A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume III, Part 73

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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In Cleveland, on the 24th of September, 1884, Mr. Hubbard was married to Mrs. Katherine Beckwith Knight of this city, and they have three children : Walter O. Knight, associated with his father in business; Sterling Beckwith Hubbard, also with his father in business; and Marguerite, at home. The fam- ily residence at No. 2174 East Forty-sixth street was erected in 1886. It is the center of a cultured society circle, the family having a host of warm friends in this city.

Mr. Hubbard manifests his political preference by support of the republican candidates at the polls. He was reared in the Congregational church and is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Union Club. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and ardently supports its activities for municipal progress and for the development of the city in lines of industrial and commercial advancement. Courteous, dignified and well poised, one would hardly imagine that the successful president of Cleveland's leading retail jewelry house entered upon an apprenticeship at the age of sixteen years and, unaided, has since made his own way in the world. The struggles and difficulties of business life con-

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stitute a chapter in the record of almost every man today prominent in commer- cial circles and it is this fact which constitutes an inspiration for the youth of the present age, indicating what may be accomplished by persistent and deter- mined effort.

FRANK R. HARRIS.

Frank R. Harris, a self-made man who has won success in every undertak- ing to which he has directed his energies, is now a member of the firm of Quinn & Harris, conducting a cigar business in the Hollenden Hotel. He was born in Cleveland, April 14, 1860, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Ellen (Hall) Harris. He comes of Revolutionary stock on the paternal side, while his maternal an- cestors were from Ireland and on coming to America settled at Kingston, Canada, where they successfully conducted a hotel for many years.

Frank R. Harris pursued his education in the grammar grades and high school of Cleveland, completing the course by graduation in the class of 1879. He at once entered the business department of the Cleveland Herald and with the passing years his experience in business fields brought him increased ability. He thoroughly mastered whatever he undertook to do and his work was char- acterized by promptness as well as accuracy. With increased remuneration for his labors he at length was enabled to engage in the cigar and tobacco trade, conducting business at the old Weddell House from 1890 until June, 1892. Since that date he has been at the Hollenden Hotel under the firm name of Quinn & Harris, and the extent of his trade makes it a most profitable business venture.

Mr. Harris is not unknown in political circles. He is a democrat of the old school and first became connected with municipal interests through eight years' service as page in the Cleveland city council. He was also in the sheriff's office from 1887 until 1890. He has taken the degrees of Capitular Masonry, belonging to Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M., and Cleveland Chapter, R. A. M.

In 1883 he wedded Miss Matie Parsons, who died in 1884. She was a daughter of J. J. and Mary Parsons, early settlers of Cleveland. In 1895 Mr. Harris wedded Luella Engle, whose ancestors were pioneers of the Western Reserve. In a review of his life it will be seen that persistency of purpose, adaptability and energy have been the strong factors in his success and his cordiality of manner has not been an unessential factor in winning him patronage.

FRANKLIN STUART McGOWAN.

Franklin Stuart McGowan, attorney at law and a member of the firm of Cook, McGowan & Foote, was born January 20, 1869, at Oieopolis, Pennsyl- vania. The family is of Scotch-Irish origin. The grandfather was a physician of Fayetteville, Pennsylvania, and the father, Thomas McGowan, who died in Cleveland, January 26, 1905, was a graduate of Princeton University of the class of 1861, after which he entered active business life as a consulting chem- ist. He married Sarah Elizabeth Rowland, who was born in Hancock, Mary- land, and is still living. The brother of F. S. McGowan is Roland Thomas Mc- Gowan, with the Parsons & Parsons Company, manufacturing chemists of Cleveland.

Franklin S. McGowan is a graduate of the Central high school of Cleveland of the class of 1886 and an A. B. graduate of Adelbert College of the class of 1890. He belongs to the Delta Upsilon fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa society. He was a teacher in the Central high school in 1890-91, instructor in German at Adelbert College in 1891-92 and at Adelbert College and the Col-

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lege for Women in 1892-93. In the following year he attended the Western Reserve University Law School and was admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1894. He has been a member of the following law firms: Brewer, Palmer & McGowan, 1894-95; Dickey, Brewer & McGowan, 1896-1900; Brewer, Cook & McGowan, 1901-05; Cook & McGowan, 1906; Cook, McGowan & Foote, 1907 to date.

On the 20th of June, 1896, Mr. McGowan married Helen A. Dempsey, a daughter of John and Martha (Davis) Dempsey, of Shelby, Ohio, both now deceased. Mrs. McGowan is a graduate of Wellesley College of the class of 1890. Mr. McGowan belongs to the Union Country, University, Rowfant and Tippecanoe Clubs, the Chamber of Commerce and the Nisi Prius Court, a law- yers' organization; is a member of the executive committee of the Municipal Association ; and treasurer of the Young Men's Christian Association.

PROFESSOR JOHN W. PERRIN, Ph. D.

Professor John W. Perrin has been librarian of the Case Library since 1905. He is widely recognized as one of the ablest educators of the country, and is a son of William Jasper and Susan Allen Perrin. His entire life has been devoted to educational and kindred interests. He completed a course in Illinois Wesleyan University in 1887 and won the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while from Wabash College in 1889 he received the Master of Arts degree. Before completing his college course he had spent two years in the study of law and had been ad- mitted to the bar but never chose to establish a practice. He was a graduate stu- dent in history, economics and philosophy in Johns Hopkins University from 1890 until 1892 and in the latter year he entered the University of Chicago as a grad- uate student in history, political science and sociology. He was also honorary fellow from January to July, 1893, and received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chicago University in 1895.

As an educator Dr. Perrin has occupied a number of important positions. His first effort in this line was at Danville, Illinois, where he acted as assistant prin- cipal of the high school in 1887-8. The following year he was superintendent . of the city schools at Petersburg, Illinois, and then became assistant superin- tendent of schools in Cook county, Illinois, under Superintendent A. G. Lane, oc- cupying the position for a year. The following three years were devoted to study as previously indicated, after which he became professor of history and economics in the First Wisconsin State Normal School at Platteville, Wisconsin. At the close of that scholastic year he accepted the professorship of history and political science in Allegheny College, where he remained from 1894 until 1898. During his connection with that institution he was also lecturer in history for the Ameri- can Society for the Extension of University Teaching from 1895 until 1898, and professor of history and economics in Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts at Chautauqua, New York. He left Allegheny College to accept the Haydn pro- fessorship in history in Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, at which time the Allegheny Literary Monthly of May, 1898, said : "At this time of widespread interest in the investigation of political and eco- nomic problems, the loss from a college community of an able and enthusiastic student and instructor in these departments is attended with peculiar regret. Dr. Perrin has held the chair of history and politics in Allegheny College since 1895. He came to us with eminent qualifications in respect both of preparation and experience for the work to which he was called." After citing the schools which he had attended, the Literary Monthly continued : "Hardly less extensive than his preparation was his practical experience as an instructor both in the field of general knowledge and in his own specially elected departments of study

* * * During his professorship in Allegheny College the same catholic con- cern in the interests of education so conspicuous in the prosecution of his earlier

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labors has characterized his every act. His sympathies and efforts have ever been directed toward the diffusion of general knowledge and the advancement of higher learning."

Professor Perrin's connection with Adelbert College continued from 1898 until 1904, when he became Albert Shaw lecturer on American diplomatic his- tory in Johns Hopkins University, while in 1905 he was recalled to Allegheny College as lecturer on American history. In June of the latter year he accepted the proffered position of librarian of Case Library at Cleveland and in this con- nection has since done splendid service. Professor Perrin is a member of nu- merous important educational associations and is widely known as a writer on educational and historic subjects, making frequent contributions to current mag- azines. He holds membership in the American Historical Association, the Ameri- can Political Science Association and is an active member of the National Edu- cational Association. He was elected secretary of the department of higher edu- · cation at its Detroit meeting in 1901. In 1899, while connected with Western Re- serve University, he organized the Conference of Collegiate and Secondary School Instructors of Western Reserve University and was chairman of its executive committee until 1903. In October, 1907, he was elected the president of the Ohio Library Association for 1908. His written articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Educational Review, Journal of Pedagogy, Yale Review, Chautauqua and other periodicals treating of historical, educational and biographical subjects.

On the 16th of April, 1890, Professor Perrin was married to Miss Harriet Naylor Towle, of Evanston, Illinois, and a most happy home life was terminated in the death of Mrs. Perrin on the 25th of January, 1910. Their three children were Herbert Towle, Harriet Towle and Everett Towle Perrin. Such in brief is the life history of Professor Perrin and it would be tautological in this con- nection to enter into any series of statements as showing him to be a man of scholarly attainments and broad general information, for these have been shadowed forth between the lines of this review. His influence, however, has been a potent element in the advancement of the interests of higher education and he occupies today a prominent position in the ranks of the nation's best educators.

REV. JOHN WILLIAM BELL.

The Rev. John William Bell, pastor of St. Joseph's church of Collinwood, was born in Fremont, Ohio, April 14, 1860, a son of William Bell and grand- son of William Bell, Sr. The latter, born in Scotland, was a sea captain in the employ of the English government, and died in his native land. His son, William Bell, the father of the Rev. Bell, was born in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Scotland, March 13, 1827. Although now living retired, he was a ship carpenter by trade and worked for many years. In 1852 he came to the United States, and after a few months spent in New York removed to Ohio and settled in Toledo in 1862, which city is now his home. Prior to locating there he lived at Fremont, Ohio, for a time and there he was married, July 5, 1858 to Hannah Daly, who was born in Ireland and is still living. This venerable couple celebrated their golden wedding in 1908, upon which occasion solemn high mass was said at St. Francis de Sales, Toledo, followed by a banquet in the Ursuline convent, of which one of the daughters is a Sister, known as Sister Ambrose. A num- ber of priests attended. In addition to Sister Ambrose, Father Bell had another sister, known as Sister Eugenia of the same convent, but she died January 16, 1905. She was born February 1, 1866. There is another son in the family, George F., who lives at Toledo and is secretary and treasurer of the Great Lakes Towing Association.

REV. JOHN W. BELL

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Father Bell was educated in the Toledo parochial schools, in Niagara Col- lege at Niagara Falls, now Niagara University, where he spent four years, and then he took a year's course in St. Charles College of Maryland. Following this he entered St. Mary's Seminary for his course in philosophy and theology and was ordained March 7, 1891, by Bishop Gilmour. He said his first mass March 15, 1891, at St. Francis de Sales church in Toledo. He was then sent to the church at North Ridge, Defiance county, Ohio, and remained there one year and ten months, when he was transferred to St. John's church at Summit- ville and was its pastor for three years. From that charge he was sent to St. Patrick's church at Salineville, and then in January, 1900, he was stationed at St. Paul's church at Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland, finally being located at St. Joseph church of Collinwood in February, 1901, which was separated from Euclid. The parish now has a good brick church with a seating capacity of three hundred; a four-room frame school building which accommodates two hundred and eight pupils and four teachers, as well as an excellent frame parish house. There are two hundred families and nine hundred souls in the parish, and affairs are in a flourishing condition owing to the work and efficient manage- ment of Father Bell.

JULIUS GLICKMAN.

Few of the successful business men of Cleveland can show a record of more arduous toil and more persistent economy which have been productive of such generous returns than can Julius Glickman, the proprietor of the Glickman Furniture Company, at Thirty-ninth street and Woodland avenue. He was born in Russia, November 15, 1867, a son of David and Ripka Glickman, who are still living. Julius Glickman was reared upon a farm and received his educa- tion in private schools of his native land. He engaged in farm work until 1891, when he determined to try his fortune in this land of opportunity. In July, of that year he located in Cleveland, having come here immediately after land- ing upon our shores. For the first eighteen months after his arrival here he was engaged in buying rags; and from the income he derived from that busi- ness he had to send a considerable sum back to Russia for the support of his parents, for his father was an invalid. Nevertheless, despite this drain upon his resources, he was able to save forty-five dollars in a year and a half, which enabled him to start in the rag business on Endis alley, this city. In five years, through careful economy, he was ably to buy a house on Jackson street suitable for his needs, in that it had a shop in the rear. During the next five years, while at that location he was able to add to his savings until he had eight thou- sand dollars. Part of this sum, however, had been made through wise invest- ments in real estate, for as he saw opportunity he bought property that eventu- ally added considerably to his income. At the end of the next five years he sold his business with the intention of embarking upon another line and three months later entered into partnership with Samuel Weinberg, under the firm name of Glickman & Weinberg. Their furniture store was then located at 165 Orange street, but two years later they removed to a new building Mr. Glickman had erected at Thirty-ninth street and Woodland avenue, which the firm still occu- pies. In November, 1908, however, the partnership was dissolved, and the busi- ness reorganized under the title of the Glickman Furniture Company. Mr. Glickman has continued at its head and has been the means of advancing the firm to a well deserved and highly respected position among others in its line. He has shown wisdom in furthering its ends, while throughout his career he has evinced that conservation of resources which is so important a factor in substantial success.

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On the 15th of August, 1893, Mr. Glickman wedded Miss Annie Galvin, also a native of Russia and a daughter of Jacob and Mary Rachel (Ginsberg) Galvin. Unto them have been born four daughters: Elizabeth, who is fifteen years of age; Regina, who is thirteen ; Lillian, who is eleven; and Zelda, born in October, 1909. The eldest is in the high school, and Regina and Lillian are pupils in the public schools.

Mr. Glickman is a member of the Knights of Joseph and of the Sons of Isaac, and occupies a pleasant home at 2334 East Forty-sixth street. In a review of his life it is impossible not to be impressed with the amount of work Mr. Gleck- man has accomplished in the course of years, since he started in this country. He was a masterful worker, determined and frugal, and the extent of his real- estate holdings as well as the character of the furniture business tell with what success.

B. F. MORSE.

B. F. Morse, now living retired, is numbered among the pioneer residents of Cleveland and the Western Reserve, his residence in Ohio covering more than four score years. He was born in June, 1829, at South Kirtland, Geauga county, now Lake county, Ohio, and in 1836 he became a resident of Painesville, Ohio. His father, the late Colonel J. F. Morse, came from Washington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in 1816. He became a prominent builder and architect and was honored by his fellowmen by being sent to the Ohio legislature for six years, two years of which time he was in the state senate and speaker of the house one session. He with another member brought about the election of Salmon P. Chase to the United States senate in 1849. During his residence in Painesville Mr. Morse attended the common schools and afterward the Paines- ville Academy, while the Rev. Dr. Brayton and Professor Cowles, who was a graduate of Yale College, were principals. He also studied mathematics at a private school with Professor Cowles and later studied mathematics and civil engineering in the law office of General E. A. Paine, a graduate of West Point, who had retired from the United States army. He studied architecture and architectural drawing with Professor Smith.

Mr. Morse was identified with much of the pioneer railroad building in northern Ohio in the capacity of assistant engineer, in which connection he represented the Lake Shore Railroad, aiding in the construction of the line be- tween Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1851-52. In 1853 he was assistant of engineering work under Major Potter at the three harbors, Fairport, Ash- tabula and Conneaut. During the open season of 1854 he was first assistant under Captain Howard Stansbury, United States engineer, in the examination of the harbors on Lake Erie west of Cleveland, namely : Lorain, Vermilion, Huron, Sandusky and Monroe, Michigan, during which time some surveys were made in Sandusky bay. As chief assistant engineer he had charge of a line from Tiffin to Fort Wayne, now constituting a part of the Nickel Plate system. In 1855 he was assistant engineer in charge of a survey for the Cleveland & Mahon- ing Railroad from Youngstown to New Castle, Pennsylvania, and from 1857 until 1862 he was first assistant under Charles Collins in the engineering de- partment of the Lake Shore Railroad between Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1862 four railroad companies, the Cleveland & Columbus, the Cleve- land, Painesville & Ashtabula, the Cleveland & Toledo and the Cleveland & Pittsburg, proposed through their presidents to build the present Union sta- tion in Cleveland. The presidents constituted the building committee, with Amasa Stone of the Lake Shore as chairman, and he appointed Mr. Morse as his engineer. The latter drew plans and they were approved by Mr. Stone. They included what was probably at that time one of the largest train sheds in the United States.

BENJAMIN F. MORSE

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Mr. Morse superintended the building of the Union station, completing the work in 1865. In 1868 as chief engineer he surveyed the line from Chardon to Youngs- town, which is now a branch of the Baltimore & Ohio, extending from Fairport to Youngstown. As chief engineer he also made a preliminary survey for a railroad from Cleveland to Sharon, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Morse afterward became interested in the erection of many of the public buildings and superintended their construction. He superintended the construc- tion of the city work house and drew the plans for and superintended the re- building of the Newburg Asylum, which was destroyed by fire in 1872. In April, 1875, Mr. Morse was appointed city engineer, in which capacity he served for nine years. He remodeled the plans and completed the Superior street via- duct, which was opened in 1878. He first caused to be used the Medina block stone pavement on the streets of Cleveland. While acting as city engineer he estimated and reported on several high level bridges (now the Central viaduct) and one of the plans which he advocated was later carried out by the city. He also first suggested and planned for the intercepting sewer that is being built by the city at the present time. He was appointed by the building committee to superintend the construction of the Society for Savings building, but before active work began he engaged with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail- road Company to superintend the building and rebuilding of its stations at Toledo and Chicago. In 1890, under the new building code, he was appointed as building inspector and served in that capacity three and a half years. Later, being in poor health and having mining and oil interests in the west and north- west, he made an extensive trip through those sections of the country to look after his investments. This also gave him opportunity to see the country and at the same time to visit relatives. On his return to Cleveland, feeling that his long years of activity entitled him to rest, he retired from active business and aside from acting occasionally as consulting engineer, spent his days in leisurely manner, enjoying such things as are matters of interest and pleasure to him. His rest is certainly well merited and the life work of few men has been of more wide- spread benefit than that of B. F. Morse.

In 1855 Mr. Morse was united in marriage to Miss Matilda Craft, of Tiffin, Ohio. Unto them have been vouchsafed fifty-four years of happy wedded life. They reared a family of three sons and two daughters, Captain Charles C. Morse, Emma E., John F., Mary E. and Allen C., but the second daughter died recently.

Mr. Morse was a member of the Royal Arch Masons for many years, be- longed to the old Board of Trade and also to the Chamber of Commerce of Cleveland. He is one of the oldest members of the American Society of Civil Engineers, having been identified with the order since 1877, and is a charter member of the Civil Engineers Club of Cleveland, now the Cleveland Engineer- ing Society. As the years passed continued experience augmented his business ability and he ranked prominently as one of the distinguished representatives of his profession. Even yet his opinions are frequently sought in consultation but he prefers to live retired and amid comfortable surroundings is spending the evening of life.

JOSEPH F. McKENNA.

Joseph F. McKenna, who is engaged in the real-estate and insurance busi- ness, was born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1869, and came to Cleveland when three years of age and was educated in the parochial schools and in Spencerian Business College. At the age of seventeen he became stenographer to William Smith, chief of the claim department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, and after a year and a half entered the claim department of the Big Four, where he spent a similar period. He was next stenographer

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and general utility man for J. C. Moorehead, general superintendent of the Erie Railroad and at length left that road to enter the service of E. A. Handy, chief engineer of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company. A year later he was transferred, becoming secretary to C. A. Carpenter, division en- gineer of the company, with whom he continued for a decade, or until Mr. Car- penter's death in 1901, when he resigned.

He then invested his savings in the coal business as a partner of his brother, Edward F. McKenna, and for seven years operated in that line and at the same time branched out in real estate. He is now concentrating his energies entirely upon real estate and insurance. During his service with railroad companies he was also supreme secretary of the Knights of Equity.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume III, Part 73

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