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This branch of the Dickey family is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, descended from William Dickey, who came to America from the North of Ireland and settled on Prince Edward Island, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. His son, the Rev. John Dickey, moved from that section of Canada to South Carolina and his son, Rev. Ninian Steel Dickey, was the Indiana set- tler, he having come North to that state, of which he was a pioneer minister of the Presbyterian Church. He was a circuit rider over a large section comprising Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois and Northern Kentucky. He married Sarah Jane Davis.
Rev. Dr. Solomon C. Dickey, son of Rev. Ninian S. and Jane (Davis) Dickey, was born in Columbus, Indiana, on June 24, 1858. He was gradu- ated from Wabash College in 1881, and that college gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1897. He was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry in 1882, and served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Auburn, Nebraska, later of several different churches in Indiana; also served for several years as superintendent of missions. In 1895 he and his associate founded the Winona Assembly and Summer School at Winona Lake, Indiana, to which great institution he devoted his time and energies for a quarter of a century, serving as its director, secretary and general manager up to the time of his death in 1920. He married, on June 1, 1882, Lizzie Augusta Reid, of Greenville, Illinois, the daughter of Col. John D. Reid, a soldier of the Civil war. She died in 1921.
Lincoln G. Dickey was born in Auburn, Nebraska, on September 16, 1884, the son of Rev. Dr. Solomon C. and Lizzie A. (Reid) Dickey. He was educated in the public and manual training high schools of Indian- apolis, Indiana, and at Lake Forest College, Illinois, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1908. His first practical work in publicity matters was as assistant manager and program director under his father at Winona Lake Assembly, at which he continued for eight years. In the meantime, how- ever, he took up Chautauqua work, and for five years he was general superintendent of the Ridpath Chautauqua Bureau, resigning from the
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latter organization in 1914 to come to Cleveland as vice president of the Coit-Alber Chautauqua Bureau. In 1917 he resigned his position with the Coit-Alber Bureau to become program director of United States and Allied Governments War Expositions. Following that he served as secretary and manager of the Cleveland Advertising Club, following which he was for one year manager of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. In 1922 he was appointed the first manager of the Cleveland Public Auditorium, the largest and finest public auditorium in the United States, probably in the world.
Mr. Dickey is a member of the Cleveland Advertising Club and of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of Lake City Lodge No. 73, Free and Accepted Masons, Warsaw Chapter No. 48, Royal Arch Masons, Council No. 88, Warsaw Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, of Warsaw, Indiana, and of Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine, Al Sirat Grotto of Cleveland and Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
Mr. Dickey married Miss Helen Mary Cutler, of Washington, D. C., the daughter of Samuel M. and Ella (Dickerson) Cutler. Her maternal grandfather, the Rev. Henry Dickerson, was a well known minister of early days in Indiana, and her father was for many years connected with the Danville Normal School of Indiana, and later for over a quarter of a century was a pension examiner for the Government. Mrs. Dickey was educated in high school in Louisville, Kentucky, and at Lake Forest Col- lege, where she was graduated in 1908 as a classmate of her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Dickey have two children, Lincoln Cutler, born May 26, 1910, and Margaret Jane, born May 12, 1918.
LEW CHARLES KINTZLER, M. D. One of the successful physicians and surgeons of Cleveland is Dr. Charles C. Kintzler, who has been in the practice of his profession, with offices at the corner of West Twenty-fifth Street and Broad View Avenue, for the last fifteen years. He was born in the West Side of this city, on October 10, 1883, the son of Florenz and Minnie Kintzler. His parents were born in Germany, where they were married, and came to the United States soon afterwards, locating in Cleve- land. Later they bought a farm at Brecksville, this county, where they spent the remainder of their lives.
Doctor Kintzler was reared on the farm at Brecksville, and attended the village schools, graduating from high school in 1901. He then came into the city and entered the employ of the Cleveland Provision Company, and later was in the employ of the City Ice & Fuel Company. With money he earned with those companies he entered the medical department of Ohio State University, where he took the full course and was graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1907. For the following two years he served as interne at Cleveland City Hospital, and then entered practice at his present location, where he has since continued.
In 1918 Doctor Kintzler volunteered and was commissioned first lieu- tenant in the United States Army Medical Corps. He entered the Officers Training School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was when the armistice was signed. After his honorable discharge and muster out from the service he resumed practice.
Aside from his profession Doctor Kintzler is interested in the civic
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and social life of the community, and is always found ready to lend his assistance to all movements that have for their object the welfare of the city. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and belongs to Brooklyn Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Glenn Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Sleepy Hollow Country Club. In a business way he is a member of the board of directors of the Pearl Street Savings & Trust Company, one of the strong banking institutions of the city.
WILLIAM WARREN DAWSON, who is engaged in the practice of law in the City of Cleveland, with office in the Leader-News Building, is a native son of Ohio and a representative of a family whose name has not only been identified with the history of the Buckeye State since the pioneer days, but with the annals of the nation since the Colonial era, the first members of the Dawson family in this country having settled in Virginia long prior to the War of the Revolution.
William Warren Dawson was born at Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, on the 2nd of March, 1892, and in Milton Township, that county, was born his father, Rev. William Dawson, the year of whose nativity was 1851. Archibald Dawson, father of Rev. William Dawson, likewise was born in Wayne County, where his father settled in the early pioneer days. The father of Archibald Dawson was born and reared in Virginia, moved thence to Kentucky, and in 1812 came to the new state of Ohio and became one of the first settlers in Wayne County, where he instituted the reclamation of a productive farm in the midest of the forest wilds, he having continued his residence in that county until his death, as did also his wife, whose maiden name was Jemima Burres and who likewise was born in Virginia, both she and her hubsand having died at venerable ages.
Archibald Dawson was reared under the conditions and influences that marked the pioneer period in the history of Wayne County, and there he continued his active association with farm industry until 1885, when he moved to Missouri, purchased a farm property in the central part of the state, and there remained until his death, as did also his wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Chambers.
Reared on the home farm and afforded the advantages of the public schools of his native county, Rev. William Dawson thereafter advanced his education by attending Baldwin University, and in this institution he was graduated. He was later ordained a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He held various pastoral charges in Ohio, and continued his earnest and consecrated work in the ministry until the close of his life, his death having occurred in 1907. His widow, who now resides at Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, was born at Mansfield, Ohio, and her maiden name was Mary E. Nail. She is a daughter of Samuel Nail, who likewise was born in Richland County and who was a son of Henry Nail and Catherine (Lewis) Nail, both natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in Wash- ington County, he having been a patriot soldier in the War of the Revolu- tion. Henry Nail became one of the pioneer settlers in Richland County, Ohio, where he reclaimed a farm from the forest and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives.
Samuel Nail was reared and educated in Richland County, there served
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an apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, and he became a successful con- tractor and builder, besides which, in his young manhood, he made a record of effective service as a teacher in the Ohio schools, principally during the winter terms in the district schools. He long maintained his residence in Madison Township, Richland County, and there his death occurred, as did also that of his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Peters and who was born in the State of New Jersey. Rev. William and Mary E. (Nail) Dawson became the parents of four children who attained to years of maturity and who survive the honored father, namely: Charles A., Archibald N., Mabel A. and William W. Dr. Archibald N. Dawson, the second son, was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, and from the medical department of Western Reserve University, at Cleve- land, he being now successfully established in the practice of his profession.
William Warren Dawson gained his early education in public schools of the various places where his father held pastoral charges, and he thereafter advanced his education by a thorough course in Ohio Wesleyan University, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1914, and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Thereafter he gave his attention to the study of law until there came to him a higher duty, when the nation became involved in the World war. In 1917 Mr. Dawson enlisted in the United States Army, with Company F, Third Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, he having later become a member of the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth United States Infantry, with which command he went to France in October, 1917. There he was assigned to detached duty at general headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, and there he continued in service until the armistice brought the war to a close. He returned home in July, 1919, and shortly afterward received his hon- orable discharge at Camp Dix, New Jersey, he having received promotion to the rank of first lieutenant.
After the close of his service in the World war, Mr. Dawson continued his studies in the law department of Western Reserve University until his graduation as a member of the class of 1921, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was forthwith admitted to the bar of his native state, and has since continued in the general practice of law in the City of Cleveland, where he is making a record of specially successful professional achieve- ment. Mr. Dawson is a member of the University Club, the Cleveland Grays and the American Legion, and is affiliated with college fraternities.
HON. JOHN CORYDON HUTCHINS. One of the best known and most highly honored members of the Cleveland bar is Judge John C. Hutchins, who has been in the practice of law for fifty-eight years, fifty-six of those years in Cleveland.
Judge Hutchins is a native of Ohio and is of the third generation of his family in the state. His grandfather, Samuel Hutchins, a native of Con- necticut, came to the Western Reserve in 1798, before Ohio was admitted as a state, and was then known as the Northwest Territory. He assisted in the survey of Vienna Township, Trumbull County, receiving for his services in that capacity a deed for 100 acres of land, and established his home on this land, near what is now known as "Payne's Corners" in that township. In January, 1803, Samuel Hutchins married Freelove Flower,
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who was born in Connecticut, and their marriage was the first one solemnized by a white couple in Trumbull County.
Hon. John Hutchins, son of Samuel and Freelove (Flower) Hutchins, and father of the Judge, was born on his father's farm in Trumbull County, in 1812. When he was a young man he studied law in the office of Governor David Tod at Warren, and after his admission to the bar became a member of the law firm of Tod, Hoffman & Hutchins. He was one of the distinguished lawyers and public men of Ohio during his time, serving for five years as clerk of courts of Trumbull County, as a member of the Ohio General Assembly for several terms, and in 1858 he was elected a member of Congress and reelected in 1860, he being a member of that body at the beginning of the Civil war. From 1868 until his death in 1891 he resided in Cleveland. He married Rhoda M. Andrews, the daughter of Hun and Phoebe (Woodford) Andrews, natives of Connecticut and pioneers of the Western Reserve. She died in 1890. To them were born three sons and a daughter : Horace A., who was a pioneer oil refiner and identified with the Standard Oil Company; Mrs. Mary (Hutchins) Couzzens, a widow at Cleveland, aged eighty-one years ; Albert E., of New York City, aged seventy-seven years; and John C.
Judge John C. Hutchins was born in Warren, Ohio, on May 8, 1840. He attended the common and high schools of Warren and Oberlin Col- lege, and was graduated from Albany (New York) Law School in 1866.
In the summer of 1861 he volunteered and enlisted as a private in the Second Regiment, Ohio Cavalry, and served in the Civil war two and a half years, rising from the ranks to the grades of second and first lieutenant, later serving for. a time in the pay department of the army in the City of Washington. Owing to an accident, he resigned his commission in the army in 1863, returned to his home in Warren and studied law in his father's office, graduated from Albany Law School and in 1866 was admitted to the bars of both New York and Ohio in the same year and entered the practice of law in Youngstown in association with Gen. T. W. Sanderson. Coming to Cleveland in 1868, he became a partner with his father under the firm name of Hutchins & Hutchins, and later was a part- ner with J. E. Ingersoll, O. J. Campbell and Thomas L. Johnson (the latter still being in practice).
In 1877 Judge Hutchins was elected prosecuting attorney of Cuyahoga County, serving one term; in 1880 he was the defeated candidate for Congress on the democratic ticket; he was elected judge of Municipal Court in 1885, and reelected in 1887 ; in 1887 he was defeated as the candi- date of his party for judge of Common Pleas Court, but in 1892 he was elected to the bench of that court and served for three years, resigning in 1895 to accept appointment from President Cleveland as postmaster of Cleveland. Leaving the postmastership at the expiration of his term in the fall of 1899, Judge Hutchins returned to the private practice of law and has since continued.
Judge Hutchins served as a member of the Cleveland School Board in 1872, and as a member of the Cleveland Public Library Board for thirteen years, of which board he was president for nine years. For the last three years he has been serving as president of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Commission, in which he takes an active interest.
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He is a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, of which organization he was one of the founders ; he is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and served as junior vice commander of the Ohio Com- mandery of the order in 1897 ; he is a member of the Euclid Club and a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
In early manhood Judge Hutchins was a member of the republican party, but left that party in 1872 to support Horace Greeley for the presi- dency. He continued to affiliate with the democratic party until in 1896. His views on the money question caused him to support Mr. Mckinley for the presidency, and since that campaign he has been and is a "free lance" politically, with decidedly independent views.
Few men of Cleveland, or of Ohio, of the present day have played, or been given the opportunity to play, a better or more notable part in the history of the community than has Judge Hutchins, for during his long career he has rendered faithful and unselfish service to his city, county, state and nation, serving so ably that his career reflects credit alike to both the community and the man himself. His well rounded life as a soldier, attorney, jurist, political official and citizen has won for Judge Hutchins the respect and esteem of the public and the love and veneration of his intimates.
At Ravenna, Ohio, in 1861, Judge Hutchins was united in marriage with Jennie M., the daughter of James M. Campbell, of Cuba, New York. Mrs. Hutchins died in 1904, leaving the following children : Helen Eugenia, who was married to Dr. T. B. Salisbury, of New York City ; Jane Camp- bell Hutchins, unmarried, who resides with her father; Horace C., residing in Buffalo, New York; J. Frank, residing in California; and Carleton C., residing in Cleveland.
Horace C. Hutchins married Elizabeth Sellers, of Chicago, and they have a daughter, Rosanne, who married William A. Morgan, Jr., of Buffalo, New York, and they have a son, John S. Hutchins, now (1924) a student at Yale University.
JOSEPH LOUIS BISTRICKY has spent his life since early childhood in Cleveland, was educated in its public schools, and on his own merit and energies has made for himself a favorable place in the city's business life. He is secretary-treasurer of the Hughes Provision Company.
Mr. Bistricky was born in Prague, Austria, on October 9, 1890, son of James and Lillian Bistricky, who were also born in that ancient city. James Bistricky was a government forester in Austria. In 1893 he came to America, leaving his wife and their only child, Joseph L. Locating in Cleveland, he found work, and in 1895 his wife and son joined him. In Cleveland he followed the trade of stationary engineer in the service of the Cleveland City Railway for upwards of twenty years. His death occurred August 15, 1923, when he was fifty-nine years of age. He is survived by his widow, now in her fifty-third year, and four daughters and three sons. Of the children Joseph L. alone was born abroad, the other children being natives of Cleveland. The family are members of the Woodlawn Presby- terian Church.
Joseph L. Bistricky attended the Outhwaite Avenue Public School in Cleveland, graduated from the Central High School in 1908, and his first
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employment after leaving high school was as clerk in the main offices of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway (New York Central Line). Subsequently he spent three years in the Collinwood offices of the road, leaving there to enter the Nela Park general offices of the National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company. He spent five years with that Cleveland industry, and in the meantime had pursued a course in account- ing at the Young Men's Christian Association. On leaving the National Lamp Works he entered the office of Ernest & Ernest, one of the most prominent firms of public accountants in the Middle West. One of the early assignments of Mr. Bistricky was to make an audit for the Hughes Provision Company. Upon the satisfactory completion of that work the company invited him to continue with them as secretary-treasurer. He has been one of the executives of this business since 1917.
For a number of years he has been active in the Cleveland Chamber of of Industry, and in 1922 was elected a member of its board of directors for a term of two years. He is president of the bowling team of the Chamber of Industry. He also belongs to Windermere Lodge No. 627 of the Masonic Order. Mr. Bistricky married, June 30, 1915, Miss Stella Mack, a native of Cleveland.
GEORGE HENRY JACKMAN, a resident of Cleveland for over a quarter of a century, and president of the Electric Printing Company, has had a wide and varied experience in a number of states as a farmer, rancher, railroad employe and in other lines.
Mr. Jackman was born at Rockford, Illinois, July 4, 1872, son of John Mowery and Sarah Elizabeth (Vogelsong) Jackman. His father was born on a farm in Carroll County, Ohio, in 1838, continued to live in that section of Ohio, engaged in farming, until 1870, when he moved to Illinois and in 1876 went to Iowa and took up a farm homestead in Guthrie County. He continued to be identified with the agricultural enter- prise of that section until his death in 1894. His wife, Sarah Elizabeth (Vogelsong) Jackman, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1843, daughter of Rev. George Vogelsong, of Hanoverton, Ohio. She was educated in Mount Union College, Ohio, spent six years as a teacher, and is now past eighty years of age.
George Henry Jackman attended public schools in Iowa, being four years of age when his parents moved to that state. His schooling was ended when he was fifteen years of age, and soon afterwards he became an employe of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Com- pany at De Sota, Missouri. He learned the blacksmith trade, working in railroad blacksmith shops for three and one-half years. Two years follow- ing that were put in at his trade at St. Charles, Missouri, and he was a black- smith at East Madison, Illinois, until 1893. In that year he went out to Deadwood, South Dakota, and had a varied experience in railroad and ranching work for several years, and for two years was a farmer in Iowa.
Mr. Jackman on January 1, 1897, entered the employ of the Street Railway Company at Cleveland, under the late M. A. Hanna. He was a motorman on the Woodland Avenue division for six years. He then became associated with William Lintern, of the Nichols-Lintern Com- pany, in establishing a street railway publication known as the Street
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Railway News. Since then he has been continuously identified with printing and publication work. He organized the Street Railway Employees' Printing Company, a cooperative enterprise, and in 1912 incorporated the business as the Electric Printing Company. This is now one of the leading commercial printing shops of Cleveland and does an extensive business for a number of firms and individuals.
Mr. Jackman for a number of years has been active in local republican politics. He was a member of the Cleveland City Council in 1910-1911, being one of the faithful and constructive men in the city government of that period. He is a member of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland, the Lincoln Republican Club of Lakewood, the Lakewood Chamber of Com- merce, the Lakewood Congregational Church and the Knights of Pythias.
He married, April 26, 1899, Miss Catherine Hoerz, of Cleveland, daughter of David Hoerz. They have one son, Melvin E., born in 1900, educated in the Cleveland Grammar schools, the Lakewood High School and Ohio State University. He is now associated with his father in the printing business. Melvin Jackman married, in 1923, Irene Patrick, of Columbus, Ohio.
HENRY WAIBEL. The Henry Waibel Company, at 5304 Clark Avenue, is one of the prosperous business establishments on the South Side. It is a general hardware and sheet metal store and shop, a concern that has been the result of many years of progressive industry on the part of the president of the company, Mr. Henry Waibel.
Mr. Waibel was born in Cleveland on November 12, 1869, the son of Henry and Catherine (Plattner) Waibel. His parents were born and married in Switzerland, and arrived in the United States and settled in Cleveland a few years before their son Henry was born. They brought with them one daughter, Elizabeth. The three sons, Henry, August and John, were all born in Cleveland. Henry Waibel, Sr., learned the sheet metal and tinsmith trade in the old country, and followed it in Cleveland until he retired a number of years before his death. He passed away in 1905, aged sixty-three, and his wife, in 1907, aged sixty-seven.
Henry Waibel attended the Clark Avenue and Walton Avenue Public schools. While a school boy he carried a route for a German daily news- paper, walking from the South Side to Saint Clair Avenue on the East Side to get his papers every morning. In addition he also carried two baskets of pretzels from Clark Avenue to old Brierly Park, walking the trip both ways and getting paid ten cents for each trip. This was work that later proved a good training in business, particularly in forming good and regular habits.
On leaving school Mr. Waibel went to work in Louis Hundermark's tin and sheet metal shop on Clark Avenue. He spent about seven years with that employer, and when he was twenty years of age he engaged in business on his own account, establishing a small shop in a barn. He pro- cured his supplies from the East Side, transporting them in a hand cart which he pushed over the river. Some of his early work was of an itinerant nature, mending the tin ware of farmers in the country districts.
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