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After his father died Ivan T. Quick was placed in the Odd Fellows Orphans' Home at Lincoln, Illinois, where he remained from the age of seven to sixteen and was given a good home and the equivalent of a public school education. When he left the institution he received a five dollar gold piece and the good wishes of the officials of the home. His sub- sequent education was largely achieved by attending night school at Aurora for a year and also by a generous study, which he has not yet interrupted, of such writers and thinkers as Robert Ingersoll and Elbert Hubbard. He was a great admirer of the late Elbert Hub- bard, and that admiration is testified in a portrait which hangs on Mr. Quick's office walls. Mr. Quick has a splendid library at his home, and in books he confesses his one dissipation.
After leaving the Odd Fellows Home Mr. Quick clerked in a wholesale grocery house at Aurora, Illinois, and after a brief residence at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, came to Cleve- land in 1906. Here for a year and a half he was in the employ of the East Ohio Gas Com- pany, during 1908 was with The Paul E. Krochle Company, merchandise brokers, and in 1909 was a salesman for The Manhattan Soap Company of New York City.
In March, 1910, Mr. Quick entered the in- surance field as an employee of James J. Shipley. In 1911 the firm of Shipley & Quick was formed, and in 1912 the business was in- corporated as The Shipley-Quick Company, of which Mr. Quick was president until April, 1917. This firm was one of the leading in- surance producers in Cleveland. In April, 1917, Mr. Quick sold his interest to Mr. Ship- ley and since then has given his entire time to the life insurance business with The Colum- bus Mutual.
In 1913 he and other associates organized The Cooperative Investment Company, which started with a capitalization of $1,000 and which today has $65,000 invested in mort- gages. Mr. Quick is secretary of the company. He is also a director in The C. H. Clark Oil Company, the head of that company being his unele.
June 4, 1913, Mr. Quick married Miss Ger-
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trude Louise Tovell of Cleveland, daughter of Reuben and Emma (Wright) Tovell. Iler father is connected with The White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland. Mrs. Quick was born in Guelph, Ontario, and was edu- cated there and in Toronto, being a graduate of the Toronto High School. Mr. and Mrs. Quick have two children, Ivan Thomas, Jr., and Alice Gertrude, both born in Cleveland. The Quick family resides at 2653 Princeton Road.
CALVIN J. HINDS has been a Cleveland law- yer since 1912 and is a recognized authority on real estate values on the East Side. In 1917 he was one of the five men appointed in the twentieth ward to fix values of taxation in that district. Mr. Hinds has his offices in the Williamson Building.
He is a man of interesting experience and an interesting personality, having few of the characteristics which make up the conven- tional type of man.
Mr. Hinds was born at Girard, Pennsyl- vania, July 13, 1880. His father was Calvin J. Hinds, Sr. and his mother Frances (Stew- art) Hinds. The mother is now living with her son Calvin in Cleveland. Calvin J. Hinds, Sr., and his two brothers married for their first wives three sisters, daughters of the late Hon. George H. Cutler, who was a very prom- inent Pennsylvanian and at one time presi- dent of the Senate of that state. Frances Stewart was a first cousin of the first wife of Calvin J. Hinds, Sr.
Calvin J. Hinds. Sr., was born in Pennsyl- vania, while his second wife was a native of New York. He died at Girard in 1911. For over half a century he had practiced law at Girard, and was widely known and prominent in his profession and had some very prom- inent clients. He was for more than twenty- five years attorney for Dan Riee, the famous old time showman. Calvin Hinds and the late Denman Thompson, who played "The Old Homestead" to two generations of play- goers, were intimate friends from boyhood and had grown up in adjoining homes. Calvin Hinds, Sr., held the postoffice of Girard dur- ing the administration of President Lincoln. It was from him that the Cleveland attorney acquired the independence and positive qual- ities of his mind. The senior Hinds was in- dependent in everything he did, and it could not be said of him that he was ironclad and fixed and rooted in any affiliation, whether in polities, in which he normally gave support to
the republican party, or to religion, in which he was in faet a free thinker. IIe had a long and useful life and died at the age of seventy- nine. Ile was the father of nine children, one son and two daughters by his first wife, and four sons and two daughters by his second wife, all of them living. Those in Ohio are Calvin and two daughters and their mother.
During his boyhood years in Girard, Calvin J. Hinds attended the public schools, grad- uating in 1899, and soon afterward entering the Western Reserve University Law School at Cleveland. He graduated LL. B. in 1904 and in the same year was admitted to the bar. Returning home to Pennsylvania he was ad- mitted to the bar of that state in 1905, and for about three years praeticed law at Girard with his father.
In 1907, a year made notable by the admis- sion of Oklahoma to the Union and by the financial panie, Mr. Hinds started for Okla- homa for the purpose of identifying himself with the new state as a lawyer and citizen. 1Ie was admitted to practice at Ardmore but most of his work while there was in connec- tion with the United States Government Indian Bureau. While on his way from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania Mr. Hinds and a traveling com- panion became involved in a deep and long continued argument on religion. Mr. Hinds was never slow to express his free and inde- pendent convictions on that subject, just as his father had done before him. A kindly old gentleman who overheard the argument also joined in the discussion, and when everything had been settled according to the individual convictions and free conceived ideas of the dis- putants, as is always true of such storms of argument and discussion, in the course of the free and easy conversation which followed Mr. Hinds divulged to the old gentleman that it was his intention to go to Oklahoma and practice law. To this the older gentleman said : "Young man, I am a lawyer myself, I live in Oklahoma, and I am the first man you will have to see in that state before you can practice." He presented his card, which bore the name of Judge Dickinson, and Mr. Hinds and the judge were warm friends from that time forward.
Mr. Hinds remained in the law and Indian service in Oklahoma until 1911, when on ac- count of the death of his father he returned to Pennsylvania to settle up the estate, and in 1912 came to Cleveland, where he has en- joyed a rising practice as an attorney, though his principal work has been in real estate law,
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conveyancing and dealing in east side real estate, real estate mortgages and loans.
Mr. Hinds in politics is a republican and has been more than ordinarily active in behalf of the party. He was secretary of the Cleve- land committee of the Republican National Committee during the Hughes campaign and in the same year was a candidate for the prim- aries for state senator. While a resident of Oklahoma Mr. Hinds belonged to the National Guard, with the Fifth Infantry Regiment, and has an honorable discharge from that regi- ment. He is a member of the Civic League of Cleveland and is a free lance in religion. He is unmarried and he and his mother reside at 1830 East 81st Street.
HON. MARTIN A. FORAN, judge of the Cuya- hoga County Common Pleas Court, has been a resident of Cleveland a half century and has been honored with many of the best distinc- uons of the lawyer and the citizen.
Born in Choconut Township of Susque- hanna County, Pennsylvania, November 11, 1844, Martin Ambrose Foran is a son of James and Catherine (O'Donnell) Foran. The first sixteen years of his life were spent on his father's farm, attending country school and learning the trade of cooper. His achievement of success was a case of limited opportunities and unlimited endeavor and ambition. By study at home he acquired a knowledge of mathematics and grammar and at the age of sixteen entered St. Joseph's College near Montrose, Pennsylvania, and by hard study obtained a good education. For two years he was a teacher, and on February 12, 1864, at the age of nineteen enlisted in Company E of the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was with that regiment throughout its movements and engagements until the close of the war. He was a part of the Army of the Potomac and served until the surrender of Lee, being mustered ont in August, 1865.
After a few months of teaching he found work as a cooper at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and on March 11, 1868, arrived in Cleveland. Judge Foran was a skilled artisan long be- fore he was a lawyer, and became prominent in his trade in Cleveland, having been elected president of the Coopers International Union, and from 1870 to 1874 was editor of the Coopers Journal. While working at his trade he studied law and was admitted to the Ohio bar May 11, 1874. In 1873 he had been elected a member of the Ohio Constitutional Conven- tion and in 1875 was elected city prosecutor
of Cleveland an office he held two years, 1875- 77. His ability, personal popularity and large acquaintance made him a ranking leader in the democratic party. In the spring of 1881 he was unsuccessful candidate for police judge, being defeated with the rest of the party ticket. Judge Foran was elected for his first term to Congress in 1882, overcom- ing by a large majority his opponent S. T. Everett. He was reelected in 1884 against C. C. Burnett and in 1886 defeated Hon. Amos Townsend. Judge Foran represented the twentieth and the twenty-first districts of Ohio and was one of the able members of the House of Representatives at Washington from 1883 to 1889. On leaving Congress he resumed private law practice with the late Judge J. P. Dawley as his partner. Judge Foran always enjoyed a splendid private practice, and it meant a personal sacrifice when he gave up his clientage to take the office of judge of the Court of Common Pleas on his election in 1910. He has continued to fill that judicial post to the present time.
Judge Foran is affiliated with Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is member of Cleveland Cham- ber of Commerce, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Cleveland, Ohio State and American bar associations and belongs to the Catholic Church. On December 29, 1868, he married Miss Kate Kavanaugh, who died leav- ing two children, Gertrude M. and Margaret O. Gertrude M. married Dr. Franklin A. Handrick, now deceased, by whom two chil- dren were born, Martha A., who died at the age of seven years, and Martin F. Handrick, graduate of Loyola High School, class of 1918. Margaret O. married James Connolly, who died leaving two children, Katherine R., who married Lieut. W. H. Brett, U. S. Army : and James. In December, 1893, Judge Foran married Miss Emma Kenny.
WALTER A. COY. In years of continuous service Walter A. Coy is one of the oldest members of the comparatively new profession of certified public accountancy, and has had some highly responsible business connections in Cleveland for many years. His prominence in the profession is indicated by the fact that he was president of the Ohio Society of Cer- tified Public Accountants in 1915 and is now secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland Chap- ter of the Ohio Society. For four years lie taught accounting in the Cleveland Y. M. C. A., and during that time classes of from twenty
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to seventy men sought the advantages of his instruction.
Mr. Coy has had unusually varied experi- ence, though he is by no means an old man. He was born at Salem, Ohio, April 17, 1869, son of George W. and Kate L. (Heacock) Coy.
. The earlier generations of the family were from Germany and grandfather Henry M. Coy, who was born either in Germany or in Baltimore, Maryland, spelled the name Koy, and that was probably a variant from a still older method of spelling. Grandfather Henry M. Coy has a distinction in Ohio history as having constructed the first brick house at Salem, Ohio, in 1809. George W. and Kate L. (Heacock) Coy were both born near Salem, and the former died there in 1906, having spent practically all his life in that one lo- cality except the three years he was away doing the duty of a soldier in the Civil war. He was a member of Company B of the 104th Ohio Infantry, and was a corporal. His wife died at Salem in 1874 and after her death he left the farm and for some years followed the profession of photographer. After that he filled such offices as town marshal, assessor and other positions. He was a man of high principles, enjoyed much esteem in his com- munity, but was not ambitious for a for- tune and led the rather easy going existence so familiar among people in small villages. There were three children in the family: Clifford G. of Phoenix, Arizona : Cora M., wife of W. B. Cope of Chagrin Falls, Ohio; and Walter A., the youngest, who was only five and a half years of age when his mother died. The children all grew up at Salem and received their early educational advan- tages there. .
Walter A. Coy acquired his higher educa- tion in the intervals of self sustaining work. He was a student in Mount Union College, from which he received the degree of B. C. S. in 1887. Later he was a student in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1892. The five years after that he spent in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was a teacher and during vacation periods was a reporter on the principal daily paper. For one year he was assistant princi- pal of schools and the last year was principal of the Central School, with sixteen teachers un- der him. From Arizona he returned to Salem, Ohio, and for a short time was in the job printing business. He had learned the print- er's trade at Salem in the days of the old hand Vol. II-18
press. His printing shop he conducted at Salem about three years. Some years before he had also taught school in his native city during several winter terms, while attending Ohio Northern University in the spring and summer. Thus his education was paid for by his own earnings and efforts.
Mr. Coy came to Cleveland in 1900. At first he was employed as a bookkeeper and later as a public accountant. He was con- nected with the Cleveland branch of E. L. Suffern of New York City, and subsequently was with the Western Reserve Audit Company of Cleveland, being secretary and manager of that company from 1903 to 1909. The busi- ness was in the Western Reserve Building but finally was moved to the Rockefeller Build- ing. In 1909 Mr. Coy began practice as a certified accountant under his own name, and established his first offices in The Arcade, later moving to what is now the Guardian Building, then called the New England Building, and after being there seven years came to his pres- ent location in 1915 in the Citizens Building.
Mr. Coy takes his greatest pleasure in his profession and in his splendid family. His has been an ideal home life since he married at Salem, July 22, 1896, Miss Minnie M. Moore. They were married by the Rev. T. E. Cramb- let, who is now president of Bethany College, the fine old institution founded by Alexander Campbell in the rugged district of Western Virginia, at Bethany, a college which from the first has trained many hundreds of young men for the ministry of the Disciples Church. Mr. Coy was himself brought up in that faith, but in the absence of the Christian Church at Cleveland Heights he and his family are ac- tive members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is one of the stewards and a teacher of the Bible class, and his wife and daughters are also active in church affairs. Mrs. Coy is a daughter of N. II. and Hannah J. (Woods) Moore of Salem. Her father is still living there, a carpenter by trade. Her mother died in 1897. Mrs. Coy was born in Columbiana County. Ohio, was educated there and also at Humboldt, Kansas, where her par- ents lived for five years. She is a talented musician. and was given a thorough training in the Mount Union Conservatory of Music. While living at Salem she played the pipe or- gan in the Disciples Church. She is now pipe organist for the Eastern Star, of which she is an active member. Mr. Coy is a charter mem- ber of Heights Lodge No. 633, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, charter member of Heights
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Chapter No. 206 Royal Arch Masons, and is a member of the Cleveland Automobile Club. After his marriage he and his wife took their wedding trip to Phoenix, Arizona. They now reside at 2952 Somerton Road in Cleveland Heights. Mr. and Mrs. Coy have three tal- ented daughters: Ione F., Marian R., a junior in the Heights High School ; and Alice M., who is still in the grade schools at Cleveland Heights. The oldest daughter Ione is a favor- ite in Cleveland musical and social circles and has many distinctions for a young woman of her years. She was graduated from the Cleve- land Heights High School in 1916, and in 1915 graduated in violin from the Fessler School of Music in Cleveland. Her skill as a violinist has won her a place in the hearts of thousands in Cleveland, and her programs have brought many excellent and commendatory press notices. She is interested in social settlement work at the Goodrich House, and teaches music in that settlement. She is also a mem- ber of the Fortnightly Club and the Eastern Star. Ione was born at Salem, while the two younger daughters are both natives of Cleve- land.
RICHARD ARTHUR BOLT, M. D., who in June, 1917, became chief of the Bureau of Child Hygiene of the Division of Health of Cleve- land, brought to his office such qualifications and experience as to assure the community of Cleveland that no backward step will be made in the conservation and safeguarding of child welfare because of the abnormal conditions presented by America's entrance into the world war. Cleveland has long enjoyed an enviable record among the larger cities of the United States in the matter of infant care, and there is widespread satisfaction that this department of the municipal service is now in the hands of a man recognized as one of the leading child hygiene workers in the country and one who has made a life study of this par- tienlar department of public health.
Though his professional experience has made him a thorough cosmopolitan, Doctor Bolt has looked upon Cleveland as his home city for a number of years. He was born at St. Louis, Missouri, March 12, 1880. His father is a prominent business man of that city, Richard Orchard Bolt, who was born at Boscastle, Cornwall, England, in 1854. It has been the custom of the Bolt family to assign the name Richard to the oldest son running hack for six generations. Doctor Bolt's grand- father was a village cobbler and was appointed
by Queen Victoria as constable of Boscastle. The Boscastle constable and cobbler married a direct descendant of Sir Francis Drake.
R. O. Bolt came to America at the age of thirteen, stopped for a short time in Cleve- land and going on to St. Louis found work there as an errand boy in a jewelry store. He had the capacity and the industry that assured success and promotion and step by step was advanced until he became secretary and stock- holder in the well known firm of Mermod & Jaccard Jewelry Company of St. Louis. At the present time he is in active business in the new "Jaccard" jewelry department of Scruggs, Vandevoort & Barney of St. Louis. From the increasing cares and responsibilities of business life R. O. Bolt has found more or less constant recreation in music, and has trained many large choruses in St. Louis.
Doctor Bolt's mother was a daughter of Capt. Lloyd T. Belt. She is his only living daughter, but there are three living sons. Capt. Lloyd T. Belt was of Yankee stock, was born at Lebanon, Illinois, in 1825, and died at St. Louis in 1902. He has been described as a tall, dignified man of kindly disposition and was for fifty years a captain on Mississippi River steamboats. Through the wife of Captain Belt Doctor Bolt's ancestry is traced directly back to Susan Franklin, a close relative of Benjamin Franklin. Susan Franklin has been described as a "tall, stately, proud, high- strung Kentucky belle." June 13, 1826, in Mercer County, Kentucky, she married Abra- ham B. Wolff. Abraham Wolff, who was born in London, England, on Threadneedle Street, was a tailor, came to America when a young man and established himself in his trade. An old account calls him "a very devout man; small, broad, stocky Englishman." The fam- ily records show that his ancestry merges into the Rothschild family. Thus Doctor Bolt has old English and Cornish blood in his veins through his father's family, and is of com- posite English and Yankee stock through his mother.
Doctor Bolt acquired his early education in the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri, grad- uating from the Central High School in 1898. He then spent a year in Washington Univer- sity of St. Louis and continued his higher edu- cation in the University of Michigan, where he graduated A. B. in 1904 and M. D. in 1906. During 1906-07 he did post-graduate work in the Children's Hospital and Boston Lying-In Hospital of the Harvard Medical School. and in 1907 was an interne in the New York
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Lying-In Hospital. Doctor Bolt came to Cleve- land in the summer of 1907 and for a year was identified with the interne service in St. Vin- cent's Charity Hospital. He was then ap- pointed pathologist of the Charity Hospital and later visiting physician to the Gyneco- logical Out-Patient Department of Charity Hospital. During 1909-10 he was acting med- ical director of the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital of Cleveland.
For six years prior to his return to Cleve- land and taking up his present work Doctor Bolt was engaged on an important mission in the Far East, acting as medical director of the United States Indemnity College, the Tsing Hua College at Peking, China. Ile filled that post from 1911 to 1916. During his residence in China Doctor Bolt had active service in the Red Cross work at the front during the first Chinese revolution. In recognition of this work he was presented with silver medals by President Yuan Shih Kai and Gen. Li Yuan Hung, and was made an honorary life member of the Red Cross Society of China. He trav- eled throughout Mongolia, Korea and Japan, and spent some time as physician to the Unsan Gold Mines in North Korea.
During 1916-17 Doctor Bolt pursued post- graduate public health work in the University of California, in May, 1917, being awarded the degree Gr. P. H. While his experience has called upon him for work in all the branches of his profession, Doctor Bolt has given special attention to obstetrics and pediatrics.
In addition to his position as chief of the Bureau of Child Hygiene at Cleveland, he is by appointment instructor in pediatrics in the Western Reserve Medical School and is wel- fare director of the Babies' Dispensary and Hospital. He is a member of the rescarch committee of the China Medical Missionary Association, of the American Medical Associa- tion, the Cleveland Academy of Medicine and a director of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. Besides his extensive work with institutions and in the broad public health movement, Doc- tor Bolt has contributed much to medical lit- erature, and is author of a number of articles in medical journals and of some treatises on social and welfare work. Out of his intimate experience he compiled a number of articles on conditions in Korea and is also author of a book entitled "Japanese Justice on Trial in Korea."
Doctor Bolt's stand in polities might be ac- cepted as a definition of strict independence.
It is his custom to study every issue and judge every candidate upon his merits at the time of election. Among national issues he believes the greatest is national prohibition, and In 1916 he expressed himself by voting the straight national prohibition ticket. Doctor Bolt is a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa med- ical fraternity, being one of the charter mem- bers of the chapter of that fraternity at the University of Michigan, and was Primarius of the chapter when it was first established at the Western Reserve Medical School in 1910. He is a member of the Quadrangle Club and Toastmaster's Club of the University of Mich- igan, of the City Club of Cleveland, the Fac- ulty Club of the University of California and the Chinese Social and Political Science Asso- ciation. In his home city he is a member of the Epworth Memorial Methodist Church.
July 21, 1908, at San Jose, California, Doc- tor Bolt married Beatrice Rebecca French, daughter of Henry and Rebecca (Tetheway) French. Henry French, her father, was a close friend and a schoolboy companion of Doctor Bolt's father at Boscastle. Henry French was born near Boscastle, spent his early life on a farm, and later entered the British navy, his ten years of active service taking him to all parts of the world. Doctor Bolt and wife have four young children of their own and they are doubtless a big source of inspiration to him in his work in behalf of the infant welfare of Cleveland. The names of this little family are: Elizabeth Rebecca, born July 12, 1909, at Cleveland; Richard Henry Bolt, born April 22. 1911, at Peking, China ; Marrion Jane Bolt, born September 9, 1913, at Tsing Hua College ; and Robert Bash- ford Bolt, born March 20, 1917, at Berkeley, California.
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