PALMER, WILLIAM PENDLETON (17 June 1861-17 Dec. 1927), steel industrialist who worked from apprentice to president of American Steel & Wire Co. (1899-1927), and president of the WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (1913-27), was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., to James Stewart and Eleanor Pendelton Mason Palmer.
OUTCALT AND GUENTHER, an architectural firm, was founded by Richard Franklin Outcalt and Carl F. Guenther in 1942. Outcalt, born in Wauseon, Oh, had practiced architecture in Cleveland since 1928, while Guenther, a Cleveland native and WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY alumnus, began almost a decade later.