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Col. George Alexander McKay was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, was in the very thick of the fray in numerous major bat- tles, was nine times wounded, each wound having been attended with the shattering of bones, and in dispatches and other official mediums he was repeatedly mentioned for conspicuous bravery and meritorious services. He was captain of his company in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in later years his continued interest in military affairs was signalizeď in his effective service as colonel of the Fifteenth Infantry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, besides which he was an honored and influ- ential member of the Grand Army of the Republic and Loyal Legion.
In the public schools of Cleveland Edward C. Mckay continued his studies until his graduation from the Central High School, as a member of the class of 1895. His loyal stewardship in connection with civic and business interests in his native city has since been shown in his service as
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chief clerk of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, as assistant trust officer of the American Trust Company, as auditor for the Carnegie Steel Company and Steel Corporation, as secretary and treasurer of the Ohio Rubber Company, and as president of the Republic Belting Com- pany. As a prominent representative of the real estate business he has been treasurer and chairman of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, and has served as a member of the appraisal com- mittee of this organization for the past three years. He was actively concerned in the buying and leasing of millions of dollars' worth of prop- erty for the new Union Depot that is being erected in the Ohio metropolis by the Cleveland Union Terminals Company. As a representative of the local real estate board he was general chairman of its convention committee that had charge of the 1923 convention of the National Asso- ciation of Real Estate Boards held in Cleveland. Mr. Mckay has served also as a member of the taxation committee of the Cleveland Real Estate Board, also on similar committees of the Ohio Association of Real Estate Boards and the National Association of Real Estate Boards. He holds veteran membership in the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery and the Ohio Naval Reserve, and also served as clerk of the military committee of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce during the Spanish-American war. He has previously held membership in five of the leading clubs in Cleveland, including the Union Club, but he has now severed his active affiliation with each of these.
The political allegiance of Mr. McKay is given to the republican party. and in this connection it may be noted that he has given a statement of his views in one important matter, that is, he expresses himself as being "in favor of entering the League of Nations, on our own terms, by means of a resolution of interpretations that might be considered a second declara- tion of independence and intentions." He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, their affiliation being with the Church of the Covenant in their home city.
On the 20th of June, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mc- Kay and Miss Louise Patten, daughter of George D. and Louisa Patten, of Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey. Mr. George D. Patten served as cashier in the historic banking house of Jay Cook at Washington, D. C., during the progress of the Civil war. Mrs. McKay is eligible for membership in the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and her brother has similar eligibility in connection with every one of the leading Colonial societies of the nation, including those of military order. Mr. and Mrs. McKay have two daughters, Margaret and Louise.
PAUL HOWLAND was born at Jefferson, Ohio, December 5, 1865, and was the oldest of a family of four boys: W. S. Howland, now deceased ; Dr. A. P. Howland, of Cleveland; and Col. Charles R. Howland, of the Regular Army. His father was the late Judge W. P. Howland, of Jefferson, Ohio, and his mother was Esther Elizabeth (Leonard) Howland.
Mr. Howland is named after his grandfather, Paul Howland, who came to the Western Reserve in 1821 from Massachusetts and settled at Pierpont. in Ashtabula County. The families on both sides are of New England ancestry. The Howlands are descendants of the Pilgrim Howlands of Plymouth.
Paul Howland
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Mr. Howland graduated from the Jefferson High School in 1883 ; from Oberlin College in 1887, with a degree of Bachelor of Arts; and in 1890 from Harvard Law School, with a degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was awarded the Master of Arts degree by Oberlin College in 1894. He was admitted to the bar of Ohio by the Supreme Court of the state in 1890, and at once engaged in the active practice of the law, forming a partnership with H. E. Starkey at Jefferson. In 1894 he formed a partnership with the late Judge H. B. Chapman and opened an office in Cleveland, where he has since been engaged in the active practice of the law.
From 1896 to 1900 he was a member of the State Board of Bar Examiners, by appointment of the Supreme Court.
In 1898 he volunteered for the Spanish-American war, and was com- missioned a second lieutenant and squadron adjutant of the First Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. While the regiment was being broken in at Chicka- mauga Park, Mr. Howland was designated by the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio to hold an examination for admission to the bar of those soldiers who were prepared to take the examination before being called into the service.
In 1906 Mr. Howland was elected to Congress from the Twentieth Congressional District, and was reelected for three consecutive terms.
During his service in Congress he served four years on the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives, and was one of the managers on the part of the House in the prosecution of the articles of impeachment before the bar of the Senate of Judge Archbold, who was found guilty and removed from office. On his retirement from Congress he became actively identified with the American Bar Association, and served on its various committees continuously up to the present time, and was on the executive committee from 1918 to 1921. He has also taken a very active part in local and state bar associations, believing that it is the duty of the lawyer to utilize every agency to advance the interests of his chosen profession.
In 1916 Mr. Howland was elected a delegate to the republican national convention, pledged to the support of the candidacy of Senator Theodore E. Burton for the presidency. He was a member of the committe on resolu- tions, and a member of the subcommittee which was selected from the general committee, which drafted the platform.
In 1920 he was again elected a delegate from his congressional district to the republican national convention, and did everything in his power to advance the candidacy of the late President Warren G. Harding, and in the caucus of the Ohio delegation offered the resolution that the delegation give its support to Harding until released by him, which resolution was adopted and had great influence in bringing about the final nomination of President Harding. Mr. Howland was placed by the Ohio delegation on the committee on rules and order of business, and on the organization of this committee was unanimously elected chairman, and presented the report of the committee to the convention. It was at this convention that he presented the resolution granting to the national committee the power to fix the delegate representation in future conventions on some just and equitable basis. This power was granted with the hope and expectation that the national committee would cut down substantially the representation of the Southern states in republican conventions.
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In 1924 Mr. Howland was again elected a delegate from his con- gressional district to the republican national convention, pledged to the support of President Coolidge. He was selected as Ohio's member of the committee on rules and order of business, and was again elected chairman of that committee and presented its report to the convention. This report carried with it a revision of the rules governing representation in national conventions worked out by the national committee under the authority granted it in 1920, and also gave to the ladies the right of equal representa- tion on the national committee from each state.
Mr. Howland has been active in all civic matters tending to promote the welfare of the city. He was a director for four years in the Cleveland Chamber of Industry and was president of that organization for one year. He was a director of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce for three con- secutive years, and is chairman of the board of trustees of the First Con- gregational Church of Cleveland.
He is a thirty-second degree Mason, past potentate of Al Koran Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Howland married, on the 18th day of January, 1905, Miss Jessie F. Pruden, of Burghill, Trumbull County, Ohio.
During Mr. Howland's college days he was active in athletic sports, and a member of the Oberlin College baseball team during all of the four years he was at Oberlin, and a member of the Harvard Varsity during the three years, 1888, 1889 and 1890, he was in attendance at the Harvard Law School. While at Harvard he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club and the University Club.
In Cleveland he has a membership in the Nisi Prius Club and the Union Club, and is at present (1924) president of the New England Society. Mr. Howland resides at 1448 West Sixty-fifth Street, Cleve- land, Ohio.
CHARLES H. TUCKER. Now practically retired, though still retain- ing business offices in the Union Trust Building, Charles H. Tucker is an interesting veteran of Cleveland's transportation circles. For many years he acted as general agent for the leading steamship companies on the Great Lakes.
Mr. Tucker was born at North Collins, Erie County, New York, December 11, 1839. His great-grandfather came from England, settled in New York, and he and his descendants were devout Quakers. Abram Tucker, grandfather of Charles H. Tucker, was born near Glens Falls, New York, and in 1810 moved to the western part of the state, traveling with teams and wagons through the wilderness, establishing a home in what is now North Collins, Erie County, not far from the City of Buf- falo. The spot was then on the very western frontier, and the Indians and wild game still contested the advance of the white man in that region. Abram Tucker bought land, made a farm and remained there until his death at the age of eighty-eight. His old homestead is still owned by his descendants. His wife lived to the age of ninety-three.
George W. Tucker, father of Charles H. Tucker, was born at North Collins in 1810, soon after the family settled there, and had the distinction
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of being the first white child born on the Iroquois Reservation in Erie County. His sister Amy married Howland Kirby, and she spent her entire life of ninety-nine years at North Collins. When she was eighty- six years of age she joined the Eastern Star. She was one of the early advocates of woman suffrage and was a coworker with Susan B. Anthony. George W. Tucker assisted in the work of the farm during his early youth, acquired a public school education, and for a time was in the mercantile business at North Collins and also postmaster there. About 1843 he moved to Gowanda, taking up the cabinetmaker's trade, but a year later located at Buffalo and was for some years a salesman for a wholesale grocery house. In March, 1852, he brought his wife and three children to Cleveland, entering the service of the Childs & Bishop Organ Company as bookkeeper. At that time Erie Street was the city limits, and dwelling houses occupied the sites of many of the present large office and mercantile buildings. The family lived on Eagle Street. George W. Tucker died May 6, 1859, at the age of forty-nine. In politics he was affiliated with the whig party as long as it existed, and remained a devout Quaker. His wife was Susan Bartow, who was born at Tarrytown, New York, in 1812, of French Huguenot ancestry, and daughter of Punderson and Hannah Parlow Bartow. She died at Cleveland in 1884, at the age of seventy- two. She reared three children: Seth, a farmer who died in Iowa; Hep- siba, who died at Cleveland at the age of forty-one, wife of Stanley A. Jewett, a talented musician and for many years connected with the Childs & Bishop Organ Company of Cleveland ; and Charles Herbert.
Charles Herbert Tucker was about thirteen years old when the family came to Cleveland. He attended public schools in Buffalo and this city, and while in school carried the old Cleveland Herald and Cleveland Plain Dealer. Following a course in business college he went to work, in 1855, at the age of sixteen, as clerk in the banking house of Pierce & Nelson, a year later became teller for A. M. Perry & Company, and subsequently became associated with the wholesale flour business conducted by A. M. Perry & Company. He was bookkeeper for this firm until the death of Mr. Perry in 1863, and was called upon to settle up the business of the firm. Mr. Tucker served a 100-day enlistment during the Civil war, join- ing the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Infantry in 1864. He was a guard at Washington. On returning to Cleveland he became bookkeeper with the firm of Robert Hanna & Company for two years, and then acted as secretary of Hanna. Baslington & Company, who were in business under the name Globe Oil Refining Company. Two years later this busi- ness was consolidated with the Standard Oil Company, and Mr. Tucker's next connection was as general manager of the Cleveland Boiler Plate Manufacturing Company.
Since 1876 his experience and business interests have been almost entirely concentrated in the field of lake transportation. For twenty-four years he was general agent of the Union Steamboat Company. For lesser periods of time he acted as general agent for the Northern Steamship Company, the Lake Superior Transit Company, the Lackawanna line of steamers, the Western Transportation Company, the Commercial Line and the Ogdensburg Transit Company. From 1900 until 1913 Mr. Tucker was president and manager of King's Engineering Company and
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the American Wire Spring Company. In 1913 he became general agent for the Merchants Mutual Line and the Canada Steamship Line, and is still nominally identihed with the lake transportation interests as a general agent.
Mr. Tucker is a thirty-third degree, supreme honorary, Scottish Rite Mason, and his affiliations at Cleveland are with Tyrian Lodge, Cleveland Royal Arch Chapter, Oriental Commandery, Lake Erie Consistory and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
He married in 1868 Miss Lucy A. Wightman, daughter of David L. Wightman, for many years prominent in Cuyahoga County as sheriff and as the chief organizer and at the time of his death agent for the Cleve- land Humane Society. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker reared a family of six chil- dren: Stanley, Salome, Bartow C., Lucia, Douglas and Ralph. Stanley, who finished his education in the Case School of Applied Science, mar- ried Gertrude Chandler. The daughter Salome is a graduate of the Hathaway-Brown School at Cleveland. Bartow C., a graduate of high school, married Gertrude Keifaber, and his two children are Martha and Constance. Lucia, who graduated from the Fort Edwards Collegiate Institute of Fort Edwards, New York, married Charles Harbaugh, and became the mother of two children, Donald and Virginia, Virginia Har- baugh being the wife of Orgain Mccullough, and her two children, Orgain and Lucia Mccullough, are the great-grandchildren of Mr. Tucker. Douglas Tucker married Mary McDonald, and they have two children, Robert and Ruth. Ralph Tucker, who finished his education in Western Reserve University, married Margaret Snider, and they have a family of six children: Eloise, Marjorie, Charles, Theodore, Stanley and Betty.
GEORGE F. THOMAS, M. D. A buoyant, glowing, optimistic nature was that of this honored and influential physician and scientist, who trans- lated his well ordered enthusiasm into constructive service and who became a widely recognized authority on the use of the X-ray. Doctor Thomas achieved prestige in the general work of his profession, but his major reputation was along the line of electrical therapeutic application and investigation. He was a leader in research in this important field, and had his life been spared it is certain that his distinction as a physician, surgeon and scientist would have continued of cumulative growth. Doctor Thomas virtually sacrificed his life in the service and work to which he had dedi- cated himself, and was but forty-two years of age at the time when heart disease brought a summary end to his career, his death having occurred while he was in his office, on the 29th of May, 1924, and Cleveland having thus been called upon to mourn the loss of one of its able and honored citizens and representative physicians. He was instructor in X-ray work in the Medical School of Western Reserve University, at the time of his death, and in this connection a local newspaper of current issue gave the following estimate: "Medical journals recognized him as an authority on X-ray, and printed many of his papers. It is thought that overexertion in the preparation of a treatise on which he was working may have con- tributed to his heart attack."
Dr. George Franklin Thomas was born at Akron, Ohio, April 12, 1882, and was a son of Richard and Catherine (Phillips) Thomas. In
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the public schools of his native city he continued his studies until his graduation from the high school, and thereafter he came to Cleveland and entered Adelbert College. In this institution he was graduated in 1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and he forthwith was matriculated in the Medical School of Western Reserve University, in which he com- pleted the prescribed curriculum and was graduated as a member of the class of 1906. His reception of the degree of Doctor of Medicine was followed by two years of effective service as an interne in the Charity Hospital of Cleveland. His intention had been to specialize in the surgical department of his profession, but in connection with his service as a house physician at the Charity Hospital he became deeply interested in X-ray work, which was then in the inceptive period of its development. After his two years at this hospital Doctor Thomas engaged in the general practice of his profession, but he soon found it expedient to turn his attention to X-ray research exclusively. He was soon given charge of X-ray work in both the Charity Hospital and the City Hospital. His intensive study and research, the importance of his experimentation, and his enthusiasm in his chosen sphere of service soon gained to him definite leadership in connection with X-ray in the United States, and as an authority along this line he made many and valuable contributions to leading medical and scientific publications, while he was called upon to deliver addresses before the most important of the nation's medical asso- ciations, as well as those of purely scientific research, the while his ably prepared papers on X-ray work were read before many other organiza- tions of similar order. In the Medical School of Western Reserve Uni- versity Doctor Thomas gave a splendid service as an instructor in X-ray and radio activity, and in the autumn of 1922 he took a course in therapeutics at Frankfort, Germany, besides availing himself of the advantages of leading hospital clinics in the City of Berlin, where he specialized in the study of cancer and its treatment by radio application. He demonstrated in the United States this new treatment, and his work was attended with distinctive success. Upon his return to Cleveland Doctor Thomas took possession of a large residence at 2930 Prospect Street, where he established not only his office but also one of the most completely equipped and most modern X-ray laboratories in the United States. He was preparing to carry forward in a vigorous way the appli- cation of the X-ray in the treatment of varied types of diseases, and his untimely death undoubtedly brought to a close a service that was destined to be of great value to the scientific world and to suffering humanity.
At the time of his death Doctor Thomas was president of the Pasteur Club. He was an active and valued member of the American Medical Association, the American Roentgen Ray Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. In the winter of 1923-4 he organized and became the first president of the Cleveland Radiological Society.
Doctor Thomas was loyally arrayed in the ranks of the republican party, but had no desire for political activity or preferment. In 1923 he was raised to the degree of Master Mason in Cleveland Heights Lodge No. 633, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and thereafter he extended his affiliation to the local chapter of Royal Arch Masons and the com-
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mandery of Knights Templars. He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta and Phi Rho Sigma college fraternities, and, with a circle of friends that was coincident with that of his acquaintances, he was a popular member of the University Club, the Union Club, the Shaker Heights Country Club and the Canterbury Country Club.
On the 3d of October, 1908, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Thomas and Miss Marcia Bruckshaw, daughter of John Henry and Bella (Atkinson) Bruckshaw. The noble characteristics of Doctor Thomas found their most perfect exemplification in connection with the ideal relations of the home circle, and in her bereavement his widow finds her greatest measure of compensation and reconciliation through the gracious memories of their association and through the presence of their three children, Georgia, Marcia and George F., Jr.
HENRY STODDARD SHERMAN gained distinct precedence as one of the able and representative members of the Cleveland bar, and in his character and achievement conferred added distinction to a family name that has been one of prominence and eminence in connection with Ohio and national history, as may be understood when it is stated that the subject of this memoir, whose death occurred February 24, 1893, was a nephew of the late Gen. William T. Sherman, under whom he was in service as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war.
Henry S. Sherman was born at Mansfield, judicial center of Richland County, Ohio, April 29, 1844, and his death occurred about two months prior to the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birth. He was a son of the late Judge Charles T. and Eliza (Williams) Sherman, both members of distinguished Ohio pioneer families. Judge Charles T. Sherman con- tinued in the practice of law at Mansfield until 1866, when he received appointment to the bench of the United States District Court of the Northern Ohio district and removed to the City of Cleveland. In this high judicial office he continued his able and distinguished administration until 1873, and thereafter he lived virtually retired until the time of his death.
After having duly profited by the advantages of the public schools of his native city Henry S. Sherman in 1861 was matriculated in Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio, but his youthful loyalty and patriotism were not to be denied expression, for after having been a student in Kenyon about a year he withdrew therefrom to enter service as a soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he refused appointment to official position. By actual service merit he won his successive promo- tions through the grades of sergeant, sergeant major and second lieu- tenant, which last named office was conferred upon him in Tune, 1863, in recognition of gallant conduct on the field of battle. In March, 1864. he was made first lieutenant of Company I of his original regiment. and in the following month was promoted to adjutant thereof. In Tuly, 1863, he received annointment as a member of the staff of his distinguished uncle. Gen. William T. Sherman, and in this connection he continued his service until he suffered an attack of typhoid fever and was sent home on invalid leave. By reason of his youth and his impaired health his uncle,
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General Sherman, insisted that he resign from the army, and this course he felt constrained to follow. He then entered historic old Dartmouth College, and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1866 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Upon his return to Mansfield he there began the study of law, which discipline he later continued under the preceptorship of George Willey in the Ctiy of Cleve- land, where he was admitted to the bar in the year 1868. He forthwith engaged in the practice of his profession, and later he was assistant under George Willey, district attorney of Cuyahoga County, an office of which he continued the incumbent nearly ten years. He then resigned to give his undivided attention to his private law business. His first professional partnership was represented in his membership in the firm of Willey, Terrell & Sherman. In September, 1877, he formed a law partnership with James H. Hoyt, and the firm later became known as Willey, Sherman & Hoyt. This alliance continued until the senior partner, Judge Willey, passed from the stage of life's mortal endeavors, and thereafter the former title of Sherman & Hoyt was maintained until 1889, when, upon the admission of A. C. Dustin to the firm, the title became Sherman, Hoyt & Dustin. Of this strong and influential law firm Mr. Sherman continued to be 'a member until his death. He marked the passing years with large and worthy achievement in his profession and as a loyal and progressive citizen. Jury trials were somewhat distasteful to him, and thus he favored professional service that involved his appearance in courts of last resort. . It was before higher courts that he won his greatest triumphs, and his briefs were models of clarity, directness and precision, as they represented the result of thorough research and careful preparation. Mr. Sherman was known for his broad and accurate knowledge of law and precedent, and thus his mature judgment made him specially able as a counselor. He was really one of the great lawyers of the Ohio bar, a bar that has claimed many distinguished members, and honor shall ever attend his memory both as a leader in his profession and as a man who represented the best in the scheme of human ideals and service. Mr. Sherman was en route to Europe, in connection with affairs of business, when an attack of sea- sickr.ess so affected the action of his weak heart that he died on shipboard, his remains having been brought back to Cleveland for interment.
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