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J. STANLEY S. GARDNER, B. S., M. D., who is established in the success- ful practice of his profession at Lakewood, was born at Harbor Springs, Emmet County, Michigan, June 8, 1892, the son of Dr. Levi W. and Abbie E. (Hitchcock) Gardner. Dr. Levi W. Gardner was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1855, a son of Julius Gardner, who was a pioneer settler of that city. Julius Gardner was born in York Township, Medina County, Ohio, and was a son of Julius Gardner, Sr., who was born and reared in the State of New York and who after serving as a soldier in the War of 1812 became a pioneer settler in Medina County. Julius Gardner, Jr., was reared and educated in the Buckeye State, and was a young man when he became a pioneer settler in the State of Michigan, where he passed the remainder of his life.
Dr. Levi W. Gardner was graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati in 1880, and was engaged in the active practice of his.pro- fession at Harbor Springs, Michigan, until his death on January 21, 1924. His wife, whose death occurred in 1919, was born at Kendallville, Indiana, where her father, Pliny Hitchcock, a native of New York State, was an early settler.
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In the public schools of his native city Dr. J. Stanley S. Gardner con- tinued his studies until his graduation from the high school in 1910. In 1914 he was graduated from the University of Michigan, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and in 1916 he was graduated from the medical department of that institution, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Within a short time thereafter he became an interne in Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C., and was thus engaged at the time when the nation was preparing to enter the World war. At this juncture he entered service in the United States Public Health Service, and on the 24th of March, 1917, he received his commission as assistant surgeon in the United States Public Health Service and was assigned to duty at the United States Marine Hos- pital, Staten Island, New York. On the 5th of April, 1917, the day pre- ceding the nation's formal declaration of war against Germany, Doctor Gardner was assigned to duty on the United States ship Gresham, which was then in the Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. July 17, 1918, he was detached from the service of this vessel and reported to Washington for orders, and was sent to Cleveland, Ohio, to take charge of the Marine Hospital there, and in this service he continued until his resignation in February, 1920. Within his period of administration at the Marine Hos- pital the institution was thoroughly overhauled and placed in first class order, and the staff of physicians and surgeons, as well as that of the nurses, was greatly augmented in numbers. Since his retirement from government service Doctor Gardner has been established in successful general practice at Lakewood. He is a member of the staff of Lakewood Hospital as anesthetist, and is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, and holds membership also in the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the National Anesthesia Research Society. He is also a member of Harbor Springs (Michigan) Lodge No. 378, Free and Accepted Masons, and a member of the University of Mich- igan Club of Cleveland.
Dr. Gardner married Miss Ruth Andrus, daughter of Joseph and Emily (Pinnock) Andrus, of Harbor Springs, Michigan, and they have one son, James Andrus Gardner.
PIERRE GRAYDON, manager of the Brooklyn Mortgage Investment & Securities Company, has been a well known Cleveland business man for a quarter of a century, and has developed one of the large real estate organizations on the South Side.
He was born at Belleville, in Ontario, Canada, February 7, 1871, son of William and Matilda (Chatterson) Graydon, the former a native of the north of Ireland and the latter of Canada. His parents spent all their active lives in Canada, where his father was engaged in the lumber busi- ness, and he died there.
Pierre Graydon received a public school education, and as a boy he did a great deal of work on neighboring farms. Subsequently he began an apprenticeship at the cigar maker's trade, and was a skilled hand in this industry when he came to Cleveland in 1898. He continued employment in that line here for two years, and in 1900 made a modest start in the real estate business by selling property for various West Side concerns.
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In 1906 he established his real estate office at West Twenty-fifth Street and Archwood Avenue, where he has since continued.
Mr. Graydon organized the Dennison-Harvard Savings & Loan Com- pany, and was active in its affairs until the business was sold to the Ohio Mutual Savings & Loan Company. He also organized the Brooklyn Mortgage Investment & Securities Company, which is one of the leading financial institutions on the South Side. Mr. Graydon is affiliated with Brooklyn Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, is a York and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of Glenn Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Riverside Lodge of Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Chamber of Industries and the Cleveland Automobile Club.
Mr. Graydon married Annie Baker, who was born in Orillia, Canada, and they have one son, Gardner, who is engaged in the contracting business in Cleveland. He was inducted into the United States military service on April 29, 1918, in Cleveland. He was sent to Camp Sherman, Ohio, and assigned to Company K of the Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment, Eighty-third Division, Infantry, later was transferred to the Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regimental Machine Gun Company. From Camp Sherman he was ordered to Camp Merrit, New York, May 26, 1918, and from there sailed for overseas duty on June 12, 1918, land- ing in Liverpool, England. A week later, with his command he sailed for France, landing at La Havre, France, August 1, 1918. He was trans- ferred to the Machine Gun Company of the Twenty-eighth Infantry, First Division, and among other engagements he was in that of St. Mihiel and at two different times was in the Argonne drive. Following the signing of the armistice he was sent with the army of occupation to Germany, where he had nine months of service. Returning to the United States, he was honorably discharged and mustered out at Camp Upton, New York, August 19, 1919. After his return home he resumed his contracting business. He married Lillian Kolb, who was born in Cleveland, the daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth Kolb, and they have a son and daugh- ter, Gardner, Jr., and Jean Elizabeth.
HUBERT CHARLES KING, A. B., M. D. One of the physicians and sur- geons of Lakewood who has gained prestige in his profession and deserved personal popularity is Dr. Hubert C. King, who is descended from a pioneer family of the Western Reserve. His grandfather, Zadok King, a native of Suffield, Connecticut, and descended from "Mayflower" stock, came to the Western Reserve in early pioneer days, making the long journey by wagon and bringing with him his family, household effects and farm- ing implements. He bought land on which the present little City of Chardon now stands, then a forest. There he cleared his land, improved and cultivated it for many years, and there he died. King Street of Chardon was named in honor of his memory.
Doctor King's father, the late Rev. D. R. King, was born in Chardon in 1843, grew up on the old family homestead, and received his early schooling in the neighborhood schools. He was graduated in early man- hood from the Eclectic Institute (now Hiram College) and entered the ministry, having been ordained as a minister of the Christian Church
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He served as pastor at Chardon for many years, and later at Geneva, Ohio, and then for one year at Chico, California. He was pastor of the Church of Christ in Cleveland nine years, after which he retired from the active ministry and engaged in business in Cleveland, while maintaining the family residence in Collinwood, now a part of the City of Cleveland, and died in Collinwood in December, 1911. The mother of Doctor King was born in Collinwood, the daughter of Henry Gates, an early citizen of Cuyahoga County.
Doctor King was born in Collinwood on August 14, 1889, and was graduated from high school in 1907. He was graduated from Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, Bachelor of Arts, with the class of 1911, and from Western Reserve University Medical School, Doctor of Medicine, with the class of 1914. He served as interne at Lakeside Hospital during the following summer and winter, and then went abroad and took post-graduate work in the hospitals of London and Vienna, and fol- lowing his return he entered general practice in Lakewood, now spe- cializing in internal medicine. He is serving as physician in charge of the department of medicine on the staff of Lakewood Hospital.
He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, Ohio State Medical Association, of Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Rho Sigma college fraternities, and of Lakewood Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Cun- ningham Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Holy Grail Commandery Knights Templar, Al Koran Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of Valley of Cleveland, Lake Erie Consistory (thirty-second degree) Scottish Rite. He is also a member of Lakewood Chamber of Commerce.
Doctor King married Hattie Barnum, who was born in North Olm- sted, Cuyahoga County, the daughter of George N. and Hattie (Fitch) Barnum, and to them have been born a daughter and son: Lois Mae, born April 14, 1916, and Fenton Dan, born February 27, 1923.
CHARLES LUTHER WOOD, physician and surgeon and a well-known citizen of Lakewood, was born in East Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of July, 1871, and is the son of Charles T. and Ellen D. (Dewey) Wood. The father was also a native of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and the mother, of Greene County, near Bing- hampton, New York; both parents are now deceased. They were pros- perous and successful farmers, and during their whole lives were regarded as reputable citizens and reliable neighbors. It has been disclosed by investigators that this branch of the Wood family now traces its lineage back to William Wood, who came over from England to the colonies in the year 1560 and settled in Massachusetts, and there married and reared a family. Since then, according to the information gleaned, the descendants of this ancestor have increased until they now number about 10,000. As a whole they have followed the occupation of farming, but many in the last century have followed every other pursuit until now the family as a whole forms a complete unit of our civilization, extending to every profession and industry in the country.
The paternal grandfather of Dr. Charles L. was Samuel Wood, who grew up in Massachusetts, but moved to Pennsylvania and located near Smithfield. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Charles L. was John
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Dewey, who passed the greater portion of his life in the "Keystone" State. The Doctor's father died in East Smithfield, Pennsylvania, in 1900, at the age of seventy-two years, his widow surviving him until 1916. when she, too, passed away in East Smithfield at the age of seventy years.
Dr. Charles L. Wood was reared in East Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and was largely educated in the public schools of East Smithfield. Not having settled what his future occupation should be, but knowing how important a good education is in this world, he entered Hiram College, Portage County, Ohio, began the study of a full course, but left that institution in his sophomore year in order to take up the study of medicine. He had decided on a professional career, and had chosen medicine and surgery to that of any other of the modern sciences or arts. He promptly entered the medical department of Ohio Wesleyan University, took the full course required, and was duly graduated with much credit in the class of 1898, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He is now a member of the Alumni of the Western Reserve University, that institution having absorbed the medical department of Wesleyan College.
In 1898 the Doctor began practice in Cleveland, but in 1900 removed his offices to Lakewood where he has continued in successful practice up to the present time. He began with a small office at 14708 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, but as he prospered in practice and expanded in requirements, he built on the above lot his present residence, where he now conducts his practice, with comfortable and commodious offices.
He is a member of the staff of the Lakewood Hospital, of the Lake- wood Chamber of Commerce, of Lakewood Lodge No. 601, Free and Accepted Masons, of Holy Grail Commandery No. 70, Knights Templar, Valley of Cleveland, Lake Erie Consistory (thirty-second degree), and was a member of the original board of directors when the Lakewood Masonic Temple was erected, and served also as treasurer of the board. He is also a member of the Lakewood Country Club and of the Lake- wood Presbyterian Church. Doctor Wood chose for his wife, Miss Flora L. Baum, who is a native of Cleveland and is the daughter of O. S. Baum.
WILLIAM RICHARD DANIELS. One of the prominent citizens and progressive business men of Lakewood is William R. Daniels, funeral director. He was born on his father's farm at Guy's Mills, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, on August 1, 1891, the son of Frank and Evaline (Hanna) Daniels.
Frank Daniels was born on the same farm as was his son, on Feb- ruary 20, 1857, the son of Howard I. Daniels, a substantial farmer and stockraiser of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. His wife, Evaline, was born on the Hanna farm, not far from the Daniels farm, the daughter of Abraham Hanna, a prosperous farmer and a Civil war veteran. The parents of William R. are still living on the old homestead.
William R. Daniels was reared on the farm and acquired his educa- tional training in the neighborhood schools, including high school. He left the farm in 1910 and came to Lakewood in search of profitable employment, which he found as driver on a milk route, later as route
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man for a laundry company, and still later as collector for a furniture store ; and while so employed he was dreaming and planning for his life work as an undertaker at the head of his own establishment, and while with the furniture store he mastered the rudiments of the profession. In 1913 he received his state license as embalmer and entered business in a modest way, but it was not long until his business expanded and in a few years had grown into the leading one in that line in Lakewood, and it became necessary that it be given a suitable and permanent home. In 1916 Mr. Daniels purchased the old Swift home at 15806 Detroit Avenue, also the adjoining vacant lot, and broke ground for building along suitable and adequate lines to properly house his entire establish- ment under one roof, which, at completion, became one of the business show-places along Detroit Avenue, and a monument to the genius, thrift and enterprise of its owner. This building, known as the "William Daniels Funeral Home," is of brick, three stories in height, with an enameled tile front. The street entrance leads into the reception parlor, adjoining which is the spacious chapel with a seating capacity of 200 people ; then come the private rooms for the retirement of the mourners, all of which rooms are finished in oak with hardwood floors. In the rear of all is located the garage, which houses the complete automobile equipment for every use and emergency. On the ground floor of the east side of the building is located the quarters of the Mid-West Savings & Loan Company; the second floor is given up to office suites, while . the Churchill School of Business occupies the entire third floor, the building being equipped with a modern steam heating plant.
Aside from business as funeral director Mr. Daniels is identified with several other important concerns, he being a member of the boards of directors of the Mid West Savings & Loan Company, the Guarantee Discount Company, and president of the Lakewood Finance Company. He is a past president of Lakewood Retail Merchants' Board and a member of Lakewood Chamber of Commerce.
He is a member of the Ohio State Association of Licensed Embalmers ; a member of Lakewood Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cunning- ham Chapter, a charter member of Holy Grail Commandery, Knights Templar, a member of Al Koran Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of Valley of Cleveland, Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite (thirty- second degree). He is a member of Lakewood Lodge of Elks, of Lake- wood Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Royal Arcanum, of the Independent Order of Foresters, and of the Modern Woodmen of the World. He is a two-year director of Lakewood Kiwanis Club, a life member of Lakewood Yacht Club, and a member of the official board of Lakewood Methodist Episcopal Church.
The story of the progress and success of Mr. Daniels stamps him as a man of more than ordinary capacity and personality, and his career is full of accomplishment, which should serve as an incentive to any young man just arrived at the time of life when he must choose a vocation.
Mr. Daniels married Miss Sue Elma Pyle, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
ALBERT LESTER JONES, B. S., A. M., M. D., physician and surgeon of Lakewood, was born at Weatherford, Texas, on the 6th of April,
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1885, and is the son of Clinton Ashley and Samantha Anne (Brock) Jones, of two prominent old Georgia families.
Clinton A. Jones was a soldier in the Confederate army in the Civil war, under the direct command of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and participated in many historic engagements and campaigns, and was with the Con- federate army when it surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in the spring of 1865. Soon after the termination of the war he removed to Texas and located at Weatherford, where for many years he was engaged in growing grain and breeding cattle and other livestock. In recent years he has been retired from active work, but still resides on his farm, he being now in his eighty-ninth year. The Doctor's mother died in 1912, at the age of sixty-five years.
Doctor Jones received his early educational training in the local public schools, was prepared for college at the Hughey-Turner Training School at Weatherford, and was graduated from Baylor University at Waco, Texas, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in the class of 1909. Decid- ing to prepare himself for the medical profession he took a two years' course in Johns Hopkins Medical School at Baltimore, Maryland. Fol- lowing this he entered the University of Missouri as an assistant in pathology and bacteriology, and from that institution he received his Master of Arts degree for a thesis on research on the brain. He then came to Cleveland and entered Western Reserve University Medical School, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1916. Leaving Western Reserve, he became interne at the Cleveland City Hospital, where he was serving just before the United States entered the World war.
In July, 1917, Doctor Jones volunteered for service in the United States Army Medical Corps, was accepted, commissioned first lieutenant, and ordered to Army Headquarters School at Washington, D. C., where he was detailed for overseas duty with the British Army. On reaching London, England, in October, 1917, he was immediately assigned to surgical service at the Bradford War Hospital, where he was on active duty until he was ordered to France. In France he was attached to the Fifth Scottish Rifles Infantry Battalion, British Thirty-third Division, which was on the Ypres sector in Belgium for seven months.
During the battle of Metern, on that sector, the Doctor's dressing station was located in the front lines. During the engagement the stretcher bearers were unable to go forward to the aid of the wounded, whereupon Doctor Jones ordered his post to be advanced into the firing trenches, and there he remained, attending the wounded under heavy shell and rifle fire. until ordered to the rear. For this service he was cited for the British Military Cross by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and later was decorated with the Cross at Buckingham Palace by King George.
In September, 1918, the Doctor was assigned to the American Army and ordered to duty in the Central Medical Laboratory at Dijon, France, where he remained for three months. He was then assigned to the American Red Cross Hospital at Southampton, England. Shortly after- ward he was returned to France, where he joined the Army of Occupa- tion and was sent to Berlin with the Inter-Allied Military Mission, and a little later was sent to the Russian Prison Camp near Stettin, Germany,
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where he served as a specialist on diseases of the chest. Three months later he was ordered to Brest, France, where he remained on duty from July, 1919, to September 8, 1919, when he sailed for the States on the Leviathan. Doctor Jones participated in the victory parades in New York and Washington, and then was sent to Camp Travers, San Antonio, Texas, where he was mustered out on October 15, 1919, with the rank of captain, he having received promotion to that rank while at Dijon, in France.
In November, 1919, he returned to Cleveland, and in February, 1920, he began the practice of medicine and surgery, with offices at 18401 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Yacht Club, the Phi Beta Phi and Sigma Xi fraternities, Lakewood Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Lakewood Lodge of Elks and the American Legion.
On April 2, 1924, the Doctor married Jane Louise Anderson, of Lakewood, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Felix King.
HARRY CLARENCE BARR, M. D. For over fifty years the name Barr has been identified with the medical profession of Cleveland, and the name also has been associated with some of the finest achievements of skill in the profession. There have been three physicians and surgeons of the name, father and two sons, Frank J. and Harry C., all of the homeopathic school of medicine.
The father, the late Dr. Frank H. Barr, was born in Auburn, New York. He was reared in Cleveland, graduated from the Cleveland Homeo- pathic College, and for thirty-one years was in successful practice at the corner of Woodland Avenue and Wilson (now East Fifty-fifth) Street. He began practice on leaving college in 1869, associated with Doctors Beckwith & Brown, who were pioneer homeopathic physicians at Cleve- land, with offices on the old Public Square. He was known for his civic enterprise as well as his professional ability, and served at one time as a member of the Cleveland City Council.
He married Frances D. Woolbridge, who was born at the old Wool- bridge home on Kinsman Road, Cleveland, a daughter of Richard Wool- bridge, a native of England, who came to Cleveland from Canada, and was one of the early brick manufacturers of this city. Doctor Barr died in 1900, aged fifty-one years, his widow surviving him.
Dr. Harry Clarence Barr, who took up practice a few years after his father's death, was born August 8. 1882, at what was then 105 Kinsman Street (now Kinsman Road). He attended public schools, graduated from the New York Military Academy at Cornwall-on-Hudson in 1899, and in the same year entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Col- lege. He graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1904, when in his twenty-first year, and for two years had further training as an interne in Cleveland City Hospital. When he entered practice. Doctor Barr succeeded Doctor Hamblin, at the corner of Pearl (now West Twenty-fifth) Street and Archwood Avenue, and has since maintained his offices in that location, and for several years has been recognized as one of the able physicians
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and surgeons of the city. He is a member of the staff of Grace Hos- pital. He belongs to the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society, and the Cleveland Homeopathic Med- ical Society. Among social interests he is a member of the Sleepy Hollow Golf Club; Brooklyn Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; John Corwin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Forest City Commandery, Knights Tem- plar; Al Koran Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Al Sirat Grotto, Valley of Cleveland; Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite (thirty-second degree) ; Riverside Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Lansing Lodge No. 544, Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Ludlowville, New York. He and Mrs. Barr are members of the Brooklyn Memorial Methodist Epis- copal Church.
Dr. Frank H. Barr, brother of Dr. H. C., was born in Cleveland in 1879, graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College in 1904, and practiced in Cleveland until his death in 1918.
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