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Mr. Dennerle was united in marriage with Susan R. Oblander, who was born in Cleveland, the daughter of Frederick and Mary (Lorenz) Oblander, old residents of the city, who came over from Germany and settled on the West Side, where for many years they resided in the old Waid home on Pearl Street (now West Twenty-fifth Street). They became highly honored citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennerle are the parents of the following children :
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Irma, Helen E. and Clarice E. Irma married Oscar Hein, of Cleve- land, and they have the following children: Elizabeth, Lois and Jane. Mr. Hein is associated with Mr. Dennerle in the coal business.
HON. LOUIS EMMONS HILL. The name of Hill has been a prominent one in the business, civic and military affairs of Cuyahoga County for over half a century, during which period two generations of the family have rendered valuable service to both Cleveland and Lakewood.
The founder of the family was the late Col. Hosea Hill, business man and soldier, who came to Cleveland fifty-three years ago. He was born at Lyme, New Hampshire, on September 4, 1840, the son of New England parents. When he was a boy the family moved to Stoneman, Massachu- setts, and in that New England city he was reared and educated. In 1861, at the age of twenty-one years, he enlisted in the Fourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, which later became the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, with which command he was in active service the greater part of the Civil war. Following the close of the war he engaged in business in the City of Boston, and while there became identified with the old military organiza- tion known as the Boston Light Dragoons.
Colonel Hill became a citizen of Cleveland in 1871. During the first twenty years of his residence here he was engaged as a merchant in the hide and leather business. In 1894 he became president of the J. R. McDonald Tanning Company. This business was reorganized, with increased capital, in 1899 as the Cleveland Tanning Company, and Colonel Hill served as vice president of the company until his death on August 1, 1917.
For many years Colonel Hill was a member of the Ohio National Guard, and figured prominently in that organization, serving as colonel of the Fifth Regiment of Infantry. He was in command of the regiment when it had charge of the body of President Garfield as it lay in state in Cleveland. While never very active in politics, and never sought elective office, he rendered special service to the city in assisting in planning the present beautiful park and boulevard system while he was a member of the Cleveland City Park Commission. He was a member of Memorial Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and of other organizations.
On May 18, 1861, Colonel Hill was united in marriage at Mathuen, Massachusetts, with Mary Ellen Pillsbury, who died in 1919, leaving the following children: Alice, who married Howard H. Burgess, prominent citizen of Cleveland ; Harry N., residing in Rocky River Village ; Maude H., who married Col. Frederick G. Knabenshue, of the United States Army ; and Louis E.
Hon. Louis E. Hill, son of Col. Hosea and Mary (Pillsbury) Hill, was born on old Kentucky (now West Thirty-eighth) Street and Clinton Ave- nue, Cleveland, on February 10, 1873. After graduating from West High School, in 1891, he became identified with the Cleveland Tanning Company, and spent nearly thirty years in active service with that organization. Later he became president of the Standard Top and Equipment Company and president of the Cleveland Auto Top Trimming Company.
Inheriting a love of the military from his father, Mr. Hill has a record as a soldier in the active service of his country. He joined Troop A,
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First Ohio Cavalry, Ohio National Guard, in 1892, and went with that organization into the Spanish-American war in 1898, in which conflict it was known as the Fourth United States Regiment of Infantry, and was the first regiment to embark for the Philippine Islands. He entered that service as second lieutenant under commission from President Mckinley, and while in the Philippine Islands he was promoted to first lieutenant. He returned home on sick leave, his furlough was extended, and finally he resigned his commission in the army.
In 1911 Mr. Hill became a citizen of Lakewood, and from that time to the present he has been prominent in the civic affairs of that city, and he has contributed much to and has been a part of the wonderful develop- ment of that city into one of the most beautiful residential communities in the state. In 1919 he was elected mayor of the city, and so efficient and businesslike was his administration of the municipal affairs of the city that in 1921 he was reelected, thus serving two full terms in that office, to the credit of himself and the voters who chose him, and to the lasting benefit of the city. After serving the city of Lakewood as mayor for four years, Mr. Hill joined the organization of the C. O. Frick Company, real estate dealers, with offices in the Marshall Building, Cleveland.
Mr. Hill is a member of the Cleveland and Lakewood Chambers of Commerce and of Troop A, Veterans' Association.
On April 19, 1902, at Dayton, Ohio, Mr. Hill was united in marriage with Miss Nellie B. Herbruck, who was born in Canton, Ohio, the daughter of Edward Herbruck, of the prominent old family of that name of Canton. To Mr. and Mrs. Hill the following children have been born : Edward E., a graduate of Lakewood High School, is a student at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania; Margaret B. and Marion T. (twins) are students at Wells College, Aurora, New York.
HENRY ERNST KLEFMAN, president of the H. E. Klefman Company, general building contractors, has made this organization one of important order in connection with material development in Cleveland, the company specializing in brick construction work. For more than four generations the name of Klefman has been successfully associated with contracting and building-in Germany and in the United States. Henry Klefman, father of the subject of this review, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1853, was there reared and educated, learned the trade of brick mason
and became a successful building contractor. There also was solemnized his marriage to Miss Eleanor Juergens, who likewise was born and reared in Hanover. In 1889 they came to the United States, in company with their three children, Henry E., Frederick and Mary, the daughter being now the wife of Frederick Henrichs, of Cleveland. The family home was forthwith established on Wade Avenue, on the West Side of Cleve- land, and, after having been for some time employed at his trade the father, two years after his arrival here, engaged independently in con- tracting and building. He was the founder of the Henry Klefman Com- pany, which developed this large and prosperous general contracting busi- ness. He continued his active association with the business until 1908. when he turned it over to his sons, the title having then been changed to
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the H. E. Klefman Company. On the 4th of March, 1918, the company was incorporated under the laws of Ohio, and of the same Henry E. Klefman has since continued president, while his brother Frederick is secretary and treasurer. The father is now living virtually retired, the death of his mother having occurred December 24, 1921.
The H. E. Klefman Company controls a large general contracting business in its line, and has erected many modern business blocks, factories, churches, school buildings, apartment buildings and high grade houses, the name of Klefman being identified with the erection of many of the best buildings on the West Side of Cleveland. Among the more note- worthy buildings erected by this company may be mentioned the Metro- politan Business College and the Ohio Commercial College, all of the buildings of the Holan Manufacturing Company, buildings for the August Schaefer Wagon Company, the Case-Hardening Factory on Scranton Road and all the buildings of the Kaase Baking Company.
Henry E. Klefman was born in Hanover, Germany, on the 16th of March, 1885, and thus he was about four years of age at the time when the family came to the United States and established residence in Cleve- land. In the local Lutheran parochial schools he gained his early educa- tion, which was advanced by his attending night schools, and in the mean- while he was gaining practical experience by assisting his father in the latter's business. After leaving school he served a thorough apprentice- ship to the mason's trade-two years under the direction of his father and the following two years in association with August Schultz & Son, large contractors. Mr. Klefman was a full-fledged journeyman at his trade when seventeen years of age, and he then entered the employ of D. C. Griese & Walker, with which firm of contractors he remained seven years, in the meanwhile having been advanced to the position of foreman. At the expiration of this period he and his brother assumed control of the business established by their father, and they have since continued the same most successfully.
Mr. Klefman is a trustee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and its parochial school, is a member of the board of trustees of the Lutheran Hospital, and in this connection was a member of the building committee under whose direction was erected the fine new hospital building. He is a member of the Cleveland Builders' Exchange, the Cleveland Employ- ers' Association and the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, of which he is a director, and also a director of the Prudential Savings & Loan Com- pany. He finds special pleasure and interest in the breeding and raising of homing pigeons, maintains a large pigeon loft on his home premises, and is a member of the American Racing Pigeon Union. In the World war period Mr. Klefman supplied the United States Government with a goodly number of pigeons to be used in war service. In contests with his pigeons he has won several cash prizes in flying events, and one of these awards, a check for fifty dollars, was received by him December 16, 1922, from the American Racing Pigeon Union. Mr. Klefman was active and influential in local patriotic service during the period of the nation's participation in the World war. He served as a captain in three of the four local drives in support of the sale of Government war bonds, and was active also in Red Cross work.
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The year 1907 recorded the marriage of Mr. Klefman and Miss Emily Lunsman, who was born and reared in Cleveland and who is a daughter of John and Mary Lunsman. Mr. and Mrs. Klefman have two children : Elmer H., aged sixteen years (1923), and Evelyn, aged eleven years.
EMORY LLEWELYN DIAL, A. B., M. D. One of the members of the medical profession of Cleveland whose skill as a physician and surgeon has won recognition, whose endeavors as a man and citizen have met with appreciation, and whose actions in striving not only to secure something for himself and family and to give something of himself to the com- munity and those who are to follow, has contributed materially to the public welfare, is Dr. Emory Llewelyn Dial, who for over a quarter of a century has been in active practice on the West Side of the city.
Doctor Dial was born at Colebrook, Ashtabula County, Ohio, Novem- ber 26, 1866, and is descended from two old Ohio families. His paternal grandfather, Solomon Dial, was a native of Columbiana County, this state, where he was married. A few years after his marriage he moved to Ashtabula County and settled at Colebrook, where he spent the rest of his life and became a man of importance and influence in his community. The father of Doctor Dial, Isaac J. Dial, was born in Columbiana County, in 1833, and died in Ashtabula County in 1874. He made the long and dangerous trip overland by ox-wagon to California in 1850, but failed of appreciable success in the gold fields, and soon returned to his home in Ohio. He married Elizabeth Sample, who was born in 1844, in Mahoning County, Ohio, daughter of William and Christina (Highland) Sample, and she died September 2, 1922.
Doctor Dial attended district school at Colebrook and was prepared for college at New Lyme Academy, Ohio. He was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Adelbert College, Western Reserve University, in 1896, and from Western Reserve Medical School, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1898. Coming at that time to Cleveland, he embarked upon the practice of his profession on Lorain Avenue, in the immediate neighborhood of where he now maintains his offices, 8911 Lorain Avenue, and here he has since continued, having built up a large, representative and appreciative practice. Doctor Dial is a member of the surgical staff of Lutheran Hospital and is much interested in welfare work in his profession. For many years he served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Denison Avenue Congregational Church, of which he still continues as an active member. He belongs to Halcyon Lodge of Free Masons, and to Hesperian Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
Doctor Dial married Miss Clara Chapman Partridge, who was born at Niles, Michigan, a graduate of Oberlin College, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa college fraternity. To Doctor and Mrs. Dial one daughter and four sons have been born : Elizabeth, who graduated from Oberlin College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1915, and from the Ohio State University, Bachelor of Arts, in 1919, and is a graduate of Western Reserve Medical College and is in active practice ; Robert J., who graduated from Oberlin College, Bachelor of Arts, 1920, and is now a student at Yale Medical School, preparing to follow the profession of his father; Ralph S., who graduated
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from Yale University, 1922, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and is now preparing for a professional career as a student at Yale Medical School; Donald E., who is attending Yale University; and David L., a student at Hiram College.
By inclination and personality, education, experience and skill, Doctor Dial is the ideal physician and surgeon. Of strong characteristics, yet of an unassuming disposition, he wins and holds the confidence of all with whom he comes in contact, both in his profession and in the ordinary walks of life.
HENRY A. HAEFLINGER has been for many years identified with the manufacturing of awnings and tents, and is one of the prominent and influential representatives of this line of industrial enterprise in the City of Cleveland, where he is president, treasurer and general manager of the Haeflinger Awning & Tent Company, with headquarters at the corner of Bridge and West Twenty-fifth streets. Mr. Haeflinger is a native of Cleveland, and is a representative of one of the old, well-known and highly honored families of the West Side of the Ohio Metropolis. His father, Henry Haeflinger, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1843, and died at his home in Cleveland in the year 1908. For many years Henry Haeflinger was a successful contractor in the loading and unloading of lum- ber boats at the Cleveland docks, and he commanded unqualified esteem in the city that was his home during the greater part of his active and useful life. His wife, Mary, likewise was a native of Germany, where she was born in 1845, and she survived him about twelve years, her death having occurred in 1920.
Henry A. Haeflinger was born at the family home on Poplar (now West Fifty-fourth) Street on the West Side of Cleveland, and the date of his nativity was July 28, 1880. In this part of Cleveland he has continued his residence during the intervening years, and he has been concerned in the civic and material development that has significantly marked this part of the city in later years. He continued his studies in the public schools until he was fifteen years of age, when he found employ- ment in the nut and washer factory of Bourn & Knowles. Thereafter he was for three years in the employ of the Cleveland Cooperage Com- pany, and the ensuing six years found him connected with the firm of Comey & Johnson, manufacturers of ladies' hats. With this concern he won advancement to the position of manager of a department, and it was in the year 1905 that he initiated his association with the manufac- turing of awnings and tents. In that year he became a salesman for the Buckeye Awning & Tent Company, and later he assumed a similar position with the Astrup Awning Company, in which he became a stock- holder. After eight years of connection with this last named company he severed his connection therewith and effected the organization of the Wagner-Haeflinger Awning Company. He later disposed of his interest in this concern and resumed his connection with the Astrup Awning Com- pany, with which he continued as a successful and popular salesman until 1921, when he organized and incorporated the Haeflinger Awning & Tent Company, with a capital of $25,000. Of this well ordered and progressive corporation he has since continued the president, treasurer
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and general manager, and under his administration the company has developed a substantial and constantly expanding business, Miss Laura A. Schulk being secretary of the company. This corporation gives employment to an average force of fifteen operatives in its factory, and there is ready demand for the superior products that constitute the best advertising and commercial asset of the concern.
Mr. Haeflinger is an active and appreciative member of the Cleve- land Chamber of Industry, of which he has been a director since 1922 and in 1924 is chairman of the advisory board and vice president. He has been since 1921 the president of the Clark Avenue Business Men's Association, holds membership in the Kiwanis Club and the Cleveland Automobile Club, and is affiliated with Clark Lodge of the Knights of Pythias.
December 20, 1899, recorded the marriage of Mr. Haeflinger and Miss Catherine Hajek, daughter of Jacob Hajek, of Cleveland.
IRA BURLINGAME GORDON, M. D. For nearly thirty years Dr. Ira B. Gordon has been in the active and successful practice of medicine and surgery in Cleveland, and is today regarded as one of the leading mem- bers of the profession of the city.
Doctor Gordon was born at St. Louis, Missouri, November 21, 1870, and is a son of James and Mary (Conner) Gordon, natives of Milan, Erie County, Ohio. His grandfather, Ira B. Gordon, was born near Oswego, New York, and about 1825 settled in Erie County, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits and business operations during the remainder of his life. James Gordon, the father of Doctor Gordon, was a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, being sergeant of Company B, One Hundred First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and estab- lished a splendid record for bravery and faithful performance of duty. Following the close of the struggle between the North and the South he married, and in a short time removed to Iowa, then went to St. Louis, and from the latter city removed to Milan, Ohio, where for many years he was engaged as a general contracting mason. He was a man of good business ability and of strict integrity, and had the respect and esteem of the people of his community. He is now deceased, as is Mrs. Gordon; who was born at Boston, Massachusetts.
Doctor Gordon was but a lad when taken by his parents from St. Louis to Milan, Ohio, and in the latter city he was reared to young manhood. He attended the district school first and later the Milan High School, from which he was duly graduated, and subsequently took a course at the old Western Reserve Normal School, now defunct, at Milan. He pursued his professional studies at Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1891 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in the same year entered upon the practice of his profession at Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio. After five years of experience in that little community he sought the greater opportunities of the metropolis, and in 1896 came to Cleveland, where he has since made his home. He has been a resident of the West Side since his arrival, and has become widely known among the residents of that part of the city. As early as 1910 he built his modern home, one of the
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first to be erected on what is now West Boulevard, No. 3150, where he maintains his offices. He has a large and representative practice, and carries it on along general lines, as he is equally expert in all depart- ments of his profession. He is a member of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical Society, the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy. His religious connection is with Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Gordon has always been a generous and public spirited supporter of movements calculated to be of public benefit, and is an active member at this time of the West Boule- vard Improvement Association.
Doctor Gordon married Miss Jennie Maatz, daughter of Frederick C. and Amelia (Krueger) Maatz, of Strongsville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and to this union there have been born two children: Paul M., born in 1903 ; and Jeanne M., born in 1913.
LEONARD DUDLEY. From messenger boy in a Cleveland bank to executive officer in some of the city's best known real estate and financial organizations in less than nine years is a brief measure of the rapid advancement and progress of Leonard Dudley, one of Cleveland's best known younger business men.
He was born in Cleveland, June 19, 1895. His father, Daniel Dud- ley, was born in England fifty-five years ago, came to this country when about twenty years of age, and is a tool maker by trade. He was first employed by the American Steel & Wire Company at Cleveland, for nineteen years was in the service of the American Ship Building Com- pany, and since then has been with the Cleveland Railway Company.
Leonard Dudley was educated in grammar and high schools of Cleveland, and 'on leaving school he became messenger boy for the Cleve- land Trust Company. He was with that company three and one-half years, and from 1917 to 1921 was with the Guardian Savings & Trust Company. Leaving there, Mr. Dudley became secretary and treasurer of the Border Cities Company and Border Cities Investment Company, and since November 13, 1922, has been vice president and a director in these companies. The other officers are: J. F. Gundy, president, of Toronto; H. W. Gundy, of Toronto, vice president; C. R. Cross, of Cleveland, and L. F. Thunhorst, of Cleveland, also vice presidents.
The Border Cities Company and its affiliated companies, the Border Cities Company, Limited, and Gundy & Gundy, a partnership, has been in the land development business for eighteen years. The firm of Gundy & Gundy has represented the Canadian Pacific in the development of Western farm properties, and at different times has had offices in the United States. The firm is interested in large ranches and farms in Western Canada in addition to real estate holdings in this country. The Border Cities Company is an Ohio corporation, interested in developing high grade summer properties, building club houses and equipping them for the benefit of the property owners.
Mr. Dudley is also treasurer and assistant secretary of the Border Cities Investment Company, an organization handling investments in the real estate and mortgage field, and owning real estate and loaning money for the development of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.
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Mr. Dudley is secretary of the Western Reserve Securities Company, and is treasurer and general manager of the Acme Bond & Mortgage Com- pany, two organizations that have perfected the service primarily for the benefit of the home owner. Practically all the mortgages drawn by these companies include the valuable modern feature of monthly amortization so that the equity of the home owner in his property is constantly increasing.
Mr. Dudley is secretary and treasurer of the Kellogg Trucking Com- pany and the Terminal Transfer Company. These companies do a gen- eral trucking business. They have been unusually successful through the diligent cooperation of their employes, the best evidence of which is found in the account of accident and property damage claims, which has been negligible as a loss item on the company's books. It is an enviable record in a business of this character when the present congestion and traffic conditions are considered.
Mr. Dudley is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce. His favorite recreation is motoring.
CARL JAMES CANNON, M. D. Among the members of the medical profession of Cleveland who have won success and prestige is to be found Dr. Carl J. Cannon, physician and surgeon of the Nottingham district of the city, where he has been in active practice for the past ten years.
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