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When the country no longer needed his aid, Captain Scofield returned to the north to make permanent location in Cleveland and here as the years have passed he has gained distinction as an architect, sculptor and engineer. The extent and importance of his work is the best indication of his pronounced skill and ability in these directions. Since 1867 he has been engaged in the construction of many of the public buildings of Cleveland. In that year he erected the Cleveland House of Correction ; 1869, the Athens and Columbus Asylums for the Insane; in 1871, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia, Ohio; in 1870, the Raleigh Penitentiary ; in 1878, the Cleveland Central high school; and in 1884, the Mans- field Reformatory. In 1901 he erected the Schofield building in Cleveland, of
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which he is both architect and owner. This is one of the fine modern structures of the city, being two hundred feet in height to the top of the tower. It is a fourteen-story building, containing four hundred and twenty-nine offices, while the first floor is used for stores and the basement for a machinery hall and coal depot. These various buildings are the highest expression of the art of a builder and architect and for more than four decades Mr. Scofield has now figured as one of the most prominent representatives of the profession in Ohio.
As enduring evidence of his skill and ability in this line and of the spirit of patriotism which is one of his strong characteristics may be seen the Cuyahoga county Soldiers' and Sailors' monument, which adorns the public square of Cleve- land, of which he was both the architect and sculptor. The esplanade is one hun- dred feet square, the tablet room forty feet square and the height to the top of the crowning figure of liberty is one hundred and twenty-five feet. The building is of black Quincy granite and the shaft is of the same material polished, while the esplanade is of red Medina stone. There are over one hundred tons of cast bronze in the statuary, doors, grills, etc., and the names of ten thousand soldiers
are engraved upon the tablets. To the work of designing and building the monu- ment, which was completed in 1894, Mr. Scofield devoted seven and a half years without compensation, and when the county commissioners refused their coopera- tion he sacrificed his private fortune in order to defray the expense, the total cost being three hundred and fourteen thousand, five hundred dollars, of which two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars was paid by the county, while fifty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars was paid by Mr. Scofield. Before the monument could be erected it was involved in litigation, which extended over two years. In- stigated by the street railroads and the opposition of the public press, who were antagonistic to its erection in the public square, individuals enjoined the commission in the courts and the fight was carried first to the supreme court of the state and then to the United States court, in both of which the decisions of the lower courts were reversed. The monument is today one of the most attractive features of adornment in the city and is a matter of civic pride to the great majority of citizens.
At Kingsville, Ohio, on the 26th of June, 1867, Mr. Scofield was married to Miss Elizabeth C. Wright, a daughter of Marshall and Sarah Wright, and unto them were born four sons and a daughter: William Marshall, Sherman W. and Douglas F., all of whom are associated with their father in business ; and Harriet E., at home. The other son, Donald C. Scofield, was an architect and was first lieutenant of the Engineer Battalion of the Ohio National Guard. He was about to be made captain when killed in a railway wreck, March 3, 1905, en route with the battalion to President Roosevelt's inauguration, when thirty years of age.
Mr. Scofield is a member of the military orders of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a fellow of the American Institute of Archi- tects. He is a man of vigorous mental processes, readily grasping the most ab- struse problems in connection with his profession and reducing them to a basis of simplicity. Many difficulties have been surmounted by his resolute, self-reliant and indefatigable energy.
DANIEL H. POND.
Daniel H. Pond, vice president and general manager of the Economy Build- ing & Loan Company, was born in Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania, March II, 1870. The Pond family were among the early Puritan settlers of New Eng- land and came of English ancestry. Daniel Pond, the grandfather of our sub- ject, was a native of Connecticut but, leaving that section of the country in which his ancestors had located and in which successive generations of his family had lived, he made his way to Pennsylvania. It was in Townville, that state, that
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Henry Herbert Pond, the father of our subject, was born. He became a phy- sician and surgeon, completing his preparation for the profession by graduation from the Cleveland Homeopathic College. He married Maria M. Gates, a daughter of Daniel Gates and a cousin of General Chaffee of the United States army.
Daniel H. Pond was educated in the district schools of Trumbull county, in the public schools of Cleveland and in Allegheny College. When his course was completed he sought and secured employment in a factory at Painesville, Ohio, where he remained for a year. He next came to Cleveland and became con- nected with the Cleveland Baking Company as driver and later as purchasing agent. When he had acted in the latter capacity for a year, he became a member of the Seventh Cavalry, U. S. A., with which he was connected for a year. He later became express messenger for the Adams Express Company and next en- tered the real-estate and insurance business, continuing in that field for two years. In 1894 he became connected with the Economy Building & Loan Company as manager and in 1907 was elected vice president in recognition of the excellent service which he had previously rendered. He is also senior member of the in- surance firm of Pond Brothers, in which connection he represents the Agricul- tural, the Capital of New Hampshire, the National of Hartford, the National of New Hampshire, the Northern of England, the Royal of England and the Royal Exchange Life Insurance Companies.
Next to his business, which perforce claims the major part of his time, Mr. Pond gives his attention to his family and there his interest and happiness center. He was married May 17, 1891, to Ola Clark, a daughter of Silas Clark, of Holmes county, Ohio. The Clark family are descended from one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Pond have one son, Ralph, who is a graduate of the East high school and is with his parents at their home in Eu- clid, Ohio. Mr. Pond is fond of boating, hunting and horesback riding and those pastimes constitute his chief source of recreation. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, gives his political allegiance to the republican party and holds to the religious faith of the Methodist church. Socially he is connected with the Knights of Pythias and belongs to the Military Order of Foreign Wars and to the Military and Naval Order of the Spanish-American War. Although a young man, he has gained a substantial place and belongs to that class of representative 'American citizens who, in advancing individual interests, also contribute to the general good.
WILLIAM S. WADE.
One of the predominating influences of the age is that of specialization. Nearly all men seem to see and realize how much more can be accomplished through con- certed effort and cooperation and it is seldom, therefore, that any great task is accomplished or an attempt made to accomplish by a single individual. In recog. nition of this fact has grown up the Cleveland Stock Exchange, now an im- portant element in the city's business life and its commercial expansion. William S. Wade is well known as secretary of the exchange, in which connection he has done important service. He was born in New York city, November 13, 1858. His father, William Wade, was a native of England and after coming to America engaged in business as a machinist. Following his emigration to the western world he also spent a number of years on sugar plantations in Cuba. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Elizabeth Selleck, was a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Benjamin) Selleck.
William S. Wade, entering the public schools, passed through consecutive. grades until he became a high-school student in South Norwalk, Connecticut. When his school days were over he accepted a clerkship in a clothing store and
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subsequently was connected with a hat manufacturing business as foreman of the manufacturing department. Removing westward to Norwalk, Ohio, he was there in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company for two years and became station agent of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad at Norwalk, serving in that capacity until 1894, when, continuing in the railway ser- vice, he came to Cleveland as freight agent for the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company. He occupied that position for four years and was then pro- moted to treasurer and paymaster of the company until its consolidation with the Baltimore & Ohio Railway System in 1902. With the latter company he went to the city of Baltimore and spent six months in the treasurer's office but at the end of that time returned to Cleveland and was appointed secretary of the Cleve- land Stock Exchange, in which capacity he has since served. His comprehensive understanding of the duties that devolve upon him in this connection and the thoroughness with which he has informed himself concerning all matters relative to the exchange have made him popular with its members and rendered his ser- vice of great value to the organization.
In his political views Mr. Wade is a stalwart republican where questions of broad political interest are involved' but at local elections he takes little account of party ties, regarding more fully the capability of the candidate. He belongs to the Episcopal church and is interested in all manly athletics and outdoor sports, especially baseball. His home life at No. 1974 East One Hundred and Sixteenth street is the expression of happy married relations. On the 17th of September, 1889, he wedded Miss Lillian M. Knox, a daughter of Crawford and Margaret (Shields) Knox, of Norwalk, Ohio. Mrs. Wade is very active in church work and in ladies' societies and her influence and labors are always of an elevating character. The only child of this marriage is Harry Knox, a graduate of the Central high school and of the Case School of Applied Science.
ALBERT EUSEVIUS DUNNING.
Albert Eusevius Dunning, senior partner of the law firm of Dunning, Knight & Eagleson, with a large clientele that is indicative of high standing at the bar, was born in Cambridge, Ohio, November 20, 1868. His father, Joseph L. Dun- ning, was a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, born January 14, 1828. The grandfather, Robert Dunning, was born in Pennsylvania in 1798, made farm- ing his life work and died in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1871. The family is of Scotch- Irish descent and the paternal grandmother was a native of the Emerald isle. Joseph L. Dunning devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits and came to Ohio in 1835, aiding materially in the development of the county in which he lived through his close connection with farming interests. He died August 18, 1901, and is still survived by his widow, who bore the maiden name of 'Anna E. Newman. She was born in Cambridge, Ohio, July 3, 1849, and is living in Byesville, this state. Her father, Eusevius H. Newman, was born in Maryland in 1819, followed farming as a life work and died in March, 1897. At the time of the discovery of gold in California, Joseph L. Dunning made his way to the Pacific coast and was quite fortunate in his business ventures there, returning with considerable money. He was also prominent in community affairs and served as sheriff of his county. After about eighteen years' residence in the Golden state, he returned to Ohio in 1867.
Albert E. Dunning attended the public schools of Cambridge, Ohio, and the high school at Byesville, from which he was graduated in 1889. In the meantime he had engaged in teaching for three years, entering upon that work before he reached the age of sixteen. Later he pursued a commercial course in Xenia, Ohio, and in the year 1889-90 he again engaged in teaching. From 1891 until 1894 he was a teacher in the Grand River Institute in Ashtabula, Ohio, acting as principal
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of the commercial department. While there he read law with the intention of making its practice his life work, and in the fall of 1894 he matriculated in the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Law degree in 1896. In March of the following year he was admitted to the Ohio bar and practiced alone in the office of E. J. Pinney of Cleveland until the fall of 1897, when he entered into partnership relations under the firm style of Gibbons, Dunning & Tracy .. This was continued for three years and in 1900 became Dun- ning, Tracy & Morrow, which association was -maintained for four years. Mr. Dunning, was then alone in practice from 1904 until 1906, when the firm of Dunning & Knight was formed and at a, recent date . Mr. Eagleson joined the partnership. Mr. Dunning has always engaged in general practice and has been connected with a number of notable cases. In his professional capacity he was instrumental in securing the discharge of a minor, who enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war, unknown to his parents, who are prominent Cleveland people. The boy went to Fort Sheridan, where he had an attack of fever and as soon as he had recov- ered, left for Canada under an assumed name. He was ill and homesick and from there wrote to a brother in Cleveland. Mr. Dunning took the matter up and went to Detroit to meet the boy. He obtained letters from various parties to those whose words might have weight in the case, including some to President McKinley. He then went before the war department of Washington for a hear- ing before the adjutant general, who agreed to grant him a discharge if the boy would give himself up to some barracks. While much above such work, the boy had taken a position in a baker shop in Detroit. Admiral Schley's son was at the head of the barracks at Columbus, Ohio, where the boy gave himself up. Mr. Dunning then made Schley's office his headquarters and in sixty days an order was received by wire from Washington to discharge the boy. The parents had been very much afraid of execution for their boy and greatly appreciated his re- lease. The case in all of its various legal phases was a most interesting one.
Mr. Dunning has an extensive practice and in a professional capacity has traveled all over the west, having eight times visited the Pacific coast in the last seven years. Thoroughly conversant with the law, his ability is attested by the large clientage accorded him and by the important nature of the cases which he has represented. He is an able corporation attorney and is financially interested in about twenty corporations, of which he is also the legal representative. He is attorney for Whitworth Brothers, publishers, and for many important business concerns, and is attorney for and one of the directors of the Robinson Brothers Fuel Company.
On the 10th of January, 1900, Mr. Dunning was married to Miss Mary Craft, by whom he has two children, Donald Albert and Clara Bernice.
Mr. Dunning votes with the republican party but is not active as a worker in its ranks. He takes, however, an active part in the work of the Highland Con- gregational church and is serving as a member of its board of trustees and also as president of the Highland Brotherhood, a men's organization of the church. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the National Union but is not a club man, and society in the usually accepted sense of the term has little attraction for him. He is, however, appreciative of congenial companionship and holds friend- ship inviolable.
CHARLES P. SALEN.
Charles P. Salen, clerk of courts, is one of the alert and energetic leaders in democratic ranks in Cleveland and there are many tangible evidences of his devo- tion to the party and his loyalty to the public welfare. There is too strong a ten- dency at the present time among successful business men to regard politics as something which is not to them a matter of concern. Mr. Salen, however, as
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every true American citizen should do, recognizes the obligations as well as the privileges of citizenship and has been an active worker in many movements of reform and progress that have been accomplished through the democratic party in Cleveland.
His life record began at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 5th of Decem- ber, 1860, and in 1866 was brought to Cleveland by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Salen, the father becoming the pioneer photographer on the west side of the city. He was a native of northwestern Germany and in his youth crossed the Atlantic to America, becoming a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, where he resided until his removal to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He married Miss Fredericka Wyx, a native of Reims, France, who died in 1874. The children of this marriage were: Louis, who died at the age of twenty-two years ; Matilda J .; Charlotte; and Charles P.
As a pupil in the public schools Charles P. Salen passed through -successive grades to his graduation front the high school with the class of 1878. In 1874 he entered Concordia College at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and pursued his studies there for one year. Early in his career he became identified with newspaper interests, entering the office of the old West Side Sentinel in 1880 and severing his connec- tion therewith only when he felt that his capital and experience justified him in engaging in business on his own account. He then formed a partnership with E. M. Heisley and established a weekly democratic paper. Upon being elected city clerk in 1883 he disposed of his paper but in 1885 he began the publication of the Graphic, which he conducted for two years. He then sold his paper for he had again been elected to the office of city clerk. He was but twenty-two years of age when first called to the position, being the youngest man ever elected to office in Cleveland. From the time he attained his majority Mr. Salen was an active worker in democratic ranks. He was one of the organizers of the Young Men's Democratic League of Cleveland, which was composed almost entirely of men who were in that year to cast their first vote. He served the league both as pres- ident and secretary and did efficient work in arousing interest and creating enthu- siasm in behalf of democratic interests in Cleveland.
When Mr. Salen retired from the position of city clerk he turned his attention to the business of developing and improving Beyerle's Park, of which he was man- ager for two years, during which time it became celebrated as the most complete and attractive amusement resort between Chicago and New York. On severing his connection therewith he again entered the field of journalism as city editor of the Cleveland Morning Times in 1889, and in 1890 he was made secretary of the board of elections. The following year, when the ballot reform law was intro- duced, he was very active in outlining the working of the Australian ballot system, in originating iron election booths and doing other service in connection with its adoption. During the years of his active connection with political interests Mr. Salen has ever been a close student of the signs of the times, has noted the needs and demands of the city and has labored earnestly to place its political interests upon a business basis that shall be alike creditable and beneficial to the municipality. In the spring of 1893 the younger element in the democracy of Cleveland strongly advocated him as mayoralty candidate but he was defeated for the nomination.
Mr. Salen was one of the first to champion the cause of Tom L. Johnson and further his political career, being instrumental in securing his nomination for congress in 1888. In 1890 and 1892 he managed Mr. Johnson's campaigns, when he was elected, overcoming a republican plurality in 1892 of twenty-five hundred. This made a total democratic gain of six thousand votes, the largest gain shown by any district in the United States. He suggested Mr. Johnson for mayor in 1901 and managed his victorious campaign, as well as those of 1903 and 1905. He has attended every democratic convention since he attained his majority and has frequently represented his party in the state conventions. He served on the dem- ocratic state committee a number of years and in 1903 was chairman of the state executive committee. He represented the twentieth district in the national demo-
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cratic conventions of 1892, 1904 and 1908, and in the 1904 convention was also elected as a delegate-at-large from the state, being the only delegate having two votes.
In 1899 Mr. Salen became city auditor and in 1901 he became director of pub- lic works. While in this office he opened the public parks to the people, destroyed the "Keep off the Grass" signs, established baseball diamonds and children's play- grounds wherever there was an opportunity, and in the winter provided skating rinks in the parks and on the vacant lots. He put great energy into the construc- tion of sewers, pavements, bridges and other public works and started the elimina- tion of grade crossings.
In November, 1902, Mr. Salen was elected county clerk and was the first dem- ocrat to ever hold that office. He was reelected in 1905 and in 1908 he made the record-breaking run of beating the head of his ticket twenty thousand votes, he being the only democrat to survive the landslide. Mr. Salen has been the chief pro- moter of amateur sports in Cleveland and is the unquestioned leader of every movement of this character. He is president of the City Baseball League, of the Ohio Skating Association, of the Cleveland Ski Club and of the Quinnebog Fish- ing Club. The children and young people of the city are his most enthusiastic friends. He brings to his political work the same keen discernment and untiring industry which are so necessary as factors in business success. It is known that he ever places the public good before personal aggrandizement, and that, while he is a strong party man, he believes in and advocates clean politics and the expression of an untrammeled and honest public opinion. Mr. Salen is popular personally. with a wide circle of friends who give him their regard irrespective of party views.
WILLIAM H. BOYD.
William H. Boyd, of the firm Westenhaver, Boyd, Rudolph & Brooks, making steady progress in his chosen field of labor as a member of the Cleveland bar, came to this city in 1890 and during nineteen years of active practice has repre- sented many important litigated interests. He was born in Londonderry town- ship, Guernsey county, Ohio, August 1I, 1864. He attended the district schools of his native county and the public schools of Fairview, Ohio, and after the com- pletion of his more specific literary course he took up the study of law in 1888, giving two years to a thorough mastery of legal principles. He was then admitted to the bar in 1890 and located for practice in Cleveland, where he has since re- mained. His ability has led him into important professional relations. During the recent street car warfare he was prominent among the attorneys, being en- rolled among the lawyers for the Municipal Traction Company, and in his argu- ments in the injunction cases against that company proved himself to be a man of great oratorical ability as well as of sound logic and a thorough understanding of the legal principles involved.
On the 7th of September, 1892, Mr. Boyd was married to Miss Anna Maud Judkins, of Flushing, Ohio, who died September 23, 1908. He is a member of the Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Boyd also holds member- ship in the Tippecanoe Club, the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias lodge.
His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has been called to some local offices, serving as clerk of Flushing township in Belmont county, Ohio, and as corporation clerk of the town of Flushing from 1888 to 1890. In July and August, 1891, he was acting police prosecutor in Cleveland during the absence of Mr. Fielder, the regular prosecutor, and was assistant director of law of the city of Cleveland during 1897 and 1898. He has preferred to keep free from en- tangling political allegiance, however, and to give undivided attention to his pro- fession. He is a strong advocate with the jury and concise in his appeal before
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