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THE TOLEDO MOULDING COMPANY .- This or- ganization was preceded in 1867 by the firm of H. J. Chase & Co. (Henry J. Chase. Hartwell Osborn, Benjamin A. Stevens), who were the pioneers in the manufacture of Mouldings in Toledo: making at that time, however, only those of black walnut. Their shop was located in the Sash and Blind Factory of Gates & Skid- more, on Erie Street, until 1870, when, more room being required, they moved to the corner of Water and Lagrange Streets, where they re- mained until burned ont in 1873. At that time Mr. Henry S. Swayne purchased the in- terest of Mr. Stevens, and the firm became Osborn, Chase and Swayne. In 1873 t they erected and equipped the buildings at the cor- ner of Chestnut and Champlain Streets, now occupied by The Toledo Moulding Company. The latter organization was incorporated Jan- uary 14, 1880, with a eapital stock of $100,000, the incorporators being John Cummings, W. W. Griffith, R. V. Boiee, J. B. Baldy and Noah H. Swayne, Jr. The first officers of the Com- pany were: R. V. Boice, President ; Henry S. Swayne, Vice President ; Cyrus Hussey, Sec- retary and Treasurer.
In 1880 the Company bought the premises and equipments of Osborn, Chase & Swayne, consisting of the present buildings and ma- chinery, with the exception of some minor additions since made. The principal manu- factures of the house are Mouldings, Picture Frames and Cornices, of all styles and varic- ties. The sales range from $150,000 to $175,000 a year. The present officers are: Noah II. Swayne, President; I. N. Humphrey, Vice President; Cyrus Hussey, Secretary and Treasurer. R. V. Boice was President Irom 1880 to 1883 ; R. S. Janney, from 1883 to 1887. Henry S. Swayne was Vice President from 1880 to 1887; Cyrus Hussey has held the offices of Secretary and Treasurer since the in- corporation in 1880.
THE GREAT WESTERN PIN COMPANY was in- corporated November 14, 1883, by Charles F. Milburn, G. R. Hudson, L. S. Baumgardner, C. L. Luce and Fred. Eaton, with a capital stock of $75.000. In December, 1884, it began the manufacture of Pins, being the only estab- lishment for that purpose West of Detroit, which are the only other Pin Works West of Rochester, New York. The Company has done much to occupy this great field as a market for its goods, which already demands increased facilities. The Company runs 31 Pin Machines, with an average capacity of 2,500 cases a year, each case containing 108 packs of one dozen papers each ; and em- ploy, on an average, 45 hands. The present officers of the Company are: G. R. Hudson,
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President; F. B. Dodge, Vice President; John Farley, Treasurer, and C. F. Milburn, Secretary.
THE TOLEDO COT AND WRINGER MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY .- This Company was incor- porated in October, 1885, by II. S. Halstead, L. K. Parks, J. A. Barber and L. S. Baum- gardner, who purchased the stock and interest of the Perfection Manufacturing Company, and organized with the following officers: Presi- dent, L. S. Baumgardner; Vice President, L. K. Parks; Secretary, H. S. Halstead. The business continued under the management of these gentlemen until April, 1887, when Mr. Baumgardner, by purchase, became the entire owner of the property, and uniting his interest with that of W. W. Griffith, proprietor of the Griffith Cot Company, organized the present Company by the election of the following Board of Directors: L. S. Baumgardner, W. W. Griffith, R. V. Boice, E. W. Baumgardner, J. Il. Baumgardner. The Board elected the following officers: President and Treasurer, L. S. Baumgardner ; Secretary, J. HI Baum- gardner. The goods manufactured are Cots, Folding Beds, Folding Chairs, Bench-wringers, Refrigerators, Fancy Oars, Steel Sleds, School and Hall Furniture, &c. They employ about 40 hands.
FONTAINE CROSSING AND SIGNAL. This ar- rangement for Railway use, invented by Eugene Fontaine, is now being supplied by the Fon- taine Crossing and Signal Company, at Toledo. It was incorporated September 11, 1880, with a capital of $100,000. The works comprise a mammoth brick structure, 50x250 ft. in size, and are supplied with all the latest and most approved machinery. The Directors are: Ex- Governor Charles Foster, ex-Governor R. K. Scott, M. 1. Wilcox, C. K. Brandon, S. V. Shelly, E. Fontaine and G. W. Holston. The officers are: C. K. Brandon, President ; ex-Gov. Scott. Vice President; S. V. Shelly, Secretary and Treasurer; and E. Fontaine, Superintendent. The last named gentleman is in charge of the business, and gives it his undivided attention.
THE VOUTE EXCAVATING SEWER AND DRAIN- AGE COMPANY .- C. H. Voute, Contractor. This Company has a new and effective process of cleaning cess-pools, catch-basins, sewers and other vanlts. It also removes ashes and rubbish of every description, and gives special attention to the construction of Sewers, Drains, Wells, etc.
PARTIAL LIST OF MANUFACTURES.
Axle Manufacturers .- Tubular Axle Co.
Awnings and Tents .- M. I. Wilcox Cordage and Supply Co.
Barber Chairs .- Ransom & Randolph.
Bent Wood Work .- Brigham, Lanson & Co., W. D. Burgess, Toledo Bending Co., Toledo Carriage Woodwork Co.
Bicycles .- Gendron Iron Wheel Co. Boat Builders .- Hepburn Brothers.
Boiler Makers .- Holzemer & Loos, Ricard Brothers, Shoup, Sperber & Co.
Bolts and Nuts .- Toledo Nut and Bolt Co.
Book Binders and Blank Books. - Blade Printing & Paper Co., J. T. Frey, Montgomery & Vrooman, The B. F. Wade Co., Wendt & Rausch.
Box Manufacturers .- Blade Printing & Paper Co .. H. E. Davis (Cigar). John Nagely, Ohio Pump and Box Co., Union Paper Box Co., George Wilson & Sons (Packing).
Brass Founders .- Shaw. Kendall & Co., C. H. Allen, John Shaw, Valentine Seeger.
Brick Manufacturers .- Spear, Jacobs & Allen, J. R. Boice, M. W. Brooker & Co .. J. B. Fox & Co., E. B. Hall, Owen & Howell, A. E. Macom- ber. Mrs. M. A. Stebbins.
Bridge Builders, -T. II. Hamilton, Massillon Bridge Co., Smith Bridge Co.
Brush Manufacturers. - The Ames-Bonner Co .. Toledo Brush Co.
Candy Manufacturers .- Crescent C'andy Co., Worts, Kirk & Bigelow.
Car Builders .- The Arms Palace Horse-Car Co., Consolidated Rolling Stock Co.
Carriages and Wagons .- Il. P. Benson, John Bladon, M. J. Cooney & Co .. Joseph Dorn- berger, Milburn Wagon Co., John Rapparlie, F. I. Sur, Peter Welter.
Carriage Tops .- C. Z. Kroh & Brother.
('ider and Vinegar .- Berger Brothers, T. B. Hine, Vietor (iladieux.
Cloaks. - Alexander Black.
Coffee and Spice Mills. - Woolson Spice Com pany, George W. Boos, Eagle Spice Mills, To- ledo Spice Company.
Corset Makers .- Mrs. Nellie Durr, Mrs Mary Loftus.
Coopers. - P. S. Carr. A. H. Hasemeyer, Louis John, Mueller Brothers, Edward Mul- cahey, J. M. Shunck & Brother, Skidmore & Thacher. G. H. Steinkamp.
Cot Manufacturers .- Griffith Portable ('ot Co., Toledo Cot and Wringer Manufacturing Co.
Divers. - Sub-Marine - Thacher & Brey- mann.
Dredgers .- James Rooney & Sons.
Edge Tools .-- C. H. Moore.
Electric Light .-- Toledo Electric Company. Western Electric Light and Power Co.
Elevators .-- Smith & Haldeman.
Extracts .- lohn Hoffman, Keystone Extract Co.
Fertilizers .- S. II. Morgan & Co., D. F. Rath.
Filters .-- The Stevens Filter Co., John N. Stevens.
Flouring Mills -- Armada Mills. Dorr Street Feed Mill, Manhattan Mills, McConnell & Co., Northwestern Elevator and Mill Co., Bechtol, Carney & Co.
Founders and Machinists .- Herbert Baker, Nathaniei Haughton, H. B. Milmine & Co.,
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Shaw, Kendall & Co., Edward MeLeary, Jr., Toledo Foundry and Machine Co .. Smith & Haldeman, George W. Heartley, Vulcan Iron Works.
Furniture .- Conant Brothers Furniture Co., Meilink Furniture Co., T. J. Collins & Co., Schauss Manufacturing Co., Hillebrand & Foth.
Galvanized Iron Cornice .- J. L. Creswell, G. F. C. Kloeppinger.
Gold, Silver and Nickel Platers .- Gendron Iron Wheel Co., M. F. Richards.
Gravel Roofers .- Edward Arnold. Joseph Livers, N. T. Ketcham.
Hats,-Amander Ford, Charles Cefel.
Horse Collars-J. E. Quinn.
Knit Goods-Jacob Mandler, Roth& Friedman. Japanned Ware, -- E. P. Breckenridge & Co. Lithographers .- Locke & Trowbridge.
Marble Works -- Eckhardt Brothers, Blank & Girard. John O'Farrell, Lloyd Brothers. Producers Marble Co., Lonis Haring. Woodruff Brothers, Samuel Clarke.
Overalls .- L. S. Bortree.
Packers .- W. O. Brown & Son, Jacob Fol- 1 ger, Jacob Kurtz.
Paint Manufacturers .- Buckeye Paint & Var- nish Co., Dolphin Color Works, Toledo Paint - & Varnish Co.
Perfumers .- George Lorenz, Philip Lorenz, John Hoffman.
Photographers,-E. Il. Alley, O. G. Fields, S. Benster, G. H. Chesebro. D. B. Claflin, George Fields, John Koella. McKecknie & Oswald, E. J. O'Leary, Mrs. M. D. Quinn, N. J. Peter, Arthur & Philbric, John Chrisman, F. J. Trost, W. F. Van Loo.
Picture Frames .- The Ohio Moulding and Picture Frame Co., The Toledo Monlding Co. Pins .- Great Western Pin Co.
Planing Mills .- Diamond Planing Mill Co., Goulet Manufacturing Co., John S. Eck & Co., Victor Gladieux, Maclaren & Sprague, Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Co., J. V. Sauffeet, The C. H. Schroeder Co., Toledo Door, Sash & Blind Co., I. S. Morgan, Western Manufacturing Co .. Witker Manufacturing Co., Young & Miller, Barbour & Starr, W. H. H. Smith Co.
Plows .- Toledo Plow Co.
Pumps .- Ohio Pump & Box Co., Toledo Pump Co.
Rolling Mills,-Mamnee Rolling Mill Co.
Rubber Stamps .- Wyman Boardman, Toledo Rubber Stamp Co.
Rugs and Rug Machines .- E. Ross & Co.
Saw Manufacturers .- Tillinghast & Co., Hugh Bartley, Northwestern Saw Works (August. Mertz).
Shirt Manufacturers .- Garvin & Johnson. C. N. D. Meade, Miss E. N. Cunningham.
Staves and Heading .-- The Dewey Stave Co., D. N. Trowbridge (also hoops), Trowbridge & Eddy.
Soap Manufacturers .-- Assemblies Soap Co., John Bell & Co., S. W. Bell & Co.
Tile -- M. W. Brooker & Co., Owen & Howell.
Tobacco .-- Buckeye Tobacco Works, Toledo Tobacco Works.
Trunk Manufacturers .- W. H. Birkencamp & Co., J. B. Shepler, Eggeman, Duguid & Co. Wheelbarrows, -- (. W. Thomas & Co.
Wire Signs,-Toledo Wire and Iron Works.
Wine Growers and Manufacturers,-Lenk Wine Company. E. W. E. Koch.
Wood Working Machinery. -- Herbert Baker. W. W. Cooke.
Wooden and Willow Ware .- Union Mann- faeturing Co., Dunscomb & Co., Spross Bros.
MICHAEL J. ENRIGHT was born in Cin- cinnati, March 5, 1845. of Irish parentage. The family removed to Toledo in 1853. His early educational advantages were comparatively good, his father being an educated man. having been a Professor of Languages in an English College. Ilis mother, Anna Theresa Mahon Enright, was a writer of considerable note, and contributed to the Toledo papers. She died in 1859, when the son was sent to School at Notre Dame College, Indiana. For the first year he was at the Manual Labor School, and for one and a half years at the Seminary. The object of his father at this time was to fit him for the Priesthood. Not taking kindly to such plan, he left Notre Dame without his father's ap- proval, and returned to Toledo, where he en- gaged to learn the Carpenter's trade with Ed- ward Malone. His wages not being sufficient to meet his expenses. be obtained employment in a Tub and Pail Factory, where, in addition to his regular labor, he kept the time-book of the men, and got, in all, 80 cents per day. At the end of six months of this service, and when 17 years old (in 1862), he enlisted as private in the Union Army, being mustered into Company HI, One Hundreth and Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Hle was subsequently appointed as Lientenant, and served out his term of enlist- ment (three years) with special credit for fidel- ity and courage. He went with his Regiment to the Army of the Ohio (General Buell), and participated in the campaigns of that command. He was with it in the pursuit and capture of John Morgan ; in the East Tennessee campaign of General Burnside ; in the Atlanta campaign and the Franklin and Nashville campaigns un- der General Thomas; and took part in the capture of Fort Anderson and Wilmington. He was slightly wounded at Dallas, Georgia ; was captured by Wheeler's Rebel Cavalry at Kingston, Georgia, but made his escape while crossing the Etowah River. He was mustered ont with Regiment, in 1865. Returning to Toledo, at the age of 20 years, he obtained the situation of Entry Clerk in the Wholesale Dry Goods House of Luce, Chapin & Blass. In 1867 he went to Rochester, New York, to become Clerk in a Hotel ; but soon accepted the posi- tion of Clerk for the Manager of the New York
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Oil Company, where he remained for two years. Returning again to Toledo, he became a Shipping Clerk for Chase, Isherwood & Co., Tobacco Manufacturers. At the age of 25 (1870), he was appointed Deputy Sheriff. In 1872 he was elected County Clerk, being re- elected in 1875, and in 1878, serving three terms and retiring in 1881. From 1881 to 1885, he was the Manager of the Toledo Transfer Com- pany. In 1885, in connection with Frank C. Smith, he established the Toledo Brush Com- pany, at 170-174 St. Clair Street, which is still in successful operation, Mr. Enright retain- ing his interest in the Transfer Company. He was in September, 1887, elected President ot the Toledo Business Men's Committee, organ- ized for promoting the general interests of the City, and more especially for making known and giving effect to Toledo's advantages as a manufacturing and commercial point. In 1886, Mr. Enright consented to the use of his name, as a candidate tor nomination for Congress by the Democratic Convention, in opposition to Frank II. Hurd, and lacked but few votes of success. For several years he has been a Direc- tor of the Tri-State Fair Association ; and is President of the Petoskey Lime and Stone Company. With George G. Hadley, be pur- chased the patent of the Arthur Engine, which they are now manufacturing at Toledo. Left entirely to his own resources when 16 years of age, his subsequent life was the result of bis unaided will and effort. He makes special recognition of the benefits derived throughout from the good foundation furnished bim in the education supplied by his parents; and with that he associates the early lesson of self- reliance, so fully taught him in unavoidable experience. January 22, 1872, he was mar- ried to Miss Amelia A., daughter of Captain J. C. Purdy, of Toledo.
ISAAC D. SMEAD. Among those who have made successful efforts in the department of Applied Science is Isaac D. Smead, of this City, the head of several associated firms known as the Smead Warming and Ventilating Com- pany. Mr. Smead was born in Coleraine, Franklin County, Massachusetts, July 31, 1849. His father, Ezra Smead, was a mechanic, and added to his resources in providing for his family by the cultivation of a small farm. Isaac was brought up in the quiet New Eng- land home, where he attended the District School, and completed his opportunities for education by two or three terms at a Select School. His naturally energetic spirit soon re- belled against the monotony and conservatism of rural New England life, and at the age of 16, against the wishes of his parents, he left home, determined to seek a more congenial situation. He naturally sought the young and growing West. Good fortune (as it turned out) led him to Bloomington, Illinois, where,
strange as it may appear, he came at once in contact with the conditions which determined his future course and led him to the successful solution of his life problem. It is well known that Mr. Smead has devoted over 20 years of his life to the most persistent and assiduous efforts to solve the problem of warming and ventilating houses and public buildings in accordance with the principles of Sanitary sci- ence, and that his efforts have been remarkably successful.
In this climate and in the Northern and middle latitudes generally, where artificial beat is so much depended upon, and where, at the same time, good ventilation as a condition of health is among the prime necessities, few enterprises can equal in Sanitary and economie value, the que in which Mr. Smead is engaged ; and his snecess is to be regarded in the light of a public benefaction.
The starting-point of Mr. Smead's career in this undertaking was with the firm of W. A. Pennell & Co., with whom he first found em- ployment on his arrival at Bloomington in 1867, the firm having been organized but a short time previously. In giving a brief his- tory of the firm, we shall show the relation of Mr. Smead to Mr. Ruttan, upon whose original system he has made so many important im- provements.
The questions of Sanitary beating and ven- tilation had been widely discussed, but no attempt had been made to solve them scientific- ally and practically prior to the efforts of Hon. Henry Ruttan, of Coburg, Canada. Mr. Ruttan, after devoting years of careful study to the subject, and procuring several patents, pub- lished in 1862, a large volume setting forth the theories which form the underlying principles of the system generally known as the Ruttan System of Warming and Ventilation. Among the first to be convinced of the practicability of Mr. Ruttan's system was B. R. Hawley, of Normal, Illinois, who in 1866, with the design of putting the system into practice, became associated with W. A. Pennell and Lemuel Grover, under the firm name of W. A. Pennell & Co. It was but a short time after the organ- ization of this firm when young Smead became connected with it.
It is not our intention to follow the suc- cesses and failures of the new enterprise, which upon all sides was surrounded by obstacles. At the outset, the experiments in which the firm were engaged in reducing Mr. Ruttan's theories to practice, no less than the scientific principles involved in them, enlisted the nat- ural genius of the boy, and he engaged in the work with all the zeal of a veteran scientist. So rapid was his progress in a field of labor so interesting to him, and so efficient did he be- come, that upon the organization of the Com- pany which succeeded the firm in 1872, he was chosen its Secretary. The new Company be-
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gan at onee to push the enterprise with vigor, expending several thousand dollars in improv- ing old patterns and making new ones ; so that at the end of four years, scarcely a pattern re- mained that had been in use when the Com- pany was organized. During this period Mr. Smead developed great ingennity and fertility of resource in overcoming mechanical obsta- cles seemingly insurmountable. But the Com- pauy, contrary to his advice, made an unfortu- nate investment in iron, which compelled them, in the Spring of 1877, to suspend operations. But for Mr. Smcad's indomitable energy in this crisis, the toil and labor of years would bave been lost. Soon thereafter a new Com- pany was organized, of which he was made President, the offices were removed to Chicago, and once more the business moved forward. After two years, a new office was opened in Kansas City. In 1882, another office was established in Toledo, under the firm name of Isaac D. Smead & Co. Early in 1885, from the employes of the Toledo Company, two new Companies were formed, which bear Mr. Smead's name- Smead Warming and Ventilat- ing Company-one with offices at Elmira, New York, and the other at Philadelphia. In 1886 another firm was organized, with offices at Toronto, Canada. These six firms are joined together in an Association called The Ruttan Warming and Ventilating Association of the United States, of which Mr. Smead is President.
It is simple justice to Mr. Smead to say that to his instrumentality, more than to that of any other man, is due the success of this great and useful enterprise. Of the fourteen patents em - ployed in the application of the Ruttan-Smead system, all, with the exception of two or three, are the inventions of Mr. Smead. In fact, so much does the present system owe to the changes produced in it by his improvements, that, were the originator alive to-day, he would not recognize in the present system that which originally bore his name.
To show the rapid growth of the business under Mr. Smead's management, it is only necessary to state that in 1877 the amount of iron manufactured into apparatus, amounted to about 200,000 pounds, while in 1887 over 5,000,000 pounds were made.
In 1885, Mr. Smead issued a volume in which he reviewed the history of the rise and progress of the system with which he has been, almost from its inception, so intimately identified. It is an interesting document, showing how thoroughly conversant he is with the problem into the practical solution of which he has coined so much of his own brain and energy.
Besides the engrossing labors involved in this extensive business, being the executive head of the four firms we have mentioned, his energies have led him into other fields of en- terprise. He owns and cultivates a large orange grove in Florida, and is Vice President
of the Toledo Marine Company, and is a Direc- tor in several other Companies.
A Republican in politics, he is decided in his convictions, it being no part of his nature to be neutral or to compromise anything which he bolds as a matter of principle or duty. The cares of his business have prevented him, even though he was so disposed, from taking any active part in political affairs. Although he has never sought or solicited any political office or appointment, he has held since 1886, and filled with his nsual energy and compe- tency for the discharge of executive business, a place in the Board of Managers of the Ohio State Penitentiary, to which he was appointed by Governor Foraker. He is also, by appoint- ment of the Centennial Directors, Commis- sioner of the Department of Mechanics and Machinery at the Ohio Centennial in 1888.
The career of Mr. Smead, thus imperfectly outlined, will indicate somewhat his mental traits aud endowments. One of his distinguish - ing characteristics is his intuitive sagacity in judging of men. He seems to know by intui- tion the right person to fill any place which he wants filled, and perhaps this is the secret of the little friction and disturbance which occurs in his extensive business. His power of organ- ization, and his executive ability, enable him to systematize and easily manage a large force of employes, and his uniform conr- tesy to all, secures him the good will, not only of every one in his employ, but of the many enstomers and the large number of public men and private citizens with whom he is constantly in business relations. He is of a nature to attract and invite trust and conti- dence, and it is never misplaced or betrayed. His social and genial qualities-frank and straightforward, without being blunt or obtru- sive-give a charm to his manners, and render him one of the most agreeable of companions.
But it is in the circle of his home-guarded as it is by an estimable wife, the daughter of Hon. J. W. Armstrong, of LaSalle County, Illinois, whom he married in 1874, and his two boys-that Mr. Smead finds his highest enjoy- ment. And here his virtues, as an exemplary husband and father, testify to the noblest quali- ties of his manhood. Ilis home is one of the most attractive in the City, and furnishes a pleasant retreat from the engrossing cares of an extensive business.
LABOR ASSOCIATIONS.
The first distinctive organization in Toledo composed of laboring classes, was the Toledo Mechanics' Association, which was formed at a meeting of resident Mechanics held February 4, 1843. Austin Willey was the Chairman, and Ira L. Clark the Secretary of the meeting. It was resolved to form themselves into au association, " for the purpose of protection
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against the combinations on the part of em- ployers, speculators and traders." The moral and intellectual improvement of its members was declared to be a leading object of the move- ment.
In February, 1844, the Toledo Mechanies' Library Association was started, with the fol- lowing officers: President, Joseph Jones; Vice President, J. N. Mount ; Secretary, I. L. Clark ; Treasurer, A. W. Fairbanks ; Librarian, James Love; Directors, Peter HI. Shaw, John P. Free- man, and Granville Jones. In February, 1845, these officers were re-cleeted.
At the dates named, there was but limited extent of organization among the different branches of industry, and such was confined chiefly to the larger Cities. Since that time, the increase in that direction has been constant, until now most departments of industry have thorough, extensive and effective organization, whose power, from time to time, is made mani- fest. It would be impracticable here to furnish detailed mention of the progress of sneh organ- ization in Toledo, and it will suffice to give the following list of existing Labor organizations there :
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Local Assemblies attached to District Assem- bly No. 72, K. of L .:
No. 1942-'Tell. No. 2277-Maumee. No. 2579-Peter Cooper. No. 3031-Liberty (German). No. 3315-Lincoln.
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