Paul G. Kassulker
In the difficult field of corporation, realty, and insurance law, the mere possession of important position indicates the possession of abilities beyond the ordinary. This is preeminently the domain of practical law, in which fertility of resource and vigor of professional treatment, hard fact and solid logic, and intimate knowledge of conditions and values, are usually relied upon, rather than the graces of oratory and ingenious theory. In this field one of the leading members of the Cleveland bar is Paul G. Kassulker, senior member of the firm of Kassulker & Kassulker, who, during a period of thirty-three years, has gained a substantial reputation as a close student of the law and a painstaking, able and strictly reliable lawyer.
Mr. Kassulker was born at Portage, DuFort, Ontario, Canada, January 7, 1863, a son of Charles A. and Dora Kassulker. As a child he was brought by his parents to Cleveland, where he acquired his early education in the parochial schools, and subsequently was instructed by a private tutor until he attained until he attained his majority. Admitted to the bar of Ohio October 7, 1884, he at that time opened an office at Cleveland, where for the greater part of the time he has practiced alone, although now in partnership with his son, with offices in the American Trust Building. His knowledge of the law is remarkable for its comprehensiveness and accuracy, in its application he is concise, earnest, forceful and logical, which accounts in large measure for the high and substantial nature of his standing. At various times he has been counsel for some of the largest interests of Cleveland in litigation involving important matters and bringing out fine legal points, and is still connected, either as counsel or official, with many prominent concerns, both in and outside of Ohio. His profession has absorbed the great bulk of his time, so that, had he the inclination, it would have been injudicious for him to seek public preferment as an office holder. As a widely-read and thoughtful man, however, he has always had firm convictions on all questions of public polity, and has consistently supported the principles of the republican party. He belongs to the Cleveland Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Cleveland Athletic Club and the Cleveland Automobile Club.
Mr. Kassulker was married March 27, 1884, to Miss Bessie R. Curtis. Their son, Walter Scott Kassulker, is a graduate of the academic department of the University of Chicago, and attended the law department of that university. At the university he was famous as a star of the gridiron. He later read law in his father’s office and was admitted to the bar of Ohio. He was associated in practice with his father until he enlisted for service on the Mexican border, subsequently graduated from Fort Benjamin Harrison as first lieutenant and is now stationed at Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr. Kassulker’s daughter, Florence Adelaide, is a graduate of East High School of Cleveland and Lake Erie Seminary, Painesville, Ohio. She was married August 28, 1913, to R. J. Mills, of Cleveland.
From Cleveland - Special Limited Edition, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York, 1918 v.1