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Dr. Jones was formerly a member of Memorial Post, Cleveland, and is now a charter member of the Army and Navy Post. He was made a Master Mason in Litchfield Lodge, Medina county, Ohio, in 1868. He became a member of Oriental Commandery, Knights Templar, in Cleveland in 1878. In 1883 he joined the Scottish Rite Consistory of Cincinnati and was a charter member of Lake Erie Consistory of Cleveland in 1893. At the same time he is not an old man and there is strong evidence that he will continue not only to alleviate the sufferings of humanity for years to come, but also to inspire hundreds of students with a greater desire for truth and knowledge. His ceaseless activity and success is constantly furnishing scores of young men with an example that, if followed, will make it impossible for any of them to say-"I have lived in vain."
harold Forest Petter
AROLD FOREST PETTEE, secretary and treas- H urer of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company, which he assisted in founding in 1906, since which time he has occupied his present official position, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1875. His father, Simon Erastus Pettee, a native of Foxboro, Massachusetts, was born on July 3, 1822, and died May 30, 1903. He was a son of Simon and Sophia (Forest) Pettee and a grandson of Harvey Pettee. Simon E. Pettee was prominent as a manufact- urer and inventor and had much to do with the development of modern machinery for the manufacture of paper bags. He was the inventor of the first paper bag machine and organized the Union Paper Bag Company. By that company he was sent abroad in 1860 and spent five years in Europe in the interest of the business. He then disposed of his shares in the paper bag company and made extensive investments in slate quarries, but like hundreds of others lost his money during the widespread financial panic of 1873. In 1876 he came to Cleveland and turned his attention to the manufact- ure of hats in connection with his brother, J. G. Pettee, under the firm style of J. G. Pettee & Company, which later became Comey & Pettee. After his brother's death Simon E. Pettee sold his in- terest to Mr. Comey and the business is still carried on under the firm name of Comey & Johnson. He was then employed by the Cleveland Paper Bag Company with instructions to build a bag machine which would compete with his own machine that he had previously invented and which was being used by the Union Paper Bag Company. This he successfully accomplished. He was work- ing on and had almost completed a machine for canceling envelopes when a stroke of paralysis obliged him to give up all work and on the 30th of May, 1903, he passed away. He married Fidelia Car- penter, who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1833, a daughter of James and Lucena Carpenter and a granddaughter of the Rev. Josiah Thompson, of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Pettee is still living in Cleveland.
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After leaving the Central high school, in which he completed his education, Harold F. Pettee entered the employ of the Root- McBride Company as department salesman and so continued for eleven years, beginning as stock boy and winning various promo- tions through his diligence and trustworthiness. He entered the manufacturing field in 1905 in association with F. Van Buskirk and in 1906 he became one of the founders of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company, at which time he was elected secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Pettee is well known in club organizations which draw their membership from those interested in athletic and outdoor sports. He belongs to the Mayfield Country, the East End Tennis, the Cleveland Athletic, the Hermit and Cleveland Automobile Clubs. He is also a member of the Royal League and in his political views is a repub- lican, but not so strongly partisan that he votes for republican can- didates at municipal election where no political issue is before the people.
Mr. Pettee was married October 14, 1902, to Miss Ethel Winter, a daughter of Fred G. and Mary (Winter) Clark, of Cleveland, and they have one child, Virginia Forest. Mrs. Pettee is a graduate of the Miss Middleberger School and is interested in various charities.
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James Pichands
Colonel James Pickands
O compendium such as this volume defines in its es- N sential limitations will serve to offer fit memorial to the life and accomplishments of Colonel James Pick- ands, whose close connection with the varied inter- ests which have been important factors in the up- building of Cleveland made him one of its most prominent, honored and representative citizens. His name every- where carried weight in financial and industrial circles and his busi- ness affairs were of a character that contributed to general progress as well as to individual success. He was very active in the develop- ment of the iron industry and was at the head of the firm of Pick- ands, Mather & Company, which was a very important element in the business activity of Cleveland. On the battlefields of the south Colonel James Pickands also won fame and honor and yet there have been few men who have taken to themselves so little credit for what they have accomplished or have borne their honors with more becoming modesty.
Colonel Pickands was one of Ohio's native sons, his birth having occurred in Akron, in 1839. His early life was there passed and when yet in his teens he came to Cleveland, where he was employed as clerk in a mercantile house. His promotions, owing to his great adaptability for business, were rapid and he was steadily forging to the front when the outbreak of the Civil war changed, for the time being, the course of his life. Business never engrossed him to the exclusion of public interests and duties and he was a close student of the questions and issues which preceded the outbreak of the Civil war. Feeling that Federal authority was on the side of the maintenance of the Union, when President Lincoln issued his first call for troops Mr. Pickands was active in organizing regi- ments of volunteers. Finally when the One Hundred and Twenty- fourth Ohio Infantry Regiment was formed in Cleveland in 1862, he was induced to accept a commission and rapid advancement led him to the rank of colonel. He made a most honorable record as a
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brave and efficient officer, distinguishing himself in every capacity to which his service called him, but even his closest friends only knew of this from what they heard from his comrades in arms.
Following the close of hostilities between the north and the south, Colonel Pickands concluded to go to the Lake Superior mining region, which was just being opened up. There he established a hardware, coal and general merchandise business at Marquette, Michigan, under the firm name of James Pickands & Company, and from the beginning the enterprise proved profitable. He became one of the best known men in the iron ore business in his day and the development of that part of the Lake Superior iron ore mining region surrounding Marquette was due to a great degree to Colonel Pickands. He carried on business there until 1881, when he re- turned to Cleveland and in that year organized the firm of Pickands, Mather & Company, his associates in the enterprise being Sam- uel Mather and J. C. Morse. This firm controlled interests that constituted a large factor in the business prosperity of Cleveland, and in its control Colonel Pickands took a most prominent part, his initiative spirit, his keen discernment and his executive force con- stituting valuable elements in the successful management of the company's extensive affairs. He remained an active factor in the business circles of this city to the very last and not until a year prior to his death did his health suffer any impairment. Indeed, the day before his death he was at his office in the Western Reserve build- ing and on the following day, while resting quietly at his residence, he passed away
"As one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him And lies down to pleasant dreams."
Colonel Pickands' interests were varied and extensive. In addi- tion to the presidency of the firm of Pickands, Mather & Company, he was president of the Western Reserve National Bank. He was also a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and one of the most interested and active workers of that body. He belonged to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Commission and to the Army & Navy Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, also to the Loyal Legion and to the Union Club. All matters of civic virtue and civic pride elicited his interest and his cooperation was given to every movement which he believed would further the public good. While he worked toward high ideals he used practical methods and his labors were resultant factors in the city's growth and prosperity.
Colonel Pickands was twice married. His first wife and the mother of his children was Miss Caroline Outhwaite, a daughter of John Outhwaite, of Cleveland, prominent in connection with the
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iron industry some years ago. Mrs. Pickands died in 1882, leaving three sons: Joseph O., of Cheboygan, Michigan; Henry S .; and Jay M., both of whom are mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Colonel Pickands was survived by his second wife, who was Seville Hanna, a sister of the late Hon. M. A. Hanna, of Cleveland.
The death of Colonel Pickands occurred July 14, 1896, and was the occasion of deep and uniform sorrow throughout Cleveland, and in fact wherever he was known. Nearly every vessel on the Great Lakes carried their colors at half mast in respect for Colonel Pick- ands. He had lived an industrious life, had contributed liberally to charity and was always known to suppress everything that would bring to him notoriety, and yet the character of his life and its worth was such that he became widely known personally and by reputa- tion and all who knew aught of his career honored and respected him. He was one of Cleveland's most successful business men and enterprising citizens and an excellent estimate of him was given in the Cleveland Leader, which said editorially: "It is hard for Cleveland to fill such gaps in the ranks of her public-spirited citi- zens as that caused by the death of Colonel James Pickands. Al- though not a native of the Forest city, Colonel Pickands has proved during his residence in Cleveland his deep devotion to the best in- terests of the thriving metropolis of Ohio. He was always foremost in movements designed to increase the power and influence of this city and in every way he was a citizen of whom all might feel proud. Although few had heard it from his own lips, Colonel Pickands had won distinction in the Civil war as commander of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the title he bore having been conferred upon him for his bravery and zeal in defense of the Union. Hundreds of Cleveland people who had the pleasure of the acquaintance of that genial and public-spirited man must have learned with pain and surprise of his sudden taking off in the prime of life, and without any warning in the form of serious or apparently dangerous illness."
The life record of Colonel Pickands was indeed far-reaching in its influence and beneficial in its effects. There was nothing nar- row nor contracted in his nature. He never measured anything by the inch rule of self but rather by the broad standard gauge of hu- manity. His business capacity and energy were such as to bring him into prominent relations with financial and industrial interests and, while he won notable success, he realized as few men have done the obligations and responsibilities of wealth. He never sought by precept to make the world better but his life was a living example of the power of honorable, forceful manhood, and he lives today in the
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memory of his friends enshrined in the halo of a gracious presence and charming personality as well as with the record of successful accomplishment in connection with individual business interests and with the public service.
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Why man Lawrence
M. Lyman Lawrence
M. LYMAN LAWRENCE is vice president of the Lawrence Publishing Company, publishers of the Ohio Farmer, recognized today as one of the lead- ing agricultural papers in the entire country, with a circulation that makes the plant one of the leading enterprises of the city. Trained for the work in his youth, he has displayed an initiative spirit in the further develop- ment and extension of the business connected with the publication and circulation of the paper and today occupies a prominent place among Cleveland's representative and resourceful business men.
Mr. Lawrence was born in this city December 23, 1868, and in the acquirement of his education passed through the public and high school, while in 1885, when a youth of sixteen years, he went to Colorado for his health. Advised that outdoor life would be beneficial, he became cowboy and cowpuncher on the western plains and there remained until the outdoor exercise effected his restora- tion. In 1889 he abandoned the life of the plains, however, for in. that year his father went to Colorado and organized two banks, the Peoples National and the Peoples Savings Bank, both of Denver. M. Lyman Lawrence then entered the bank and held all of the im- portant positions from messenger to cashier. When he assumed the duties of the latter position he was the youngest bank official of Colorado. He allows no difficulty nor obstacle to thwart him in the work which he undertakes, and he soon proved himself capable of discharging duties that devolved upon him in the cashiership. The banks suspended in 1893 and Mr. Lawrence afterward returned to Cleveland, where he took an active part in the management of the Ohio Farmer, which his father had purchased during the youth- ful days of the son. From that time forward he has been actively connected with the publication of this leading agricultural journal and is now vice president of the Lawrence Publishing Company, which has an extensive plant and is conducting one of the important business enterprises of this character in the city. He is also the vice president of the Lawrence-Williams Company. In 1881 his father went to France, where he arranged for the sale of Gombault's Caustic
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Balsam, a veterinary remedy. The Lawrence-Williams Company was then formed and the business is now capitalized for fifty thousand dollars. The remedy has had a ready sale and the business is now one of very large and profitable proportions. The company are sole agents in the United States and Canada and they employ a large force of assistants in introducing the drug on the market. The present officers of the company are: Mortimer J. Lawrence, presi- dent; M. Lyman Lawrence, vice president; L. L. Pope, secretary and Paul T. Lawrence, treasurer. The last named is also secretary and treasurer of the Lawrence Publishing Company.
On the 3d of August, 1891, Mr. Lawrence was married to Miss Olive M. Harp, of Denver, a daughter of W. R. Harp, president of the Union Coal & Coke Company. Their home is on Magnolia drive, at the corner of Juniper drive, and is the scene of many at- tractive social functions. Mr. Lawrence has been a Mason since 1892 and is a charter member of Brenton N. Babcock Lodge. He also belongs to Cleveland Lodge, No. 84, B. P. O. E., and holds member- ship in the Cleveland Auto Club, the Lakewood Yacht Club, the Hermit Club, the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He is prominent in social as well as business circles and is one of the popular and esteemed residents of Cleveland, where with the exception of his western experience his entire life has been passed.
John Dickenson, M. D.
D R. JOHN DICKENSON, now deceased, was for many years a distinguished representative of the med- ical profession in Cleveland, who with thorough un- derstanding of the obligations resting upon him, performed all of his professional services in a most efficient manner, while his success was the indication of superior skill and ability. A native of Newcastle, England, he was born in 1835 and in 1845, at the age of ten years, came to Amer- ica, locating in Cleveland, where he completed his education and after a review of the broad field of labor he determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work. To this end he pursued a course of study in the Western Reserve Medical College, from which he was graduated in due course of time. He then located in Cleve- land, where he continued in the active practice of medicine until his death. At the time of the Civil war he responded to the call of his adopted country for aid in the preservation of the Union and served as assistant surgeon in the Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and in March, 1865, was promoted to brigade surgeon of the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Ohio Regiment, with the rank of major. He remained in the army for four years. He also did other public service of an important character, acting as health officer of Cleve- land for six years, also as president of the board of pension exami- ners for four years and as police surgeon for some time. For fifty- one years he continued in the active practice of medicine in Cleve- land, enjoying a large patronage. In no calling does success depend more largely upon individual merit than in that to which he devoted his labors and he possessed all of the requisite qualities of the suc- cessful physician who must not only have a thorough understanding of the scientific principles underlying his work but must possess keen insight into temperament, the power of close and careful analy- sis and a ready sympathy.
Dr. Dickenson was widely and prominently known in the vari- ous medical societies to which he belonged, including the Cleveland Medical Society, the Cleveland Medical Library Association and the Ohio State Medical Society.
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Dr. Dickenson was married in 1866 to Miss Louisa Keppler, a daughter of F. A. Keppler, who was a prominent wholesale mer- chant of Cleveland in his day. They became the parents of five chil- dren, of whom two are living: Gertrude Maud, who is at home with her mother at the family residence at No. 2189 East Seventy-ninth street; and Dr. John Dickenson, Jr., a successful practitioner of this city.
The father gave his political allegiance to the republican party and was thoroughly in sympathy with its principles but never an aspirant for office. He held membership with the Army & Navy Post and was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church. His life was at all times high and honorable in its motives and purposes and he commanded the full esteem of those whom he met socially as he did the high regard of those with whom he came in contact in pro- fessional relations. He passed away February 19, 1903. at the age of sixty-nine years, respected and honored by all who knew him, his life having been characterized by worthy labors in the service of his fellowmen.
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Mortimer James Lawrence
ORTIMER JAMES LAWRENCE, while practi- M cally retired, still retains the office of president of the Lawrence Publishing Company and the Lawrence- Williams Company of Cleveland, although he makes his home in Washington, D. C., occupying a magnifi- cent residence at No. 2131 Wyoming avenue. His history, from the period of his earliest struggles with an adverse fate down through the years, has been marked by a steady progress that has eventually won him much substantial and merited success. He was born at Springfield, Erie county, Pennsylvania, just east of the Ohio line, December 8, 1843. His father, John Horatio Lawrence, was an Englishman, born of respectable parentage at Birmingham, England, the family being connected with mechanical pursuits there. When twenty-three years of age he came to the United States and settled at Lockport, New York, where he married Sarah Evans, the daughter of a Methodist minister. During the infancy of their son Mortimer they removed to Conneaut, Ohio, and when he was two years old to Copley, Summit county, making the journey by wagon and canal, for it was before the era of railroad building. Later two years were spent at Camden, Lorain county, and when Mortimer J. Lawrence was about six years of age the family removed to Wake- man, Huron county, Ohio, which remained his place of residence until he had almost reached the age of twenty-two years. When he was a youth of thirteen his parents separated. His father, who was a shoemaker by trade, left the mother without a cent of money and eight children, two older and five younger than Mortimer Lawrence. With the brave and unquenchable spirit that only a mother shows, she did carpet weaving and other work that she might support the family, while the three elder children, John, Ann and Mortimer, also sought employment. The last named worked for many days at ten cents a day and board, and well remembers with what pride he took home to his mother his first dollar-the earnings of ten days' hard work. With close economy the family managed to meet ex- penses and the children attended the public school for two or three months in a year, their financial condition becoming easier as the
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other children grew and were able to provide at least in part for their own needs.
When Mortimer J. Lawrence was a youth of fifteen and his brother John seventeen, they began cultivating land on shares and soon had a work team and tools of their own. At the first call of President Lincoln for troops after the firing upon of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, Mr. Lawrence enlisted but was not accepted because of his youth. In August of the same year, however, he joined Com- pany B, Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and was mustered in, al- though four months less than eighteen years of age. The company was organized at Milan, Erie county, and the regiment at Monroe- ville, Huron county. In December they went to Camp Dennison and in January, 1862, to Louisville, Kentucky, where about the 20th of that month, they were first paid and Mr. Lawrence for the first time saw the United States greenback and postal currency. In February, 1862, they started on a march through Kentucky to Nashville, Ten- nessee, and soon after marched across the latter state with General Buell's army to join General Grant at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River, where they participated in a hotly contested bat- tle. The Third Ohio Cavalry was in all the battles and skirmishes in the siege and capture of Corinth, Mississippi, and in many others during the long march back to Louisville. In the summer of 1862 the troops of that command took part in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, thence marched to Nashville, and were in many skir- mishes and raids, and were also in the battle of Stone River and at Murfreesboro under General Rosecrans on the 31st of December, 1862, and on the Ist of January, 1863. Mr. Lawrence with his com- mand participated in the march of Rosecrans' army to the Tennessee river in the spring of 1863, in the siege of Chattanooga, the battle of Chickamauga and afterward did some desperate fighting with the Confederate cavalry under Wheeler, relieving their communications so that supply trains could get through to save the Army of the Cum- berland from starvation. But Joe Hooker with his corps came from the east and soon afterward General Grant took command, and then came Sherman with his corps from Vicksburg and the great battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge were fought, driving the Confederate army under Bragg from its strong position around Chattanooga and opening up the way for General Sherman's At- lanta campaign in the spring and summer of 1864, in all of which the Third Ohio Cavalry took active part, including the battles of Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahoocheeiver and the slow, hard approach to Atlanta. Mr. Lawrence was with the regiment in the celebrated Kilpatrick raid around Atlanta, in which for five con-
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secutive days and nights the command never unsaddled their horses nor lay down. There was never an hour in which they were not under fire and twice had to cut their way.
After the capture of Atlanta the Confederate general, Hood, started a flank movement around Sherman's right and Sherman at once planned and put in operation his march to the sea, leaving General Thomas to collect an army and give battle to Hood. The brigade of cavalry to which the Third Ohio belonged went with Thomas and participated in the decisive battle of Nashville in De- cember, 1864, which was the last of the important battles of the west. The Third Ohio Cavalry formed a part of a division under General Wilson and followed the defeated army under Hood, cap- turing many thousands of prisoners, mostly without firing a gun. After camping for six weeks at Gravelly Spring, on the Tennessee river, in February, 1865, they started on the Wilson raid, going to Selma, Alabama, and captured the city, destroying the base of com- munication and arsenal stores after a desperate fight with General Joe Wheeler. Later they captured Montgomery, Alabama, burned three thousand bales of cotton, proceeded thence to Columbus, Georgia, and on to Andersonville, where they liberated eighteen hun- dred Union soldiers and captured Captain Wertz. At Macon, Georgia, they captured General Howell Cobb and about one thou- sand Confederate infantry, and there first learned of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, which had occurred six days before. Their joy, how- ever, was turned to sorrow the next day by the news of the assassina- tion of President Lincoln. Soon thereafter word came that Jefferson Davis with his family and quite a retinue were hastening across the country to the south, hoping to escape into Mexico. The Fourth Michigan and Third Ohio Regiments were ordered to undertake his capture. They marched about two hundred miles before striking the trail of Davis but found and surprised his camp just at daybreak one morning. They took their celebrated prisoner back to Macon, whence he was sent by rail to Washington. The Third Ohio Cavalry remained at Macon two months and then went to Nashville, where the men were honorably discharged in the latter part of August, 1865, returning thence to Columbus, where they were paid off and disbanded.
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