50 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY aside all business and personal relations in order to enter the Union army, joining the Sixth Ohio Regiment with which he served throughout the period of hostilities. He was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga and again at Stone River, and later because of his injuries acted as secretary for the regiment. When the war was over he returned to Cincinnati and was engaged in the men's furnishing goods business, opening a store in the Arcade where he remained until his death. His trade gradually extended until it had reached large and profitable proportions. He drew trade from among the best citizens, always carrying a large and well selected line of goods that enabled him to enjoy their patronage. After his death the business was carried on for a time by his son and his head clerk but later was sold. In Cincinnati in 1865 Mr. Bastian was united in marriage to Miss Fannie H. Koernein, a daughter of Charles Koernein, ,who was the oldest seal engraver on this side of the Alleghanies, doing jewelry and copper engraving. He married Susanna Hipp, a representative of an old family from Darmstadt, Germany. Their daughter Fannie became the wife of Mr. Bastian and this marriage was blessed with three children : Charles F., now with the American Valve & Motor Company ; Ada ; and Lilly. The mother is active in many good works and is now serving as treasurer' of the Hamilton County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The death of Mr. Bastian occurred in 1902. His cooperation in movements for the general good marked him as a public-spirited citizen and his stalwart support of the republican party at the polls gave evidence of his political belief. He was a subscriber of the Bodmann Widows Home, maintained pleasant relationship with his comrades in. arms through his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, and was a consistent and faithful member of the Locust street church. There were, perhaps, no unusual chapters in his life record, and yet his course at all times showed forth those sterling traits of character which in every land and clime constitute the basis of respect and admiration. RICHARD V. JOHNS. Individual effort and earnest purpose have brought Richard V. Johns to the position of assistant cashier in the Second National Bank of Cincinnati. He was born in this city June i0, 1872, and is a son of William S. and Margaret (Van Dyke) Johns, the former a well known attorney, who is now engaged in the promotion of business projects. He is the great-grandson of Hon. Thomas Kirker, the second governor of Ohio. The family is of English origin, although found in. South Wales for some time. Three generations, however, have been represented in this country, and since 1870 the family has been known in Cincinnati, William S. Johns being now a resident of Norwood. Under the parental roof Richard V. Johns spent his youthful days and acquired his education in the public school of Pleasant Ridge and in the Woodward high school, which he attended two years. He made his initial step in the business world as office boy in the employ of the Blymyer Iron Works and after a year he accepted the position of collection clerk with the Citizens National CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 53 Bank, holding that position a year. He was then offered the position of assistant bookkeeper in the Second National Bank and has since been connected with this institution, where successive promotions have brought him to the standing of assistant cashier. Increasing experience and thorough study of the duties devolving upon him in different relations have well qualified him for the onerous and responsible tasks which are now his, and the efficiency which he displays in his position is a factor in maintaining the high standard of service characteristic of this bank. On the 17th of July, 1895, Mr. Johns was married to Miss Jane Stedman Lamb, a daughter of George W. and Ellen M. (Langley) Lamb, the father a well known druggist of Burlington, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Johns reside at 1540 Ruth avenue and have a little daughter, Ella Margaret, who is now attending the Walnut Hills high school. Mr. Johns belongs to the Masonic fraternity but has never been very active in lodge or social relations. In duties of citizenship, however, he is not remiss, although he feels that his business is his first care and upon this he concentrates his attention with the result that his progress has been constant and well merited. FRED E. WESSELMANN. Some men are so thoroughly endowed with energy, persistency and ambition that no obstacles prevent their advance to a place of responsibility. By the innate power of a distinctive personality they forge their way through every difficulty and are to be found in the front line assuming the positions to which they rightfully belong and becoming the leaders of the community. In this class is Fred E. Wesselmann of the Cincinnati bar. He was born at Cincinnati March 4, 1874, a son of Fred W. and Catherine (Habighorst) Wesselmann, both of whom were born in Germany, the former on June 21, 1839, and the latter September 3, 1840. The father learned the cabinet-maker's trade, which he followed for several years in his native country, and also served for three years in the German army. He came to Cincinnati in 1865, after the close of the Civil war, and he and his wife are now living in this city. There were nine children in their family, namely: Amelia, who married George Mohr, of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and has three sons ; Katherine, the widow of Charles Luhrman, of Cincinnati, and the mother of two children, a son and a daughter ; Tillie, the wife of Rudolf Behrens, of Cincinnati, and the mother of two sons and five daughters ; Anna, who married Henry Stratemyer, of Cincinnati, and has one son ; William, who married Mollie Theobald, and has become the father of a son and two daughters ; Fred E. ; Carrie, the widow of Charles Fisher and the mother of five children, two sons and three daughters ; Louis G., who married Amelia Biest, of Cleveland, Ohio, and has a son and daughter ; and Ella, the wife of Cecil Krebs, of Cincinnati, and the mother of one child, a daughter. Fred E. Wesselmann received his preliminary training in the public schools of Cincinnati and later attended night high school. As a boy of thirteen years he entered the employ of Buddeke Brothers & Company, dealers in carpets and 54 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY draperies, and continued with this firm as salesman for thirteen years. In the meantime, having determined upon a professional career, he became a student in the law class of the Young Men's Christian Association from which he was graduated in October, 1898, with the degree of LL. B.. He at once began practice and continued on his own account for fifteen months, at the end of which time he entered into partnership with David P. Schorr, under the title of Schorr & Wesselmann, a relationship which still continues. He was elected mayor of the village of Cheviot in 1904 and served three years, at the end of, which time he was appointed solicitor of -the village and als0 attorney for the trustees of Green township and is now filling both positions. He is attorney for the First National Bank of Cheviot and for many building associations, commercial firms and corporations, discharging his duties in such a way as to meet the hearty approval of his patrons. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Junior Building Company of Cheviot and is now serving as a member of the board of education of Cincinnati, representing the twenty-fourth sub-district. On the 6th of March, 1905, at Cincinnati, Mr. Wesselmann was married to Miss Grace E. Kerr, a daughter of Dr. James and Belle (Frazier) Kerr. Dr, Kerr was for many years a practicing physician of this city and also manufactured a patent remedy known as Kerr's System Renovator. One son, David Edward, born April 11, 1906, has blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Wesselmann. Mr. Wesselmann gives his support to the republican party and is an active member of many organizations and also an officer in not a few of them. He holds membership in the Cincinnati Bar Association and in Cheviot Lodge No. 140 F. & A. M., being at the present time master of the lodge. He as also identified with the Knights of Pythias, Westwood Tent No. 380, K. O. T. M.; R. R. Council No. 390, National Union ; Westwood Council No. 129, Junior Order of United American Mechanics ; Cincinnati Lodge No. 5, B. P. O. E. ; Westwood Athletic Association ; and the Blaine Club, Stamina League, and the Westwood Business Men's Club, serving as secretary of the latter organization. He has never from early boyhood been afraid of work and is a remarkably active, public-spirited and industrious man as is shown by the record herewith presented. His efficiency is demonstrated by his retention in important positions and his life is now evidence that a young man of intelligence and good character may under the favoring conditions of the American republic find friends and employment and may hope to win and retain an honorable name among his fellows, HON. ALFRED G. ALLEN. On March 4, 1911, Alfred G. Allen, of Cincinnati, assumed his duties at Washington as member of congress from the second district of Ohio and in the opinion of many friends who have for the past ten or fifteen years been interested in his advancement as a lawyer and his growing influence in Ohio politics, he will right creditably acquit himself of the responsibility. He is a native of Ohio, born on a farm near Wilmington, Clinton county, July 23, 1867. His father, Isaac B. Allen, was born in New York state and settled at Wilming- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 55 ton in 1851. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1861 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Clinton county and, like many noble-hearted patriots of the Civil war period, resigned from a lucrative office in order to enlist in his country's defense. He organized Company C, Seventy-ninth Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was elected its captain. After serving most honorably he lost his health from exposure and was invalided home in the fall of 1863. He devoted his attention principally to farming from the time of the Civil war until his death, in August, 1891. He was a man of many sterling qualities and a true lover of the republic. In 1855, he married Miss Eliza W. Gaither, of Wilmington, a daughter of Henry Gaither, formerly of Frederick county, Maryland. Of their children. two are now living: Effie, who makes her home at Wilmington ; and Alfred G. After receiving his preliminary education in the public schools Alfred G. Allen became a student of the Wilmington high school from which he was graduated in June, 1886. He studied law in the office of Bateman & Harper of Cincinnati and was graduated from the Law School of Cincinnati College with the degree of LL. B. in June, 1890. He began practice in Cincinnati and upon the death of Mr. Bateman, in 1897, became a partner of J. C. Harper. In 1908 J. W. Curts was admitted to the firm and the title became Harper, Allen & Curts, their offices being in the First National Bank building. This is one of the well known law firms of Cincinnati—one which has been identified with much important litigation in the state and federal courts. Mr. Allen has been especially prominent in city affairs during recent years. He served as councilman at large in 1906-7 and also as a member of the board of sinking fund trustees in 1908-9. In the positions named he showed a clear discernment and business judgment which proved of marked benefit to the interests of the city and reflected high credit upon himself. He was elected to congress upon the democratic ticket in November, 1910, after one of the most exciting campaigns southwestern Ohio has known for many years. On the loth of December, 1901, at St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Allen was united in marriage to Miss Clara B. Forbes, a daughter of M. S. Forbes, president of Forbes Brothers' Tea and Spice Company of St. Louis, and one of the leading business men of that city. Mrs. Allen is a lady of unusual intellectual and social accomplishments. She was educated at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and is an active worker in the Woman's Club of Cincinnati and also in the Tourist Club. Two children have come to brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Mildred F., and Edward Randall. Fraternally Mr. Allen is a member of Price Hill Lodge No. 524, A. F. & A. M. and of the Phi Delta Phi college fraternity. Socially he occupies a prominent place in the community and is president of the Orpheus Club, a well known musical organization ; a member of the board of directors of the Cuvier-Press Club; and a valued member of the Business Men's Club, the Duckworth Club, the Elberon Country Club and the Cincinnati Democratic Club. He is a stanch believer in the principles of Christianity and is a member of Price Hill Methodist Episcopal church. Ever. governed by the highest ideals of integrity and honor, he has steadily progressed in his profession and ranks as one of the able members of the Hamilton County bar. He is a student who spares no pains in arriving at the truth in any subject to which he directs his attention and as an 56 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY attorney none has ever been more faithful in advancing the cause of his clients or more zealous in behalf of the right. He is known as a man of pronounced convictions, a lover of justice and uncompromising in his battle against wrong. He is now just in the prime of life and there is scarcely a doubt that he will gain high rank among the leaders in his party and at the bar of the Buckeye state. CAPTAIN ELIAS RIGGS MONFORT, A. M., LL. D. The specific and distinctive office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments but rather to leave the perpetual record' establishing his character by the consensus of opinion on the part of his fellowmen. Throughout Cincinnati Captain Elias Riggs Monfort is spoken of in terms of admiration and respect. His life has been so varied in its activity, so honorable in its purposes, so far reaching and beneficial in its effects that it has become an integral part of the history of the city. He closed a period of successful connection with the bar to become associate editor of the Herald and Presbyter and has since figured in connection with religious journalism. Captain Monfort was born at Greensburg, Indiana, March 2, 1842, and is descended from ancestry honorable and distinguished. History bears the names of many distinguished ministers, Revolutionary war soldiers and prominent citizens who were representatives of the families from which he traces his lineage. His grandfather had two brothers, four sons and a son-in-law who devoted their lives to preaching the gospel. At least three of the ancestors of Captain Monfort aided in establishing the American republic by their valor on the field of battle, his great-great-great grandfather, Lawrence Monfort, with two brothers, serving in Captain Hugh Campbell's company from York county, in the Pennsylvania line, while Joseph Glass was with the Virginia Light Horse Troop and Francis Cassatt with Colonel Fisher's New York Troop. David Cassatt was also a member of the constitutional convention of Pennsylvania, a member of the war committee for York county, Pennsylvania, and was appointed to move the Pennsylvania militia into New Jersey during Washington's winter campaign. The names of Francis Monfort, Lawrence Monfort and David Cassatt appear on the muster roll dated September 17, 1776, which has remained in possession of the family since Revolutionary times and was presented to Captain Monfort by Mrs. John Dickson of York county, Pennsylvania, the granddaughter of Captain Campbell. On the paternal side there appears in the family the Huguenot strain, for ancestors of the Monforts at the time of the Huguenot perecution fled from France to Holland and to England, being forced to abandon their homes and sacrifice other interests in so doing. Through the same line comes a strong infusion of the sturdy, liberty-loving Scotch-Irish blood, and in the maternal line there are 'Welsh, English and Scotch strains. The Rev. Joseph Glass Monfort, D. D., LL. D., the father of our subject, was born in Carlisle, Ohio, on the 11th of December, 1810, and became a resident of Cincinnati in 1855. He was prominent both in the Presbyterian ministry and as an educator and in 1856 was elected to the presidency of the Glendale Female Seminary. He was likewise editor of the Herald and Presbyter, published in Cin- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 59 cinnati. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Hannah Riggs, was a native of Newark, New Jersey, and a daughter of the Rev. Elias Riggs, one of the early preachers of that state. Her brother, Rev. Elias Riggs, D. D., LL. D., was a missionary in Turkey for seven decades, representing the American Board of Foreign Missions in the United States. He was quite a prolific author and translated the Bible into many languages. Captain Monfort of this review was the eldest of three children, the others being as follows : Rev. F. C. Monfort, D. D.; and Margaret, the widow of H. B. Morehead, the son of ex-Governor Morehead of Kentucky. It will thus be seen that Captain Monfort has every reason to be proud of his ancestral record. Having spent the first fourteen years of his life in the place of his nativity, he then became a resident of Ohio, where liberal educational advantages were afforded him. He pursued his studies in the best schools of Cincinnati and of Glendale and in 1859 matriculated in Hanover (Ind.) College, where he remained until the outbreak of the Civil war. With the call to arms he was among the first to go to the front, joining Company A of the Sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on the 18th of June, 1861. His valor and fidelity won him promotion to the rank of second lieutenant in the Seventy-fifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry on the 5th of October, 1861, and on the 5th of May, 1862, he was made first lieutenant and on the 12th of January, 1863, was commissioned captain. He continuously engaged in active and arduous service from the organization of the regiment until wounded at Gettysburg on the 1st of July, 1863, having in the meantime participated in more than twenty battles. He was first under McClellan in West Virginia and participated in the battles of Philippi, Laurel Hill, Carreck's Ford, Rich Mountain, McDowell, Cross Keys, Cedar Mountain, fifteen days' fighting on the Rappahannock, Freeman's Ford, Waterloo Bridge, the second battle of Bull Run, Chantilly, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. After being wounded at the last named place he was bedridden a year and then walked on crutches for a year. For a long period it was f eared that he would not recover from his injuries, but at length he partially regained his health. He was, however, unfit for active field service and because of this returned home. His demeanor while under fire at critical moments in engagements gained for him high praise from superior officers. Major B. C. Fox wrote of him: "At Gettysburg, Captain Monfort's bearing was admirable—the hotter the fire, the braver and cooler the man. Conscious of the danger that surrounded him, his sense of duty was so strong that every service was performed regardless of personal peril." Colonel Ben Morgan, of the same regiment, reported : "As an officer and a soldier he was all that I could wish, being intelligent, faithful and brave—one in whom I could place at all times implicit confidence in carrying out and obeying orders. On the battlefield, amidst carnage and death, he was ever active and zealous in the discharge of his duties, fully realizing the glorious cause in which he was enlisted and which called forth man's noblest ambitions and energies." Of his soldierly qualities the gallant. Colonel Reilly, who fell at Chancellorsville, writing from Stafford Courthouse, Virginia, January 13, 1863, said : "He is one of the very few officers of the regiment who can be said to have always been at his post. I regard the company to which he is attached as one of the best drilled and disciplined companies of the regiment. No company, I be- 60 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY lieve, has been better held together throughout our hard marches, hard fighting and hard fare, than Company F." When no longer able to engage in active duty at the front Captain Monfort again became a student. in Hanover College and was graduated with the class of 1865, doing two years' work in one. Endowed by nature with strong mentality, his taste was naturally in the direction of professional service and, thinking to make the practice of law his life work, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1867. The same year he was admitted to practice before the Ohio courts but returned to Indiana and opened an office in Greens-burg. He was not long in winning a good clientage and his practice steadily it creased in extent and importance. His fellow townsmen, appreciative of his ability, elected him district attorney for the twenty-second district of Indiana in 1869, and he filled the position until 1872. In that year popular suffrage made him prosecuting attorney for the fourth judicial district of Indiana and in 1874 he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of that state. The demands of his profession, however, involved him in too close confinement for the benefit of his health, which was undermined by the wounds he had sustained in battle, and at the solicitation of his father he became an associate editor of the Herald and' Presbyter, of which he is now a half owner. From early manhood he has been zealous in his efforts to promote the work of the Presbyterian church, in which he has been a lifelong member. The church of that denomination at Walnut Hills elected him to the position of elder, in which office he still continues, and in other official connections he has done splendid work. for the upbuilding of the church and the extension of its influence. In 1869 Hanover College conferred upon him the Master of .Arts degree, and from Highland University in 1885 he received the Doctor of Laws degree. Since 1888 he has been a trustee of Hanover College and since 1878 has been a trustee of Lane Theological Seminary, also serving as treasurer of the latter for eight years. Twice he has been a member of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church and in 1888, through the appointment of that body, he was one of its representatives at the meeting of the alliance of the reformed churches throughout the world holding the Presbyterian system, held in London, England. He has done much important committee work, especially in connection with the committee on Christian unity, and has been a member of the general assembly committee on German theological seminaries and a member of the committee of conference with the Southern Presbyterian church on the question of the freedmen. The general assembly in session at Omaha appointed Captain Monfort and Dr. Marquis, of Chicago, to carry the greetings of the assembly to the convention of the Protestant. Episcopal church then in session. Captain Monfort is the president of the board of trustees of the Presbytery of Cincinnati. His business interests include connection with the Mamolith Carbon Paint Company, of which he is the chief executive officer. Law practice, journalism and religious activity in behalf of his denomination does not, however, comprise the full extent of the labors of Captain Monfort, whose efforts in every relation have been resultant factors for good. A conscientious and zealous advocate of republican principles, he has been recognized as a local leader of his party, which in 1896 elected him to the office of county. clerk of Hamilton county for a two years' term. On the 2d of March, 1899, his birthday, he received from President McKinley the appointment to the position. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 61 of postmaster of Cincinnati, to which President Roosevelt reappointed him in 1903 and which office he still holds, having been appointed for a fourth term by President Taft, January 27, 1911. He is at all times a public-spirited citizen, giving active and helpful aid to every movement and project that tends to promote public progress and to prevent misrule in municipal affairs. From 1891 until 1898 he was a member of the board of education of Cincinnati and for the last three years of that period was its president. His labors were an effective force in the establishment of the Walnut Hills high school, which is one of the finest and best equipped school buildings in southern Ohio. He maintains pleasant relations with his old military comrades through his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic and in 1899 he was honored by the department of Ohio in election to the office of commander. In 1906 he was elected commander of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. In 1902 he was appointed by the governor a member of the board of trustees that had in charge the erection of a building to the memory of the soldiers, sailors and marines that served in the various wars of the United States from Hamilton county. Captain Monfort is a Knight Templar Mason and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. The pleasant associations of home life have been Captain Monfort's 'since his marriage, on the 4th of September, 1867, to Miss Emma A. Taylor, whose birth occurred near Cincinnati, her parents being Eli and Hannah (Marsh) Taylor. Her father was formerly an editor and also engaged in business as a pork packer. Captain J. G. Taylor, a brother of Mrs. Monfort, served with distinction during the Civil war on the staff of General Gordon Granger. The family of Captain and Mrs. Monfort numbers a son and two daughters, as follows : Joseph Taylor, residing in Dallas, Texas, who wedded Miss Anna Sanders, of Milford, Ohio, by whom he has one son, Elias Riggs Monfort ; Hannah Louise, who is the wife of A. B. Burtis and lives at Oaks Corners, New York ; and Marguerite Morehead, the wife of L. B. Simrall, of Cincinnati. Both Mrs. Burtis and Mrs. Simrall belong to the Daughters of the American Revolution. The family are prominent in the cultured social circles of Cincinnati and Captain Monfort is numbered among the best known and most highly esteemed residents of the city. In no sense a man in public life, he has nevertheless exerted an immeasurable influence on the city of his residence; in business life as a lawyer and journalist; in social circles by reason of a charming personality and unfeigned cordiality ; in politics by reason. of his public spirit and devotion to the general good as well as his comprehensive understanding of the questions affecting state and national welfare; and in those departments of activity which ameliorate hard conditions of life for the unfortunate by his benevolence and liberality. H. S. LIVINGSTON. H. S. Livingston, the president of the Cincinnati Cloak and Suit Company, was born in this city on the 10th of July, 1860, and is a son of Meyer and Rose Livingston, who emigrated to the United States from Germany, during the revolution in that country in 1848. The father was born in Bavaria and the mother in Hessen-Darmstadt, in the Rhine country. For a time the father engaged in 62 - CINCINNATI— THE QUEEN CITY the manufacture of clothing in Adrian, Michigan, whence he with his family moved to Cincinnati and here Mrs. Livingston passed away in 1895, at the venerable age of seventy-seven years. Mr. Livingston survived until 1896, his demise occurring at the age of seventy-two. He was a prominent member of the Mound Street Temple and for twenty-five years prior to his death had been warden of the same. Both parents were laid to rest in the Hebrew cemetery of this city. The entire life of H. S. Livingston has been passed in Cincinnati, whose public. schools he attended in pursuit of an education, until he attained the age of fifteen years. Being impatient to begin his business career, he terminated his studies and took a position as assistant at the soda water fountain of the Weatherhead Drug store. Later to him was entrusted the duty of making the syrups and carbonated waters for the fountain. He remained with this firm for two years, at the end of which period he realized that there was no future there for him so he withdrew. During the time of his connection with this company he had pursued a commercial course at night in one of the business colleges, and next took a position as bookkeeper in a bakery. He was only there for two months, which covered the busy season preceding the celebration of the Jewish Passover. From there he went to I. P. Strauss & Brother, who were then located on the present site of the Cincinnati postoffice. He was bookkeeper for them five years, during which time the government acquired the property on which their building was situated. His next position was with the clothing manufacturing plant owned by the bankers J. & L. Seasongood & Company. After keeping books there for two years he was made cashier, then promoted to the position of confidential office man. When they reorganized under the firm name of Seasongood, Menderson & Company he was taken into the firm and given entire charge of the office and credit department. After being connected with them for sixteen years he organized The Cincinnati Cloak and Suit Company, which was incorporated in 1895. Their offices and local factory are located at 312, 314, 316 and 318 Race, in addition to which they have two large factories in New York city. They do business in thirty-six states, giving employment to one thousand people, and ship over one million dollars' worth of goods annually. The development of the company during the sixteen years of its existence has been almost phenomenal, and is a tribute to the executive ability of its president. Mr. Livingston has wide interests in Cincinnati, and in addition to his official position with the cloak and suit company is treasurer of the National Automatic Fire. Alarm Company of Ohio, and a director of the National Automatic Fire Alarm Company of Cincinnati. He is also vice president of the Mercantile Security Company, a director of The Continental Portland Cement Company, which is incorporated for three and a half million dollars, and of the St. Louis Gravel and Sand Company. For his wife and helpmate Mr. Livingston chose Miss Bertha Krohn, a daughter of Moses Krohn, senior partner in the old firm of Krohn, Feiss & Company. Mrs. Livingston passed away on the 4th of May, 1908, leaving two children, a son and a daughter : Robert K., who will enter Harvard College in 1912 ; and Theresa, who is now attending the University school. The family occupies a beautiful residence at 421 Forest avenue, Avondale, erected in 1897. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 63 Mr. Livingston is a member of the Losantiville Country Club, Phoenix Club and Cincinnati Automobile Club. He also belongs to the B'nai B'rith, while his political support is given to the republican party, his views coinciding with the principles of the more progressive faction of that body. Mr. Livingston is one of Cincinnati's most capable business men, who in addition to his rare powers as an organizer and marvelous executive ability, can grasp and retain a vast amount of necessary data, possessing a fine mind for detail and system, two most essential factors in the successful administration of any undertaking. THOMAS M. GREENE. Thomas M. Greene, senior member of the firm of Greene & Embry, is one of the leading commission men of Cincinnati and is also one of its most progressive and enterprising citizens. In addition to maintaining a general office in this city the firm operates branch offices at Evansville, Indiana ; Dayton, Ohio ; Jersey City, New Jersey and Peoria, Illinois. Mr. Greene has engaged continuously for thirty-five years in this business. He was born on a farm at Winchester, Clark county, Kentucky, April 23, 1856, a son of Colonel William Greene who was an extensive live-stock trader and gained his title in the Mexican war. He was born at Mount Sterling, Montgomery county, Kentucky, and was a son of John Greene, a native of Culpeper county, Virginia, who with his brother Samuel, emigrated to Kentucky when it was a wilderness, arriving there at a time when there was no difficulty in tracing wild animals by their footprints through the canebrake. John Greene was an extensive farmer and stock-raiser and at the outbreak of the Civil war was the owner of about one hundred and twenty-five slaves. Seven of his sons joined the Confederate army but Colonel William Greene, the father of our subject, was not of this number. The Greene family is now very prominent in Montgomery and Clark counties and among its members are many large landowners, all •of them being descendants of John and Samuel Greene. The family for several generations has been accustomed to handle live stock and Colonel Greene was one of the largest shippers of live stock from Kentucky to the eastern markets in his day. He died at the age of seventy-seven years. The mother of our subject, Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Greene, was born at Lexington, Kentucky, a daughter of Thomas Maslin Smith. He was a native of Sheffield, England, and after coming to this country became a prominent druggist at Lexington. Mrs. Greene died at the age of fifty years. Thomas M. Greene was reared in Clark and Montgomery counties but spent the greater part of his boyhood in the. latter county. He attended the district schools and received his introduction' to business at Covingtop, Kentucky, under Captain J. P. L. Jennings, who was a captain in the Confederate army. His home was at Morristown, Tennessee, but he engaged in the live-stock brokerage business at Covington. After working for Captain Jennings about a year and a half Mr. Greene began business on his own account, continuing at Covington until the stock-yards were abandoned at that point. He then moved his office to the Cincinnati stock-yards. About 1885 he associated with Talton Embry in the organization of the firm of Greene, Embry & Company, which firm has 64 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY continued with increasing prosperity to the present time. Mr. Greene is also a director of the Stock Yards Bank and Trust Company and holds a similar position in the Kerns Commission Company of Jersey City, New Jersey, and the Bourbon Commission Company1900 Evansville, Indiana. In 1900 Mr. Greene was married to Miss Clara Louise Peery, a daughter of Thomas Burns Peery, a prominent farmer of Decatur county, Indiana. One daughter, May Louise, has been born to this union. Mr, and Mrs. Greene reside at the Hotel Alms in this city, but he recently purchased the old homestead of ex-Governor Cumback of Indiana, at Greensburg, Indiana, and there they spend their summers. This home is situated on the highest point of land between Cincinnati and Indianapolis and is one of the most beautiful residences in the state. Mr. Greene has for many years been a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati and he is also a member of the Business Men's Club and an honorary member of Lodge No. 5, B. P. O. E. He is known as an able, conscientious and reliable man whose word is equivalent to his bond and he commands respect by deserving it. Genial, kind and sympathetic by nature, he has never lacked friends, and today after more than a third of a century in keen competition with men, he is one of the most popular representatives of the live-stock business at Cincinnati. GENERAL MICHAEL RYAN. General Michael Ryan, one of Cincinnati's best known and most respected citizens, was born at Johnstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland, October 6, 1845. He is a son of Richard and Margaret (Laughman) Ryan, both of whom were natives of Ireland. The family came to Cincinnati in 1853 and Mr. Ryan, Sr., engaged in the butchering business. He was an industrious, capable and persevering man who aimed to perform his duty and reared his children to become useful and honorable members of society. He died in 1863. Michael Ryan attended St. Xavier's school and later became a student of St. Paul's German school where he learned the German language. In 1860, being then fifteen years of age, he began work with his father and brothers in the butchering business. Upon the death of the father the four brothers, Matthew, Richard, John and Michael, organized the firm of Ryan Brothers and engaged extensively in pork packing. They were greatly attached to each other and for twenty-five years the brothers worked harmoniously and successfully together, making the name of the firm known in all the principal countries of the world. In 1888 the first severe blow came in the death of John Ryan, but the firm continued under the old name for six years. The conditions of pork packing changed and in order to keep abreast of the. times the Ryans assisted in organizing the Cincinnati Abattoir Company into which their business was merged. This is now one of the large enterprises of the city. In 1870 General Ryan became interested in politics and in 1878 was elected on the democratic ticket as a member of the board of aldermen from a republican ward, his personal popularity winning him the place by a large majority. FroM the start he vigorously opposed corruption and his eloquent and logical addresses in CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 67 the old council chamber attracted large attention in the city. In 1882 he was reelected as alderman and was made president of the board. In the fall of the same year he was elected vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and was also chosen as exposition commissioner. By his original methods, one being the introduction of plantation negroes who sang old plantation melodies while working in the leaf tobacco exhibit, he infused new life into the exposition with the result that after all expenses were paid there was a net profit of seventeen thousand dollars which was added to the exposition fund. In the spring of 1883 General Ryan was presented by his friends as democratic nominee for mayor but corruption was so rampant in this campaign that he withdrew. Judge Hoadly became a candidate for governor of the state and he requested General Ryan to attend the state convention as a delegate. This he did and was selected to present the name of Judge Hoadly to the convention in a nominating speech. The election resulted favorably and General Ryan was appointed quartermaster general on the staff of the governor. He was an active member of both flood commissions in 1883-84 by appointment of the Chamber of Commerce and accomplished much efficient work in behalf of the flood sufferers. He was also on duty at the time of the courthouse riot in 1884 and distinguished himself by his efforts in securing the return of law and order. On account of his high character he was appointed by the state as disbursing officer for a large sum of money representing the expenses incurred by the state in keeping the soldiers in Cincinnati for many weeks, and every dollar entrusted to his hands was accounted for. He was a leader in espousing the candidacy of James E. Campbell for governor in 1891 and presented the name of the latter to the convention at Cleveland in an address that attracted attention throughout the state. The republican nominee, however, was elected. In 1884 he was unanimously chosen as president of the Chamber of Commerce, this being the first unanimous election to that office up to the time named. He is now an honorary life member of this body. In reference to this tribute the fifty-second annual report of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce says : "The board of directors in the exercise of its authority officially conferred upon Michael Ryan an honorary life membership in the Chamber of Commerce. He is one of the oldest members of the chamber in the matter of period of membership and has been conspicuous in his activities and his identity with the affairs of the chamber for many years, serving as president in 1893-94, and for several terms as vice president." In the spring of 1894 General Ryan was appointed by President Cleveland as assistant treasurer of the United States at Cincinnati, this appointment being entirely unsolicited. In 1875, at Cincinnati, General Ryan was united in marriage to Miss Margaret McCabe, youngest daughter of Alexander McCabe, who for a quarter of a century was a prominent tanner and leather merchant of this city. Five children came to bless this union, Joseph, May, Hoadly, Matthew and John. In view of the honors which have been received by General Ryan it is evident that he is held in high repute by men in authority and the public generally. It may truly be said of him that he has never betrayed a confidence or received a dollar for public service which he did not earn. His record is clear and his reputation as an upright, straightforward and public-spirited citizen is beyond question. He is a friend of humanity, religion, morality and law, and among his most 68 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY beautiful characteristics are strong domestic sentiments and habits which have impelled him to seek his highest happiness in the family circle, rendering him its joy and its light. ARTHUR LAURIE METCALFE. Arthur Laurie Metcalfe, secretary and treasurer of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, was born in Cincinnati, May 2, 1872, his parents being James and Annie Laurie Metcalfe. He is indebted to the public school system of this city for his educational privileges. At the outset of his business career he obtained a position as office boy with the George W. McAlpin Company, wholesale dry goods merchants. He was at that time sixteen years of age. Through industry, fidelity and honorable effort he worked his way upward until he reached the position of general bookkeeper, but at length left that employ to become cashier of the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company of Cincinnati, and was eventually made assistant manager of the Atlanta warehouse of the same company at Atlanta, Georgia. Four years later he resigned to accept a position as auditor and credit man for the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, and upon Mr. Farrin's death was elected secretary and treasurer of the company. In this connection he is putting forth every energy for the development and extension of the business along modern lines of trade, and has been a factor in maintaining the high standard which the company has always sustained in the conduct of its business affairs. He is also a director of the Winton Savings Bank. In politics Mr. Metcalfe is a most zealous republican where national issues and questions are involved, but does not hesitate to cast an independent local ballot if his judgment so directs. He does not take an active part in politics, yet is not remiss in the duties of citizenship, cooperating at all times in support of measures and movements for the general good. He belongs to the Lumbermen's Club and has attractive social qualities which make him popular with a wide circle of friends. His life has been a useful one and in the field of business he is making his personality and his ability felt in the successful conduct of important interests which devolve upon him as secretary and treasurer of the M. B. Farrin Company. ROBERT F. DROPPELMAN. Robert F. Droppelman is president and general manager of The Standard Paper Company of Cincinnati. He w8thorn in this city on the 1i8th of December, 1874, and is a son of the late Frank and Christina Droppelman. His father was for many years identified with The Krippendorf-Dittman Company of which he was vice president. He passed away on the 1st of April, 1910, being seventy-three years old at the time of his demise, and was laid to rest in Calvary cemetery at Walnut Hills. The mother still survives and is a resident CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 69 of Walnut Hills. The Droppelman family originally came from Germany, but for three generations they have been residents of the United States. When old enough to begin his education Robert F. Droppelman was placed in the St. Francis De Sales parochial school, which he attended until he reached the age of twelve. He then entered St. Xavier's College, where he pursued a commercial course, being graduated with the class of 1894. After leaving college he took a clerical position in the office of The Krippendorf-Dittman Company, continuing in their employment for three years. Three months thereafter he became identified with The Standard Paper Company, which enterprise had been established six months previously. Here he also held a position as clerk in addition to which he was one of the stockholders of the company. He applied himself closely, early giving evidence of being the possessor of excellent business ability, which brought him the election to vice president. In 1904 he was made president and general manager of the company, whose warehouse and general offices are located at 135 and 137 West Sixth street, whereto they removed in January of that year. The business has developed in a manner highly satisfactory to the stockholders since its organization, and they enjoy an excellent patronage in Cincinnati and vicinity, as well as throughout the southern states. Mr. Droppelman was married in this city on the 19th of October, 1898, to Miss Mary Buddeke, a daughter of Joseph G. and Philomena (Sommers) Buddeke; the father was a member of the firm of Buddeke Brothers & Company, dry goods merchants, but is now deceased. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Droppelman is located at 3115 Fairfield avenue, Walnut Hills. They are communicants of the Roman Catholic church, being members of St. Francis De Sales parish. Politically he is a republican, giving his support to the men and measures of that party at state and national elections, but casts an independent ballot for municipal officers. Mr. Droppelman is another of The able business men of Cincinnati, and the enterprise of which he is the head is rapidly coming to the fore. HARRY H. COOMBE. Harry H. Coombe, a member of the firm of Daniels & Coombe, importing merchant tailors exclusively, of No. 619 Walnut street, is one of the well established business men of the city whose worth as a citizen meets with general recognition. He was born in Cincinnati, September 30, 1856, a son of Elijah and Margaret Coombe. The father was a native of England and came to America in 1842, landing in Canada. After crossing the line to the United States, he started at Cleveland by canal for the Ohio river and thence traveled by flatboat to Cincinnati. In 1862 he associated with James A. Daniels in the organization of the firm of Daniels & Coombe, which became one of the most flourishing merchant tailoring establishments of the city. He died October 3, 1905. at the age of eighty-three years, and was buried at Spring Grove cemetery. Mrs. Coombe is still living and makes her home in California, being now eighty-four years old. 70 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN, CITY In the public schools of this city. Harry H. Coombe acquired the foundation of a good education. At the age of fifteen he entered the business of which his father was one of the partners and beginning as an errand boy, passed through the various departments, becoming a partner of the firm in 1871. He possessed a thorough training and being an earnest worker, a close observer and always willing to learn, he advanced steadily until he became one of the managers and the firm is now among the best known in Cincinnati, its standing being unquestioned. He is also a member of the board of directors of the William Powell Brass Works. On September 13, 1883, Mr. Coombe was married in this city to Miss Lida Greenwald, a daughter of Ezra Greenwald, who was formerly president of the Greenwald Foundry and Machine Shops. He was long a resident of this city and is now deceased. Three children have been born to this couple : Edith, Mary and Harry E., all of whom have been given the very best advantages of education that the country affords. In politics Mr. Coombe gives his support to the republican party. He is a prominent member of the Masonic order and has taken the degrees of the blue lodge, chapter, commandery and shrine. He and his family make their home in the Verona apartments, on Park avenue, Walnut Hills. ELMER ELLSWORTH GALBREATH. Among the men of Cincinnati who have gained success through wisely directed effort there are few more inspiring examples than that presented in the life of E. E. Galbreath, president of the Second National Bank. He is a native of Georgetown, Ohio, born February I, 1864, a son of W. T. Galbreath, who was born at Georgetown January 29, 1818, and married Nancy McClain, a native of the same place. Mr. Galbreath Sr. became very prominent as a banker and was for many years connected with the Ripley National Bank. He was an intimate personal friend of General U. S. Grant and lived to be over four score years of age, his death occurring in 1899. The family is of Scotch lineage, the ancestry having been traced back many generations in Scotland. After receiving his preliminary education in the public schools Mr. Galbreath of this review entered the Ripley high school from which he was graduated in 1882. He then went into the Ripley National Bank as assistant cashier, in which position he continued for a number of years, when he was made cashier. Subsequently he was appointed by the federal government as national bank examiner for the Cincinnati district and filled that position very acceptably for four years, during which time he gained much experience which assisted him greatly in assuming new responsibilities. He was elected vice president of the Second National Bank of Cincinnati in 1905 and in January, 1911, was made president of this institution, a position which he has since filled. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Norwood National Bank and the Mercantile Library. On the 11th of June, 1889, Mr. Galbreath was married to Miss Bessie Torrence, a native of Mercer, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Dr. J. W. Tor- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 73 rence. Five children came to brighten their home, Torrence, Joseph, George, Ralph and Kathryn. In politics Mr. Galbreath supports the candidates and principles of the republican party and his religious faith is indicated by membership in the Presbyterian church to which he is a liberal contributor. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order and has taken the Scottish Rite and thirty-second degree. He also holds membership in the Bankers' Club of Cincinnati, the Business Men's Club, the Queen City Club and the Avondale Golf Club. He has always been prompt and efficient in business and has shown a capacity and clearness of perception in meeting emergencies which mark the true leader. He was fortunate in early receiving thorough instruction in his chosen vocation and there are few men in Cincinnati whose judgment in large financial matters is more readily accepted. Being now in the prime of life with apparently many years before him of increasing prosperity and usefulness, he may be regarded as peculiarly fortunate, and he sees no reason to regret his selection of Cincinnati as a home. SAMUEL A. EBERLE. As a young man Samuel A. Eberle turned his attention to the produce commission business, in which his father was successfully engaged, and today is one of the leaders in the wholesale butter and egg business of Cincinnati, having gained this enviable position by an indomitable will and energy that no difficulty could suppress. He was born in Cincinnati, October 11, 1873, a son of Christian and Magdalene Eberle. The father arrived in Cincinnati at the age of eleven years with his brother Charles and, being obliged to depend upon his own exertions for a livelihood, sold matches in the streets. Later he became a pattern-maker in a foundry, continuing at this work until 1864 when he entered the produce commission business as a wholesale dealer in butter and eggs on West Sixth street. He was highly successful and as the years passed was known as one of the most popular men in his line of business in the city. He died November 2, 1896, at the age of fifty-seven years, and is buried at Spring Grove cemetery. Mrs. Eberle is still living and makes her home at Denver. Colorado. Samuel A. Eberle attended the primary and intermediate schools in this city, continuing at his books until fourteen years of age. He then entered the Johnson & Jordan Business College in order to prepare for practical affairs, and after leaving this institution was identified with the lithographing 'business. However, he soon gave up this work to become associated with his father and since 1889 has been actively identified With the development of the produce commission business in this city. He has displayed good judgment as a manager and the firm is now one of the largest in Cincinnati. He is connected with the chamber of commerce, being a member of the board of directors of that body. He has also served as president of the Cincinnati Produce Exchange. On the 1st of May, 19o3, Mr. Eberle was married to Miss Hilda Bertsch, a daughter of William Bertsch, a well known baker of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Eberle reside at No. 2624 Scioto street, in the old family homestead where he enjoys the comforts and luxuries of a perfectly regulated household. He also Vol. III-4 74 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY enjoys the peace of mind that is the result of wisely directed activity. He has from youth been of an inquiring disposition and is progressive in his methods, being always found near the head of the line in his undertakings. He is a friend of education, a generous contributor to worthy causes, and is known as a thoroughly substantial citizen whose work and influence are conducive to the best interests of the city and his fellow men. ANDREW ERKENBRECHER. Cincinnati owes a debt of gratitude to its public-spirited and philanthropic citizens, and among the number of generous hearted men who nobly contributed toward enhancing the reputation of the city should be named Andrew Erkenbrecher. Although the subject of this sketch passed from earthly scenes more than a quarter of a century ago, his good works continue to grow in importance, extending their blessings to the generation that has come upon the stage since he was called to his reward. He was the founder of the Cincinnati Zoological Garden, which is not only one of the most beautiful spots on the continent but has been for many years an educational agency whose value it would be impossible to estimate too highly. His services in promoting a love for trees, flowers and animals have redounded as much to the credit of Cincinnati as almost any other work that could be designated in connection with the city, and his name will not be forgotten as long as civic pride continues or a loyal son of Cincinnati can be found. Mr. Erkenbrecher was of sturdy German stock. He first saw the light in the village of Heilegersdorf, near Coburg, Germany, July 4, 1821. He was a son of Henry and Catharine (Rauscher) Erkenbrecher, the father being a weaver by trade. The mother was a woman of remarkable energy and determination, and from her the on inherited many of his noble qualities. He received his early education in the village school and—at the age of fifteen, with his father, mother and sister—crossed the ocean to the new world. Arriving at New York city the family journeyed to Cincinnati where they entered the employ of Carl Reemelin, a spice merchant on Fifth street. The young man Soon afterwards, young Andrew secured employment in Cincinnati with John Meyers, a confectioner on Main street, near Second. Later, he entered the employ of Colonel Gano as laborers, on his farm in the vicinity of Carthage, carefully saved his earnings and on reaching the age of twenty-two years, having accumulated a modest capital and desiring to conduct business on his own account, he erected a small grain mill which he subsequently combined with a starch factory, thus laying the foundation of his fortune. He possessed good business talents and was soon obliged to enlarge his factory, finally erecting another factory at Morrow, Ohio. In 1860, the latter establishment was destroyed by fire and, as there was no insurance, the fruits of sixteen years' labor were almost wiped out. However, Andrew Erkenbrecher was not a man to yield to discouragement. He resolutely put his shoulder to the wheel and, after six years, erected a commodious factory on the banks of the canal, near St CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 75 Bernard, which he provided with many improvements of his own invention and, as there was a very wide demand for the output he rapidly recouped his losses. The products manufactured at the new establishment took the highest premiums at the Vienna, Bremen and Philadelphia Expositions, so that Mr. Erkenbrecher became known, in due time, as one of the most successful men in his line of business in the country. The origin of the Cincinnati Zoological Garden may be traced to a plague of caterpillars which visited Cincinnati in 1872 when every green thing in the city was destroyed, the trees being left as naked as in the dead of winter. At the suggestion of Mr. Erkenbrecher, it was decided to import insect-eating birds from Europe and an agent was promptly dispatched to the countries of the old world where he secured nearly one thousand birds for the experiment. Among the birds selected for the purpose were English larks, nightingales, German bullfinches, bobolinks, goldfinches, linnets, orioles, robins, starlings and dozens of other varieties. The birds were housed in an old residence in Burnet Woods late in the fall of 1872, and in May, 1873, Mr. Erkenbrecher and his associates released them from their captivity. The experiment proved a success, and the public interest was so greatly aroused that the Zoological Garden was the result. Since then, the Garden has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors, and has for many years been one of the most prominent features of interest in the city. Other cities have taken up the idea and the result of the disinterested labors of Mr. Erkenbrecher and his associates may be seen even in the most distant countries of the world. Mr. Erkenbrecher was married at Cincinnati to Miss Amanda Meyers. Of the children of Mr. Erkenbrecher three are now living: Albert Gano, record of whom is given below ; Emma, who married A. E. Burkhardt, a well known business man of this city ; and Byron, a son by his second wife. Another son, Cornelius, now deceased, was for a number of years associated in business with his father. In 1877, the health of Mr. Erkenbrecher showed evidences of being seriously impaired. He visited Europe, returning somewhat improved in strength, but his vigor was never fully restored. He died January 4, 1885, being then sixty-three years of age. Few citizens of Cincinnati have ever inspired more profound sentiments of gratitude, and few have contributed in a greater degree toward making fhe lives of others a blessing and a source of joy. He early learned the great lesson of self-dependence and, through unflagging industry and sound judgment, he gained a position as one of the leading citizens of Cincinnati. He was a brave and true-hearted man who never turned away empty-handed a worthy applicant for assistance, and whose chief aim it was to add to the sum of human happiness. ALBERT GANO ERKENBRECHER. Albert Gano Erkenbrecher, a son of Andrew and Amanda (Meyers) Erkenbrecher, was born in Cincinnati October 8, 1858. He attended the public schools of this city and was sent by his father to Europe to complete his academic and business education. For three years he was a student in the schools of Ham- 76 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY burg, Germany, and then he secured a situation as an apprenticed merchant in a Hamburg house that represented his father's starch factory. He learned the business thoroughly and in 1880, at the age of twenty-two, returned to Cincinnati and became actively associated with his father in the manufacture of starch. Upon the death of the latter, in 1885, the son remained in charge of the business and so continued until 1890 when, with other leading starch manufacturers of the country, he assisted in organizing the National Starch Company. He has since been a member of the board of directors of this company and manager of the Cincinnati branch, a responsibility for which he is thoroughly adapted, having been identified with this line of business ever since his boyhood. Mr. Gano Erkenbrecher is a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and served for one term as treasurer of that body. Socially, he is identified with the Queen City Club and the Lincoln Club. He is a member of the board of directors of the Zoological Garden in which he takes a very lively interest, and has been a generous contributor for many years toward that worthy object. His life has been busy, active and useful. His genial, social qualities have won for him the friendship of all with whom he has come in contact. Mr. Erkenbrecher is unmarried and makes his home in Avondale. JOHN B. SWIFT. John B. Swift, a prominent representative of manufacturing interests in Cincinnati, is the president of the Eagle White Lead Company of this city. His birth occurred in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 21st of September, 1850, his parents being Thomas T. and Jeannette (Holabird) Swift. His maternal grandfather, Amos B. Holabird, was at one time at the head of the largest manufacturing plant in Cincinnati, devoted to the production of engines, mill machinery, etc. He came to this city in 1816 and ten years later, in 1826, established above mentioned plant. His demise occurred in Cincinnati in 1852. Thomas T. Swift, the . father of our subject, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and came to Cincinnati as a young man. Throughout his active business career he was associated with his father-in-law. He passed away in 1857, while his wife was called to her final rest in 1880. John B. Swift obtained his early education in the local schools and from 1863 until 1867 pursued a scientific course in the Pennsylvania Military Academy at Chester, Pennsylvania. He returned to Cincinnati in 1867 and during the following seven years was engaged in the hardware business here. In 1874, he became associated with Frederick Eckstein, in the manufacture of white lead, remaining with Mr. Eckstein until 1889 and acting as treasurer of the concern for several years. In 1889 they sold out to the National White Lead Company, with which Mr. Swift became identified. In 1891, however, he was one of the organizers of the Eagle White Lead Company, becoming its president. The concern is incorporated with a capital stock of two million dollars and the present officers are as follows : John B. Swift, president ; J. Gordon Taylor, secretary; Thomas S. Brown, Jr., treasurer ; Joseph Hummel, Jr., assistant secretary ; and Thomas T. Swift, a brother of our subject, general superintendent. They are CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 77 manufacturers of white lead, red lead, orange mineral, lead pipe, lead traps, bends, ferrules, solder, etc., and also manufacture monotype, stereotype and lino-type metals, pig lead and all lead goods used by plumbers. About three hundred people are employed in the conduct of the business, which is one of extensive and profitable proportions. Mr. Swift is likewise the president of the Kruse & Bahlman Hardware Company, which is incorporated with a capital stock of three hundred thousand dollars. He is also a director of the Charles H. Moore Oil Company of Cincinnati, and has long occupied a leading position among the prosperous and representative business men of the city. He is a valued and active member of the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati, as well as a member of the Cuvier Club. In 1889 Mr. Swift was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Louise Cullison, of Kenton, Ohio. CHARLES TABB PEARCE, M. D. Dr. Charles Tabb Pearce, physician and surgeon, occupying a fine suite of rooms in the Groton building, is an alumnus of the University of the City of New York, having pursued his professional course in the medical department of that school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1892. He was then a young man of twenty-one years, his birth having occurred in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1871. His father, Charles Pearce, now deceased, was a prominent banker of Maysville and it was there that Dr. Pearce spent his boyhood days and attended the common schools to the age of thirteen years, when he entered the Peekskill Military Academy at Peekskill on the Hudson, New York. He afterward became a student in the Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia. This old college was the alma mater of his father, uncles, grandfather and many other members of the family. Following the completion of his course in the Washington and Lee University Dr. Pearce entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued a biological course, and then matriculated in the University of the City of New York, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1892. He makes a specialty of skin and venereal diseases and is a recognized authority on those lines. He came to Cincinnati in 1893 and has been in continuous practice here since that time. For several years he was professor of skin and venereal diseases at the old Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. His offices are among the best equipped in the city and at once indicate his success, showing what he has accomplished in the field which he has chosen as a life work. Dr. Pearce is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, of the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He keeps in touch with all the latest medical discoveries and spent the summer of 1911 in visiting and studying at the leading hospitals and laboratories in Europe, where he came in touch with the advanced methods of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the old world. His laudable ambition prompts him at all times to strive toward perfection and his work has carried him far beyond the point of mediocrity. 78 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY He finds social enjoyment in the Masonic order and is in sympathy with its fraternal spirit. He now belongs to La Fayette Lodge, A. F. & A. M., has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite and is also a member of Syrian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. His friends—and they are many—find him a gentleman of attractive social qualities. WILLIAM H. HARRISON. The standard by which a man should be judged according to many thinkers is not the amount of wealth he possessed, not the official position he may have held, nor his education or family connections, but the good he did to his fellow beings. To what extent was he unselfish and what efforts did he make to promote the comfort or happiness of others ? Judged by the standard here named William H. Harrison, for many years prominent in the business circles of Cincinnati, should be remembered as one of its most worthy citizens, and those who knew him best will agree that few men of their acquaintance possess in a higher measure the sterling traits of honesty, sincerity, generosity and helpfulness than the one whose name stands at the head of this sketch. He was born at Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 1815, and was a son of Edmund and Martha (Pitts) Harrison, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of North Carolina. The father was a prominent educator in the early days of the public school system and was principal of the Lancasterian Seminary on Walnut street, Cincinnati, north of Fourth street. There were ten children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, namely : Edmund, John William, James Lane, Maria Louisa, John Pitts, Martha, William Henry, Learner Blackman, Charles and Caroline. Early in his infancy William H. Harrison was brought north by his parents and after living for a time at Dayton, Ohio, took up his home at Cincinnati. He received an excellent education in the public schools and then began learning the drug business under a Mr. Allen. Later he opened a drug store at the corner of Fourth and Main streets and also associated with his brother, John Pitts Harrison, in the drug business. After the death of his brother he purchased the entire business, which he conducted very successfully. He also bought out George Meldrum in the oil and paint business, and in the various lines of activity with which he was identified showed unusual judgment and ability. For many years he was president of the Equitable Insurance Company and a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank, being also for more than twenty-five years treasurer of the Spring Grove Cemetery Association. The esteem in which he was held by his fellow citizens is shown in his appointment as a member of the relief committee sent to Chicago after the great fire in that city, in .1871, conveying substantial evidences of sympathy to the sufferers from the generous-hearted people of Cincinnati. He was an excellent judge of real estate and his advice was often sought by friends and acquaintances as to the value of property. He prospered greatly from year to year and became one of the prominent financial men of the city. In 1845, at Cincinnati, Mr. Harrison was united in marriage to Miss Mary Paull Torrence, a daughter of Judge George Paull Torrence, who was born in CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 81 Fayette, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1792, and took up his residence in Cincinnati in 1806. He became one of the leading citizens of the growing community and was for a number of years one of the most prominent members of the bench. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, one of whom died in infancy. Mary Torrence Harrison, residing in Cincinnati, is a member of the board of the Woman's Club and for five terms served as treasurer of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in which organization she has long been an active worker. George Torrence, now deceased, was a successful attorney of Cincinnati and married Sallie E. Perin, by whom he had two children, Mary Perin and William Henry. Martha Pitts, married Clark Bates Montgomery and became the mother of one child, Mary Torrence, who gave her hand in marriage to Dr. Clark W. Davis and now has one child, Montgomery. Mrs. Mary Paull Torrence Harrison died May 24, 1864, and Mr. Harrison was married October 24, 1867, to Charlotte King Steele, a daughter of Dr. John Steele, an eminent physician of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Harrison died on the 18th of December, 1891, and the community mourned the loss of one of its most valued and useful citizens. His body reposes in Spring Grove cemetery. For many years he was president of the board of trustees of the Second Presbyterian church at the corner of Eighth and Elm streets and was a member of the building committee of that church and also of the building committee of the Springer Music Hall. He was known as a genuine friend of the widow and orphan and no man was ever more ready or willing to assist another in trouble. He gave liberally to all worthy causes but never sought publicity, caring little for the praise of men but rather seeking the approval of an enlightened conscience. In business affairs he was governed by the strictest principles of honor and integrity, and by innate ability he gained a position among the acknowledged leaders of the community. CHARLES E. ROTH. Charles E. Roth is treasurer of the John C. Roth Packing Company, president of the Cosmopolitan Bank of Cincinnati and at this writing is also treasurer of Hamilton county. The importance of his business and official connections at once indicates his high position in the community. He is equally successful in the control of important financial affairs and in the management of extensive manufacturing interests. It is characteristic of him that he carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes, brooking no obstacle that can be overcome by persistent, earnest and honorable effort. Cincinnati numbers Charles E. Roth among her native sons, his birth having occurred at the old family home on Freeman avenue, July 16, 1866, his father having been John C. Roth, the founder of the business which is now carried on by his sons. In the public and parochial schools Charles E. Rofh pursued his education and then entered his father's packing plant. Like his brothers he had practical experience to train and equip him for the business, and working his way steadily upward through various departments he was at length, by reason of his ability, given charge of the financial interests of the company. That 82 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY he readily masters financial problems is indicated by the fact that he has been called to the presidency of the Cosmopolitan Bank & Savings Co. and also to the position which he is now filling as custodian of the money interests of Hamilton county. These interests, however, do not indicate the extent of his activities, for he is president of the Savoy Hotel Company and from January, 1909, until January, 1910, served as president of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. Charles E. Roth was united in marriage in 1889 to Miss Mary B. Hope, a daughter of Michael Hope, and they have two children, Charles E. and Owen Burnet. The family is one of social prominence and the Roth household is the scene of many delightful social functions. His cooperation is readily given to all public measures relative to the general good. Thr0ughout his entire life there has never been a single esoteric phase in his career which is indeed an open book, inviting close scrutiny. The name of Roth has ever stood as a synonym for all that is honorable in business and progressive in citizenship, and no history of the city would be complete without extended reference to Charles E. Roth and other members of the family. In political circles Mr. Roth is widely and favorably known. He has always manifested deep and helpful inferest in public affairs and was chosen as the successor to his father in the position of county treasurer. On the expiration of his first term he was reelected by a large majority, expressive of the confidence reposed in him by the people who had witnessed his course through the previous two years. His administration was conducted in accordance with a rigorous business system which resulted in saving to the county many thousands of dollars. He has also been solicited and prominently mentioned by the Democratic party as a candidate for mayor and also for governor of the state, but refused to consider the nomination in each instance, believing that he had done his share in serving the public and that other business men should be given opportunity to do their duty. Mr. Roth is one of the men to whom Cincinnati points with pride. He is public spirited and progressive, yet follows a safe conservatism where public interests are involved. In his various businesses as well as public positions he is considered the right man in the right place and the worth of his service to Cincinnati is widely acknowledged. H. D. RIEMEIER. Among the younger generation of Cincinnati's representative business men H. D. Riemeier and his brother G. H., occupy a prominent place. Their rapid rise in the commercial world is due principally to their indefatigable industry and an undaunted ambition which has ever impelled them onward. The Riemeier Lumber Company, although a comparatively recent industry in this thriving city of the middle west, is recognized as a prosperous commercial enterprise and each year is growing in its importance in relation to other similar industries in this locality because of the increasing scope of its activities. H. D. Riemeier was born in Cincinnati in 1879, his parents being John David and Mary Louise (Greife) Riemeier. The father was a native of Germany and when a young man came to America to seek larger opportunities in busi- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 83 ness life. He engaged in the lumber business under the firm name of Meier & Riemeier, an industry which handled chiefly pine lumber. In his commercial career he met with much success and a few years before his death retired. Although concentrating his efforts on the many problems daily arising in the exacting situations of business life, he was never too much engaged to devote himself to the execution of the projects which promoted the well-being of the religious group to which he belonged. He built the church at the corner of Race and McMicken streets and was one of the dynamic forces in the organization and administration of the German Orphan Asylum. Ever altruistic in spirit, he performed his charities in an unostentatious manner, believing in incorporating the Christian ideal in the conduct of his daily life. When H. D. Riemeier was two years old his parents removed from Cincinnati to Groesbeck, Ohio, where the father had large farms and was interested in general farming on an extensive scale and also in the breeding of high-grade stock and horses. H. D. Riemeier acquired his early education in the Mount Airy public schools, later attending the Cincinnati Technical school. In preparation for a clerical position he studied bookkeeping and shorthand at Nelson's Business College, which institution G. H. Riemeier, the brother of our subject, whose birth occurred in Cincinnati in 1884, also attended. The first position which H. D. Riemeier secured upon entering the business world was in the office of a lumber company. After a year he was promoted to the position of foreman and lumber inspector in the same firm and continued in this connection until he was offered a better opportunity in a rival concern. There he worked conscientiously for some time when he decided to engage in business on his own account. Consequently he entered into partnership with his brother, G. H. Riemeier, and established the Riemeier Lumber Company in June, 1905, and two years ago, in 1909, took in M. E. Cummings as a third partner in the company. They have prospered in their undertaking, being manufacturers and wholesale dealers in hardwood lumber, and since beginning have vastly increased their business capacity, their local trade being of primary importance. On January 1, 1911, the company opened a branch at Evansville, Indiana, shipping lumber largely to points north and east. They estimate an annual output of from ten to twelve million feet of lumber. Mr. Riemeier's keen insight into business situations has made his opinion in relation to the policy of the company an important one. In 1905 Mr. Riemeier was united in marriage to Miss Julia Alice Stoll, a daughter of John Stoll of Cincinnati. They are the parents of two children, Harold David and Dorothy Louise. Like his father Mr. Riemeier is an earnest worker in religious circles, belonging to Rev. Haffner's church, at the corner of Ninth and Walnut streets, and contributes generously to the support of the German Orphan Asylum founded by his father. Among the lumbermen and furniture dealers of Cincinnati he is well known and esteemed for his ability. He is a member of the Lumbermen's Club, the Queen City Club, the Furniture Club and the Furniture Exchange. Being obliged to devote his undivided attention to his industrial interests, he has little time for active participation in politics but is vitally interested in questions of national and local importance in the political field. In his own work he manifests the discipline which experience and training give the well rounded business man. He has learned the 84 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY lesson of close application to industrial problems and of unceasing watchfulness to improve all the opportunities within his reach, knowing that these are as fleeting as the passing moments and that only he who is in readiness to avail himself of them will rise to the ranks of the successful men. HENRY HUSCHARD MEYER. There were certain elements that made it inevitable that Cincinnati should become a city of commerical importance, first its geographical situation on the Ohio and amid a valley whose lands were unsurpassed in fertility. It necessarily followed that these lands would become thickly settled and business enterprises of various character must perforce spring up. The broad acres furnished splendid pasture land and naturally attention was attracted to the raising of cattle and hogs and in logical sequence care the packing business, of which Henry Huschard Meyer today is a prominent representative, being president of the H. H. Meyer Packing Company. He has been identified with the business in Cincinnati since 1869. His youthful days had largely been passed in Indiana. His birth occurred in Brookville, Franklin county, that state, on the 27th of September, 1839, and he was reared in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. where, on first starting out in business life, he learned the marble cutting trade. He also became secretary of the Greendale cemetery there and as such had charge of the books. He arrived in Cincinnati in 1869, coming here as bookkeeper for Anderegg & Roth, and following the death of the senior partner, Major Anderegg, who was Mr. Meyer's father-in-law, Mr. Meyer became a member of the firm under the name of Roth, Meyer & Company, in 1882. In 1888 the business was reorganized as a stock company and Mr. Meyer became vice president and general manager. In 1892 he withdrew from the business and established the H. H. Meyer Packing Company, which controls an extensive business in their line in the state. Their products from the beginning have been looked upon by the purchasing public as of high grade and are shipped largely through the south, east and west and to some extent to the north. They make a specialty of sugar cured meats known as the Partridge brand. Mr. Meyer has been identified with the meat packing industry during the period of its development when old time methods were done away with and modern processes adopted. In the old days meats could be cured only through the winter months and when packers found that sugar was a preserving agency, although in a less degree than salt, they combined the methods of sugar curing with the use of the saline product and made a milder and more palatable meat. But still trouble arose until the discovery and introduction, in the '70s, of refrigerator machinery revolutionizing the curing of meat. The house of which Mr. Meyer was manager had the first refrigerator machine used in Cincinnati. He has made a life study of the question of curing meats and has been among those who have kept Cincinnati in the forefront in the packing business. In 1863 Mr. Meyer was married to Miss Bertha Anderegg, a daughter of Major Anderegg, and unto them have been born the following children : E. Carlos CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 87 and Ralph, both deceased ; Clarence B., a farmer, of Cleaves, Ohio; Alvin A., deceased; N. Raymond, Harry E. and Roland A., associated with their father. Mr. Meyer is widely known in Cincinnati, not only because of his extensive packing interests and the success achieved thereby but also in financial circles as a director in the Fifth-Third National Bank and also in the Security Insurance Company. He has always been prominently identified with any public improvement and all movements tending toward the general welfare. He is a member of the Cuvier Press Club. He is looked upon as one of Cincinnati's substantial business men and his counsel and advice regarding anything relative to the packing industry is considered as authority. He never falters in the accomplishment of a task to which he sets himself and his energy and industry have enabled him to overcome many difficulties and obstacles. In trade and public relations he looks beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities, needs and opportunities of the future and labors for conditions which are to be met at a later day as well as for those of the present hour. WILLIAM H. WHITEMAN. W. H. Whiteman is numbered with those who have won for this city its place as a center of the tobacco trade of America. He is president of the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company, the largest enterprise of this character here and one of the largest tobacco warehouses of the United States. His identification with the tobacco trade dates from 1873 and his success enables him to speak with authority upon this line of business in all of its various phases. Mr. Whiteman was born upon a farm in Clermont county, Ohio, in 1854, and was there reared in the usual manner of farm lads, dividing his time between the work of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the duties of the fields. He attended school until fifteen years of age, when he entered a country store as clerk and there remained for three years. On the expiration of that period he sought the broader opportunities furnished in the city and came to Cincinnati, where he entered the employ of the Globe Tobacco Warehouse Company, being then a youth of eighteen years. His position was that of receiving clerk. This was in 1873. The Globe Tobacco Warehouse is one of those which is today owned by the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company. He remained in the employ of the former company for a long period and his trustworthiness, ready adaptability and unfaltering energy enabled him to steadily advance until he became secretary-treasurer of that concern. In 1892 the Globe Tobacco Warehouse Company sold out to the Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Company. and Mr. Whiteman severed his connections with those concerns at that time but in 1899, when the company was reorganized into the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company, controlling several enterprises of similar character in this city, he became manager of the Globe Tobacco Warehouse, which is still the largest in Cincinnati and is still the main office of the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company. Mr. Whiteman with the exception of the years intervening between 1892 and 1899 has been directly connected with the Globe Tobacco Warehouse since 1873. This extends from No. 88 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY 7 to No. 27 West Front street and is a mammoth concern, splendidly equipped for the conduct of the business that is carried on. Mr. Whiteman still continues as manager of the Globe Tobacco Warehouse. In 1904. he was elected vice president of the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company, and in the summer of 1910 succeeded D. H. Gayle as president of the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company. In addition to the Globe the company owns the Bodmann Leaf Tobacco Warehouse on East Front street, which is almost as large as the Globe. The Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company is incorporated with a capital stock of one million, three hundred thousand dollars and its present officers are : W. H. Whiteman, president ; Bart Schmidt, vice president ; and F. F. Albers, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Whiteman is, therefore, at the head of a mammoth industry, with offices in the same building that he entered as receiving clerk almost forty years ago. From the time of his first identification with business interests in Cincinnati Mr. Whiteman made his home in Covington, Kentucky, until June, 1910, when he removed to Hyde Park, where he and his wife still reside. He was married, in Covington, in 1890, to Miss Linda Williams and they are prominent in the social circles of the city, their home being the scene of many social functions. Mr. Whiteman is prominent in Masonry, holding membership in Covington Lodge, No. 109, A. F. & A. M., while in the Scottish Rite he has attained the thirty-second degree of the consistory and also belongs to Syrian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. His entire life record represents the fit utilization of the innate talents which are his. His business affairs have always been capably conducted. Tireless energy, keen perception, honesty of purpose, a genius for devising the right thing at the right time, joined to everyday common sense and guided by resistless will power, are his chief characteristics. Moreover, he 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 for him the deserved and unbounded confidence of his fellowmen. JACOB STERN. Comparatively few men who have passed the Psalmist's alotted span of "three score years and ten," remain active in business, most of them being content to put aside the burdens of trade, but with unfaltering energy Jacob Stern still remains an active factor in the affairs of life as the senior member of the firm of Stern, Frank & Company, live stock commission merchants, and also as a director of the Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company. He is also one of the oldest members of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and has long been widely and favorably known in commercial and industrial circles of this city. He has operated in live stock in Cincinnati since 1863, being at that time a young man of about twenty-four years. He was born in Hessen Kassel, near Frankfort, Germany, in 1839, and was a youth of fifteen when he crossed the Atlantic to America in 1855. He was without friends and money. Self-reliance and determination must constitute his capital and he fearlessly faced the future, resolved CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 89 that indefatigable labor should win him advancement. He settled first in Pittsburg, where he was employed as a boy in connection with the cattle business, remaining in that city four or five years. His first wage was but one dollar and fifty cents per week, and although he earned but little in the time that he was in Pittsburg, he managed to save enough to establish a small butcher shop in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. There he carried on business until 1862, when he sold out and came to Cincinnati, after which he traveled through the country buying cattle for three or four years. In 1867 he formed a partnership with Henry Strad, who was also a native of the locality whence Mr. Stern came, for the conduct of a live-stock commission business under the firm name of Straus & Stern. At first they conducted their operations in the old Brighton Stock Yards but when the Union Stock Yards were built in 1873 they removed to their present location and have occupied the same offices continuously since, or for a period of thirty-seven years. The firm of Straus & Stern existed for thirty-seven years and was only terminated by the death of Mr. Straus in 1904, at which time the business was reorganized, Mr. Stern admitting to a partnership, Julius Frank and Charles Strebel, at which time the firm name was changed to Stern, Frank & Company. Mr. Stern is one of the oldest live-stock commission merchants operating in the Union Stock Yards in this city, and has been very successful. Moreover his business record shows no esoteric phase for honorable methods and straightforward dealings have brought him to his present position. He has come to be recognized as a man of sound business judgment and his cooperation has therefore been sought in other directions. He has, however, largely confined his attention to the live-stock commission business, although he is now financially interested in and a director of the. Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company. In 1865 Mr. Stern was married to Miss Rosa Stepel, who was born in Hessen Kassel, Germany. They have a beautiful home on Reading Road in Avondale. Their only daughter is the wife of T. M. Stern who, though of the same name, is no relation and is the Cincinnati representative of a large eastern woolen firm. The younger couple have two children, Robert and Ruth. Jacob Stern is a member of the Phoenix Club and in the city where he has lived for forty-eight years he has many friends, being honored and respected by his business associates and all with whom he has come in contact, owing to the fact that his record has at all times been one that would bear close investigation and scrutiny. CAPTAIN STEPHEN CHASE. Captain Stephen Chase, district manager for the Booth Fisheries Company and president of the American Pneumatic Carpet Cleaning Company, has been a resident of Cincinnati since September, 1878, coming to this city from Baltimore, Maryland. He was born in the latter city January 11, 1845. His father, Stephen Chase, was shipmaster of a large packet running .between New Orleans, Havre, France, and Liverpool. The subject of this review spent his youthful days on the ship and was educated with his elder sister by his father. The family sailed with the husband and father from the babyhood of Captain Chase, 90 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY . of this review, until the father's death. He was never six months in one place during that time although the family always maintained a home in Baltimore, Maryland, and as soon as the ship reached the United States the children were sent to that city and placed in school. Captain Chase, of this review, has visited all parts of the world save Australia. During the Civil war the family were in the East Indies and there his father died at sea in 1863. The son and namesake, then but eighteen years of age, succeeded his father as captain of the Wurtemberg. The father's death occurred while the ship was in the Gulf of Martaban, in British Burma, and the son carried the body to Bombay, thence to Ramgoon, in British Burma, and one morning about one-thirty a. m., assisted by the officers of his ship and of the ship St. Louis, placed his father's body on board the St. Louis and then shipped it to Boston, whence it was sent to Baltimore where interment was made fourteen months after his death. Captain Stephen Chase, Jr., made several voyages to China, Calcutta, Bombay, India, and other points in the Orient, and continued on the seas until 1867, when he returned to Baltimore which he always regarded as his home. There he entered the oyster business and also dealt in canned and foreign fruits. He shipped oysters and canned fruits extensively for eleven years and -then came to Cincinnati in 1878. Here he formed a partnership with H. F. Hemmingway & Company and later purchased the interest of the other members of the firm and organized the Cincinnati Oyster & Fish Company, establishing branches in Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga. He likewise owned oyster beds at West Point, Virginia. He conducted the business successfully for a long period, or until 1898, when he sold out to A. Booth & Company, which in 1908 was succeeded by the Booth Fishery Company and Captain Chase became district manager. Their cold storage plant is at No. 643 to 647 Carr street and the offices were built by Captain Chase about 1896. In the long years of his connection with the business interests of Cincinnati Captain Chase has ever enjoyed the confidence and good will of his fellowmen and has always been recognized as a leading business man of the city. CAPTAIN FREDERICK ALEXANDER LAIDLEY. Among the representative business men of Cincinnati—the men who have fully demonstrated the qualities of decision of character, clearness of judgment and progressiveness in affairs so necessary in maintaining leadership in the commercial world—none occupies a more prominent place than Captain F. A. Laid-ley. For nearly half a century he has been actively connected with traffic on fhe Ohio river, or with the promotion of Cincinnati as a distributing center, and his name is associated with some of the most important enterprises the city has known. He is one of the oldest and most efficient members of the Chamber of Commerce and it would be difficult to name a man who has been more zealous at all times in advancing the general welfare. Born at Maple Grove, January 28, 1841, where the town of Huntington, West Virginia, now stands, he is a son of James M. Laidley, a prominent attor- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 91 ney and at one time a member of the Virginia legislature. F. A. Laidley was reared at Charleston and secured his preliminary education in the public schools of that place. His first acquaintance with business on his own account was as proprietor of a little store at Charleston. He was not content, however, to remain long under circumscribed conditions and in 1858 he engaged in the manufacture of salt on the river above Charleston, and continued in this line until 1864, his business requiring him frequently to visit Cincinnati. In August, 1864, he began his career as a river man on the Ohio river, securing a position as clerk on the steamer Annie Laurie. He advanced rapidly and within a year was appointed master, remaining on the same boat for three years. In July, 1866, while serving as captain of the Annie Laurie, he started with his boat from Cincinnati for Charleston. It was during the cholera epidemic and the next day after leaving the city the second engineer was taken sick with that disease, which proved of a most virulent type and, notwithstanding every effort was made to save his life, he died a few hours later. Others on board the boat were also taken down and there were four deaths from cholera during the trip. Captain Laidley was obliged to remain constantly on duty, as the men on the boat were almost panic-stricken and liable at any minute to desert. After land-. ing the vessel at Charleston the Captain suffered a nervous collapse, which rendered him unconscious for several hours. Upon recovering his normal condition he read his obituary in a Cincinnati paper, it having been reported that he was dead. In 1867 he settled at Cincinnati as agent for the Kanawha Salt Company, and three years later associated with -William Hedwig in the commission business. The firm was dissolved shortly afterward and Captain Laidley entered into partnership with Dawson Blackmore, buying out the commission business of S. M. Barton, which the new firm carried forward with marked success. In 1873 the partners entered the pork-packing business, in which they continued for five years, when Mr. Blackmore withdrew and Captain Laidley took in as partner M. D. Thompson, who had been bookkeeper for the firm. They continued together until 1896, when the firm was dissolved. In 1886 Captain Laidley became a stockholder of the Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company, and since 1891 he has been general manager and treasurer of this organization. The company operates two of the finest and fastest boats on Ohio river—the City of Louisville and the City of Cincinnati. The boats leave the terminals at five p. m. daily, reaching their destination at six o'clock the following morning. The journey of one hundred and fifty miles is accomplished in the night time and thousands of persons find this means of travel thoroughly delightful. The company also maintains three steamers for the accommodation of local traffic between Cincinnati and Louisville. Captain Laidley was also one of the original stockholders of fhe Common Carrier Company and is president of the Louisville & Evansville Transportation Company, operating passenger and freight boats between those cities ; president of the Consolidated Boat Stores Company of Cincinnati ; and also president of the Licking Coal & Towboat Company, which supplies steamboats with coal and does harbor towing. He loaded, in 1881, the first train of freight to leave Cincinnati for southern cities over the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, and its departure was the occasion of great rejoicing and general excitement. This train marked the opening of a 92 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY new era in trade between Cincinnati and the south. It consisted of twenty-six cars, loaded with meat, and ran to Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon, Mobile; Montgomery and other southern cities. On each car was posted conspicuously a notice in large letters designating the contents of the car, the name of the city from which it was started and also its destination. This was a great advertisement for Cincinnati and attracted much favorable comment as the train passed southward. Captain Laidley is one of the original members of the Chamber of Commerce and has the honor of holding certificate No. 2 of membership in that body, his name having been upon the rolls since 1867. In 1866 Captain Laidley was married to Miss Julia A. Rooke, of Malden, West Virginia, and to this union four children have been born : F. R.; Elsie Louise, who married A. S. Moore; Mary B. and Marguerite. He is a valued member of the Queen City Club, the Pelee Fishing Club and the Kentuckylandting and Fishing Club of RRyland Station, Kentucky, where he has a summer cottage. He and his family reside in a beautiful home in Covington, Kentucky, which is a center of hospitality, where friends and acquaintances find always a cordial welcome. He is recognized as a man of unimpeachable integrity, generous, kind-hearted, and entirely competent to make a success of anything he undertakes. He represents the best type of American citizenship and his name will ever be honorably associated with the history of his adopted city. FREDERICK AUGUST GEIER. For almost a quarter of a century Frederick August Geier has been connected with the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company and has risen from the position of bookkeeper to that of president, owning a controlling interest in a business which is now one of the important industrial concerns of the city. He was here born on the 23d of June, 1866, a son of Philip and Louise Geier, and at the usual age entered the public schools, wherein he continued his studies until graduated from the Woodward high school with the class of 1884. Two years later he was engaged in the banking business in Newton, Kansas, but, returning to his native city in September, 1887, became interested in the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company as bookkeeper. Gradually he acquired a larger and larger share in the business until he now owns a controlling interest and is president of the company which, in its ramifying branches of trade, reaches throughout the world. They now have in their employ over one thousand people and have just completed a magnificent office and factory which is the most modern plant in existence in regard to shop hygiene, lighting, etc., and is situated in Oakley, near Cleveland. Improvements are continuously being made in the method of manufacture and the machinery turned out is of the highest possible grade, fully meeting the demands for such an output. The products of the company have taken first prize at international expositions, recently carrying off the grand prize at the Brussels Exposition. During his long connection with this manufacture Mr. ofer has mastered every detail o.f the business so that his supervision is based upon practical knowledge as well as the demands of the trade. He forms his plans readilyand is determined in their CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 95 execution. He is a director of the German National Bank and of the Central Trust & Safe Deposit Company, and has made for himself a creditable position in financial as well as industrial circles. For two years he has served as president of the National Machine Tool Builders Association. Mr. Geier is married and has three children, Frederick, Helen and Virginia. His interests reach out over a broad field. For five years he served as a trustee of the University of Cincinnati and chairman of its board. He is also the vice president of the National Society for Promotion of Industrial Education, a director of the Ohio Mechanics Institute and belongs to the Business Men's, Queen City, Optimist and Commercial Clubs. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and his religious faith is evidenced in his membership in Mount Auburn Presbyterian church. He adheres closely to those things which are most worth while, never choosing the "second best," and always looks for advancement and progress not only in individual affairs but in those relations which affect the welfare of the community at. large. STEPHEN BURR MARVIN, M. D. Liberal educational training qualified Dr. Stephen Burr Marvin for the professional duties which have devolved upon him, and a spirit of progressive citizenship has prompted his active and helpful cooperation in various movements for the general good. His professional and public service stand out as strongly marked and commendable features in his life history. He was born in Cincinnati, June 21, 1867, a son of Dr. John Jay and Harriett (Guilford) Marvin. The latter was a daughter of William Guilford and a niece of Nathan Guilford, who was a member of the Ohio state senate and the father of the Ohio school law. During the first twenty years of their existence the public schools of Cincinnati had no general superintendent but at the close of the second decade Nathan Guilford was elected by the people as superintendent of the Cincinnati schools at a salary of five hundred dollars a year, thus becoming the first incumbent in the position. His niece, Harriett Eliza Guilford, was born in Vermont and for a number of years was a capable teacher in the public schools of Cincinnati, being employed in the sixteenth district school of Mount Auburn, while Dr. John Jay Marvin, the father of our subject, was principal of the same school. He was born in Shelby, Ohio, and his father was an old and highly respected citizen there and one of the earliest residents of that part of the state, removing from Connecticut to Ohio in 1819. Not only did Dr. J. J. Marvin prove a capable educator but was equally successful and efficient in the practice of medicine. He is a graduate of the Pulte Medical College and was also a lecturer there on anatomy for some time. He practiced medicine successfully for a number of years but is now living retired at Pleasant Ridge. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and for several terms served as master of his lodge. It was in Cincinnati that he wedded Harriett Eliza Guilford, who had come to this city with her parents in her girlhood days. Her death occurred December 1, 1871. Dr. Stephen B. Marvin was a pupil in the public schools in this city and afterward attended the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy and the Ohio Medical Vol. III-6 96 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY College, being graduated from the latter institution in 1893. His office and residence are at No. 257 Pike street but he devotes much of his time to the management of his drug store located at the northeast corner of Fourth and Central avenues. On the 14th of June, 1893, Dr. Marvin was married to Miss Nellie King, a daughter of James and Mary Jane (Carr) King, and a native of Ashland, Kentucky, born in 1875. Her father was born in England of Irish parentage and came to America when sixteen years of age, settling in Ironton, Ohio, where he lived until the Civil war. He then enlisted in Company E, Second West Virginia Cavalry, serving with credit until the close of hostilities. He died in 1875 of cancer contracted during his incarceration in Libby prison. His wife, who was born in Ironton, Ohio, in 1853, was a daughter of Jeremiah Carr, also a veteran of the Civil war. Her mother, who bore the maiden name of Mary MacNally, was a sister of Major John MacNally of the West Virginia Cavalry. Unto Dr. and Mrs. Marvin have been born two children, Stephen C. and Warren K. The family are prominent socially, the doctor and his wife having a very large. circle of friends. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Odd Fellows society and is himself highly regarded by the members of those societies. The value of his service in connection with the board of education is widely acknowledged. He has been a member of the board since 1900, representing the eighth sub-district, and is now serving a third term as president of the board, and is also a member of the Union Board of High Schools. The cause of education finds in him a stanch champion and his efforts have been far-reaching and beneficial in behalf of the publi school system of the city. , HERBERT T. KENT. Herbert T. Kent, president of the Cincinnati Real Estate Exchange and well known because of the importance of the real-estate interests which he has handled, has continued in this field of business for about seven years. He was born July 4, 1856, in the city which is still his place of abode, his parents being Luke and Adeline E. (Ernst) Kent, the latter a daughter of A. H. Ernst, a distinguished horticulturist who in his youthful days came to Cincinnati with his father, who also bore the name of Andrew H. Ernst. The son was reared in this city and for years was the proprietor of the Spring Garden Nursery at Brighton. He was the first landscape gardener to have charge of Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati and his skill in his chosen field of labor was pronounced. The paternal grandfather of Herbert T. Kent was Luke Kent, Sr., who came to this city in 1814 and established the first jewelry store here, his place of business being on Main street, just north of Fourth. He was known as the "Jeweler on the Hill" and later was succeeded by his son and namesake, who during his lifetime became one of Cincinnati's most promising young business men. He passed away here on the 29th of May, 1895, while his wife, the mother of our subject, died in September, 1896. In their family were ten Children, five of whom are̊ yet living, namely: Edmund L., a resident of Millville, Indiana ; A. H. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 97 Ernst, of Cripple Creek, Colorado ; Amelia E., whose home is in Hartwell, Ohio; Herbert T.; and Rev. Walter W. Kent, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, now located in Cincinnati. All of the children were born and educated in Cincinnati. With various families of prominence the Kent family has become connected. Asbury Kent, an uncle of Herbert T. Kent, was for many years proprietor of a drug store at Sixth and Elm streets. He married a sister of Mrs. W. A. Procter, at that time head of the great Procter & Gamble Company. An aunt of Mr Kent in the maternal line became the second wife of Seth C. Foster, now the head of the great Stearns & Foster Company. Herbert T. Kent spent his youthful days in Cincinnati and the public schools afforded him his educational privileges. He entered business life as an employe in the jewelry store founded by his grandfather, Luke Kent, and at that time conducted by his father, Luke Kent, Jr. In time Herbert T. Kent succeeded to the business, but in 1891 closed it out and became associated with the Duhme Brothers & Co., jewelers, remaining with that concern until 1904, when he entered the real-estate business. He is now operating extensively in this field and is one of the most prominent real-estate brokers of the city, his position among men engaged in similar pursuits being indicated by the fact that he vas honored with the presidency of the Cincinnati Real Estate Exchange. Mr. Kent has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Mary H. Suydan, and they had one daughter, Dorothy, who was graduated from the Woodward nigh school with the class of 1911. The wife and mother passed away in December, 1894, and Mr. Kent later wedded Miss Alice M. Babbitt, a daughter of the late Hathaway Babbitt, for many years one of Cincinnati's leading insurance men. A most active and prominent worker in the ranks of the Masonic fraternity, Mr. Kent is a past master of Kilwinning Lodge and also of the Hyde Park Lodge, of which he was the organizing master. He is also a past high priest of Cincinnati Chapter, R. A. M., and a past eminent commander of the Cincinnati Commandey, K. T., while in the Scottish Rite he has attained the thirty-second degree. He is one of the moving forces in the Hyde Park Business Men's Club and he possesses that dynamic power which produces results in every field in which he labors. His ideas are practical, his vision broad, his insight keen and his labors always prove a resultant force. The same qualities have given him a leading position in business circles and Herbert T. Kent is today numbered among the foremost men of Cincinnati. GEORGE W. HAILE, M. D. Dr. George W. Haile, physician and surgeon with offices at No. 400 East Third street, has engaged in the practice of medicine in Cincinnati for forty-four years, opening his office at his present corner in 1867. Through all the intervening period he has kept in touch with the trend of modern investigation and research and while never hastily discarding old and time-tried principles of practice, whose worth has been proven, he has at the same time readily adopted new and improved methods which his judgment has sanctioned and has thus made his professional service of value to a large clientele. 98 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Dr. Haile was born at Brookville, Indiana, December 27, 1844, a son of M. W. and Rachel (John) Haile, both of whom passed away at Brookville, where their remains were interred. In his native town Dr. Haile was reared and attended the public schools and prepared himself under private tutelage to enter the second year in the Miami University. On account of the war the school closed and Dr. Haile continued his preparation for the profession under the direction of Dr. Reuben Hammond, of Brookville, Indiana, while subsequently he became a student in the Ohio Medical College. The year of his graduation was 1866, after which he was connected with the hospital work for a year, spending six months as interne in the old St. John's Hospital on Third and Plumb streets, and six months in the Good Samaritan Hospital. While at St. John's there were three hundred cholera cases and one hundred and fifty deaths. After a year's experience in hospital work Dr. Haile opened his present office in a building erected by Dr. Moorhead. This has been recognized as a physician's corner for almost a century and the property is now in the possession of Dr. Haile. He followed the general practice of his profession yet did much work in accidental surgery. His love for his profession and his humanitarian spirit, combined with a laudable desire to attain success, have caused Dr. Haile to put forth effort that has kept him constantly in the front rank of his profession and has won for him a good patronage. Great changes in the methods of practice have been wrought since at the age of twenty-three years, a young man comparatively inexperienced, he opened an office at No. 400 East Third street. He has remained continuously on the northeast corner of Third and Broadway since that time and few members of the medical profession in Cincinnati are as widely known. He belongs to the Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. HARRY W. MAESCHER. The stability of Cincinnati's financial institutions is widely recognized. In the financial history of the city there have been few failures chronicled and the course pursued by the banking institutions has on the whole been a most conservative as well as progressive one. Harry W. Maescher is contributing to the elevation of the city in this regard as president of the Mohawk German Bank & Savings Company. Moreover he is well known in another connection, being the junior member of the large pork and beef packing house of Maescher & Company at Nos. 1754 and 1756 Central avenue. That he is well known among the business men of this city is indicated by the fact that he is now one of the directors of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. He was born in the Queen City in 1869, a son of J. V. Maescher, who came to America from Germany, his native land, establishing his home in Cincinnati in 1845. Here for two-thirds of a century he has lived and has long been a leading factor in business circles. In 1874 he established the pork and beef packing business now operated under the name of Maescher Company, and remains the senior member of the firm. The business has been located on Central avenue thirty-one years and in its conduct progressive methods have been followed, the firm having today CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 99 a thoroughly modern cold storage and refrigerating plant and packing establishment. Realizing the benefit of educational training, J. V. Maescher sent his children to the public schools, which Harry W. Maescher attended until he entered his father's packing establishment, with which he has now been connected for a quarter of a century, thoroughly mastering the business in every department and working his way upward by individual merit until his father's recognition of his ability led to his admission to the firm as a partner. He has long been active in the management of the business, the growth of which has been of a substantial and gratifying character. In 1909 the Mohawk German Bank & Savings Company was organized and Harry W. Maescher became its president, which position he still fills. He has brought to the solution of intricate financial problems the same spirit of thoroughness and the same characteristics of efficiency which mark him as a successful business man in other relations. His force in business circles has received its acknowledgment in his election as a director of the Chamber of Commerce and he is also a member of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club. In 1896 Mr. Maescher was united in marriage to Miss Florence Eldridge, a daughter of Alfred Eldridge, and to them have been born two children, Kathryn E. and Harry W., Jr. HENRY E. HEITZ. Henry E. Heitz, president of the Ohio Brass & Copper Company, with offices and works at 424 Elm street, Cincinnati, is a descendant of worthy German ancestry and in his life has shown the traits of industry, integrity and perseverance so prominent in the Teutonic race. He belongs to the class of men who generally succeed in what they set out to do and is, today, enjoying the fruits of the well applied efforts of many years. Born at Newport, Kentucky, November 28, 1868, he is a son of Charles and Louise Heitz. The father was a tanner by trade and long a resident of this city. He died in June, 1901, at the age of sixty-three years, his wife passing away in January, 1910, at the age of seventy-nine. Their bodies repose in the family lot at Spring Grove cemetery. After receiving his preliminary education in the public schools of Cincinnati, Henry E. Heitz, at fourteen years of age, completed his studies by taking a night course at Bartlett Business College. He received his introduction to his business career as an apprentice in the employ of the Murdoch Brass & Stamping Works, and he gave such good service to the firm that he remained as clerk and salesman continuously with this concern for twenty-one years. He became thoroughly acquainted with the business and, believing that the field was large enough for another establishment of a somewhat similar character, he founded the Ohio Brass & Copper Company, which through his experienced management soon gained standing as one of the substantial business houses of the city. The patronage has steadily grown in volume and importance and,