The Ohio blue book; or, Who's who in the Buckeye state; a cyclopedia of biography of men and women of Ohio, Part 118

Author: Van Tassel, Charles Sumner, 1858-
Publication date: [1917]
Publisher: Toledo, Ohio
Number of Pages: 494

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One of the notable works of the Hanll- ilton Chamber of Commerce was its pro- motion in Butler County of the Miami Conservancy District, which is building a flood prevention work in the Miami Valley, at a cost of about $21.000.000.00, which will render the Miami Valley forever free from flood danger. It is expected that by 1921 the Great Miami Valley will be the only valley in America entirely immune from the danger of flood.

PIQUA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The membership is the foundation of the or- ganization and every function and all au- thority radiate from it.

In order to directly interest each mem- ber. and to properly group the activities of the organization, the membership is divided, on the administrative side. into Main Divisions corresponding to Bureaus. Each member of the organization desig- nates the Division or Divisions (he may designate three) in which his interests chiefly center. and in which he prefers to be active. Each Main Division is repre- sented in the Board of Directors by two Directors; so with six Divisions or Bu- reaus, they jointly furnish twelve members of the Board.

To balance the organization there is provided an initiative and referendum sec- tion of the membership known as the Membership Council. For the creation of this body, the membership of the organ- ization is automatically divided into sub- divisions of Trade Groups corresponding to the various lines of Trade, industry and professions. Manufacturers of a specified line. or allied lines, constitute one groun or sub-division; retailers in a certain line or allied lines constitute an- other: the members of one profession or its allies another, and so on through the various businesses, trades and professions.

Each sub-division has elected two dele- gates to the Membership Council, and with the thirty-three sub-divisions we have a Council membership of sixty-six. The council mects semi-monthly, and is the initiative force of the organization. It, also, provides a referendum on important matters of public policy, representing, as it does, every business, profession and trade and every civic interest.

The Membership Council, like each Main Division, is represented on the Board of Directors by two Directors, thus making the total number of Directors fourteen.

The Board of Directors elect from their number or from the membership at large, a President, and from their own number only, one Vice-President for each Bureau, and a Treasurer.

From the above we see that through this form the closest relation and sym- pathy between each Bureau and the Board of Directors is insured and harmony in

the policies and undertakings of all sec- tions of the organization guaranteed.

The active Bureau work is done through special committees selected for each specific undertaking. This insures sep- arate undertakings being carried forward by members especially informed and es- pecially interested in each particular un- dertaking.

Standing Committees are provided for in a limited number, viz., Executive, Fi- nance and Membership. The mission of each is indicated by its name.

The President and the Board of Direc- tors constitute the administrative force. The Executive Officer is the Secretary. who has general oversight over all the activities of the organization. He co- operates with the Vice-Presidents in di- recting the work of the various Bureaus and is chosen by the Board of Directors.

Under this plan every 'working element of our organization is co-ordinated yet responsibilities and labor are systematical- ly and judiciously segregated and placed, so that. as in large private business oper- ations. each individual is giving his per- sonal service and doing an assigned part of the whole. coincident with and co- ordinate to what all others are doing. The officers are: James L. Black Presi- dent: T. J. Appleyard, Jr., Executive Sec- retary; August S. Clouse Treasurer; John T. Nielson Nat. Councillor. The Vice- Presidents are: E. H. Allen, Rural Af- fairs Bureau; C. C. Jelleff, Convention Bureau; O. J. Lecklider, Transportation Bureau; C. E. Barker, Mercantile Bureau; A. G. Rundle, Civic Bureau: H. D. Hart- ley, Industrial Bureau; A. A. Hall, Mem- bership Council. The Directors are: E. H. Allen, C. E. Barker. A. S. Clouse. F. L. Marshall, H. D. Hartley. C. C. Jelleff, G. Washing. E. Johnson. O. J. Lecklider, J. T. Nielson, A. G. Rundle C. A. Camp- bell, A. A. Hall, M. H. Lytle.

THE ASHTABULA CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE. The present chamber of Com- merce of the City of Ashtabula was or- ganized in February, 1908, for the cus- tomary purposes of a Chamber of Com- merce, and from its inception has en- joyed a steady growth in influence and usefulness. Its present membership is three hundred and fifty. Very attractive club rooms with the attendant social fea- tures were acquired in January, 1915, when the leading social club of Ashtabula, the Lenawawe Club, was absorbed by the Chamber, all property of the Club pass- ing to the Chamber with the understand- ing that the Club facilities would be maintained at the same high standard of the previous fifteen years of its existence. This amalgamation gave a certain stabil- ity to the Chamber and made membership in it desirable to many citizens not previ- ously interested.

Membership dues of $12.00 per annum and the responsibility of maintaining rather expensive rooms for a city of the size have not permitted the employment of a full time secretary, and the secretar- ial duties have been performed by some local business or professional man at a nominal salary. Notwithstanding this in- convenience the functions of a Chamber of Commerce have been fulfilled in a very satisfactory manner through the loyalty and generous service of its members act- ing as officers or committee-mell. A

vigorous Retail Merchants' Board has also been conducted within the Chamber.

Notable among the civic advantages and improvements secured through the efforts of the Chamber of Commerce are the city government itself. a highly developed type

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of Commission-Manager plan with a com- mission, or council, elected by proportion- al representation, an extensive ship- building plant with dry-docks where the largest lake freighters are constructed and repaired, and car shops of the New York Central Lines for the repair of steel and wooden cars. Each of these two industries employ more people than any other single industry. Subways, improved street lighting, highly modernized school buildings and equipment have also sprung from the same source. The week- ly luncheon meetings of the Chamber have become a civic forum where local matters of interest are fully and freely discussed by citizens to their mutual benefit.

Ashtabula itself is a city of 21,450 peo- ple according to the Census Department estimate of December, 1916. It is dis- tinctly a railroad rather than a manufac- turing city, jocated as it is on the main artery for the transportation of iron ore and coal between the Minnesota ore de- posits and the coal mines of the Pitts- burgh District. Its harbor has the larg- est capacity of any in the world for the unloading of iron ore from shin to rail, and in 1916, as in several other years, it surpassed all other ports in the world in the amount of iron ore so handled, the enormous quantity of eleven and one-half million gross tons of ore having been trans-shipped from water to rail.

Ashtabula's manufacturing interests en- joy especial advantages in unusual trans- portation facilities both by water and rail, and in intelligent and abundant labor lit- tle disturbed by labor troubles. The ad- jacent country is highly improved dairy and farm land contributing generously to the prosperity of the city. At the city limits winter gardening under glass is carried on extensively in enormous green- houses, and probably over fifty acres of land is cultivated in this manner, the product, lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes, being shipped to neighboring cities.

Water as fine as any in the state is obtained in abundance from Lake Erie and filtered before distribution. Natural gas is found in enormous quantities with- in three miles of the city. Electricity is furnished by a municipally owned plant at a very low rate. Coal is comparatively cheap at a freight rate of $1.00 per ton from the Pittsburgh District.

The social and educational development of Ashtabula is comprehensive. It has some twenty-three churches, two modern high schools and ample and substantial grade structures, a modern Y. M. C. A.

building, Elks' Temple. Federal Building, Public Library, and over two hundred acres of public parks, a good part of which has lake frontage and bathing facilities.

THE SALEM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

The Salem Chamber of Commerce was or- ganized fourteen years ago (1903). Two years ago it was reorganized with the idea in mind of making it consider indus- trial. commercial. civic and rural prob- lems, and eliminate the club features that had prevailed theretofore. It has a membership of about 250. The dues are eiglit dollars a year with about 100 special pledges of $20 per year. It has for the past two years felt that its duty was to concern itself with civic rather than in- dustrial growth.

During that time the water supply of the city has been largely increased, the water mains have been enlarged in vari- ous sections of the city, the fire depart- ment has been motorized, the power sup- ply has been trebled, the sewage treat- ment plant has been given considerable attention, and the like.

Three additional industries were se- cured. one was taken out of the hands of receivership and one fostered in such a way that a group of men who had

formerly been employed in a department of one of the plants, organized their own company.

Considerable attention has been given to the road movement and also to the rural problem, having in mind that the best method of fighting the mail order house was to come into personal contact with the rural people themselves.

Salem is situated on the Ft. Wayne and Chicago division of the Pennsylvania lines. It is midway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, and midway between Chi- cago and New York. It has some twenty industries, very diversified. We doubt whether any city in the country with a population the size of Salem has a greater diversity. Salem also has one of the most perfectly equipped hospitals in the state and a very interesting country club.

The Salem Chamber of Commerce has believed that while natural resources were important. that the personal element was even more important. Those industries which were secured were secured because the men interested were convinced that we had a city where laborers were satis- fied. where a very large percentage own their own homes, and where the manu- facturer and his associates themselves can have a very congenial surrounding.

Ohio Newspapers

THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR. The Cincinnati Times-Star is one of the oldest and admittedly one of the leading news- papers of the middle west. In the after- noon field it is acknowledged as the fore- most in this section of the country. Housed in its own building, a splendid structure of seven stories and two base- ments at Sixth and Walnut Streets, The Times-Star plant is one of the most com- plete and modern in the newspaper world. The mechanical equipment probably is

unequalled in this country, the press room being referred to as a model. The news columns are clean, the paper is noted for its accuracy and fairness in publishing all sides in matters of public interest, and the policy in regard to advertising is to exclude that which is not up to a high standard in character, reliability and truthfulness.

The books of the Times-Star always are open to the leading agencies which seek to establish the truth regarding circula-

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tion and advertising values of newspapers. The present circulation is, in round num- bers. 160.000 daily, and the quality of the circulation is recognized by leading mer- chants and manufacturers who use its columns more freely than they do those of any other paper in Cincinnati. Politi- cally the Times-Star might be classed as independent Republican. The paper was founded in 1837 by Calvin W. Starbuck and it was then styled The Times. It grew steadily and during the civil war attained a wonderful influence and pros- perity. Soon after the death of Mr. Star- buck in 1870. the owners of The Chronicle, an evening paper which had just started, purchased The Times and for a time the Times-Chronicle was the title. Then the word Chronicle was eliminated.

In 1872 The Star. another afternoon pa- per. appeared and in 1880 the two papers Were merged into the Times-Star. Tlie present owner of the paper is Mr. Charles P. Taft. Joseph Garretson is managing editor and C. H. Rembold is manager. A number of editions are published daily, and the newspaper circulates in a great majority of the homes within a wide radius in Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky.

MANSFIELD NEWS. Few newspapers of the country published in cities of 25,000 population, enjoy the prestige and hold a record equal to that of the Mansfield News. the only evening newspaper in the county seat of Richland Co. The News re- cently passed the 8,000 mark in paid cir- culation and is delivered into ninety-six out of every hundred homes in Mansfield, its circulation reaching out into every part of the county as well as into the five adjoining counties.

Founded in 1885 by the late W. S. Cap- peller, one of the best known newspaper men in Ohio, The News has gone steadily forward from a small beginning over- coming many early-day obstacles and

keeping step with the progress of the community until it now occupies a posi- tion of recognized leadership among the newspapers of the smaller cities of Ohio, while in its home city it ranks high among Mansfield institutions.

Ever since its beginning The News has

been under the editorial direction of E. S. Hiestand. an editorial writer and para- grapher of exceptional ability, whose opin- ions on matters of moment have come to be held in high esteem in Ohio news- paperdom and who has maintained in the conduct of the editorial policy of The News a high ethical standard.

Since the death of W. S. Cappeller. in 1911. The News has been under the man- agement of his son, E. B. Cappeller, whose prior experience in the advertising de- partment had made him fully familiar with all of the details of newspaper pro- duction and who has continued the busi- ness along the same progressive lines which were responsible for its successful development under the direction of its founder.

The completion of recent improvements in the home of The News includes the addition of a four-story fireproof annex in which has been installed press room, linotypes and composing room, and a thoroughly modernized stereotyping de- partment, placing the News among the best mechanically equipped small news- paper plants in the United States.

THE FINDLAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, FINDLAY, OHIO. The Findlay Publish- ing Company, Findlay, Ohio, publishers of The Morning Republican. the only morn- ing paper in the eighth congressional dis- trict. This paper is the leading newspaper in its field and has a circulation of more than 6,000. It is equipped with four lino- type machines and a Duplex Tubular stereotyping press with a capacity of 30,000 sixteen page papers per hour. A complete job printing department is con- ducted in connection in which the high- est grade of commercial. book and cata- logue printing is done. The company owns its own building which is one of the larg- est and most completely arranged news- paper and printing homes in Northwestern Ohio. The company organization is as follows: President, Dr. N. L. MacLach- lan; vice president, E. C. Taylor; secre- tary. John D. Snyder; treasurer, business manager and editor-in-chief, I. N. Hemin- ger: managing editor. A. F. Hardman; su- perintendent of job printing department, C. A. Wormley.

Banks and Business Organizations

THE WOOD COUNTY SAVINGS BANK CO. Bowling Green. situated as it is in the center of the famous garden spot of Northwestern Ohio, is known far and wide as one of the most enterprising progres- sive, and vigorous towns on the map.

Intellectually, morally and socially, with its State Normal College, progressive pub- llc schools, its churches and fine homes. its factories. and healthy business institu- tions and surrounded by the richest agri- cultural section out-of-doors, and manned by alert. broad-minded. brainy business men. it is little wonder its record for growth and progress is so marked.

And right here let it be said that no small part of its financial progress is due to the push, help and encouragement given the public by The Wood County Savings

Bank, one of the solid financial institu- tions of the State.

The bank was organized in 1900 by such men as R. W. McMahan. Dr. W. M. Tul- ler. Dr. J. C. Lincoln. J. W. Underwood, Judge F. A. Baldwin, Captain Luther Black. R. S. Patty. Dr. M. A. McKendree and others.

While it has always been known as the strongest bank in this section, its latter day progress has been very rapid, and it is hy far the largest institution in Wood County. In 1906 it absorbed the old Exchange Bank.

Since John H. Lincoln became Cashier in January 1. 1912. the resources of the bank have more than doubled, and they are way over the million mark and it is the

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only institution in Wood County with that honor.

The policy of the Wood County Savings Bank while always conservative has been of an accommodating character. Its rapid growth shows it enjoys the confidence of the people, and its large surplus adds ad- ditional safety to the depositors. All offi- cials furnish large surety bonds, heavy burglary insurance is carried, and the property amply protected by fire insur- ance. The safe and conservative policy is further shown by the fact that this bank is always one of the bidders upon Wood County Bonds, and at the present time (February, 1917) over one quarter million of these securities are found among its assets.

The make-up of the official organization is a very strong one and is as follows: E. M. Fries. President; W. M. Tuller, Vice President; J. H. Lincoln. Cashier; S. R. Case. Assistant Cashier; Frank Ka- big, Wm. R. Hopper. J. C. Lincoln. N. R. Harrington, A. C. McDonald. E. O. Sar- gent. C. W. Lenhart, C. B. Eberly. Direc- tors.

Their system is the most modern and up- to-date possible. and on account of their rapidly increasing business they have late- lv been compelled to make alterations in order to more effectually handle the busi- ness of their increasing list of customers.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, FRE- MONT, OHIO. The First National Bank, Fremont, Ohio. Organized 1863. Fifth

oldest National Bank in the United States. Capital. $100,000: Surplus. $105 .- 000: Additional Shareholders' Liability,

$100,000; Depositors' Security, $305,000. Officers: President. Chas. G. Wilson; Vice President, John M. Sherman; 2nd Vice President, John Fangboner: 3rd Vice President. J. T. Fangboner: Cashier. Wm. A. Gabel: Asst. Cashier. F. W. Schwan; Asst. Cashier. J. Homer Sherman.

THE CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK, UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO. The Citizens Savings Bank, Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Capital, $50.00; Surplus. $20.000: Undivided Profits, $3,500. President, Richard Carter; Vice President, A. B. Whitney; Cashier, Ira R. Pontius: Asst. Cashier. Charles Artz; Teller. Edgar Traxler; Bookkeeper. Tom McEldowny. Directors: Samuel J. Black, Richard Carter, F. M. Fox, Hubert Gregg, Simon Herr. A. H. Morris, Wm. Olpp. M. M. Stonehurner, A. B. Whitney.

THE A. B. CHASE COMPANY, NORWALK, OHIO, was incorporated September 1, 1875, with an authorized capital of $50.000.00. Later the authorized capital was fixed at $250.000.00. and still later was raised to $500,000.00-the present capitalization of the Company.

Ground was broken for the first build- ing November 1, 1875, which was a wooden structure three stories in height. The building was ready for installation of ma- chinery January 1, 1876, and manufactur- ing was begun July 1. 1876. The build- ing was destroyed by fire September 3, 1880. and was immediately supplanted by a three-story brick structure, which with its additions as the business demanded, today is a large and commodious plant with approximately six acres of floor spaee.

In the beginning. the Company confined its activities to the manufacture of or- gans, but as the trade shifted. attention was turned to the production of the high- est grade of artistic pianos. and later to player-pianos, which at once met with popular favor the country over. Today. the A. B. Chase line of Upright and Grand

Pianos; Upright and Grand Player-Pianos; together with Concert Grand; and Special- to-Order Designs is the largest line of strictly high-grade pianos offered by any one manufacturer in the United States.

The name "A. B. Chase" on the fail board of a piano has come to be universal- ly recognized as a guarantee of supreme excellence.

There is no material too good, and no construction too expensive for A. B. Chase Pianos if it will make them any better.

The A. B. Chase product is represented by the most reliable dealers in the Na- tion, and these instruments have found their way into schools, homes, and churches of many foreign lands.

The officers of the Company are: C. P. Wickham. President; W. C. Whitney, Vice President and General Manager; A. W. Gardiner, 2nd Vice President; Geo. M. Burdue, Secretary; L. E. West, Treasurer.

GENDRON WHEEL COMPANY, TOLEDO,

OHIO. Gendron Wheel Company, Toledo, Ohio. Established in 1872. incorporated 1880. Capital, $500,000 paid in. President, J. F. Vogel: Vice President, C. A. Russell; Secretary. H. E. Fisher; Treasurer, J. Wier Coover; Directors, J. F. Vogel, C. A. Rus- sell, E. D. Scheble, H. E. Fisher, A. J. Gendron, W. H. Gosline, Jr., and J. Leo Showel. Makers of Children's Vehicles, Baby Vehicles, Invalid's Chairs and Bicy- cles. Factory, Superior and Orange Sts., Toledo, O.

THE E. H. CLOSE REALTY COMPANY. The E. H. Close Realty Company. Toledo, Ohio. was organized January 1, 1909. with offices on the ground floor of the Spitzer Building, facing Madison avenue. Its working force consisted of Mr. Close, three men assistants and a girl in charge of the books ..

In seven years, the organization had grown to more than a hundred people in the office force alone with anywhere fron 50 to 300 others engaged in the field and building departments during season.

Rapid growth of business forced the firm to lease and equip its own building and accordingly it took over the six-story structure at 513-515 Madison avenue, im- mediately across from the Spitzer Build- ing. This it reconstructed into a mod- ern office building, the company occupy- ing the first floor and basement. the fourth floor and a big part of the third floor. Its offices are the roomiest and most elaborately equipped of any in the United States, according to visiting real estate men.

Officers of The E. H. Close Realty Com- pany are: E. H. Close, President and Treas - urer; George B. Ricaby, Vice President; Paul A. Harsch. Secy .; Lucia J. Straub, Assistant Secretary. The firm is incor- porated under the laws of Ohio, and oper- ates a general real estate, insurance, loan and building business. Its operations in downtown property alone total high into the millions. and it has platted and placed on the market nearly 3000 acres of land. Included in the residential developments ale Ottawa Hills and Homeville, the lat- ter being the most highly improved ever. offered at popular prices and on easy terms.

In Ottawa Hills. the firm has one of the three or four properties in America that stand out as models of residential development. The spirit in which the property is being handled is expressed on the ornamental signs which stand at its entrance. These read. "Ottawa Hills. a civic undertaking based on a patriotic be- lief in Toledo's present and future great- ness." This declaration is made because

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the entire project is due to the public spirited action of Mr. John North Willys, head of the Overland automobile industry. In the face of the certainty that the de- velopment would require an enormous outlay of money without any chance of a return for several years to come, he gave the word for the purchase of the 1280 acre tract of hill. valley and river land and for its improvement on a scale possible only in the highest developments in America.

Ottaw:1 Hills now represents the best thought and skill of the nation's foremost dnv glin experts and Iindscape engineers. Frederick Law Olmsted of Brookline, Mass., was a consultant, and the work actually done was in charge of men who had performed similar services for the famous Roland Park district in Baltimore and the Country Club District in Kansas City. Restrictions at Ottawa Hills are self-perpetuating and maintenance of the property is insured by organization of its residents and the assessment of a main- tenance fund.

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The Ohio blue book; or, Who's who in the Buckeye state; a cyclopedia of biography of men and women of Ohio, Part 118

Author: Van Tassel, Charles Sumner, 1858- Publication date: [1917] Publisher: Toledo, Ohio Number of Pages: 494

Author: Van Tassel, Charles Sumner, 1858-
Publication date: [1917]
Publisher: Toledo, Ohio
Number of Pages: 494