A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 9

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

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Judge Dissette still retains membership in the Cleveland Bar and the Ohio State Bar as- sociations, is a republican in politics, and still retains membership in the Ashland Lodge of Masons. He belongs to the Phi Kappa Phi college fraternity. No citizen of Cleveland has more warm personal friends than Judge Dissette. His friends are a unit in asserting that he never knowingly injured anyone in the world. He and his wife are active members or the Glenville Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland. He is owner of considerable real estate, and his home at the corner of East One Hundred and Twelfth Street and St. Clair Avenue, Northeast, is one of the beauty spots of Cleveland, his home being sur- rounded by ample grounds and shaded by some magnificent trees. At one time Judge Dissette owned twenty-four acres in this lo- cation, but much of it has since been sold for residence and business purposes. Some years ago he and others along the route gave to the city a strip of land in and bordering a gully to provide a course for a boulevard con- necting with Euclid Avenue, but this city highway has not yet been completed.

It is fitting that a career so prolonged and so filled with worthy achievement should have been shared in throughout by a wife, com- panion and counselor. On January 14, 1864, at Bradford, Canada, Judge Dissette married Miss Sarah Jane Fisher. They have traveled through the valleys and over the hills of life now for fifty-three years. When they reached the fiftieth milestone, on January 14, 1914, the occasion was made memorable by the quiet celebration of their fiftieth or golden wedding anniversary. Twenty guests and members of the family gathered to congratulate them, and the tone of decoration was all golden, the din- ner table having gold baskets filled with yel- low daffodils.

Until recently there has been no Cleveland woman more active in the social life and in that part of the civic and philanthropic pro- gram which is the especial domain of woman than Mrs. Dissette. She was secretary of the

Dorcas Society and was one of the organizers and the first president of the Woman's Club of Cleveland, and continued active in its work up to 1916. She was one of the execu- tive committee of the woman's department having in charge the arrangements and cere- monies connected with the Centennial Com- mission of Cleveland. She was one of those chiefly responsible for making that occasion one long to be remembered in Cleveland. The Centennial Commission had the responsibility of properly observing the centennial of Cleve- land's founding on July 22, 1796. At that date Gen. Moses Cleaveland with his little company of surveyors had landed on the banks of the Cuyahoga River.

To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Dissette were born seven children, five of whom are still living. Edward W., the oldest, is a suc- cessful Cleveland attorney, was long associ- ated with his father, and has offices in the American Trust Building. Charles K. is a director and secretary of the Ajax Manufac- turing Company of Cleveland. George C. is also an attorney, with offices in the Illuminat- ing Building. Cora F. is Mrs. Minor Keith Wilson of Cleveland. Blanche is the wife of Herman Matzen, the noted Cleveland sculptor. Mr. Matzen it will be recalled was the crea- tor of the Tom Johnson monument standing on the public square of Cleveland, and his most ambitious work was the soldiers monu- ment at Indianapolis, a memorial which Bob Ingersoll pronounced to be the only real sol- diers' monument in America. May D. Dis- sette married Mr. Englehart of Cleveland aud died leaving two children. The other daugh- ter, Maud R., is also deceased.

FRED GRABIEN is an attorney at law with offices in the Leader-News Building, and has been rapidly building up a practice and pres- tige especially in corporation work during the few years since he was admitted to practice.

A native of Cleveland, born July 24, 1887, Mr. Grabien is a son of Otto and Mary E. (Kerstine) Grabien. His parents were both born in Cleveland, were married here, and his father has for forty years been connected with The Otis Steel Company of Cleveland. They are the parents of three children : Fred ; Mrs. B. S. Handwork, of Chicago ; and Thomas A., a member of the class of 1918 in the Lake- wood High School and it is his intention to follow his high school work with a course in law.

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High School, in the Cleveland Law School and subsequently the law department of the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated LL. B. with the class of 1914. On the twenty-fifth of June of that year he was admitted to the Ohio bar and in 1917 was qualified to practice in the United States Fed- eral Court. Mr. Grabien began practice at Cleveland in 1914, and has formed some very useful and influential associations with the profession and handles chiefly corporation work. He is a republican in politics and is a member of the college society Theta Lambda Phi and the law fraternity Sigma Kappa Phi.

On February 29, 1916, he married Miss Grace Iva Wood, of Cleveland. Mrs. Grabien is a native of Michigan and was reared and educated in that state. Their home is at 2585 Euclid Boulevard in Cleveland Heights.

HARVEY DANFORTH GOULDER was born in Cleveland March 7, 1853, a son of Christopher D. and Barbara (Freeland) Goulder. His father was a captain on the Great Lakes. He attended the Cleveland public schools, and at the age of sixteen completed the course in the Cleveland High School. The three summers before he graduated he was employed on lake vessels. After leaving school he sailed on the lakes each season, and gave his winters to further education and the study of law. Ile concluded his studies in the office of John E. Cary, a prominent marine lawyer, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. The circum- stances of his early life required him to be self supporting, and it was that requirement which gave him his practical knowledge of seamanship and the many practical details of lake transportation, which knowledge has proved most valuable to him in his practices.

At present Mr. Gonlder is head of the firm of Goulder, White & Garry, with offices in the Rockefeller Building.

Early he became a recognized authority in matters growing out of the lake transportation business, so that his professional services have been retained in much of the important litiga- tion in the various courts having jurisdiction on the Great Lakes. Many of the finest legal minds in America have been attracted to the practice of admiralty law, and it is therefore not an empty distinction that Harvey D. Goulder ranks among the first in his profes- sion in this country. He has served as general counsel of the Lake Carriers' Association, which was established in 1891, and has rep- resented many other organizations having to

do with lake navigation. Much of his work has been in the field of marine insurance. He is also general counsel of the Great Lakes Protective Association.

Mr. Goulder was actively identified with the old Board of Trade and Board of Industry of Cleveland. After the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce was organized he took a promi- nent part in its affairs, and in 1902 served as president.

Considering his comprehensive knowledge of Great Lakes transportation it was very natural that Mr. Goulder should have been sought and that his publie spirit led him gladly into en- terprises for the improvement and amplifica- tion of the channels and facilities of the Great Lakes, their connecting rivers and canals, and their harbors. In connection with such mat- ters he appeared with others before various congressional committees and other bodies in support of legislation and movements directly dealing with the development of the Great Lakes waterways and harbors. The securing of a twenty-foot channel through the Great Lakes and into the principal harbors, suc- cessful opposition to bridge and piers in De- troit River, obstruction of navigation at Sault Ste. Marie, the National Water Ways Con- gress, efforts for American Merchant Marine are movements with which his name will al- ways be associated. These improvements more than anything else permitted the development of lake transportation by the construction of large vessels and increased the volume of traffic while decreasing its cost. Many heads of departments in Washington whose duties are related to the inland navigation of the continent have frequently valued the advice of this Cleveland lawyer. He has gained the reputation of being a forceful and instructive speaker, a man who says what he knows and with a clearness and discrimination that make his addresses occasions of public interest and moment. He is also the author of several articles that have been widely published.

Along with his practice Mr. Goulder has been director in various business corporations. He is a member of the Union Club, Country Club, Rowfant Club, Cleveland Yacht Club and Gentleman's Driving Club, all of Cleve- land ; of the Detroit Club of Detroit; and the Ellicott and Transportation clubs of Buffalo. In politics he is a republican.

On November 11, 1878, Mr. Goulder mar- ried Miss Mary F. Rankin, whose father, Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., was at one time pastor of the First Congregational Church

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at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Goulder died in 1913. In 1915 Mr. Goulder married Mrs. Seabury C. Ford.

FRANK W. STANTON is a Cleveland attor- ney, with offices in the Society for Savings Building, and has practiced law in this city for the past ten years. He is also known for his civic and social interests, and before lie became a lawyer was prominent in athletic circles.

Mr. Stanton was born at Chinehilla, Lacka- wanna County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1878, a son of Giles and Jane Lydia (White) Stan- ton. Both parents were natives of Scott Township in Lackawanna County, and Giles Stanton spent his life there as a farmer and died at the old home in Pennsylvania July 5, 1902, at the age of sixty-six. When Lee started his invasion into Pennsylvania in 1863 Giles Stanton was called out for serv- ice in Company K of the Thirteenth Pennsyl- vania Infantry and saw six months of service. He was well known in town politics and for over twenty years served as a school director of Abbington Township of his home county. The chief interests of his life aside from his family and farm was in education, and he supported local schools and was also inter- ested financially in Keystone Academy, a Bap- tist institution at Factoryville, Pennsylvania. In politics he was a republican and he and his wife were both devout Baptists. The mother is still living in Pennsylvania. In the fam- ily were nine children, five sons and four daughters, and seven of them grew up, four boys and three girls: Evelyn J., a woman of liberal education, was for seven years dean of the College for Women of Bucknell Uni- versity at Louisburg, Pennsylvania, where she is now living, the wife of Dr. Charles Gundy; Dr. Herbert C., a physician and surgeon, is now superintendent of the Burn Brae Sani- tarium at Clifton, a suburb of Philadelphia; Frank W .; H. C., a farmer who lives on the old homestead with his mother; Mary G., wife of John Speicher, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania; while the two deceased members of the family were Catherine, who died at the age of twen- ty, and Rutherford, who died at the age of thirty-two.

Frank W. Stanton was educated in the pub- lic schools of his native locality, and also at- tended the Keystone Academy above men- tioned. While there, at Factoryville, Pennsyl- vania, he was catcher on a baseball team and composed the "Battery" with a fourteen year

old boy named Christy Mathewson, whose later achievements are known to every fol- lower of baseball in America. Stanton and Mathewson were subsequently on the same baseball team at Bucknell University. Mr. Stanton completed his preparatory education in the Peddie Institute at Heights Town, New Jersey, and then entered Bueknell University of Louisburg, Pennsylvania, where he gradu- ated A. B. in 1902. Following his college career at Bucknell his work as an athlete commended him to the position of director of athleties at Denison University in Ohio, where he remained four years. He has also been an athletic coach in the West High School, the University School of Cleveland, and for two years was baseball coach in Western Reserve University. Mr. Stanton eame to Cleveland in 1906, entering the law school of Western Reserve University and graduating LL. B. in June, 1908. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in the same month and at once began practice. For a time he was a member of the firm Stan- ton & Karch, his partner being Walter Karch, and their offices were in the Society for Sav- ings Building, where Mr. Stanton is located today. Two and a half years later he be- came an associate in the firm of Morgan & Litzler, and after two years took an associate position with the well known Cleveland law firm of Young, Stocker & Fenner, where he still remains, handling a general practice as a lawyer. He has been admitted to the United States Federal District Court. Mr. Stanton is secretary of the Turner Truck Sales Com- pany of Cleveland.

Mr. Stanton is a democrat in national poli- ties, but locally is for the best man regardless of party. He has become widely known in Cleveland as one of the foremost leaders in the dry campaign movement, and has been an organizer and worker in that movement in Ohio for three years and now has charge of the west side of the city. Mr. Stanton is a member of the University Club, Civic League, City Club, Cleveland Bar Association and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He has taken ten degrees in Masonry and is a member of Windermere Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, at Cleveland, and Bigelow Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and the Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Newark, Ohio. He is also a member of the Masonic Baseball League of Cleveland, and is still active in the sport of his college days and also in tennis. He has been active in social affairs and in di- recting the outdoor recreation activities of

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Hiram House at Cleveland for the past six years, and his connection with that social wel- fare center was the beginning of a happy ro- mance. While in charge of a boys club he met at the Hiram House Miss Marie Louise Seel- bach, of Cleveland, who has charge of the Camp Fire Girls. Miss Seelbach is a native of Cleveland, a graduate of the East High School and of Hiram College with the class of 1914, and for three years has been prominent in the social affairs of Hiram House. They were married November 10, 1917, and the wedding received much attention from the social pages of Cleveland papers because of its unusual setting. It was a "camp fire wed- ding," both the bride and groom being attired in camp fire and rustic costumes, surrounded with sylvan scenery and with all the glory of autumn woods.

VIRGIL CORYDON TAYLOR came to Cleveland sixty years ago. He was then a very young man, with only such experience in business as had been acquired by clerking in his fa- ther's store. He possessed an excellent in- heritance, his people having been of the sub- stantial New England sort, and his early life had been such as to stimulate ambition and form good character. Mr. Taylor has accom- plished much during the sixty years of his Cleveland citizenship. His enterprise has been well rewarded financially, but his posi- tion of esteem is due not so much to his wealth as to the influence he has exercised as a con- structive factor in the upbuilding and im- provement of Cleveland. He has been one of the men upon whom the city could rely in its times of crisis and also in its times of pros- perity.

Mr. Taylor was born in Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio, August 4, 1838, a son of Hector and Polly (Carter) Taylor. The Taylor fam- ily has been identified with Ohio for eighty- five years, and came out of New England. William Taylor, Jr., the grandfather, spent all his life in Connecticut except the time when he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He served in Company A from Sims- bury, Connecticut, and fought in the battles of Lexington and Monmouth. Hector Taylor was born in New Hartford, Connecticut, in April, 1799, and came to Ohio in 1832, be- ing one of the early settlers at Twinsburg. He established a general merchandise busi- ness and kept it growing in proportion to the community and for many years conducted a profitable business. He finally retired in 1870

and came to Cleveland to live with his son Virgil. He died in Cleveland in November, 1874. In early manhood he married Miss Polly Carter, daughter of Noah Andrew and Lydia Carter, of Bristol, Connecticut.

Virgil Corydon Taylor has always consid- ered himself fortunate that he lived in the at- mosphere of a small town when a boy. He was educated in the public schools of Twins- burg, and afterwards took advanced studies in Geauga Seminary. Leaving school at an early age, he found a place in his father's store and there received a general training in merchandising. In 1856, at the age of eighteen, he came to Cleveland and was con- nected with a dry goods business until the out- break of the war.

Mr. Taylor is an honored veteran of the Civil war. He became a member of Company E of the Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infan- try, was commissioned first lieutenant, and was with that regiment in its various cam- paigns, marches and battles as part of the Army of the Potomac.

At the close of the war Mr. Taylor resumed with increased energy and purpose his busi- ness career. He became cashier in the Farm- ers Bank of Cleveland, held that post for eight years, but since 1873 has been primarily engaged in the real estate business. In forty- four years he has made his business a source of constructive improvement in Cleveland. He has worked constantly for the city wel- fare and deserves credit in connection with the making of this city the sixth in rank and population in the United States. The firm of V. C. Taylor & Son, with offices in the Wil- liamson Building, has been and is today one of Cleveland's most reliable real estate or- ganizations.

For over half a century Mr. Taylor has lived at 6620 Euclid Avenue. His is one of the best known residence landmarks in that party of the city. While his work and citi- zenship have never been sectional in charac- ter, he has done much to improve his part of Cleveland, and for a number of years was a member of the old school board of East Cleveland. He was one of the three members of that board who brought Dr. Elroy M. Avery, editor of this publication, to the city in 1870. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Cleve- land Chamber of Commerce and the Cleve- land Real Estate Board. Outside of business and civic affairs his tastes run to literature and to outdoor life. He has a fine private li- brary, and his summers are usually spent

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among the Thirty Thousand Islands in Can- ada, where he indulges his proclivities as a fisherman and hunter. He is a member of the Union Club and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. In politics a republican, he has not allowed himself to be rigidly bound by party ties and has frequently expressed himself independent of party leaders. This is especially so in the selection of candidates for local offices. He is also a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

One of the oldest of Cleveland's real estate men, he has long been associated in the work with his son Alexander S. Taylor. Mr. Taylor was married June 23, 1863, to Miss Mar- garet Minerva Sacket. Her parents were Alexander and Harriet (Johnson) Sacket. She was a granddaughter of Levi Johnson, elsewhere referred to as one of Cleveland's earliest pioneers, the builder of the first court- house and county jail and in many other ways identified with the city's founding and early improvement. Levi Johnson died in 1871. Alexander Sacket, father of Mrs. Taylor, was for many years one of Cleveland's merchants. Mrs. Taylor was born May 3, 1838, and died May 6, 1908, after a happy married life of nearly forty-five years. Outside of her home interests she was closely connected with the work of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Cleveland and the various charities of that organization. She was a woman of splendid culture and of such character as to cause her memory to be deeply cherished. She was the mother of four children. The oldest is Har- riet, now the wife of Dr. Frank E. Bunts, the noted surgeon of Cleveland; Catherine is the wife of R. O. Carter. Alexander S. is the business associate of his father. Grace, the youngest, is the wife of John B. Cochran, sou of the former vice president of the Erie Rail- road.

JUDGE FRANK E. DELLENBAUGH. Few members of the Cleveland bar have applied themselves with such increasing devotion to the well defined limits of the profession as Judge Dellenbaugh. He has been more than content and satisfied with the rewards and appreciation of the successful lawyer. While he has been active in politics at different times and served a term on the Common Pleas bench, these have all been incidental to his real carcer. He has been a member of the Cleveland bar forty years, and is not only one of its oldest but most successful mem- bers.

A native of Ohio, Frank Everett Dellen- baugh was born at North Georgetown in Co- lumbiana County October 2, 1856. He comes of a professional family, both his father and grandfather before him having been very ca- pable physicians and surgeons. His grand- father was a native of Switzerland, came to America in the early part of the last century and for many years practiced in Ohio. The father, Dr. C. W. Dellenbaugh, was born in Ohio, expressed his life in skillful service as a physician and surgeon, and was one of the highly respected men of his community. Judge Dellenbaugh's mother was Sarah A. Everett, a native of Ohio and of English an- cestry.

A year after his birth Judge Dellenbaugh's parents moved to Cleveland. He attended one of the old district schools of this locality, also attended the Cleveland Academy, and began a student career in Western Reserve University, but owing to ill health was com- pelled to abandon it. For two years he pur- sued his studies under a private tutor.

In 1875 he entered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, and kept up his studies for one year. During the Centen- nial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 he was appointed an inspector in the department of finance, and filled that post from May 1 to November 29, 1876. In December he re- turned to Cleveland and resumed his law studies in the office of his uncle, Charles D. Everett. In 1877 the Ohio State Union Law College conferred upon him the honorary de- grec LL. B. and on March 21, 1877, he was admitted to practice in the state courts. On the same day one year later he was admitted to the Federal courts.

After one year of professional work on his own account he formed a partnership with Albert H. Weed, under the name Weed & Dellenbaugh. Two years later he withdrew to become a partner of his uncle, Charles D. Everett, under the name Everett & Dellen- haugh. After about two years the firm en- larged by taking into partnership Mr. A. H. Weed, and the triple partnership continued until 1895. In that year William McKinley, then governor of Ohio, appointed Mr. Dellen- baugh judge of the Court of Common Pleas to fill the unexpired term of Judge John C. Hutchins, who had resigned to accept the postmastership of Cleveland under appoint- ment from President Cleveland. It was with considerable personal sacrifice that Judge Dellenbaugh gave up his large private prac-

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tice to go on the bench. He felt that duty required him to make this sacrifice and be- fore filling out the unexpired term he was elected in November, 1896, for a full five year term. He was on the republican ticket in that election and defeated Judge Noble, the demo- cratic candidate, by nearly 6,000 majority. In the spring of 1897 he entered upon his official service for the full term. He brought to the judicial office not only his long and varied experience as a lawyer but the dignity and temperament of the true judge, and his term did much to maintain the high standard of the local judiciary.

On leaving the bench he resumed private practice as head of the firm Dellenbaugh, Newman & Hintz. This partnership contin- ued until 1916, and since January 1, 1917, Judge Dellenbaugh has been in practice un- der the firm name of Dellenbaugh & Hosford at 1509 Union National Bank Building. As a lawyer Judge Dellenbaugh has been distin- guished by diligence of application, a schol- arly mind and a personal integrity that has never been questioned.

Judge Dellenbaugh when occasion requires is both a forceful and pleasing speaker. When the St. Louis Convention nominated Governor Mckinley for President the judge at once of- fered his services as a speaker to the Repub- lican National Committee. This offer was gladly accepted, and he did much to influence thousands of the voters in the Northwest, and closed the campaign in his native state. Judge Dellenbaugh is a member of the Masonic Or- der, the Knights of Pythias, the Moore Club, Fairmount Club, and the Cleveland Automo- bile Club, and is identified with the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and The Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County. Judge Del- lenbaugh has one child, Mary Virginia. He also has one sister, Florence A. Roberts, wife of William M. Roberts.

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A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Part 9

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