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Ja 26. Higmans
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of Music and the Cathedral at the corner of Ninth and Superior streets, and many business blocks. He continued a builder during his active life, and died on the eighty-fifth anniversary of his birth. He married Katherine Hackman, who was also born in Germany, daughter of Joseph Hackman. She died at the age of eighty-three years, leaving two children, John Henry and Catherine.
John Henry Wigman received his education in the Eagle Street School in Cleveland, and as a youth worked with his father during the summer, while in the winter seasons he was a brakeman on the Lake Shore Railroad. Later he became a locomotive engineer, serving with the Atlantic and Great Western, now the Erie Railroad, and for six years was with the Wabash. He resigned from the railroad service to engage in business as a lime manufacturer on the site of the Harvey Mill, which was his business headquarters for eighteen years. He continued the manufacture of lime on Marblehead and Kelley Islands, finally selling.
Mr. Wigman was a veteran of the Civil war. He received his first military training as a member of the famous Cleveland Grays. In 1864 he enlisted in Company A, of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry, and was on duty at Washington until after the close of the war. He was a member of the Army and Navy Post of the Grand Army of the Re- public, belonged to the Tippecanoe Republican Club and was an honorary member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Mrs. Wigman is a member of the Cleveland Sorosis Club.
In 1882 Mr. Wigman married Miss Martha Clements, who was born in Cleveland. Her father, James Clements, was born in the north of Ireland, son of a British soldier who lost his life in battle. The mother of James Clements had married at the age of seventeen, and came to America, accompanied by four children, settling in the then village of Youngstown, Ohio, which contained only two stores. She lived in Ohio the rest of her life and died at Youngstown at the venerable age of 103 years. She was survived by several children, thirty-six grandchildren and forty great-grandchildren. She had been a member of the Presbyterian Church for eighty years. Her children were James, Joseph, Mary and Margaret. Mary married James McKnall, and Margaret married a Mr. McDonald. James Clements, father of Mrs. Wigman, was reared, edu- cated and married in Ireland, and about 1845 came to America, accompanied by his wife and infant daughter. He located in Cleveland, where he engaged in business as a building contractor, and so continued until his death, at the age of eighty-six. James Clements married Jane Latimer. The marriage was performed against the strenuous objections of her parents, who, however, later became reconciled. She was of pure Scotch ancestry and a niece of Lord Latimer, a member of the House of Lords in the English Parliament. Her father, Robert Latimer, followed her to America accompanied by his wife and nine of their eleven children, settling in Cleveland, where he died six months after his arrival, and was buried in Erie Street Cemetery. Many of his descendants still live, and are people of note and prominence. The mother of Mrs. Wigman died at the age of seventy-five, having reared five children, named Mary, Robert J., Martha, William L. and David. Mr. and Mrs. Wigman had one daughter, Martha Mabel.
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LOUIS A. MOSES is president of the Land Title Abstract & Trust Com- pany, and president of the Superior Bond & Mortgage Company, and under his individual name carries on a real estate business established more than half a century ago as N. Moses & Brothers.
Mr. Moses is a native of Cleveland, and for many years has been prom- inent not only in its business, but in its social and civic affairs. He was born October 3, 1876, only son of Augustus L. and Mary E. (Dille) Moses. The Moses family is of Welsh descent, and there is record of the establishment of the family in Northumberland, England, in the year 1342. Mr. Moses' ancestors came to America before the Revolutionary war and bought land from the Indians among the foothills of Massachusetts.
The grandfather of Louis Moses was Charles Moses, who came to Euclid, Cuyahoga County, in 1814. He was a well known citizen of his time, a farmer, carpenter, shipbuilder and merchant. The late Augustus L. Moses was born at Euclid in 1844. With his brothers, Nelson and Charles W. Moses, he was associated in the founding of the firm of N. Moses & Brothers, real estate, in 1871. Besides its real estate activi- ties, this firm for some years was in the hardwood lumber and railroad contracting business. Augustus L. Moses, who died in 1914, was a life- long republican, a member of several hunting and fishing clubs, his mem- bership representing his enthusiasm for outdoor life and sportsmanship. Among others he was a member of the Ottawa Shooting Club and the Castalia Trout Club.
Mary E. Dille, wife of Augustus L. Moses, was born at Nottingham, Ohio, of Scotch and French Huguenot ancestry. Her people settled at Euclid in Cuyahoga County as early as 1798. She was one of three chil- dren, was educated in local schools and the Willoughby Academy, and has been a lifelong member of the Christian Church.
Louis A. Moses was liberally educated for the business responsibilities awaiting at his majority. He attended public schools at Cleveland, private schools, Adelbert College and the Franklin T. Backus School of Law of Western Reserve University. He left college in 1899, and at once became associated with his father and two uncles in the real estate business, and after the death of the senior members of this firm he succeeded to its ownership, and continues it under his individual name, Louis A. Moses. After becoming active in the real estate business Mr. Moses did much in allotting and building up that section of the city formerly known as Col- linwood and Nottingham.
Mr. Moses is president of the Creswell Realty Company, the Del Prado Company and the Prospect-Wilson Company, in addition to others pre- viously named, and is a director in the Lakewood Savings & Loan Com- pany, the Cleveland Housing Company, the Realtors of Cleveland Company, the Ulmer Mortgage Company and the Ohio Associates Com- pany.
The Land Title Abstract & Trust Company, of which he has been pres- ident since 1919, was organized in 1902. For many years it had its offices in the Ulmer Building, formerly the American Trust Building, but in December, 1921, removed to greatly enlarged and spacious quarters in the Plain Dealers Building. The business offices are on the first floor, the executive offices are on the second floor, and the abstract plant, escrow
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and title offices are on the third floor. The business of this company is specialized in three general lines: Title insurance and general abstracting, escrows and mortgage loans. The company possesses a most complete title plant, and authorities have stated that if the records of the county courthouse were destroyed they could easily be duplicated by the records in the title plant of the company of which Mr. Moses is president. The Superior Bond & Mortgage Company, of which he became president in 1922, specializes in mortgage loans and bond issues.
Mr. Moses is a member of the Union Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Mayfield Country Club, Canterbury Golf Club, City Club, Tippecanoe Club, of which he is a former president, Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Industry, Cleveland Real Estate Board and D. K. E. Club of New York City. While in college he was a Delta Kappa Epsilon, and is now presi- dent of the D. K. E. Chapter House Company, holding title to the prop- erty occupied by the local chapter of that fraternity. Mr. Moses is trustee and past president of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, a past president of the Ohio Association of Read Estate Boards, and past treasurer and for a long time member of the executive committee of the National Asso- ciation of Real Estate Boards. During the World war he was associated with the local housing work of the Government. He has been a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Park Board since its inception in 1912, and is now vice president of the board. He is a trustee of the A. M. McGregor Home for the Aged, and vice president of the board of trustees of the Huron Road Hospital.
Mr. Moses married on October 3, 1899, Olive T. Crane, of Springfield, Missouri. They have two daughters, both being educated in an Eastern preparatory school: Marian Crane Moses, born November 30, 1903, and Marjorie Dille Moses, born August 24, 1905.
ELI W. CANNELL is one of the well known native sons of Cuyahoga County, and is an honored representative of a sterling pioneer family that was here founded when this section of the Buckeye State was little more than a forest wilderness. Mr. Cannell, who is president of the Provident Building & Loan Association, 8425 Broadway, in the City of Cleveland, was born in the family homestead in Newburg, now a part of Cleveland. February 5, 1844, the place of his birth having been on what is now Union Avenue, near One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. The paternal lineage of Mr. Cannell is of the old Manx order, and his father, John N. Cannell, was born near Kirk Michael, Isle of Man, July 7, 1800, a son of Patrick Cannell, who was born and reared in the same locality, the family having been established on the Isle of Man from a time when "the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." Patrick Cannell married Jane Quayle, and she passed her entire life on the Isle of Man, her husband having long survived her, as will appear in connection with later statements. It is interesting to note that Patrick Cannell was converted under the minis- trations of John and Charles Wesley, and that he became a preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
In the year 1827 Patrick Cannell, accompanied by his sons and daugh- ters, set sail for the United States, they having embarked early in May and having arrived in the port of New York City on the Fourth of July. Thence
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they proceeded by boat up the Hudson River and through the Erie Canal, and at Black Rock Point they transferred to the vessel that transported them over Lake Erie to Cleveland, the future Ohio metropolis having been at that time a mere village, and its chief importance being its status as a port of entry on Lake Erie, about six miles from Newburg. The family home was established about two miles distant from the Village of New- burg, Patrick Cannell having purchased in that district a tract of 100 acres of land, this transaction having been made through the medium of a man named Ellsworth, a local agent for the Connecticut Land Company. This land is now bounded on one side by Union Street and on the other side by One Hundred and Sixteenth Street. With the development of the passing years this property constantly increased in value, and the old homestead was eventually inherited by Eli W. Cannell, of this review, who there main- tained his residence until 1884, when he moved to his present home. He sold the tract in 1913 to the City of Cleveland, in connection with the plat- ting and upbuilding of the Model City allotment. On his heavily timbered land Patrick Cannell erected the log house which became the first home of the family in the land of their adoption, and that frontier conditions were still in evidence at the time is indicated by the early date of the family arrival in Cuyahoga County. All deeds at that period were recorded at Warren, to which place the early settlers of Cuyahoga County usually made their way on horseback, oxen having been used principally in the cultiva- tion of the pioneer farms. In 1839 Patrick Cannell erected a frame house, the sills for the building having been hewed from oak timbers and the plates, of cucumber wood, having been thirty-two feet in length. Patrick Cannell did not live to see the completion of this house, as he died in that year (1839), at the venerable age of eighty-four years. He reared five children, namely: John N., Thomas, Ellen, Jane and another daughter.
John N. Cannell was reared and educated in his native place, there his marriage occurred, and his young wife accompanied him on the immigra- tion to the United States. He was associated with his father and brother in the purchase of the land previously mentioned, and he lived to witness . the development of this section of the state and to see Cleveland grow from a mere hamlet to a city of more than 50,000 population, his death having occurred in 1869. His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Quiggin, was born near Ballaugh, Isle of Man, on the 1st of May, 1800, a daughter of William Quiggin, who there passed his entire life. Mrs. Cannell survived her husband by many years, and was in her ninety-eighth year at the time of her death, January 12, 1898, as one of the venerable and revered pioneer women of Cuyahoga County. Of the eleven children nine were reared to maturity : John, Thomas, Jane, Elizabeth, Emily, Charles, Louisa, Henry and Eli W.
He to whom this review is dedicated is now one of the few remaining native sons who have seen Cleveland grow from a place of a few thousand population to a metropolis of nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants. He can recall the time when much of the land now included in the corporate borders of the city was still represented by virgin forest, and he remembers also the construction of the first railroads in this section of Ohio. In the pioneer home in which he was reared his mother in earlier days did all of the family cooking through the medium of the open fireplace, and he recalls also the
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major importance of the event of introducing into the home its first cook- stove. He attended the old White Schoolhouse, and the following refer- ence to the same is worthy of reproduction in this connection :
"Yon weather-beaten old stone step, . Alone remains to-day, A sturdy relic of the past, That still defies decay.
"This stone is the only relic of our old school, and now serves as a monument to mark for later generations the spot where it stood, and bears this inscription : 'The Old White Schoolhouse. The stone upon which this tablet is placed was the door step of the Old Manx Street Schoolhouse, which was built on this site in 1842. This building was replaced by a more modern school building in 1871. The teachers and the pupils of the old Manx Street School have marked this historic site, August 25, 1915.'"
It may consistently be noted at this juncture that Mr. Cannell and his wife take abiding interest in all that touches the annals of the early days, and that they are active members of the Cuyahoga County Early Settlers' Association. The old schoolhouse mentioned in the foregoing paragraph stood at the corner of what is now Union Avenue and One Hundred and Sixteenth Street, Cleveland, and the site is now occupied by the Mount Pleasant Public School.
Eli W. Cannell early began to assist in the work of the old home farm, and he there continued his active alliance with farm industry until 1881, from which year until 1909 he was engaged in the flour and feed business on Broadway, near 8425. In the meanwhile he became prominently identified with the organization and incorporation of the Provident Build- ing & Loan Association, which was established in 1893. He became a director at the time of incorporation, and later was elected president of this important and well ordered corporation, an office of which he has since continued the incumbent, the offices of the association being at 8425 Broad- way. Mr. Cannell organized and became president of the Meade Lumber Company, which established its yards on Broadway, near Sixty-first Street, and in 1901 he was elected president of the South Cleveland Banking Company. He resigned this latter office in 1906, and he in that year also sold his interest in the Miles Avenue Lumber Company, of which he was the organizer and president. He is an ex-president of the South End Cham- ber of Enterprise of the South End. He has played a large part in the development and upbuilding of that section of Cleveland in which he was born and reared, and is an honored representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of this metropolitan district of Ohio.
In November, 1871, Mr. Cannell wedded Miss Margaret E. Corlett, who was born and reared in Cleveland, a daughter of Daniel and Isabella (Mollen) Corlett, the former of whom was born on the Isle of Man and the latter in the north of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Can- nell celebrated in 1921 their golden wedding anniversary, and a splendid assembly of friends came to the home to do honor to the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Cannell reared three children, Charles E., E. Scott and Eva Jane. By a prior marriage Mr. Charles E. Cannell has one daughter, Zella, who is
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the wife of Thomas M. McHugh. E. Scott Cannell married Mamie Shim- min, and they have three children, Ruth, Loftus and Margaret E. Eva Jane is the widow of Frank Davis, and has one son, Paul C., who is (1924) a student in Leland Stanford University in California. Mr. and Mrs. Can- nell are members of Miles Park Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Cannell joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1872, and his affiliations are with Cataract Lodge No. 295, and Harmony Encampment No. 157. The family home is at 4129 East Ninety-third Street.
WILLIAM WAYNE CHASE. Thirty-five years ago William Wayne Chase was one among thousands of clerical workers in the City of Cleve- land. With only the same opportunities that many others had, he has fitted himself for leadership and achievement in business and industry, and for a number of years has been an executive in several of Cleveland's largest business organizations.
He represents two old families of the Western Reserve. His father, the late Charles E. Chase, was born in a log house in Bainbridge Township, Geauga County, in 1837. His parents had come from Vermont and settled in Northern Ohio as early as 1810. Charles E. Chase was a blacksmith by trade, also owned and operated a farm, and was a highly respected citizen. For many years he held the office of justice of the peace in Bainbridge Township. He married Annette S. Ellis, who was born in the same town- ship, where her parents had settled on coming from Connecticut.
William Wayne Chase was born in Bainbridge Township, November 19, 1872. As a boy on the farm he attended district schools until 1885, and then for several years continued his education in the public schools of Cleveland. In 1888, as a boy of sixteen, he went to work for the Lake Shore Railway Company in the Cleveland offices. He gave up railroading in May, 1892, to become bookkeeper for the White Sewing Machine Com- pany, one of Cleveland's oldest industries. So far he was engaged in routine work, but was making it a medium of useful training and experi- ence, and at the same time was utilizing all his available time, usually at night, to prepare himself for something better. He studied law, and in 1895 passed a successful examination and was admitted to the Ohio bar. For a young man of his enthusiasm and energy and special qualifications the White Sewing Machine Company had rapid promotions in store .. From bookkeeper he was made superintendent of a department, then became office attorney, and in 1905 was made vice president of the company, and in 1917 promoted to the presidency. Mr. Chase was active head of this important industry until July 1, 1921, when he resigned, though he continues a mem- ber of the board of directors. He also resigned at the same date the office of vice president of the Theodore Kuntz Company, one of the largest cab- inet and veneer manufacturing concerns in the country specializing in the woodwork for sewing machine companies.
July 1, 1921, the Cleveland Real Estate Investment Company was or- ganized by Mr. Chase, and he became its president and treasurer. He is also a director of the United Banking & Savings Company and the Hard- wood Products Company of Cleveland. He belongs to the Union and Country clubs, and is affiliated with the Masonic Order and the Congre- gational Church.
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September 12, 1892, he married Edna E. Thomas, of Cleveland. She died May 31, 1905, and is survived by a daughter and two sons. Katheryn married Howard Keene, president of the Hardwood Products Company of Cleveland, and they have three children named : Chase, Janet and Nancy Ann. The son, Russell U., graduated from Cornell University with the Bachelor of Arts degree in February, 1923, and is now attending Western Reserve Law School. Charles W., the other son, graduated Bachelor of Arts from Yale University with the class of 1923.
March 5, 1907, Mr. Chase married Reba Neff, daughter of Orian L. Neff, the veteran attorney of Cleveland, whose career is sketched else- where in this publication. By this marriage Mr. Chase has two daughters, Ruth Rebecca and June Anette, both students in the Hathaway-Brown School for Girls at Cleveland.
HARVEY E. ELLIOTT has been a member of the Cleveland bar twenty years. His reputation has long been securely established in real property and corporation law, a field in which his abilities have brought him eminence.
Mr. Elliott was born in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1878, of old American ancestry. His parents were Laughlin and Sarah J. (Wilson) Elliott, his father of Scotch and his mother of Irish ancestry. They were married in Beaver County in 1870, and in 1889 brought their family to Columbiana County, Ohio, where they spent the rest of their active years on a farm.
Harvey E. Elliott, third among four children, was eleven years old when brought to Ohio. He attended public schools in Western Pennsyl- vania, in Ohio, and finished his education in the Northeastern Ohio Nor- mal, the Mount Hope College and Ohio Northern University at Ada. He graduated Bachelor of Laws in 1902, and for a year practiced at Leetonia, Ohio, as member of the firm of Dickinson & Elliott. After he removed to Cleveland in 1903 Mr. Elliott practiced eighteen months as member of the firm Farquharson, Elliott & Huggett, and for three years was head of the law department of the Land Title Abstract Company. Since then he has conducted an individual practice. He has become a recognized author- ity in real estate law, and his work in that field and his duties as counsel and officer in various corporations demanded all his time to the exclusion of any participation in politics or in fraternal or social organizations. Prob- ably no Cleveland attorney has derived greater satisfaction from the suc- cessful practice of law than Mr. Elliott. He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association and votes as a democrat.
After his profession his most important interest is home and family. On November 18, 1903, he married Miss Edna B. Taylor, at Rogers. Ohio, where she was born, a daughter of Emerson and Angeline (McMillan) Taylor. Her father was a prosperous farmer in Columbiana County. Mrs. Elliott is a graduate of Mount Hope College, and finished her musical course in Hiram College and was a teacher of instrumental music before her marriage. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott: Ralph T., Lionel L. (who died in 1908, when fourteen months old), Donald W. and Mary A. The son Ralph achieved much distinction during the World war as a boy poet and author of a widely published poem on "The Flag."
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FRANCIS M. OSBORNE, as a successful business man, and the Youghio- gheny & Ohio Coal Company, as a large industry of modern times, are inseparably linked together in the growth and development of the Cleve- land of today. The Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Company is the outgrowth of other successful coal organizations that were formed before it came into existence. Back about 1886, Osborne, Saeger & Company was established at Cleveland, and from the start was successful. In 1899, under satisfac -. tory inducements, this enterprise was sold to the Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany, which attained a reputation second only to a very few in that part of the country. But the increasing demand for coal from the numerous and rapidly growing and expanding factories of every description was suc- ceeded by another important change in this company.
In 1902, under the laws of the state, the Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Company at Cleveland was duly organized, almost wholly by people of Trumbull County, Ohio, with a capital of $300,000. Today few coal organ- izations in the United States have greater expansions and resources than has the Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Company, the surprising success of which is mainly due to the masterly business capacity of Francis M. Osborne. Since the establishment of the new organization the capital stock has been increased from time to time until now, in 1923, it consists or $2,000,000 of preferred stock and 100,000 shares of common stock.
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