REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 825 prospecting. He obtained employment from a man by the name of Sidney Manning as a picksharpener, and then his fortunes began to mend. The following summer lie bought out Mr. Manning, who desired to return to his home in Ohio, and ran the shop himself. In a short time his earnings were so large that he was enabled to return to Columbus, where he has ever since resided. Soon after his return from the gold country Mr. Knight, in connection with his brother, began to take contracts for the construction of public sewers. Their partnership lasted until the death of his brother in July, 1887, since which time Mr. H. W. Knight has carried on the business alone. Mr. Knight,s knowledge of the sewer system of Columbus is perhaps the most complete possessed by any citizen of Columbus. In addition to his business as contractor he has dealt largely in real estate, from which he has realized large returns. lie is also the inventor of several very valuable sanitary appliances, which. it is his intention to soon put upon the market. Ever since his return from California Mr. Knight has lived on Broad street at his present home, which he purchased with a part of the proceeds of his western venture. His family consists of two sons and one daughter. MAURICE EVANS, [Portrait opposite page 570] The well-known florist residing on East Main Street, was born in Carno, Montgomeryshire, North Wales, on March 2, 1821. His parents were Evan and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Evans. His mother died when he was quite young; his father was a well known shoedealer of the shire until he emigrated to this country in 1851. Mr. Evans comes from an ancient and historic family and his relatives still occupy the old castle in Montgomeryshire that has been in the family for many centuries. He was educated at the parish school of Carno and at the age of fifteen we nt to learn the trade of wagon maker, but he was more inclined to the cultivation and growth of fruits and flowers, which he has made a life study. In 1845 he left his native land for America and came direct to Columbus, traveling the whole distance by water, as the railways had not yet entered Columbus. For six years he worked on the present Capitol building when it was being erected. He has occupied his present residence on East Main Street since 1855, and has built up a large and prosperous florist business. His grounds and greenhouses are noted for their rare and beautiful floricultural and horticultural exhibits, in which Mr. Evans takes great pride. His floral displays at the State fairs have always been much admired for their beauty. At the Ohio Centennial Exposition in 1888, he carried off thirteen hundred dollars in first premiums for floral displays, having imported many rare plants for this special purpose. In 1846 Mr. Evans was united in marriage to Ann Reynolds. There have been born to them five children, four of whom are now living, namely : Maurice, Mary E., Edward and Margaret A. NELSON OBETZ [Portrait opposite page 608.] Was born in Delaware County, Ohio, February 2, 1853; his parents were Henry and Sarah Obetz. His father was born in Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, and was of German descent. When nine years of age he came to Ohio, in 1835, by the overland route. Sarah Obetz, mother of Nelson Obetz, was born in Germany and 826 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. came to this country when seven years of age. Her maiden name was Sarah Hensel. Nelson Obetz received his scholastic training at Lebanon, Ohio, and his medical education at Starling Medical College under the preceptorship of Doctor Starling Loving. He graduated in medicine in 1879. In April of that year he opened an office at 333 East Main Street, where he has been located up to the present time. Doctor Obetz is a Democrat in politics, and .under Governor Hoadly's administration was resident trustee of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. At the present time he is demonstrator of anatomy at Starling Medical College; physician to the Franklin County Infirmary, and the Franklin County jail; examiner for the Prudential Insurance Company, and also examiner for the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. On October 21, 1885, he was married to Edith Amie Lesquereux, granddaughter of Professor Leo Lesquereux. Doctor Obetz is a great lover of sport and frequently goes on hunting and fishing excursions. He is also an ardent devotee of the game of whist. OLIVER PERRY HENDRIXSON [Portrait opposite page 592.] Was born in Rural, Clermont County, Ohio, April 6,1850. His great grandfather, George Hendrixson, who was of Hollandish descent, was born in Pennsylvania in 1750. His wife was Katharine Freeman, who bore him six children, of whom Enoch, the second son and grandfather of Oliver Perry Hendrixson, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1778. At the age of twentyeight he married Nancy Roe, who was possessed of great natural talent and ability. From this union sprang nine children, of whom James Gordon, the third son and father of Oliver Perry Hendrixson, was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, on February 6, 1810. When James G. was but a small boy, his father removed to Brown County, Ohio, and purchased a farm in the woods, which James helped to clear and cultivate. At the age of twenty-one he was married to Eleanor Nevin, from which union have been born seven sons and two daughters, of whom Oliver Perry, the subject of this sketch, was the seventh son and youngest child. His birth occurred exactly one-hundred years after the birth of his great grandfather. When Oliver P. was five years of age, his father moved upon a farm, and there young Oliver was employed winter and summer, without having the privi lege of attending school. At the age of eighteen, after obtaining his father's consent, he started to earn his own livelihood. His first employment was on the farm of Doctor Kennedy, near Laurel, Ohio. He had not been there long, when Doctor Kennedy questioned him concerning his education. Reluctantly young Hendrixson confessed that he had none. The doctor pointed out the benefits of an education, and kindly offered to act as teacher for him. By studying and reciting during evenings and rainy days, he learned to read and write fairly well. After the summer's work was over, young Hendrixson, having a great desire for more education, attended a district school, and in this way acquired a fair com- mon school training. Resuming his work on a farm in the summer, he continued at that occupation until September of that year, when he and another young man entered Clermont Academy. By renting a small room and boarding themselves, they managed to remain there nine months. Through hard study and close application to his work, he was able to obtain a teacher's certificate. Thinking REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 827 the chances more favorable in the West, he resolved to try his fortune there, and on July 30, 1871, he started for Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. There he taught and went to school until August 23, 1874, when he was married to Alena E. Whitney, of Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa. He then removed to Steele County, Minnesota, where he taught school until 1880. In that year he returned to Ohio for the purpose of reading medicine. After he had been in Ohio but a few weeks he was taken down with a severe attack of pneumonia, which nearly proved fatal. He was a year and a half convalescing. During his illness, be buried his only child, Horatio Perry, aged. five years. But finally his health permitted him to resume his studies, and on the advice of his brother, Doctor Hugh Hendrixson, he took a special course in chemistry at the Ohio State University, preparatory to his entering upon the study of medicine. He then entered the office of his brother in Columbus, and graduated from the Columbus Medical College in March, 1885. Immediately after graduating he opened an office on North High Street, where he still remains, enjoying a large and lucrative practice. DENNIS AUGUSTINE CLARKE [Portrait opposite page 640.] Was born at Columbus, Ohio, December 15, 1850. His father,s family was among the early settlers of Columbus, having come to Franklinton, now the West Side, from Virginia, in 1832. His mother's family came from Ireland, where his mother was born. He attended the parish school of St. Patrick's Church, Columbus, and afterwards entered the University of Notre Dame, from which institution he graduated with honors in 1870, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science. For four years thereafter he was engaged in teaching at his Alma Mater, where at the same time he pursued other studies in the literary and scientific courses, and obtained the degrees of Master of Science and Master of Arts. On his return to Columbus in 1874, the late Bishop Rosecrans prevailed upon him to establish a Catholic paper in the city and, in consequence, the Catholic Columbian, under his management and the editorial control of Bishop Rosecrans, made its first appearance in January, 1875. After struggling against many obstacles, he finally succeeded in establishing the journal upon a firm basis. On the death of Bishop Rosecrans in October, 1878, the whole business and editorial responsibility devolved upon Mr. Clarke. He continued in this position until 1880, when he transferred an interest in the paper and the business management to Mr. John A. Kuster. He retained, however, editorial control of the paper with the exception of one year, when he was obliged to go to Colorado and Utah to renew his health, which had been undermined by his severe labors. In 1879, he was ordained a priest, having continued his theological studies after his return from college and during his journalistic work. From 1879 to 1883, Father Clarke was Catholic Chaplain in the Ohio Penitentiary. On his return from the West in 1884, he disposed of all his interests in the Columbian and was placed in charge of the Holy Family Congregation, West Side. Here his predecessor, Father Hayes, had laid the foundation of a new church building and it devolved upon Father Clarke to continue and complete the work. He has been Rector of the church ever since, and under• his wise management and executive control the church has experienced an era of substantial growth and prosperity. Although his time is well taken up in caring for the large and rapidly growing congregation and school, he frequently contributes literary articles to the press and periodicals. He is an ardent advocate in the cause of temperance, and in August, 1890, he was elected President of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Ohio, 828 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. JOSEPH JESSING [Portrait opposite page 648.] Was born at Munster, the capital of the German province of Westphalia, November 17, 1836. When Joseph was four years of age his father died, and his mother was compelled to support herself and her two young sons, Joseph and Bernhard, by her own exertions. From his sixth to his fourteenth year Joseph attended the parochial school of St. Lambert's parish, and although he would have been pleased to have continued his studies in the highschool, he was obliged to go to work to assist in the support of his mother and his younger brother. He obtained employment as a printer and remained at this occupation for five years, working twelve hours a day and devoting his leisure moments to study and reading. At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Seventh Brigade of Artillery in the Prussian army. In 1860, at the end of five years' service in the different branches of the army, he asked for his discharge for the purpose of joining the Papal army and assisting in the defense of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. In company with several comrades he started for Rome in September, 1860, having in the meantime been appointed to a place in the Roman army. At Prague he heard of the defeat of Castelfidardo and that no more volunteers were needed, and he returned to his home. He now resolved to carry out his determination to become a priest. For three years he pursued his religious studies and was then called to serve as a sergeant of artillery at the breaking out of the Danish war in the beginning of 1864. He was assigned a place in a battery of howitzers and took part in the siege of the Duppel fortifications. As all the commissioned and most of the noncommissioned officers had been disabled by the hardships of a winter campaign, it happened that Sergeant Jessing was the only commander of the battery, nearest the breastworks and that his was appointed the leading battery of the remaining 150 guns. Thus he was, in part, the leader of the terrible bombardment that immediately preceded the successful storming of Duppel on April 18, 1864 — the first great victory of the German army. As a reward for his bravery on that occasion, he was decorated with three fine medals by his Majesty, King William of Prussia. After a campaign of four months, he left the army in May, 1864, to continue his studies. In May, 1866, his mother died, and hardly had he returned from her burial when he was again summoned to enter the army, for the war of Prussia against Austria and her allies had broken out. In this war, he held the position of captain d'armes — quartermaster-sergeant in his battery. He was present at the occupation of Hanover, the Hessian Electorate and Frankfort on the Main, marched with the German army against the Bavarians and assisted in the taking of Wurzburg. At the close of the war, he asked for and received his discharge and returned to his native city of Munster. He again took up his studies for the sacred ministry, and in order the more surely to accomplish his purpose he emigrated to the United States, where he landed at Baltimore on July 27, 1867. From there he went to Cincinnati and the following year he entered Mt. St. Mary's Seminary of that city to complete his studies. He was ordained a priest on July 16, 1870, by the late Right Rev. SyIvester H. Rosecrans, Bishop of Columbus, and. was appointed rector of the Sacred Heart Parish at Pomeroy, Ohio. He was also given charge of several missions and the sphere of his work embraced Meigs, Athens and Gallia counties. In those days railway facilities were meager and Father Jessing traversed the hills of Southern Ohio mostly on horseback to visit his stations. REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 829 While in Europe he had made frequent literary contributions to various newspapers and was regular correspondent for several Austrian papers from the seat of war in Schleswig. In addition to this he had been for years editor of a stenographic monthly magazine. This literary activity he kept up in this country, by frequent contributions to many German Catholic papers. Father Jessing’s predilection for literary work led him to undertake the edition and publication of a religious paper of his own. Up to this time the Diocese of Columbus had had no orphan asylum of any kind and priests had often been sorely troubled where to find shelter for the orphans of their congregations. This drawback Father Jessing resolved to partially remove by starting a religious paper, without, however, abandoning his missionary labors, and to devote the proceeds to the keeping and training of orphan boys. He bought the necessary outfit for a printing office, including a hand press, and on May 1, 1873, appeared at Pomeroy the first number of a paper called Ohio, which title was soon changed into that of Ohio Waisenfreund. After many difficulties and discouragements the newspaper finally became a paying venture and Father Jessing had the satisfaction of seeing his enterprise become so profitable that he was enabled to buy a house and lot in Pomeroy which was opened on May 1, 1875, under the name of St. Joseph Orphans' Home, with fifteen orphan boys finding shelter under its roof. At the request of Bishop Rosecrans, Father Jessing, in August, 1877, removed the Orphans' Home to the place on East Main Street, Columbus, where it is still located. From an humble beginning the Home has steadily increased in proportions and accommodations until it now consists of several large brick buildings thoroughly equipped for the care and training of orphans. Besides a regular school education, the children are given the benefit of a manual training in the department of ecclesiastical art, in which altars, pulpits, statues and other objects of that kind are manufactured. The Home is now known under the name ofJosephinum. In 1888, a college for the education of German American students aspiring to the priesthood but without means to pursue their studies was added. In this department the students not only receive a moral and religious education, but are thoroughly drilled in the ancient classics and are given an excellent training in English and German literature. A portion of the provisions for the Josephinum are obtained from a farm, located two miles southeast of the city, in Marion Township, purchased by Father Jessing in 1882." These gratifying results are due to the indefatigable efforts of Father Jessing, who has been assisted in his enterprises partly by spontaneous charity but principally by the proceeds from the Waisenfreund, which has a large circulation not only in the United States but also in Europe. JOHN CASPER GOLDSCHMIDT [Portrait opposite page 656.] Was born September 17, 1840, at Kaltensundheim, near Eisenach, Sachsen Weimar, Germany. His parents were greatly respected and of a very religious disposition, being members of the Lutheran Church. His father, Johannes Goldschmidt, held for twentyfive years, until his resignation shortly before his death, the office of tax receiver, in which capacity he did much for the poor by way of obtaining from the government remissions and mitigations of their taxes. After his father's death, John Casper, who was then fifteen years old, came to the United States on a visit to an older brother living at Linnville, Ohio. Here he sojourned for nearly two years, attending the district school during the winter 830 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. terms. In the spring of 1858, he left for Lancaster, Ohio, to learn a trade and for more than four years he worked with the Steck Irothers at the shoemaking business. Having embraced Catholicism during his stay at Lancaster, he two years later entered Mt. St. Mary's Seminary of the West to study for the Catholic priesthood, and after having gone through the necessary preparations was ordained a priest by Right Rev. Bishop Rosecrans on June 10, 1871. His first charge was two country missions in Fairfield and Hocking counties, Ohio. After two years of hard and successful work he was transferred, in 1873, to the Holy Redeemer Church at Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1875 Bishop Rosecrans opened the St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum and appointed Father Goldschmidt the Director and Chaplain of that institution, which position he holds still. The asylum is a charitable institution belonging to the diocese, and is maintained by the public offerings and the private donations of the people of the city and diocese of Columbus. Although of modest proportions in the beginning, the asylum has under the zealous and careful administrations of Father Goldschmidt prospered and grown until now it is one of the most flourishing institutions of its kind in the city. The grounds of the Asylum, consisting of lawns, flowerbeds, vegetable and fruit gardens and a fine large orchard, and embracing nearly seven acres, are located on the corner of Rose Avenue and East Main Street, and originally be. longed to Mr. Louis Zettler, of whom they were bought for $25,000. Of this sum Mr. Zettler immediately donated $10,000 in favor of the Orphanage. Eight little orphan girls and three sisters of St. Francis in charge, one of whom, Mother Euphrasia, was superior, were the first inmates of St. Vincent's. The original house was but a family mansion arranged, at first, to receive only girls. Their number soon increased to fifty and it also became necessary to make provision for boys. During the summer of 1875, $1,000 was raised with which money the east wing of the present building was erected. Nearly every year some additional building was put up or other improvements made, all through the means and power of charity. In 1880 Bishop Watterson dedicated the main building ; in 1885, the new chapel, and in 1890, the east wing of an entirely new proposed building. This new building, very much needed, is to be finished as soon as funds can be raised, and when completed the Asylum will be able to take 'care of about four hundred orphans. At present the enrollment at the Orphanage is 117 boys and 112 girls. During the sixteen years of its existence nearly one thousand poor orphan children have been cared for by Father Goldschmidt and the good Sisters, whose number has also been increased to twentyone, with Mother Euphrasia as still their first superior. CHRISTIAN HEDDAEUS [Portrait opposite page 704.] Was born February 19, 1829, in Hochheim, near Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse, and is the son of George Frederick and Anna Magdalena (Creutzer) Heddaens. His father was the oldest son of a clergyman of the same name. He and two of his three brothers studied theology and all three were very highly respected by their congregations as• pulpit orators and pastors. His father died on August 20, 1848, and his mother about six years later. Christian was thirteen years old when he left the rudimentary school and entered the gymnasium at Worms. In 1850 he entered the University of Tubingen, where he studied philosophy and theology. In the fall of 1851 he went to Giessen to continue his studies at the REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 831 University there, and in 1854 he completed his academical course. Soon after he became private tutor to the sons and daughters of the civil officers of the count of Erbach-Schonberg at Konig, a small town in the Odenwald, Grand Duchy of Hesse. There he remained until he came to this country. He left his native land on September 12, 1857, with the intention of making America his future. home, and arrived at New York on October 3. After sojourning in that city until January 31, 1858, he left for McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Four weeks after his arrival there he was elected pastor of the Evangelical Protestant Church of that place. About eighteen months afterward he officiated also in Dravosburg, a small place about two miles from McKeesport, on the opposite side of the Monongahela River, which church became then an under-parochial church of that in McKeesport. Besides performing the duties connected with his pastorship he taught in a private school on the first five days of every week and for three years he was a teacher in the public school at McKeesport. In January, 1866, he was called to the pastorship of the Independent Protestant Church of Columbus. He delivered his inaugural sermon before that congregation on April 14, 1866, and since that time has acted as its pastor. Mr. Heddaeus was married on October 3, 1861, at Pittsburgh,. Pennsylvania, to Pauline Kuder, by Rev. Phillip Zimmermann of that place. His wife was born in Frankenbach, near Heilbronn, Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, on April 17, 1841, and came to this country when she was ten years of age. GEORGE W. BRIGHT [Portrait opposite page 720.] Was born at Tiffin, Ohio, on April 25, 1846, and is the son of John C. and Ann Sophia Bright. His paternal grandparents, Major and Deborah Bright, came from Maryland to Fairfield County, Ohio, about the year 1815 and settled near Canal Winchester. They remained there until 1835, when they removed to Hancock County near what is now Van Lue, where they entered and purchased about 3,000 acres of land. Major Bright lived there until the time of his death at the age of sixty-four, and also his wife, who reached the ripe old age of ninety-four. George W. Bright's grandparents on his mother's side were George and Elizabeth Stoner, who came from Maryland and settled in Seneca County, near Tiffin, about 1825, and remained there until 1852, when they came to Westerville, Franklin County, and they resided there until their death, the grandmother dying at the age of seventy-six and the grandfather at eighty-nine. Rev. John C. Bright, father of George W. Bright, was born in Fairfield County, October 13, 1818. He removed with his parents to Hancock County in 1835, and at the age of nineteen began preaching in the Church of the United Brethren. He was married to Sophia Stoner on July 15, 1844. She having died, he married Ann M. Stoner on July 15, 1851, and with his two children, M. E. and George W. Bright, came at once to Westerville, Franklin County, and remained there until 1860. He became prominent in his church, and wielded great influence in its educational and missionary fields. He became the first secretary of the Missionary Society and held this position up to within a short time of his death, which occurred at Galion, Ohio, on August 6, 1866. George W. Bright attended the district school near Westerville until he was eleven years of age, and then entered the preparatory course of Otterbein University at that place. When George was fourteen years old, owing to the meager 832 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. salary received by his father, he was compelled to seek employment away from home. He worked on different farms until August, 1863, when he came to Columbus and entered the Highschool, which he attended from September, 1863, until May, 1864. In 1863 he made an effort to get into the army but was not old and strong enough to pass muster until May 1, 1864, when he entered the One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Infantry, Company H. He served three months with his regiment, being over half the time with General Butler in the siege of Petersburg, Virginia. About the time of the expiration of his term of service he was taken violently ill with typhoid malaria while in the riflepits before Petersburg. He was brought home and laid sick for four months. On recovering his health he again enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Ohio Infantry, in January, 1865, and remained with his regiment until it was mustered out on January 26, 1866, having served as an orderly at the headquarters of Brigadier-Generals Judah and General Dawson, at Macon, Georgia. After returning from the army in 1866 he resumed his studies at Oberlin, Ohio, but owing to the failure of his father's health be was only able to remain in school about two months. On leaving Oberlin in April, 1866, he came to Columbus and took a position in the wholesale and retail millinery store of Ann E. Souder and remained in her employ for six years. In 1872 her son, J. W. Souder, and Mr. Bright purchased her interest and with this business he has been connected ever since. About 1880, a younger brother, J. L. Bright, was admitted, the firm now being Souder, Bright & Brother. Soon after the formation of this firm, Mr. Bright, in connection with Mr. Souder and Mr. S. S. Rickly, started the Capital City Bank. In addition to these enterprises, Mr. Bright is also interested in The Kaufman-Lattimer Company and the Sunday Creek Coal Company, being President of The Kaufman-Lattimer Company and Vice-President of the Sunday Creek Coal Company. Mr. Bright is a member of the Republican party but has never taken an active part in political affairs. He is also a member of the Wells Post, G. A. R., the Lincoln League and the Columbus Club. He was married on February 23, 1869, to Martha Worrel. They have one child — Mary Louise Bright. CONRAD BORN, JUNIOR, [Portrait opposite page 752] Was born in Columbus on September 21, 1844, and is the son of Conrad and Mary A. Born, nee Rickly. His father was a native of Bavaria and his mother was born in Switzerland. They came to this country in 1839. His father lived for a short time in New York and in 1841 came to Columbus. At the time of his death he was the oldest butcher in Columbus. He also dealt largely in real estate. In 1859 he built his brewery, known as the firm of Born & Company. Conrad Born, Junior; was educated in the public schools, and has been connected with the brewery from its establishment to the present time. In 1860 he left Columbus and worked for four years in the large breweries of Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago in order to gain a thorough practical knowledge of the business. He returned to Columbus in 2864; in October of the same year he became a partner with his father, and at present he owns a threefourths interest in the business. His nephew, Edward Born, will on arriving at his majority, be also a partner. Mr. Born was married in June, 1869, to Lena Moerlein, a daughter of Christian Moerlein, a prominent brewer of Cincinnati. They have one son, Conrad Christian, who is now associated with his father in business. Mr. Born belongs REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 833 to the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Druids, the Elks, the Mannerchor and many other organizations of a benevolent and fraternal character. He is a stockholder and director in the Ohio Savings Bank and also in the C. Moerlein Brewing Company of Cincinnati. In politics Mr. Born is a Democrat. SAMUEL STRASSER RICKLY, [Portrait of Ralph R. Rickly opposite page 112] The venerable banker, is one of the familiar figures in Columbus, and one of the city's. most prominent citizens. He is the son of John and Anna Rickly, nee Strasser, and was born January 2, 1819, in Butzberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland, where the name was spelled Rickli. He is the only survivor of a family of eighteen children. His grandfathers, on both sides, were extensive grain merchants, doing business during the French Revolution, and his father, although by trade a saddler (at which trade Mr. Rickly was required to work from the time he was 12 or 13 years old), also followed the grain business. His father was postmaster of the parish, and from the time Mr. Rickly was twelve years old until he left Switzerland, he acted as letter carrier, often exposed to great hardships on account of the distance he had to travel. He attended very indifferent parish schools from the time he was old enough until he left the old country, heing allowed to learn nothing except reading, writing, and arithmetic, and committing to memory the Heidelberg catechism and other church literature. Mr. Rickly's parents emigrated to America in 1834, locating at Baltimore, Fairfield County, Ohio. Here the entire family of sixteen took sick, except John Jacob, and John, the eldest sons, and within four weeks nine of their number died, including the five youngest children, the parents; and the father's sister and mother. The cause of this fatality was attributed mainly to change of climate and diet. The survivors, except John Jacob and John ahove mentioned, found homes in different families, Mr. Rickly being indentured, against his will, to learn the carpenter's trade. His father brought with him from the old country a considerable amount of money, consisting of five-franc pieces put up in rolls of twentyfive each, but never informed any of his children where he kept it. There was, however, an administrator appointed, and when the children arrived of age, each received what was represented to them to be its respective share. Although apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade, he was compelled to do farm work of the roughest kind, working at the trade only when there was no farm work to attend to. Being then eighteen years old, and inhumanly treated, he gathered his little belongings in a handkerchief and went to Newark, Ohio, where his two older brothers were then living. After working there for a few months he came to Columbus in 1836, on a canal boat loaded with highwines, being the only passenger, the chief cook, and driver of the only mule belonging to the craft. Soon after this Mr. Rickly returned to Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, where he was freed from his former boss. For a year or more he worked at the carpenter's trade and cabinetmaking, and in the spring of 1838 found employment as clerk in a dry goods store. This position, afforded him a better opportunity than he had heretofore had of learning English. 53* 834 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. In the spring of 1839 his employer removed his goods to an eastern State, and Mr. Rickly was left to close up the business. During this spring he attended school for a few weeks, after which, in June, 1839, he went to Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, which he entered in the autumn, and from which he was graduated in the autumn of 1843, delivering the first German oration that had been delivered up to that time in the institution, his subject being " The Scenery of Switzerland ;' but the custom then inaugurated has ever since been continued. Hon. James Buchanan, afterwards President of the United States, then president of the college trustees, sat, dressed in elegantly fitting garments with snow-white cravat, on the stage. After studying theology for a short time and teaching in several private families in Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia, Mr. Rickly was married in 1845. His health failing from hemorrhage and other causes, he came to Columbus in 1847, was examined as a teacher, and commenced the German-English schools here at the corner of Mound and Third streets. The schools rapidly grew and prospered, in spite of the opposition in many quarters against the establishment of German schools in connection with our union schools, but their success has proven the wisdom of the course then adopted. In the spring of 1848 Mr. Rickly was made principal of the Columbus High School, then started in the building now owned by Mrs. Ferson on East Town Street, between Fifth and Sixth. The late Doctor A. D. Lord, then school superintendent, and his wife, both took part in teaching. Many pupils of that time have since become prominent and useful citizens, some of them distinguished in State and National affairs. On the breaking out of the cholera in the spring of 1849, Mr. Rickly established an academy at Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio, which was adopted in the spring of the following year, by the Synod of the Reformed Church as the nucleus of a church institution, and named Heidelberg College. In the autumn of the same year the institution was permanently located at Tiffin, Ohio, and in the summer of the following year Mr. Rickly was elected superintendent of the Tiffin union schools, removing there July 4, 1851. He was also elected Professor of the Theory and Practice of Teaching in Heidelberg College (now Heidelberg University), to which institution he has recently contributed liberally in money, furnishing and decorating the chapel which is now named after him, Rickly Chapel." In 1853, having lost a much loved daughter, he returned to dolumbus and opened a select school in the basement of what was then the First Reformed Church on Town Street, between Fourth and Fifth. In the following winter without any solicitation on his part, he was elected Journal Clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives. He also became secretary of the Ohio Manufacturing Company then repairing Sullivant's Mill, since known as Rickly's Mill, and erecting a large stone building for the manufacture of hubs and bentwork. Subsequently Mr. Rickly devoted his time to milling and manufacturing, selling large quantities of flour in Central and Northern Ohio. In 1857 he and his brother John Jacob, under the firm name of Rickly & Brother, began the banking business. In 1870 he bought out his brother and continued in business alone until the panic of September, 1873, when on account of heavy losses sustained by the failure of Jay Cooke & Co. and others, he found it advisable to make an assignment for the benefit of his creditors as well as for himself, knowing that he bad abundant resources to meet all his liabilities if reasonable time was allowed him to convert his assets into money. As soon as sufficient time had elapsed for advertising notices to creditors, he was released from the assignment, and his assignee retransferred the assets back to him. Having paid all his creditors in full, he in 1875 organized the Capital City Bank, which has continued to the present time. REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 835 During the State Fair of 1879 the bank was robbed of $20,000 in broad daylight, only $1,000 of which was ever recovered. On July 13, 1880, Mr. Rickly was shot through the eyes by a man named Eichenberg, and became totally blind, notice of which appears in the chapter on Banking in Volume I. Notwithstanding his blindness, Mr. Rickly has continued his business, and has taken an active part in the proceedings of the Board of Trade, advocating the improvement of our streets in the central and business portions of our city, and lighting it by electricity, and as early as January 6, 1885, he introduced in that body a resolution to hold here, in the largest city in the world bearing the name of Columbus, a world' A exposition commemorating the Fourth Centennial of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Mr. Rickly was therefore the originator of this gigantic enterprise, which Chicago subsequently secured through various causes, and which is being celebrated not only in the United States but on the whole American continent. On September 21, 1886, he also introduced in the Board of Trade the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That the directors of this Board be respectfully requested to take into consideration the propriety of purchasing a suitable lot, and the erection thereon of an edifice adapted to the uses of this Board, and also containing accommodations for large conventions and other gatherings. Subsequently the directors reported favorably and the result is seen in the elegant Board of Trade building on East Broad Street. During the early part of the late war, Mr. Rickly was a member of the School Board ; he has also been a member of the City Board of Equalization, Trustee of the Public Library, and foreman of the United States Grand Jury at Cincinnati. At the time he was hurt, and for several years previous to that time, he was President of the Board of Trade. He was also a delegate appointed either by the Governor or the Mayor to six National Commercial Conventions, held respectively at Louisville, Baltimore, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago and Now Orleans. He was a stockholder in the first street railway built in the city of Columbus, known as the High Street Railroad, was a member of a syndicate which purchased, in about the year 1870, the old lunatic asylum grounds, and subdivided it into city lots, calling it East Park Place, and he also aided in the organization of the East Park Place Street Railway (Long Street) of which he was treasurer from the beginning, holding the office until its consolidation with other street railways, called the Columbus Consolidated Street Railroad, of which latter he continues to be a stockholder and director to the present time. He also assisted in the organization of the Glenwood and Greenlawn Street Railway Company, of which he was also treasurer, and has continued a stockholder until now. Mr. Rickly has been interested as a stockholder and director in three of the Turnpike Companies (toll roads) of this county, and continues to be such in two of them to the present time. Ho is a member of a sydicate which purchased a large tract of land on the West Side, subdividing it into some eight hundred city lots, and called West Park Place. This is now one of the most lively parts of the city. Mr. Rickly's brother, John Jacob, was a contractor on the Mercer County Reservoir, kept the principal hotel in St. Marys, Ohio, for a number of years, was Treasurer of Auglaize County, was a member of the Legislature, was one of the legislative committeemen to honor Governor Louis Kossuth, and after removing to this city was a member of the city council, delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and filled many other positions of trust in the city and county. He died in April, 1877. He and Ralph G. Graham laid out Rickly and Graham's addition to Columbus. Mr. Rickly,s second brother, John, aided in the improvement of Columbus by building many houses, notably one called the Bull's Head Tavern, at the northwest corner of Main Street and Grant Avenue ; also one at the southwest 836 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. corner of Main Street and Parsons Avenue. He laid out an addition to the city between Main and Mound streets, west of Parsons Avenue, called John Rickly's addition, also an addition north of Main Street and east of the Blind Asylum. In 1856 he removed to Columbus, Nebraska, where he died at the age of 74 years, after filling many positions of trust, including the mayoralty. He was the principal manager of the finances of the city and county. A younger brother (Rudolph) came to Columbus about 1842 and was in the slaughtering business. At the outbreak of the war, he organized a cavalry company and was elected captain, but before entering the service he died. Mr. Rickly had three sisters. who survived the terrible calamity of 1834, and grew to womanhood. The oldest one married Conrad Born, the wealthy brewer of this city, and died about the year 1880. The next one lived and died in Illinois, and the youngest in Fairfield County, Ohio. Mr. Rickly is the father of four children, two daughters who died in infancy, and two sons, the youngest of whom died August 1, 1882, aged twentysix years and two months. He was, at the time of his death, teller in the Capital City Bank, and being a musician was organist in the First Congregational Church here, and also for Mount Vernon Commandery Number One, Knights Templar. He was also superintendent of the City Union Mission Schools and almost idolized by the pupils. The portrait accompanying this sketch is that of Mr. Rickly's son, Ralph Reamer Rickly, who was born in Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio, Jannary 20, 1851. After attending Columbus schools and being graduated from the High School in 1868, he entered Yale College, where he was graduated in 1872. Since that time he has been cashier in his father's first bank, and afterwards in the Capital City Bank. Mr. Ralph Rickly is a prominent Mason, and in 1891 took the thirtythird degree in that order. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Glenwood and Greenlawn Street Railway Company, and now president of the Bank of Corning, at Corning, Perry County, Ohio. JACOB FELBER [Portrait opposite page 344] Was born in Switzerland in the year 1840, and came to America in 1852, stopping at Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio. In 1859 he came to Columbus, where he learned the baker's trade and has been engaged in business since that year at the southeast corner of High and Cherry streets. He learned the trade under 0. H. Lattimer, and in 1866 became a partner in the bakery and confectionery, under the firm name of Krauss & Felber. This partnership continued from November, 1866, to June, 1868, when Mr. George W. Coleman bought the interest of Mr. Krauss, and the firm became Coleman & Felber. Mr. Coleman died suddenly in 1892, but the bakery and confectionery is still continued under the firm name of Coleman & Felber, the widow and children retaining Mr. Coleman's interest. In February, 1889, Messrs. Coleman & Felber became interested in the Busy Bee Candy Kitchen, the most extensive restaurant in the city, or in the State. The Candy Kitchen embraces seven stores, including the main establishment at Number 43-45 North High Street. Mr. Felber married Miss Barbara Caroline Bond, a native of Hocking County, Ohio, on March 10, 1864, and the union has been blessed with seven children, three of whom are boys. Mr. Felber, although quiet and unassuming, is well and favorably known as a business man. He and his family have lived for twentyone years in the residence at Number 314 South Third Street. REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 837 WILLIAM CORCORAN REYNOLDS [Portrait opposite page 352.] Holds a conspicuous place among the young men who have participated in the development of the West Side of Columbus. Born in Washington, D. C., he was educated principally at Norwich, Connecticut, where was the summer home of his family ; their house, one of the oldest in New England, having been occupied successively since 1659 by those who bore the Reynolds name. His mother, a niece of the late W. W. Corcoran, was from Baltimore. Coming west in 1880, Mr. Reynolds began his business life in the employ of Wilson L. Gill. After this he traveled extensively in the Far West, in the interest of the Columbus Hallow-ware Company, gaining a knowledge of the people and business points in that part of the country, which was of service in a subsequent undertaking — a manufactory in his own name. In 1885 he became interested to a small extent in the Columbus Dash & Wagon Company. After remaining with this firm several years, he sold his interest and started in business for himself, occupying a building just west of the river, on Broad Street. This venture was very successful, and has since been-merged into the corporation styled The William C. Reynolds Company, manufacturers of leather dashes and specialties in carriage trimmings. In 1889 Mr. Reynolds organized the Franklin Buggy Company, and through negotiations with the Franklin Land Association, located the plant a mile west of the dash factory, in a part of the city as yet almost unoccupied except by small and scattered dwellings. He is president and general manager of this company, which, from a small beginning, has in a few years grown to be one of the largest manufactories of its kind in the country. On May 28, 1892, a shipment in a single day of 134 finished fourwheeled vehicles broke the world,s record of 128. This indicates a capacity of one vehicle every 4 3-8 minutes, and will suggest the size of the plant. In 1888 Mr. Reynolds married Miss Florence Maclay Awl, granddaughter of the late Doctor William M. Awl, one of the best known residents of Columbus, who was intimately connected with the city's development in earlier times. NOAH HAYNES SWAYNE, [Portrait opposite page 8.] One of the most distinguished jurists who have resided in Columbus, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, December 7, 1804. He was the descendant of Francis Swayne, who came to America with William Penn, and the farm on which he settled near Philadelphia is still in the possession of his descendants. Mr. Swayne removed with his father, Joshua, to Virginia, and after receiving a liberal education at Waterford, in that State, he studied law in Warrenton and was admitted to the bar in 1823. Two years later he removed to Coshocton, Ohio, where he opened a law office. One year later, in 1826, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Coshocton County, which office he held until 1829. As a Jefferson Democrat he then entered the Ohio Legislature, and in 1831 he was elected United States District Attorney for Ohio, removing to Columbus and filling this office until 1841. In 1833 he declined the office of presiding judge of the Common Pleas Court. Afterwards he practised law until he was appointed, with Alfred Kelly and Gustavus Swan, a member of the fund commission to restore the credit 838 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. of the State. He also served on the commission appointed by the Governor to go to Washington to effect a settlement of the boundary line between Ohio and Michigan, and, in 1840, was a member of the committee to investigate the condition of the blind. One of the law cases in which Mr. Swayne achieved great celebrity, was the trial of William Kissane and others in the United States Circuit Court, in 1853, for burning the steamboat Martha Washington to obtain' the insurance. He was pitted in this case against Henry Stanbery, afterward Attorney General of the United States. Among other distinguished lawyers engaged in the case, were Judge Walker and Messrs. Ewing, Pugh and Pendleton. In 1839 Mr. Swayne formed a partnership with James L. Bates, the firm being Swayne & Bates, and continuing until 1852. In 1853 Llewellyn Baber, a relative of Mr. Swayne, sue. ceeded Mr. Bates in the partnership. This partnership was dissolved April 1, 1860. In May, 1859, Judge Swayne appeared as co-counsel with Mr. Belden, United States District Attorney, being pitted against Attorney General Wolcott in the fugitive slave cases. Owing to his antislavery opinions. Judge Swayne joined the Republican party on its formation, and liberated at an early date the slaves he had gained by his marriage in 1832. In 1862 he was appointed by President Lincoln a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, which high office he held until obliged to resign in 1881, on account of advanced age. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Yale, Dartmouth and Marietta Colleges. Judge Swayne was married in 1832 to Miss Sarah Ann Wager, of Harper's Ferry, Virginia. There were born of this union four sons — General Wager Swayne, Henry Foote Swayne, Noah and Frank Swayne ; also five daughters — Catherine, Rebecca, Virginia, Sallie and Mrs. Edwin Parsons. The four daughters first named died in childhood, and are buried in Green Lawn Cemetery. Judge Swayne died in New York City on June 8, 1884, at a ripe old age and full of honors. WILLIAM H. GRUBS [Portrait opposite page 784.] Was born July 29, 1840, in Jefferson Township, Franklin County, Ohio, and is the son of James and Sarah Grubs. His father, James Grubs, was born in Frederick County, Virginia and his mother in Franklin County, Ohio. Jesse Grubs, the father of James, was engaged in the transportation of army supplies during the war of 1812. and removed with his family from Virginia to Somerset, Perry County, Ohio, in 1817. James Grubs was married to Sarah Compton, daughter of Job Compton, in 1837. He settled near Reynoldsburg, Ohio, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits, the lumber and tombstone business until 1858. He then began the sale of musical instruments, which he carried on until he retired from business in 1876. William Harrison Grubs was born on his father's farm. He received his early education in the district school, afterwards attending for a few terms a select school at Reynoldsburg. He also took a commercial course in Duff. & McCoy's Business College, in Columbus. He taught school for two winters seven miles east of Columbus on Broad Street, and traveled in the summer with his father in the music business. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the army, joining the Ninetyfifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served three years as private, second sergeant, orderly sergeant, sergeant-major and first lieutenant. On his return from the army in 1865 he engaged in the music business in Reynoldshurg with his father, continuing there until 1869, He then removed to Chicago, where REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 839 he entered the real estate business. After a residence there of eighteen months, he returned to Franklin County, Ohio, settling at Westerville, and soon after formed a partnership with his father and two brothers to carry on the sale of musical instruments. In 1874 the firm removed to Columbus, and two years later Mr. Grubs bought the interests of his father and brothers. He has since carried on the business himself on High Street. From a small beginning his business has steadily developed, until he is now proprietor of one of the largest establishments of its kind in Central Ohio. He has a large hall connected with his salesrooms, especially adapted for rehearsals, recitals and concerts, the use of which he freely grants for the purposes of musical entertainments, both amateur and professional. Mr. Grubs was married in 1866 to Elizabeth C. Torrence, and they have one child, Mary Jessie. Politically Mr. Grubs is a Republican, and is a member of the Lincoln League. He belongs to the Masonic order, Magnolia Lodge, and McCoy Post, G. A. R. A. T. MORLEY [Portrait opposite page 360.] May be called the father of the furnace trade in Columbus. He is the son of Marshall W. and Eliza T. Morley, natives of New York, and was born November 23, 1839, in Onondaga County, that State. He has one brother living, George W., residing in Columbus. Mr. Morley obtained his education at Falley Seminary, Fulton, Oswego County, New York. He was twice married. His second wife, who is still living, is a native of New York, her maiden name being Annis Palmer. This second marriage occurred eighteen years ago. No children were born of either union. When about eighteen years of age, Mr. Morley went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he clerked for two years in a bookstore. From Kalamazoo he went to Danville, Illinois, where he remained three years and learned the tinner's trade. From Danville Mr. Morley returned to Syracuse, New York, and from there went to Red Creek, Wayne County, where, in 1863, he enlisted in the Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, serving two years. After being mustered out he located at Cleveland, Ohio, thence drifting back to Rochester, New York, where he carried on furnacemaking for eleven years. In 1874 he came to Columbus, Ohio, where he has since been engaged in the furnace business. He originated and was for seven years identified with the Columbus Warm Air Furnace Company. Fire destroyed the company’s building, and the company dissolved. Subsequently Mr. Morley was engaged for two and a half years with the P. Hayden Saddlery Hardware Company, and for the past four years he has been the Columbus agent for an eastern Ohio factory. Mr. Morley erected the first brick-set furnace in Columbus, and has over 4,000 furnaces in operation in this city. There is probably not another man in Ohio who has had so much experience in furnace building and setting as he. CHARLES WEGE, [Portrait opposite page 676] One of the most prominent marble dealers of Columbus, was born in the year 1852, in Germany, and came to America in 1869. He spent his first three years in this country in the State of New Jersey, and afterwards lived for a similar 840 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. length of time in New York City. He then came west to Ohio, settling in the city of Columbus, where he has since resided. Mr. Wege was married while in New York to Miss Anna Nagel, and four children now living resulted from the union, the eldest being a son of twelve years. Mr. Wege engaged in his present business the second year after his arrival in this city. He is now located at Numbers 22-26 West Mound Street. A sample of his work may be seen in the marble work at the Chittenden Hotel, and in the present summer of 1892 he is finishing in marble an elegant bank building in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Wege enjoys an extentensive trade in monuments of all kinds, and is a successful business man. ALLEN F. EMMINGER [Portrait opposite page 760] Is one of the best known citizens of Columbus. He is the son of Abraham and Sarah Emminger, of Mansfield, Ohio, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. Abraham Emminger is now dead ; his wife still resides in Mansfield in the old family homestead. Doctor A. F. Emminger was born in Mansfield December 5, 1847. He was educated in the Mansfield public schools, being graduated therefrom at the age of eighteen. Following his graduation he began the study of his chosen profession, dentistry, with Doctor Moses De Camp, in that city. Later he attended the New York Dental College, in New York City, and was graduated from the Ohio Dental College, Cincinnati. He located in Columbus April 10, 1868, opening an office at Number 18 East Broad Street, where he remained in continuous and successful practice for a quarter of a century. Doctor Emminger is now located in the elegant brown stone front at Number 150 East Broad Street, formerly the Neil residence. He is the lessee of the building, and occupies as fine a suite of dental rooms as there is in America. These rooms are all on the first floor and form an ideal location for the reception of the doctor's patrons, who are the wealthiest and most influential people of the Buck. eye Capital. Doctor Emminger is prominent, not only in Columbus, but is known all over the country as one of the leaders in his profession. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the new Ohio Medical University, opened to the public in September, 1892, and is also Dean of the Department of Dentistry in this institution. He is an influential member of the Ohio State Dental Society and the American Dental Association, being at one time president of the former, and the youngest member ever elected to that exalted position. Doctor Emminger is a 32̊ Mason, and Knight Tempiar and an Odd Fellow. On April 27, 1876, he was married to Miss Minnie E. Potter, daughter of David H. Potter, of Delaware, Ohio. One daughter has been born from this union. Doctor and Mrs. Emminger reside in an elegant home at the corner of Broad and Seventeenth streets. There is only one dentist in Columbus who has been in practice here longer than Doctor Emminger, and the latter is exceptionally fortunate, both in the quality and extent of his patronage. ANDREW G. PUGH, [Portrait opposite page 644.] Senior partner of the prominent firm of Columbus contractors, A. G. Pugh & Company, is the third son of Richard and Elizabeth Pugh. and was born June 5, 1857, in a log house on what was then known as the Whiting Farm, on East REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 841 Livingston Avenue, near the Lockbourne Road (now inside the corporation). Mr. Pugh's father and mother emigrated to Columbus from Wales, June 15, 1854, and both are yet living. Mr. Pugh was educated in the common schools of Columbus. At the age of fifteen he was employed by Brown Brothers, Civil Engineers, for one year. In December, 1873, he entered the employ of John Graham, City Engineer, and continued there until the fall of 1878. He then went to Indianapolis, Indiana, with Kanmacher & Denig, Columbus contractors, who built the Indiana State House, assisting Thomas H. Johnson, engineer for the contractors. In February, 1880, Mr. Pugh was employed in the office of the Chief Engineer, M. J. Becker, of the Pennsylvania Lines, and by him was detailed to assist Chief Engineer Jennings, of the C. H. V. & T. Railroad, on some surveys for location near New Straitsville, Ohio. In May, 1880, he was appointed as Assistant Engineer Maintenance of Way on the Indianapolis Division of the Pennsylvania Lines, and continued in this position until May, 1882. He was then employed by City Engineer Graham, of Columbus, as superintending engineer of the construction of the Northeast Main Trunk Sewer — length 2 3/4 miles, inside diameter 9 and 6 feet -- and also of the extension of the Northwest Trunk Sewer, the extension of the Mound and Fulton Street sewers, etc. This work was completed December 15, 1883, when Mr. Pugh was elected Assistant City Engineer by the City Council, which office he held until April, 1886. At this time he was employed by Booth & Flinn, contractors, of Pittsburgh, to manage their Columbus contracts. For this firm he built the first brick pavement ever laid in Columbus, in October, 1886—from High to Third Street on Spring Street. From Columbus Mr. Pugh was sent by his employers to manage a contract for laying about five miles of gas lines in New York City, between Fiftyfifth and One Hundred and Twentyfifth streets and Madison and Second avenues. This work was completed in December, 1886. On January 1, 1887, Mr. Pugh was employed by Chief Engineer M. J. Becker, of the Pennsylvania Lines, to superintend the construction of a system of sewers for the new Columbus shops of that company, and also as Superintendent of the Construction of Masonry on the Southwest System. Mr. Pugh was thus employed until December 31, 1887. In March of the following year, Mr. Pugh began business for himself as contractor, continuing alone for one year and doing a business in 1888 of $170,000. He then organized the firm of A. G. Pugh & Company, of which he has since been the active manager. In April, 1892, the old firm dissolved and a new firm was organized under the same title. The firm has done work to date amounting to about $665,000, of which amount about $73,000 was done at Canton, Ohio, $30,000 in Indiana, and the remainder in Columbus. Mr. Pugh owns a onehalf interest in the Asphalt Paving Works of A. G. Pugh & Company, on North Woodland Avenue, where the material for the construction of asphalt pavements is manufactured. Mr. Pugh is firm in the belief that asphalt is the pavement of the near future. Mr. Pugh was married October 25, 1882, to Miss Mary Helen Black, of Richmond, Indiana, from which union have been born two daughters, both bright, interesting children. WILLIAM A. HARDESTY. [portrait opposite page 368.] Every important community contains within its environs a few men of invaluable worth, by reason of their integrity of character and high moral and social attributes; men whom suspicion has never tainted with its breath, whose dealings with their fellow men have always been fair and honorable, whose financial 842 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. stability has never been questioned, and whose success in life is the ambition of many but the reward of few. Men combining these excellences of character are rare, and the more admirable because of their rarity. Such a man and citizen is the gentleman of whom this brief biography is written, Mr. William A. Hardesty. This estimate of his worth is that placed on him by those who have been .longest and most intimately associated with him, both socially and in business life. Personally Mr. Hardesty is gifted with rare modesty, that at times approaches to diffidence. In business circles his credit is always high and his dealings honest, honorable, straightforward and unexceptionable. Successful in every business venture, he is ever careful and closely attentive to all his affairs. His sagacity in this line has enabled him to acquire a handsome estate, and he may justly be classed with the most substantial business men of Ohio's Capital. In addition to his high qualifications in commercial life, Mr. Hardesty is a great lover of his home, and extremely fond of his wife and family, who reside in a beautiful modern stone mansion at 91 Hamilton Avenue. Mr. Hardesty's life dates back to February 14, 1848, on ,which date he was born in Malvern, Carroll County, Ohio, the son of Thomas and Mary Jane Hardesty. His grandfather, William Hardesty, was a Pennsylvanian by birth, and emigrated to Ohio at a very early day, building one of the first flouring mills in the State. Settling at Malvern, he reared a family of ten sons, nine of whom followed the pursuit of their father and owned their mills. Most of the grandsons in their day also became millers, so that, at the present day, a legion of successful millers bears the name of Hardesty. Thomas Hardesty, the father of the subject of this biography, was born in Carroll County, one of the nine brothers just mentioned. Milling was his principal occupation, but he also became interested, in the banking business. He retired from active life in 1868, and died in the following year at the age of fifty-four. William A. Hardesty's early education in the public schools of Malvern was supplemented by a commercial course of study in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1864, at the age of sixteen, he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Ohio Infantry, and was stationed at Fort Delaware, Delaware. In 1867, at the age of nineteen, he entered the milling business with his father and brother, A. H. Hardesty, at Canal Dover, Ohio. At his father's retirement in 1868, he and his brother assumed the management of the mill, since which time they have been highly successful in business, and have built three additional mills. Mr. Hardesty owns a half interest in two flouring mills at Canal Dover, Ohio, and is the sole owner of the large milling plant on West Mound Street, Columbus. The combined capacity of the three mills is twelve hundred barrels per day. Mr. Hardesty came to Columbus in 1880. His success in life is best shown by the fact that he is now President of the Ohio State Savings Bank and Trust Company, Vice-President of the Jonathan Mills Manufacturing Company, and Vice-President of the Hanna Paint Manufacturing Company. He has never held public office other than that of Director in the Columbus Board of Trade, of which body he is a valued member. Mr. Hardesty is happiest in his home life, surrounded by his estimable wife and three lovely children. Mrs. Hardesty is the daughter of the late Thomas Moore, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, a gentleman widely known as one of the original lessees of the Public Works of the State. The date of her marriage to Mr. Hardesty was December 27, 1870. The three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hardesty are Florence, Thomas M. and Helen Josephine. REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 843 S. B. HARTMAN [Portrait opposite page 600] Was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on April 1, 1830, and is the son of Christian Hartman. In his early years his parents moved to Lancaster County of the same State. At the age of fifteen he left his native State to attend the Farmers' College near Cincinnati, Ohio, at which place he finished his literary education. Soon after completing his literary studies, he turned his attention to the study of surgery and medicine which from his earliest boyhood had been his highest ambition. He began his medical studies with Doctor Shackelford of Medway, Ohio, under whose tutorship he continued Until prepared to enter college. 110 matriculated at the Medical University at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1855, and after having completed the required course of lectures and clinical instructions he began the practice of medicine at Tippecanoe, Ohio, where he continued to practise for two years. Ambitious to become a prominent member of his profession, he went to the city of New York to take a special course of lectures in orthopedic surgery and the surgical treatment of the eye and ear, a branch of surgery which he had already given special attention. Having availed himself of the clinical advantages afforded by the various institutions of the city of New York, he decided to enter the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in order to put himself under the instruction of the renowned Samuel D. Gross, who was the professor of surgery of that college. Having passed through the required course of study, and having graduated from the Jefferson Medical College with honor in March, 1857, he again commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Doctor Hartman's mechanical skill in perfecting and inventing surgical appliances for the practice of orthopedic surgery soon gave him a prominent position among the surgeons of this country. He also became extensively known as a skilful operator in diseases of the eye and ear. Ten years ago he located in Columbus to give himself wholly to the practice of his specialties. The immense practice in which he soon found himself involved made it necessary for him to employ competent assistants to successfully carry on his work. Being compelled repeatedly to enlarge his offices by his steadily increasing business, he decided at last to build a surgical institution which would give him ample accommodations for the demands of his large practice and equip it with the latest improved mechanisms and instruments for the practice of special and general surgery. As the result of his indefatigable labors he is now at the head of one of the finest institutions of surgery in this country. The treatment rooms occupy the entire second floor of a fine fourstory brick building, seventy by one hundred feet, the other three floors being occupied by a chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory which is engaged exclusively in the manufacture of his special medical preparations and surgical appliances. A set of the latest improved mechanical and massage movement cures operated by steam power is in constant use by many patients under his treatment for paralysis, deformities and other ailments. Connected with his treatment room he has a large threestory brick building for the exclusive use of patients under his treatment. They are here provided with accommodations equal in all respects to a firstclass hotel. The doctor, although sixty years of age, thirtyfive of which have been spent in the most constant pursuit of his profession, is possessed of vigorous health and splendid physique. His enthusiasm in the perfection of his surgical institution and his skill as an operator show no sign of abatement. His many personal accomplishments give him a useful prominence both inside and outside his chosen profession 844 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. GEORGE M. AND OSCAR G. PETERS. BY MRS. JONATHAN PETERS. [Portraits opposite pages 64 and 152] Tunis Peters, the greatgrandfather of the subjects of this sketch ( the Peters brothers of the Columbus Buggy Company ), came to this country from Holland some time previous to the American Revolution. He was accompanied by several brothers, but what became of them or their families is not known to the present generation. Tunis for a time lived in New Jersey, and had charge of some large flouring mills called the Elliot Mills. Not long after coming to this country he married a young woman of Scotch-Irish descent, Francisca Adams by name, who, history says, was a relative of John Quincy Adams. Judging by the births of their children, their marriage must have taken place about the year 1774. He settled in Hampshire County, Virginia, and there brought up his family. He fought for his adopted country during the Revolutionary War, and was first lieutenant of a company. The captain having died, he was offered promotion to that rank, but resigned from the army in order to go home and protect his family from the threats and annoyance of the Tories, and lived and served in Virginia as High Sheriff for some years previous to coming to Ohio. In religious faith he was a Baptist, probably a descendant of the early Holland Baptists who were originally of England and were driven across the Channel because of persecution. He followed his children into Pickaway County, Ohio, early in the present century, and subsequently to the War of 1812 went with his sons Gershorn and John to Hocking County, where he died aged about eighty years. To Tunis Peters and Francisca Adams were born thirteen children — nine sons and four daughters. Their descendants may almost be called legion, and have been blessed with advantages of education which were denied their pilgrim fathers, and they may be found in all the higher walks of life. In regard to their coming to Ohio it appears that Gershom M.; the seventh child and fourth son of the family, was first to leave Virginia, and in the absence of dates the writer, being a member of the family located as early as 1802 in the immediate vicinity of Westfall on the Scioto, judges from circumstances and incidents then familiar, that he, Gershom, was at Westfall as early as 1809 or 1810, perhaps earlier. That all his brothers and sisters, as well as his parents, soon followed him to Ohio is known, for his younger brother Tunis was married February 28, 1811, at his, Gershom's, house on the Pickaway Plains to Eve Glaze, Gershom's wife's sister, a daughter of George Glaze, Senior, who bad brought his daughters, Eve and Mary, to Ohio from Virginia some time previous on horseback. Tunis and Eve Peters made their home on the Pickaway Plains not one mile from where Dunmore treated with the Indians and Logan's celebrated speech was made. Here they remained until 1814, but Gershom and a younger brother, John, after the War of 1812, in which Gershom and Tunis served, migrated to what was afterward Hocking County, where they remained several years, and Gershom was the first judge and John the first clerk of the court of the county. It is recorded of Gershom that while he was judge he sentenced the first two prisoners ever confined in the Penitentiary, then a small building near Mound and Front streets. By studying at night, by the light of the pine knot, and the occasional help of some peripatetic schoolmaster, Gershom M. Peters picked up a good education for that day. Among other things he learned surveying, and was engaged considerably in making government surveys. While thus engaged he was over the ground where Columbus now stands, when it was covered with a dense forest, a single log but REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 845 being the only habitation in all this region. One of Gershom's sons, G. M., married the ,daughter of the late Mr. King, the wealthy powder manufacturer who founded the Merchants' and Manufacturers, Bank of Columbus, and is now president of that bank. Near 1816 Tunis Peters, Junior, located east of Circleville, in Pickaway and Fairfield counties, where he remained until 1830, engaged in farming and tanning ; then removed to Columbus where he purchased a large tannery, with other property, and built himself a good home on the southeast corner of what is now High and Beck streets. Here he spent the remainder of his life. He built a good brick Baptist church on West Mound Street at his own expense, but when Mound Street was graded some years ago this building was torn down. Tunis Peters died in 1855, aged sixtysix years, and was interred in Green Lawn Cemetery, where his wife, Eve, was laid by his side on July 14, 1855. George W., the younger son of Tunis Peters, married Sarah, daughter of William Merlon, one of the most respectable and substantial of the early pioneers of Columbus. George W. Peters soon bought the Massie tannery in Chillicothe and was a citizen of that place for several years. Returning to Columbus about the year 1845, he bought the property on the corner of Long and Front streets, where he started the trunk business, but his health failed, and about the year 1852 he died aged thirty-five years, leaving a young wife, one daughter and three sons. All that it is necessary to say of the family is that George M., the first son, learned the carriage making business of the Messrs. Booth, of Columbus, and from that circumstance and his natural inventive genius he originated the Columbus Buggy Company and the Peters Dash Company. Of these great manufacturing enterprises, of which Mr. Peters is the founder, he and his next younger brother Oscar Glaze Peters and Mr. C. D. Firestone are owners and proprietors. Sarah, the mother, has survived her husband many years ; and to her influence, through the principles and habits instilled into her three sons, G. M. Peters, O. G. Peters and C. M. Peters, belongs the credit of much of the success and prosperity of the family ; and to her charitable life, both of precept and example, in connection with her only daughter Lucy, whose life has been largely devoted to the works of missions and home charities, can many of the needy individuals as well as benevolent societies of Columbus bear witness. Many hundreds of citizens will always remember Lucy A. Peters, who taught for twenty-five years in the public Sundayschools and day schools of Columbus, as the one who inspired and trained them to nobleness of character. LOGAN C. NEWSOM [Portrait opposite page 624.] Was born on February 6, 1851, in Gallia County, Ohio, where, and in the adjoining county, his father owned flouring mill and blast furnace interests. His grandparents on his mother's side were of Connecticut nativity, and came to Ohio in 1802, the year Ohio was organized as a State, locating in Gallipolis. His people on his father's side were of the French Colony that located in Gallipolis in October, 1791. Mr. Newsom received his education in the High School and Academy at Gillipolis. After completing his education, his first venture in the world was in a distillery at Steubenville, Ohio, after which enterprise he was engaged in the grain trade in the city of Pittsburgh. Owing to excessive rates of freight from Pittsburgh to eastern points, Mr. Newsom found it necessary, in order to increase his business, to again take up his residence in Ohio, where he secured contracts of a 846 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. number of grain elevators in different parts of the State, and successfully prosecuted the grain shipping business for some years. Mr. Newsom was married in 1885 to Miss Sallie Monypeny, of Columbus. In 1889 he secured a contract from the City of Columbus for the construction of the intercepting sewer, at a cost of$461,839, against competitors whose bids ranged from $523,000 up to $780,340. In entering upon this work, Mr. Newsom experienced every obstacle that could be put in the way of its economical prosecution, and met with a great deal of opposition from city officials. The work of construction was ordered to be begun without one foot of right-of-way having been contracted for by the city, a condition under which it was impossible to begin the work at the most natural place, namely, the outlet; consequently, the work had to be pushed forward from time to time, as the contractor himself was able to secure the right-of-way from point to point. Because of these hindrances the finishing of the work was delayed for about one year longer than the time specified in the contract. Notwithstanding the many vicissitudes met with in such varied construction, the entire route, covering about eight miles, and including about fifteen tunnels, as described elsewhere in this book, was duly completed. Throughout this entire distance but one dwelling house was disturbed by undermining the foundation. During the whole time of construction Mr. Newsom had in his employ on the work from 150 to 450 men. In the tunnel construction, which was all from thirty to fifty feet below the surface, the undertaking progressed unintermittently, with three shifts of men for each twentyfour hours, work never ceasing for an hour from the time the first shovel of dirt was thrown until the entire line was finished, from the south end to the north end. In spite of all the opposition and difficulties, the sewer was finished and accepted by the city officials as a perfect piece of work, and the contractor, while not reaping the large financial result that he anticipated, made a profit on his labor. Since completing this large work for the city, Mr. Newsom has finished other contracts, among which is the construction of a powerhouse and subway leading therefrom to all the different buildings of the Ohio State University ; also building the extension and improvements on Fourth Street from Chittenden Avenue northward. Mr. Newsom has been identified with the manufacturing interests of the city, among which was the manufacture of cooperage and flouringmill machinery. He was an owner of stock and a director of the old First National Bank and is identified in a similar way with the National Bank of Columbus, which is the succes- sor of the First National Bank. He was one of the original stockholders in the establishment of the Columbus Electric Light and Power Company and is now a large stockholder in that company. JAMES MYERS MONTGOMERY [Portrait opposite page 464.] Was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1825, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Young Montgomery. His mother's parents were of German ancestry, and emigrated from Maryland to Pennsylvania at a very early day. His great grandparents on his father's side came to America from the north of Ireland. In the fall of 1830, being then in his fifth year, Mr. Montgomery came to Knox County, Ohio, with his parents. Shortly after arriving there, his father died and was buried at Martinsburg in the same county. About one year after his father's death his mother, with the family of two boys and one daughter— now Mrs. Charity Loren, the mother of Mr. James M. Loren, well known in Columbus REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 847 - removed to Delaware County. It was in this county that Mr. Montgomery received his early training during the winter season in the district schools. When he had attained the age of thirteen years his mother hired him out at five dollars a month. His mother married again, and, at the age of fourteen, not liking the treatment he received from his stepfather, he loft home to struggle for himself, and worked for Mr. Nathan Paul, a neighbor, for about six months on a farm. The following spring he went to Knox County; afterwards he returned to Delaware County, where he learned the carpenter trade with his older brother and went into partnership with him. After leaving his home he took up his residence with Nathan Paul and went to school every winter during his school age and worked by jobs through the summer at his trade. By the will of his grandfather, Mr. Montgomery and his brother John became the owners of one hundred and sixty acres of land in Crawford County, two miles north of Bucyrus. Every year for a number of years the two young legatees walked sixty miles to Bucyrus to pay the taxes on this property, usually making the distance in a day and a half. In the year 1847, Mr. Montgomery bought his brother,s interest in the farm for four hundred dollars. In the fall of the same year, he sold the farm to a German for $1,000 in cash, over $700 of which was in silver coin. In the spring of 1849, he came to Columbus afoot and was obliged to wade Big Walnut Creek to reach the city. He began buying Mexican land warrants and after purchasing six of these, calling for 160 acres each, he started for Bellevue, Iowa, to locate the land. This proved an eventful trip. Mr. Montgomery took the old stagecoach to Springfield, Ohio, whence he traveled over the old Mad River Railway to Cincinnati, and thence proceeded by steamers via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to St. Louis and his destination. On his return he walked in the short space of five days the entire distance of two hundred miles to Chicago, whence he proceeded by rail and water to Delaware County. He had encountered many hardships but was comforted by the assurance of having secured 1,000 acres of rich Iowa land and paid all of his expenses out of his small fund of $1,000. During the succeeding year he worked at his trade, and then bought a small grocery and drygoods store at Centre Village, Delaware County. Here he was married on January 1, 1851, to Rebecca A. Campbell, of Plain Township, Franklin County, Ohio. He kept this store about two years, then sold out, traded part of his land in Iowa and in the fall of 1853 went to Union County, where he bought a farm. After one year he sold this property and removed to Plain Township, Franklin County. There he bought a farm and remained until 1860. in that year he came to Columbus and invested in property on North High Street. In the fall of 1863, he bought a farm east of Worthington Station. This property he disposed of in January, 1865, for $26,000 cash, that being about double the price he had paid for it. Moving thence to Truro Township, Franklin County, he bought another farm, on which he lived for the succeeding ten years. After buying and selling several farms, Mr. Montgomery again returned to Columbus, where he located on East Broad Street. There he engaged in the hardware business with James S. Abbott and Joseph H. Stoner under the firm name of Abbott, Montgomery & Stoner, at 99 South High Street. Mr. Montgomery was actively represented in the firm by his son, Sylvester R. After three years of successful business, he sold his interest in the store to William E. Horn. He is devoting himself at present to the management of his large real estate interests, including a fine farm of 280 acres in Truro Township, this county, 500 acres of timber and prairie land in Missouri, and 1,800 acres in Indiana. Mr. Montgomery lives in a comfortable home at 253 Eigh- teenth Street, Columbus. He has three children living, his eldest son, James M. Montgomery, Junior, having died in 1890, leaving a widow and three little boys, also a son who died in infancy, and a daughter aged 17 years. The three surviving children are : Mrs. Charles F. Guthridge, Sylvester Ranney and Leon Justin. 848 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS MATTHEW J. BERGIN [Portrait opposite page 672.] Was born February 17, 1857, in Nashville, Tennessee, but he has lived all his life in Columbus. His parents, Thomas and Margaret Bergin, natives of Ireland, came to this country about 1850, and were married in Columbus in April, 1855, but removed soon afterward to Nashville. Returning to Columbus in the following year, his father started in the grocery business on High Street, and continued in that pursuit until 1889, when he retired from active business. Mr. Bergin's mother died on October 21, 1892. Mr. Bergin's early education was received at St. Patrick's Parochial School, which he attended until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered St. Aloysius Seminary at the establishment of that institution by Bishop Rosecrans. He remained there two years. On leaving the Seminary he entered E. K. Bryan's Business College, in which he finished the course in about two years. On quitting school he entered his father's grocery, in which he remained until 1880, when he was elected Secretary of the Columbus Police Board. He held this position until March 1, 1886, when he resigned, having entered into partnership with Mr. Thomas J. Dundon for the purpose of carrying on the lumber business. In this enterprise the firm of Dundon & Bergin has met with the most signal success, and their mills and yards are among the largest and best in the city. Mr. Bergin was married May 14, 1884, to Miss Theresa Burns, daughter of Mr. Michael Burns, Police Commissioner. Mr. and Mrs. Bergin have three children : Ralph, aged seven years, Helen four years, and Matthew one year. Mr. Bergin is a stanch Democrat, a thorough business man, and a popular and valued citizen. THOMAS J. DUNDON [Portrait opposite page 448.] Stands in the front rank of prominent and successful Irish-American citizens in Ohio's Capital. Mr. Dundon was born on April 15, 1854, in Askeaton, County Limerick, Ireland. His parents, John and Mary Dundon, emigrated to this country in August of the same year, and located in Columbus, where they have since resided. Mr. Dundon was educated in St. Patrick's School, at the southeast corner of Grant and Mt. Vernon avenues, Columbus. At the age of fourteen years he was employed by Abraham Carlisle to work in his planing mill at the northeast corner of Spring Street and Pearl Alley. Four years later he was promoted to the position of foreman of the entire place, in which capacity he continued until the year of the panic. He then accepted the position of foreman of Hershiser & Gibson's planing mill, at the southeast corner of Spring and Water streets. When Mr. Gibson retired from the firm he bought a third interest in the plant, the firm being known as Hershiser, Snyder & Dundon. Remaining fourteen months with this firm, Mr. Dundon concluded to draw out and handle lumber in carload lots for himself. This he did until February, 1886, when he and M. J. Bergin formed a partnership to carry on the lumber business and the manufacture of all kinds of millwork, at the southwest corner of Spring and Water streets. Mr. Dundon was married to Ella E. Berry on February 28, 1878, and has one bright little son named Frank, born October 20, 1881. Like his partner, Mr. Dundon is an uncompromising Democrat, standing high in the councils of his REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 849 party. He held the office of Police Commissioner for four years, being elected on the Democratic ticket on the first Monday in April, 1882. He is an honored member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in which he was initiated in September, 1878. He was elected State Delegate of Ohio, June 13, 1888, at the State Convention held in Chillicothe, and at the National Convention held in Alyn Hall, Hartford, Connecticut, May 15, 1890, was elected National Treasurer, being honored with a reelection May 15, 1892, at New Orleans. He is also a member of the Jackson Democratic Club of this city. FREDERICK J. GOTTSCHALL [Portrait opposite page 768.] Was born in 1855, at Newark, New Jersey, and came to Columbus, Ohio, with his parents when he was three years of age. He has since resided continuously in this city, having been reared on the South Side, where he is widely known. Mr. Gottschall received a common school education, and in the year 1870 went to work for Mr. John Kienzle in the shoe business. In the fall of 1872 he entered the employ of Mr. Gus. Maier, the dry goods merchant, at the corner of Main and Fourth streets He continued to be thus employed until 1884, when he went into the drygoods business at the corner of High Street and Livingston Avenue under the firm name of Gottschall & Company. On June 12, 1891, Mr. Gottschall bought out the interest of his partner, Mr. John Kohl, the firm then being in bus iness at 397 South High Street, where Mr. Gottschall is still located. The subject of this biography is distinctively a selfmade man. By his diligence and business ability he has built up an excellent trade, and his store is ranked as one of the foremost drygoods establishments of the South Side. Mr. Gottschall lives at 934 South High Street. He was married in the year 1881 to Miss Louisa Leffler, daughter of the wellknown contractor at Marion, Ohio. Mr. Gottschall is the father of one child, a bright little daughter of ten years. He is a member of the Masonic Order, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Druids. JOHN WENZ [Portrait opposite page 792.] Was born in Dilkirchen, Germany, on February 7, 1822, and emigrated to America on the twentyseventh of February, 1847, arriving in New York on April 15, same year. He came direct to Columbus, where he arrived April 30, 1847. and where he has since resided. Being a stone-mason by trade, he first engaged in work for a week or more on the Odeon Hall, afterwards accepting a position at his trade on Hayden's Rolling Mill, then being built, where he worked during the remainder of the summer. In the fall he went to Lockburne to work in a distillery, remaining there until the end of February, when he returned to Columbus and worked at his trade during the two succeeding months. He then secured employment on the Statehouse, then in process of construction, where he worked for the ensuing ten years, most of that time under the supervision of Joseph Edwards. At the conclusion of this engagement, Mr. Wenz entered into a partnership with Beck & Brother, under the firm name of Wenz, Beck & Company, in the stone masonry, paving and sewer business. In this he continued for about ten years ; afterward, in 1870, he went into business for himself. In the year 1883, owing to failing 54* 850 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. health, he retired from active business, and he now lives in a comfortable home at 197 East Fulton Street. Mr. Wenz's parents came to America in 1851. Both are now dead, his mother having departed this life in 1858 and his father in 1863. He has one sister living, Mrs. Valentine Koehl. Mr. Wenz was married on July 7, 1850, to Miss Martha Elizabeth Whisker, of Columbus, a native of Germany. No children were bore to them, but about the year 1865, Mr. Wenz adopted Lizzie Bolander, now Mrs. Henkle, an orphan girl, who has since made her home with him and will be the heir to his estate. Mrs. Wenz died July 7, 1880, just thirty years after her marriage, to the very day. Mr. Wenz has a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and stands high in the estimation of the people of the South Side, among whom he has for so many years resided. JOHN SAUL [Portrait opposite page 736.] Was the son of Pennsylvania parents, and was born in that State in the year 1812. He came with his parents to Ohio when only one year of age. He was a lifelong and respected resident of Franklin County, and died here on March 3, 1890. His young life was darkened by a terrible affliction that befell him while living with his parents on a farm a short distance east of what is now known as Bullitt Park. His father and two brothers were suffocated by fire damp in a well on the premises, two of them losing their lives in an attempt to save the third. Mr. Saul resided on this farm until after his marriage, when he located on a farm north of Reynoldsburg, from which place he removed to Columbus about the year 1858, and engaged in business in a general store at the southeast corner of Main and High Streets, under the firm name of C. Eberly & Co. He was thus occupied until 1862 or 1863. He subsequently removed to the corner of Main and Pearl streets, when the firm became Saul & Bobb. Mr. Saul continued in successful business in this room for a quarter of a century, and his name became one of the most familiar of all the business men of the South Side. For the last two years prior to his death, he was engaged in the grocery trade at Number 74 East Main Street, under the firm name of Saul & Eberly, during which time their patronage grew to mammoth proportions. Mr. Saul's wife, whose maiden name was Catharine Eberly, died in 1874, no children having been born of the union. Mr. Saul was at one time, in his earlier years, a school teacher, and had charge of a district on Alum Creek, east of the city. He never held public office. He was a sober, industrious man, regular in his habits, fond of his home life and successful in his business. On coming to Columbus he lived on East Rich Street, in the house now numbered 464, and afterward moved to Third Street, between Main and Rich. Subsequently he built the residence at Number 79 East Main Street, opposite to the grocery, and here he lived for twentyseven years and died at the age of 77. During his quiet, unostentatious life he acquired a comfortable fortune, including the business property at Number 24 East Main Street, his residence and some other real estate. REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 851 THEODORE W. TALLMADGE, [Portrait opposite page 176.] Attorney at-law, real estate operator and military claim agent, is a descendant of Thomas Tallmadge, who, accompanied by his brother William, emigrated from England in 1631, and located at Southampton, Long Island, where William died without issue, leaving Thomas as the progenitor of those bearing the Tallmadge name in America. Among his illustrious descendants the names of the famous Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, Senator Nathaniel P. Tallmadge of New York (subsequently Governor of Wisconsin), Major Tallmadge of revolutionary fame and General James Tallmadge, prominent in the history of New York City, are all worthy of mention. Darius Tallmadge, the father of the subject of this sketch, was one of the pioneers who have contributed much in making Ohio what it is, and as much of his time and business was identified and known in the capital city he should have a place in its history as though an actual resident. In his day of activity no other man was better known throughout the State of Ohio. He became prominent because he was a contractor for carrying the United States Mail in post stagecoaches, both on his own account and as General Superintendent of the Stage Company which monopolized that business in the State from 1833 until 1850. Columbus was the central point for the various stage lines and the general office of the company was there located. Most of the stockholders were residents, among whom were William Neil, William Sullivant, D. W. Deshler, Bela Latham, Peter Campbell, William Dennison, and others who are often mentioned in this history. Mr. Tallmadge being a member of the Board of Control of the State Bank of Ohio which met at Columbus semiannually during its existence for twenty years, and also for ten years serving as one of the most active Directors of the Columbus and flocking Valley Railway, the office of which was at Columbus, continued his identity with the interests of the city even subsequent to his stage operations. He was born in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York, on June 30, 1800, the youngest of the fourteen children of Josiah Tallmadge, who died in the year 1802. His mother died in 1810. At the age of twelve he commenced earning his living. At the age of fourteen with his share, a small amount, in the division of his father's farm, he went to Dutchess County where his maternal uncle, Henry Hoffman, resided on a farm and where his first employment was as a temporary school-teacher. At the age of nineteen, near Varna, Tompkins County, where his brother Peter resided, he purchased a forty acre farm, and at twenty-one married Miss Sarah Ann, daughter of Jonas Wood, a neighbor farmer. His ambitious spirit and indomitable perseverance led him, during the spring of 1825, to emigrate to the West. For a period of six months after his arrival at Maysville, Ky., his labor was on the wharf with horse and dray. lie made six trips overland to New Orleans with horses for sale either for others or on his own account, but with little success. In the purchasing of horses at Wilmington, Ohio, he met William Neil, then president of the Ohio Stage Company, who subsequently proposed to employ him, first at a salary of $400, but soon increased to $1,200 per year. Thus he finally found a business to suit his enterprising ardor, and he became the General Superintendent and a partner in that company which proved his great success, a source of personal wealth, and a field for his attributes. He became a leading citizen of Lancaster,. and was also noted as a progressive farmer and stock raiser. His private charities were bountiful. It was mostly through his exertions and influence that the Methodist, Episcopal and Baptist churches of 852 - HISTORY QF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. that place were built ; he was also prominent in establishing the two lines of railway known as the Muskingum Valley and Hocking Valley which intersect in that city, he serving as director in each company. In 1847 he projected the Hocking Valley Branch of the State Bank of Ohio of which he was president during its entire existence, serving in the same capacity for many years when it was merged into the National Bank of the same name. He died at Lancaster, March 27, 1874, the funeral ceremonies being conducted in the Masonic ritual, and attended by Knights Templar corn manderies from Columbus and other neighboring cities, he having attained the highest degree in the order and being generally known and esteemed. He was twice married. His first wife died in June, 1849, and in October, 1850, he was again married to Elizabeth, daughter of John Creed, a prominent banker in Lancaster. He had no children by his second marriage. The issue of the first was, Theodore Wood Tallmadge, of whom we now write, and James Augustus Tallmadge, who died at the age of twenty-four at Valparaiso, Chili. Having given this brief but interesting outline of his ancestry, the biographer now enters upon a description of the active and useful career of Theodore W. Tallmadge. He was born at Maysville, Kentucky, January 25, 1827. In 1830 his father moved to Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio, and three years later changed his abode to Lancaster, in Fairfield County. His early education was attained in Howe's Academy in the latter place, his fellow students being the Ewing and the Sherman boys who have contributed so much in making the State conspicuous. After passing two years at Augusta College, Kentucky, and the freshman year at the Ohio University at Athens, he completed his college course at the college of New Jersey, Princeton, which conferred upon him in 1846, the degree of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in 1849. He was admitted to practice in the courts in the State of Ohio and the Circuit Court of the United States at Columbus in 1849 after pursuing the study of law for three years in the office of Henry Stanbery, the first Attorney-General of the State of Ohio. Mr. Tallmadge removed his residence to Columbus in April, 1859. Previous thereto he had resided at Lancaster, having practiced his profession in connection with Hon. John T. Brasee, one of the distinguished members of the bar of that city, which was then very conspicuous because it embraced Thomas Ewing, Henry Stanbery, Philemon Beecher, Hocking H. Hunter, Gov. William Medill and other distinguished men. While in Lancaster he was also interested in the banking business, both in charge of a private bank in that city and as president of the Upper Wabash Bank of Indiana which attained a note circulation of $200,000. In 1852 he was active in the purchase and sale of military bounty land warrants, locating many on public land in the Western States then being settled. He also subdivided 160 acres adjoining Lancaster known as the Hop Company addition, being the President of the Company, which for many years harvested hops from fifty acres of land. He laid out additions to the cities of Keokuk, Des Moines and Dubuque, Iowa, in the early history of those places. He was connected with the development of the coal fields in Perry County on the Zanesville, Wilmington & Cincinnati Railway, and also at the confluence of Monday Creek and Snow Fork in Athens County on the Hocking Valley Railway. When he removed to Columbus Mr. Tallmadge resided on a fifteen acre tract of land then just east of the corporation line, on Broad Street, which he subdivided, dedicating to the public what is now known as Garfield Avenue, from Broad Street to Mount Vernon Avenue, the addition lying between that Avenue and Tallmadge Street. He planted all the trees which have beautified that place by their growth and was a pioneer in the improvement of East Broad Street, now the most beautiful in the city. He also subdivided ten acres near the City Park in the southern portion of the city. He erected the first houses soon after the war granting the right-of-way for the Hocking Valley Railway track on his subdivision REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 853 of twenty five acres west of the Scioto River, and partly through his exertions the river bridge on State Street and the levee south of Broad Street were made. He also platted an addition in the vicinity of the Panhandle R. R. roundhouse and shops, in the northeastern part of the city, and 160 acres on North High Street contiguous to the State University grounds, then known as Northwood Villa ; therefore he is marked as among the very first who foresaw what has since developed in the growth of the city, his various additions being at this time occupied by residences, schoolhouses and other indications of population. Among other real estate operations Mr. Tallmadge for one year subsequent to August, 1877, was the General Manager of a company which organized and was very active for colonization purposes in the State of Texas, with central office at St. Louis, Mo., requiring his personal attention, and hence his residence temporarily in that city. In his profession, Mr. Tallmadge has made a specialty in prosecuting soldiers, claims under the United States and State laws. He established that business in March, 1862. His office on High Street, opposite the Capitol, became, during the war, a regular bureau, employing forty clerks, and he found it necessary to open other offices in Columbus as well as at Cincinnati and other cities in the State. Because of his extensive advertising and very energetic disposition his agency became very prominent, especially as his clients, numbering in the thousands, mostly soldiers, were dispersed among all classes of citizens in every village of the State. Becoming familiar with the acts of Congress and the orders of the War Department, as well as the rulings in the departments of the United States Government, he was enabled to dispatch this character of business readily and speedily, as well as to represent the interests of the claimants, even when not provided for by existing law. In some cases it was necessary for him to appear before the committees of the State legislature and the National Congress to obtain proper legal provision. At the close of the war he was the most prominent pension attorney in the State, and in the vicinity of Columbus had no competitor, his qualifications for success being testified to by all the officers of the State as well as his numerous clients and the other attorneys-at•law of the city. In October, 1878, he opened an office at Washington, D. C., as he found he could represent the interests of his clients before the courts and departments of the United States in a greater degree by constant personal attention. He has able assistants in his office at Columbus and many of the cities of the State, giving his personal attention as required in the same. On April 18, 1861, when the Governor of Ohio, William Dennison, called for volunteers, under the proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Tallmadge was placed as quartermaster on the staff of Henry Wilson, the ranking major-general of the Ohio militia, and at once commenced active duty in receiving and placing into quarters the troops arriving at Columbus, the general rendezvous. The following May, when the militia of the State was reorganized under act of the legislature, Mr. Tallmadge was commissioned for five years as Assistant Quartermaster and Commissary of Subsistence by the Governor of Ohio, with the rank of captain in the Ohio volunteer militia, being first sent to the camp of the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry at Lancaster. When that regiment was ordered into active service, Captain Tallmadge was placed in charge of a steamboat with supplies and arms sent by the Governor of Ohio to troops under General McClellan, who was preparing to make an advance into West Virginia. Arriving at Parkersburg, and delivering said supplies to General W. S. Rosecrans, then in command of thirteen regiments of Ohio and Indiana three months volunteers, Captain Tallmadge was detailed to serve on the staff of that general as quartermaster, and marched with the brigade via Clarksburg, until the battle of Rich Mountain, July 11, 1861. He continued on active duty as assistant quartermaster and commissary for one year, having been ordered to various points where Ohio 854 - HISTORY OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS. troops were in rendezvous and in service needing arms and supplies. He accompanied the hospital boats sent by the Governor of Ohio with physicians and nurses for taking care of the wounded at the battle of Shiloh, arriving two days after the battle, and was placed in charge of the detail which conveyed the wounded to the boats. In July, 1863, Governor Tod ordered the State militia to Camp Chase, four miles from the Capitol, and Captain Tallmadge was placed on duty as the quartermaster. This call was occasioned by the raid then being made through Indiana and Ohio by the Confederate General Morgan. He is a member of the Federal Bar Association of the District of Columbia ; also of the Burnside Post, Number 8, of the Department of the Potomac of the Grand Army of the Republic, serving the third term as Chaplain. He has served as Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Colonel Charles P. Lincoln and of A. F. Dinsmore, Commanders of the Department of the Potomac, and in the same capacity on the staff of Commander-in-Chief William Warner and Wheelock G. Veazey. During most of his lifelife he been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, holding the office of trustee of Wesley Chapel in Columbus for ten years, and the past ten years leader of the Stranger's Class in the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington City. In October, 1849, he married, in Lancaster, Hon. John T. Brazee's daughter Ellen E., who died at Columbus, February 2, 1865. He was remarried June 27, 1867, to Harriet Washington, daughter of Major Andrew Parks, of Charleston Kanawha County, West Virginia. By his first marriage he had six children, two having died in infancy; the eldest surviving, Sallie, born January 9, 1852, resides at Cleveland, married to Henry A. Stevens. His two sons —Frank, born January 9, 1854, and Darius, born May 9, 1859 — are well known and active citizens of Columbus, the former an agent and adjuster for several insurance companies, and the latter chief stockholder and manager of the " Tallmadge Hardware Company." The youngest, Theodore, born November 18, 1862, is an attorney-at-law residing at Washington, D. C. By his second marriage he has two children, Flora, born October 1, 1868, and Andrew, born January 16, 1870, the latter making his mark in the new and opening field of electrical appliances. HENRY S. HALLWOOD [Portrait opposite page 336.] Was born April 30, 1848, near Warrington, Lancashire, England, and was the second son of Captain Henry and Elizabeth Hallwood. Captain Hallwood was a native of Liverpool ; while a young boy ran off' to sea, and at the age of nineteen was promoted to a ship's captaincy. Later, while hunting seals in floe ice, he became detached from the vessel's crew, and for three days and nights was lost, but on the fourth day he was found frozen to the ice and apparently dead. He was restored to consciousness by rubbing him with snow and the use of stimulants. While the name of Hallwood is composed of two very common syllables, yet the two combined form probably the most uncommon name on this continent, no other family of this name being known to the writer. In England, also, the name is uncommon, yet there is a parish of this name near Runcorn, in Cheshire, that dates back many centuries. The subject of this sketch was educated in private schools and received what might be termed only a fair education, passing poor examinations in Latin, and the like, but good ones in the three Rs, his mensuration, trigonometry and Euclid afterwards coming into good play in the practice of mine engineering. At sixteen he was apprenticed to Jackson A. Ackers, chemist of Manchester, and later to REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS - 855 Mr. Grime, of Warrington, England, with whom a good commercial education was obtained, and to whose care, instruction and ability the subject of this sketch acknowledges his indebtedness. Shortly after the completion of this apprenticeship the eldest brother, Thomas H., died. He was the junior member of the firm of Hallwood & Son, and was succeeded by Henry S. Hallwood, Junior, in the partnership, which arrangement lasted for several years. On August 22, 1874, a picnic was planned to which Miss Annie Lockey, of Northwich, was invited. She was the daughter of James T. Lockey, owner of the Novelty Ironworks, and a salt manufacturer. She being only sweet sixteen, the picnic was bold by special license, at the Barnton Parish Church, and a cere- mony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Willetts which made Miss Lockey and H. S. Hallwood man and wife. As a 'result of this happy union eight children have been given to them : Lillie, born September 25, 1875; Thomas Henry, born June 1, 1877 ; Nellie, born January 30, 1880; Beatrice Hale, born October 11, 1883; Frank Percy, born November 16, 1885 ; Harold, born November 12, 1886; Frank Graham, born April 23, 1889 ; and Nathan Abbott, born October 22, 1891. The marriage ceremony was followed by a hasty departure for the land of the free and the home of the brave. The angry parents of an only daughter at sixteen are usually not very anxious to see a soninlaw. To escape this anger, and to elude pursuit, a nom de plume was adopted, but dropped upon a reconciliation and return to England for the parental blessing. After a few 'months' stay, a return to the United States was decided upon. Mr. Hallwood spent ten years in West Virginia practicing as a mining engineer and coal operator, in which business heavy losses from sudden freshets and ice gorges, breaking loose fleets of loaded coal barges, proved to be financial disasters of a serious nature, which it required years of labor to liquidate and overcome. Tiring of such a risky pursuit, Mr. Hallwood decided six years ago to remove to Columbus, Ohio, and enter into the contracting business. First was organized the firm of McMillen, Knauss & Hallwood, which, after two years, successful operations, was merged into the Ohio Paving Company, of which Colonel N. B. Abbott is the president and H. S. Hallwood the engineer and manager. Under the direction of its able and efficient president this company has done an immense business. One of its specialties has been the manufacture and disposal of the Hallwood paving block, twelve factories having engaged in its production, viz. : two in Columbus, two in Zanesville, two in Portsmouth, one at Athens, one at Middleport, one at Logan, one at Nelsonville, one at Robbins and one at Addy-stone. Besides these establishments, which have a capacity of 350,000 blocks per day, there are are several others which make other material for the Ohio Paving Company. The Hallwood block has been laid in many cities; in the North, at Grand Rapids and Saginaw; in the South, at Lexington, Kentucky, and Chattanooga; in the East, at Hartford and Baltimore; and at Cincinnati in the West. Mr. Hallwood is the senior member of the firm of H. S. Hallwood & Company, contractors for the completion of the intercepting sewer ; also the West Side system of sewers, which is the entire system of a separate city, involving many miles of sewer ranging in diameter from two to seven feet. Mr. Hall-wood is also a member of three other successful contracting firms and owner of the patents for the International Cash Register which is now being prepared for the market. He is a member of Excelsior Lodge of Odd Fellows, of the Columbus Owls, of the Columbus Elks, of Columbus Lodge Number 30, F. & A. M.; of Mt. Vernon Commandery Knights Templar, a 32̊ A. A. S. R.; and of the Columbus Shrine Club.