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ARTHUR H. CLARK, now perhaps recognized as the leading publisher of documentary source works in history and economics in the United States, was born in England. He was educated chiefly in the private schools of London. He entered the University of Oxford, but was compelled to leave at the end of a year and a half owing to financial reverses which overtook his father. For several years he was associated with Henry Sotheran & Company, one of the oldest and most prominent publishing and bookselling houses of London. During these years in London, he had the pleasure of meeting many men prominent in English literature, among these being Lord Tennyson, Sir William Herschel, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, and many others. On many occasions he was entertained at the homes of some of these men, and through these bookish associations with them accu- mulated many facts regarding their lives and peculiarities that are intensely interesting. During a visit at the home of R. D. Blackmore. the author of "Lorna Doone," about a year after Mrs. Blackmore had passed away, Mr. Blackmore opened his heart to him, telling him many incidents in regard to Mrs. Blackmore. He showed to Mr. Clark the room in which Mrs. Blackmore died and over the threshold of which no foot had passed since the day she was removed therefrom. O11 another occasion he spent a week on a fishing expedition to Yorkshire with Mr. Blackmore, during which trip Mr. Blackmore narrated the great difficulties he had experienced in securing the publication of "Lorna Doone," now one of the most celebrated novels in English literature. It seems that this manuscript was presented to one English publisher after another and declined, in many instances on account of its size and in others on account of its not being in harmony with the then current literature of the day. The story goes that on a fishing trip with Mr. E. B. Marston, of Messrs. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Mr. Blackmore took the manuscript along and read the manuscript to Mr. Marston as they rested at noon beside the Yorkshire River. Mr. Marston became intensely interested, so much so that the fishing trip ended before the manuscript was completed. Mr. Marston sat up the remainder of that last night to complete the manuscript, and in the morning advised Mr. Blackmore that they would undertake the publi- cation. These and many similar experiences with literary men are among Mr. Clark's cherished recollections.
In London on several occasions Mr. Clark had met Gen. A. C. McClurg, president and founder of the A. C. McClurg & Company of Chicago. In 1890, Mr. Clark left England for Chicago, associating himself with A. C. McClurg & Company. Again ensued pleasant and personal associations with authors for whom Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Company were the publishers, among these being Eugene Field, one of the most charming and kindly humorists in American literature; Frank Gunsaulus, and others.
Early in 1894, Mr. Clark left Chicago for Cleveland to become a director of The Burrows Brothers Company, and to establish for them a publishing and rare book department. During this period several notable series of books were published, among them the Jesuit Relations & Allied Documents, in 73 volumes, the basic work of historical reference for the Central West for the period from 1600 to 1750.
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In January, 1902, he organized and incorporated The Arthur H. Clark Company. Associated with him in this new company were the Hon. Willis Vickery, now judge of the Court of Appeals; the Hon. New- ton D. Baker, Secretary of War under President Wilson; Fred C. Howe. former commissioner of immigration; and a number of other men prominent in public affairs and in the realm of literature.
The publishing of reference books of permanent value, and the love of books in general has been the hobby of his life. It has brought him into touch with many men, not only prominent in literature but in the public life of our country, among such being Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Rufus C. Dawes, Premier Laurier of Canada, Daniel Carter Beard, Seton-Thompson, and many others. His catalogue of pub- lications includes some of the most important source contributions to the history of North America-basic works upon which the future history of the Middle and Far West must be written. Through his house were issued all of the important historical works of the late Dr. Reuben G. Thwaites, for many years the recognized authority on the history of the Central and Far West. The series entitled "The Philippine Islands, 1493 to 1898," in 55 volumes, edited by Blair and Robertson, is the foundation source for the history of the Philippines from their discovery until they passed under the control of the United States. It is a series much sought by the larger college and reference libraries of the world. It passed out of print and is now very difficult to secure. "The Docu- mentary History of American Industrial Society," edited by Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, John B. Clark, and other noted economists, is without doubt the basic work upon which the history of the com- mercial, economic and industrial life of the United States for the period of 1649 to 1880 must be based. It forms the background for the pro- gressive policy of Roosevelt, is the only adequate history of the labor movement of the United States, the land policy, and the trend of American democracy. In this sketch mention is made of only a few of the many publications of this company, now numbering a total in excess of 180.
During his later years, Mr. Clark has become interested in other fields of commercial life, in nearly all of which he is either at the head or prominently identified therewith. Among these are the Cleveland Worm & Gear Company, the first manufacturers of worm-gearing in this country and still the recognized leaders in this industry. These worms and wheels used for the transmission of power have been largely adopted in the automotive industry, and are extensively used in manufacturing and industrial plants, and for service in the turrets of battleships. Of this company, Mr. Clark is both president and treasurer. He is also president of Knollwood Cemetery Company, one of the most beautiful cemeteries in Cleveland. Likewise of the Bedford Savings & Loan Company. He is a director of the Cleveland Laboratory Company, the American Commercial Company, the Cleveland Law School, the Cleve- land Chandler Minnesota Company, and others.
He is a progressive republican in politics, a Protestant in religion, and a Mason. He is a member of the Hakluyt Society of London, of the American Historical Society, of the Western Reserve Historical Society, of the American Oriental, Anglo-Russian Literary, and the American
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Geographical societies. He is a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Bedford Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Athletic Club, the Rowfant Club, and the Rotary Club. For seven years he served as president of the Bedford Board of Education.
Mr. Clark is the son of Joseph and Sophia (Hart) Clark, of English and Scotch ancestry, respectively. He married Fannie Z. Bell, of Brecks- ville, Ohio, and to this union three children were born: Mary Agnes, Arthur H., Jr., and Wallace Beecher.
ALBERT EDWARD MCCLURE, of Lakewood, Ohio, one of the most successful medical and surgical practitioners of this section of the state. is a native of Canada, his birth occurring at Brampton, Ontario, on the 14th of March, 1870. His parents were Patrick and Margaret ( Blackstock ) McClure, both of whom were natives of County Antrim, Ireland, and came to the Province of Canada in very early days and located in Toronto. which at that time was rudely known as the "Muddy York," but did not deserve such a misnomer. The father and mother lived to be eighty-eight and eighty-four years respectively, and became the parents of nine children five of whom are still living. Upon their arrival in Canada they began the work of general farming and stock raising, and became prosperous and prominent at Brampton. They lived together in happy married life for sixty-two years, until called by death.
Their son, Albert Edward, was reared on the farm of his parents, and in youth become familiar with the surroundings and environments of farm life. His early education was secured at the common schools and later in the high school of Brampton. In early manhood he determined to leave the farm and seek some other profitable occupation. Accordingly, believing that he would have a better opportunity in the United States, he crossed the border in 1887 and came to Ohio, where, at Sandusky, he secured employment as clerk in a drug store for two years. He then determined on what his future occupation should be. The two years in the drug store gave him the right impulse and incentive, and he therefore entered the Cleveland Medical School, now the Medical Department of the State University, took the full course and in due time was graduated with the class of 1892 and was granted the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Soon afterward he was given employment as interne in the Cleveland City Hospital, but in 1893 began general practice on his own responsibility in Lakewood, which then was a village of only about 600 people. It may be correctly stated that he is one of the pioneer practitioners in this wide- awake city of today, and that he has built up not only a satisfactory practice. but has won the confidence and esteem of the residents.
For more than twenty years he served as one of the city's health officers. his salary for the first year amounting to only $25. For several years he has served, and is now still serving, as physician of Cuyahoga County His practice is general, covering both medicine and surgery, and his mastery of this difficult art is pronounced and self-evident.
He is a member of Lakewood Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Kiwanis Club and of the Yacht Club. Like all useful and prominent citizens, he takes great interest in everything that is likely to contribute to the welfare and development of this swiftly moving city.
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The doctor's wife was formerly Miss Ethel Hall, who was born on the old Hall farm which is now covered with the residences of the people of Lakewood. She is a descendant of the old pioneer family of Halls who located here when the land was wild and unoccupied and became renowned for their sound citizenship and their high morals and superior culture. Doctor and Mrs. McClure have two children: Margaret, who became the wife of David Hershey Filbert, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and they have one daughter, Eleanor ; and Albert Edward II.
The grandfather of Ethel Hall was Joseph Hall, who with his wife, Sarah, settled on what is now the City of Lakewood in 1837, when this part of the state was wild and unpopulated in general, though here and there were pioneer families struggling to make a living in the woods, the swamps or the timber openings. Both Joseph and Sarah were natives of England, the Hall family seat having been at St. Ives. Sarah was a member of the Curtis family, which lived in the same locality as did the Halls. In that locality they met and married, and became the parents of four children there and of three others after their arrival in this part of the state. All are now deceased.
After they had reached what is now Lakewood and had become perma- nently located they managed to sell their lands in England and realized therefor an unusually large sum, owing to the fact that it was taken by the authorities for railroad purposes. When the money from this sale reached them they were able to purchase four large farms in what is now Lakewood, two on each side of what is now Detroit Avenue, aggregating about 350 acres. They also bought a farm in Dover and two others at Stringsville, . all three in the present Cuyahoga County. At a later date these farms were divided among the Hall children, and the Lakewood tract was later turned over to the children in parcels or allotments. The Halls were everywhere known as rich people.
Mathew Hall, son of Joseph and father of Mrs. McClure, was born in England. To him was given the farm on the north side of Detroit Avenue. On this tract stood the old Hall residence, and now stands the McClure home, one of the finest in Lakewood. Mathew married Margaret Curtis, a native of England, and to them two children were born: Ethel and Edward, the latter dying at the age of twenty-six years. Mathew was prominent in public affairs. He occupied many positions of trust and responsibility, and invariably served his constituents with credit to himself and satisfaction to them. At one time he was president of the old and historic Plank Road Company, which in early times was a blessing to the travelers in this portion of the state, and ever since has been the boast and pride of the people.
FRANK B. MELLEN during his younger years was identified with some of Cleveland's banking institutions, and has since engaged in business for himself as a financial broker, with offices in the Bangor Building.
Mr. Mellen was born May 25, 1889, in Medina County, Ohio, son of Dr. Bernard and Julia (Bower) Mellen. His father was born in New York, and the family came at an early date to Cleveland. Dr. Bernard Mellen was a graduate of medicine from Western Reserve University, practiced for a few years in Medina County and then located on the East
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Side in Cleveland, where he was a busy and useful worker in his pro- fession the rest of his life. He died November 18, 1920. He was an active democrat in politics, and a member of the Catholic Church. His brother and two sisters are still living in Cleveland.
Frank B. Mellen was the fifth and youngest in his father's family, all sons, and he was reared and educated in Cleveland, attending the public and parochial schools. When eighteen years of age he became a clerk in the Cleveland Trust Company, and after a short time went with the Garfield Bank, where he spent six years as teller. He filled a similar position with the Union National Bank for five years, and then engaged in business as a financial broker. He is a dealer in mortgages, handles bond issues, and also does much financing for large contracts. While an employe of the Garfield Bank he became a member of the American Institute of Engineering, served three years on its Board of Governors, was elected vice president, and at the convention in Denver was elected president of the national body.
June 5, 1917, Mr. Mellen married Miss Dorothy Flanigan, of an old Cleveland family. They have one son, now four years old.
CHARLES J. GOULD, a prominent and reputable citizen of Bedford, is the son of Otis H. Gould, one of the pioneers of Cuyahoga County. Otis H. Gould was born on November 15, 1815, at Ware, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and was the son of Daniel and Mary (Snell) Gould. The ancestors of Daniel Gould came to Massachusetts in 1636. Daniel Gould and family migrated to Southern Ohio in the early part of the nineteenth century, where they remained for a time. In the fall of 1825 the family moved to Twinsburg, Summit County, Ohio, and in the spring of 1826 they moved to Bedford, occupying a log house located on the easterly side of Broadway, about three hundred feet north of Columbus Street. There were only a few families in Bedford at that time. The land was heavily wooded and no roads had been established and opened for travel. Blazed trees indicated the route to Cleveland over which the pioneers occasionally traveled to get salt, flour and other supplies. Deer and wild turkeys were plentiful and furnished the principal supply of meat. There was an abundance of small fur bearing animals such as mink, fox, opossum, skunk and raccoon. Daniel Gould was a large man and in point of courage and strength had few equals and no superiors. He was a splendid type of our forefathers who took the first essential steps to make the United States what it is now, the leading nation of the whole world. He was a member of the Bedford Disciples Church. Daniel and Mary Gould had four sons and one daughter, as follows: Otis H. Gould; Orris P. Gould, a bachelor, who died in 1904; Charles L. Gould, a doctor, who died in early manhood; and Ralph Gould, who died at the age of seven.
Otis H. Gould was reared on the farm and received a common school education. He was a farmer during the greater portion of his life. For many years he served as justice of the peace and township assessor. Like his father, he possessed great physical strength. He was a member of the Disciples Church and was a fluent public speaker. His first wife was of the Prestage family, and she bore him three children and then died, as did also her three children. His second wife was Margaret Whiteside. She
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was born in Ireland. Six children were born of this union, as follows : Mary E. Gould, a high school teacher ; Charles J. Gould ; Annie L. Gould, who for many years was a professor in Hiram College; Lewis D. Gould ; Harriet B. Gould, who married Frank R. Lee; and Otis E. Gould. Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Lee have a daughter, Margaret Lee. Otis H. Gould purchased a farm on North Street in 1840, on which he resided from the date of its purchase until the date of his death in July, 1901. He left surviving him his widow, Margaret W. Gould, and the six children, all of which are still living.
Charles J. Gould was born October 1, 1873, at Bedford, on the North Street farm. The farm remained in the family until 1920, when it was sold and allotted. Charles J. Gould was educated in the public schools of Bedford, in Hiram College and at Western Reserve University, where he completed a full course and was graduated in 1896 with the degree of Bachelor of Law. He passed the Ohio State bar examination and was admitted to practice law. He was engaged in farming from 1896 until 1902. On October 1, 1902, he was united in marriage with Miss Lottie M. Flick. Two children were born of this marriage, Howard J. Gould, born Decem- ber 13, 1903, now a senior in the class of 1925 at Western Reserve University, and Lorna M. Gould, born April 9, 1908, and now a junior in the Bedford High School. The entire family are active members in the Church of Christ of Bedford, also known as the Disciples Church. C. J. Gould has since 1902 been engaged in the practice of law and as a dealer in real estate.
JUDGE STANLEY L. ORR, judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court, is one of the prominent younger men in the legal profession in this city. He had been in practice only a short time when he entered military service, first on the Mexican border and later in the World war, and most of his record as a member of the bar has been achieved since he returned from overseas.
Judge Orr was born at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, August 5, 1890, and represents a family that has been in Ross County for more than a century, becoming identified with the region around Chillicothe, the first state capital before Ohio was admitted to the Union. Judge Orr's grand- father, Jeremiah Orr, was a native of Ross County, was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and served as a soldier in an Ohio regiment in the Civil war. Welden K. Orr, father of Judge Orr, was born on the Orr farm near Chillicothe in 1863, and has spent his active career as a farmer. He married Elizabeth Lutz, who was born near Chillicothe, daughter of Col. Isaac Lutz, a well known citizen of that county and a colonel in the Ohio Militia. Welden K. Orr and wife had eight children: Stanley L .; Florence, wife of E. P. Maxwell, of Columbus, Ohio; Helen H .; Irene; Loren W. K., who died in 1916; Fred B .; Elizabeth, and Virginia Lee.
Stanley L. Orr grew up in a rural district of Ross County, attending public school at Kingston. He was graduated from high school in 1908 and then entered Western Reserve University at Cleveland, taking the classical course and graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1912. He completed the law course in 1914, when he was awarded the Bachelor of Laws degree.
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Admitted to the bar in June, 1914, he was associated in practice for a time with the well known Cleveland law firm of Thompson, Hine & Flora.
He soon joined a national guard company, and when the trouble with Mexico reached a critical stage he went to the border with Troop A of the First Ohio Cavalry. He served as second lieutenant. After the National Guard troops returned in 1917 and America entered the World war he was promoted to first lieutenant of Headquarters Company of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Regiment of Field Artillery. This regiment was made up largely of Cleveland and Toledo men. It was organized in Cleveland, and was sent for training to Camp Sheridan, Alabama. From there the regiment was sent to port of embarkation at New York. After leaving the harbor the Ship Horatio, on which Judge Orr sailed, being a slow boat and unable to keep up with its convoy, put into the harbor of Halifax, and subsequently sailed with another and slower convoy. He landed at Liverpool, and from South Hampton crossed the channel to LaHavre, and after a week spent in a small village near Bordeaux, entered an artillery training camp at LaSarge. The regiment was held in reserve at that point, close to the Argonne battle front, and it was in the Marche sector, a part of the St. Mihiel front, when the armistice was signed. In the meantime Judge Orr had three weeks of intensive training in the Second Colonial Army Corps of the French Army, studying artillery prac- tice. After the armistice he returned to the United States, being mustered out at Camp Sherman April 11, 1919.
On leaving the army Judge Orr resumed his law work at Cleveland with the old firm. On November 6, 1923, he was elected judge of the Municipal Court for a term of four years. He went on the bench Janu- ary 1, 1924. Judge Orr is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association. By virtue of his ancestry he is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and also belongs to the Military Order of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the college fraternities Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta. Judge Orr married Miss Catherine E. Murray, who was born at Cleveland, daughter of J. N. and Mary Constance (Poe) Murray. Mrs. Orr is a direct descendant of Mayflower stock and one of her ancestors was Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Judge and Mrs. Orr have one daughter, Mary Constance, born August 14, 1922.
WILLIAM R. COATES. The publishers of this history are constrained to include a brief biography of the author, who has been a lifelong resi- dent of Cuyahoga County, and for over thirty years a resident of the City of Cleveland, and who is familiar with many of the scenes recounted and characters of whom he writes.
He was born in Royalton, Cuyahoga County, November 17, 1851, being the son of John and Lucy Weld Coates. He first saw the light in a log house built by his great-grandfather, John Coates, who was a native of Cleveland, England. Cleveland is the north riding of York and is the native place of the ancestors of Moses Cleaveland. John Coates came to America with his son John Coates and their families, which included a grandson, John Coates, the father of the subject of this sketch. After a stay in Geneseo, New York, the family came to the Western Reserve,
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and settled in Royalton, selecting a site for a dwelling at what is now known as Walling's Corners. The first John Coates, as recounted in a family history by Jane Elliott Snow, sympathized with the American colonies in their long struggle for independence, was a great admirer of George Washington, and having at some time offered a toast to that American hero, he was socially ostracised by some of his friends. He thereupon said he would not live where he could not honor so good a man as Washington and sailed for America.
Col. John Coates, who was John Coates III, the father of William R. Coates, moved to Brecksville after the death of his wife, which occurred shortly after the birth of this son. He obtained his military title from commanding a battalion of Cuyahoga County militia. The mother, Lucy Weld before her marriage, was a native of Guilford, Connecticut.
William R. Coates was educated in the district schools of Brecksville and at Oberlin College. At the age of seventeen he began teaching district school in the Township of Brecksville, and so continued for several years in connection with the management of a farm. He afterwards taught high school at Independence. He was a member of the Board of Education of Brecksville, and a member and clerk of the Board of Education of Brook- lyn, was twice president of the Cuyahoga County Teachers' Institute and advocated reforms in the administration of educational boards that were finally adopted.
In 1884 he accepted appointment as deputy clerk under Dr. Henry W. Kitchen, and continued in the county clerk's office as a deputy until 1899, when he was elected to succeed Harry L. Vail as clerk. He was elected to the Lower House of the General Assembly of Ohio in the '80s. Of this Legislature, known as the Sixty-seventh General Assembly, he was secre- tary of the joint House and Senate delegation from Cuyahoga County.
In 1894 he was elected mayor of the Village of Brooklyn on a platform advocating the annexation of the village to the City of Cleveland, and served until the village became a part of Greater Cleveland. He was twice president of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland, a republican organization that began as a whig campaign club in 1840, and is now secretary of that body.
His literary work has consisted of fugitive articles published in the newspapers and magazines, a history of the Tippecanoe Club and a history of Brecksville Township. He is secretary of the Early Settlers Association of Cleveland and the Western Reserve, founded by Harvey Rice, and of which body Judge Alexander Hadden is president.
Mr. Coates married in 1872 Miss Lettie White, daughter of Julius and Harriet (Stone) White, of Brecksville. They have three children : Herbert J. Coates, assistant trust officer of the Guardian Savings and Trust Com- pany; Mary Weld Coates, teacher of Spanish in the Lakewood High School; and Mildred A. Coates, the youngest, who after engaging in Government work at Washington during the World war, and studying at the University of California at Berkeley, is now making her home in Cleveland.
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