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Doctor Cannon is descended from Isle-of-Man ancestors, and his branch of the family has been in America for five generations. His grandfather, Ebenezer Cannon, a native of Connecticut, traveled by ox- team across the country from the "Nutmeg State" to the Western Reserve in the early '40s of the last century to Trumbull County, this state, passing through Cleveland on the journey, and was offered land on Detroit Ave- nue, this city, at five dollars an acre. He regarded the climate of Lake Erie as too rigorous, and so passed on into Trumbull County, where he acquired a tract of land and made permanent settlement, carrying on farming and blacksmithing the remainder of his life.
David E. Cannon, son of Ebenezer, the pioneer, and father of the Doctor, was born in Connecticut and was a child when the family came to Ohio. He was a farmer in Trumbull County for many years, dying on his farm in 1894. He served in the Union army during the Civil war as a member of the One Hundred and Seventy-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He married Anna Preston, who was born in Ash- tabula County, Ohio, the daughter of Reuben Preston, who moved to the State of Texas before the Civil war, and while there was conscripted by the Confederates and compelled to serve in their army as a wagonmaker. Mrs. Cannon died in 1910.
Doctor Cannon was born in the family homestead in Bloomfield Town- ship, Trumbull County, on October 27, 1875, and received his early educa- tion in the graded and high schools of Bristolville. Soon after the death of his father, in 1894, he came to Cleveland and continued his education, paving his wav by working during vacation time. Entering the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, he completed the courses and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1899, he being the youngest member of his graduating class. He entered the practice of his profession first at Windsor, Ashtabula County, where for fifteen years he was in the general
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practice of medicine and surgery, serving a large country territory. In the spring of 1914 he located in Cleveland and since then has been in general practice, specializing in surgery, and has met with success which has given him a place among the leading surgeons of the city, with a practice by no means limited to the Nottingham district. He is chief of staff of the Nottingham Hospital and president of that institution, which is one of the leading private hospitals of Greater Cleveland. Doctor Cannon holds membership in the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy, and in Thatcher Lodge No. 439, Free and Accepted Masons; Heights Chapter No. 206, Royal Arch Masons.
Doctor Cannon married Marie Holiday, the daughter of Anthony Holiday, of Cleveland, and they have one daughter, Ann Elizabeth, born December 11, 1910.
MARY FRANCES CONRAD, manager of the Nottingham Hospital, at 18920 Nottingham Road, Cleveland, was born at Syracuse, New York, the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Connors) McGuire, who were also born in that city and represented two of the old families of Syracuse. Mrs. Conrad was educated in the grammar and high schools of Syracuse. She has had a thorough training in the profession of a nurse and hospital management. At first she was in the nurses' training course of the House of the Good Shepherd at Syracuse, and later spent one year in Cleveland.
She was married to William Vernon Conrad, a native of Trenton, New Jersey, and a graduate of Yale University. Mr. Conrad was a produce merchant in New York City, and died there June 7, 1913. After his death Mrs. Conrad resumed her professional work in New York City, and in 1918 came to Cleveland to take charge of what was then known as Wright's Maternity Hospital. This is now the Nottingham Hospital, incorporated under that title and opened under the new management in December, 1922. The owners and incorporators are Dr. C. J. Cannon and Mrs. Conrad. Not- tingham Hospital, on ground 110 feet fronting on Nottingham Road, and a depth of 180 feet, is a modern three-story, well equipped hospital build- ing with accommodations for twenty-five patients. It is a private hospital, though other physicians besides the owners and regular staff members, are admitted with their patients. The visiting staff includes Drs. W. O. Jenks, J. H. Dempsey and M. C. Davis. Both as a professional and a business enterprise it has been successful. Mrs. Conrad has the distinction of being one of the few woman hospital managers in Ohio. Not only is she one of the owners and incorporators of Nottingham Hospital, but she is the exec- utive head of the institution and in charge of the detailed management, and under her management it has been developed into one of the important private hospitals in the Cleveland district.
CHARLES T. ROSE. One of the executive officials of the Guardian Savings & Trust Company, Charles T. Rose is a native of Cleveland, and has identified his career with some of the most substantial interests of the city.
He was born November 9, 1868, son of Henry and Mary Rose. Both parents were of German ancestry. His father was one of the pioneers in
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the Euclid and East 105th Street business district of Cleveland. Charles T. Rose acquired his early education in the public schools of Cleveland, and as a young man entered upon a commercial career. For a number of years he was a salesman for a wholesale dry goods house, and finally resigned to become manager of the safe deposit department of the Com- mercial Savings and Trust Company. From that well known Cleveland institution he became manager of safe deposits interests of the Guardian Savings and Trust Company, his present office.
Mr. Rose served four years as clerk of the Board of Education of the school district of Cleveland Heights. He is an officer and director of the Woodward Masonic Temple Company, has held official positions in the Masonic Order for twenty-four years and is a member of the Grotto, the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, and belongs to the City Club and Automobile Club. In politics he normally votes as a republican, and attends the Christian Science Church.
At Cleveland, October 21, 1896, he married Miss Lillian May Wilkinson, daughter of Harry L. Wilkinson. They have five children : Ethel, Marjorie, Henry, Helen and Robert. The daughter Ethel is the wife of William J. Barrett, of New York.
ALFRED G. YAWBERG, for the past decade has been county superin- tendent of schools of Cuyahoga County. He is a high minded and capable educator, with a long and successful experience, and is, himself, a native of Ohio.
He was born on a farm in Providence Township, Lucas County, Ohio, not far from the City of Toledo. He is of Swiss ancestry. In Switzerland the name was spelled Jaberg, and one of the ancestors of Mr. Yawberg lost his life in an insurrection in Switzerland. His grandfather was a dairyman in Canton Berne, Switzerland, and in 1852 he came to America, accompanied by his family. The vessel encountered severe storms and was six weeks in reaching New York. From there the family came on west to Lucas County, Ohio, where the grandfather bought a tract of timber land, erected a log house, and was one of the hardy and industrious colonists who developed the agricultural resources of the state. He brought his land under cultivation, erected a good set of frame buildings, and lived there until his death, at the age of seventy-one. His wife was Rosa Lee Gerber, also a native of Canton Berne, Switzerland. She died at the age of seventy-three, their five children being Charles, Emma, Lewis, Clara and John.
Charles L. Yawberg, father of Alfred G., was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, and was a year old when the family came to America. He attended a school taught in a log cabin in Lucas County, and soon after reaching his majority, bought a tract of timber land a mile from the homestead. He has lived in that community ever since, prospered and took a share of the progressive insurance that marked out his locality as one of the best farming districts in Northwestern Ohio. He married Julia Ann Clautz, who was born on a farm near New Philadelphia, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, daughter of Greenbury William and Mary (Gray) Clautz, pioneers of Tuscarawas County. The Clautz ancestors came to America with William Penn and were pioneers in Pennsylvania.
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The Gray family was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Julia Ann Yawberg died at the early age of twenty-eight, leaving three children, named Alfred George, Jessie May, and Chester Leonard.
Alfred G. Yawberg was reared on a farm, attended district schools, spent two years in high school, and then became a teacher in District No. 2 of Providence Township. He taught two years, then entered Wooster Academy, and from there enrolled in Wooster University at Wooster, Ohio, where he was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1907. He subsequently did special work in education in the Columbia University College of Teachers (Barnard College). In 1911 Wooster University conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Mr. Yawberg was principal of the high school of Berea, Ohio, until 1914, when he was elected superintendent of Cuyahoga schools, and by reelection has been retained in the office to the present time.
In 1908 he married Miss Martha Brown, a native of Providence Township, Lucas County, and daughter of George and Susan Disher Brown. The Brown family were pioneers in Providence Township. Susan Disher, her mother, was born in Switzerland, and came to America when sixteen years of age, and is now at the venerable age of seventy-eight, and makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Yawberg.
Mr. Yawberg and family are members of the Methodist Church. He is active in the various educational organizations, including the National Educational Association, the Northeast Ohio Teachers' Association, and the Ohio State Teachers' Association. He belongs to Berea Lodge of Masons, Berea Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and is a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Cleveland City Club.
CARL HENRI LENHART, M. D. In the twenty years since he gradu- ated in medicine Doctor Lenhart has won a place among the surgeons of the City of Cleveland, who respect him for his undoubted abilities in that field.
Doctor Lenhart was born at Wauseon, Ohio, September 1, 1880, and represents the third generation of an old family of this state. His parents were Dr. Peter J. and Ida (Pfeifer) Lenhart, both natives of Ohio. His grandfather, Peter Lenhart, was a substantial farmer near Coshocton, Ohio. Dr. Peter J. Lenhart was born on the Lenhart farm near Coshocton and graduated in medicine at Wooster University in 1870, this medical department becoming subsequently the medical depart- ment of Ohio Wesleyan University and is now the medical school of Western Reserve University. Dr. Peter J. Lenhart has been engaged in the general practice of medicine at Wauseon for a period of half a century, and is still one of the able doctors of that community. His wife, Ida Pfeifer, was a daughter of Rev. John Pfeifer, a pioneer circuit rider minister of the Evangelical Church in Eastern Ohio.
Carl H. Lenhart was reared at Wauseon, attended the high school there three years, and prepared for college in Baldwin-Wallace Univer- sity at Berea, Ohio. From there he entered Adelbert College at Cleve- land, from which he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree. His medical studies were continued in Western Reserve University, and he was graduated in 1904. Doctor Lenhart served as resident surgeon of
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the Lakeside Hospital from the spring of 1904 to the spring of 1906. For three years he was an instructor of physiology in Western Reserve University, and at the same time carried on independent research work. Doctor Lenhart is a member of the staff of the City Hospital and in March, 1921, was made chief of the division of surgery and the head of the department of general surgery of St. Luke's Hospital. He engaged in general practice in 1906, but since 1912 his time has been. entirely limited to surgery.
Doctor Lenhart is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State and American Medical associations, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Physi- ological Society. He is directing librarian of the Cleveland Medical Library. Doctor Lenhart married Miss Ora Margaret Hamilton, daugh- ter of George Hamilton, of Attica, Ohio.
FORD WHITMAN BRUNNER. The Cleveland bar and a large group of social and civic interests of the city suffered a severe loss in the death of Ford Whitman Brunner at the age of thirty-five, when he had become securely established in his chosen vocation and had before him a broad field of usefulness and honor.
Mr. Brunner represented an old Cleveland family, both his parents, William F. and Ella (Ford) Brunner, being natives of Cleveland, where his mother is still living. Their home for some years was in St. Louis, Missouri, where Ford Whitman Brunner was born October 20, 1886. He first attended grammar school in that city, and after the family returned to Cleveland he entered the Central High School, where he was graduated. He continued his higher education in Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1909. For his law course he entered Harvard Law School at Boston, graduating Doctor of Laws with the class of 1912.
In 1911, while in his senior year at law school, he took the bar exam- inations, was admitted to the Ohio bar and after graduating engaged in practice in Cleveland as a member of the law firm Caldwell, Brunner and Van Buren. He had nearly ten years of busy association and work with this firm before his death, which occurred September 15, 1921.
He married, March 15, 1917, Miss Bernice North. Two sons survive, William Franklin, born September 16, 1918, and Ford Whitman, Jr., born June 7, 1920.
At the time of his death, Mr. Brunner had won a place among the successful and prominent members of the bar. He had also established important business relations allied with his professional work, being a member of the board of directors and assistant secretary of the Drew & Campbell Amusement Company, director and attorney for the Lake- wood Savings & Loan Company, and a director of the Liberty Savings & Loan Company. He was also active in the promotion and organi- zation of the Clark Restaurant Company.
It is very proper to quote here an appreciation of the man and his characteristics as adopted by his associates in the law firm of Caldwell, Brunner and Van Buren. This tribute is as follows: "As a busi- ness associate, counsellor and friend, all our burdens and problems he
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shared as his own; to him fell the lot of furnishing us with inspiration and courage whenever the road became particularly difficult; wise coun- sel and helping hand whenever our personal worries became burden- some; a smile of good cheer to brush away the many disappointments always present in the building up of a law practice. May we pay humble tribute to our departed associate, who was ever true, always honorable and upright in all his dealings with mankind."
Mrs. Brunner was born in Oberlin, Ohio, but her parents likewise represent families long established in Cleveland. Her father and mother, Archer M. and Myrtle (Brice) North, reside at Cleveland. Mrs. Brun- ner is of old Connecticut and Revolutionary ancestry of English descent. Her first American ancestor came from England in 1635.
JOHN A. DOMBROWSKI, secretary of the Bank of Cleveland, is a native of Cleveland, one of the prominent young men of Polish parentage, and his rapid advancement in life is indicative of many unsual talents.
He was born in Cleveland, March 19, 1892, son of Anton and Frances (Grucza) Dombrowski. His parents were born in Poland, came to the United States when young people, and were married in Cleveland. Anton Dombrowski was born in February, 1863, and as a young man in Cleve- land worked at different occupations, but later engaged in the retail gro- cery business, and continued a merchant until he retired. His wife was born in September, 1869, and is now living. They have been respected citizens of Cleveland for many years, Anton Dombrowski having spent thirty-eight years of his life here. They are members of the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish.
John A. Dombrowski was educated in parochial schools, graduated in 1908 from the Harvard Avenue Public School, and then pursued a technical education and graduated from the East Technical High in 1911. He studied mechanical drafting in Case School of Applied Science. He then entered the service of the Empire Plow Company, beginning as timekeeper, was promoted to foreman and then to production manager, accomplishing this rapid advancement within nine months' time.
In 1921 Mr. Dombrowski entered the Bank of Cleveland as teller, and was promoted to assistant secretary, and since January 1, 1923, has been secretary and one of the directors of this prosperous banking institution, with resources of over a million dollars. Mr. Dombrowski is a member of the various Polish organizations and for the past five years has been general secretary of the Polish Roman Catholic Union in the United States. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus.
On June 28, 1916, he married Miss Pauline Przybyszewski, who was born in Cleveland, daughter of Julius and Anna (Orlowski) Przybyszewski. She died October 19, 1918, leaving one daughter, Eleanor, who was born April 19, 1917. On May 11, 1921, Mr. Dombrowski married Sophia G. Nyka, who was born in Cleveland, daughter of Ignatius and Rozalia Nyka. By the second marriage there is a son, Robert J., born September 15, 1922.
SARAH MARCUS, M. D. One of the thoroughly educated and suc- cessful woman physicians in Cleveland is Dr. Sarah Marcus, whose
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experiences have served to make the progress of a woman training for a medical career easier of accomplishment.
Doctor Marcus was born in Summersville, South Carolina. Her father, Aaron Marcus, is a native of Roumania, where the family name was spelled Marcu. His parents were residents of Roumania through most of their lives, but finally followed their children to the United States and spent their last days in Montgomery, Alabama. Aaron Marcus acquired a good education in Roumania. He was first employed in a mercantile house and learned this business by a thorough apprenticeship. At the age of twenty-two, accompanied by his wife, he came to the United States, locating in the South, and was a merchant in different places there until 1912, when he removed to Cleveland, where he is still living. Aaron Marcus married Etta Horovitz, also a native of Roumania. They reared seven children, namely : Lillie, Bessie, Meyer, Sarah, Ethel, Alex- ander and Wolfe. The brothers and sisters of Aaron Marcus, who also came to America, were Isaac, Maurice, Emanuel, Rachael, Sarah and Dora.
Dr. Sarah Marcus attended high schools in the South. On coming to Cleveland she entered Western Reserve University, and was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1916. There being no opportunities available for a woman to study medicine in Western Reserve University at that time she entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, where she was graduated with the Doctor of Medicine degree in 1920. With her diploma she sought appointment as an interne in some of the hospitals in Cleveland, but was refused since no woman physician had ever served in that capacity. She then went to Akron, where she was admitted as the first woman to serve as an interne. Eight months later she was appointed resident physician of the City Hospital at Akron. After resigning she returned to Cleveland, and has built up a successful general medical practice and is a member of the American Medical Association and the Ohio State Medical Association, and the Cuyahoga County Medical Society.
GIOVANNI ALFONSO BARRICELLI, M. D. For about twenty years one of the leading physicians of Cleveland, Doctor Barricelli, by reason of his social work in the interest of his fellow countrymen, is probably the most distinguished Italian born citizen of Cleveland.
He was born in the Italian City of Benevento, February 23, 1873, son of Peter and Lucy (Cancelliere) Barricelli. His father spent his life at Benevento, being educated in Benevento College, and then entered business and died there in 1913 at the age of ninety-one. His wife was descended from a distinguished Italian family and died in 1912, aged eighty-nine.
In his native city in South Central, Italy, Doctor Barricelli spent his boyhood days. He completed courses in physics and chemistry at the University of Naples, and in 1889, at the age of sixteen, came to the United States. After passing the examinations in pharmacy at New York City, he remained there and for eight years followed the profession of pharmacist. During that time he owned and operated three drug stores. He also began and carried on the study of medicine in the Long Island Hospital Medical College. Subsequently he went to Chicago and entered the medical depart-
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ment of the University of Illinois, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1902. Then followed some post-graduate work at New York, and he then engaged in private practice at Cleveland. Since the early years he has specialized in diseases of the chest, and is a recognized authority in that field. His offices for fifteen years have been in the Rose Building.
Doctor Barricelli had been in Cleveland but a short time when his pro- fessional talents and his sympathetic character made him an attractive leader among his fellow countrymen and many of his distinctions rest upon his social service. He was the originator and is the grand master of the Order of Sons of Italy, an order whose membership throughout the United States now embraces over 300,000. He was very active during the World war, serving as a member of the Volunteer Medical Corps of the United States, as head of the Roman Legion in Cleveland, and as chairman of all the Liberty Loan campaigns among the Italians of the city. For services rendered the cause of the allies he was made a Knight of the Crown of Italy. Much of his time is given to his social work and he has been called upon to deliver many addresses in different parts of the country. Doctor Barricelli is a charter member of Windermere Lodge of Masons, Windermere Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Windermere Council, Royal and Select Masters, the Knights Templar Commandery, the Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite and the Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Doctor Barricelli married Orfea Malpezzi, who is a graduate with the degree Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy and literature from the University of Bologna, the oldest university in Europe. Both in Italy and in America she has been noted as a scholar and literary worker. She was a student of literature in Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She has prepared thesis and many formal articles on Greek philosophy and her writings have had much appreciation among classical students. She is now engaged in writing a critical study of American poets. Mrs. Barricelli is descended from an old and illustrious Italian family. During the World war she was in the Red Cross work on the Italian front and was wounded in action. She gives conferences on philosophic and literary subjects and has been closely associated with her husband in his social work.
MRS. MARY HAWKINS AENIS is well known among Cleveland women, having much public service to her credit. She was the first matron of the county jail officially appointed in Cuyahoga County.
She was born at the Hawkins home on the southwest corner of St. Clair and Erie streets. Her father, James Hawkins, a native of London, England, came to America at the age of twenty. While en route the sailing vessel on which he was a passenger caught fire. The passen- gers were rescued and landed in New York. From New York he made his way westward, arriving in Cleveland about 1846. After employment in various occupations he engaged in the provision business at the corner of St. Clair and Erie streets in partnership with George Wilkinson. A few years later he moved to Columbus Road, North Brooklyn, now West Twenty-fifth Street. At that time West Twenty-fifth Street was a plank road with box gutters. Later he entered the wholesale provision business. During the Civil war he supplied the Government kitchens at Columbus Road and Merwin Street with meat. He continued active until
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1884, when he retired. He passed away at the home of his daughter in 1915.
James Hawkins married Mary Dickson, who was born in Belfast, ยท Ireland, of Scotch parentage. Mary Dickson came to America with friends at the age of eighteen. She lived in Zanesville, Ohio, for a few years. Later she moved to Cleveland, where she resided until her death in 1907, at the age of eighty-two years. Two children, Mary and Charles, survive her.
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