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Canadian-born Fred W. Ramsey began as stockroom boy with the Perfection Stove Co. (subsequently absorbed by the Cleveland Metal Products Co.). Then in his mid-teens, he joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial...
Largely through the work of the present incumbent, Dr. John R. Mott, the position of General Secretary of the Association has come to be regarded as "most potent lay position in the religious world." Born in Livingston Manor, N. Y., Dr. Mott spent his boyhood in Postville, Iowa. He and his father, a lumber dealer, were "converted" by a secretary from Des Moines when the younger Mott was 14 years old. He was graduated from Cornell University* in 1888 and the same year he went to Mount Hermon, Mass., attended the Bible study class of Dwight L. Moody, uneducated, forceful...
...establishment, before either Ramsey or Mott was born. In 1844 Clerk Williams and a dozen God-fearing fellows formed a discussion-and-prayer group which they called the Young Men's Christian Association. Six years later there were chapters in Montreal & Boston; eight years later the first collegiate "Y" was formed at the University of Virginia...
Married. Ella Victoria Herbert of Manhattan, daughter of the late famed composer Victor Herbert; and Robert Stevens Bartlett of Binghampton, N. Y.; in Manhattan...
Separated. Mrs. Georgene Daw Whittlesey; from Percival Wilcox Whittlesey, Omnipotent Oom of a love cult in Nyack, N. Y...