A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 107

Author: Avery, Elroy McKendree, 1844-1935; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 904

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Percival Wood Rice, son of Harvey Rice, was also an outstanding figure in Cleveland's life and affairs for many years. He was born at Cleveland November 27, 1829, and died in December, 1909, at the age of eighty years. His father intended to give him a classical education. After his preparatory course a weakness of the eyes developed and he left school. In 1850 he became private secretary to his uncle, Governor Reuben Wood, a posi- tion he retained under Governor Wood's suc- cessor, and enjoyed the rank of colonel on the governor's staff. In 1853 he entered business at Cleveland under the firm name of Rice and Burnett, and with the exception of the pe- riod of the war continued active in business affairs until his retirement in 1889.

At the first call for troops at the opening of the Civil war in 1861 the Light Artillery Company of Cleveland, with Mr. Rice as captain, volunteered its services and was at- tached to the Ohio Fourteenth Regiment under General Steedman in Western Vir- ginia. It is stated that this battery fired the first gun on the Union side at the battle of Philippi, West Virginia. Later Captain Rice was under the command of General Lew Wal- lace.

A number of those positions which involve heavy responsibilities without the honor and with none of the remuneration attaching to other places in the public service were held by Captain Rice. He served as a trustee of the Cleveland Waterworks, for five years,

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was a member of the Board of Elections, and for twenty years was a trustee of the Society for Savings. In politics he voted as a demo- crat. He was a member of the Light Artillery Association of Cleveland, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, but on the social side was doubtless best known for his deep interest in water sports. He was a great lover of the water and in his later years in- dulged in yachting and became one of the best known devotees of that sport on the Lower Lake. He was a member of the Cleve- land Yacht Club and held the rank of com- modore. He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

October 4, 1854, at Cleveland, Captain Rice married Mary (Triggs) Cutter, of Cleve- land. For his second wife he married Sarah Peck, of New Britain, Connecticut, on Oc- tober 20, 1864.

WALTER PERCIVAL RICE, only child of the late Captain Percival Wood Rice and Mary (Triggs) Cutter, and grandson of Hon. Harvey Rice, each of whom had a distinctive place in the history of Cleveland, as revealed in their biographies elsewhere, has found his career in the difficult and fascinating profes- sion of civil engineering. Mr. Rice is head of the Walter P. Rice Engineering Company of Cleveland, and as a civil and consulting engineer his attainments have a national recognition.

He was born at Cleveland September 2, 1855, and graduated with the degree Civil Engineer from Lehigh University at Bethle- hem, Pennsylvania, with the class of 1876. He has steadily practiced his profession for over forty years. It has been a varied gen- eral practice, involving his services from bridge work to sanitary engineering, embrac- ing also important harbor work. At present he acts as consulting engineer on difficult foundations and other engineering construc- tion. At different times he has been em- ployed in a publie capacity. He was assist- ant engineer on the old Superior Street via- duet, also connected with the Cleveland High- way Bridge Company, was at one time United States assistant engineer engaged in harbor work around Lake Erie, served two terms as city engineer of Cleveland, and one term as director of public works, and was also chief of engineers of the State of Ohio under Gov- ernor Hoadly, with the rank of colonel on

the staff. He has also served on national com- missions of expert engineers.

In these capacities and through his private practice Mr. Rice has been connected with some of the most conspicuous public improve- ments in this and other cities. Among the very notable and original structures repre- senting problems worked out by Mr. Rice as designing or consulting engineer might be evidenced the double revolving bridges at Co- lumbus Street in Cleveland, the large Wheel- ing stone arch at Wheeling, West Virginia, and the large three-hinged concrete arch at Greenville, Ohio. Mr. Rice introduced what was probably the most extensive application of Colonel Waring's sewage purification method at East Cleveland, Ohio. He also made the first serious attempt to investigate lake currents' off Cleveland and study their bearing on sewage disposal and water sup- ply intake, as a result of which he recom- mended an intercepting system of sewers. His judgment on this matter was afterwards confirmed by investigation under the auspices of a board of national experts.

Mr. Rice is a member of the Chi Phi col- lege fraternity and has held the highest of- fices in his chapter. He was one of the founders on March 13, 1880, and is a past president of the Cleveland Engineering So- cicty. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, member of the International Congresses on Navigation and of various other technical organizations. As the son of a veteran soldier and officer, he is a member of the Loyal Legion, is an ex- member of the Cleveland Yacht Club, Golf Club and Locust Point Shooting Club.

September 2, 1903, at New York City, Mr. Rice married Margaret Anderson Barteau, of St. Paul, Minnesota.

DUDLEY BALDWIN WICK. The active and useful career of the late Dudley Baldwin Wick, pioneer resident of Cleveland, and known and honored as a prominent and valued hanker, was a factor in the commercial and civic progress of Ohio, and may well find consideration in the noting of the more salient points that have marked his life and labors. Ile was long a dominating power in connec- tion with the banking interests of the state's metropolis, where he was engaged in the bank- ing business for a period over thirty-five years, and aside from this field of operations he conducted other extensive enterprises,

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achieving a position as one of the substantial capitalists of his native state, gaining his suc- cess through normal and legitimate means, and he stood for more than half a century as a singularly admirable type of the progres- sive, honorable and broad-minded man of af- fairs. Mr. Wick's career was complete and rounded in its beautiful simplicity, he did his full duty in all the relations of life, and was beloved by those near to him and was uni- versally esteemed.

Mr. Dudley Baldwin Wick was born in Youngstown, Ohio, October 3, 1846. He was a son of Henry and Mary S. (Hine) Wick, both of English origin. John Wick, great- great-great-great-grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was the first to come from England to the American Colonies, in 1620, locating on Long Island. Henry Wick, Sr., grandfather of our subject, came to Youngs- town, Ohio, in 1795 as a pioneer settler, be- coming a merchant of that frontier post. Henry Wick, Jr., was the father of Dudley Baldwin Wick, and was born in Youngstown, Ohio, February 28, 1807, and died in Cleve- land May 22, 1895, at the age of eighty-eight vears. He had devoted most of his life to the banking business, and was also interested in many important financial enterprises. Henry Wick, Jr., was twelve years old when he left school to enter his father's store, and at the age of twenty he became sole owner of the business, conducting the store with ever-increasing success for twenty years, when he came to Cleveland, in 1848, and engaged in the banking business, under the firm name of Wick, Otis & Brownell, then located on the corner of St. Clair Avenue and Bank Street. His brother, Hugh B. Wick, was interested in this bank, and the other partners were W. A. Otis, W. F. Otis and Hon. A. C. Brownell.

In 1854 the Wicks purchased the interests of their partners and the name of the house was changed to H. B. and H. Wick. In 1857 Henry Wick bought out his brother and the bank became known as Henry Wick & Com- pany. After more than forty years of con- tinuons success the institution was incor- porated under the state laws of Ohio in 1891 as the Wick Banking & Trust Company. He was a potent factor in the general upbuilding of Cleveland during its more progressive period, being a power in financial circles and had many extensive interests. He was one of the builders and for a number of years treas- urer of the Bellefontaine & Indianapolis Rail-

road, which later became a part of the Big Four system.

Henry Wick was married on December 10, 1828, to Mary S. Hine, of Youngstown, Ohio, daughter of Homer Hine, one of the promi- nent lawyers of Youngstown and Northeastern Ohio. They were married sixty-six years, celebrating their golden wedding anniversary. Mr. Wick was survived by his widow who was then eighty-six years of age, and six chil- dren. These six children were: Henrietta Matilda, deceased wife of F. W. Judd; Alfred H., deceased ; Mary Helen, widow of Warren H. Corning; Florence, deceased wife of D. B. Chambers; Dudley B., subject of this sketch; and Henry C., of Cleveland.

Dudley B. Wick enjoyed good educational advantages. He attended Punderson's Private School, the Cleveland public schools and Ober- lin College. With patriotic spirit he allowed his educational career to be interrupted by the breaking out of the Civil war. When but a lad he enlisted as a drummer boy in Company D, One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His regiment was sta- tioned at Fort Saratoga, and later he was transferred to light artillery duty and sta- tioned near Washington, D. C., in defense of the capital. Mr. Wick continued on duty until the close of the war, being honorably discharged and mustered out in 1865.

His army service was a prelude to a long and active business life. He became asso- ciated in 1865 with his father's bank, Henry Wick & Company, and was for many years a partner in the firm. Mr. Wick built the Wick Block on the Public Square, which was occupied by the bank in 1883. Many old time Clevelanders will also recall the Lyceum Theatre, which was located in the Wick Block. The twelve story Illuminating Building now occupies this site. Mr. Dudley B. Wick was president of the Wick Banking and Trust Company up to 1901, when he retired from active business and the bank was sold to the State Banking and Trust Company. From that time until his death he devoted his time to his extensive private interests.

Mr. Dudley B. Wiek was one of the or- ganizers of the North Electric Company, and vice president and director of same. He was treasurer of the International Typograph Company, of New York, and president of the Wick Investment Company. Mr. Wick was a very active and influential member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and was

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an untiring worker at all times for the city's active worker in Trinity Cathedral, having best interests. He was also an officer and. formerly been the organist there. Mr. and director of many of the leading institutions of Cleveland. He was a director of the Road- side Club, and a member of the Union Club. Ile was charitably inclined and did much for the deserving poor of his home city. In any particular charitable task to be performed he was often sought to head the movement, be- cause he was ever liberal and obliging with his time and means in his efforts to help hu- manity and ameliorate the conditions of those whom fortune had favored less. But he al- ways gave in a quiet, unostentatious manner, never to win the plaudits of the public. While a loyal republican, he never consented to hold public office.

Some of his happiest associations were with the Old Stone Church, where he was an active member. Mrs. Wick was for several years organist in this church and Mr. Wick sang tenor in the quartette during this period. Of the institutional charities of Cleveland his name is especially associated with Huron Road Hospital of Cleveland. He was chairman of its executive committee for a period of twenty- nine years. Of late years he was a member of the board of trustees. This important in- stitution is one of the oldest of its kind in Ohio and its splendid work was largely due to the commendable efforts of Mr. Wick. Fra- ternally he was a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to the Oriental Commandery, Knight Templars and the Scottish Rite Con- sistory and, judging from his daily life, he lived up to its sublime teachings and pre- cepts.

Dudley B. Wiek was fortunate in his do- mestie life. On July 28, 1875, he married Miss Emma L. Steele, and their married life, existing over forty years, was a happy union of both heart and mind. Mrs. Wiek is a mem- ber of an old Painsville, Ohio, family, daugh- ter of Hlorace and Lydia (Blish) Steele. Horace Steele was a very prominent and active business man of Painesville. Mrs. Wick is a talented musician, being exceptionally ac- complished as an organist and pianist. Her devotion to her family and home has won for her the highest goal obtainable in the realm of woman, namely, an ideal and exemplary mother and wife. Mrs. Wick's executive ability and untiring patience have enabled her to accomplish valuable results for her many welfare interests. She has been a member of the Lady Board of Managers of Huron Road Hospital for over twenty-five years and an

Mrs. Wick's congeniality created a happy at- mosphere, not only for those nearest and dearest to them, but for all who enjoyed their warm hospitality. Mr. Wick possessed a woll- derful nature, so tender and lovable. No one could come in contact with him in his home life without recognizing his sincere devotion to his family. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Wiek was blessed by the birth of the following children : Dudley B., Jr., deccased, Helen Alına and Warren Corning.

Dudley B. Wick was summoned to his eternal rest on April 10, 1917, at the age of seventy years, after a constant, successful, useful and honorable life.

Dudley Baldwin Wick, Jr.'s, career was made notable by his early achievements and promise of great continued usefulness. Hle was born at Cleveland July 23, 1876, and died March 1, 1905, before he was thirty years of age. He attended the public schools, University School and Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland. He graduated from Cascadilla School, Ithaca, New York, and com- pleted a special course in telephony at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. As a student he made a brilliant record and was a young man of great promise. He prepared himself for the profession of electrical engineer and it was along that line that his practical ener- gies were concentrated.

He had from early youth a strong bent toward scientific pursuits, especially in the direction of electricity. In 1894 he took up a special course in electrical engineering at Case School of Applied Science. Although only eighteen years of age, the surprising re- sults which Dudley B. Wick, Jr., was achiev- ing in his investigations and experiments with X-rays were closely followed and prominently described in the newspapers and electrical and technical publications of the country from 1894 to 1896. In referring to his research work with X-rays and shadowgraphing, the Cleveland World of February 24, 1895, said, "Mr. Wick has made a careful study of the science and probably understands it as thor- oughly as any scientist and discusses with the uninitiated the technical details of the sub- ject in a manner which makes this new and extremely technical matter highly instructive and entertaining."

He prepared himself for the profession of electrical engineer and in 1899 he became identified with the North Electric Company

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of this city. By his tireless energy he speedily worked up from a subordinate position to that of chief of the engineering department. This very responsible position he filled with dis- tinguished success, winning for himself a high place among his business associates and fore- shadowing an unusually brilliant career. His technical ability was supplemented by original qualities of mind, and several of his ideas were expressed in devices seenred by patent rights.

Hle possessed many social qualities that made him a favorite, and was a finished musi- cian, a master of several instruments, and from early boyhood he gave much of his mu- sieal talent to church and charity. His bright, cordial manner, his frank sincerity and his constant thoughtfulness for others were characteristic of him. He was an active mem- ber of the Second Presbyterian Church, and was a member of the Euclid Club, Roadside Club, Chamber of Commerce and several elec- trical engineering societies.

June 21, 1904, he married Miss Ruth A. Sutphen, oldest. daughter of Rev. Dr. Paul E. Sutphen, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. They had one child, Ruth Dudley, born April 11, 1905.

The daughter of Dudley B. and Emma (Steele) Wick, Helen Alma Wick, was born November 8, 1880, at Cleveland. She is a graduate of the Hathaway-Brown School of Cleveland and of Miss Hersey's School of Boston. She has a charming personality, a happy nature which imparts sunshine and is gifted with a beautiful soprano voice. She married Charles T. Dukelow, of Boston, Mas- sachusetts, on January 12, 1903. They have four daughters and one son, as follows: Helen, Margaret, Adele, Ruth and Charles Wiek, and these attractive children bespeak the devotion of their mother. Their residence is 249 Dean Road, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Warren Corning Wick, third of the chil- dren of Dudley B. and Emma (Steele) Wiek, is one of the younger business men of Cleve- land but has demonstrated much of that sterl- ing ability and forcefulness which character- ized both his honored father and grandfather.

He was born at Cleveland November 23, 1885. His early education was obtained as a student of the University School of Cleve- land, from which he graduated in 1906. Dur- ing his senior year he was business manager of the University School News and Record, was president of the University School Music Clubs, president of the Dramatic Club, man-

ager of the basket ball team, and secretary of the University School Athletic Association. His fraternity was Delta Phi Delta.

From the University School he entered the Sheffield Scientie School of Yale University, and received his degree of Bachelor of Phil- osophy in 1909. In the enlarged sphere which he entered at Yale his talents and abilities won him scarcely less conspicuous notice. He was a member of the quartet in the Freshman Glee Club of Yale, was a member of the uni- versity orchestra, the City Government Club of Yale, was business manager of the Yale Scientific Monthly, on the Class Book Com- mittee, was a member of the Executive Com- mittee of Sheffield Young Men's Christian Association, and is now secretary and treas- urer of the Yale Alumni Association of North- ern Ohio. His Yale society was "Book and Snake" and his fraternity home was with the Cloister Club.

Mr. Wiek is unmarried and resides with his mother at 8205 Euclid Avenue. At the close of his university career he returned to Cleve- land and spent a little more than a year with the advertising department of the Sherwin- Williams Company. Following that for five years he was advertising manager of the Cleveland Twist Drill Company, after which he assumed larger responsibilities with the Ferro Machine and Foundry Company as ex- port sales manager. After two years in that industry Mr. Wick entered the First National Bank and the First Trust and Savings Com- pany, and since February, 1917, has been manager of the New Business Department for both institutions. He is also secretary and a director of the Wiek Investment Company, of which his father was formerly president, and is vice president of the North Electric Company of Galion, Ohio.

Many of his activities and interests have conformed to the exigencies of the American nation at war. He was one of the active vol- unteers in the Liberty Bond campaign, and is treasurer of "Uncle Sam's Salesman," a national organization comprising some of the most effective workers in the various move- ments to finance war and patriotie activities. Mr. Wiek is a member of the Cleveland Cham- ber of Commerce, is a member of the Cleve- land Advertising Club, University Club, Roadside Club, American Institute of Bank- ing. is a republican in polities and a member of Trinity Cathedral Church. Mr. Wick's sincere and conscientious nature wins him hosts of friends and he possesses a personality

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which endears him not only to his social acquaintances but also to all who are asso- ciated with him in the business world.

CHARLES E. HEATH practically grew up in the automobile industry, has had a wide ex- perience in every department of the business, from the manufacturing to the sales end, and has recently come to Toledo and established one of the leading automobile sales agencies in the city.

He was born at Topsham, Vermont, Novem- ber 18, 1888. Leaving public school at the age of eighteen, he worked a year on a farm, the following year in a grocery store at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was then em- ployed as a common laborer for the Ameri- can Tube and Stamping Company. That was the experience which undoubtedly directed him to a permanent line of work.

He spent two years in the machine shop of the American Locomobile Company, and then for five years was employed as an expert mechanician by various automobile factories. From the factory he went into the selling de- partment, and has sold different makes of au- tomobiles all over the United States.

January 1, 1917, Mr. Heath organized the Heath Motor Company of Cleveland, of which he is vice president and general manager. This company has the agency for the Dort automobile and has recently taken the agency for the Kissel cars and trucks. For both these representative makes they handle all the local agencies in Northeastern Ohio, having about twenty Dort dealers and sixteen Kissel dealers in their territory. For the year 1917 their sales promise an aggregate of about three hundred thousand dollars. The company has a large salesroom with 10,000 square feet of floor space at 6010 Euclid Avenue, and they also maintain a service station at 1861 East Sixty-third Street.

Mr. Heath is a member of the Society of Automobile Engineers. Politically he is inde- pendent.

ATTILIO D. GANDOLA is president of the Gandola Brothers Monument and Architec- tural Works in Cleveland, a firm of business men and artists whose work is exemplified in a large number of important edifices and im- posing monuments throughout the country as well as in and around Cleveland.

Mr. Gandola was born in an artistic atmos- phere in North Italy September 21, 1884, a son of Frank and Frances Gandola. After

leaving common school at the age of thirteen he spent four years in a drawing school and also acquired a skillful knowledge of stone carving. His first practical work was done in France in the Department of De Vosges, where he did carving of granite used in the capitol at Brussels, Belgium. After six months there he immigrated to America, worked two months as a granite carver at Pittsburgh, six months at Cleveland and five months at Barry, Vermont, in the great gran- ite quarries of that state. He did granite carving in Westerly, Rhode Island, five months, and then returned to Italy for a visit lasting half a year. On coming back to America he spent six months as a stone carver with John Evans & Company of Boston, four months at Pittsburgh, and was then again in Cleveland working as a stone carver on the Federal building for eleven months. After that there were successive employments at different points, Kansas City, Missouri, three months, at different places in California for a year, and he then returned to Cleveland and engaged in the monument business with his brother Paul under the firm name of Gandola Brothers. In 1913 the business was incor- porated with Mr. Gandola as president. This firm does general monumental work and archi- tectural sculpture.

The quality and scope of their enterprise can perhaps best be indicated by a few of the buildings for which they have executed stone carving: Utah State Capitol Building, Mor- mon Church and Administration Building at Salt Lake, City Hall and City Hospital at Cleveland, Wagner Monument at Cleveland, statues of Cain and Abel for the Lake County, Ohio, Courthouse, the South Side High School at Youngstown, the Cleveland Athletic Club, and many other buildings and monuments.

Mr. A. D. Gandola married at Cleveland April 23, 1913, Ella Repett. They have one son, Frank, now sixteen months old.

Paul G. Gandola, the younger brother, and the competent sculptor of the firm, was born in North Italy August 15. 1889. He attended the Italian schools until he was thirteen, and after that an academy in Milan, where he graduated at the age of nineteen. With this training he came to Cleveland and joined his brother in the present business.

GEORGE W. KAYLER has been active in busi- ness affairs at Cleveland for over twenty vears, and all that time in the coal business. He is perhaps as well qualified as any other

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man to speak with authority on the many complex features of the coal industry and the coal trade in the city. Mr. Kayler is manager of The Lakeside Fuel Company at East Thirty-eighth Street and Lakeside Avenue.

A native of Ohio, he was born at Justus in Stark County, September 29, 1866. The Kay- ler family a number of generations ago lived in Germany, but during colonial times settled in Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Samuel Kayler, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1799. He moved from Penn- sylvania to northeastern Ohio and in 1831 located in Stark County, where he cleared np and developed a farm from a section of the wilderness. He lived on his farm near Justus until his death in 1872. Christian Kayler, father of George W., was born in Westmore- land County, Pennsylvania, in 1822 and was nine years old when his parents removed to Stark County. He grew up and married there, and for many years followed the busi- ness of contractor and farmer. His fellow citizens indicated their esteem of his sub- stantial qualities by keeping him in the office of justice of the peace many years. He was a republican and a member of the United Brethren Church. Christian Kayler died in Stark County in 1887. He married Margaret Mc Whinney. She was born at Justus in Stark County in 1833 and now at the age of eighty- five is living in Canton. She was the mother of eight children: Frances Mary, who died in January, 1916, at Beach City, Ohio, was the wife of A. C. MeClintock, who is now living near Wilmot, Ohio, a retired lumberman, land owner and farmer; John D. in the coal busi- ness at Rocky River, Ohio; Chester L., a mechanic who died at Navarre, Ohio, in 1908; Ellen, who lives with her mother; Ada, wife of Fred Marchand, a farmer at Massillon, Ohio: George W .; Jessie, wife of William Wanamaker, a real estate broker at Canton ; and Esther, wife of Homer Standz of Canton.

George W. Kayler spent his boyhood on his father's farm at the Village of Justus and at- tended public school there, and afterwards finished his . literary education in Otterbein University at Westerville, and in 1890 took a course in the Spencerian Business College of Cleveland. After leaving school he spent about five years in the West in the copper mining industry. With this experience he returned to Cleveland in 1896. and has since been a factor in the coal business in the city and for some years has been manager of The Lakeside Fuel Company.

Mr. Kayler is a republican voter, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with Forest City Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, with Webb Chapter Royal Arch Masons, Holyrood Commandery Knights Templar and Al Sirat Grotto. In 1898 at Cleveland he married Miss Anna E. Colahan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Colahan, both now deceased. Her father was for twenty years cashier for the Worthington Company at Cleveland, but finally retired and spent his last days at Austin, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Kayler have two children : Kenneth W., born October 2, 1899, now completing his education in the Case School of Applied Science; and Donald C., born March 11, 1903, a student in the Commercial High School.

WALLACE HUGH CATHCART is best known over the Central West by his long official connection with the Western Reserve Historical Society. Mr. Cathcart was its secretary from 1894 to 1897, president from 1907 to 1913, and is now vice presi- dent and a director. To a large extent the advance position of this society is due to years of untiring zeal he has given to it.

He also presents that other rare combina- tion of scholarship and scholarly knowledge of books and all things connected with books joined to a long and successful experience as a bookseller. These two interests are by no means synonymous, and too often have been mutually exclusive.

Mr. Cathcart was born at Elyria; Ohio, April 2, 1865, son of Salmon Hart and Sarah (Chamberlain) Cathcart. He is of remote Scotch ancestry Ilis first American ances- tor was Robert Cathcart, who settled at Martha's Vineyard in the middle of the sev- enteenth century. Robert married Phoebe Coleman, a granddaughter of Peter Folger of Nantucket and a cousin to Benjamin Franklin.

Wallace Hugh Catheart finished his work in the public schools of Elyria with the class of 1883. Two years before he had utilized his time out of school and holidays by work in a book and stationery house and he gave all his time to that line of business until 1886. In the meantime he had come to cherish an ambition for a higher education,. and for a professional career as a teacher. In 1886 he entered Denison University, and graduated Bachelor of Science with the class of 1890. From 1887 to 1889 he was librarian of the college library. While at Denison

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he prepared himself for teaching natural sciences, but soon after leaving college a call to the old line of work, book selling, to help out during the rush season in the store of Taylor-Austin Company at Cleveland, led him to take up the work in which his first experience lay and in which he has continued with hardly any interruption to the present time. He served seven years as secretary of the Taylor-Austin Company, and in 1897 bought an interest in the Burrows Brothers Company, becoming its secretary soon after- ward. Upon the withdrawal of H. B. Bur- rows Mr. Catheart was made general mana- ger of the company, and also vice president. Ile continued active in that business until quite recently. While engaged in the book business, he was one of the active founders of the American Booksellers and Publishers Association of America and received the highest honors of that association.

Mr. Catheart is a member of the Biblio- graphical Society of London, the Ex-Libris Society of London, the American Historical

Association, the American Library Associa- tion, and is compiler of the bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne published in 1905 by the Rowfant Club of Cleveland.

Mr. Catheart has long been a great be- liever in the value of wholesome physical recreation, from which he has derived much of his own health and strength. For many years he has been one of the prominent Bap- tist laymen of Cleveland. He is a trustee of Denison University, and President of the Board of Trustees of the Hungarian Baptist Seminary of Cleveland, and for many years has been a member of the East End Baptist Church. le has served as president of the Cleveland Baptist Mission Society. In poli- tics Mr. Cathcart is a republican.

August 8, 1893, he married Miss Florence Ilolmes of Cleveland. His second marriage occurred February 12, 1918, when Elsie Hamilton Norton of Richmond, Virginia, be- came his wife. Mr. Cathcart has two chil- dren : Genevieve Holmes, wife of Lieutenant Gerald Athey; and Evelyn Mae.

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A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 107

Author: Avery, Elroy McKendree, 1844-1935; Lewis Publishing Company Publication date: 1918 Publisher: Chicago, New York The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 904

Author: Avery, Elroy McKendree, 1844-1935; Lewis Publishing Company
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago, New York The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 904