James Parmelee

In 1886, he co-founded the National Carbon Company as part of a group that included Webb C. Hayes, the son of U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes.

[1] Parmelee was also the fourth president of the Cleveland General Electric Company.

He was one of the founders of a predecessor institution of Case Western Reserve University.

Their Cleveland house, on what was then called Millionaires Row (Euclid Avenue), no longer exists.

Their Washington, D.C., home, which they called "the Causeway", was renamed "Tregaron" by a successor owner, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and after some controversy remains fairly intact.