A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 56

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. Goodman was married December 14, 1909, at Cleveland, to Miss Julia E. Bam- berger, of this city, a Gentile lady, and daugh- ter of Frederick C. and Katherine (Wagner) Bamberger. Mr. Bamberger, who was for- merly engaged in the undertaking business on the West Side, is now retired from active affairs, and Mrs. Bamberger is deceased. Mrs. Goodman was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, and is a member of the Sister- hood of Euclid Avenue Temple. Mr. and Mrs. Goodman are the parents of two children : Julien Max and Maxine Katherine Rosalind, both of whom were born at Cleveland.

ALFRED L. STEUER. Among the younger members of the Cleveland bar, one who has made rapid advancement during the compara- tively short time that he has been before the courts and has attracted to himself a good practice, is Alfred Lawrence Steuer. Mr. Steuer is a native son of Cleveland, and was born June 15, 1892, his parents being Dr. David B. and Emma (Kraus) Steuer. His father is one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of Cleveland, and both father and mother are among the highly respected people of the city, where they have resided for many years. The family consists, in addition to the parents, of three sons and one daughter, Alfred L. being the oldest of the children.

Alfred L. Steuer was given his early educa- tion in the public schools of Cleveland, and is a graduate of the Cleveland Central High School, class of 1909. After some preparatory work, he then entered Harvard College, from which noted institution he was graduated with the elass of 1913, degree of Bachelor of Arts, and following this enrolled as a student in the law department of the same institution. After studying there for a time he began teaching school at Auburn, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar of Ohio before the Supreme Court at Columbus, in December, 1915. Mr. Steuer commenced the practice of his profession at Cleveland, in the office of Max P. Goodman, in the Society for Savings Building. Mr. Steuer is a clean-cut young lawyer, enthusi- astie and energetic, with a thorough knowledge of the principles of his calling and the kind of ambition that makes for a splendid future. During the short time that he has been en- gaged in practice, his clientele has grown steadily, and as his abilities have been shown and have become recognized he has attracted to himself a splendid and healthy business.

Mr. Steuer belongs to Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and to the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, in which he has numerous friends, as he has, in fact, in the various circles, profes- sional and business, in which he congregates. He has several growing business interests, and is secretary of the Arden Building and Realty Company, and belongs to the Cleveland Bar Association and the Cleveland Civic League. In political matters he has maintained an independent stand, and has found no time from his profession to engage in political affairs. His particular hobby is piano music, of which he has made some study.

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RALPH W. SANBORN has made a name for himself in the law and in republican politics in East Cleveland, and now enjoys a substantial general practice as a lawyer and is also serv- ing as judge of the Municipal Court of East Cleveland.

He was born in Cleveland July 14, 1888, a son of Horace R. and Rose M. (Horne) San- born, well known residents of East Cleveland. His parents were both born in Cleveland and his father is now assistant cashier of The First National Bank of Cleveland, one of the largest national banks in Ohio. Ralph W. was the second child and the oldest son. Grace, the oldest child and the only daughter is the wife of Capt. Frank E. Locke of Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan. Of the two younger sons, Robert H. is a lieutenant in the United States service as instructor at the United States Engineers Officers Training Camp at Petersburg, Virginia, and Norman P. is a member of the United States Naval Auxiliary Reserve Force. All the children were born in Cleveland.

Ralph W. Sanborn attended the East Cleve- land grammar schools and graduated from the East High School at Cleveland with the class of 1908. He subsequently took two years in the engineering course at the University of Michigan, but on returning home entered the Cleveland Law School and was graduated LL. B. in 1914. He was admitted to the Ohio bar before the Supreme Court at Columbus in June, 1914, and at once began practice in Cleveland. After a short period alone he formed his present partnership of Sanborn & McConnell. This firm has offices in the Society for Savings Building and has a growing gen- eral practice.

He was appointed justice of the peace in September, 1916, by the East Cleveland Coun- cil and in November, 1916, was elected judge of the Municipal Court of East Cleveland. He was re-elected justice of the peace in November, 1917. His term as municipal judge is for four years, beginning January 2, 1918.

Judge Sanborn has been an active figure in republican politics. He is president of the John Hay Club, is vice president of the East Cleveland Republican Club, is a member of the Cleveland Civic League, the Cleveland Bar Association and the City Club. He is past chancellor of Criterion Lodge No. 68, Knights of Pythias in Cleveland.

On December 9, 1916, at the Old Stone Church in Cleveland, Mr. Sanborn married Miss Marion G. Herrick, daughter of the late

Colonel and Mrs. J. F. Herrick of East Cleve- land. Mrs. Sanborn was born in East Cleve- land, is a graduate of the Shaw High School of that city with the class of 1906, and has since studied vocal music with some of the best masters of the art. She is now a soloist in one of the church choirs of Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn reside at 15332 Richmond Place, East Cleveland.

AUGUSTUS W. BELL is an attorney engaged in a general practice. He spent most of his life in Cleveland and is a graduate of both the literary and law departments of Western Reserve University.

Mr. Bell was born at Keene Center, Essex County, New York, February 10, 1886, son of Thurlow W. and Ida I. (Palmer) Bell, the father a native of Wilmington, New York, and the mother of Elizabethtown that state. They were married at Westport, New York. The Bells were Scotch-Irish people who came from the north of Ireland and settled around Mon- treal, Canada. Grandfather William Bell was born in Canada, removed to Wilmington, New York, and died there in 1902 at the age of eighty-two. Thurlow W. Bell grew up and learned the business of merchandising at Keene, New York, where he had a general store but for many years, has been a traveling salesman representing the Williams Manu- facturing Company of Cleveland. He for- merly gave all his time to traveling, and has carried his grip and sold goods in practically every part of the United States. He now travels only in the winter and spends his sum- mer looking after his farm of 136 acres in Essex County, New York, near Wilmington. His wife's people are an old New York State family of English and French extraction. Mrs. Bell's great-grandfather served in the Revolution. Mrs. Thurlow Bell died suddenly of heart failure at Cleveland, August 30, 1913. She was born September 18, 1861.

Augustus W. Bell is the only surviving child, his brother Richard having died in in- fancy. He was educated in Elizabethtown, New York, and in 1904 graduated from the East High School of Cleveland. He then en- tered the literary department of Western Reserve University, took the classical course and graduated A. B. in 1908. The next three years he spent in the study of law at Western Reserve, and received his Bachelor of Law degree in 1911. He was admitted to the bar in December of that year, and took up general practice on February 29, 1912. He main-

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tained offices in the Society for Savings Build- ing until January 1, 1918.

Mr. Bell is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, of which he has been retained as legal adviser, and takes considerable part in local republican politics, being a member of the Lincoln and Willis Republican clubs. He was formerly a member of the Cleveland Grays. His college society is the Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Bell is very fond of outdoor life and of books and literary things in general, his chief pastimes being golf, tennis and swimming.

ARTHUR B. NEWMAN was a factor in Cleve- land business circles even before he completed his high school course. His friends know him as a young man of inexhaustible energy, much given to hard and serious work, all of which accounts for his successful position today in the coal trade of the city.

Mr. Newman was born at Cleveland Angust 10, 1886, a son of Herman C. Newman. His father, who was born in Germany in 1856, learned the building trade there, and in 1873 came to Cleveland and from superintendent became a partner and secretary of the William Dall Company, contractors. He married in Cleveland Julia C. Whicher, and of their three children Arthur B. is the second.

Arthur B. Newman was a regular attendant at the Cleveland public schools until 1900, when at the age of fourteen he went to work for the Hough Avenue Bank & Trust Company as clearance clerk. He was subsequently promoted to teller, but in 1904 resigned to resume his education in the East High School, from which he graduated in 1908. As a result of his experience he was well equipped for a business career at the time of his graduation. For a couple of years he was assistant chief clerk in the claim department of the city water works, but in 1910 resigned to become sales- man for the Valley Camp Coal Company. This brought him to his real field of work, the coal business. After selling coal for the Val- ley Camp Company three years, he was em- ployed in a similar capacity by the Morris Coal Company four years, and then for a year represented the Jefferson Coal Company. For the past year or so he has been manager of the Cleveland office of the Henderson Coal Com- pany, one of the largest coal organizations in the Middle West, with headquarters at Pitts- burgh.

Mr. Newman is a member of Euclid Lodge Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in

politics is independent. On December 14, 1910, at Cleveland lic married Miss Iva E. Rudd and they have one child, Donald Rudd, born September 20, 1913.

HENRY B. PUMPHREY. While he was for- merly a railroad man, Mr. Pumphrey's name is chiefly associated with some of the im- portant real estate activities and developments in and around Cleveland. He is now practi- cally retired from business.

Mr. Pumphrey was born in Harrison County, Ohio, September 14, 1863, a son of Beal W. and Barbara (Ross) Pumphrey. Until he was twenty years of age he lived at home and attended public and select schools in Harrison and Belmont counties. In 1883 Mr. Pumphrey learned telegraphy as an em- ploye of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad at Piedmont, Ohio. A year later the company sent him to Beach City, Ohio, as their station agent; he remained there seven years, coming to Cleveland in 1891.

Following this experience in the railroad business Mr. Pumphrey spent six months in the Spencerian Business College at Cleveland, and forthwith entered the real estate and in- surance business. Almost from the first he made a specialty of allotments, and was one of the pioneers in that line in developing Lake- wood property. In 1902 he organized the Pumphrey Realty Company, of which he was president. In 1907 he organized the Clifton Land Company, and was president of that cor- poration until 1913, having made both these organizations highly successful in their special fields. Mr. Pumphrey deserves much eredit for the part he has taken in upbuilding Lake- wood, and with others he was instrumental in extending Clifton Boulevard from Edgewater Park to Rocky River in Lakewood.

While always public spirited and eager to forward any movement in the direction of the welfare of Cleveland, and environs, Mr. Pumphrey has not been active in politics and is an independent voter.

ALFRED ATMORE POPE. As a builder of in- dustry the activities of the late Alfred Atmore Pope were not confined to Cleveland, although that city represented his primary work and was his business headquarters for a long period of years. It is his just fame that he was the greatest leader of the malleable iron industry, and had been identified with that important braneli of the iron trade for forty- four years.

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He was born at North Vassalboro, Maine, in 1842, a son of Alton and Theodate (Stack- pole) Pope. The Pope family had prominent relationships with a number of well known Quaker families of New England and Penn- sylvania. The family during his early boy- hood moved to Salem, Ohio, and he was edu- cated in that old Quaker town. In 1861, at the age of nineteen, he came to Cleveland and in this city acquired his first business experience after spending a year in the high school. He soon entered the woolen manufacturing busi- ness conducted by his father and brothers un- der the name Alton Pope & Sons.

In 1869 he entered the malleable iron in- dustry. In the words of the Iron Trade Re- view : "This became the leading commercial interest of his life and he, associated with men who became his lifelong friends and part- ners, was foremost in developing the present process of making malleable iron and in ex- tending its manufacture, until now it has be- come one of the important iron industries in the United States. Rare patience, foresight, fine judgment, absolute justice, untiring de- votion to detail, and a gift for inspiring and rewarding the best efforts and stimulating the best qualities of other men were among the many striking elements of Mr. Pope's success- ful career. His remarkable personality im- pressed itself upon all who met him."

It was under his leadership that the Cleve- land Malleable Iron Company grew in im- portance and reputation. He and his as- sociates extended their operations and finally their several interests were grouped together under the corporation the National Malleable Castings Company, with plants at Cleveland, Chicago, Indianapolis, Toledo, Sharon and Melrose Park. The local business was estab- lished in 1868 as the Cleveland Malleable Iron Company by Robert Hanna, S. C. Smith. Or- son Spencer, L. M. Pitkin and Frank L. Cham- berlain.

Still another of his enterprises was the Eber- hard Manufacturing Company of Cleveland, established in 1879 for the production of car- riage and wagon hardware and saddlery hard- ware in malleable iron. From a small concern this developed into one of the largest manu- facturers of vehicle and saddlery hardware in the world. Mr. Pope's management contrib- uted largely to the development of the Ewart Manufacturing Company of Chicago and In- dianapolis, originators of detachable link belt- ing. now part of the Link-Belt Company.

At the time of his death Mr. Pope was presi-

dent of the National Malleable Castings Com- pany and the Eberhard Manufacturing Com- pany, positions he had held since their organ- ization ; was a director in the Link-Belt Com- pany of Chicago; the Northi & Judd Manufac- turing Company ; the Landers, Frary & Clark Company of New Britain, Connecticut; the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company of South Bend; the Colonial Trust Company of Waterbury, Connecticut; and the Century Bank of New York. He was a member of the advisory board of the Guardian Savings & Trust Company of Cleveland.

With all the weight of responsibilities of these large affairs he found time to serve as trustee of Western Reserve University, as president of Westover School at Middlebury, Connecticut, was a member of the Royal So- ciety of Fine Arts of London, the Visitors' Committee of the Fogg Museum of Fine Arts of Harvard University, was a member of the Union and Country Clubs of Cleveland, the Metropolitan Club of New York City, the Union League Club of Chicago and the Farm- ington Club of Farmington, Connecticut, where he had his home for a number of years. At Salem, Ohio, in 1866, Mr. Pope married Ada B. Brooks. Their only child is Theodate, wife of John Wallace Riddle of Farmington, Connecticut.

In conclusion of this brief sketch of a man whose life meant so much to Cleveland and American industry there should be quoted the memorial adopted by the directors of the Na- tional Malleable Castings Company at their annual meeting on September 24, 1913:

"Alfred Atmore Pope, the President of this Company ever since its organization in 1891, died at his home in Farmington, Connecticut, Tuesday, August 5. 1913.

"From the time he entered the malleable iron business in 1869, first as Secretary and Treasurer and soon as President of the Cleve- land Malleable Iron Company, he devoted him- self with boundless energy and enthusiasm to its development. He was also largely inter- ested and influential in the malleable iron in- dustry as it developed in Chicago, Indian- apolis and Toledo, and under his leadership the properties of all four companies were brought together into one organization. As the steel casting business was added, first at Sharon and more recently at Melrose Park, Mr. Pope was the optimistic, intelligent, guid- ing spirit.

"When we think of his remarkable intellect, his sound judgment and keen vision, his pow-

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ers of absorption and zeal for thoroughness in knowledge and workmanship, his youthful en- thusiasm, his great patience and physical en- durance, we understand to some extent the reason for his preeminence. His interest in art, in history and philosophy, in higher edu- cation, to which he contributed largely of his time and means, not to speak of his intense en- joyment of many of the popular recreations, evidences the breadth and versatility of his nature. His unusual appreciation of the beau- tiful, not only brought him great pleasure in the realm of art, but added a unique distinc- tion to many products of his commercial genius. He was an idealist, and he made his idealism practical and effective in his busi- ness."

HENRY F. POPE is of the second generation of a notable group of iron and steel manu- facturers of Cleveland and is now president of the National Malleable Castings Company, a business with which he has been identified in different capacities for more than a quarter of a century. He is a nephew of the late Al- fred A. Pope, whose talents as a business or- ganizer made possible the vast interrelated in- dustries of which the National Malleable Cast- ings Company was the chief and of which he was president until his death.

The grandfather of Mr. Pope was Alton Pope, who came to Cleveland in 1861 and en- gaged in the woolen manufacturing business under the name Alton Pope & Sons. This in -. dustry was discontinued in the '70s and Al- ton Pope then retired. He died in 1885. He married in Maine, Theodate Stackpole. Their four children, all now deceased, were: Ellen, Edward C., John L. and Alfred A.

John L. Pope, father of Henry F., was born in Manchester, Maine, June 13, 1837. He was educated in his native state and spent a number of years of his early life in Salem, Ohio, and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He came to Cleveland in 1861 with his father and in 1864 took an active part in the Alton Pope & Sons woolen factory until the business was discontinued. After that he, too, retired, and spent most of his leisure years in developing various inventions. His death occurred in 1909. At Cleveland in 1865 he married Frances E. Whipple. Of their seven children five are living : Henry F .; Herbert, of Chi- , cago: Dr. Carlyle, of Cleveland; Walter S., of Cleveland; and Arthur, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Henry F. Pope was born at Cleveland Sep-

tember 10, 1867, was edueated in the grammar and Central High schools, graduating from the latter in 1884. Hle then went to work, first as office boy, then as bookkeeper with the Cleveland Malleable Iron Company, and when in 1891 the National Malleable Castings Com- pany was formed he was promoted to assist- ant treasurer. This was followed by his elec- tion as vice president in 1909 and upon the death of his uncle, Alfred A., he assumed the presidency in September, 1913. .

Ile is also a director of the Eberhard Manu- facturing Company and the Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland, and the Link-Belt Company of Chicago. Mr. Pope is a prom- inent Cleveland man, a trustee of the Western Reserve University and a member of the Union, Country and Mayfield chibs. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. April 18, 1900, at Cleveland, he married Sarah R. Collins. Their three children are Harriette Frances, attending the Laurel School; John C., a student in the University School; and Sarah, in the Laurel Sehool.

JAMES THOMAS CASSIDY is a Cleveland law- yer, now assistant director of law in the eivil department. All his life has been spent in Cleveland and he is a member of a well known family of the city. IIe was born August 18, 1886, son of the late John M. Cassidy and Bridget (O'Hare) Cassidy. His father was horn in Belfast and his mother in Limerick, Ireland, and they were married in Cleveland, where Mrs. Bridget Cassidy still lives. She came to this country with brothers and sisters, other members of her family having preceded her. John M. Cassidy, who came to America alone at the age of seventeen, was a stationary engineer by trade. He filled the position of engineer of the Cleveland City Hall under the late Mayor Robert E. McKisson and was also city hall engineer from 1909 to 1911 under Mayor Herman C. Baehr. He was very active in his ward in republican polities, was a man who made and retained friendships and had a large following in the city. He died at Cleveland, May 21, 1914, when nearly sixty years of age. In the family two sons and one daughter died in early childhood and those still living are four daughters and three sons. James T. Cassidy is a twin brother of Charles A., and they were fourth in order of birth. Charles A. is now manager of The Progress Cloak Company at Columbus, a store owned by the Sunshine Cloak and Suit Company of Cleveland. May is now Mrs. Ferd A. Henry ;

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Florence is now Mrs. E. J. Burke of Cleveland, while Anna, Agnes and Harry are still at home.

James Thomas Cassidy received his educa- tion in the Hough School, one year in the St. Thomas Aquinas Parochial School, and subsequently was a student in St. Ignatius College and for a year and a half in Adelbert College. In preparation for the law he en- tered the Western Reserve University, spend- ing two years there and then studying priv- ately. In June, 1913, he passed the Ohio State . Bar Association and began practice alone with offices in the Engineers Building. He prac- ticed until January, 1916, when he was appointed assistant director of law. He has the responsibility of looking after the negli- gence branch of the law and the trial of per- sonal injury and damage cases.

Mr. Cassidy is an active leader in republican politics in Cleveland. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, City Club, Cleveland Lodge No. 18 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Young Men's Business Club of Cleveland, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic parish. Mr. Cassidy is fond of all forms of ont-of-door sports. He is still unmarried and lives at home with his mother at 1339 East Ninety-third Street.

EDWARD J. HANRATTY has been a familiar figure in public affairs in Cleveland and Cuya- hoga County for many years, and is now sheriff of the county. Mr. Hanratty was born at Avon Springs, New York, October 31, 1869, a son of Peter Hanratty, who was born in Ireland and was a settler at Avon Springs, New York, in the early '60s. He was a farmer, but later became a broom manufacturer. He died October 5, 1912. In Ireland he married Mary McConville, and they were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters. The mother of these children passed away June 16, 1916.

Edward J. Hanratty attended the grammar and high schools of Avon Springs, graduating at the age of eighteen. After a year of work as salesman in a jewelry store at Buffalo he came to Cleveland in September, 1885, and ac- cepted the position of clerk with the old New- burg House. In 1895, having mastered the hotel business, he bought the Newburg House and operated it as proprietor and manager until May, 1899. He then sold the property and since then has been largely engaged in official affairs. He was appointed city weigher

and filled that office until January, 1906, at which date he was appointed chief jailer under George McGorray, county sheriff. In the fall of 1906 he was elected councilman from the thirteenth ward, serving two terms, and the following year was in the council as council- man at large. He resigned from the city gov- ernment to become chief deputy under Sheriff Smith, and after four years was elected sheriff, the office he now holds.

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A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 56

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