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The development of humanitarian dentistry has ever been paramount with Dr. Ebersole and he has written a number of papers bearing upon this subject. The first was given before the Cleveland Dental Society in 1899 and was entitled "Are We as Dentists Doing Our Full Duty to Humanity and to the Profession ?" Another read before the same society in 1902 was entitled "Why Does Dental Caries Occur More Frequently in the Female than in the Male Mouth of the Human Family ?" "Combatting Pain in Dental Operations" was delivered be- fore the Northern Ohio Dental Association in 1902. "Humanitarian Methods in Dentistry" was read before the Seventh District Dental Society of New York, at Rochester, in 1904. "Humanitarian Dentistry" was delivered before the Lake Erie Dental Society in 1905. "Thoughts Relative to Humanitarian Dentistry" was read before the Toledo Dental Society in 1907. Later in the same year he read "Humanitarian Dentistry and How to Practice It" before the Odontological Soci- ety of Western Pennsylvania, at Pittsburg. On January 5, 1909, he read a paper entitled "A Plea for More Humanitarian Methods of Dentistry With Suggestions for Practicing the Same" before the New York Institute of Stomatology. In June, 1909, he read a paper entitled "Business Methods Applied to the Practice of Dentistry," before the Pennsylvania State Dental Society, meeting at Pittsburg.
Dr. Ebersole has given to the profession a method of replanting teeth which abolishes the removal of pero-dental membrane and also the use of antiseptics other than the normal saline solution, claiming that other anaesthetics tend to destroy the isolated animal tissue cell. This process bears the same relation to dental surgery that skin grafting does to general surgery. In fact, it was the latter that suggested the idea to Dr. Ebersole.
Dr. Ebersole became a member of the Cleveland Dental Society in 1897; the Cleveland Medical Society, now the Academy of Medicine, in 1898; the
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Northern Ohio Dental Association in 1898; the National Dental Association in 1899; and the Ohio State Dental Society in 1900.
In 1899 he was appointed member of the oral hygiene committee of the Cleveland Dental Society and has served on that committee most of the time down to the present and is now chairman of this committee. In 1903 he was elected corresponding secretary of the Northern Ohio Dental Association and while in that office planned and conducted in 1904 a meeting for the exclusive study of humanitarian or pain preventing methods in dentistry-the first meet- ing of the kind ever held in the world. In 1904 he was reelected and devoted considerable of the program to the study of humanitarian methods. The aver- age attendance at the meetings of this organization had previously been about two hundred but sufficient interest was created to secure the attendance of four hundred and ninety-six in 1904, and in 1905 five hundred and ninety-eight per- sons were in attendance at this meeting.
In 1905 Dr. Ebersole was elected as one of the four editors of a dental maga- zine and established a department devoted to humanitarian dentistry; the first dental journal in the world to devote a special department to the study of pain preventing methods of dentistry. Pressure of other duties, however, forced him to resign this position at the completion of his third year in this work.
In October, 1908, Dr. Ebersole was appointed chairman of the second sec- tion of the National Dental Association and in this capacity he succeeded in making such a showing for section No. 2 at the national meeting, held in Bir- mingham in March of 1909, that he was appointed chairman of the oral hygiene committee of the National Dental Association at this meeting.
On January 5, 1909, he was elected vice president of the Cleveland Dental Society ; and in June of 1909 was elected vice president of the Northern Ohio Dental Society. At the January meeting of the Cleveland Dental Society, 1910, he was elected president of the Cleveland Dental Society.
During the year of 1909-10, while chairman of the oral hygiene committee of the National Dental Association and chairman of the education and oral hy- giene committee of the Cleveland Dental Society, Dr. Ebersole assisted by Dr. J. R. Owens and Dr. Weston 'A. Price, members of the education and oral hy- giene committee of the Cleveland Dental Society, and Dr. W. T. Jackman, chair- man of the education and oral hygiene committee of the Ohio State Dental So- ciety, succeeded in introducing into the Cleveland public schools a system of dental inspection and educational lectures, and by his efforts as chairman of the oral hygiene committee of the National Dental Association he secured six equipments to establish dental clinics to take care of Cleveland school chil- dren (four in the public and two in the parochial schools). These clinics were dedicated and formally opened on the 18th of March, 1910, and are to be con- ducted for a period of one year to secure data showing the value of proper oral hygienic conditions as related to public school children. Through Dr. Ebersole's influence the opening of the national campaign on oral hygiene un- der the auspices of the National Dental Association was held in the city of Cleveland, March 18, 1910. Sufficient interest was created in this meeting to secure the recognition and the sending of a personal representative by President William H. Taft, in the person of Dr. C. W. Wille, past assistant surgeon, United States public health and marine hospital service; and by Governor Jud- son Harmon sending a personal representative in the person of Dr. H. C. Brown. There were about four thousand people in attendance at this meeting.
On March 17, 1910, at a luncheon given in honor of Dr. Ebersole, forty- four of the most prominent members of the Cleveland Dental Society presented him with a diamond pin representing the "giving of the cup of cold water" and bearing the inscription "In His Name."
On the 17th of December, 1890, Dr. Ebersole was married in Carrollton, Ohio, to Miss Ora, daughter of Levi and Mary (Gearhart) Stemple, and to
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them was born, October 19, 1896, a son, Carl Haman, who was adopted and named by the medical class of which his father was a member.
Politically Dr. Ebersole is a republican, but his interest in politics does not extend to the desire for public office. Socially he is a member of the Colonial Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He united with the Presbyterian church at Carrollton, Ohio, before reaching his majority and has always been interested in religious work. While a student at Ada, Ohio, he was active in the Young Men's Christian Association as well as the Christian Endeavor Society, being for two years a state organizer for the latter. He is now a member of the Win- demere Presbyterian church and a teacher in the Sunday school. Dr. Ebersole is emphatically a self-made man and his rise in the profession has been rapid. He is progressive, thorough-going, of marked force of character and grim de- termination, and is esteemed most where best known.
LILLIAN GERTRUDE TOWSLEE, M. D.
Dr. Lillian Gertrude Towslee, a successful medical practitioner of Cleve- land, was born in Lodi, Ohio, December 4, 1859, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Towslee. The family comes of French, English, Scotch and Irish lineage and was established in America about 1632. The name of Gideon Towslee appeared in the first census taken in Vermont in 1790. At the time of the Revolutionary war the paternal grandfather of George Washington Towslee was assistant to General La Fayette and his maternal grandfather was aid-de-camp to General Washington.
About 1832 Dr. Towslee's grandmother in the maternal line wrote a letter in which she said: "I have just thought it would give me great pleasure to pos- sess a sketch of my parents from their own hand but as that is denied me I think it would give my children some satisfaction to read something from my hand of their progenitors. My forefathers were among the number that embraced the doctrines of the reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and were often persecuted for righteousness' sake, being obliged to flee from one country to another for safety. At length in the early part of the seventeenth century my grandparents emigrated to America-my father's family from Scot- land and my mother's from North Ireland. Both families settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. My father's father died when father was nineteen years of age. My father's eldest sister married a Mr. Mealy and in 1796 came to Ohio, settling near Marietta. My father passed away in 1814 and mother passed away nine days later." Dr. Towslee's grandmother was but thirteen years and six months old at the time of the death of her parents.
George W. Towslee was born in New York but of Vermont parentage and at the age of fourteen years came to Ohio, locating in Lodi, where he spent his life and died in 1902 at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. In early manhood he wedded Maria Esther Pollock, whose mother was a Harper, be- longing to the family in whose honor Harper's Ferry was named. The Pollocks came of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Mrs. Towslee was a very intellectual woman, as was her mother, who was quite widely known as a writer. The death of Mrs. Towslee occurred August 23, 1898, when she had reached the age of seventy-two years.
Dr. Towslee acquired her literary education in Lodi Academy and subse- quently pursued an academic course in Oberlin College and was graduated from the Conservatory of Music there in 1882. She afterward engaged in teaching music for four years but in the meantime took up the study of medicine at Wooster University, where she completed a course in 1888 and won her degree. She has since spent several months in post-graduate study in New York city and since the Ist of February, 1889, has practiced continuously and success-
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fully in Cleveland. While she engages in general practice, she yet makes a specialty of gynecological work and was assistant to the professor of gyne- cology at the Wooster Medical School from 1889 until it was merged with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which is a branch of the Ohio Wesleyan University, since which time she has been lecturer on gynecology to the senior class in that institution. She also did clinical work in the Wooster Medical College for twelve years, lectured in Women's College of the Western Reserve University for two years on health and hygiene and for some years has had professional charge of the girls at the Schaffler Mission, delivering a course of lectures there each spring. She has also served on the staff of the Women's Hospital of the west side and was on the staff of the Cleveland General Hospital some years ago.
Until recent years, when the demands of her private practice and professional duties have become too extensive, Dr. Towslee was a frequent contributor to medical journals and some years ago, upon the request of the Western Reserve University Medical Journal, she wrote an article entitled "Why Women Should Practice Medicine," which was widely commented upon. She became a charter member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine and also belongs to the Cleve- land Medical Library Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Ameri- can Medical Society, the Sorosis and the Health Protective Association, of which she is president. Her membership relations also extend to the Calvary Presby- terian church, and she is secretary of Calvary Church Benevolent Society. She also belongs to the Inquiry Club, the Emerson Class, and is a member of the board of the Club House Association and a charter member of that organization. She is also president of the Republican Women's League and vice president of the Martha Bolton Club and treasurer of the Cleveland Council of Women, while she is eligible to membership with the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also president of the Health Protective Association.
Dr. Towslee is largely interested in real-estate and in 1904 erected a fine apart- ment house at No. 8110 Carnegie avenue, which she called Towslee Inn, in honor of her father. In 1908 she built another at No. 8025 Cedar avenue, Lodi, which she planned while confined to her home by an accident in that year. She had previously erected several residences here and her real-estate investments have been most profitable. She resides at No. 8118 Carnegie avenue, which home she planned and built in 1895. Residing with her are Mrs. Katherine D. Ar- thur, who has been her assistant and companion for many years, and an adopted son, George Arthur Towslee, six years of age, who is an unusually bright boy. She has a sister, Mrs. Ella Towslee Webster, prominent in social and literary circles in Cleveland, who has been requested to serve on the board of education. She has one son, Paul Towslee Webster, fourteen years of age.
Dr. Towslee is an enthusiast on the subject of motoring and has taken many long trips, including one from Cleveland to Boston and then down the coast to New York. Another season she toured Canada in her automobile. A lady of superior culture and broad intelligence in general as well as professional lines, her opinions carry weight, while in social circles she is gladly welcomed because of her attractive powers of entertaining.
HUBERT BRUCE FULLER.
Hubert Bruce Fuller, lawyer and author, was born in Derby, Connecticut, June 15, 1880. His ancestors were among the members of the band of Pilgrims who came to Massachusetts in the Mayflower in 1620. He is a descendant of Elder Brewster and also from a sister of Benjamin Franklin. Seven of his an- cestors fought in the Revolutionary war. His father was Robert Bruce Fuller who died in Washington, D. C., April 5, 1900, and who was widely known through-
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out his native state of Connecticut as an educator, having acted as superintendent of schools in various cities and towns of that state. His mother's maiden name was Harriet A. Prentice. She is a granddaughter of General Amariah Kibbe and cousin of the late George D. Prentice, the famous journalist and founder of the Louisville Journal. Mrs. Fuller is living in Cleveland.
Hubert B. Fuller attended primary schools in Connecticut and Washington, D. C. From Yale University he received the degree of A. B. in 1901 and A. M. in 1904. At Yale he was awarded the Cobden Club medal by the Cobden Club of England, the Townsend prize in literature, the Eggleston prize in history and other honors. Mr. Fuller received the degrees of LL. B. and LL. M. from the Columbian University, now the George Washington University, where he was awarded prizes in insurance and corporation law. He began the practice of law in Cleveland in 1903.
Mr. Fuller is a writer of considerable repute. He is the author of The Pur- chase of Florida, published in 1906; Tax Returns in Ohio, published in 1907; and The Speakers of The House, published in 1909. He is also a frequent con- tributor to standard magazines on legal, historical and economic subjects. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, the Sons of the American Revolution, and an officer of the Western Reserve Historical Society. Mr. Fuller has taken a prominent part in politics in Cleveland as a republican and is one of the secretaries of Senator Burton of Ohio.
REV. THOMAS FRANCIS FAHEY.
Rev. Thomas Francis Fahey, pastor of the Cathedral of St. John the Evan- gelist, was born in Cleveland on the 16th of December, 1874. His paternal grandfather, Michael Fahey, a native of Ireland, emigrated to the United States in 1850 and came directly to Cleveland, where he spent the remainder of his life, dying here in 1869 in his sixty-ninth year. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Burke, also a native of Ireland, was born in 1787 and made his way to the new world about sixty years ago. He resided in Boston for a while and then came to Cleveland, where he spent the rest of his days. He died in 1887.
Martin Fahey, father of the Rev. T. F. Fahey, was also born in Ireland, November 10, 1841, and was but a mere boy when he came alone to the United States to join his father who had previously established his home in this city. He was engaged for many years in railroad work of various kinds but of late has withdrawn from active life and is enjoying the quiet of his advanced years with his wife and daughter in retirement. Father Fahey's parents were mar- ried in Cleveland. His mother, Bridget Burke, had come to Cleveland from the Emerald isle as a child of six and has dwelt here ever since. The Rev. Father Fahey has two brothers, Michael and William, both of Cleveland and both skilled mechanics.
The Rev. T. F. Fahey acquired his preliminary education in St. Patrick's school in Cleveland. His collegiate work was done at St. Ignatius College, this city, whence he was graduated in 1895, after five years' study. The next six years he spent at St. Mary's Seminary, Cleveland, and upon the completion of his philosophical and theological course was ordained a priest by Bishop Horst- mann on the Ist of June, 1901, at the cathedral of his native city. On the fol- lowing day he celebrated his first mass at St. Patrick's church, Cleveland. His first appointment was to the pastorate of St. Mary's church, Carragher, Ohio, with the additional charge of St. Richard's church at Swanton. On the 14th of June, 1902, after one year at Carragher, he was transferred to the cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Cleveland, as assistant to the late Dr. Patrick Far- rell, whom he succeeded in the pastorate of the cathedral April 15, 1907. The
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cathedral parish comprises about two thousand souls besides a large transient attendance. There is a parochial school attached with a daily enrollment of four hundred pupils, taught by eight religious. Several hospitals are attended by the cathedral clergy. Father Fahey has two priests to assist him in discharging the duties of his responsible office, the Rev. Eugene P. Duffy and the Rev. C. Hubert Le Blond. The cathedral church whose pastor he is, being the scene of the great ecclesiastical activities of the diocese, brings him into close touch with his bishop and the official life of the diocese and makes his work more than strictly parochial. In his varied relations with his own people and the outside world, with which he is brought into rather close touch in the many ways inseparable from the priest's calling, he is ever zealous for good, striving for the welfare of his people and the advancement of the interests of his native city. Father Fahey is always the courteous priestly gentleman fitted in every way to grace his exalted position.
PETER LINN.
The D. L. Scheier Furniture Company is one of the solid, reliable houses of the city, and its executive head, Peter Linn, has earned his present position in the commercial life of Cleveland through years of earnest endeavor.
He was born in Rhine-Pfaltz, Germany, June 14, 1866, a son of William and Elizabeth Linn. He received his early education in the schools of his native city, but at the age of fourteen years came to America. Locating in Cleveland, he soon found employment as an upholsterer's apprentice with Herman Junge and remained in this connection for eight years, when he accepted a position with D. L. Scheier & Company as an upholsterer. He continued in this capacity until 1892, when he was appointed superintendent and also became personally interested in the business. Largely to his able management was due the growth of the business during the succeeding years. In 1905, when the firm was reorganized and incorporated, he was elected president and has served since in that capacity, and the unusual suc- cess which has attended his conduct of the business is evidence of his executive ability.
Mr. Linn takes an active interest in public affairs, giving his enthusiastic sup- port to any plan to promote his adopted city's welfare. Politically he is a repub- lican. On May 9, 1895, he married Mary Emrich and they reside at No. 1295 Belle avenue, Lakewood. A man of quiet tastes, possessing those rugged traits of honesty and industry, characteristic of his countrymen, he has risen through sheer pluck and worth to a prominent place among Cleveland's successful adopted sons.
JOHN U. KARR.
John U. Karr, who has been a resident of Cleveland since 1885 and is now one of its prominent business men, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in June, 1867, being a son of David and Eliza (Turner) Karr. His father came from Scotland when twenty-one years of age, locating near Wheeling, West Virginia, where he engaged in farming during the remainder of his life, dying in 1889, at the age of seventy-three years.
After attending the common schools, John U. Karr took a commercial course in a business college of Wheeling. He then entered the employ of his brother, who was located in Cleveland, engaged in the fish business. In 1896 Mr. Karr opened a grocery store on Madison avenue, West Cleveland, a year later remov- ing to Lexington avenue. In 1900 he started his present business on Eleventh
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street which is now one of the largest ship supply houses in the city. After being alone until 1904, he took as a partner L. R. Mitchell and the firm name was changed to Karr & Mitchell. He is also a stockholder in the Clark Wireless Telegraph Company, the Great Lakes Radio Wireless Telephone Company and the Atlantic Wireless Telephone Company. He owns a large orange plantation on the Isle of Pines, where he goes each winter and remains until navigation opens on the lakes, and he is president and general manager of the St. Bar- bara Milling & Contracting Company there.
In 1893 Mr. Karr married Eva May Benham, a daughter of C. E. Benham, of Cleveland. He is extremely fond of baseball and motoring, and during his winter vacations is enabled to gratify his love for fishing. He is a Knight Templar Mason, belonging to Oriental Commandery, and is also a member of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Although deeply engrossed in his business, which he has developed to such gratifying proportions, Mr. Karr is interested in public matters to the extent of being anxious to secure good government and to develop the city. He has great faith in Cleveland, believing that it has not reached its full growth by any means but has a brilliant future before it as a still greater commercial and industrial center.
CHARLES E. THOMPSON.
Charles E. Thompson, as general manager of the Electric Welding Prod- ucts Company, is active in control of the largest institution of this kind in the United States and Cleveland has in him a splendid type of the alert, business man of the present day who recognizes that thoroughness, comprehensive un- derstanding of his special line and unfaltering diligence in the prosecution thereof must constitute the salient elements in advancement. Born in McIndoe Falls, Vermont, on the 16th of July, 1870, he is a son of Thomas Thompson, likewise a native of the Green Mountain state. The father, born in 1842, was a repre- sentative of an old New England family. The mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Thomp- son, was a daughter of Dr. George and Eliza Young.
In the early boyhood of Charles E. Thompson his parents removed to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he pursued his preliminary education and afterward at- tended the Boston Preparatory School. When his text-books were laid aside he secured employment with the Thompson Houston Company, of Lynn, Mas- sachusetts, serving in the shipping, armature, incandescent lamp and other de- partments in which he gained much practical experience concerning the electrical manufacturing business during his two years' connection with the firm. He afterward served as assistant superintendent with Alley & Ingalls, shoe manu- facturers, for a year, and in 1892 came to Cleveland, securing a position with the Cleveland Telephone Company. His time was spent in the repair depart- ment as inspector and as branch office manager during the succeeding six years, and then he left Cleveland for the southwest, going to Dallas, Texas, in 1898, as manager of the Dallas Exchange. There he remained for a year and a half and upon his return to Cleveland he accepted a position with the Cap Screw Company which afterward was changed to the Electric Welding Products Com- pany. His leisure hours were devoted to the pursual of special courses in electrical engineering in the evening classes conducted by Professor Langley at the Young Men's Christian Association. He entered the service of the Elec- tric Welding Products Company as electrician and was promoted through va- rious positions until 1905, when he was appointed general manager of the larg- est institution of its kind in the United States. The enterprise has shown a marvelous growth. The business has been more than doubled each year and in 1909 four new buildings were erected. The company has the largest harden- ing room in the state of Ohio and employment is furnished to about three
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