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Mr. Schreiner is a member of the Tippecanoe, Western Reserve and the Eighteenth Ward Republican clubs, and is also a member of the Order of Eagles and of the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Schreiner married Miss Ella G. Brewster, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Andrew Brewster, and two children have been born to them : Paul S. is assistant treasurer of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company. He married Georgiana Ryan. Margaret is holding a position under her father in the county recorder's office.
JOHN JOSEPH MOORE. One of the successful and able attorneys prac- ticing at the bar of Cleveland, John Joseph Moore has fairly earned the position he occupies in his community and the confidence of his fellow citizens, and in addition to carrying on a large practice is serving as a member of the City Council. He was born on the South Side of Cleveland, August 27, 1887, the son of John B. and Johanna (O'Rourke) Moore.
John B. Moore, one of the very early settlers of the South Side of Cleveland, was born in Ireland, in 1853, and was only a boy when he came to the United States with his parents, who settled at Columbus, Ohio. For forty-five years. John B. Moore was in the employ of the New York Cen- tral Railroad, and for forty years was on the run between Columbus and Cleveland. When he began railroading it required eight hours to make the run between Columbus and Cleveland, and the fuel used was wood, which was kept piled up at wood stations along the tracks. Forty years ago he located at Cleveland, which has since continued to be his home city, and during that time he has seen the development of the South Side from farm land into one of the most thriving sections of the city. He was active for many years in civic affairs, and, although now retired from public life, still takes an interest in what is going on in local matters. His wife, who was born in Ireland in 1855, came to the United States with her parents when she was a girl. The O'Rourkes also settled at Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Moore died at Cleveland in 1913.
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John Joseph Moore attended the Edminston and Spencerian Business colleges and the Young Men's Christian Association and West High School, and took his legal training at the Baldwin-Wallace Law School, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In June, 1913, he was admitted to the bar of Ohio, and later to the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession ever since.
In 1922 Mr. Moore was elected on the democratic ticket to the City Council of Cleveland ; is one of its active and leading members, exerting himself to give his city a clean and honest administration of its public affairs. In the council he introduced and had legislation passed for con- tinuous audit of city books. Soldiers Memorial on Mallsight, fire and police increase in salaries, a firemen's tailor shop, active on gas franchise, and has introduced legislation for the improvement of the city as well as his ward, the seventh. He is a member of the Judge and Jurors Associa- tion, the Cleveland Bar Association, the Knights of Columbus, the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters, the Protective Home Circle, Eagles, Elks, Knights of St. John, Clark Avenue Business Men's Club and West Twenty- fifth Street Business Men's Club. He was also president of the Tom L. Johnson Club for eight years. Mr. Moore is a resourceful and highly effi- cient lawyer, well versed in his profession, but strictly honorable in all that he does. He is noted for the care with which he prepares his cases and the ability with which he presents them. His work is of such a character as to awaken the respect and admiration of his fellow practitioners and win the approval of the public generally. Having spent his entire life at Cleve- land, his interests are naturally centered in this city, and his efforts are exerted in behalf of its best advancement both as an official and as a private citizen.
On May 29, 1922, Mr. Moore was united in marriage, at Cleveland, with Miss Marie Mclaughlin, who is also a native of Cleveland, daughter of James and Mary McLaughlin, early settlers of Newburg.
REV. JOHN D. JONES. One of the most interesting and influential men in Cleveland's religious life is the Rev. John D. Jones. He is a native of Cleveland, comes of a family prominent in charitable affairs, was a soldier in the Civil war, followed the Great Lakes as a seafaring man for several years, and has completed fifty-seven years' service in missionary work, the institution with which his name is most prominently associated being the Floating Bethel City Mission, of which he is chaplain and super- intendent.
Reverend Jones was born in Cleveland, April 30, 1845. His paternal ancestor came from Wales to America in Colonial times, and his great- grandfather was a. Colonial soldier in the Revolutionary war. His father, David Jones, was born in Newark, New Jersey, and came to Cleveland, riding horseback overland in 1829. He learned the trade of house painter and paper hanger, and followed that business a number of years. He built the first rolling mill in Cleveland. He donated the land at the corner of St. Clair Avenue and Wood Street to the Methodist Episcopal Society as the site for the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Later the society built a new church on Euclid Avenue, at the corner of Thirtieth
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Street, and the original church building was converted into a dwelling house. David Jones died at the age of thirty-nine years. His brother, Carlos Jones, gave his residence as a home for friendless children. David Jones married Mary McMillan, a daughter of John McMillan, who came from Scotland to Cleveland. Mrs. David Jones died in her ninetieth year.
Rev. John D. Jones was one of eight children, and as a small boy he went to live in the family of a lake captain, and his first duty on the Great Lakes was as a cabin boy. Later he was promoted to mate, and he had many interesting experiences in the Great Lakes transportation business of half a century ago.
In 1861, when he was sixteen years of age, he enlisted in Company B of the Seventh Ohio Infantry, and was on duty until honorably dis- charged on account of disability. Soon after regaining his health he reenlisted in the navy and was assigned to duty on the gun boat Yantic. At the battle of Fort Fisher he stood near a cannon that exploded, and since then has been partially deaf. At the close of the war he returned to Cleveland, and for several years was on the Great Lakes as a sailor during the summer season and during the winter was an employe of the Big Four Railroad. An accidental injury lost him an arm and part of a foot, and he had to retire.
On June 30, 1873, he was licensed a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. However, he had begun his active connection with city mission work some years previously. On December 12, 1877, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in the Woodland Avenue Presby- terian Church, and has been active in the ministry ever since. He has attended over 4,500 funerals and has performed scores of marriages. However, his greatest influence has been rendered through his active par- ticipation in charitable organizations. Through his influence the money was raised to build the new Jones Home for Friendless Children.
The first wife of Reverend Jones was Lydia Pefferday, a native of England, but reared in Cleveland. Two of her children are now living, Loren and Ella. The second wife of Reverend Jones was Laura Wes- tenberg, who was born in Berea, Cuyahoga County, daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Miller) Westenberg, her father a native of Germany and her mother of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jones has been actively associated with her husband in charitable work, and for twenty years has been superin- tendent of the Woman's and Children's work in the Floating Bethel City Mission. She is a member of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. Rev- erend Jones is a member of Memorial Post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
ARCHIBALD CAMERON NASH, M. D. It is a long and tortuous path to cover to get back to the time in American history that preceded the Revolutionary war, but there are many existing family records of that far-away period' that, when available, are apt to prove more interesting and illuminative than any imaginary present day romance. Among the early English colonists who had dared the dangers of the sea, and through their resolution and enterprise had pushed far from the Atlantic Coast into the interior, was a family by the name of Nash, and from these
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adventurous ancestors came Dr. Archibald Cameron Nash, one of Cleve- land's well-known and able physicians. Perhaps it was about 1756 that the Nashs acquired lands along the yellow waters of the Cumberland River, in what is now the sovereign State of Tennessee, and undoubtedly it was one branch of this family that first settled and subsequently gave its name to the present capital City of Nashville. Evidently, at the time the Revolutionary war came on, the Nashs were people of substance and importance in their adopted country. Nevertheless they continued to be Royalists at heart and rather than take up arms against the British king they abandoned their possessions along the Cumberland and else- where, and crossed the line into the Dominion of Canada.
Doctor Nash was born at Morrisburg, Ontario, Canada, May 24, 1876, a son of Russell Kendrick and Mary (Mellon) Nash, the latter of whom was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. The father was a son of Samuel Nash, and he and his father and grandfather were all born at Morris- burg, Canada. He grew up in Canada and became a master mechanic. In 1888 he settled with his family at Ogdensburg, New York, where he continued an active business man until 1913, when he came to Cleveland, where his death occurred in 1914, at the age of sixty-four years. His widow survived until 1917, being also aged sixty-four years at time of death. Of their family of five children, four are living.
Archibald Cameron Nash was twelve years old when his parents set- tled at Ogdensburg, and he continued his education in the Ogdensburg Academy. After definitely deciding upon a medical career, he entered McGill University at Montreal, and was graduated from that world known institution in 1899, with his medical degree. In 1900 Doctor Nash established himself as a physician and surgeon at Cleveland, and has built up a large and satisfying practice here, and at times has been a member of the staffs of such important institutions as the Tuberculosis Dispensary, the Eddy Road Hospital and the Provident and Florence Crittenden homes. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medi- cine and of the Ohio State and the American Medical associations, which bodies at the present time are deeply interested, as he is himself, in the remarkable discovery of a remedy for the dread disease diabetes, that has brought deserved fame to several of his brother Canadian scientists.
Doctor Nash married at Hartwell, Ohio, in 1903, Miss Clara M. Hud- dleston, who was born in Cleveland, of English ancestry, and one daughter has been born to them, Jane Cameron Nash. Doctor Nash is a member of the Episcopal Church, in which he has, at times, served as a vestryman. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and he still preserves his membership in his old Greek letter college fraternity, the Delta Upsilon, but otherwise he is not identified with many organizations outside his profession, for a busy and conscientious city physician finds but little time to give to the relaxation and recreation that he is very apt to prescribe for his patients.
STANISLAUS J. CIEMNOCZOLOWSKI. A resident of Cleveland since boyhood, a worker in the steel mills, later in business for himself as a hardware merchant, Mr. Ciemnoczolowski has moved straight ahead in his career of progress toward success. He is one of the prominent citi- zens in his section of Cleveland, and among other duties is treasurer of
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the Warsaw Savings and Loan Association. He was born in German Poland, October 13, 1875, son of Joseph and Frances (Malak) Ciemnoc- zolowski. The parents and seven children came to America in 1887, locat- ing at once in the Polish colony of Cleveland, in the section of the city then the independent Village of Newburg. Joseph Ciemnoczolowski had been a craftsman in Poland, but in Cleveland he was for many years engaged in the foundry business, being employed by only two companies until he retired.
He was born April 4, 1844, and is now eighty years of age. His wife, born April 12, 1852, died January 17, 1921. Six of their children are living, and all residents of Cleveland.
Stanislaus Ciemnoczolowski was twelve years of age when brought to Cleveland. He had attended the Polish schools for six years. At the age of thirteen he became a wage earner in the employ of the Standard Oil Company, and after a time went to work with the old Newburg Rolling Mill Company, now a plant of the American Steel and Wire Company. He was continuously in the service of that industry for sixteen years, working in different departments, and finally became an adjuster of the barb-wire making machines.
When he left the shops in 1904 he became a deputy under Sheriff Mulhern, and performed those official responsibilities for two years. Hav- ing some carefully accumulated capital of his own, he opened a hardware store at 3690 East Sixty-fifth Street, and in 1910 bought ground at 3636 East Sixty-fifth Street, putting up his own store building, and later his handsome residence on the same lot. He has been a merchant in that locality for nearly eighteen years. He was one of the charter members and has for a number of years held the offices of director and treasurer of the Warsaw Savings and Loan Association, which is one of the very progressive banking concerns in that section of the city.
Mr. Ciemnoczolowski is a member of the Polish National Alliance, the American Alliance of Poles, the Alliance of Singers, is the director and treasurer of the Harmonia Polish Club, belongs to the Polish American Chamber of Industry, and is affiliated with the Elks and St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church.
He married, in 1901, Miss Helen Rozwarski. She was born in Cleve- land, daughter of John and Julia (Zolnowski) Rozwarski, natives of German Poland. Her mother died in 1922.
Mr. and Mrs. Ciemnoczolowski have two sons: Henry, born February 4, 1904, a graduate of St. Stanislaus parochial school, and now associated in his father's business, and Stanley, born November 10, 1910.
HENRY ALEXANDER SCHWAB. In Henry A. Schwab Cleveland has an example of that quiet and efficient performance of public duty that might serve to restore the faith of the doubting in the merits and worthi- ness of public officials. Something like destiny might have served to link Mr. Schwab with the official seat of government of Cuyahoga County. He was born on the site of the present Court House. Undoubtedly he holds a record in the county for long and continuous public service. He is the present chief clerk of the Probate Court, and has been identified in some capacity with that office during the terms of three out of the
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four judges of that court, Judges Daniel R. Tilden, Henry C. White and Alexander Hadden, a period extending over forty-seven years.
Mr. Schwab was born in Cleveland, July 9, 1859, son of the late Alexander and Caroline Schwab. His parents were both born in Ger- many, but were married in Cleveland in 1846. Alexander Schwab, who was born in 1814, was twenty-six years of age when he came to this country, locating in Cleveland. He was an old time merchant, a very successful business man, and at the same time deeply interested in the progress of civic affairs. He was an enthusiastic advocate of the public system of education, and showed his interest in many ways in behalf of Cleveland schools. His long and useful life came to a close in 1874, his wife surviving him a few years.
Henry A. Schwab is a graduate of the old Central High School of Cleveland, which school, while he was attending it, was located on the site of the old Union Trust Building, at the corner of East Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue. At the age of eighteen, soon after leaving school, Mr. Schwab went to work in the office of the Probate Court as an employe. Three years later, upon reaching his majority, he was given the official title of deputy clerk, an appointment from Judge Tilden. Judge White appointed him chief clerk and Judge Hadden continued him in that position. Every promotion came as a reward for a thorough- ness and reliability that few public officials have ever surpassed. All who have had frequent business with this office have become sensible of some- thing like a personal touch that impresses the character and efficiency of Chief Clerk Schwab upon all the routine of the Probate Court.
Of a quiet and unassuming disposition, affable and courteous, few men in public service in Cuyahoga County are as well and favorably known as Henry A. Schwab, whose host of warm friends compare him with Tennyson's brook which "goes on and on forever."
HARRY LEWIS DEIBEL. Since his admission to the bar in 1914, Harry Lewis Deibel has made rapid progress. He is regarded as an authority in several branches of the law, and is author of several law books that set a high standard of legal scholarship.
Mr. Deibel was born on a farm near Fresno, then called Avondale, in Adams Township, Coshocton County, this state, September 25, 1881, son of Jacob Henry and Mary (Wentz) Deibel. He comes of sturdy, long- lived German ancestry. His grandfather, Henry Deibel, was a native of Bavaria, Germany, and settled in Ohio about 1840. He died at the age of eighty-six. His paternal grandmother was Christiana Schmaltz. Jacob Henry Deibel was born near Baltic in Bucks Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and devoted his active years to farming. He is a man of prominence in his local community. His wife, Mary Wentz, was born in Adams Township, Coshocton County. Her father, Louis Wentz, was also a native of Bavaria, Germany, and was ten years of age when his family came to the United States in 1842, first locating in Holmes County, Ohio, and later in Coshocton County. Louis Wentz lived to the age of eighty- seven years, and in his younger days was noted for his remarkable strength and industry.
Harry Lewis Deibel, oldest in a family of five children, was reared on
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his father's farm and attended a schoolhouse located on the same farm, known as "Woods College," from the fact that it stood in the midst of heavy timber. At the age of eighteen he qualified and taught that school, where he had learned his first lessons. Subsequently Mr. Deibel entered Denison University, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1911. At Denison he was captain of the Debating Team for two years. Mr. Deibel graduated from the Law School of Western Reserve University at Cleveland in 1914, and was admitted to the Ohio bar the same year and began practice, with offices in the Engineers Building, where he still remains. In addition to his practice at the bar, Mr. Deibel is lecturer on law of wills, trusts, and constitutional law in the Cleveland Law School, one of the largest law schools in America.
The first result of his study of constitutional law was an article, "Preferential Voting and the Constitution of Ohio," published in the Ohio Law Recorder in 1917. He has made a special study of wills and probate law, and is author of "The Modern Will," published in 1919. He is also the author of "Deibel's Ohio Probate Code," published in 1924; this is the most exhaustive treatise on that subject ever published in Ohio, and is meeting with universal favor.
Mr. Deibel is prominent in civic affairs. During the World war he was chairman of the War Service League of the Eighth Ward. Mr. Deibel is a member of the Cleveland, the Ohio, and the National Bar associations ; he is a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders and of the First Congregational Church.
July 31, 1916, he married Miss Marian C. Brubaker, who was born at Mount Nebo, near Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, daughter of William H. and Ella F. (Young) Brubaker. She was reared in Cleve- land, was thoroughly educated in music, and. for a number of years has enjoyed a high reputation as a vocal soloist. Mr. and Mrs. Deibel have one daughter, Frances Mary. Their home is at 7212 Clinton Avenue.
GEORGE HENRY ROBERTS, one of the progressive citizens of the West Side of Cleveland, and a department manager of the Canfield Oil Com- pany, was born in Cleveland, on the East Side, July 23, 1893, son of John H. and Mary (Chute) Roberts. His father, a native of Titusville, Pennsylvania, came to Cleveland when a young man, and for many years until his death was well known in professional musical circles as a skilled pianist. His wife, Mary Roberts, was born in Cleveland, and died in 1907, leaving five young children. The children then made their home with their grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Chute. Mary Chute was a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Chute. Mrs. Elizabeth Chute gave her grandchildren a full mother's care, raising them, providing for their schooling, and preparing them for the duties of their mature life.
George H. Roberts attended the public schools at Cleveland, and subsequently attended night classes in the Young Men's Christian Associ- ation, and took correspondence work with the La Salle University. When he was thirteen years of age he sold flowers afternoons and Saturdays on the street and in the public square for Herman Knoble, the West Side florist. After leaving public school he spent two years and a half as a clerical worker in a print shop, and then for five years was in the
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order department of the Prince-Wolf Company, ladies' coat and suit manufacturers.
Mr. Roberts in 1916 joined the Canfield Oil Company's organization, beginning in the bookkeeping department, was then transferred to the sales department, and was in that position when the World war came on. He made one fruitless attempt to get into the service, but was rejected on account of under weight. Finally, on May 15, 1918, he was accepted and, given a leave of absence by the Canfield Oil Company, he was sent to the encampment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was assigned to the Seventh Depot Battalion, later being transferred to the Fifteenth Service Company, with which unit he sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, August 15, 1918, landing at Bordeaux, France, where he was assigned to the Seventy-eighth Division, Three Hundred Third Field Signal Battalion, Company C, and was on duty in the Argonne sector during the last weeks of the tremendous struggle. After the signing of the armistice he was on duty in the Loire et Cher Department, Middle France, until April 24, 1919, when he embarked at Marseilles for home. He was honorably dis- charged with the rank of sergeant at Camp Sherman, Ohio, May 26, 1919.
On returning from the war Mr. Roberts immediately rejoined the Canfield Oil Company, and subsequently was made manager of the lubrication department, the responsibility he enjoys at the present time.
He has been an enthusiastic member and worker in the Cleveland Chamber of Industry for some years, and is interested in the civic and social affairs of the West Side. In December, 1923, he was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber for a period of two years and is chairman of the entertainment committee. He also belongs to the Forest City Council No. 1236, Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Roberts married, September 21, 1921, Miss Margaret DeVine, a native of Cleveland, daughter of John and Margaret (Tahaney) DeVine. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts have one daughter, Margaret Marie, born January 3, 1923.
AMOS I. KAUFFMAN, chairman of the board of directors of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and director of finance for the City of Lakewood, was born at Davidsville, in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1875, son of Isaac and Annie (Kauffman) Kauffman. His parents were born in Somerset County, and are still living in that county, the father retired from active business. The Kauffman family for five generations has been identified with the farming interests of that section of Pennsylvania.
Amos I. Kauffman grew up on the old homestead, remaining there until twenty-one years of age. He acquired a public school education, and in 1899 began his experience in railroading as a locomotive fireman with the Pennsylvania system. His first run was between Pittsburgh and Altoona. Mr. Kauffman was for twenty-one years a trusted and efficient employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad, spending five years as fireman and sixteen years as an engineer.
The year after he entered the railway service he joined the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, In 1902 he was elected president of the local lodge of the order, and in the same year became
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