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Mr. Hawkins was reared in the Episcopal Church, and his religious life has been a vitalizing element and his religious duties and responsibilities have been an essential part of his daily life. In Chicago he was the first superintendent of the Sunday School of Saint George's Episcopal Church, and a member of the vestry. In Cleveland he acted as superintendent of the Sunday School of Christ Church (then the Mission of the Redeemer) three years, and has been a member of the vestry of Christ Church and the Church of the Good Shepherd, and is a vestryman of Saint Paul's Episcopal. Church. He is a pronounced advocate of temperance. He offered his services to the Government as a soldier at the time of the Spanish-American war, and at all times and on all issues has proved his thorough patriotism and American citizenship. He was one of the organizers and has been secretary of the Canadian Club of Cleveland, is a member of the Saint Andrews Brotherhood, the Men's Club of Saint . Paul's Episcopal Church, and belongs to the Orangemen, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Malta, the Eagles, the Sons of Saint George and the Masonic order.
Mr. Hawkins married Miss Frances Alicia Haig Melville, a native of Saint Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland. They were married by the Pres- byterian minister of the Established Church of Scotland at Glasgow, Janu- ary 27, 1879. Mrs. Hawkins was the youngest child of John and Mar- garet (Aird) Melville. Her father was a gardener by profession and had charge of the estate of Capt. John Cheap. The godmother of Mrs. Hawkins was Mrs. Haig, wife of the proprietor of the great Haig distilleries of Scotland. Mrs. Haig gave her godchild her own name. A son of Mrs. Haig is Sir Douglas Haig, who was commander of the British forces on the western front during the World war.
Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins: James M., who married Nellie Mckenzie, of Cleveland, and has three children, named Richard, Margaret and James : Margaret A., wife of William J. Somerville, and mother of two children, Margaret Jean and William ; Frances E., who married Fred J. Uhl; Viola M., who is the wife of Mark L. Fisher, and they have a son, Robert Erwin; and Miss Mary E. The only son of Mr. Hawkins was born at Glasgow, Scotland, and the daughters are natives of Chicago. All of them were educated in the East High School at Cleveland.
MRS. LAURA STAFFORD SLOAN, of East Cleveland, who has been con- spicuous for a number of years as an active worker and advocate of all the welfare and progressive movements of the community, is the descend- ant of one of the leading pioneer families that settled in East Cleveland
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when it was wild and almost uninhabited. There her grandfather, Garret T. Stafford, settled when that part of the city was in the country. He was born at Plattsburgh, New York, on the banks of Lake Champlain, and there grew to maturity. His family had settled there many years before and had come over from Staffordshire, England, and were early settlers in that part of New York. No doubt the family name originated from the old English Shire which is situated near the center of the kingdom.
Upon his arrival in Cuyahoga County, Garret T. Stafford purchased a tract of land in what is now East Cleveland, and there built his home on what is the present site of St. Philemon Roman Catholic Church. Jud- son A., son of Garret T. and father of Mrs. Sloan, was born on the old Stafford farm in what is now East Cleveland, and was there reared to manhood. He attended the common schools and graduated from the Bryant & Stratton Business College.
Later in life he engaged in the real estate business in East Cleveland. He prospered and became one of the successful and prominent workers in upbuilding the community interests. He surrendered the first land for the right-of-way to the Cleveland Electric Railway, on which stretch of land were laid the rails when the line from the city was extended to Col- linswood and Euclid Beach. After the completion of the electric line he and his brother prepared and placed on the market the land known as the J. A. and B. F. Stafford subdivision. Later he erected the Stafford Block, which was the first office and apartment building in East Cleve- land and is still occupied. Early in his business career he invented and patented a cigar-making device which he manufactured and placed on the market. He also engaged in the manufacture of cigars in a factory sit- uated on the old Superior Viaduct. As a whole he was a successful business man, one of the leading citizens, and a dignified and reliable neighbor.
In his early manhood he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah M. Harvey, who was born on St. Clair Street, now Avenue, and was the daughter of Terence Harvey, who came to America from England long before the Civil war, locating in Cleveland.
Mrs. Laura Sloan was educated in the public schools and the Cleveland School of Arts. Soon after leaving college she was united in marriage with Bert F. Sloan, who was born in Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, a descendant of one of the pioneer families of that county. He was well educated in youth and otherwise prepared for the duties of this life. He served as a member of the East Cleveland Council and at the present time is serving his second term as deputy sheriff of Cuyahoga County. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan have one son, Judson Stafford Sloan II.
Mrs. Sloan ever since her marriage has taken much interest in all civic affairs and elemental and progressive welfare work. During the World war period she was observably active and energetic in all Red Cross move- ments and designs, and has abundant reasons to be proud of what she accomplished. She served as one of the directors of the local Red Cross organization and was chief inspector of the East Cleveland branch. Count- ing up the time spent, she found that she had spent 4,000 hours of actual service during a period of twenty-six months, every day except Satur-
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days and Sundays and often up as late as midnight. After the war was over and the branch had been closed she prepared 850 garments for war refugees of different nationalities.
Mrs. Sloan is a charter member of the Woman's Republican Organ- ization of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, and is also a member of the state executive committee of the same. She is first vice president of the League of the Woman's Republican Organization (1924). In the national presidential campaign of 1920 she was one of the prominent woman republican speakers and took part in all the local activities of her party. In 1924 she was chosen a delegate to the National Republican Convention, held at Cleveland. She is a member of the City, Western Reserve and Tippecanoe clubs, Civic League, and of the Cleveland School of Art Association and the endowment of the same, she being an alumna of the school. She is also a member of the East Cleveland Woman's Club.
NATHAN EDWARD COOK. Among the men of Cleveland who have gained distinction in its affairs is Nathan E. Cook, lawyer and well known citizen, who was born in this city and has spent his entire life here.
Mr. Cook was born at Cleveland, September 22, 1882, son of Isaac and Emma (Nachud) Cook. His father was born in Austria-Hungary in 1840, and came to the United States and to Cleveland in 1860. He became a clothing manufacturer, and lived in Cleveland until his death in 1888. On July 4, 1866, at Cleveland, he married Emma Nachud, who was born in Czecho-Slovakia in 1845. She was brought to this country and to Cleveland in 1861. Characteristic of the loyalty to America which charac- terized them all their lives these young people chose the Fourth of July as their wedding day. The mother survived and passed away at Cleveland in November, 1922.
Nathan E. Cook was only six years old when his father died. In the remaining years of his youth and in his early manhood he had to make his own way, and while still in the fourth grade of the public schools he began working to aid his mother in the support of her family. He was a news- boy, also became a lamplighter on the streets, and did a great deal of other work, contributing his earnings regularly to his mother. In spite of such handicaps his studious nature enabled him to graduate from the West High School in 1900. A few years later he married, and before he could prepare for the legal profession he used his experience and talent for hard work to support his family in other ways. From 1906 to 1909 he served as deputy clerk of the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County. Following that he took up the direct advertising business, specializing in political mail. While earning his living in the day he pursued his law studies by attending night classes at the Cleveland Law School, and was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1916.
He became an active supporter of Harry L. Davis for political office when Mr. Davis made his campaign for the office of city treasurer in 1909. In 1915 he was one of the influential campaigners for Mr. Davis as mayor, and from January 1, 1916, to December 31, 1917, he served as private secre- tary to the mayor. He resigned this position to take up the private practice of law, taking over the practice of Walter McMahon, who had been elected a judge of the Municipal Court. In subsequent years Mr. Cook frequently
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proved his loyalty to Mr. Davis, and had a prominent part in his campaign for governor in 1920. He is a member of the Republican County Execu- tive Committee.
For a number of years he has been interested in athletics, and has done much to elevate the standard of amateur athletics in Cleveland and vicinity. In 1905 he organized the first amateur baseball league in Cleveland, known as the City League. He acted as its secretary for seven years, until it was merged into the Cleveland Amateur Baseball and Athletic Association, which now controls all amateur athletics in Cleveland and Northern Ohio. He is a baseball fan, a consistent supporter of the Cleveland Club of the American League, and rarely misses a game on the home grounds.
Mr. Cook is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, being on its grievance committee. He is a member of Cleveland City Lodge No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons ; Webb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Pythian Star Lodge No. 510, and belongs to the Advertising Club and the City Club.
March 7, 1905, Mr. Cook married Miss Emma Meyer. She is a native of Cleveland, daughter of Conrad and Marion (Mueller) Meyer. Her parents were born in Switzerland. The three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Cook are Meyer, Nathan E., Jr., and Harry Davis Cook.
FRED H. CALEY. Among the many and different organizations of this country-organizations whose usefulness and accomplishments have placed them in the category of public institutions-is the automobile club. One of the largest of these clubs is the Cleveland Club, and, by the same token, one of the most widely known and popular executives of these clubs is Fred H. Caley, secretary of the Cleveland Club, who is known to auto- mobile owners and drivers from coast to coast, from lakes to the gulf.
Mr. Caley was born in Hudson, Ohio, on June 2, 1873, the only child born to the late Frederick P. and Clara S. (Palmer) Caley. His father was born on the Isle of Man in 1823, and as a young and single man came to the United States and settled at Hudson. That was the era of railroad building in this section of the country, and Mr. Caley, Sr., found employ- ment in the construction of the old C. & P. Railway, and later as station agent of that company at Hudson. One of his duties as agent was to switch freight cars from the Cleveland division to the Akron division, a horse being the motive power employed. Later in life he was engaged in mercantile business in Hudson, and in 1876 he bought a farm near Stowe's Corners, in Summit County, and spent the remainder of his active days in farming, he having died on his farm in 1894. The mother of Fred H. was born in England and came with her parents to this country in 1856, the family settling at Talmadge, Summit County, not far from Hudson, where Fred H. was born. She died in 1903, at the age of sixty-four years.
Fred H. Caley was educated in the country schools, the Kent High School and at Ohio Northern University, at Ada, teaching school at intervals to pav his expenses at college. After leaving college he taught for a time, farmed for three years, working in the tire factories of Akron in spare time, and then moved to the above city, where he gave all of his time to work in the Goodrich and Goodyear companies for a period, and then engaged in the real estate and insurance business in the "Rubber City."
During the presidential campaign of 1896 Mr. Caley became active in
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republican politics, and in 1900 he entered official life in Columbus, and for the next ten years held official position under the state government, most of the time in the State Insurance Department. He was the first man to be appointed state registrar of automobiles for Ohio, and held that office for four years, during which time he organized the State Automobile Department, which department, aside from its growth, has undergone but little change from the system he inaugurated. In 1910 he became manager of the Cincinnati Automobile Club, and a short time later he was secured as secretary by the Cleveland Automobile Club, and here he has continued, his efficiency and usefulness to the organization growing from year to year until now, to speak of the club is to think of "Fred Caley."
"Good roads, better streets, and better conditions for the man who owns and drives a car !" has been Mr. Caley's slogan, and with that slogan he has created enthusiasm which, properly directed, has worked wonders, not only in the interests of its members and owners of automobiles gener- ally, but in the domain of civic affairs, with the result that in the territory adjoining Cleveland better highways have been and are being built, and conditions have been improved in every direction. Under his administra- tion as secretary of the Cleveland Club it has become a powerful force fighting for the sane and safe use of the streets and making war upon the reckless, drunken and incompetent persons whose misuse of motor cars is the cause of much loss of life and destruction of property and is the source of peril to all who have to drive or walk in public thoroughfares; also, the club has become a relentless, tireless and efficient prosecutor of motor car thieves, and in innumerable other ways has become a benefactor to the entire community and an inspiration to similar organizations throughout the country ; and to Mr. Caley is given, in a very large measure, credit for what the Cleveland Automobile Club has accomplished.
Mr. Caley is a member of Bigelow Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar ; Valley of Cleveland, Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons, thirty-second degree. He is also a member of the Cleveland Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Athletic Club, Willowick Golf Club, Lakewood Yacht Club, Rotary Club, City Club and other social organizations.
Mr. Caley is married and has two sons: Roland C., who was educated in the public and high schools and Western Reserve University, served for twenty-six months in France during the World war, and was one of a company of '164 American soldiers to plant the first United States flag on French soil. After his honorable discharge from the service he engaged in the insurance business in Cleveland. Donald C. was graduated from the Akron High School, and is engaged in the insurance business, associated with his brother.
KENT KANE HASTINGS, M. D., well known physician and surgeon of Rocky River, where he has been in successful practice of his profession and active in civic affairs for a quarter of a century, is a native of Ohio, descended from two old families of the state.
This branch of the Hastings family came over from England with William Penn and settled in the Penn Colony, now Pennsylvania. Isaac Hastings, grandfather of Doctor Hastings, and the Ohio pioneer of the
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family, came from Pennsylvania in an early day and settled in Columbiana County, where his son, William K., father of the Doctor, was born.
William K. Hastings attended Mount Union and Oberlin Colleges, and then studied law and was admitted to the bar of Ohio and entered the practice of law at Jackson, Ohio, where he won high honor at the bar and on the bench. During the Civil war period he served as mayor of Jackson, and as mayor he was taken prisoner and held as such for a brief time by the soldiers of the Confederate general, John Morgan, on his raid into Ohio. Later he was elected judge of Common Pleas Court, upon which bench he served with distinction for a number of years, afterward continu- ing in practice until his death, in 1876. The mother of the Doctor, Mary (Nelson) Hastings, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, the daughter of William Nelson, a pioneer settler of Jackson, where he owned and con- ducted "Nelson's Hotel," one of the very early taverns, and where he was familiarly known as "Landlord Nelson." The mother of the Doctor died several years before her husband.
Doctor Hastings was left an orphan when he was but six years of age, and he was taken into the home of a paternal aunt who lived on the farm in Columbiana County. He received his early education in the common schools and the Lisbon High School, and followed that with higher educa- tion at the Normal School at Canfield, Ohio. He then taught school for two years, during which time he was also making arrangements to take up the reading of medicine. In 1896 he was graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons (then the Medical Department of Wooster University, and later the same department of Western Reserve University), and in the year of his graduation he entered practice at Kensington, Columbiana County, and two years later removed to Rocky River, where he has since continued, with a general practice reaching all over that section of the county.
Doctor Hastings has taken an active part in the civic affairs of Rocky River, participating in all movements having for their object the welfare of the community and its growth and improvement, and he has received honors at the hands of his fellow citizens, all of whom highly esteem him for his worth both as a successful physician and surgeon and as a progres- sive and patriotic citizen. He served for three years as a member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Education, and is at present a member of the Village Board of Education. He is a member of the staff of Lakewood Hospital, and a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, while he and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Doctor Hastings married Miss Lilan E. Matthews, who was born on a farm near Chagrin Falls, this county, the daughter of Thomas C. Matthews, and to them have been born three children : Marjorie Constance, who graduated with the class of '24 from Ohio Wesleyn University ; Wynne Kent, who had one year in the Ohio State University, and now (1924) is a sophomore at Oberlin; and Mary Alice, a graduate of Rocky River High School in 1923.
THEODORE ARTHUR COOPER. One of the representative men of the Cleveland district is Theodore A. Cooper, president of the Midwest Savings
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& Loan Company of Lakewood, and executive head of the legal department of the Tropical Oil Company of Cleveland. He is descended from the old Cooper family of Cooper's Plains, Steuben County, New York, a locality named in honor of the family. He was born on February 18, 1884, in the old Cooper residence which was built over a century ago and is now a landmark, but still used for residential purposes.
Mr. Cooper is the son of the late Arthur Erwin Cooper, who was born in the old Cooper home at Cooper's Plains on April 12, 1848, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. C. Walker, in New Philadelphia, Ohio, on December 16, 1909. In the year 1872 he married Eliza Burch, who was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, on December 13, 1848, and died on Sep- tember 5, 1906. She was the daughter of Charles and Roxy (Mason) Burch, the Mason family having been a prominent one in Pennsylvania for many years, a late member being Rear Admiral Newton E. Mason, retired, of the United States Navy. The mother of Charles Burch was Mary Wolcott, of the old New England family of that name. She was the daughter of Erastus Wolcott, a major general in General Washington's army. Her parental grandfather was Roger Wolcott, an American colonial magistrate, who was governor of Connecticut, 1751-54. Oliver Wolcott, his son, was also governor of Connecticut, and later his grandson Oliver filled the same office of governor and succeeded Alexander Hamilton as secretary of the treasury of the United States. The paternal great-great- grandfather of Mary Wolcott was the founder of the old Wolcott family in this country. Arthur Erwin Cooper lived a quiet and dignified life in Cooper's Plains, giving personal supervision to his estate. He was a student and book-lover and owned a collection of over 3,000 volumes, his library having been said to be one of the oldest private ones in the State of New York. Two volumes from this library are now owned by his son, Theodore A., one of which bears publication date of 1497, the other (Breeches Bible) having been published in 1587.
Arthur Erwin Cooper was the son of Dr. John Cooper, Jr., who was the son of Dr. John and Mary (Erwin) Cooper. Dr. John Cooper, Jr., was for many years a leading physician of Cooper's Plains, New York, and also served for a number of years on the bench of the County Court of Steuben County, New York.
Dr. John Cooper, Sr., was born at Long Hill, New Jersey, March 24, 1765. He entered upon the study of medicine in New York City in the twentieth year of his age, and was one of a little band of thirteen who com- posed a medical class in that city in the infancy of medical science in the United States. He was a private student in the profession under Doctor Bailie, then one of the most distinguished men in that city, and later by uniform habits of study and observation attained to an eminence in his profession which at that time no individual in that section ever equalled. In 1799 he was appointed associate judge for Northampton County, Penn- sylvania, and always ranged high in the estimation of the bar for his inde- pendence and correctness of judgment. This office he held for more than forty consecutive years. On May 22, 1798, Doctor Cooper married Mary Erwin, the daughter of Col. Arthur Erwin, who commanded the Fourth Battalion, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Militia in the War of the Revolu- tion. Colonel Erwin became the owner of approximately 25,000 acres of
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land in Bucks and Luzerne counties, Pennsylvania, and in Steuben County, New York. The towns of Erwinna, Pennslyvania, and Erwin, New York, were named in his honor.
Doctor Cooper died in Easton, Pennsylvania, February 2, 1851, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.
After attending the district school and the high school at Painted Post, . New York, Theodore A. Cooper entered West Nottingham Academy at Colora, Maryland, from which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1907. In the same year he was sent to Cleveland, Ohio, to assume a clerical position in the offices of the American Steel & Wire Company, subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. A year later he joined the organization of the National Refining Company in Cleve- land, and April 1, 1910, he became executive head of the legal department of the Tropical Oil Company, with which he has since continued to be asso- ciated in that capacity.
Mr. Cooper was one of the founders of the Midwest Savings and Loan Company of Lakewood, and has been its president from the time of its organization and incorporation. He is also president of the Old Northwest Mortgage Company of Lakewood. Mr. Cooper is active in the civic and social affairs of Lakewood, giving his support to all movements having for their object the welfare of the city. He served as president of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce in 1920-21, he is president of Western Reserve Society, Sons of the American Revolution, a member of Lakewood Lodge No. 601, Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his wife are members of the Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) of Lakewood, he being a vestryman of the same.
On October 23, 1909, Mr. Cooper was united in marriage with Margaret Leigh Eberly, who was born at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Daniel W. and Martha (Hindley) Eberly.
To Mr. and Mrs. Cooper a daughter and son have been born; Helen Eberly, born February 14, 1912, and Arthur Erwin, born March 17, 1916.
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