Lord. This young man, born in this city, April 28, 1882, has for over a year and a half successfully filled the position of resident general manager of the Columbia Lubricants Com- pany of New York, whose Cleveland offices are located at IIII Superior avenue. Mr. Lord has in a manner followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and father,

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for both of them have been connected with important manufacturing concerns. The former gentleman was Samuel Lord, of the Lord & Barber Company, manu- facturers of steam engines, whose death occurred in 1880. Mr. Lord's parents are Edward P. and Josephine (Wright) Lord. The former terminated his attendance at the public schools when a boy of fourteen and later took a course in a business college. Today he holds the important position of vice president and manager of the Ohio Machine & Boiler Company.

Lawrence S. Lord also ended his public-school education at fourteen, but supplemented it with several years' study at the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio. Not long after this he returned to Cleveland, where with the firm of Lord & Patterson, mercantile brokers, he was engaged until 1906. His next step was a more ambitious and independent undertaking inasmuch as he organized the General Refining Company and assumed its management until 1908. In that year he was complimented by an offer from the Columbia Lubricants Company of New York to become their resident manager in Cleveland. This he accepted, and his services have proved him well worthy the confidence reposed in him.

Mr. Lord is republican in politics and Protestant in religious conviction. He was married, October 21, 1908, to Miss Carney, of Bellevue, Ohio. Their resi- dence is in Lakewood and Mr. Lord is a member of Lakewood Yacht Club.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume III, Part 61

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