A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 51

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

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William E. Donnelly was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1892. He is a former member of the Knights of Pythias, a member of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, and since retiring from practice has lived at Man- tua in Portage County.

His first wife was Mary O'Brien of Cleve- land, who died in February, 1892, leaving six children, three sons and three daughters, all living except one daughter. These children are: Lillian, a milliner at Cleveland; Edna, wife of Virgil J. Terrell, present state senator from Cuyahoga County ; Albert B., a drafts- man and designer for The Born Steel Range Company of Cleveland; William F., a captain in the regular United States Army now sta- tioned at Fort William McKinley in the Philippine Islands, and John J., who is suc- cessor to his father's patent law business. Wil-

liam E. Donnelly married in March, 1894, Miss Albertina W. Schraner of Cleveland.

JOHN J. DONNELLY is one of the younger men in the legal profession in Cleveland, and for nearly ten years has been handling an in- creasing share of responsibilities as a patent attorney. He is a son of William E. Donnelly, who recently retired from practice as a patent lawyer, and during their association the firm was known as W. E. and J. J. Donnelly, the latter having succeeded to the business of the firm as patent experts and patent solicitors.

John J. Donnelly was born at Cleveland, February 20, 1892, son of William E. and Mary (O'Brien) Donnelly. His mother died at his birth. The father retired from practice October 1, 1917. Further reference will be found to him and his career on other pages. John J. Donnelly is the youngest of six chil- dren. He was educated in the Cleveland pub- lic schools and also St. Thomas and Blessed Sacrament parochial schools, graduating from the latter.

In 1906, at the early age of fourteen, he began the study of law with Judge George Schwan and also with his father, and became a regular fixture in his father's office in 1908. He was admitted to practice as a patent lawyer before the United States Patent Office in 1910 and is still carrying on his studies in the Bald- win Wallace College of Law, preparatory for admission to the Ohio bar. The large clientage of the former firm of W. E. and J. J. Donnelly has had every reason to express confidence and trust in the judgment and ability of the younger man, who is one of the leading special- ists in Cleveland on patents, trade marks and many of the complicated subjects of patent and trade mark law.

Mr. Donnelly is also well known in athletic circles, and is giving much of his time as a physical director to different institutions. He has been interested in Y. M. C. A. work since 1908, is the physical director for two orphans asylums, and is paid director of the Institu- tional Department of the Highland Congrega- tional Church. He is a member of the Catho- lie Order of Foresters and of St. Patrick's Catholic Church.

Mr. Donnelly resides at 12809 St. Clair Avenne. August 4, 1914, he married Miss Martha E. Bnell of Cleveland. They were married at St. Aloysius Church. She was born in Illinois, but was educated in Cleveland, be- ing a graduate of the Lincoln High School. Her parents, George A. and Cora B. (Chancey)

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Buell, still live at Cleveland, where her father is a carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly have two children, George W. and Roberta M., both born in this city.

RALPH BLUE. One of Cleveland's most ac- complished lawyers, Ralph Blue began prac- tice in that city ten years ago and his work has been mainly in the field of corporation law, a practice he has served with exceptional powers as a lawyer and also with striking busi- ness ability.

Mr. Blue was born on a farm west of Lan- caster in Fairfield County, Ohio, December 29, 1881. He is a son of George W. and Emma (Reber) Blue. Both parents were natives of the same section of Ohio and are now resi- dents of Amanda, Ohio. Mr. Blue's great- grandfather Blue came into Fairfield County, Ohio, on horseback direct from Virginia. The Virginia location of the family was Blue's Gap. It is a name that has been identified with Virginia history since colonial times, and there is extant a genealogical work on the Vir- ginia Blues. Through his mother Mr. Blue is descended from typical Yankees, who were pioneers of Fairfield County, Ohio.

George W. Blue was an active farmer un- til 1912, but since then has lived in the Village of Amanda, where he has been active in bank- ing. He was one of the men who established the Farmers and Merchants Banking Com- pany of Amanda in 1906 and is now its vice president and a director. He also owns his farm of 400 acres near that village. Ralph was the second of three sons. Max B., the oldest, is a farmer near Lancaster, Ohio, and a graduate of the Ohio Northern University at Ada. Homer, the youngest, was always more interested in horses than in books, never attended college, and is now a successful farmer near Stoutsville, Ohio. All the sons were born on the old farm west of Lancaster, and were educated in the country schools and the high school at Amanda.

Mr. Ralph Blue graduated from the Amanda High School in 1900. He then entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he took both literary and law courses, and in 1904 was granted the degrees Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Bachelor of Laws. In December, 1904, he was admitted to the bar and in January, 1905, began his practice at Cleveland. Since then it has been a steady and sturdy climb to success. His first office was on one of the lower floors of the Society for Savings Building, and he has been in that building ever since, his office

being now No. 1030. Mr. Blue has never had a partnership in practice. He is attorney and legal adviser for a number of companies in Cleveland, and is also secretary and treas- urer of the Nottingham Savings Bank of Cleveland, is interested in The Cascum Realty Company of Cleveland, and is a director in several other corporations.

Mr. Blue both preaches and practices the gospel of the outdoor life. His home is at Euclid, and he owns a considerable acreage there and takes special delight in developing and working his suburban farm. He raises chickens, rabbits and is a keen student of nature in its every aspect. He is also a trustee of public affairs at Euclid.

Mr. Blue is a republican, and is a member of the Ohio State and Cuyahoga County bar associations. He was married November 19, 1912, to Miss Angie J. DeRico of Cleveland, where she was born and educated. Mrs. Blue is a daughter of John and Anna (Neilson) DeRico, old settlers of Cleveland. Her father is a railroad man and in the employ of the New York Central lines. Mr. and Mrs. Blue have one son, Robert Roy, born at Euclid September 28, 1913.

GEORGE H. CHANDLER. Cleveland had a splendid exemplar of substantial business character in the person of the late George H. Chandler, who at the time of his death on December 9, 1910, was one of the city's oldest business men. He had lived here over half a century and until he retired fifteen years before his death his name was intimately as- sociated with the grocery and provision busi- ness.

He was born at Stroud, England, May 6, 1835, and was in his seventy-sixth year at his death. He was educated in his native vil- lage, and at the age of twenty-two, with noth- ing but his native ability and character and wholesome ambition to make himself useful in the world and accept the rewards the world gives for good service, he set out for America and soon came to Cleveland. Here he entered the employ of his uncle, C. Chandler, whose name today is carried by the firm C. Chan- dler Sons, an old established commission house at Broadway and Central avenues, S. E. George H. Chandler spent ten years with his unele and acquired a thorough knowledge of every branch of the foodstuffs and produce business.

He left that firm to form a partnership with Mr. Abbott and they established the

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grocery house of Chandler & Abbott. A few years later Mr. Abbott retired and sold his interest to W. C. Rudd, and in the reorganiza- tion which followed the name was changed to Chandler & Rudd. In 1895 Mr. Chandler sold out his interests to his partners in order to retire from business, and at that time the Chandler & Rudd Company was incorporated.

Aside from business and home one of Mr. Chandler's most important associations was his membership of fifty years in the Euclid Ave- nue Baptist Church. During that time he filled the positions of trustee and deacon for a long period of years. He was a republican voter, did much for his party's welfare and the upbuilding of the city, but was never a seeker for any office.

In 1864, during one of his frequent trips back to his old home in England, Mr. Chan- dler married Miss Annie Newcombe. She was born in England in 1836, and died at Cleve- land March 4, 1906, at the age of seventy. She had lived in Cleveland forty-two years, coming here as a bride. She was also a member of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church and for many years prominent in the char- itable and other causes fostered by that re- ligious organization. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler had four children : Miss Dorothea Chandler of Cleveland; George N. Chandler of Cleve- land; Mrs. C. W. Baker and Mrs. Samuel Chandler, both of New York City.

JOHN O'BRIEN. Among the representative business men of Cleveland no one stands higher than does John O'Brien, who has been identified with large enterprises here for some years and at present is treasurer of the Sim- plex Machine Tool Company, and also treas- nrer and a director of the Cleveland Machinery and Supply Company, of which he was one of the organizers.

John O'Brien was born in the great City of Liverpool, England. April 27, 1872, and is a son of John and Elizabeth O'Brien, most estimable people who furthered in every way they found possible the educational ambitions of their son. The latter attended the public schools and afterward was a student in St. Wilfred College in North Staffordshire, Eng- land, until 1887, displaying such large meas- ure of mental promise that he was given fur- ther educational advantages in the English college that was affiliated with the University of Valladolid, at Valladolid, Spain, and from that institution was gradnated in 1890. He returned then to his home in Liverpool and

for two years was associated with his father in the building contracting business.

In the meanwhile, however, Mr. O'Brien had decided to branch out for himself, and, with plans well laid, in 1892 he came to the United States and located at Columbus, Ohio. Shortly afterward he found himself well placed as office manager for the Standish Machine Com- pany, entering into a line of business that had always interested him and with which he has continued. Mr. O'Brien severed his relations with the above company in 1907 only to en- gage with the Osbourne & Sexton Machinery Company, becoming secretary of this concern and acting as such until 1912, when he came to Cleveland. Here he immediately became a factor in the mannfacturing field, accepting the office of treasurer of the Lake Erie Ma- chinery & Supply Company, with which or- ganization he remained until 1915, when he resigned. Very shortly afterward, with other men of capital and progressiveness, he organ- ized the Cleveland Machinery & Supply Com- pany, in which he accepted the position of treasurer and is also a member of its directing board. He has additional business interests and is treasurer of the Simplex Machine Tool Company, as above mentioned. In all these large enterprises with which Mr. O'Brien has been officially connected he has been an ex- ceedingly valuable factor, honest and sincere and bearing his responsibilities in every emergency with thorough efficiency.

On October 1, 1896, Mr. O'Brien was united in marriage with Miss Beatrice McCarthy, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have two children, Mary Beatrice and John Francis, the former of whom is a graduate of the Columbus High School and the latter is a student attending St. Rose parochial school. Mr. O'Brien and family are members of the Roman Catholic Church. In politics he is affiliated with the republican party and lives up to its principles of good citizenship. Socially he is connected with the Cleveland Athletic Club.

WARREN W. RICHMOND. Among the promis- ing younger generation of Cleveland lawyers one who is acquiring reputation and the emoluments that go with high position in the profession is Warren W. Richmond. Though engaged in practice only since 1906, he has gained a place that entitles him to the esteem and regard of his fellow practitioners and the public at large.

Mr. Richmond has a most interesting fam- ily record, one that identified him not only

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with Cuyahoga County from pioneer times but with the foundation of American institu- tions. He is in the ninth successive genera- tion of the American family of Richmond.

The Richmonds originated in Brittany. The first generation in America was represented by John Richmond, who was born in 1594 and came to America from Ashton Keynes, Wilt- shire, England. He left England probably about 1635, and in 1637 was one of the pur- chasers of the townsite of Taunton, Massa- chusetts. He died there March 20, 1664, aged seventy.

The great-grandfather of the Cleveland lawyer was Elihu Richmond, who was born at. Taunton, Massachusetts, June 22, 1770, and died May 7, 1838. He was the pioneer of the family in Cuyahoga County. He arrived here in January, 1815, about the close of the War of 1812, and located in Euclid Township in what has ever since been known as the Rich- mond settlement. He was one of the largest buyers of land in that community, purchas- ing an entire section at a dollar and a quarter an acre. He died there May 7, 1838.

Edmund Richmond, grandfather of War- ren W., was born at Peru, Massachusetts, July 5, 1801, and died in Cuyahoga County in the Richmond settlement December 11, 1878. He grew up here and had a hand in clearing the large aud extensive acreage owned by his father.

Thomas C. Richmond, father of Warren WV., was born in the Richmond settlement January 28, 1841, and died June 30, 1913. His death occurred at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, while visiting his son. He spent his life as a farmer, and was one of the leading vineyardists, horticulturists and. vegetable raisers around East Cleveland. He made an enviable record as a Union soldier, being a corporal in the One hundred Eighty-eighth Ohio Infantry. His name is registered on the monument in the public square of Cleve- land. He belonged to the Brough Post of the Grand Army at Cleveland, being commander of the same at the time of his death. Thomas C. Richmond married Sarah Linscott, who is still living. She was born at Kennebunkport, Maine, and when a small girl her people moved to Marshall, Michigan, where she was reared and educated. She and her husband married at Ludington, Michigan, but after- wards came to Cleveland to live. There were three sons in the family : Warren W., Thomas E. and Clark S. All of them were born in East Cleveland, and all are graduates of the

Shaw High School. Thomas E. graduated from the agricultural department of the Ohio State University and is now a chemist in the agricultural station at Wooster, Ohio. Clark S. is a graduate of Western Reserve Univer- sity at Cleveland and is assistant branch man- ager for The White Motor Company at Pitts- burgh.

Warren W. Richmond was born at East Cleveland May 14, 1884, was graduated from the Shaw High School in 1902, and in 1906 graduated LL. B. from the Baldwin-Wallace College. He was admitted to the bar the same year and has since been in individual prac- tice, specializing in real estate law, probate work and corporation law. His offices are in the American Trust Building.

Mr. Richmond is a democrat, a member of Woodward Lodge No. 508, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Mckinley Chapter No. 181, Royal Arch Masons; Woodward Council, Royal and Select Masters. He also belongs to the City Club, Civic League, Cleveland Bar Association, is active in the Presbyterian Church of Cleveland and treasurer of its benevolent fund.

May 18, 1912, Mr. Richmond married Miss Eleanor Corleissen, who was born at Port Arthur, Canada, but was reared and educated in Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Richmond reside at 1895 Charles Road in East Cleveland. Their two sons, both born there, are Warren W., Jr. and Thomas Clark.

EVERETT J. SHORT has been a resident of this section of Northern Ohio for the past eleven years, and is especially well known in West Park, one of the suburbs of Cleveland, and more recently has become a member of the well known real estate and general in- surance firm of Hall-Short-Mc Williams Com- pany in the Cuyahoga Building.

Mr. Short was born in Wacousta, Water- town Township, Clinton County, Michigan, September 8, 1886, a son of Clarence A. and Edna E. (Brace) Short, being their only liv- ing child, two other sons having died in in- fancy. Clarence A. Short was born at Day- ton, Ohio, and was a year old when his par- euts moved to Michigan and settled in Clinton County, where the Short family were among the pioneers. Clarence Short has followed farming all his life with the exception of a few years when he was in the butcher busi- ness and insurance business at Lansing and Grand Ledge, Michigan. Edna E. Brace was born near Birmingham, Oakland County,

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Michigan, and she and Clarence A. Short were married at Battle Creek May 30, 1883.

Everett J. Short was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Grand Ledge, Michigan. His life was spent on a farm until he was eighteen, after which he began learning the trade of upholsterer. For a short time he was also employed in a furni- ture factory at Grand Ledge, Michigan. He moved to West Park, a suburb of Cleveland, where he has had his home for the last ten years. Until 1911 Mr. Short followed his trade, but since that year has been in the in- surance and real estate business. He built up a large clientage alone and conducted a prosperons individual business until May, 1917, when he formed a partnership as mem- ber of Hall-Short-Mc Williams Company.

Mr. Short has been quite active in West Park politics as a republican, and in 1915 was elected justice of the peace, beginning his four years on January 1, 1918. ]Ie is a member of O. N. Steele. Lodge No. 621, · Free and Accepted Masons, at Cleveland ; Robert Wallace Chapter No. 98, Royal Arch Masons; and Cleveland Council No. 36, Royal and Select Masters. He took a prom- inent part as an associate member of the Legal Advisory Draft Board No. 1 of Cuya- hoga County.

February 15, 1908, Mr. Short married Miss Ida Viola Smith of Berea, Ohio, where she was born and educated. She graduated from the Berea High School in 1903, then attended Baldwin-Wallace College at Berea, and for five years was a popular teacher. All her work was done in Cuyahoga County. Mr. and Mrs. Short have two children, Durward E. and Genevra M. both of whom were born at West Park.

RALPH M. HULETT. There was a time when the darkest caves and the rudest of shelters evidently fulfilled all that our far-away an- cestors demanded in a home. Utility alone was considered and ages had to pass before artistic ideas were born and became fruitful in the planning for comfort and beauty of habitation, as well as security. This was the beginning of architecture, and its encourage- ment and development have given beauty, lux- ury and safety not only in the unequaled mag- nificent structures in different lands that have enthused the world, but in the every-day of- fice building, church, schoolhouse, factory plant and residence of modern times. Life would be much less worth living in a world

where the talent and trained skill of the archi- tect had never been known. Among the prom- inent architects of Cleveland, Ralph M. Hulett, president of the Ralph M. Hulett Company, occupies a foremost place.

Ralph M. Hulett was born at Cleveland, March 28, 1873. His parents were M. P. and Esther (Fawcett) Hulett. The father was born and educated at Rutland, Vermont, and from there came to Cleveland in 1870, where he embarked in a planing mill business, and continued the manufacture of blinds for houses and general planing-mill work. He was mar- ried here in 1871 to Esther Fawcett, and died here in 1879. Ralph M. Hulett is an only child. He attended the public schools and was graduated from the high school when eighteen years of age. He had artistic faculty, which he determined to develop along practical lines and secured a position as draftsman in the office of B. F. Van Develde, architect. After two years of experience there Mr. IIulett en- tered the employ of George H. Smith, archi- tect, with whom he continued for five years, and during the next five years occupied the same position in the office of George H. Steffen, architect, afterward working with other archi- tects, becoming thoroughly acquainted with different methods and every year more cer- tain of his own technical skill. In 1900 Mr. Hulett opened his own office and in February, 1916, he incorporated his business under the style of the Ralph M. Hulett Company, of which he is president. This company does a general architectural, building and real estate business.

A few of the most important buildings for which Mr. Hulett prepared the architectural designs are as follows: Farmers and Mer- chants Bank, Philip Bing Monumental Works, Palm apartment house, a $50,000 residence for E. C. Deibel at Akron, Ohio, the Central School at Talmadge, Ohio, and churches, schools, residences and factory buildings at other points.

An architect often finds himself hampered by conflicting interests in the way of building material and location sites, and in a way Mr. Hulett has overcome some of these obstacles by becoming associated in allied business trades to the extent of being a director in the Carpathian Realty Company, in the Fire Safe Development Company and others. He is possessed of decided artistic talent, as his beautifully designed buildings show, but he also has decided business ability and has been very generally successful in his undertakings.

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Mr. Hulett was married at Bradford, Penn- sylvania, in August, 1895, to Miss Clara Town- send, who died in April, 1902, survived by one son, Coulter T., a talented young man of nineteen years, who is a draftsman in his father's office in preparation for the same pro- fession. Mr. Hulett was married in May, 1913, to Miss Clara Goodyear. They attend the Episcopal Church.

As a citizen Mr. Hulett has been active and useful and is a leading factor in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, but his political ac- tivity has largely been confined to casting his vote with the republican party. He belongs to Brooklyn Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, and to the Elks, and is also a member of the Southern Athletic Club.

IVAN T. QUICK. A resident of Cleveland for twelve years, Mr. Quick had several busi- ness connections, but is now giving all his time to insurance work, as local representative of The Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany. Mr. Quick has all the qualities that mark the successful business getter in the field of insurance, and though he became identified with The Columbus Mutual only on April 1, 1917, in competition with some forty other agents, he was the leading producer of business for the second quarter of that year and headed the honor rolls of the company for the months of April, May and June. The company gave Mr. Quick personal credit for most of the five hundred policies of the com- pany in force at Cleveland representing over a million dollars of insurance.

While a successful man from every point cf view Ivan T. Quick is only twenty-nine years of age, and his own exertions and resources have been responsible for his advancement since he was a small boy. He was born at Leamington, Ontario, Canada, April 5, 1888, a son of Oscar and Clara M. (Clark) Quick. His father was a native of Leamington and his mother of Goderich, Canada, and they were married at Leamington. Oscar Quick was a blacksmith by trade, followed that occu- pation in Canada, and in 1892 removed to Aurora, Illinois, where he lived until his death in 1895. His son Ivan was only seven years of age when the father died, and that event had much to do with the early fortunes and experiences of Mr. Quick. The widowed mother is still living, and since 1906 has been a resident of Cleveland. There were three sons, Ivan, Russell and Fred O. Russell is a resident of Cleveland and is in business,

while Ivan and Fred are both life insurance men, representing The Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Company. While a resident of Canada Oscar Quick served as a captain in the Leamington Guards and was also an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 51

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

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