relative to finance. The thorough business qualifications of Mr. Chaplin
have always been in good demand on boards of directors of different or-
ganizations, and his public spirit has led him to accept many such
trusts. He is a director of the Coraopolis Savings and Trust Com-
pany, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania; the Greenville National Bank, Green-
ville, Pennsylvania ; the First National Bank, Sharon, Pennsylvania, the
First National Bank, Albion, Pennsylvania; the First National Bank,
Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania; the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad, Cleve-
land, Ohio ; the Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad and Coal Company ; the
Pennsylvania China Company, Ford City, Pennsylvania ; the Pennsylvania
Clay Company, and the Indianapolis & Louisville Traction Railway Com-
pany, Indianapolis, Indiana. He is vice-president of the Freehold Bank,
Pittsburgh ; and the Colonial Trust Company, South Sharon. Pennsylva-
nia, and president of the Crawford County Trust Company, Meadville,
Pennsylvania, and the Meadville and Cambridge Springs Street Railway,
Meadville, Pennsylvania. He is also treasurer of the E. J. Thompson
Company, Pittsburgh, and the New Kensington Bridge Company, New
Kensington, Pennsylvania. A list of responsibilities such as these might
seem, indeed, to overtax the capability of the average man, but not that
of a man of the type of James Crossan Chaplin. To whatever he under-
takes he gives his whole soul, allowing none of the many interests in-
trusted to his care to suffer for want of close and able attention and
industry.

In all concerns relative to the city's welfare, Mr. Chaplin's interest
is deep and sincere, and wherever substantial aid will further public progress,
it is freely given. Brilliant, forceful and experienced, he is a dominant
factor in the city's affairs, and any plan for civic betterment finds in him
an enthusiastic supporter. Ever ready to respond to any deserving call
made upon him, he is widely but unostentatiously charitable. Politically,
he is identified with the Republicans, and his rapidity of judgment enables
him, in the midst of incessant business activity, to give to the aft'airs of
the community effort and counsel of genuine value. His penetrating
thought has often added wisdom to public movements. He has served
two terms in the Sewickley council, and is active in the local affairs of
the borough. He affiliates with the Masonic fraternity, belongs to the
Pittsburgh Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, and is a member
of the Duquesne, Automobile, Allegheny Country and Pittsburgh Country
clubs. He is a vestryman and also the senior warden of St. Stephen's
Protestant Episcopal Church.

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financier, the man of action rather than words, who demonstrates his pubHc
spirit by actual achievements which advance the prosperity and wealth
of the community. But while his countenance and bearing proclaim him
to be all this, they also indicate the genial disposition which has surrounded
him with friends, and the splendid personal qualities which have endeared
him to all who have ever been in close relations with him. In his views
and opinions upon political or other questions he is essentially liberal and
singularly free from partisanship.

Mr. Chaplin married, February 5. 1891, Fanny^ daughter of Colonel
David and Eliza (Mcllroy) Campbell, and they are the parents of two
sons: James Crossan and David Campbell. Mr. Chaplin is devoted to
the ties of family and friendship, regarding them as sacred obligations.
Both he and his wife — a woman of charming personality — are extremely
popular socially, and their beautiful home at Sewickley, the most exclusive
suburb of Pittsburgh, is a scene of much entertaining.

James Crossan Chaplin is a descendant of men who served their
country as soldiers and sailors. His own record as a civilian worthily
supplements his ancestral annals, for it shows him to have been largely
instrumental in strengthening and maintaining the financial prosperity and
honor of the Metropolis of the Industrial World.



The history of the Bench and Bar of Pittsburgh had its
McCLUNG beginning before the American Revolution, and the judges
of her courts have ever stood second to none in the United
States. The noble traditions of the past have been ably maintained by the
magistrates of the present time — notably by such men as Samuel Alfred
McClung, ex-Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny county,
and a leader in all movements having for their object the promotion of
the welfare of Pittsburgh.

Samuel Alfred McClung was born March 2, 1845, i" Plum township,
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Rev. Samuel M. and
Nancy Cowan (Gilchrist) McClung, the former, in his day, a prominent
divine. The ancestors of both Mr. and Mrs. McClung were among the
earliest Scotch-Irish settlers in Western Pennsylvania, and the impress of
their force, aggressiveness and strict integrity is to-day indelibly stamped
upon that community. Jeremiah Murray, grandfather of Mrs. McClung,
was a leading pioneer of "Old Westmoreland."

The education of Samuel Alfred McClung was received in public and
private schools and at Washington College (now Washington and Jeffer.son
College), whence he graduated in the class of 1863. On September 16 of
that year he was registered as a student of law. and on December 15, 1868,
was admitted to the bar on motion of John Mellon, who had been one of
his preceptors, the other being John M. Kirkpatrick. The young lawyer
entered at once upon the active practice of his profession, and soon showed
himself to be strong in reasoning, forceful in argument, and, withal, an
untiring worker and a close student. In the course of time he became a



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leader of the Pittsburgh bar, which, distinguished from the beginning, to-day
stands unrivaled in all the accomplishments that make for the best in
jurisprudence, practice and culture, and all the elements that enter into the
qualification of the modern pleader and attorney.

On May 27, 1891, Mr. McClung was commissioned a judge of the
Court of Common Pleas No. 3, Allegheny county, to serve until the
first Monday of January, 1892. At the election of 1891 he was elected to
the same office for a term of ten years from the first Monday of January,
1892, and was commissioned accordingly. In 1901 he was re-elected for
another term of ten years. In December, 1908, he resigned from the bench
because of a breakdown in health, and has been living retired since then.
The duties of his high office were discharged by Judge McClung with the
utmost impartiality, and his decisions, characterized as they w^ere by depth
of insight and "learning in the law," showed him to possess, in an eminent
degree, the judicial mind.

It is seldom, indeed, that a man as successful and distinguished in
professional life as is Judge McClung takes the keen and helpful interest
in civic aflfairs which he has always manifested. Citizenship is to him a
term indicating individual responsibility as well as privilege, and his name
is associated with various projects of the utmost municipal concern. His
political affiliations are with the Republicans. Ever ready to respond to
any deserving call made upon him, his charity is of the kind that shuns
publicity. In 1902 he received from Washington and Jeflferson College
the degree of Doctor of Laws, and in the Alumni Association, of which
he is a member, he takes a deep interest. He also belongs to the University
Qub. The personality of Judge McClung, while it is pre-eminently that
of the jurist, suggests also the scholar and the man of afifairs. A man
of widest reading, a brilliant writer, an impressive and eflFective sp)eaker
and a powerful debater, he is withal intensely and tremendously in earnest.
Himself a steadfast friend, he possesses the faculty of inspiring in others
the most loyal attachment.

Judge McQung married Fannie A., daughter of Dr. G. W. and
Fannie Merritt, of Cherry Valley, Otsego county, New York, and they
are the parents of the following children : Isabelle, who is a member of
the Civic Club of Allegheny county ; Edith Murray ; and Samuel Alfred,
who has been a member of the Pittsburgh bar since 1908. Mrs. McClung
was one of those rare women who combined with perfect womanliness and
domesticity an unerring judgment, traits of the greatest value to her
husband, to whom she was not alone a charming companion, but a trusted
confidante. Mrs. McClung died May 2, 1913.

The family is very popular in Pittsburgh society, and their beautiful
home in the East End is a center of gracious hospitality. Judge McClung's
position at the Pittsburgh bar has long been that of an acknowledged
leader, and in the twenty years during which he sat upon the bench of
the Court of Common Pleas he became one of the legal luminaries not of
his city alone, but also of his State. Of brilliant talents and profound



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learning, his greatest glory is that he preserved inviolate the sanctities of
his high office — that "when the ermine rested on his shoulders, it touched
nothing less spotless than itself."



The imperial era of steel constitutes the great epic of Pitts-
TAYLOR burgh, and among the names of the builders and maintainers
of this mighty industry that of Charles L. Taylor holds a
place conspicuously honorable. Assistant to two successive presidents of
the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, and officially identified with other
great steel organizations, Mr. Taylor was for a quarter of a century a
dominant figure in industrial and financial circles. Having withdrawn from
the arena of business, he is now, as president of the Carnegie Hero Fund
Commission and vice-chairman of the United States Steel and Carnegie
Pension Fund, conspicuously and influentially associated with a number
of the leading interests of the Iron City.

Charles L. Taylor was born April 3, 1857, in Philadelphia, and is a
son of John D. and Sally (Rutter) Taylor, the former a prominent sugar
refiner, and subsequently from 1874 to the time of his death, September
25, 1886, treasurer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. John D.
Taylor's lineage was Scotch and his wife was a descendant of Dutch
ancestors.

The education of Charles L. Taylor was received during his child-
hood and youth in public and private schools of his native city, and he
subsequently studied mining engineering in Lehigh University, graduating
in June, 1876, as valedictorian of his class, and receiving the degree of
Engineer of Mines (E.M.). His first employment was with the Cambria
Steel Company at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, as a chemist, and later he
became assistant to the superintendent of blast furnaces. In 1880 he was
chosen to fill the position of chemist to the Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel
Company, predecessor of the Homestead Steel Works, and removed to
Pittsburgh, where he has since resided. In 1882 he was made superin-
tendent of the Homestead Works, and after the consolidation of the Bes-
semer Company with the Carnegie Steel Company, Mr. Taylor retained his
position, and remained until 1887, being succeeded by Charles M. Schwab.
In the latter year he became general manager of the Hartman Steel Com-
pany, a Carnegie interest, and retained the position during the ensuing
two years.

In 1890 Mr. Taylor was elected assistant secretary of Carnegie, Phipps
& Company, Limited, and in 1893 became assistant to John G. A. Leishman,
president of the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited. He was intrusted
with the general supervision of the operations of all the works, and was
continued in office under President Charles M. Schwab. His business in-
terests were thus of a most important nature, demanding the services of
one whose ability was of a superior order and whose well balanced forces
were manifest in sound judgment and a ready and rapid understanding of
any problem that might be presented for solution. While under his sys-



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tematic management there was no needless expenditure of time, material
or labor, and never did he make the mistake of regarding his employees
merely as parts of a great machine, but recognized their individuality,
making it a rule that faithful and efficient service should be promptly
rewarded with promotion as opportunity afforded. He was one of the
stockholders and junior partners of the Carnegie Company.

In all concerns relative to the city's welfare Mr. Taylor's interest
is deep and sincere, and wherever substantial aid will further public prog-
ress it is freely given. No good work done in the name of charity or
religion seeks his co-operation in vain, and he brings to bear in his work
of this character the same discrimination and thoroughness which are
manifested in his business life. He is a director of the Kingsley House
Association, in the aims and management of which he is deeply interested.
This is one of the most beneficent settlement organizations in Pittsburgh,
and for it he has erected and endowed a fresh air summer home known
as the Lillian Home, at Valencia, Pennsylvania, deeding to the association
the property of ninety acres and all buildings thereon. This home has
given a helpful vacation of two weeks each to rtiore than two thousand
poor mothers and children from the congested quarters of the city during
the hot months of each year, and in addition to its founding and endowment
Mr. Taylor has erected there during the past year a modern fire-proof
building known as "Convalescent Rest," with a capacity of from sixty to
seventy patients. For the construction and furnishing of this building Mr.
Taylor has contributed the sum of $100,000, and its most benevolent object
is to give to the needy and unfortunate women and children of Greater
Pittsburgh rest, fresh air, pure food, and a healthful environment during
the period of convalescence.

In 1901, owing to impaired health, Mr. Taylor retired from active
participation in the manufacturing afifairs of the Carnegie Company, leaving
a record which includes the last quarter of the nineteenth century during
which was perfected a steel product to meet the immense demands of the
present day. His familiarity with the chemistry and metallurgy of steel
and his grasp of all the mechanical details of manufacture enabled him to
be among the first to successfully turn out a steel suitable for structural,
plate, pipe and sheet purposes. In his enterprise also originated the work
of adapting steel to the requirements of steel car construction — an inno-
vation which has contributed to the saving of thousands of human lives
and millions of dollars of property.

It was while Mr. Taylor was superintendent of the Homestead Works
of the Carnegie Steel Company that, in advance of all others, he conceived
the idea of steel cars. As from the beginnings of invention, like all other
men of advanced ideas, who saw farther into the future than their fellows,
Mr. Taylor was scoffed at, ridiculed and discouraged. However, he per-
sisted in his work, with the result that construction was begun, the first
being for the transportation of mine products (coke, coal, iron ore) and
other heavy freight only, and out of which was developed the steel pas-



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senger car, of such great humanitarian value that at the present time,
throughout the entire country, the people are demanding legislation to
compel railroads to use only steel cars for passenger service, to the avoid-
ance of great loss of life and limb inevitable in the crushing and burning
of wooden cars in time of wreck. The value attaching to Mr. Taylor's
work in the inception of these great improvements was fittingly recognized
by "The American Engineer and Railroad Journal" in its issue of May,

1903:

"A complete record of steel car construction in this country would be
valuable and interesting. Its value would be greatest in showing that some
of the earliest designers in this field worked out ideas the importance of
which is only now admitted or recognized. The credit belongs to Mr.
Charles L. Taylor. * * * i^ jgg^ the first step in the large scale of
development of the steel car was taken. It was not taken by a railroad,
but by a steel company, and since that time the use of steel in this con-
struction has increased with marvelous rapidity. * * * It is difficult to
believe that well known high officials of our railroads only eight years ago
ridiculed and discouraged the introduction of steel in this direction, but this
is true. Only six years ago, railroad men considered the steel car movement
merely a selfish eflfort of the steel company to find another market for
their product of steel plates. * * * j^g exhibits of these cars by the
Carnegie Company at the Saratoga Convention in 1896 elicited the interest
not only of car builders, but of operating officers throughout the country,
the claims for the car being: Lightness, durability and strength; greater
proportion of live to dead weight ; longer life ; reduced cost of maintenance ;
less liability to damage and greater salvage value. Experience has verified
these claims, and the present state of the steel car industry is proof of the
sagacity of the pioneers."

To Mr. Taylor belongs the exceptionally honorable distinction of having
been made the custodian and manager of two great funds amounting to
$9,oco,ooo, the interest of which is wholly set apart for benevolent pur-
poses. One of these funds consisted of the $4,c>oo,oCK) given by Andrew
Carnegie to pension and relieve injured workmen of the Carnegie Mills,
the remaining $5,000,000 being devoted to rewarding heroes and heroines of
the United States and Canada. Mr. Taylor is president of the Carnegie
Hero Fund Commission, and has also served as chairman of the Carnegie
Relief Fund from its inception in 1901 until 191 1, when it was merged into
and became the nucleus of the United States Steel and Carnegie Pension
Fund, a fund of $12,000,000, of which he is now vice-chairman. In his
appointment to these positions there was a peculiar fitness, he having, while
at the Homestead Works, been the victim of an accident which threatened
his life. His task in connection with these two great funds is more dif-
ficult than would be readily imagined, and his selection for this noble and
responsible work was based entirely upon the splendid service which he
rendered to the Carnegie Company for many years, during which time
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In addition to performing the strenuous duties devolving upon him
in these most important and responsible positions, Mr. Taylor serves as
vice-president and trustee of the Western Pennsylvania Institute for the
Blind, secretary of the Carnegie Veteran Association, and a trustee of
the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh,
the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the estate of
Judge Asa Packer, and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, being
also chairman of the finance committee of this institution. Over and above
all these, he is interested in many other corporations and benevolent insti-
tutions. He belongs to the Duquesne, University and Athletic clubs of
Pittsburgh, the Union League of Philadelphia, and the Santa Barbara
Country Club of California, and is a member of the Shady Side Presby-
terian Church, serving as secretary of its board of trustees. In February,
1913, Mr. Taylor presented to Lehigh University, his alma mater, a modern
gymnasium costing $100,000. It occupies a site on the present athletic
field, and the grand stand to be erected in connection with the stadium
will seat eleven thousand persons.

The personality of Mr. Taylor is that of a man of deep convictions,
extraordinary force and an unusual degree of magnetism. Those who
are familiar with his fine personal appearance cannot fail to observe how
well it illustrates his character. His strong face, framed in silvery hair
and accentuated by a snow-white moustache, is lighted by a pair of keen,
searching eyes and on every feature energy, determination and fidelity are
deeply written. At the same time his countenance is indicative of the
genial nature and kindly disposition which have surrounded him with
friends and his whole bearing shows him to be what he is — a keen, ag-
gressive man and a polished gentleman.

Mr. Taylor married, October 31, 1883, Lillian, daughter of the late
Robert and Elizabeth (Riggs) Pitcairn, of Pittsburgh, and they are the
parents of one d. ughter: Lillian, wife of Russell L. Mcintosh, of Westfield,
New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have a residence in the East End of
Pittsburgh and a charming summer home at Santa Barbara, California.

The story of Charles L. Taylor's connection with the steel industry
is a story of honor. It is the record of the career of a high-minded man
of afifairs who has been "faithful in all things."



Emerson says, "Every institution is the lengthened shadow
HEINZ of a man." These are words which might be truthfully uttered
of Henry J. Heinz, of Pittsburgh, founder and president of
the H. J. Heinz Company, for, albeit he has had able associates, his will
and genius have been the originating and sustaining forces of this great
enterprise. In less than fifty years it has attained dimensions which many
businesses, counted very successful, do not reach in a century.

The family record has been traced back by Mr. Heinz to 1599, that
date being inscribed upon a stone garden seat which he brought from the



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ancestral home in Germany to his residence in Pittsburgh, where it is
often pointed out to visitors. The family name appears in the church
records of Kallstadt first in 1608, in the person of Lorenz Heinz, who
was born in the latter part of the sixteenth century, in Kallstadt, province
of Rheinfalz, Bavaria, Germany, and was a prosperous vineyard owner,
a state official and a church trustee.

Henry Heinz, founder of the family in the United States, was born
in Kallstadt, Germany, and in 1840 emigrated to this country, settling at
what was then Birmingham, now South Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In 1850 he moved to Sharpsburg, a suburb of that city, where he engaged
in the manufacture of brick. Henry Heinz married, December 4, 1843,
Anna Margarethe Schmidt, who was born in Cruspis, Germany, and came
to Pittsburgh the year of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Heinz were the
parents of nine children, the eldest of whom was Henry J., the subject of
this sketch. The father and mother of the family, devout members of
the Lutheran church, were respected by all for their strict integrity and
exemplary lives.

Henry J. Heinz, son of Henry and Anna Margarethe (Schmidt)
Heinz, was born October 11, 1844, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he
received his education in the Church School, the public schools and at
Duflf's Commercial College.. It was the intention of his parents to fit him
for the ministry, but he early developed inclinations and talents for com-
mercial pursuits, and with the exception of a few years, his career has
been exclusively concerned in its business side with the manufacture
of pure food products. As a boy, he gave evidence of business ability
in the cultivation and sale of the vegetables which he raised in
his parents' garden plot of four acres. Tradition says that the
first money Mr. Heinz ever earned for himself was in company
with twenty other boys who, at twenty-five cents a day, picked up potatoes
for a neighboring farmer, on a tract of land which later was embraced in
the holdings of the Aspinwall Land Company, of which Mr. Heinz was
one of the organizers and later president. The precepts and example of
his Christian parents afforded him the best religious training, a fact to
which, in after years, he largely attributed his success. Especially was he
influenced by his mother, who impressed upon him those principles which
have been the rule of his hfe, and between whom and himself there ever
existed a steadfast and beautiful devotion. At the age of sixteen, Mr.
Heinz became bookkeeper and practical assistant in his father's business,
and about this time he also commenced to grow, and during the winter
months to bottle, horseradish, which he disposed of to the city grocers.
In calculating the profits for the sales of the year, when he reached the
age of nineteen — 1863 — he discovered that he had sold twenty-four hun-
dred dollars worth of produce from the four-acre lot. These results were