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Mr. Elden finished his public school course at East Liverpool, graduating from high school in 1907, and during the following year was a student in the Virginia Military In- stitute. In 1908, coming to Cleveland, he en- tered the Western Reserve University, and completed the classical course and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Adelbert College in 1912. His law studies were con- tinued in the Western Reserve University School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1914 and was admitted to the Ohio bar in June of the same year.
Since beginning practice at Cleveland Mr. Elden has specialized in corporation and pro- motion law, though he handles a general prac- tice. Among his business interests he is presi- dent and director of the Economy Investment Company of Cleveland, is president of the Enoch Elden Company of Liverpool, secretary and director of the Ohio Fabric Company of Cleveland, a director of the Clark Savings
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Company of Cleveland, director of the Borse Realty Company of Cleveland, and director of the MeCall Construction Company of this city.
For some years he has been a leading young republican of Cleveland. In 1914 he was can- didate on that ticket for state representative and in 1916 was nominated for the State Sen- ate, but in both years the republicans were in the minority and few candidates escaped de- feat. Mr. Elden is secretary of the Lawyers' Republican Club. He is president of the Alumni Association of the Phi Kappa Phi of Western Reserve University, belongs to the legal fraternity Delta Theta Phi and is also a member of the Theta Nu Epsilon. He is president of the John Hay Club of Cleveland, member of the Colonial Club, the Lake Shore Country Club, and the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Elden is past chancellor commander of Forest City Lodge No. 78, Knights of Pythias, of Cleveland, is a member of Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in Masonry is affiliated with Iris Lodge No. 229, F. and A. M., Mckinley Chap- ter, R. A. M., Holyrood Commandery, K. T., and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Elden is unmarried and his home is at 11448 Euclid Avenue. This brief outline of his important activities and interests indicate a very busy life and with it all Mr. Elden has found time and opportunity to indulge his fa- vorite hobby of travel. He has twice been in Europe, and has also traveled over Sonth American countries, through Asia, and has lived at most of the points of interest in Can- ada, Mexico and the United States.
JUDGE FIELDER SANDERS, now city street railroad commissioner of Cleveland, is a lawyer by profession, has been active in the Cleveland bar for over fifteen years, and left the municipal bench to take the responsibili- ties of his present office.
Judge Sanders was born at Washington, District of Columbia, August 24, 1876. In the following year he came to Cleveland with his parents, Henry and Mary M. (Miller) Sanders. His father died in Cleveland May 31, 1882, and the mother is still living in that city. Judge Sanders is the youngest of three children. His brother, Martin W., and his sister, Mrs. A. H. Graham, are also residents of Cleveland.
He was educated in the Cleveland grammar schools until 1889, graduated from the Central High School in 1893, from Adelbert College in 1897, and from 1899 to 1901 was a student Vol. II-9
in the Western Reserve Law School. Judge Sanders was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1901 and at once began active practice at Cleveland. He was a member of the firm Sanders, Cline & Sanders from 1902 to 1908, and from the latter year until 1911 of the firm Sanders & Sanders. He served as assistant county prose- eutor from 1909 to 1912 and in 1911 was elected municipal court judge and was re- elected in 1913. Judge Sanders resigned from the municipal bench December 26, 1915, and began his duties as city street railroad com- missioner in 1916.
He is a member of the Cleveland and Ohio State Bar associations, is an active republican, a former member of the State Central Com- mittee and belongs to various political and lawyers associations and clubs. He is also a director of The Horsburgh Forge Company and The Cuyahoga Mortgage Company. He is well known in club and social life of Cleve- land and is a member of the Cleveland Cham- ber of Commerce, the City Club of Cleveland, the Civic League, the John Hay Club, the Electrical League, the Western Reserve Club, the Tippecanoe Club, and the Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa college fraternities, and Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. Judge Sanders is un- married.
JAMES CLYDE REASNER. Among the strong and virile of the younger members of the Cleveland bar, none has come to the fore- front more rapidly and convincingly than has James Clyde Reasner, of the firm of Reasner & Wieber. Some men, placed in the position where they have been compelled to make their own way in the securing of a professional training, have considered such an experience a handicap, but Mr. Reasner evidently has worked on the theory that this gave him an advantage, in that he secured thereby self- reliance, initiative and power of resource. At any rate, in his comparatively short profes- sional career he has had to ask no aid from outside sources in making his way to the front, and his success as a general practitioner and as representative of a number of important Cleveland concerns would seem to prove that in his case, at least, his theory is correct.
James Clyde Reasner was born at Scotland, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1888, a son of James L. and Anna K. (Rossman) Reasner. On his father's side he is of Dutch descent and on his mother's German, and he comes of good fight- ing stock, his paternal great-great-grand-
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father having fought as a patriot soldier in the war of the Revolution, his great-grand- father as a soldier of the War of 1812, his grandfather bearing arms in the Mexican war of 1847, and his uncle, J. D. Reasner having worn the Union blue throughout the Civil war, as a memento of which he still bears on his shoulder the scar of a Confederate bullet. James L. Reasner was born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and seems to have inherited the fighting spirit of his forebears, for when he was but twelve years of age he ran away from home and endeavored to enlist in the Union army for service in the war between the forces of the North and South. He was a large, well- built youth, but the recruiting agents at Washington, where he presented himself, found that he was still too youthful and he was compelled to return to his home. The tanning that he received at the hands of his father while warming him in one way served to cool his military ardor, and he was content to again take up his business of learning the trade of blacksmith. This vocation he followed dur- ing the entire period of his aetive career, for many years at Thoburn, West Virginia, where he lived until 1901, that year marking his advent in Cleveland. As a JJacksonian demo- erat he was very active in politics, served as assessor for several years and in other posi- tions, and at the time of his death was em- ployed by the City of Cleveland. He died May 21, 1915, in the faith of the Methodist Church, being a member of Lincoln Park con- gregation. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Reasner still survives her husband and resides at the home of her son. There were sixteen children in the family, nine of whom are still living, six having died while young and one son at the age of thirty-two years; of those who live there are four sons and five daugh- ters, all married.
The eleventh child and youngest son, James Clyde Reasner secured his early education in the public schools of Cleveland and in 1908 was graduated from the Lincoln High School. He made a good record in his studies there, and was captain of the baseball team and leader of the debating team which represented the high school, and in the meantime, during vacations, added to the family income by ac- cepting such employment as presented itself. He had determined upon his life's course, and the fact that the family finances did not per- mit of his college tuition being paid did not deter him from his ambition, for he worked
his own way through, and in 1909 was the only law department man who ever made the de- bating team in his freshman year at the Western Reserve University. He passed through the law department of Western Re- serve University, graduating in June, 1912, with the degree of bachelor of laws, and in the same month was admitted to the bar, commenc- ing practice in September. His first experi- ence was gained with the firm of Kerrish, Ker- rish, Hartshorn & Spooner, and in 1915 he formed an association with Louis H. Wieber, under the firm name of Reasner & Wieber, which still exists. One of Mr. Reasner's best assets is a fine gift of oratory. He was only seventeen years of age when he made his first political speech, this having been in behalf of Tom L. Johnson, for whom he took the stump in all his campaigns, and ever since his serv- ices have been in demand where speakers have been required at public gatherings. During the last election one of Mr. Reasner's best speeches was made at the Lincoln Methodist Episcopal Church, in behalf of President Wilson ; he has always voted the democratic ticket in national elections. Mr. Reasner is a director in the Brenbunfers Engineering Company, of Lorain, Ohio, and is attorney for that company and for the L. G. Motor Com- pany, the Specialty Producers Sales Company, the West Side Cloak and Millinery Company, the Cleveland Arrow Motor Company, the Weber Iron Works, H. O. Fischer & Com- pany, the Scranton Avenue Carriage and Wagon Works, the H. & K. Tool Company, Aetna Steel Castings Company and other large concerns. He is well known fraternally, belonging to Bigelow Lodge No. 243, Free and Accepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter No. 148, Royal Arch Masons ; Forest City Commandery No. 48, Knights Templar; Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; the Knights of the Maccabees; and the Foresters of America; and is also a member of the German Club, but his real interest, aside from his profession, is centered in his home, where he lives with his mother and sister.
HARVEY E. ELLIOTT. In real estate and corporation practice there is probably no in- dividual Cleveland attorney with a larger and more important clientele than Harvey E. El- liott. Mr. Elliott has truly cultivated the law as a "jealous mistress." Between his law office and his home there are practically no interests that can claim his attention. He
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belongs to no clubs or fraternities and has been content to achieve success in one highly specialized field of endeavor. Mr. Elliott came to Cleveland from a farm. He was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1878, a son of Laughlin and Sarah J. (Wil- son) Elliott. His parents were natives of the same county and the Elliotts are of Scotch ancestry and the Wilsons of Irish, though both families have been in America many gen- erations. They were married in Beaver County in 1870 and in 1889 brought their family to Columbiana County, Ohio, where they are still living. Of their four children, all of whom were born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the oldest, Mary E., died in Columbiana County February 12, 1893, at the age of twenty-one. George E., the second in age, is still on the home farm, Harvey E. comes third, and E. Florence is now Mrs. H. D. Failor, of Sebring, Ohio.
Harvey. E. Elliott attended the public schools of his native county and of Colum- biana County, and afterwards acquired a higher education in the Northeastern Ohio Normal, the Mount Hope College and the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated in the law department in 1902 with the degree LL. B. In the same month he was admitted to the Ohio bar and in 1912 was admitted to practice in the United States District Court. Mr. Elliott first practiced at Leetonia, Ohio, with C. D. Diekinson, who was then referee in bankruptcy for that district. The firm title was Dickinson & Elliott. After a year Mr. Elliott removed to Cleveland in 1903 and became a member of the firm Farqu- harson, Elliott & Huggett, with offices on the eleventh floor of the Citizens Building. A
year and a half later Mr. Elliott withdrew from this firm and for the following three years was head of the law department of the Land Title Abstract Company of Cleveland. Since then he has resumed private practice, alone, with offices in the Citizens Building, where he is still located.
Members of the Cleveland bar generally accord Mr. Elliott the distinction of being one of the best informed men on real property law. As a corporation lawyer he has achieved dis- tinction such as few individual attorneys ever acquire, and his own business compares favor- ably with that of some of the larger firms of Cleveland. He is counsel and officer in a dozen or more firms and corporations.
In politics he is a democrat and is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association.
Mr. Elliott has enjoyed an ideal home life. His residence is at 1320 Noble Road in Cleve- land Heights. November 18, 1903, at Rogers, Ohio, he married Miss Edna B. Taylor, daugh- ter of Emerson and Angeline (McMillan) Taylor. Her father is a Columbiana County farmer and her mother died there in 1898. Mrs. Elliott was born at Rogers, Ohio, cdu- cated in the public schools, is a graduate of Mount Hope College and has a degree in music from Hiram College, aud was a teacher of instrumental music before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott had four children, three living. The oldest, Ralph T., now twelve years of age, has come in for some well merited praise as a boy poet. His taste for verse writ- ing has not interfered with his pursuit of the regular pastimes and activities of a whole- some growing youth, but since he was in the third grade he has been writing poetry and quite recently the Cleveland Press published his verses on "The Flag," which we here re- produce :
Over our schoolhouse floating high, We see our flag as we pass by. Its thirteen stripes and field of blue Present indeed a glorious view.
Its thirteen stripes of white and red, Are a splendid monument to the dead, Who shed their blood and nobly fought, And through their deaths our freedom bought.
Free from tyranny, and free from king, Throughout the world let our tidings ring- Here is a home for the poor and oppress'd, Where each may be king, if he does his best.
Be he rich man's heir, or poor man's son, He is judged alone by the work he's done, And many a boy from the humble crowd Hlas stepped ahead of the rich and proud.
And by honest living and striving he, Has gained a place of nobility; And the highest honors in the nation sought Have been held by the boys from the poor man's cot.
So let us pause at our schoolhouse door Each of us whether we're rich or poor- And doff our caps e'er we pass through, And pledge our lives to the red, white and blue.
-Ralph T. Elliott.
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At a time when patriotic expression is the order of the hour it is only appropriate to say that the verses of this Cleveland boy have a ring and quality of sentiment that would do credit to many more mature and more widely recognized writers. The second child, Lionel L., died August 22, 1908, at the age of four- teen months. The two youngest children are Donald W. and. Mary A.
JOHN H. PRICE. Only exceptional personal ability, including a rare combination of prac- tical efficiency with exact knowledge and or- derly processes of thinking, could have brought John H. Price so early to the position he now enjoys as lawyer, citizen and public leader in the City of Cleveland.
Mr. Price was born at Youngstown, Ohio, July 31, 1878, a son of Morgan P. and Mar- garet (Davis) Price. His parents were Welsh. He was educated in the public schools of Youngstown, graduating from the Rayen High School in 1897. As a boy in the gram- mar school he sold newspapers and that ex- perience probably gave him the active sympa- thy with newsboys which has enabled him to do much for that class of youth in the City of Cleveland. Possessing an eager mind, quick in comprehension, he had no special difficulty in making a place for himself as a newspaper worker, and during his high school course was employed by the papers of his home city. It was as a reporter that he also paid his way largely through Mount Union College, where he was graduated A. B. in 1900. At Mount Union he became a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Theta Nu Epsilon fraternities, was city editor of the Alliance Review, was editor in chief of the College Annual and the College Monthly paper. He early distinguished himself as a debater, won the annual debate of his college and received honors in oratory. He also served as manager of athletic teams. Soon after graduating from Mount Union Mr. Price accepted the oppor- tunity to cross the ocean as cow puncher on a cattle boat, and spent several months rough- ing it in Europe, paying his expenses largely as a newspaper correspondent.
A still earlier experience was his service as a volunteer soldier during the Spanish-Ameri- can war in 1898. He was with the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the siege of Santiago, Cuba, and for three years served as lieutenant of engineers.
After returning from Europe in 1901 Mr. Price entered the law school of the Ohio State
University at Columbus, and while in the capital city did special work for the Cleve- land Plain Dealer. He subsequently was transferred to Cleveland by the Plain Dealer entered the law school of the Western Reserve University and while there edited a history of the Ohio National Guard and Ohio Volun- teers in the war with Spain. He also edited the law school Annual. In 1903 Mr. Price was admitted to the Ohio bar and in 1909 admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. As a lawyer he has made a specialty of corporation, insurance and constitutional law. He has looked after the interests of a large clientage, and has few peers in his spe- cial lines of legal work. Mr. Price is now senior partner in the law firm of Price, Al- burn, Crum & Alburn, with offices in the Gar- field Building. In 1909 the Ohio attorney gen- eral appointed him special counsel to the attorney general for Cuyahoga County, and for several years he handled all legal matters for the state in this county. His legal serv- ices have naturally brought him into close relationship with business affairs, and he has served as officer and director of many cor- porations.
He has become known as perhaps the chief among the leaders of the "Young Men's Move- ment" in republican politics in the City of Cleveland. Under his leadership much has been done to translate youthful enthusiasm and progressiveness into the councils and prac- tices of the local republican organization. He served as chairman of the republican party of Cuyahoga County in 1906-07 and as member of the Republican County and City Execu- tive committees from 1906 to 1912. He was the youngest man ever chosen as chairman of the county committee, being twenty-seven when first elected, and was frequently referred to by the local press as the "boy chairman." Through his influence the republican party in 1906 conducted the first "moneyless cam- paign" in local politics, and that successful campaign was widely noted throughout the country as a noteworthy exception to the pol- icy of campaigning which involved an in- creasing burden of expense.
He is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory and of Al Koran Mystic Shrine, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Elks 'and the Woodmen of the World. For a number of years he has been a director of the Tippe- canoe Club and was one of the committee on arrangements when the Tippecanoe Club
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took part in the occasion of the memorial erected to President Mckinley at Canton. He is a member of the Union and City clubs of Cleveland, and of Calvary Presbyterian Church. Civic and sociological problems have received a great share of his attention and study. The welfare of the newsboys has been perhaps his most cherished object of prac- tical philanthropy. For two years he was president of the Cleveland Newsboys' Asso- ciation and brought his influence especially to bear in obtaining such recreation and edu- cative influences for the newsboys as were provided for boys of larger means through the instrumentality of the Young Men's Christian Association.
On June 3, 1903, Mr. Price married Miss Floride Gaillard Staats, daughter of Henry N. Staats. They have four children. John H. Jr., Newman Staats, Emily Louise and Robert Rutledge.
JULIUS F. JANES. In a city the size of Cleveland new industries and important ex- pansions and additions to older industries come about with such frequency as to at- tract little attention. But all of these have a significance and contribute to the great vol- ume of business now credited to Cleveland and furnish life and prosperity for a consid- erable part of Cleveland's 600,000 people.
Julius F. Janes is president of the Stand- ard Steel Castings Company, of which his brother E. H. Janes is vice president and treasurer and J. H. Fogg secretary. This company recently increased its capitalization to $1,000,000. Following this they bought a ten acre tract in Chicago, where they built a large plant which is now operating. This new foundry, which supplements the main and old plant of the company on West Sev- enty-third Street is to be used exclusively for the manufacture of cast steel wheels for au- tomobiles, trucks and tractors. Its capacity is to be 400 wheels per day, and that capacity is rated as twice the size of any plant man- ufacturing similar products in the country. A fully equipped machine shop, capable of machining the foundry production, is also a part of this new plant.
J. F. Janes and E. H. Janes organized the Standard Steel Castings Company. This in- dustry began with only 12,000 square feet of floor space and with the present new plant they will have 100,000 square feet. There were 50 employes at the beginning and today 600 people earn wages paid by the company. The main west side plant manufactures mis-
cellaneous small castings, chiefly used for antomobile work. The first year the output of the company was measured by 1,000 tons, while in 1917 the output increased to approx- imately 4,000 tons. The new plant has a ca- pacity alone of 2,000 tons a month.
FRANCIS W. HALL has recently retired from the more pressing and immediate carcs of business, though he remains temporarily in charge of the F. W. Hall Company, a commercial enterprise which grew and de- veloped under his efficient direction, until it is one of the largest houses of its kind in the Middle West.
Mr. Hall has had many different connec- tions and business interests during his active career, which covers a period of over forty years. When he first came to Cleveland he was in the employ of the Lake Shore & Mich- igan Southern Railway. Mr. Hall was born at Bridgeport, Connecticut, November 6, 1853. His father, who is of English ances- try but of a colonial Connecticut family was Henry Hall, born at Easton, Connecticut, in 1817. When a young man he went to Bridge- port, Connecticut, and lived there the rest of his days. He was a journeyman in car- riage shops and his ambition and energy im- pelled him to such strennous efforts that by overwork he materially impaired his health and physique, and shortened his normal ex- pectation of life. He died at Bridgeport October 15, 1869, at the age of fifty-two. He was active head and had a controlling in- terest in the H. Hall & Company, a whole- sale grocery house, and was also financially interested in boats plying on Long Island Sound. He had gotten together the nucleus of a prosperous business, and was really on the road to a fortune when death in- tervened. Politically he was a rock-ribbed democrat, and while in no sense ambitious for himself he had the credit of promoting some of the prominent political leaders of his day. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and was a Free Mason. At Southport, Con- nectient, Henry Hall married Catherine S. Lacey, who was born at Southport in 1819. She survived her husband many years and passed away at Bridgeport January 2, 1902. Her children were: Harriet, who died at Bridgeport, Connecticut, wife of Adrian Hegeman who was in the wholesale saddlery business and is also deceased; Henry, who for many years was in the general passen- ger department of the Lake Shore & Michi- gan Southern Railway, but has been retired
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since 1908 and lives at Southport, Connecti- cut; Ida, who married Goodcil Buckingham, a wall street broker in New York City, botlı now deceased; Melville, who died in infancy ; Francis W .; Catherine, who died unmar- ried at the age of twenty-three; Grace, wife of Howard N. Wakeman, an attorney at Southport, Connecticut.
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