300 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY and he soon won an enviable place in the estimation and confidence of his brother practitioners and also of the public. As the years passed, he gained much more than local distinction and is now serving as assistant professor of internal medicine at the Ohio-Miami Medical College, which is the medical department of the University of Cincinnati. He is also senior physician on the medical staff of the City Hospital and on the staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital. For eight years, he was in charge of the museum and the clinical and pathological laboratories at the Cincinnati Hospital and was the physician to organize the first post-graduate courses in pathology and .clinical microscopy at the same hospital. He is one of the censors of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati and at one time was its president, and is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is greatly interested in the wonderful advances made in his profession and is an active member of the Cincinnati Society for Medical Research, which has proven to be one of the most important auxiliaries in the promotion of efficiency in the profession that is to be found in the west. In 1893, Dr. Greiwe was married to Miss Johanna Richard, a daughter of Dr. C. H. Richard, of this city. The father is still living and has arrived at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Dr. Greiwe holds membership in the Omega Upsilon Phi, a Greek letter fraternity, with which he became identified when at college. He has been from the beginning of his professional life an untiring worker, and his ability and accomplishments have contributed very; perceptibly to the credit of the profession and the relief of thousands of patients. As a physician, he was gifted with natural endowments for the difficult calling but he owes his success also to a long and arduous course of study and to the conscientious performance of his duties. Dr. Greiwe ranks as one of the leading practitioners of Cincinnati, his office being at 32 Garfield place. R. W. NEFF. The manufacturing interests of Cincinnati find a worthy representative in R. W. Neff. He is resourceful in devising new methods for the development and extension of affairs with which he is concerned, a sound judgment at all times establishing the practicability of the plans he institutes. He is president of what is known as The Remmers Soap Company, and in this connection is active in controlling a concern that is regarded as a valuable factor in the business progress of the city. He was here born in 1873, a son of Wayne and Lucille G. (Nettelton) Neff, the former of whom was for a number of years engaged in the ice refrigerating business. The family has been represented here since pioneer times. The mother was a daughter of N. G. Nettelton, a pioneer, prominent banker, and a charter member of the Cincinnati Clearing House. The father was a son of William Clifford Neff, who was of Swiss descent, came to Ohio from Philadelphia, and in the early days of business development here was connected with the wholesale hardware trade. Both William C. and Wayne Neff died in Cincinnati and their loss was deeply felt in the community not only CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 301 because of their activity in business circles but also owing to the ready cooperation which they gave to many projects for the general good. Spending his youthful days in his father's home, R. W. Neff secured an instruction in public and private schools and afterward spent .two years as a student in Germany. On returning to America he entered Harvard University and was graduated in 1895. He pursued a scientific course and thus well equipped by liberal educational training and development for life's practical and responsible duties he returned to Cincinnati and became cashier of The Cincinnati Trust Company, which position he occupied from 1902 until 1904. He had previously been connected with the trust company at the time of its organization in 1899, and is still one of its directors, but severed his connection with the work of active management to become a factor in the conduct of The Remmers Soap Company. He is now president of the company with N. S. Keith as vice president, Hugh Whittaker as secretary, and William Schmithorst, treasurer. The factory is located at Nos. 2261 to 2275 Spring Grove avenue. The plant is very extensive and its modern equipment indicates the progressive spirit of the owners. Their attention is given to the excellence of the product and the most scientific methods are employed in manufacture. A large line of toilet soaps and toilet articles are made, among the best known being Craddock's Blue Toilet Soap, which is sold all over the world. The extent of the trade now enjoyed by the company makes their enterprise one of the important productive industries of the city. Mr. Neff is also a director of the Cincinnati, Covington & Newport Light & Traction Company and he is also a director of the United States & Mexico Trust Company of New York city, of which A. E. Stillwell is president. With various leading clubs and societies Mr. Neff is identified. He is an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and belongs to the Queen City Club, the Pen and Pencil Club, the Cincinnati Country Club and the Pillars. He is always cordial and genial and is widely recognized as a man of sterling worth as well as of agreeable social qualities. WALTER SCOTT HOLLAENDER. Walter Scott Hollaender, a general contractor who for sixteen years has been taking contracts for sewer building, plumbing, gas fitting and road improvements, the excellence of his work insuring him a continuous and liberal patronage which has long been accorded him, was born in this city in 1872. His father, Joseph Hollaender, was a well known wholesale liquor merchant who died in 1910 at the age of seventy years. He had come to Cincinnati about 186o or late in the '50s, following his arrival in America from Germany, where he had completed a college course by graduation. He was born in Bavaria and remained a resident of the fatherland until he reached early manhood, when he sailed for the new world. It was in this country that he was married, his wife being also a native of Germany. In their family were seven children of whom five are yet living. Walter Scott Hollaender, the third in order of birth, was reared and educated in Cincinnati, supplementing his early training by a high school course. 302 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY At the age of fourteen years he entered .the employ of Mr. Schmidlapp, of the Export Storage Company, and in 1891 he went into the office, acquainting himself with the methods of business management. He has carried on business on his own account since 1893, at which time he entered a partnership connection. In 1895 he withdrew from that relation and has since been alone as a general contractor, his office being now at No. 133o Race street. For sixteen years he has continued in this department of labor as a contractor in sewer work, plumbing, gas fitting and road improvements. He installed the sewer system on College Hill, also in. Westwood and improved the College Hill roads. He also developed the athletic field at the university grounds and has put in a large number of public and private sewers. He is thoroughly acquainted with the business in every phase and demands that all work done under his contracts shall be of a most thorough and substantial character. His business has now grown to large proportions and he employs from twenty-five to two hundred people according to the season and the amount of contracts on hand. In 1896 Mr. Hollaender was united in marriage to Miss Pearl Smileau, a daughter of John Smileau, and unto them were born two children, Walter S. and Dorothy. The wife and mother passed away in 1906 and in 1909 Mr. Hollaender was again married his second union being with Miss Katherine Kohlhoff, a daughter of George Kohlhoff. Mr. Hollaender is a member of the Young Men's Blaine Club and is prominent in the Odd Fellows Society, holding membership with Woodward Lodge and Hawthorne Encampment, while of the Patriots Militant he is a retired captain. As the years have advanced his career has been marked by a steady progress along business lines. He has learned from experience many valuable lessons and is continuously taking a forward step whereby his possibilities for the attainment of success are enlarged and broadened. What he has already accomplished represents the fit utilization of his innate. powers and talents and he is today one of the prominent contractors in his special field in Cincinnati. JACOB FREUND. Jacob Freund is at the head of two important industrial concerns at Winton Place, Cincinnati,—the Jacob Freund Roofing Company and the Cincinnati Roofing, Tile & Terra Cotta Company. He is one of the pioneers in the roofing business, having been identified therewith as a workman and manufacturer for forty-five years. His birth occurred in Cincinnati, -Ohio, on the 15th of January, 1854, his father being Leonard Freund, a native of Germany. He attended school until thirteen years of age and then learned the roofing business, first working as a journeyman and later acting as superintendent for different concerns of Cincinnati. In 1879 he became a partner in the old firm of James Hunter & Company on Central avenue, which in 1883 was succeeded by the Jacob Freund Roofing Company. On the 28th of March, 1892, the Jacob Freund Roofing Company was incorporated with a capital stock of forty thousand dollars, while in 1896 the Cincinnati Roofing, Tile & Terra. Cotta Company was established and incorporated with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. Jacob CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 303 Freund is the president and general manager of both these important industries and has developed an extensive and profitable business in the manufacture of galvanized cornices, ornamental tile and slate roofing. About one hundred men are employed in the two plants. The manufacture of tile roofing was begun in 1897. The plant of the Jacob Freund Roofing Company was destroyed by fire in May, 1909, and a larger and more commodious structure was erected on its site. Our subject has earned for himself an enviable reputation as a careful man of business and in his dealings is known for his prompt and honorable methods, which have won him the deserved and unbounded confidence of his fellowmen. In 1870 Mr. Freund was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Pancera, by whom he has one daughter, now Mrs. Magdalene Meyer of Cincinnati. Fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has spent his entire life in Cincinnati and has long been numbered among its prosperous and representative citizens. JOHN D. MILLER, M. D. One of the foremost surgeons of Cincinnati is Dr. John D. Miller, whose name stands at the head of this sketch. He was not obliged to wait—as most professional men usually have to do—several years before receiving recognition, but almost from the beginning of his practice he attracted patients and his name is now known in many states. He is a native of this city and was born June 26, 1875, a son of William and Caroline (Dittmann) Miller, the former of whom died in July, 1908, and the latter in March, 1897. The father was a well known contractor and builder of Cincinnati. Dr. Miller was graduated from the Woodward high school in 1894 and entered the Medical College of Ohio in the fall of the same year, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1897. He served as interne in the Good Samaritan Hospital from 1897 to 1898 and then, having decided to pursue his studies further, went to Europe and studied for a year at Vienna, and put in still another year at Munich under masters of surgery. He returned to Cincinnati and soon afterward associated with Drs. Reamy and Bonifield, two of the most eminent surgeons of this city, under the title of Reamy, Bonfield & Miller. The partner- ,ship continued for eight and one-half years. Dr. Reamy died in 1909 and Dr. Miller continued for a time with Dr. Bonifield. He now maintains his office in the Norfolk building, at Eighth and Elm streets. He makes a specialty of abdominal surgery and has gained a wide reputation as one of the thoroughly skilled surgeons of America. He is a member of the Cincinnati Board of. Health, filling the unexpired term of Dr. J. H. Landis, who is now health officer. He is also a member of the staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital, and since 1900 has served as assistant to the chair of gynecology in the Medical College of Ohio. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 304 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY In 1906 Dr. Miller was married to Miss Margaret Luhrman, a daughter of Henry Luhrman, of Cincinnati, and they have one daughter, Henrietta Marie. Dr. Miller is a member of the Masonic order and has attained the thirty-second degree, being also a Shriner. While a student at college he joined the Nu Sigma Nu, a medical fraternity, and has ever since been connected with that organization. The success that has attended his practice may largely be attributed to persistent study, self-reliance and natural qualifications for surgery. His manner inspires confidence and he possesses the respect and esteem, not only of hundreds of patients to whom his services have been of inestimable value in restoring them to health and strength, but also of his fellow practitioners. THOMAS TREVOR. In the establishment and conduct of important business interests it is but in the course of nature that those who are prominent and active in control must eventually pass on and their place be filled by others, and yet the loss of such a man as Thomas Trevor could not fail to prove a disturbing element in the careful conduct of a business in which he so long played an important part. He was made general manager and superintendent of the business in 1892 and so continued until his death, fifteen years later. His work was indeed of importance not only in that establishment but as a factor in the commercial activity and progress of the city where he occupied a place as a prominent merchant, honored and respected by all of his colleagues and contemporaries. Mr. Trevor was born in the city of Cavan, in County Cavan, Ireland, January 17, 1857, and came to America after acquiring a good education in his native land. He was a young man of seventeen years when he determined to cross the Atlantic and enjoy business opportunities and privileges which could here he secured. He made his way at once to Cincinnati where he entered the employ of his uncles, Henry and Samuel Pogue, therein quickly proving his faithfulness and capability so that he rapidly worked his way upward in that large mercantile institution and when the firm was incorporated under the name of the H. & S. Pogue Company Mr. Trevor became one of its directors. In 1892 his ability was further recognized in his selection for the very responsible position of general manager and superintendent of the large store and business. From that time forward until his death he directed its advancement, keeping in close touch with every branch of the trade, considering no detail as too unimportant to claim his attention and at the same time showing ready power in the solution of large and important commercial problems. In connection with his mercantile interests he was the representative of the Pogue Company in the directorate of the Merchants National Bank. On the 18th of September, 1888, Mr. Trevor was united in marriage to Miss Jessie Wilson, a daughter of John A. Wilson, whose father, Pollock Wilson, came to Cincinnati at a very early day and engaged in the saddlery and hardware business here. His undertaking developed to extensive proportions and he afterward opened a branch house in St. Louis. After his son attained adult age he was admitted to a partnership in the business and placed in charge of CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 307 the St. Louis establishment but in his declining years the father had the son returned to be with him in Cincinnati, and following the father's death John A. Wilson continued the business for years. The father was a most public-spirited citizen whose interest in the welfare and progress of the city was evidenced in many tangible and practical ways. He was connected with the New Southern Railroad as one of its directors and aided in opening that line. His religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church and his belief was manifest in his daily conduct and his life proved that business management and religious practice are not things at variance. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Clara. Bell Barnes, was a native of England and was brought to Cincinnati in her girlhood days by her parents. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were born three children and the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Trevor was blessed with two children; Thomas Wilson, who will graduate from Princeton University with the class of 1912; and Jessie, at home. Mr. Trevor was a member of the Avondale Presbyterian church and Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and served as 'president of that society in 1905. He was also a member of the Business Men's Club and the Queen City Club and had an extensive acquaintance among the most prominent and active residents of the city of whom he was himself a splendid example. He was a man of very pleasing disposition, readily making friends of all whom he met and winning their love and admiration by his splendid qualities. Death came to him on the 18th of June, 1907, and he has been missed by all who knew him. His cheery greeting, his kindly spirit and his many acts of helpfulness had become factors in their lives and his passing was the occasion of deep and widespread sorrow. He had nobly done his work in the world and left it better for his having lived. He never sought to unduly impress upon others his own views and principles and yet his life was a daily object lesson of honorable service and high ideals. CASPER FRANK HEGNER, M. D. Among the most prominent and successful young surgeons of Cincinnati is Dr. Casper Frank Hegner, who possessed the best advantages of training for his specialty that could be found in America and Europe, and has shown an adaptability to his profession which is indicative of rare talents. He was born at Cincinnati, April 10, 1879, and received his preliminary education in the local schools, graduating at the Walnut Hills high school. soon afterward entered the Medical College of Ohio and, after pursuing the regular course, was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1902. After serving as interne and house surgeon at the City Hospital from 1901 to 1903, he went abroad and spent a year studying under celebrated masters at Vienna and Berlin. After returning from Europe, Dr. Hegner associated as assistant to Dr. John C. Oliver, professor, of. surgery at the Ohio-Miami Medical College and one of the leading surgeons of Cincinnati, continuing with him for five years. In 1908, he opened the office where. he is now located, at 628 Elm street, and has since practiced on his own account, making a specialty of surgery. He is a member of the staff of the City Hospital, of which he is junior surgeon, and 308 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY is also pathologist at Christ Hospital. He is also a teacher and is instructor of clinical surgery at the Ohio Medical College, which is the medical department of the University of Cincinnati. He takes a lively interest in medical organizations and holds membership in the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and is also a member of the Clinical Society of Cincinnati and the Nu Sigma Nu, a Greek letter fraternity which he joined while attending medical college. In September, 1908, Dr. Hegner was married to Miss Rose Ella Forman, and they have two children, Casper Forman and Frank. Fraternally, Dr. Hegner is identified with the Masonic order, whose principles of helpfulness he warmly indorses and practically applies in his daily life. He is not a member of any religious denomination but is a man of broad charities, who recognizes upright and generous character as the standard of worth. By conscientious and close application to a noble calling, he has himself set an example eminently worthy of imitatiSymmes MAJOR A. L. SYMMES. A. L. Symmes, commonly knowofas Major Symmes, on account of the valuable services which he rendered at the time of the Civil war, has been engaged in the real-estate, loan and collection business at Cincinnati since 1899. He is a member of one of the best known families of Hamilton county and is a direct descendant of the original owner of the "Symmes Purchase," whose history is inseparably interwoven with that of the early development of the Ohio Valley. Mr. Symmes of this sketch was born in Hamilton county in 1835, a son of Americus and Mary (Milliken) Symmes. John Cleves Symmes, the great grandfather of our subject, was born at Riverhead, Long Island, July 21, 1742. He was a son of Rev. Timothy and Mary (Cleves) Symmes. He engaged in teaching and surveying but previous to the Revolutionary war moved to New Jersey and was elected chairman of the Sussex County Committee of Safety. He entered the patriot army as colonel of the Third Battalion of Militia and served in the field during a large part of the war, being present at the battle of Saratoga. He was elected a delegate to the New Jersey state convention and assisted in drafting a constitution for the new state. Subsequently he was elected lieutenant governor and was a member of the council, also serving in 1785-86 as a member of the Continental congress. His abilities were also recognized by his election to the supreme court of New Jersey and he was a member of that distinguished body for twelve years. He was nominated by President Washington as. one of the judges of the Northwest Territory in a letter written by the .president, August 18, 1789, and the nomination was confirmed by the senate. This office he filled with great acceptance until Ohio was admitted to the Union, in 1803. In the summer of 1787 Judge Symmes and a number of his friends made a trip down the Ohio river and upon their return to New Jersey organized a company of twenty-four men for the purchase of land lying between the two Miami rivers. The projectors thought that the tract would comprise about two million acres but the survey indicated CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 309 an area of about six hundred thousand acres. The details of the purchase are treated of at length in the first volume of this history. Judge Symmes was the originator of the plan to subdivide the public lands into sections and ranges. This plan was adopted by the United States government and has ever since been in force. The prices which he secured for portions of the land acquired by his company cannot fail to be interesting to readers of this work. He traded the land on which the First National Bank now stands for a horse and sold the lot upon which the Citizens National Bank stands for two dollars. He also sold the land where the Burnet House stands for one dollar a lot and disposed of twelve hundred and eighty acres, embracing Mount Auburn, Walnut Hills, Corryville, Avondale, College Hill and Cumminsville for twelve hundred and eighty dollars. He married a daughter of Governor Livingston, of New York, and a daughter of this worthy couple became the wife of President William Henry Harrison. Politically and socially Judge Symmes ranked as one of the leading men of his day and he nobly performed his part in laying the foundations upon which have been built a government whose blessings are enjoyed by more than ninety millions of people. The grandfather of our subject was Captain John C. Symmes. He was born in New Jersey and after growing to maturity became an officer in the regular army and was stationed for many years at Newport, Kentucky. He was a man of fine intellectual attainments and was the author of a book entitled "The Theory of Concentric Spheres and Polar Voids." He was especially gifted as an architect and built many of the public structures, one of them being the arsenal at Fort Leavenworth. He was the owner of a farm near Hamilton, upon which Americus, the father of our subject, was born. Americus Symmes was most of his life engaged as a farmer but was also identified with the foundry business at Louisville, Kentucky, as Hewitt & Symmes. He died about 1889, at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. Symmes whose name stands. at the head of this sketch was reared on his father's farm and received his preliminary education in the district schools. At the age of sixteen he entered Hanover College, Indiana, and later was a student at the Western Military Institute. He served as bookkeeper in the foundry in which his father was interested and later became a member of the firm of Kellogg & Company, of Louisville, which was one of the large coal companies, but this business was seriously interfered with by the outbreak of the Civil war. During the war he acted as drillmaster, in which he proved highly capable and was instrumental in preparing many companies for efficient service in the field. After the close of the Rebellion he went abroad for seventeen months and while in Europe visited the camps of the soldiers, the Franco-German war then being in progress. After returning home he entered the leaf tobacco business, with which he was connected for thirty-one years, retiring from that branch in 1899. He has since been actively engaged in the real-estate, loan and collection business and is one of the successful men in those lines in Cincinnati. In 1857 Mr. Symmes was married to Miss Mary Culver, of Louisville, Kentucky, a daughter of William E. Culver, a well known banker of that city. Helen, the only one of their children now living, is the wife of Robert Carr, of St. Louis, Missouri. Mr. Symmes was married a second time, in 1874, the lady 310 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY of his choice being Mrs. Harriet Newton, of St. Louis. They have one son, Anthony Cleves, who now resides at Jacksonville, Florida. Mr. Symmes is a member of Golden Rule Lodge, F. & A. M., of Covington, Kentucky. He is a man of many genial characteristics and his friends are numbered by the legion in Cincinnati and vicinity. He has been greatly interested in the progress of Cincinnati and is one of the best informed men in Hamilton county concerning the history of this section of Ohio. One of the family heirlooms which he greatly prizes is the sword which was carried by his great-grandfather in the Revolutionary war. This sword has been handed down through various generations and came into the possession of Mr. Symmes in 1904. Through his courtesy it may now be seen in an interesting collection at the Art Museum. A worthy representative of a long line of true American stock, he can look back on a useful and honorable life during which he has performed many kindly acts. GEORGE TORRENCE HARRISON. The judicial history of Cincinnati contains no more illustrious name than that of George Torrence Harrison, who in the middle portion of the nineteenth century figured as one of the most distinguished lawyers of the Ohio bar. Endowed by nature with keen mentality, he so directed the development of his native powers and talents that he became recognized as one of the most able interpreters of law before the courts and was seldom if ever. at fault in the application of a legal principle to the points of a case in litigation. He was ever devoted to his clients' interests but recognized the fact that he owed a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law,. and he thus came to be regarded as one of the most honorable as well as one of the most able of legal practitioners in Cincinnati. Death, however, cut him short in the midst of a most active and successful career. He was born in this city, October 22, 1847, his parents being William Henry and Mary (Torrence) Harrison. Liberal educational advantages were afforded him, for after attending Chickering Institute of this city he was sent to Yale and completed a full course within the classic walls of that old institution, being numbered among its alumni of 1869. With broad literary knowledge to serve as the foundation upon which to build the superstructure of professional learning, he took up the study of law in the Cincinnati Law School, and following his graduation was admitted to practice. No dreary novitiate awaited him. He came to the outset of his professional career well equipped with the qualities that go to make up the successful lawyer. He possessed comprehensive knowledge of legal principles, plus the business sense and a clear, rapid, logical mind. A pleasing personality and gifts of oratory also added to his success as a practitioner before the bar and his career was one of brilliancy, the termination of which, on the 14th of October, 1902, brought deepest regret to his many friends. On the 6th of June, 1870, Mr. Harrison was united in marriage to Miss Sallie Perin, a daughter Of Oliver and Mary J. (Nelson) Perin. Her father, who was born in Clermont county, Ohio, was a son of Samuel and Mary Perin, CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 313 and attended school there until he came to Cincinnati in his boyhood days. Here he continued his education and after putting aside his text-books was associated with a hardware company for a short time. Later he entered the distilling business in connection with James and Thomas Gaff, and otherwise became prominently associated with the commercial and financial development of the city. Identified with its banking interests, he was president of the Third National Bank, which is now the Fifth-Third National Bank, and was associated with a number of other enterprises. One of Cincinnati's most successful business men, the capable direction of all his varied interests enabled him to acquire a large fortune. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary J. Nelson, was born in Cincinnati and was a daughter of Rev. Zacariah Nelson, one of the pioneer Methodist ministers of this city, having charge of the First Methodist church on Fifth street. The death of Oliver Perin occurred November 29, 188o, when he was sixty-nine years of age, and thus passed away one who had contributed in substantial measure to the business development and material prosperity of the city. His daughter Sallie became the wife of George T. Harrison and is now living in a beautiful home at No. 508 Oak street. By her marriage she became the mother of a daughter and son. The elder, Mary Perin, was married in November, 1901, to Dudley V. Sutphin, a graduate of Yale University and now a lawyer of Cincinnati. Mrs. Sutphin attended school in Boston and by her marriage has become the mother of one child, Elizabeth. William H. Harrison, a graduate of Yale of the „class of 1905, and now a practicing attorney of Cincinnati, married Adell Hager of Ashland, Kentucky. Mr. Harrison was devoted to the welfare of-his .family and counted it his greatest happiness in providing for the welfare of his wife and children. He was a man of marked individuality and strength of character as well as of pleasing personality and his social qualities and genuine worth endeared him to all who knew him, while his intellect placed him above many of his fellows. He continued through life a genial, courteous gentleman, always appreciative of true worth in others. At the same time thwise use which he made of his natural gifts gained him distinction among the strongly intellectual citizens of Cincinnati. Mrs. Harrison resides at 508 Oak street, this city, and is an active member of the Cincinnati Woman's Club, of the Widows' and Old Men's Home and of the board of managers of the Children's Episcopal Hospital. RICHARD NELSON. Richard Nelson, whose whole life was devoted to the advancement of educational standards, came to be regarded as one of the most capable educators of Cincinnati, while in his authorship of text-books he met a need that was strongly felt in the school system Of the period. He was a native son of the Emerald isle, his birth having occurred at Castleward, County Down, Ireland, July 9, 1822, his father having been Captain James Nelson, who retired from a seafaring life in 1860 and died six years later, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. 314 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY The father's appreciation for education led him to give his son Richard every opportunity possible in that direction and he supplemented the work done in the parish school of Ballywalter by a course in Belfast Institute. It was his intention at that time to enter the ministry of the Church of England and with that end in view he began the study of theology in 1844 under the direction of the late Rev. Dr. P. Campbell, whom he assisted at the same time in pastoral work and in the parish schools. Church dissensions brought about through the teachings of Dr. E. B. Pusey caused Richard Nelson to put aside his plan of entering the ministry, whereupon he became tutor in the family of George Fawcett, of Esher, England. A year later Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Higginson, a talented lady whose intellectual powers had been developed through study in the Home and Colonial Institute of London, from which she was graduated. Following their marriage they removed' to Liverpool, where Mr. Nelson engaged in teaching until August, 1849, when he sailed for the United States, thinking to have better opportunities for 'advancement in the new world. He spent a brief period at Philadelphia, thence went to Barnesville, Ohio, and soon afterward accepted a professorship in the public schools of Center Wheeling. Work in literary lines also won him recognition and at times his expert knowledge of mathematics was brought into play as an accountant. In 1856 he established Nelson's Business College of Cincinnati and, seeing the need for text-books which would enhance the value of the college work, he brought out in time three books which were at that time widely in use : Nelson's Mercantile Arithmetic, Nelson's New Bookkeeping and Nelson's Accounts and Business. He also for a number of years published an educational journal, which afterward became merged into an editorial magazine, of which the Hon. A. J. Rickoff was editor in chief. With. the success of the business college in Cincinnati a branch establishment was opened at Springfield, Ohio, in 1882 under the Management of his son Richard J. Nelson and still later another son, Albert E. Nelson, took charge of the business college opened at Memphis, Tennessee, all three institutions having been incorporated under the name of The Nelson Business College Company, with an authorized capital of fifty thousand dollars. In 1889 the father also established a preparatory department in Cincinnati, which met with the approbation of all those who were capable of forming an opinion concerning the efficiency of the young men and women who desired to enter business circles. A contemporary biographer writing of Mr. Nelson said : "He was known all over Ohio and was universally recognized, as a most successful educator as well as an author and gifted writer." For some time he served as chairman of the text-book committee of the International Business College Association. Professor and Mrs. Nelson became the parents of three sons and three daughters : Dora, the wife of Dr. Geppert, a distinguished physician of this city ; Mrs. G. M. Hammell, whose death occurred in February, 1895 ; Ella ; Albert E., who died in Arizona, January 17, 1903 ; and H. H. and Richard J., the last named being now president of The Nelson Business College Company, which controls an institution that is well known throughout the United States, being a school of business, shorthand and language. Professor Richard Nelson cast the weight of his influence in support of all practical and progressive projects for the welfare of the city, especially along CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 315 educational lines. He was a member of the Literary Club of Cincinnati and of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. He was also one of the organizers of the Teachers' Rifle Company. His religious faith was that of the Congregational church, and in his belief was found the motive power that actuated him in all his relations with his fellowmen, making his life one of signal usefulness and benefit especially to the young. HENRY RITTER. To manage and successfully control an extensive business enterprise at once indicates the possession of certain dominant qualitiesready adaptability, keen discernment and the power to secure maximum results with minimum effort. These characteristics are factors in the life of Henry Ritter, general superintendent of the Lunkenheimer Company of Cincinnati, the largest manufacturers of high grade engineering specialties in the world. The name is known to the trade not only throughout America but in other lands as well and the development and growth of the business is due in no inconsiderable measure to the efforts of Henry Ritter. A native of Alsace-Lorraine, then part of France, Mr. Ritter was born April 7, 1862. He grew to young manhood in his native land and there learned the trade of a machinist and tool maker. In 1882, when nineteen years of age, he came to America, making his way direct to Cincinnati, where he secured .a position as tool maker with the Lunkenheimer Company. This concern was then extremely small compared to its present gigantic proportions, and for a number of years Mr. Ritter was the only tool maker in the company's employ, having full charge of and making all of the fine tools, jigs, dies, etc., used by the house. With the exception of about two and a half years, during which time he was superintendent of another plant in Cincinnati, he has been connected with the Lunkenheimer Company since first coming to America. In 1891 he was appointed general superintendent of the entire plant and at the present time has charge of the manufacturing end of the business which employs over twelve hundred workmen, nearly all of whom are skilled mechanics. The business has steadily developed until it has attained world leadership in its line. Something of its extent can be measured by the fact that it has commanded two full-page advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post, which with its large circulation enables the paper to command prices for advertising that makes it prohibitive to any small concern. There are few questions bearing upon mechanics that cannot be readily answered by Mr. Ritter, whose long experience and continued study have made his opinions authoritative. In Cincinnati, in 1885, occurred the marriage of :Henry Ritter and Miss Eugenia Orschel, a daughter of Peter and Amelia (Rinkenbach) Orschel, who are living in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ritter have three children : Elmer, a traveling salesman, representing the Lunkenheimer Company ; Harold, a student in the Ohio Mechanics Institute of Cincinnati ; and Percy. In January, 1911, Mr. Ritter was elected president of the Cincinnati branch of the National Metal Trades Association, succeeding Richard K. La Blond, a position which indicates his high standing in the mechanical field. To this he 316 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY has attained by most creditable methods, personal worth and ability entitling him to the honor and success which he now enjoys. He is also president of the Associated Foundries of Cincinnati, a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and president of the Glenway Loan & Deposit Company. His chief recreation is motoring and he is a member of the Cincinnati Automobile Club and the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati. He is also prominent in the Knights of Pythias fraternity, in which he has many warm friends, and in politics is a republican, though at local elections he votes independent of party ties. JAMES A. SEBASTIANI The iron and steel business has grown with immense strides during recent years and Cincinnati is one of the important centers from which much of the finished product is distributed. James A. Sebastiani, secretary and treasurer and one of the founders of the Cincinnati Iron & Steel Company, has been identified: with the iron business ever since his early manhood, and is one of the important factors in the development of the industry in the Queen City. He is a native. of Cincinnati, born July 1, 1856, and is a son of Joseph Sebastiani. The father,. now. deceased, was for over forty-five years connected with the German Mutual Insurance Company, most of the time in the capacity of assistant secretary, and' on account of his genial and friendly characteristics was highly popular among; all classes in the city. James A. Sebastiani received his preliminary education in the public schools. and later became a student of the old St. Xavier College, from which he was graduated in 1873. After leaving college he entered the employ of Mitchell-Tranter & Company, which operated a rolling mill in Covington, Kentucky. He applied himself with such good results that he was advanced through various positions of responsibility until he became secretary and treasurer of the company. In 1899 the plant was sold to the Republic Iron & Steel Company. Mr. Sebastiani continued with the latter organization a short time and then, in connection with E. H. Busch and others, organized the Cincinnati Iron & Steel Company, which was incorporated in 190o, with a capital stock of twenty-five. thousand dollars. Mr. Busch was elected president and died in October, 1910, James I. Stephenson being advanced to the presidency and H. C. Busch made vice president. Mr. Sebastiani is secretary and treasurer and has. been active in the management of this company ever since its inception. The Cincinnati Iron & Steel Company purchased the old street car property at the corner of Front street anal Freeman avenue and after completely clearing the ground erected warehouses and offices suitable for their business. The business has increased steadily from the start and the capital stock is now three hundred thousand dollars, the company being one of the well established and growing concerns of the city. They carry the largest stock of iron and steel bars, shapes, structural material, plates and sheets in the central west and in addition manufacture and handle a full line of iron and steel working machine tools. In 1879 Mr. Sebastiani was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Bast, a CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 317 daughter of John Bast, one of the early architects of the city. Eleven children have been born to this union, nine of whom are now living, and among them are two sons, A. J. and T. A., both of whom are connected with the Cincinnati Iron & Steel Company. Mr. Sebastiani and his estimable wife are members of the Roman Catholic church. Their home is at 1027 Purcell avenue, Price Hill, in one of the choice residence districts of the city. He has not gained his present responsible position by luck or chance but through years of application, in the course of which he thoroughly mastered the iron and steel business. He is known as a man of unimpeachable integrity and marked ability, one whose word is inviolate and whose life always reflects credit upon those with whom he associates. Socially he is highly esteemed and fraternally he holds membership in the Knights of Columbus. LOUIS H. KYRK. The advantage of beginning early in a life vocation has been clearly illustrated in the business career of Louis H. Kyrk, one of Cincinnati's leading wholesale. florists. He started as errand boy in a floral establishment and for nine years past has been in charge of a business in his own name which yields handsome annual returns. He was born in Cincinnati, April 9, 1861, a son of Daniel Kyrk, who was engaged in the transfer business in this city previous to the Civil war as an employe and later engaged in the same business for himself. He died about 1890. Louis H. Kyrk possessed advantages of attendance at the public schools but was early obliged to seek employment and secured a position as errand boy in a flower store. He showed unusual aptitude and was soon promoted to a more responsible position. He became expert not only as salesman but as designer and his talents have received recognition from the leading families and many fraternal and business organizations of Cincinnati and vicinity. He has served as manager for some of the largest floral concerns of this city and for eight or nine years was at the head of the cut flower department of the J. M. McCullough Company. Since 1902 he has been in business on his own account at 110 to 112 East Third avenue and his reputation has continued steadily to grow as one of the thoroughly responsible business men of the city. He spares no effort to meet the demands of his customers and through intimate knowledge of all details, of the business and the greatest care and promptness in filling orders he has gained his present high standing. In 1884, in this city, Mr. Kyrk was married to Miss Lavinia B. Elms, and they had two sons : Arthur, who died in 1891 ; and Frank H., a promising young man who is filling the position of assistant manager of the Pittsburg Lamp, Brass & Glass Company. Mr. Kyrk and his family reside in a beautiful home on Carnation avenue, Price Hill. He is an active member of the Poplar Street Presbyterian church and is treasurer of that organization, also elder and trustee. Although he lives in the suburbs of the city he keeps his membership with the downtown church, where his assistance is most needed. Mrs. Kyrk is also one of the leaders in the church, president of the Women's Missionary Society and treasurer of the Ladies' Aid Society. The son Frank is also greatly interested in religious matters and was secretary of the Sunday school and president of the 318 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Normal Class Club of this church. Mr. Kyrk is very favorably known in Cincinnati and the surrounding towns and, as he can be implicitly relied upon to keep every promise and to perform his part in everything he undertake's, he is fully worthy of the confidence in which he is held by a large and growing circle of friends and acquaintances. J. HENRY FRENCH. J. Henry French, long prominent in the business and social circles of Cincreasurereld the position of tAreasurer of the Procter & Gamble Company at the time of his demise, which occurred November 5, 1903. He came of New England ancestry and was born at Derby, Connecticut, in 1828. Seeking wider business opportunities, he left that place in boyhood and for a time resided in Granville, Ohio, whence he came to Cincinnati in 1849. After spending a short season in the wholesale grocery business he became connected .with the well known grain firm of Tweed, Sibley & French, remaining the junior partner until 1874. Business prospects attracted him to Chicago, where he became very actively interested in the grain trade and was honored by election to the presidency of the Chicago Board of Trade. After successfully competing with the business giants of the western metropolis he returned to Cincinnati to resume old social associations and to establish here his permanent home.. He was warmly welcomed and soon afterward accepted the position of treasurer of the Procter & Gamble Company, serving in that capacity until called to his final rest. His success as a business man was largely attributable to his careful attention to every obligation and his constant recognition of all the. relationships of commercial life. On the 20th of September,. 1853, Mr. French was united in marriage to Miss Catherine C. Smith, who was born in Williamstown, Vermont, of Kentucky and Vermont parentage. To them were born four children : Harry D., who is engaged in the piano business at Baltimore, Maryland, wedded Miss Mabel Kimball, by whom he has two children, Dudley K. and Edith NI., the wife of Harry E. Bachtenkirker and the mother of one child, Raymond F. ; Nellie C., who is the wife of Charles E. Cate, of Cleveland, Ohio, by whom she has two children, Russell F. and Dorothy A. ; Charles L. French, who, died when three years of age ; and Herbert, living in Cincinnati, who is the treasurer of the Procter & Gamble Company. Mr. and Mrs. French celebrated their golden wedding in September, 1903, and the occasion will ever remain a sweet and comforting memory to their children. Mr. French was one of the most liberal and withal one of the most unostentatious supporters of , Christ Episcopal church, he having joined the Episcopal faith in boyhood and for many years was closely identified with Christ church. His many sterling characteristics and gentle courtesy won him the high esteem and regard of all with whom he came in contact. Among those who came to pay a last tribute to his memory at Spring Grove cemetery were the leading citizens of Cincinnati; many of whom had been his friends from young manhood. To the poor and needy he extended a helping hand and they found in CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 321 him a warm friend. So upright and honorable was his life in all of its phases, so commendable his principles, so manly and sincere his actions, that his name is enshrined in the hearts of all who knew him in a way that time cannot obliterate. He himself was quite a musician and critic on musical matters, taking the deepest interest in all productions in this branch of art undertaken in Cincinnati, promulgating and fostering all laudable efforts made in that direction. His widow resides in a beautiful home at No. 974 Dana avenue, Avondale. JAMES I. STEPHENSON. James I. Stephenson, president of the Cincinnati Iron and Steel Company whose plant is located at Front street and Freeman avenue, is one of the best known among the younger iron and steel men of the city. He was born at Piqua, Ohio, July II, 1874, a son of Rev. James Stephenson, for many years a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. The father of our subject was one of the founders of the first Methodist church of Avondale and was its first pastor and also served as pastor at Walnut Hills. He continued laboring in behalf of the cause to which he devoted his best energies until the very close of his life, dropping dead in his pulpit at Springfield, Ohio, in 1897, at the age of sixty-five years. He was a man of fine oratorical powers, of great determination and energy, and one who sincerely believed what he preached, thus carrying conviction to his hearers and influencing 'many lives for good. James I. Stephenson spent his boyhood days in various towns and cities of Ohio where his father was called to preach. At the age of fourteen, impelled by the restless spirit of youth, he ran away from home and came to Cincinnati and secured employment as office boy under W. B. Shattuc, who was then general passenger agent of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, now the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. He continued in the employ of the railway company for about five years and also studied diligently to improve himself for business life. His next employment was with the Carnegie Steel Company's district office in Cincinnati as stenographer. He discharged his duties so acceptably that he was promoted until he became assistant manager of sales for the Cincinnati district. In the fall of 1904 he resigned to become vice president of the Cincinnati Iron and Steel Company, also having charge of its sales department. After the death of E. H. Busch, president of the company, in October, 1910, Mr. Stephenson was elected to fill the vacancy, the other officers being: H. C. Busch, vice president ; and James A. Sebastiani, secretary and treasurer. The company was organized in November, 1900, by E. H. Busch and James A. Sebastiani and others, with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars. It is now capitalized at three hundred thousand dollars and has become one of the leading organizations of the kind in this part of the country. The house does an extensive iron and steel jobbing business, a large iron and steel brokerage business and is largely engaged in the manufacture of machine tools, employment being furnished to from fifty to sixty men. Mr. Stephenson is also vice president of the Nugent Tool Company of Cincinnati and president of the Cincinnati Metal Products Company. Vol. III-15 322 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY In 1899 Mr. Stephenson was married to Miss Artemesia M. Spence, of Knoxville, Tennessee, and they occupy a beautiful home at No. 687. South Crescent avenue, Avondale. Enterprising and energetic in business, Mr. Stephenson has gained a reputation as a safe and progressive manager whose future gives promise of many years of increasing responsibility. In every sense of the word a gentleman, he possesses the confidence of his associates and the respect of a constantly widening circle of friends and acquaintances. JOSEPH F. MEADER. Joseph F. Meader, a prominent factor in industrial circles of Cincinnati, is the president and treasurer of the Meader Furniture Company, with offices at No. 705 First National Bank building. His birth occurred in Cincinnati October 8, 1827, his father being Daniel F. Meader, who came to this city in 1820. The latter was born in 1801, left Baltimore in 1812 and went to sea later coming to Cincinnati. He was engaged in business until 1844, when he entered the furniture business, the concern being then known as the Cincinnati Steam Bureau Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of all kinds of furniture. In 1856 he sold out to his sons and Charles D. Johnston and the name of the firm was changed to the Meader Furniture Company. Mr. Johnston withdrew from the concern in 1859 and in 1872 it was incorporated with Daniel F. Meader as president and Joseph F. Meader as secretary and treasurer. After the death of his father in 1876, Joseph F. Meader became the chief executive officer of the company. The present officers are as follows : Joseph F. Meader, president and treasurer ; A. B. Meader, vice president and general manager ; and L. D. Meader, secretary. The factory is located on Front and Smith streets, where the company owns a piece of property five hundred by eighty feet. The factory, the dimensions of which are two hundred and sixty by eighty feet, is a substantial structure of five stories and basement. Prior to purchasing the business of his father in 1856, Joseph F. Meader had been identified with the chair manufacturing industry, in association with Mr. Johnston, under the firm style of Johnston & Meader. Mr. Johnston, who retired from the Meader Furniture Company in 1859, is the only one outside of the family who has ever had an interest in that corporation. During the '90s the firm began doing inside finishing work in buildings on a small scale, gradually increasing their activities along this line until in 1900 they discontinued the manufacture of furniture and have since devoted their plant exclusively to fine woodwork. They have become extensive contractors in this field, having clone work in many large buildings of Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, etc. They were awarded the contract for the work in the Pennsylvania depot at Washington and Wananiaker's store in Philadelphia, and have also done work for the United States government at Washington. They are active bidders for high-class work of this character and have built up a very extensive industrial enterprise. On February 23, 1854, Mr. Meader was united in marriage to Miss Ellen D. Tozier by whom he had five children. Joseph F., Jr., was connected with the Meader Furniture Company until the time of his death, which occurred. in 1892 CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 323 in Germany, where he had gone for his health and where his brother, L. D., was taking a post-graduate course in medicine. A. B. and L. D. Meader are officers of the Meader Furniture Company. The latter studied medicine' and practiced that profession until .1909 but since that time has confined his attention to his business interests. Caroline and Elsie were the next in order of birth. Mr. Meader was for many years a member of the Commercial Club but his place in that organization is now filled by his son, A. B. ; he is also a member of the Queen City Club. In the city where he has spent his entire life, covering a period of eighty-four years, Mr. Meader is well known as a leading business man and respected citizen. He possesses a genial, courteous manner that has won him many friends among those whom he has met in business circles, while those whom he meets socially retain for him a warm regard. GEORGE A: WILTSEE. George A. Wiltsee; a' well known and successful undertaker of Cincinnati, has been connected with that line of activity since becoming an associate of his father in early manhood. The business has been conducted at its present location for more than a half century. George A. Wiltsee was born in Cincinnati in 1851, his parents being John F. and Susan Emily (Lyon) Wiltsee. The name was originally spelled with one "e" (Wiltse), but John F. Wiltsee and his five brothers added another "e," because people so uniformly mispronounced the name by omitting the final syllable. The maternal great-grandfather of our subject was a pensioner of the Revolution, and the two sons of George A. Wiltsee belong to the Sons of the Revolution. Moses Lyon, the maternal grandfather, was born on Walnut street, below Fourth, in 1798. The history of the Lyon family has been published in New Jersey, from which state the family originally came, being among the earliest Cincinnati pioneers. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Wiltsee of this review was born in New Jersey and came to Cincinnati in 1827 or 1828, making his way over the mountains and down the river. He operated a farm at what was later called Cheviot and subsequently became a teamster, for in those days all freight was transported either by, team or by river. John F. Wiltsee, his son, learned the trade of cabinet making, which in those days often included undertaking. He became an employe of Paul Rust, who in 1847 had opened an undertaking establishment at the corner of Longworth and Plum streets. When Mr. Rust passed away Mr. Wiltsee purchased the business from his widow and conducted it successfully until called to his final rest in 1899, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. At that time he had interred twelve thousand people in Spring Grove cemetery. He served as treasurer of the Ohio Mechanics Institute for many years and in 1857 was granted a medal by that organization for his display of burial caskets. He was a Knights Templar Mason and also took an active interest in local politics, serving as a member of the city council in 1866-67. 'Mr. Wilt-see acted as chairman of the committee that placed the Gamewell system of fire-alarm telegraph in Cincinnati and was likewise chairman of the railroad committee which granted the Ohio & Mississippi R.. R. the right of way 324 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY through Front street to the Pennsylvania depot in 1867. He was first a member of "Brimstone" church, later joined Morris Chapel and subsequently became identified with St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, of which he had been an officer for many years at the time of his death. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil war and during that conflict he rented his stable from Jesse R. Grant (father of Ulysses S. Grant),. who was then a resident of Covington, Kentucky, and one of his warm personal friends. In 1863 Mr. Wiltsee drew the plans for one hundred days' service in the Civil war, which were to the effect that in the fall of that year the farmers and farmer boys should enlist for one hundred days and relieve the veterans who were doing guard duty in the fortresses and prisons, so they might go to the front to hasten the close of hostilities. This plan was submitted to Jesse R. Grant, who mailed it to his son, the General. The answer from General Grant, stating that he would submit the plan .to the war department, was framed and is still in possession of our subject. This item of interest has never been given publicity before but now that both the General and John F. Wiltsee have passed away, it is fitting that the matter should be publicly recorded. George A. Wiltsee likewise has in his' possession the original copies of the plans for the one hundred days' service. In the Kirby-Smith raid John F. Wiltsee was colonel of the Second Regiment and acted as commandant of the forces over the river for one day by order of Gen. Lew Wallace, who was away for that time. His wife died in 1906, passing away in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church. Unto them were born four children, as follows: John Albert, deceased, who was engaged in business with his father for many years and who enlisted for one hundred days' service during the Civil war; Thomas, who died in infancy ; George A., of this review; and Kate Ada, the deceased wife of Edward Graham of Chicago, Ill. George A. Wiltsee obtained his early education in the public schools and continued his studies in Chickering's Academy. After putting aside his text-books Tie learned the profession of undertaking under the direction of his father. This was the first firm to introduce the embalming method in Cincinnati more than thirty years ago. Another fact worthy of note is that the Wiltsees have always made their own embalming fluids, keeping thoroughly abreast with' the latest improvements in formulas, materials used, etc. Their formaldehyde has always been imported from Germany. The business has been conducted at the present location since 186o and is now under the capable management of George A. Wiltsee and his son, Percy L. The gentleman whose name introduces this review has earned for himself an enviable reputation as a careful man of business and in his dealings is known for prompt and honorable methods, which have won him the deserved and unbounded confidence of his fellowmen. As a companion and helpmate on the journey of life Mr. Wiltsee chose Miss Sallie F. Strickler, a daughter of George W. Strickler, of Cincinnati. They now have two sons: Clifford A., who is connected with the Single Service Package Corporation of New York city, becoming general manager of the sales department of the firm three years ago ; and Percy Leonard, who is associated with his father in the undertaking business. Both sons are graduates of Denison University at Granville, Ohio. Mr. Wiltsee has attained high rank in Masonry, belonging to Valtier .Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Kilwinning Chapter, R. A. M.; past commander Hanselman Commandery, K. T.; Ohio Consistory, S. P. R. S.; CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 325 and Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He served as commander. of Hanselman Commandery in 1905-06, which was the record year for new membership. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Ninth street Baptist church. He has always lived in Cincinnati and those who have known him from boyhood recognize the fact that in his life he has displayed many sterling characteristics which have merited the warm regard in which he is uniformly held. GREAVES, KLUSMAN & COMPANY. In the trade circles of Cincinnati the name of Greaves, Klusman & Company is well known in connection with the manufacture of machine tools, metal working machinery, engine lathes, turret lathes, etc. This is one of the older among the ,many machine tool concerns that is fast making Cincinnati the center of the machine tool trade of the world. The firm is the outcome of a partnership relation between W. A. Greaves and H. H. Klusman. The business was established by these two gentlemen in 1889 on Second street, near Plum, and they immediately began the manufacture of machine tools and also wood working machinery. During the first year they gave employment to about twenty men. Since that time the business has steadily increased until theirs is now one of the largest industrial enterprises of the city. Both Mr. Greaves and Mr. Klusman are natives of Cincinnati and have made for themselves a creditable position in her trade circles. The former, William A. Greaves, was born in 1862 and was a son of Thomas Greaves, a native of England, who in that country served an apprenticeship to the machinist's trade. About 1845 he left his native land and became a resident of Cincinnati, where he was employed as a machinist, gradually working his way upward until he became superintendent of the Lomas Forge & Bridge Works. Thomas Greaves was for many years connected with that concern and upon leaving school his son W. A. Greaves entered the employ of the same company as a machinist apprentice. He afterward entered the employ of Lodge, Barker & Company, with whom he steadily worked his way upward until he became foreman of their works, remaining with that firm after changes in the original partnership led to the adoption of the firm name of Lodge, Davis & Company. He was associated altogether with that business for ten years and in 1889, in connection with Mr. Klusman, established the present firm of Greaves, Klusman & Company. On the 6th of May, 1891, Mr. Greaves was united in marriage to Miss Anna Meyer, of Cincinnati, and they are now the parents of three sons : William Allan, Jr., born October 14, 1892 ; William Howard, born in 1899 ; and George Byron, born in 19o2. Mr. Greaves is a member of the Ohio Mechanics' Institute and the Masonic fraternity, and by his ballot supports. the men and measures of the republican party. Herman H. Klusman was born in Cincinnati, in 1864, and was a son of H. G. Klusman, who for Many years was connected with mercantile interests here. The son was reared under the parental roof and after leaving school entered the office of the T. J. Nottingham Manufacturing & Supply Company. They were 326 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY manufacturers of valves, fittings, etc. Mr. Klusman remained with that house in different capacities for about five years, serving during the latter part of the period as bookkeeper. Leaving the employ of the T. J. Nottingham Manufacturing & Supply Company, he entered the firm of Love & Company, being one of the partners in the steamfitting business for five years. On the expiration of that period he joined Mr. Greaves in organizing the present firm of Greaves, Klusman & Company. In 1898 the present large plant was erected, located at Alfred and Cook streets. There they have a floor space of about sixty thousand square feet and they furnish steady employment to about one hundred and twenty-five skilled mechanics. Since erecting the factory buildings they have from time to time built additions to meet the growing demands of the trade. Altogether their business has been successful and, while theirs is not the largest plant of its kind in the city, it is one of the most substantial and has done as much to advertise Cincinnati through its machine tools and wood working machinery as' many of the larger plants. The partnership between Messrs. Greaves and Klusman is ideal in its character, as Mr. Greaves is one of the best practical mechanics of the middle west and personally' superintends the manufacturing end of the industry, although he has a force of skilled foremen and mechanics under. him. Mr. Klusman through his many years of office experience is the ideal man to look after that department and thus the labors of the one ably supplement and round out the efforts of the other.. An interesting fact concerning Greaves, Klusman & Company is, that, the two men who established the business more than two decades ago are still the sole owners and the partnership has been continued uninterruptedly. Each in his particular field has contributed to the prosperity of the house, which bears an unassailable reputation for the excellence of its product and for the reliability of its methods. They are members of various business organizations. SAMUEL R. MEYER. Samuel R.. Meyer, merchant, capitalist and prominent citizen, and president of the Meyer., Wise & Kaichen Company, has been actively identified with the commercial interests of Cincinnati for over thirty-two years. He Was born in Memphis, Tennessee, December 15, 1857, a. son of Jacob and Hannah Meyer. In the paternal line he is of Prussian extraction but for two generations the family have been citizens of the United States. He was one of seven children, two of whom, together with the parents, fell victims to the epidemic of yellow fever in 1878. The youngest of the five survivors was but eleven months old, while the eldest was sixteen years of age. With but limited educational advantages Samuel R. Meyer began his business career at eleven years of age as cash boy with:the firm of Menken Brothers, with which house he was employed for the succeeding ten years. Being the eldest of the family, after the death of his parents occurred the responsibility of the younger children devolved largely upon him. When the yellow fever broke out at Memphis, in 1878, Nathan Menken, his guardian and head of the firm by whom he was employed, was stricken. Mr. Meyer cared for him until CINCINNATI-THE QUEEN CITY - 329 his death. Soon afterward the junior member of the firm, Leopold Iglauer, contracted the fever and when he began to convalesce Mr. Meyer brought him to his relatives in Cincinnati, where he remained at the homes of his brother-in-law, Nathan Stix, and his brother, Arnold Iglauer. He soon suffered a relapse, however, and died. Mr. Meyer then returned to Memphis and assumed charge of the Menken Brothers store, which was just opposite the Howard Association headquarters, and to this organization he furnished large quantities of supplies for the relief of fever victims. At the outbreak of the epidemic many had -fled the city, leaving their affairs in a state of chaos, and the whole city •was terror stricken. Mr. Meyer spent much of his time in the hospitals; rendering any possible assistance to his friends, receiving and answering telegrams and letters of inquiry from refugees and non-residents regarding relatives and friends. Scores of these highly prized messages are still in the possession of Mr. Meyer. In 1879, at the earnest solicitation of Messrs. Stix and Iglauer, of the firm of Louis Stix & Company, Mr. Meyer came to Cincinnati to accept the position of stockkeeper in their establishment and remained with them for eight years, being promoted in the meantime to various positions of .greater responsibility. He next entered the firm of H. & G. Feder, wholesale dealers in notions and furnishing goods, there continuing until 1887, when he became associated with Mr. Wise and Mr. Kaichen in the organization of the firm of which he is now serving as president. The business met with almost instantaneous success and gradually developed from the modest beginning to its present magnitude, ranking as the largest of its kind in the United States, occupying a splendid business structure of eight floors and basement, with a total floor space of nearly one hundred thousand square feet. They have over sixty employes on the payroll, carry the most complete and well selected stock in this section of the country, and have a large patronage in the southwest and in the south and central west. This most gratifying success, due to the members of the house as a whole, is no less a tribute to the energy, resourcefulness and sterling integrity of its president, whose labors have been instrumental in a very large degree in developing the business to its present proportions. Outside of his strictly commercial activities Mr. Meyer has found time for participation in many projects of a civic, social, and philanthropic nature. He is rendering valuable service as a member 'of the ways and means committee of the Cincinnati Commercial Association ; is a member of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club ; a member and director of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association ; a member of the Losantiville Country Club ; and a member of the National Union, Royal Arcanum and Royal League. Politically identified with the democratic party on national questions, at local elections he maintains a position of independence preferring to support the men and measures that in his judgment will best serve the interests' that make for a better and greater Cincinnati. He is a member of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith and is affiliated with the Plum Street Temple. His philanthropic interests are varied, practical and generous to a degree. He is a member of and contributor to the United Jewish Charities ; a member and supporter of the Altenheim, the Jewish Hospital, and the Home for the Aged and Infirm. He is likewise a contributor to the Jewish Orphan Asylum at Cleveland, Ohio, and the Jewish Denver Hos- 330 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY pital at Denver, Colorado, and is a subscriber to the Associated Charities of Cincinnati. Motoring, and golf constitute his chief sources of recreation. On the 16th of June, 188o, Mr. Meyer was married in Cincinnati to Miss Ernestine, daughter of Mrs. Mary Newman. They had four children, two of whom survive : Marie, who. became the wife of Max Joseph, of this city, and is the mother of two children, Jean and Erna ; and Lawrence, who is businessss with his father in buSiness. The family are prominent socially and have a beautiful home at No. 829 Hutchins avenue, in. Avondale. Beginning his active business career when but eleven years of age with no capital other than the determination to do well anything he had to do, Samuel R. Meyer has by unfaltering industry, common sense and strict integrity raised himself from the position of cash boy to that of one of the city's leading and honored citizens. Left an orphan when a mere boy, with a man's responsibilities on his shoulders, he possessed the moral courage and determination that made success certain in spite of handicaps. With no ambition for extreme wealth, it would seem that his chief aim in creating wealth has been to gratify his desire to lend help and encouragement to those less fortunate. Genial,, generous, strenuous either at work or at play, Mr. Meyer stands a striking example of that peculiarly American product—a self-made man—and it is with pride that Cincinnati numbers him among her successful adopted sons. NORMAN G. KENAN. Norman G. Kenan, the president of the Union Gas & Electric Company of Cincinnati, has been long and prominently identified with the great gas interests of this city. No one is more worthy of the proud American title of a self-made man, for his present position of leadership and affluence is attributable entirely to his own efforts. His birth occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 28th of December, 1849, his parents being Samuel and Margaret (Johnson) Kenan, the former a native of Londonderry, Ireland, and the latter of Liverpool, England. They were born in the years 1822 and, 1826 respectively. In 1857 they took up their abode at Cloverport, Kentucky. Samuel Kenan was interested in the manufacture of oil from cannel coal and, not possessing sufficient capital of his own, engaged in this business with a company of Cincinnati and Kanawhan men at Falling Rock, Kanawha county, West Virginia, where oil works were built. The outbreak of the Civil war interrupted the enterprise, and Samuel Kenan was instrumental in raising a company for service in the Thirteenth West Virginia Volunteers, being, later made colonel of the regiment and loyally defending the interests of the Union until 1863. He then, served as United States marshal at Charleston, West Virginia, until he came to Cincinnati in 1864, here securing employment as engineer at the West End works of the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company. At the time of his demise, which was occasioned by cholera in 1866, he held the position of general manager. His wife, long surviving him, was called to her final rest in- 1898. Their children were six in number, namely : Norman G., of this review ; Samuel, who died of heart disease 'during the time of the riots in 1884; Alfred, who passed away in 1882; Heber, CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 331 the superintendent of the West End gas works in Cincinnati ; Bernard, who is likewie a resident of this city ; and Cecilia, who is deceased, as is also her husband, James Maher. The last named was the mother of two children. Norman G. Kenan attended the common schools of Cincinnati, in the acquirement of an education and also pursued a course in mechanical drawing and bookkeeping at the Ohio Mechanics Institute. When but seventeen years of age he lost his father and undertook the care and support of his widowed mother and younger brothers and sister. Those who became interested in the struggles which followed are enthusiastic as they tell how he first established a fine cigar trade at the old St. Lawrence Restaurant and gladly accepted a position as conductor on the old Third and Fourth street car line in June, 1,867. After work= ing all day his evenings were passed at night school, and his intelligent appearance and close attention to duty attracted the favorable notice of President Miller of the Cincinnati Gas Light & Coke Company, who was a frequent passenger on the street car line. Acquaintance but better satisfied Mr. Miller that the young conductor was a man he would like to have in his employ, and in December, 1868, Mr. Kenan became timekeeper at the West End gas works. Within a year he was made assistant clerk and in 1873 was made chief clerk of both East and West End works. His further promotion was .a matter of course, for the same qualities which attracted the attention of Mr.. Miller continued to be prominent characteristics, and in 1884 he was made' superintendent of the West End works. In 1887 he was appointed general superintendent and engineer of all the works of the company. Three years later he was appointed assistant to the president and it was during this period that he had the supervision of the construction of the first electric light station built by the gas company. In 1892 Mr. Kenan was elected vice president and served in that capacity until October 15, 1903, when he was elected president of the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, succeeding President Andrew Hickenlooper. On the 1st of September, 1906, the property was leased to The. Union Gas .& Electric Company, of which Mr. Kenan was Chosen president on the 14th of October, 1906, resigning as head of the old corporation. Fromthat time to the present he has been the chief executive officer of the Union Gas & Electric Company, which furnishes exclusive natural gas and electricity, has the entire electrical business of Cincinnati and sells gas and electricity cheaper .than it can be procured in any other city. The company recently entered into a ten-year contract with the city to furnish electricity for street lighting purposes. Every department of the great corporation is now in a prosperous, flourishing condition and, as heretofore, every possible effort will be made to promote the city's welfare. The interests of the municipality and the gas company are largely mutual, owing to the fact that stock is owned by nearly eight thousand of Cincinnati's tax-paying citizens and that the gas company itself is one of the largest taxpayers in the community. Mr. Kenan is a trained man of large affairs and has brought business habits and business standards to bear in the administration of the company's interests, carrying forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. Mr. Kenan has been married twice. On the 19th of May, 1877, he wedded Miss Fannie F. Cassidy, by whom he had two children, namely : Lottie, the wife of Howard B. Sharp; and Andrew H., who acts as assistant cashier in the office of the gas company. On the 23d of May, 1905, Mr. Kenan was again 332 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY married, his second union being with Ruth Waldenberg. He is prominent in many social organizations of the city and is an active republican, having served as vice president of the Blaine Club. He is ti life member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, of which fraternity he has been exalted ruler, and belongs also to the Knights of Honor, the Knights and Ladies of Honor and to the National Union. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is liBusiness valued member of the BusinesS Men's Club. The weight of his character and ability has carried him into important relations and his present standing in commercial, circles represents the fit utilization of the innate talents which are his. JOSEPH SAMUEL TREVOR. Joseph Samuel Trevor, who was secretary and treasurer of the H. & S. Pogue Company and thus a distinguished figure in the commercial circles of Cincinnati, was a' native of the Emerald isle, born November 13, 1859. His education was acquired in public and private schools of that country and periods of study were alternated with periods of rest and recreation that produced a well rounded development and physical strength necessary to meet the demands of his later experiences in the business world. He was seventeen years of age when he turned his face to the United States, hoping that the land of promise should become for him the land of opportunity and achievement. He at once made his way to Cincinnati after reaching American shores and secured employment with his uncles, H. and S. Pogue in the capacity of errand boy. His relatives wished to see first of what stuff he was made and as he showed willingness and worth he was promoted, being made salesman, and later his energy and integrity won further recognition and appreciation so that promotions followed from .time to time and ultimately brought him to the position of secretary and treasurer of the H. & S. Pogue Company after the incorporation of the business in 1892. He enjoyed the distinction of being one of the city's foremost business men and the mammoth establishment was largely the expression of his progressive spirit and close application. In September, 1885, Mr. Trevor was married to Miss Kate C. Frazier and unto them were born two daughters, Gladys and Katherine. Mr. Trevor took an active part in the social life of the city as does his wife and was very popular among an extensive circle of friends. He was prominent in the club life of Cincinnati and was also a local leader in republican ranks. As so many business men do he did not regard politics as something utterly foreign to him but recognized the duties and obligations of citizenship and gladly exercised his privilege of upholding the political principles in which he believed. He always voted with the republican party and in 1903 was elected to the city council as councilman at large, making an enviable record as a public official. He never regarded office as a personal asset to be used only for his own advantage but made it the avenue of capable and valuable service for the public. He was always genial and approachable and the number of his friends almost equaled the number of his acquaintances. He was a Mason and had attained the thirty- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 335 second degree. His development was not only in business lines for he kept in touch with the world's thought and progress and was a student of the sociological, political and economic questions of the day. He passed away December 6, 1908, honored by all who knew him and most of all where he was best known. ALFRED SPRINGER. Alfred Springer, for many years a member of the firm of Alexander Fries & Brother, manufacturing chemists, was born in Cincinnati, February 12, 1854. After leaving high school he became a student of the University of Heidelberg, where he enjoyed the advantages of instruction by the celebrated professors Bunsen, Kirchhoff, Lossen, Blum, Arnold and Kuhne. Completing his course in 1872, he was graduated with the degrees of Ph. D. and A. M. He has written largely along scientific lines and among his contributions to the literature of the profession have been Glycocholic Ether, published in 1879; PentachloramylFormate, in 1881; Reduction of Nitrates by Ferments, in 1882, in which he announced his discovery of denitrifying ferments among the micro-organisms of the soil and forming a link between theconstitutents;eir nitrogenous constitu:ents; Dynamic Equilibrium in Poises Swinging in Opposite Arcs, in 1882; High Center of Gravity to Overcome Torsional Resistance, in 1882; The Absence of High Upper Partials in Aluminum, in 1890; A Latent Characteristic of Aluminum, in 1891; and Increase of Segmental Vibratioedter 1897. With Professor RRoedter he invented the Torsion Balance and took out many patents on same ; furthermore he granted patents on Aluminum Sound Boards for Musical Instruments. With Professors Warder, Fernow, Vasey, Clarke, Peaslee, Colonel Jones and Hon. Emil Rothe and others Dr. Springer materially aided in placing the first forestry meeting held in Cincinnati in 1884 upon a scientific basis and forming the nucleus of the present American Forestry Association. Dr. Springer was elected general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1884 and was chosen its vice president in 1892. Since 1887 he has been corresponding member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The star prefixed to the subjects of his research, mentioned in "American Men of Science" means that Dr. Springer is held to be one of the leading thousand students of sisce of the United States. Hitis researches have indeed covered a wide field and his ability has placed him far beyond many others who perhaps started out before him. EMERY CLINTON PYLE. Mr. Pyle was born at Ross, Kentucky, July 7, 1870, and is the son of Lemuel T. Pyle and Liza Willison, and a descendant of Quaker stock. His paternal ancestors came from England, settling in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1682, Robert Pyle, of whom Mr. Pyle is a direct descendant, being the first emigrant of his line. 336 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY His early schooling was had in the public schools Of Campbell county, Kentucky, attending for a short time the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and graduating from the Newport, Kentucky, high school in 1889, from whence he went to the University of Michigan, taking his degree of LL. B. there in 1891. Mr. Pyle first located in Nashville, Tennessee, and continued there in the general practice of law until 1896, during which year he removed to Cincinnati and has since pursued his profession here without partnership relations. Aside from his work as a professional man he takes an active interest in business enterprises ; is the president of The Twelve Mile Turnpike Company; a Kentucky corporation, and ,vice president and treasurer of The Fireproof Storage Company of this city, in which company he has been actively interested in 'building it up to one of the leading warehouses of the middle west. Mr. Pyle has always taken a deep interest in his profession and Its scientific side, having made occasional contributions to legal journals and at all times endeavors to place law and its application on a high plane. In politics he is an independent democrat, but takes no active part in any political organization. He is a member of the University Club of Cincinnati, this being the only social organization with which he is affiliated. The home life of Mr. Pyle had its inception at Seneca Falls, New York, in his marriage on September 2, 1896, to Miss Flora M. Nieman, daughter of Hiram H. and Mary E. (Graybehl) Nieman, the former the president of The American Fire Engine Company. Virginia is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Pyle, born December 14,. 1903; and the family makes their home at 2337 Upland place. LEWIS MONTGOMERY HOSEA. A brave soldier when the life of the Union was in peril, a capable and faithful public official and a lawyer who ranks among the leaders of the Hamilton county bar, Lewis Montgomery Hosea is eminently deserving of a place in a record pertaining to the history of .Cincinnati and Hamilton county. He was born at Montgomery, Alabama, December 16, 1842, while his parents were temporarily sojourning there, being a son of Robert and Harriet Newell (Moore) Hosea. The father was for over seventy years a resident of Cincinnati, having arrived in this city in the early thirties and engaged in steamboating and later in wholesale mercantile business.. He took an active interest in public affairs and was at one time elected to the legislature, and also served as mayor of Clifton. He died in February, 1906, at the advanced age of ninety-five years, his wife having been called away in 1880. The Hosea family is descended from Huguenots of France who fled to England at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes to escape the persecution of followers of the Protestant faith. In 1700 the first representative of the family to seek a home in America crossed the ocean and settled in Perguimans county, on the shores of Albemarle sound, North Carolina. Some of the descendants in course of time removed to Boston, Massachusetts, where the father of our subject was born. His paternal grandmother CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 337 was a member of the well known Going family of New England, several of whom were identified with the patriot cause during the Revolutionary war. His maternal grandfather was descended from the Moore and Blackstone families of the early Maine colony. Lewis M. Hosea received his preliminary education in the public schools of Cincinnati. He attended the Hughes high school and later, Brooks Classical School, after which he, entered Antioch College. In April, 1861, while a member of the junior class at college, he responded to the first call of President Lincoln for volunteers to put down the Rebellion and 'enlisted as a private in Company. A, Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, known as the "Guthrie Greys." A contemporary historian gives his military record as follows : "On June 18th of the same year he was promoted to a first lieutenancy and later to a captaincy in the Sixteenth United States Infantry, under Major Slemmer, of Fort Pickens fame: He continued in active field service until the close of the war, participating in all the battles of the Army of the Cumberland, and is honorably mentioned in various official reports. published in the printed volumes of the Official Records of the Rebellion. Toward the close of the war he was attached to the staff of Major General James H. Wilson, commanding the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi, and took part in the cavalry operations through Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, which disemboweled the Confederacy and culminated in the capture of Jefferson Davis near Macon, Georgia. After the capture of Selma, Alabama, and Columbus, Georgia, by assault in April, 1865, Captain Hosea was brevetted major in the regular army, the commission reading: :For gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Selma and the succeeding campaign in Alabama and Georgia.' " In 1866 Major Hosea resigned from the army and matriculated in the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1868. He immediately began practice, in the city and soon demonstrated an ability which gained for him recognition and led to his appointment by the courts as assistant prosecuting attorneyof the county, He advanced rapidly in his profession but declined the allurements of politics and as the years passed gained a large and lucrative clientage. In November, 1901, however, he was elected to the state senate from the first senatorial district by a majority of thirteen thousand, seven hundred and one over his democratic opponent ; and two years later, having proved his ability in the discharge of important public duties, he was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, a position which he filled with great acceptance to the people, proving one of the ablest jurists the court has known. Retiring from the bench in 1908 he resumed his former place in private practice as the head of the firm of Hosea, Knight & Jones (now Hosea & Knight), with offices in the Commercial Tribune building. In 1865 Judge Hosea was married to Fanny Polk Smith, a daughter of Rev. F. G. Smith, of the Protestant Episcopal church, who founded and conducted the 'Columbia Athenaeum, a widely known young ladies' college of Columbia, Tennessee. They have for many years resided in their own home at Mount Auburn and are both—together with their two living daughters, Mrs. S. E. Desjardins, and Miss Lida C. Hosea—members of the Episcopal church. Judge Hosea has long been a member and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Cincinnati Society of 338 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Natural History, and also of the Ohio Mechanics Institute and served for many years as chairman of the department of science and arts of the latter institution. Few active business or professional men have given more generously of their time and effort in upholding in a public way the standards of culture in social life as the history of many organizations will attest, such as the Symphony Club, of which he was president for five years, The Folk Lore Society over which he presided for three years the U. C. D. Literary Society, and other organizations will show. He was one of the editors of the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science until it was merged into the organ of the Society of Natural History. As an officer of the Civil war he holds membership in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and has served as commander of the Ohio Commandery, and of Grand Army Posts, being also connected with various other societies, local and national in their character. He has traveled extensively in the United States and Europe and there are few men in active professional life who keep better informed as to the development of the republic and 'the progress of the world. Always energetic and capable and unusually successful in his chosen calling, he has made a host of friends, who have found him to be a man of ,sound judgment and clear discrimination—one whose life has reflected credit upon his city and who is fully deserving of the universal respect in which his name is held. WILLIAM BARKER. William Barker is the president and general manager of William Barker & Company, manufacturers of machine tools, and was one of the pioneers in this field of business in Cincinnati. He is a native son of this city, born November 13, 1852. His father, William Barker, was a machinist i the employ of the old Miles Greenwood Company. Born in England, he learned the machinist's trade in that country before he came to America, and after reaching the new world was continuously identified with mechanical pursuits here, his death occurring in Cincinnati in August, 1883. The mother who bore the maiden name of Annabelle Ushur, died in 1907. In this city William Barker, whose name introduces this review, spent his youthful days and was a pupil in the public schools until, desiring to become a factor in business life, he put aside his text-books and started out in the world. He worked a year for the old Miles Greenwood Company and then entered the employ of Platt Evens under whose direction he learned the trade of model-making, a craft requiring that a man become a skilled machinist. Leaving the employ of Platt Evens, Mr. Barker worked two and a half years for the old and well known firm of Steptoe, McFarland & Company, and for about a year was in the employ of Michael Conway. He was then tool maker for the William Powell Company for three or four years and there had full charge of the machinery in that large plant, including the engines. In 1880, in connection with William Lodge, now of the Lodge & Shipley Company, and Charles Braechle as his partners, he began the manufacture of machine tools, operating under the firm style of Lodge, Barker & Company, their location being near the depot of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. In 1883 Mr. Barker withdrew CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 339 from that firm and purchased a building which is now a part of the American Tool Works. He began the manufacture of machine tools, there establishing the present business. He later removed to his present location at Culvert and Pioneer streets. His entire attention has been concentrated upon the business and its upbuilding and he has a good patronage. He has himself a thorough knowledge of mechanics and is thus able to capably direct the efforts of those who serve him. He is also a director in the Oesterlein Machine Company. Mr. Barker was united in marriage to Miss Lena Hirsch, a native of Cincinnati and a daughter of Michael Hirsch. They have eight children ; May, the wife of Jesse McClain, manager of the Joseph Peebles Company ; Ida, who married Henry Goetze, a druggist ; Carolyn ; William, a machinist in the employ of William Barker & Company ; Robert, also a machinist of that company ; George ; Arthur ; and Harold. The family residence is at No. 16 East First street, Newport, Kentucky. Mrs. Barker is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Mr. Barker holds membership in the Cincinnati Metal Trades Association. His chief recreation is motoring and he and his family have a large circle of warm friends in Cincinnati and its suburbs. A. M. LEWIN. The life of A. M. Lewin furnishes another example of the possibilities that lie before ambitious, energetic young men in America, whether they be native or foreign born. Here where labor is unhampered by caste or class the individual progresses by reason of his worth and merit, and it is through personal effort that Mr. Lewin has reached the creditable place which he occupies in connection with the lumber interests of Cincinnati. He was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1833, pursued his education in his native city and to escape military service came to America in 1854 when twenty-one years of age. The favorable reports which he heard concerning the gold fields of California led him to seek his fortune in the mines on the Pacific coast where he obtained gold in goodly quantities. He remained in California eight years and in 1866 went to New York city where he resided for two years. In 1868 he removed to Columbus, Mississippi, where he erected a cotton seed mill which he operated for fifteen years or until 1883, when he sold his plant and business to the trust. He then turned his attention to the ?amber trade and has since been engaged in that .line of business. He remained in the south until 1887 when he came to Cincinnati and established business under his own name, having a plant at Bank and McLean avenues, where the main office is still located. In 1907 the A. M. Lewin Lumber Company was incorporated with Mr. Lewin as president, L. P. Lewin as vice president and H. J. Lewin as secretary and treasurer. They employ about twenty-five people in the yard and mill and with the increase in the business Mr. Lewin established a branch at No. 2120 to No. 2140 Dana avenue in Evanston, in order to take care of the Hilltop business. There they have a plant employing one hundred people in the manufacture of all kinds of window work, sash and doors. They also do all kinds of finishing work and handle all materials needed for residence and general building and interior decorations. The business has 340 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY grown steadily and its substantial character is indicated by the success which Mr. Lewin now enjoys. Mr. Lewin is a member of the B'nai B'rith. He has never regretted the course which he pursued when .as a young man he left the fatherland and sought the opportunities of the new world, working his way steadily upward to success by methods which will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. CONRAD DIETZ. One of the most widely and generally known industries of Cincinnati is The Boss Washing Machine Company, which was established in 189o, since which time it has developed into the largest concern of its kind in the world. The inventor of this machine was Conrad Dietz, who was born in Obergleen, County Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany, on the 9th of January, 1856, a son of John and Anna (Hock) Dietz. His education was acquired in the common schools of the fatherland, which he attended until he attained the age of fourteen years, when with his parents he emigrated to the United States. The family located upon a farm near Dover, Indiana,. in the cultivation of which Conrad Dietz assisted his father for several years. Subsequently he learned the cabinet maker's trade and in 1881 he came to Cincinnati, obtaining employment at his trade with the Mitchell Furniture Company, with which firm he was identified for six years. At the expiration of that period he accepted a similar position with the Meader Furniture Company, continuing in their service until 1890. Mr. Dietz possessed more than the average amount of mechanical ability and while working at his trade had been evolving an idea for a patent washer. Having at last perfected and patented his invention, which became known as the Boss Washing Machine, he withdrew from employment and began the manufacture of his machines. His trials and tribulations in securing the necessary capital to project and finance the manufacture of his invention would fill a volume. He had but little capital but with characteristic energy, born of confidence in his remarkable invention, he at length succeeded in raising the money necessary to make a start. The worth of his device 'became recognized and after that the industry grew rapidly, so that at the time of his demise on the 26th of June, 1906, it was a well established and thriving enterprise, employing one hundred and fifty men the year round.• The concern has kept pace with modern improvement§ along this line and the plant is today a very large one, being supplied with every modern convenience, including special machinery built for the purpose. Many of the employes are thoroughly trained men who have grown up in the business and system, organization and discipline are everywhere manifest. The product is sold all over the. United States and in fact in all parts of the civilized world. Mr. Dietz was also one of the factors in developing the cypress lumber industry of the south. In this he became heavily interested and was one of the largest individual users of cypress in the United States. In 1900 he became a heavy stockholder and director of the Owl Bayou Cypress Company at Strader, Louisiana. That his plans were practical and carefully executed is now manifest CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 343 in the modern manufacturing plant which is located at Harris and Ash avenues in Norwood, Ohio. In addition to his other interests Mr. Dietz was one of the organizers and a director of the First National Bank of Norwood and held a number of other connections with important industries. He Was likewise an honored member of the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati and was prominent in Masonry, holding membership in Vattier Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He also attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and was a member of Syrian Temple, N. M. S. He was identified with the Knights of Pythias but, with these fraternal connections, he was essentially a home man. Early in life Mr. Dietz became identified with church work and was one of the organizers and active supporters of St. John's German Protestant church of West Covington, Kentucky. He took a prominent part in all church and Sunday school work and was officially connected with the former organization, serving as president and vice president of its board at different times. Mr. Dietz's home was his club and his interest centered at his own fireside. In 1875 he wedded Miss 'Catherine Schumacher, a native of Germany, whose death occurred in June, 1883. By this marriage there were four children: Frederick, whose death occurred in 1884; Louis E., who was born October 23, 1877, in Dover, Indiana, and is mentioned elsewhere in this volume ; Charles, a director of The Boss Washing Machine Company ; and Louise, the wife of Rudolph Landis, of Cincinnati. For his second wife Mr. Dietz chose Miss Margaret E. Hoffman, a native of Windsheim, Bavaria, Germany, whom he wedded December 20, 1883. There were eight children of this; union : Albert L., who married Anna Schumacher and resides in New Alsace, Indiana, where he is engaged in business; William C. F., who is secretary and treasurer of The Boss Washing Machine Company and whose record appears elsewhere in this volume; Frieda, Flora, Frederick, Rosa, Conrad and Ernest, all yet at home. The death of Mr. Dietz occurred on the 26th of June, 1906, following an operation for appendicitis. His death was a severe loss to the manufacturing and business circles of the city, for he had contributed much to the commercial and industrial activity of Cincinnati in founding and developing one of its most important manufactories. He was deeply mourned by all who knew him and it was said that he had not an enemy in the world. He believed in caring for and helping his employes and into charitable work of this character he entered with untiring zest. He was ever ready to advance an employe where merit demanded promotion and if one in his service became ill and needed help it was at once forthcoming. He kept in close touch with those in his service and never regarded employes as part of a vast machinery system but as individuals whose interests, needs and wishes were as his own. The years brought him prosperity and at the time of his death he was one of the wealthiest men in the state. His. rise was of a characteristic German type; healthy and permanent. In manner and disposition Mr. Dietz was naturally gentle and kind and at all times approachable, and in addition to these qualities he possessed all of the staid, firm and thrifty traits of the intelligent German-American citizen. His rise to prominence and prosperity in no way affected his actions toward those less fortunate or his views of life, and he was most sincerely respected by rich and poor alike. His invention, now a household necessity, was one of the benefactions of the age, and its value as a labor-saving device cannot be overestimated. Mrs. Dietz and the Vol. III-16 344 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY family still survive and reside in a beautiful home at No. 1729 Kinney avenue. In a review of the life history of Mr. Dietz there are in evidence many traits admirable and worthy of all praise, but among his many and noble qualities we must make a large place for his capacity for friendship. The treasures that we hoard above gold and gems are the treasures of friendship and memory, and to those who knew Mr. Dietz in business, social and home relations, the remembrance of the man, his active, useful life and his honorable purpose, remains a cherished possession. JAMES MORGAN HUTTON. James Morgan Hutton, one of the most prominent and successful residents of Cincinnati, his native city, has been associated with his father in the conduct of the banking and brokerage firth of W. E. Hutton & Company for the past twenty-three years. His birth occurred on the 21st of February, 1868, his father being William Edward Hutton, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in March, 1846. The latter served as a private in the Union army during the Civil war, joining a regiment which was organized in Cincinnati. He is now at the head of the firm of W. E. Hutton & Company, bankers and brokers, having an office in Cincinnati and also one at the corner of Wall and Broad streets in New York city. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Cornelia Pendleton Morgan, is deceased. She was a native of Cincinnati and a daughter of James T. Morgan. Her grandfather, Ephraim Morgan, who at one time owned the Cincinnati Gazette, had previously published a paper called The Liberty Hall. He owned the first daily paper printed west of the Alleghany mountains. The Morgan family was prominently represented in the Civil war, General Christopher Morgan being an uncle of Mrs. Cornelia (Morgan) Hutton. Our subject is the eldest of four children, the others being as follows : William D., who has charge of the New York office of the firm of W. E. Hutton & Company ; Mary Virginia, the wife of George D. Baker, who is a member of the firm ; and Elizabeth, the wife of James Royal Miller, of Cincinnati. James M. Hutton obtained his early education in the public schools of Cincinnati and was graduated from the Woodward high school with the class of 1884. After putting aside .his text-books he was employed as a bookkeeper by the firm of J. S. Lape & Brothers, who conducted a planing mill on Central and Laurel avenues. Subsequently he became a clerk in the office of E. O. Eshelby, who was at that time serving as city comptroller. In 1888 he joined his, father in the conduct of the banking and brokerage business of W. E. Hutton & Company and has been continuously identified therewith to the present time. He has also become extensively interested in other large enterprises, where his business ability, keen .foresight and sound judgment constitute important elements in successful management. He is the vice president, a member of the executive committee and a director of the Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Light & Traction Company and also of the Union Light, Heat & Power Company ; secretary, treasurer and director of the Interurban Railway & Terminal Company ; a director and member of the executive committee of the Cincinnati Trust Com- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 345 pany ; a director of the Union Gas & Electric Company; a director of the Columbia Gas Company; a director of the Springfield & Xenia Traction Company; vice president and director of the United States Lithographing Company; a director of the New Era Auto Cycle Company of Dayton, Ohio; a director of the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company; president of the Cincinnati Business Men's Advisory Board, which has general supervision of Cincinnati charities; and a director of the Associated Charities. On the 4th of January, 1899, at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Mr. Hutton was joined in wedlock to Miss Sarahthat placehnson, a native of' that-place. Her father, Thomas Johnson, served as a colonel in the Confederate army, organizing a regiment in Montgomery county, Kentucky, at his own expense. After the cessation of hostilities he became a banker and large landowner. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Peters, was a daughter of Judge Peters, of Montgomery county. Mr. and Mrs. Hutton have three children, namely: James M., Jr., Elizabeth J. and William E. All were born in Cincinnati. In politics Mr. Hutton is a stanch republican, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Episcopal church. He also belongs to the Queen City Club, the Cincinnati Country. Club, the Cincinnati Golf Club, the Bankers Club, the Cuvier-Press Club and the Sons of the Revolution. In the city where his entire life has been spent he enjoys an enviable reputation as a leading and respected citizen. He possesses the strong force of character and unfaltering determination which enable him to carry. forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes, utilizing at the same time business methods which neither seek nor require disguise. CHARLES H. JACOB. For thirty-eight years Charles H. Jacob has been engaged in some capacity in the distilling business and for the greater part of the period named has occupied positions of large responsibility. He has applied himself earnestly to his chosen calling and is an influential factor in one of the important industries of the country, the companies he represents being among the best known concerns of the kind in the United States. He was born at Cincinnati, May 18, 1856, a son of Charles and Katherine Jacob. The father was a native of Germany and emigrated to America in his boyhood. He located in Cincinnati and became one of the pioneer pork and beef packers of this city, and was numbered among its prominent men. At the time of the Civil war he served in the Home Guard in defense of Cincinnati. He became well known and was greatly esteemed by all classes of people on account of his many genial characteristics. He died in 1867, at the age of thirty-eight. Mrs. Jacob survived her husband nearly forty years and was called away in 1906. Charles H. Jacob attended the public schools and became a student of the Hughes high scholl from which he was graduated in 1873, when he was seventeen years of age. Having decided to devote his attention to the distilling business, he entered the employ of Mobs, Solomon & Mohr as clerk, a position he held for three years. He then became associated with Henry W. Smith & Com- 346 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY pany and subsequently with T. & J. W. Gaff & . Company, the latter being the predecessors of the Sunnyside Distilling Company, which is now one of the most prominent concerns of the kind in America. Mr. Jacob applied himself so earnestly to the discharge of the responsibilities of the various positions which he was called upon to fill that he was elected president of the New England Distilling ,Company, of which he was one of the organizers, in .1883. In 1901 he was elected president of the Sunnyside Distilling Company, with general offices at No. 61 Pike street, Covington, Kentucky, and still continues as head of both of the companies named. Two distilleries are maintained under the direction of Mr. Jacob and his associates, one of which is located at Elrama, Pennsylvania, and the other at Covington, Kentucky. He is an affable and genial man and has a large circle of friends and acquaintances throughout the country. The high standing of the companies he represents is in an important, degree due to his intimate knowledge of the business, by means of which he has been able to meet the wants of patrons in all the principal states of the Union. On June 29, 1887, Mr. Jacob was married at St. Louis, Missouri, to Miss Nellie Champlin, of Cincinnati, a daughter of Charles C. and Henrietta Champlin. To this union one son, Waldemar H., has been born. He is a graduate of Yale University and is now connected with the American Rolling Mill Company, of Middletown, Ohio. Mr. Jacob gives his support to the republican party but is of the progressive type. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order and is a Knight Templar and Shriner. He holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce, of which he served as director, and also in the Queen City Club, the Cincinnati Country Club, and the Hamilton County Golf Club. He has made it a principle of his life to deal justly and as a result he has a reputation for personal integrity which is of more value than great wealth gained through dishonorable means. He has through life faithfully kept engagements and discharged obligations according to the best of his ability. It would be difficult to name any higher testimonial to his personal worth. He and his family reside in a pleasant home at Avondale. D. HOWARD GAYLE. D. Howard Gayle, a well known and prominent business man of Cincinnati, who has for many years been identified with mining and banking interests, was born in Owen county, Kentucky, on the 15th of April, 1860. His .parents, James and Sarah Catharine (Green) Gayle, were also natives of that county. The father died in 1897, but the mother is still living at the age of eighty years and continues to reside at the old home in New Liberty, Kentucky. The boyhood and youth of D. Howard Gayle were, spent amid a rural environment and, while he assisted to some extent in the labors of the field and was trained to habits of industry and perseverance, he yet did not have to meet the conditions of poverty that force so many boys out into the world at an immature age. As a young man he entered commercial circles. in connection with merchandising interests at New Liberty, Kentucky. Later he .became a representative of banking interests and for fifteen years was cashier of the CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 347 Citizens Bank in New Liberty, Kentucky. From that time he has always been connected more or less with banking enterprises and at the present writing, in 1911, is a director of the Fifth-Third National Bank of Cincinnati, also of the Campbell county Bank of Bellevue, Kentucky, and the First National Bank of Richmond, Indiana. In August, 190o, he removed to Cincinnati to become president and general manager of the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company and has since made his home in this city. He held that position for ten years and during the same period was president of the Association of Tobacco Trade of Cincinnati. He likewise acted as president and general manager of the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company, which company resulted from the amalgamation of seven or eight tobacco warehouse companies of this city. On the loth of October, 1900, he resigned and retired from the presidency, but still holds a directorship on the board. Mr. Gayle is now president of the Gilmer Fuel Company and vice president and treasurer of the Kroger Gas Coal Company. He is also a partner of R. J. Kroger in the Kroger-Gayle Coal Company, successors to the R. J. Kroger Coal Company, which was established in 1888. They own and operate four coal mines and have offices in the Provident Trust building of this city, he having charge of the sales department. In 1886 Mr. Gayle was united in marriage to Miss Jane Orr, a daughter of Colonel J. P. Orr, for many years city auditor of Covington, Kentucky. To them have been born four children : Garvey, who is married and lives in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he is engaged in the coal business ; James, connected with the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company ; and Lucy and Jane, at home. The family residence is at the corner of Third and Garrard streets in Covington, and Mr. Gayle is a member of the Baptist church there, He has never refused his aid and cooperation to the projects wherein the public welfare is. involved and throughout his life has stood for progress and improvement. JOHN DANIEL ESTELL, M. D. One of the younger representatives of the medical profession in Cincinnati is Dr. J. D. Estell, who is descended from one of the pioneer families. He was horn in this city, February 9, 1876, and is a son of Dr. J. T. and Mrs. (Thomas) Estell. The father was also a native of the Queen City, his birth having occurred in 1834, while the paternal grandfather was Daniel Estell, who located in Cincinnati at an early day. The father, who was a veterinary surgeon engaged in practice in this city for fifty years. He was a republican in politics and always took an active interest in all municipal affairs, and at various times was connected with several of the public bureaus. For, twelve years he served in the street cleaning and waterworks departments, while he was also identified with the fire department, having been a member of the latter for four years. Fraternally he was a Mason, having for many years been identified with that organization. He passed away in April, 1910, but his widow survives and now makes her home in Indiana. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Estell : Martha, who became the wife of William Stillwell of California ; William, who 348 - CINCINNATI -THE QUEEN CITY was for several years connected with the restaurant business ; and J. D., our subject. Dr. J. D. Eueen has always lived in the Queen City, whose public schools provided him with his preliminary education. He subsequently pursued a commercial course in one of the business colleges, but having decided that he preferred a professional to a business career he concluded to study medicine. The eclectic school seemed to him to be the most practical, so he matriculated at the Eclectic Medical College, from which institution he was awarded the degree of doctor of medicine in 1902. He immediately established an office, which he has ever since maintained, engaging in the practice of medicine and surgery, making a specialty of gynecology. Dr. Estell has never married, He maintains relations with the members of his profession through his connection with the Southwestern Medical Medical Association, the National Eclectic Medical and the Ohio State Eclectic Association. His office is located at No. 219 West Seventh street. ADDISON E. COLE. Addison E. Cole, secretary and treasurer of the Hill Top Laundry Company, one of the most extensive interests of this character in Cincinnati, was born in Dillsboro, Dearborn county, Indiana, in 1870, a son of Eleazar and Drusila (Bramble) Cole. The great-grandfather of our subject was one of Indiana's pioneers, coming from Pennsylvana at a very early day and settling at Dillsboro, where he became possessed of a large tract of land. No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of life for Addison E. Cole in his boyhood and youth, which were largely devoted to the acquirement of an education, the .pleasures of the playground and to such tasks as were assigned to him by parental authority. In the year 1890 when twenty years of age he came to Cincinnati and turned his attention to the laundry business in connection with the Home Steam Laundry, with which he was associated for about twelve years, or until 1902. He then resigned his position to become one of the of the organizers of the Hill Top Laundry Company and was made president of the company with F. W. Stevenson as secretary. Their establishment was located at the corner of Gilbert and Florence avenues and they furnished employment to about twenty-five people. The business steadily grew, however, and by 1905 had increased to such an extent that they enlarged their plant by purchasing a five-story building on Gilbert avenue where they now employ about one hundred and seventy people. This indicates something of the rapid growth of their business, which has been won by straightforward methods, good workmanship and promptness in delivery. The present officers of the company are: C. M Leslie, president; and A. E. Cole, secretary, treasurer and manager, the latter being the active head of the business, On the 16th of June, 1895, Mr. Cole was united in marriage to Miss Abbie Bicknell, daughter of Benjamin and Floretta (Brickett) Bicknell, of Cincinnati, the Bicknells being an old Boston family, Benjamin Bicknell coming to Cincinnati in the pioneer days. Mr. Cole belongs to the Business Men's Club and also