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that got out the album "Travels in Europe and Northern Africa," also "Character Building or the Life of the College-bred Woman," and later she published two vol- umes of "The Western Reserve-Some of Its People, Places and Woman's Clubs." In these she gave the life of Lucy Stone Blackwell in her efforts for an education. The "Life of Liberty," which is the story of Salley Holly, daughter of Myron IIolley who built the Welland Canal and involved himself in a debt of $30,000, which he paid by giving up his large estate and home near Rochester and supporting his family by produce he raised near Lyons, New York. He was called "the gentleman gardener." It has also the life of B. F. Wade, partner of Joshua Giddings of Jefferson. He was in the State Legislature when some Kentnekians asked them to return fugitive slaves. "Do you do this?" he added. They said, "No." "Why should you ask Ohio- ans to do what you do not do?" And with this they returned home, and his replies lead to his being sent to Congress where for eighteen years he was ready to oppose the South in their secession and to aid Abraham Lincoln in his efforts to give the colored man a vote. He married Miss Rosekrantz, who would read to him at night the doings of the day and give her comments on them, which was a great help to him in his wage against slavery ..
CHARLES E. POPE, whose offices are in the Guardian Building, has practiced his profes- sion as mechanical engineer for a quarter of a century, most of the time in connection with some of the larger industrial eoneerns of Cleveland. and now as a general consulting en- gineer. Mr. Pope is also one of the prominent Masons of the city.
He was born at Cleveland May 13, 1867, son of Edward Cobb Pope. He graduated from the Central High School in 1887, spent two years in the Case School of Applied Science, and then entered Cornell University, leaving there in 1891. Since then his service as a me- chanieal engineer has been continuous at Cleveland. He was employed in that eapacity for six years by The Eberhart Manufacturing Company, and after that in a similar eapaeity was The National Malleable Castings Com- pany until 1914. In that year Mr. Pope re- signed to open offiees of his own as a general consulting engineer. IIe is regarded as one of the leading experts in the Middle West on many phases of industrial organization and
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operation and the general technique of me- chanical efficiency.
Mr. Pope was at one time Captain of the Ohio Engineers of the National Guard. In Masonry he is affiliated with Iris Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, Webb Chapter Royal Arch Masons, Oriental Commandery Knights Templar, of which he is present eminent com- mander; Lake Erie Consistory of the Scot- tish Rite, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine of which he is potentate. He is also past sovereign of the Red Cross of Constantine. Mr. Pope is a member of the Cleveland Ath- letic Club, the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers, the Cleveland Engineering Society, the Electrical League, is a Delta Kappa Epsilon and a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Politically he is a repub- lican.
On June 16, 1903, he married at Sharon, Pennsylvania, Mary Carver. They have one child. Conrad Carver, a student in the Uni- versity School of Cleveland.
HERMAN J. NORD is a successful Cleveland lawyer, and is also vice consul of Sweden for this state. Mr. Nord is now member of the well-known law firm of Newcomb, Newcomb, Nord & Chapman, whose offices are in the Il- luminating Building. His partners in prae- tice are R. B. Newcomb, A. G. Newcomb, and E. C. Chapman.
Mr. Nord grew up on an Ohio farm. He was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, March 31, 1877, a son of Otto and Mary (Erickson) Nord. Both parents were born in Sweden, where they grew up and received a common school education. Otto Nord came along to the United States in 1872 and was one of the first Swedish settlers of Ashtabula, Ohio. . Miss Erickson came to this country in 1873, and they first met in Ashtabula, where they mar- ried. They were among the pioneer leaders of the Swedish people in Ashtabula County. Otto Nord lived in Ashtabula about ten years. He then removed to a farm twelve miles from Ashtabula and five miles from Jefferson, and is still engaged in agricultural operations. He came to Northeastern Ohio long after the pio- neer era had passed, but he did his part as a pioneer in acquiring a tract of undeveloped land and cleared it.
Herman J. Nord completed his early educa- tion at the Jefferson Educational Institute, now the Jefferson High School. He graduated there in 1896. When only sixteen years of age he taught a country school in Ashtabula
County for one year. After leaving high school he also taught two years in the same county. Most of his higher education he ac- quired as a result of his own working and earnings. In Adelbert College of Western Reserve University he graduated in 1902 with the degree Bachelor of Science. He continued his law studies in the law department of the same institutions, receiving the degree Bache- lor of Law in 1904 and admission to the bar of Ohio in June of the same year. Mr. Nord began practice at Cleveland and for nearly ten years handled his growing practice alone. He then became member of the firm Reed, Eichelberger & Nord, and for three years they had their offices in the Rockefeller Building. November 1, 1916, Mr. Nord became a mem- ber of his present firm above noted.
On August 30, 1916, he was appointed vice consul of Sweden for Ohio.
Mr. Nord is a member of the Cleveland and Ohio State Bar Association and a member of the Scandinavian Fraternity of America. He belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce, the City Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Adelbert Chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta, and his Masonic affiliations are with Wood- ward Lodge No. 508 Free and Accepted Ma- sons, Mckinley Chapter No. 171 Royal Arch Masons, and Oak Lodge No. 77 of the Knights of Pythias.
His marriage to Miss Elizabeth Bertha Cristy was celebrated at Providence, Rhode Island, on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1908. Mrs. Nord is a daughter of Rev. A. B. and Wilhelmina (Lindsey) Cristy. Both her parents are of New England ancestry for many generations. Mr. and Mrs. Cristy were born in Connecticut and are of Puritan stock. Rev. A. B. Cristy is a Congregational minis- ter. Mrs. Nord was born in Massachusetts and in 1903 received her Bachelor of Science degree from the Woman's College of Western Reserve University. Mr. and Mrs. Nord met while they were students in the university. She is also a graduate of the Central High School of Cleveland with the class of 1899. Mr. and Mrs. Nord's two children, both born in Cleveland, are named Otto Cristy Nord and Sarah Elizabeth Nord.
JUDGE WILLIAM E. AMBLER. As a lawyer Judge Ambler's work was done chiefly in the State of Michigan, where he was a successful practitioner and where he became prominent in public affairs, serving as state senator and as judge of probate. Since 1891 his home
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has been in Cleveland, and here he has figured as one of the leading real estate men. Judge Ambler is a man of exceptional attainments and his ability has been tested in the law, business, in public affairs and he has many interesting and useful associations with promi- nent men and with pleasant avocations.
Judge Ambler is now president of the Curtiss-Ambler Realty Company, with offices in The Arcade. He was born in Medina, Ohio, December 18, 1845, a son of Chester C. and Margaret (Eglin) Ambler. His family is of New England origin. His father was born in Vermont, and was for many years engaged in merchandising in Spencer, Medina County, Ohio. In 1859 the family moved to Hillsdale, Michigan, but Chester Ambler and his wife spent their last years in Cleveland, where he died July 5, 1905, at the age of ninety, and his wife in 1906.
William E. Ambler was fourteen years old when he moved to Michigan. Besides the public schools he attended Hillsdale College, graduated Bachelor of Science from Albion College in 1865, and pursued his law studies in the Albany Law School at New York, where he was a classmate of the late President Wil- liam Mckinley. He completed the course in 1867 and spent the following year in study of the classics at Adrian College, Michigan, from which he received the degree Bachelor of Arts in the spring of 1868.
Judge Ambler did his first practice of the law in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but after a year returned to Michigan and located at Pentwater. That was his home for over twenty years, and throughout that time he was de- voting his energies to a rapidly growing law practice and to his duties in public life. His work and attainments gained him a high esti- mation in the public, recognized by Adrian College, which conferred upon him the degree Master of Arts in 1870, and by Hillsdale Col- lege, which gave him a similar degree in 1875. Judge Ambler was elected a trustee of Hills- dale College in 1888, and has served continu- ously in that office to the present time and for the past eleven years has been chairman of its board of trustees. Educational progress and the humanities have always claimed a large share of Judge Ambler's interests and work.
He was elected a member of the State Senate in 1878 and again in 1880. During his first term he was a member of the judiciary committee, and in the second term served as president pro tem of the Senate and chair-
man of the committee on appropriations and finance. He demonstrated unusual capacity for handling many of the larger questions which were considered by the Michigan Senate during his two terms. His service as Judge of Probate was in Oceana County, Michigan.
Since coming to Cleveland in 1891 Judge Ambler has been in the real estate business, and in that field and as a judge of values lie has few peers. Besides the Curtiss-Ambler Realty Company, of which he is president, he is president of the Ambler Realty Company and vice president of the Cuyahoga Building and Loan Company. He is also president of the Hampton-Ambler Realty Company. Judge Ambler is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Colonial Club. He has served as a director of the Colonial Club. One of his special in- terests and pursuits for many years has been the collecting of autographs and autographic letters and manuscript. Those who are in a position to judge say that he has one of the largest collections of the kind in the country, his library being filled with autograph books. Judge Ambler has always been a strong re- publican in politics. In 1909 he erected a modern residence at 1696 Magnolia Drive, near Wade Park, and there he and his family have since made their home. Judge Ambler mar- ried at Lyons, Michigan, December 25, Christ- mas Day, 1871, Miss Flora E. Lewis, daughter of Charles E. and Ann (Tufts) Lewis. To their marriage were born two sons and two daughters. Jay C., the oldest, is a graduate of Hillsdale College and is now located at Man- chester, Tennessee. Angell, the older daugh- ter, was educated in the Woman's College of Western Reserve University, subsequently completed a course in the Teachers' College of New York City, and is now the wife of Dr. S. M. Weaver, a Cleveland dentist. The son, William, graduated from the Case School of Applied Science of Cleveland, also took the literary course in Hillsdale College and the electrical course in Cornell University, was for two years an instructor in the electrical department of Cornell, two years assistant pro- fessor in electricity in the Case School of Ap- plied Science, and then left educational work to enter business for himself as a real estate man. Marguerite Fave is a graduate of Miss Mittelberger's School of Cleveland and the National Park Seminary of Washington, D. C., and is now the wife of H. Horton Hampton, one of the leading real estate men of Cleve- land.
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O. C. SAUM, a resident of Cleveland since October, 1895, having removed hither from Washington, D. C., where he was connected with the real estate business for three years, is a veteran in that line of work, having had twenty-five years of experience.
Since 1900 he has been in business for him- self at Cleveland as a specialist in real estate service, acting as buyer, appraiser, counsellor and adviser primarily in the interests of real estate buyers during the past six years. There is practically nothing touching any phase of realty property in Cleveland on which Mr. Sanm is not prepared and equipped to give expert service, from executing of deeds or leases and adjusting taxes, to transactions of the largest magnitnde involving sale or purchase of blocks or parcels of property.
Behind Mr. Saum's success there was an idea, an ideal also, a carefully considered plan and a desire to make his success the direct result of a specialized service which his own experience and intelligent study enabled him to render. Therefore it is with utmost pro- priety that he calls his business "real estate service." Mr. Saum has new and specially equipped offices in the Williamson Building, which has been his office home for seventeen years in Cleveland, and it was in that build- ing that he first offered his pioneer services in his specialized field of real estate work. Mr. Saum has handled much business for out-of- town investors and has worked with singu- larly high aims for the promotion of the best interests of the business in the city.
He is an enthusiast in real estate organiza- tion, has served as vice president and secre- tary of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, has served two terms as a member of its valnation committee, and is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. He is also secretary of the Cushman Land & Investment Company.
Mr. Saum was born in Saumsville of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, March 8, 1872, a son of James W. and Sarah E. (Maphis) Saum. His education was acquired in the public and high schools of Shenandoah County and also in a business college at Lynchburg, Virginia. In December, 1899, at Springfield, Ohio, he married Vesta Josephine Rupert. They have two daughters.
Mr. Saum has done some public speaking along his lines of work in various cities and is a man of expert qualifications covering prae- tically the entire field of real estate. IIe is a member of the Fire Insurance Exchange,
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Advertising Club, and is secretary of the IIiram House Social Settlement.
ARTHUR F. YOUNG. Both through his pro- fessional and through his business and civic relations Mr. Young has had a successful ca- reer since his admission to the Ohio bar in 1913. He is now assistant secretary and assis- tant trust officer of The Guardian Savings & Trust Company of Cleveland.
Mr. Young was born at Norwalk in Huron County, Ohio, July 31, 1889, a son of Ed. L. and Carrie M. (Houfstater) Young. Both parents were born in Huron County and are still prominent residents of Norwalk. The Young and Houfstater families have been identified with Huron County since early days, and most of the members have been prac- tical farmers. Ed. L. Young is widely known over Ohio as grand commander for the state of the Knights of the Maccabees. Norwalk is the state headquarters for that order.
The only child of his parents, Arthur F. Young was accorded liberal educational advan- tages and after attending the grammar and high schools at Norwalk entered the Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, where he was graduated in the classical course with the degree A. B. in June, 1911. He studied law in Western Reserve, taking his LL. B. degree in June, 1913, and being admitted to the Ohio bar the same year. Mr. Young began practice at Cleveland as an associate with though not a partner of Judge F. A. Henry. He was soon afterwards made assistant city solicitor of Cleveland under mayor, now Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, and his time was taken up with those official duties during 1914-15. On January 1, 1916, Mr. Young en- tered the service of The Guardian Savings and Trust Company as assistant counsel. On Jan- uary 1, 1917, he was promoted to assistant trust officer, having charge of the estates and the living trusts department. He is now also assistant secretary of the company.
His name is also quite well known in demo- cratie party politics. During the presidential campaign of 1916 he did much work on the stump. He is a clean-cut progressive citizen and is known through various associations in Cleveland. He retains his Masonic member- ship at Norwalk, Ohio, has been affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees since he was seventeen years old, and is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Civic League of Cleveland, the City Club and the First
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Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland. Of college societies he belongs to the Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, and the Phi Beta Kappa and the honorary debating fraternity Phi Rho Sigma. On February 24, 1915, he married Miss Gladys M. Kellum, who was born and educated at Norwalk, graduat- ing from the high school in 1912. They have one daughter, Jean Elizabeth, born at Cleve- land, and a son, Arthur F. Jr., also born in Cleveland. Mrs. Young is a daughter of Wil- liam M. and Margaret (Riedle) Kellum, her father is a traveling salesman at Norwalk.
SAMPSON H. MILLER, with offices in the So- ciety for Savings Building, is one of the good substantial lawyers of Cleveland of the younger generation, and a man of high prin- ciples and good connections who has performed excellent work in whatever field his energies have been engaged.
Mr. Miller has spent most of his life in Cleve- land, but was born in New York City, October 3, 1887, son of Joseph H. and Esther F. (Engelman) Miller. Both parents were born and married in Germany and for their honey- moon trip they came to America. They landed in New York in 1885 and that city was their home for several years. The father was en- gaged in the picture frame and portrait busi- ness in New York and also for a brief time in Baltimore, and for several years he traveled and sold frames and portraits in Ohio. It was a chance visit to Cleveland that caused him to select this city as his permanent home and he brought his family here in 1889. At Cleveland he engaged in the wholesale liquor business with the firm of J. and S. J. Firth, wholesale liquors, and was one of their salesmen for seventeen years. Later he engaged in the same line of business for himself for seven years at 917 Woodland Avenue. Selling out that establishment he became city salesman for the Adler Company, wholesale liquor mer- chants, but on July 1, 1917, retired from busi- ness. At one time he was a director of The Double Eagle Bottling Company of Cleveland. The family consisted of nine children, five sons and four daughters, all living, Sampson H. being the oldest. All the others were born in Cleveland, as follows: Rose M., at home; Gussie S., wife of Edward H. Goldfein, an architect with offices in the Garfield Building ; David E. at home; Albert E. with the East Ohio Gas Company; Edna, Edward T., Bea- trice and Orville W., who are all members of the family circle. The children were all edu- Vol. II-21
cated at Cleveland and all graduated from the high school except David aud the two youngest who are still in school.
Sampson H. Miller graduated from the Cen- tral High School of Cleveland with the class of 1906. For about two years he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and after that spent a year in Columbia University at New York City and then began his preparation for the law in Western Reserve University Law School.
In 1911 Mr. Miller left school to take up social work as local secretary of the Industrial Removal Office, a New York philanthropic or- ganization for the purpose of distributing emigration from the eastern seaboard cities to the interior. He continued in that work until shortly after the world war began, when, owing to the difficulty of getting funds from France, the organization suspended.
At that time Mr. Miller resumed the study of law with the Cleveland Law School of Bald- win-Wallace College, graduating LL. B. in June, 1915, and was admitted to the bar on the 1st of July of the same year. He has been in the general practice of law since October, 1915. Mr. Miller is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Owatonna Lodge of Knights of Pythias, is a Zeta Beta Tau college fraternity man. and also belongs to the B'nai B'rith, the Euclid Avenne Temple and his wife is active in the Euclid Avenue Temple Sister- hood, and is a member of the Cleveland Coun- cil of Jewish Women and has done much in the organization known as the Jewish Infant Or- phans Home at Cleveland.
Mr. Miller and family reside at 10218 Os- tend Avenue. October 17, 1916, he married Miss Jeanette Feinstein, of Cleveland, daugh- ter of Charles and Freda Feinstein and they have one child, Sheldon H., born October 13, 1917. Both of Mrs. Miller's parents are living iu Cleveland and her father condnets a cigar factory on 105th Street. Mrs. Miller was born and educated in Cleveland, graduating from the Central High School in 1907 and for sev- eral years was connected with The Standard Sewing Machine Company as statistician.
MALVERN E. SCHULTZ, senior partner of Schultz & Schultz, attorneys and counsellors in the Engineers Building.
Mr. Schultz was born at Elyria, Ohio, No- vember 29, 1886, son of E. F. and Edith C. (Crisp) Schultz, and is a brother of Carlton F. Schultz, referred to on other pages.
He graduated from the Elyria High School
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in 1905, took his A. B. degree in Adelbert Col- lege of the Western Reserve University in 1908, and in 1910 finished the law course of the Franklin T. Backus Law School of West- ern Reserve University with the degree LL.B. Mr. Schultz was admitted to the Ohio bar in June, 1910, and has since been admitted to the Federal eourts. For about a year he was in the law offices of Weed, Miller & Rothenberg, but then entered private practice alone and in October, 1912, joined his brother Carlton in the firm of Schultz & Schultz.
Mr. Sehultz is a republican in polities, is a member of Euclid Lodge No. 599 Free and Accepted Masons, Webb Chapter Royal Arch Masons, Forest City Commandery Knights Templar, the University Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, City Club, Civie League, the Cleveland, Ohio State and Amer- ican Bar associations, and the Delta Theta Phi law fraternity.
LEO OPPENHEIM, attorney at law with of- fices in the Engineers Building, is one of the younger members of the Cleveland bar, but has already acquired an influential clientele. He is member of an interesting and prominent family of Cleveland.
Mr. Oppenheim was born March 5, 1892, in Indianapolis, Indiana. At that time the Op- penheim home was next door to the residence of the late James Whitcomb Riley. His par- ents were Elias and Annette (Bernstein) Op- penheim. His father died at Cleveland Oc- tober 14, 1916, and the mother makes her win- ter home at Cleveland but spends the summer at Lake Zurich, Illinois. The father and mother were both natives of Poland, and were married at Paris, France, in the summer of 1867. Ben Rothschild of the famous banking family of Rothschilds was a guest at their wedding and his name appears as a witness on their marriage certificate. For about ten years after their marriage they lived in Paris and during that time Elias Oppenheim served as a soldier in the Franco-Prussian war. On com- ing to America he first located in Detroit. a short time later moved to Grand Rapids, Mich- igan, from there to Des Moines, Iowa. and then to Indianapolis and finally to Cleveland. Elias Oppenheim was in the hardware and house furnishing business at Indianapolis for about twenty-five years. For ten years before his death he lived retired. There were twelve children in the family, nine sons and three daughters, all of whom are still living. Jacob, the oldest, has for the past twenty-five years
been with the Cleveland Press. Blanche is the wife of Sam Miller, a resident of Burling- ton, North Carolina, where he is owner of the Goodman Hosiery Mills. Joseph, a resi- dent of Cleveland, is proprietor of a chain of stores handling the Oppenheim shoes. Sam is in the cutlery and leather goods business un- der the firm name of Oppenheim Brothers, with a store on the public square of Cleve- land. Max is the business partner of Sam. Diana married Robert Manus of Cleveland. Harry is owner and operator of three vaude- ville theaters and two movie picture houses at Detroit, Michigan. Sol is in the jewelry business at Indianapolis. Dorothy is Mrs. J. D. Schmidt of Chicago. Ben is a member of The Lincoln Hardware Company of Cleveland. Elmer is also associated with The Lincoln Hardware Company. The youngest of the family is Leo. The two oldest children were born in France, the third in Detroit, Michi- gan, the fourth in Grand Rapids, the fifth in Des Moines, while all the others claim Indian- apolis as their birthplace.
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