Case School of Applied Science - Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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foreign banking houses with which his iirm had done business for years. The iirm of E. B. Hale and Company continued in business for twelve years and earned the reputation of doing more business than any other private banking house in the state, and passed through every panic without once being obliged to suspend payments. In 1891, the Marine Bank Company was organized as successor to this firm, Mr. Edwin B. Hale being president, Mr. Barriss, cashier, and Willis B. Hale, assistant cashier. On the 9th of July, 1891, very soon after this .company was organized, Mr. Hale died suddenly while sitting at his desk, no one being present except his son, Willis B. V Mr.. Hale was seventy-two years old when his death occurred, and l1ad been for forty years one of the most prominent of the Cleveland bankers. He was one of the trustees of Case School from the time it was founded until his death, ..I8..

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EDWIN B. HAI.-E. TRUSTEE or THE COLLEGE FROM 1881 TO 1891. QKPQ DWIN B. HALE was a descendant of an old English E family, whose members have held many positions Cftoffd of trust and honor in England since as early as the thirteenth century. Some members of this family settled in New England in 1640, and were as prominent in the affairs of this country as their ancestors had been in those of England. Edwin B. Hale was born in Brooklyn in 1819, but received his early education in Glastonbury, Connecticut, where his parents had removed during his infancy. He prepared himself for Yale College, but four deaths which occurred in the family within a short time compelled a change to be made in his plans, and he came to Gambier, Ohio, where he entered Kenyon College in 18 37. He devoted himself to his studies, and carried off the 'honors of his class when he graduated in 1841, at the age of 'twenty-two. He had strong literary tastes and desired to follow the life of a scholar, in which he would have earned great honorsg but at his father's request he took up the profession of law, and began its study with the Hrm of Goddard 81 Con- verse, of Zanesville. He was admitted to the bar in 1843, and for a number of years resided in Illinois, having landed interests in that state which demanded attention' a great deal of the time. Mr. Hale came to Cleveland in 1852, and with Mr. Stephen Sturges began business as the Hrm of Sturges and Hale, private bankers. Soon after he bought out the share of Mr. Sturges, and continued business alone fora few years, when Mr. VV. H. Barriss, who had been in the office since 1859, became a partner, the firm now being E. B. Hale and Company. In 1879, Mr. Hale made an extended trip abroad and formed the personal acquaintance of the ofhcers of ma11y 17..

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IJEVI KERR. TRUSTEE OF THE COLLEGE FROM 1881 TO 1885. EVI KERR was born near Painesville, Ohio, June g 25, 1822, where he lived a considerable portion of Qmd his life. When but a boy he was seized by the spirit OE adventure and shipped before the mast for a three years' cruise in the East Indies and Japan. When he returned he engaged as a book keeper in one of the large firms in New York City, where his methodical habits attracted the attention of all who knew him. He afterwards engaged in the oil refining business at Tar Farm, Pennsylvania, but being able to get a good price for his works he sold out to the Standard Oil Company and returned to New York. During his residence in that city he for many years had the full confidence of the eminent ship builder, john Roach, with whom he was largely interested in' lines of steamers. For a number of years he was president of the Paines- ville National Bank, having succeeded his father to that position. In January, 1886, he was appointed administrator ofthe estate of his cousin, Leonard Case, the founder of Case School of Applied Science, and his quick and satisfactory settlement of the same won for him the admiration of all men of worth in Cleveland. Mr. Kerr was married in 1859 to Miss Mary Blanchard, of Sing Sing, with whom he lived happily till her death, February II, 1882. On March 8, 1885, Mr. Kerr joined a party consisting of judge Bowman of Springfield, Judge Rufus P. Ranney and General I. H. Devereanx of Cleveland, and went to New York City. There they were joined by Mr. C. A. Otis, ..19.,.