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homes of thrifty workers in Cleveland's in- dustries. Partly by reason of Mr. Wain's ability to finance building operations, together with the growing popularity of the modern two-family house, approximately 1,000 such families have established homes in this high and healthful allotment, removed from the smoke of their former environment, altogether constituting a source of satisfaction as well as profit to both the promoter and to the owners. It has been Mr. Wain's good for- tune to acquire extensive holdings of lands in progressive urban and suburban growing lo- calities.
The extensive mortgage investments of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts, at Cleveland, and in other Ohio cities, have since 1916 all been under the supervision of Mr. Wain as the local representative of that company.
Continuously since 1912 Mr. Wain has been president of The Cleveland Realization Com- pany, organized chiefly for the purpose of purchasing mortgages and other real estate securities, and now employing nearly $1,000,- 000 in such operations. In 1907 The L. H. Wain Land Company was incorporated with Mr. Wain as president. He is a director of The Land Title Abstract and Trust Company, The L. H. Wain Land Company and The Cleveland Realization Company, is an ex- president of The Cleveland Real Estate Board and has served as a member of its valuation committee almost continuously from 1908 to 1918 and as trustee covering a period of five years. He is also affiliated with the state and national associations of real estate boards and is a member of the governing board of the Ohio Association of Real Estate Boards.
Mr. Wain was one of the real estate experts employed by the county commissioners to de- termine the value of land and buildings re- quired for the right of way of the Superior- Detroit Avenue High-Level Bridge, the total value of which was approximately $1,000,000. Some other notable appraisals in which he has engaged were those affecting properties of The East Ohio Gas Company in Cuyahoga County, aggregating approximately $1,000,000; the Winton Hotel, exceeding $1,000,000; the coal and ore dock properties comprising practically all of Ashtabula Harbor, valued in 1917 at approximately $7,000,000.
Mr. Wain is a member of the Presbyterian Church, several clubs and civic organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of Western Reserve Chapter, Sons
of the American Revolution. He and his fam- ily reside on Norfolk Road in Euclid Heights.
May 5, 1897, Mr. Wain married Mary Jen- ness Merwin, daughter of Mrs. Henry L. Am- bler of Cleveland and granddaughter of Hon. B. W. Jenness, former United States senator from New Hampshire. Judge Jenness had the distinction of lacking but one vote in competition with Franklin Pierce for nomina- tion for the presidency of the United States. That nomination resulted in the election of General Pierce to the presidency in 1852.
Judge Jenness engaged in the lumber busi- ness in Cleveland associated among others with Mr. Demaline Leuty, later vice presi- dent of The Citizens Savings & Trust Com- pany. The Jenness home was on Prospect Avenue near East Ninth Street, where the Rose Building was later erected. Three chil- dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wain: Gertrude Knowlton Wain, a student in Wellesley College; Isabel Shackford Wain, a 'student in the Hathaway-Brown School at Cleveland ; and Lewis H. Wain, Jr., a student in the Cleveland Heights High School.
HON. HARRY L. DAVIS. To be the mayor of a great city like Cleveland is a great honor. But more than that it involves responsibili- ties more closely connected with the welfare of a large number of people than the office of governor of a state. Recognition of that fact was expressed by Mayor Davis of Cleve- land recently when during an enthusiastic republican banquet some admirer voiced a hope as well as a prophecy that he would be the next governor of Ohio, to which Mayor Davis responded that he had no further ambi- tion than to serve the City of Cleveland.
That Mayor Davis has made his office an instrument of service to the City of Cleve- land since he took charge of municipal affairs on January 1, 1916, is a matter of general appreciation by the people of the city and per- haps never in the history of the city has a mayor in the course of a single year been able to point out so many specific economies and betterments of municipal service and a finer record of efficient administration and a more constructive program.
Mayor Davis has lived in Cleveland prac- tically all his life, and his family have been identified with the city over half a century. Harry Lyman Davis was born in Cleveland January 25, 1878, a son of Evan H. and Bar- bara (James) Davis. The late Evan H. Davis
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was a prominent figure in the life of Cleve- land. By sheer force of will and ability he rose from the humble environment to which he was born to a position where he exercised a large influence and commanded the respect of an entire state. He was born in 1843 in Wales, had only the advantages of the Na- tional schools until eleven years of age, and then began work in rolling mills. In 1861 at the age of eighteen he came to the United States with his parents, first living in Penn- sylvania and in April, 1865, moving to Cleve- land. From that time forward until his death with the exception of three years Cleveland was his home. A laboring man, he was from the age of eighteen identified with labor move- ments and labor organizations, though his party affiliation was as a republican. On that party ticket he was elected a member of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly of Ohio in 1887. As representative from Cuyahoga County he was chairman of the house com- mittee on labor and was author of several im- portant measures in the interest of the working people of Ohio. In 1889 Governor Foraker appointed him district factory in- spector, an office he filled seven years. For three years he was secretary of the Interna- tional Association of Factory Inspectors. In 1897 Evan H. Davis was again elected to the Legislature, as a member of the Seventy-third General Assembly. Chosen on the republican ticket, he was given the highest majority ac- corded by Cuyahoga County to any of its legislative candidates. He served from 1898 to 1901 inclusive.
Like his honored father, Mayor Davis was a working man and thoroughly understands the attitude of people who toil for their bread. He attended the public schools of Cleveland and for several years was employed in the rolling mills of Newburgh. He afterwards had a position with the Cleveland Park Board, was solicitor for the Bell Telephone Company, and later became president of the Davis Tele- phone Rate Adjustment Company. During 1912 he was national organizer for the Loyal Order of Moose, and from 1913 to 1915 in- clusive was a member of the firm Davis & Farley, general insurance.
For a number of years his influence has been an increasing factor in the municipal life of Cleveland. During 1910-11 he served as treas- urer of the city. In November, 1915, he was elected mayor, and took office on January 1, 1916. In order to carry out the broad and
constructive program of municipal adminis- tration upon which lie is embarked, he an- nounced his candidacy early in 1917 for a second term.
While an active leader in the republican party, Mr. Davis was elected to his present office on a non-partisan ballot. He is chairman of the republican executive committee of Cuy- ahoga County and is a member of the Ohio Republican State Central Committee. He is well known in local organizations, being a member of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Cleve- land Advertising Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, South End Chamber of Enterprise, Cleveland Automobile Club, Young Men's Business Club, the Elks and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He is now president of the Welsh Society of Cleveland. He is affiliated with the Baptist Church.
Mayor Davis was married July 16, 1902, at Cleveland to Lucy V. Fegan. They have a son, Harry L. Davis, Jr., now in his second year.
ALEXANDER SACKET TAYLOR, a native of Cleveland, born April 3, 1869, which city has always been his home. He is using his per- sonal talents and opportunities conferred by a secure business position to promote the city's growth and development.
In 1892 he became a member of the firm V. C. Taylor & Son, real estate and investments, with offices in the Williamson Building, one of the best and oldest real estate firms in the city organized in 1872. While in the general real estate business this firm has for a number of years specialized in the larger industrial prop- erty transactions. It handles much of the high class property in the downtown district and many of the ninety-nine year leases have been executed through their offices. This firm handled the business details of the transac- tions resulting in the erection of the First National Bank Building, the Hippodrome Building, the Higbee Building, the Wilbrandt Building and the New Statler Hotel.
Mr. Taylor is a son of Virgil Corydon and Margaret M. (Sacket) Taylor. Virgil C. Taylor's mother was a member of the noted Carter family of Virginia, with which colony its fortnnes were identified in 1649. William Taylor, Jr., grandfather of Alexander S. Taylor, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. Margaret M. Sacket was a daughter of Alexander Sacket, who married a daughter of Levi Johnson, one of the founders and first
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citizens of Cleveland, whose record also ap- pears in this work.
Alexander S. Taylor was educated in the Cleveland public schools and graduated from Brooks Military Academy in 1888. He soon afterward took up the real estate business with his father and has been junior member of the firm for the past twenty-five years.
During that time many business and execu- tive responsibilities have been assumed by him. He is a director of The Guarantee Title and Trust Company, president of The Coventry Road Land Company, vice president of The Wilbrand Company, president of The United Realty and Investment Company, member of auxiliary board of directors of The Guardian Savings & Trust Company. Mr. Taylor served as president of the Cleveland Real Estate Board in 1908 and was president of the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Exchanges of America during the year 1910. He is a trustee of the Cleveland Real Estate Board and director of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges. He is also a trustee of The Babies Dispensary and Hospital, was di- rector of the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce two years, and is prominent in social and club life, having membership in the Union Chib, Country Club, Mayfield Country Club, Rotary Club, Loyal Legion, Western Reserve Chapter Sons of American Revolution and the Ohio Society of New York.
Mr. Taylor has always taken an active in- terest in civic affairs. His splendid public spirit has made him a leader there and in 1910 he was considered for the republican nomina- tion for mayor. He declined to become a candidate. In 1911 he was tendered the direc- torship of the Board of Public Works under Mayor Baehr. He declined these honors but did accept membership on the Union Depot Commission. Mr. Taylor is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. For four years he was a member of the Gatling Gun Battery, from 1889 to 1904.
He was married at Cincinnati May 16, 189, to Clara Therese Law, daughter of John H. and Georgia (Overacre) Law. Mrs. Taylor's father was born at Savannah, Georgia, and her mother at Natchez, Mississippi. They have one son, Virgil Corydon Taylor, second, who was a student in Yale University but left his college life to enter the services of the United States Army at the age of twenty-one years and joined the Second Ohio Artillery as a private, later being promoted to a lieutenant
in the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Field Artillery, in active service abroad.
JOSEPH DAVID. While well known for his extensive business interests in and around Cleveland, Joseph David is a man of modest and quiet demeanor and his interesting ex- periences and achievements in the world are practically unknown except among his most intimate friends.
He was born March 14, 1866, in Russian Poland, in a district now occupied by the German armies. At the age of five years he was left an orphan. His father Nathan David had been an army officer. When he was eleven years of age he emigrated on foot from the border-line of Russia and traversed the country until he arrived at Halle, Saxony, and there through the good offices of a chari- table institution obtained passage to Frank- fort-on-the-Main, and from there he entered the Seminary of Funkstadt, and at the end of four years was granted the degree of the Science of Cabala, Psychology and Meta- physics. For two years he was employed as teacher of Hebraic history at Darmstadt.
This youthful scholar and scientist on com- ing to the United States in 1886, found em- ployment in the chemical laboratory of the Briar Hill Iron and Coal Company at Briar Hill, Ohio. Mr. David came to Cleveland in 1893. His ability attracted Mr. F. M. Bar- num's attention, and on his advice Mr. David entered the engineering and construction busi- ness. Mr. Barnum was one of the well known members of the firm of Barnum and Coburn, architects. Under the supervision of architect Barnum he did the work in construction of the foundations of the Goodrich House and the Caxton Building. Another contract was constructing the first re-enforced concrete arch in Cuyahoga County under the Evers Engi- neering Company. When not quite twenty- nine years of age he operated under the Os- born Engineering Company. At one time he was with a party of construction engi- neers on the Illinois Central Railway. An accident happened to the engineers' instru- ments and Mr. David depending entirely upon his trained and almost perfect eyesight car- ried a three mile grade, with all the curves and reverse curves, with such marvelous ac- curacy that a subsequent survey proved the accuracy of his measurements and estimates with a fraction of one-tenth variation.
In 1907 Mr. David by a letter from the
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secretary of the Society of Engineers of the State of Ohio was recommended to Colonel Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama Canal, and was appointed on the construction staff in the central divisions, purely on the grounds of competency and efficiency, without present- ing any political recommendations. In 1910 he was transferred by the war department to the insular affairs department and re- ceived a commission to Porto Rico having charge of the government highway there. He received the title of Sir Don Joseph David by the Porto Rico government which he refused because of his loyalty to his American citizen- ship. The value of his work in the canal zone was testified to; in August, 1911, when he re- ceived a medal awarded him by the Isthmian Canal Commission for two years of continu- ons service. This was presented by Maj. F. C. Boggs, Major Corps of Engineers, United States Army.
About this time Mr. David turned his ener- gies into the financial field. The principal achievement accredited to him in Cleveland is the introduction of a system of second mort- gage loans, represented by nearly $20,000,000 in those securities in Cleveland alone. By this plan he has been able to show thousands of families how to survive misfortune. Mr. David is manager of The Investment Company of which he is one of the members. Mr. David is also pursuing his hobby for birds and an- imals at his country home consisting of a large stock farm of 206 acres in Munson Town- ship. He has on the farm a herd of some of the finest Holstein cows in the country con- stituting a model dairy. Mr. David lives on this farm during the summer and goes back and forth to the city every day. He is also a bird fancier and has a number of the finest pheasants in the country. His success in busi- ness and affairs originated in a principle de- veloped within his own character. He made it his aim to establish confidence among the people with whom he has dealings and once that confidence is established it is never be- trayed. On such a foundation, success once started moves inevitably with rapidly grow- ing accumulations.
He is a splendid citizen, broad-minded in all matters, and one of the progressive men of Cleveland today. He is a thorough Ameri- can, exceedingly patriotic, and in spite of his fifty-one years has shown a willingness to go to France any day that the Government re- quires his services there. He is a sustaining member of the Washington Chapter of the
American Red Cross, a member of the Cleve- land Museum of Art, a life member of the Western Reserve Club, Western Reserve His- torical Society, a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the City Club, the B'Nai B'Rith, the Euclid Avenue Temple and belongs to various fraternal organizations. In politics he is for the best man for the place regardless of party ties. However, in 1907 he was very active in the campaign of United States Senator Theodore Burton and did con- siderable public speaking among the Jewish quarters of Cleveland.
JOHN WILLIAM PERRIN, who has been libra- rian of the Case Library of Cleveland since June 1, 1905, possesses the thorough scholar- ship, the familiarity with library work and technic, and the broad interests which enable him to make the Case Library an institution of the broadest and most effective service to the city.
Mr. Perrin is a native of Indiana, a son of William Jasper and Susan (Allen) Perrin. After graduating Master of Arts from Wabash College at Crawfordsville in 1889, he pursued graduate studies in Johns Hopkins University from 1890 to 1892 and was a graduate student. and honorary fellow in the University of Chi- cago, 1892-93. Mr. Perrin has his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chi- cago, awarded him in 1895.
He held the chair of history and politics at Allegheny College of Meadville, Pennsylvania, from 1894 to 1898, and from 1898 to 1904 was professor of history at Adelbert College (Western Reserve University) at Cleveland. In 1904 he was Albert Shaw lecturer on Amer- ican Diplomatic History in Johns Hopkins University, and in 1905 was lecturer on Amer- ican History at Allegheny College.
Besides looking after the administration of the Case Library, Mr. Perrin has done much original work in other lines. He is author of the History of the Cleveland Sinking Fund of 1862, a History of Compulsory Education in New England, and has been a frequent con- tributor to historical and educational journals on historical, educational and biographical subjects. From January 1, 1912, to Jannary 1, 1916, he was a member of the Cleveland Heights Board of Education, and was its president the last two years. His home is at 2982 Somerton Road in Cleveland Heights.
In 1899 he organized and until 1903 was chairman of the Conference of Collegiate and
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Secondary School Instructors of Western Re- serve University. He was secretary of the department of higher education in the Na- tional Education Association in 1902, was president of the Ohio Library Association in 1907-08, and is a member of the American His- torical Association, The American Political Science Association, the American Library Association, and in politics is a republican. Mr. Perrin was married April 6, 1890, to Harriet Naylor Towle at Evanston, Illinois. Mrs. Perrin died Jannary 25, 1910.
CLIFFORD W. FULLER's relations with the Cleveland bar were maintained with growing professional success and reputation for over twenty-five years. His busy and effective career was halted by illness, and he practically gave np the work six months before his death. He died at the home of his brother Dr. George W. Fuller at Tuscola, Illinois, on October 18, 1917.
During his career Mr. Fuller had become known as Cleveland's foremost fire insurance attorney. Though the firm of which he was senior member, Fuller & Cannon, was classı- fied as general practitioners, the great share of his professional business for a number of years had been in connection with corporation and insurance law.
Mr. Fuller was born at Garrettsville, Ohio, February 6, 1864, and was in his fifty-fourth year when he died. His parents were Sher- man W. and Flora R. Fuller. Mr. Fuller never married and besides his brother, Doctor Fuller, he was survived by two sisters.
He was a successful educator before he was a lawyer. He attended the public schools of his native place and completed his. literary course in Allegheny College at Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was graduated A. B. in 1886, and by post-graduate courses was granted the degrees Master of Arts and Ph. D. pro merito. From Allegheny College after his graduation he entered upon his duties as principal of the High School of Garretts- ville, his native town, and subsequently was superintendent of schools at Chardon, Ohio. Besides carrying with credit the responsibili- ties of this office he took np and diligently pur- sned the study of law and in 1890 was admit- ted to the bar by the Ohio Supreme Court.
Mr. Fuller came to Cleveland in 1891 and in March of that year began practice as part- ner of the late Hon. Henry C. Ranney, a nephew of Judge Rnfus P. Ranney. Their
relationship continued to be one of mutally growing esteem and success until the death of . Henry C. Ranney on October 8, 1913. Ranney & Fuller had a very extensive law practice, especially in corporation and fire insurance work and in the management of estates. In April, 1913, Mr. Fuller formed a partnership with John L. Cannon, under the name Fuller & Cannon, with the offices on the eleventh floor of the Marshall Building.
At one time Mr. Fuller was attorney for the Buffalo Land Company, which was later ab- sorbed by the Shaker Heights Company and the Van Sweringen real estate interests. Mr. Fuller was one of those who brought about the construction of the first Fairmount Heights car line, and also the construction of the Cleveland & Youngstown Railroad. He was identified with a number of other business enterprises. He was director and secretary of the Royal Tourist Car Company, secretary of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, the John Huntington Benevolent Trust, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. He was a member of the Building Committee and a director of the Cleveland Athletic Club Com- pany.
Mr. Fuller saw nine months of service in the Spanish-American War as captain of Com- pany I of the Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and later served as commander of the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars and was a member of the Naval and Military Order of the United States. He was an extensive traveler and made two trips into Africa with Kenyon V. Painter. He was a member of the African Big Game Club of America. In politics he was a republican, was active in the Masonic Order, and a member of the Union Club, Mayfield Country Club, Wil- lowick Country Club of which he was treas- urer, Shaker Heights Country Club, Univer- sity Club, Rowfant Club, Hermit Club and the Phi Gamma Delta Club of New York. Mr. Fuller possessed pronounced literary tastes, had an excellent private library, and outside of his profession found his chief interest among his books and in travel.
HARRY FREMONT GLICK is a young lawyer with a splendid practice, and at the age of twenty-four has attained a position and stand- ing in Cleveland professional and civic circles that would be creditable to a man many years his senior.
Mr. Glick was born in Cleveland, August
Moritz Joseph.
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27, 1893, a son of Israel and Bertha (Rosen- feld) Glick. Both parents are living. Both are natives of Hungary; knew each other in the old country, but came alone and single to America. The father came to this country when about nineteen years of age, and is now fifty-seven, engaged in the clothing business at St. Clair and 39th streets, which has been his business location for the past twenty-four years. On coming to America he first located at Youngstown, Ohio, was in the clothing business there for himself about ten years, then for a short time at Indianapolis, and for about a year lived in Pittsburg. He removed to Cleveland just a short time before Harry Fre- mont Glick was born. The parents were mar- ried in Youngstown. Israel Glick was liber- ally educated, attending a Hebrew Seminary in Hungary. The mother began her educa- tion in the old country and also attended school in Cleveland for a short time. Israel Glick was quite active in politics while liv- ing in Mahoning County, and served as com- mitteeman in his party. There were eight children, all living, all of them born in Cleve- land, except the oldest who claims Pittsburg as his native city. These children are named M. J., Harry F., Mrs. J. G. Rosenberg, Bert D., Alfred M., Arthur A., Nida and Benjamin F. They all received their educational advan- tages in Cleveland.
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