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In 1905 Mr. Treadway was nominated for vice mayor of Cleveland, the republican municipal ticket being headed by Theodore E. Burton for mayor. In 1908 he was elected as a republican to the office of lieutenant-governor of Ohio on the ticket with Governor Andrew L. Har- ris, who was unfortunately defeated, the democratic candidate for gov- ernor, Judson T. Harmon, being elected. In 1910 he was renominated for lieutenant-governor, the republican candidate for governor that year being Warren G. Harding, but the entire state republican ticket was
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defeated. Mr. Treadway both before that and afterwards was associ- ated on terms of unusual intimacy with the late Mr. Harding. They were warm personal friends, and Mr. Treadway esteemed beyond measure the personality and character of the late president.
During the great war he was a member of the executive committee, Cleveland War Board.
As counsel Mr. Treadway is a director in a number of business cor- porations, and also has many executive responsibilities. He is president of the Baker R & L Company, president of the Cleveland Paper Manu- facturing Company, secretary of the Ferris Shoe Company of Cleve- land and Philadelphia, is a director and member of the executive committee of the Guardian Savings & Trust Company, a director of the Cleveland Metal Products Company and the Peck, Stow & Willcox Company of Cleveland and Southington, Connecticut, and a trustee of Pilgrim Church and Jones Home for Friendless Children. For two years he was a director, 1911-1913, of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the American, Cleveland and Ohio Bar associations, Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, the Tippecanoe Republican Club, Western Reserve Historical Society, and since 1912 has been a trustee of the Ohio State Archæological and Historical Society. He is a member of the Union, Clifton, Mayfield, Westwood and Mid-Day clubs, the Columbus Club of Columbus, and of the Sons of the American Revo- lution. He has been president of the Tippecanoe, Clifton and Westwood clubs.
Mr. Treadway married, January 5, 1897, Esther Sutliff Frisbie, who was born at Southington, Connecticut, daughter of William J. and Anna Sutliff Frisbie. They have two children, Frances Sessions and Augustine Russell, graduates of Smith and Dartmouth colleges.
WILLIAM CLETUS GRAVES, a Cleveland attorney with offices in the Hanna Building, is a native of this city, and has an interesting ancestry containing a number of well-known figures in the pioneer life of the far West.
Mr. Graves was born in Cleveland. His father, Michael Charles Graves, was born in this, city in 1863. His grandfather, a native of Dublin, Ireland, came to America a young man, and arrived in Cleveland when it was a comparatively small city. He lived here the rest of his life. He married in Cleveland, Elizabeth Murphy, of Irish ancestry. They reared a family of twelve children.
Michael Charles Graves learned the plumber's trade, and has been in that business for forty years or more. He married Antoinette McNamara. She was born in San Francisco, California. Her father, William McNam- ara, was born in County Limerick, Ireland. Her grandfather, John McNamara, was an architect in the service of the British Government, and he planned and constructed a large number of portable iron houses. Several of these houses were shipped to the United States, and were among the first buildings of the kind ever put up in this country. One of these old buildings is still standing in San Francisco. John McNamara came to the United States about 1860, lived for a time in Cleveland, and was a building contractor there. He did work at other points in the Middle West and erected the Cathedral that stands at the corner of
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Superior and Ninth Street. William McNamara, father of Antoinette McNamara, married a daughter of Francis X. Benitz. The latter was born in Baden, Germany. His brother, Anthony Benitz, settled in Pitts- burgh and established a brewery that was first in the United States to brew beer on a commercial scale. Francis X. Benitz was a man of great energy, and on coming to America lived for a time in Pittsburgh and removed to Cleveland, and still later went out to California, crossing the plains with teams. He first located at Fort Russ, on Russia River in California, where he was engaged in grain and live stock raising. Moving to San Francisco, he invested heavily in real estate, and he platted some property and gave to one of the streets the name Haight, in honor of his wife. After a successful career he removed to South America and settled near Buenos Aires, where he acquired large tracts of land and where many of his descendants still live. His wife was Margaret Haight.
Michael Charles Graves and wife reared two sons, named Benitz Abbott and William Cletus. William Cletus Graves attended the Case and Wilson public schools, graduated from the Standard School and the High School of Commerce, and studied law in Baldwin-Wallace Uni- versity. He was graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1916, and since being admitted to the bar has engaged in practice, confining his attention to civil practice. Mr. Graves is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the City Club, the Lake Forest Country Club, and is a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club. He belongs to the Delta Theta Phi fraternity and the Grand Fraternity and Swastika. He is an Elk, and a republican in politics.
J. PAUL THOMPSON was born at Cadiz, county seat of Harrison County, Ohio, January 13, 1880, son of Harvey L. and Maria (Sham- baugh) Thompson. More extended reference to his parents is made in later paragraphs. J. Paul Thompson was reared on a farm, attended public school and graduated from high school in 1896. Then for several years he taught, and entering Ohio Wesleyan University completed his course and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1904. In the same year he entered the law department of Western Reserve University, and completed a three years' course in two, so that he was given a diploma with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1906. In June of that year he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and at once engaged in general practice in Cleveland. He was admitted to the bar of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Ohio in 1908, and later to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Thompson has formed no partnership, and has relied on his individual abilities to bring him the splendid volume of general practice that now requires his undivided time and attention. He is a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio State and American Bar associations.
He has other interests and diversions, represented by his membership in the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the University Club, the Cas- talia Trout Club, the Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Alpha Delta college fraternities. He is very fond of outdoor life, and his favorite recreations are fishing, camping and exploring in the wilds.
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On June 17, 1914, Mr. Thompson married Miss Georgella Ikirt, of East Liverpool, Ohio, daughter of Dr. George P. and Mary (Holmes) Ikirt. Her father in addition to earning a high place in his profession, has been a leader in public affairs and politics, and he had the honor of being elected a member of Congress, defeating the late Colonel Morgan, noted engineer and manufacturer of Alliance, Ohio. Colonel Morgan was given the nomination by the republican party at the personal solici- tation of the late President William Mckinley. Mrs. Thompson was educated in the Woman's College of Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1906.
The father of the Cleveland attorney, Harvey L. Thompson, was born in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, June 7, 1842, son of Gabriel and Elizabeth (Allen) Thompson. His father was born in Harford County, Maryland, and his mother in Carroll County, Ohio. Elizabeth Allen's father, Joseph Allen, and her mother, Sarah Allen, were both born in Otsego County, New York.
Harvey L. Thompson grew up on a farm in Carroll County, received his early advantages in the common schools, and attended several higher schools, including an institution at New Rumley in Harrison County, where he was a schoolmate of Gen. George Custer, the noted soldier and Indian fighter. On August 13, 1862, Harvey L. Thompson enlisted in Company A of the One Hundred Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry and was promoted to corporal and sergeant, and was a participant in many engagements of the war, including the battles of Harper's Ferry, Second Bull Run, Spotsylvania, Petersburg and Cedar Creek. He was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864, and received his honorable discharge in 1865.
Following the close of his military service Harvey L. Thompson attended Hopedale Normal College and Scio College in Harrison County, Ohio, was a teacher for several winters, and at Conotton, Ohio, engaged in the general merchandising business. In 1874 he was elected county treasurer of Harrison County, was reelected n 1876, and after completing his second term in office engaged in merchandising at Cadiz. Finally he retired to a fine farm, where he supervised the growing of field crops and wool and sheep growing, and continued so until his death on February 3, 1907.
Harvey L. Thompson married, August 3, 1871, Miss Maria Sham- baugh, who was born at New Rumley, Harrison County, August 22, 1844, daughter of Michael and Hettie (Hazlett) Shambaugh. Her parents were born in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Harvey L. Thompson was a woman of unusual breadth of culture and refinement. She attended Otterbein College at Westerville, Ohio, for several years, and was intensely interested in good literature. She was also an active worker in church and foreign missionary societies. Her death occurred at the old Thompson homestead, February 14, 1922.
CHARLES B. STANNARD, sheriff of Cuyahoga County, was a well-known figure in insurance circles in the city for a number of years, and ren- dered important service to the cause of good government while a member
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of the city council, resigning from that body when he took up his present duties as sheriff.
Mr. Stannard was born at Huron, Ohio, March 21, 1876, son of Allen A. and Julia (Martin) Stannard. His father died in 1881 and his mother in 1920. Charles B. Stannard was reared at Huron, where he attended the public schools, and in 1895, at the age of nineteen, came to Cleveland. His first employment here was with the wholesale grocery house of Babcock, Hurd & Company. He was purchasing agent for this firm, and subsequently for two years was on the road as traveling salesman for the Kinney & Levan Company, wholesale and retail china and crockery merchants. On leaving the road Mr. Stannard engaged in the insurance business with the firm of Olmstead Brothers & Company, located in the Williamson Building at Cleveland. He is still connected with this old established insurance agency, though he has not been active since January 1, 1921.
His leadership in city and county politics and public affairs covers a period of several years. He is a republican, and was elected to repre- sent the Twentieth Ward in the city council, his service in that body covering the years of 1916 to 1920. He was president of the council in 1920. He has the distinction of being the only man ever elected president of the council without opposition of any kind, even from the opposing party. On the republican county ticket Mr. Stannard was elected sheriff in 1920, and resigned from the city council December 31, 1920, to assume his present duties the first of the following year.
Mr. Stannard is a past master of Woodward Lodge No. 508, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Mckinley Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar, and Al Sirat Grotto. He also belongs to the Acacia Club, with a membership limited to 1,000, eligibility being based upon affiliation with the Masonic fraternity. He is a member of Halcyon Lodge No. 488, Knights of Pythias, and the Woodmen of the World and the Kiwanis Club.
Mr. Stannard married Miss Annette Scrivens of Ashtabula, Ohio. They have two sons, Neal, who married Jean Cunningham of Cleveland, and Paul.
CARLISLE HARRISON SNELL, M. D. One of the younger members of the medical profession at Cleveland is Dr. Carlisle Harrison Snell, gen- eral practitioner, with offices and residence at 4746 Lorain Avenue. Doctor Snell is a physician and surgeon by choice and heritage, his family name being well known in medical circles in several states.
Coming from an old Colonial family of Tennessee, Doctor Snell was born in the historic City of Knoxville, that state, on June 8, 1890, and is a son of Dr. Albert Freeman and Ida Caroline (Ricketts) Snell. Dr. Albert F. Snell was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, was gen- erously reared and liberally educated, completed his medical course in Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, and then entered upon the practice of medicine at Chattanooga, Tennessee. Later he removed to Knoxville, and late in 1890 came to Ohio and established himself at Cincinnati, where he has become very prominent in his profession. He was married to Ida Caroline Ricketts, who was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, and is descended
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from the old and distinguished Edgar family of this state. Two sons of the family followed in their father's professional footsteps: Albert F., Jr., and Carlisle Harrison. The former was graduated from the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1914, and for a time afterward was an instructor in that college. Later he entered on military service in the World war, was commissioned first lieutenant at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, where he fell ill, and his death occurred in 1920, bringing to a close a promising career.
Carlisle Harrison Snell was an infant when the family came to Cin- cinnati. He attended the public schools of that city and following his graduation from the high school, read medicine in his father's office until 1914, when he entered the Eclectic Medical College, from which he was graduated with his medical degree in 1918. After spending one year as an interne in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York City, and six months at the Lying-in Hospital of that city, he entered into practice at West Farmington, Trumbull County, Ohio, a few months later coming to Cleveland, where he has found ready professional recognition and sub- stantial encouragement.
Doctor Snell was married to Miss Harriet Tucker in 1921, a graduate nurse, who was born at Canton, Pennsylvania. They have one daughter, Caroline Tucker, who was born in September, 1922.
Doctor Snell is a member of Pleasant Ridge Lodge No. 288, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cincinnati; is a Knight Templar and thirty- second degree Mason, and a member of the Eastern Star. He belongs also to Amazon Lodge No. 567, Odd Fellows, of Cleveland, and to the Lakewood Country Club and the Cleveland Automobile Club.
ALVA R. DITTRICK, a county commissioner of Cuyahoga County, is a native of Cleveland, and has been a well-known citizen for many years. Most of his business life has been spent in the electrical industry.
He was born at the family home on Euclid. Avenue, Lakeview Park, from Roscoe District, grandson of Alva Dittrick, and a descendant in the fifth generation from a pioneer who came from Holland and settled in Colonial days in the Mohawk Valley of New York, where his descendants of the later days were identified with the name "Mohawk Dutch." One branch of the family moving out of New York established a home in Ontario, Canada, but the grandfather, Alva Dittrick, and also the son, Roscoe Dittrick, his son, were born in St. Catherine's in Ontario. Alva Dittrick owned a large body of land there, was a contractor of public works, and built some of the early locks on canals in Canada. On coming to Ohio, he was a contractor during the construction of some of the pioneer railroads of this state. He lived for a time in Aschula, and then in Cleveland, where he died. He married a member of the Campbell family, one of the pioneer families of Ashtabula County. The Dittrick family, after coming to Cleveland, lived on Ninth Street. Roscoe Dit- trick was a youth when the family came to the United States. He lived in Ashtabula County for several years and became associated with his father in the contracting business. Subsequently he was an inde- pendent contractor on public works, and during the later years of his life was connected with the street railway of Cleveland. He died at
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the age of seventy-one. Roscoe Dittrick married Fannie Ross, a native of Ashtabula County, where her parents were pioneers. She died at the early age of thirty years, leaving three children, named Alonzo, Charles and Alva. A sister of the mother of these children became the second wife of Roscoe Dittrick, and by that marriage there was a son Bert.
Alva R. Dittrick was reared in Cleveland, attended the public schools, also at business college, and followed several lines of employment, but eventually took up an industry that was then in its infancy and experi- mental stage, electrical work, and he has followed the business ever since. In 1898 Mr. Dittrick married Miss Helen Naveille, a native of Cleveland, daughter of William and Annabelle Naveille. They have three children : Alonzo, Charles and Alva. Mr. Dittrick was elected a member of the Cleveland city council in 1910, and by reelection held that office for a period of ten years, including the time of the World war. He was elected a member of the county board of commissioners in 1922. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic lodge, the Royal Arch chapter, the Holyrood comman- dery of the Knights Templar, the Lake Erie consistory of the Scottish Rite, Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine, the Masonic Grotto, and the Red Cross lodge of Knights of Pythias.
WILLIAM ELGIN AMBLER. Successful alike as lawyer and business man, William Elgin Ambler, of the dependable realty firm operating under the name of the Ambler Realty Company, is one of the representative men of Cleveland, but his record of achievements is written in the history of other cities as well. His firm has been connected with some of the most important real estate transfers in this region, and a number of the most desirable residence sections have been developed through the medium of its efforts.
William Elgin Ambler was born at Medina, Ohio, December 18, 1845, a son of Chester C. Ambler, a native of Vermont, who lived to reach the extreme old age of ninety years, and Margaret Elgin, who was born in England and came over in a sailing vessel when sixteen years old. For a number of years he was engaged in the mercantile business at Spencer, Ohio, about forty miles from Cleveland, and used to ship produce in carload lots to the latter city. William Elgin Ambler remembers being brought to Cleveland when a child of ten years, and his awe-struck impressions of what was to him the magnificent depot of the Lake Shore & Michigan Central Railroad which he was certain was the grandest building in the world. For that period, of course, it was an imposing structure, but the contrast between it and the present buildings of Cleve- land is amusing, as well as indicative of the remarkable progress made by the city. Chester C. Ambler continued actively engaged in mercantile pursuits until late in life. Of his four children, two survive, and William Elgin Ambler is the second in order of birth.
After he had completed his studies at Hillsdale College, William Elgin Ambler attended Albion College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. His legal training was secured at Union College Law School of Albany, New York, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to the bar. He then attended Adrian College, from which he was graduated
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with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and he secured the degree of Master of Arts from both Hillsdale and Adrian colleges. For the past forty-six years he has been chairman of the board of trustees of Hillsdale College. and is its oldest trustee, although when he was elected to the board he was the youngest member.
In 1869 Mr. Ambler went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and lived there about a year, leaving that city for Pentwater, Michigan, which continued to be the scene of his professional activities for twenty years, during which period he was in active practice and served as probate judge of Oceana County for three years. While in Michigan he was elected State Senator in 1878, and was reelected in 1880. During his second term he was chairman of the committee on appropriations and finance, and was president pro tem of the Senate.
In 1891 Mr. Ambler came to Cleveland, which has since continued to be his home, and embarked in the real estate business, forming a partnership with J. M. Curtiss, an old resident of the city. For some. years the main business of the partners was allotments, platting and selling lots. At that time the usual practice was to sell a lot on time and after it was paid for, to finance the building operations. That method continued for several years. Then the method changed to build- ing a home on a lot and selling it to the purchaser on a monthly payment plan, which is still continued wtih most satisfactory results. One of the most successful of their ventures was the Circus Ground Allotment located south of Cedar Avenue, and east of Seventy-ninth Street. In selling this allotment a unique method was followed. In every adver- tisement a cut of some feature of a circus and animal from the menagerie was used. Everyone knew where the allotment was located and the pictures and jungles were exceedingly attractive. The total investment of houses aggregated about $700,000. For some years, however, they have widened the scope of their business and now include operations in business and manufacturing sites and long leases, together with their allotment development work. For a long period the partners have been operating under their present name of the Ambler Realty Company and they have always maintained their offices in the Arcade. Mr. Ambler belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Cleveland Athletic Club, and is an honored member of both organizations.
Mr. Ambler was married to Miss Flora E. Lewis of Lyons, Mich- igan, and they have four children, all living, namely: J. C. Ambler, who is a realtor of Arcadia, Florida; William Ambler, who is manager of the Ambler Realty Company; Angell, who is the wife of Dr. S. M. Weaver. of Cleveland, Ohio; and Faye, who is the wife of H. H. Hampton, a realtor of Cleveland, Ohio. During the years he has been connected with the realty market of Cleveland, Mr. Ambler has been privileged to witness many changes, and to take a determining part in many of them. He is proud of the city and its progress, and of the fact that he and his company have accomplished so much in the way of providing com- fortable homes for thrifty people, in this way leading them to become permanent residents of the community, and through these means securing their interest in the further development of the city. Any man who
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helps to develop interested citizens is performing a valuable and con- structive work and deserves great credit and material rewards.
In 1924 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Hillsdale College.
WILLIAM BROWNELL SANDERS. Nearly a century ago, Judge Sanders initiated the practice of law in his native City of Cleveland, and in addition to having a high place as one of the representative members of the bar of the Ohio metropolis, he has served on the bench of the Court of Common Pleas for Cuyahoga County. Both his paternal and maternal ancestors were pioneer settlers in the Buckeye State and the Sanders family was founded in America in the Colonial period of our national history. Thus there is much of interest in both the family record and personal achieve- ment of Judge Sanders, especially as touching the History of Ohio.
In a house that stood on the site of the present Federal Reserve Bank Building in the City of Cleveland, Judge William Bromnell Sanders was born, son of Rev. William David Sanders, D. D., and Cornelia Ruth (Smith) Sanders, both natives of Peru, Huron County, Ohio, and rep- resentatives of honored pioneer families of that section of the historic old Western Reserve.
Dr. William David Sanders was born October 2, 1821, a son of Dr. Moses Chapin Sanders, who was born at Milford, Massachusetts, May 27, 1789, and whose father, John Sanders, was born in that same community, September 27, 1759. John Sanders was a son of Robert and Sarah (Cheney) Sanders, who, so far as available data indicate, are supposed to have passed their entire lives in that part of the old Bay State. From Massachusetts, John Sanders moved to Saratoga County, New York, where he established a home for his family and where, so far as known, he passed the remainder of his life. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Chapin, was a daughter of Sergt. Moses Chapin, who was a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolution, in which he participated in the historic battle of Lexington.
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