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had to be picketed as if actual warfare still prevailed. Mr. Cody was at Chattanooga when Lincoln was assassinated, and soon afterward received his honorable discharge at Nashville. During the Atlanta campaign he served as quartermaster. The severest test of fighting that came to him in all the war was the more than a hundred days of continuous conflict during the AAtlanta campaign and there was hardly a day when it did not rain, so that the Union soldiers practically lived in the mud and endured physical discomforts perhaps even greater than the modern armies in France are suffering.
After the war Mr. Cody returned to Cleve- land for a brief time, but shortly afterward moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where his career as a business man was made and where he attained a conspicuous position among the manufacturers, merchants and financiers of Western Michigan. For nearly twenty-five years he was engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Grand Rapids, being senior mem- ber of Cody, Olney & Company. This was developed as one of the old and reliable whole- sale grocery houses of Western Michigan. After twenty years of active connection with the grocery trade he engaged in lumber mann- facturing, being a member of the firm Putman, Barnhart & Company. He was one of a group of four men who handled extensive interests both in the grocery trade and in lumber manu- faeturing. Mr. Cody was a resident of Grand Rapids for thirty-five years. Having retired from business, he returned to Cleveland to reside in October, 1911.
While at Grand Rapids he was one of the organizers of the Michigan Trust Company, his aetive associate being L. H. Withey. The Michigan Trust Company is today one of the big financial institutions of Michigan. Mr. Withey was president and Mr. Cody vice presi- dent of the company. He also was a factor in organizing the People's Savings Bank at Grand Rapids, and in this institution his active associate was the late Thomas Hefferan, one of the finest characters that have adorned the business and civie life of that state. Mr. Cody has enjoyed an unusual range of asso- eiation and friendship with the big business men of the last half century. One of his ac- quaintances was the late P. D. Armour. He had dealings involving many thousands of dollars with that great Chicago packer. Mr. Cody still possesses a letter which P. D. Ar- mour wrote him about the time his son J. Ogden, now head of the Armour Company,
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started out as a traveling salesman for the firm. The gist of this letter was to the effect that the older Armour would appreciate a substantial order given by Mr. Cody to the young man when he appeared as a means of encouraging him in his opening experience in business.
In politics Mr. Cody has been an outright republican without deviation or shadow of turning from the time he cast his first vote. He was formerly a member of the Knights of Pythias, but gave up his active membership card. At Grand Rapids he belonged to numer- ous clubs, including golf clubs and country clubs, and since his return to Cleveland has had active membership in the Clifton Club and Westwood Golf Club. For twenty-eight winters he lived in California, fifteen winters being spent at Santa Barbara and other win- ters at Pasadena, San Diego and Los Angeles. While in California he was a member of many shooting clubs. Since relocating at Cleveland in 1911 his winters have been spent at Miami, Florida, which Mr. Cody regards as the Los Angeles of the Southeast. During all his years Mr. Cody has found constant enjoyment and recreation in hunting and fishing, and many of his closest friends outside of business associates have been gained through these di- versions. As an old time merchant of Grand Rapids Mr. Cody furnished many thousands of dollars of supplies to the forces engaged in the construction of the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Flint & Pere Marquette railways. Mr. Cody has never belonged to any church, but while at Grand Rapids was a trustee of the Congregational Church for ten years.
In early manhood he married Miss Martha L. Lewis of New London, Ohio. Mrs. Cody died at Grand Rapids in 1909. Her two chil- dren are Lewis P. and Gertrude H. Lewis is the owner of the Grand Rapids Electric Com- pany, and Gertrude is the wife of Roy S. Barn- hart. Both Lewis Cody and Roy Barnhart are among Grand Rapids business leaders of to- day. Roy Barnhart's father was for many years a business associate of Mr. Darwin Cody. Roy now owns the Nelson Mather Fur- niture Company of Grand Rapids. Through his daughter Mr. Cody has three stalwart grandsons, Willard (now captain of artillery, U. S. A.), Darwin and Stanley Barnhart, and one granddaughter Harriet. In 1911, at Cleveland, Mr. Cody married Ida M. (An- thony) Rose. They have a beautiful home on Lake Avenue, built for the special convenience
of themselves. One of the features of the home is a roof garden which has been the scene of many charming social events in Lake- wood. It was on this roof garden that Mr. and Mrs. Cody entertained Buffalo Bill when he made his last visit to Cleveland. Mr. Cody at these visits would bring in all the little peo- ple from his neighborhood to meet his world famous kinsman, and Colonel Cody rewarded the admiration of the young people by tell- ing them many of his favorite stories of days on the frontier.
ALAN S. HOPKINSON is a prominent young business man of Cleveland, especially well known in insurance circles, and represents a name that has been connected with the insur- ance business here for upwards of half a cen- turv.
His father, the late Harry G. Hopkinson, was born in Cleveland in 1860, was well edu- cated, and did his first work as a bookkeeper with the Holt Lumber Company. From that he was employed on the Ohio Inspection Bu- reau in making fire insurance rates, but in 1897, upon the death of his father, succeeded him in the firm of Hopkinson, Parsons & Com- pany, general insurance. He was a partner in that well known firm until his death in 1903. Fraternally Harry G. Hopkinson was well known in Masonry, a member of Halcyon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and an officer in the Forest City Commandery of Knights Templar at the time of his death. He was a member of the Cleveland Fire Insur- ance Exchange, was a republican and a mem- ber of the Congregational Church. He mar- ried at Cleveland Luella T. Warris. Their three children are : Mrs. M. M. Chew of Cleve- land; Alan S .; and Clifford W.
Alan S. Hopkinson was born at Cleveland January 17, 1886, attended the public schools, graduated from the West High School in 1903, and had one year of work in the Ohio State University. Returning to Cleveland, he be- came a sales representative for the firm of Hopkinson, Parsons & Company, general in- surance, and when that business was sold to Phyper Brothers & Company he continued with that firm for six years. With C. L. Bur- ridge, Mr. Hopkinson then formed the Hop- kinson-Burridge Company, doing a general insurance business. Mr. Hopkinson is secre- tary and treasurer of the company and is looked upon as one of the coming men in Cleveland insurance circles.
IIe is affiliated with Halcyon Lodge, Free
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and Accepted Masons, Forest City Com- mandery, Knights Templar, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, with the Cleveland Ath- letie Club, Gyro Club, Chamber of Industry, is a member of college fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and is a member of the Congrega- tional Church and a republican voter. On May 25, 1912, he married Edna Baldwin.
His brother, Clifford W. llopkinson, was born at Cleveland July 11, 1892, was grad- uated from West High School in 1910, and in 1914 completed his college career in West- ern Reserve University. He also took up in- surance work, at first in the partnership of Pinney & Hopkinson, general insurance, but on July 1, 1917, sold that and has since been vice president of the Hopkinson-Burridge Company. He has affiliations with Halcyon Lodge, Free & Accepted Masons, also with the Royal Arch Chapter, and with the Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity. He is a repub- lican and a member of the Congregational Church. May 24, 1916, at Cleveland, le mar- ried Miss Isabel Lowe.
LEVI TUCKER SCOFIELD. Cleveland's ex- pression of its artistic life and the wholesome spirit underlying its material achievements owes much to the late Levi Tucker Scofield. Mr. Scofield gained distinction as an archi- tect, engineer and sculptor, and, as has been well said, gained it without sacrificing his ideals. As a young engineer his brilliant abil- ities attracted attention while serving in the Union armies during the Civil war, and he rendered service both as a soldier of the line and as a member of the engineering corps. For half a century he practiced his profession as an architect at Cleveland, and since his re- tirement his sons have continued the family name in the profession.
Mr. Scofield's most notable work as an arch- itect and sculptor was the Cuyahoga County Soldiers and Sailors Monument, which oc- cupies the most conspicuous site in the Cleve- land civic center. It is a magnificent harmony of architecture and sculptural forms, and while a monument to patriotism it will also carry the name of its builder to generations yet unborn.
Captain Scofield was a native of Cleveland and was born on the old family homestead on Walnut Street November 9, 1842. His par- ents were William and Mary (Coon) Scofield. This is a family with very prominent connec- tions. The name has usually been spelled Schofield, but Captain Scofield followed the
custom of his father and uncles in the spell- ing of the name. Captain Scofield's parents were natives of New York State. His grand- father, Benjamin, was a carpenter and builder in New York City, and brought his family west to Cleveland in 1816. Cleveland was then not more than twenty years old and had only a few hundred inhabitants. Thus for more than a century and through the services of three successive generations the name Sco- field has been identified with the constructive upbuilding of this city. Grandfather Benja- min was responsible for the erection of many buildings in Cleveland and was one of the use- ful and respected citizens of pioneer times.
William Scofield, father of Captain Sco- field, learned the trade of carpenter from his father and subsequently became a leading con- tractor and builder. The period covered by his active work was the middle years of the last century, and in that time numerous busi- ness blocks and other buildings of the bet- ter class were constructed by him. He died in 1872.
Of a prominent and old family Captain Scofield had unusual opportunities and ad- vantages as a youth. He attended the public schools of Cleveland and early became asso- ciated with his father in the building busi- ness. He had decided talent in the artistic as well as the practical branches of the business and early became a student of architecture and engineering. At the age of seventeen he went to Cincinnati to gain better advantages, but at the outbreak of the Civil war, when he was less than nineteen years of age, he re- turned to Cleveland. He enlisted at the first call for volunteers, and as a private in Bat- tery D of the First Regiment, Ohio Light Ar- tillery, he served until the expiration of his term in 1862. He was then commissioned sec- ond lieutenant in the One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was promoted to first lieutenant in February, 1863, and be- came captain in November, 1864. Captain Scofield was an actor in many of the memora- ble battles and campaigns of the war, espe- cially in the western armies and through the center of the Confederacy with Sherman. His first service was in Kentucky, where he par- ticipated in the pursuit of Kirby Smith. He was also among the Union troops chasing the raiding Morgan. As one of Burnside's army he took part in the campaign across the Cum- berland Mountains into Tennessee, fought at the siege of Knoxville and at the repulse of Longstreet. During these early campaigns he
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showed special ability in engineering, and this skill more and more attracted the attention of his superior officers. From occasional as- signments to duty as army engineer he served continuously in that capacity from June, 1863, to June, 1865. In March, 1864, he was temporarily provost marshal of the Twenty- third Army Corps. Soon afterward he was appointed aide de camp and engineer on the staff of Gen. J. D. Cox. After Chickamauga he was in the general advance upon Atlanta, participating at Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and other battles, and was present during the siege and capture of Atlanta. He was part of the army sent back in pursuit of Hood and fought in one of the most decisive battles of the war, at Franklin, and the following en- gagement at Nashville, which completely shat- tered the army of Hood and completed the conquest of the Mississippi Valley by the Union forces. Early in 1865 Captain Scofield rejoined Sherman's army in North Carolina, and was present at the capture of Raleigh and the surrender of Johnston.
The war had given him many opportunities to test his ability as an engineer and on re- turning to Cleveland he renewed his studies with special ardor. Besides devoting himself to engineering and architecture he also paid considerable attention to sculpture. From Cleveland he removed to New York City and as architectural draftsman came in close touch with some of the leading architects of the time. After the conclusion of his pro- fessional studies Captain Scofield established his offices at Cleveland and was continuously identified with his profession until 1916. On account of ill health he retired in that year and he died February 25, 1917. The busi- ness is now carried on by his sons, William M. and Sherman W., both of whom had long been associated with their father as archi- tects.
The dignity and utility of a host of build- ings both private and public attest the care- ful work of Mr. Scofield as an architect. A mere enumeration of all these buildings would require a long list. Those of a distinct pub- lic character include the old Cleveland Post Office, the Cleveland House of Correction, the Athens and Columbus State Hospitals for the Insane, the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia, the Cleveland Central High School, the Mansfield Reformatory, and the State Penitentiary at Raleigh, North Caro- lina. In 1902 Captain Scofield completed the Schofield Building at Euclid Avenue and East
Ninth Street in Cleveland, one of the larger and better known office structures of the city. It is fourteen stories high and contains 429 offices. It is located in the heart of the down- town business district and was owned individ- ually by Captain Scofield. Its site was one of the boyhood playgrounds of Captain Sco- field.
It is hardly necessary to give special men- tion at this point to the Cuyahoga County Sol- diers and Sailors Monument, which is pictured on other pages of this publication and which is considered by many competent critics to be the finest monumental edifice not only in Cleveland but in the United States. It was a labor of art and love on the part of Cap- tain Scofield. He devoted his services gratui- tously to the enterprise for 71/2 years. He not only gave his art and his time but also paid from his private fortune obligations curtailed in the construction amounting to $57,500. This monument, which dominates the public square of Cleveland, was dedicated July 4, 1894. By a vote of the commissioners the bronze bust of Captain Scofield was ordered placed over the south door of the interior in recognition of "his brilliant services as an architect and sculptor to the people and to the commissioners." The only other living man so honored when the monument was completed was Gen. James Barnett, who held the highest rank of any soldier of Cuyahoga County and whose bust was placed over the north door opposite that of .Captain Scofield.
Captain Scofield was also architect and sculptor of the state monument known as "Our Jewels," which was placed in front of the Ohio Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This monument was subsequently removed to the capitol grounds in Columbus, where it still stands.
Captain Scofield was a fellow of the Amer- ican Institute of Arcihtects and the first Cleveland architect to be taken into that body, and a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic. He was the last survivor of that notable social organization of Cleveland young men called the Ark, which flourishied before, during and after the Civil war, and comprised in its membership practically all the virile and influential younger men of the period. The founder of the club, William Case, died in 1862, and fifty-five years later death called the last member. Captain Scofield died Feb- ruary 25, 1917.
Captain Scofield was a personal friend of
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John D. Rockefeller and one of the few men with whom the world's richest man played golf.
On June 27, 1867, at Kingsville, Ohio, Cap- tain Scofield married Elizabeth Clark Wright. Mrs. Scofield was one of Cleveland's great women and as such a special sketch is dedi- cated to her in following paragraphs. Mr. Scofield has three living children surviving him. His sons, William M. and Sherman W., have gained prominence in their profession as architects and now handle all the business established and built up by their father. Their offices are in the Schofield Building. The daughter, Harriet E., is the wife of Win- throp G. Bushnell, of New Haven, Connecti- cut. Another son, Donald C., was also an architect by profession. He was killed in a railroad wreck March 3, 1905, while on the way to the presidential inauguration at Wash- ington with the Engineer Battalion of the Ohio National Guard, of which he was first lieutenant, commanding one of the companies. Douglas Franklin Scofield, the youngest of the family, died in 1911. He was a prominent young business man, and was identified with real estate operations.
ELIZABETH CLARK SCOFIELD not only did a woman's work in a womanly way but digni- fied and enhanced the position of woman by a sincere and singularly effective part in the fields of religion and practical philanthropy. She gave herself unceasingly to the advance- ment and general interests of women and the cause of Christian benevolence.
Elizabeth Clark Wright Scofield was born at Dorset, Ohio, February 9, 1845, daughter of Marshall and Sarah Ann (Jacobs) Wright. She came to Cleveland to pursue her musical studies at the age of twenty years, and on June 27, 1867, was married at Kingsville, Ohio, to Capt. Levi Tucker Scofield. For nearly forty-seven years, until her death on January 2, 1914, she filled the position of wife and mother in her home with a devotion which only her husband and children can properly appreciate. Aud from her home dnr- ing practically all that time her influence ra- diated through numberless acts of kindness and of love and to many of the constructive movements promoted by Cleveland and Ohio women.
Mrs. Scofield was the founder and first president of the Educational and Industrial Union, which eventually was merged in the Cleveland Young Women's Christian Associa-
tion. Of the latter organization she was treas- urer for several years, and until a year before her death she served as its president. When the funds were raised for the crection of the association's present building at East Eight- eenth Street and Prospect Avenne she was at the head of the committee which had that re- sponsible work in charge. The committee of the association after her death spoke of her work and her character in the following well deserved words: "For twenty-five years her life had been interwoven with the activities of the association, and her faithful and self- sacrificing service in the various positions which she filled helped in large measure to bring its projects to fruition. A woman of rare personal charm and loving nature she endeared herself to everyone with whom she came in contact. Her sincerity was absolute and her loyalty to the association, its former presidents, and her coworkers never wavered; her friendship was a benediction. Though modest and considerate of the opinion of oth- ers, her abiding faith in the care and guidance of her heavenly Father opened her eyes to the heavenly vision, endued her with a keen perception of the possibilities of large serv- ice, and gave her the courage of her con- victions. In every emergency she was strong and resourceful, she never swerved, and her quiet words of counsel always stilled troubled hearts and gave conrage for more consecrated and determined effort."
It was due principally to her efforts that the Baptist Home of Northern Ohio was es- tablished, and she was its incorporator, treas- urer and steadfast friend. Another insti- tntion in which she had a notable part was the organization and direction of the Phyllis Wheatley Home, whose purpose, so splendidly fulfilled, has been to afford both home and training for young colored women. Mrs. Sco- field was long prominent in the First Bap- tist Church of Cleveland. At one time she was member of the quartet choir. Music was her delight and she was talented, especially as a vocalist. She served as president of the Baptist Woman's Ohio Society, and when the Foreign Mission Jubilee celebration was held in Cleveland she was chosen to preside by a unanimous vote. Once she was offered the position of president of the National Women's Association and also that of the International Young Women's Christian Association, but declined because she preferred to concentrate all her work in Cleveland. Besides giving so much of her beautiful talent to her church
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she was a charter member and soloist of the Cleveland Vocal Society and was the chief organizer of the Rubinstein Club and its hon- orary president at the time of her death. In those social circles which are considered the best because they stand for the best things of life Mrs. Scofield was always one of the most honored and beloved. Many of her old friends and those who came to know her character for beneficence have echoed with approval the tribute written by a friend in the following language: "A master spirit, a natural leader, a student of humanity, a sociologist of distinction, the most exalted type of Christian womanhood, make a com- posite picture of one of the most gracious and commanding figures among this genera- tion of Cleveland's women. There was no situation so lofty in social life to which she did not add by her very presence. She en- joyed the highest social advantage, and the musical and artistic life and atmosphere of this Western Reserve were enhanced by her own contribution of art knowledge. She fos- tered every enterprise which would contribute to the happiness of the people and to the de- velopment of fine character."
In response to the desire of many philan- thropic organizations the funeral of Mrs. Sco- field was of semi-public character. Rev. Dr. W. W. Bustard officiated at the ceremonies at her home and at the Euclid Avenue Bap- tist Church.
JAMES ARTHUR FRY, now one of the promi- nent real estate operators of Cleveland, with offices in the Williamson Building, had a long and arduous apprenticeship in railroading be- fore he entered business for himself.
He has always worked on the principle of self help and has been making his own way in the world since early boyhood. He was born at Ogden, Michigan, November 23, 1876, son of James HI. and Ida Fry. He began his education in the schools of his native vil- lage, but at the age of nine went to Toledo, Ohio, to live with his annt, and while there he continued in the grammar and high schools until the age of fifteen. He next spent a year in Day's Business College at Cleveland, and at the age of sixteen was working as a stenog- rapher in the freight claim department of the Lake Shore Railway Company. He con- tinned in that position five years. An oppor- tunity was then given him to become private secretary to the master mechanic of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company at Cheyenne, Wyoming. He spent a year and a half in that Western city, was then transferred to Ogden, Utah, as a district clerk for the Union Pa- cific Company, was there another year and a half, and then returned to Cleveland. For three years he was city passenger agent for the Santa Fe Railway Company and resigned this office to engage in the real estate broker- age business. Besides the general buying and selling of real estate Mr. Fry has been a snc- cessful operator. The chief work to his credit in this field is the development of what is known as Oakwood Meadows No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. This consists of a five-acre farm tract, an important and high class addition to Cleve- land's suburban district.
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