Word: mather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When an outsider thinks of Cleveland medicine he is likely to think first of George Washington Crile's Cleveland Clinic. That is Dr. Crile's private business. Native Clevelanders first think of Lake-side Hospital, fondest philanthropy of Cleveland's famed Samuel Mather. He has been its president 32 years. To it he j has diverted much wealth from his vast iron ore, coal and steel business (Pickands, Mather & Co.). Lakeside has long been the teaching hospital for Western Reserve University's school of medicine. The two institutions used to be downtown, a half-mile from Mr. Mather's mansion...
...inconveniences of smoke and commerce were annoying to the medical school and Lakeside Hospital. The two institutions ought to move, decided Mr. Mather. to the east, like the rest of the city. He guided them to a $5,000,000 area adjoining Western Reserve University and Case School of Applied Science. First he built a Medical School with his own money. That was finished in 1924. Then he got help to build schools of Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry, the Medical Library, Babies & Children's Hospital, Maternity Hospital, Rainbow Hospital (for crippled children), and an Institute for Pathology...
...more donations. Edward Stephen Harkness gave $1.000,000. Fourteen other less rich men each gave $100,000 or more. The whole community gave the rest?a total of $8.000,000. Result was the six new buildings dedicated last week?Lakeside Hospital, Leonard C. Hanna House (private hospital cases), and Mather, Harvey and Lowman Houses (nurses' dormitories...
...Samuel Mather was, of course, the peg for the laurel wreaths of the occasion. Gathered
...refrigerator and metal furniture trades) is Empire Steel Corp. of Mansfield, Ohio. Empire was formed in 1927 by the seven Davey Brothers of Mansfield whose boast was that their ancestors had worked iron ever since the Romans conquered Britain. Last year when Empire was having difficulty facing Depression, Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland bought the holdings of William H. Davey, estimated at 14%. In March Empire planned a reorganization, but shareholders did not show any willingness to invest in additional securities. Last month it ordered wages cut 15%, was blocked by a strike. Thus twice frustrated, last week it went...