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In Masonry his affiliations are with Glennville Lodge No. 618, Free and Accepted Masons, Glennville Chapter No. 197, Royal Arch Masons, Cleve- land Council No. 36, Royal and Select Masters, Oriental Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar, Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Al Sirat Grotto No. 17, Cleveland
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Forest No. 70, Cleveland Court No. 14, Royal Court of Jesters, and St. Benedict Conclave, Red Cross of Constantine, which represents the highest degree in York Rite Masonry.
Mr. Keith is also an honorary member of Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Columbus, and an honorary member of the Shedad Grotto of Brockton, Massachusetts. Mr. Keith married Cora Coleman, who was born at Liverpool, Pennsylvania, member of an old Pennsylvania family. She is affiliated with the Pennsylvania Society. Mr. and Mrs. Keith's daughter, Agnes, is the wife of James Gascoyne, and they have a daughter, Elizabeth Gascoyne. The Gascoynes live in Baltimore.
LADA C. CUKR has given twenty-four years of his life to the service of the municipal government of Cleveland, being one of the oldest in point of continuous service among the employes of the city. He is at present com- missioner of assessments and licenses, with office in the City Hall.
Mr. Cukr was born in Cleveland, son of Charles and Arnasta (Cross) Cukr. He was reared in his native city, attending public schools, and was in high school when America joined in war with Spain over Cuba.
He immediately left school, enlisted in Company C, Tenth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and was in training. His regiment was about to embark for Cuba when the war ended. After receiving his honorable discharge Mr. Cukr returned home, and soon found work in the county surveyor's office of Cuyahoga County. He was employed as a chainman and later as a rodman, but in January, 1900, left the county to join the city service, and that marked the beginning of what will soon be a quarter of a century of service. He has been in different departments and in different capacities, and his experience and thorough knowledge make his admirably qualified for his present duties as commissioner of assessments and licenses.
Mr. Cukr married, in February, 1902, Miss Sylvia Vetrover, a native of Cleveland, and daughter of Joseph and Katharine Vetrover. They have two sons, Charles and William Cukr. Mr. Cukr is affiliated with Newburg Lodge of Masons, Thatcher Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and belongs to the Al Sirat Grotto of Masonry.
WALTER CHARLES CROUCH, M. D. Probably there is no city in the country whose medical fraternity stands higher than that of Cleveland. These professional men have matured their natural abilities, broadened their experiences and increased their knowledge until they stand at the apex of their calling. Among the men devoted to the humane calling of alleviating the ills of humanity is Dr. Walter Charles Crouch, who has gained an enviable reputation and a large following on the south side of the city, where he has been engaged in practice since 1904.
Doctor Crouch was born on a farm in Wayne Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, June 18, 1873, and is a son of the late Henry and Florence (Fobes) Crouch, the father a native of Western Pennsylvania and the mother of Ashtabula County, Ohio. The boyhood and youth of Doctor Crouch were passed in much the same manner as those of other farmer boys of his time and locality, attending the district school in the short winter terms and 'assisting on the home farm during the rest of the year. However, his inclinations did not run toward an agricultural career, and ,
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he accordingly continued his studies at the public schools at Kinsman, Trumbull County, this state, and at the Newline Institute. He then began the study of medicine at the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, a part of Wooster University, now Western Reserve University, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1894 from the Uni- versity of Medicine and Surgery in Ohio. He was for one year thereafter interne at Huron Road Hospital, Cleveland, and then entered practice in Wyandot County, Ohio, where he remained two years, subsequently spending three years at Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio. When he left the latter place, in 1904, he disposed of a large and lucrative practice in order to take up his labors in a field that promised a wider scope and greater opportunities. Accordingly he came to Cleveland, where he has since resided and carried on the general practice of his profession as a disciple of Hahnemann. He has built up an excellent clientele, and since 1913 has been located at 4103 Marvin Avenue, on the South Side, a com- munity in which he is held in the highest and warmest esteem, both as a physician and a man. Doctor Crouch was one of the founders of Grace Hospital, and is a member of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy. Fraternally he belongs to Bigelow Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Forest City Commandery, Knights Templars; Cleveland Council ; Al Sirat Grotto ; Al Koran Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Valley of Cleveland, Lake Erie County, thirty-second degree; and Phoenix Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Doctor Crouch was commissioned a captain in the Medical Corps, United States Army, July 19, 1918, and entered the Medical Officers Training School at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, August 1, 1918. On October 26, 1918, he sailed for overseas duty, and landed at Liverpool, England. From there he went to France, where he served with Conva- lescent Hospital No. 6, Evacuation Hospital No. 24, at Hospital No. 27, Coblenz, and from Hospital No. 27 he went to Hospital No. 24 in Mesves, France. Returning home after the armistice, he landed May 31, 1919, and received his honorable discharge at Camp Sherman, Ohio, on June 22, 1919, ' at which time he returned to his home and practice. He is a member of the United Brethren Church. Doctor Crouch has two sons, H. Lawrence, aged twenty-five years, Cleveland, and Loyal W., of Cleveland.
JESS R. ENOS. In contemplating the wonderful and populous City of Cleveland, Ohio, it seems almost impossible that in so comparatively a short period since it was but a rude pioneer village, it could so extend its boundaries and increase its population as at the present time. Jess R. Enos, a native of Rochester, New York, and who died in Cleveland at the very unusual age of 100 years, lacking one day, was one of the pioneer settlers of that city, having located there when but seventeen years old, when Cleveland was but a pioneer village. In fact, the city was in such a primi- tive condition at that time that he sometimes shot deer on the ground where now stands the cathedral. He is said to have been a man of strong character and indefatigable energy, as indeed he must have been, for he forged to the front and became actively identified with not only the business interests of Cleveland, but with all laudable enterprises that had for their
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object the upbuilding of the city. He founded the Enos Fishery Company, which later became the Buckeye Fisheries Company and which is still continued by the Booth interests. His five children, one son and four daughters, are now deceased.
George H. Enos, the only son, was a native of Cleveland and passed his entire life in that city. He no doubt inherited from his father much of his push and determination, and for forty years was prominently identified with the Lake Shore Railroad. To his marriage were born two children, as follows: Jessie M. (Mrs. Robert M. Kood) and George A. The former had two children, and George A., who married Miss Ethel Drake, has three children, as follows: Durive, Jeanette and George. Since the year 1904 George A. Enos has been a coal operator, actively engaged in his chosen calling at New Philadelphia, Salineville, Bergholtz, Strassburg in Ohio and in Oakland City, Indiana. At the latter place he has the largest coal strip- ping operation in the world, also the largest acreage of any other activity of the kind, and has the record for the largest acreage of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly stripping. Mr. Enos has followed in the footsteps of his successful ancestors and is one of Cleveland's most enterprising, wide- awake, pushing business men, and, like them, he has gone still farther and at all times advocates progress and development in every way. He comes of that sturdy, upright class that has done so much for American insti- tutions.
LEO S. SCHUMACHER, M. D. One of the members of the Cleveland medical profession who have won success as a physician and surgeon and prominence as a citizen of the south side of the city is Dr. Leo S. Schu- macher, who has been in practice at the corner of Pearl Road and Brooklyn Avenue for the past thirteen years.
Doctor Schumacher was born at Edwardsville, Illinois, on March 30, 1886, the son of John and Emma (Spengel) Schumacher. His father was born in the same part of Illinois, the son of native-born Swiss parents, who were early settlers in that part of Illinois. His mother, also born in the above locality, was of German-born parents.
Doctor Schumacher attended the parochial schools as a boy, had a course in high school, and then took a two years' academic course in Saint Louis (Missouri) University. Entering the medical department of the same university, he took the full course and was graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1910. While in his senior year he accepted appointment to an interneship in Saint Alexis Hospital in Cleveland, and upon graduation he came to this city, and for two years was identified with the staff of that hospital, and then entered the general practice of medicine and surgery, of late years specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of children. He is now serving as pediatrician on the staffs of Saint Alexis and Saint John hospitals.
Doctor Schumacher is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine and of the Ohio State and the American Medical associations.
In July, 1922, Doctor Schumacher completed the erection of a modern brick business and apartment block on the corner of Pearl Road and Brooklyn Avenue, the lower floor of which is given up to store rooms, while the upper floor contains apartments and the doctor's suite of offices,
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the block itself being one of the most modern to be found in any section of the entire city.
Not alone in the medical profession is Doctor Schumacher known, for he takes an active part in the civic affairs of the South End, where he is regarded as one of the progressive and worthwhile citizens, one ready to lend his aid and support to all movements having for their object the advancement of the community interests.
Doctor Schumacher married Miss Gertrude O'Reilly, who was born in Cleveland, and who is the sister of Monsignore Thomas O'Reilly, dis- tinguished clergyman of the Cleveland Diocese. To Doctor Schumacher and wife a son has been born, Leo S., Junior.
MONFORD ROMAIN KELLUM, M. D. Among the physicians and sur- geons of Cleveland who have won success in their profession, and prestige as citizens, is Dr. Monford R. Kellum, who has been in active practice for nearly a quarter of a century.
He is a native of the Province of Ontario, Canada, where he was born on October 2, 1877, the son of Newton A. and Catherine (Heil) Kellum, both natives of that Dominion. His father, a skilled engineer and machinist, moved with his family to the States in 1881, locating at Toledo, Ohio. Six years later the family removed to Cleveland, and still later to Porter, Indiana, but eventually Mr. Kellum returned to Cleveland, where he installed and operated the hydraulic machinery at the Cleveland Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company's plant at South Park, Ohio, for a few years. Later he retired and moved to his farm at Big Rapids, Michigan, where he now resides. The doctor's mother died when he was a boy of about six years.
The preliminary education of Doctor Kellum was acquired in the public schools of Toledo and the district schools of Cuyahoga County. He was graduated from a Cleveland Business College, and his first position after leaving college was as a bookkeeper for the Cleveland Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company. Later on, however, on the advice of a friend who was a successful physician, Doctor Kellum decided to prepare for the medi- cal profession under the preceptorship of Dr. W. A. Knowlton, Jr., at Inde- pendence, Ohio. Later he entered the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, from where he was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1901. He then entered general practice in association with Doctor Knowlton in Independence, Ohio. In the following fall he located in prac- tice at Royalton, Ohio, where he continued until the spring of 1918, when, desiring to seek a broader field of endeavor, he located in the City of Cleve- land, purchasing his beautiful residence at 4232 West Thirty-sixth Street, and established his offices in what was then the Home Savings & Trust Company Building on the corner of Pearl and Broad View roads, where he continues in the general practice of his profession.
Doctor Kellum is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a member of Laurel Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Glenn Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the North Rovalton Tent of the Maccabees, and holds membership in the Cleveland Clinic Club and the Sleepy Hollow Country Club.
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On June 21, 1906, Doctor Kellum was united in marriage with Miss Irene Wilkinson, the daughter of Charles A. and Julia (Tilby) Wilkin- son, of Royalton, Ohio. Mrs. Kellum was graduated from Lincoln High School and from Cleveland Normal School, and for several years prior to her marriage was a teacher in the Cleveland public schools. She has served as president of the Parent-Teachers' Association and as first vice president of the Woman's Civic League of Brooklyn, and is active in all civic affairs of the community.
To Doctor and Mrs. Kellum three children have been born, as follows : Russell, aged sixteen years ; Margaret, aged twelve years, and Roland, aged seven years.
BRIG .- GEN. CHARLES X. ZIMERMAN, distinguished soldier and success- ful business man of Cleveland, was born in the old Eagle Hotel, then located at the foot of "Lighthouse Hill," Cleveland, January 18, 1865, a son of the late Charles and Theresa (Rice) Zimerman, natives of Western Pennsylvania and Germany, respectively, who were married at Cincinnati, Ohio. Charles Zimerman kept a hotel at Cincinnati before coming to Cleveland in 1864, and after his arrival here he was the proprietor of the old Eagle Hotel until his death, which occurred in 1868. His widow sur- vived him many years, and passed away in 1920.
General Zimerman attended the Holy Trinity School and the Rockwell Public School, and received special tutoring in business fundamentals in his own home. When he was about eighteen years old he became a book- keeper, and continued that line of work for several years, and then for sixteen years was a letter carrier for the Cleveland postoffice. Resigning from the postoffice, he was for two years assistant auditor of the City of Cleveland.
In 1912 General Zimerman entered upon another line of work, and one in which he was to achieve very satisfactory results, when he became manager of the Luna Park Amusement Company, which had been estab- lished some two years prior to that date. At the time he took charge of it this was a losing business proposition. With an energy and determination that is characteristic of him, General Zimerman thoroughly reorganized the company, and made of it one of the most popular and paying amusement concerns in the city or state.
When this country entered the World war, in 1917, General Zimerman resigned as manager of the above company. He had, many years pre- viously, in May, 1884, enlisted in the Ohio National Guard as a private, and served through the enlisted ranks until he received his commission as first lieutenant, February 14, 1887. August 5, 1889, he was commis- sioned a captain. As captain of Company F, Fifth Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, he served from the beginning to the close of the Spanish-American war. On August 14, 1899, he was commissioned colonel of the Fifth Ohio Infantry, and with that rank did duty on the Mexican border from June 19, 1916, to March 15, 1917. On May 5, 1917, Governor James H. Cox com- missioned him brigadier-general of the Ohio National Guards, and July 15, 1917, President Wilson appointed him brigadier-general in the Regular Army, and with that rank he went overseas with the Thirty-seventh (Buck- eye) Division, and was on active duty in France until October 13, 1918.
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For a brief period he was in the hospital with broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder, but was discharged from it on sick leave October 31, 1918, and during the following month, hostilities having ceased by reason of the sign- ing of the armistice, he was by his own request returned to the United States and was placed with the Sixteenth Division, Regular Army. By a second request he was honorably discharged February 5, 1919, and is now a member of the Reserve Corps, United States of America. While in France he was on duty in the Bourmont sector, participating in the Meuse-Argonne drive and in the Saint Mihiel offensive.
In the capture by the allied forces of Montfaucon, considered by the French impregnable, it has been, and still is, a disputed point as to whether the credit for the capture should go to the Seventy-third Brigade of the Thirty-seventh Division, or to the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Brigade of the Seventy-ninth Division, but unquestionably history will give that credit to the Seventy-third Brigade of the Thirty-seventh Division, com- manded by General Zimerman, as Montfaucon was in the sector occupied by the Seventy-third Brigade. When time drives away the fog of dispute there will then be no dispute as to whom the real credit rightly belongs.
Upon his return from France General Zimerman became vice president and general manager of the Cleveland-Trinidad Paving Company, but again the park was languishing as a business proposition, and General Zimerman resigned his offices with the paving company in December, 1921, and once more assumed charge of Luna Park as general manager of the company, and is still holding that position, with the result that this is once more the leading amusement park in Ohio.
In November, 1920, General Zimerman was elected mayor of Euclid Village, where he maintains his residence, and this office he is still holding. He is also president of the East Shore Savings & Loan Association, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Knickerbocker Mortgage Com- pany. General Zimerman is a member of Windemere Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Windemere Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Coeur de Leon Commandery, Knights Templar, of Al Sirat Grotto, and of Sciota Valley Consistory, Scottish Rite, in which he has been advanced to the thirty-second degree. He is district deputy for the Modern Woodmen of America, and he belongs to Pear Lodge, Knights of Pythias. The Cleve- land Chamber of Commerce and the Automobile Club of Cleveland hold his membership, and he is active in both organizations. Very active still in military matters, General Zimerman is a member of the American Legion, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, an officers' organization, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Spanish-American War Veterans, the Military and Naval Order of the United States, an officers' organization, the Officers' Club of Cleveland and the Officers' Club of New York City.
General Zimerman married Miss Ethel M. Vogt, a daughter of George and Cora Vogt, of Cleveland. It is impossible in an article as brief as this to do full justice to the career of General Zimerman, but the bare statement of facts is, after all, all that is necessary. History will accord to a man of his distinction the place he has won, which is above any ordinary words of praise, and his memory will be preserved in the hearts of his fellow citizens of Cleveland whom he has served as gallant officer and sound and efficient business man.
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HENRY FREDERICK WARNSMAN, president of The Warnsman Truck Body Company, is one of the well known citizens and progressive business men of the West Side of the City of Cleveland. From a very modest beginning, represented in the small wagon shop which he conducted in 1901 on Clark Avenue, he has developed a substantial and prosperous industrial enterprise. The manufacturing company of which he is now president has a modern plant on Walworth Avenue, a brick building 125 by 175 feet in dimensions, affording accommodations for the woodwork- ing, blacksmith and painting departments in which the completed product is turned out, while there is also a general repair department, with facili- ties for repairing and remodeling trucks, automobiles and wagons. Mr. Warnsman showed much ability and judgment in financing, organiz- ing and incorporating the company which bears his name, and has made an excellent record as a good citizen in the land of his adoption. More than thirty years ago he came to America, and arrived in Cleveland with less than a dollar in his possession, and, depending entirely upon his own efforts he has made his way to success and a substantial standing in the community, while his integrity and other sterling characteristics have commended him to popular confidence and good will-a valuable business asset.
Mr. Warnsman was born at Essen, Hanover, Germany, March 2, 1873, and is a son of Herman and Elise (Duetemeyer) Warnsman, both natives of Essen, where the father followed his trade, that of baker, and operated his own shop for many years. He was seventy-eight years of age at the time of his death. His widow, now in her sixty-ninth year, is still a resident of Essen, Germany.
Henry F. Warnsman gained his early education in the excellent schools of his native land, and on the 8th of August, 1893, he landed in the Port of New York City, whence he came forthwith to Cleveland, where one of his uncles was then residing. He arrived in Cleveland at the time of the great financial panic of that year, and for months he was unable to find employment of any kind, the kindness and generosity of his uncle enabling him to subsist during that critical period. In his native land he had learned the trade of carriage and buggy making, and as employment in this line could not be obtained in Cleveland, he devoted about one year to such odd jobs as he could find. After the lapse of nine months he found work in the blacksmith shop of Rauch & Lang, wagon-makers, and with this concern he remained two and one-half years. Thereafter he was emploved in various shops until 1901, when he established his own shop, on Clark Avenue. Energy, good work, perseverance and honor- able methods enabled him to build up a prosperous business, and in 1917 he began operations in his present plant, at 5818 Walworth Avenue, corner of West Fifty-ninth Street. In the same year he effected the incorporation of the business and became president of the company. On the 1st of January, 1921, his only son. Herbert H., became secretary of the company, and the business continues in the sole control of the family. Mr. Warns- man is a thorough business man and gives personal supervision to all departments of his manufacturing plant, while his son has charge of the office department. His principal interests are represented in his home and
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his business, and he and his wife are zealous communicants of the Luth- eran Church.
Mr. Warnsman married Miss Augusta Summerfield, who was born and reared in Cleveland, a daughter of John and Pauline Summerfield, both natives of Germany. Mr. Summerfield is deceased, and his widow still resides in Cleveland. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Warnsman: Herbert H., born in 1898, was graduated from the Commercial High School of Cleveland, and is now secretary of the Warnsman Truck Body Company; Irene, aged twenty- three years, is a graduate of the Commercial High School; and Erna, aged fifteen, is a student in that institution.
ALFRED HAROLD BERR, A. B., M. D., has been in the successful practice of medicine and surgery in Cleveland for twenty years, and is known in medical circles as a man of thorough ability and accomplishments. The only important interruption to his practice came as a result of his service in the United States Medical Corps during the World war.
Doctor Berr was born at Berea, Cuyahoga County, March 10, 1881, the son of Rev. Julius O. and Louise (Theiss) Berr. His father, a native of Germany, received a university training, and on coming to the United States entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. One of his first assignments to duty was at Canal Dover, Ohio, where he rode circuit, attending to several churches. Later he was transferred to the pulpit of the old Methodist Episcopal Church, which stood at the corner of Erie, now East Ninth Street, and Central Avenue in Cleveland. From this church he turned to congenial duties for which he was eminently qualified, as professor of German literature and language at Wallace College, now Baldwin-Wallace University, at Berea. At his death he had rounded out forty-two years of devoted work with that institution. His wife, Louise Theiss, was also a native of Germany, but they were married in this country. She survives her husband.
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