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FRANK KOTHERA.
The manufacture of soap has changed very materially during the past few years for the people are demanding a superior article scientifically prepared from pure products. However, there are some favorites on the market whose quality has been proven during years of use and whose hold upon the public continues for nothing better can be obtained. This is true of the soaps manufactured by The Buchan Soap Company, of Cleveland, of which Frank Kothera is president and manager, and John Buchan, who died January 2, 1909, was secretary and treasurer. Mr. Kothera was born near Praga, Bohemia, November 21, 1859, a son of Matthew and Josefa Kothera. Until he was thirteen he attended school in his native land and grew to manhood there.
In 1872, hwever, desiring better opportunities for advancement, he came to the United States, direct to Cleveland and found employment in the cooper shops of the Standard Oil Company for two years. For the next three months he was with the Ohio Woolen Mills and then entered the employ of Buchan & Murray Soap Company. This partnership was dissolved in 1886, and until 1901, Mr. Kothera continued alone, making the same quality and grades of soaps as the old company. In 1889 the Buchan Soap Company was incorporated, with Mr. Kothera as president and manager. Among their other specialties are: Forest City, Best Blue, Standard, German Mottled, German Olive, White Castile, Chemical Erasive, Ideal Floating, Tar and Toilet and Carbolic. The plant is lo- cated at the corner of Leonard and Hume streets, near Columbus street bridge. Here the company have a fine plant with all modern machinery and appliances,
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and as nothing but absolutely pure raw material is used the product is most excellent and meets with a ready sale wherever it is marketed. The success which has attended the company has been exceptionally gratifying.
On November 21, 1881, Mr. Kothera married Anna Krivanek, and they have two children: Joseph, twenty-four years old, is an agent for the company. He married Netti Vleck and they have one son about a year old. Mary, twenty-two years of age, is at home. The family are delightfully located at No. 3536 Wood- bridge avenue.
Mr. Kothera is a member of the Knights of St. Vincent. Politically he is independent, preferring to vote for the man rather than for party principles. The closeness with which he keeps in touch with the details of his business has resulted to the advantage of himself and his trade. He is exceptionally fitted for his line of business owing to his long experience and is giving the public the same quality of service as he has always done, endeavoring to improve upon his product if posible and to make any changes which will work for ultimate good.
EBER W. GURLEY, M. D.
Dr. Eber W. Gurley is one of the successful specialists of Cleveland, having devoted much of his skill and knowledge to diseases of the genito-urinary or- gans, becoming one of the best known physicians of the county. Dr. Gurley was born at Oberlin, Ohio, August 16, 1875, a son of Eber and Lilla Gurley. The father was a retired farmer of Oberlin prior to his demise. After taking a common and high school course at Oberlin, Dr. Gurley entered the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, graduating with the class of 1898. Fol- lowing this he took a post-graduate course in the New York School of Clinical Medicine, returning to Cleveland in 1898, where he opened an office at his pres- ent location, in January, 1899, being conveniently located at Nos. 814, 816, 818 Schofield building, while his residence is at 1125 East boulevard. From the be- ginning he has been very successful in his special line and has met with remark- able results in his work.
On September 21, 1898, Dr. Gurley married Lula Minor, of Cleveland, a daughter of Seth Minor, one of the oldest settlers of the vicinity, who secured possession of three hundred acres of land adjoining Cleveland Heights, which is now one of the most valuable pieces of property outside the city in the state of Ohio.
Dr. Gurley belongs to the Cleveland Yacht Club, the Lakewood Yacht Club, the Cleveland Motor Boat Club and the Cleveland Athletic Club, belonging also to the Knights of Pythias and the national Phi Alpha Gamma, medical fraternity. He is an earnest student, a splendid physician and a genial, sociable young man. who has friends everywhere in the city. Still with the best years of his life before him, Dr. Gurley has accomplished much and stands high in his profession and the estimation of his fellow citizens.
JOHN F. COLLINS.
John F. Collins, whose name is associated with some of the large business houses of Cleveland, notably as the silent partner in Babcock, Hurd & Com- pany, wholesale grocers, is one of the leading men of this city. He was born in 1850 at Manotick, Ontario, Canada, but he came to Cleveland in 1865. His grandfather was Stephen Collins, who was born in 1773 near Burlington, Ver- mont, and died in Canada in 1852. His parents were divorced at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, owing to differences in political opinions, his mother
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being a tory and his father a patriot. She removed to Canada, taking with her their only son, Stephen, and she petitioned King George for a grant of land for herself and son and was given the property. Stephen Collins had a son Walter Collins, the father of our subject, who was born in 1817 and died in 1893. He was married January 14, 1841, to Helen Blythe, who died in 1857.
Their son, John F. Collins, of this review, was fifteen years of age when he came to Cleveland and secured a position with W. P. Southworth, a whole- sale and retail grocer, remaining with him for sixteen years. He left that posi- tion to accept another with Babcock, Hurd & Company, in whose employ he remained until January 1, 1889, when he returned to W. P. Southworth & Company as a member of the firm. In 1891, owing to ill health, he sold his in- terest in the business and for nearly a year was out of business altogether that he might regain his health. He then again entered the employ of Babcock, Hurd & Company, and in 1896 became a member of the firm, being now associated with McClellan Hurd in the active management of the business. This firm is one of Cleveland's largest wholesale establishments in the grocery business. The house is a solid, reliable one, and some of its best customers have continued with it throughout its history. Mr. Collins is also a director in the Union Sav- ings and Loan Company, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
On February 14, 1878, Mr. Collins was married to Miss Frances E. Comp- ton, a daughter of Rev. Henry S. Compton, who was ordained to the ministry and lived at Trenton, New Jersey. Mrs. Collins was educated at Trenton Sem- inary and taught in the Trenton public schools for five years. They have one daughter, Mrs. Harvey Bingham, and a son, Trenton C. Collins, who at the age of twenty-three years is employed by Babcock, Hurd & Company. The family attend the Bolton Avenue Presbyterian church. Mrs. Collins is very much in- terested in the Young Woman's Christian Association and directs her charities through it.
Mr. Collins enjoys nothing better than a good game of baseball and is one of the best known fans of Cleveland, rarely missing a game when the Cleveland team is home, unless attendance will interfere with his business. The city resi- dence is on the fashionable Lake Shore boulevard, Collinwood, one of our most beautiful suburbs. While giving close attention to his business affairs he man- ages to be active in the broader fields of public duty, and he is never found lack- ing when any measure is on foot to improve or benefit the city.
. FRANCIS HARRINGTON GLIDDEN.
Attracted to Cleveland by the opportunities which the city offered in educa- tional and business lines more than four decades ago, Francis Harrington Glid- den has remained a resident of Cleveland since 1868 and as the years have passed has borne an unsullied reputation as an energetic, enterprising and progressive business man who, in extending the scope of his interests, has also contributed to the general welfare for the Glidden Varnish Company, of which he has been the president since its incorporation in 1880, is one of the important productive industries of the city. A native of Maine, Mr. Glidden was born in New Castle, May 24, 1832, and at the usual age set himself to the task of acquiring an educa- tion, attending the common schools and afterward an academy in his native vil- lage. In early life he followed the sea and while still a resident of New Eng- land he was married, in 1854, to Miss Winifred Kavanagh Waters, of New Castle. Her parents were James Sinclair and Margaret (Kavanagh) Waters. Her maternal grandfather was James Kavanagh, who in 1803 was the prime mover in the erection of St. Patrick's church in Damariscotta Mills, Maine, where he made his home. Mr. and Mrs. Glidden began their domestic life in New Eng-
F. H. GLIDDEN
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land, where they resided for about twelve years. Unto them were born eight children, seven of whom are now living and are residents of Cleveland.
In 1866 Mr. Glidden visited Cleveland and was so favorably impressed with the educational and business advantages offered by this thriving and growing city that he resolved to make his home here and in 1868 removed with his family to Ohio. Shortly after his arrival he became connected with the varnish trade here and in 1875 established the nucleus of the present extensive plant of the Glidden Varnish Company. Its growth has been along most progressive lines and the policy of continuous expansion inaugurated by its president has made it a most extensive concern and one of the most important productive industries of the city. Mr. Glidden has bent his energies to administrative direction and exec- utive control. Possessing broad, analytical and practical-minded views, com- bined with an understanding of his own capacities and powers, he has wrought along lines of successful accomplishment and his enterprise at the same time has been a factor in the promotion of commercial progress in Cleveland. The Glidden Varnish Company today furnishes employment to a large force of work- men and the well equipped plant, supplied with all modern machinery, attests the progressive spirit of the men who are in control.
Aside from business relations Mr. Glidden is known as a public-spirited citi- zen and withholds his cooperation from no movement calculated to benefit the community at large. While his work of public service has always been done as a private citizen, yet the range of his activities and the scope of his influence have been far-reaching and he has done much toward bringing about purifying and wholesome reforms that have been gradually growing in the political, municipal and social life of the city. Mr. Glidden has traveled to some extent and is in- terested in art and literature, finding great pleasure in both fields. He is a fluent conversationalist, presenting clearly and entertainingly those points which have furnished him entertainment or have constituted a stimulus to thought. In his character and manner he combines much of the dignity, polish and courtesy of the old-school gentleman with the alertness and business energy of the modern man of affairs. He has been an active but unostentatious worker in church and charitable interests, seeking the greatest good for the greatest number. He has a clear realization of the object of life, has been guided in all that he has done by a definite purpose and as he has labored year by year, his work and his in- fluence have been substantial factors in the promotion of commercial activity, in municipal progress, in intellectual, aesthetic and moral advancement. Neither is he unmindful of the social amenities of life and is therefore affiliated with several clubs and other social organizations.
THE REV. EMIL BURIK.
For many generations the Burik family has furnished priests to the Greek church, both in Hungary and the United States, and the Rev. Emil Burik of St. John's Greek church, of Cleveland, belongs to it, as did his father the Rev. Emil and his grandfather, the Rev. John. The latter died in Hungary, but the elder Emil Burik died in Bronswick, Pennsylvania, in 1885, but was born in the family home at Hvadiska, Hungary, in 1844. Here, too, his son, the subject of this re- view, was born, September 30, 1874. Having been dedicated to the service of the church, the lad was carefully educated in his native country and was or- dained there in St. John's church on October 13, 1898, by Bishop Do John Valyi, and on October 27th of that same year was given his first charge.
Although many memories cluster about his old home, where his mother, whose maiden name was Emilia Gulovics, still lives, in 1905, the young priest came to the United States after eight years of faithful service and was stationed at St. Michael's church, Pleasant City, Ohio. For eight months
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he remained there and then was given his present charge in order to afford him a wider field of action. His parish has three hundred families and he has a school of one hundred children, presided over by one teacher. The church edi- fice is of brick and will seat three hundred people. Father Burik is an enthusi- astic worker, thoroughly imbued with a love of his sacred calling and the mis- sion he believes is his among the people of his faith and country in a strange land.
The Greek Catholic church permits marriage among its clergymen and on August 9, 1898, Father Burik married Helena Janiczki and they had three chil- dren: Annie, Nicholas and Stephen, but the last named died in infancy.
The good work Father Burik is accomplishing cannot be measured and must be seen to be fully appreciated. To the faithful of his church his ministrations are a part of the home forever left behind. To his parishioners, some of whom are ignorant and many not understanding a word of English, he is friend, priest and ruler and is called upon to settle many questions outside those relating only to their spiritual needs. Always faithful, fired with the zeal of the missionary, happy in doing good, Father Burik is greatly beloved by his people and esteemed by his fellow citizens.
CARL A. HAMANN, M. D.
Among those of the fraternity in Cleveland who, by concentrated and con- tinuous effort for the advancement of medical science in both the fields of prac- tice and teaching, have won recognition is Dr. Carl A. Hamann. He was born in Davenport, Iowa, January 26, 1865. His father was C. H. Hamann, a native of Germany, who came to America in 1855 and settled in Davenport, where he engaged in the manufacture of wagons until his death in 1897. His widow, Mrs. Marie (Koenig) Hamann, also a native of Germany, survives, still making her home in Davenport.
In the schools of his native city Dr. Hamann pursued his education through successive grades until he was graduated from the high school with the class of 1885. His professional training was received in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he won his degree in 1890. In the meantime he had engaged in teaching school for two years, from the time of his graduation from high school until his matriculation in the university in 1887. He served in 1890 and 1891 as resident physician to the German Hospital at Philadelphia, and was assistant demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania from 1891 until 1893. In the latter year he came to Cleveland and accepted the professorship of anatomy in the Western Reserve University, which chair he has held to the present time. Since taking up the private practice of his profession he has devoted his attention exclusively to surgery and is visiting surgeon to the Charity, City and Mount Sinai Hospitals. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, of which he has been president, of the Ohio State Medi- cal Association, the American Medical Association, the American Surgical As- sociation, the Association of American Anatomists, the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists and of the Cleveland Medical Library Associa- tion and is directing librarian of the last named. He has written many articles for publication in the various medical journals on surgical and anatomical sub- jects.
Dr. Hamann was married at Wyoming, Ohio, October 31, 1900, to Miss Ella F. Ampt, a daughter of the late Judge F. C. Ampt, of Cincinnati. They have two children, Elizabeth and Carl A., Jr., aged respectively eight and one year. The family residence is at No. 2036 East Eighty-ninth street. Dr. Hamann is a republican, conversant with the leading questions and issues of the day, but not active. He is also a member of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity and the University ·Club.
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Possessing the studious disposition characteristic of the German people and a devotion to his profession, he has made steady and unusual progress in the field of his specialty during his twenty years of practice and has won an enviable place among the foremost surgeons of this city.
WILLIAM B. GREENE.
William B. Greene, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Palmers & DeMooy Foundry Company, was born in Lisbon, Ohio, in 1862, and in 1879 removed to East Liverpool, Ohio. He was then a youth of seventeen. The same year he became identified with the Potters National Bank as bookkeeper and teller and filled the position acceptably for eleven years. He withdrew from that institution in 1890 and removed to Leetonia, Ohio, where he engaged in the manufacture of pottery under the firm name of Cartwright & Greene, con- tinuing in the business for six years, Mr. Cartwright being the practical man in the pottery, while Mr. Greene financed the enterprise. In 1896 he closed out the business and sought a still broader field of labor in Cleveland. Here he en- gaged with the Palmers & DeMooy Foundry Company as sales manager and after acting in that capacity for several years was, in July, 1903, made a director and general manager. In July, 1904, he was elected secretary and treasurer, also retaining the office of general manager, and is still so identified with the business. His advance in this field of labor has been rapid, for his resource- fulness and ability enabled him quickly to understand the demands of the trade and meet the duties devolving upon him, although he knew practically nothing about the business until he became connected with this concern, which is one of the pioneer foundry establishments of Cleveland. He is also financially in- terested with other business enterprises in the city and his judgment is a valu- able factor in management, for his discernment is keen and his plans practical.
In 1885 Mr. Greene was married to Miss Belle Brunt, of East Liverpool, a daughter of William Brunt, a prominent citizen of that place and in fact one of the best known men of his section of the state. He was one of the pioneers in the pottery business and organized and became president of the Potters National Bank of East Liverpool. He was regarded as a substantial business man, his carefully devised and promptly executed plans winning him advancement. He was also prominent in public affairs and for a number of years served on the school board. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Greene has been born a daughter, Edna, who is now the wife of J. Burte Isham, a young business man of Cleveland who is secretary of the Auer Register Company. Mr. Greene enjoys outdoor sports, especially fishing and motoring, and is a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club and of the Cleveland Automobile Club. While his career has been less spec- tacular than that of the political or military leader, there is in it a stolidity and purpose that are commendable and have brought him to a substantial place in industrial circles.
WILLIAM H. QUINBY.
The mercantile interests of Cleveland are of immense magnitude affording employment for the brains and abilities of some of the best business men of the country. One of the men who is assisting in maintaining the prestige of the city in this line is William H. Quinby, proprietor of the well known dry-goods house of W. H. Quinby. He was born in Westchester county, New York, Jan- uary 27, 1843, being a son of Thomas and Susan A. (Hunter) Quinby, all born
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in Westchester county, New York. The first American ancestors of the Quinby family were Quakers who came to New York state early in the 17th century.
After a public-school education, William H. Quinby worked on the farm with his father until he was twenty-two years old, when in 1865 he went to New York city and entered the employ of Calhoun, Robbins & Company, and, with the exception of a few years, remained with them until 1879, the greater part of the time as traveling salesman. In 1879, Mr. Quinby came to Cleveland as general agent for the Butterick patterns, and two years later he established the present business. From a modest beginning this store has developed into one of the largest of its kind in the middle west, dealing exclusively in women's furnishings. In 1899 the business had expanded to such extent that the present store structure was erected. One of the striking features in the building up of this business is the fact that it has been accomplished without the aid of adver- tising, relying rather on the quality of goods and service to stimulate its growth and to the cooperation of employes.
Mr. Quinby is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and serves on the retail board of that organization. His political support is given to the men and measures of the republican party.
In 1878 Mr. Quinby was united in marriage to Janett Freeland in New York city. They have one daughter, May C. The family are members of the Second Presbyterian church and take an active interest in its work and charities. Their city home is Hill Crest, East Cleveland.
While throughout his long business career in Cleveland of over thirty years, he has given close attention to his business affairs, Mr. Quinby has also found time for activities in the broad fields of public duty and he is never found lacking when any measure is on foot for the improvement or benefit of his adopted city. Genial, generous, prosperous, he takes prominent rank among Cleveland's successful and prominent citizens.
CHARLES LINCOLN STOCKER.
Charles Lincoln Stocker, attorney at law in Cleveland, was born in Gnaden- hutten, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, August 22, 1868. Gnadenhutten, the "Tents- of-Grace" mentioned in Longfellow's Evangeline, was the scene of the early attempts of David Zeisberger and other Moravian missionaries to Christianize the western Indians in 1772, and the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, David Peter, teacher and merchant, accompanied these zealous men as an assistant, and, in 1798, opened the first store in eastern Ohio, his customers being the Delaware Indians of that region.
His father, Solomon Stocker, still lives on the old home place there. He was a non-commissioned officer in the Thirtieth Ohio Veteran Volunteer In- fantry and served for four years in the war of the Rebellion. Three times he was slightly wounded but continued with his command and at the expiration of his first term of enlistment reenlisted as a veteran, giving loyal support to the Union until victory crowned the northern army. For years he devoted his at- tention to general agricultural pursuits, was a public-spirited and useful man in his community and now lives retired at the age of seventy-two years.
Under the parental roof, Charles Lincoln Stocker spent his boyhood days and in his native town acquired his early education, which was supplemented by study in Oberlin College. He was graduated from that institution in 1894 and afterward taught school for a year. On the expiration of that period he came to Cleveland and devoted three years to the study of law and to teaching in a night school of this city. In 1898 he was graduated from the law department of the Western Reserve University and at once entered upon the active practice
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of his profession, becoming in 1899 a member of the present well known law firm of Carpenter, Young & Stocker.
He has made for himself a creditable place in the ranks of the legal fra- ternity and is widely known for the care with which he prepares his cases. In no instance has his reading ever been confined to the limitations of the questions at issue; it has compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected, but as well for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them. His logical grasp of the facts and principles of the law applicable to them has been another potent element in his success, and his remarkable clearness of expression and precise diction may be counted among his conspicuous gifts and accomplishments. For nine years he acted as solicitor of Collinwood, a suburb of Cleveland.
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