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On the 21st of June, 1916, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Allen and Miss Carroll Macdonald, daughter of Hugh and Hanna (Hilker) Macdonald, of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and they have a daughter, Miriam, born July 13, 1920, and a son, John Macdonald, born December 28, 1923.
FRANK BURDETT GARRETT is numbered among the representative citi- zens and lawyers of the Collinwood district of the City of Cleveland, where he has been established in the successful practice of law for more than thirty years.
Frank B. Garrett was born at Brunswick, Medina County, Ohio, April 14, 1856, and is a son of Jesse R. and Cordelia (Miller) Garrett, both natives of the State of New York, where the former was born at Pompey Hill, near the City of Syracuse, Onondago County, a son of John and Mary Garrett. Cordelia (Miller) Garrett was born in Monroe County, New York, a daughter of Hiram B. Miller. She was three years old when the family came from the old Empire State to Ohio, her father having purchased land in Hinckley Township, Medina County, where as a pioneer he reclaimed and developed a productive farm. The original
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domicile of the Miller family was a log house of the primitive pioneer type, and a number of years passed ere this gave place to a more preten- tious dwelling. In the period leading up to and culminating in the Civil war Hiram B. Miller was an ardent anti-slavery man, and he was specially active in furthering the operations of the historic "underground railroad," through the medium of which many slaves were assisted to freedom when they iled from the South and made their way into Canada. Mrs. Cordelia (Miller) Garrett was one of the venerable pioneer women of Medina at the time of her death, she having passed away at the age of over ninety-one years. Jesse R. Garrett was a young man when he came to Ohio and established his residence at Brunswick, Medina County, where he passed the remainder of his long and useful life and where he gave twenty-four years of service in the office of justice of the peace. He was long numbered among the representative citizens of Medina County, and was a man whose life was guided and governed by the highest principles, expressed in loyal personal stewardship.
The influences and discipline of the old home farm compassed the child- hood and early youth of Frank B. Garrett, and his ambition was far from satisfied with the mere training of the district schools, with the result that he profited by the advantages of a normal school at Medina. Though he obtained a teacher's certificate, he did not enter into active pedagogic service, but remained on the farm until he had attained to the age of twenty-three years, when, in consonance with well formulated plans born of his still un- fulfilled ambition, he began reading law under the preceptorship of a leading lawyer in the City of Medina. He applied himself with character- istic diligence, made rapid progress in the assimilation of the involved science of jurisprudence, and in November, 1881, he gained admission to the Ohio bar upon examination before the Supreme Court of the state. Thereafter he continued to be engaged in the practice of his profession at Medina until 1889, when he found a broader field by coming to Cleve- land. Here he established his residence in the Village of Collinwood, which is now part of the City of Cleveland, where he maintained his law office for some time. He later established an office in the City of Cleve- land. In 1901, when the shops of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad were established at Collinwood, Mr. Garrett removed his office to Collinwood to do constructive service in connection with opening allot- ments and the real estate business in the Collinwood district. In 1906 he gave up the real estate business, and since then he has given all of his time to the office practice of law. He now controls a substantial and important law business of general order, and maintains his offices in the Gunn Build- ing, 788 East One Hundred and Fifty-second Street.
Mr. Garrett became influential in civic affairs in the Village of Collin- wood long before its annexation by the City of Cleveland. He served as clerk of the village Board of Health and was a member and clerk of the village Board of Education, and was otherwise prominent in the public affairs of the village. He is a republican, and has served as a member of the Republican County Committee of Cuyahoga County. He is an active member of the Cleveland Bar Association, and he and his wife are members of the Church of Christ in their home district of Collinwood, he being an elder in this church. Mr. Garrett married Miss Ida M. Moore, who was
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born at Peekskill, New York, a daughter of Thomas and Maria (McGillivra) Moore, representatives of old and honored families of the Empire State.
GEORGE FREDERICK GREVE is one of the representative younger mem- bers of the Cleveland bar and a prominent citizen of the Collinwood district, where he was born on June 10, 1891, the son of Frederick A. and Victoria (Cabot) Greve.
Frederick A. Greve was born in Cleveland, in the year 1866, and here his death occurred in 1910. His father, Adam Frederick Greve, was born and reared in Alsace-Lorraine, France, and was a young man when he came to the United States and established his residence in Illinois. There he enlisted for service in the war with Mexico, and when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation he again gave evidence of his splendid loyalty to the land of his adoption, for he enlisted in defense of the Union. He became a member of an Illinois regiment of volunteer infantry, and Hon. Richard Yates, the war governor of Illinois, conferred upon him a captain's commission. He took part in many engagements marking the progress of the great conflict between the states of the North and the South, and made an admirable record as an officer. Shortly after the close of the Civil war he came from Illinois to Cuyahoga County, established his home in the Village of Collinwood, and for forty years thereafter continued in the employ of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, now a part of the New York Central Lines. His widow, Sophia, still resides in Cleveland, in her seventy-eighth year. She was born in Germany, was a young woman when she came to the United States, and her marriage was solemnized in Illinois. Frederick A. Greve also was for many years in the service of the New York Central Railroad. His widow continues her residence in Cleveland.
George F. Greve was graduated from the Collinwood High School as a member of the class of 1911, and he completed the course in the Cleve- land Law School, in which he was graduated in 1916 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio bar on the 2nd of January, 1917, and entered the practice of his profession by establishing the offices, which he has since continued to occupy, at 793 East One Hundred and Fifty-second Street.
Mr. Greve is a member of the democratic party, and on its ticket he was elected in 1918 to the Ohio General Assembly. He served during the Eighty-third General Session as a member of the committees on codes, courts and procedure, corporations and civil service.
In the World war period Mr. Greve served as a member of the advisory war committee for the mayor of Cleveland, and was one of the four-minute speakers in behalf of the various patriotic movements, including the cam- paigns in support of the war loans, Red Cross work, etc.
August 26, 1919, recorded the marriage of Mr. Greve and Miss Adelaide D. Small, who was born and reared in Cleveland, and who is a daughter of Peter and Sophia (Durr) Small. Mr. and Mrs. Greve have one son, George Frederick, Jr.
REXFORD DUDLEY WAY, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, has achieved successful prominence in that profession and for a number of years has
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been identified with the leading veterinary hospital in Cleveland. He was born at Northfield, Summit County, Ohio, June 13, 1888. His grand- father, Charles W. Way, was a native of Somersetshire, England, where, on July 6, 1837, he married Harriet Tribbs. They became the parents of ten children. In 1858 the family came to the United States and first located at Canton, Ohio. The following year the family removed to Northfield, Summit County, Ohio, where Charles W. purchased and operated for a number of years the old Brandywine flour and feed mills and where he died January 14, 1894. His wife died in Akron, Ohio. He was proficient in many vocations, including the trades of miller, baker, brewer, weaver and dyer.
John Way, son of Charles W. and father of Doctor Way, was born at Willabbington, near Bristol, Somersetshire, England, August 24, 1850, and was seven years of age when the family came to the United States. He learned milling under his father, and subsequently he and a brother took over the old Brandywine mills and operated them for a number of years. Later they bought a large farm and engaged in farming at North- field. Successful in business, John Way was also deeply interested in matters of general concern in the Northfield community. He filled a number of township offices, and gave his earnest support to all movements for the general advancement of the locality. He served as township trustee and was a member of the Board of Education. He was one of the three men who secured the additions and improvement to Northfield Cemetery. He was instrumental in establishing the Northfield High School and also in securing the construction of the line of the Akron, Bedford & Cleveland Interurban Railway through Northfield. He died at his home in North- field, February 21, 1901. His wife was Lida Barnhart, born at Boston, Ohio, daughter of Henry Barnhart, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. Mrs. John Way is still living. She was the mother of four children : Charles W., who died in 1905 ; Jessie W., wife of John Snyder, a resident of Liberty, Indiana; Raymond B., of the Brooklyn Ice Company at Cleve- land ; and Rexford D.
Rexford D. Way grew up at Northfield, was educated in the district schools and graduated from the Northfield High School in 1905. He then entered Ohio State University, attending the Veterinary College, and was graduated with the degree Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 1908. From August 10, 1908, to May 5, 1911, Doctor Way was in the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, in the Department of Agriculture. At the latter date he resigned to engage in private practice at Cleveland, associated with Dr. Arthur S. Cooley, one of the most prominent veterinarians in the country. Doctor Cooley retired from practice a year or so ago, and since then Doctor Way has alone carried on the extensive business of the firm. Together they established a veterinary hospital, one of the best equipped institutions of its kind in Northern Ohio. It has probably a larger clientele among the wealthy families than any other similar institu- tion. It occupies a large and commodious building on a lot 80 by 125 feet, and has accommodations for a large number of domestic animals at one time.
Doctor Way is a member of the Ohio State Veterinary Association, the American Veterinary Association, the Ohio State Alumni Association, the Knights of Malta and the Big Ten Club.
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He married, in 1909, Miss Nellie Barnes, a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and daughter of C. E. and Florence Barnes. Mrs. Way's mother died in December, 1921. Her father is a resident of Columbus, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Way have two children : Ruth Lida, born August 21, 1910, and Robert D., born November 29, 1913.
ZENAS KING. The true measure of life is not in years, but in achieve- ment, but both in years and in large and worthy accomplishment as one of world's constructive workers the late Zenas King was enabled to make his service one of large and cumulative importance. His talent in mechanical invention was supplemented by a splendid initiative and executive ability, and the concrete results were represented by the upbuilding of a great industrial enterprise at Cleveland and the winning of precedence as one of the leading bridge-builders of the world, the King structural-iron products for the building of bridges standing forth as worthy of pioneer honors in this field as well as representing one of the foremost industries of the kind in the United States. At the time of his death, October 28, 1892, Mr. King was president of the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company, and he served consecutively as president of the Lake Shore Bank of Cleveland from the time of its organization until his death, he having been the founder of this institution. Mr. King was one of the pioneers also in the building of iron bridges, and his achievement in the industrial world is one that can not fail to be of cumulative value. He identified himself also with other industrial and business enterprise of importance, and was an out- standing figure in both the business and civic affairs of the Ohio metropolis for many years, the while his fine attributes of character marked him as the recipient of unqualified popular confidence and respect.
A scion of a family that was founded in New England in the Colonial period of our national history, Zenas King reverted to the Green Mountain State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Kingston, Vermont, on the 1st of May, 1818, so that he was seventy-four years of age at the time of his death, in 1892. He was a lad of five years when his parents moved to St. Lawrence County, New York, in the year 1823, and there he was reared to the sturdy discipline of the home farm, the while his mental ken was widened by the earnest application he gave to study in the common schools of the locality and period. He early gave evidence of mechanical ability, and while his nature was not one of undue self-assertive- ness, he had the well balanced powers that make for assimilation and absorption and for a placing of true valuation upon men and material agencies. Thus his ambition was quickened to gain a wider sphere of action than that represented in the basic farm industry. At the age of twenty-one years Mr. King came to Ohio and established his residence in the growing village of Milan, Erie County, and was a merchant and real estate dealer. There he also became a successful contractor and builder, and with this line of enterprise he continued his alliance until 1860. In 1848 he formed a partnership with C. H. Buck and engaged in the general merchandise business at Milan. Eight years later his impaired health led him to retire from the firm, and later he gave two years of effective service as a traveling representative of the Cincinnati firm of Scott & Hedges, leading dealers in agricultural implements. He then became associated with the Mosley
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Bridge Company of Cleveland, and thus initiated his alliance with the line of industry along which he was destined to achieve maximum success and precedence. With characteristic concentration and enthusiasm Mr. King in this connection devoted much of time and thought to the improving of bridge construction, with special interest in devising a means of improving the common type of iron bridges. His research and experimentation were most thorough, and after many experiments and tests, changes and substi- tutions, he perfected plans for an iron bridge. He obtained patents on his invention in the year 1860, and to place his new type of bridge in practical service he organized his firm and erected and equipped what was for that time a large manufacturing plant, the same having been established at the corner of St. Clair and Wason Streets in the City of Cleveland. Here was instituted the manufacture of materials for iron bridges, besides which the enterprise was amplified to include the manufacture of steam boilers. In 1863 the partnership was dissolved, his partner assuming control of the boiler-making department of the business, while Mr. King took over the bridge-building industry, in which he concentrated his activities. In the introduction of the new type of bridge he had, as a matter of course, to encounter popular prejudice and skepticism and to overcome many other formidable obstacles. He knew the value of the product and system which he had to offer, and with characteristic determination and courage he per- sisted in his promotive efforts until he gained for his iron bridges a tech- nical and popular approval that had reflex in the splendid development of his business. The King bridge measured up to every test, and by the year 1886 Mr. King had erected iron bridges of an aggregate of more than 150 miles if placed end to end. In 1871, as a matter of commercial expediency and to meet the requirements of the constantly expanding business, Mr. King effected the organization of the King Iron Bridge & Manufactur- ing Company, and in which he enlisted the cooperation of a number of lead- ing Cleveland capitalists and others of prominence in industrial affairs. Under this regime the business of the company was extended to vast volume, and the King bridges came into requisition throughout all sections of the Union. In structural iron and steel work Mr. King was a leader and did much to advance standards of service in these important lines. Among the important structures erected by the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company may be mentioned the Central, Walworth Run and Kingsbury viaduct in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, the South Omaha bridge in Nebraska, the New Viaduct at Cleveland and several bridges across the Mississippi River. The following consistent statement is worthy of preser- vation in this review: "In the administration of the large and important interests of his company Mr. King displayed the attributes and powers of the man of large affairs, the true captain of industry, and thus brought contradistinction to the popular estimate that usually ascribes to the man of inventive genius a lack of initiative and executive ability. Throughout his active career Mr. King continued the guiding spirit in the wide operations of the great industrial corporation of which he had been the founder, besides which he acquired other industrial and commercial interests of important order." It may be noted further that Mr. King held for some time the office of president of the old St. Clair & Collamar Railroad. He was ever the man of thought and action, and his name and fame have become a part
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of the history of Cleveland and the nation, as touching industrial and civic enterprise and progress.
Mr. King was essentially a loyal, liberal and public-spirited citizen, but had no ambition for the honors of political or other public office. He contributed earnestly to the support of charitable and philanthropic agencies in his home city, was a republican in political adherency, and he and his wife were devoted communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Mr. King gave many years of loyal and effective service as a member of the vestry of the Cleveland parish of St. Paul's Church, and was eventually honored with the office of senior warden of this church, his career, in all of its relations, having exemplified the surety of his Christian faith and the consistency of his service as a true churchman.
Mr. King, as previously stated, continued to serve as president of the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company until his death. In this office he was succeeded by his son James, and upon the illness of the latter the presidency was assumed by the one surviving son, Harry W., who is still the chief executive of this old and important industrial corporation.
In the year 1842 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. King and Miss Maranda C. Wheelock, of Ogdensburg, New York, and she passed to the life eternal March 1, 1891. The ancestry of the Wheelock family in England traces back to 1285, and the family in America was here founded in the early Colonial era. Among the distinguished representa- tives of this family was the founder of historic old Dartmouth College. Of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. King only two are now living : Mary, who is the widow of Dr. Homer W. Osborn, an honored citizen to whom a tribute is given in an individual memoir in the following sketch, and Harry W., who is president of the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company. Harry W. King married Miss Marjorie Gundry, of Mineral Point, Wisconsin, she being a sister of John M. Gundry, an executive of the Cleveland Trust Company.
HOMER W. OSBORN, M. D. In the great arena in which are staged all activities, the one outstanding element of individual greatness is that of service. He who serves wisely and well has distinct patent to the title of royalty, and those in the least familiar with the life and labors of the late Dr. Homer W. Osborn, of Cleveland, can not fail to appreciate how fully. he lived up to this high standard of human service. His professional stewardship was one of signal fidelity, and his deep and abiding human sympathy transcended mere emotion to become an actuating force for helpfulness. He loved his work and knew that it was good and true. To have this realization denoted his consecration to service, and in his pro- fessional ministrations, in his unvarying kindliness and sympathy, in his loyalty as a citizen, in his fine appreciation of the true values in sentiment and action, he had little thought for self, but much thought for others and their happiness. Such was the man who achieved greatly in his chosen calling, and such the man whose memory is revered by all who came within the province of his influence.
Doctor Osborn was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, February 27, 1843, and was seventy-six years of age when he was called from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, his death having occurred at his home in the City of
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Cleveland November 20, 1919. The Doctor was a scion of one of the old and honored families of the Buckeye State, and gained his earlier edu- cation in the schools of his native place. He was a lad of fourteen years when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Darlington, Wis- consin, where he continued his studies in the common schools. Later he was for a time a student in a private school at Kingsville, Ohio. He was an ambitious youth of seventeen years at the inception of the Civil war, and was formulating definite plans for his future career. At this stage in his career, however, he promptly subordinated all personal interests to the call of patriotism and enlisted as a private in the Third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, which became a part of the famous "Iron Brigade," the record of which constitutes a splendid chapter in the history of the great conflict between the states of the North and the South. That Doctor Osborn con- tinued in active service with this command until the close of the war, save for the interval during which he was incapacitated by wounds, offers the most effective voucher for the valor and fidelity of his service in defense of the nation's integrity. In the battle of Antietam he was severely wounded, but as soon as he had sufficiently recuperated as to permit this action he rejoined his regiment, with which he took part in the great battle of Gettysburg, where the Third Wisconsin Regiment of Infantry bore the main part in breaking the historic charge of the Confederate forces under General Pickett. Later Doctor Osborn was with his regiment in Sherman's great Atlanta campaign, and at the battle of Resaca he was again badly wounded. He fell between the battle lines of the contending forces, but managed to drag his weary and painful way to the cabin of a friendly negro, who there sheltered him until he was found by his comrades and given proper attention. He received his honorable discharge after victory had crowned the arms of the Union, and in later years he signalized his continued interest in his old comrades by membership in the Army of the Republic.
After the close of the war Doctor Osborn returned to Darlington, Wis- consin, and soon afterward he became a member of an engineering corps which engaged in surveying work in Kansas and Nebraska. After com- pleting his service in this connection he again returned to Darlington, where he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of a local physician. In 1869 he came to Cleveland, Ohio, and entered the Cleve- land Homeopathic Medical College, and while pursuing his studies in this institution he availed himself also of the preceptorship here kindly offered in the office of Dr. D. H. Beckwith, who was at that time one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the city. In due course he received from the Homeopathic College his degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in establishing himself in practice at Cleveland he opened an office on Erie Street, or the present East Ninth Street, where he became associated in practice with Dr. William Saunders. After his marriage, in 1872, he maintained his office in his home, at the corner of Huron Road and Pros- pect Street. On this site was eventually erected the modern structure which bears his name and is known as the Osborn Building. It was in this building that the Doctor had his well equipped offices at the time of his death. He gained a large and representative practice that fully attested his professional ability and personal popularity, and gained specially high
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