Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens, Part 93

Author: Doyle, William B., b. 1868
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1150

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At Warren, Ohio, July 24, 1832, Governor Tod was married to Maria Smith, who came from a family of early settlers in Trumbull County. The seven children of this marriage were: Charlotte, who married Gen. 1. V. Kautz, of the United States army and died in 1868, in Mississippi; John, a prominent cit- izen of Cleveland, Ohio; Ilenry, deceased, formerly president of the Second National Bank of Youngstown, of whom an extended sketch appears elsewhere in this volume; Wil- liam, deceased, a prominent manufacturer at Youngstown, a sketch of whom will also be found in this volume; George, vice-president of the Mahoning National Bank of Youngs- town, and president of the Brier Ilill Iron & Coal Company, who is also represented in this work; Grace, who is the wife of IIon. George F. Arrel, a prominent attorney at Youngs- town. a sketch of whom will be found in this volume; and Sally, the youngest of the fam- ily.

C. E. SHELDON, president of the Whit- man-Barnes Manufacturing Company, at Ak- ron, has been a resident of this city for the past thirty years and has been closely identi- fied with much of its industrial expansion. He was born at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, July 18, 1850.

Mr. Sheldon was reared and educated in the old Bay State, where he studied and fol- fowed civil engineering in his younger years, becoming connected with the company of which he is now the head, in his native place. Mr. Sheldon has a practical knowledge of his business, having entered the factory and worked up to the position of superintendent of the same, which he held when the Whit- man-Miles Manufacturing Company of Mas- sachusetts, consolidated with the George Barnes Company of Syracuse, New York, forming the Whitman-Barnes Manufacturing Company. Mr. Sheldon came to Akron as superintendent of the plant at this city, later became general manager, then treasurer, sub- sequently vice-president, and for the past four years president. In addition to furthering the interests of the concern with which he has been so long and intimately associated, Mr. Sheldon has materially assisted in pro- moting other successful business enterprises of this section.

In 1870 Mr. Sheldon was married to Ruth L. Gifford, of Connecticut, and they have one child. Ethel, who married A. H. Commins, an attorney, residing at Akron. Mrs. Sheldon is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Mr. Sheldon is a Thirty-second Degree Mason. and belongs to the Mystie Shrine and Lake Erie Consistory, at Cleveland. and is past em- inent commander of the Akron Command- ery. He belongs also to the Odd Fellows and the Elks. and socially is connected with the Portage Country Club.

JOHN KLEIN, who conducts a first-class meat market at No. 354 West Market Street, Akron, is one of the business men of this city who is succeeding because of his honest methods and excellent management. He was born in Germany. in September, 1863, where

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he went to school in boyhood. When seven- teen years of age he came to America and since June, 1880, he has resided in Akron.

For several years after coming to this city, Mr. Klein worked at various places, where his industry and fidelity won him friends. He then engaged with his brother in the meat business, under the firm name of Klein Brothers, and at one time they operated two stores. In 1902 the firm erected a two-story building 40 by 50 feet in dimensions, on the corner of West Market and Valley Streets. They manufacture their own prepared meats and lard, and these include American prod- ucts as well as German dainties. They have gained such a reputation as reputable meat packers that there are many particular peo- ple at Akron who will buy no other hams, bacon or lard than that prepared and vouched for by Klein Brothers.

In 1886 Mr. Klein was married to Minnie Hardert, who was also born in Germany, and they have an interesting family of four sons and two daughters-Louis A., John L., Eliza- beth, Mary, William and Clarence. Mr. Klein is one of the liberal members of St. Bernard's Catholic Church. He belongs to the Catho- lic Mutual Benefit Association.

RICHARD J. DALLINGA, whose highly cultivated truck farm of twenty-five acres is situated in Copley Township, Summit County, Ohio, was born June 22, 1864, in Holland, and is a son of Jacob and Emma (Van Cingel) Dallinga.

Jacob Dallinga, who was a farmer and brewer of the Netherlands, was married to Emma Van Cingel, also a native of that coun- try, and to them were born seven children, namely: Richard Jacob; Herman, who is bookkeeper for George Crisp & Son, of Ak- ron; Cecelia, who is deceased; Julia, the wife of Charles DeBruyn, proprietor of the Val- ley City Machine Works, of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Remina, who married Dr. W. L. Holbrook, of Wellington, Ohio; Dena, who married Elger Barnard, of Medina County, Ohio; and Grace. In 1897 Jacob Dallinga died, and his widow married for her second

husband, J. G. C. Van der Wonde, with whom she came to America in 1883. She died in Copley Township, February 22, 1899, aged fifty-six years. There were no children born of her second marriage.

Richard J. Dallinga was reared on his father's farm, and attended the common school until eleven years old, at which time he entered the academy. After graduation therefrom he took a general course at Ryks Hoogers Burger school, which he left just be- fore graduation at the age of nineteen years, and where he was instructed in French, Eng- lish, German and Dutch. In 1883 he came with the family to America, first settling at Grand Rapids, Michigan, where all the boys of the family found employment in the fur- niture factories. Being dissatisfied with this kind of work, Mr. Dallinga went to Kalama- zoo, Michigan, and engaged in celery grow- ing on a small farm purchased by his step- father, and he also worked on a nursery farm for L. G. Bragg and Company, attend- ing to the duties of the shipping department. While there he was engaged by W. R. Wean and O. P. Chapman, of Wean, Horr and Com- pany, of Medina County, Ohio, now the Horr- Warner Company, to take charge of the celery department of their1,500-acre truck farm. One year later he became general superintendent, a position which he held for nine years, when he engaged with the Copley Garden Company, located on the old Sackett estate in Copley Township. He continued with this institution for three years, at which time the business was dissolved and he purchased his present tract of twenty-five acres. At this time the property was considered worthless, but Mr. Dallinga soon cleared it and brought it under cultivation, erected new buildings, and made it one of the best truck farms in this section.

On December 23, 1890, Mr. Dallinga was married to Lucy E. Rockenfelder, who was born in Ashland County, Ohio, and who is a daughter of William and Catherina (Yost) Rockenfelder. Five children have been born to this union: Charles, a student at Buchtel College; Rosa. who attends Copley High

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School; Clarence, who died young; Mabel, and Emma Lucille.

Mr. Dallinga is a Republican in politics and has always taken a great interest in ed- ucational matters, having served as president of the Board of Education of Copley Town- ship for three years. Fraternally he is con- nected with the Masonic order, and he is a prominent member of the local Grange.

PHILANDER D. HALL, and LORENZO HALL, brothers, were two of the early mer- chants and leading men of Akron. They brought from their New England environ- ment that frugality and integrity which made them both successful in their own material affairs, and influential in directing the ener- gies of others. The best years of their lives were mainly devoted to advancing the pros- perity of Akron.

Philander D. Hall, the founder of the old business house of Hall Brothers, at Akron, was born October 10, 1806, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was a son of Richard and Sally (Hurlburt) Hall.

Mr. Hall was educated at Western Academy, and as his inclinations did not lie in the direction of his father's occupations, in early age he started out to make his own way in the world. When little more than twenty years of age, he was already engaged in teaching at Saugatuck, Connecticut, where he subsequently had a mercantile experience of eighteen months, after which he returned to Bridgeport. Shortly afterward he em- barked in a grocery business, which included the shipping and importing of West Indian products, and this enterprise he continued at Bridgeport, until the summer of 1834.

It was about this time that Mr. Hall first visited Akron, and he evidently foresaw some- thing of the future prosperity which has come to this city, for he immediately invested here, closed out his interests at Bridgeport, and in May, 1835, started the "Cascade Store," then a great innovation on anything in the mer- cantile line ever seen in the village. His location was a two-story frame building, on the corner of Howard and Market Streets,

which was destroyed by fire in February, 1851. In the same year the present brick block was erected, and the business was resumed, and it is now the oldest continuous business house in this city. In 1842, Orlando Hall, a brother of Philander D., became associated in the business, and so continued until his death, in 1858, when the late Lorenzo Hall, another brother, became a partner, and the firm of Hall Brothers continued to be for years one of the leading business firms of Akron. Its policy was never changed, business integrity being the foundation stone.

On December 30, 1841, Philander D. Hall was married to Martha McElhinney, who was born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and died at New York, February 20, 1889. In 1857, Mr. Hall established his home in the city of New York, but he continued his business in- terests here until his death, which occurred December 5. 1896.

LORENZO HALL, who was equally prominent at Akron, with his brother, first visited the village in 1836. He was born February 22. 1812, at Bridgeport, Connecti- cut, and his parents were Richard and Sally (Hurlburt) Hall. He enjoyed all the educa- tional opportunities afforded by the schools of his day, and as evidence that he made good use of them it is recorded that when but fifteen years of age the directors of his school dis- triet urged him to become a teacher there, and, in spite of his youth, he was probably a satisfactory pedagogue, as he continued to teach school, alternating that occupation with farming for the next six years the old home- stead land on which his great-great-grand- father had settled in 1635.

In May, 1835, his older brother, Philan- der D, located as a merchant in the little vil- lage which then stood in place of the busy, important city of Akron of to-day, opening up a general store. In 1836 Lorenzo Hall visited his brother and while at Akron sold goods both in the town and the vicinity, but the prospects not being sufficiently encouraging, he returned by horseback to Connecticut, as he had come, and resumed cultivating the

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homestead acres. In 1842, another brother, Orlando Hall, went to Akron and became as- sociated in the mercantile venture with Phil- ander D., with whom he continued until his death, in 1858. Lorenzo Hall then returned to Akron and took his late brother's place in the business as a member of the firm of Ilall Brothers. For many years Lorenzo Hall con- tinued one of Akron's prominent business men as well as upright citizens. His death took place January 9, 1892.

On March 26, 1846, Lorenzo Hall was mar- ried to Mary J. Ilubbel, who was born at Trumbull, Connecticut. Two sons were born to them, both of whom survive, Frank L. and Philander D. Frank L. Hall was born July 5, 1850, and for twenty years was a mem- ber of the well-known law firm of De Forest. Weeks & Company. fle is still in active prac- tice in New York City. Philander D. Hall, Jr., is one of the directors of the National City Bank at Akron, and conducts a large real estate business at No. 4 South Howard Street. He has other important interests which re- quire a large portion of his time to be spent in Europe.

WALTER WAINWRIGHT, superinten- dent of the foundry of The Falls Rivet and Machine Company, of Cuyahoga Falls, was born in England, February 2, 1865, and is a son of Frank and Mary (Gibson) Wain- wright.

The parents of Mr. Wainwright were also natives of England. The father followed the trade of pattern-maker in that country until he was forty years of age, when he came to America and settled at Cleveland. Ile died in England while on a visit to his old home. He belonged to the order of Foresters and the Odd Fellows.

Walter Wainwright was afforded but few educational opportunities in his boyhood, as he was a child of nine years when he was sent to work in a foundry. Fortunately it was employment in which he took an inter- est, and he learned the business from the ground up, gaining all the practical knowl- edge through personal experience, and the

theoretical through study auring later years when he enjoyed some degree of leisure. After serving a hard apprenticeship, he came to America in 1881 and followed his trade in various parts of this country, gaining much through visiting different sections and watch- ing the methods of work in many foundries. When only seventeen years of age, he was . made foreman of the Walker Manufacturing Company, of Cleveland, and remained in that position until 1897. He then went to New- comerstown as foreman for J. B. Clow, re- maining there two years, when he went to Massillon, Ohio, as superintendent of a foundry which he built for the Massillon Iron and Steel Company. Mr. Wainwright continued there for four years and then went to Fostoria, also as superintendent, but a short time later, September, 1903, he accepted his present position.

Mr. Wainwright married Nellie Stoddard, daughter of Merrit L. Stoddard, of Cleve- land, and they have one son, William Royal. The latter has nearly completed his appren- ticeship as a foundryman in the foundry of which his father is superintendent. Mr. Wainwright owns a fine residence property, his lot extending 66 feet on Front Street and 105 feet on Falls. In 1906 he started a mod- ern house of seven rooms which was com- pleted in the spring of 1907, and he is now in the enjoyment of its many comforts. With his family he belongs to the Episcopal Church and is tenor singer in its choir. He belongs also to the Castle quartette, of the Knights of Pythias. In this order he belongs to Red Cross Lodge, of Cleveland. of which he is past chancellor, and of the Uniformed Rank of the order at Cuyahoga Falls. Politically. he is a Republican.

J. S. FARNBAUCH, proprietor of a meat business at No. 391 South Main Street, Ak- ron, has been established in this city since 1893. He was born in Suffield Township, Portage County. Ohio, in 1863, on the old Farnbauch homestead, on which his grand- father settled in pioneer days. The latter was Joseph Farnbauch, who came to Portage

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County in 1835 to assist in the building of the old Ohio Canal. Antone Farnbauch, father of J. S., was one of Portage County's prominent fariners and he died there in 1879.

J. S. Farnbauch, after coming to Akron, worked for a time for J. F. Seiberling and John Wetzel, but returned to his home in Portage County on the death of his mother, coming back to Akron in the spring of 1885. For one year he worked for John Memmer and for two years within one week for D. W. Thomas. He was then engaged with Henry Sprain in the meat business up to April, 1893, and prior to embarking in the meat business on his own account, August 7, 1893, worked in the markets of Spicer Brothers and C. W. Baum. Mr. Farnbauch thus had consider- able experience before he opened up his own business, which he has since developed into an extensive one. He carries only the best quality of meats and his surroundings are sanitary, clean and wholesome.

In October, 1893, Mr. Farnbauch was mar- ried to Margaret Yeager, of Akron. Ile is a member of St. Bernard's Catholic Church and he belongs to St. Bernard's Society. He is a representative business man and good citi- zen.

In 1902 Mr. Farnbauch built his present residence at 322 Locust Street. It is one of the handsome residences in the city.

GEORGE J. STUBBS. one of the proprie- tors of the Akron Paving & Plaster Company, contractors for concrete construction and plain and decorative plastering, and dealers in masons' supplies, is one of Akron's well- established and successful business men. Mr. Stubbs was born in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, in 1875, and is a son of the late George W. Stubbs.

ITis father was born in England, and on coming to America, in 1875-the year of his son's birth-settled in Springfield Township, where he died in 1907. For twenty-seven vears he was superintendent of the Hill Sewer Pipe Company. He married Alicia Harley. who was also a native of England. and they had six children. the eldest son being George

J. The latter has two sisters, Hannah and Mary, the former of whom married George W. Carmichael, one of AAkron's leading con- tractors, the latter becoming the wife of John T. Windsor, a prominent brick manufactur- er of Akron.

George J. Stubbs was educated at Akron and in 1892 was graduated from the Iligh School. He then went to work for the Hill Sew- er Pipe Company, and was employed at their Pennsylvania plant for seven years. In 1899, in association with George W. Carmichael and George V. Billow, he organized the Akron Paving & Plaster Company, a concern which has outstripped many older ones in its par- ticular line of work. It was this company that executed the much admired decorative plaster work for the Court House, and the High School building, and it has been the contracting firm engaged for many of the largest jobs of the kind in this city.

In 1900, Mr. Stubbs was married to Avis De Haven, who died in 1903, leaving a wide circle to mourn her loss. Mr. Stubbs is a member of the Disciples Church. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias.

ELMER E. STUMP, the owner of ninety- two acres of excellent farm land, and presi- dent of the Board of School Directors, of which he has been a member for upwards of twenty years, was born March 11, 1861, on the farm on which he now resides in Frank- lin Township, son of John G. and Lucy (Van- ness) Stump.

John Stump, the grandfather of Elmer E., was a native of Pennsylvania, whence he came to Franklin Township, Summit County, Ohio, and finally settled on the farm now owned by the Levi Stump heirs, where his death oc- curred, his wife, Elizabeth (Grove) Stump, having preceded him to the grave. They were the parents of four sons and four daughters.

John G. Stump was also a native of Penn- sylvania. and came with the family to Ohio at the age of five or six years, growing to man- hood on the Franklin Township farm, which he helped to clear from its wild state. After his marriage. Mr. Stump purchased the farm

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from his father, and here the remainder of his life was spent, his death occurring in his fifty-eighth year. He was married to Lucy Vanness, who was a native of Trumbull Coun- ty, Ohio, and to this union six children were born: Emily, who married P. Keyser ; Albert L .; Elmer Excell; Sarah M .; Charles H., and Olive E.

Elmer E. Stump was reared to manhood on the place which he now occupies, and which has always been his home. His education was secured in the township schools and the High School at Manchester, Ohio. After his mar- riage he purchased the property from the heirs of his father's estate, and here he has since carried on general farming.

On September 24, 1889, Mr. Stump was married to Hannah Devlin, who is a daughter of John and Jane (Hood) Devlin, the former of whom was a native of Ireland, and the lat- ter of Scotland. They were married in Eu- rope, whence they came to this country, and settled in Pennsylvania, subsequently remov- ing to Ohio. John Devlin died in Summit County at the age of thirty-eight years, and his widow was later married to James Gordon, now deceased, and makes her home in British Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. Devlin were the par- ents of these children: Anna, who married William P. Ries; Hannah, the wife of Mr. Stump; Sarah, who married E. Beachtel; Elizabeth, who married N. Dailey; Jennie, who married Ott Wagoner; Rose, who married John Stewart; Eliza, who married Thomas Pearson, and several others who died in in- fancy.

To Mr. and Mrs. Stump there have been born six children, namely : J. Parke, Florence, Sidney, Merle, Ralph and Helen. Mr. Stump is a Democrat in politics, and for about twen- ty years has been a member of the School Board, of which he is now president. He is fraternally affiliated with the Maccabees. He and his family belong to the Reformed Church at Manchester.

DR. JOSEPH WINGERTER. V. S., pro- prietor of the City Veterinary Hospital, lo- cated on the corner of Cedar and Orleans Ave-

nue, at the Haymarket, in the city of Akron. conducts one of the largest and most mod- ern institutions of its kind in Ohio. He was born February 6, 1864, at Akron, Summit County, Ohio, and is a son of Lewis and Mary (Smith) Wingerter.

The father of Dr. Wingerter was born at Paris, France, and his mother was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. Prior to 1840, Lewis Wingerter came to Akron, called here to become the superintendent of the Wilcox pottery, and in the above year he built a pot- tery of his own, which he operated at Akron, until 1891. He affiliated himself with the Democratic party and became a somewhat prominent politician, serving as postmaster at Coventry for a number of years, and capa- bly filling other local offices. He had six chil- dren, namely: Lena, who married Lewis Yeck, and resides at Coventry; Lewis, resid- ing at Coventry, where he operates a pottery ; Philip, residing in Akron, and connected with the Goodrich Rubber Works; Leo, residing in Akron; Augustus, residing at Coventry; and Joseph, whose name begins this sketch.

Joseph Wingerter secured an excellent com- mon school education in the town of Coventry, and was then shipping clerk for the O. B. Hardey pottery for a time. He then joined his brother in a livery and saloon business, which they conducted for about eight years. A destructive fire closed out their interests in this direction, entailing a great financial loss, but probably resulted in the young man turn- ing his attention to those studies in which he has met with such success. He had been in- terested from childhood in animals, and in conducting his livery business he learned much concerning the need that exists for the proper understanding of the ills that afflict the dumb brute creation. When his regular course of business was interrupted he entered the Toronto Veterinary College, where he was graduated in 1894, with high honors. Upon his return to Akron he became joint proprie- tor, with Mr. Dellenberger, of a veterinary hospital. and in 1906 he purchased his part- ner's interest and now manages the large busi- ness of the City Veterinary Hospital alone.

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This modern institution is a hospital for the care and treatment of, and surgical oper- ations on, horses, dogs, cats and all domestic animals. It is equipped with a large and well- ventilated box stall, soaking, sweating and cooling stalls, exercising paddock slings, oper- ating tables, ambulances, etc., there being a special ambulance for dogs. The whole build- ing is supplied with all the latest appliances. Calls in the city or country are promptly at- tended to day or night. Dr. Wingerter is also a manufacturer of veterinary remedies and stock food, and is proprietor of the Pet Stock Cemetery for the burial of pet animals, lo- cated at Coventry. His office, reception, medi- cine and operating rooms are situated in the hospital on the corner of Cedar and Orleans avenue. Dr. Wingerter was married Febru- rary 6, 1897, to Clara A. Serfass, who was born in Summit County, Ohio. Dr. Winger- ter is a member of the Veterinary Medical Association of Toronto, Canada, and to the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association. He is a member of the Catholic Church.

DANIEL R. BRAUCHER, the efficient su- perintendent of the Children's Home, Akron, was born in Stark County, Ohio, March 4, 1849, and is a son of Samuel and Mary (Lichtenwalter) Braucher. The Braucher family is probably of German extraction. The father of Superintendent Braucher was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, but the maternal grandfather was a resident of Stark County. Samuel Brancher was a substantial farmer and reared his son to agricultural pur- suits. He and his wife had seven children.

Prior to 1881, Daniel R. Braucher resided in his native county, where he was educated in the district schools. He then moved to Portage County, where he purchased a large farm. He continued operating that property nntil 1892, when he became assistant superin- tendent of the Portage County Infirmary, where he remained five years and nine months. He then traveled two years in the interest of the Trumbull County Mutual In- surance Company. At that time he again ac- cepted his old position at the Portage County

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Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens, Part 93

Author: Doyle, William B., b. 1868 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1150

Author: Doyle, William B., b. 1868
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Biographical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1150