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formed he had no hesitation in following it. This is characteristic of great men, a class to which he belonged."
A few sentences may also be quoted from resolutions passed by the Bar Association : "He was entrusted with the management of cases of great magnitude-involving the in- vestigation and argument of new and difficult questions growing out of the law of corpora- tions. Especially was he known as thor- oughly versed in the law governing railroad corporations; and the confidence inspired in those who controlled, in a large measure, the gigantic railroad interests of our country, is well attested by their seeking his advice and guidance. * *
* Yet, amid the engross- ing labors of his profession, he did not slight the 'fair humanities,' for, 'He was a scholar and a ripe and good one.' But he was a scholar without pedantry-half concealing and half disclosing the fruits of careful scholastic training, and of an habitual read- ing of the choicest literature. His memorial of Judge Rufus P. Ranney, read before the Ohio State Bar Association in 1892, is a literary portraiture of mind and character worthy of the highest art, as well as of the most discriminating judgment.
"The elements were so combined in Judge Williamson that Nature might stand up and say that he was an exemplar worthy of imi- tation by all who came within the sphere of his influence. He was a never-failing friend and thereby drew around him a large circle of admiring and devoted friends. His integrity was of the loftiest kind. He was imbued with the most delicate sense of professional honor, and never forgot that. while striving to achieve victory for a client, his duty as an attorney did not require him to sacrifice his convic- tions of right and justice. His code of daily duty was not drawn from the oracles of human wisdom alone, but came also from the divine oracles of Christian truth."
Mr. John HI. Clarke, one of his law partners of later years, writing to Judge Williamson's brother, said : "Speaking of him distinctly as a lawyer, the single quality which to me marked your brother above all other lawyers that I have known was the all but unerring certainty with which, without turning to the books, he would determine what the law was, even of the most novel and complicated case. Of course, at the time of which I am speak- ing, he had behind him long years of study and professional experience, so that it was the highly trained legal mind and judgment
that he was bringing to bear upon the ques- tions before him. But even so the validity of his conclusions was such as to place him cer- tainly among the very first of the greatest lawyers with whom I have come in contact in twenty-five years of practice.
"In all my acquaintance with Judge Wil- liamson I can recall having heard him speak harshly of but one man-and he deserved it. He was helpful with advice and assistance to young men and old among his professional brethren, and without exception they accorded to him a position of respect and esteem en- tirely unusual and unique in my experience. His kindly bearing never failed him, save when some act or word offended his high standards of personal or professional conduct or morality, and then a severely resolute re- buke, in court or out of it, warned the offender in manner not to be forgotten against its repetition. He was gentle of manner, but al- ways sternly severe in maintaining 'the faith he kept with his convictions and ideals of duty.
"This, above all others, is the impression which this really great man, as distinguished from the great lawyer that he was, left upon one of those nearest to him in professional life, while in the fullest strength of his powers :
"There is nothing so kingly as kindness, There is nothing so loyal as truth."
JAMES DELONG WILLIAMSON is now execu- tive vice president of the Society for Savings of Cleveland. He has been more or less ac- tively identified with that old and honored financial institution for many years, and since April, 1912, has been performing the duties of his present office.
One of the corporate members of this finan- cial institution was Samuel Williamson, who held the office of president of the society from 1866 to 1884. He was the father of James DeLong Williamson. He also had the dis- tinction of being the first president of the so- ciety to receive a regular salary.
James DeLong Williamson was born March 12, 1849, at the old Williamson homestead, which stood on Euclid Avenue next to the Public Square and on the site now occupied by the sixteen-story Williamson office build- ing. He is a son of Samuel and Mary Eladsit (Tisdale) Williamson. Both the Williamson and Tisdale families were among the pioneers of Cleveland.
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James D. Williamson attended the Cleve- land public schools and Western Reserve Col- lege, graduating A. B. in 1870, and then, hav- ing chosen a career as minister, he attended Andover and Union Theological seminaries, graduating from Union Seminary in 1875. In 1901 Wooster University conferred upon him the honorary degree D. D.
Mr. Williamson was active in the ministry from the date of his graduation from Union Seminary until 1901. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Norwalk, Ohio, from 1875 to 1884, and was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Warren from 1885 to 1888 and of Beckwith Memorial Pres- byterian Church of Cleveland from 1888 to 1901, when he resigned from active work as a minister. This church is now consolidated with the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Soon after his retirement from his pastorate he became associated with the Society for Sav- ings in Cleveland as a member of its board of trustees and its finance committee. During the two years that former Governor Myron T. Herrick was ambassador to France Mr. Wil- liamson served as president pro tem. of the society.
Mr. Williamson has constantly found time for a large usefulness in the community in behalf of various institutions in addition to his duties as vice president of the Society for Savings. He is treasurer of the Welfare Fed- eration of Cleveland, formerly the Cleveland Federation for Charity and Philanthropy. He is a member of the Country Club, the Union Club, the University Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Civic League, and is now presi- dent of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church board of trustees. Politically he is a republican. Mr. Williamson has given gen- erously of his time and means for the promo- tion of charitable and educational work, and is a trustee of the Western Reserve University, the Lake Erie College, the Hiram House, and president of the Cleveland Foundation Com- mittee. He has also traveled extensively both in this country and abroad.
At Elyria, Ohio, August 4, 1875, Mr. Wil- liamson married Miss Edith Day Ely, member of one of the oldest families of Northern Ohio. She is a daughter of the late Heman Ely, whose father founded and gave the name to the City of Elyria, Ohio. They are the par- ents of three children living and one deceased. Frederick E. is now general superintendent of the New York Central terminals in New York. Arthur P. is treasurer of the Dill Manufac-
turing Company of Cleveland. The daughter, Ruth Ely, is still at home. The sons were born in Norwalk, Ohio, and the daughter at Cleve- land. The sons graduated from Yale Uni- versity. The daughter attended the Hatha- way-Brown School at Cleveland and the Ben- nett School of New York.
HARRY H. MULHOLLAND for a long period of years traveled over probably two-thirds of the states of the Union as a manufacturers' agent, but in 1912 made his permanent head- quarters at Cleveland, where he has since fol- lowed the undertaking business, a business in which he had engaged prior to going on the road.
Mr. Mulholland was born in Monroe County, Michigan, February 23, 1868. He represents one of the pioneer families in the southeastern corner of Michigan. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry and his people came to America and settled in one of the New Eng- land colonies more than a century ago. His grandfather, James Mulholland, was born in New England in 1800, and in early life moved west and acquired some extensive tracts of Government land in Monroe County, Michi- gan. He was there when nearly all the in- habitants were either the early French or the Indians, and his family was several times in danger because of the presence of hostile Indians. He did his work as a farmer and died at Erie in Monroe County in 1876. James Mulholland, Jr., father of Harry H., was born at Erie, Michigan, in 1836, and has spent all his life in that section, being now eighty-two years of age. In his time he farmed extensive tracts of land and did it well. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He married Miss Anna Hall, who was born at Erie, Michigan, in 1843 and dicd there in 1906. Their children were: Stella, wife of Ira E. Wood, a farmer at Chelsea, Michigan; Harry H .; and Carrie, wife of Lin H. Kirtland, a farmer at Erie, Michi- gan.
Harry H. Mulholland was educated in the rural schools near Erie, and spent the first twenty-two years of his life on his father's farm. He also attended the Michigan Agri- cultural College at Lansing for one year. His first independent undertaking was in the nur- sery business at Monroe, where he continued for five years. After that he engaged in the undertaking business at. Monroe for three years, and then went on the road as a man- nfacturer's agent. For fifteen years he cov-
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ered thirty-five states and a part of Canada, and went over this extensive territory at least twice annually. Mr. Mulholland came to Cleveland in 1912 to engage in the undertak- ing business. He is a democrat, as was his grandfather and father before him.
Mr. Mulholland and family reside at 3531 Prospect Avenue. He married at Erie, Mich- igan, in 1890, Miss Mary E. Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hall, deceased. Her father was a harness maker at Erie. Mr. and Mrs. Mulholland have one son, James, who graduated from the Miami Military Institute, also attended Western Reserve University and took special work in Toledo and is now serving with the rank of lieutenant with the United States forces in France.
FRED ROLLIN WHITE was born in Cleve- land February 17, 1872, a son of Rollin Charles and Sarah Elizabeth White. After attending the public school of his native city he entered Cornell University and graduated in 1895 with the degree LL. B. For a time he was engaged in the real estate business, but became financially and personally identi- fied as one of the founders with the Baker Motor Vehicle Company and has thus been in the field of automobile manufacture for twenty years. He was also one of the founders of and is a member of the American Ball Bearing Company.
Mr. White is a republican, and a member of the Union, University, Country and Chagrin Valley Hunt clubs. June 25, 1910, at Cleve- land, he married Miriam Norton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Z. Norton. They have two children, Frederick R. White, Jr., and Mary Carolyn White.
FRANK A. SCOTT. The present generation at least will have no difficulty in identifying and distinguishing Frank A. Scott among the citi- zenslip of Cleveland. A lifelong resident of the city, lifting himself throughi early strug- gles and hard work to position and influence, he was a number of years secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and vice president and treasurer of the Warner & Swazey Company. Then when the nation, at war with Germany, required the services of executive men, Mr. Scott was called to Washington to serve as chairman of the General Munitions Board, and that service constituted him a really na- tional figure.
As a matter of history, and as a record that will be reviewed and referred to in later
years, it should be stated that Frank Augus- tus Scott was born in Cleveland March 22, 1873, a son of Robert Crozier and Sarah Ann (Warr) Scott. When he was ten years of age his father died, and from that time forward he had to make his own way in the world. For two years he arose before four o'clock in the morning to deliver newspapers, and also car- ried a bundle of the afternoon editions. Only once did illness prevent him from making his usual rounds. At the age of twelve he became a messenger hoy for the Western Union Tele- graph Company, and later was detailed to deliver Associated Press dispatches to the newspapers. His next promotion was an as- signment to carry telegrams to the general offices of a local railway system. Then he was made office boy to a local freight agent, where it is said he had to stand on a box in order to work the letter press. An eagerness to learn everything going on about him and above him was the chief reason for regular promotion to larger duties. He was made clerk in the freight office, and in time became a specialist in freight rates, a subject which requires a mind capable of mastering complicated detail.
During this time Mr. Scott was acquiring the equivalent of a high school education. Dr. John H. Dynes of Western Reserve Uni- versity was tutoring him in Latin, History and English branches, and while Mr. Scott never had a college degree his training was that which such a degree is supposed to sig- nify.
The work and experience thus briefly noted covers that time of life up to his majority. About the time he was able to vote he was em- ployed as an expert on the subject of freight rates by the Standing Committee on Trans- portation of the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce. In 1395, at the age of twenty-two, he was appointed assistant secretary of the Chamber, and in 1899 was elected secretary, an office he filled until 1905.
With the advent of Mr. Scott as its secre- tary the Chamber of Commerce passed into the second stage of its existence. Heretofore it had been largely concerned with prepara- tions for work-in building a foundation for future accomplishments. Under his broad and energetic management the organization hecame the power in the community which its founders had hoped it might become. His administration of its affairs gave him a high rank among the organizers of the country and placed the Chamber of Commerce first
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on the list of such organizations in America. When he resigned from the Chamber of Com- merce in 1905 it was to accept the office of secretary and treasurer of the Superior Sav- ings and Trust Company, when it was organ- ized by Col. Jeremiah J. Sullivan, one of Cleveland's greatest bankers. Mr. Scott was with the Superior Savings and Trust Com- pany three years. During 1908-09 he was receiver of the Municipal Traction Company of Cleveland. In 1909 he joined forces with two other great Cleveland business men, W. R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey, as an officer in the Warner & Swasey Company, manu- facturers of machine tools, astronomical in- struments, range finders, gun sights, etc. Thus one of Cleveland's greatest industrial institutions came under the management of Frank A. Scott, who was at that time only thirty-five years of age.
Mr. Scott is a trustee of Western Re- serve University, director of the Cleveland Humane Society, treasurer of the Lakeside Hospital; is a member of the Rowfant and Union clubs of Cleveland, Army and Navy and Chevy Chase clubs, Washington, D. C., and Engineers Club of New York, and also belongs to the Cleveland Engineering Society and the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Episcopal Church.
In 1896, in Cleveland, Mr. Scott married Bertha Dynes, of Cleveland, who died in 1909, the mother of three children, Katharine B., Chester B. and Eleanor L. In 1911 Mr. Scott married Faith A. Fraser, of Cleveland.
Mr. Scott has long been known as one of the foremost apostles of military prepared- ness. Around him have centered many of the movements in Cleveland and in the state to put this nation into a condition of effi- ciency with respect to the military and naval arms, and from the outbreak of the great war in Europe he was exerting every influ- ence he possessed to that end. Before the outbreak of the war with Germany he was member of a naval consulting board, part of the larger organization of the national ex- perts from all fields of industry who were surveying and coordinating the national re- sources. Then, in April, 1917, Mr. Scott was named through the Council of National De- fense as head of a general munitions board, and in July, when the War Industries Board was created, consisting of five members, Mr. Scott was appointed chairman.
At the time the creation of a War Indus-
tries Board was called "the most encouraging administrative event that has happened since the war begun." And now, more than a year later, when America's part in the war is be- ginning to tell from the official reports from the battle front, it is not presumptuous to give a considerable share of the credit for America's military efficiency to the work of that board, headed by Mr. Scott of Cleveland. No one would accuse Mr. William Hard of being a tender hearted critic of men and af- fairs at Washington. What he said concern- ing the personnel of this board and Mr. Scott in particular stands out conspicuously among the many severe denunciations which flowed from his pen during the first year of the war. In an article written for the New Republic in August, 1917, Mr. Hard had some things to say about Mr. Scott which are perhaps the most concise interpretation of his character and mental makeup and which his closest friends of Cleveland would justify in every particular. "Mı. Scott," to quote a portion of Mr. Hard's article, "has already accom- plished what was said at Washington to be impossible. He has aroused a stir of personal enthusiasm, first for the General Munitions Board and now for the War Industries Board, in the breasts of certain critical and crucial military men in the War Department who, it was thought, were obdurate to the charms of any civilian intrusions into military affairs. They were not obdurate to the charms of Mr. Scott.
"He turned out, for one thing, to be a war fan, capable of conversing at length on the battles of the Civil War, the Mexican War, the Revolutionary War and other wars, thus demonstrating the horse sense of his mental interests. In consequence of these interests he turned out also to have a most genuine admiration and liking for military men, and from the day of his arrival in Washington he has been as zealous for the indispensability of military technical knowledge as for the indispensability of civilian commercial tech- nical knowledge in the purchasing of war sup- plies. He has been a positively providential bridge between the civilian and the military ways of thinking.
"Further, he is a very great diplomat. He must have been born a diplomat, but he ad- ditionally served ten years as secretary of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce before he became secretary and treasurer and man- ager of the Warner & Swasey Company. That is, he learned to deal with groups of men over
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whom he had no power of 'hire-and-fire' be- fore he became an employer. He was, in es- sence, a politician before he became a busi- ness man. By temperament and by experi- ence he walks unautocratically and sure-foot- edly through many places in Washington where many 'I say to one man go and he goeth and to another man come and he cometh' busi- ness men have stumbled and fallen.
"And he is a man of excellent executive ability. It has been marked not only by his colleagues but by members of foreign tech- nical missions, several of whom picked him out a long time ago as the most probable man in sight to be selected finally to be the head of our American munitions activities. Part of his ability is related to his diplomacy. It is this remarkable unclouded temper of his mind. He has a most curious way of with- drawing his mind from one object and of then focusing it on another so definitely, so deliberately, that one can almost hear the ac- companying click. It is more than a manner- ism. It is a method, conscious or uncon- scious. The result of it is that his mind never gets blurred by impressions. He takes them in sequence, uses them and files or discards them. At the end of a day he is usually as receptive and forceful as he was at the be- ginning."
Mr. Scott was with the War Industries Board long enough to impart to it much of his personal force and spirit, and it was a matter of nation wide regret when ill health compelled him to resign October 26, 1917. In his letter of resignation to Secretary of War Baker he said: "With the deepest re- gret and only because I am experiencing a recurrence of a serious physical difficulty from which I suffered in 1912, I submit my resig- nation from the chairmanship of the War Industries Board." In reply Secretary Baker said: "I take leave to assure you that we deeply appreciate the self sacrifice as well as the value of the service you have rendered and count it a most fortunate thing for the Government that it was able to have your knowledge, zeal and splendid spirit as a part of the organization which faced the early and difficult task of industrial organization of the war."
WILLIAM WOLTMAN. While the Woltman Carriage & Wagon Company at East Thirty- third Street and Woodland Avenue is not among the largest of the great industries of Cleveland, it is the second oldest wagon and
carriage factory in the city, and for over forty years an organization has been main- tained with equipment and expert personnel for the manufacture of vehicles of the high- est type and grade, and the aggregate volume of the business has been such as to give it a highly honorable place among Cleveland's manufacturing concerns.
The founder of the business and its active head during all its years has been Mr. William Woltman. A resident of Cleveland since childhood, he was born in the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, October 20, 1849, son of George and Maria (Engelman) Woltman, His father was born in Hanover in 1821, was a mechanic by trade, and brought his family to the United States in 1853. He lived in New York City and died there in 1856. His widow, who was born in Hanover, brought her children to Cleveland in 1856, soon after his death, and she lived here the rest of her days. Her children were: William; Mina, who married Henry Stockhaus, a mechanic, both of whom died in Cleveland; and Robert a mechanic living at Cleveland.
William Woltman was seven years old when he came with his mother to Cleveland he grew up here in rather humble circumstances and could attend public school only to the age of thirteen. After that he helped support the little family and at the age of sixteen began his work in a carriage factory and has been identified with that one line of business ever since. It was in 1874 that he established what is now the Woltman Carriage & Wagon Company. The business was incorporated in 1906 under the laws of Ohio, and its officers are: Mr. Woltman, president, secretary and treasurer, and Mrs. M. J. Woltman, his wife, vice president. Mr. and Mrs. Woltman have in fact carried most of the business burdens of this industry through all the years, and its success is a high tribute to their energy and ability. The output of the company is now to a large extent automobile bodies, and it also has a large equipment for the repair of carriages and wagons.
Mr. Woltman is a republican voter. He is affiliated with Concordia Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Cleveland Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Holyrood Commandery, Knights Templar; and Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite.
He and his family reside at 800 East Nine- ty-ninth Street. Mr. Woltman married at Cleveland in 1870 Miss Mary J. McDowell. She was born at Troy, New York. They have
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two children, daughters. Belle is the wife of L. H. Stoeltzing, residing on East Ninety- Ninth Street. Mr. Stoeltzing is an account- ant with the White Automobile Company. The second daughter, Charlotte Marie, mar- ried George L. Kubeck and they live on East One Hundred and Eighteenth Street. Mr. Kubeck is with the Pittsburgh Steamship Company.
ADRIAN D. JOYCE. Every business man is at heart a salesman but it has been left to a comparatively small group of talented men to raise the art of salesmanship to a profession. A salesman and a sales manager and execu- tive par excellence in Cleveland is Adrian D. Joyce, president of the Glidden Company.
Mr. Joyce, who was formerly general man- ager of sales and distribution for the Sherwin- Williams Company, paint manufacturers, in 1917 organized the Glidden Company. This corporation purchased the stock and assets of the Glidden Varnish Company of Cleveland, the Glidden Varnish Company, Limited, of Toronto, Canada, the Forest City Paint & Varnish Company of Cleveland, and the Whittier-Coburn Company of San Francisco, California. Mr. Joyce is president of the new institution, whose products, paints, varnishes and Jap-a-lac stains and enamels are known all over the world. A leading paper recently spoke of the plans under way for the broaden- ing of the new concern and extending its busi- ness into new fields. The Glidden Company is emphasizing the manufacture of paints as well as varnishes, and with increased capital, enlarged equipment, and an extended sales force, and the addition of many new paint specialties the new company has assumed a dormant place in the trade. It is this com- pany that manufactures the internationally known Jap-a-lac Household Finishes. Under the present management the entire line of paint and varnish products will be grouped and advertised under the name "Glidden."
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