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In 1875 Mr. Brush wedded Miss Mary E. Morris, of Cleveland.
REV. CHARLES FRANKLIN THWING, distinguished clergyman, educator and author, has been president of Western Reserve University and Adelbert College, Cleveland, since 1890. He was born at New Sharon, Maine, Nov. 9, 1853. In 1876 he was graduated in Harvard University, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1879 he was graduated in Andover Theo- logical Seminary. In 1889 the Chicago Theological Seminary gave him the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred upon him by several educational institutions, including Washington & Jefferson College and Kenyon College.
In 1879 Doctor Thwing was ordained a clergyman of the Congregational Church, and thereafter he served until 1886 as pastor of the North Avenue Congregational Church at Cambridge, Massachusetts, his next pastoral charge, 1886-90, having been Plymouth Church at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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From this pastorate he came, in 1890, to his present important office, that of president of Western Reserve University and Adelbert College, his adminis- tration having been one of distinctive success along both scholastic and executive lines. Doctor Thwing is associate editor of Bibliotheca Sacra, is secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ; and has given able service as president of the Intercollegiate Peace Associa- tion. The doctor is the author of many valuable works, the titles of a few of which are here noted : "American Colleges-Their Students and Work," "The Reading of Books," "The Family" (in collaboration with Mrs. Thwing), "The Working Church," "Within College Walls," "The College Woman," "The American College in American Life," "The Best Life," "College Administration," "The Youth's Dream of Life," "God in His World," "A Liberal Education and a Liberal Faith," "College Training and the Business Man," "A History of Higher Education in America," "Education in the Far East," "History of Education in the United States Since the Civil War," "Universities of the World," "The Coordinate Sys- tem in Higher Education," "The American College," "Education According to Some Modern Masters."
In 1879 Doctor Thwing wedded Miss Carrie F. Butler, whose death occurred in 1898. In 1906 was solemnized his marriage to Mary Gardiner Dunning.
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CHARLES SUMNER HOWE, who is giving a most able administration as president of the Case School of Applied Science, in Cleveland, was born at Nashua, New Hampshire, September 29, 1858, a son of William R. and Susan D. (Woods) Howe. He received in 1878 the degree of Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and has the same degree also from Boston University. He took a post-graduate course in mathematics and physics, at Johns Hopkins University ; he received from Wooster University, in 1887, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ; in 1905 Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor' of Science, and from both Mount Union and Oberlin colleges, Ohio, he has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He was president of Albuquerque (New Mexico) Academy in the period of 1879- 81 ; was professor of mathematics and astronomy in Buchtel College (now Akron University), Akron, Ohio, 1883-89, and he then became professor of mathematics and astronomy in the Case School of Applied Science, of which he became acting president in 1902, and of which he has been the president since 1903. President Howe is a fellow of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Astronomical Society, and has membership in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Ameri- can Mathematical Society, and the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America. He has made many and valuable contributions to the standard and perodical literature of science, notably to the Astronomical Journal and the Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies. May 22, 1882, he wedded Miss Abbie A. Waite, of North Amherst, Massachusetts.
CHARLES C. DEWSTOE, who has given able administration as post- master of Cleveland, was born at West Bloomfield, New York, May 10, 1841, and as a young man he removed to Michigan. At the outbreak of
Clark N. Thorpe.
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the Civil war, he enlisted in Company F, Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he participated in many engagements, including the first battle of Bull Run. He was later made sergeant in the signal service, and in this connection he was with the Army of the Potomac in numerous battles and minor engagements. After the close of the war he was retained in service in the quartermasters' department one year, at Little Rock, Arkansas.
In May, 1866, Mr. Dewstoe engaged in the plumbing business in Cleveland, and eventually this enterprise developed into the substantial business now conducted under the title of the Dewstoe & Brainard Com- pany. Mr. Dewstoe has served as a member of the Cleveland Board of Health, was for two years sheriff of Cuyahoga County, and in 1899 he initiated his long and able service as postmaster of Cleveland. He is a republican, is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he is a past commander of two local posts, and he has been known and honored as a sterling citizen of marked civic liberality and progressiveness.
COL. CLARK N. THORP, a resident of Cleveland over forty years, a veteran of the Civil war and a veteran in the railroad service, was born in Canandaigua, New York, September 6, 1841. His grandfather, John Thorp, probably a native of England, came to America and settled in Philadelphia, where he acquired considerable real estate.
Peter Thorp, father of Colonel Thorp, was born in New York state on January 27, 1797. He learned the trade of wagon maker, and in 1842 came to Ohio, traveling by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, by boat to Toledo and by wagon team to Sylvania, a village near Toledo. At that time, eighty years ago, Ohio was a state of considerable prosperity, both agri- culturally and in other lines of business, but depended altogether upon the transportation facilities of its pike roads and waterways. A great part of the northwestern counties were covered with the original forests, and occasionally a tribe of Indians camped near Sylvania. Colonel Thorp as a boy once witnessed an Indian funeral, when the brave was buried with his favorite weapons. Peter Thorp followed his trade as a wagon maker at Sylvania for many years, or until he lost an arm in an accident, and then was engaged in merchandising until his death in 1856. He married Phoebe Young, who was born in Canandaigua, New York, on October 10, 1803, the daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Brott) Young, the father born August 20, 1780, and the mother born June 7, 1783, and died December 28, 1868.
Clark N. Thorp was a year old when his parents came to Ohio. He grew up at Sylvania, and was educated at the Village Academy. At the age of sixteen years he began an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade at Rockford, Illinois, but about a year later, returned home and finished his apprenticeship at Toledo. In 1859 he joined a crew engaged in building bridges for the extension of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railway east of Terre Haute, Indiana, and in March, 1861, while thus engaged, he was one of the audience before which President Lincoln made a speech from the balcony of the old Bates House in Indianapolis, while on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. During the early months of the Civil war he was at work as a bridge builder with the
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Peru and Indianapolis Railway, but in November, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, Nineteenth United States Infantry, and went to the front with his regiment. During the next two years he saw active service with the Army of the Cumberland, including such important battles as Pitts- burg Landing, Stone River, Chickamauga and others. On September 20, 1863, at the battle of Chickamauga, he was captured by the enemy and taken to Richmond, Virginia, thence to Danville, Virginia, and after a few months was transferred to Andersonville, Georgia, where he re- mained nearly a year, having been one of the last prisoners to leave that stockade prison camp. While he was confined in that notorious prison thousands of his fellow prisoners died of starvation and exposure, and only his very strong constitution carried him through that experience. On being released he was sent to Jacksonville, Florida, thence by boat to Annapolis, Maryland, and then to Fort Wayne at Detroit, where he was mustered out and received his honorable discharge.
On his return from the war Colonel Thorp went to work in the shops of the Cleveland & Toledo Railway (now the New York Central System) at Norwalk, Ohio. In 1870 he took charge of the wood machine shop of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway (now the Erie System) at Kent, Ohio. In 1881 he removed to Cleveland and for the next seven years had charge of the car department in the Mahoning Division of what is now the Erie Railway going next to the Big Four and having charge of the Merwin Street Shops, Cleveland, continuing in charge of the shops for three years. In 1892 he went to work at the No. 1 Works of the Standard Oil Company in Cleveland, which works were later engaged in wagon building and repairs, and still later in automobile building and repairs, where he remained until he retired from active work in 1914.
Colonel Thorp is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in 1913 served as commander of Army and Navy Post of that order in Cleveland. A souvenir of that experience is a handsome gold Past Commander's jewel. He was made a Mason by the Mount Vernon Lodge of Norwalk, Ohio, soon after he returned from the war, and later was knighted by De Molay Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar, at Tiffin, Ohio. He is a charter member of Norwalk Commandery No. 18, Knights Templar, and a charter member of Holy Grail Commandery No. 70 of Lakewood, Ohio, having demitted from Oriental Commandery No. 12, Knights Templar, Cleveland, to help institute the Holy Grail. He is deeply interested in Masonry and very active in Gaston G. Allen Lodge No. 629, Lakewood, from which he received a gold Chaplain's Medal in 1923. For thirty years he was a member of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, Cleveland, and now is a member of the Lakewood Congregational Church. He is a member of Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, and is a staunch republican in politics.
On December 10, 1868, Colonel Thorp married Anna McKelvey, who was born in Huron County, Ohio, October 8, 1843, daughter of Robert and Mary (Prosser) McKelvey. Colonel and Mrs. Thorp celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on December 10, 1918, and just a year later she passed away in death, on December 13, 1919. There were three children: Walter Eugene, Leon Ernest and Bessie
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Pearl. Walter E. married Mary Quayle, who was born in Cleveland and who died at the age of twenty-one, leaving a daughter, Bessie May, who was reared by Colonel and Mrs. Thorp, and who, since the death of Mrs. Thorp, has had charge of her grandfather's home. She married Herbert W. Randt, and they have a son, Clark Thorp Randt. Walter E. Thorp married for his second wife, Clara Renftle. Leon E. Thorp married Jennie Cayward, of St. Paul, Minnesota. Bessie Pearl married Clarence L. Bloxham, and they have two sons, William Robert and Raymond Thorp Bloxham.
ALEXANDER HADDEN has been an honored member of the Cleveland bar since 1875, has given a specially effective administration as judge of the Probate Court of Cuyahoga County, an office of which he became the incumbent in 1905, and since 1894 he has been professor of criminal law in the law school of Western Reserve University, with a record of able service in the educational work of his chosen profession.
Judge Hadden was born in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), July 2, 1850, and is a son of Alexander and Mary Eliza (Welch) Hadden. He attended Shaw Academy in East Cleveland, and in 1873 he was graduated in Oberlin College, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then instituted preparation for his chosen profession, was in due course admitted to the Ohio bar, and in 1875 he established himself in the general practice of law in Cleveland. In 1881-82 he was associated in practice with Harvey D. Goulder ; he was assistant prosecuting attorney of Cuya- hoga County in the period of 1882-85, and thereafter he continued in the successful practice of his profession until his election to the office of judge of the Probate Court of the county, as previously noted in this review. He has been aligned with the republican and progressive parties, he and his wife hold membership in the Unitarian Church, he is affiliated with the Phi Beta Kappa college fraternity, and is a member of the University Club of Cleveland. The marriage of Judge Hadden to Miss Frances Hawthorne, of Coshocton, Ohio was solemnized July 17, 1883.
JOHN G. W. COWLES, a man of noble character and large achievement, has written in indelible characters his impress upon Cleveland and his native state of Ohio, his birth having occurred at Oberlin, this state, March 14, 1836, and he being a son of Rev. Henry and Alice (Welch) Cowles. Mr. Cowles was graduated in Oberlin College in 1856. In 1859 he was graduated in the theological school and was ordained a clergyman of the Congregational Church. He was engaged in pastoral service when the Civil war began, and in 1861 he was chosen chaplain of the Fifty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he saw service in Virginia and West Virginia. He resigned the chaplaincy in the fall of 1862, and thereafter he held pastorates in turn at Mansfield, Ohio, and East Saginaw, Michigan. A physical difficulty finally made it impossible for him to continue his work as a public speaker, and he then became associate editor of the Cleveland Leader, with which he was connected until 1873. He then concentrated his energies in the real estate business, of which he became one of the leading exponents in Cleveland, and in his varied operations he did much to further the upbuilding and also the civic advancement of the city. He
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has had entire charge of the Cleveland real estate interests of John D. Rockefeller, as well as those of Charles F. Brush. He was one of the organizers of the Cleveland Trust Company, in 1894, and became its first president, an office which he retained until its consolidation with the Western Reserve Trust Company, when he became chairman of the board. Mr. Cowles gave also an effective administration while serving as presi- dent of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, a position to which he was elected in 1896. He has had much of leadership in movements and enter- prises advanced for the civic and material well-being of the community. He was president of the Board of Park Commissioners in 1900, and he- has delivered many addresses on public occasions of note. He has been since 1874 a trustee of Oberlin College, which, in 1898, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He is a member of the Ohio Com- mandery of the Loyal Legion and of the Army and Navy Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a republican, and he has given many years of service as a deacon of Plymouth Congregational Church. His has been an earnest and loyal support of charitable and benevolent objects and interests, and his has ever been a secure place in popular confidence and esteem.
In 1859 Mr. Cowles wedded Miss Lois M. Church, and her death occurred in 1903, she having been survived by two daughters. Mr. Cowles later married Miss Beatrice Walker, and a daughter was born of this union.
JOHN G. WHITE was born and reared in Cleveland and has been for more than half a century numbered among the representative members of the bar of his native city, he having here initiated the practice of law in May, 1868. Aside from his professional attainments, Mr. White has so extended his intellectual ken as to have gained designation as "a living cyclopedia." He is also an enthusiast in chess and checkers, the scientific principles of which make special appeal to him, is a keen sportsman, and has been a deep student of oriental literature, of which he has presented several thousand volumes to the Cleveland Library. He is a charter mem- ber of the Union Club, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. Mr. White has appeared in much important litigation in the various courts, and as a lawyer and a citizen he has given service showing his appreciative loyalty to his native city.
Mr. White was born in Cleveland August 10, 1845, and was graduated in Western Reserve College as a member of the class of 1865. He studied law under the preceptorship of his father, Bushnell White, was admitted to the bar in 1868 and has since been continuously engaged in practice in Cleveland, he having long been a member of one of the foremost law firms of the Ohio metropolis.
SOLON L. SEVERANCE is to be designated as a native son of Cleveland and a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of. the Ohio metropolis. He was born in Cleveland September 8, 1834, and is a son of Solomon L. and Mary H. (Long) Severance. He gained his education in the schools of the locality and period, and he initiated his association with banking in the modest position of office boy. He made consecutive advancement and finally became one of the organizers of the Euclid Ave-
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nue National Bank, of which he was the first cashier and of which he was the president at the time of its absorption into the Euclid Park Bank, which later became merged in the First National Bank of Cleveland, Mr. Sever- ance continuing as a director of the First National, which is the largest bank in Ohio. He has membership in the Chamber of Commerce and the Union Club, is a charter member of the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church, which he served many years as elder and Sunday school super- intendent. Mr. Severance has made several foreign tours, including a trip around the world, and he has delivered many public addresses concerning his experiences as a traveler, in which connection he made use of illustra- tions by the stereopticon.
In 1860 Mr. Severance married Miss Emily C. Allen, a native of Trumbull County, and they became the parents of one son and two daughters, the son, Prof. Allen D. Severance, having become a successful, and prominent educator and having long held a chair in Western Reserve University.
JOSEPH CARABELLI, proprietor of the Lake View Granite Works, Cleve- land, was born at Porto Ceresio, Italy, in April, 1850, and at the age of twelve years he began an apprenticeship to the sculptor's trade and art, while he continued to attend school during the forenoon sessions. He gave special attention to the study of the English language, with an ambition to come eventually to the United States. He landed in New York City in 1870, and as an expert at his trade he soon found employment. He had the distinction of carving the statue of "Industry" for the New York post- office, and he continued to give his attention to the producing of ornamental work for this building during a period of eight years. In 1880 he came to Cleveland and established the Lakeview Granite & Monumental Works, now the largest concern of the kind in Northern Ohio. Mr. Carabelli is not only an artist but has proved himself to be also a business man of marked ability, as shown by the splendid achievement that has been his during the period of his residence in Cleveland, where his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He has membership in the Chamber of Commerce and the Builders' Exchange, is a stalwart republican, and in 1908 he was elected a representative of Cuyahoga County in the State Legis- lature. He was the author of the bill which, as enacted by the legislature, makes October 12 a legal holiday in Ohio, in commemoration of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
KAZIMIER G. CIESLAK, M. D. One of the physicians and surgeons of Cleveland who has won success in his profession and prestige as a patriotic and worth-while citizen is Doctor Cieslak, who has been in general practice on the West Side of the city for the last ten years, and is director of the Health Clinic, the only clinic on that side.
Doctor Cieslak was born in the City of Posen, German Poland, on March 3, 1878, the son of Joseph and Josephine Cieslak. His father died in the old country, his mother re-married, and with her husband and children came to this country in 1890, when the doctor was a boy of twelve years. He had attended school in the old country, and he con- tinued his preliminary education in the public schools of Ludington and
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Manistee, Michigan, and of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the latter city he also took a course in college to prepare himself to enter medical college, and in 1906 he entered the medical department of the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a student for two years, and then entered the medical department of Ohio State University, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1913. Leaving Ohio State University he came to Cleveland, and for a year served as interne in Cleveland City Hospital, and then entered the general practice of medicine and surgery at 2297 West Fourteenth Street. For several years he has specialized in X-ray work and in electro-therapeutics. There being no clinic on the West Side, and to supply such a much-needed institution to that important section of the city, Doctor Cieslak, on May 1, 1924, established the Health Clinic in the large and commodious residence property where he has so long maintained his offices. The clinic is equipped with every modern appliance needed for such a purpose, and has a large staff of skilled physicians and surgeons, all under the supervision of Doctor Cieslak as director. While the Health Clinic is one of the newest of our medical institutions, its early days have been such as to justify the prediction of its future success.
Doctor Cieslak is a prolific writer on the topic of public health, of which he is a close student, and is a frequent and valued contributor to the press, he having been for some time furnishing weekly articles on the above subject to a large Polish daily paper of Cleveland and also to the largest Polish daily of Detroit, Michigan.
Doctor Cieslak is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the Therapeutic Medical Association of America. He is active in all Polish-American affairs, and is a member of the Polish National Alliance, and a member and lecturer of the Polish Educational Society of the city. He is a member of the leading Polish clubs, and is deeply interested in the welfare of his fellow-countrymen, giving freely of his time and experience to the end that they become consistent citizens of the city and country.
Doctor Cieslak married Miss Mary Ziawinski, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Ignatz Ziawinski, a native of Poland, and to their marriage two sons have been born: Arthur, aged nine years, and Daniel, aged seven years.
GEORGE H. OLMSTED has been for more than half a century one of the leading representatives of the insurance business in the City of Cleveland, and his operations are conducted under two firm alliances, those of Olmsted Brother & Company, and George H. Olmsted & Company, the latter firm controlling a large and important general insurance business, and the former representing the National Life Insurance Company and the Standard Accident Insurance Company of Vermont, of which great corporation Mr. Olmsted is a director. Mr. Olmsted is treasurer of the National Safe & Lock Company of Cleveland ; has given effective service as president of the Life Insurance Managers Exchange; is president of the National Land Company ; is vice president of the Bankers Surety Company ; is treasurer of the Union Savings & Loan Company ; and is a director in other important banking institutions in Cleveland, as is he also of the Cleveland Homeo-
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pathic Medical College and the Cleveland Trunk Company. He is a member of the local board of fire underwriters and is an active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He is a deacon in the Willson Avenue Baptist Church, and has served as chairman of the apportionment commit- tee of the Northern Baptist Convention, besides having done much to fur- ther the service of the Young Men's Christian Association.
Mr. Olmsted was born at Lagrange, Lorain County, Ohio, September 21, 1843, and his early education included a course in the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. He devoted three years to teaching in the public schools, and thereafter was variously employed until the spring of 1867, since which time he has continued to be engaged in the insurance business in Cleveland, where his success has been such as to mark him as one of the leading insurance men of Ohio. His insurance work has involved also two years of traveling as special agent for the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company.
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