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He whose name introduces this sketch is indebted to the public schools of Cleveland for his youthful education, and he early became associated with his father's business, in which he gained the through experience that amply fortified him for effective control of the business after the death of his father, he having since continued the enterprise with distinct success,
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the offices of the F. Phillips Company being at 820 Engineers Building. In political faith Mr. Phillips is a republican, and is a loyal supporter of the principles of the party. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is deeply interested in all that touches the welfare of his native city, and is one of Cleveland's vital and progressive business men of the younger generation. March 20, 1913, recorded his marriage to Miss Mary All- gren, who likewise was born and reared in Cleveland and who is a daughter of George Allgren.
GLENN E. GRISWOLD. Prominent among the men who are represent- ing the bar of Cuyahoga County is Glenn E. Griswold, who has been engaged in practice at Cleveland since 1895, and has built up a large and representative clientage. As an attorney he has reached a place high in the esteem of his contemporaries, but his activities have not been confined to his professional duties, for he has been prominent in civic affairs and during the World war saw active service in France.
Mr. Griswold was born at Macedonia, Ohio, June 9, 1874, and is a son of Alton J. and Mary (Farquhar) Griswold. On the paternal side he traces his ancestry back to the original settlers of Connecticut, and the founder of the present branch of the family was a pioneer of the country about Fort Ticonderoga. His great-grandfather served as a soldier of the War of 1812. Ira Griswold, the grandfather of Glenn E. Griswold, was a pioneer of Twinsburg Township, Summit County, and came to Cleveland in 1829, becoming a substantial citizen and farmer of this local- ity. He spent his career in agricultural pursuits, and died on the home farm in 1895, universally respected and esteemed. Alton J. Griswold was born in Twinsburg Township, Summit County, and was reared to agri- cultural pursuits, in which he was engaged until the outbreak of the Civil war. Enlisting in the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he saw much active service and took part in several important battles of that struggle. At the close of the war he returned to the farm, and about 1877 located at Cleveland, where he spent the rest of his life, dying October 25, 1910.
The only child of his parents, Glenn E. Griswold obtained his early education in the district common schools of Twinsburg Township, the public school at Bedford and the high school at Lisbon, and then entered upon the study of law in the office of Judge James B. Ruhl, of Cleveland. He was admitted to the bar in 1895, and at once commenced the practice of his profession, in which he has since been engaged with great success. For eleven years Mr. Griswold served as justice of the peace, in addition to which he has been active in civic matters in various ways. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. Although beyond the draft age, in 1917 Mr. Griswold volunteered for service during the World war, and, being accepted, was a first lieutenant of infantry for two years, being commander of the Company the greater part of the time. At Camp Sherman he was company commander and judge advocate, and in France he served through the Argonne-Meuse campaign with the Thirty-third Division and the Twenty-third U. S. Engineers. In the operations of the Second U. S. Army, in the drive on Metz, Mr. Griswold received injuries which incapacitated him for further active service at the front. He is now
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commander of Cleveland Chapter, Disabled War Veterans, and is actively engaged in welfare work for the disabled soldiers.
R. SCHUYLER HUBBARD, M. D. The city and community of Bedford in Cuyahoga County has enjoyed and benefited from the medical skill of Doctor Hubbard for over thirty-five years. He is one of the older active men in the profession in this county, and his career has been dignified with a great amount of earnest work in his profession and also by public service. He formerly served as county treasurer of Cuyahoga County.
Doctor Hubbard was born at Guys Mills, in Crawford County, Pennsyl- vania, September 29, 1853, son of George A. and Clarissa (Sybrandt) Hubbard, and grandson of Simon and Eunice (Stearns) Hubbard. His father was a man of unusual gifts and lived a life of service and experience. In early years he was a Baptist minister, and during the Civil war he was chaplain of the One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently he became a practicing lawyer at Berea, was for a number of years postmaster of that city, and served in the Ohio State Legislature.
R. Schuyler Hubbard was educated in local schools, in Baldwin Uni- versity, at Berea, and began the study of medicine with Dr. F. M. Coates at Berea. In 1877 he received his medical degree from the University of Wooster, and during the next ten years he had a busy practice at Northfield in Summit County. In 1887 Doctor Hubbard moved his resi- dence to Bedford, Cuyahoga County, and until recent years he was busy with the demands of a large general practice throughout that vicinity. Since then he has devoted most of his professional time to his work as surgeon of the Myler-Interstate Company's Hospital at Bedford, as sur- geon of the Mason Tire & Rubber Company at Bedford, and as local surgeon of the Northern Ohio Traction Company.
Doctor Hubbard has always taken an active interest in the republican party. He is a member of the County Committee in Summit County, and in 1893 he became republican candidate for the office of county treasurer and was elected by a large majority. He began his first term of four years in September, 1894, and by reelection he held that office four years. He is affiliated with the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Elks, belongs to the various medical societies, and is a member of the Bedford Chamber of Commerce and the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bedford.
November 15, 1881, at Northfield, Ohio, Doctor Hubbard married Miss Helen Palmer, daughter of William L. and Amelia (Whitney) Palmer. Her grandfather, Hezekiah H. Palmer, built the first frame house at Northfield, and the Palmers settled in that part of Summit County in 1831, when development and improvement had made only a beginning. Her people were farmers and were among Summit County's best people. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard became the parents of three daughters: Trissa ; Helen, wife of Walter S. Ross; and Hilda, who married Bryant Avery.
CHARLES E. MAURER, whose residence is at 2245 Tudor Drive and who at the present time is president of the Glens Run Coal Company, was born on a farm near Austintown, Ohio, on the 21st of November, 1865,
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and is a son of Alexander Maurer. The father was a prominent farmer by occupation, and passed the greater portion of his life in the agricultural departments of industry. He was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and is a descendant of the old Dutch pioneers of the Keystone State. He passed the earlier part of his life in Pennsylvania, but was finally brought to Ohio, in 1824, while a small boy, and located with his parents on a farm near Austintown, on the old and historic stage road extending from Pittsburgh to Cleveland. There he grew to maturity, receiving a good common school education in the country houses, and learning what it meant to cultivate the soil, raise large crops of grain and grass and bring up properly vigorous herds of live stock. He took pride in his country home.
The parents of Alexander Maurer were Jacob and Mary (Seese) Maurer, who became useful and reputable citizens and neighbors. They spent their lives on the old farm near Austintown adjoining the well- traveled old Pittsburgh-Cleveland trail or highway. Jacob Maurer made a specialty of raising superior and blooded horses, and at all times was the owner of some of the best and fastest horses in this part of the state. At the same time he took proper care to grow the right grain and grass for his horses. While he made a specialty of rearing fine horses, he did not neglect his broad fields of wheat, oats, rye and barley, and no doubt, during grain harvest time, could be seen swinging the old fashioned cradle, or binding and shocking the sheaves. Many of his descendants may yet be found in that portion of the state, where they no doubt enjoy the family reputation established there by their dignified ancestor.
Alexander Maurer, upon attaining mature years, was united in marriage with Miss Lovina Siddall, who was a member of one of the early pioneer families of Eastern Ohio. They made their home near Austintown, and there reared and educated their children. Charles E., the subject of this narrative, was one of their offspring. He grew to maturity on his father's farm, and, like his father and grandfather, became familiar and proficient in the exactions of agricultural production. But before he reached his maturity he determined on a different career than farming. So efficient was his early schooling that at the unusual age of thirteen years he man- aged to secure a teacher's certificate, and when he was fourteen years old taught his first term in a neighboring country school. This step seemed so satisfactory that he continued to teach during the summers for five years and attended school himself during the winters. He was permitted to take this course by his father, who desired to see him advance to early success and prosperity.
His teaching was to secure money to pay his expenses when attending schools. He thus steadily continued his own culture until he was graduated from the Northeastern Ohio Normal School in 1882 with much credit. Soon afterward he began reading law in the office and under the instruction of Judge William S. Anderson at Youngstown, and continued the same persistently until he passed the required examination success- fully and was duly admitted to the bar of the state in 1888. He imme- diately began the practice of law in Youngstown, and continued thus with success until 1900, when greater allurements caused him to change his occu- pation from strictly professional to more widely industrial activities.
In 1900 he came to Cleveland, and was mainly instrumental in organizing
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the Glens Run Coal Company, with large and valuable coal mines in Jeffer- son County, Ohio, and ever since that date he has served as president of the concern with credit and proficiency. Under his wise guidance the company has grown and expanded rapidly to the present time. In recent years the company instead of working its own mines has leased them to other organi- zations, and now acts only as a "holding company." When the company was at the zenith of its activities it produced and handled per year 1,250,000 tons of coal, and had accomplished the surprising task of founding and developing the Standard Pocahontas Coal Company at Welch, West Vir- ginia, the Wabash Coal Company in Jefferson County, Ohio, the Edgar „No. 1 and No. 2 mines on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad in Jefferson County, and the Rush Run Mines, 2, 3 and 4, in Jefferson County. All of this unusual expansion revealed superior acumen on the part of the man- agers of the company.
Mr. Maurer is a democrat, and since early manhood has taken much interest in the success of his party policies and principles. He served as chairman of the Mahoning County Democratic Executive Committee. In recent years his political activities have subsided. In 1901 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Young, and they have two children, Edgar and Isabelle. Edgar was one of the gallants of the World war, was commis- sioned lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment, was sent across the ocean and saw service mainly in maintaining order in Italy at a critical stage of the war.
Mr. Maurer is a member of the Union, Athletic and Shaker Heights Country clubs. He has now retired from the responsible duties of business, but takes much pleasure in numerous recreations, such as golf, fishing and sociability. At present and for years he has been a dominant figure in the settlement of bitter differences arising between the coal operators and the miners. From 1900 to 1920 he helped to formulate, as the Ohio representa- tive, every inter-state agreement reached by the divergent interests. In 1919 he appeared for Ohio before the Bituminous Coal Commission.
WILLIAM MAXWELL MONROE has been a practicing patent attorney and expert in Cleveland for many years, and has also had no business in the civil and criminal courts of the state, his specialty throughout having been patent law. He is one of the oldest patent attorneys in Ohio.
He is a son of the late Hon. James Monroe, an educator and diplomat, whose name is peculiarly associated with Oberlin College, and who also enjoyed a number of honors in state and national politics. James Monroe was born in Connecticut, July 18, 1821, and died at Oberlin July 6, 1898. He had a brother, Edward Monroe, a Congregational minister who held a pastorate in a church at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and later for thirty years at Akron, Ohio. Hon. James Monroe came to Ohio from Connecticut with his brother, graduated from Oberlin College in 1846, was a tutor there from 1846 to 1848, and in 1849 graduated from Oberlin Seminary. During the next thirteen years he was professor of rhetoric and belle lettres at Oberlin, and was closely allied with that group of Oberlin men who made the college and village a center of anti-slavery agitation. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature from 1856 to 1859, and of the State Senate from 1860 to 1862. Under appointments from his personal friend, President
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Lincoln, he was United States Consul General at Rio de Janeiro from 1863 to 1869 and chargè d'affairs during the Civil war. On his return to the United States he was elected on the republican ticket to Congress, serving five separate terms, from March 4, 1871, to March, 1881. He was an intimate friend of James A. Garfield, and when Mr. Garfield was elected president he offered Mr. Monroe the post of minister to Brazil. The assassination of President Garfield prevented the appointment being officially conferred. James Monroe was for many years a trustee of Oberlin College. He filled the chair of history at Oberlin, and from 1884 until 1896 was professor of political science and modern history. In this latter position he was the first occupant of what is known as the Monroe, professorship at Oberlin, supported by the income from a fund raised by Mr. Monroe.
The first wife of James Monroe was Elizabeth Maxwell, who was born at Mansfield, Ohio, where her father was a prominent manufacturer and a leader in the Congregational Church. By this marriage James Monroe had five children, four of whom reached mature years : Mary K., a teacher in Wellesley College, who died in 1917; Charles Edwin, an attorney; Emma, wife of Rev. C. N. Fitch, of New York City, and William M. The second wife of Prof. James Monroe was Julia Finney, younger daughter of the distinguished Charles E. Finney, for many years president of Oberlin College.
William Maxwell Monroe was born in Oberlin, attended the preparatory school, and finished the sophomore year in Oberlin College, and spent three years as a student of patent law and engineering in the office of M. D. Legget & Company, patent attorneys at Cleveland. As a youth he had lived with his parents in Rio de Janeiro, where he had a private tutor, and where in his play with native children he learned the Portuguese language. Mr. Monroe has practiced alone, and the records show his able participation in the varied work of a patent attorney, including examina- tions for patent infringements, and the work of a solicitor of patents, and in the course of his practice he has become interested in a number of manu- facturing enterprises.
Since 1916 his offices have been in the Engineers Building at Cleveland. Mr. Monroe is a republican, a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce and the City Club. He married, October 26, 1897, Miss Ida May Stewart, daughter of William H. and Margaret Daugherty Stewart. The two sons of their marriage are Stewart and William, both graduates of the Shaw High School at Cleveland, of the Staunton Military Academy in Virginia, and both attended Princeton University, of which Stewart is a graduate. Stewart was unable, on account of his youth, to get into service during the war, but now holds commission as second lieutenant of artillery and is employed by the Manhattan Rubber Company, New York. William is employed at present in one of the Cleveland banks.
RALPH KING, president of the Realty Investment Company and promi- nently identified with other important corporations in Cleveland, was an infant at the time when the family home was established in this city some seventy years ago, and, like his father before him, he has become a promi- nent and influential man of affairs in the Ohio metropolis, a city to which
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his loyalty is unbounded, and to the general advancement of which he has contributed his quota.
Mr. King was born in the town of Parma, Monroe County, New York, on the 3d of July, 1855, and is a representative of a family that was founded in the old Empire State in the pioneer era of its history. His father, Charles Gregory King, was there born at San Lake, Rensselaer County, September 27, 1822, and was a member of a family of fourteen children, all of whom attained to maturity.
Charles G. King was but sixteen years of age at the time of his father's death, and as it became incumbent upon him to assist in the support of his widowed mother and the younger children he was at that period unable to advance his somewhat limited education. He thus early learned the lessons of industry and self-reliance, and after seven years had passed sufficient provision for the care of the family had been made to enable him to follow the course of his worthy ambition, which was to broaden his education. He entered the Brockport Collegiate Institute, a well ordered institution in Western New York, and up to the year 1849 he continued to devote himself to alternate study and teaching. He then started to the West in search of occupation, and after a long and tedious journey about, including a visit to Michigan, he was not successful in his quest for a position that would promise the desired advancement. He returned to his native state, and within a short time thereafter he found the golden opportunity, when he was given the position of buyer for a firm that was engaged in shipping lumber from Erie, Pennsylvania, to the market at Albany, New York. In this connection his latent business ability found opportunity for mani- festation and development, with the result that he won promotion and advancement. In 1852 he came with his family to Cleveland, where he became a member of the firm of Foote & King, which engaged in the lumber business, with yards on River Street. Owing to failing health, Mr. Foote retired from the firm in 1862, and for the ensuing three years Mr. King continued the business in an individual way. D. K. Clint then became a partner, and in 1866 a new yard was established, on Scranton Road. The firm became Rust, King & Company, and in 1874 the original yard, on River Street, was abandoned, to give place for the building of the city viaduct. About this time the firm name was changed to Rust, King & Clint, and Mr. King long continued a prominent representative of the lumber business in this city.
On the 22d of February, 1883, was granted the charter of the Savings & Trust Company, and upon the completion of the organization, March 27 of that year, Mr. King was chosen president of the new institution, which instituted business on the 8th of May, 1883, with a capital stock of $750,000, held by citizens of the highest standing in the community. With this large and prosperous corporation Mr. King continued his active association until his death, and he wielded large influence in the developing and upbuilding of its substantial business. He was one of the honored and representative citizens of Cleveland at the time of his death. He married Miss Jennie Thrall, who was born in the Town of Parma, Monroe County, New York, and who was well advanced in years at the time of her death, as was also her husband. They reared to maturity two sons, Ralph and Charles, the latter of whom is now deceased.
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Ralph King, as before stated, was an infant at the time of the family removal to Cleveland, and here his early education was acquired in the Brownell School. Eventually he entered historic old Brown University, in which institution he continued his studies until his graduation, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Upon his return home he became associated with the lumber firm of of Rust, King & Company, and his alliance with the business, which had been founded by his father, continued ten years. Since that time his independent activities have advanced him to a position of prominence and influence in connection with business enterprises of broad scope and importance. Besides being president of the Realty Invest- ment Company he is at the present time a director of the Union Trust Com- pany. His civic loyalty has been of the highest type, and in this connection it is to be recorded that he is vice president of the Cleveland Museum of Art, to the advancement of which he has made liberal contribution. He is also a trustee of Western Reserve University, the Western Reserve His- torical Society, and also of Kenyon College, at Gambier, one of the first western colleges established under the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
In 1897 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. King and Miss Fanny Tewksbury, who was born in Sanilac County, Michigan, a daughter of the late Samuel and Lucinda (Woods) Tewksbury, who were pioneer settlers in that county and both of whom were born in Vermont, of Colonial New England stock. Mr. and Mrs. King are zealous communicants of Trinity Church, Protestant Episcopal, and he is serving as a trustee of this important parish. Mr. and Mrs. King have four children : Ralph T., Woods, Charles Gregory III, and Frances.
FRANCIS HENRY HASEROT has been in business in Cleveland for over forty years, beginning as a merchandise broker. Mr. Haserot is president of the Haserot Company of Cleveland and an officer in other organizations with which he is affiliated. He still gives his personal attention to the broad program of his commercial affairs.
Mr. Haserot was born in Cleveland, December 19, 1860. His grand- father, Henry Haserot, was a native of Heroldishausen, Saxony, Germany, and in 1834 brought his family to America in a sailing vessel, accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and their two-year-old son, Johann Gottlieb, who was born at Heroldishausen in 1832. Landing at New York, they came on west to Pittsburgh and hence into Eastern Ohio, locating near Liver- pool, where Henry Haserot took up a homestead and built a log house for himself and family. He improved the land, but subsequently engaged in the harness making trade and finally moved to Elyria, Ohio, where he lived retired until his death at the age of eighty. Johann Gottlieb Haserot also learned the trade of harness maker, and for many years was a suc- cessful manufacturer at Cleveland, moving to that city when a boy. He died there in 1914. His wife was Christine Klooz, daughter of Johann and Christine Klooz, who came from Germany and settled at Liverpool about the same time as the Haserot family. Johann G. Haserot and wife had nine children, five sons and four daughters.
Francis Henry Haserot was educated in the public schools and the Lutheran parochial schools at Cleveland. As a youth he did newspaper
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work with the Herald, clerked in the dry goods house of Morgan, Root & Company, subsequently the Root & McBride Company, and was a traveling salesman and department buyer for this firm before entering business on his own account. For a brief time he was in the brokerage business under the name Haserot & Company, and in 1885 he became a partner in the wholesale grocery firm of W. J. Hayes & Company at Cleveland. In 1889 he and his brother succeeded to the Hayes business, organizing the partnership of S. F. and F. H. Haserot & Company. In 1895 the company was incorporated as the Haserot Company, Mr. F. H. Haserot serving as vice president until 1903, when he succeeded his brother as president.
The Haserot Company is one of the representative mercantile houses of Ohio, with affiliations extending to all quarters of the globe. The com- pany is a heavy importer of coffees and teas, and it is also identified with the manufacture and distribution of pineapple from the Hawaiian Islands, fruits from the Pacific Coast and fruits and vegetables produced in the Middle West. The company is one of the world's largest operators in red sour pitted cherries. F. H. Haserot, with his brother, organized the Forestville Canning Company, the Gowanda Canning Company and the Clyde Canning Company, which were afterward consolidated into the Haserot Canneries Company, and then merged into the present Haserot Company.
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