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Mr. Fry is a member of Woodward Lodge, Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, Mckinley Chapter, Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Cleveland Cham- ber of Commerce, the Old Colony Club, and in politics is a republican.
June 14, 1900, at Cleveland, he married Anna M. Pike. Their town home is at 1059 Lake View Road Northeast, and Mr. Fry also owns a beautiful home for winter residence in Yalaha, Florida.
JOHN J. HOWARD, president of the Howard, 1 Gorie, Webb Company, commercial lithograph- ers, was born at Toronto, Canada, September 16, 1879, a son of William J. Howard. His father was born at Lockport, New York, and during his residence at Toronto, Canada, fol- lowed the machinist's trade. In 1891 he re- tired from that business, located at Cleveland, and in 1902 moved out to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived until his death in 1910.
John J. Howard had a public school educa- tion np to the age of fifteen. Coming to Cleve- land he worked as an apprentice with the Morgan Lithograph Company seven years, and then for six years was connected with the Forman & Bassett Lithograph Company. He withdrew from that to establish the Howard, Gorie, Webb Company, of which he is presi- dent.
Mr. Howard is an independent in politics and a member of the Methodist Church. May 20, 1906, at Cleveland, he married Miss B. E. Silsby. They are the parents of three chil- dren : Isabel, Frederick and Martha, the two older now students in the public schools.
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HENRY HOLLAND. Far more than capital is needed in the founding of a solid business, personal practical experience being an es- sential factor. At the head of Cleveland's most important and prosperous enterprises will be found men whose training has fitted them for the positions they occupy, and one of these is Henry Holland, who is president and manager of the Cleveland Trolley Supply Company. An expert machinist and master of several trades, Mr. Holland is also an in- ventor, and many mechanical deviees now in use originated in his active brain.
Henry Holland was born at Biddle, Brad- ley Green, Staffordshire, England, January 6, 1862. His parents were Ralph and Mary Ann Holland, who spent their lives in England. During boyhood Mr. Holland attended school and then, with him as with many others, local opportunity determined his first field of work, the coal mines in his native shire affording employment until he was twenty years of age. When he left the coal pits he engaged for one year as tube eleaner with the North Stafford- shire Railroad Company, and then answered the call of adventurous youth by setting sail for Canada, and after reaching Montreal he was employed for a year in the boiler shop of the Grand Trunk Railway. Having discov- ered by this time his decided mechanical tal- ent, he went to work as a machinist in Trenton, Ontario, but at the end of six months grew homesick and returned to his native land. and during the six months he remained under his father's roof in Stoke-on-Trent, worked again as a machinist and then crossed the At- lantic once more, to Trenton, Ontario, Canada, and worked for six months for the Robert Wardell Company as a machinist. His next experience in the same line was in Toronto, Canada, where he was employed for two years in the Perkins Engine and Boiler Shops as a machinist.
Mr. Holland came then to the United States and while at Detroit, Michigan, entered into a six months' engagement with the Murphy Wrecking Company as engineer on the lake vessel Charlton, after which, for one year, he worked as a machinist in the Dry Docks En- gine Works. For the two years following Mr. Ilolland was engaged as erecting engineer with the Frontier Iron Works at Detroit and then went over to the Riverside Iron Works for six months as a machinist, and in the same eapaeity was with the Russell Wheel and Foundry Company for a year. His reputa- tion in engineering eireles was pretty well
established by that time and he was appointed first assistant engineer of the pumping sta- tion by the Detroit Water Works Commission, and remained about twelve years. During that long period he carefully studied to im- prove the service and equipment and remedied inany defects.
Mr. Holland determined about that time to embark in business for himself and therefore resigned his office at Detroit and organized the United Electric Railway Supply Company, of which he was general manager at first and later president. This company manufactured trolley supplies of Mr. Holland's own inven- tion. In 1901 he disposed of his interests in Detroit and came to Cleveland and here started the H. Holland Trolley Supplies Manufactur- ing Company. This also manufactures trolley bases and devices that Mr. Holland had in- vented. In 1910 he sold the business but re- mained with the new owners as superintend- ent and as expert machinist for one year. He then again went into business for himself and forming a partnership with Ernest Beeke- dorff, started the Cleveland Trolley Supply Company. In 1913 the business was incor- porated and Mr. Holland has been president and manager ever since, F. A. Ilopper being secretary and treasurer, and Charles W. Hoh- meier shop superintendent. This company manufactures Mr. Holland's inventions ex- elusively, and the following is a partial list of the company's products: Trolley bases, con- ductor's stools, motormen's seats, trolley harps and wheels of various types, window catches, balance hoists, and also design cranes for elec- tric railroad supply cars, railway block sys- tems (a joint patent), both bell and light be- ing operated by rail or trolley tension, and a crude oil burner for domestic use. As may be seen Mr. Holland's inventions are entirely practical and it is a source of great satisfac- tion to him that they are really useful. His trolley appliances are being utilized all over the country.
Mr. Holland was married in the City of To- ronto, Canada, to Miss Eva T. Townswell, who died in February, 1917. Mr. Holland has a daughter, Muriel G., residing at Lakewood, Ohio, and a stepson, Alfred T. Bennett, who married Lucile Cassidy, by whom one child was born, Harry. By a former union of Al- fred T. Bennett to Alice Bennett, of the same name but not related except by marriage, he has two children, Muriel and Franklin. Al- fred T. Bennett resides in Lakewood, Ohio. In politics Mr. Holland is an independent
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voter. He is an attendant of the Episcopal Church and fraternally is identified with the Modern Woodmen. He is a man of acknowl- edged mechanical ability and of high personal standing.
A. WARD FOOTE. A candid investigator into the sources of Cleveland's just claim of business superiority and consequent wealth and wide opportunity will not go very far before he realizes that largely in the manu- facturing interests of this beautiful city lies her independence. A combination of circum- stances have resulted in bringing here men of practical ideas and thorough training along many lines, who have seen their opportunity and have had the courage and business vision to grasp it, and the result is that sound en- terprises, in the line of manufacturing, have been developed which have brought industrial prosperity and thereby have added to the gen- eral welfare. One of the far-seeing, prac- cal men of this class who came to Cleveland a quarter of a century ago, after considerable experience in machine shops and on railroads, was A. Ward Foote, who is now president and treasurer of the Foote-Burt Company, which turns out $1,250,000 worth of drilling and boring machinery a year.
A. Ward Foote was born at Guilford, Con- necticut, October 5, 1865. His parents were Andrew W. and Charlotte A. Foote. The youth had public school advantages until he was seventeen years old and then went to Hartford, Connecticut, and became a ma- chinist apprentice with the firm of Pratt & Whitney, a concern that manufactured ma- chine tools. It was his own choice of trade that placed him here, for he had considerable natural aptness in the handling of tools, and he willingly served out his four years of ap- prenticeship, during the first year receiving 60 cents a day, 70 cents during the second year, 90 cents during the third and $1.20 dur- ing the fourth year. For three years after- ward he worked with the company in the drafting room.
Mr. Foote then went to Louisville, Ken- tucky, where he was employed as a machinist in the motive power department of the L. & N. Railroad for a time, later as a draftsman, still later as a locomotive fireman and then as lo- comotive engineer. When he left the road he was serving as assistant master mechanic. That was in October, 1891, and he came then to Cleveland and for three months afterward was assistant superintendent of the Rogers Typo-
graph Company. He then entered into part- nership with E. B. Barker, under the firm name of Foote and Barker and with a capital of $2,500, for the manufacturing of drilling and boring machinery, and continued until 1897, when Mr. Foote bought Mr. Barker's in- terest and then went into partnership with his father-in-law, P. H. Burt. They engaged in the business under the style of Foote, Burt & Company and continued under that caption until 1906, when they incorporated their busi- ness as the Foote-Burt Company, Mr. Foote becoming president and treasurer, D. E. Randeles, vice president and manager, and S. G. Burt, secretary. Remarkable prosperity has attended this enterprise as the result of Mr. Foote's thorough understanding of the trade and the careful, prudent policy pursued by the company. At present the product of their manufacturing plant is being shipped all over the world to which transportation lines are open, and the plans of Mr. Foote for the fu- ture open still further development of trade territory. IIe has lived to see many of his early hopes brought to fruition, and that his personal success has come largely through his own unassisted efforts reflects only credit.
Mr. Foote was married at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 24, 1892, to Miss Winnifred Burt, who is a daughter of P. H. Burt. They have one daughter, Katherine, who is a pupil in the Hathaway-Brown School for Girls. Mr. Foote and family attend the Episcopal Church.
In political affiliation Mr. Foote is a repub- lican. IIe has always done his full duty as a citizen, supporting measures that have ap- pealed to his sense of right and justice and contributing liberally to public-spirited and charitable enterprises. In the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce his opinions are listened to with respect. He is a member of the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical Engineers, and be- longs to such well known organizations as the Union and the Cleveland Athletic clubs, the Mayfield Country Club and the Chagrin Val- ley Hunt Club, counting many warm per- sonal friends in each.
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HARRY F. NEWELL in addition to his duties as an executor of the estate of his honored father, the late Clarence L. Newell, built up and maintains an active relation with the Cleveland business community of his own, and is one of the well known and popular citizens of this community.
The late Clarence L. Newell, who died De- cember 7, 1912, was one of the valuable men
CLARENCE L. NEWELL Taken in middle life
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to the life and advancement of Cleveland for many years. Few families are bound by so many ties of long association to this part of the New Connecticut of Ohio as the Newells. The first members of the family came to Cuya- hoga County from the Mohawk Valley of New York State about 1805, less than ten years after Moses Cleaveland had brought the first surveying party to this point on Lake Erie. The Newells located at Brecksville. One of them was Thaddeus Newell, great-grandfather of the late Clarence L. Newell. At his death he was laid to rest in the Brecksville Ceme- tery, and that city of the dead now contains four generations of the family. Rufus Newell, grandfather of Clarence, was in the aetive years of his life when he came to Cuyahoga County. John Newell, father of Clarence L., was born in Cuyahoga County in 1812, and lived here for many years as a farmer and factor of influence in the development of his community. In 1858 he moved to Buchanan County, Iowa, and bought a farm on which he spent his last years.
Clarence L. Newell was born at Brecksville in Cuyahoga County September 5, 1839, and lived to the age of seventy-three. Some of his early experiences were in getting out spe- eial timbers for doek and shipbuilding pur- poses. That in fact became his regular vo- cation and he continued in it until 1880. In 1882 Mr. Newell built an oatmeal mill at Cleveland, and was one of the pioneers in an industry which has assumed large and exten- sive proportions. His old mill was finally merged with the American Cercal Company, and he became a director in this larger eor- poration.
For about thirty years Mr. Newell was identified with the real estate business as a dealer and developer. Obtaining a traet of forty acres in Lakewood he laid out the C. L. & L. R. Newell subdivision of Lakewood, and constructed Lakeland Avenue. He also donated right of way for Lake Avenue and Clifton Boulevard. His enterprise did much for the building up of the modern city and fostering all improvements.
Among other interests he was connected with the Newell Quarry Company, which specialized in a product of silica sand used largely for moulding and art stone work, and also was interested in a number of enter- prises among which was development of oil properties in Western Ohio. The activities of his long life made him a good and useful
eitizen without his having participated in polities beyond helping every movement as- sociated with the good of the community. He was strietly nonpartisan in national affairs.
In 1863 Clarence L. Newell married Miss Marinda Sanborn of Summit County, Ohio. There were three sons, Harry E., Charles L. and George S., all of whom were educated in the publie schools. They became associated with their father in business. George S. died in July, 1910.
Mr. Harry F. Newell was born December 26, 1865, at Richfield, Ohio, and besides his education in the publie schools to the age of eighteen he attended the Oberlin Busi- ness College for one year. On returning to Cleveland he was employed as bookkeeper by the Buckeye Oatmeal Mills, the industry which had been founded and was owned by his father. When this plant was sold to the American Cereal Company, Harry F. Newell beeame associated with his father and his unele Levi R. Newell in opening the allotment at Lakewood above described as the C. L. and L. R. Newell allotment. Harry Newell was secretary of the company. Later the Newell brothers dissolved partnership and Clarenee L. took complete charge of the allotment property, placing his son Harry in charge of the sales and the building. With the death of Clarenee L. Newell in 1912 the surviving sons, Ifarry and Charles, were appointed executors of the estate and to the administra- tion of the various interests Harry Newell has given much of his time since that date.
He is also a director of the Cleveland Na- tional Machine Company and a dircetor of the Fidelity Mortgage and Guarantee Company. Mr. Newell has had considerable military training, having joined the Cleveland Grays in 1892, served as a sergeant, and is still a member on the retired list of that organization. Ife belongs to the Cleveland Chamber of In- dustry, the Cleveland Athletic Club, Auto- mobile Club, is non-partisan in polities like his father and fraternally is affiliated with Forest City Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, Cleveland Chapter Royal Arch Ma- sons, Forest City Commandery Knights Tem- plars, Eliadah Lodge of Perfection and Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Al Sirat Grotto. Mr. Newell married Martha B. Hartley, a native of Lewistown, Maine. They were married in Cleveland. Their only ehild, Theodore R., aged nineteen, is now a student in the Ohio State University.
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HENRY TURNER BAILEY, who came to Cleve- land in 1917 and has since been dean of the Cleveland School of Art and adviser in educa- tional work of the Cleveland Museum of Art, for many years has been a. prominent art teacher in his native State of Massachusetts. Through his connections with various promi- nent schools and his output as an author his name is widely known both in America and abroad.
He was born at North Scituate, Massachu- setts, December 9, 1865, a son of Charles Ed- ward and Eudora (Turner) Bailey. His father was a mechanic and shoe manufacturer. Through his mother he is descended from Humphrey Turner, a brother of John Turner, who came over in the Mayflower.
Henry Turner Bailey is a brother of Albert Edward Bailey, an educator, lecturer, and author of numerous religious and art works. Henry Turner Bailey was educated in the public schools of Scituate, graduating from high school in 1882. As a youth he learned the trade of printer. In 1887 he graduated from the Massachusetts Normal Art School at Boston, and during 1884-85 was a teacher of drawing in the night schools of Boston and in 1886-87 was supervisor of drawing of the City of Lowell. Mr. Bailey has also profited by five periods of study abroad, in Egypt, Syria, Constantinople, Greece, Italy and other European countries.
From 1887 to 1903 Mr. Bailey was state supervisor of drawing with the Massachusetts State Board of Education. At his home in North Scituate he was editor of the School Arts Magazine from 1903 to 1917, and gave up those duties to come to Cleveland in the latter year. From 1908 to 1917 he was also a direc- tor of the Chautauqua School of Arts and Crafts. He served as United States represen- tative at the International Congresses on Art Education at Brussels in 1898, at London in 1908, and at Dresden in 1912. In 1915 he was a member of the International Jury of Awards at the San Francisco Exposition.
Besides many reports and numerous articles on art subjects Mr. Bailey is author of the following works: "Sketch of the History of Art Education," Massachusetts, published by the state in 1914; "Instruction in Fine and Manual Arts," published by the United States Government ; "Art Education," published by Houghton, Mifflin Company at Boston, and in Japanese for use in Government schools in Japan ; "Blackboard in Sunday School and
Great Painters' Gospel," both published by W. A. Wilde Company; "Flush of the Dawn," by Atkinson, Mentzer & Company ; "Twelve Great Paintings," by the Prang Company ; "Photography and Fine Arts," by the Davis Press.
Mr. Bailey is a member of the Twentieth Century Club of Boston, the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and the Society of American Authors. In his home Town of North Scituate he served as moderator of the Annual Town Meeting from 1900 to 1916, and was secretary of the Park Commission from 1908 to 1916. He was a trustee of the Newton Theological Institute of Massachusetts in 1915-16. He is an independent republican and was formerly deacon of the First Baptist Church of North Scituate.
In Cleveland Mr. Bailey resides at 11441 Juniper Road. He married at North Scituate September 5, 1889, Josephine Litchfield, daughter of Israel and Rebecca Litchfield. Her parents were both descended from Lawrence Litchfield, pilgrim, who came to Barnstable, Massachusetts, before 1643. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have five children : Elisabeth ; Lawrence, who married Gladys Elliott of Sci- tuate and now lives in Philadelphia ; Theodore, Margaret and Gilbert.
GEORGE H. GANSON. The manufacture of briek, which engages many men of practical business foresight in Cuyahoga County, is one of the industries of antiquity, as many ancient ruins prove, and even then the art of combin- ing different elements of the soil and produc- ing durable building brick was brought to a high state of perfection. The first manufac- turing of fire brick, however, came later. This brick, originally made from a natural com- pound of silica and alumnia, in most careful proportion, was exceedingly expensive, but modern science has discovered that certain elays in certain conditions may partly take the place of the still rarer soils and yet pro- duce an article that is capable of sustaining without fusion the extreme action of fire. It can easily be understood by an intelligent per- son that the value of such a brick in modern building is great and its use alınost universal. Tuscarawas County affords beds of the neces- sary clays and a large average of them are owned by one of Cleveland's leading mann- facturing companies, the Dover Fire Brick Company, which has at its head one of the
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experienced men of the industry in this coun- try, George H. Ganson.
George H. Ganson was born at Amhersts- burg in Ontario, Canada, April 10, 1864. His parents were George W. and Jennie Catherine (McGee) Ganson, the former of whom was born at South Newberry, Ohio, in 1838, and died in 1900. His active years were spent as a mechanic in the City of Cleveland.
George H. Ganson attended the public schools of Cleveland, both grade and high. He was seventeen years old when he entered the employ of the Dover Fire Brick Company and it is typical of his nature and temperament that in this, his first business position, he saw enough to make him realize that industry, in- telligence and fidelity in almost any line of activity are the paths that lead to success quite as often as supposed great talent. By per- severance and close application to the duties assigned him he steadily rose in the esteem of his employers and in the course of time he be- came bookkeeper for the company and later took further strides and accepted the position of secretary and then treasurer.
The Dover Fire Brick Company is one of the pioneer fire brick industries of Ohio and one of the most important. It was started in 1867 at Canal Dover, Ohio, and the concern became so prosperous that in 1870 it was in- corporated, with C. S. Barrett as president and manager, in which offices he continued until his death in 1908, when he was succeeded by George H. Ganson. The offices of the com- pany have remained at Cleveland but in 1887 the plant was moved to Strasburg, Ohio, in close proximity to the company's clay deposits. At the present time of writing (1917) the company is erecting a second and larger plant, two miles distant from the first, which, in operation, will have a capacity of 100,000 brick per day, the capacity of the first plant being 50,000 fire brick per day. Employment is given to 125 people. A general line of fire brick and ground fire clay is the product.
In October, 1889, Mr. Ganson was married to Miss Susan E. Hawkins, who died May 26, 1904, survived by one daughter, Miriam Eliza- beth, who at present is traveling in the Orient. Mr. Ganson was married second, on October 10, 1906, to Miss Minnie J. Miller, and they have twin sons, Curtis Barrett and George H., sturdy little lads of five years.
Mr. Ganson was one of the founders and is an elder in the Fairmount Presbyterian Church. Politically he is a republican. He is one of the active factors in the Cleveland Vol. II-26
Chamber of Commerce, and his membership is valued in the Union, the IIermit, the Cleve- land Athletic clubs, and the Mayfield and the Shaker Heights Country clubs.
GEORGE C. GROLL has been instrumental in developing one of Cleveland's leading business houses, the Morgan Lithograph Company, of which he is superintendent and one of the stockholders. He combines to a successful de- gree the ability of the practical business man with that of the artist, and this happy com- bination has brought him a successful position.
He was born in Cleveland August 2, 1861, a son of J. C. and Margaret (Shubert) Groll. His father was born in Bavaria, Germany. At the age of eighteen he accompanied a natural- ist on an excursion to Mexico, spending two years in the tropical regions, and then came to the United States and located in Cleveland From this city he traveled as a commercial salesman for many years, and he died here about 1895.
George C. Groll attended the public schools of Cleveland until sixteen, and then went abroad and studied art in Paris and Holland for about two years. On returning to Cleve- land he entered the service of the Morgan Lithograph Company, and his work in the different departments has finally brought him a permanent interest in the company as a stockholder and superintendent.
He is a member of the Cleveland Art Club, belongs to the Masonic Order, and is an active republican. However, he has never felt that his business duties would permit him to seek office, though he has used his influence pri- vately to promote good government. He is a useful citizen and a man of well rounded char- acter, in whose life the varied interests of business, home and family, club and practical citizenship find expression. June 25, 1901, Mr. Groll married Miss Mabel Caroline Bell, daughter of Milton A. and Adaline (Foster) Bell.
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