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LYMAN W. CHILDS, M. D., who has practiced medicine in Cleveland for upwards of thirty years, has long been interested in the public health movement, and as director of the department of health education for the city, his work has attracted attention from all over the country.
Doctor Childs was born at Lee, Illinois, October 1, 1867, son of Charles and Eliza A. (Smith) Childs. He is of Old New England ancestry, his lineage being traced back to Ephraim Childs who came from England in 1630, and settled at Roxbury, now Boston, Massachusetts. Subsequently the family removed into Connecticut and from there to Vermont. The pioneer of the family in the West was Harvey Childs, grandfather of Doctor Childs. He was a native of Vermont, and was one of the first settlers at Perkins Grove in Illinois. Bridge builder by trade, he erected many of the structures over the streams in that part of the state. Charles Childs, father of Doctor Childs, was born at Sharon, Vermont, in 1830, was reared in Illinois, and for many years was a carpenter at Perkins Grove and later at LaMoille, Illinois. His last years were spent in the vocation of farming. His wife, Eliza A. Smith, was born in Conway, Massachusetts, daughter of Lorenzo Smith, also of Colonial ancestry, the
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family being represented by soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Lorenzo Smith was an early settler at LaMoille, Illinois.
Lyman W. Childs acquired his early education in Illinois, while living on his father's farm. In 1890 he graduated from the Illinois State Normal School, and subsequently was granted a life certificate as a teacher in that state. He taught both before and after graduating from Normal School, and during 1890-91 was principal of the high school at Galva, Illinois. Doctor Childs came to Cleveland in 1891 to enter the Western Reserve University Medical Department, was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1894, and for one year was an interne in the city hospital. Following that he engaged in private practice. During 1900 Doctor Childs took special courses in the University of Vienna, Austria.
Many years ago he became interested in the public health side of his profession. He served as a member of the Sanitation Committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and was a member of the committee sent by the chamber 'to Columbus to secure passage of the law providing medical inspection in this city. Later it became the duty and honor of Doctor Childs to install at Murray Hill Public School the first school health station in the country. In 1918 Doctor Childs was made director of health education for the city, and has given much of his time to work of that department since then. Doctor Childs is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and to Brenton D. Babcock Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
In 1892 Doctor Childs married Miss Winnie Brewer of Cleveland. She died in 1897, and is survived by two daughters. Evelyn Laura graduated with honors from Wellesley College, and also won first honors when she graduated a trained nurse from Lakeside Hospital of Cleveland, winning the Columbia College scholarship. The second daughter, Frances B., is a graduate of Oberlin College, and is now a teacher in the kinder- garten department of the Cleveland public schools. In 1902 Doctor Childs married Miss Colene Hogg of Cleveland. They are the parents of four children, Elenor M., Lyman W., Jr., and Mary and Martha, twin daughters, born Christmas, 1917.
MAJ. ARTHUR BANCROFT FOSTER. The life of Maj. Arthur Bancroft Foster has been rich in experience, service and achievement, signalized in its early years by the faithful performance of duties as a soldier of the Union. For over half a century he has been actively identified with Cleve- land business, manufacturing and financial interests.
He was born in Portage County, Ohio, December 14, 1844, son of Charles R. and Rosanna E. (Bancroft) Foster. His maternal grand- father, Artemus Bancroft, a cousin of George Bancroft, the great historian, was born in Connecticut, of early English ancestry. He was a pioneer of the Western Reserve of Ohio, coming West in 1809, bringing his family with wagons and ox teams. While looking the country over he visited Cleveland. He carried a very fine gun, and one of the settlers at Cleveland offered him a tract of several acres near the mouth of the river in exchange for the gun. He did not make the trade, being prejudiced against the sandy land. He sought a better location in the interior, securing timbered
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land in Nelson Township of Portage County. He lived the life of a real pioneer, supplying most of the meat by wild game of the forest. When one of the early highways from the Ohio River to Fairport was con- structed, his farm lay on this thoroughfare, and he established a tavern and stage station. He was a very substantial member of his community, and lived to the advanced age of nearly ninety years, his wife also attaining a good old age. Her name was Laura Warfield. They reared two sons and two daughters, the sons dying unmarried. One daughter, Harriet, married a Mr. Holcomb, of Geauga County.
Charles R. Foster, who married Rosanna E. Bancroft, was born in Massachusetts, and was an infant when his parents came to Ohio, making the overland journey with wagons and ox teams and locating in Huron County. They also lived among pioneer conditions, with Indians as neigh- bors, and the father of Charles R. Foster cleared and improved a farm in the woods. Charles R. Foster learned the trade of tailor, and followed it for a number of years in Nelson, Portage County, and subsequently re- moved to Garrettsville, where he was a merchant tailor. He died at the age of sixty-five. His wife died at Garrettsville when in middle life. They reared four children: Arthur Bancroft, Charles Henry, Guy and Cora. Cora's first husband was Frederick Beecher, and he left one son, Lloyd Beecher, and subsequently she married William Arthur, and they now live in Cleveland.
Arthur Bancroft Foster grew up at Garrettsville, attending the public schools, and in 1861 was graduated from the Nelson Academy at Nelson Center. He was not yet seventeen when the Civil war broke out, and he soon enlisted in Company D of the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio In- fantry, being appointed a bugler. He was with his regiment throughout the period of the war, taking part in the Atlanta campaign, and after the fall of that city his regiment was sent with other troops against General Hood, whose army was met and practically destroyed by the Union forces in the bloody Battle of Franklin, followed by the Battle of Nashville, in both of which Mr. Foster participated. These battles occurred in the fall and winter of 1864, after which his regiment was on duty along the Tennessee River, and was then sent by way of Washington to North Carolina, taking part in the capture of Fort Anderson and the advance against the City of Wilmington. After that city capitulated the regiment went on to Goldsboro and thence to Raleigh, where it was stationed when General Johnston surrendered his army. The regiment was then ordered to Greensboro to receive the arms surrendered by the Confederates, and was next ordered to Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Foster was mustered out in 1865.
After the war Major Foster was associated with his father in the merchant tailoring business for a few years. He became a resident of Cleveland in 1871, and for two years was a traveling salesman for the Domestic Sewing Machine Company, served eight years as manager of the Cleveland office of the company, and was then promoted to general manager of the Chicago territory west of Pittsburgh, and was also made a director of the company.
Having proved himself a successful factor in business affairs, in 1889, after leaving the sewing machine business, he assisted in organizing and
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became the first president of the National Screw and Tack Company. For many years Major Foster was an active executive in some of the leading industries of Cleveland. In 1893 he sold his interests in that manufac- turing concern to help organize the Crescent Sheet and Tin Plate Com- pany, one of the first enterprises of its kind in the United States that proved successful. He served as vice president of the company until it was on a firm financial basis and became a part of the American Tin Plate Company. Later he organized the Nungesser Carbon and Battery Com- pany, serving as its president, and finally disposing of all his interests in 1916. Having acquired by purchase the Cleveland Electric Manufacturing Company, which manufactured a watchman's time detector, and did a general electrical contracting and supply business, and having also pur- chased the Cleveland Electric Supply Company, he merged the two under the latter name, and was president and manager of the corporation until 1912. Among other interests, Mr. Foster is president of the Cleveland Truck Company, a director in the State Banking & Trust Company, presi- dent of the Energine Refining Company, manufacturers of energine, and chairman of the board of directors of the D. O. Summers Company, clean- ers and dyers, and is still active in the different enterprises in which he is interested.
Major Foster married, in September, 1865, Miss Belle B. Wright, of Ravinna. She was born at Rootstown, in Portage County, Ohio. Her father, Andrew J. Wright, was born at Tolland, Connecticut. Her grand- father, James Wright, was a pioneer settler in Portage County, Ohio, where he bought land and improved a farm, served as justice of the peace and was commissioned by President Jackson with the rank of ensign. Andrew J. Wright was a youth when the family came to Ohio, and he learned the trade of cabinet maker, following it at Ravenna for a number of years, and later in Cleveland, and when quite old he returned East and spent his last days in Tolland, Connecticut. His wife was Mary A. Stuy- vesant. After the death of her husband she returned to Ohio and lived in Ravenna.
Mrs. Foster was one of Cleveland's greatly beloved women, where for more than two score years she was active in club and philanthropic work. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Woman's City Club, and for many years was an officer and director of the Dorcas Invalid Home. She combined in an unusual degree beauty of mind and soul, devoting a great share of her time and strength to the wel- fare of others, and in a notable degree achieved that ideal of Christian life, of devoting herself more to others than to herself. Through the sufferings of many years she maintained and expressed a spirit of profound helpful- ness to others, and it was characteristic of her to live in deeds and not in words and theories. She passed to her reward on July 19, 1923.
During the past eighteen years Major Foster and until her death Mrs. Foster spent their winters either in Los Angeles, California, or at Daytona, Florida. Major Foster was prominent in that Florida community, having served as commodore of the Halifax River Yacht Club and as president of the Florida East Coast Automobile Association. Major Foster is a republican in politics, and has been actively identified with the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and was the first major of the Battalion of Ohio
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Engineers, and the Cleveland Grays. Since early manhood he has been a prominent student of Masonry, and has taken all the orders of the York Rite, is past grand commander Knight Templar of Ohio, and has also received the supreme honorary thirty-third degree in Scottish Rite Masonry.
GIORDANO BRUNO FLIEDNER, M. D., has gained in his native city a pro- fessional success that marks him as one of the able and representative physicians of Cleveland. Here he was born on the 12th of August, 1886, a scion in the third generation in America of one of the old and sterling families of Cleveland. Michael Fliedner, grandfather of the doctor, was born and reared in Germany, where his marriage was solemnized and whence he came with his family to the United States in the early '50s. The year 1852 recorded his arrival in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and here he first settled at Bedford. Later he came to Cleveland and es- tablished his residence at East Fourteenth Street and Scoville Avenue, in which locality he was engaged in business a number of years. Both he and his wife continued to reside in Cleveland until their deaths. Their son, Frederick, was born in Germany, in 1843, and thus was a boy at the time of the family immigration to the United States. A man of alert mentality and well directed ambition, he early determined to prepare himself for the medical profession. He was graduated in a Wooster medical college in the year 1870, and for the ensuing five years was engaged in practice on the east side of the city. He then removed to the west side and established his residence on what is now Twenty-fifth Street, and here he gained standing as one of the leading physicians of this section of the city, besides being an honored and influential citizen. He acquired a large amount of real estate on the west side, and contributed much to the civic and material development and upbuilding of this part of Cleveland. He served in 1884-5 as county coroner, and he was for three terms a valued member of the city board of health. The death of Doctor Fliedner occurred in 1908, and his name and memory are held in lasting honor in the city which represented his home during the greater part of his life and to which his loyalty was unbounded. Doctor Fliedner married Miss Marie Asmus, who was born and reared in Cleveland, a daughter of William Asmus, who was a native of Germany and who was for many years a well known citizen of the east side of Cleveland. Mrs. Fliedner passed to the life eternal in the year 1895, at the age of forty-two years.
Dr. Giordano B. Fliedner, son of Dr. Frederick and Marie (Asmus) Fliedner, continued his studies in the public schools of Cleveland until his graduation from the West High School, as a member of the class of 1903. In 1907 he received from Adelbert College (now Western Reserve UNI- versity) the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1910 he was graduated from the medical department of Western Reserve University. After thus acquir- ing his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself by fifteen months of service as an interne in Lakeside Hospital, where he gained valuable clinical experience.
Doctor Fliedner was among the first Cleveland physicians to enlist in the United States Medical Corps when the nation became involved in the World war. On the 8th of June, 1917, he received commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, and on the
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4th of the following August was ordered to Fort Benjamin Harrison, at Indianapolis, for preliminary training. On the 27th of the same month he was ordered to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan, and there he was assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-seventh United States Infantry. In June, 1918, Doctor Fliedner was transferred to Camp Mills, New York, and from Hoboken, New Jersey, he accompanied the Eighty-fifth Division overseas. The command arrived at Liverpool, England, August 3d, and on the 12th of the same month Doctor Fliedner landed in France. With his command he was sent to a point about the geographical center of France, and later to a position just behind the allied military lines at Toul. There he continued on active duty until the signing of the armistice brought active hostilities to a close, and on the 8th of July, 1919, he disembarked in the Port of New York City. At Camp Sherman, Ohio, he received his honorable discharge on the 31st of that month. In May, 1919, Doctor Fliedner was promoted to the rank of captain, and in the following December he received commission as major in the Reserve Medical Corps of the United States Army, this commission being still in force. In December, 1921, the Doctor was officially designated as surgeon of the Three Hundred and Thirty-first Infantry Reserve.
Doctor Fliedner is an active and valued member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and maintains affiliation also with the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cuyahoga County Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Cleveland Greys, one of the fine military organizations of Ohio, and holds membership also in the American Legion.
Doctor Fliedner married Miss Ida Weis, who was born at Sandusky, Ohio, and whose father, the late Colonel Weis, was a gallant soldier of the Union, as a member of an Ohio infantry regiment, in the Civil war. Mr. Weis participated in many engagements and was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. Doctor and Mrs. Fliedner have one daughter, Helen Louise, at present a student at West Junior High School.
CHARLES LAWRENCE MOORE, M. D. By his work and his professional and official connections, Doctor Moore has achieved a place of genuine distinction in a city noted for its eminent physicians and surgeons. It is noteworthy that Doctor Moore began his practice in a small country com- munity, and his experience of twenty-odd years has covered the full range of working service performed by a man of his calling.
Doctor Moore was born at the old Moore family homestead in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1873, this homestead having been in the family through four generations. It was acquired by his great-grandfather, James Moore, who came from Washington County, Pennsylvania, settling in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, where he bought land from a Revolu- tionary soldier who had received a grant in Mercer County. James Moore was the father of Joseph Moore, grandfather of Doctor Moore. Doctor Moore's parents are James and Elizabeth (Covert) Moore, both still living. His mother was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, daughter of William Covert, a native of the same county and of Holland-Dutch ancestry.
Doctor Moore spent his early years on the farm in Mercer County.
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This farm was close to the Ohio state line. He attended the district schools, and also went to school in the Village of Orangeville, Ohio. He spent two years in McElwain Institute in Mercer County, and graduated from Fredonia Institute of the same county with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1893. Later Fredonia Institute awarded him the Master of Science degree. For a year he taught in the high school at Sheakleyville, Pennsyl- vania, and then entered Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1899. Doctor Moore first located at Burghill in Trumbull County, Ohio, not far from the scene of his birthplace. He en- joyed a successful practice in that rural district, and in 1910 removed to Cleveland. In that year he was appointed an instructor in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, and in 1913 was made full professor of diagnosis and subsequently became secretary of the faculty. He held that office until the college was made a department of the Ohio State University.
Doctor Moore in 1910 helped reorganize Grace Hospital, and from 1912 to 1916 was president of the association owning and operating the institution. Since 1920 he has been chief-of-staff of Grace Hospital, and is also a member of the staff of the Huron Road Hospital. During 1921-22 he was a member of the Certified Milk Commission of Cleveland, and for six years physician to the Trinity Cathedral Church Home, and has accepted many other opportunities for that form of splendid public service open to the well qualified physicians.
Doctor Moore is a member of the Cleveland and Ohio State Homeo- pathic Medical associations, Medical Library and the American Institute of Homeopathy, is an elder in Bethany Presbyterian Church, is affiliated with Old Jerusalem Lodge No. 19, Free and Accepted Masons, at Hartford, Ohio, and is a member of the Cleveland Automobile Club and the Big Ten University Club.
WILLIAM GEORGE PHARE, a former member of both Houses of the Ohio Legislature, has been a resident of the community known as Cleve- land Heights for over forty years. Since 1896 Mr. Phare has practiced law as a member of the Cleveland bar, and in the field of real estate he has won a most enviable success.
He was born at Warrensville, in Cuyahoga County, June 29, 1863, and is of English and, remotely, of French ancestry. His parents, Thomas and Mary J. (Short) Phare, were both natives of Plymouth, England. His father was born October 14, 1822, and died September 9, 1913, at the age of ninety-one, while his mother was born in 1828, and died May 7, 1895. They came to the United States in 1851. Thomas Phare was for many years a successful contractor in building and public work. He put up many of the fine homes and office buildings of his day, and laid the first paving on West Superior Street, Cleveland.
All the life of William George Phare has been passed within a few miles of the City of Cleveland. He attended public schools in East Cleveland, the Shaw Academy, and graduated in 1882 from the National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio. For a number of years he was identified with the general mercantile business at Fairmount, now Cleveland Heights. He utilized his leisure in the study of law, was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1896, and his extensive experience in this profession covers almost
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thirty years. While engaged in general practice, nearly all his time has been taken up with legal work involving real estate, and he has looked after the business as well as the legal details in many important real estate transactions. His business and law office are in the Ulmer Block. Mr. Phare in 1902 organized the Fairmount Savings Bank Company, and was its secretary and treasurer until it was consolidated in 1905 with the Cleveland Trust Company.
He was elected a member of the Lower House of the Ohio Legislature in 1900, and during his two year term was member and secretary of the judiciary committee, foreman on the committee of dairy and food products, and member of the committees on municipal corporations and common schools. In November, 1909, he was elected to the State Senate, serving from 1910 to 1912. He was a member of the State Senate Finance Com- mittee, the committees on common schools, colleges and universities, roads and highways, agriculture. From 1910 to 1912 Mr. Phare was mayor of the Village of Cleveland Heights, and for several years was a member of the Board of Education of that village.
He belongs to the Ohio State and Cleveland Bar associations, the Cleve- land Fire Insurance Exchange, the Tippecanoe Club and the Cleveland Heights Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Phare married, November 26, 1883, Matie Linder, daughter of Samuel and Malinda Linder. Their one son, Roy W. Phare, was born at Cleveland, January 12, 1885.
FRANK GARRETT JONES, M. D., One of the younger but thoroughly experienced medical practitioners at Cleveland, a specialist in surgery and a member of the staff of Glenville Hospital, is Dr. Frank Garrett Jones, who is an overseas veteran officer of the World war. Doctor Jones worthily bears a name made eminent in medical science by his father and grandfather, and in following in their professional footsteps has won success in which heritage may be credited as a factor.
Doctor Jones was born at Garrettsville, Portage County, Ohio, October 4, 1891, a son of Dr. Frank G. and Eleanor (Stowe) Jones, and a grandson of Dr. Gaius J. Jones, who for many years was president of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. Dr. Gaius J. Jones was born at Utica, New York, in 1842, and was a son of Jonathan Jones, who was a native of Wales. Dr. Gaius J. Jones served with gallantry as a Union soldier in the Civil war, as a member of an Ohio regiment of infantry, and for years was prominent in the Grand Army of the Republic affairs at Cleveland. After the war he was graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, and after practicing for a brief period at Liverpool, Ohio, he came to Cleveland, about 1870, and subsequently became president of the Cleve- land Homeopathic Medical College, and remained at the head of that insti- tution until his death in 1913. He rose to high rank in his profession, and to his skill and ability as a physician and surgeon, his wisdom as an edu- cator, and his executive capacity, the growth and development of this college are largely due. He rose to the presidency of the American Institute of Homeopathy, was a valued contributor to medical magazines and was the author of a standard medical work entitled "Theory and Practice." He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a republican in politics and a member
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of the Presbyterian Church. He married Emily Wilmot, who was born at Oberlin, Ohio, and they had three sons and three daughters born to them.
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