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Harry Fremont Glick attended public schools, including the Glencille High School, and finished his preparatory work in the Bald- win-Wallace University and also took his law course there, graduating LL. B. in June, 1914. He was not yet twenty-one years of age when he graduated and could not qualify for prac- tice until December, 1914. Since then he has handled a general practice as a lawyer, be- ing associated with Bernstein & Bernstein in the Society for Savings Building.
He has become widely known for his abil- ity as a linguist. He has a fluent command of nine of the Slavonic dialects, including Polish, and also speaks German. His services therefore have been in much demand as an interpreter in the city. Politically he is ac- tive as a republican, and has been prominent in the Tenth Ward since 1914. Mr. Glick, who is unmarried, lives at 1101 Parkside Road. He is a member of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Loyal Order of Moose, B'Nai B'Rith, Cleve- land Bar Association, and is very fond of all outdoor sports, excelling in ice skating.
MORITZ JOSEPH. Every business house of age and importance has an interesting history largely because of the personalities behind it, and particularly so when it has occupied so notable a place in the commercial world for so long a time as has the mercantile house of The Joseph & Feiss Company. This enter- prise, founded on the rocks of integrity, has been reared by the careful industry of able and astute business men, whose personal suc- cess has been secured through the honorable methods which have ever secured them public confidence and esteem.
The late Moritz Joseph was long one of Cleveland's honored and venerated eiti- zens. He was born at Gauersheim, Rhein- pfalz, Germany, September 9, 1834. Until the age of sixteen years he attended school and then went to Mainz, where he was a clerk in a cloth business for two years and then left his native land for the wider op- portunities offered in the United States. Even then he was quick, capable and efficient be- yond his years and soon secured a position in a large mercantile house in the City of New York as bookkeeper and confidential man. In 1857, when occurred a great exodus to Cali- fornia, the firm moved a large stock to San Francisco and Mr. Joseph continued there in the same relation as previously. When the stock had been sold seven months later he re- turned to New York and was admitted to a partnership in the firm by which he had been employed.
Prior to 1863, when Mr. Joseph became a partner in the firm of the Levi-Joseph Com- pany, a subsidiary company of Koch, Levi & Mayer of Cleveland, he went to New Orleans with several cargoes of merchandise, and later went to Mexico with merchandise. In 1867 the above firm abandoned their New York busi- ness and went into other lines and Mr. Joseph took the opportunity of returning to Europe and paying his parents a short visit. Upon his return to the United States he became a part- ner in the firm of Simon, Loeb & Joseph, of New Orleans. The company handled a whole- sale dry goods business.
Mr. Joseph continued that connection until 1872, when he sold his interests and then came to Cleveland and in January, 1873, became a partner in the firm of Koch, Goldsmith, Joseph & Company, a wholesale clothing house. In 1888 Mr. Koch retired from the firm and the name became Goldsmith, Joseph, Feiss & Company and continued thus until 1907,
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when Mr. Goldsmith retired and the business became The Joseph & Feiss Company, as at present. Moritz Joseph continued to be the senior partner even after the weight of years fell heavily upon him, and he was very active until the last. He retired January 1, 1917, an act he survived but a short time, his death oc- curring June 7, 1917. It had been the wish of his sons for some years that he should seek the ease that his age demanded, but his was not the nature to crave the creature comforts of old age nor to acknowledge that his days of usefulness were over. He had always been as strict with himself as with his subordinates and worked hard, and up to the time of his actual retirement was usually the first one present when business opened in the morning and the last one when it closed at night. It is remembered of him that he was sympathetic when the needs of the unfortunate were brought to his attention and that he was abundantly charitable. He was proud of the good name of his business house and rejoiced that he had capable sons in whose hands to leave it.
Moritz Joseph was married in New York City, November 6, 1853, to Miss Jette Selig, and four children were born to them, namely : Isaac, who, with his brother Siegmund are partners in The Joseph-Feiss & Company; Emil, who is a well known attorney at Cleve- land; and Fred, who is connected with the firm of The H. Black Company. Mr. Joseph was a member of the Fifty-fifth Street Jewish Temple, and he belonged to the Excelsior Club.
HON. WILLIAM GEORGE PHARE. The reputa- tions of the successful lawyers in the difficult field of real estate law are not made in a day. Prestige in this branch of the profession is based upon a thorough knowledge of not only principles and precedents, but of realty values and conditions. Among the members of the Cleveland bar who have made a specialty of this department and have won enviable suc- cess therein, one of the best known is Hon. William George Phare. Mr. Phare is recog- nized as a leading member of his calling and also as one of the prominent realty dealers of the city, in addition to which he has been actively engaged in public affairs for some years, and has served as a member of both houses of the Ohio General Assembly.
William G. Phare was born at Warrensville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, June 29, 1863, and comes from an old English family, that is,
however, of French descent. He is a son of Thomas Phare, who was born in Plymouth, England, October 14, 1822, and came to the United States in 1851. He put in the first paving on West Superior Street, Cleveland, and also erected the Warren and Chadwick residences, in addition to other substantial homes and office buildings of the city. He died September 9, 1913. Mr. Phare married Miss Mary J. Short, who was born at Plymouth, England, in 1828, and died at Cleveland May 7, 1895.
William G. Phare was educated in the pub- lic schools of East Cleveland, subsequently at- tending Shaw Academy and later studying in the National Normal University, at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he graduated with the class of 1882. He then engaged in the general mer- chandise business for a time at Fairmount, now Cleveland Heights, but while engaged in this line of business became interested in the law and began its study during his leisure hours. During the following eight years he was thus employed, and in 1896 was admitted to the bar of Ohio and began the practice of law. He has always practiced alone, never having been in partnership, so whatever suc- cess has come to him-and it has not been inconsiderable-is attributable entirely to his own efforts. Mr. Phare has made a specialty, as noted, of law pertaining to real estate, al- though he also carries on a general practice, and is thoroughly at home in all branches of his calling. In 1902 he became the organizer of the Fairmount Savings Bank Company, of which he acted as secretary and treasurer until 1905, when that institution was consolidated with the Cleveland Trust Company. He is in- terested and active in real estate matters, operating both on his own account and for others. In business circles, as in the law, he is possessed of the highest confidence of those who have come into contact with him.
Mr. Phare has been and is a prominent factor in republican politics of Cleveland. In 1900 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Seventh General As- sembly and served for two years, being active in that body as a member and secretary of the judiciary committee, as chairman of the com- mittee on dairy and food products, and as a member of the committees ou municipal cor- porations and common schools. In November, 1909, Mr. Phare was elected to the Ohio State Senate of the Seventy-eighth General Assem- bly, and served two years, or one term, as state senator. While in that body he was a
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member of the finance committee and of the committees on common schools, colleges and universities, roads and highways, agriculture, and others. He served as state senator from 1910 to 1912, and from 1912 to 1914 was mayor of the Village of Cleveland Heights. His public record is an excellent one, characterized by faithful and conscientious service in behalf of the people and the state. Mr. Phare is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, Cleveland Bar Association, Cleveland Fire In- surance Exchange, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and Tippecanoe Club. He was for- merly a member of the Board of Education of Cleveland Heights for several years. For some time he was a trustee and member of the Cleve- land Heights Methodist Episcopal Church, while residing in that part of the city, and still holds membership in that congregation. He is one of the reliable, substantial and help- ful citizens of Cleveland, in which city his office is located in the American Trust Build- ing.
On November 26, 1883, Mr. Phare was mar- ried to Miss Mattie M. Linder, daughter of Samuel and Malinda Linder, and they are the parents of one son, Roy W., who was born at Cleveland, January 12, 1885.
ABRAHAM E. BERNSTEEN is a typical Cleve- land man, born in this city February 3, 1878, and for seventeen years a member of the bar of the state. During his career, while he has been busily engaged in attending to the duties of a constantly growing practice, he has found time to interest himself in the civic affairs of his native city, and his talents as a lawyer have been combined with his energy and en- thusiasm in forming a fine citizenship, which has been helpful in carrying forward move- ments having for their object civic improve- ment.
As noted, Mr. Bernsteen was born in Cleve- land, his parents being Harris and Henrietta (Meyers) Bernsteen, both of whom still survive and are highly respected residents of Cleve- land. The elder Bernsteen was for years well known in business circles, having been suc- cessfully engaged in the manufacture of safes, but during the past ten years has been living quietly, having attained a competence through good management, industry and fine business ability. Both Harris and Henrietta Bernsteen were born in Germany, but have been residents of Cleveland for more than forty-two years. Of their eight children, four sons and four
danghters, Abraham E. is the third in order of birth.
Abraham E. Bernsteen was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, and finished his graded schooling at the Mayflower School. He next entered the Central High School, from which he was graduated in 1894, and from that went to Adelbert College, being a member of the graduating class of 1898 and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He next took a course in the law department of the Western Reserve University, where he graduated with the class of 1900, and the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws, and while attending this institution passed the summer vacations in the law office of Williams, Cushing & Clark, at Cleveland. Admitted to the bar in 1900, he immediately commenced the practice of his profession alone in the building in which his office is now located, and in which he has had an office for seventeen years. When his brother, M. L. Bernsteen, was graduated in law from the same institution, in 1906, he joined A. E. in practice, and they have since con- tinued to practice as Bernsteen & Bernsteen, their offices being at 444 Society for Savings Building. They carry on a general practice and have been connected with much important litigation, their success in which has given them undoubted standing at the Cleveland bar.
Abraham E. Bernsteen in politics is a re- publican and is one of the real active workers here, having been a member of the county executive committee of his party. He is widely and popularly known in fraternal and social circles of the city, being a Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-second degree, and a mem- her of Forest City Lodge No. 334, Knights of Pythias; the Loyal Order of Moose ; the H. P. & S. U .; the Independent Order of the B'nai B'rith, and the Cleveland Automobile, Ohio Automobile, City, Tippecanoe and Western Reserve clubs. His interest in his city's wel- fare has led him into cooperating with other public-spirited citizens in movements which have resulted in benefit to the city, its people and its institutions, and at present he holds membership in the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce and the Civic League. In connection with his profession, he belongs to the Cleveland Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Asso- ciation.
Mr. Bernsteen is unmarried and makes his home with his parents. Aside from antomo- biling, of which sport he is very fond, his hobby may be said to be flowers, and during
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much of his leisure time Mr. Bernsteen may be found in his beautiful garden in the yard of his home.
MOSES HELPER is one of Cleveland's fore- most real estate experts and has been instru- mental in the development and placing upon the market of some of the city's best known subdivisions. His career is an interesting example of self achievement.
He was born in Smargon, Province of Vilina, Russia, November 28, 1874, son of Nathan and Sarah Helper. When he was nine years of age he came to America, and after that he had only a few weeks of education in American schools. As a boy he peddled goods, and by the time lie was seventeen he had saved enough to buy a team of horses and he then equipped a wagon which he used in his peddling operations for four years. On selling that outfit he bought a shoe store on St. Clair Avenue, but five months later moved his business to Barberton, Ohio, and was a shoe merchant and on a small scale a real estate dealer there for eight years.
His experience in real estate led him on his return to Cleveland to form a partnership with Frank L. Felch as the firm of Felch & Helper, Real Estate. They were together for six years, until the death of Mr. Felch. After that Mr. Helper engaged in the real estate business on his own account and in 1913 incorporated the M. Helper Realty Company, of which he is president. In addition to that he organized the company which is known as the Conger- Helper Realty Company, of which he is vice president and treasurer, and the Helper-Cody Realty Company, of which he is president.
Some of the subdivisions that have been put on by Mr. Helper are as follows: The Kinner subdivision, located off Kinsman Road, 260 lots; the Woodland Hills Park subdivision, located at E. 93d and Kinsman Road and sur- rounded by Woodland Hills park, 310 lots; the Greenleaf subdivision, located off Kinsman Road, 218 lots; the Bratenahl subdivision, lo- cated at Lake Shore Boulevard and E. 136th Street, 400 lots ; the Sanda subdivision, located on E. 116th Street between Kinsman and Buckeye, 260 lots; the Union Rice subdivision, located at Union and E. 116th streets, 400 lots ; and the largest subdivision opened up by Mr. Helper is the Lorain Heights subdivision, located at Lorain and West 117th Street, 785 lots ; also the Home Gardens subdivision, lo- cated on Riverside Drive, 150 lots; the River- side Drive subdivision, also located on River- side Drive, 160 lots ; the Halloway subdivision,
located on Lorain and Davisville Road, 75 lots; the Monterey Heights subdivision, lo- cated on E. 185th Street to E. 200th Street, 400 lots. One of the recent subdivisions is the Beachview subdivision, located on Lake Shore Boulevard, East, 160 lots. Mr. Helper has also built at least 300 houses in the past eight years.
Mr. Helper is a prominent member of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry, is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and in politics a republican. At Cleve- land November 26, 1907, he married Miss Lil- lian Gore. They have four children : Norman Seymore, Mortimor, Sylvia, and Bertina. The two older children are already in the public schools.
VICTOR MORGAN. No profession brings a man into closer touch with life in its realities than the newspaper profession, and yet the story of the average newspaper man is briefly told, being a sketch of "pith and moment" rather than one of intimate details.
This is true of Victor Morgan, now editor of The Cleveland Press. Mr. Morgan was born at Massillon, Ohio, December 25, 1879, son of John and Anna Jemima (Davis) Morgan. He was of Welsh ancestry, and his father for many years was superintendent of coal mines in the famous mining district around Massil- lon. He was not only superintendent of opera- tions but did much to develop the industry in that section.
Victor Morgan attended public schools, spent one year in law school, but has never fol- lowed any trade or vocation except newspaper work. He learned the business with the Even- ing Independent at Massillon. At the age of twenty-two he bought the Signal, a weekly paper at Canal Fulton, Ohio, and conducted it, at the same time retaining his position as city editor of the Massillon Independent.
At the age of twenty-three Mr. Morgan was appointed United States vice consul general at Marseilles, France, and was also consular agent at Cadiz, Spain. While abroad he studied international law and political science at Marseilles, and under private tutors ac- quired proficiency in French, German, Spanish and Latin. He also took special work in sociology and economics at Columbia Uni- versity in New York.
After two years of European life and ex- perience, which has been of inestimable value to him in his subsequent career, Mr. Morgan
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returned to America and joined the editorial force of The Cleveland Press. Later he was editor of The Akron Press and editor of The Cincinnati Post, but in 1915 returned to Cleve- land to become editor of The Cleveland Press.
He was married November 8, 1916, to Miss Beatrice Paine Burton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Paine Burton, of Cleveland. Mrs. Morgan has acquired more than local note as a writer. She comes by her writing talent naturally, since both her father and her brother, Harry Paine Burton, are Cleveland editors.
JUDGE CARL D. FRIEBOLIN. It is noteworthy that men's positions in the world of affairs becomes fairly well established on or before they reach their fortieth birthday. There may be years of expanding success and of great in- fluence after that, but the promise of their lives begins to bear fruitage during the thirties.
One of Cleveland's best known lawyers, still on the lee side of his fortieth anniversary, is Judge Carl D. Friebolin. Judge Friebolin has been in active practice as senior partner of Friebolin & Byers, lawyers, for sixteen years, lias been a member of the Legislature, has en- joved a large and prosperous clientage, and is now serving as referee in bankruptcy.
Judge Friebolin was born at Owatonna, Minnesota, January 19, 1878, but came to Cleveland with his parents in 1880 and has lived in that city ever since. He is a son of Rev. William J. and Katherine (Dennerline) Friebolin, both of whom are now living retired at Vermillion, Ohio. Rev. William J. Frie- bolin was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden and came alone to the United States when about nineteen years of age. He entered the ministry of the Reformed Church of the United States, and has been active in that church nearly forty years, but is now retired. During his active ministry he preached to two congregations in Cleveland. He was pastor of the Third Reformed Church on the East Side from 1884 to 1895 and again returned to Cleveland in 1899 and was pastor of the Fifth Reformed Church on the West Side until 1906. He also filled pulpits at St. Paul, Minnesota, Kelley's Island, Ohio, and Belvedere, Ten- nessee. Judge Friebolin's mother was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and she and Rev. W. J. Friebolin were married at Owa- tonna, Minnesota. There were four children, three sons and one daughter, all of whom are living, Judge Friebolin being the oldest. George J. is a farmer at Vermillion, Ohio;
Marie lives at Cleveland and is an assistant in the county treasurer's office; and Arthur W., formerly with Otis & Company of Cleveland, is now an officer in the Ohio Field Artillery, "Somewhere in France."
Judge Friebolin was educated in the Cleve- land public schools, graduating from the Cen- tral High School with the class of 1895. En- tering Western Reserve University, he pur- sued two years of special study in Adelbert College and two years in the law department. He received his degree LL. B. in 1899 and was admitted to the Ohio bar in June of the same year. For the first year he practiced with the firm of Hadden & Parks. In 1901 he formed a partnership with Edgar S. Byers, under the name Friebolin & Byers. For sixteen years that partnership has been continued without interruption and without change. It is doubt- ful if any other law firm in Cleveland has been continued in unbroken continuity for so long a time. Both members of the firm are lawyers of splendid ability and their united efforts have commanded a splendid practice.
Judge Friebolin has always been a democrat in politics and has taken a keen interest in party and public affairs since 1910. In that year he was elected to the Seventy-ninth Gen- eral Assembly in the House of Representa- tives, serving two years, and in 1912 was elected a member of the senate from Cuyahoga County. In July, 1914, he resigned from the senate to accept appointment as judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County. This appointment was given him by Governor Cox. He was a member of the bench until the following 1st of December, but was defeated in the regular election of November, 1914. Judge Friebolin took a very active part as state campaign manager for John H. Clark for the United States Senate in 1913. In August, 1916, Mr. Clark was appointed to the United States Supreme Court, and is now living at Washington, D. C. It was Judge Clark who appointed Mr. Friebolin referee in bankruptcy on January 1, 1916. Judge Friebolin has been an authority very active in matters effecting the welfare of the public and City of Cleve- land.
Judge Friebolin is a director and president of the City Club of Cleveland, is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and be- longs to the Phi Delta Phi and the Delta Sigma Rho college fraternities. He finds his chief recreation in the outdoor life of the farm. A portion of each summer, as his professional engagements permit, he lives at his summer
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home on a farm at Vermillion. A strip of forty acres of land along the shores of Lake Erie there is owned by Judge Friebolin and his brother.
Judge Friebolin was married June 30, 1906, to Miss Florence Brookes, of Cleveland. Mrs. Friebolin was born and educated in Cleveland, graduated from the East High School in 1902 and the Cleveland Normal in 1903. They have one son, Carl Brookes Friebolin, who was born in Cleveland.
. ALBERT L. SOPER worked for others and worked for himself for many years along the regular and conventional lines of industry and business. Gradually out of his experience he evolved a distinctive profession, furnishing a service unique, and not performed by any other individual. It is said that Mr. Soper is the only man in the United States engaged in the individual business of adjusting auto- mobile losses. His services as adjuster are called into action in many cases involving not only automobiles but other claims covered by the insurance companies and in his special line he is undoubtedly the leading authority in Cleveland.
Mr. Soper whose offices are in the Leader- News Building was born on the Queen's birth- day, May 24, 1868, in Prince George County, Maryland. He was ten years of age when his father Nathan Gilbert Soper died. The father was born in Prince George County, was a farmer and one time sheriff of the county and both he and his wife's people were slave holders in the ante bellum days. The mother of Mr. Soper was Anna Priscilla (Selby) Soper, who died in Maryland in 1891. Her father belonged to one of the oldest families of Southern Maryland. Nathan G. Soper was twice married, was the father of about four- teen children, and Albert L. is the only one living in Ohio, his brothers and sisters being residents of Washington, District of Columbia and Maryland.
Albert L. Soper at an early age came face to face with the serious responsibilities of life. His educational opportunities were extremely limited, and the little school- house back in Maryland which he attended was not even the traditional red schoolhouse, the building being completely innocent of paint of any kind. After the death of his father he took all the responsibilities of the farm which were consistent with his strength and helped his mother along until he was fifteen, when he hired out, milking five cows night
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