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Charles A. Paine was reared and educated in Cleveland, attending the public schools and the Central High School. In November, 1882, at the age of seventeen, he became a messenger boy in the Ohio National Bank. After three months he was promoted to correspondent, and filled that position until August, 1886. IIe then went to the Euclid Avenue National Bank as bookkeeper and in June, 1890, left that institution to become assistant cashier of the Central National Bank. In 1900 he was pro-
moted to cashier, and remained with the Cen- tral National almost twenty years. In Janu- ary, 1909, Mr. Paine became vice president of the Superior Savings & Trust Company, and has been president of the National City Bank since November, 1912. The National City Bank is one of the oldest financial institutions of Ohio, its total resources being over $10,000,000. It has enjoyed a remarkable era of prosperity since Mr. Paine became presi- dent. Its deposits in 1913 were less than $3,000,000, while in the summer of 1917 they aggregated over $8,000,000.
Other important business connections of Mr. Paine are as follows: Director and formerly for a number of years president of the First National Bank of Burton, Ohio; treasurer and director of the Union Mortgage Company, treasurer of the Continental Realty Company, vice president of the Kilby Manufacturing Company, director of the National Discount Company.
He had some active military experience while a member of the Cleveland Grays from 1887 to 1890. He is a republican in national affairs. Mr. Paine is a member and formerly treasurer of the Mayfield Country Club, and belongs to the Union Club, Bankers Club, Roadside Club, Rotary Club, Civic League and Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. His favor- ite recreation is golf.
Mr. Paine was born in Cleveland, October Mr. Paine's city home is at 1798 Crawford Road, and he also maintains a summer home at Grand Lake, Michigan. On June 6, 1890, he married Miss Margaret Helen Martin. She died August 23, 1903, leaving two children, Charles A. and Margaret. Charles A., Jr., was educated in Cleveland, spent two years in Culver Military Academy in Indiana, and was also in the East Tech High School at Cleve- land. He is now a lieutenant in the Sixtieth 18, 1865, son of George S. and Mary (Pink- ney) Paine. ITis father was born in England and came to Cleveland with his parents when he was about five years of age. He spent his active life in the plumbing business and died at Cleveland in December, 1913, at the age of seventy-three. The parents were married at Cleveland about 1863. The mother was born in Pennsylvania and died when her son Charles A. was twelve years of age. George S. . Regiment, United States Army. The daugh- Paine was a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and was very popular so- cially and a good business man.
ter, Margaret, was educated in the Hath- away Brown School of Cleveland and in 1917 entered the National Cathedral School at Washington, District of Columbia. On Janu- ary 14, 1906, Mr. Paine married for his pres- ent wife Miss Ruth Elizabeth Kendig, of Waterloo, New York. Mrs. Paine is an active member of the Woman's City Club of Cleve- land.
EDWARD CHELLIS DAOUST has been a Cleve- land lawyer since 1909. Few of his contem- poraries have risen so rapidly to distinction in the profession and to well merited connections
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with business affairs. He is a member of the law firm of Wilkin, Cross & Daoust, with of- fices in the Cuyahoga Building.
Mr. Daoust was born at Defiance, Ohio, Oc- tober 19, 1887, and is now in his thirtieth year. His parents were Charles J. and Mary (Hooker) Daoust. In the direct parental line the ancestry leads back to France. The pres- ent name is contracted from the original French Davoust. Mr. Daoust's paternal grandfather, Antoine Daoust, was a ship tim- ber merchant at Montreal, Canada. His fam- ily came to Quebec from France. This grand- father married Domathile Fovelle, a daughter of a MacDonald from Scotland. Charles J. Daoust was for many years active in Ohio banking and also identified with manufactur- ing and public utility interests. He was one of the early bank examiners of the state. At the present time he is a dealer in commercial paper. His home is at Defiance.
Mr. Daoust's mother, who died in 1896, was a danghter of Judge William Chellis Hooker of Illinois. Through her father she was a lineal descendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker, a Fellow of Cambridge who came to New England on the ship Griffin in 1633. He first located at Newtown, Massachusetts, and later at Hartford, Connecticut, and has a dis- tinguished place in American history. He was known as the "first American democrat." He was of the family of Devonshire Hookers in England. Mary Hooker's mother was of the McQuary family of Kentucky. Charles J. Daoust married for his second wife Bessie Creager, a dangliter of Dr. Frank Creager, of Fremont, Ohio. Edward C. Daoust has one sister, Mrs. Glenn B. Miller, of Decatur, Illi- nois, and has a half-brother, Robert Antoine Daoust.
A cultured environment during his youth and a liberal education preceded Mr. Daoust's . active entrance into the field of his profession and business life. He attended the grammar and high schools at Defiance, was a special student in the University of Michigan in 1904- 05, and did special work in the Sheffield Scien- tific School of Yale. He pursued the regular law course at Yale University, and had the degree LL. B. awarded him in 1909. Prior to entering Yale he had served an apprentice- ship in banking, an experience that has proved valuable to him as various financial interests have claimed his attention.
He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1909 and at once began practice at Cleveland. For one year he was alone, and then formed the partnership of Price, Alburn, Daoust & Al-
burn. In January, 1915, Mr. Daoust with- drew from this firm and became a member of Wilkin, Cross & Daoust. His legal associates are David R. Wilkin, C. R. Cross, Trafton M. Dye, Kingdon T. Siddall, and Quay H. Find- ley. Mr. Daoust is chiefly engaged in cor- poration and real estate law. His ability and experience in these branches of the law make him a factor in the management of several financial and other corporations, and he is sec- retary and director of The Union Mortgage Company, secretary and director of The In- dustrial Discount Company, director of the Doan Savings & Loan Company, and a direc- tor in a number of other manufacturing, real estate and financial corporations. In 1912 Mr. Daoust was appointed by Judge Day as United States Commissioner for Northern Ohio, but resigned that office in 1915. He is now consul in Cleveland for the Republic of Nicaragua.
He has been a regular republican since cast- ing his first ballot. In 1912 he voted for Mr. Taft, was delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1910 and in the same year was treasurer of the Ohio Republican College League. Aside from those connections he has never been active in politics. Mr. Daoust served as a private in Troop A of the First Ohio Squadron from 1910 to 1913. He is affil- iated with the Phi Delta Phi and Corbey Court Society at Yale, with Omega Lodge, F. and A. M., and is a member of the Union Club, University Club, Troop A Veteran As- sociation, Yale Club of New York, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, City Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and several civic and bar associations. He is a member of the Church Club of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Mr. Daoust was married at Cleveland April 24, 1912, to Clara Louise Bunts, daughter of Dr. Frank E. and Harriet (Taylor) Bunts. Her father is a distinguished surgeon, a grad- uate of the United States Naval Academy in 1881, and is a member of the American Surgical Society and a Fellow of the Ameri- can College of Surgeons. Doctor Bunts is a professor in the Western Reserve Medical College. He was formerly a captain of Troop A and in 1898 was major of Ohio Cavalry. He is now with the American Expeditionary forces and was formerly chief surgeon at the base hospital at Camp Travis, with the rank of major. Mrs. Daoust's mother was a daughter of V. C. Taylor, one of the pioneer real estate dealers of Cleveland. She is a granddaughter
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of Alexander Sackett and a great-grand- daughter of Levi Johnson, whose record as a pioneer builder of Cleveland is a subject of mention on other pages.
Mr. and Mrs. Daoust have two children : Frances Harriet Daoust, born in 1913; Ed- ward Chellis Daoust, Jr., born in 1915.
JUDGE ULYSSES L. MARVIN, who retired from the Appellate Court bench February 8, 1913, and has since resumed the private practice of law at Cleveland, is one of the few attorneys still active in Ohio who had their admission to the bar before the Civil war. To the cares and responsibilities of judicial office he gave nearly twenty-five years. Among his con- temporaries Judge Marvin has long been dis- tinguished by charming personality, profound legal wisdom, purity of public and private life, and the quiet dignity of an ideal follower of his calling. His record as a judge was in har- mony with his record as a man and lawyer, marked by unswerving integrity and a master- ful grasp of every problem that presented it- self for solution.
He is of old Connecticut ancestry. The Marvins came from England and joined the Connecticut colonists in the early part of the seventeenth century. One of his ancestors was a sea captain and devout churchman. His monument is still standing in Connecticut and on it is engraved the following inscription : "This Deacon, aged 68, is freed on earth from sarvin'. May for a crown no longer wait Lyme's Captain Reynold Marvin." Judge Marvin's parents, Ulysses and Elizabeth (Bradley) Marvin, were both natives of Con- necticut and of English ancestry.
Ulysses L. Marvin was born at Stow, Sum- mit County, Ohio, March 14, 1839. As a boy he attended the public schools of his birth- place, also had a private tutor, and at the age of thirteen entered the Twinsburg Academy and afterwards the Franklin Institute. At the age of sixteen he was teaching a country school. It has been a long standing tradition in the Marvin family that its men should be either clergymen or lawyers. It was in com- pliance with the wish of his father that Judge Marvin early determined upon the study of law and equipped himself for practice with as little delay as possible. Thus while teaching he began a preliminary preparation under H. B. Foster, a scholarly gentleman and a thor- ough lawyer whose influence has been many times gratefully recognized by Judge Marvin. He afterwards entered the office of Edgerton
and Sanders. The senior member of this firm was Sidney Edgerton, then a member of Congress, who was afterwards appointed gov- ernor of the Territory of Montana and sub- sequently Mr. Sanders was elected its first United States senator. On his admission to the bar at Canton May 2, 1860, Mr. Marvin at once began the practice of law at Akron, Ohio, with Mr. Sanders as a partner. This partnership was broken up when Mr. Sanders left to join the army, and during 1861-62 Mr. Marvin was employed as superintendent of the Union schools at Kent, Portage County.
In August, 1862, he too went to the war. He enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and in the following year was commissioned first lieutenant in the Fifth United States Volun- teers. In 1864 he was promoted to captain and in the spring of 1865 was brevetted major, this commission being accompanied by the words "for gallant and meritorious service." Judge Marvin had a strenuous army career for over three years. He was with his division during the sieges of Richmond and Petersburg in the last two years of the war, and was severely wounded before Richmond on Sep- tember 29, 1864. At the close of the war in 1865 he was appointed judge advocate of the District of Newberne, North Carolina, and remained at that post until October 4, 1865, by which time civil government had been es- tablished.
On being mustered out he returned to his native state and took up law practice in Port- age County. In the fall of 1867 Judge Marvin removed to Akron, which city was the scene of his early and mature successes as a prac- ticing attorney. There he formed a partner- ship with J. J. Hall, which continued until 1869. In that year he was elected probate judge of Summit County, filling the office six years. His next partnership was with Mr. Foster and Charles R. Grant under the name Foster, Marvin & Grant. His withdrawal from this firm in 1883 was a result of his ap- pointment as judge of the Court of Common Pleas. When his term in this office closed he formed a partnership with F. M. Atterholt, and they were together in practice nine years, at the end of which time Rolin W. Sadler and David L. Marvin, the latter a son of Judge Marvin, entered the firm. the name being changed to Marvin, Sadler & Atterholt.
Judge Marvin retired from this firm in 1895, consequent upon his election as judge of the Circuit Court, Eighth District of Ohio.
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His retirement from the Appellate Court in 1913 marked the conclusion of eighteen con- secutive years on the bench of the Circuit Court and Court of Appeals, the longest term enjoyed by any judge in those courts in that district. He has received seven commissions as judge of different courts, and in 1908 was elected chief justice of the Circuit Courts of Ohio. Judge Marvin was nominated for cir- cuit judge in 1895, at a convention presided over by Judge Grant. In the fall of 1912 he declined to become a candidate for renomina- tion to the Circuit Bench, and he then re- sumed practice as a member of the firm Mar- vin, Smart, Marvin & Ford. He is now senior member of the firm Marvin & Marvin, his asso- ciate being his son Francis R. Their offices are in the Williamson Building at Cleveland.
During his long practice at Akron Judge Marvin enjoyed a large and lucrative business, and his talents were required in the solution of many important cases. With his learning and ability as a lawyer he has always shown exceptional powers of oratory. Judge Marvin is a republican, for years has been closely identified with the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a mem- ber of the Cleveland and Ohio State Bar Asso- ciation, a member of the Theta Lambda Phi fraternity, is a vice president of the Lincoln Memorial University and is a trustee of Ken- yon College, an institution which, in recogni- tion of his superior attainments, conferred upon him the honorary degree LL. D. many years ago. Judge Marvin is a director of the Sheriff Street Market and Storage Company of Cleveland, president of the Windemere Realty Company of Cleveland and was at one time vice president of the Bankers Guarantee & Trust Company of Akron.
November 24, 1861, while he was superin- tendent of schools at Kent, he married Miss Dorena Rockwell, daughter of Hon, David L. Rockwell, of Kent. Four sons were born to their union. David L., who became a promi- nent Akron lawyer and died in that city; George V., a journalist living at Columbus ; Charles A., who died at Cleveland in Decem- ber, 1911; and Francis Rockwell, now asso- ciated with his father in practice. The mother of these sons died at Akron, Ohio, November 1, 1898. September 28, 1901, at Cleveland, Judge Marvin married Miss Carrie Ensign. Judge and Mrs. Marvin reside at Cleveland Heights. For many years Mr. Marvin has been a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He has been a member of the Dio-
cesan Convention since 1867, and while liv- ing in Akron was senior warden.
CHARLES A. MARVIN. While a newspaper is the chief organ of publicity, newspaper men themselves are little known to the general public, their work and identity being buried in the institution which they serve. Of Cleve- land newspaper workers, one who possessed the keenest sense of news value, was most in- defatigable in following up a case, and mani- fested the greatest ability in handling com- prehensive and graphic details was the late Charles A. Marvin. He measured up to the finest ideals of the reporter and journalist. Into the forty years of his life he crowded activities and energies which most men dis- tribute over a much longer period.
He was born at Akron, Ohio, in 1871, and died at Cleveland December 19, 1911. His father is Judge Ulysses L. Marvin, elsewhere mentioned in this publication. The larger part of his life he lived in Akron. He finished his education in Oberlin College and Western Reserve University and acquired his early ex- perience as a reporter and editor with several Akron papers. After he removed to Cleve- land he was employed on practically every big story that "broke" in this part of the country in recent years. It was Charles Marvin who uncovered the details and furnished most of the copy through many succeeding weeks in the famous case of Cassie Chadwick, whose name figured in the newspapers of all America for months. His work in that case was so effective that it might be considered a per- sonal triumph for him, but he showed hardly less energy and imagination in handling many other news stories of his time. For almost a decade he was a writer of political news in Cleveland.
At the time of his death he was serving as secretary to Public Safety Director Hogen. He accepted that position in 1909 and for his work at the city hall came to be regarded as a most painstaking and conscientous official. In Hogen's campaign for mayor Mr. Marvin exerted himself so strennonsly as to overtax his strength, and after the campaign he was able to continne at his desk in the city hall only a short time. Mr. Marvin was survived by his wife, two brothers and his father, Judge Marvin.
FRANCIS ROCKWELL MARVIN, a son of Judge Ulysses L. Marvin and associated with his father in practice under the firm name of
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Marvin & Marvin, with offices in the William- son Building, has been an active member of the Ohio bar for the past sixteen years.
He was born at Akron January 2, 1877, son of Ulysses L. and Dorena (Rockwell) Marvin. His mother was a daughter of Hon. David L. Rockwell, of Kent, Ohio.
He was educated in the public schools of Akron, graduated from the high school in 1894, finished a preparatory course in Ober- lin Academy in 1896, and took his collegiate course in Williams College at Williamstown, Massachusetts, Mr. Marvin graduated LL. B. from the University of Michigan Law Depart- ment in 1901 and -was admitted to the Ohio bar the same year. For three years he prac- ticed at Akron, at first in the law firm of Musser & Kohler and later with Edwin F. Voris.
On removing to Cleveland in March, 1904, Mr. Marvin entered the law office of Foran & MeTighe and in September, 1905, was admit- ted to partnership with Faron, MeTighe & Marvin. In May, 1907, he withdrew and be- gan an individual practice in the Williamson Building. In January, 1909, the firm Smart, Marvin & Ford was formed, his partners be- ing John H. Smart and C. B. Ford. When his father retired from the bench in 1912 he became senior member of Marvin, Smart, Mar- vin & Ford and after another change the firm became Marvin & Marvin.
In 1905-06 Francis R. Marvin was special counsel for the Ohio attorney general in Northern and Eastern Ohio. He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, and is an officer and director in many business concerns.
He has taken quite an active part in repub- lican party affairs, is a member of the Tippe- canoe Club, Hermit Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Portage Country Club of Akron, is af- filiated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and among college societies was a member of the Delta Upsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon and the Phi Delta Phi. While in the University of Michigan he was president of its Musical Club and Pope of the Friars Society. Mr. Marvin is a member of the Singers Club of Cleveland and his church is the Episcopal.
JOHN MORELAND HENDERSON. One of the oldest members of the Cleveland bar, Mr. Henderson's relations with old time lawyers goes back to the generation of the Civil War. The last battles over slavery had not been fought when he took his first fees as a young practitioner in Cleveland, and in the half
eentury that has since elapsed he has long enjoyed a place of eminence and dignified leadership in the Ohio bar.
A native of Ohio, he was born April 14, 1840, at Newville, Richland County, son of Dr. James P. and Ann (Moreland) Ilender- son. The Hendersons were Scotch Presby- terians and the family was established in America by a missionary sent out by Scotland Presbytery of Fife about the year 1753. The Morelands came originally from the north of Ireland and were settlers in Pennsylvania. Doctor Henderson was a prominent pioneer physician of Ohio. He came to this state from Pennsylvania in 1823 and continued in active practice until 1885. He was noted for his ability both as a physician and surgeon. In 1838 he was elected a member of the state legislature and in 1850 was a member of the convention which prepared the Constitution that continued to be the organic law of the state which still stands as amended by the work of the last constitutional convention.
John Moreland Henderson was the only one of four children who reached maturity. As a boy he attended district schools and a nearby academy and for three years was a student in the preparatory department of Kenyon Col- lege, where he completed the freshman year. In 1862 he was gradnated from Miami Uni- versity at Oxford, Ohio.
His parents had allowed him free choice of callings or vocations, and when his literary studies had been completed and the time to exercise that choice had come he decided in favor of the law. His first preceptor was Judge Darius Dirlam at Mansfield, Ohio. Sub- sequently he removed to Cleveland and entered the Cleveland Law School, from which he has the degree LL. B. conferred in 1864. Be- ginning practice after his admission to the bar, he has maintained his connection with the Cleveland bar uninterruptedly for fifty-three years. He brought a vigorous mind, a well trained intellect, and a sense of conscientious and faithful performanee to his work as a lawyer, and those qualifications brought him many years ago a distinctive place as a Cleve- land lawyer. For many years past he has enjoyed an exceptionally large clientage, and he has been in a position to practically choose his own business in the profession. He has never allowed any politieal or other connec- tions to interfere with his work as a lawyer or the obligations he feels toward his home and family. He had the character and attain- ments which would have graced the bench, but
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his friends could never prevail upon him to accept a nomination.
From 1865 to 1874 Mr. Henderson was as- sociated in practice with John C. Grannis. Later he was with Virgil P. Kline, now de- ceased, from July, 1875, to October, 1882. This firm went under the name of Henderson & Kline. In 1882 S. H. Tolles was admitted to the firm, and the title Henderson, Kline & Tolles continued until 1895. In that year Mr. Henderson withdrew and formed a part- nership with F. A. Quail as Henderson & Quail. Later George B. Siddall and subse- quently D. E. Morgan were admitted to the firm, and at the present time Mr. Hender- son heads the well known and notable law firm of Henderson, Quail, Siddall & Morgan. They occupy a large suite of offices on the tenth floor of the Garfield Building and Mr. Henderson has one of the most complete law libraries in the state.
In politics he is a republican, but beyond one or two minor positions has never held po- litical office. He also has no connections with social clubs that will deprive him of home companionship. Mr. Henderson is president of the Sheriff Street Market & Storage Com- pany; is president of the Board of Trustees of Case School of Applied Science, and presi- dent of the board of the A. M. McGregor Home for Aged People, and is a director in several banking and business corporations. On June 20, 1872, at College Hill, Ohio, Mr. Henderson married Miss Anna Carey. They have seven children, six daughters and one son.
LOUIS A. PERRY. This name and the words attorney and counselor at law that appear on the door of an office suite in the Williamson Building afford little hint of the dynamic re- sourcefulness and ability with which Mr. Perry has attained a place of distinction and success in the Cleveland bar.
He is of Italian parentage, son of Angell Anthony and Concetta (Costenca) Perry. His parents came from Fresno in the vicinity of Rome, Italy, to the United States in 1880, and spent the rest of their days in Pittsburg. His father studied law but never practiced. Louis A. was their only son. He has two married sisters in Pittsburg.
Louis A. Perry was born at Pittsburg, April 28, 1881, and even as a boy he showed striking qualities of leadership in his native city. He secured his early education in the Pittsburg Academy and Holy Ghost College. At Pitts-
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