A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 57

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

USA > Ohio > Cuyahoga County > Cleveland > A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut > Part 57

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

Mr. Hanratty is a life member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is also affil- iated with the Loyal Order of Moose, Knights of Columbus, Knights of St. John, and Ancient Order of Hibernians. He is a member of the City Club and the Automobile Club.

On September 22, 1910, at Cleveland, Mr. Hanratty married Miss Julia M. Chap. They have two children, Joseph E. and Marie J.

ANDREW SQUIRE has been a member of the Cleveland bar more than forty years. His firm, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, with offices in the Leader-News Building, has maintained this title and an uninterrupted service in the city for over a quarter of a century, and it is not only one of the oldest but one of the strongest legal combinations in the State of Ohio.

Mr. Squire possesses good ancestry and birth, was fortunate in his early environment, and to an enviable degree has been able to realize much that he set out to attain in his profession.

He was born at Mantua in Portage County, Ohio, October 21, 1850. His parents were Dr. Andrew Jackson and Martha (Wilmot) Squire, Through both father and mother he is descended from old New England families. His father was a capable physician and sur- geon, and was born in Ohio in 1815, a date which shows how early the Squire family came West and located in the Western Re- serve.

His early education was the result of at- tending the local schools and the Western Re- serve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, Ohio, until the age of seventeen. His thoughts as to a future career had been largely influenced by the example of his father, and for a time he pursued medical studies in Cleveland. In a short time he became convinced that his talents and preferences were for the law, and he read law as well as medicine. Subsequently he entered Hiram College, where he was gradu- ated in the regular academic course in 1872.

Andro Agua .

295

CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS

In October of the same year he entered the office of Cadwell & Marvin at Cleveland as a law student, and in December, 1873, was ad- mitted to the bar. Since then he has been continuously engaged in professional work and has never allowed politics or other interests to interfere seriously with his distinctive pro- fessional service. Not long after he began practice his former preceptor, Mr. Cadwell, was elected to the Common Pleas Bench, and Mr. Squire then formed a partnership with Mr. Marvin. Lieutenant-Governor Alphonso Hart was subsequently admitted to the firm, which became Marvin, Hart & Squire. After this association was dissolved in 1878 Mr. Squire was successively identified with the firms of Estep & Squire and Estep, Dickey & Squire. On January 1, 1890, he established, with Judge William B. Sanders and James H. Dempsey, the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, which exists today.

With increasing knowledge and experience Mr. Squire has become known as one of the soundest and ablest members of the Ohio bar. For many years he has represented various large corporations, and as a corporation lawyer he is among the first in Cleveland. Mr. Squire is a director of the Bank of Commerce, the Citizens Savings & Trust Company, the Cleve- land Stone Company, and has various other financial and business interests. For some years he was a director of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railway . Company, and upon the death of R. F. Smith succeeded the latter as president.

Mr. Squire is a republican, has helped main- tain the principles of the party and has worked for its success, but has firmly adhered to his policy of never accepting political office for himself. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis in 1896. .

Ontside of his profession Mr. Squire is per- haps most widely known as a prominent Mason. In the Scottish Rite he has acquired the su- preme honorary thirty-third degree. Mr. Squire is a trustee of the Garfield Memorial Association, a member of the American Bar Association and the International Bar Asso- ciation, in 1909 was president of the Country Club of Cleveland, and is a member of the Union Club, the University Club, both of Cleveland, and the University Club of New York.

PROF. JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY. As one of the earliest graduates of Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, and as resident

of this city during a portion of his career as a scientist, Cleveland may properly assume some of the credit due to the attainments and achievements of Prof. John Strong Newberry, one of the most eminent scientists and scholars of his time. All his children were born in Cleveland, and two of the sons are among the prominent business men of the city.

Professor Newberry was born on the ances- tral homestead at Windsor, Connecticut, De- cember 22, 1822. About two years later the Newberry family emigrated to the Western Reserve of Ohio and settled at Cuyahoga Falls. Here the childhood and youth of the future scholar were spent. Making diligent use of the restricted opportunities of the time he was able to enter Adelbert College, where he graduated in 1846 with the degree A. B., and later received in course the degree Master of Arts. As a vocation he first chose medicine. In 1848 the Medical College of Cleveland awarded him the degree M. D., and he then spent two years abroad at Paris and Vienna. Doctor Newberry located at Cleve- land in 1850 and for five years was engaged in a general practice as a physician. He abandoned this work for the more congenial field of botany, geology and paleontology. From 1855 to 1861 he served as surgeon and geologist of expeditions dispatched by the United States War Department to explore Northern California and Oregon under Lieu- tenant Williamson, and Southern California, New Mexico, Colorado and other sections of the Southwest under Lieutenant Ives and Cap- tain Macomb. Voluminous reports by Profes- sor Newberry of his work on these expeditions were published by the United States Govern- ment, and in many cases they constitute the first authoritative accounts of the scientific riches of the Far West.

Early in the Civil war Professor Newberry offered his services to the Federal Government and in 1861 was appointed secretary and chief of the Western Department of the United States Sanitary Commission, and the duties of that office kept him busy throughout the war.

It was in 1866 that he entered upon his most important work. At that date he was ap- pointed Professor of Geology and Paleontology in the School of Mines, Columbia College, New York City, and in 1878 was advanced to the same professorship in Columbia University. He held that chair in this noble old institution until 1890, and rendered most efficient service in establishing and expanding to large propor-

296

CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS

tions the remarkable and valuable paleonto- logical collections of the institution. In 1869 he was appointed director of the Ohio State Geological Survey, for which he made an ex- tensive report. In 1884 he was commissioned paleontologist of the United States Geological Survey.

Professor Newberry was a leading member of many learned societies in America and of several in Europe. For many years he held the office of president of the New York Acad- emy of Sciences, was president of the Torrey Botany Club, president of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, was a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Geological So- ciety of London. He was an indefatigable and enthusiastic worker and besides his university duties, research studies and public services, his publications on geology, paleontology, zoology and botany comprise over two hundred titles.

In recognition of these eminent scientific attainments and services he received numerous honorary distinctions, among them the Murchison Medal in 1884 from the Geological Society of London, and the degree of LL. D. from Western Reserve University in 1867.

Professor Newberry possessed high ideals and a distinctive individuality. Prominent in his character were the qualities of justice, pru- dence, temperance, fortitude and charity. Though always kind and genial, a serious earnestness reflected his sense of right and of the responsibilities of life and its labors. As an instructor he was beloved, respected, and successful, was ever ready with sympathy and assistance for fellow workers in similar sei- entifie pursuits, and to the poor and needy his helping hand was freely extended. He was a great naturalist in the broadest sense of the word, and with his indomitable energy accom- plished an extraordinary amount of valuable and important work.

Failing health in 1889 obliged Professor Newberry to retire from most of his activi- ties. He died at New Haven, Connecticut, December 7, 1892, in his seventieth year.

At Cleveland October 12, 1848, he married Sarah Brownell Gaylord. She was born at Madison, New York, December 16, 1823, a daughter of Erastus F. and Lucetta (Cleve- land) Gaylord. The seven children of their marriage, all natives of Cleveland, were : Cleveland Gaylord, born January 28, 1851, and died February 10, 1882 : Arthur St. John, born December 17, 1853, died November 30, 1912; Spencer Baird, born May 11, 1857;

Elizabeth Strong, born August 23, 1860, died in 1894; Wolcott Ely, born September 26, 1862, died June 12, 1898 ; Robert Thorne, born January 22, 1865; and William Belknap, born January 15, 1867.

SPENCER BAIRD NEWBERRY, oldest living son of the late distinguished scientist, Professor John Strong Newberry, whose life record is elsewhere published, had many of the scien- tific inclinations of his honored father and was liberally educated and for some years occu- pied a chair in one of the leading eastern uni- versities. He then turned his scientific knowl- edge into the commercial field and for many years has been identified with the manufacture of cement, and is now executive head of the Sandusky Cement Company, one of the larg- est organizations of the kind in America.

Mr. Newberry was born at Cleveland May 11, 1857, and received his early education here, graduating from the Central High school in 1875. He then entered Columbia College at New York, with which his father was then identified, and graduated from the School of Mines in 1878. The following year was spent as an instructor in the department of geology, but in the summer of 1879 he went abroad and was a student of chemistry at the University of Berlin and in the Ecole de Medi- cine at Paris for two years.

After his return to the United States he was awarded the degree Doctor of Philosophy by Columbia University, and then successively served as instructor, assistant professor and acting professor of chemistry at Cornell Uni- versity until 1892. In 1889 he had been chosen as a United States Commissioner to the Paris Exposition.

Mr. Newberry returned to Ohio in 1892 and with his brother Arthur St. John Newberry organized the Sandusky Portland Cement Company, with a factory near Sandusky, now the Sandusky Cement Company. The busi- ness of the company steadily inercased, and other factories were built at Syracuse, Indi- ana ; Dixon, Illinois, and York, Pennsylvania. At the latter plant white Portland cement is made, a product invented and perfected by Mr. Newberry, and now largely used for orna- mental architectural work. Mr. S. B. New- berry was general manager of the business until the death of his brother Arthur St. J., and then succeeded him as president. At this writing The Sandusky Cement Company has a total daily capacity of 7,500 barrels of gray cement and 400 barrels of white cement.

Howey @ Miller

297

CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS

Mr. Newberry is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Chemical Society, Society of Chemical In- dustry, and is one of the directors of the Asso- ciation of Portland Cement Manufacturers. He is a member of the Union Club and Rotary Club of Cleveland, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and is a republican voter.

HERVEY E. MILLER. From the crucible of hard and difficult experience Hervey E. Miller has attained a successful position in the Cleve- land bar. His career is another example of what a youth of exceedingly limited means and unlimited energy and determination can accomplish.

He was born at Valier, a village in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, May 21, 1878. He has behind him solid and substantial American ancestry. In the paternal line he is of Swiss stock, where the name was spelled Mueller. These Muellers came out of Switzerland to Pennsylvania along with some of William Penn's colonists. In the maternal line the Bair ancestry is Holland Dutch and has heen in America many generations. Mr. Miller's parents, Henry S. and Mary A. (Bair) Miller, were both natives of Armstrong County, Penn- sylvania. The greater part of their lives they lived on a farm near Valier, where the father died December 27, 1915, at the age of eighty- four, and the mother on March 24, 1917, aged seventy-eight. Henry S. Miller in his earlier days assisted his father in operating a ferry at Braddock, Pennsylvania, also operated a ferry on the Allegheny River, but his chief work was farming. For over forty years he was in con- tinuous service in the Sunday school of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Valier, and was its superintendent when he died. He and his wife were married at Kittanning. Pennsyl- vania, and became the parents of sixteen chil- dren, ten sons and six daughters. Two of them died at the age of twelve and fourteen, all the others grew up and ten are still living. The only members of the family in Ohio are Hervey E. and his next younger brother, Ira A. Miller, of the Miller Studios at Cleveland. Hervey E. Miller was twelfth in age of this large family.

As a boy and member of a large household there was little opportunity to acquire an edu- cation in Pennsylvania. For several years he attended a school conducted in a log school- house close to home. At the age of fourteen he left home and went to New York City, where he willingly accepted any opportunities to work and earn an honest living and thereby

secured the means of further education. In New York City he became one of the proteges of William R. George, founder of the George, Jr., Republic, which was started as a fresh air camp for boys from the slums of New York. The history of that institution is well known. Mr. George gathered together some 500 or 600 boys, taking them out to Freeville, New York, and from them organized the George, Jr., Re- public. Young Miller was assistant helper with Mr. George when only sixteen years of age and spent about three years at Freeville. During a portion of that time he attended high school at Dryden, three miles away, and later spent a year at Fahius, where he was graduated in the high school in 1898.

On leaving high school Mr. Miller went to Pittsburgh and found work in the steel mill district. The object of working there was to secure funds for a college course. Just about that time the Spanish-American war broke out. Young Miller rented a hut near the steel mills, boarded himself, doing his own cooking, since he was unable to put up with the food eaten by the foreign laborers in the boarding camps Only those who have actually lived in such an industrial community can appreciate Mr. Mil- ler's experience. There is perhaps no more desolate environment than that around the steel mills. In such an atmosphere not a tree nor a blade of grass grow. Work in the mills is always hot and tedious toil, and the condi- tions in the summer season would seem almost intolerable. As Mr. Miller describes it, there was nothing to do but eat, sweat and work and try to keep clean. That chapter of his life is one that Mr. Miller will never forget. After working there for some months he was stricken with the typhoid fever, but even this did not put a stop to his determination to attend college.

From Pittsburgh he went to Ada, Ohio, and presented himself at the doors of the Ohio Northern University. His funds then con- sisted of two $20 bills. He worked while in college to pay his way, and during vacations earned money in the Schoen Steel Car Works at Pittsburgh. He gave unremitting diligence to his studies, "double teamed" both the scien- tifie and law courses, and in June, 1904, re- ceived the degrees Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in June of the same year.

The following year he spent as a teacher in the Winona Agricultural Institute at Winona Lake, Indiana, and then returned to Cleveland to enter the service of the Land, Title and

298

CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS

Abstract Company, with whom he remained three years as title attorney and assistant sec- retary. He left that firm to take up tax work with Mr. Guy Warson, who had a contract for looking after the tax dodgers in Cuyahoga County. Mr. Miller went at this business with characteristic aggressiveness and brought many Standard Oil stockholders to time, and in three months collected $274,000 previously withheld from the tax returns. The tax dodgers then woke up and through the courts secured a decision that the tax law was uncon- stitutional. As a result Mr. Miller and asso- ciates were denied their fees of 20 per cent on collections, and he has never received anything for the work he did.

After this experience he entered the general practice of law in Cleveland, and since 1909 his offices have been in the Society for Savings Building. Mr. Miller handles a large amount of real estate, tax and title matters and is one of the best informed men on those subjects among the Cleveland bar. He is secretary of The Suburban Building Loan & Savings Com- pany, of Berea, which was incorporated in 1916 with a capital stock of $100,000, and is also legal adviser and a stockholder in several other business organizations.

Mr. Miller has always been a keen student of public problems and was formerly quite active in politics. To describe his politics it would be necessary to use the three words democratic progressive republican. In the main doctrines of his political faith he is a republican, but he voted for President Wilson and was formerly a leader of the progressive party. In 1911 he was candidate for council- man of the Sixteenth Ward of Cleveland. In 1914 he was on the progressive ticket as candi- date for Congress from the Twenty-first Dis- trict, his opponent being the present Congress- man Crosser, democrat. The turmoil of poli- tics has been merely an experience of Mr. Miller's career, and he feels that he is com- pletely cured of any desire for participation so far as office seeking is concerned. After his campaign for Congress the press of the country referred several times to Mr. Miller's experi- ence. A brief article from Washington cor- respondents might properly be quoted : "In filing the account of his expenses as required under the Corrupt Practices Act, Hervey E. Miller of Cleveland, progressive candidate for Congress in the 21st District, indulged in soli- loquy which reached Clerk Trimble of the House of Representatives today. After saying he had expended eighty-three dollars seventy-

five cents, Miller reported : 'I received large quantities of advice of no practical value, many pledges of support (uncollectable), gen- erous donations of criticism from enemies and good wishes from friends. No promises made except never to do it again, I'm cured.'"

Since 1915 Mr. Miller has had his home at Berea, a town twelve miles from Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, and in a scholastic atmos- phere. He is now one of the councilmen of Berea, and a movement was recently instituted to get him to accept the nomination for mayor of Berea in the fall of 1917. In matters of social reform Mr. Miller has always been on the side of prohibition, and in 1915 had charge of the dry campaign organization in the first six wards of Cleveland and the towns and townships west of the river in Cuyahoga County. While at Cleveland he was superin- tendent of the Sunday school of the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church seven years and was teacher of one of the largest Baraca Bible classes in Cleveland, consisting of seventy-five young men. This class won the city baseball championship cup two years in succession.

Mr. Miller has been admitted to practice in the United States courts and has a rapidly growing general practice. He is a member of the Civic League of Cleveland, the Cleveland Bar Association and the Berea Methodist Epis- copal Church. He was a charter member of the Chapter of the Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity at Ohio Northern University.

At Detroit, July 4, 1904, he married Miss E. Blanche Slaugenhaupt. Mr. and Mrs. Mil- ler were children together in Valier, Pennsyl- vania. She was born in Titusville, Pennsyl- vania, daughter of E. H. and Harriet M. (Daubenspeck) Slaugenhaupt, both of whom are now living in Berea. Mrs. Miller was educated at Jamestown, New York, a graduate of the high school there, and also of the James- town Business College. They are the parents of five children, the first two born in Newark, Ohio, the next two in Cleveland and the young- est in Berea. Their names are: Hervey E., Jr., Melvin Van Lehr, Leila Ruth, Alfred Frederick Byers and Harriet Lucile.

CHARLES A. PATTERSON is one of Cleveland's leading foundrymen, and that is a business which both he and his father have followed through an aggregate of nearly half a century. Charles A. Patterson is now manager and sec- retary of the Fulton Foundry & Machine Com- pany. This is one of the big and important industries of its kind in the city. It was es-

299

CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS

tablished in 1872 by Samuel Carpenter. In 1889 it was taken over by C. J. Langdon and S. W. Tecker and in 1901 incorporated with Mr. Born as president, C. J. Langdon vice president and manager, and S. W. Tucker secretary and treasurer. Mr. Langdon suc- ceeded to the position of secretary and treas- urer resigned by Mr. Tucker in 1905. E. E. Manning came into the corporation in 1915 as president and treasurer, C. J. Langdon returning to the former position as vice presi- dent, while at that time Mr. C. A. Patterson became identified with the business as secre- tary and general manager. In January, 1917, at the death of Mr. Manning, C. F. Mead was elected president and treasurer.

The Fulton Foundry & Machine Company mannfactures gray iron castings and special- izes in an acid-proof material which they have . and since 1915 as secretary, manager and di- been putting on the market for forty years or more. They also specialize in machinery castings and castings for rolling mills and furnaces. It is a business which employs from 170 to 185 men, and the plant covering two acres of space has been in complete and con- tinuous operation for a number of years.

Charles A. Patterson was born at Cleveland March 6, 1872. His father, Charles Patter- son, Sr., who was born in Cavan, Ireland, No- vember 8, 1838, was brought to Cleveland by his parents in 1848. Here he continued to at- tend public schools until the age of eighteen, and learned the foundry trade by an appren- ticeship of five years with the old firm of Pet- tingail & Glass. Following that he traveled throughout the South and West as a jour- neyman foundryman until 1868, in which year he accepted an opportunity to engage in the grain business at San Francisco. A few years later selling out his interests in the West he returned to Cleveland and here he first took up contracting and in 1882 established the City Foundry Company. This was operated by him until 1898, when he sold the plant and established The Patterson Foundry Company. This industry was sold to the Ajax Manufac- turing Company in 1907. After that Charles Patterson lived retired until his death in 1909. He was independent in politics and a member of the Catholic Church. At Cleveland in 1862 he married Eliza Farrell. She was born on Bolivar Street in Cleveland in 1840. One of a family of seven children, Charles A. Patter- son acquired a liberal education as a prepara- tion for his life work. He attended the local grammar schools, the West High School from which he graduated in 1890, and in 1894 he

completed his literary education in Assump- tion College at Sandwich, Ontario, Canada. From that time forward he has been identified with some phase of the foundry business at Cleveland. He first served an apprenticeship of two and a half years as a moulder with the City Foundry Company, which at that time was owned hy his father. He gradually as- sumed more and more responsibilities in con- nection with the management of this until it was sold in 1898. He was an active associate with his father and other brothers in estab- lishing the Patterson Foundry Company, and was its manager until the business was ac- quired by the Ajax Manufacturing Company in 1907. For the past ten years his associa- tions have been with the Fulton Foundry & Machine Company, first as assistant manager, rector. He is also secretary and director of the Atlantic Foundry Company.

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 57

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