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HERRICK, Myron T .; banker; born, Huntington, Lorain county, O., Oct. 9, 1854; son of Timothy R. and Mary Hulburt Herrick; education in schools of Huntington and Wellington, at Oberlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, O .; married, Dayton, O., Caroline M. Parmley; issue, one son, Parmley W. Herrick; admitted to the bar in Cleveland, 1878; retired from law
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practice in 1886, to become sec'y and treas. Society for Savings; pres. since 1894; chairman board of directors, Wheeling & Lake Erie R. R. Co .; director Trust Co. of America; officer and director in numerous other railway and financial institutions; vice pres. American Bankers' Ass'n; trustee and treas. Mckinley National Memorial Ass'n; member Republican National Committee; Gover- nor of Ohio, 1903-1905; Republican; U. S. Ambassador to France, 1912.
HERRON, Edward Manoe; contractor; born, Donegal, Ireland, March 22, 1857; son of George and Margueretta Manoe Herron; educated, National School, Balbiritra, Ireland, and Tanners and Hudsons College, Cleveland, four years; married, Akron, O., Sept. 11, 1883, Matilda Elford Emery; three sons; Independent in poli- tics; member firm of Geo. H. Herron & Co., contracting painters and grainers; was considered one of the best grainers in the United States; chief member of School of the Prophet in Donegal county, Ireland, and member Universal spies for twenty years. Recreation: Hunting, not for game, but for the sport.
HERTNER, John H .; mechanical engineer; born, Jan. 14, 1877, Williams county, O .; educated, M. E., Ohio State University, 1899; married, Nov. 20, 1908, Erma King, Cleveland; organized Hertner Electric Co., 1901; Hertner Electric & Mfg. Co .; organized 1906, absorbed by re-organized Rauch & Lang Co., 1907; director and mechanical engineer, Rauch & Lang Co .; member Chamber of Commerce, Society of Automobile Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
HEYDLER, Charles; musician; born, Cleveland, O., May 20, 1861; son of Gottlieb and Franceska Goetz Heydler; educated, Central High School, Cleveland; pupil of J. Hart and Adolph Nuss, violin, konigloewe, and Ernest Jonas, 'cello; now instructor in violin and 'cello playing and 'cello soloist; director Cleveland Conservatory of Music; at head musical dept., University School, Cleveland; member Philharmonic String Quartette.
HICKOX, Ralph W., capitalist; born, Cleveland, O., 1850; A. B., Harvard, 1872; engaged in mfg. until 1885, when he retired from active business; first vice pres. Hocking Valley Ry. Co .; director Toledo & Ohio Central Ry., Kanawha & Mich. Ry. N. Y., C. & St. L. Ry .; officer and director other corporations. Clubs: Union, University, Roadside, Tavern (Cleveland), Union League, Uni- versity, Metropolitan (New York).
HIEBER, Henry C .; funeral director; born, Oct. 9, 1879; son of Carl Christian and Maria Christine Hieber; educated in public schools, Stuttgart, Germany, and Chicago; came to Cleveland in 1893; started to work at the Dental tool business until 1903; studied undertaking during that time; started in business, July, 1903; member Concordia Lodge, No. 345, F. & A. M., Hillman Chap-
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ter, No. 166, R. A. M., Pearl Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Cleveland Chamber of Industry, Funeral Directors' Ass'n of Ohio; Jennings Square Business Men's Ass'n; Zion Evangelical, and Pilgrim Congregational Churches; Freiheit Unterstuezungs Verin; United German Union; Humboldt Lodge, V. D. V .; Schwaben Verein, The German Club, Heights Maennerchor, Schweizer Turn Verein, Odeon Bowling Club; family record deposited at the Royal State Library, at Stuttgart, shows patent of nobility and coat of arms of Hiebcrs.
HIGBEE, William Tryon; vice pres. The Higbee Co .; born, Cleve- land, Oct. 24, 1867; son of Edwin Converse and Mary Haines Higbee; public and private school education; married, Oct. 9, 1889, Ella M. Perdue; two sons, Edwin C. and Eugene P .; member Union, Rowfant, and Chagrin Valley Clubs.
HIGLEY, Frank; lawyer; born, near St. Paul, Minn., March 16, 1861; son of Aaron and Charlotte Finney Higley; educated, Cleve- land Central High School, graduated, University of Michigan Law School, 1884; married, Cleveland, 1891, Carrie M. Maltby; issue, Raymond, Albert and Charles Higley; deputy clerk of Supreme Court of Ohio; practiced law in Cleveland since 1884; director The National Safe & Lock Co .; member Chamber of Commerce and Tippecanoe Club.
HILL, Hal. H .; contracting engineer; born, Detroit, Mich., Feb. 9, 1875; son of Thomas W. and Harriette C. De La Hooke Hill; educated, Cornell University, class of 1897, mechanical engineer; early education, University School, Cleveland; contracting en- gineer The Erie City Iron Works, Erie, Pa .; member American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, Union, Roadside, Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs of Cleveland, and the Erie Club, Erie, Pa.
HILL, Harry N .; gen. mgr. The Cleveland Tanning Co., born, Boston, Mass., 1866: son of Hosea E. and Mary Pillsbury Hill; educated, Cleveland Kentucky Grammar school, West High School, Gambier Milner Hall Academy, Kenyon College; married, Cleve- land, Sept. 25, 1888, Mary E. Mathivet; four children, three sons and one daughter; since 1899, mgr. of The Cleveland Tanning Co .; pres. The Cleveland Auto Top & Trimming Co., The Tanners Seal- her Co. of Newark, N. J .; director The Royal Tourist Car Co .; chairman executive committee of the National Association of Patent and Enameled Sealher Manufacturers; member Cham- ber of Commerce, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Athletic, Automobile, Clifton and Westwood Golf Clubs, of Cleveland, and the Beta Theta Pi College Club, of New York.
HILL, Thomas William; banker; born, England, May 30, 1847; son of Thomas R. and Mary Alice Hunt Hill; public school edu- « cation; married, Detroit, Mich., July 15, 1870, Harriette C. De La
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Hooke; one son, Harold H .; came to America with parents in 1850; located at Flint, Mich .; enlisted, September 1863, with the Mich- igan Cavalry (Custer Brigade), (Sheridan's Cavalry Corps) ; served until the close of the war; with the W. U. Telephone Co. at Toledo until 1869; with the same company at Detroit, as book- keeper and cashier, 1869-1885; transferred to Cleveland, as mgr. of their Cleveland office, 1885-1892; elected cashier Cleveland National Bank, October, 1892; appointed member and elected pres. New City Hall Commission in 1898; served as such until January, 1912, when commission was discontinued; pres. Mer- chants' Banking & Storage Co .; sec'y, treas. and director Electric R. R. Improvement Co .; same offices in Forest City Electric Co .; treas. and director A. S. Gilman Printing Co .; director and officer in several other corporations; member Y. M. C. A. Corporation; sec'y Oriental Lodge, F. & A. M., Detroit, 1875 to 1885; sec'y Tyrian Lodge, F. & A. M., Cleveland seventeen years; treas. since 1906; member Colonial, and Masonic Clubs.
HILLER, Frank B .; mfgr .; born, Cleveland, Dec. 29, 1874; son 01 William F. and Christina Geiger Hiller; educated, Cleveland public schools; married, Cleveland, July 12, 1900, Emma E. Gross; three sons and one daughter; started in the sheet metal business at the age of 12, continuing about fifteen years, after which or- ganized a partnership, bearing the same name as present con- cern, Cleveland Metal Roofing & Ceiling Co .; pres., gen. mgr. and treas. since the incorporation of the concern; doing a steadily growing business; member Builders' Exchange; Mason, Lakewood Lodge, Cunningham Chapter.
HILMAN, Max; merchant; born in 1875; educated, Massachu- setts Institute of Technology; married, St. Louis, Mo., 1906, Helen Schwab; two children; for twelve years, mgr. and vice pres. the Emerson Elm Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo .; since 1908, vice pres. and treas. The Lindner Co., Cleveland; vice pres. and treas. The Wads- worth Co., Akron, O .; vice pres and treas., The Wadsworth Stone Co., Cleveland; and vice pres. The Gruby Co., Logansport, Ind .; member The Chamber of Commerce, the Advertising Club, Oak- wood, and City Clubs.
HINDSON, Thomas; master plumber; born, England, May 25, 1863; son of John and Ann Gibson Hindson; educated in the pub- lic schools of England; member Knights of Pythias Lodge.
HIRSTIUS, August J .; ex-sheriff of Cuyahoga county; born, Cleveland, 1875; son of Jacob H. Hirstius; educated, public schools; married, 1896, Miss Anna Bente of Cleveland; issue, one son, Sherwood; cash boy for E. I. Baldwin, Hatch & Co .; with G. H. Lyttle, wall paper business; remained ten years; two years clerk for the County Board of Reviews; two terms member of City Council, from 12th Ward; active in bringing about the first referendum campaign in the State of Ohio on the street railroad
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franchise; secured first appropriation for children's play grounds; elected sheriff in 1908; member German Zion Lutheran Church, Eagles, Major Cramer Camp United Spanish War Veterans; mem- ber Tippecanoe and Western Reserve Republican Clubs.
HOGSETT, Thomas H .; corporation lawyer; born, Highland county, O., May 17, 1858; son of John N. and Hanah E. Hughes Hogsett; educated, common and high schools and private teachers; studied law in the office of Hon. Charles H. Collins, in Hillsboro, completing law course in Cincinnati Law School, in 1882; ad- mitted to bar that year, but owing to ill health, did not begin practice until 1883; married, Columbus, Neb., June 8, 1883, Miss Rebecca Jones; issue, one daughter, Edith, and one son, Robert; in 1883, practiced law in Hillsboro; two years in practice with the late Judge Albert G. Mathews; then associated with Judge Samuel F. Steel, of Hillsboro; in 1895, came to Cleveland, and formed partnership with Judge G. B. Solders, at the end of three years appointed by Mayor Farley a director of law for the city; had this position during the Farley administration, then formed partnership with M. B. & H. H. Johnson, devoting his time to corporation practice; two terms director of the Chamber of Com- merce, and connected with the Municipal Ass'n; by appointment of ex-Gov. Harris served on the Ohio Tax Commission; member Ohio and Cleveland Bar Ass'n; trustee Calvary Presbyterian Church; member Union, Euclid, and Columbus Clubs. Recreations: Golf and Horse-back Riding.
HOLDEN, Guerdon Stearns; sec'y Hollenden Hotel Co .; born, Cleveland, Dec. 9, 1881; son of Liberty E. and Delia Elizabeth Bulkley Holden; educated at University School, Cleveland, Wor- cester Academy, Harvard University (A. B., 1904); married, Springfield, Ill., June 3, 1911, Elinor Chase; sec'y Hollenden Hotel Co., director Plain Dealer Pub. Co .; member Phi Beta Kappa, Chamber of Commerce, Country, University, and Harvard Clubs.
HOLLYDAY, John Wilson; supt. Railway Mail Service; born, Findlay, O .; son of Robert H. Hollyday, D. D .; his mother's name was Lydia A. Patterson; educated, High School, Findlay, O., and Business College, Cleveland; married, Washington, D. C., Sept. 29, 1886, Mary Elizabeth Larner; issue, one daughter, Eleanor; early life spent in mercantile pursuits; appointed to railway mail ser- vice, March 4, 1878; transferred to office Gen. Supt. Washing- ton, D. C., 1885; made chief clerk to Gen. Supt., Aug. 1897; made chief clerk to Second Asst. Post Master General, February, 1907; made supt. Railway Mail Service, Cleveland, Oct. 13, 1911; assumed duties Dec. 4, 1911; transferred to be supt. Railway Mail Service, Boston, Mass., June 6, 1913; assumed duties June 8, 1913; member National Geographic Society, Euclid Lodge, No. 559, F. & A. M., Cleveland; and Lodge Encampment Rebekah and Canton Organization of No. 2, T. O. O. F.
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HOLOCKER, Alexander C .; contractor; born, Cleveland, Aug. 26, 1880; son of Henry and Sophia Noll Holocker; public school education; married, Cleveland, Aug. 26, 1903. Effie J. Tedder; issue, three daughters, Eva, Florence and Effie; ten years with the city in engineering department; grading and contracting work for a number of years now. Recreation: Baseball.
HOPKINS, Benjamin F .; railroad promotor and builder; born, Cleveland, 1876; educated, Cleveland public schools, Western Re- serve Academy and Adelbert College, West Reserve University; one of the promoters of "The Belt Line"; connected with various other railroad and construction enterprises; sec'y and treas. Cleve- land Short Line R. R. Co., and Belt & Terminal Realty Co .; mem- ber Elks, Mason, Knights Templar and Shriner.
HOPKINS, David Harris; lawyer; born, Granger, Medina county, O., Oct. 8, 1882; son of Chauncey J. and A'lie Harris Hop- kins; graduated from Granger High School in 1900; following year attended Ohio Northern University, and graduated from Baldwin University, 1911, receiving LL. B. degree; married, Granger, O., Jan. 16, 1904, Vira Marie Kerstetter; opened his law office in the Engineers' Bldg. in November, 1911; interested in farming and breeder of Holstein-Friesian cattle, Poland China swine and fancy poultry; director The Cleveland Poultry Breeders' Ass'n Co .; member Masons, Odd Fellows, Maccabees, and Sigma Kappa Phi Fraternity.
HOPKINS, Evan Henry; lawyer; born, Johnstown, Pa., Nov. 4, 1864; son of Dav.d J. and Mary Jeffreys Hopkins; A. B., Adel- bert College, 1889; LL. B., Harvard, 1892; married, Frances P. M. Shain, of Cleveland, Dec. 27, 1892; admitted to bar, 1891; in prac- tice at Cleveland since 1892; member law firm of Herrick & Hop- kins; member faculty and registrar, 1892-1895, dean law dept., 1895-1910, Western Reserve University; member and sec'y Cleve- land Public Library Board, 1892-1898; member Board Park Com- m ssioners, Cleveland, 1900-1901; Presbyterian; Republican; con- tributor to legal publications; member University Club.
HOPKINS, William Rowland; lawyer; born, Johnstown, Pa., July 26, 1869; son of David J. and Mary Jeffreys Hopkins; edu- cated, Western Reserve Academy, 1892, Adelbert College, West- ern Reserve University, 1896, A. B .; Law School, West- ern Reserve University, 1897, LL. B .; married Cleveland, June 11, 1903, Ellen Louise Cozad; member City Council, 1897- 1899; active in promotion and construction of the Cleveland Short Line R. R., working out a system of rapid transit for Cleve- land; director The Cleveland Short Line R. R. Co .; vice pres. and treas. the Belt & Terminal Realty Co .; pres. The Cleveland Under- ground R. R. Co., the Subway Realty Co., the Junction Realty Co., the Regan Realty Co., The Hopkins Holding Co .; director the Deck- man-Duty Brick Co .; pres. The Railway Contracting Co .; member
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American Economic Ass'n, American Political Economic Ass'n; mer.'er Delta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi Frater- nities; Mason, K. P .; member University, Willowick, Athletic Clubs, (Cleveland); City Club, New York; Asheville Club, Ashe- ville, N. C.
HOPPLE, Elden J .; lawyer; born, Crawford county, Ohio, Feb. 5, 1881; son of Jeremiah and Martha Schieber Hopple; educated, Heidelberg University, Tiffin, O .; Western Reserve University Law School; early education, public schools; married, Cleveland Oct. 12, 1912, Elizabeth Benoit; State Senator 80th Democratic Gen- eral Assembly; admitted to practice law June, 1905; member firm of Mccullough & Hopple; previous to admission to the bar, taught school for three years, in the public schools of Crawford county; director Cleveland Chamber of Progress; member Bunton D. Bab- cock, F. & A. M., No. 600, Mckinley Chapter, R. A. M., No. 181, B. P. O. E. No. 18; member City Club.
HORNER, James Richey; physician; born at Tarentum, Pa., June 7, 1861; son of Rev. Joseph and Caroline McCracken Horner; graduated, Pittsburg Central High School; M. D., Homeopathic Hospital College, Cleveland, 1883; M. D., New York Homeopathic Medical College, 1884; M. D., Western Reserve University, 1907; (hon. A. M., Allegheny College, Pa., 1885); resident surgeon Ward's Island (N. Y.), Homeopathic Hospital, 1884; physician, 1885, and later staff obstetrician, Homeopathic Hospital, Pittsburg; general practice, Pittsburg and Allegheny, until 1896; abroad seven months, 1896; assistant to Hughlings Jackson, neurologist Queen 's Square Hospital, London; special study diseases of ner- vous system; asst. physician, staff of State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane, New York, 1897; now in exclusive practice in men- tal and nervous diseases; was registrar and prof. neurology and electro-therapeutics, now prof. psychiatry and insanity, Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College; was neurologist and pres. of staff, Huron Street Hospital, sec'y and editor official journal American Institute of Homeopathy.
HORNING, Walter R .; electric engineer and mfg .; born, Alle- gheny, Pa., Sept. 2, 1882; son of Charles F. and Anna M. Walter Horning; educated, common schools, Howe Military Academy (Military degree), Case School Applied Science, special and elec- trical course; married, Cleveland, Sept. 2, 1908, Leoy May Oakley; Sergt. Maj. 5th Regiment, O. N. G., 1910-1912; first technical posi- tion held as electrical engineer The Williams Telephone & Mfg. Co .; aftervards road erector for Electric Controller & Mfg. Co., and in 1906, started the business of which he is now the pres., The Horning Electric & Mfg. Co .; pres. and treas. member American Institute of Electrical Engineers; Masonic, Woodward Lodge, Mc- Kinley Chapter, Al Sirat Grotto; member Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, Athletic and Cleveland Rifle and Revolver Clubs.
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HORTON, William Perry; dentist; born, Pittsfield, Vt., Oct. 23, 1832; son of Dennis and Nancy B. McClellan Horton; educated in Wallingford, Vt .; preparing for college at Castleton Seminary; taught district school for seven years; in October, 1844, came to Cleveland, and in 1845, entered Oberlin College; after a year's literary course took dental course in study under Dr. George B. Minor and Dr. Ferris at Milwaukee, Wis .; married, Elyria, O., Oct. 28, 1851, Louisa Chase of Maine; issue, two sons, William P. Jr., and Milton Chase, both residents of Cleveland; married, second time, Oct. 21, 1897, Miss Margaret Stroup of Pennsylvania; during dental study in Milwaukee, spent the winter months in school- teaching; in 1851 returned to Oberlin and acted as manager of a department store till 1851; then spent six months more with dental firm in Milwaukee and was given certificate of qualification for the practice of dentistry; opened an office in Oberlin in 1852; re- moved to Cleveland and opened an office with the late Dr. Benjamin Stickland; in 1857, opened an office alone in Chapin's Hall, pres- ent site of Williamson Bldg; identified with the dental profession in Cleveland, being dean of the profession; active in the various dental societies and associations; was the third pres. of the Ohio State Dental Society; also pres. of the Society of the Ohio Col- lege of Dental Surgery, and of the Northern Ohio Dental Society; sec'y and treas. of the State Board of Dental Examiners, and sec'y of section 7 of the American Dental Ass'n; contributor of many professional articles to the dental magazines; member of City Council, 1869-1877, and pres. of that body for eight years; vice pres. New England Society, representing Vermont; member Sociological Society, and was for a quarter of a century, member Chamber of Commerce, resigning in 1908; helped to organize the Republican party, having previously been a Whig; formerly a member and treas. of Plymouth Congregational Church; now mem- ber of Windemere Presbyterian Church, and active in the Presby- terian Union; fond of hunting; belonged to the Toussaint Shoot- ing Club for twenty years.
HOUGH, Addison Hills; broker; born, Cleveland, May 23, 1869, son of Alfred B. and Ada Rhodes Hough; educated, Brooks Mili- tary Academy and Yale, graduating in 1890; in various depart- ments of the Brush Electric Co. until 1895; went into partnership with C. A. Otis, as Otis, Hough & Co., iron, steel and commission business; firm changed; went into brokerage business with Mr. Otis, firm name Otis & Hough; connected with various other busi- ness enterprises; member Chamber of Commerce, Psi Upsilon, and the Scroll and Keys Senior Society, Yale; member Second Pres- byterian Church, Union, Tavern, and Country Clubs.
HOUSE, Augustus F .; physician; born, Cleveland, Oct. 7, 1847; son of Hudson M. and Mary Snyder House; studied at Woodville and Oberlin; graduated Western Reserve Medical College; post- graduate work at Vienna, Berlin and London; married, Cleveland, 1872, Mary Grace Cleave; two children; clinical professor of sur-
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gery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Cleveland; director and member of finance committee of Lake Shore Banking & Trust Co .; member American Medical Ass'n, Ohio State Medical Ass'n, Cleveland Academy of Medicine (president, 1898); pres. of medi- cal staff and trustee St. Clair Hospital; Past Eminent Commander of Oriental Commandery, K. T., Past Most Excellent High Priest, Webb Chapter, R. A. M., Past Master, Cleveland City Lodge, F. & A. M .; member of Library Board five years; member Co. G, 3d Ohio Veteran Vol. Cavalry.
HOUSUM, Bird W .; merchant; born in Miami county, O., in 1861; public school education; came to Cleveland in 1866; married in 1882, to Miss Ada Weber, of Nashville, Tenn; issue, one son, Charles Robert Housum; at the age of 15, went to work for G. A. Stanley, in the oil business; in 1885, representative of the Oil Dept., of Armour & Co .; in 1889, with J. F. Grace; organized the firm of B. W. Housum & Co .; the firm, as now organized and incorporated, represents The American Sugar Refining Co., The Postum Cereal Co., Armour & Co., Fels Naphtha Soap, and other important concerns; member Baptist denomination; Republican; Mason, member Woodward Lodge, No. 508, A. F. & A. M., Lake Erie Consistory, Oriental Commandery, and Al Koran Temple, Mystic Shrine; member Royal Arcanum, National Union, the Royal League, and Commercial Travelers; Union, Tavern, Country, and Roadside Clubs, Cleveland, and the Ohio Society of New York.
HOWARD, Albert E .; carpenter and builder; born, Thurso, Canada, Sept. 6, 1861; son of David C. and Sally Hillman Howard; educated public schools of Thurso, Canada; married, Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 3, 1883, Sarah J. McMillian; three children; mem- ber Independent Order of Foresters, and Chamber of Industry.
HOWARD, William Travis; pathologist; born, Sans Souci, Statesburg, S. C., March 13, 1867; son of John and Mary Catherine Macleod Howard; student University of Virginia, 1885-1887; M. D., University of Maryland, 1889; graduate student Johns Hopkins, 1889-1893; married at Watch Hill, R. I., Mary Cushing Williams, of Baltimore, Aug. 15, 1896; engaged in teaching and research in pathology since 1892; prof. pathology, Western Reserve Univer- sity since 1894; pathologist to Lakeside, City, Charity and St. Alexis Hospitals; bacteriologist, Board of Health of Cleveland. Author of numerous papers in pathology and bacteriology; member Ass'n American Physicians, American Ass'n of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (pres. 1902); American Ass'n Anatomists, A. M. A., Academy of Medicine of Cleveland, Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce (chairman committee on municipal sanitation).
HOWE, Albert Z .; contract mgr .; born, Lockport, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1872; son of Albert E. and Olga C. Zallee Howe; educated, public schools, Buffalo, N. Y., and private tutor in mathematics, geometry, and trigonometry; married, St. Louis, Mo., July 31,
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1897, Mary Frances Hogue; first business experience, at seven- teen years of age, was in surveying and civil engineering in Buffalo, N. Y., followed by several years of the same class of work in railroad construction in the West and Southwest; later chief draftsman for the St. Louis Water Department, six years, when the sedentary occupation compelled a change; came to Cleveland as local mgr. for a large manufacturing concern, making adver- tising specialties; now engaged as contract mgr. for Ernst & Ernst, Certified Public Accountants, of Cleveland, New York City, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati; member Chamber of Commerce.
HOWE, Charles Sumner; college pres .; born, Nashua, N. H., Sept. 29, 1858; son of William R. and Susan D. Woods Howe; B. S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Boston University, 1878; post-graduate course, mathematics and physics, Johns Hop- kins; Ph. D., University of Wooster, 1887; (Sc. D., Armour Insti- tute Tech., Chicago, 1905; LL. D., Mt. Union College, Ohio, 1908; and Oberlin College, 1911); married, Abbie A. Waite, of North Ahmerst, Mass., May 22, 1882; prin. Albuquerque (N. M.), Academy, 1879-1881; prof. mathematics and astronomy, Buchtel College, 1883-1889; prof. mathematics and astronomy, 1889-1902, acting pres. 1902-1903, pres. since 1903, Case School of Applied Science; fellow A. A. A. S., Royal Astronomical Society; member Astronomical Society of the Pacific, American Mathematical Society, Astronomical and Astro-Phys. Society America; author various articles in Astronomical Journal and Journal of Association of Engineering Societies; trustee Cleveland Humane Society, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi; University and Row- fant Clubs, Cleveland; and University Club, Washington.
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