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The wife of Judge Minshall was Julia Ewing Pearson, who was born at Chillicothe, February 20, 1848, and died September 30, 1903. Her father, Addison Pearson, who came from Virginia to Ohio, was treasurer of Ross County and was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ohio Odd Fellows.
William Edwin Minshall, second of the three sons of Judge Minshall, was born at Chillicothe, April 26, 1877. He was educated in the public schools, attended the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, and in 1900 was admitted to the bar. He then moved to Cleveland, and from 1900 to 1905 was associated in practice with the law firm of Kerriush, Chapman & Kerriush. He was a member of the law firm of Kisson & Minshall from 1905 to 1910; the firm of Cline & Minshall from 1913 to 1917, and since 1917 has been a member of and the trial lawyer for the firm of Payer, Minshall & Karsh, with offices in the Discount Building.
Mr. Minshall was assistant prosecuting attorney and county solicitor of Cuyahoga County in 1911-12, but aside from that has never sought nor accepted public office, his varied and important practice affording him full satisfaction for his ambition. During the Spanish-American war in 1898 he was corporal of Company H of the Twenty-seventh Ohio Volun- teer Infantry.
His home and the sphere of his activities as a citizen are in East Cleveland. He was mayor of that city from 1913 to 1917, two terms. While mayor he led the campaign of public opinion for a new charter providing the manager form of municipal government. He was elected a member of the Charter Commission in 1916, and he drafted the present city charter of East Cleveland. In 1923 he became a member of the Board of Hospital Trustees of East Cleveland.
On September 17, 1901, Mr. Minshall married Miss Mabel C. Rice, daughter of Charles W. and Abigail (Searl) Rice. Mr. and Mrs. Min- shall have three children, Evelyn, Charles T. and William E., Jr. The daughter, Evelyn, was educated in the Ogontz School near Philadelphia, and is now attending the College for Women of Western Reserve Uni- versity at Cleveland. The son Charles T. is a student in Amherst College, Massachusetts.
JUDSON PAUL LAMB. Among the younger members of the bar at Cleveland none enjoy a larger measure of public confidence or greater per- sonal esteem than Judson Paul Lamb, member of the prominent law firm of Lamb & Westenhaver, and former law director of the City of Cleve- land. Mr. Lamb belongs to an old pioneer family of Fairfield County, Ohio, and one that has been distinguished in many ways.
Mr. Lamb was born at Cleveland, Ohio, September 4, 1885, and is a
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son of Rev. Judson Hunter and Anna (Gravett) Lamb, a grandson of Jacob Lamb, and a great-grandson of Maj. Jacob Lamb, whose father was Peter Lamb, the great-great-grandfather of Attorney Lamb. Peter Lamb came to this country from Germany in 1740 and settled in Penn- sylvania, and when the Revolutionary war came on, became a member of the Pennsylvania unit and served as a private soldier under Washington for three years. After the war he moved to Rockingham County, Vir- ginia, where the next generation of Lambs grew up, and from there in 1803 his son Jacob migrated to the Western Reserve and probably was one of the founders of Bremen, Ohio. He served with the rank of major in the War of 1812 and also in the Mexican war, but his last years were peacefully spent on his farm in Fairfield County. His namesake son, Jacob Lamb, was born at Bremen, Ohio, and when he grew to manhood showed the heritage of his father's military spirit when the Civil war was precipitated, by entering his country's service and, with rank of first lieu- tenant, remained in the army until the close of hostilities.
Judson Hunter Lamb, father of Mr. Lamb, was born at Bremen, Ohio, a son of Lieut. Jacob and Nancy (Hunter) Lamb, the latter being of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was endowed with an alert mind and studious temperament and during his earlier years taught school, at one time being a teacher in the Academy at Green Springs, Ohio, then a preparatory school of Western Reserve University. He then entered the ministry of the Evangelical Church Association, in which he continued to be a zealous and faithful worker until his health gave way. On this account in 1910 he moved to Alberta, Canada, accompanied by his wife and two of his three sons, Judson Paul, the eldest of the children, remaining in Ohio. The change in climate and occupation proved beneficial, and Mr. Lamb has become a successful farmer, and also at present is filling the office of deputy minister of municipal affairs in the province of Alberta, Canada.
The mother of Judson Paul Lamb was born at Lancaster, Ohio, about 1861, a daughter of John and Ann (Mallars) Gravett, the latter of whom was born in London, England. They came to the United States in 1850 and settled at Lancaster, Ohio. John Gravett, originally written Gravette, was of French Huguenot extraction, but was born at Stirling, County Sussex, England. Mr. Lamb's next younger brother is a farmer in Alberta and has a family of his own, residing near his parents. Mr. Lamb's young- est brother at the beginning of the World war, although but seventeen years old, entered the Canadian Artillery Division and during his two years at the front in France, almost lost his life through being gassed. He has fortunately recovered sufficiently to return to school. He gradu- ated from the University of Alberta, being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and is now a student at Merton College, Oxford University, England.
Because of the frequent change of residence occasioned by the demands of his father's itinerant ministry, Judson Paul Lamb attended school at numerous points during boyhood, Circleville, Lancaster, Akron, Tiffin and Cleveland, all in Ohio. He was graduated from the Woodland Grammar and the Central High schools at Cleveland, later from Adelbert College and from the Western Reserve University Law School. Subsequently he took special work in the University of Wisconsin, and in 1910 was admitted to the bar and entered into practice at Cleveland.
For two years following Mr. Lamb maintained an individual prac-
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tice, but in 1912 became a member of the firm of Cushing, Siddall & Lamb, which in 1916, because of the retirement of I. T. Siddall to become Com- mon Pleas judge of Ravenna, and the admission of W. R. Hopkins, be- came Cushing, Hopkins & Lamb. Following the death of the senior member, William E. Cushing, in December, 1917, Mr. Lamb retired and on March 1, 1918, became a member of the firm of Cook, McGowan, Foote, Bushnell & Lamb. During the entire interval of Mr. Lamb's con- nection with his former firm it had been general attorneys for the Erie Railroad Company in Ohio, and the greater part of his practice had been corporation work, resulting in a very thorough knowledge of that branch of the law. During the years 1922 and 1923 Mr. Lamb was law director of the City of Cleveland. On March 1, 1924, the present firm of Lamb & Westenhaver was organized.
Mr. Lamb is a republican, belonging to the same political faith as father and grandfather. As an intelligent and progressive citizen he has been more or less active in civic affairs, but held but the one public office referred to. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, a mem- ber of Tyrin Lodge No. 370, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Mc- Kinley Chapter No. 181; Woodland Council No. 118; Coeur-de-Leon Commandery No. 64 ; Lake Erie Consistory, and Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine. He belongs to such representative organizations as the Univer- sity, Country, Hermit, Cleveland Athletic and Nisi Prius clubs, the last being a lawyers' club. He still preserves membership in the Alpha Delta Phi, a college Greek letter fraternity, the Phi Delta Phi, a law fraternity, and the Delta Sigma Rho, honorary.
GEORGE W. GILSON was one of the successful representatives of the real estate business in the City of Cleveland at the time of his death, which occurred on the 23rd of September, 1923, and was a man who had honored Ohio, where he was born and reared, both by his sterling character and his worthy achievement.
Mr. Gilson was born at Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, on the 11th of March, 1863, and was a son of Dr. George and Emma (Whyth) Gilson, he having been doubly orphaned when a child of about three years and hav- ing been taken into the home of his uncle, William Bowler, who resided on East Fortieth Street in the City of Cleveland. Here he was reared to adult age and here he profited fully by the advantages of the public schools, and his higher education was received in fine old Hiram College, at Hiram, this state, in which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon afterward he went to Saint Louis, Missouri, but within a short time he went to Toronto, Canada, where he became editor of a medical journal. Later he was a resident of Buffalo, New York, for a comparatively brief interval, and he then went to New York City and identified himself with the Sage Foundation Corporation, in which connection he made his initial venture in the real estate business. He became one of the first salesmen for this corporation, in connection with its development of Forest Hills, Long Island, and he continued this alliance, with marked success, for a period of fifteen years. Mr. Gilson then returned to his native state and established his residence in Cleveland, in 1916. During the ensuing five years he was here associated with the real estate firm of Van Sweringen & Marshall, and the then engaged in the same line of enterprise in an independent way, by
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the organization of the Gilson & Allyne Company, with which he continued his association until his death. He extended its operations and became one of the well known real estate men in the Cleveland metropolitan district. His death came suddenly, without previous indisposition of apparent order and with no premonition, he having passed away while reclining on a couch in his home. Mr. Gilson was a stalwart advocate of the cause of the repub- lican party, but never manifested any desire for political preferment or public office of any kind. He was a man of fine intellectual ken, was genial, considerate and kindly, and his circle of friends was limited only by that of his acquaintances. He. was an earnest communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
In Toronto, Canada, occurred the first marriage of Mr. Gilson, and this wife died in the City of Buffalo, New York, she being survived by two children. In the City of New York Mr. Gilson thereafter formed the acquaintance of Miss Frances M. Cavanaugh, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and their marriage was solemnized June 20, 1915. In the following year they came to Cleveland. Estelle, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Gilson, was born January 3, 1917, and her death occurred in August, 1921. Mrs. Gilson maintains her home at 12463 Cedar Road.
WILLIAM H. WARNER, senior member of W. H. Warner & Company, coal and coke operators, is one of the oldest operators in Ohio. His splendid business organization has been perfected through more than a half century of personal experience and study. His company operates about twenty mines in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, with daily capacity of over 20,000 tons.
Mr. Warner's father, Jonathan Warner, was a distinguished pioneer in the iron and steel industry of Ohio. A bronze bust of Jonathan Warner in the Mckinley Memorial at Niles contains the following inscription : "Pioneer in the Lake Superior Ore Region and the Mahoning Valley in the development of iron ore and early manufacture of pig iron. A worthy Christian gentleman."
Jonathan Warner was born at Oaks Corner, New York, February 8, 1808, and died at Youngstown April 18, 1895. He came to Youngstown in 1840, driving from Sodus in Wayne County, New York, to Buffalo, and traveling thence by lake and canal. For a time he was a merchant at Youngstown. He was a partner in the construction and operation of the first bituminous coal furnace in Ohio. This furnace, the Eagle at Brier Hill, was erected about 1846. Later he erected two other furnaces at Mineral Ridge. It was at one of these old Mineral Ridge stacks that Jonathan Warner first successfully produced the grade of iron known as "American Scotch," making it principally from black band ore mined there.
The far-reaching activities of Jonathan Warner extended to the de- velopment of the Lake Superior ore region, on which now depends almost the entire iron and steel industry of the United States. Mr. Warner was one of the first to foresee the tremendous development of the demand for iron and steel, and realized the limited supply available in this locality. He developed the Republic Mine in the late '60s, which soon became one of the largest producing mines and is still producing. He was one of the first to make shipment down the lakes. His efforts to enlist capital in the opening of the Lake Superior region met with many difficulties, but he
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persisted, and was rewarded before his death in seeing many of the northern ranges shipping ore down the lakes and supplying every furnace between the Alleghany Mountains and the Mississippi River.
Jonathan Warner was the progenitor of the Warner family whose members have been conspicuous in the iron and steel and coal industries of Mahoning Valley for three generations. He married Eliza Landon, and one of their five children is William H. Warner of Cleveland, who was born at Youngstown, October 12, 1849.
W. H. Warner was reared at Youngstown, attended public schools there, and finished his education in the old Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio. His father operated furnaces and coal mines at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, and it was in this way that William H. Warner became permanently interested in the coal business. His experience as a coal operator runs back fifty-four years. In 1877 he moved from Mineral Ridge to Cleveland, and has since been in the wholesale coal business in this city. However, after two years in Cleveland he returned to Mineral Ridge, but in 1893 settled permanently at Cleveland.
Mr. Warner cast his first presidential vote for General Grant, and for many years has been an elder in the Calvary Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. In 1875 he married Miss Elizabeth Whitney. Their two sons, Whitney and Hoyt Landon, are both associated with their father in the firm of W. H. Warner & Company.
WILLIAM ALBERT ROUNDS has been actively identified with real estate enterprise in the City of Cleveland since the year 1896, and has specialized in the building and selling of residences of the better grade and type. He has diversified his interests through his association with important banking enterprise, and is one of the progressive and liberal citizens and business men of the Ohio metropolis.
Mr. Rounds was born on the old homestead farm of the family in Lafayette Township, Medina County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was April 5, 1865. He is a son of the late Hiram L. and Mary Ann (Watters) Rounds, representatives of honored pioneer families in Medina County. In that county Hiram L. Rounds was born April 13, 1837, and there, at Medina, the county seat, his death occurred in the year 1912. He had long been numbered among the substantial exponents of farm in- dustry in that county, and was influential in community affairs. His father, Albert Rounds, was born in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, in 1809, and became one of the successful pioneer farmers of Medina County, Ohio, where also he was one of the founders and a director of the Phoenix National Bank at Medina. Mrs. Mary A. (Watters) Rounds was born in Sharon Township, Medina County, in 1840, a daughter of William E. Watters, who there settled in an early day, he having been a native of Manchester, England. The devoted companionship of Mr. and Mrs. Rounds was not long severed, as both died in the year 1912, their married life having covered a period of fifty-four years.
The influences of the old home farm compassed the childhood and early youth of William A. Rounds, and after attending the public schools of the period he pursued a course in the Ohio State Normal School. For eight years he was a successful teacher in the district schools of his native county, where also he served one year as township school supervisor.
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In 1896, as previously stated, he came to Cleveland and engaged in the building business, and with this line of enterprise he has since continued his active association.
Mr. Rounds was one of the organizers and a charter member of the Home Savings & Trust Company, and when the same was consolidated with the Pearl Street Savings & Trust Company, he continued as a mem- ber of the Board of Directors of the latter institution. He is also appraiser of real estate for the Home Bank, a branch of the Pearl Street Savings & Trust Company, of the real estate board of which latter he is a valued member. He was a charter member and a director of the Savings Deposit Banking Company of Medina, of which he continues a stockholder, though he recently resigned as director of this institution. Mr. Rounds is an active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, and is in full accord with its progressive ideals and policies. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Franklin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee.
Mr. Rounds married Miss Viola E. Huntley, of Granger, Medina County, and they have two children: Louise, in 1922, a student in the woman's college of Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, and Sterling W. is attending high school.
HOWARD HUBBELL DAVIS, M. D. The professional career of Doctor Davis at Cleveland has been one of real distinction. He took up active practice here about ten years ago, and was soon known for his competent ability both as a physician and surgeon. He was one of the first medical officers to go abroad, was in active service nearly two years, and has a distinguished service cross from the American Government.
He is the only child of the late Dr. Frederick W. Davis, one of the early physicians and surgeons on the West Side of Cleveland. His father was born in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, July 14, 1853, son of William S. and Maria E. (Widmer) Davis. William S. Davis was of Welsh parentage and was born at Boston, September 25, 1825. His wife was born in Switzerland, in 1827. Both of them lived out their lives in New England. William S. Davis served in both the army and the navy during the Civil war. Frederick W. Davis came to Cleveland in 1872, when nineteen years of age. While employed as clerk in the office of superintendent of the Lake Shore Railway he read medicine, subsequently took regular courses in the medical department of Western Reserve Uni- versity, and was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1882. In the same year he began practice on Pearl Street, now West Twenty-fifth Street, and for thirty years performed the varied routine of duties involved in a success- ful professional career. He died August 15, 1912. In 1876 Dr. Frederick W. Davis married Hannah M. Hubbell, who survives him. She was born near Berea, in Cuyahoga County, daughter of Oliver C. and Harriet Hubbell. Her father was born at Newburg, now a part of Cleveland, in 1818. The Hubbells were among the pioneers of Cuyahoga County. Oliver C. Hubbell was a farmer in early life and later a teacher of pen- manship and art. In 1862 he moved to Cleveland, and died in that city May 21, 1890. His wife was born in England in 1822, and came with her parents from Philadelphia to Ohio in 1848, the family making this journey by wagon. At the time of their deaths, Oliver Hubbell and wife were the oldest members of the Franklin Avenue Christian Church.
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Howard Hubbell Davis was born on the West Side in Cleveland, April 18, 1883. As a boy he attended the Kentucky Street School, gradu- ated from the West High School in 1902, was a student for three years in Adelbert College, and with a year of residence at the University of Michigan , received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He took his medical degree from Western Reserve University in 1910. This preparation for his life work was followed by service as house physician in the German Hospital of Cleveland and post-graduate work in Harvard Medical School. He then began practice at 1730 West Twenty-fifth Street, and has con- tinued in that one locality ever since.
June 20, 1917, Doctor Davis was commissioned first lieutenant in the medical corps. He was ordered to Washington on the 9th of August, and there was given orders to report to the English Army in England for duty. He arrived in England August 28, was attached to the Twelfth Sherwood Foresters, landed in France September 27, and continued on duty with that unit until March 23, 1918. At that date he was wounded during the great British retreat, and for more than a year was in the hospital either as a patient or on such duty as his strength permitted. He was ordered home, arriving in the United States June 3, 1919, was mus- tered out at Pittsburgh July 3, and as soon as possible resumed private practice at Cleveland. His disabilities prevented him from becoming a member of the Medical Reserve Corps.
An abstract of general orders of the British army reads as follows : "First Lieutenant Davis, medical corps, attached to the Twelfth Sher- wood Foresters: On January 8, 1918, Templeux Quarries, France, he entered a dugout which had been caved in by the enemy shell fire and administered to the wounded. Although the dugout was under heavy shell fire he performed an operation for amputation of a leg and thereby saved a soldier's life." For this he was cited and received the Distinguished Service Cross. This was the first award received by an American in the war.
A very busy professional man, Doctor Davis has also given much attention to civic affairs. He is chairman of the Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Chamber of Indus- try. He is affiliated with Halcyon Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, a past chancellor commander of West Shore Lodge, Knights of Pythias, is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta and the Phi Beta Phi college fraternity and the Franklin Circle Church of Christ (Disciple). He is a member of the American and Ohio State Medical associations and the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. He is also a member of the Veteran Foreign War and the American Legion.
GEORGE BRIGHAM FARNSWORTH, M. D., now stands as one of the oldest men of his profession in the Brooklyn district of Cleveland, where he established himself in practice more than forty-five years ago, 1879, when Brooklyn was an independent village. He has been concerned closely with the development and progress of this part of the present West Side of Cleveland, has long maintained high prestige in his profession and is a loyal and honored citizen who is specially entitled to representation in this history.
Doctor Farnsworth was born in the Village of Fleming, Cayuga
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County, New York, June 23, 1854, and is a son of Whitcomb and Harriet (Fancher) Farnsworth, both likewise natives of the old Empire State, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. Doctor Farnsworth was an infant at the time of his father's death, and the widowed mother thereafter came with her children to Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, in which attractive city Doctor Farns- worth was reared to adult age, his early educational advantages having been those of the public schools of Painesville. In initiating his study of medicine he went to Aurora, Illinois, where he carried forward his studies under the preceptorship of his maternal uncle, Dr. L. R. Brigham. Upon his return to Ohio he entered the medical department (then established in Cleveland) of Wooster University, and in this well ordered institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1879. Upon thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he established an office at what is now the corner of West Twenty-fifth and Denison Avenue, the former street having at that time been a part of old Pearl Street. In this location he has since continued his office headquarters, but physical conditions in the immediate community have greatly changed in the passing years. The former Village of Brooklyn is now an integral part of the City of Cleve- land, and the thriving district in which Doctor Farnsworth has his office is now one of the well built up business sections of the Forest City. He now has the distinction of being, in both age and years of continuous prac- tice here, the oldest physician on the South Side of Cleveland, and he has long controlled a large, appreciative and representative professional clien- tage, indicating his ability, his faithful service and his personal popularity. The Doctor has taken loyal and constructive interest in the measures and enterprises that have marked the splendid development of his section of the city, and has long been influential in community affairs. In former years he served as a member of the Board of Health and as president of the Board of Education of the Village of Brooklyn, and for a term of years he was leader of the choir and superintendent of the Sunday School of the Brooklyn Memorial Church. Later he held similar positions in the Congregational Church in this community.
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