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Mr. Aitken was united in marriage with Miss Margaret E. Schaaf, of Erie, Pennsylvania, and four children have been born to them: Milton, born in Cleveland in 1903, graduated from Case School of Applied Science with the class of 1923; David A., born in Cleveland in 1906, is a student at Case School of Applied Science; Irene A., born in Cleveland in 1908; and Russell, born in Cleveland in 1910.
DAVID CLIFFORD REED, prominent citizen of Rocky River Village, and a member of the well known firm of Hawley & Reed, of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, agents for the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, was born in Monroe, Butler County, Ohio, on March 31, 1870, the son of the late Andrew Boyd and Mary B. (Gorsuch) Reed.
Andrew Boyd Reed was born in Butler County, Ohio, on August 28, 1845, the son of David B. and Carolyn (Boyd) Reed, the father born June 26, 1812, and died August 5, 1859, the mother born July 20, 1823, and died September 27, 1885. Andrew B. was a substantial farmer and successful traveling salesman of farm machinery, as well as one of the leading men of Butler County. On November 14, 1867, he married Mary
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B. Gorsuch, of near Findley, Ohio, who was born on October 10, 1841. She died on November 25, 1871, being survived by her husband, who died on May 7, 1922, and two children, Anna B. and David C.
Carolyn .(Boyd) Reed was the daughter of Andrew and Temperance Fugit (Pocock) Boyd, the former born on September 16, 1796, and died August 21, 1857, the latter born on February 3, 1803, and died January 29, 1885. Andrew Boyd was the son of Thomas Boyd, who came over from England and settled in Pennsylvania, removed thence to Kentucky in about 1795, and thence to Ohio in 1800, and settled in Monroe, Butler County. He married Catheryn Snider, a native of Holland. Andrew Boyd owned a large tract of land in Butler County, was also a mer- chant, and served as the first postmaster of Monroe.
David C. Reed was about two years old at the time of his mother's death, in 1871, and he was taken into the home of his paternal grand- mother, Carolyn Boyd Reed, at Monroe, and spent his boyhood days in Butler and Warren counties. In 1891 he came to Cleveland and entered the advertising business, with offices in the building which then occupied the present site of the Hotel Cleveland, on the Public Square. In 1892 he became a member of the firm of King & Reed, agents for Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, and he has continued his association with that under- writing corporation, making a record of large business production. In 1902 the firm of King & Reed was succeeded by that of Hawley & Reed, in which his partner is Robert A. Hawley, the firm being agents for Ohio Farmers Insurance Company for Cuyahoga County, and controlling also a prosperous general insurance and real estate business.
Mr. Reed has maintained his home in Rocky River Village for more than twenty years, and for many years he has been prominently identified with civic and business interests of the village and also of the City of Lakewood. He aided in organizing the Lakewood State Bank and served as its president for seven years, that institution eventually being merged into the Guardian Savings and Trust Company. He is first vice president of the Colonial Savings and Loan Company of Lakewood, which institu- tion he helped to organize, and is identified with other important institutions which he helped to organize. He was actively concerned in the organization of the First Congregational Church of Lakewood and is a member of its board of trustees. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Industry, the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, the Rocky River Business Men's Organization and the Snow Lake Fishing and Hunting Club, he and his partner, Mr. Robert A. Hawley, having organized the latter some ten years ago. The membership of this club is limited to sixty persons. The club owns a fine tract of 240 acres of forest, field and lake land, twelve miles east of Chagrin Falls, in Geauga County, on which a fine club house has been erected, the property constituting one of the finest club properties in the country.
Mr. Reed married Miss Jane A. Miller, who was born at Port Huron, Michigan, the daughter of Stephen H. and Ann (Davidson) Miller, both deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Reed are as follows: Helen Caroline, who was graduated from Lakewood High School and from Oberlin College, class of 1919, married Joseph M. Kiss, of Cleveland ; David Clifford, Jr., who was graduated from West High School of Cleve-
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land and from Dartmouth College (class of 1923), married Irene Spilker, of Lakewood; Robert C. is a member of the class of 1926 in Rocky River High School.
GUY VICTOR CROUSE; M. D., is one of the talented young physicians and surgeons of the South Side of Cleveland. He began his professional work with thorough training and natural qualifications, and already enjoys a fine practice in his section of the city.
Doctor Crouse was born on a farm near Tiro, Crawford County, Ohio. The Crouse family originated in Germany, and on coming to the United States some of them settled in New York, where they spelled the name with a K, while another branch came direct to Ohio and settled in Crawford County. Several generations have lived on the land taken up by the pioneer settler in that county. That farm is still in the family, and the original log cabin is still standing. William Crouse, grandfather of Doctor Crouse, was born on this farm. Joshua Crouse, father of the doctor, was born there in 1849, and died in 1917. Joshua Crouse married Phoebe Volkmar, a native of Pennsylvania.
Guy Victor Crouse was reared at the old farm, attended country schools there, and in 1910 graduated from the Tiro High School. Following that he taught for one year in country schools, and in 1914 graduated Bachelor of Arts from Wittenberg College at Springfield. During the year 1914-15 he was teacher of science and mathematics in Weidner Institute, a prepara- tory school at Mulberry, Indiana. During 1915-16 he was superintendent of the consolidated township schools of Webster, near Richmond, Indiana. Doctor Crouse took up his medical studies in Western Reserve University in 1916, and graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1920. During the winters of his junior and senior years he was an externe of St. Clair Hospital, and for ten months did interne work at the same hospital.
Doctor Crouse took up the general practice of medicine and surgery in May, 1921, at 12905 St. Clair Avenue. Since January 1, 1922, his offices have been at 3028 West Twenty-fifth Street. Doctor Crouse is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State and American Medical Associations, belongs to the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity and the Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity. He is also a Mason and a member of the Lutheran Church.
Doctor Crouse married Miss Mabel DeLong, daughter of Allen and Edith DeLong, of Champaign County, Ohio. They have one son, Donald Allen, born in 1922.
FREDERICK WILLIAM DEITSCH, D. C., Ph. C., a leading chiropractic physician of the South Side, has been a resident of Cleveland for twenty years.
He was born in Cincinnati, January 2, 1871, son of Col. Philip and Anna Jane (Johnston) Deitsch. Col. Philip Deitsch for many years was one of the most prominent men of Cincinnati and Southern Ohio. He was born in Germany, October 7, 1840, and came to the United States in 1858. soon joining the Regular Army of the United States. He was in the Fourth Regiment of the United States Infantry all through the Civil war, having reenlisted in 1862. He was commissioned colonel of that regi-
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ment and rendered a gallant service in preserving the Union. After the war he located at Cincinnati, was connected with the city postoffice, then in the internal revenue bureau, was journal clerk of the Hamilton County Probate Court, and in 1885 was appointed chief of police by Mayor Smith. Colonel Deitsch was for seventeen years head of the Cincinnati Police Force, continuing his service until his death on January 23, 1902. As head of the police department he brought up its efficiency to second to none in the country, and distinguished himself not only as an executive, but as a man of unusual ideas in perfecting the police department of a large city. He installed the Bertillon System of measurement at Cincinnati, a system now in universal use in police departments. He was originator of what is now the "traffic officer," then known as a "special," assigned to duty in regulating street traffic. Colonel Deitsch was president of the International Association of Police Chiefs for the United States and Canada. He was a personal friend of President Roosevelt and of other prominent public men. He was deeply interested in Masonry, and was a Knight Templar and thirty-second Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.
His wife, Anna Jane Johnston, was born in the North of Ireland, in 1847, of Scotch-Irish parentage. She died at Cincinnati, June 15, 1902, a few months after the death of her husband.
Frederick William Deitsch was reared in Cincinnati, graduated from the Hughes High School in that city in 1891, and subsequently was a stu- dent of the violin at the Cincinnati College of Music. He has given much time to music, and is a member of the American Federation of Musicians. For a time he was in the treasurer's office of the Standard Oil Company at Cincinnati, and following that engaged in railroad accounting. Doctor Deitsch came to Cleveland in 1902, and was employed as an accountant until he took up the study of chiropractic. He graduated from the Palmer School of Chiropractics at Davenport, Iowa, March 31, 1921, with the degrees of Doctor of Chiropractics and Pharmaceutical Chemist. He at once returned to Cleveland, and has since been building up a very successful practice, with offices at the corner of West Twenty-fifth Street and Clark Avenue. He is a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio State and National Chiropractic associations. He also belongs to the Masons and Elks.
EMORY ALBERT POWELL, M. D., A. B., A. M. Since 1895 Doctor Powell has practiced medicine in Cuyahoga County and during most of the time has had offices in one location, the Scofield Building. Doctor Powell is one of the prominent men of his profession, and is also well known in politics and public affairs.
He was born on the old Powell farm near Benton Ridge, in Han- cock County, Ohio, August 24, 1863, son of Phillip and Rebecca Jane (Bartoon) Powell. This branch of the Powell family was established in America by six brothers who came in Colonial days, three of them locating in Pennsylvania and the others in Virginia. Doctor Powell's grandfather, Phillip Powell, was born in Pennsylvania, and on coming to Ohio in pioneer times settled in Fairfield County. His son, Phillip Powell II, was born on the homestead farm in Fairfield County, but. spent all his life from early manhood in Hancock County, where he became a prosperous farmer. He lived on one farm there fifty-seven
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years and died in 1887, at the age of eighty-seven. His wife, Rebecca Jane Bartoon, was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1838, and died in 1897, being of English ancestry. Her father, Jonathan Bartoon, came to Ohio from Virginia, settling in Fairfield County, and in 1848 removing to Hancock County.
Emory Albert Powell had the environment and experience of an Ohio farm boy. He attended district schools in Union Township, Hancock County, and in 1883 and 1884 took a course in the Union School at Findlay, the county seat, being granted a teacher's license. Doctor Powell taught in rural districts a total of thirty-five months in Hancock County. He holds two degrees from Ohio Northern University at Ada, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1891, and being awarded the Master of Arts degree in 1894. From January to July, 1892, he was a teacher of chemistry, physics and algebra at the Ohio Northern University .. Doctor Powell began his medical studies in 1892 in the Starling Medical College of Columbus, and was graduated March 21, 1895.
In the same year, coming to Cleveland, he engaged in general prac- tice. For twenty-two years he has occupied the same suite of offices in the Scofield Building. He has had a very heavy practice all these years, being one of the best family doctors in the city. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
Doctor Powell married Miss Mamie L. Halfhill, a native of Mercer County, Ohio, and daughter of Moses and Maria Eleanor (Wood) Half- hill, her father born in Ohio and her mother in New York State. Doctor and Mrs. Powell have one son, Ralph Emerson, born November 12, 1903, a graduate of the Glenville High School and member of the class of 1925 in Adelbert College of Western Reserve University at Cleveland.
Doctor Powell has been an interested worker in the republican party of Ohio for over forty years. As a successful physician he had no time for the routine duties of public office but has found many opportunities to aid the party in the cause of good government. He has been identified in some way or other with the republican campaigns since 1882. For the past eight years he has been a member of the Cuyahoga County Republican Executive Committee. Mrs. Powell likewise in recent years has been a leading figure in the republican party, both in local and state and national organizations. She served as the first president of the Republican Woman's League of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County and is now presi- dent of the Cleveland Federation of Women's clubs.
WILLIAM ARTHUR EDWARDS is one of the leading contractors and builders in the City of Lakewood, in the metropolitan district of Cleveland, and is a prominent figure in connection with banking and other business enterprises in this district of Cuyahoga County.
On the paternal homestead farm, in Brookfield Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, William A. Edwards was born April 14, 1875, a son of Benjamin and Mary (Morgan) Edwards, both of whom were born in Wales, and both of whom were children at the time of the immigration of the respective families to the United States, the home of each family hav- ing been established in Ohio. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
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Edwards was solemnized in Delaware County, this state, and thereafter they established their home in Trumbull County, where Mr. Edwards be- came a substantial farmer and influential citizen of Brookfield Township, where the mother died in 1898, aged forty-seven years, and the father died in 1902, aged sixty-three years.
The activities and influences of the home farm compassed the child- hood and early youth of William A. Edwards, and his early education was gained in the public schools at Brookfield, including the high school. He made thereafter a record of several years of successful teaching in the district schools, and while still on the home farm he gained much technical skill as a carpenter. In 1901 he engaged in the work of the carpenter trade at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and he continued his activities along this line until he established his residence at Lakewood, Ohio, in 1910, and engaged independently in contracting and building, as senior member of the firm of W. A. Edwards & Co., which has played a large and prominent part in the material development of this district. At Lakewood the firm has erected many private houses, factory and business buildings, and it is the leading contracting concern in its line in the Lakewood district, with a substantial and representative business.
Mr. Edwards was one of the organizers and the first vice president of the Detroit Avenue Savings & Loan Bank, continuing that office as one of the organizers and is the president of the Service Mortgage Company of Lakewood and is president of the Guaranteed Discount Company, in the organization of which he took a prominent part, as did he also in the organizing of the Newbridge Realty Company, of which likewise he is the president. Mr. Edwards is a past master of Clifton Lodge, No. 664, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is affiliated also with the local chapter of York Rite Masonry, as well as Holy Grail Commandery of Knights Templar, and of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, while in Lake Erie Consistory of the Scottish Rite he has received the thirty- second degree. He is a valued and progressive member of the Kiwanis Club of Lakewood, as well as of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, and he holds membership also in the Lakewood Hunt Club.
June 19, 1910, recorded the marriage of Mr. Edwards to Miss Claire Bidaman, who was born at Sharon, Pennsylvania, a daughter of William H. and Clara (Hull) Bidaman. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have one daughter, Laura Margaret, who was graduated in the Lakewood High School, and thereafter was for two years a student in the conservatory of music at Oberlin College, and who is now a student in Mount Holyoke College, South Haddon, Massachusetts.
J. M. EMRICH. The buying, selling and renting of real estate is now one of the most important branches of the business life of any community, and has been developed by the sagacious men engaged in this line to a profession. Their services are of great value to a community, and through their medium the public is supplied with homes and places of business, new buildings are erected, additional subdivisions are opened up, property is carefully man- aged, and the interests of owners and tenants are safeguarded. Some of the keenest minds of the country are finding in this business or profession congenial employment, for the solving of the various and intricate problems
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call forth the best in a man, and one of these progressive realtors who achieved a well-merited success was J. M. Emrich of Cleveland.
J. M. Emrich was born in the City of Cleveland, December 14, 1865, where his mother was also born, being the first Jewish girl to be born in this city. Her father, Carl Roskoph, founded the Jewish Church in Cleve- land, and donated the land on the West Side for a Jewish cemetery. Mr. Emrich's father was born in Germany, and came to the United States some time in the early '30s, and, reaching Cleveland, gained a start in life by following the humble but honest occupation of a peddler. As soon as he had amassed a little capital he went to Bucyrus, Ohio, and embarked in the clothing business. Selling it after a short time, he returned to Cleveland and engaged in the wholesale butchering business, and later in the horse business, which he continued until his death. He was well and honorably known in his community, and recognized as an upright, reputable citizen, whose word was as good as another's bond. Of the fifteen children born to him and his wife, seven survive, and J. M. Emrich was the fourth child in order of birth.
Attending the Brownell School of Cleveland, J. M. Emrich there obtained the fundamentals of an education, and supplemented that knowl- edge by contact with men and affairs in his business experience. At the age of eighteen years he left home, went to Chicago, Illinois, and for a short time worked at butchering in that city, but then returned to Cleveland, where he was engaged in the same line of business for five years. Later on he was engaged in buying and seiling cattle and horses, and then in the livery and horse business, which he pursued until 1917, when he closed out his interests to go into the real-estate business, and prosecuted it very successfully until his death. His specialty was buying and selling city business and residential properties and farms.
In politics Mr. Emrich was a republican. He belonged to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, to several Jewish fraternities, to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and to the Cleveland Automobile Club. A splendid business man, Mr. Emrich made good on whatever he undertook. Like his father, he was honorable in his dealings, and took great pride in living up to his word.
On April 28, 1889, Mr. Emrich married Emma Glauber, who was also born and reared in Cleveland. On January 20, 1924, Mr. Emrich died, and the whole community mourns his loss. He is survived by his widow, three sons, Emanuel M., Oliver S. and Raymond F. Emrich ; a daughter, Mrs. Serena Mendelson; and three grandchildren, Stuart, Dorothy and Edith Mendelson.
EDWIN EVAN MILLER, well known member of the Cleveland bar, is a native of Pennsylvania and is descended from two pioneer families of Berks County, that state. This branch of the Miller family has been in Berks County for five generations, four of them born in Upper Tulpehocken Township, that county : Edwin E. ; his father, Franklin S. ; his grandfather, Philip ; and his great-grandfather, Philip. On the maternal side Mr. Miller is descended from Michael Unger, who settled in Berks County about 1795. Franklin S. Miller was born April 4, 1857, and his wife, Selesa B. Unger, was born December 19, 1859.
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Edwin E. Miller was reared in a log cabin near Shartlesville in Berks County until the family moved into the suburbs of Reading. He was graduated from the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, Bachelor of Engineering, in 1897, and received his Master's degree, Mechanical Engineer, from that institution in 1899. He was graduated from Oberlin College, Bachelor of Arts, in 1906, and received his Bachelor of Laws degree from Franklin T. Backus Law School of Western Reserve Uni- versity, Cleveland, 1909. In that year he was admitted to the bar of Ohio and entered the practice of law in this city.
In his youth Mr. Miller was early a wage earner, beginning as a news- boy in Reading at the age of nine and for thirteen succeeding years he was employed in other and various ways earning money with which he paid his way through college and law school. At Oberlin College he was a member of the debating team for two years, and at the bar examination before the Supreme Court he stood first among the applicants for admission.
From August, 1909, until May, 1918, Mr. Miller served as a deputy clerk in the Probate Court of Cuyahoga County. For three years he was instructor of personal property, wills, domestic relation and partnerships in what was then the Rufus P. Ranney Law School of this city. Since 1918 he has been an instructor in wills and evidence in the John Marshall Law School of Cleveland. He has been actively and successfully engaged in the general practice of law in association with the firm of Treadway & Marlatt.
Mr. Miller is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, is an honorary member of Delta Theta Phi law fraternity, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and is a member of the following Masonic bodies : Woodward Lodge No. 508, Free and Accepted Masons, Cleveland Chapter No. 148, Royal Arch Mason ; Coeur deLion Commandery No. 64, Knights Templar ; and Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite. He is a member of the First English Luth- eran Church and was active in its choir for ten years.
On July 6, 1907, Mr. Miller was united in marriage with Miss Addie May Beck, of Reading, Pennsylvania, and to them have been born the following children : Norman B., born October 7, 1911; Franklin P., born June 24, 1915 ; Melvin E., born February 5, 1918; Charles E., born March 3, 1920.
WILLIAM EARL MACEWEN. The National Refining Company, one of the most complete organizations in the United States, in the production, refining and distribution of petroleum products, is an Ohio corporation, though its service and facilities are nation wide, with general offices located in Cleveland, Ohio.
This company was organized in 1882 by Mr. J. I. Lamprecht, and started with less than $10,000 capital. Mr. Lamprecht was the first and only president of the company until his death on October 4, 1920. He was succeeded as president by Frank B. Fretter, who had been an active associate of Mr. Lamprecht in the business for over forty years. All the officers, managers and other executives are employes who have worked their way up from minor positions. Most of the present board of directors have been with the company the greater part of its existence. The directors are: Frank B. Fretter, W. H. Lamprecht II, Ed S. Page, W. E. MacEwen, Frank H. Ginn, D. Z. Norton, C. E. Kennedy, C. C.
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Bolton, Frank Billings, George P. Comey, E. L. Mason, J. H. Wade and H. F. Heil.
Today, at the end of forty years of successful operation, the com- pany utilizes a capital of $35,000,000. It has refineries located at Findlay and Marietta, Ohio, and Coffeyville, Kansas, and distributing branches in 110 cities, covering a territory all the way from New York State to the Colorado line and from the Canadian line to the Gulf. It is a complete cycle in the petroleum industry, owning its own production, . its own pipe lines, its refineries, its tank cars and its marketing organi- zations.
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