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Mr. Waibel in 1893 opened a small stock of hardware and a shop for sheet metal work. In the subsequent thirty years his business has steadily
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grown and expanded. At first his shop was in part of the present store building, the other half, separated by a partition, being used for a grocery store. He now occupies all this building, 60 by 110 feet, with store in front and shop in the rear. He carries a stock of general hardware, and does an extensive business in sheet metal work of all kinds. On February 1, 1924, the Henry Waibel Company was incorporated, and he became its president.
Mr. Waibel since 1916 has been an active worker in the Cleveland Chamber of Industry. In 1917 he was elected to its board of directors, and on January 1, 1924, began another term of two years as a director. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Maccabees and Woodmen of the World.
He married, in 1894, Barbara Brabenec, a native of Cleveland, while her father, Matthias Brabenec, came from Bohemia. Mrs. Waibel died February 17, 1923, when forty-eight years of age, her death being a heavy loss. to her family and her many friends. Mr. Waibel has three sons. Raymond, a farmer near Berea, Ohio, married Mamie Behal, and they have three daughters, Marie, Cecilia and Barbara. The two younger sons, Elmer and George, are both associated with the Henry Wiabel Company.
EMIL ROBECHEK represents one of the early pioneer Bohemian families of Cleveland. He has been actively identified with the commercial history of the South End of the city for many years, and he is also well known in public affairs.
He was born April 12, 1876, in the old Fourteenth, now the Thirteenth, Ward of the city. His father, the late Joseph Robechek, was born in Bohemia in 1840, and married there Catherine Doerfler, who was born in 1842. A few years after the close of the Civil war they came to the United States, locating in Cleveland. Joseph Robechek was a wholesale grocery salesman until 1882, when he established a retail grocery store at 4614 Broadway, then known as the South End, where, in later years, asso- ciated with his sons, Emil and August, he continued in business until his death in 1897. He became well known over a large section of the city, and was especially influential and prominent among the Bohemian population. At the time of his death his reputation was tersely expressed in the opinion of his business associates and friends as "a good and reliable man." His widow survived him until 1907. They had a family of one daughter, Agnes, now deceased, and five sons, all living, Leo, August, Louis, Charles and Emil, all of them residents of Cleveland with the exception of Leo, who resides in Chicago.
Emil Robechek attended the graded schools, and for three years was a student in Central High. On leaving school he went to work for the old cigar and wholesale tobacco firm of Feder Brothers, but upon the death of his father he and his brother August took over the retail grocery business, and continued it until 1922, when they closed it out. Thus passed out of existence one of the oldest grocery stores of the South End, a business that had been in existence for forty years.
When in 1921 Frederick P. Walther, by appointment of Governor Davis, became common pleas judge of Cuyahoga County, Judge Walther, influ- enced largely by Governor Davis, appointed Mr. Robechek bailiff of his court. Mr. Robechek filled this office until January 1, 1924, when he
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resigned to take up his duties as a member of the Cleveland City Council, to which he was elected on the republican ticket to represent the Second District on November 6, 1923, at the first election held under the new city charter. He is chairman of the council committee on printing and a mem- ber of the committees on building trade, streets and taxes and assessments. Mr. Robechek for a number of years has been active in city politics. He is a member of the Tippecanoe Club, the Thirteenth Ward Republican Club and the Western Reserve Republican Club. He is affiliated with Elsworth Lodge No. 505, Free and Accepted Masons, Thatcher Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Al Sirat Grotto and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
Mr. Robechek married Miss Bertha Srp. She was born in Cleveland, daughter of Joseph Srp. They have one son, John Robechek, born February 23, 1914.
JACOB WITZEL VANDERWERF. Intrinsic integrity of purpose dominated the activities of the late Jacob WV. Vanderwerf in all the relations of his busy and useful life, and that life touched many phases of worthy service in connection with civic and business affairs in the City of Cleveland, where he maintained his home from his boyhood until the time of his death, January 16, 1918. He was a man who stood four square to every wind that blows, and he made his life count for good in every sentiment and motive and action. To him is eminently due an enduring tribute in this publication.
Mr. Vanderwerf was born in the City of Buffalo, New York, July 8, 1857, and thus was sixty years of age at the time of his death. His parents, Jacob and Mary M. (Witzel) Vanderwerf, were born in Hol- land, but both were children at the time of the immigration of the respec- tive families to the United States, the old-time sailing vessels having necessarily served as the medium of transportation across the Atlantic Ocean. The parents were thus reared and educated in the United States, and in the old Empire State, where their marriage was solemnized, they continued to maintain their home until 1865, when they established their residence in Cleveland. Their son Jacob, Jr., of this memoir, was the eldest of their eight children and was a lad of eight years at the time of the removal to Cleveland, where he was reared to manhood and re- ceived the advantages of the public schools of the period and where the parents passed the remainder of their lives. Here the father was for a time engaged in business as a contractor and builder, but he met with an accident that permanently impaired his vision, so that during a period of about twenty years prior to his death he was able to give but minor attention to business affairs, his death having occurred April 15, 1901, and his wife having preceded him to eternal rest in April, 1898.
While still a boy Jacob Vanderwerf, Jr., immediate subject of this review, began to assist his father in the latter's operations as a con- tractor and builder, and in this connection he gained the experience that well fortified him when, at the age of eighteen years, he initiated independ- ent business in building construction. He established himself in a small shop on Spring Street, and his first contract was in connection with the remodeling of the Cushing Block, on Euclid Avenue, just to the east of the old-time business place of William Taylor. Absolute fidelity
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to the terms of contract characterized the activities of Mr. Vanderwerf throughout the entire course of his distinctly successful career as a builder, and it was popular recognition of his ability and integrity that gained to him from the start a representative support. For a term of years he was retained by the May Company as its superintendent of construction, and through this connection as well as in an independent way he was concerned in many large and important construction con- tracts during the passing years. Thus he had much to do with the build- ing of stations and power houses for the Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern Railway, and he erected also the Lake Shore Electric Railway power house at Avon and built the Electric Building, one of the large buildings of Cleveland at that time.
Mr. Vanderwerf was one of the organizers of the Nungesser Carbon & Battery Company, one of the first concerns of the kind in Cleveland, which initiated operations on a small scale and rapidly grew to a con- cern of broad scope and importance, so that a profitable transfer, as touching the interests of its stockholders, was made when the plant and business were sold to the National Carbon Company.
A service of great and enduring public value was then rendered by Mr. Vanderwerf as one of the three members of the Board of Arbitra- tion selected by the City of Cleveland and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to determine land values for both property owners and the railroad corporation when the latter initiated and carried forward the work of elevating its tracks over the various grade crossings in Cleve- land. Mr. Vanderwerf was chairman of this board, and had much to do with making its service so careful and equitable that all court litigation was avoided in the prosecution of this important public improvement, his service in this connection having covered a period of several years.
Few citizens of Ohio have proved more earnest students of the history and teachings of the Masonic fraternity than Mr. Vanderwerf, and in the Scottish Rite of this time-honored fraternity he attained to the ultimate thirty-third degree. On the 12th of October, 1883, he became an entered apprentice in Iris Lodge No. 229, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and in the same he was raised to Master Mason on the 3d of the following November. He served as master of this lodge in 1888, after having passed other official chairs. He became a Royal Arch Mason February 21, 1884, and on the 13th of January of the following year he was initiated a member of a Local Council of Royal and Select Masters, his reception of his first chivalric honors having occurred in September, 1884, when he became a member of Oriental Commandery of Knights Templar, of which he later served as commander. It is a matter of record that he was the first member to succeed in bringing this Commandery before the public in military manoeuvers, he having become its expert drill master and having done much to make it one of the best-drilled Com- manderies in the entire United States, the Commandery having won honors in many competitive exhibitions of military drills. In the Scottish Rite Mr. Vanderwerf initiated his connection in 1885, in Eliadah Lodge of Perfection, and in Lake Erie Consistory he thereafter won advancement to the thirty-second degree, he having been the treasurer of this Consistory for many years prior to his death. In 1910 he received the ultimate honor,
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when he was made sovereign grand inspector of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, in which he thus received the thirty-third degree. He was an active member also of Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine and Al Sirat Grotto of the Veiled Prophets. As an active and valued member of the Cleveland Grays, the crack military organization of the Ohio Metrop- olis, he served as its drill-master and brought it up to a high standard of tactical proficiency. In this connection he had the satisfaction of giving the first drill lesson to Hon. Myron T. Herrick, former governor of Ohio.
Mr. Vanderwerf was a stalwart republican but had no ambition for public office. He was known for his civic progressiveness and liberality, and his circle of friends was limited only by that of his acquaintances. He was an active member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, the Cleveland Real Estate Association, the local Architects Club, and the Cleveland Yacht Club, of which last he was a life member.
April 23, 1888, recorded the marriage of Mr. Vanderwerf and Miss Anna Louise Hubbell, daughter of Augustus Byron Hubbell and Har- riet S. (Robinson) Hubbell, both residents of Cleveland at the time of their death and for many years prior thereto. Augustus Hubbell was born at Warrensville, Cuyahoga County, and established his home in Cleveland in 1866, within a short time after completing his service as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, he having been a first lieutenant of Company H, Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the regiment of General Garfield. Since the death of her husband- Mrs. Vanderwerf has continued her residence in Cleveland. Howard, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderwerf, completed in the Case School of Applied Science a course in electrical engineering and was graduated as a member of the class of 1916, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In connection with the nation's participation in the World war Howard Vanderwerf entered service in the United States Navy in June, 1918, and later received promotion to the rank of ensign, he having been in the naval transport service until the armistice brought the war to a close.
NEIL ARCHIBALD MUNRO, M. D., one of the representative physicians and surgeons engaged in active general practice in the City of Cleveland, was born at Saint Thomas, Province of Ontario, Canada, on the 15th of September, 1885, and is a representative of one of the old and honored families of that section of Canada. He is a son of the late Archibald and Jane (Bassett) Munro, the former was born on the old Monro home- stead farm where his father, Donald Munro, settled upon coming from Scotland. This farm is situated about seven miles distant from the City of Saint Thomas. The Doctor's mother was born on a farm two miles distant from Saint Thomas, and was a daughter of John Bassett, who settled there upon his immigration to America from Devonshire, England, where he was born and reared. Archibald Munro was eighty-two years of age at the time of his death, in February, 1923, and his widow died in the follow- ing month, at the age of seventy-three years.
The earlier educational discipline of Doctor Munro was acquired in the public schools and in Saint Thomas Collegiate Institute. In 1902 he entered the medical department of the University of Toronto, Canada, and
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in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1906. After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified him- self by valuable clinical experience gained in two years of service as interne in the Saginaw, Michigan, General Hospital. In 1908 he moved to the State of North Dakota, and established himself in the general practice of his profession at Bowman. There he continued his practice for seven years, building up a substantial country practice. His desire for a metropolitan field of professional endeavor led him in 1915 to establish his residence in Cleveland, and in this city he has built up an excellent general practice that gives him precedence as being one of the leading physicians and sur- geons in the Nottingham district of the Ohio metropolis. The Doctor is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He and his wife hold membership in the Unitarian Church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Nottingham Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Bowman Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Dickinson, North Dakota. Doctor Monro is also a member of the City Club and the Nottingham Club.
In his native province in Canada was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Munro and Miss Hazel Gooding, who was born on the Gooding homestead in Ontario, Canada, and who is a daughter of David and Jennie (Mills) Gooding. Mrs. Munro was graduated from the domestic science department of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, this institution being directly affiliated with the University of Toronto. Doctor and Mrs. Munro have two daughters, Jane Gooding and Mary Frances.
ALFRED D. BOLTON, A. B., M. D. Among the well known physicians and surgeons of Cleveland is Dr. A. D. Bolton, who has won success and prestige in his profession as one of its leaders in the Collinwood district of the city.
Doctor Bolton is a native of Canada, born in the City of Toronto on November 15, 1879, of Scotch-Presbyterian and Pennsylvania-Quaker ancestry. His paternal grandfather, a native of England, settled on land that has since become a part of the City of Toronto, while his maternal grandfather, Alfred D. Davis, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was a Quaker, he having gone to Toronto, Canada, in early days.
The parents of Doctor Bolton, Angus and Nancy A. (Davis) Bolton, were born in Toronto, the father in 1842, the mother in 1843, and both are living. Angus Bolton was a farmer near Toronto for a number of years, and then moved to near Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, in Western Canada, where he became the owner of 3,500 acres of wheat land, which he operated with the assistance of his four sons and a son-in-law.
Doctor Bolton was graduated from the Toronto, Canada, High School and later entered McGill University, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1901 he came to Cleveland, and for nine years was in the employ of the city as engineer at the City Water Works. In 1910 he resigned his position with the city and entered the medical department of Ohio State University, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1913. Leaving medical college, he served one
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year as interne in the Cleveland City Hospital, and then entered the general practice of medicine and surgery, with offices at 15603 Waterloo Road, where he has since continued, now specializing in surgery.
Doctor Bolton married Miss Edith J. McCardle, the daughter of Andrew McCardle, of Michigan, and they have a daughter and two sons : Rhea, Kenneth and Edgar.
HUGH JOSEPH SAVAGE, M. D., was born on Sterling Avenue, Cleve- land, July 4, 1891, son of James A. and Agnes V. (O'Reilly) Savage. His grandfather, Hugh Savage, was of English parentage and an early settler at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. James A. Savage was born at Chilli- cothe, in 1867, became a merchant there, and subsequently took up rail- roading as a locomotive engineer. For thirty-five years he has been in the service of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, with his home in Cleveland. He is an influential citizen of his ward, and in 1923 became a candidate for the City Council. The mother of Doctor Savage, Agnes V. O'Reilly, was born at Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, in 1870, daughter of Mathew O'Reilly, who came from Ireland.
Dr. Hugh J. Savage attended Saint John and Saint Aloysius parochial schools, continued his education in Saint Ignatius College, Cleveland, and Saint Vincent College at Philadelphia, and took his medical course in Ohio State University, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1917. For one year he was a student interne in the Ohio State University Hos- pital, and began private practice at Corning, Ohio, but soon afterward, on March 17, 1918, was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, and was sent for training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he was attached to Evacuation Hospital No. 36. With this unit he sailed for France, landing at Brest in September, 1918, and from Brest was trans- ferred to Rennes, where the unit opened and took charge of a hospital. Following the armistice, Doctor Savage was sent with his command to take over the Base Hospital at Nantes, France, and he continued on duty there until August, 1919, when he sailed for home and received his honor- able discharge at Camp Sherman, Ohio. While overseas he was recom- mended for promotion to captain, but did not receive the commission.
He resumed his general practice at Corning, Ohio, but in May, 1923, returned to Cleveland, and has established a successful general practice. He is a specialist in X-ray work. In February, 1924, he was appointed district health physician for the City of Cleveland, and so continues. Doctor Savage is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Perry County, Ohio, and a member of the Ohio State and American Medical associations. He belongs to the Tau Nu Kappa medical fraternity, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Columbus, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Eagles and Owls.
Doctor Savage married Miss Martha Flowers, daughter of John Flowers, of Moxahala, Ohio. They have two daughters, Marjorie Agnes, born May 31, 1920, and Mary Jane, born March 11, 1924.
PAUL FRED HASSE, A. B., M. D. Reared and educated in Cleveland, Doctor Hasse received his medical degree at Western Reserve University, and for a dozen years has been successfully engaged in a general practice as a physician and surgeon. His offices are at 3663 Fulton Road.
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Doctor Hasse was born in Germany, February 17, 1884, and was six years of age when his parents, Albert and Hulda (Burtslof) Hasse, came to this country in 1890. In the same year they located at Brooklyn Village, now included in Cleveland. Albert Hasse was a harness maker, a trade he had thoroughly learned in Germany, and in 1891 he opened his shop at 3552 West Twenty-fifth Street, then Pearl Street, and continued in business at that location until his death on January 28, 1924, aged seventy- four years. His widow survives, now in her sixty-fifth year.
Doctor Hasse's first school attendance in Cleveland was in the Denison School. He graduated from the Lincoln High School in 1902, and soon afterward entered Western Reserve University, taking the classical course and graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1907. That was followed by the study of medicine in Western Reserve University Medical School, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1910. With the exception of a year of special duty and further training as an interne in the United States Marine Hospital at Cleveland, Doctor Hasse has since been engaged in private practice. His first location was at the corner of Fulton Road and Dennison Avenue, and from there he moved to his present office.
August 30, 1911, Doctor Hasse married Dora Hard, a native of Preston, Minnesota. Her parents were George W. and Eva Josephine (Kuntz) Hard; her father a native of Pennsylvania and her mother of Kansas, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Hasse was liberally educated and studied music at Oberlin College. She is interested and active in civic and educational work, and is now a member of the Brooklyn Heights Board of Education and president of the Heights Parents-Teachers Asso- ciation. She recently was a delegate to the Parents-Teachers National Convention held in St. Paul, Minnesota, and while there had the pleasure of visiting the scenes of her early life. She is also a member of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, she having descended from Revolutionary ancestors. Doctor and Mrs. Hasse have two children : Helen, born Decem- ber 17, 1913, and Gordon Wilbur, born January 27, 1916.
During the World war Doctor Hasse was examining physician for the Cuyahoga County Draft Board. Fraternally he is affiliated with Ell- brook Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Forest City Commandery, Knights Templar, and Al Koran Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Pearl Street Savings & Trust Company. He and his family are members of the Pearl Road Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.
DR. MAURICE LINSEY ALLEN, physician and surgeon, was born at Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, on the 6th of January, 1889, and is a son of Charles A. and Clara Elizabeth ( Miller) Allen. Charles A. Allen was born at Paris, Illinois, in the year 1851, a son of Benjamin Allen, a native of Kentucky, who settled on a small farm near Paris, Illinois, as a pioneer of that section of the state, where he passed the remainder of his life. Charles A. Allen has long been connected with railway service and is now assistant to the president of the Erie Railroad, Cleveland. Mrs. Allen was born at Alton, Illinois, and is a daughter of the late John Miller.
Doctor Allen graduated from Galion High School in 1908, and from Starling Medical College, Doctor of Medicine, in 1913. He entered service
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as an interne in Huron Road Hospital, Cleveland. In his two years' con- nection with this hospital he gained valuable clinical experience, and upon severing his alliance with the institution, in 1915, he engaged in the general practice of his profession in the "Five Points" district of Collin- wood, where he has found an excellent field for successful service and where he now controls a large general practice. In this section his first office was at 962 East One Hundred and Fifty-second Street, and his present well appointed offices are at the corner of that street and Saint Clair Avenue, at No. 15201 Saint Clair Avenue. The Doctor is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, the Cleveland Medical Library Asso- ciation, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Asso- ciation.
Doctor Allen subordinated all personal interests to enter patriotic service when the nation became involved in the World war. In June, 1917, he enlisted in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps of the United States Army, and on the 17th of the following month he received his commission as first lieutenant. In September of the same year he was called to the City of Washington, D. C., and on the 1st of October, 1917, he sailed for England, where he was assigned to duty at the Brook War Hospital, Wool- wich. January 6, 1918, he embarked for France, and there he was assigned to service in the Fifty-fifth West Lancashire Field Hospital. Later he was attached to the Two Hundred and Seventy-sixth West Lancashire Brigade of the British Royal Field Artillery, with which unit he continued in service until he sailed for the home port. On the 19th of February, 1919, he was commissioned captain, and on the 15th of the following month he embarked for the return voyage to the United States. At Camp Dix, New Jersey, he received his honorable discharge April 1, 1919, and he then returned home and resumed the interrupted practice of his profession. The Doctor received the British Military Cross, in recognition of gallantry during the German attack on the British fronts at Le Preol, France, April 9, 1918. Doctor Allen is affiliated with the American Legion and with the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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