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Adrian D. Joyce was born in Sumner, Iowa, November 18, 1872, a son of M. H. and Anna S. Joyce. In 1873, when he was six months old, his parents moved to Memphis, Macomb County, Michigan, where some of his youth- ful years were spent and where he attended public school until fifteen. His school days were spliced with hard work, and he did con- siderable farm work for wages and carried on his studies at night when physically tired. After attaining proper qualifications he taught school in Macomb County and when he
left that location at the end of three years was principal of a school at Warren. He also continued study with a view to entering the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he spent a year in the school of law and commerce. He may have had some idea of becoming a lawyer, but he abandoned it and going to Macomb County, Michigan, engaged for himself in the wholesale grain and produce business.
At the age of twenty-six Mr. Joyce was in Chicago, where he was employed as assistant manager of the fertilizer department of Swift & Company until 1901. In that year he formed his first connection with the paint or- ganizations, when he went on the road as sales- man for the Sherwin-Williams Company of Cleveland. In 1904 he was called to the home office as manager of the city sales department. Three months later another recognition of his ability was made when he was transferred to Kansas City as manager of that sales division for a year. The next promotion was to dis- trict manager for the Southwestern district, but two years later he returned to Cleveland and became assistant general manager, and a year after that was promoted to general man- ager of the department of sales and distribu- tion. In 1916 in addition to these responsibili- ties he was elected a director and member of the executive board of this great paint manu- facturing company. These offices he continued to hold until he retired to enter upon his pres- ent duties.
Another evidence of his salesmanship and of a more public nature came in the spring of 1917, when with two thousand workers under him Mr. Joyce evolved one of the greatest sales organizations ever in action, and made it possible for Cleveland to rank far ahead of any other city in the country of its size and population in the matter of subscriptions for the Liberty Bonds. In passing it may be men- tioned that Secretary of the Treasury, Mc- Adoo, sent Mr. Joyce a very complimentary letter commending him and his organization for the splendid work accomplished in this campaign.
Mr. Joyce is a member of the Union Club, Mayfield Country Club, the Country Club, and belongs to the Masonic Order. He is a re- publican in politics and a member of the Uni- tarian Church.
June 9, 1897, at Leroy, New York, he mar- ried Miss Anna Page. They have four chil- dren : Marion, a graduate of the Hathaway- Brown School of Cleveland and of Bradford
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Academy for Girls at Bradford, Massa- chusetts ; Dwight, aged eighteen, a graduate of the University School of Cleveland and while there business manager for the University News, and in 1918 entered the University of Michigan ; Dorothy, a student in the Hatha- way-Brown School for Girls; and Phyllis, who is also in that well known Cleveland private school.
HENRY M. MOLDER. One of the leading citi- zens of Bedford is Henry M. Molder, manager of the mammoth foundry operated there by the Best Foundry Company, and additionally is manager of their great factory conducted under the name of the Federal Foundry Com- pany at Indianapolis, Indiana. These plants are of vast importance in the industrial field, and their wise and efficient management, with their many hundreds of workmen, means con- tinued prosperity covering a wide territory. Mr. Molder has been identified with these cor- porate interests since 1905.
Henry M. Molder was born at Cleveland, Ohio, September 16, 1866. His parents were Henry and Susan (Holtzworth) Molder. Henry Molder was born in Germany, in De- cember, 1836, but left that country when twelve years old and came to the United States and located at what is now Linndale, near Cleveland, in 1848. At that time the boy found farm work there but much of that section is now included in the city limits of Cleveland. He remained there until the open- ing of the Civil war, when he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, and as comrades had William Mc- Kinley and James A. Garfield, and they fought in many engagements side by side, participating in the battle of Lookout Moun- tain and many others, Mr. Molder remaining in the service for four years. Although Mr. Molder and both of his distinguished comrades in arms safely passed through the many dan- gers of war, he is the only survivor, for tra- gie deaths met both of the others along peace- ful paths. After he returned from the war Mr. Molder was employed in the meat busi- ness with George Ross & Company on Ontario Street, and remained there until he retired from business activity in 1897, and about that time went to live in the home of his son Henry M. Molder. He was married to Susan Ifoltzworth, who was born in Germany and came to the United States when fourteen years old and died at Cleveland in 1896. They had the following children : Henry M .; George, Vol. 11-32
who is employed as a pattern-maker and lives at Cleveland; Edward, who is foreman of the Cleveland Foundry Company; Kitty, who married Robert Crooks, and both are de- ceased; the entire family being well known and well connected.
Henry M. Molder attended school at Cleve- land until he was fifteen years of age and then started to learn the pattern-making trade and worked for twelve years with the Taylor & Boggis Foundry Company, Cleveland, and then went with the Interstate Foundry Com- pany and for five years was foreman of their pattern department. In 1905 he accepted the position of superintendent for the Best Foundry Company and shortly afterward was made manager of their foundry at Bedford and also their equally important factory at Indianapolis. Mr. Molder thus has under his supervision two thoroughly equipped plants and almost a thousand workmen, 350 being employed in Indianapolis and 640 at Bedford. Many qualifications are needed beside tech- nical knowledge to insure the smooth running of such large industrial plants, and appar- ently Mr. Molder possesses these, for no trouble has developed under his management and business prosperity has been continuous.
Mr. Molder was married November 27, 1912, at Cleveland, to Miss Helen I. Lockwood, who was born in Bedford, and is a daughter of Max and Eliza (Batt) Lockwood, the latter of whom resides at Bedford. The father of Mrs. Molder was in the United States Postal service prior to his death. Mr. and Mrs. Molder have a daughter, Helen Jane, who was born November 29, 1913. Mr. Molder owns his attractive residence in Bedford and makes his home here, and, in fact, has long been a representative citizen. Like his father, he has always been a republican and has taken an active interest in local politics. For eight years he served continuously on the village council and exerted his influence to bring about reforms and to encourage public im- provements, and served two years on the Util- ity Commission, resigning from the same ou January 1, 1918. He is a director in the Federal Foundry Company, Indianapolis, the Cleveland Electric Motor Company and also the American Stove Company.
Mr. Molder was reared in the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally he belongs to Bedford Lodge No. 375, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is junior warden; Bed- ford Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Holy- rood Commandery, Knights Templar and
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Al Koran Temple, of the Mystic Shrine, Cleveland; Criterion Lodge, Knights of Py- thias, Cleveland Lodge No. 18, Elks, and is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce.
THE HOFFMAN ICE CREAM AND DAIRY COM- PANY has the distinction of being the old- est business of its kind in continuous ex- istence at Cleveland. It was established more than thirty-five years ago by Adam Hoffman, who with the assistance of his children has gradually built it up until it represents a large investment of capital, facilities, and an active personal organization that takes its product of perfect standard of purity and excellence all over the city and surrounding territory.
The head of the firm, Adam Hoffman, was born in Hesse, Germany, March 18, 1851. His father, George Hoffman, was born in the same province of Germany, was reared and married there, and was connected with a firm for the manufacture of broadcloth. In 1859, after the death of his wife, he came to the United States and located at Cleveland, where he worked at the mason's trade. At the out- break of the Civil war he enlisted in the Union army and served until he was killed in the first battle of Corinth, early in the war. Thus he gave his life for his adopted country and his service is one of which his children and grandchildren are properly proud. He was a republican in politics and a member of the German Reformed Church. The maiden name of his wife who died in the old country was Dorothea Hochause. Their children were: Marie, who lives at North Amherst, Ohio, widow of Adam Miller, who was a veteran of the Civil war and for many years a pensioner ; Adam, who died in Germany; Adam, second of the name and head of the Hoffman Ice Cream and Dairy Company ; Henry and John, both of whom died in Germany.
Mr. Adam Hoffman was educated in the common schools of Germany. He remained in the old country and came to Cleveland in 1867. He finished his education in America at Geanga County Seminary. In 1880 he re- turned to Cleveland and for a number of years was a merchant in South Euclid. Though a republican in politics he served as postmaster of that village under Grover Cleveland's administration. He was also a merchant at Collingwood, Ohio, until 1901. He then established a store at 10410 Euclid
Avenue, and still operates it with the aid of his children.
While at South Euclid in 1881 Adam Hoff- man began the manufacture of ice cream. He was a pioneer in that line and all of his com- petitors have long since disappeared, so that his business remains the oldest of its kind in the city. It has grown to large proportions, and is famous all over this part of Ohio for the excellence of its products. The company now has a large plant at 10522 Cedar Avenue, operated under the name of Hoffman Ice Cream and Dairy Company. Adam Hoffman and his children are the active managers of the business. He is also president of the Mur- ray Brick Company at South Newburg. He is affiliated with Amazon Lodge of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a for- mer member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.
At Chester in Geauga County, Ohio, in 1874, Adam Hoffman married Louisa Reiter, daughter of Martin and Christine Reiter, both now deceased. Her father was a farmer. The children of Adam Hoffman and wife are: Edna, who is a graduate of the School of Pharmacy at Cleveland and a licensed drng- gist and is now the wife of Fred Griffis. The second child is Earl M. Hoffman, who resides at Cleveland and is one of the active members of the Hoffman Ice Cream and Dairy Com- pany. R. L. Hoffman, the next in age, is also a member of the Hoffman Ice Cream and Dairy Company. Dora, the fourth child, is a graduate of the Cleveland High School and for twelve years was a teacher in the city schools. She is now the wife of C. C. Cooper, living on Hayden Avenue in Cleveland. Christine finished her education in the Wom- an's College of Western Reserve University and is the wife of Herman Negel. She is also a member of the firm. Elic is in the whole- sale candy business at Los Angeles, Califor- nia. Louisa is the wife of Eugene Martineau. Florence, the seventh in age, is bookkeeper for the Murray Brick Company. Stanley, the youngest, is now in the United States navy and when last reported was stationed at San Diego, California.
SAMUEL B. MICHELL, a member of the Cleveland City Council, is a well known busi- ness man and citizen in that section of Cleve- land around Madison Avenue and Eightieth Street. He has the largest retail grocery store in that part of the city, and has not only pros-
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pered in a business way but has gained the confidence and esteem of a large number of citizens who have been well justified by the effective services he has rendered in the office of city councilman.
Mr. Michell is a native of Cleveland, born November 11, 1876. His father is David Thomas Michell, who was born at Tavistock, England, in 1850, and is a veteran ship car- penter at Cleveland and has not shown a will- ingness to retire, though recently the loss of a thumb while at work obliged him to give up his active duties for a time. He grew up in his native England and left there when about twenty years of age. Coming to the United States in 1871, after several brief so- journs elsewhere he arrived in Cleveland in 1872, and has now been a resident of the city for over forty-five years. As a ship carpenter he helped build all the dry docks at Cleveland and many of the early boats and barges that went out from this port. In politics he is a republican and a number of years ago was a councilman in West Cleveland. He is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Hc is also affiliated with the Knights of the Mac- cabees. David T. Michell married in Cleve- land Kate Hoyle, who was born in Bridge- water, England, in 1854. Any parents would be justified in the pride which David T. Michell and wife take in their large family of sons and daughters, all of whom have proved themselves honorable, self supporting and worthy of esteem. A brief record of these eight sons and daughters is as follows : David Thomas, who lives on West Ninety-sixth Street and is employed by the Street Railway Company ; Samuel B .; Horace, living on West One Hundred Second Street, a master me- chanic at the Cleveland Ore Docks; William, residing on Guthrie Avenue in Cleveland, is assistant superintendent of construction for the American Steamship Company; Edward J. living at 7915 Madison Avenue, was former- ly connected with the Ore Docks, but recogniz- ing the pressing need of the country for men of special training in that line he is now en- listed in the ship building trade; Frank, re- siding on Belle Avenue in Lakewood, is assist- ant superintendent of the Lakewood Engineer- ing Company ; Anna, wife of Edward Root a machinist living on Colgate Avenue in Cleve- land; and Maude, wife of Murray Knowles, a stenographer for a coal firm and living in Lakewood.
Samuel B. Michell as a boy in Cleveland attended the public schools, had a business
course in the Caton Business College on Eu- clid Avenue, and at the age of nineteen fin- ished his preparation and was ready to take up life on his own responsibilities. Mr. Michell's first enterprise has been carried for- ward to success, and from modest beginnings has been built up one of the large enterprises of the kind in Cleveland. Mr. Michell first sold groceries at a small store at 7604 Madison Avenue, and with the growth and develop- ment of the trade removed in 1897 to his present location at 7915 Madison Avenue, where his store is a thoroughly up to date and completely stocked and equipped estah- lishment and has a patronage that comes from territory even out of the normal limits of the business. Mr. Michell also lives at 7915 Mad- ison Avenue, where his store is located, and he owns a dwelling house in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood.
Mr. Michell has always affiliated with the republican party. In 1910 he served as as- sessor of the Third Ward and was elected a member of the City Council in January, 1916, and re-elected in January, 1918. He is a member of Greater Cleveland Camp of the Woodmen of the World, of Cleveland Lodge No. 85, Loyal Order of Moose, belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church and to the West Side Chamber of Industry and West End Business Men's Association. He is a director of the Retail Grocers' Association of Cleve- land.
In 1900, at Cleveland, Mr. Michell married Miss Emily Breitenbach, daughter of Charles and Mary Breitenbach, the latter still living in Cleveland, and the former deceased. Her father was a Union soldier during the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Michell have one son, David, born March 17, 1901, and who has shown good business capacity and is already doing much to assist his father in the grocery business.
WILLIAM CULLEN RUDD. The career of the late William Cullen Rudd furnished very lit- tle copy for the daily newspapers, but as wise observers have come to know newspaper com- ment and publicity is no sort of adequate measure of a man's usefulness to a community and seldom reflects anything beyond the ab- normal incidents and activities. Mr. Rudd, who died at his home on Euclid Avenue Sep- tember 8, 1915, was in fact a perfect type of the normal citizen, one who works hard at business, is successful as judged by the most exacting commercial standards, divides his
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time generously among public and charitable interests, and is best known and appreciated among his comparatively narrow circles of business and church associates and at his own home and fireside.
He was born in Cleveland July 22, 1845, and survived his seventieth birthday only a few weeks. One of the quiet satisfactions of his life was that Cleveland had always been his home, and that in his native community he had found opportunities to satisfy all his moderate ambitions. He was one of the six children of Charles and Esther (Lacey) Rudd. Only two of these children survive : George A. Rudd, now president of the Chandler & Rudd Company, of which William Cullen Rudd was president until his death, and Mary E. Rudd, now residing in California.
William C. Rudd was educated in the pub- lic schools, acquiring the fundamentals of an English education in the Mayflower School. Instead of attending commercial college, his business training was gained as clerk in the service of E. Stair & Company, dealers in hats and furs. Later he was with the Cleve- land Rolling Mill Company at Newburg, and in 1871 took what he considered a temporary position with Chandler & Abbott, retail gro- cers. Instead, this became the permanent interest of his business career. A change in the firm opened a way to his becoming a partner, and under the name Chandler & Rudd the business grew rapidly, largely in response to his own forceful administration. In 1889 the Chandler & Rudd Company was incorporated. That is one of the older titles in Cleveland commercial affairs, and until his death Mr. Rudd was president of the cor- poration. It was perhaps characteristic of the man that he uever sought directorship and numerous responsibilities with other lines of enterprise. His own business profited no doubt from this concentration of his effort, and the Chandler & Rudd Company has for many years been recognized as the most suc- cessful organization of its kind in Cleveland if not in the Middle West. The company operates two of the very highest class and most completely stocked and appointed gro- cery stores in Cleveland.
October 17, 1872, Mr. Rudd married Miss Mary A. Rockefeller, a sister of John D. Rocke- feller. Mrs. Rudd's residence is located at 13204 Euclid Avenue. Her four children are : Mrs. Edward A Roberts, of Miami, Florida, whose son, Edward William Roberts, is the only grandson ; Frank Henry Rudd, who lives
with his mother, is vice president of the Chandler & Rudd Company ; William Cullen Rudd, Jr., who died June 3, 1900, at Cleve- land ; and Laura Rockefeller Rudd, who died October 6, 1907.
As a substantial business man the late Mr. Rudd exercised forceful helpfulness in be- half of good government and the general wel- fare of Cleveland. However, he never ap- peared in politics, and his political participa- tion was confined to voting the republican ticket. He was a member of the Tippecanoe Club, a republican organization, and was a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce for many years and the Early Settlers' Association of Cuyahoga County. In 1865 Mr. Rudd became a member of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, and he had rounded out half a century of active membership and work in that church when he died. For many years he was a trustee and was a deacon at the time of his death. It was largely through this church and its allied causes that liberal gifts were dispensed for charitable purposes. One of his chief interests was an extension of the church's activities known as the Josephine Mission, which he served as superintendent over seventeen years, and was especially es- teemed as a leader of the Mission Sunday School. He was also interested in the Hiram House, the well known social settlement or- ganization. In earlier life his favorite out- door recreation was fishing, but he took up aud became an enthusiastic devotee of the game of golf when it was introduced to this country, and that was his special hobby for many years. He spent much time on the links of Forest Hill at the Rockefeller estate, and besides the family relationship there were two bonds of community between him and John D. Rockefeller, golf and the same church. None of these interests were exercised at the expense of his home life, and when his pres- ence was not demanded by his extensive busi- ness he was usually at his own fireside. Mr. Rudd was a man of kindly impulses, was wise and considerate in helping others, and none regarded him with greater esteem than his own employees.
CHARLES NELSON LANDON is an artist whose works Cleveland people have followed with increasing appreciation for a number of years. He was formerly a staff artist with one of the Cleveland papers, has also done extensive work as a magazine illustrator, and is now devoting all his time to his private
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studio in the Schofield Building and as a teacher of art.
Mr. Landon was born at Rochester, New York, December 19, 1878. He is descended from one of two brothers who came from Eng- land to New Jersey about the time of the Revolutionary war. One of them arrived in time to participate in that war on the side of the colonies, while another came over just after the war had closed. From the United States the family moved to Canada, and Mr. Landon's grandfather Nelson Landon spent most of his life in the vicinity of Brockville, Ontario. It was at Brockville that Edgerton R. Landon was born in 1843. He was reared and married in that city, became a merchant there, and in 1876 established a business at Rochester, New York. He came to Cleveland in 1880. He was one of the pioneer mer- chants of the country operating a chain of stores. He was in the tea and coffee business and after coming to Cleveland established a string of stores in this city, at Mansfield, Elyria, Norwalk, and other cities. In 1884 he removed his residence to Norwalk and died in that city in 1917. He was a republican in politics and an active member of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church. Edgerton R. Landon married Etta Eleigh, who was born at Broek- ville, Ontario, in 1847, and died at Norwalk in 1893. They had two children, Bertha and Charles Nelson. Bertha, who now resides at Asheville, North Carolina, is the widow of John Rumsey, who was a mechanical en- gineer.
Charles Nelson Landon was educated in the public schools of Norwalk, graduating from high school in 1897. As a boy he manifested a natural aptitude for drawing and devel- oped these talents largely by practical appli- cation and by close study of the best work of his contemporaries and the old masters. For a number of years until 1909 he was a staff artist on the Cleveland Press, but in that year established a studio of his own, and later a school for drawing which he still conducts. Mr. Landon is an independent voter and a member of the Congregational Church. He is well known in Cleveland social life being a member of the Union Club, Mayfield Country Club, Shaker Heights Country Club, Cleve- land Athletic Club, Cleveland Rotary Club, and is a member and director of the Hermit Club.
In 1916 he built one of the modern homes in Shaker Heights at 17650 Parkland Drive.
Mr. Landon married at Norwalk, Ohio, in 1902 Miss Bertha Corwin, daughter of George and Marie (Terry) Corwin, both now de- ceased. Her father, who became a well known capitalist, was a graduate of Dennison Uni- versity in Ohio and of the law department of the University of Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Landon have two children, Maric Evelyn, born in 1903, and Corwin, born in 1905.
J. HOWARD RUST was born in Wellington, Ohio, May 31, 1875, member of a prominent family of that section. His parents were Dr. James and Sophia Jane (Goss) Rust. His father died in Wellington in 1888 and his mother at Cleveland in January, 1907. There were five sons in the family. Edwin G., an oculist in the Lenox Building at Cleve- land; Arthur B., private secretary for Ro- land C. White in the Citizens Building at Cleveland; George P., who died recently ; Dr. Carl H., a specialist in ear, nose and throat, with offices in the Rose Building; and J. Howard Rust. All the sons were born at Wellington, were educated there, the Welling- ton High School having graduated all five. Edwin G. is a graduate of the Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, and also of the College of New York, an allopathic school. As an oculist he is one of the best in his line in the country. The late George P. Rust, who recently died at Cleveland, was a prominent insurance man. He had lived in Cleveland for twenty-five years and was agent for the Northwestern Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee and also had varied railroad in- terests. At one time he was vice president of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad and also of the Lorain, Ashland & Sonthern.
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