A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume III, Part 77

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 1901 Mr. Guinan was married to Miss Madeline Cashen, a native of Cleve- land, and they now have three daughters, Mary, Alice and Eileen, aged respec- tively six, four and two years. Mr. and Mrs. Guinan are members of St. Thomas church.

H. F. BIGGAR, M. D.

Dr. H. F. Biggar, widely known in connection with the science of medicine as practitioner, educator, and author, his wide research and superior attainments in this direction carrying him into important professional relations, was born in Oakville, Ontario. Canada, on the 15th of March, 1839. In a volume entitled "Scottish Queens" is given an account of the early ancestry of the family, men- tion being made of Flamingus, a Flemish man who flourished in 1140 and was commonly known as Baldwin De Biggar, and Hugh of Biggar was his son. Sir Nicholas De Biggar flourished in 1292 and the lairds of Biggar held high offices of great dignity in the royal household of Scotland. In the reign of Charles II Major Biggar was named a royal commissioner to investigate the charge of witchcraft against certain people.

Coming down to more modern times, it is found that Robert Biggar, grand- father of Dr. Biggar, was born in Dumfries, Scotland, and was educated for the ministry of the Scottish church. He wedded Mary Lawder, and they became parents of seven children. Leaving the land of hills and heather, of mountain peak and glen and lake, the Rev. Robert Biggar crossed the Atlantic to Queens- ton, Ontario, Canada, and it was there that Hamilton Biggar was born in the year 1806. A subsequent removal established the family at Mount Pleasant, near Brantford, Canada. Hamilton Biggar supplemented his literary education

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by preparation for the ministry and for many years was classed as a prominent clergyman of the Wesleyan Methodist church. He married Eliza Phelps Racey, a daughter of James Racey, Esquire, of Brantford, and unto them were born ten children.

Dr. Hamilton Fisk Biggar, the fourth in order of birth in this family, en- tered the public schools at the usual age and pursued his studies until he had reached his twelfth year, when he entered upon an apprenticeship to a merchant. He soon realized the need and value of further education, however, and con- tinued his studies in the grammar school at Brantford. Several years were then devoted to the completion of his education, after which he again became identi- fied with mercantile interests but did not find the business congenial and began preparation for a professional career. Knowing that broad literary knowledge served as a foundation for any special line of professional work, he pursued a classical course in the University of Victoria, from which he was graduated in 1863 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Immediately afterward he took up the study of law in the office and under the direction of John Cameron, Esquire, of Brantford, and passed his primary examination in law at Osgood Hall, Toronto. Becoming convinced, however, that practice in the courts was not a suitable pro- fession for him, he turned his attention to medicine and, coming to Cleveland in 1864, matriculated as a student in the Homeopathic College. Following his graduation he gained broad, practical experience as well as theoretical knowledge in the leading hospitals of New York and Philadelphia and in July, 1866, returned to Cleveland to enter upon active practice in this city.

For forty-three years Dr. Biggar has now been numbered among the represen- tatives of the medical fraternity of this city and his activity, his comprehensive knowledge and his wide research into scientific lines have gained him eminence and brought him success in large measure. He not only keeps in touch with the most advanced thought of the profession but also contributes thereto many valuable and original ideas which have left their impress upon the practical work of the profession. For seven years he occupied the position of professor of anatomy and clinical surgery in the Cleveland Homeopathic College and was then elected to the professorship of clinical surgery and operations. In the Cleve- land University of Medicine and Surgery, formerly the Homeopathic Hospital College, Dr. Biggar occupied the chair of surgical diseases of woman and clinical surgery. For two consecutive years he was offered the chair of surgery in the homeopathic department of the University of Michigan. In addition to a large private practice he has done important work in public connections, acting for many years as a member of the medical staff of the Huron Street Hospital and also as president of the Academy of Medicine and Surgery. That he has not sought official honors in connection with the profession is indicated in the fact that when at Brighton Beach, in 1881, he was nominated for the presidency of the American Institute of Homeopathy, he declined to be a candidate for the office, preferring to be a useful member of the ranks rather than to enjoy the highest official preferment. He is an honorary member of different medical societies and was for eleven years the physician of the Cleveland Workhouse and during his early practice was surgeon to the Cleveland Grays, the leading military organization of the city, but owing to the increasing demands of his professional life resigned.

Dr. Biggar has always stood prominently for advancement in the line of medical education, believing in and holding the highest standards before the pro- fession and that every representative of the profession should reach the acme of attainment for him in knowledge and practice. He has been a frequent con- tributor to medical literature upon surgical topics and his writings have been eagerly read and in many instances closely followed by the profession. Practical results of his work for the advancement of medical education are seen in the successful Training School for Nurses and the Maternity Home and the once flourishing Round Table Club. For ten years he was dean of the Training School

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for Nurses of the Huron Street Hospital. In 1892 his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree and in 1893 that of Doctor of Laws. In June, 1895, in consequence of the increasing and imperative demands of his prac- tice, Dr. Biggar was forced to withdraw from active connection with the Uni- versity of Medicine and Surgery, on which occasion its board of trustees and also the board of censors adopted highly complimentary resolutions recounting his distinguished and valuable services and expressing regret at his withdrawal.

Dr. Biggar's social relations have extended to the Union, Roadside and Coun- try Clubs, of which he is an honored and valued representative. He assumed the responsibilities of home life when on the 25th of February, 1870, he wedded Miss Sue Miles Brooks, of Columbus, Ohio, and the marriage has been blessed with four children : Rachel Racey, Hamilton Fisk, William Brooks and Sue Racey. The Doctor and his family are of the Episcopal faith and are prominent in the social circles of this city. It is well that he finds enjoyment and interest in his profession, for his duties in that connection leave him little leisure for outside interests or associations. In a calling where advancement depends entirely upon individual merit he has gained high rank, having long been numbered among the eminent physicians and surgeons, medical educators and authors of Cleveland.

MARTIN FRIEDRICH, M. D.

Dr. Martin Friedrich, a medical practitioner and educator whose broad hu- manitarianism is evidenced in the splendid work which he has done as health of- ficer of Cleveland, was born May II, 1855, near Passau, Bavaria. His father, Joseph Friedrich, was a glass manufacturer, owning and operating a glass fac- tory near Passau, where he died in 1878 at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Therese Bauer, came to America in 1886, following the death of her husband, and made her home here until she was called to her final rest in 1898, when eighty-six years of age.

Dr. Friedrich entered the primary school at the age of six years and there continued his studies until twelve years of age, when he became a pupil in the Latin school of Passau and at sixteen years of age entered the gymnasium. Four years later he matriculated in the University of Munich and studied languages and literature for three years, and then went to Paris, where he took up the study of French literature at the Sorbonne and the Bibliotheque Nationale, where he remained for three years.

In 1882 he came to America to see the country and was so well pleased with its condition and its opportunities that he determined to remain and make it his future home. Accordingly he located in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, near Meadville, and sent for his mother, brothers and sisters, who joined him and have also remained here. Dr. Friedrich first engaged in the lumber busi- ness in Pennsylvania and also followed farming, the two branches claiming his time and energies until the spring of 1892, when he came to Cleveland and entered the medical department of the Western Reserve University, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1894. He spent the following year in the City Hospital, where he added to his theoretical training broad practical experience. He then went to Europe and spent two years in further study in Frankfort on the Main, Vienna, Berlin and Paris and in 1897 returned to the United States, establishing himself for practice in Cleveland. Here he has given special attention to internal medicine and diagnosis, and his thorough preliminary training and marked ability have carried him into important profes- sional relations. Upon his return here in 1897 he became associated with the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons as a lecturer on internal medicine and diagnosis and for the past three years has been professor of those branches. In his educational work he has given his attention principally to communicable

DR. MARTIN FRIEDRICH

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diseases and in the clinic to diseases of the heart and lungs. Since 1901 he has been health officer of the city of Cleveland and is also consulting physician to the City Hospital and to the Warrensville Sanitarium. His researches have been broad and deep, and he has further kept in touch with the advanced thought of the profession through his membership in the Cleveland Academy of Medi- cine, the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and also of the city and state societies for the same. He likewise belongs to the Ameri- can Public Health Association, the American School Hygiene Association, the American: and Ohio Health Committees and various other scientific organiza- tions.

Dr. Friedrich is a lover of literature and the languages, to which studies he devoted his youth, and is recognized as a talented and accomplished linguist. He is now the president of the German Literary Society of Cleveland, of which he became a charter member and in which he has always been very active. He was also a member of the Alliance Francaise, the French literary society of Cleveland, for over two years, but had no time to continue his work in connec- tion therewith. He is now devoting much time to the public good as health officer of Cleveland and in this connection his labors have been of acknowledged worth and value. Under his direction there has been established a bacteriologi- cal laboratory, daily school inspection, meat inspection and dairy inspection. At the time that he took the office there had been one epidemic following an- other, including smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria and typhoid fever, but since 1905 the city has enjoyed an unprecedented season of health. He has demanded the renovation of lodging houses, the inspection of bake shops and all manufac- turing plants and has required the enforcement of the law concerning sanitary conditions in these as well as in street cars and other public places. These movements and lines of work were among the new departures that Dr. Friedrich introduced and though he met with much opposition at first from individuals and corporations, the city as a whole and the newspapers supported him strongly and all of the difficulties and obstacles in his path were overcome and the health- fulness of the city has been increased to a large percentage. Dr. Friedrich is now uniformly conceded to be the best health officer Cleveland has ever had and his efforts in this direction have won him the respect, admiration and ap- probation of all of the people of Cleveland.

In non-professional relations Dr. Friedrich is also well known. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and in Masonry has attained the Knight Templar degree, belonging to Forest City Commandery. He likewise belongs to the Schlaraffia, a German literary society, and is interested at all times in those movements which promote mental development, especially in the line of literary culture.

HARRY A. JACKSON.

Harry 'A. Jackson, vice president and treasurer of the Standard Iron & Steel Company, was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1873. His father, Wil- liam M. Jackson, a retired merchant, was born April 1, 1846, and was a son of William M. and Mary (Scott) Jackson, the family of English and Scotch origin. The mother of our subject, Mrs. Laura Jackson, was a daughter of Harry and Eliza Schafer, who were of German birth and lived in Waynesburg, Ohio.

In the public schools of his native city and of Ravenna, Ohio, Harry A. Jack- son pursued his education and after leaving school entered the furniture business, to which he devoted one year. He afterward became an employee of the Mahon- ing Valley Iron Company at Youngstown in the position of assistant shipping clerk at the plate mill, there remaining for six years during which time he was

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promoted through intermediate positions to that of office manager. Later he was made traveling salesman and so continued until 1899, when he came to Cleveland as assistant sales agent for the Republic Iron & Steel Company, which had absorbed the Mahoning Valley Iron Company. Additional responsibilities were given to him in his further promotion in 1900 to the position of purchasing agent for eight mills of the company, with headquarters at Youngstown and in that capacity he remained for two years, on the expiration of which period he left the Republic Company to go to Pittsburg and take charge of the office there of the firm of Naylor & Company. He resigned that position in 1903 to assist in the formation of the Standard Iron & Steel Company, being elected its first sec- retary, while subsequently he was chosen vice president and treasurer, coming to his present position in January, 1908. His business is of an important char- acter, his experience and the responsibilities of former years constituting the equipment which qualified him for his present place, where he is now giving his attention to organization, to constructive efforts and administrative direction.

Mr. Jackson is popular as a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Lakewood Yacht Club. His political views are in harmony with the principles that constitute the republican platform, but he does not feel bound by party ties at local elections where no issue is involved. Outside of business hours he enjoys tennis, motoring, boating, hunting and fishing, but allows no sports to in- terfere with the close attention necessary for the successful management of business affairs. He finds delight in the correct solution of intricate problems and in planning for the enlargement and development of the trade interests of the Standard Iron & Steel Company.

MICHAEL A. FANNING.

Michael A. Fanning was born in Cleveland, August 26, 1857. His parents came to the city from Ireland in 1851. Michael Fanning, Sr., was a pork packer and was the first to be engaged in that business in Cleveland. He died in 1870, a comparatively young man.

M. A. Fanning received only a common-school education at St. Patrick's parish school, but graduated from "the university of the printing office" and at twenty-one was a newspaper correspondent at Columbus. A year later he was employed in St. Louis on the Republic and later went to the Post-Dispatch, which had just been organized by Joseph Pulitzer as his first English newspaper venture. At twenty-five Mr. Fanning was city editor of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. He was a political correspondent in a number of western states for that paper. In 1885 Mr. Fanning wedded Miss Octavia Dix, daughter of a well known cotton factor of New Orleans. At that time he had become private secretary of Mayor David R. Francis. He occupied a similar position when Mr. Francis was elected governor of Missouri. In 1891 Mr. Fanning established the St. Louis Mirror, a brilliant weekly journal still ably edited by his associate writer of that period, William Marion Reedy. In 1893 Mr. Fanning left St. Louis as a part owner in an advertising organization which he was connected with and for which he prepared newspaper matter until 1898. During the four years pre- ceding that date he had made his headquarters at Cleveland and thus resumed resi- dence in his home city. In 1899 he was made secretary of the Municipal Asso- ciation, of which Professor Harry A. Garfield, now of Princeton University, was president, and in a memorable mayoralty campaign contributed towards the de- feat of Mayor McKisson and the election of John H. Farley. In 1900 Mr. Fan- ning engaged with the Barber Asphalt Paving Company as state agent and later assumed also the agencies for the states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri. In 1902 Mr. Fanning conceived the idea of promoting a steam belt line railway around the city and worked steadily upon the plan until the Cleveland Short Line

M. A. FANNING

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Railway was organized, of which he became president. This enterprise was adopted by the New York Central Railway Company and was built at an ex- pense of about ten to twelve million dollars. No one can estimate the value to Cleveland of this project, as it revolutionized the methods of freight delivery and placed every factory in Cleveland where it could receive rapid freight accommo- dations. Before its advent freight within the city often lay for from ten days to three weeks before it could be placed. In 1903 Mr. Fanning organized and became president of the Forest City Street Railway, which introduced, through the efforts of Mayor Tom L. Johnson, a three-cent fare in Cleveland. The his- tory of the Forest City Street Railway for the next five years was one of the most picturesque and remarkable in the annals of street railway warfare in American cities. It was the instrument with which Tom L. Johnson brought the old street railway company to terms and around its activities clusters the entire record of the four administrations of Mr. Johnson as mayor. Mr. Fanning was during this time very closely associated with Mr. Johnson in business and social life. After leaving the Barber Asphalt Paving Company in 1906, Mr. Fanning continued a paving business of his own with the Standard Paving Company and for a number of years has confined his attention to construction work. He built a section of the Franklin & Clearfield Railway in Venango county, Pennsylvania. He has always been active in social, religious and charitable activities. He is a trustee of the Goodrich Social Settlement, a member of the committee on benevolent institutions of the Chamber of Commerce, of which body he is a seat member, and a director of the Associated Charities. He was the organizer and first president of the Catholic Federation of Cleveland and one of the organizers and directors of the National Catholic Church Extension Society. Mr. and Mrs. Fanning have three children, two daughters and a son.

FRANK L. KUHN.

Frank L. Kuhn, admitted to the bar in June, 1889, and practicing in Cleve- land since 1892, has gained a large clientage of a distinctively representative char- acter. He was born in Northfield, Ohio, November 9, 1863, and traces his an- cestry back to Adam Kuhn, who came from Holland to America in the year 1740. He left his native country in 1700 but the ship was captured in the siege of Derry and he was taken to Ireland, where he remained for forty years ere he resumed his westward way to the new world. He was a wine merchant. The paternal grandfather, Archibald Kuhn, was born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania, in 1782 and died in 1829. He was a farmer by occupation and a man of promi- nence in community affairs. He served in the war of 1812 as captain of a com- pany of dragoons in the cavalry service. Soon after the close of the war he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature on the democratic ticket and served for four terms, taking active part in framing the early laws of the state. His son, Major William H. Kuhn, was born in East Liberty, Pennsyl- vania, March 22, 1813, and was also prominent in the early life of Pennsylvania, where he served on the governor's staff in 1839-40. His early life was given to farming and later he became a merchant. In 1842 he removed to Ohio and for many years was a resident of Northfield. He wedded Mary Elder, who was born in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, and was descended from ancestors who came from Scotland in 1730. Her father, Robert Elder, who was born in Harris- burg, Pennsylvania, in 1785, made farming his life work and defended the Amer- ican interests in the war of 1812, passing away in 1838. The death of Major Wil- liam Kuhn occurred February 24, 1894, and his wife, surviving about two years, died January 27, 1896.

In the district schools near Northfield, Ohio, Frank L. Kuhn pursued his education to the age of thirteen years, when he entered the Western Reserve

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'Academy, from which he was graduated in 1883. He completed the classical course in Adelbert College in 1887, at which time the Bachelor of Arts degree was conferred upon him, while in 1894 he received the Master of Arts degree from the same institution. He studied law with Judge W. C. Ong, of Cleveland, and after his admission to the bar in June, 1889, practiced for three years in Tacoma, Washington, after which he returned to this city and has since been a member of its legal fraternity. He does not specialize in any particular department but gives his attention to general practice and the court records chronicle many notable cases which he has won.

On the Ist of October, 1905, Mr. Kuhn, was married to Miss Millie P. Phil- lips, 'o'f. Cleveland. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias fraternity and is a republican in his political views. He was formerly active in the work of the party and served as mayor of Bedford from 1894 until 1896, but his relation to the public at the present time is principally that of a lawyer who is making substantial progress in his profession, fully upholding its dignity and the high standing of a calling which has ever been regarded as the conservator of human rights and liberties.

LEVI TUCKER SCOFIELD.

The development of his native powers through wide research, investigation and broad experience, has led Levi Tucker Scofield into important public relations as an architect and engineer. He was born in Cleveland, November 9, 1842, his parents being William and Mary (Coon) Scofield. The name was originally spelled Schofield but in 1852 the father and uncles of L. T. Scofield decided to drop the h, although the letter is still occasionally used in legal documents.

In the public schools of his native city L. T. Scofield pursued his education and then took up the study of architecture and engineering. In 1860 he removed to Cincinnati and continued his studies but following the inauguration of hostilities between the north and the south he returned to his native city and offered his services to the goverment, being assigned to the First Regiment of Ohio Light Artillery. When his first term had expired he was commissioned second lieuten- ant in the One Hundred and Third Ohio Infantry, later rose to the rank of first lieutenant in February, 1863, and in November, 1864, was promoted to the cap- taincy. His skill as an engineer was frequently brought into requisition during his military service and from June, 1863, until June. 1865, he did duty exclusively as an engineer officer. In 1862 he was with his regiment in Kentucky and the following year was assigned to staff duty and accompanied General Burnside to east Tennessee, where he took part in the siege of Knoxville and the repulse of Longstreet. The following year he participated in the Atlanta campaign under General Sherman and in the Franklin and Nashville campaign under General Scofield. In 1865 he did active duty in North Carolina, being present at the cap- ture of Raleigh and the surrender of General Johnston. His military duty was often of a most arduous nature but throughout the entire period of civil strife he manifested an unwavering loyalty to the Union.

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A history of Cleveland, Ohio, Volume III, Part 77

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