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Samuel Walter Kelley acquired a public school education at Zanesville, Ohio, and at St. Joseph, Michigan, and graduated in medicine from Western Reserve University in 1884. He also studied abroad in hospitals in Lon- don. In the forty years since his graduation he has devoted himself with singular fidelity to the demands of his profession.
Doctor Kelley was about twenty-nine when he entered upon the practice of medicine and surgery. In his youth and early manhood he had a varied working experience, in market gardening, farming, as sailor before the
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mast, and as a cowboy in the Southwest, driving stock over the great trails leading from Texas up to Kansas and the Northwest. He had many expe- riences similar to those described by Emerson Hough, Andy Adams, Owen Wistar and others in their writings about the range and trail days of the Great West.
While he has a large private practice, Doctor Kelley is also well known by his official connections at the hospitals, institutions of medical education and professional organizations. He was chief of the department of diseases of children in the Polyclinic of Western Reserve University from 1886 to 1893. From 1893 to 1910 he was professor of diseases of children of the Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical Department of Ohio Wesleyan University. He was surgeon to children of St. Luke's Hospital's senior staff, was secretary of the medical staff of the Cleveland City Hospital from 1891 to 1899, and its president from 1899 to 1902. He acted as pediatrist at the City Hospital from 1893 to 1910. From 1885 to 1901 Doctor Kelley was editor of the Cleveland Medical Gazette, pres- ident of the Ohio State Pediatric Society from 1896 to 1897, and was chairman of section on diseases of children of the American Medical Association in 1900-01. He was president of the Association of American Teachers of Diseases of Children in 1907-08, and is a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Ohio State Medical Association, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
At the time of the Spanish-American war, Doctor Kelley entered the service as a civilian surgeon, was recommended for "efficiency in the field under the most trying circumstances," and commissioned brigade surgeon with the rank of major on August 7, 1898. During the World war he served with the French Army and with the Red Cross for eight months, being past the age for admission to. the United States Army. Doctor Kelley advocated the early entrance of this country into the World war, seeing that such a step was inevitable. In lectures and in individual argu- ments he urged prompt and forceful action in that crisis.
His "The Surgical Diseases of Children," the first treatise on the subject written by an American surgeon, was first published in 1909, and the second edition in 1914. He is also author of "About Children," pub- lished in 1897. Doctor Kelley is also known in the field of imaginative literature, being author of a small volume entitled the "Witchery o' the Moon, and Other Poems," published in 1919, and a medico-historical novel "In the Year 1800," published in 1904, a book that pictures the state of medical science and practice as well as customs and conditions of that day. He is also the author of a number of original articles, essays and lectures on medical and other subjects. Doctor Kelley is a republican, and a mem- ber of the Cleveland Athletic Club. He has never affiliated with any religious denomination or sect. On July 2, 1884, at Wooster, Ohio, he married Miss Amelia Kemmerlein, daughter of George Kemmerlein and Johanna (Hartz) Kemmerlein. Her parents were born at Wittenberg, Germany. Mrs. Kelley was born at Wooster, Ohio, and was educated in the public schools there. Of the two children born to their marriage Walter Paul died in youth. The daughter, Katherine Mildred, married Reed Taylor, of Cleveland.
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DAN FREEMAN BRADLEY, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational Church, is now in the twentieth year of his service with this church. This is one of the oldest Congregational churches in the city, having been founded seventy years ago. During Mr. Bradley's long pastorate the church has perfected a splendid organization for work and service. The Pilgrim Church has been responsible for much extensive religious work and organ- ization among the foreign born elements of the population of Cleveland in the vicinity of the church home at West Fourteenth Street.
Dan Freeman Bradley was born at Bangkok, Siam, March 17, 1857, son of Dan Beach and Sarah (Blachly) Bradley. His father, Dr. Dan Beach Bradley, a native of Marcellus, New York, went as a missionary of the American Board to Siam in 1833. He died in Bangkok in 1874. He had returned to the United States once after the death of his first wife, Emilie Royce, of Clinton, New York. She left three children. On his return to America in 1848 he married Sarah Blachly. She was one of the first woman graduates of Oberlin College to take the Bachelor of Arts degree. She died in Siam in 1894, never having returned to the United States.
As a boy Dan Freeman Bradley was sent back to the United States to complete his education. He graduated from Oberlin College with the Bachelor of Arts degree in June, 1882, and graduated from Oberlin Theo- logical Seminary in 1885. Honorary degrees of Doctor of Divinity have since been bestowed upon him, by Yankton College of South Dakota in 1892, Cornell College in Iowa in 1904 and Oberlin College in 1908.
Ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1885, Mr. Bradley was pastor of the Congregational Church of Steubenville, Ohio, and has been a prominent figure in this denomination for forty years. For some years past he has been active in his efforts to secure a union between the Presby- terian and the Congregational churches in Cleveland and America. He is a member of the Congregational National Council, a trustee of the Cleveland Congregational Union and a director of the Educational Foundation of Congregational churches.
While pastor of the Yankton Congregational Church in South Dakota he became acting president of Yankton College, serving in that capacity from 1890 to 1892. He was pastor of the Park Congregational Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, from 1892 to 1902, resigning to become pres- ident of Grinnell College in Iowa and gave capable leadership to that school, still regarded as one of the best in Iowa, until 1905. In 1905 he resigned and came to Cleveland to accept the pastorate of Pilgrim Church.
Mr. Bradley is a descendant of William Bradley, one of the pioneer settlers of New Haven, Connecticut. He has been a republican in politics since 1877. He was made a Master Mason in the Masonic York Lodge at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1896. He belongs to the Cleveland Cham- ber of Commerce and is a trustee of Oberlin College. Mr. Bradley is a sound scholar with a wide acquaintance with literature, but has a strong tendency for the practical side of the ministry and delights in the material aspects of nature. He is interested in trees and flowers, and he and his sons built a cement house near Lake Michigan, on Traverse Bay, as their summer home. Pilgrim Church sent him and Mrs. Bradley for a tour abroad in 1923, the church paying the expenses of this travel.
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He married at Oberlin July 9, 1883, Miss Lillian Josephine Jaques, daughter of the late D. L. Jaques, of Cleveland. She is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and was a teacher in the conservatory and is president of the Ohio Congregational Woman's Union. Doctor and Mrs. Bradley have three children: Rev. Dwight J. Bradley, of Webster Groves, Missouri, who married Kathryn Culver, of Oakland, California ; Robert Gamble Bradley, of Detroit, who married Grace Langdon, of Cleve- land ; and Dan Theodore Bradley, of Detroit, who married Eloise Smiley, of Cleveland.
FLORENCE ELLINWOOD ALLEN was the first woman lawyer in the United States to be elected judge in a court of general jurisdiction. She is now judge of the State Supreme Court, the court of last resort in Ohio.
Judge Allen is a graduate of Western Reserve University. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 23, 1884, daughter of Clarence Emir and Corinne Marie (Tuckerman) Allen. Her early life was spent in Utah, and she was a student at Salt Lake College in 1897-99. In 1904 she won her Bachelor of Arts degree at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and then pursued her law studies. Western Reserve gave her the Master of Arts degree in 1908. Judge Allen's early interests were in the field of music, and from 1904 to 1906 she acted as assistant Berlin correspondent of the New York Musical Courier and was music editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1906 to 1909. In 1910-13 she was lecturer on music connected with the Board of Education of New York City. In the meantime, from 1909 to 1910, she was a student in the law department of the University of Chicago, and in 1913 graduated with Bachelor of Laws from New York University.
She began the practice of law at Cleveland in 1914. Six years later, in 1920, she was nominated and was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County. Her term began January, 1921, and ran for six years. In 1922 she was elected to the Supreme Court, court of last resort in Ohio. Her term in this court is also for six years. Judge Allen has been interested in a number of civic and social organizations. She is a Phi Beta Kappa and also a member of the Social Sorority of Sigma Psi, and of the legal sorority Kappa Beta Pi. She served as assistant secretary of the National College of the Equal Suffrage League in 1911-13, and from 1913 to 1915 was a member of the Executive Board of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. She is a democrat, a member of the Congregational Church, the Woman's City and Business Woman's Club. In the midst of the literary duties that have absorbed her for many years she wrote one book, Patris, published in 1908.
JOHN WALTERMEYER KECKLER, Doctor of Osteopathy, and president of the Cleveland Osteopathic Society, is one of the highly qualified men in his profession and in X-ray work.
He was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, son of Jacob Keckler, and grandson of Peter Keckler, who spent his life in Pennsylvania. Jacob Keckler was born at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and as a young man moved to Hagerstown, Maryland, where he is still living. He married Elizabeth Waltermeyer, who was born at Hagerstown, daughter of John
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and Anna (Zeigler) Waltermeyer. They had two sons, Dr. John W. and Guy, the latter a resident of Hagerstown.
John Waltermeyer Keckler grew up in his native town, attended the public schools and was graduated from high school in 1911. For two years he was in Washington as a clerk in the navy department, and for one year was a clerk in the sales department of the Security Cement and Lime Com- pany. In 1914 he entered the American School of Osteopathy, and was graduated with the degree Doctor of Osteopathy in 1918. Doctor Keckler practiced for two years in Maryland, and then located in Cleveland, where, in addition to the general routine of work as a Doctor of Osteopathy, he specializes in X-ray and clinical diagnosis and therapy. He is a member of the State and National Osteopathic societies and the Congregational Church.
Doctor Keckler married, in 1918, Miss Lenora Routzahn, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, and daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Routzahn.
JOHN CHARLES MCGONAGLE. One of the progressive and popular business men of Lakewood is John C. McGonagle, until recently pro- prietor of the Lakewood Buick Company. He was born in the old family home on Taylor Street (now West Forty-fifth Street), Cleveland, on October 10, 1877, the son of John and Ellen (Casey) McGonagle.
John McGonagle was born in Scotland, where he attended school and learned something of the mason's trade. When he was a lad of fourteen years he and his older brother, William, came to the United States, landing at New York, where the two boys separated and never afterwards saw or heard of each other. Gradually working his way westward, John finally reached Cleveland, finished his apprenticeship at the mason's trade, and in later days became one of the leading mason contractors of the West Side of Cleveland, and continued until his death. His widow, still living, was born in Utica, New York, in which city they were married. To their marriage the following children were born: Anna, who married Peter J. Deighen, of Cleveland ; William J., deceased; Sarah, who married Charles Long, of Cleveland; Nellie, deceased, and John C., the youngest of the children.
John C. attended the public and night schools, and at the age of eleven years he became a messenger boy for the Western Union Tele- graph Company, and in the succeeding years he was at different times in the employ of Likely & Rocket, leather merchants and manufacturers ; the H. A. Lozier Company, manufacturers of the Cleveland bicycle; the Koch & Henke Furniture Company, and in Halle Brothers' department store. In 1916 he became salesman for the Ohio Buick Company, with which concern he continued for three years, and in 1919 he established his own business at 1240 West One Hundred Seventeenth Street (Highland Avenue), Lakewood, where he had a large service station, and from where he distributed the Buick automobile under the name of the Lakewood Buick Company, of which he was sole owner. He sold this business on January 1, 1924, and is now selling suburban property.
Aside from business Mr. McGonagle is very active in the social and civic affairs of Lakewood. He is a member and president of the Lake- wood Chamber of Commerce, president of the Lakewood Kiwanis Club,
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Lakewood Country Club, Cleveland Yacht Club, Cleveland Advertising Club, Cleveland Automobile Club, Cleveland Association of Credit Men. He is a past master of Bigelow Lodge No. 243, Free and Accepted Masons; Robert Wallace Chapter No. 179, Royal Arch Masons; Forest City Council, Royal and Select Masters; Forest City Commandery No. 40, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory, Scottish Rite (thirty-second degree) ; Al Koran Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Forest City Chapter, Order Eastern Star (past patron), and the Ohio Masonic Past Masters' Association. He is also a member of Hesperian Lodge No. 281, Knights of Pythias.
Mr. McGonagle married Miss Lillian May Peterjohn, who was born in Cleveland, the daughter of George and Kate (Baumgartner) Peterjohn. To their marriage children have been born as follows : Ralph William, who is associated with his father's business, and Grace Lillian.
As a citizen and business man Mr. McGonagle enjoys a large circle of friends who, appreciating his sterling traits of character, his willing- ness to assume his full measure of obligation to the community, and his friendship, have nothing but the highest of praise for him, and miss no opportunity of voicing their praise.
JONAS STAFFORD. In the early '40s Jonas Stafford bought fifty acres of land, all of which through the building progress and expansion of eighty years has been covered with workshops, great office buildings and residences, and is now close to the geographical center of the City of Cleveland. Jonas Stafford, like others of his time, probably never entertained a prophetic vision of the great city that would grow up on his land. He used it as a farm, raised apples, peaches, cherries, grapes and farm commodities.
This interesting Cleveland pioneer and real estate investor was born in Vermont, in 1794. He was reared and educated in his native state, and he served as a soldier in the War of 1812. For his services he was given a land grant for 160 acres in the West, but he never utilized this privilege. About 1835 he came to Ohio as the western representative of a wholesale grocery establishment. Some five years later he established his permanent home in Cleveland. When ill health caused him to give up. a commercial career he bought the farm above described, and devoted the greater part of his life to its cultivation and management.
Jonas Stafford was a quiet, unassuming man, a devout Christian, and was one of the founders of the Old Second Baptist Church, now the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. He served as a deacon of this church. Jonas Stafford worthily filled the niche appointed to him, and was beloved for his kindness of heart, his examples of good deeds accomplished and his sterling worth. His wife was Miss Lucy Fish, of Pequot Hills, Connecticut. They were the parents of five children : Edmund Fish, who was a union soldier in General Barnett's command ; Henry Fish, who likewise was a Union soldier, in the Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry; Louise Mead, who became the wife of Thomas M. Irvine; Oliver Mead and Frank J.
Of the children of Jonas Stafford perhaps the best known in Cleveland is Oliver Mead Stafford, who is a vice president of the Union Trust
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Company, and is the executive of the Broadway Bank, Woodland Bank, Buckeye Road, Pasadena and Kinsman-One Hundred Fortieth offices of the Union Trust Company; is president of the Cleveland Worsted Mills Company and of the Sheriff Street Market & Storage Company ; a member of the Union and Country clubs. He is an official member of "Old Broadway" Church, and was appointed one of the committee to arrange for the celebration of Cleveland's centennial anniversary.
IRENE NUNGESSER. One of the interesting members of the Cleveland bar is Miss Irene Nungesser, who is serving as assistant United States district attorney.
Early in life she learned the value of independent thought and judg- ment, and through her own efforts has qualified for a difficult profession. She was born in Cleveland, March 2, 1890, and completed a grammar school course at the age of twelve years. At home she kept up her school studies, and at the age of fifteen began a course in the Berkey & Dykes Business College. She was graduated after a year and a half, and then entered the offices of Bernsteen & Bernsteen, Cleveland attorneys. While working with this law firm she became interested in the study of law, and for a year and a half attended classes in the Cleveland Law School. At the same time she was working diligently to pursue the study courses required in high school, subsequently passed successful examinations in Columbus from high school work, this giving her nineteen points to her credit and permitting her to take examination for admission to the bar. She took her bar examinations May 28, 1920, and in the following June was admitted to practice.
She then returned to the offices of Bernsteen & Bernsteen, engaging in law practice, and in June, 1923, obtained the honor of appointment as assistant United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
Miss Nungesser is the only child of the late George Franklin and Anna C. (Fretter) Nungesser. Her grandfather, John Nungesser, was a native of Hesendamstrett, Germany, coming to America when a boy and spending the rest of his life in Cleveland. Her father, George Franklin Nungesser, was born at Cleveland, one of three sons, the other two being John and Edward O. He attended public schools, completed an education at the cabinet maker's trade, and followed that occupation until his death in 1912. Miss Nungesser's mother was born in Cleveland, daughter of Samuel and Barbara Fretter, and she passed away in 1920.
Miss Nungesser is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, belongs to the Woman's Relief Corps, is an honorary member of the Spanish War Veterans' Association, the Cleveland Chapter of the Eastern Star, the White Shrine, the Cleveland Business Woman's Club.
JOHN J. SULLIVAN, judge of the Court of Appeals, was born October 25, 1860, in New York City, and moved to Trumbull County, Ohio, when a mere lad, where he was brought up on a farm, and educated in the district schools and the old Gustavus Academy.
His parents immigrated to New York from Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland, where they were born, and his father was Daniel J. Sullivan, and his mother, Mary (Sheehan) Sullivan, and the subject of this sketch
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was one of nine children born of said parents, who died when he was a mere lad.
He taught school and was city editor of the Warren Daily Chronicle, Warren, Ohio, studied law and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio, October of 1885, and began practicing in Warren, Ohio. He served as prosecuting attorney, Trumbull County, for two terms, and represented the Twenty-third District of Ohio in the State Senate for two terms. He served nine years as United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, having been appointed first by President McKinley, and afterwards by President Roosevelt. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from the Cleveland District in 1912, and a delegate at large to the National Progressive Convention held in 1912, which nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president. In 1916 he was a delegate at large to the Republican National Convention when Mr. Hughes was nominated for president.
During his incumbency of the United States attorney's office, he prosecuted and convicted in the famous case of the United States vs. Cassie Chadwick of frenzied finance fame, and appeared in many other notable cases.
While a member of the Ohio Senate he made the nominating speeches presenting the name of Senator Foraker in 1896 and Senator Hanna in 1898, for the office of United States Senator from Ohio.
He was appointed by the governor to the office of judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth District of Ohio in 1921, and was unanimously nominated and reelected for a term of six years to the bench of the Court of Appeals in 1922, which position he is now holding.
With the exception of his incumbency in office, he has been in active practice of the law in Warren and Cleveland, Ohio, thirty-six years, both in State and Federal courts.
He is now president of the Cleveland Law Library Association and the Tippecanoe Club, and is serving his fourth term as president of the Cleveland Bar Association. He was elected a delegate from the Ohio Bar Association to the Philadelphia and London, England, sessions of the American bar.
He was married December 28, 1886, to Olive Tayler Sullivan, daughter of M. B. Tayler, pioneer banker of Warren, Ohio, and two daughters were born of said marriage, Miss Adaline Tayler Sullivan and Miss Mary Tayler Sullivan, and the family resides at 1497 East One Hundred Eighth Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
ROBERT H. YORK. Death coming suddenly March 15, 1924, deprived Cleveland of one of its business leaders in the person of Robert H. York, who for a number of years had been an important figure in some of the city's most prosperous enterprises, including the Heights Savings & Loan Company, the Berkshire Manufacturing Company and the Metropolitan Motor Insurance Company.
The late Mr. York was born at Saginaw, Michigan, October 29, 1866, a son of Barney H. and Julia (Harkness) York. The York family is of English stock. His grandfather came to Ohio from the vicinity of Bedford, Massachusetts, buying land in Sandusky County and building
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his home at what became known as York's Corners, now the thriving little City of Clyde. Barney H. York was born at York's Corners, Ohio, in 1834, and died at Cleveland in 1884. His wife, Julia Harkness, was a native of Bellevue, Ohio, where her father, Dr. L. G. Harkness, was an early physician. Julia Harkness' sister became the wife of Henry M. Flagler, a distinguished Ohioan who was first an official of the Standard Oil Company and during the last thirty years of his life the capitalist who did more for the development of Florida than any man before or since. For some years Henry M. Flagler was engaged in the grain business in Ohio, and lost his first modest fortune of about $50,000 in the salt industries at Saginaw, Michigan. Barney York was likewise interested in the lumber and salt industries in Michigan as an associate of Mr. Flagler. For a number of years Barney H. York was in the grain and elevator business at Clyde, and in 1867 he located at Cleveland, where he became a member of the firm of Flagler & York. Subse- quently he was a partner with the late Doctor Otis in the Otis Elevator Company. Following the burning of the elevator, in the early '70s, he became a member of the firm of Gardner, Clark & York, owners and operators of the Union Elevator Company, to which he belonged at the time of his death. Barney H. York was very active in the business affairs of Cleveland, having been vice president of the old board of trade and president of the Chamber of Commerce. The Old Stone Church held his membership, and he belonged to the Masonic fraternity. His widow survived him nearly forty years, passing away at Cleveland in June, 1922. There were three children: Georgiana, widow of John D. Maclennan, of Toronto, Canada; Robert H .; and Roy F., who made his home at Baltimore, Maryland.
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