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JOHN JEFFERSON GLIDDEN, attorney at law, was born in Scioto county, Ohio. September 10, 1840. He is the son of the late Jefferson W. Glidden, a native of New Hampshire, of Scotch-Irish descent, and who was one of the leading pig iron manufacturers of the Hanging Rock iron region. Our subject's mother, Catherine (Young), was also a native Of New Hampshire, born of English extraction, and whose father, Daniel Young, was a brother of John Young, one of the early leading manufacturers of this county, and founder of the Royer Wheel Company of Cincinnati.

John J. Glidden, the subject of this sketch, was educated at New Haven, Conn., and graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1860. He enlisted April, 1861, in Company G, First O. V. I., aid served for three months as a non-commissioned officer. At the expiration of this service he accepted an appointment as major in the cavalry service, but resigned on account of ill-health. During the :Morgan raid he served as aid-de-camp, with the rank of captain, on the staff of Brevet Brig. Gen. Kinney. Upon attaining his majority in October, 1861, he was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court at Columbus, Ohio, and immediately thereafter embarked in the practice of law in Scioto county, where he remained eleven years. During the latter part of this period he was city solicitor of Portsmouth, the county seat of Scioto county. In 1872 he came to Cincinnati, where he has ever since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He is regarded as a lawyer of profound ability, and has been prominently identified with much important litigation, notably as counsel for property owners in the Cincinnati Southern railroad litigation, and in the formation of the Ohio Railroad Company by the consolidation of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad Companies. Mr. Glidden was married in 1870, to Ruth H. Glidden. a distant relative, by whom he had three children, Helen, Hope and Ruth. The family reside at No. 126 Richmond street, Cincinnati.

ALBERT JAMES CUNNINGHAM, lawyer, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, February 10, 1833. He is a sod of John and Catherine (Perkingpaugh) Cunningham, both natives of Pennsylvania, the former f Scotch, the latter of German descent, both of whom came, about. the year 1802, to this vicinity in their early childhood, with their respective families. Mfrs. John Cunningham's uncle, Peter Bell, was one of the first judges of the county. John Cunningham farmed in Symmes township throughout his life, and he died in 1848; his wife died in 1873.

Albert J. Cunningham attended the schools of his native township, prepared for college at French's Academy, Milford, entered Antioch College in 1851, and was graduated therefrom in 1855. For eight years thereafter he taught school, and during the latter part of this period he took up the study of law, which he subsequently continued at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in 1860. He then formed a law partnership with his late preceptor, Lewis French, with whom he was associated until 1870, since when he has been engaged in the practice alone. Mr. Cunningham was a member of the Ohio Legislature in 1869-70, and was speaker of the House. He is a Knight Templar, and a member of the I. O. O. F. In November, 1864, be was married to Priscilla, daughter of the late Lot Losh, a farmer of Columbia township. Of the children born of this marriage there sur-

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vive: Mrs. Helen. wife of William T. Harris, principal of the Nineteenth District school, Cincinnati; Lillian Belle Cunningham, a teacher in the Intermediate Department of the Sixteenth District school; Alasana Cunningham, a student of the Cincinnati Art School, and one of the three artists who carved the piano contained in the Ohio Women's Department of the World's Fair; Alma Cunningham; Albert James Cunningham, Jr., a Cincinnati University student; Edna Emma, and Eldon Cunningham. The family are members f the Methodist Church. They reside on Harvey avenue. Avondale.

THOMAS BARBOUR PAXTON was born June 4, 1838, near Loveland, Clermont Co., Ohio. on the salve farm where his father was born, and which his grandfather cleared and settled in 1796. The Paxtons were from Virginia, and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a Revolutionary soldier from that State. Subsequently he settled near Bedford, Penn., and remained there until Glen. Anthony Wayne started on his western campaign, when he joined him and took an active part with him in the Indian war in northern Ohio. He was present at the battle of Fallen Timbers, and commanded the advance guard in that engagement. After peace was declared he permanently located on the Little Miami river, near the present site of Loveland, and for many years was engaged in surveying and locating Virginia land warrants.

Thomas B. Paxton was educated in the district schools of Clermont county, in the old academy near New Richmond, presided over by Prof. James K. Parker, and at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. After leaving college he taught school one year, and at the same time began the study of law in the office of Tilden, Rairden & Tilden, Cincinnati. He entered the Cincinnati Law College, was graduated therefrom and admitted to practice in 1860, when he at once formed a partnership with Isaac B. Matson, the firm occupying the old offices and succeeding to the practice f the late George H. Pendleton. This partnership was dissolved upon the election of Mr. Matson to the county probate judgeship. In 1875 Mr. Paxton formed his present partnership association with John W. W. Warrington. Mr. Paxton was elected county solicitor in 1873, the late Judge Nicholas Longworth being his competitor, and served two years. He has served the city as a member f the board of aldermen, and one term as a director of the City York House. In 1886 ho was appointed, by Governor Foraker, as one of the trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home; was reappointed by Governor Campbell in March, 1890, and is now president of the board. In 1887 he was appointed by the sinking fund commissioners as one of the trustees in charge of the construction of the new City Hall. In politics he has always been a Democrat. Mr. Paxton was married, in 1864, to Adelaide, daughter of Dr. William Wharton, of Kentucky, and two children are the issue of this marriage.

WILLIAM GRANVILLE WILLIAMS, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, June 26, 1838, He is a son of William and Euphemia (Phillips) Williams, the former a native of Leamington, England, where he was born in 1801, the latter a native of the city of New York, where she was born in 1803. They were married in 1837 in Cincinnati, where he conducted a general store until 1853, in which year he retired from business. He died at his home in Newport, Ky., in 1868; his widow passed away December 22, 1889.

The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, including Hughes High School, and began the study of law immediately thereafter in the office of Salmon P. Chase, afterward Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Flamen Ball, afterward and for many years register in bankruptcy for the First District of Ohio. He discontinued his law studies for a time to engage in other pursuits, but soon resumed them in the law office of Tilden, Rairden & Curwen, completed the usual course of study in the Cincinnati Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1862. From February, 1864, to February,

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1867, he was chief clerk of the probate court of Hamilton county by appointment of Edward Woodruff, then judge of that court. He then formed a law partnership with John J. McGrath, the firm (Williams & McGrath) pursuing the practice in Evansville, Ind., whence they soon returned to Cincinnati. This partnership was dissolved in 1868, Mr. McGrath becoming associated with the law firm of Moulton & Johnson, and Mr. Williams with that of Jordan & Jordan. In June of the same year Mr. Williams became a partner, and the firm thereafter, and until its dissolution in 1885, consisted of Isaac M. Jordan, Nathan E. Jordan and William G. Williams, and was known as Jordan, Jordan & Williams. During the whole of this period of seventeen years this firm was recognized as one of the strongest in the West, and was retained in many of the most important cases. During this period the senior member, Isaac M. Jordan, served one term as Congressional Representative from the Second Ohio District.

William G. Williams was married September 23, 1868, to Josephine, daughter of Joseph Peckover, for many years a leading manufacturer of Cincinnati, a biographical sketch of whom is contained herein. Six children-three sons and three daughters-were born of this marriage, four of whom survive, viz.: Agnes, Eva, Lawrence and Lucy. The family residence is on Carthage avenue, Norwood.

LOUIS J. DOLLE, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, January 15, 1862. He is a descendant of one of the pioneer German families of the Ohio Valley, his mothers' parents, Joseph and Elizabeth DeBolt, the former a native of France, and the latter of Switzerland, having come to Cincinnati from. Pennsylvania in 1816. His father, Philip Dolle, who was a native of Germany, came to this country, locating in Cincinnati, in 1849. He was for a time a school-teacher in St. Joseph's school, then read law, was admitted to practice in 1862, and continued in that profession until his death, June 3, 1886. Louis J. Dolle received his education in the public schools and at St. Xavier College. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1882, and one year thereafter, upon attaining his majority, was admitted to practice, in which he is still engaged. He is a worker in the Democratic party, but without aspirations for office, having a practice which engages his entire attention. He is unmarried.

PHILIP HENRY KUMLER was born in Trenton, Butler Co., Ohio, September 1, 1837, a son of the late John and Sarah (Landis) Kumler, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania and of Swiss descent. The subject of this sketch is the eldest of six surviving sons, all of whom but one are lawyers. They are Austin L. Kumler, of Lafayette, Ind., Charles and Alvin W. Kumler, of Dayton, Ohio, the former the present prosecuting attorney of Montgomery county; John F. and Frederick A. Kumler, the former an attorney, the latter a real-estate agent. A deceased brother, Daniel B. Kumler, was for a number of years the leading attorney of southern Indiana, residing at Evansville.

The subject of this sketch received his initial schooling in the district schools of his native county, attended the Otterbein University, near Columbus, Ohio, four years, and then entered Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich., from the law department f which institution he was graduated in the class of 1863, He then enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixty-seventh O. V. I., served for some months, and upon being mustered out returned to Butler county, where he was admitted to the Bar. He engaged in the practice of law in Hamilton, Ohio, until 1873, when he removed to Cincinnati, and here formed a law partnership with the late Henry Snow, which partnership was dissolved in 1879, when Mr. Kumler assumed the duties f corporation counsel of Cincinnati, to which office he had been elected as candidate upon the Republican ticket. To this office he was re-elected for a second term, when he resumed the practice of law, and continued therein until his appointment, by President Arthur. as United States District: Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. He resigned the District attorneyship after two years' service.

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In 1887 he was elected as judge of the common pleas court of Hamilton county on the Republican ticket. He made a most excellent record upon the bench, and was at the expiration f his first judicial term re-nominated and re-elected, being the only strictly party candidate for judgeship elected at that, time. The regular judicial tickets were at this election antagonized by an independent ticket put in nomination by the "Pharisees of the Bar," as the lawyers who took active part in the movement were facetiously designated at. the time. He is now serving upon the Beach. Judge Kumler was married in June, 1865, to Josephine, daughter of John G. Long, a farmer, of Butler county, Ohio. Of four children, the issue of this union, but one, Paul H. Kumler, survives. The family residence is on Mount Hope road, Price Hill.

CHARLES H. STEPHENS, of the firm of Stephens, Lincoln & Smith, attorneys at law, First National Bank building, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio. October 2, 1841, son of James K. and Elizabeth F. (Guysi) Stephens. Junes K. Stephens was a manufacturer of harness. He is now deceased. He was born in Indiana, his father having been an early and prominent member of the legal profession in that State, and his mother a native of Washington, D. C. The parents of Elizabeth F. (Guysi) Stephens were born in Switzerland, where their ancestors were prominent in the struggle that country passed through for a more republican form of government. They came to this country before marriage, located at Cincinnati early in their married life, and died here leaving several children.

Charles H. Stephens received his early education in the public schools of Cincinnati, graduating from Hughes High School in 1858, at the age of sixteen. He began the study of law with Hon. T. D. Lincoln, graduating from the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the Bar of this city about the year 1863. He soon afterward became a member of the firm of Lincoln, Smith & Warnock, and continued as a partner of Mr. T. D. Lincoln until his death in 1890. In 1873 he married Alice V., daughter of Capt. S. W. and Eliza (Mayhew) Bard, both natives of Hamilton county, and they are the parents of three children: Charles H., Jr., Bard and Howard V. Mr. Stephens is a Universalist in religious faith, and has been trustee of an organization of that denomination in Cincinnati for many years. He is a Republican in politics, but quite independent in his political opinions. He was a member of the board of education for six years, and of the board of aldermen four years, of which latter body he was president by unanimous choice two terms. He is also trustee f the Hughes fund, and has been a member of the Union board of high schools for over twenty-five years.

HENRY ALBERT MORRILL, attorney at law, was born at Potsdam, N. Y., February 13, 1835. His paternal grandfather was one of the six brothers who emigrated from New Hampshire to Caledonia, Vt., transforming that wilderness into productive farming lands. His maternal grandparents were among the early settlers of northern New York.

The subject of this sketch spent the years of his boyhood and early manhood upon the homestead farm of his paternal grandparents, attending the village school and academy. In 1853 he went to St. Louis, and there embarked in business with a commission house, Mercantile life becoming distasteful to him, he remained but six months in this employ, returning home and entering upon a preparatory course of study for college. He entered Dartmouth in 1856, and was graduated therefrom in 1860. In 1861 he came to Cincinnati and while engaged as teacher in private schools began the reading of law, meantime becoming more or less actively identified with the Republican party. In 1863 he was admitted to the Bar. In 1863 he was appointed by the late Governor E. F. Noyes (then city solicitor) as assistant city solicitor. In the fall of 1866, upon Gen. Noyes' election to the probate judgeship, Mr. Morrill was appointed by the city council to fill Gen. Noyes' unexpired term of office, and in the following spring, Mr. Morrill was elected to the same posi-

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Lion for the full term of two years. In 1869 he formed a law partnership with Alexander H. McGaffey, which partnership continued to exist until 1892, Mr. Morrill is a professor of mercantile law, contracts and Costs in the Cincinnati Law School to which position he was appointed in 1870. In 1891 Worcester University conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. As a lawyer Mr. Morrill enjoys the confidence of a large clientage, and the esteem of the entire community. He has been retained in much important litigation, notably in the contested Wood will case; the T. C. Campbell disbarment trial; the Frank Neufarth impeachment case, and in all of these Mr. Merrill was successful. Mr. Morrill has written much for the Press and for magazines, and has latterly done considerable editorial writing upon the Commercial Gazette.

In 1867 Mr. Morrill was married to Anna, eldest daughter of Alexander H. McGaffey. Five children born of this marriage survive, namely: Mrs. Elizabeth Drake, wife of John C. Edwards, an attorney of Boston, Mass. ; Ellen C.; Albert Henry; Alice McGuffey; and Genevieve Tilton. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. They reside on Ohio avenue. Clifton Heights.

HERMAN FRANCIS BRASHER was born July 7, 1840, at Cincinnati. He is a son of the late Benjamin F. and Adeline L. (Osborne) Brashear, the former a native of Kentucky and of Hollandish extraction, the latter a native of New Orleans, La., and of English descent. The grandfather of Benjamin F. Brashear was a Revolutionary soldier from Virginia, who settled in Kentucky contemporaneously with Daniel Boone, and was prominently identified with the early political history of that Commonwealth, as was also his son. Benjamin F. Brashear was born, in 1806, in Boone county, Ky., came to Cincinnati when a boy, and was for a number of years a dealer in flour and general produce, dealing with southern points principally; be was subsequently a steamboat owner and captain in the Cincinnati-New Orleans trade. He died February 22, 1876, his wife July 11, 1881.

Herman F. Brashear attended Heron's Seminary, next entered the Hughes High School, from which institution he was graduated June 26, 1857, and then entered Harvard College, graduating therefrom with the degree A. B. in 1861, and having the degree M. A. conferred upon him three years later. He studied law in the office of Curwen & Wright, attended the Cincinnati Law School, was graduated therefrom, and was admitted to the Bar in 1868, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession in Cincinnati. He is a Democrat, and was a representative from Hamilton county in the Ohio Legislature of 1873-74. He was married March 5, 1884, to Alice, daughter of William and Rachel (Stites) Packer, the latter a granddaughter of Maj. Benjamin Stites, who was the first settler of Columbia township and an associate of John Cleves Symmes in the Miami Purchase.

DAVID HEINSHEIMER; JR., attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati January 1, 1841. He is the son of the late Joseph H. and Hannah (Mannheimer) Heinsheimer, the former a native of Baden, the latter of Darmstadt, they were married in Baden, in 1833, came to the United States in 1836, and located in Cincinnati in 1840. Joseph H. Heinsheimer was for many years a member of the firm of A. Schwill & Company, Cincinnati. He died May 20, 1880.

The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati, and was graduated from Woodward High School in the class of 1861. He then entered the law office of Stallo & McCook, beginning the study of law with that firm, and continuing it with its successor, Stallo & Kittredge. He was admitted to practice in 1863, and immediately thereafter formed a partnership with the late Isaac Simon which terminated with the death of the latter in 1881, since which time he has been engaged in the practice alone. He is a Republican, was a member of the city council from his ward, the Seventeenth, in 1878-80, and was one of the Work House board of directors by appointment of Mayor Mosby, until the abolition of that board by the enactment of the new city charter, which transferred its duties

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to the board of police commissioners. Mr. Heinsheimer is a past master of Cincinnati Lodge NO. 133, F. & A. M. ; a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a noble of the Mystic Shrine. He has a good practice, and, among the corporations, is counsel for the Equitable National Bank, of Cincinnati. He was married November 21, 1866, to Renetta, daughter of M. Wertheimer, a retired merchant of Bavaria. Mr. and Mrs. Heinsheimer reside on Lincoln avenue, West Walnut Hills.

HENRY HOOPER, lawyer, was born in London, England, came to this country when quite a young man, and settled in Cincinnati with some relatives who were then living in Ohio. He read law in the office of Hon. Henry Stanbery, afterward attorney general of the United States, graduated at the Cincinnati Law College, and was admitted to the Hamilton County Bar in 1863. In 1867 he received from United States Attorney-General Stanbery the appointment of assistant to Gen. Durbin Ward, who was then the United States attorney of the Southern District Of Ohio, and for the last twenty-five years, with the exception of brief intervals, he has held the appointments of United States commissioner, and assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.

In politics Mr. Hooper is a Republican, but his political activity is limited to voting. There have been no great trials at the United States Court at Cincinnati, Ohio, in which the government was a party plaintiff during the time indicated above, in which Mr. Hooper has not held a brief, either as special counsel or as assistant attorney for the United States. Mr. Hooper is a member and One of the ex-presidents of the well-known Cincinnati Literary Club, and is an author of general literary and legal works, besides being an occasional contributor to the periodicals. The titles of his literary books are: "Wash Bolter, M.D., a political satire," and "The Lost Model," published by Lippincott. He is a bachelor, and so far as his religious views are concerned it may be sufficient to say that he is an enthusiastic admirer of Schopenhauer, translations from whose works he has frequently contributed to the journals. Mr. Hooper is a devoted amateur Of classical music, and an ardent student of English, German and French literature.

HON. MOSES F. WILSON, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of Hamilton county, was born in Franklin, Warren Co., Ohio, September 10, 1839, and is a son of William S. and Martha (Bigger) Wilson, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively, and of Scotch-Irish descent. His father's ancestors immigrated in 1735, and his mother's in 1787, locating first in Pennsylvania, and then in Kentucky and Ohio. William and Martha Wilson were the parents of four children, of whom two are living, viz.: Moses F., and Mary, the wife of Rev. J. L. Russell, a Presbyterian clergyman of Princeton, N. J.

The family moved to Cincinnati in 1848, and here our subject attended the public schools, graduating from Hughes High School in 1857. After teaching school several years, he studied law with Taft & Perry, and was admitted to the Bar in May, 1864. In October, 1866, he was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county, which position he held until January, 1869, and in April of that year, he was elected prosecuting attorney of the police court, for a term of two years. He was twice elected judge of the police court, filling the position from April, 1877, to April, 1881. He has been a member of the board of education; of the city council; of the board of managers of the public library of the union board of city high schools; of the board of examiners of public-school teachers, and is now a member of the board of trustees of the University of Cincinnati. The judge has edited the criminal code of Ohio, with forms of indictments and nOtes of decisions. In 1891 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas for the term of five years on the Democratic, People's party and Lawyers' tickets, and this high position he now fills with eminent ability. The judge was married October 1, 1867, to Lucy Thorpe, of Dry Ridge, Ky., and they are the parents of three children: Daniel Fallis, Alethia and Russell D. The family are connected with the Presbyterian Church. In politics the Judge is a Democrat, and he is a member of the A. O. U. W.

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WENDEN O'NEAL was born in Boone county, Ky., April 28, 1839. He is a Son of George and Sarah (Sleet) O'Neal, both natives of Kentucky, the former of Scotch the latter Of Irish descent. Wenden O'Neal was graduated from the Kentucky University, Lexington. Ky., in 1859, and afterward, and up to the breaking out of the war, taught school in Boone county, daring which time he studied law. In April, 1863, he enlisted, was mustered in as colonel of the Fifty-fifth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, served in that command throughout the war, and was breveted brigadiergeneral at its close. In 1865 he was admitted to the Bar, and entered upon the practice of law in Covington. Ky., where he remained until 1885, when he came to Cincinnati and formed a law partnership with Maj. Charles H. Blackburn, with whom he was associated until 1892, Mr. O'Neal was United States Marshal for Kentucky under Gen. Grant's second term; was twice the Republican candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky, and was each time defeated, reducing however, the Democratic majority over three thousand.

On September 5, 1862, Mr. O'Neal was married to Caroline, daughter of the late John W. Fenley, of Crittendon, Grant Co., Ky. Three children born of this marriage are John B., George, and Zue Lou. John B. O'Neal is an attorney admitted to the Bar in Circuit Court of Covington in 1886. and is unmarried. George O'Neal married Fredericka, daughter of Judge F. W. MoOre, of Cincinnati. The family reside in COvington, and are members of the Fifth Street Christian Church.

HON. HIRAM DAVIS PECK, attorney at, law, was born in Harrison county, y., March 23, 1844, and is a son of John W. and Jane (Veach) Peck, natives of New York and Kentucky, and of English and Scotch ancestry, respectively. His father who was a merchant, was foor a time president of the Farmers' National Bank of Cynthiana, also of a branch of the Commercial Bank of Kentucky, and has now reached the advanced age of seventy-four. The subject of this sketch was educated at the. Cynthiana Academy, Miami University, and Harvard Law School, graduating from the university in 1862, and from the law school in 1865. Immediately after the conclusion of his college course, he had a brief military experience, serving from May to October, 1862, in Company A, Eighty-sixth O. V.. I., which was composed largely of students. He began practice in Cincinnati, in 1866, and has reached conspicuous eminence in his profession. He was assistant city solicitor, 1873-75; city solicitor, 1876-77; and judge of the superior court, 1883-89. A re-nomination was tendered him, but he declined it. Judge Peck is the author of " Municipal Corporations," and "A Guide for Township Officers:" the latter having been published in 1874, the former in 1876, and numerous editions of both have been issued. Since retiring from the Bench the Judge has been a member of the firm of Peck & Shaffer, with offices in the Smith building, Since 1890 he has been professor of the law of evidence and corporations, at, the Cincinnati Law School. In 1892 he received the honorary degree of LL. D. from his alma mater, and also from the University Of Cincinnati.

On November 19, 1868, the Judge married Harriet E. Weld, daughter of George Minot and Harriet, E. (Johnston) Weld, of Boston. Mass., and they have three living children. to-wit: Edith Mary; John Weld, a student at Harvard, and Arthur Minot. The family are adherents of the Episcopal Church. Their residence, No. 32 McGregor avenue, was erected in 1886. The Judge is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and of the Cincinnati Literary Club, of which latter he was president in 1886-89. In politics he is a Democrat.

W. H. MACKOY was born in Covington, Ky. His ancestry is Scotch, his father's great grandfather, James Mackoy, having left Scotland and settled in King William county, Va., prior to the year 1718. John Mackoy, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came from Virginia to Kentucky early in the present century, and purchased a farm in the fertile river bottom fen miles below the town of Greenup, Ky, One of his sons, also named John, the father of W. H. Mackey, left his father's

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farm when a young man and removed to Covington, Ky., where he resided until his death, a period of more than fifty years. He was one of the first elders of the First Presbyterian Church of Covington, and took a prominent part in everything that pertained to the moral and material development of his place of residence, enjoying to the fullest extent the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens. The mother of W. H. Mackoy was Elizabeth, daughter of William Hardia, of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

W. H. Mackoy was graduated a Master of Arts of the University of Virginia, subsequently studied law, began its practice in 1866, and has devoted his entire tune to his profession, having his office, in Cincinnati, and practicing in the Courts of both Ohio and Kentucky. In the summer of 1890 he was elected a delegate to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention from the Second Legislative District of Covington. As a member of that body ho served upon the important committees on corporations and municipalities, and drafted the articles of the constitution relating to those subjects. At the adjourned session of the convention in September, 1891, he was a member of its committee on revision, and rendered important and valuable services in making corrections in the draft of that instrument which were necessary to make it consistent in all its parts and as a whole. Mr. Mackoy was married to Margaret Chambers Brent, a daughter of Hugh Innes Brent and Margaret, his wife, of Paris, Ky. Our subject is the father of two sons, Lewis and Harry, and of one daughter, Elizabeth.

CHARLES WESLEY KARR, attorney at law, was born in Whitewater township, Hamilton Co., Ohio, September 7, 1841. His father, Charles Karr, was also a native of the same township, born in 1808. His grandfather, Hugh Karr, cane here from Pennsylvania, in 1797, and cleared the farm in the township named, where his son, and his grandson, the subject of this sketch, were born. Mrs. Charles Karr, the mother of subject, was Jerusha Harvey, who was born in Hillsborough county, N. H., in 1810, and came with the family of her father (Joseph Harvey) to Hamilton county in 1816.

Charles Wesley Karr began his education at the district school of his township, and finished at Lebanon Normal School early in 1860. From that time until the breaking out of the war he taught school. In June, .1861, he enlisted in Company E, Second Kentucky Infantry, and was mustered in as sergeant. He served continuously until June 19, 1864, when he was mustered out as captain of the same company in which he had enlisted, His promotions were to fill vacancies, with the exception of the second lieutenancy, which was made by Adjt. -Gen. Finnell, of Kentucky, for meritorious conduct on the field of Shiloh. He received but one wound, and that a slight one at Stone River, December 31, 1862, While yet lieutenant he was given command of Company G, at Chickamauga. Upon being mustered out of service he returned to Cincinnati, read law in the office of his brother, John Karr, and was admitted to practice in 1866, in which he has ever since been engaged, making a specialty of the prosecution of United States claims. In January, 1876, he was made assistant adjutant-general of Ohio, and in August of the same year received his appointment as adjutant-general from Rutherford B. Hayes, to which office he was re-appointed by Governor Thomas L. Young. It was during his term as such that the great railroad strike occurred, which Adjt.-Gen. Karr met and adjusted with courage and tact. Gen. Karr organized the Ohio National Guards, being the author of the Independent Militia Act of April, 1870, the initiatory step toward the law which he subsequently drafted, and which was passed in 1876-77 under which the organization was effected. Gen. Karr has been actively identified with the Grand Army of the Republic since its organization; was its assistant adjutant-general of the Ohio Department, and, later, commander of the George H. Thomas Post; is now a member of the William H. Lytle Post, of which be is also a charter member. He is a member of the Union Veteran Legion, and a member and past roaster of North Bend Lodge F. & A. M.

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Gen. Karr was married November 17, 1879, to Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen II. Platt, a merchant of New York. Mrs. Karr is a talented writer, being the author, among other things, of The American Horse Woman," now in general use as an instruction work for ladies in the art of riding. The family residence is at North Bend, Ohio.

WILLIAM STRUNK was born at Cincinnati on October 31, 1838. His parents, who were natives of Northern Germany, immigrated to the United States, and located in Cincinnati in 1832. William Strunk is a graduate of Woodward High School (class 1855). Later he was elected president of the Woodward Alumnal Association, and was treasurer of the committee which had charge of the erection of the memorial statue of William Woodward, founder of the high school named in his honor. A graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, he was admitted to the Bar in 1876. Daring the war be served in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, O. V. I., as first lieutenant of Company E, serving also under special detail as post engineer of Fort Ohio on the Appomattox river. Mr. Strunk has been prominently identified with the cause of education, and was for fourteen years a teacher in the public schools of Cincinnati; during the last six years of which he was the principal of the Twelfth District and Second Intermediate schools. He also served as a member of the board of education four years, and of the public library board two years, during the last year of which he was its president. He was also for six years a member of the board of examiners of teachers for the public schools. Mr. Strunk was in 1889 appointed as one of the directors of the University of Cincinnati for a term of six years, which position he now holds. In September, 1892, he was appointed a member of the board of review by the Superior Court of Cincinnati, and in 1893 for the term of three years as a member of the board of supervisors, by his honor Mayor Mosby. Mr. Strunk's practice of law embraces a period of twenty-four years, and he began the study under the preceptorship of Judge Bellamy Storer.

On July 11, 1867, Mr. Strunk was married to Ella C., daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Corey Garretson, old residents of Cincinnati, the former of whom was born in New Jersey, the latter in Boston, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Strunk have been blessed with four children, namely: William Strunk, Jr., a graduate of Woodward High School and of Cincinnati University, and now instructor in English at Cornell University, Ithaca. N. Y.; Howard G. Strunk, also a graduate of the Woodward High School, now successfully engaged in business; Ella G. Strunk, a student at the Bartholomew English and Classical School, and Allen C. Strunk, The family reside on Stanton avenue. Walnut Hills; they are members of the Presbyterian Church.

JACOB ROBERT MCGARRY, attorney at law, was burn in Champaign county, Ohio, December 10, 1836. He is a son of William and Catherine (Conklyn) McGarry, both of whom were natives of Jefferson county. Va., the former of Irish, the latter of French descent.. The McGarrys date back in the history of Virginia to a period contemporaneous with the arrival of Lord Fairfax, who sold them the land upon which they lived for many generations.

Jacob R. McGarry received his early education in the public schools of his native county, then entered Wittenberg College. Upon the breaking out of the Civil war, he left college, responding to the first call for troops, was mustered into service in April, and mustered out in August, 1861. Returning to Wittenberg he was graduated in 1862. He then read law for several years, was admitted to the Bar in 1866, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Springfield, Ohio. A year later he was appointed assessor under the revenue laws, and served in that capacity for three years. In 1869, he was appointed to the mayoralty of Springfield, vice its resigned incumbent, and upon the expiration of that term of office was nominated and elected on the Democratic ticket to the office of mayor. In 1871 he removed to Cincinnati, and formed a law partnership with the late Gen. Henry B. Banning, with whom he was associated until the latter's retirement from Congress, since

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which time he has been engaged in the practice alone. Mr. McGarry served one term as first assistant city solicitor under Joshua M. Dawson. He was married in March 1863, to Mary F., daughter of Rev. John Pearson, of Urbana, Ohio, and two children have been born of this marriage, viz-: Amy W. McGarry, a student at the Cincinnati Art School, and William H- McGarry, bookkeeper for the Krell Piano Company. Cincinnati, Mr. and Mrs. McGarry reside at Cumminsville. The family are members of the Episcopal Church.

LEONARD WHITE GOSS. attorney at law, was born at Catskill, N. Y., August 20, 1839. His father, Daniel Goss, was born in Amherst, N. H., in 1801, and his mother, Margaret (Wright) Goss, was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1805. Our subject's paternal grandfather was, when a boy, a fifer and, later, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His paternal grandmother, who was born in 1773, lived to the great age of 104 years, dying in Amherst, N. H., in 1877. Daniel Goss came with his family from Catskill to Cincinnati in 1845, and was engaged, lip to a few years prior to his death in 1875, in the manufacture of hay, cotton and hemp presses, his establishment being located at the corner of Sycamore and Webster streets. His wife, Margaret, (Wright) Goss, came to this country with her father's family in 1818. Her father and his brothers settled in Fall River, Mass., and there -started a bleachery and white cotton goods manufactory, the first establishment of its kind in the United States.

Leonard White Goss, the subject of this sketch, received his education at the public schools of Cincinnati, graduating from Hughes High School in 1855. Immediately thereafter, he began the study of law. In 1857 be was appointed, by the board of education, as teacher in the public schools, an occupation he continued to follow for a period of six years. He then engaged for a time in a general commission business. During this period be resumed the reading of law, and in 1866; he was admitted to the Bar. In 1867 he retired from the commission business, and entered into the practice of law, in which he has ever since been engaged. Mr. Goss has been actively identified with the educational interests of the city; was a member of the board of education, and its board of examiners from 1871 to 1879, and was president of the hoard of education from 1872 to 1875. In 1872 he was elected as county solicitor, serving as such until 1876, having at his second election to said office a majority of 10,595. In 1878 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, against the late Gen. Thomas L. Young, who was elected by a small majority.

Mr. Goss' wife is Hannah R., daughter of James and Anna Hunter, the former of whom was a stair-builder, who came to Cincinnati from Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Goss have three children: One son, Ralston, a pupil at the Cincinnati Technical School, and two daughters, Leonarda and Marjorie, The family reside at, the " Dennison Hotel."

AARON MCNEILL, of the law firm of Archer & McNeilI, attorneys at law, was born on a farm near Otsego. Muskingum Co., Ohio, February 8, 1844, and is a son of Malcolm and Isabella (Armstrong) McNeill, natives of the North of Ireland whence, in 1800, his grandparents, Ross and Margaret (Graham) McNeill, emigrated, settling in this country near Cannonsburgh, Penn. The family removed to Ohio in 1820. His father's family consisted of ten children, two of whom are living: Margaret, now Mrs. John McNeill, of Tipton. Ind., and Aaron. Our subject, who was educated in the public schools of his native county, the Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, and litter entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduated from the latter in 1861;. He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession, which he has since followed, and has been a member of the present firm since 1870. Mr. McNeill was married December 27, 1866, to Rebecca J., daughter of Orville B, and Rachel (Adams) Wiggins, of COvington, Ky. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church of Norwood, Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. Politically he is a Democrat.

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ANDREW W. MCCORMICK, attorney at law, was born February 3, 1830, at Waynesburg, fenn. His father was Robert McCormick, a farmer, and his mother Lavinia Wilson, both of whom were for a number of years residents of Waynesburg. Here, in its public schools, and in Waynesburg College, Andrew received his education. For three years, from 1848 to 1851, he was engaged in the printing office of the Examiner at Washington, Penn. In 1852-53 he was asaociated with a partner in publishing the News at Parkersburg, W. Va., and from there removed to Marietta where he was publisher of the Republican, From 1857 to 1861 he was postmaster of Marietta- At the commencement of the Civil war, he raised a company for the Severity-seventh O. V. I., and was mustered in as its captain. He was made brevet major for meritorious conduct at Shiloh, in which battle he received a severe wound, was taken prisoner and sent to Madison, Ga., and from there, upon his recovery, to Libby prison, but was paroled in October, 1862, six months after his capture. At the battle of Marks Mills, Arkansas, he had command of his regiment, and for his gallant services in that fight was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. Here too, he was, taken prisoner April 25, 1864, sent to Camp Ford, and remained prisoner until February 25, 1865. During this captivity he with others escaped. but they were run down by bloodhounds and brought back. About the close of the war in 1865, he was mustered out. Returning to Marietta, he read law in the office of David Alban, and was admitted to practice in 1867. From 1870 to 1876 he was probate judge of Washington county, where he made an admirable judicial record. In 1878 he come to Cincinnati, and recommenced the practice of law, making a specialty of pension business.

The Colonel was married December 25, 1851, to Miss Alice J, Leckliter, and six children were born of this marriage, all of whom are living. They are Frank R. McCormick, law partner of his father, located at Washington; Robert Lynn McCormick and Andrew Lee McCormick, physicians of Cincinnati; Mrs. Emma A., wife of Daniel R. Greene, president of the Pueblo (Colorado) National Bank; and Misses Ida and Belle, The family reside at No- 115 Kinney avenue, Walnut Hills- They are members of the Baptist Church. Col. McCormick is a member of the Loyal Legion. Grand Army of the Republic, Knights Templar, Masons, Odd Fellows, Ohio Historical Society, Lincoln Club and other societies,

CHAPMAN C. ARCHER, of the law firm of Archer & McNeill, was born near Amelia, Clermont Co.. Ohio, December 31, 1843. and is a son of Benjamin and Keziah (Sargeant) Archer, natives of Ohio. and Pennsylvania, respectively, and of English origin. His father. who was a farmer, died in 1874, at, the ago of fifty-eight years, and his mother in 1860 at the age of thirty-two Years. The family consisted of five children, two of whom are living: Chapman C., and James S.. the latter a wholesale floor merchant of Cincinnati.

Our subject was educated in the public schools of his native county and what is now Belmont College, lacking but three months of graduating from the latter in the class, of 1864, which he was prevented from by illness. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School. from which he was graduated in 1867. Immediately after his graduation he became a member of the law firm of Cox (H. R.) & Archer. This continued for nearly two years, and from then he practiced alone until 1870, when the present, partnership was formed. Mr. Archer was married November 21, 1872, to Miss Alice M., daughter of Nathaniel G. and Rachel (McGuire) Witham, of Withamsville, Ohio. They have one child, Kittie R., who graduated from Bartholomew's select school in 1893, Our subject is a Knight Templar, a member of the I. O. O. F., Knights of Pythias and the Red Men. He has been actively identified with his party's work in this county. He represented it in the Sixty-first General Assembly of the Ohio State Legislature in 1873-74, and was for many years a member of the Cincinnati board of education from the First Ward. He was his party's nominee for probate judgeship in 1893.

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REUBEN TYLER was born in Newbury, Geauga Co., Ohio, June 11, 1839, a son of the late Cutler and Sarah (Fisher) Tyler. both of whom were natives of Massachusetts, and of English descent. Beriberi attended the public schools of his native county, and later was for several years a student at Oberlin in the summer seasons, teaching during the winter months, In November, 1861, he enlisted in the Sixty-ninth O. V. I., Col. L. D. Campbell commanding, and served several months as color-sergeant, and the remainder of the term of three years in the quartermaster department in his regiment, and elsewhere on detached service. Upon his return to Cincinnati, in October, 1865, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, and graduated therefrom in 1867. He then entered upon the practice of his profession in the office of Judge Hoadly, and remained there until 1874. Mr. Tyler has been twice married. His first wife was Emily L-, daughter of Francis M. Stone. a merchant of Cincinnati. She died in March. 1879, leaving two children, Alice E. and Wilfred M. Tyler. Mr. Tyler's second marriage was October 14, 1880, to Alice, daughter of James K. Hurin, for many years engaged in the milling business in Cincinnati, and two children, Arthur H. and Agnes R., are the issue of this union. The family reside at Wyoming. They are connected with the Presbyterian Church.

JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSON was born in Wales, November 15, 1842, His parents came to this country in 1844, and after a brief sojourn in Cumberland, Md., settled in Pomeroy, Ohio, where they continued to reside, and where he was educated in the public and private schools. His parents desired to see him enter the ministry, but the breaking out of the Civil war interfered, and he became chief assistant to Capt. (afterward Col.) C. W. Moulton, assistant quartermaster, United States Army, a brother-in-law of Senator and General Sherman, in which capacity he was employed throughout the war, with headquarters first at Gallipolis, and latterly at Cincinnati.

At the close of the war he entered Harvard Law School, where he remained One year, and then returned to Cincinnati, where be entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1867. Immediately thereafter he formed a partnership with Col. C. W. Moulton, under the firm name of Moulton & Johnson, which continued until the association with Warner M. Bateman, when the firm became Moulton, Bateman & Johnson. Upon Mr. Bateman's appointment as United States District Attorney, and consequent retirement from the firm, T. A. Blinn was admitted. the firm name becoming Moulton, Johnson & Blinn, which partnership expired by limitation in 1876. Lipman Levy succeeded Mr. Blinn, the firm thereafter being known as Moulton, Johnson & Levy until the death of Col. Moulton, in January, 1888, since which dine it has been that of Johnson & Levy, Mr. Johnson married Belle, daughter of Charles E. Morse, of Maine, a descendant of Gen. Warren, of Bunker Hill fame.

MAJOR LEWIS MONTGOMERY HOSEA, attorney at law, was born in Montgomery, Ala., December 16, 1842, during a brief sojourn of his parents, Robert and Harriet N. (Moore) Hosea, in that city- His father, Hon. Robert Hosea, was for many years identified with the development and growth of Cincinnati, and at one time represented his District in the State Senate.

Maj. Hosea was educated in the Cincinnati public schools, Hughes High School, Brooks Classical School, and Antioch College- Shortly prior to his graduation, in April, 1861, when President Lincoln issued his first call for troops, our subject enlisted as a private in Company A, Sixth O. V. I. He was promoted to a first lieutenancy June 18, 1861, in the Sixteenth United States Infantry, under Maj. Slemmer, of Fort Pickens fame, an ordered into active service, where be remained until the close of the war, taking part in all the battles of the Army of the Cumberland, and, toward the close, in the cavalry operations of Gen. Wilson through the Southern States, resulting in the capture of Jeff. Davis. In April, 1865, he was brevetted major in the regular army "for gallant and meritorious services at the

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battle of Selma, and the succeeding campaign in Atlanta and Georgia." Resigning from the military service at the beginning of 1866, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduated in 1868, and immediately began the practice of law in Cincinnati, where he has since acquired a large and valuable practice. In more recent years his attention has been given chiefly to patent cases in the supreme and circuit courts of the United States, in the interest of which he has made occasional visits to several of the European countries. Maj. Hosea's active interest in scientific studies and pursuits has been much appreciated. He was elected a "Fellow" of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for "contributions to the literature of science," chiefly in the field of American' archeology. He is also a member of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History; the Ohio Mechanics' Institute (in which institution he was for many years chairman of the Department of Science and Arts); was one of the editors of the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science until it was merged into the Journal of the Natural History Society. He was also an active member of the U. C. I)- Literary Society; the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion; the Engineers' Club; president of the Symphony Club (a large and flourishing musical society), and is at present secretary of the treasury at the Miami Medical College. Mr. Hosea was married tit Columbia, Tenn., July 20, 1865, to Fanny, daughter of Rev. F. G. Smith, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and founder of the Columbia Athencaeum, one of the most popular young ladies' colleges in the South. The issue of this marriage is three children: F. Louise, Sara Davis and Lydia C. The family worship at the Protestant Episcopal Church, Mt. Auburn. He affiliates with the Republican party, but has declined all political honors, excepting a service of one year as assistant prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton county.

JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER;. ex governor of Ohio, and attorney, was born in Highland county, Ohio, July 5, 1846. He was educated at South Salem (Ross county) Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1869. While at Cornell he helped to found the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He studied law while at College, finished with Judge Sloan at Cincinnati, and was admitted to the Bar in 1869. He at once began practice, and has become one of the leading lawyers in the State. Governor Foraker enlisted in Company A, Eighty-ninth O. V. I., was made second sergeant, and rose to the rank of captain. His regiment immediately went into active service. Its terrible marches and camp privations, as well as losses in battle, rapidly thinned the ranks and made way for promotions, by loss of commissioned officers. As captain, our subject commanded two companies in the attack at Mission Ridge, and led them over the ridge into the enemy's works, being the first man of the regiment to eater. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and was at the fall of Atlanta; afterward an aid to Gen. H. W. Slocum, who commanded the left wing of Sherman's army. In 1878 he was appointed supervisor of the Congressional elections at Cincinnati, and discharged the duties of that position with firmness and impartiality. In 1876 he was nominated for common pleas judge, and ran ahead of his ticket, Although defeated. In 1879 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court, and served with credit and ability. In 1882 he resigned on account of impaired health. He was nominated and elected governor of Ohio in 1883; was defeated for a second tithe by George Hoadly, who was in turn defeated by Governor Foraker. James E. Campbell defeated Governor Porker, who was nominated for a third term, He was subsequently a candidate for the United States Senate from Ohio, but was defeated by John Sherman. Notwithstanding the disappointment which naturally follows defeat, Governor Foraker is always found in the front of the battle for the success of the party he loves so well, and no Republican in Ohio is more highly respected than he, nor is his party yet clone with his public services.

Governor Foraker was married October 4, 1870, to Miss Julia Bandy. daughter of Hon. H. S. Bundy, of Jackson, Ohio, and several children have blessed this union,

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BELLAMY STORER is a native of Cincinnati. His father, Judge Bellamy Storer, was born in the town of Wells, Maine, in the close of the last century, and died in Cincinnati in 1875. The family wore settlers in Maine, and Storer's Garrison was famous in the early French and Indian wars. Bellamy Storer, Sr., was admitted to Bowdoin College when but thirteen years of age, coining near being styled, like Thomas Wolsey. " the boy bachelor-" He studied law with Daniel Webster in Boston in the early part of this century, and came to Cincinnati in 1817, when be had but just attained his majority. He was a member of Congress in the " thirties," in 1844 was a Presidential elector, and had the privilege of casting his vote in the Electoral College for Henry Clay. In 1854 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court, and remained continuously on the Bench until 1872, when he resigned to go into a law partnership with his son, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Storer's mother was Elizabeth Drinker Storer, a native of Philadelphia, Penn., and directly descended from the companions of William Penn.

Bellamy Storer. Jr.. was a member of the class of 1867 at Harvard University, read law with Stanley Matthews, and in 1869 graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, in which his father was long a professor. In 1869-70 he was Assistant United States District Attorney in the Southern District of Ohio. He served a terns as trustee of the Cincinnati University, and is now president of the Ohio Humane Society. Mr. Storer has been a member of three law firms: From 1872 to 1874, of the firm of Storer, Goodman & Storer; from 1874 to 1878, of Goodman Storer, and from 1878 to 1888, of Storer & Harrison. In the convention for the nomination of a candidate for Congress in the First Ohio District, held September 18, 1890, in Cincinnati, Mr. Storer was the unanimous choice of the delegates. The Republican light in the First District was believed to be a forlorn one, inasmuch as it had been rearranged and made overwhelmingly Democratic by Mr. Storer's political opponents. He was elected, and re-elected for a second term in 1892. In March, 1886, he was married to Mrs. Maria Longworth Nichols, daughter of the late Joseph Longworth. Their home is on Grandin road, East Walnut Hills.

PRICE J. JONES was born in Rome, Adams Co., Ohio, March 17, 1844, a son of the late Milton and Ruth (Tracy) Jones, the former a native of Kentucky, of Welsh descent, the latter a native of New York. Milton Jones was for a number of years a farmer of Adams county, and latterly of Edgar county, Ill., where he died October 24, 1892. His father, Dr. John Jones, a Virginian by birth, was the first physician to locate at the stockade at the Falls of the Ohio river, the present site of Louisville.

Price J. Jones read law under the preceptorship of the late Judge John M. Collins. of Portsmouth, Ohio, and was admitted to practice by the Circuit Court of Adams county in September, 1869. He then came to Cincinnati, and has ever since then engaged in the practice of law. At the breaking out of the Civil wear he enlisted in the Eighty-first O. V. I., and was mustered in as a private. His regiment was of the Army of the Tennessee. He was mustered out as first lieutenant July 21, 1865, He is a member of the G. A. R., 1. O. O. F.. and K. of P. On August 5, 1879, Mr. Jones was married to Isabella, daughter of Martin Clements, an old resident of Cincinnati.

JOHN W. WARRINGTON was born July 22, 1846, in Clarke county, Ohio, where his father, Rev. Charles B. Warrington, a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, then had a charge. Our subject was educated in the public schools of the State, read law under the preceptorship of Alexander McGuffey, attended the Cincinnati Law School, was graduated therefrom in April, 1869, and at once entered upon the practice of law. A few months later be received the appointment of assistant under City Solicitor J. Bryant Walker, and in 1873 was himself chosen city solicitor. Upon the expiration of big term of office as solicitor Mr. Warrington formed

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his present partnership association with Thomas B, Paxton. Mr. Warrington served his country as a solicitor of the Army of the Potomac from the latter part of 1862 until the close of the war. In the engagement before Petersburg, April 2, 1865, he was severely wounded. He was a Presidential elector in 1876 and voted in the electoral college which chose Rutherford B. Hayes as President. He was married June 29, 1871. Mrs. Warrington died November 2, 1888, leaving two children. The family reside in Avondale.

ROBERT SHANNON FULTON, attorney at law, was born near Newark, Licking Co., Ohio, January 8, 1842, a sun of John M. Fulton, a prominent and public-spirited farmer of that community, a Virginian by birth, of Scotch-Irish descent. The mother of our subject was a native of Ohio, of Pennsylvania-Dutch extraction.

Robert S. Fulton received his early education in the public schools of Newark, graduating from the high school in 1862. He then entered Marietta College, from which institution he was graduated in the class of '66. Immediately thereafter he carne to Cincinnati to assume the duties of superintendent of the Young Men's Christian Association of Cincinnati under the reorganization that year effected in that institution. The following year he resigned that position and began the study of law under Lincoln, Smith & Warnock. In 1869 he was admitted to practice, remained in the office of his preceptors until 1873, then entered into the practice alone, and is still engaged therein. Mr, Fulton was married at Mt. Washington, this county, October 5, 1873, to Mary F., daughter of Stephen Morse, the then president of the American Insurance Company. One child, born of this marriage, Blanche Fulton, is now a student at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. The family residence is on Baymiller street. Mr. and Mrs. Fulton are members of the Central Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder, an office he has held for twenty years. He is one of the board of trustees of the Western Female Seminary of Oxford, Ohio. and a member of its executive committee. He is now and has been for twenty years a member of the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association. He has been for ten years corresponding secretary, for four years president of the Sunday-school Association of the Cincinnati Presbytery, and is the present superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Central Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM AUSTIN GOODMAN, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 2, 1845. He is a son of the late William Goodman, who was born in 1797, and came to Cincinnati from Hartford, Conn., in 1817 entering the employ, in a clerical capacity, of his brother, Horace Henry Goodman, a merchant, of Cincinnati. In 1828 William Goodman returned to the East and married Margaret. Rand Adams, of Boston, a daughter of Samuel Adams, and a grandniece of John Quincy Adams. Returning to Cincinnati, he was associated in business with his brother for a few years, and then became one of the organizers and charter members of the Washington Fire Insurance Company. of Cincinnati, of which company he was president up to the clay of his death, August 12, 1876. Mr. Goodman was always actively identified with the educational interests of the city, and was for a number of years a member of the board of education, and of the union board of high schools. He was also one of the founders of, and active workers in, the Unitarian Church.

William Austin Goodman received his early education at F. S. Brooks' school, where he prepared for college; subsequently entered Harvard University, from which institution he was graduated in 1866. Returning to Cincinnati he was for a short time associated with Robert Clarke & Company. He then entered upon the study of law in the office of the late United States Supreme Judge Stanley Matthews. attended the Cincinnati Law College. was graduated therefrom, and admitted to practice in 1869. He then became a member of the law firm of Tilden, Stevenson & Goodman, his associates being Judge M. H. Tilden and Hon. Job B. Stevenson. In 1873 this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Goodman became associated with

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the late Judge Storer and his son, Hon. Bellamy Storer, which partnership continued during the lifetime of the former, and with the latter until 1884, since which time Mr. Goodman has been engaged in the practice alone. He is a 32nd degree Mason, Scottish Rite, and a Knight Templar- Mr. Goodman was married June 19, 1873, to Grace Hastings Griswold. daughter of Hezekiah Griswold, an insurance agent of Hartford, Conn. One son born of this marriage. William Goodman, is a member of the junior class at Haverford College, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Goodman and his aged mother, Mrs. William Goodman, reside on West Fourth street; they are members of Christ Church.

ALMON MITCHELL WARNER, was born at, Plainfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., March 6, 1843, and is a son of James and Fidelia Warner. His father was of English origin, and his mother's ancestry is traced in a direct line to Robert Bruce, the famous Scottish chieftain and king. Our subject was educated in the common and select schools of Massachusetts, graduating at Williston Seminary in 1862. On August 6, in that year, while only nineteen years of age, he enlisted in Company H, Thirty seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, Col. Oliver Edward, and was made second sergeant. He was afterward transferred to Company E, same regiment, and promoted to the rank of first sergeant. At. the battle of Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865, he was severely wounded while attempting the capture of a rebel flag, and in recognition of this, and similar services, he was promoted to a lieutenancy. During its entire history his regiment formed part of the Sixth Army Corps. It was in eighteen engagements, including Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Winchester, and Petersburg, in all of which he participated. After three years hard service Lieut. Warner, was honorably discharged August 28, 1865.

On January 1, 1866, he began the study of law in the office of Church & Sawyer, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. His preceptors were both lawyers of exceptional ability. Sanford E. Church was lieutenant-governor of New York, and chief justice of its court of appeals; John 0. Sawyer served four terms in Congress, and was county judge of Orleans, county. Mr. Warner was admitted to the Bar in May, 1869, and practiced in Albion, N. Y., until March, 1870, when he removed to Leesburg; Va. Two years later he located at Huntington, W. Va., and in 1874 came to Cincinnati, where he has since practiced. In 1883 he was the Republican nominee for Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, but was defeated with the rest of the ticket. Mr. Warner was married October 12, 1870, at Albion, N. Y., to Elizabeth H. Densmore, whose parents. Dennis and Christina Densmore, were old residents of Orleans county. Two children, Maude Loraine, and Carrie Elizabeth, have blessed this union. Mr. Warner is a Republican in politics, is a member of the Congregational Church. and is connected with the I. O. O. F., F. & A. M., and the G. A. R. In the I. O. O. F. he was, for three years, major commanding battalion of Patriarchs Militant in Cincinnati; he is a past. grand, past chief patriarch, past grand representative ; and in the G. A. R. he is past Post commander; past Department commander of Ohio, and member of committee on pensions of the National Encampment. He has also held various staff positions in the G- A. R. He and his family attend the Walnut Hills Congregational Church, of which be has been a member many years.

MILTON SATER, attorney at law, was born in Crosby township, Hamilton Co., Ohio. April 2, 1849, a son of the late John J. and Nancy Larison Sater, the former born in this county in 1810, the latter in 1815. The father died in 1864, the mother in 1863. Milton Sater's maternal grandfather, Jonathan Larison, came to this vicinity in 1803, purchased a farm and planted the first nursery in the county, near, Mount Pleasant. Milton Sater received his education at the public schools and began his collegiate course at Hanover College, which he was compelled to abandon in the Sophomore year on account of ill health. After a few years recuperation upon his father's farm, he came to Cincinnati to read law in the office of Hollister &

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Butterworth; attended the Cincinnati Law School, and in 1870 was admitted to practice, in which he has been since engaged. He has a lucrative clientage, enjoying the confidence and the esteem of the community generally. Politically he has always been identified with the Democratic party, and he was one of its nominees for a common pleas judgeship in 1891. On March 4, 1875, Mr. Sater was married to Clara E., daughter of Robert S. Dunning, for many years associated with Louisville Mail Line Company. Their residence is on Grand avenue, Price Hill. Mr. Sates is a member of the F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., and K. of P.

WILLIAM WHIPPLE SYMMES, attorney at law, was born in Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, February 17, 1849. He is a son of Americus Symmes, who was born in Bellefontaine, Mo.. and now resides near Louisville, Ky. Americus Symmes was a son of Capt. John Cleves Symmes, Jr., a United States army officer who served in the war of 1812. Capt. John Cleves Symmes was a sort of Timothy Symmes, who was a brother of Judge John Cleves Symmes, the latter being one of the most conspicuous figures in the history of the Northwest Territory. Daring the Revolutionary war he served as colonel; immediately thereafter he was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of New Jersey, and still later a member of Congress from that State. After his settlement in the West, he was one of the common pleas judges of the Northwest Territory. He it was who first conceived the idea of sectionizing lands and subdividing, them into sections and ranges, and it was this territory of the Miami Purchase which was first so sectionized. The government of the United States afterward adopted this plan of surveying government lands.

Capt. John Cloves Symmes, Jr., author of "The Theory of Concentric Sphere and Polar Voids," is buried in the center of the park (formerly a cemetery in Hamilton, Ohio), his remains having been left there to secure to that city the title to the' park property, which had been dedicated to the city for cemetery purposes. The youngest son and child-,Of Capt. John Cleves Symmes, Jr., who bore his father's and granduncle's name, was a graduate of West Point, and took the most distinguished rank, in many decades, as a graduate of that institution. He invented breech-loading firearms, which closely resembled the present Remington. At the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion he was on furlough in Berlin, Prussia, whither he had gone for the treatment of his eyes. Returning for duty he was reported by the examining board of surgeons as unfit for service on account of the loss of one eye, and the impaired condition of the other. In his disappointment he resigned from service and returned to Berlin, where he married, and he now resides near that city. The first bridge ever wholly constructed of iron was the work of this latter John Cleves Symmes; he also built the arsenal at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His eldest son is a tutor in the University at Heidelberg. Americus Symmes married Frances, daughter of Chastine Scott, of Boone county, Ky., who came to Kentucky from Virginia, and was a member of the same family of Scotts from which Gen. Winfield Scott and Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock were descended. In its various branches, the Symmes family has been a notable one in the political history of the country. A daughter of Judge John Cleves Symmes was the wife of President William Henry Harrison, and the grandmother of another, Benjamin Harrison. Of the children of Americus Symmes, three reside in Cincinnati, viz.: Anthony Lockwood Symmes, a leaf tobacco dealer and broker; Mrs. Florence, widow of the late Mayor S. S. L'Hommedieu, and William W. Symmes, who is mentioned in the opening lines of this memoir.

William W. Symmes received his education at Louisville, completing it in the Louisville University, from which institution he graduated in June, 1869, being the valedictorian of his class. For one year thereafter be taught school at Frankfort, Ky., reading law during that time in the office of the late Col. John Mason Brown. For one year, subsequently, he read law in the office of Pirtle & Caruth, attorneys, Louisville, Ky., was admitted to practice in Louisville, in 1871, came to Cincinnati a few months thereafter, and has engaged in the practice of his profession in that

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city ever since, for a time being associated with his brother, the late C. Scott Symmes. Mr. Symmes is a Democrat, and has always been actively interested in the work of his party. Though often urged to become a candidate for office, he has invariably declined. He is president of the Tilden Club. His place of residence is at Riverside, and his office in the Pickering building.

HERMAN MERRELL, attorney at, law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 30, 1849. His education was received in the public schools of his native city. In 1868 he graduated from Hughes High School, then entered the law office of J. F. Baldwin, and became a student Of the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1871. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Cincinnati until January, 1885, whoa he went to Hillsborough county, Fla., where he was admitted to practice, remaining one year, and front there going to St. Louis, Mo., where he was admitted to practice, there remaining three years. In January, 1889, he returned to Cincinnati to take the position of assistant clerk of the Sinking Fund Trustees, in which capacity he was employed three years, when he resumed the practice of law in the city, and is still engaged therein. In February, 1881, Mr. Merrell was married to Mary, daughter of George Bewley, and three children have been born of this union, viz.: William Stanley, Bewley Edward and George Bewley Merrell. The family reside at Arlington Heights, of which corporation Mr. Merrell is solicitor; they attend the Swedenborgian Church. Mr. Merrell is a son of the late William S. Merrell, a biographical sketch of whom appears in this volume.

WILLIAM GEORGE ROBERTS, attorney at law, was born in Baltimore, Md., January 12, 1845. He is a son of the late William D, and Mary (Hoburg) Roberts, both natives of Maryland, the former of English, the latter of German, descent. William D. Roberts was an architect by profession, but during the last twelve years of his life was chief judge of the Orphans' Court of Talbot, Maryland,

William G. Roberts received his early education in the public schools of Baltimore, and, later, under private tuition. He studied navigation with a view of devoting his life to seamanship, and received his certificate at Liverpool, England, in 1867. Abandoning that idea, he returned to this country, and began the study of, law with Hon. Philip T. Kennard, at Easton, Md., where he was admitted to the Bar in 1871. He formed a law partnership with Judge Henry H. Goldsborough, of that place. The firm shortly thereafter removed to Baltimore, and there remained in practice until November, 1875, when Mr. Roberts came to Cincinnati, and formed a partnership with Hon. George B. Hollister, which continued under the firm name of Hollister & Roberts until 1882, when Howard C. Hollister, son of George B. Hollister, became a member of the firm which was thereafter, and until its dissolution in December, 1892, known as Hollister, Roberts & Hollister. Since the latter date, Mr. Roberts has boon engaged in the practice alone. He is a 32nd degree Mason Scottish Rite, and a Knight Templar. He was married February 6, 1877, to Annie M., daughter of William T. Pierson, of Easton, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts reside at Pike and Third streets; they are members of the Wesleyan M. E. Church.

CHARLES WRIGHT EARNIST was born in Richmond, Ind.. December 7, 1847, a son of the late Abraham and Eliza (Ward) Earnist, the former a native of Kentucky, of Irish descent, the latter of Maryland, of English-Scotch lineage. Abraham Earnist, who was many years a merchant of Richmond, Ind., died in 1882 ; his widow now resides in Richmond. Charles W. Earnist completed his education at the Miami University, graduating therefrom in 1869. He then came to Cincinnati, and read law under the late Judge M. H. Tilden; was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and admitted to the Bar in 1871 ; then entered upon the practice of his profession, and is still engaged therein. He was married March 7, 1874, to Emma, daughter of William Hopper, a native of Cincinnati, whose father was among the early settlers of Cincinnati. Two children born of this marriage are George C., a student of Woodward High School, arid May. Mr. and Mrs. Earnist reside on Forest avenue, Walnut Hills.

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CHRISTIAN MATTHEW LOTZE was born in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio. October 8, 1850, a son of the late Adolphus Lotze, who was a native of the Kingdom of Hanover, born in 1812, and came to this country in 1833, a poor young man, but full of energy and inventive genius- He formed the firm of Lotze & Lohn, in the carrying on of a stove business on the southeast corner of Fifth and Vine streets, Cincinnati, and invented the first warm air furnace ever manufactured in this country. At the time of his death, December 11, 1877, Adolphus Lotze was the head of the well-known firm of A. Lotze & Sons, manufacturers of ranges and furnaces, now composed of A. H. Lotze, F. B. Lotze and Adolphus Bering. His venerable widow (whose maiden name was Magdalena Bering), the mother of C. M. Lotze, is a native of the Kingdom of Bavaria, and still resides with her unmarried children in Cincinnati, the head of a large family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The subject of this sketch is a graduate of Woodward High School, since 1869; read law under the late Stanley Matthews of the United States Supreme Court. and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1871, after which he attended the universities of Leipsic, Heidelberg and Berlin (Germany) until 1873, when returning to America he began the practice of his profession, in October of that year, in the law offices of Stallo & Kittredge, in Cincinnati. In 1875 he formed the law firm of Lotze & Bettinger, which continued into the year 1880, since when he has been practicing law, without a partner, in his office in the Wiggins block, which is built on the same corner of Fifth and Vine streets, where his father had his business nearly sixty years ago. On October 5, 1876, he re-visited Europe, and there married his cousin, Emma Magdalena Lotze, a daughter of Prof. William Lotze, in the city of Hanover, having become engaged to her in 1871, while studying law in Leipsic, Mr. Lotze is a Democrat in principle, although his father and brothers were all Republicans, becoming a free-trader in his youth at high school and later an enthusiastic supporter of President Cleveland, with whom he had a personal interview in Albany in October, 1884, upon political questions prior to his election to the Presidency, and with whom he found he was in full accord upon the tariff, civil service reform and financial questions. Mr. Lotze has never held office, but has been a candidate for the legislature and for Judge of the Common Pleas Court, though too little of a politician to be successful- He was also identified as a leader in the Municipal Reform movement in April, 1883, and in the Highland House Independent Democratic movement, which held its convention in College Hall in September, 1883, and of which he was chairman. He was president of the Friends of Inquiry, which society became well known and popular by its meetings for social and scientific discussions in the Unitarian edifice on Eighth and Plum streets. He is one of the original and leading advocates of cremation, and together with his brother-in-law, C. A. Nulsen, Esq., instigated the formation of the Cincinnati Cremation Company, which was formed at his office in September, 1884, and of which he is still one of the officers.

Mr. Lotze and his wife and children---Edmund William Lotze and Erna Magdalen Lotze-reside on East Ridgeway avenue, Avondale. He is in the. full vigor of manhood, active in the practice of his chosen profession, and jest as enthusiastic as ever in the propagation of his political and philosophical principles of progress.

GEORGE WILLIAM HARDING was born in Ripley, Brown Co., Ohio, November 22, 1847. He is a son of the late James S. and Lavina (Frazer) Harding, the former of whom was a native of Virginia, whose father was a soldier in the war of 1812, and whose grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, of English descent; the mother of our subject was a native of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent.

George W. Harding was educated in the schools of his native town, and there began the study of law under the preceptorship of Hon. W. H. Sly. In 1871 he was admitted to the Bar by the District Court at Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio,.

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entered upon the practice at Aberdeen, where he remained for two years: from there removed to Ripley, where he was located until October, 1879, when he went to Georgetown, and formed a partnership with J. R. Moore, with whom he was associated until 1885. in which year he came to Cincinnati and formed a partnership with A. E. Moore, which partnership was dissolved April 1, 1893. He is now engaged in the practice alone, Mr. Harding is a Democrat, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was married June 30, 1873, to Emma E., daughter of the late Thomas Simpson, of Adams county, Ohio, and three. children born of this marriage are: Mayme, William G. and Alma. The first, named is the wife of James M. Cox, private secretary of Hon. Paul J. Sorg, member of Congress from the Third District of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Harding reside at No. 253 West, Seventh street, and attend the Presbyterian Church.

THOMAS FRANCIS SHAY, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati April 7, 1853. He is a son of the late Thomas and Margaret (Steele) Shay. both of whom were natives of County Longford, Ireland, who came to Cincinnati in their early youth with their fathers' families, and were married here. Mr. Shay was by business a grocer; a Democrat in politics, he was an earnest worker for his party, but never held nor aspired to hold office. He died February 2, 1876; his wife died June 20, 1891.

The subject of this sketch completed his education at St. Xavier's, Cincinnati, in 1870, and began the reading of law in the office of Maj. Charles H. Blackburn, with whom, after his admission to the Bar, he was associated in practice for eleven years, during which period he was one of the counsel in the majority of the important criminal cases in the county and State. He was next associated with the late Michael Kary, afterward, and at present, with Thomas J. Cogan, under the firm name of Shay & Cogan. Mr. Shay is an ardent Democrat, and an active worker for his party. He has served the municipality as a member of the hoard of education two years, and a member of the board of aldermen four years, but has been without political aspiration. Mr. Shay was married November 22, 1874, to Josephine, daughter of Jacob Costigan, attorney at law, of Somerset. Ohio. One. daughter, Rose, is the issue of this marriage.

CLARENCE MORRIS was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 1, 1844, a son of the late William R. and Sarah (Powers) Morris, the former a native of Ohio, of Welsh descent, the latter of Vermont, of Irish extraction. and a sister of the late Hiram Powers. William R. Morris located in Cincinnati in the "thirties," and was one of the clerical force of the late Mayor Daniel Gano, theo clerk of the courts of Hamilton county. He entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati, and was senior member of the firm of Morris, Tilden & Rairden until 1853 when Mr. Morris retired from the practice. He died May 29, 1859. Clarence Morris was a student in the senior class of Farmers' College, this county, at the breaking out of the war. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Battery H, First Ohio Light Artillery, and served until June 14, 1865, when he was mustered out.. He read law at Toledo under the preceptorship of the late Chief Justice M. R. Waite, and was admitted to practice in 1872. He was for two years thereafter located at Toledo, and since then has been engaged in the practice of law in Cincinnati. Mrs. Morris died in November, 1871, leaving two children: Clarence W. and Fannie P., the former of whom died in July, 1892, and the latter resides with her father at Carthage. Mr. Morris is a member of the Christian Church.

WILLIAM C. COCHRAN was born at Oberlin, Ohio, March 29, 1848, He is a son of William Cochran, formerly professor of mental and moral philosophy in Oberlin College, and Helen (Finney), daughter of the distinguished theologian and revivalist, Charles G. Finney, then president of Oberlin College. His mother, widowed before the birth of the subject of this sketch, married Jacob D. Cox, about a year and a half after. The family removed to Warren, Ohio, where William received his initial

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schooling, graduating from Warren High School in 1863. He then engaged for two years in the positions respectively of clerk, bookkeeper and cashier in dry-goods stores in Warren and Quincy. Ill. In 1865 he entered Oberlin College, and was graduated therefrom in 1869. During the last two years of his college course he taught Latin, Greek and geometry. After his graduation he served a year and a half as clerk in the Interior Department, Washington, D. C., during which time he began the study of law. After this period of service, and a year spent in foreign travel, he returned to Cincinnati, renewed the study of law, and was admitted to practice in 1872. The following year he became a member of the firm of Cox, Follet & Cochran, and continued to be associated with John F. Follett, during the years of Gen. Cox's residence in Toledo. In 1879 he again became associated with Gen. Cox, upon that gentleman's return to Cincinnati, and so continued until 1885, since which time he has been alone in the practice. Mr. Cochran is a Republican. He has been a member of the Cincinnati Literary Club since 1875 and has made numerous literary contributions thereto. He is the author of " The Student's Law Lexicon," a valuable book of reference. In November, 1878, he married Rosa D. Allen, sister of Prof. F. D. Allen, formerly of the University of Cincinnati, later of Yale, and now of Harvard. Five children born of this marriage are. Mary R., William S., Helen F., Allen D., and Frances E. The family reside on Gilman avenue, Mount Auburn; they attend the Presbyterian Church.

JOHN WILLIAM GRACE, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 18, 1852. His father, John William Grace, was a native of Ragate, England, and in early life settled in Canada upon a large tract of land granted his father, also named John William Grace. in settlement of a claim against the British government. The father of the subject of this sketch came to Cincinnati in 1835, and established a flour-milling commission business in which he was engaged until his death in 1858. John W. Grace, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati, completing it at Hughes High School. He then read law, acid attended the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he was graduated in 1872. He did not begin the active practice of law until ten years later, but since 1882 has been engaged therein. Politically he is a Democrat, without aspirations for office.

JOHN A. SLATTERY, attorney at law, is one of the many members of the Hamilton County Bar accredited to the good old town of Marietta. His early education was acquired in the public schools of that city, and he lived there from infancy to young manhood. In 1864 he enlisted in as an artificer in the First Regiment Now York Volunteer Engineers, organized for the express purpose of furnishing engineering skill to the armies in the construction of fortifications, bridges, pontoons, roads. etc. At the end of the war he returned to Marietta, and in 1868 was appointed chief clerk in the office of the collector of internal revenue of what was then the Fifteenth District of Ohio, with headquarters at Marietta. With the change of the administration of said office in 1869, he removed with it to Athens, and, although a Democrat in polities, served as chief clerk and chief deputy of said Revenue District during the entire administrations of Grant and Hayes, until 1877.

During his services in the internal revenue bureau Mr. Slattery entered the office of DeSteiguer & Jewett as a law student, filing his certificate from Athens. In 1873 he was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of the State. At the conclusion of his services in the internal revenue department in 1877, he entered into partnership with his law preceptor, and formed the firm of DeSteiguer, Jewett Slattery, and commenced practice at Athens, which continued until 1879, when Mr. Slattery came to Cincinnati and associated himself with T. D. Lincoln and Charles II. Stephens, in the practice of law, forming the firm of Lincoln, Stephens & Slattery. This continued until 1881, when Mr. Slattery formed a law partnership with Thomas A. Logan, which partnership was dissolved in 1890, and he has since been alone in his practice. Mr. Slattery is a successful lawyer, has made many friends in the profes-

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sion, and is exceedingly popular in circles outside. What success has attended his career is due entirely to his own efforts. He is a genial, pleasant and sociable gentleman, a prominent member of the F. C. Jones Post, G. A. R., and of the Masonic Order, having been the presiding officer of his Lodge, Chapter and Council, and commander of Cincinnati Commandery No. 3 Knights Templar. In 1891 he was the nominee of his party for the office of corporation counsel, and in the same year, and again in 18x13, one of its candidates for judge of the court of common pleas, but shared the fate of the other candidates on the ticket. In 1876 he was married to Lena, daughter of Judge Rodolph DeSteiguer, one of his early friends and first, law partner. Two children are the issue. Mr. Slattery has a residence on Park avenue, Walnut Hills.

LOUIS REEMELIN, attorney at law, was born on his father's place at Dent, Hamilton Co., Ohio, January 17, 1852. He is a son of Hon. Charles Reemelin, a biographical sketch of whom is contained in this volume. Our subject received his education in Cincinnati, graduating from Woodward High School in 1871; he then attended the Cincinnati Law College, graduating therefrom when twenty years of age. Pending the attaining of his majority, he went to Heidelberg, where he completed his college life. In October, 1873, he returned to Cincinnati, was admitted to the Bar, and began the practice of law in association with Edward C. Reemelin, an elder brother, the partnership still continuing under the firm name of Reemelin & Reemelin. Mr. Reemelin has been an active worker in the Democratic party since 1876; became an executive committeeman in 1878, and served as such continuously until 1892. During seven campaigns he was a member of the Democratic campaign committee of Hamilton county, serving as secretary, treasurer and chairman. While a resident of Westwood, he was a member of the school board, council and mayor of that corporation, being elected to the latter office, though a Democrat, at a time when the Republicans outnumbered the Democrats of that town two to one. Upon the reorganization of the Westwood railroad, Mr. Reemelin was one of the leading spirits, a large stockholder, and secretary of the company. Mr. Reemelin was appointed by Governor Campbell, March 13, 1890, as a member of the board of public improvements of Cincinnati. He was elected president of said board through the machinations of the corporations (street and gas) in Cincinnati. Governor Campbell was led to believe that Mr. Reemelin was not honest in his actions as a member of said board. This resulted in the celebrated extra session of the legislature in 1890 being called by Governor Campbell, and the removal of the board by an Act of the Legislature.. An investigation of Mr. Reemelin and the acts of the board was ordered by the legislature which was made by a committee of two Democrats and two Republicans. After a most searching investigation the committee unanimously exonerated Mr. Reemelin and associates on the board from all dishonesty. The supreme court of the State reinstated the board, and Mr. Reemelin served out his term until the new charter of the city went into effect. His sturdy and square fight for his honor in the matter, and its successful result., gave him tile respect of even his political enemies. He is now actively engaged as an attorney, and enjoys an influential clientage and lucrative practice.

Mr. Reemelin was married September 7, 1875, to Emma, daughter of Dr. John Livingston, of Cincinnati, and six children have been born to this union, viz.: Louisa, Amelia, Louis, Jr.. Eugene, Walter. and Clarence. The family residence is at No. 24 Wesley avenue in Cincinnati,

JOHN P. MURPHY was born in the village of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, June 24, 1844. He is a son of Timothy and Mary (Sullivan) Murphy, who came to this country during the early childhood of the subject of this sketch, and located in Detroit, Mich., subsequently removing to Laporte, Ind., where both parents died in 1854.

The schooling of John P. Murphy was comparatively meagre. In 1859 he was apprenticed to learn shoemaking, but at the breaking out of the. Civil war he

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enlisted in Company K, Fifth O. V. I., for three months' service. At the battle of Antietam he rendered distinguished service in the capture of the colors of a Confederate regiment, and in so doing received a wound which necessitated his being mustered out in January, 1863. For this act of bravery, Congress awarded Private Murphy a medal of honor. Returning to Cincinnati, he began an apprenticeship as machinist at the Niles Works, in which employ he continued some four years and a half, when he entered Antioch College, Yellow Springs. In 1871 he began the study of law in Cincinnati. In the fall of that year he was made deputy, under county clerk H. H. Tinker, in which capacity he was employed for two years when he was admitted to the Bar, and entered upon the practice in which he has since been engaged. In 1877 he was elected on the Republican ticket as prosecuting attorney of the police court, and was re-elected to the same position in 1879. His services have been frequently called into requisition as acting judge of the police court. Mr. Murphy has been an active member of the Republican party since attaining his majority, and was, in the campaign of 1892, chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Executive Committee, and in 1893 chairman of the Campaign Committee, conducting a canvass that resulted in the election of the Republican ticket headed by Governor William McKinley by an overwhelming majority. He is a member of Avon Lodge, F. & A. M., and has attained the 32nd degree; also of Magnolia Lodge, I. O. O. F. On May 29, 1877, he was married to Cora, daughter of the late James T. Dean. Mrs. Murphy is one of Cincinnati's most distinguished vocalists. The family residence is at Bond Hill.

GEORGE J. MURRAY was born in Rochester, N. Y., December 1, 1834. He is a son of the late George and Mary (Murphy) Murray, natives of Dublin, Ireland, who came to this country early in their married life, and located in Cincinnati in 1845. The mother died in 1866, the father in 1867. George J. Murray was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and Louisville, and then learned the trade of designing and wood carving. He followed this employment in Cincinnati and Louisville until 1865, when he established a machine shop in Cincinnati, which he conducted for a time, and then embarked in furniture manufacturing. His factory burning out in 1871, he abandoned manufacturing business and began the study of law with James Moore, entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1873. Immediately thereafter he commenced the practice of law, making a specialty of patent practice, in which he has been almost exclusively engaged since 1880. He was married November 15, 1864, to Louisa,, daughter of James Haslan, of Cincinnati, and of the children born of this marriage six survive. They are: Mary, a graduate of Hughes High School, and the Normal School, now a teacher in the First District School; Mrs. Alice, wife of John J. Nooman; Walter, a graduate of Hughes High School, and a student at the Cincinnati University: Bertha, a student at Hughes High School. and Louis and Ruth, at school. The family reside on Hawthorne avenue, Price Hill. They are members of the Church of the Holy Family, Price Hill.

CHARLES FREDERICK HORNBERGER was born March 1, 1846, in Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss. He is a son of the late Frederick and Martha (Repsch) Hornberger, natives of Bavaria. whose parents settled in Mississippi, and who were married in 1844 in Port Gibson, where the father was engaged in business until 1849, when he came to Cincinnati; he died in October, 1886.

Charles F. Hornberger was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, afterward graduating from R M. Bartlett's Commercial College. He then became bookkeeper for Gardner & Eichenlaub, coal dealers, with whom he remained until he was appointed executive deputy by Sheriff Henry Schlotmann. This deputyship he occupied under Sheriffs Col. Daniel Weber and Joseph E. Heart, and was' then made chief deputy-under Auditor W. M. Yeatman. During the latter service he began the reading of law under Law Librarian M. W. Myers and the late George

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E. Pugh, and was admitted to the Bar in 1873 while serving as chief deputy auditor. In 1873 he formed a law partnership with Hon. Thomas E. Powell and W. M. Yeatman, the firm name being Powell, Yeatman & Hornberger. Mr. Hornberger was a member of the board of health by appointment of city council in 1880-81-82 and justice of the peace in 1886-87-88, having been elected as a Republican nominee. In 1872, when but twenty-five years of age, Mr. Hornberger was Republican nominee for sheriff, and was again nominated for the same office two years later. He was one of the founders of the Blaine Club, and is a Knight of Pythias. On April 16, 1872, he was married to Minnie, daughter of the late Sebastian Fey, for many years an importer of and dealer in wines in Cincinnati. Of the children born of this marriage three survive: Martha F., Frederick S. and Charles F. The family reside in Corryville, and attend St. John's Protestant Church.

WILLIAM HOWARD DICKS, attorney at law, was born near La Ports, Ind., November 2, 1854. His parents in religious faith wore Quakers, and his father by occupation was a farmer. Our subject lived upon the farm until twenty years of age, at the same time receiving a high-school education. In 1874 he came to Cincinnati and began the study of law in the office of Hon. Benjamin Butterworth. He attended the Cincinnati Law School. graduating in 1875, was admitted to practice immediately thereafter, and was actively engaged therein up to a recent date, when he became associated with the real-estate firm of Leslie, Dicks & Company, which business now engages the most of his time. Mr. Dicks is a Republican, and was elected in 1891 as Hamilton county representative to the State Legislature. He is a 32" Mason, a Knight Templar, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. On November 6, 1883, Mr. Dicks was married to Alice J., daughter of Wesley Kirkpatrick, a farmer of Montgomery county, Ind., and they have one child, Bodley Kirkpatrick Dicks. The family residence is in Norwood, Hamilton county, Ohio.

LIPMAN LEVY was born in Prussia, August 25, 1836. In 1848 his parents came to this country, locating at ones in Cincinnati. His father, Lewis Levy, who was a merchant, died in 1887. His mother died in 1880. Lipman Levy began his schooling in Prussia, continued it in England, and completed it in Cincinnati. From 1861 to 1874 he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, during the latter part of which period he began the study of law. In 1875 he was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School; in 1876 he formed a partnership with the law firm of Moulton & Johnson, which was thereafter known as Moulton, Johnson & Levy until the death of Col. Moulton, when it became Johnson & Levy. Socially Mr. Levy is a member of the F. & A. M, and I. O. O. F. and of the B'nai Brith Order. Since its organization he has been Secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which has for its main object the maintenance of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. On August 30, 1860, Mr. Levy was married to Henrietta, daughter of Marcus Feder, a retired merchant. Seven children were born of this marriage, viz.: Selena, Belle (married to Frederic A. Johnson, of Cincinnati), Rachel (married to Samuel Seitner, of St. Louis, Mich.), Addie, David M. (student at Yale), Esther and Florence. The family reside on Ninth street and worship at the Temple, Eighth and Mound streets.

ALBERT BETTINGER, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati May 3, 1854, a son of Michael and Elizabeth (Angst) Bettinger, both natives of Wurtemberg. Michael Bettinger was for many years engaged in the brewing business in Cincinnati, and is now identified with the woolen factory at Tell City, Ind., of which now thriving and populous town he was one of the founders. Albert Bettinger completed his education at the Indiana State University (Bloomington) in 1874, taking up the study of law during his last year in that institution. He continued the study the following year with Kebler & Whitman, attorneys, of Cincinnati, was admitted to the Bar in 1875, and entered upon the practice of his profession with C. M. Lotze,

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with whom he was associated for five years. He then formed his present partnership association with Herman P. Goebel, ex-judge of the Probate court. Mr. Bettinger was married October 21, 1878, to Antonia, daughter of August Steinauer, a resident flour merchant, and one of the founders of Tell City. Three children were born of this marriage: Charles, Antoinette and Alma. The family reside on Glenway avenue, Delhi township.

OTWAY JOSEPH COSGRAVE was born in Cincinnati, November 15, 1849. He is a son of the late Otway and Catherine (Fitzgerald) Cosgrave, both natives of Ireland, the former emigrating to this country in 1831, when eighteen years of age. the latter being brought by her father's family in her infancy. Otway Cosgrave was for many years, and up to a few years before his death, in 1887, engaged in the leather business in Cincinnati, His wife survived him five years.

Otway J. Cosgrave received his general education at St. Xavier College, and his legal education under the preceptorship of the late Hon. T. D. Lincoln. He entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in the class of '75. Three years later he formed a law partnership with J. B. Mannix, which was dissolved in 1883, when Mr. Cosgrave assumed his duties as county solicitor, to which office he had been elected as a Democratic candidate the preceding fall. In 1888 he was the Democratic nominee for Congress from the First District of Ohio, opposed to Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, who was elected; and was again the nominee in 1890, when he was defeated by his Republican opponent, Hon. Bellamy Storer. Since 1879 Mr. Cosgrave has been actively identified with his party's work in this county, serving as campaign committeeman during several campaigns, and as chairman of the committee in the campaign of 1885. He was one of the incorporators and is now (1894) president of the Duckworth Club. He is unmarried, resides on Carlisle avenue, and is a member of St. Peter's Church.

LAWRENCE MAXWELL, JR., was born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 4, 1853, during a visit there of his mother. His father and mother (nee Crawford) are both natives of Scotland. His father was a brass founder, for many years connected with the firm of J. B. & T. Gibson, and afterward a member of the firm of Thomas Gibson & Co., in Cincinnati. [The firm was founded by Peter Gibson, a Scotchman.

Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati including Woodward High School, and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1874. At once returning to Cincinnati, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, and pursued the study of law in the office of and under the preceptorship of the late Stanley Matthews (afterward a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), and was admitted to the Bar in Ma_y, 1875, In the fall of that year he connected himself with the law firm of King, Thompson & Longworth, and in the following year, upon the election of Nicholas Longworth as a judge of the common pleas court of Hamilton county, Ohio, succeeded him in the firm, the title of same then becoming King, Thompson & Maxwell. During the time of his membership in this firm he tried all of its cases in court. His recognition as one of the strongest men at the Bar, young as he was, was instantaneous. In 1879-80 he delivered lectures in regular course to the students of Cincinnati Law School, and in 1881, by request, a special series of lectures upon " The Science of Jurisprudence," which were attended not only by the students of the school but by many members of the Bar. In 1884, he made the principal argument before the Supreme Court of the United States in the celebrated case of McArthur vs. Scott. The case (which is reported in 133 U. S. 340). after having been argued in January, 1884, was by order of the court re-argued in April, 1884. It involved the title, under the will of Governor Duncan McArthur, to real estate of great value. Mr. Maxwell succeeded in having annulled the decrees made in 1839 annulling the probate and setting aside the will of Governor McArthur, and recovered for the children of Allen McArthur, son of the governor, the lands devised to them by their grandfather. His argument

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in this case broadened his reputation from a local to a national one, the justice who wrote the opinion of the Court in the case characterizing it as the finest argument} he had heard since he had had a seat upon that Bench. In 1884, Mr. Maxwell withdrew from the firm of King, Thompson & Maxwell to form a partnership with William M. Ramsey, who had been a partner with Stanley Matthews prior to the latter's appointment to the Supreme (court Bench. Dr. Maxwell was selected as one of the arbitrators to hear and decide the Hocking Valley railroad case, involving several millions of dollars. Mr. Maxwell's associates in this arbitration were E. W. Kittredge, of Cincinnati, and James C. Carter, of New York.

On March 30, 1893. he was nominated by President Cleveland as solicitor-general of the Ignited States. The appointment not only came to him absolutely unsought, as all appointments to office should come, but when first offered he was inclined to refuse it; not because he did not realize the dignity of the position or appreciate the compliment implied in its tender, but because he felt a natural reluctance to sacrifice for four years a large professional income for a comparatively small salary, His friends, however, and friends of the administration, prevailed upon him to accept the office. His eminent fitness for the position has been abundantly demonstrated by the signal ability with which he has fulfilled the duties devolving upon him. He has novel- held any other public office nor has he ever been identified with politics or politicians. Mr. Maxwell was married in December, 1876, to Clara Barry Darrow, at Ann Arbor, Mich., by whom he has two children, Marjorie (born in 1879) and Jean (born in 1884).

CHARLES LOUIS RAISON was born in Greenup, Greenup Co,, Ky., October 29, 1848, a son of the late Charles Louis and Amanda K. (Corum) Raison, both natives of Ken. tucky, tile former of French and the latter of German descent. Charles Louis Raison, Sr., was a merchant, subsequently becoming prominently identified with the work of the Republican party in his community, and occupying a number of official positions, among them those of county clerk, circuit court clerk, county judge of Boyd county, and mayor of Ashland, Ky. He died in 1887. The name of the family, which for the purpose of simplifying has always been known as Raison in this country, is in the French and in full Raison do la Geneste. The grandfather of Charles L. Raison, Sr.. was a native of France, and resided there. He was the owner of a large plantation in San Domingo; and was visiting that property with his family at the time of the insurrection of the natives of that island, and he and his family were among the few whites who were not massacred at that time.

Charles L. Raison, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Greenup and Boyd counties, Ky., was for four years thereafter bookkeeper and assistant manager of the East Kentucky Railway Company, in 1872 came to Cincinnati, and was for one year bookkeeper of the Niles Tool Works. He was next associated with the New York and East Tennessee lion Company as bookkeeper for one year. In 1874 he began the study of law under the preceptorship of Hon. D. K. Wise, of Ashland, Ky. In 1873 he entered Ann Arbor University, where he remained for two years. On April 9, 1875, he was admitted to the Bar in Carter county, Ky., and formed a partnership with B. F. Bennett, with whom he was associated until 1878, when he entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati, subsequently, in 1889, forming his present partnership association with George H. Ahlering. Mr. Raison was married April 17, 1879, to Georgiana, daughter of Thomas Wrightson, of Newport, and the children born of this marriage are Elizabeth and Thomas. The family reside in Newport.

HERMAN PHILIP GOEBEL, of the firm of Goebel & Bettinger, attorneys at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 5, 1853, the son of Christian and the late Elizabeth Goebel, who came to Cincinnati in 1848. His education was acquired at public and private schools, and he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School; upon his attaining his majority he was at once admitted to practice. In 1875 he was elected a

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member of the General Assembly of Ohio. In 1880 he entered into partnership, for the practice of the law, with Albert Bettinger, Esq. In 1884 he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Hamilton county, and was re-elected for a second term. Upon retiring from the Bench he resumed the practice of law with his former partner, Albert Bettinger. Judge Goebel was married to M. Louise Brown, of Dunkirk, N. Y., and four children were born of this marriage, three of whom survive, viz.: Nellie E., Hilda K. and Florence A. The family reside at Hermosa Park, a suburb in this county; Judge Goebel and his family are members of the Lutheran Church.

JOSEPH LEE LOGAN, attorney at law, was born in Parke county, Ind., June 26, 1843. He is a son of Samuel McCampbell and Mary (McMarty) Logan, both natives of Kentucky, and of Scotch-Irish descent. Joseph received his early education in the public schools of Parke and Montgomery counties, Ind. At the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in Company H, Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out at Atlanta, Ga., in October, 1864, He was twice wounded at Peach Tree Creek, and Jonesboro, respectively. For a short period after his return from the army, he taught school and then attended Michigan University, Ann Arbor, graduating therefrom in 1870. During the next five years he was engaged in school teaching in Indiana and West Virginia, during the latter part of which period he commenced the study of law. From 1875 to 1880 he was one of the teachers in the Chickering Institute, Cincinnati, during the early part of which period he attended the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he was graduated in October, 1876. In 1880 he entered into the practice of his profession, in which he is still engaged. In October, 1870, Mr. Logan was married to Martha Ann, daughter of the late Andrew D. Patton, of Remington, Ind., and one child, Cora Lee, is the issue of this marriage. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. They reside at Delhi.

THOMAS JAMES COGAN, attorney at law, was born in the city of New York, June 30, 1855. He is a son of Patrick and Catherine (McDonough) Cogan, natives of Ireland (the former of the County Sligo, the latter of the County Roscommon) who carne to this country in their youth, and were married in New York City, where Mr. Cogan followed the business of marble cutting. The family came to Cincinnati in the infancy of the subject of this sketch. His early schooling was secured at the parochial school of St. Joseph, and was completed at St.. Xavier College, from which institution he was graduated in 1873, taking the degree of B.A.; for two years thereafter he read law, and the degree M.A. was conferred upon him. The following year he was admitted to practice, in which he has since been engaged. he is now associated in business with Thomas F. Shay, under the firm name of Shay & Co-an. The firm has a very lucrative practice.

Mr. Cogan is a Democrat, and has been actively identified with the work of his party inthis county. When but twenty-two years of age he was the nominee of his party for prosecuting attorney of the police court, and was defeated by a small majority. He was elected to the Ohio Legislature as Representative, serving in 1884-85. He was chairman of the committee on Municipal Corporations and was the champion of the four-million-dollar street improvement bills, the passage of which led to the most important improvement made in several decades. He was also a member of the Legislative Committee which investigated the alleged election frauds of 1884, He was chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee for the years 1884 and 1885, has served as executive committeeman in numerous campaigns, and was chairman of the Democratic City Convention in 1894. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Duckworth Club, and one of the founders of the Tilden Club. He is a member of the B. P. O.E. Mr. Cogan is unmarried.

HORATIO BASSETT TURRILL, attorney at law, was born near Pleasant Ridge, Hamilton Co., Ohio, June 29 1835. He is a son of Heman B. Turrill, a native of Con-

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necticut, by occupation a farmer and surveyor, who came west with his father, Jared Turrill, who, in 1818, brought his family to this country in a two-horse wagon from Connecticut, and settled in Columbia township, becoming one of the earliest settlers of Pleasant Ridge.

Our subject commenced his education in the district schools of Columbia township, and completed it at Farmers' College in this county, in 1854. Until the breaking out of the Civil war he taught school, then enlisted in Company K, Seventy-second O. V. I., and re-enlisted in the same regiment and company, serving until the close of the war. when he was mustered out as first sergeant. During the last ten months of this period he endured the hardships of Andersonville, and other Southern military prisons, being one of a number of troops who were captured at Guntown, through the indiscreet movements of Gen. Sturgis during one of that officer's inebriate escapades with his command. He was the first presiding officer of the Andersonville Survivors Association. Returning to this county at the close of the war, he resumed teaching, and commenced the study of law; was admitted to the Bar, and entered into the practice of law in Cincinnati in 1876, and is still engaged therein. Mr. Turrill is a Freemason, also an active member of the G. A. R., and has contributed much to the magazine military literature. He has been twice married; first time in February, 1856, to Manilla, daughter of Cyrus Buck, a Connecticut farmer. Of the children born of this marriage, two sons survive. The elder, George A. Turrill, was a student of the Ohio Wesleyan University, also a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, and is now engaged in the practice of law; the younger son, Frank M. Turrill, is a law student. Both are unmarried. Mrs. Turrill died in 1881. H. B. Turrill was married, the second time, in 1882 to Mary C., daughter of Thomas Gohen, of Cincinnati. The family reside at Pleasant Ridge, with the growth and development of which now populous and thriving suburb Mr. Turrill has been largely identified in every direction. He is now justice of the peace of his township. He and his wife are members of the Ninth Street Baptist Church.

GUSTAVUS HENRY WALD, attorney at law, was born in the city of Cincinnati, March 30, 1853. His early education was received in the public schools of his native city. In 1869 he was graduated from Hughes High School; then entered Yale, and graduated therefrom in 1873. He next attended Harvard Law School, from which institution he was graduated in 1875, and in March of that year was admitted to the Bar in the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Returning to Cincinnati in 1876. he entered into the practice of his profession, becoming associated, in September of that year, with Charles B. Wilby, under the firm name of Wilby & Wald, which firm is still in existence, and is conducting a very extensive business. Mr. Wald is a Democrat, and received, in 1891, the unsolicited nomination of his party for judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio; the ticket was defeated. Mr. Wald is the American editor of Wald's " Pollock's Principles of Contract."

HON. JOHN ALEXANDER CALDWELL, Mayor of Cincinnati and late member of Congress from the Second District of Ohio, was born in Fair Haven, Preble Co., Ohio, April 21, 1852. He is a son of Alexander P. and Sarah (Pinkerton) Coldwell, both of whom were natives of Preble county, the former of Scotch and the latter of Scotch-Irish descent.

John A. Caldwell had a common-school education at Fair Haven. and was for a time thereafter engaged in school teaching. He read law under the preceptorship of the late Col, C. W. Moulton, of the law firm of Moulton, Johnson & Levy; entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1876; then resumed school teaching for two years in this county. In 1878 he entered upon the practice of the law. In 1881 he was elected, on the Republican ticket, to the city prosecutorship, and re-elected in 1883. In 188-, he was the Republican nominee for judge of the police court, and was defeated by James W. Fitzgerald. In 188-, he was again

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the Republican candidate for the police court judgeship against Judge Fitzgerald, and was elected. During his incumbency of this office, in 1888, he received the nomination for Congressman from his District; was renominated and re-elected in 1890, and again renominated and re-elected in 1892. In 1894 he resigned his Congressional office to assume his duties as Mayor, to which office he was elected, though vigorously opposed by an independent Republican candidate, by a handsome majority. He has always been actively identified with his party's work, was president of the Republican League of Ohio, by unanimous election, and executive committeeman of the National Republican League. As a Congressman his most, notable acts were the introduction of the celebrated Lottery Bill, and his earnest and successful advocacy of the extension of the free postal delivery system. He was married in December, 1876, to Anna, daughter of John Eversull, a civil engineer and resident of Mt. Airy, this county. Three children are the fruits of this marriage, viz. : John A. Caldwell, Jr., a student at Woodward High School, Bessie and Robert Caldwell. The family reside in Cumminsville, and are members of the Presbyterian Church. Judge Caldwell is a 32� Mason, and a member of the K. of P., I. O. O. F., A. O. U. AV., K. of H., and National Union.

JAMES BLACK SWING, attorney at law, and ex-judge of the Probate Court of Clermont county, Ohio, was born in Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio, May 15, 1854. He is a son of Judge George L. Swing (who was also judge of the Clermont County Probate Court, a native of Ohio of German descent), and of Elizabeth (McMean) Swing (a native of Hamilton county, of Scotch-Irish descent).

James B. Swing, the subject of this sketch, received his early education in the public schools of Batavia, and completed it at Hanover College, Indiana, from which institution he was graduated in 1876. He then began the study of law with his father in Batavia, was admitted to practice in 1877, and entered into partnership with his father. In 1881 he was the nominee of the Republican party for judge of the Probate Court of Clermont county, was elected and renominated and re-elected in 1884. Upon the expiration of his last term of office in 1888, he came to Cincinnati and formed a law partnership with Howard Ferris. which continued until that gentleman's election to the probate judgeship of this count', when our subject formed the present partnership with Frank R. Morse. Judge Swing was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1884 from the then Seventh (now Sixth) District of Ohio. He was married in April, 1881, to Carrie M., daughter of the late Judge Philip B. Swing, of the United States District Court. The family reside at Batavia, and are members of the Presbyterian Church.

JOHN DOYLE GALLAGHER Was born in Steubenville, Ohio, December 5, 1S51. He is a son of the late James and Rachel (Shaw) Gallagher, the former a native of Pennsylvania, of Irish descent, the latter of Ohio nativity, and of English descent. James Gallagher was, up to within a few years of his decease, April 7, 1892, president of the Jefferson National Bank of Steubenville.

John D. Gallagher received his initial schooling in the public schools of Steubenville, and then entered Cornell University, where he remained two years. For two years thereafter he was a student in the University of Leipzig (Saxony), following which he was for one year at L'Ecole do Droit, Paris. He was graduated front the Cincinnati Law School May 10, 1877, and after three years stay in the office of Lincoln, Smith & Stephens, entered upon the practice alone. During 1885-87, he was assistant city solicitor, under Frank M. Coppock, and immediately thereafter formed his present partnership association with the latter under the firm name of Coppock & Gallagher. The firm for a time included Fred Mertenstein, present (1891) corporation counsel. Mr. Gallagher was married April 27, 1882, to Dora, daughter of Andrew Cadwallader, late of Warren county, Ohio, now of Chicago, Ill., and the children born of this marriage are Esther C., James, Rachel, Andrew and John. The family attend the Miami Monthly (Friends) Meeting. They reside on Walnut Hills. In politics Mr. Gallagher is a Republican.

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JOHN CLEVER HART was born at Cincinnati, May 5, 1851. He is a son of the late Judge Samuel M. Hart and Mary (Pugh) Hart, the former a native of Lancaster, Ohio, and of Welsh descent, the latter a native of Cincinnati, a sister of the late Hon. George E. Pugh, and of English descent. The subject of this sketch completed his education at Kenyon College in 1871, began the study of law under the preceptorship of George E. Pugh, was admitted to the Bar in May, 1877, and entered at once upon the practice of his profession in which he has since been engaged. He is the senior member of the firm of Hart & Pugh, his associate being Robert, C. Pugh, eldest son of the late George E. Pugh. Mr. Hart was a Hamilton county representative in the Ohio Legislature in 1888-89, having been elected on the Republican ticket.

JOSEPH T. HARRISON, attorney, Cincinnati, was born May 1, 1853, at Scio, Harrison Co., Ohio, where he was reared and educated. He is the eldest in the family of twelve children of John and Euphemia (Patterson) Harrison, natives of Ohio, the former of English, the latter of Scotch parentage. The Harrison family were among the pioneer settlers of eastern Ohio, and among the prominent farmers. Our subject's grandfather, Joseph Harrison, a native of Otley, Yorkshire, England, settled in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1818. The father of our subject made farming the business of his life, and is known as one of the most progressive and successful in that part of the State. He is the owner of 700 acres of land where he now resides, in Harrison county.

Our subject commenced teaching in the public schools five years before be graduated from Scio (Ohio) College in 1875. After his graduation he was offered and accepted a position as instructor in the college, and taught one year; then entered the law office of David Cunningham. in Cadiz, the county seat of Harrison county, Ohio. He applied himself diligently to his studies, and in October. 1877, entered the senior class of the Cincinnati Law School, where he graduated in May, 1878, since which time he has built up a lucrative practice (being now the senior member of the firm of Harrison & Ashton) in the Queen City. On September 23, 1884, he was married in Cincinnati to Vannelia, daughter of Thomas G. and Vannelia (James) Smith, natives of Cincinnati, and of Scotch and German descent. respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have one child, Louise. Mr. Harrison is an active member of the Masonic Fraternity, and is a Knight Templar; is past master of Kilwinning Lodge; a member of Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine; past grand of Magnolia Lodge, I. O. O. F.; past chancellor of Gillenwood Lodge, Knights of Pythias; and is president of the Walnut Hills Council of the National Union.

PEIRCE J. CADWALLADER, attorney at law, was born December 27, 1853, in Warren county, Ohio, of Quaker lineage, his ancestors having been members of the Society of Friends for six generations. He is a son of Andrew Whitacre and Esther Peirce Cadwallader, now residents of Chicago, Ill., the former of whom was a successful wool merchant in Warren county prior to his removal to Chicago. Jonah Cadwallader, grandfather of subject, came to Cincinnati from Virginia, in 1812, on horseback, and was one of the original subscribers to the fund for the purchase of the lot and the erecting of a Friends Meeting House, which is still owned and occupied by the Society of Friends on Fifth street, west of Central avenue. The great-grandfather, Robert Whitacre, was one of the original committee selected by Miami Quarterly Meeting, in 1813, to establish a Friends Meeting in Cincinnati. The grandfather, after engaging in business in Cincinnati for a time, moved to Warren county, Ohio, where he purchased eight sections of land and engaged in farming, his residence being the first brick house erected in that part of the country, and which is now occupied by one of his sons. The mother of subject is a daughter of Richard Peirce, who came to Cincinnati from Delaware in 1812, journeying down the river on a flatboat from Pittsburgh. He remained in Cincinnati only for a short time, and then moved to Clinton county, Ohio, where he engaged successfully in the fur hat manufacturing business.

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The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood days on a farm in Warren county, and attended the district school. In 1870 he carne to Cincinnati, and in 1874 was graduated from Chickering Institute with the honors of his class. He pursued the study of law in the office of Lincoln, Smith and Stevens, was graduated from Cincinnati Law School in 1878, and has since been engaged in the practice of law in Cincinnati. On January 26, 1882, he was married to Ella L. Bacon, daughter of Richard Seely Bacon, the founder of Bacon's Business College in Cincinnati, and also of Bacon's Business College in Madison, Wis. His wife is the granddaughter of Thomas Hartley Johnson, who came to Cincinnati in 1829, and for a long tithe was one of its prominent and successful merchants. Her great-grandfather was Robert Reiley, who came to Hamilton county when the village was known as Losantiville. He wag a contracting builder, and erected many of the buildings in the village of Losantiville, and afterward in the town of Cincinnati, several of which are still standing in a good state of preservation, and among them may be mentioned the lower market-house and the Kilgour residence, now the United States Marine Hospital. He had the contract for laying the first water mains in Cincinnati, which were constructed of logs having a three-inch hole bored through the center. Her great-great-grandfather, John Reiley, when only eighteen years of age, enlisted in the Continental army, and served for three years, until he was physically disabled by a rifle ball. He was at Valley Forgo and fought at Trenton, Saratoga, besides in several minor battles. Mr, and Mrs. Cadwallader and their children, Richard Bacon, and Louise, reside on McMillan street, Mount Auburn. The family attend the Presbyterian Church.

HENRY BAER, JR,, was born in Cincinnati, November 29, 1857. He is a son of Henry and Barbara (Humbert) Baer, the former of Hessian, the latter of Bavarian, birth. Henry Baer, Sr., came to this country, locating in Cincinnati, in 1850. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, a member of Company A, Ninth O. V. I.

Henry Baer, Jr., was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1878. He is a Republican, and was a member, from the First, Ward, of the board of legislation (1891-93). He married Catharine R., daughter of James H. and Catharine Tucker, of Cincinnati. The children born of this marriage are: Lily, Laura, Henry T. and Blanche. The family reside at Mount Lookout,

SAMUEL SANFORD CHURCH was born at St. Louis. a son of the Rev. Samuel S. Church and Julia E. Lenoir, the former of English, and the latter of French descent.

Samuel Sanford attended college at the State University, Columbia, Mo; moved from St. Louis to Cincinnati, in 1876, graduated from the law school here in 1878, and is engaged in the general practice of his profession in Cincinnati. On October 12, 1880, he was married to Carrie L., daughter to William H. Lape, late of Newport, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Church and their children, Julia Lenoir and Louise Woodmansee. reside in their cozy and comfortable home, on Forest avenue, at South Norwood, which was appropriately christened "Ever-bright,"

ANDREW JACKSON MARSH, attorney at law, was born in Newburgh, Ind., January 7, 1855. He is a son of David and Caroline (Darnell) Marsh, the former a native of Cincinnati, of English descent, the latter a native of Kentucky, of French descent. George C. Marsh, the father of David Marsh, was among the early settlers of Cincinnati. Coming here in 1815.

Andrew J. Marsh received his education in the public schools of this county, taught school for a time, read law with the late Gen. Durbin Ward, and was admitted to practice in 1878. He was married December 24, 1879 to Elizabeth W., daughter of N. C Wade, a grandson of David E. Wade, one of Hamilton county's earliest settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh reside at Hartwell. Mr. Marsh is a Freemason and a member of the Knights of Pythias.

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GEORGE GORDON BRIGHT was born at Findlay, Ohio, August 28, 1851, a son of the late Levi and Mary (Gehr) Bright, both natives of Ohio, the former of English, the latter of Dutch, descent. Levi Bright. died December 25, 1891, his wife yet surviving him.

George G. Bright attended the Findlay High School; then entered Oberlin College, and completed his collegiate education at Cornell University. After several years's stay in Continental Europe, he returned to this country, and while teaching in the Steubenville High School began the study of law with McCurdy & Spencer'. He was admitted to the Bar August 27, 1878, by the District Court of Jefferson county, Ohio, came to Cincinnati in 1880, and was soon afterward admitted to practice in the United States Court. He was married May 1, 1884, to Mary F., daughter of the late Frank and Nancy (Wilson) Fisher, descendants of pioneers of Kentucky, companions of Daniel Boone. George G. Bright is a Republican, and was elected as justice of the peace.

HON. HOWARD FERRIS, one of Hamilton county's most popular officials and remarkable citizens, vas born at Linwood, this county, August 2, 1853, of a family which settled at Columbia in 1790. His father, S. M. Ferris, is well-known as one of the oldest manufacturers in the county.

The force of Judge Ferris' character is largely inherited front the bold, energetic and enterprising spirit of his pioneer forefathers---the spirit which is most typical of the American people in particular. and which has in general distinguished the Anglo-Saxon race. The first significant manifestation of this character was given when ho was quite a small lad: when, without the knowledge of his parents, he entered into a contract to sell newspapers as train-boy, in order to raise funds for some ambitious project. That covert, but successful enterprise, was in reality the Judge's first step in his destined career of success. From that time to the present his fortune and reputation have risen with every undertaking. he graduated with high honors at Denison University, Ohio, in the auspiciously American year of 1876. For the next two years he held the position of principal of the Norwood schools. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1879, and at once entered into partnership with Judge Cowan, one of his legal tutors, This partnership being dissolved about ten years later, he formed a second with Judge James B. Swing, which continued for two years, when Mr. Ferris, having been elected probate judge for the county by the overwhelming plurality of nine thousand votes--more than two thousand above every other candidate on the Republican ticket-relinquished his, legal practice to assume the duties of his new office. The remarkably attentive, just and thoroughly masterly manner in which he discharged this important. trust during his first term produced an effect like a burst of public admiration when, in 1893 he was re-elected to the same Bench by the tremendous majority of fifteen thousand votes, or five thousand more than Governor McKinley's plurality in this county.

Judge Ferris' abilities and merits as a man avid an official are recognized all over the State, an appropriate testimonial of which sentiment was shown in the bestowal of the position now held by him as president of the Ohio State Association of Probate Judges. As an official, his every action originates in patriotism, and is controlled by justice. As a man, his steadfast integrity, his hearty frankness, and the warm generosity of his mind and heart, have won him more popularity than even his brilliant executive talents. He is as distinct a representative of American manhood as of American intelligence. Judge Ferris was married, in 1884, to Miss Fannie M. Arthur, of Cincinnati, a lady of most gracious and lovable personal endowments. He has two children. At present he resides at Linwood.-[From the pen of John B. Jewett.

ORRIS PERRY COBB, attorney at law, was born in Aurora, Ind., June 22, 1856. He is a son of the late Oliver Perry Cobb, a native of Pennsylvania, of Welsh descent, who was during the Civil war one of the great governmental hay and grain contrac-

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tors, an ardent Unionist, and the intimate friend and advisor of War-Governor Morton, of Indiana. He died March 28, 1891. His wife, who survives him, and who resides in Aurora, was a Miss Caroline Foulk, a native of Indiana, of German descent.

Orris P. Cobb, the subject of this sketch, received his early education in the schools of Aurora, and was graduated from the high school of Cincinnati in 1873. He then entered the Chicago University, Chicago, Ill., taking a classical and scientific course. In February. 1877, he came to Cincinnati to pursue the study of law. He attended the Cincinnati Law College, graduated therefrom, was admitted to practice in 1879, and has devoted himself continuously to his profession since, being one of the men who believe that a lawyer can best succeed by declining political offices, and giving all of his energies to his business. In March, 1893, he formed a partnership for the transaction of legal business with Edwin J. Howard, under the firm name of Cobb & Howard. The firm are recognized as among the successful young practitioners at the Hamilton County Bar. Mr. Cobb is a member of the Masonic Order, the A. O. U. W. and the Knights of Pythias. He was married October 30, 1884, to Lura, daughter of John Nelson Milburn, a merchant of Aurora, Ind. Mrs. Cobb is an active member of the Woman's Press Club of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs, Cobb reside on Norwood avenue and Beech street, Norwood,

HENRY BROWN MCCLURE, attorney at law, was born September 9, 1847, in the town of Florida, Mo. His father, Henry S. McClure, of Virginia birth, and Scotch Irish descent, a builder by occupation, removed to Lexington, Mo., and here the subject of these memoirs received his early education, and prepared for college. He entered Miami University, and was graduated therefrom in 1871. For one year thereafter he taught school in Glendale, this county, and the following year at Miami University. The next two years he spent in study at Gottingen and Leipzig. Germany, there completing his general education. Upon his return to this country he located in Glendale, Hamilton Co., Ohio, where he was, for five years, principal of the public schools of that town. During this service he pursued the study of law, and was admitted to practice in 1879, After a short interval spent in travel abroad he came to Cincinnati, and entered into the practice of his profession with Florien Giauque, under the firm name Giauque & McClure, in which he is still engaged. He is a joint author with Mr. Giauque of the legal compilation, now in extensive use, known as " Dower and Curtesy Tables." Mr. McClure is a Democrat, and has been more or less identified with the work of his party. He was married in 1889, to Anna, daughter of the late Frank Douglass, who was for a number of years an employe of the "John Shillito Company," of Cincinnati. His wife is now deceased. One child, Douglass, born of this marriage, survives. Mr. McClure resides at Glendale, of which corporation he has been mayor since 1886. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM H. JONES was born in the city of Bangor, North Wales, November 4, 1840. Early in life, he chose the profession of teaching, and was regularly trained for that profession in one of the British government normal colleges. In 1866 he emigrated to this country, and in the spring of 1867, after obtaining a principal's certificate from the Cincinnati board of examiners, taught for a short period in the public schools of Cincinnati. In the fall of that year he was appointed principal of one of the public schools of Newport, Ky., and the following year was elected superintendent of the public schools of that city, which position he held ten years. He then qualified himself for admission to the Bar, and shortly after severing his connection with the Newport schools, was, in 1879, regularly admitted to practice by the Kentucky court of appeals.

Shortly after this he moved to Cincinnati, and associated himself with the law firm of Moulton, Johnson & Levy. Subsequently he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio, as well as the United States Court. Mr. Jones in

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early manhood married one who took the same professional training that he did, and who now ranks as one of the most prominent educators and pedagogical lecturers of the State of Ohio-Mrs. Jennie H. Jones. For the first few years of his career at the Bar, he made a specialty of admiralty practice. He is still connected with the firm of Johnson & Levy (formerly Moulton, Johnson & Levy), and in addition to this has formed a nominal partnership with Alfred Herholz, of Cincinnati, Mr. Jones being a native of Wales is an ardent and enthusiastic Welshman, conspicuous at all public gatherings of that nationality, and is generally known among the Welsh-Americans of Cincinnati as " Y Cyfreithiwe Cymraeg "--the Welsh lawyer.

EDWIN JAMES HOWARD, attorney at law, was born March 20, 1856, in Covington, Ky., a sol] of the late James G. and Delia (Peck) Howard, the former a native of Kentucky, and for many years a member of the Bar of Kenton county, Ky.. the latter a native of this State. Our subject received his early education in the schools of Covington, prepared for college at Dayton, Ohio, and entered Antioch College. He began the study of law under the preceptorship of ex-Governor Stevenson of Ken. tacky, and continued it. under J. F. Baldwin, of Cincinnati; was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1879, and entered upon the practice of his profession alone. He was for several years associated in the practice with Hiram M. Rulison, and, upon that gentleman's appointment as assistant prosecuting attorney of this county, formed his present partnership connection with Orris P. Cobb. Mr. Howard is a Freemason. He was married October 4, 1893, to Miss Lucy Louise, daughter of George A. and Emmiline M. Budd, of Elyria, Ohio, where Mr. Budd is a wholesale commission merchant. Mr. Howard resides on Price avenue, Price Hill.

WLLLIAM YATES GHOLSON MINER, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 18, 1856, a son of the late John L. Miner, judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, by appointment of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes. Judge Miner was born near Columbus, Ohio, March 8, 1810, and was for many years a resident and leading lawyer of Cincinnati. He was actively identified with public-spirited movements, generally, and was a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1870. His wife was Mary Wright, daughter of the late John C. Wright, judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, a member of Congress from the Steubenville, Ohio, District, and a member of the Peace Congress of 1881. He died in Washington City during the meeting of the last named body in the capital. The Miners are of English descent, and were among the early settlers of Ohio, Isaac Miner, the father of Judge Miner, locating in Franklin county, in 1806. He was a lineal descendant of Thomas Miner who came to the American colonies from Somersetshire, England, and was one of the founders of New London, Conn., in 1650. The Wrights are also of English descent. Judge Wright was for some years editor of the old Cincinnati Gazette, succeeding the late Charles Hammond in that capacity.

A. C. SHATTUCK, attorney, wag born at Plainfield, Hampshire Co,, Mass., December 22, 1852, the only child of A. C. and Flotilla D. (Warren) Shattuck, natives of Massachusetts, and of English and Scotch origin. The father was a wholesale and retail merchant in the book and periodical line, carrying on that business in Boston, Mass. He died young. The mother is still living.

Our subject received his early schooling in the public schools, later attending Geauga Seminary at Chester, Geauga County, Ohio, and Oberlin College, where he was graduated from the regular classical course in 1878, with the degree B. A. In 1879 he entered the Cincinnati Law School where he graduated in 1880, with the degree LL. B., and then entered on the practice of his chosen profession in Cincinnati, and here he has since continued in the regular practice of the law. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and is past officer of the Subordinate Lodge; he is a

82� Freemason and a Knight Templar; is past master of the Blue Lodge; is a member of Syrian Temple of Cincinnati, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He takes a very great interest in Masonry. Mr. Shattuck was married November 27, 1884, to Mrs.

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Louise (Moore) Bailey. She was born in Cincinnati. and is of English descent. This union has been^' blessed with one child, A. C. Shattuck, Jr., born September 2, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Shattuck are members of the Columbia Congregational Church, of which he is a trustee. He has been superintendent of the Sabbath school, and at present is a teacher in the Columbia Church Sabbath-school. He is treasurer of the Cincinnati Congregational Missionary Society, and a trustee of the Y. M. C. A. of Cincinnati. Politically, he is a Republican.

CHARLES LEO LUNDY, attorney at law, was born on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, April 11, 1855. That historic spot in Canada where, in the war of 1812, was fought the battle of Lundy's Lane,, was so named after the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, William Lundy, who owned the land. William Lundy carne to Cincinnati in 1840, and established the first gold-pen manufacturing establishment here. His son, Charles S. Lundy, who was born at Lundy's Lane, became a carpenter and builder, and while at New Orleans in 1878 contracted yellow fever, from which be died. His wife, who still survives, was Miss Anna Canfield, a lady of Irish birth, whose father located, with his family, in Quebec when she was eight years of age, and who came to Cincinnati with his family in 1844. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Lundy were married in Cincinnati in 1849; of the children born of this marriage, the eldest was the late Judge George H., who died in May, 1880, shortly after his return from the territory of Arizona, after having tilled the district judgeship of that Territory, tinder appointment by President Cleveland. The surviving children are John Edward, a traveling salesman; Joseph N., electrician with the Brush Company of Cincinnati; Guy D., a law student; Miss Mary J. Lundy, cashier of the John Church Company, Cincinnati, and Charles Leo, the subject of this sketch.

Charles L. Lundy received his education at the Glendale schools, then learned the carpenter's trade, and was next engaged in bridge building on the C. H. & D. R. R. He then became locomotive fireman on the Cincinnati Southern, in which be was engaged until 1877, a period of five years, during which time he ran the first engine that crossed the new Southern bridge over the Ohio. In 1878 he began the study of law under the late United States Senator George H. Pendleton; attended the Cincinnati Law College, took a two years' course in one year, and was graduated therefrom with honors in May, 1880; he immediately entered into the practice of law, and was, up to the time of his brother's death, associated with the late George H. Lundy. He is now engaged in the business alone, and enjoys a large and growing practice, He is a Democrat, and is an active participant in the bard work of every campaign. His brother and sister, Joseph N. and Miss Mary J., mentioned above, are among the distinguished vocalists of Cincinnati, the former being the baritone soloist, the latter the soprano soloist, of St. Francis De Sales Church, East Walnut Hills.

JOHN WILLIAM WOLFE was born near New Philadelphia. Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, March 19, 1852. He is a son of Wesley and Margaret (McLain) Wolfe, the former a native of Ohio, of English descent, the latter a native of the County Down, Ireland; both are yet residing in Tuscarawas county. John W. Wolfe completed his education at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, from which institution be was graduated in 1877. He then began the study of law under the preceptorship of Judge Mcllvaine, late chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and continued it under Judge Frees, of Canton, Ohio. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated and admitted to practice in 1880. On February 4, 1886, Mr. Wolfe was married to Sarah H., daughter of Oliver Hazzard Cox, a contractor and builder of Cincinnati, and one child, Marguerite, is the fruit of this marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe reside in Avondale; and they are members of the Episcopal Church.

ADOLPH LEWIS BROWN was born in Dubuque, Iowa, July 13, 1857. He is a son of the late Lewis and Louisa (Elsbach) Brown, both natives of Bavaria, who came

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to this country in 1853, locating in Dubuque, where Lewis Brown was engaged in mercantile pursuits until his removal with his family to Cincinnati in 1858, since which time he was similarly engaged until his death in 1875. His wife survives. Adolph L. Brown completed his education at Hughes High School, began the study of law, was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, and admitted to the Bar in 1880. He has since been very actively engaged in the practice of his profession in all its branches, particularly in commercial, corporation, and probate law. He is counsel for the National Cordage Company, and as such represents all its properties throughout the State of Ohio. He is adviser for some of the largest commercial industries and estates in Cincinnati. Mr. Brown resides on Walnut Hills.

EDWARDS RITCHIE was born in Greenfield, Ohio, March 18, 1858, a son of Rev. Andrew and Mary (Gray) Ritchie. Rev. Andrew Ritchie was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, calve to Cincinnati in 1846, was graduated from the old Woodward College in 1850, subsequently attending Oxford Theological Seminary, and was graduated therefrom in 1854. He was then installed as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Greenfield, Ohio, and in 1865 returned to Cincinnati to assume the duties of secretary of the Western Tract Society, in which he has since been engaged. His wife is of Irish descent, a descendant of Robert Gray who came to this country from Ireland prior to the Revolutionary war, in which he participated. He subsequently settled on government land in Butler county, Ohio, which was paid for in Revolutionary scrip. This land, for which no deed was ever given, is still in the possession of the Grays.

Edwards Ritchie was graduated from Chickening Institute, Cincinnati, in 1878, read law under the preceptorship of Reuben Tyler, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in the class of '80. For two years thereafter he filled a clerical position under County Auditor W. S. Cappellar, then entered upon the practice of law, and is now associated with A. J. Marsh, under the firm name of Marsh & Ritchie. He is a Knight Templar; a member of the University Club, and of the Lincoln Club. On November 9, 1892, Mr. Ritchie was married to Mary, sister of Hon. Calvin S. Brice, United States Senator from Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie attend the Presbyterian Church. He has been actively identified with the growth and development of Wyoming, where he resides; was for three terms the village solicitor; a member of its health and school boards, and for a number of years was Republican executive committeeman from that District.

FRANKLIN T. CAHILL, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 18, 1859, a son of John F. and Cynthia (Clark) Cahill, the former a native of Rising Sun, Ind., of Irish descent, the latter a native of Lowell, Mass., and a descendant of old New England stock. The father of John F. Cahill was James Cahill, a native of Ireland, a linen manufacturer of considerable means, who came to this country in 1820, and looking about for a satisfactory place of business and residence, passed Cincinnati as too small and unpromising a place, locating in Rising Sun. Ind. Returning to this county, however, he settled in Delhi township on a farm, where he continued to reside until 1876, when he died at the great age of one hundred and three years. His brother, Rev. D. W. Cahill, D. D., was one of the most distinguished Roman Catholic orators and divines of the first half of the nineteenth century. John F. Cahill was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Cincinnati for a number of years, and in 1869 purchased a farm in Delhi township, and there continued to reside until 1880, when he returned to Cincinnati, where he now resides. His wife, who died in 1883, was a descendant of the Pierce family, and second cousin of the late ex-President Franklin Pierce.

Franklin T. Cahill received his early education partially at St. Xavier College, and partly under private tutorage; read law in the office of Stephen Coles, attended the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he was graduated, and in 1880 was admitted to practice, in which he has since been engaged. Politically he is a

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Republican, and a member of the Lincoln Club. He is also a member of the Cincinnati Literary Club, The Cincinnati Art Club, and The University Club, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. A brother, Rev. Casper L. Cahill, is a priest of the Roman Catholic Church of this diocese.

FLORIEN GIAUQUE, attorney at law, was born on his father's farm near Berlin, Holmes Co., Ohio, May 11, 1843. His parents, Augustus and Sophia (Guillaume) Giauque, were natives of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, who came to this country, during their childhood, with their fat hors' families, both of which located in Holmes county. Florien's family left the farm when he was about six years old, and settled in Fredericksburg, Wayne Co., Ohio, where his boyhood was chiefly passed, and whose public schools and academy he attended. About the commencement of the war of 1861, his parents both being then dead, he went to Vermillion Institute at Hayesville, Ashland Co., Ohio, with all his fortune---about twenty dollars-in his pocket, very much determined to carry out his intention, formed years before, of graduating at some good college and becoming a lawyer. That be succeeded without help from others, and out of debt when he left college, carries its own comment, and should encourage others like minded. Calls for volunteer soldiers for that war following, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Second Regiment, O. V. I., and served ill it in the armies of Glens. Buell, Rosecrans, Sherman and Thomas, till the close of the war. He then at. once resumed his studies at Vermillion Institute, where he was both pupil and teacher. From there he went to Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio, entering the Freshman class in 1866, graduating with honors in June, 1869. Having soon after been examined, with a view to teaching, for a time in the public schools, by the State board of examiners, he received the best certificate ever issued by that body, twenty-seven branches being enumerated therein. In September of that year, he became principal of the public schools at Glendale, Hamilton Co., Ohio, which position he held until 1875, then declining further reelection. In the meantime he had studied law under the preceptorship of the late Justice Stanley Matthews, then a resident of that village. In the latter year, he entered upon the practice of his profession in Cincinnati, where, in 1880, he formed a law partnership with Henry B. McClure, which still (1894) continues in active general practice.

Mr. Giauque is the author and compiler of a larger number of law books than any other citizen of this State, among them being the following: " The Revised Statutes of Ohio" and various supplements, etc., thereto; "A. Manual for Assignees;" " A Manual for Guardians:" "Naturalization and Election Laws of the United States; " " Ohio Election Laws; " Manual for Notaries and Conveyancers;" "Settlement of Decedents' Estates;" "The Law of Roads, Ditches, Bridges and Watercourses in Ohio; " " Manual for Constables and Marshals; " and, jointly with his partner, Mr. McClure, "Dower and Curtesy Tables." For this reason a sketch of his life, and a list of his books, is found in the late edition of "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors." He is also, and for many years has been, the author and reviser of the large number of important legal blanks published by Robert Clarke & Co. of Cincinnati, who also publish said books; and he has written various articles for periodicals, etc., on scientific and other subjects.

Mr. Giauque was married November 18, 1884, to Mary, daughter of William H. Miller, a lawyer of Hamilton, Ohio, who, while an officer in the Union army, was killed in action in the Civil war; she was also the granddaughter of John Woods, long the leading lawyer of Butler county, Ohio, an active member of Congress, auditor of the State of Ohio, promoter of Ohio's canals and railroads, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Giauque reside tit Glendale, Ohio, in the management of whose affairs his neighbors call upon him to take an active part.

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OLIVER BELL JONES was born in Cincinnati, January 4, 1856, a son of the late J. Dan Jones and Margaretta (Bell) Jones, both of whom were natives of Hamilton county, Ohio. J. Dan Jones was the son of Oliver Jones and grandson of John Jones, the latter a Revolutionary soldier, a native of Maryland, who came to this section of the Northwest Territory in 1797, and purchased a tract of land in Columbia township from John Cleves Symmes and his associates, the title to which land still vests in the heirs of the original purchaser. John Jones was closely identified with the early political history of Hamilton county, was one of the first justices of the peace, and was a member of both Houses of the State Legislature, His son, Oliver, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was also a member of the House of Representatives, and of the Senate of the Ohio Legislature. J. Dan Jones was for a number of years connected with the auditor's office of Hamilton county, and was himself county auditor in 1856 and 1858. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1850; was for a number of years treasurer of his township, and for two terms was a member of the Decennial State Board of Equalization. He died in 1873. His wife Margaretta (Bell) Jones, who survived him but five years, was the granddaughter of the late Peter Bell, one of the first judges of the court of common pleas of Hamilton County.

Oliver B. Jones received his education in the public schools of Columbia township and of Cincinnati, and was graduated from Woodward High School in the class. of 1875. For several years thereafter he was one of the clerical force in the office of the board of public works of Cincinnati. During this period, he began the study of law and entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduating therefrom in 1880, and entering upon the practice of law in 1881. Mr. Jones is a Democrat, and has been more or loss actively identified with the work of his party in this county. He held the position of an assistant under City Solicitor J. M. Dawson, and was, in 1890, his party's nominee for probate judge. On September 28, 1886, be was married to Louise F., daughter of S. W. Stone, consulting engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad. She is a graduate of Cincinnati Wesleyan College. Three children born of this marriage are: Stephen W. ; Rufus B., and Louise Frances. The family reside at Madisonville, where they are connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

HOWARD CLARK HOLLISTER was born September 11, 1856, on Southern avenue, Alt. Auburn, and is the eldest son of George B. and Laura B. (Strait) Hollister. He attended the public schools in the now Sixteenth District, afterward in the intermediate department, and then in Woodward High School. In September, 1874, he entered Yale College and graduated in June, 1878. After graduation he entered as a student the law office of his father, and attended lectures at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received his degree in May, 1880, having shortly before been admitted to the Bar by the supreme court of Ohio. In 1881 he was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county. The following year he became a member of the firm of Hollister, Roberts & Hollister, and was elected in the fall of 1893 judge of the court of common pleas of Hamilton county by a handsome majority. On June 2, 1887, Judge Hollister was married to Alice, second daughter of Samuel B. and Julia (Baker) Keys, and they have four children. The family live on Madison road, East Walnut Hills.

CHARLES ANKENEY BOSWORTH was born at Wilmington, Ohio, September 16, 1853, a son of the late Charles M. and Virginia (Lang) Bosworth, the former a native of Now York, the latter of Ohio, and both of English descent. Charles M. Bosworth was a leading Republican of his county, and was for many years and up to his death, which occurred October 11, 1888, president of the First National Bank of Wilmington. His widow resides in Wilmington.

Charles A. Bosworth graduated from Ann Arbor in 1877, and then became vicepresident of the First National Bank of Wilmington, Ohio. In 1879, he came to

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Cincinnati, and read Jaw under the preceptorship of Governor J. B. Foraker; attended the Cincinnati Law School, was graduated therefrom, and admitted to practice in 1880. Returning to Wilmington he resumed his duties as vice-president of the First, National Bank. Upon the death of his father in 1886, he became president of the bank, a position which he still holds. He entered upon the practice of his profession in Cincinnati in 1890, was for a time associated with Governor Foraker and L. C. black, and in 1893 formed his present association with the latter. Mr. Bosworth is a 32� Mason, a Knight Templar, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He was married April 24, 1884, to Jessie \V. Clark. granddaughter of the late Thomas Weasuer. one of Cincinnati's prominent pioneer citizens. Mr. and Mrs. Bosworth and children, Charles W. and Erwin P., reside on McMillan street, Walnut Hills.

CHARLES McGUFFEY HEPBURN was born in Rockbridge county, Va., August 19, 1858, a son of Rev. Dr. Andrew D, and Henrietta (McGuffey) Hepburn, the former a native of Pennsylvania, the latter of Ohio, and both of Scotch descent. Rev. A. D. Hepburn's life work has been identified with educational interests, he has been for twelve years a member of the Faculty of the Miami University, and for three years of that period was its presiding officer. For six years he was president of Davidson College, North Carolina, and is now professor of English literature of Miami University. W. H. McGaffey, his wife's father, was the author of the McGaffey series of Readers, and was at the time of his death one of the Faculty of the University of Virginia. He was one of the early professors of Miami University, then president of Cincinnati College, and then president of the Ohio University of Athens, Ohio.

Charles M. Hepburn prepared for college at Miami University, was graduated from Davidson College with degree of B, A. in 1878, and was the valedictorian of his class; was graduated from the University of Virginia with the degree of B. L. in 1880. For one year he taught in Davidson College. In 1881 he came to Cincinnati, and was admitted to practice. He was for a brief time connected with the Insurance Adjustment Company, and then entered upon the general civil practice of his profession. He is the author of a legal treatise in the Law of Pleading"On Stating a Cause of Action "-which is now in press. He is a Democrat, and has for some years been corresponding secretary of the Ohio Club. On October 10, 1891, Mr. Hepburn was married to Julia, youngest daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Benedict, late rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Cincinnati, and two children, Samuel Benedict and Henrietta, are the fruits of this marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Hepburn reside on Eden avenue. Avondale. Mr. Hepburn is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati.

JOHN BRACKETT CHILDE, attorney at law, was born in West Derby, Orleans Co.,. Vt.. November 6, 1864. His parents. Charles B. and Eliphal (Brackett) Childe, are both natives of Vermont, and descendants of the early settlers of New England, the Brackett family dating back in its history contemporaneously with the landing of the "Mayflower." Charles B. Childe was captain in the Eighth Vermont Infantry during the Civil war, serving with the Army of the Gulf, Capt. Childe being provost marshal of New Orleans, under Gen. Butler. By profession he is a civil engineer, and in that, capacity has built numerous railroads. among them the Chesapeake & Ohio from Ashland, Ky., to Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Childe removed to this vicinity in 1870, and now reside at Wyoming.

John B. Childe was educated at, Hughes High School, Cincinnati, and at Denison University, Granville. Ohio, from which latter institution be was graduated in 1885. He then attended the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, for one Year, and upon his return to Cincinnati read law in the office of Judge Alfred Yaple while taking a year's course at the Cincinnati Law School; was graduated therefrom, admitted to practice May 30, 1887, and is now engaged therein. He was married June 30, 1892, to Jessamine, daughter of Henry W. Pollock, superin-

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tendent of DeCamp, Levoy & Company, of Cincinnati, and has one child, a son, born May 26, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Childe reside at Wyoming, and attend the Baptist Church. Both Capt. Childs and his son, John B., are members of the Loyal Legion, and the Masonic Fraternity, the latter being also a Knight Templar.

JOSEPH BURTON KELLEY, attorney at law, was born in Northumberland county, Penn., April 2, 1857, a son of Stephen S. Kelley, a retired farmer of that locality. He received his early education in the public schools of that place, and in 1874 came to Cincinnati, where for several years ho was engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1878 he went to Chicago, and there pursued the study of law at the Union College of Law of that city, from which institution he was graduated in 1881. Immediately thereafter be embarked in the practice of his profession at Huron, Dak., where he took an active part in the long struggle to divide and admit the two Dakotas into the Union, and was in 1888 appointed Assistant United States Attorney of that Territory. Upon the division of that Territory and the admission to the Union of North and South Dakota in 1890, this office was abolished, and in 1891 Mr. Kelley came to Cincinnati, entering into practice here. Politically he is a Republican, an active member of the Blaine Club, and in 1892 he served as attorney for the city auditor. He is an active member of the Masonic Order and Sons of Veterans; also of Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, besides several other societies.

Mr. Kelley has been twice wedded. In January, 1878, he married Olivia J., daughter of Capt. O. S. Smith, of Morrow, Ohio. She died in December, 1878, leaving one child, Oscar. In April, 1884, Mr. Kelley married Mary C., daughter of the late L. F. Wehrmann, a leading furniture merchant of Cincinnati, and of this marriage two children, Helen and Blanche, are the issue. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley reside on Madisonville avenue, Walnut Hills.

FRED HERTENSTEIN was born in Cincinnati June 6, 1858. He is a son of the late Frederick and Elizabeth (Braun) Hertenstein, both natives of Germany, the former of Baden, the latter of Hessen-Darmstadt, Fred Hertenstein, Sr., was for many years and up to the time of his decease (1881) a shoe merchant of Cincinnati; his wife survives him.

Fred Hertenstein, Jr., attended the public schools of Cincinnati, and was graduated from Woodward High School in 1879. he then studied law under the preceptorship of lion. Benjamin Butterworth and Hon. Ferdinand Vogeler; attended the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1881. From October, 1881, to May, 1885, he was one of the clerical force of the surveyor of customs under D. W. McClung. On May 1, 1885, he was appointed title examiner under City Solicitor Frank M. Coppock, serving in this capacity until May, 1887. He then engaged in the practice of law until January 1, 1888, when he assumed the duties of assistant under County Solicitor W. A. Davidson. On May 1, 1891, he was appointed by Mayor Mosby to the position of prosecuting attorney of the police court for the term of three years. On April 2, 1894, he was elected by a majority of over eleven thousand to the position which he now holds of corporation counsel as Republican candidate opposed to Guy Mallon, on the Citizens', and W. F. Fox, on the Democratic ticket. He is a member of the Blaine and Lincoln Clubs and is a Freemason. On September 20, 1888, Mr. Hertenstein was married to Frieda, daughter of Charles Moser, a leading manufacturer of Cincinnati. One son, Carl, is the issue of this marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Hertenstein reside on Broadway.

LEWIS MORROW HADDEN, attorney at law, was born upon his father's farm in Muskingum county, Ohio, December 13, 1859. In 1880 he graduated from Muskingum College, came to Cincinnati, and read law in the office of Tilden, Buchwaiter & Campbell, and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court at Columbus in 1881. After his admission to the Bar he was for five years associated with the firm and its successors, in whose office he began the study of law, and for one year

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thereafter pursued the practice alone. In the spring of 1887 he was appointed first assistant under City Solicitor Theodore Horstman, in which capacity he was employed until January 1, 1891, when he was appointed and assumed the duties of assistant to County Solicitor Fred S. Speigel, He was a member of the board of education from 1885 to 1890, and for two years of that time its presiding officer. He served one term as president of the board of library managers, one term upon the union board of high schools, and a portion of one term upon the board of trustees of the Cincinnati University, Mr. Hadden has been an active worker in the Republican party, was chairman of the Republican City Committee in 1882-83, and of the County Committee in 1889-90. He was married November 5, 1890, to Miss Nettie C. Hunter.

ALFRED HILL was born in Cincinnati May 22, 1857, a sort of the late Alfred and Martha J. (Wainwright) Hill, natives of Ohio and of Scotch descent. Alfred Hill, Sr., was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1818, came to Cincinnati about 1848, and for thirty years was here engaged in business as a contractor and builder. He died in 1882. His wife, who was born in Cincinnati on Walnut street in 1822, survives. Her father, John Wainwright, was the founder of one of the earliest private schools in Cincinnati.

Alfred Hill, Jr., was graduated from Hughes High School iii the class of '77. The following two years he spent as a teacher in one of the public schools of Cincinnati, then becoming attached to the clerical force of County Clerk Samuel W. Ramp, with whom he remained two years, During this latter period he began the study of law, attended the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in the class of '81, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of law in Cincinnati. He is a Republican and a member of the Masonic Order. On September 29, 1886, he was married to Margaret A., daughter of Henry Martin, a retired merchant of Cincinnati, and the builder of the Mt. Auburn Cable road, of which he is now president, and of which Mr. Hill is secretary and treasurer. The children born of this marriage are: Donald Yorke, Norman Stewart and Kenneth Porter. The family reside at No. 8 Park place, Mt. Auburn. They are members of the Presbyterian Church.

JAMES DICK ERMSTON, attorney at law, was born in Reily township, Butler Co., Ohio, February 22, 1859, a son of the late Jonathan and Sarah Elizabeth Ermston, both parents being; of Welsh descent. Jonathan Ermston was a comparatively young man at the breaking oat of the Civil war, when he enlisted and served until the battle of Chickamauga, where he received a mortal wound.

The subject of this sketch, James D. Ermston, received his education partly in the district schools of his native township and partly in the schools of Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio. At the age of fourteen he became a clerk in the office of the recorder of Butler county, which position he held three years. He then resumed his general studies, finally commencing the study of law. In 1880 he accepted the position of bookkeeper for a business firm of College Corner, Ohio, with whom he remained two years, during which period be devoted his leisure to the reading of law. This position he resigned to continue his law studies in Cincinnati in the office of Maj. Charles H. Blackburn. He was admitted to practice December 9, 1882. In 1886 he was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county, the duties of which position he discharged with such signal ability that when in April, 1889, be was the Democratic candidate for judge of the police court of Cincinnati in a hotly contested and about equally divided election, he received the endorsement of the people by a handsome majority over his Republican opponent. During his judicial administration the police court dockets were burdened far beyond their ordinary limits. Numberless violations of the law requiring the saloons to be closed on Sunday, and many other vexed questions of grave import, came before him involving a host of influential citizens and wealthy corporations.

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Judge Ermston's fearless discharge of his duties under these trying circumstances won for hire the unanimous approval of law-abiding citizens, though it unquestionably led to his defeat in the subsequent election in which he was a candidate for re-election. At this election the influential business interests which Judge Ermston had antagonized by his just decisions succeeded, by their lavish use of money and active electioneering, in defeating him. He is engaged in the practice of law in the Wiggins block.

Judge Ermston is a, member of the Cuvier Club, the Young Men's Democratic Club. and the Duckworth Club, of which latter organization he was the presiding officer. He was married April 11, 1885, to Elizabeth C., daughter of Nicholas Druly, a farmer of Union county, Ind. Mr, and Mrs. Ermston reside at. No, 190 Chapel street, Walnut Hills,

RICHARD HINGSON, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7, 1850, son of the late Richard and Catherine (Link) Hingson. His father was born in Seaford, Sussex county, State of Delaware, of English parents; his mother was a native of Germany. Richard Hingson, Sr., came to Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1840, and was a pioneer in the awning and tent manufacturing industry. He died in 1850. His wife died in 1872. Richard Hingson, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati. He entered the Cincinnati Law School, and graduated therefrom in the class of 1882. He was married, December 12, 1872, to Anna M., daughter of Thomas E. Filghman, He is a prominent member of the Masonic Fraternity and I. O. O. F� and acted as grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment, I. O. O. F., of Ohio, in 1893.

CHARLES LEIGH BOGLE was born in Cedarville, Greene Co., Ohio, October 28, 1858, a son of James S. and Mary (Mitchell) Bogle, both natives of Ohio, and of Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. James S. Bogle is now engaged in business in Tacoma, Wash. Charles received his education in the public schools of Springfield, Ohio, and at Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated in 1879. For a time thereafter he taught school, and in 1880 commenced the study of law under Samuel A. Bowman, an attorney, of Springfield, in 1881 entering the Boston Law School, and graduating therefrom in 1882. He then attended the University of Leipsic. Saxony, for one year. Returning to this country in 1883, he accepted the position of of^ficial stenographer of the courts of Clarke county, Ohio. and was thus employed for five years. In 1888 he came to Cincinnati, and engaged for one year in the manufacture of carriage hardware, and in the fall of 1889 entered upon the practice of the law, in which he is still engaged. He was married, October 27, 1888, to Jessie, daughter of Henry A. Thompson. ox-president of Otterbein University. Westerville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Bogle reside on Gilbert avenue, Walnut Hills. They are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Bogle is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. In the fall of 1893 Mr. Bogle removed to New York City, where he is now engaged in the practice of the law.

RICHARD L. AYER, attorney at law, was born October 9, 1852, in Anderson township, Hamilton county, where his great-grandfather, Ebenezer Ayer, one of the earliest settlers, located in 1800. Ebenezer Ayer was a boat-builder; his son John followed the same occupation, and John's son, Richard, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a farmer. Richard L. Ayer received his initial schooling at, the district school of Anderson township, continued his studies at the Lebanon Normal School, and completed his education at the Iowa State University, from which institution he was graduated in 1881. He read law in the office of Judge Joseph Cox, attended the Cincinnati Law School, was graduated therefrom, and was admitted to practice in 1882. He was married January 16, 1888, to Ella N., daughter of William Newberry, an old resident and manufacturer of Lexington, Ky. Mr, and Mrs, Ayer have one child, Royal N. ; they reside at Asbury, Anderson township, this county. They attend the Baptist Church. Mr. Aver is a Mason. Politically he is a Democrat, was one of the Democratic nominees for representative in 1893, and was defeated.

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CHARLES EDWARD PRIOR was born July 16, 1861, at Cincinnati, received his education in the public schools, read law under the preceptorship of John M. Foster, was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, and in 1882 was admitted to the Bar. From 1886 to 1890 he was the Executive Clerk of Governor Joseph B. Foraker, and ex-officio secretary of the State Board of Pardons. On January 1, 1893, he formed the present law partnership with ex-Gov. Foraker under the firm name of Foraker & Prior. He is married, and resides in Norwood.

ROBERT CAMP PRICE, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati June 14, 1859. He is a son of John W. and Florida (Williamson) Price, the former a native of Kentucky, the latter of Ohio, and both of English descent. John W. Price graduated at Harvard Law School, practiced law for some years, and was at one time judge of the civil district court of Now Orleans. His wife is the daughter of George T. Williamson, who was born in Cincinnati, and was one of the earliest practitioners at, the Hamilton County Bar. He was for a number of years secretary of the Pioneer Association, George T. Williamson married Jane, daughter of James Taylor, a pioneer resident of Newport, Ky. Her mother was for a time a resident of Fort Washington, in Losantiville, now Cincinnati. Robert C. Price received his education in this county, at Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, where he prepared for college, graduating in 1878, and at the University of Virginia, from which be was graduated in 1881. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which be was graduated in the class of 1883. He is now practicing law in Cincinnati. He is unmarried, and resides with his parents in Clifton. The family are members of the Episcopal Church.

OTTO PFLEGER was born in Cincinnati April 20, 1861, son of the late John M. and Josephine (Emmert) Pfleger, the former of whom established the first German library in Cincinnati; the latter was the sister of the late Dr. F. L. Emmert. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, read law under the preceptorship of the late Judge Alphonso Taft, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in the class of 1883. During the Garfield campaign he did political reportorial work for the Commercial Gazette. He was married October 27, 1886, to Margaret, daughter of Frederick Fox, a farmer of Highland county, Ohio, and two children, Lucie B. and Marguerite, are the fruit of this marriage. The family reside in Clifton.

JOHN WENTZEL, attorney at law. was born at Cincinnati, January 18, 1851.. He is a son of the late Henry and Margaret (Littecompte) Wentzel, both natives of Germany, who came to this country in their early youth. Henry Wentzel located in Cincinnati in 1848, and was here engaged in business until a few years prior to his death which occurred in 1883. His wife, whose father located in, 1830, on a farm in the vicinity of the site of the C. H. & D, depot, survives. John Wentzel was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, graduating from Woodward High School in the class of 1872. He then became a teacher in the public schools of Cincinnati, and was thus engaged for twelve years, during the latter part of which period he was principal of the Fourth District school. During this term he began the study of law, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in the class of 1883, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Wentzel is a Democrat, and has been actively identified with the work of his party in Delhi township, where he resides. He was the first mayor of Delhi, and served as justice of the peace for one term. He is now a trustee of the township. He was married February 26, 1881, to Caroline, daughter of the late Peter Zinn, one of the early and leading members of the Hamilton County Bar, and for a number of years president of the Kentucky Central railroad. Three children were born of this marriage, namely: Margaret, Hallie, and John. Mrs. Caroline (Zinn) Wentzel died November 17, 1893.

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CHARLES EDGAR BROWN was born at Kingwood, Va. (now W. Va.), March 12, 1853, He is a son of Thomas and Eleanor (Smith) Brown, the former a native of Virginia and of North of Ireland descent, the latter a native of Maryland and of Scotch descent. Thomas Brown was an attorney at law, and four of his sons adopted the same profession, Judge James A. Brown, of Kingwood, T. P. R. Brown, of Beverly, W. Va., the late George W. Brown, of Grafton, W. Va., and the subject of this sketch, Charles Edgar Brown, of Cincinnati. George W. Brown was Adjutant General of West Virginia under Gov. Boreman. The fifth son, Lieut.-Commander R. M. G. Brown, is the naval officer who in March, 1887, when his ship, the "Trenton," the admiral's flagship of the Pacific squadron, off Samoa, was in a dismantled condition and wreck was threatened during a terrible gale, was happily inspired to locate a sufficient number of his crew of 500 men upon the vessel's rigging, whereby a living sail was formed that proved efficacious in saving the lives of the crew and the vessel from destruction. Two of the daughters of Thomas Brown married attorneys of Morgantown, W. Va., John A. Dille, ex-judge of the circuit court, and Joseph Moreland, who is the President Regent of the State University. William G. Brown, a brother of Thomas Brown, was not only a prominent attorney, but in the political world occupied many responsible positions. He was administration leader of the House of Representatives under President Polk, a member of the Richmond convention which passed the ordinance of secession, to which he was unalterably opposed, and afterward in Congress introduced the bill establishing the State of West Virginia.

Charles Edgar Brown graduated from the Columbian Law School of Washington, D. C., in June, 1879. In April of the following year he located in Cincinnati. In 1882 he entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in June, 1883, since which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a Democrat and has been actively identified with the work of his party in Hamilton county. He was one of the founders and early presidents of the Young Men's Democratic Club. He has never been an aspirant for office, but served as one of the board of police commissioners by appointment of Gov. Campbell from May, 1889, to April, 1893, serving as president of that board during 1889-90. Mr. Brown is a 32� Scottish Rite Mason, Past Eminent Commander of the Cincinnati Commandery of Knights Templar, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a Pythian Knight. He resides at the University Club.

WILLIAM LITTLEFORD was born in Cincinnati, son of J. S. S. Littleford, a well known merchant of Pearl street for about forty years. The family are from Virginia, where the name is well known. John Littleford, the grandfather of William Littleford, was a lawyer at Charlottesville, Va., and his wife, Charlotte Littleford, was known throughout the South in the days before the war for her writings, which were widely read, one volume of her poems having reached several editions. There was one son born to their union, John Spencer de Steven Littleford. About 1840 this son, then about twenty years of ago, came to Cincinnati and embarked in business. He married Agnes Smith, the daughter of Thomas S. Smith, an old and well known citizen, and the couple had eleven children, eight of whom are living at this writing. Of these the youngest three are daughters; the other five are sons, named, respectively, John Spencer de Stoven, William, Thomas Smith, Frank and George.

William Littleford, the subject of this sketch, is the second son, and is the only member of the family who is engaged in a profession. He was educated in the Cincinnati public schools, graduated from Woodward High School, and afterward attended the Cincinnati University and St. Xavier College, receiving the degree of M. A. at the latter institution. He spent two years teaching school in Kentucky, and graduated from the Law School in 1884 with second highest honors. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession in his own office, and after five years of

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private practice was appointed first assistant county prosecutor, which position be held for three years. In the fall of 1891 he was a candidate, on the Republican ticket, for common pleas judge, but was defeated. Had he been elected he would have been the youngest man, with one or two exceptions, that ever took a seat on the common pleas Bench in Hamilton county, and it was his youth alone that defeated him in the campaign. He at once resigned from the position of assistant prosecuting attorney, and resumed private practice. Besides being a member of the Bar, William Littleford is a member of the firm of "Frank Littleford & Brother," dealers in lumber. Mr. George Littleford is also one of the firm, while John S. S. Littleford and Thomas S. Littleford, the two other brothers, are engaged in the sheetiron business, and are well known and prosperous business men. Mr. Littleford is unmarried and has kept house with his three sisters for several years.

GUSTAV R. WERNER, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, November 11, 1863. He is a son of Frederick J. Werner, a biographical sketch of whom is contained in this volume. Gustav R. Werner completed his education at Woodward High School in 1877, then entering the employ of the German Banking Company. In 1880 he began the reading of law in the office of Von Seggern, Phares & DeWald, attending the Cincinnati Law College during this time, and was admitted to practice in May, 1884. Until May, 1888, he remained with Von Seggern, Phares & DeWald, and then entered upon the practice alone, in which he is still engaged. He was married April 14, 1887, to Anna, daughter of William Dupuis, an old resident and business mail of Cincinnati, and two children were born to this marriage, Carl G. and Frederick J. The family reside on Brown street. Mr. Werner is a member of the National Union, a secret beneficial order.

RICHARD E. WERNER, attorney at law, was born near the city of Hanover, Germany, June 21, 1863. His father, Prof. Ernst Werner, is a musician of eminence, who came to Cincinnati when our subject was a child, and is now following his profession in San Francisco, Cal. His wife died in Cincinnati in 1882. Richard E. Werner received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati, and was graduated from Woodward High School in 1881. He then for-several years attended the University of Cincinnati, taking a special course which included such studies as were especially adapted in preparing for the study and practice of law, upon which he was bent. He read law in the office of Hon. John Follett, attended the Cincinnati Law College, and was admitted to practice in 1884. For more than four years thereafter he practiced law with Hon. Ben Butterworth, Judge Miller Outcalt and Powel Crosley, and was also for a short period connected with Judge Evans. Since then he has been engaged in the practice with offices in the Bavaria building, corner Court and Walnut streets. He is a self-made man. has been more than ordinarily successful, and has an especially large practice in inheritances, assignments and real estate. He is the attorney for seven building associations, and for a number of corporations. He was married November 26, 1890, to Nellie, daughter of G. F. H. Tedtmann, an old citizen particularly well known in lodge circles. One child was born of this union, Raymond Edmund Ernst Richard Werner. The family resides at No. 41 Wesley avenue.

PHILIP RENNER, lawyer, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 1863. His parents, Joseph and Caroline (Schmidt) Renner, were born in Germany. The father died in 1881; the mother is still living. Philip received a few years' schooling in the public schools of Cincinnati, and at the age of twelve entered the employ of Hon. Isaac J. Miller, with whom he remained for seventeen years, studying law under his preceptorship. He was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in the class of '84. In 1888 he was the Democratic candidate for board of education from the Twelfth Ward, a Republican stronghold, and was elected. He was married, March 12, 1887, to Mary, daughter of the late Valentine Gansman, of Piqua. Two children were born to this marriage, Viola and Miller W. The family reside on Fairview Heights.

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HARRY QUINTON CLENEAY was born in Cincinnati, November 1, 1857. He is a son of George W. B. and Elizabeth (Rudd) Cleneay, the former a native of Ohio, of French-Huguenot descent, the latter a native and descendant of one of the oldest English settlers of Virginia. George W. B. Cleneay came to Cincinnati about 1850, and was for a quarter of a century a member of the whisky commission firm of Joseph S. Cleneay & Company. In 1870 he retired from business, and is now a resident of New York City. H. Q. Cleneay laid the foundation of his education in the public schools of Avondale, attended Bliss' Academy. Cincinnati, studied for two years under private tutors in Paris, France, entered Yale in 1877, and was graduated therefrom in 1881. He read law under the preceptorship of C. Bentley Matthews, attended the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to practice in 1884. He practiced law for one year, and then became a member of " The G. A. Gray Company," machine tool manufacturers. Cincinnati. In 1887 he embarked in the real-estate brokerage business, in which he has ever since been engaged. He was married, April 2, 1887, to Louise, daughter of Charles W. and Mary (Strader) Woolley, the former an attorney, the latter a daughter of the late Jacob Strader. Mr. and Mrs. Cleneay have two children, Mary Frances Strader and Elizabeth Hudson. The family reside on Cleneay avenue, Norwood, and they are members of the Episcopal Church.

FRANCIS MICHAEL GORMAN. lawyer, was born in Cincinnati, September 4, 1857, a son of William and Nora (Nestor) Gorman, both natives of County Galway, Ireland, where they were married in 1846. They came to the United States, locating in Cincinnati, in 1849; Mr. Gorman purchased a farm in Sycamore township, where he resided until his decease in 1890 ; his widow died February 5, 1894.

Francis M. German completed his education at the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, graduating therefrom in 1878, and for five years thereafter taught school in this county, during the latter part of this period commencing the reading of law. He continued this study under the preceptorship of the late Timothy D. Lincoln, while attending the Cincinnati Law School, from which be was graduated in 1884. He practiced alone until 1886, when he formed his present partnership association. with Charles M. Thompson, under the firm name of Gorman & Thompson. Mr. Gorman was solicitor for the village of Reading in 1886-88, resigning in the latter year; was re-elected in 1890, and is now serving in that capacity for that village, and in a similar capacity for the village of St. Bernard; he also served the village of Lockland similarly for three years. He is a Democrat, and was his party's nominee for county solicitor in 1887, when be was defeated by W. A. Davidson. He is a member of the Masonic Order and of the Knights of Pythias, Mr. German was married, June 4, 1887, to Lillian, daughter of the late George M. Herancourt, a biographical Sketch of whom is contained in this volume. Two children were born to this marriage, Helen and Florence. The family reside at Hartwell.

EDWIN JOHN FRANKS was born in Bryan, Williams Co., Ohio, July 3, 1859. He is a son of the late Capt. Reason A. and Emma Franks. both of whom were natives of Ohio, the former of Scotch-Irish, the latter of German, descent. Capt. Reason A. Franks was an attorney, practicing first at Wauseon, Ohio, and subsequently at Butler, Ind., at which latter place he died in 1880. His wife died some years previously. Edwin J. Franks laid the foundation of his education in the public schools of Wayne and Holmes counties, Ohio, prepared for college at Gambier, entered Kenyon College in 1877, and was graduated therefrom in 1881. Coming to Cincinnati, he began the study of law under the preceptorship of the late Henry B. Banning, continued it for a time with W. B. Morrow, and afterward with Boyce & Boyd, and was admitted to practice by the supreme court at Columbus in June, 1884. Immediately thereafter be, together with A. M. Rheinhart, formed a law partnership with the late Judge M. Tilden under the firm name of Tilden,

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Franks & Rheinhart, which continued until the death of Judge Tilden in 1886, since which time Mr. Franks has pursued the practice of law alone. He was married, February 2, 1886, to Julia, daughter of William L. Perkins, of Cincinnati, and three children were born of this marriage, Edward, Earl and Irene. The family reside at North Side; they are members of the Episcopal Church.

EDWARD NATHAN CLINGMAN, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, September 29, 1854, son of the late Enoch and Sarah (Lyon) Clingman. the former a native of Cincinnati. the latter of Maryland; she was a daughter of Dr, Isaac Lyon, a physician of reputation far beyond the confines of Frederick. the city of his residence. Receiving the rudiments of his education in the vicinity of Lebanon. Ohio, Edward continued the pursuit of knowledge assiduously at Farmers' College, College Hill, Miami University. Oxford, Ohio, where he joined the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, and at the University of Cincinnati, at which last named institution he edited the "College Journal," and from which he was graduated in 1880, with distinction, receiving the degree of B. A. Throughout his entire college course he was wholly self-supporting. For two years following his graduation he was in the United States Internal Revenue Service. in this district, at the expiration of which time he began the study of law in the office of Gen. Charles E. Brown, a member of Congress from the Second Ohio District, was admitted to the Bar by the supreme court at Columbus in December, 1884. and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession, subsequently forming a partnership with his preceptor. Mr. Clingman is a Republican, and in 1891 was elected to the State Senate. His work as a member of that body was principally devoted to the advancement of the educational interests of his native city, county and State. Under bills introduced by him the Cincinnati College (Law School) was merged into the University, the tax levy for the support of the latter largely increased, and the appropriation for the University building, now (1894) in process of erection in Burnet Woods Park, secured. He was chairman of the Committee on Universities and Colleges, and a member of the Committee on Municipal Corporations No. 1, Common Schools, Library and Judiciary. During his term as senator Miami University conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, and he was elected president of the alumnal association of his Alma hater. Of his oratorical efforts the press of Cincinnati has given copious and complimentary notices, both as to their diction and delivery. Mr. Clingman was married, on June 30, 1885, to Anna E. Schaeffer, an artist of local celebrity, and daughter of the late Lieut. George M. and Emma (Gunckel) Schaeffer. Mr. and Mrs. Clingman have one child, Palmer, born March 5, 1889; they reside in Clifton. and are members of the Methodist Church.

EDWIN GHOLSON, attorney at law, was born in Holly Springs, Miss., May 3, 1863. He is the son of Dr. Samuel C. Gholson, a native of Virginia, the eldest son of the late Judge William Yates Gholson, who was one of the most distinguished jurists of his day in the United States, for many years a .judge of the supreme court of Ohio, and also one of the original justices of the superior court of Cincinnati. The subject of this sketch completed his education at the University of Mississippi, in 1880. For a time thereafter he read law in the office of Featherstone & Harris, a prominent legal firm of Holly Springs, and then came to Cincinnati and entered the Cincinnati Law College, from which he was graduated in 1885. For one year following he practiced law in Fort Worth, Texas. and then returning to Cincinnati formed a law partnership with J. Hartwell Cabell, which still exists. Mr. Gholson was married to Miss Eleanore L., daughter of Elbridge L. Thomas. and granddaughter of Nicholas \W. Thomas, the latter one of Cincinnati's early mayors. One child, Eleanor, is the issue of this marriage. Mrs. Gholson died November 25, 1891.

DAVID SYMMES OLIVER, attorney at law, was born in Covington, Ky., March 30, 1860, a son of Warner S. and Elizabeth (Chadwick) Oliver, the former a native of Ohio, the latter of New Jersey, and both of English descent. Warner S. Oliver

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was a son of David and Mary (Wade) Oliver, the former of whom was a resident at the time of his decease (1869) of Oxford, Ohio. His wife was the daughter of David Everett Wade, one of the prominent citizens of Cincinnati in its earliest years.

David Symmes Oliver received his early education in the public schools of Cincinnati; was graduated from Woodward High School in 1878, and from Cincinnati University in 1882. He read law under the preceptorship of his uncle, M. W. Oliver, ex-judge of the court of common pleas of Hamilton county, Ohio (a biographical sketch of whom is contained in this volume), during that period attending the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1885. He then entered upon the practice of his profession, and is still engaged therein. He is a Democrat, and was a nominee of his party for the board of legislation, but was defeated. He is a member of the Ohio State Road Commission by appointment of Governor McKinley. Mr. Oliver is not married, and he resides in Cincinnati.

AUGUST W. BRUCK was born in Milwaukee, Wis., October 8, 1860, He is a son of Nicholas and Christina (Walter) Bruck, the former a native of Bavaria, the latter of Baden, both of whom came to this country with the families of their parents, who all located near Milwaukee, where Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Bruck were married. The latter couple removed to Cincinnati in 1862, where for twenty years he was an employe of the city water works. He died in 1802; his widow is still living.

August W. Bruck attended the public schools and Entrup's Academy, and then learned type setting, becoming a compositor on the Star, subsequently on the Cincinnati Enquirer. While holding cases on the latter paper he began the study of law, and entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in the class of '85. He then commenced the practice of his profession with ex-Judge T. A. O'Connor, and since the latter's death had been associated with Hon. John A. Caldwell, member of Congress from the Second District of Ohio. Mr. Bruck was identified actively in two campaigns with the Labor Party, in the first as its candidate for a superior court, and in the second for the probate court judgeship. With these exceptions, his political affiliations have been Democratic. He has been for the past three years title examiner for the B. of A. He was for several years an officer of the Typographical Union No. 3, is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Elm Street Club and of the Misik-Verein. Mr. Bruck is unmarried, and resides with his mother on Bank street.. The family are members of the. Presbyterian Church.

CHARLES THEODORE GREVE, lawyer, was born in Cincinnati, January 3, 1863, a son of Dr. T. L. A. Grove, a biographical sketch of whom is contained in this volume. He completed his education at Harvard College, from which institution he was graduated in 1884. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduating therefrom in 1885. Shortly after entering upon the practice of law, he formed a partnership association with C. Bentley Matthews, which continued until 1889, since when be has engaged in the practice alone. Mr. Grove was the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Second District of Ohio, in 1892, but was unsuccessful in the election. He has been a constant contributor to the daily papers of Cincinnati for a number of years; has been a member and an official of the Cincinnati Literary Club for eight years; is a member of the Ohio Club, Tariff Reform Club, Duckworth Club, University Club, and is a member and one of the founders of the Young Men's Democratic Club. He is unmarried, and resides with his father's family on West Eighth street.

SCOTT BONHAM, attorney at law, was born January 25, 1858, in the village of Midway, Madison Co., Ohio, where his parents, William J. and Letitia (Hays) Bonham, now reside. Both paternal and maternal ancestors were of Scotch-Irish extraction.

Scott Bonham received his early education at the village school, from there proceeding to Delaware, Ohio, where be attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, from.

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which institution he was graduated in 1882. For some time thereafter he attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He was next, for two years, a student of the Cincinnati Law College, graduated therefrom, and was admitted to the Bar in 1885, since which time be has been engaged in the practice of his profession. During the past eight. years Mr. Bonham has been an active worker for his party (Republican), and has represented his ward, the Sixteenth, as a delegate to numerous conventions, and is an active member of the Young Men's Blaine Club. In 1891 he was elected member of the board of legislation of Cincinnati, and was re-elected thereto in 1893 for the full term of two years. As a member of this board Mr. Bonham won the approval of good citizens generally by his earnest and eloquent advocacy of all good measures introduced in that body, and by his equally stalwart opposition to such as were opposed to the best interest of the people. Mr. Bonham is a member of the Second Cincinnati Cavalry Troop, and president of the Cincinnati Cavalry Club, in the organization of both of which he was actively identified. He is a member of the Masonic Order, and also of the Second Presbyterian Church. He is unmarried.

MICHAEL FRANCIS GALVIN, attorney at law, was born in the County Roscommon, Ireland, October 8, 1862, His parents, Thomas and Mary (Green) Galvin, both of whom were natives of Ireland, as were their ancestors for many generations, removed to a farm near Leeds, England, when Michael was but three years old. Near Leeds be received his early education. In 1871 the family came to this country; and located upon a farm near Hartford, Conn., where they resided until 1874, when they came to Cincinnati, Mr. Galvin being actively engaged in business up to a few years ago, when he retired. Michael F. Galvin, who had attended school near Hartford, resumed his schooling here upon the arrival of his father's family, completing it at Woodward High School from which he was graduated in 1884. He began the study of law in the office of Mr. T. F. Shay; entered the Cincinnati Law College and was graduated therefrom and admitted to practice in 1886. For one year be was associated with Mr. Shay, and then embarked in the practice alone. He is a Democrat, and has been more or less actively identified with the work of his party in Cincinnati and Hamilton county. Mr. Calvin has a lucrative practice, confined principally to the settlement and management of estates. He is closely interested and identified with local Catholic institutions; is unmarried, and resides with his parents in Fairmount.

LOUIS GOTTLOB HUMMMEL, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 1, 1864. His father, the late Christian Hummel, was a native of Hoheneck, Wurtemberg, came to the United States in 1854, and three years later located in Cincinnati where be was engaged in the distilling business for thirty-two years. He died November 15, 1892. His wife, whose maiden name was Louise Goetz, was a native of Hessen-Darmstadt, and came to Cincinnati in 1857, where she now resides.

Louis G. Hummel attended the public schools, completing his education at Woodward High School. At the age of fifteen years he entered the employ of Alms & Doepke, as entry clerk, and was thus engaged some four years. During the latter part of this service he began the study of law at home, in 1884 entered the office of Howard Douglass, attended the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated in the class of 1886 at the age of twenty-one years and four months. For one year thereafter he engaged in the practice of law in Seattle, Wash,, and was there associated with Fred Peterson, then city attorney, afterward establishing himself in Cincinnati. Mr. Hummel was married June 12, 1888, to Emma, daughter of the late Jacob Yockey, of Ripley, Ohio, and three children were born of this marriage: Violetta, Louis and Florence. The family recently removed from Euclid avenue, Mt. Auburn, to their new home, "Hoheneck," formerly the well-known Markley homestead, on the Ohio.

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JAMES ELLSWORTH ROBINSON, attorney at law, was born in Amelia, Clermont Co., Ohio, July 3, 1860. He is a son of Francis and Philomelia (Johnson) Robinson, both of whom are natives of this State. Ha received his education in the public schools of his native county, taught thereafter for four years, then entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he graduated in 1886. On June 2, 1887, Mr. Robinson was married to Rose, daughter of Dr. A. C. Moore, of Amelia, and two children born of this marriage are Mary Eloise and Philomelia. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson reside at Wyoming.

ROBERT PALMER HARGITT, attorney at law, was born in Butler county, Ohio, August 3, 1863. He is the third son of the late Jervis and Martha Ann (Waldron) Hargitt, the former a native of Indiana, of English descent, the latter a native of Ohio, and of Hollandese extraction. Thomas Palmer, the maternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a contractor and builder in the earliest history of Cincinnati. and built the first brick house erected here. Jervis Hargitt was an attorney, and was for six years clerk of the courts of Butler county. He was also assistant secretary of the State Board of Equalization. He died in 1888.

Robert P. Hargitt was educated in the public and high schools of Hamilton, taught school for one year, and then became the official reporter of the Butler county courts; carafe to Cincinnati in 1884, and pursued the study of law with the firm of Butterworth & Crosley, subsequently with Thomas McDougall. He was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886, and in June, 1892, formed his present partnership with Joel C. Clore. Mr. Hargitt was married October 31, 1892, to Mary Deans, eldest daughter of the late James B. Bell, for many years a leading wholesale grocer of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Hargitt reside in Glendale; they are members of the Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM FRANCIS FOX, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 5, 1865, His father, the late Bernard Fox. dealt extensively in horses, and was one of the pioneers in that business in Cincinnati. Our subject began his schooling at St. Joseph's College, and completed his education at St. Xavier College, graduating from the latter institution in 1885. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1886. Pending the attainment of his majority, he accepted a position in the office of the Cincinnati Post, where he remained until 1890, when he entered upon the practice of his profession with William W. Symmes, under the firm name of Symmes & Fox. On November 22, 1892, Mr. Fox was married to Adelaide C., daughter of the late B. G. Stall. Mrs. Fox died October 4, 1893, leaving one child, Francis Joseph. Mr. Fox resides on June street, Walnut Hills. He is a member of St. Xavier's Church.

JOSEPH HARTWELL CABELL. attorney at law, was born in Nelson county, Va., December 24, 1863, a son of Philip B. and Julia (Bolling) Cabell, both natives of Virginia. The paternal ancestry dates back in the history of Virginia to 1718, when Dr. William Cabell settled there from Warminster, England; the maternal ancestry is lineally descended from Pocahontas. J. Hartwell Cabel received his early education in Virginia, then entered Urbana University, and in 1881 was graduated therefrom with the degree A. B. Returning to Virginia, he was for three years connected with the United States Internal Improvement. In 1884 he came to Cincinnati, read law under the preceptorship of E. W. Kittredge, attended the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1886; repaired to Urbana, and had the degree A. M. conferred on him, and then entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati, being associated with Edwin Gholson, under the firm name of Gholson & Cabell.

EDWARD S. LEAVITT was born in Cincinnati, May 11, 1861. He is a son of the late Rev. Edward Howe Leavitt, a minister of the Episcopal Church, who died in Cincinnati June 22, 1888, and is a grandson of the late Hon. Humphrey Howe Leavitt, a judge of the United States District and Circuit Court for thirty-seven years, who died in Cincinnati in 1872.

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Edward S. Leavitt attended the Cincinnati schools, prepared for college at Freehold Institute, New Jersey, entered Princeton College in 1880, and graduated in the class of 1884. He studied law under the preceptorship of Hon. John W. Herron: was graduated front the Cincinnati Law School in the class of 1886, but was admitted to practice the previous year by the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Columbus. He is a Republican, active in local politics, and was for one term a member of the board of education from the Eighteenth Ward. He fills city positions, and is at present practicing law at No. 35 Wiggins block. Mr. Leavitt was married February 16, 1892. to Lily Packer. daughter of Mrs. Rachel Stites Packer, the latter a granddaughter of Maj. Benjamin Stites, who is said to have made the first settlement of Cincinnati in 1787 at Columbia, John Cleves Symmes, his associate, shortly afterward making the next settlement it North Bend. Maj. Stites was one of the principals in the Miami Purchase, having purchased 20,000 acres of land in Columbia and its vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Leavitt have one child, Edward Howe Leavitt; they reside at No. 81 Kinney avenue, East Walnut Hills.

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