A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 55

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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Mr. Perrine's early manufacturing experi- ence was with the American Can Company, beginning as factory clerk, and during the eight years of his connection with that cor- poration he was frequently promoted, finally becoming factory manager of several of their different plants throughout the country, re- signing from the American Can Company to aceept a position with the F. B. Stearns Auto- mobile Company, Cleveland, Ohio, as assistant production manager. This position he held for 41/2 years and resigned to enter the em- ploy of the Perfection Spring Company as manager of their No. 2 plant.

In 1917 the Perfection Spring Company was consolidated with the Standard Parts Com- pany, and in September of that year Mr. Per- rine was made director of production of the Standard Parts Company. He has under his immediate control the twelve plants situated in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. In March, 1918, Mr. Perrine was appointed as- sistant general manager of the Standard Parts Company, also continuing in the capacity just mentioned.

Mr. Perrine is well known in Cleveland eivic and social circles. IIe is a non-commissioned officer of Cleveland Chapter of the Red Cross Society, a member of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution, the Society of Automotive En- gineers, of the Cleveland Athletic Club, Rotary Club, Shrine Club, Willowiek Country Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. City Club, Civic Leagne, Automobile Club, Detroit Ath- letic Club, and the Toledo Club. In Masonry he is affiliated with Iris Lodge, Free and Ac- eepted Masons; Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Cleveland City Council, Royal and Seleet Masters ; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar; the various Scottish Rite bodies and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrinc. Po-

litically he is a republican. At Chicago, Illinois, July 19, 1905, Mr. Perrine married Florence Madline Strick. They have had three children, William Craig, born June 20, 1906; Florence Elizabeth, born June 12, 1912, and Elinor Thorel, born April 6, 1915, died May 1, 1916. The son is a student in the Cleveland public schools and has spent his summer vaca- tions in Culver Military Academy in Indiana.

EMMA E. GROSS, attorney and counsellor at law with offices in the Engineers Building, is a young woman with a wealth of intellect and ability, and has entered with enthusiasm and zeal into the great work of her profession. With her the law is a profession and one abounding in opportunities for social service and not merely a means of livelihood.

She has spent most of her life in Cleve- land, but was born at Berlin, Germany, a daughter of Jonas and Rebecca (Haberman) Gross. IIer parents were natives of Hungary and were married in that country in 1879. Her parents are of very old Hungarian stock and were connected with prominent families both in Hungary and in Germany. A cousin is Dr. Ludwig Stein, one of the political factors in Germany today. Jonas Gross was a man of wealth and influence in the old country, and before coming to the United States he lived in Hungary, Germany and Holland. The family arrived in New York City, May 29, 1897. Jonas Gross was for a number of years active in newspaper work in Cleveland and founded several newspapers in that eity. IIe is still in commercial life though not as a news- paper man. Mrs. Rebecca Gross died at Cleve- land August 5, 1913, at the age of sixty. She was widely known in Hungarian circles in Cleveland. Mr. Jonas Gross has always been a deep student. He is a progressive republi- can in politics. In their family were one son and six danghters who grew up and all are now married except Emma Esther. Six of them reside in Cleveland. Emma Esther and her two younger sisters were born in Berlin. One of the children is a resident of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. In order of age the family are: Mrs. Anna Gross Hollander of Cleveland ; Mrs. Max Book of Pittsburg; Mrs. Julius N. Galvin of Cleveland; Anton F .; Emma Esther: Mrs. Louis Kaufman; Mrs. Samuel

S. Rosenberg. The oldest daughter was born in Hungary, while Mrs. Book, Mrs. Galvin and Anton were born at The Hague in Holland.

Emma Esther Gross was eight years of age when her parents came to Cleveland. In the

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meantime she had been instrueted by private tutors in Germany and Hungary. She early manifested that independence of mind and spirit which has made her a formidable advo- eate in the ranks of woman suffrage. Since the age of fifteen she has been dependent upon her own efforts, beginning as a stenographer and drifting almost naturally into the legal profes- sion. Miss Gross studied law and at the same time attended night school at the Cleveland Law School, the law department of Baldwin- Wallace College. She graduated with the highest honors of her elass from Baldwin-Wal- laee College in the class of 1915 and the degree Bachelor of Laws. This was a well won and merited distinction and the ability she showed in her work and preparation has been trans- lated into mature achievement since she began practice.

Miss Gross was admitted to the Ohio bar July 1, 1915, before the Supreme Court of Columbus. On the same day she began prac- tiee at Cleveland and in the same building where she is located today. She handles a gen- eral praetiee and in addition to her knowledge of the law she has special ability as a linguist. She speaks, reads and writes German, English and Hungarian and can read and write the Hebrew.

Miss Gross is treasurer of the Wage Earners Suffrage League of Cleveland, is secretary of the Cleveland Law School Club and associate editor of the Cleveland Law School Journal." She is very active in the suffrage cause and is vice president of Cleveland Chapter of "Hadassah." She is a woman of many posi- tive convictions, possesses great depth and sin- eerity of sympathy with the struggling elasses, and is a factor to be reckoned with in the life of Cleveland. She is a member of the board of directors of Alumni of Euelid Avenue Temple.

AARON GARBER. A rising young man of public affairs, and one who is making a repu- tation for himself in legal cireles, Aaron Garber is one of those of foreign birth and of Cleveland training who have so truly ab- sorbed the spirit of the times and of the eity. Mr. Garber was born in Vilna. Russia, in September, 1877, and is a son of Israel L. and Feiga (Kraus) Garber, the former being a laborer who died in Russia. There are four sons and one daughter in the family, Aaron being the middle child and the only one now unmarried. The rest, like himself, are resi- dents of Cleveland, as is the mother.

In 1905, during the Russian-Japanese trouble, the children came to the United States, arriving January 13th at New York City, from whence they immediately came to Cleveland, the mother being sent for in the following year. The Jews had always been a greatly persecuted race in Russia, and as the Garbers did not approve of the policy of the Russian government in its dealings with the smaller nationalities and its citizens, it was felt that the best course would be to leave their native land behind and to come to America, where there was an opportunity for advance- ment without the fear of persecution or death. When he arrived, Aaron Garber was well pre- pared to make a position of standing for him- self in his new surroundings. He had been given liberal educational advantages in his native place in Russia, having been sent to the publie school and then prepared to become a rabbi, although this latter course was not com- pleted, the young man becoming a teacher instead. On coming to the United States, he became principal of the Cleveland Hebrew School and Institute, at that time a private school of the Hebrew religion. This was later opened by Mr. Garber as the Community Hebrew School, which was modernized and placed in charge of up-to-date teachers, and the institution now teaches the pure Hebrew language as it was spoken in Palestine. There are today few people in the City of Cleveland who can speak the pure Hebrew tongue; of these Mr. Garber is one. Mr. Garber con- tinued as the principal of this institution for a period of six years, or until 1912. This active line of work threw him into contact with the people of his community, and a general recognition of his popular qualities was soon followed by an acknowledgment of his ability and powers of initiative. While the law has sinee elaimed him, he has not lost interest in the institution with which he was identified on first coming to this country, but still looks after its welfare as a member of the board of education, directing its poliey.

Mr. Garber began the study of law not long after his arrival in America, and, entering the Cleveland Law School, he completed the course and graduated from that institution with the class of 1909, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, thus graduating before he had become a citizen of the United States. He has continued to be engaged in practice ever sinee and has a splendid business among his people, his offices being located in the Society

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for Savings Building. He was made a citizen 1910.

Mr. Garber is president of the Youngstown Flint Hill Realty Company, of Youngstown, Ohio, and is also largely interested in Cleve- land real estate. His national political belief makes him a socialist. He belongs to various societies, including the Sons of Zion, the Council Educational Alliance and the Zionist Provisional Committee, and is very active in Jewish organizations. Among these are the Congress Organization Committee, of which he was elected congressman ; the Jewish Coloniza- tion Society of Cleveland, under the name of "Achuzah," of which he is also president, and a number of educational societies. He is very active in and a member of the Peoples Relief of Jewish War Sufferers, an organization which makes house-to-house collections every week of nickels and dimes, thus getting from $300 to $400 every week and having already raised $75,000 in Cleveland just from this source, coming from the poor people. Mr. Garber is a close student and a fluent linguist, speaking the real Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, English and some German, and being able to converse in French with the aid of a diction- ary. His continued progress to his present prominent standing has been the pure result of personal exertions and worth, as he has never been able to apply the assistance of fam- ily influence or inherited wealth to his individ- ual affairs. Fortunately, he located in a city where he had many brothers in the unaided struggle for advancement, and where those who have fought their way to an advanced position are quick to recognize merit and man- liness.

JAMES MADISON HOYT. The annals of the Cleveland bar have been enriched and digni- fied by a continuous membership of the Hoyt family through a period of eighty years. As a lawyer the late James Madison Hoyt long stood at the head of his profession, but he rendered services almost equally notable in other fields. For many years he was not in active practice but gave his time to his real estate interests and his work as an active promoter of religious enterprises.

This Cleveland citizen of a previous gen- eration was born at Utica, New York, in 1815. Both by training and by nature he was a man of culture. He was graduated from Hamilton College, New York, in 1834, and at once began the study of law. After coming to Cleveland he continued his studies in the office of An-

drews & Foot. In 1837 he was admitted to the firm, which became Andrews, Foot & Hoyt. When Mr. Andrews went to the bench of the Superior Court in 1848 his partners continued practice as Foot & Hoyt until 1853. In that year James Madison Hoyt withdrew from active practice, and thereafter his busi- ness duties were largely in connection with his real estate interests in Cleveland and vicin- ity.

His life touched Cleveland at many points and always for the good of the city and its people. After retiring from the law practice he was in 1854 licensed to preach the Gospel, though he was never ordained. To a singular degree he exemplified the virtues of true Christian manhood, and was closely identified with the work of Protestant churches. In 1854 he was chosen president of the Ohio Bap- tist State Convention, and was annually re- elected to that position for more than twenty- four years. He was also president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the national organization for Baptist missions in North America, and he performed the many arduous duties of that office until resigning in 1890. For fifteen years he was president of the Cleveland Bible Society, an auxiliary to the American Bible Society, of which he was one of the vice presidents at the time of his death. While he was never conspicuous in politics, he was elected in 1870 a member of the State Board of Equalization, and in 1873 represented the citizens of Cleveland on the Board of Public Improvement.

During his practice as a lawyer he was noted for his thorough scholarship, and with the ample means and leisure of his later years he acquired a genuine and liberal culture such as few men in Ohio excelled. He was well versed in the physical sciences, philosophy and history, and in recognition of his attain- ments Dennison University at Granville, Ohio, conferred upon him in 1870 the degree LL. D. Through all his active years he contributed liberally to religious and charitable objects, and during the Civil war gave valuable aid in numerous ways to the Union.

The death of this honored old Cleveland citizen occurred in April, 1895. He was mar- ried in 1836 to Miss Mary Ella Beebe, of New York City. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt : Rev. Dr. Wayland Hoyt; Ella; Colgate Hoyt; Mrs. Farmer, of Cleve- land; James H .; and Elton Hoyt. The two living are Colgate and Elton.

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JAMES HUMPHREY HOYT was one of the distinguished members of the Cleveland bar for forty years. Besides his prominence in the profession he exerted an influence as a vigorous thinker and a courageous public leader, and the republican party of Ohio rec- ognized him as among its ablest advisers.

His position in the bar was well indicated by his senior membership of the firm Hoyt, Dustin, Kelley, McKeehan and Andrews. Much of the splendid prestige of that firm can properly be credited to Mr. Hoyt.

Cleveland knew Mr. Hoyt only in the vigor of his manhood, with mind undimmed and with resources unabated. From his large practice as a lawyer he sought recreation dur- ing the early winter of 1917 at St. Augustine, Florida, and after a brief illness of pneumonia he passed away in that city March 21st.

He was a son of the late James Madison and Mary Ella (Beebe) Hoyt, and was born at Cleveland November 10, 1850. His father, to whom reference is made on other pages, gave up active practice at the Cleveland bar soon after the birth of James Humphrey. The latter was educated in the public schools, prepared for college at Hudson, Ohio, spent one year at Western Reserve University and two years at Amherst College. In 1871 Mr. Hoyt entered Brown University, where he was graduated in 1874.

For a year he read law with Spaulding & Diekman, and in 1875 entered the Harvard Law School, where he was graduated LL. B.' with the class of 1877.

Mr. Hoyt began his career as a lawyer at Cleveland in partnership with the firm of Willey, Sherman & Hoyt. The firm subse- quently became Sherman & Hoyt, and finally Sherman, Hoyt & Dustin. With the death of Mr. Sherman, Hoyt and Dustin continued in practice, and those two names have stood at the head of a partnership which by various stages has been Hoyt, Dustin & Kelley and now Iloyt, Dustin, Kelley, McKeehan & An- drews. For years the firm had their offices in the Western Reserve Building, but since Mr. Iloyt's death they have been located in the Guardian Building.

Mr. Hoyt for the better part of his career gave his primary attention to the civil law. In earlier years he was a resourceful trial lawyer but latterly he was not a familiar fig- ure in the trial courts. He was retained in many of the most important cases involving corporation and business law, and no Ohio lawyer was better versed in the complications Vol. II-19

of business law and practice than Mr. Hoyt.

Besides his activities as a lawyer Mr. Hoyt was secretary and director of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company, was vice president of the National City Bank, was second vice president and general counsel of the Hocking Valley Railway, was secretary and director of the Pittsburg Steamship Company, the Peavey Steamship Company, the Lake Su- perior and Ishpeming Railway Company, and a director of the American Shipbuilding Com- pany and the Superior Savings and Trust Company.

He had extensive practice and experience as an orator and was famous as an after dinner speaker. His speeches were distinguished by an exceptional clarity of argument and a breadth and liberality of views which dis- played his extensive acquaintance with eco- nomie, sociological and political problems. He was also interested in literature, and was a writer of verse at times, several of his collec- tions of poems having been published. He was a member of the Cuyahoga and Ohio Bar and American Bar associations and a director of the Carnegie Pension Fund. He was also a veteran of Troop A of the local Cleveland Military Organization.

For years his counsels were an influence and factor in shaping the policies of the re- publican party in Ohio. In 1895 he was republican candidate for the nomination for governor. He had a wide acquaintance with prominent men all over the country. Former President William H. Taft, President Wil- liam MeKinley, Elihu Root, Elbert H. Gary and Henry Frick were some of the people en- tertained at different times at the Hoyt home in Cleveland. As a native son of Cleveland Mr. Hoyt seldom failed to grasp an oppor- tunity to give expression to his loyalty aud to ally himself with the progressive move- ment in municipal affairs. He was a director and was identified with various movements promulgated by the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.

He found his chief recreations in motoring and golf. He was a member and president of the Union Club, and a member of the Ta- vern, Country, Euclid, Roadside, Mayfield Golf, Chagrin Valley and University clubs of Cleveland. He also belonged to the Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity, to the Century Association, the University Club, the Sewan- aka-Corinthian Yacht Club, New York Yacht Club and Metropolitan Club of New York City.

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The Hoyt family home is at 2445 Euclid Avenue. This home has long been one of the distinctive centers of Cleveland's best social life. He was married June 17, 1885, to Miss Jessie P. Taintor, of Cleveland. Mrs. Hoyt has done much to build and support two of Cleveland's best known institutions, the Day Nursery and the Lakeside Hospital, and is a director in both. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt had two children : Katherine Boardman and Elton. Elton was graduated from Yale University in 1910.

MAX P. GOODMAN. Of the native sous of Cleveland who have won recognition and standing in professional circles, few are bet- ter known than Max P. Goodman, accounted as one of the leading factors in legal and finan- cial circles of the "Sixth City." Mr. Good- man was born at Cleveland, August 28, 1872, being a son of Jacob and Rosa (Herskovitz) Goodman, both of whom were born in Austria- Hungary. They came to the United States in 1864 and located at Wellsville, Ohio, and two years later came to Cleveland, where Mr. Goodman became connected with various mer- cantile enterprises. He retired abont 1898 and lived quietly until his death, which oc- curred in June, 1912, the mother having passed away in April, 1905. They were mar- ried in their native land and were the parents of two sons and three daughters, of whom the living are : Max P., who is the youngest; Mrs. A. M. Frankle, of Youngstown, Ohio; and Mrs. G. M. Wohlgemuth, of Cleveland. Joseph Goodman, who was in active business at Cleve- land died some years ago when he was thirty- two years of age; Emma, who was Mrs. Frank Frankfort, of Toledo, died in that city a num- ber of years ago.

Max P. Goodman, in his career, has fur- nished an excellent example of an individual rising from a humble position to one of prominence. Those things which he has under- taken he has accomplished, and what he has done he has done himself, for he could look for no family assistance, his parents being in modest circumstances. He received his educa- tion in the public schools of Cleveland, con- tinning his course until he became a high school student, when, at the age of twelve years, he was obliged to put aside his text- books, on account of his father's business reverses, which made necessary his assisting in providing for the family's support. Ac- cordingly he faced the situation courageously and began work, at first starting with a small

peanut stand, with which he was so successful that it finally developed into a grocery store. After a time his father opened a meat market in connection with this latter enterprise, and they also engaged in selling coal. Max Good- man displayed splendid business ability, and not only possessed strong commercial instinct, but was also endowed with much musical talent, which he cultivated as opportunity offered, and at the age of seventeen years began to play a violin in an orchestra, thus adding to his income. For several years he devoted his evenings to studying music, with the intention of following that art as a pro- fession, but during this period found time also to follow his high school studies at home in the evenings, giving particular attention to Latin, grammar and algebra. Two years later he took up the study of shorthand at the Spen- cerian College of Cleveland and made such rapid advancement therein that after five weeks, Mr. Humphreys, the superintendent, secured a position for him in the law office of the late Charles Zucker. Mr. Goodman did not consider the arrangement anything but temporary, but it proved permanent, for after a short time spent in the office he took up the study of law, to which he devoted the hours usually given over to leisure. He also con- tinued his orchestra work in the evenings and wrote several musical compositions among which was "McKinley's Inaugural March" used at MeKinley's inauguration as governor 'of Ohio. In 1894, when but twenty-two years of age, Mr. Goodman took the law examination before the Supreme Court at Columbus, pass- ing with the highest average except one in a class of fifty-two, this one being a woman. He was then admitted to the bar and began his active practice at Cleveland in what was then Charles Zucker's office, but which is now his own, in the Society for Savings Building. He was associated in the same office with Mr. Zucker until the latter's death, which occurred in 1906, and since then Mr. Goodman has re- mained alone in the practice of general law, although he specializes in commercial, real estate and corporation law. His ability has taken him into some very important litigation, and his practice at this time is very important and extensive. Mr. Goodman was the promoter of the Youngstown & Ohio River Railroad Company and is one of the directors of that road today, as he is also of the Frankle Broth- ers Company of Youngstown, the United Knit Goods Company of Cleveland, the M. M. Brown Realty Company of Cleveland, the

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United Furniture Company of Cleveland, the Oppenheim-Collins Company of this city, and the National Safe & Lock Company. He is a member of the advisory board of the Superior Building and Loan Company of Cleveland, and counsel for the American Fire Clay Prod- uets Company of this city. Although not now actively interested in politics, for some years he was well known in the ranks of the repub- liean party. In 1900 Mr. Goodman was elected a member of the Cleveland City Council and served one term (two years) as representative of the Fifth District, then comprised of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Wards, during which time he introduced the ordi- nance which resulted in the appointment of the first grade-erossing commitee by Mayor Farley, and which finally accomplished the work of abolishing grade-crossings in the City of Cleveland. While on a pleasure trip to the East he had noticed that numerous cities were abolishing grade-erossings, and, after investi- gating the systems and securing an outline of the same, returned to Cleveland and drew up the ordinance mentioned, introduced it before the council and had it duly passed. This was later turned into a bill by that body and passed in the State Legislature, thus com- pelling the railroads to comply with the new plan and authorizing the appointment of a grade-crossing commission by the mayor of Cleveland.

Mr. Goodman is a member and one of the trustees of the Euclid Avenue Temple. He is an officer in the Boy Scouts of America, and belongs to the Masons, as a member of Forrest City Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, to the Independent Order B'nai B'rith, of which he is a past president, the Cleveland Bar Associa- tion, and the Tippecanoe Club. Mr. Goodman has never lost his love for music and still makes his indulgence in this taste his hobby.

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A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 55

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