700 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY identified with the American Library Association and socially with the University Club of Cincinnati. Although comparatively a short time in his chosen calling he has advanced rapidly and is now filling a position which gives ample opportunity for the exercise of his talents. A man of easy approach, pleasing address and attractive personality, he has made many friends in Cincinnati and possesses the warm regard of all with whom he has come into contact. PETER WILLIAM GOOD, M. D. An able representative of the medical fraternity of Cincinnati is Dr. Peter William Good, who maintains an office in his residence at 305 West McMillan street. His birth occurred in this city October 11, 1869, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Schwartz) Good. The father, who was a native of Lancaster, Ohio, came to Cincinnati when a boy with his parents. Here he was reared to manhood, receiving a common-school education after the completion of which he entered the business world. He was a very efficient and capable man and subsequently engaged in business for himself as a commission merchant, being located at 16 East Court street. This stand was entirely devoted to vegetables and fruits, but at that time Cincinnati was a great pork-packing place and Mr. Good had a number of places about the city where he handled pork products for the retail trade. In addition to his own business interests during the winter months for many years he discharged the duties of meat inspector. His business was becoming well established and the- future looked most promising for him when he passed away in 1872, at the age of thirty-five years. He was of German extraction, his father having been born in the old country and the name was originally spelled Guth. Mr. Good always took an interest in all matters pertaining to the pubilc welfare and served in the Civil war during Morgan's raid. This city has always been the home of Dr. Good, who attended the public schools in the acquirement of his preliminary education. When old enough to become a wage earner he entered the drug room of the city hospital in the capacity of messenger. He was a very bright, studious lad, ambitious to make a place for himself in the world and so devoted all of his spare time to obtaining a knowledge of the various drugs, and their medicinal properties. His receptive mind and close application soon enabled him to become sufficiently proficient to be made assistant pharmacist. He continued his studies and subsequently entered the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, being graduated from this institution in 1890., It was his ambition to ultimately become a physician, so while discharging the duties of a pharmacist he was following a course of professional study under Dr. A. V. Phelps. He later found it possible to enter the Ohio Medical College, being awarded the degree of M. D. with the class of 1893. Immediately thereafter he opened an office on Vine street in the vicinity of Mulberry, engaging in practice there until April, 1910, when he removed to his present beautiful residence on McMillan street, that had just been completed. The ambition, enterprise and determination of purpose that characterized the boy have developed with the passing years and have been the means of making Dr. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 703 Good the capable and thoroughly efficient practitioner he is today. He has always been compelled to make his own way, which undoubtedly has been a most excellent thing as it has developed latent powers that otherwise might never have been discovered. He is a man of pleasing personality, ready sympathy and helpful spirit, who has always applied himself to his practice with a rare sense of conscientious obligation. His natural qualifications combined with his excellent preparation have united in making of him an exceptional physician, while he has proven to be equally competent in the operating room. Like all young professional men he met with more or less difficulty in winning recognition at the beginning, but his subsequent progress was very rapid and most gratifying and he now has a large practice, numbering among his patients many of the best families in the city. He well merits such success as has come to him, however, having at all times made the best of every opportunity afforded him, struggling during his student days against many adverse circumstances that would have killed the ambition of a man of less determination of spirit. Dr. Good married Miss Amanda Freudenberger, a daughter of Henry Freudenberger of this city and they have become the parents of two children : Ralph William and Alice Martha. Fraternally Dr. Good is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, while he maintains relations with his fellow practitioners through the medium of his membership in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, West End Medical Society and the State Medical Association. He is a man who has the faculty of not only winning friends but of retaining them, and is highly esteemed not only by his social acquaintances but by the members of his profession. ANDREW C. GILLIGAN. The effect of a laudable ambition backed by enterprise and sound business judgment is clearly illustrated in the life of Andrew C. Gilligan, now president of the Cincinnati & Suburban Delivery Company and prominently connected with other successful business enterprises. He is a native of the Emerald isle and was born in the County Sligo in 1855, a son of Patrick and Elizabeth (Carvey) Gilligan. He received his education in the old country but being ambitious to make an honorable name for himself under more favorable circumstances and not perceiving an opportunity for rapid advancement in Ireland, he came to America at twenty-two years of age and located at Cincinnati. Here he found employment with the Eagle Bottling Works, which firm was started in 1874 by M. and A. J. Gilligan. By, able management the business was developed to a good paying basis and three years ago was incorporated, the officers now being Andrew C. Gilligan, president, and M. J. Doyle, secretary and treasurer. The company owns the building in which it carries on its work and enjoys a large patronage in Cincinnati and the suburbs. It gives employment to about fifteen persons. Mr. Gilligan is also president of the Cincinnati & Suburban Delivery Company which has been in existence for 'more than thirty years and is the leading concern of the kind in the city. It was incorporated June 2, 1880, the officers at 704 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY that time being : Lucien Broadwell, president ; and C. R. Scott, secretary. They started with five wagons and seven horses but the company now makes use of forty-five wagons and eighty-seven horses and gives employment to fifty-six persons. The large increase in business has been mainly due to the able, energetic management of Mr. Gilligan and his associates, the other officers of the company being: A. W. Park, treasurer ; and Darius Flinn, secretary. Mr. Gilligan is also president of the Motor Car Supply Company of this city, which 1910,ncorporated in December, 191o, and has been a pronounced success from the start. In 1884 he was married to Miss Frances Newman, a daughter of Thomas J. Newman, and to them one child, Edith. May, was born. The mother having died, Mr. Gilligan was married again in 1911 to Miss Mary Elizabeth Mospins, of Newport, Kentucky. In religious belief Mr. Gilligan has all his life been identified with the Catholic church and he holds membership in St. Xavier's of this city. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Men's Club and is prominently identified with benevolent and fraternal organizations, among which are the Knights of Columbus, the United Irish Societies and the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, being also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. A man of generous and pleasing nature, he has made a host of friends who have always found him true to every obligation and quick in response to every noble and uplifting sentiment. He is a true lover of his adopted city and looks back with pride upon the day when he landed on the soil of America, for under the stars and stripes he; has found friends and fortune. WILLIAM KNAPP. The thrift, energy and persistence which characterized his German ancestors have undoubtedly been prominent factors in the success of William Knapp, who is the senior partner of The Hickory Carriage Company, which was established in 1899. He is a native of Cincinnati his natal day being the 5th of August, 1856, and his parents were the late John T. and Catharine Knapp. The father was born in Germany in 1820, acquiring his education in the common schools of his native land from which he emigrated to the United States in his early manhood, locating in Cincinnati in 1842. When he first settled here he worked as a day laborer but later engaged in the retail meat business, with which he continued to be identified until 1878, from which time until his demise in December, 1909, he lived retired. Mrs. Knapp preceded him in death in October, 1908. William Knapp attended the public schools of this city in the acquirement of his education until he reached the age of fourteen years, when he entered a meat market to learn the trade. At the end of two yeathisowever, he withdrew from thi's business having decided that he preferred blacksmithing. He then obtained employment with the firm of Emerson, Fischer & Company, carriage manufacturers , being engaged in their blacksmithing department for twenty-three years. At the :expiration of that period he started the Brighton Buggy Works,. of which he was sole proprietor for two years when he incorporated CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 705 the company and became secretary and treasurer, which office he retained until 1900 when he disposed of his interest. Subsequently he bought the Hickory Carriage Company, which has proven to be a most profitable venture, the business of the firm having constantly increased under his management. His son, E. J. Knapp, is associated with him as junior partner, and they engage in the manufacture of a general line of popular priced vehicles, their annual output being twelve thousand. They have a very large sales department, shipping their goods to all parts of the United States, while their factory gives employment to eighty men. On the 13th of December, 1877, Mr. Knapp was united in marriage to Miss Louise Reinke, also of German extraction, and they have become the parents of the following children : Edwin J., who was born June 9, 1885, and engaged in business with his father ; Beatrice, who became the wife of H. C. Kibby, of Cincinnati; and Emeline, who married John Diehl, of Indianapolis, Indiana. The religious affiliation of the family is with the Lutheran denomination in the faith of which the parents were reared. His political allegiance Mr. Knapp always accords the candidates of the republican party, but he has never been an office seeker, early realizing in this age of keen competition that concentration of energy was essential as well as perseverance and fortitude in the attainment of success in a business career. THOMAS FORD. Thomas Ford, president of The Bourbon Copper and Brass Works Company of Cincinnati, is one of the well known manufacturers of the city, having been identified with the manufacturing business in Cincinnati ever since his boyhood. He is a native of Mount Savage, Maryland, born October 11, 1846. His parents were Owen and .Mary (Nealon) Ford, both of whom were born in Ireland. They came to America early in their lives and were married at Carbondale, Pennsylvania. The father was a butcher by trade. He removed to Cincinnati with his family in 1852 and there engaged as a contractor. He furnished ,boulders for street paving. There were four children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Ford, the subject of this review being next to the youngest in order of birth and the only one now living. He gained the rudiments of an education in the public schools of Newport, and soon after leaving school the war broke out and, like thousands of patriotic young men, he offered his services in support of .the federal government. He was connected with the supply department at Covington, Kentucky, under Captain Webster, General Frye being in command at Camp Nelson. Later he joined the Twenty-third Corps under General Schofield and marched to meet the army of General Sherman but was captured by the Confederates in April, 1865. Soon afterwards he was paroled at Monroe, North Carolina. Subsequently he was enabled to join his old corps. After receiving his honorable discharge from the army Mr. Ford, on August 9, 1866, entered the employ of Robson & Company, brass founders and coppersmiths, remaining with that concern, working on and off with Samuel Cummings & Sons, a firm that was established at Cincinnati 706 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY in 1818, and built the first hand fire engine used by a volunteer fire department west of the Alleghany mountains. This firm also manufactured fire plugs and made fire plugs for Cincinnati in the early days when wooden pipes were used. About 1874 or 1875 Mr. Ford associated with John G. Hetch, John G. Ellerhorst and Peter M. Bardo under the title of The Bourbon Copper and Brass Works and purchased the plant of Samuel Cummings & Sons. The purchasers had all been employes of the old firm and they carried forward the business successfully until 1891 when Mr. Ford and Mr. Bardo bought out the other partners. About 1904. the business was incorporated as The Bourbon Copper and Brass Works Company, with Mr. Ford as president and Mr. Bardo as secretary and treasurer, the capital stock being fifty thousand dollars, all of which was paid in. The company employs about fifty persons, many of whom are thoroughly skilled workmen, and manufactures fire plugs, gate valves for water and steam, and waterworks and fire department supplies, this company being now one of the most important concerns of the kind in the west. On November Is, 1870, Mr. Ford was married to Miss Mary Dowd, a daughter of Thomas A. and Bridget Dowd, of Newport, Kentucky. To them five children have been born., Peter, James, Catherine, Louise and Genevieve. Mr. Ford is a member of Lodge. No. 273, B. P. O. E., of Newport, and has served as trustee of this organization. In religious faith he is a Catholic and he and his family are consistent members of Father McNearney's church at Newport. He has never taken particular interest in politics. A man of broad views, his mind having been broadened early in life by contact with the world, especially at the crucial time of the Civil war, he has been forceful and energetic in business management and has attained success that is richly merited. Courteous and obliging by nature, he has won the honor and respect of his associates and of his employes, and he can look back on a long life in the course of which he accomplished not a little in lightening the burdens of his fellowmen. LEARNER BLACKMAN HARRISON. Learner Blackman Harrison was one of the eminently successful men of Cincinnati whose efforts contributed in no small degree toward making this the metropolis of the Ohio valley. He was for many years prominently identified with its commercial and financial interests, coming in time to be one of the city's most honored capitalists, owing his success to intelligently directed effort, to keen perception and to indomitable and unflagging enterprise. His clear insight was manifest in the establishment and conduct of business affairs that were an element in the city's growth as well as of individual benefit. It was not his success alone, however, that made him recognized as one of the foremost residents of the city. Wherever he was known and in whatever condition of life he was placed he sought for all that is best in American manhood and his influence and memory remain as an indelible impress upon the lives of those with whom he was closely associated. He was born in Cincinnati, May 29, 1815, and was named for a Methodist minister, who was drowned while crossing the Ohio river, his remains being in- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 709 terred in the rear of Wesley Chapel on Fifth street. The parents, Edmund and Martha (Pitts) Harrison, were both representatives of old southern families, the former from Virginia and the latter from North Carolina. The father was an educator of note in those days and in the early period of the development of the public-school system, was principal of the Lancasterian Seminary, located on the east side of Walnut street, north of Fourth. The schoolhouse was a one-story brick building, the floor laid with bricks and the posts served as props for the boards which were used as seats. Punishment was inflicted by placing the disobedient pupils in several boxes, which were placed against the wall, with auger holes bored for light. The family of Edmund Harrison numbered ten children, of whom L. B. Harrison was the eighth, the others being Edmund, John William, James Lane, Maria, John Pitts, Martha, William Henry, Charles and Agnes. L. B. Harrison was reared in his native city and spent his entire life here, save for a period of three years, from 1829 until 1832„ passed in Dayton. The greater part of his education was acquired in Cincinnati, although he pursued his studies for a brief period in Dayton. In this city he was instructed largely by his sister Maria. On his return from Dayton he made the trip by canal boat, arriving with five dollars in his pocket. He thus faced the conditions which life imposed and to provide for his own support, in 1833, entered the retail grocery house of Joseph Stedman at the northeast corner of Walnut and Pearl streets but after a short time Mr. Stedman failed and Mr. Harrison was left without employment for a brief period. He next entered the grocery and fruit store of John Bates at the corner of Main and Columbia, now Second street, and remained with Mr. Bates and with his brother and successor, Richard Bates, who about a year before had come from England. In 1835, while on a business trip in St. Louis, Mr. Bates contracted to sell his Cincinnati interests to Brown & Bailey, provided Mr. Harrison would remain with them. To this he agreed and the value, of his service was recognized in 1839 by his admission to the firm as junior partner under the style of John Bailey & Company, Mr. Brown having died in the meantime. This relation continued until 1843, when the partnership was dissolved, and receiving fifteen thousand dollars for his share in the business, Mr. Harrison withdrew, leaving the enterprise in the hands of the new firm, Bailey & Hartwell, while he succeeded Samuel E. Pleasant in the ownership of a store two doors above on Main street. Not long afterward he was joined by two partners, James Pullan and William Hooper, the former putting in a capital of twenty thousand dollars, while Mr. Hartwell invested five thousand dollars and Mr. Harrison used the fifteen thousand dollars which he had received from his former business venture. After a half year, however, Mr. Pullan withdrew, directing that his partners should pay him his capital in six, twelve and eighteen months. The firm style of Harrison, Pullan & Hooper was then changed to Harrison & Hooper, and the owners, by close attention to the business and strict economy, won success. Their progress was at first slow but as the city grew their patronage increased and larger quarters were demanded, so that a removal was made from the little store, twenty by sixty feet, to a building twenty-five by one hundred and seventy-five feet, at No. 69 Main street, in 1847. They built up an extensive business in groceries, supplying this city and the surrounding country and in large part, the cities of Cleveland, Toledo, Terre Haute and Columbus, 710 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY and in part, Pittsburg. The business of Harrison & Hooper was continued successfully until 1862, when events connected with the Civil war blocked their trade in sugar and molasses, secured from Louisiana, and as they could no longer secure their usual supplies from the south they closed out their store. Mr. Hooper, who had had previous experience in banking, returned to financial interests and soon afterward became president of the Central National Bank of Cincinnati and for a brief period was state treasurer, appointed by George Charles Andrews. In 1870 the Central Bank was absorbed by the First National, whose capital was increased for the purpose from one million dollars to, one million, two hundred thousand dollars. In the meantime, in 1868, Mr. Harrison, attracted by the then low price of cotton, which was selling at twelve and a half and fifteen cents and also with a. desire to help two of his friends who were cotton factors, bought largely of that commodity and closed 0ut the balance of his holdings in July of that year, with very satisfactory results, cotton then bringing thirty-three cents. In 1863, when comparatively idle, he looked through Third street with the idea of investing in bank stock but saw no: opportunity that he. regarded as favorable and satisfactory. Soon after ward the national bank act was passed by congress and after reading a copy of the bill, Mr. Harrison proposed to Lewis Worthington the organization of a bank under the new law, the institution to be capitalized for one million dollars and organized under the name of the First National Bank of Cincinnati. The plans were carriedout and John W. Ellis, became 'president, Lewis Worthington vice president, and Mr. Thompson cashier, while William Glenn, L. B. Harrison, M. Werk, Robert Mitchell, A. S. Winslow, James A. Frazer and G. Phipps were leading:shareholders in the new institution. Mr. Harrison remained the last of the original board in active connection with the bank. He served for some time as a director and was then called to executive office in the bank, remaining to the time of his death president of the institution. He. succeeded to the presidency in January, 1870, and remained at the head of the bank' until July 2, .1902, or for a period of almost a third of a century. He was also a director of the Lakeside & Marblehead Railway Company from 1868 until his death and for many years was a director of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Cincinnati Railway Company On the 1st of June, 1853, a wedding ceremony performed by the Rev. Livermore of Cincinnati - united the destinies of L. B. Harrison and Miss Fannie Goodman, who was horn in Boston, Massachusetts, July 28, 1829, and when three months old was brought to Cincinnati by her parents, William and Margaret (Adams) Goodman. Her father was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in October, 1797, and he and his brother Timothy were numbered among the early wholesale dry-goods merchants of Cincinnati. He afterward became identified with the Washington Insurance Company, with which he was associated at the time of his death, on the 2d of August, 1876. He was a direct descendant of Joseph Wadsworth, who hid the Connecticut charter in the famous old oak tree in colonial days. His daughter Mrs. Harrison is a member of the Colonial Dames. Mr. Harrison was survived by his wife and seven children. About 1860 he purchased from his brother, William H., sixty-five acres of land known as the old Wheeler place, mostly covered with the native forest. This is situated on CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 711 Walnut Hills. Around 1862 he began to build thereon and in 1865 took up his residence there. The family have a fine home and the land is now divided among the four children and the mother, all of whom 0ccupy beautiful residences. Mr. Harrison was a great lover of art, owned many interesting pictures and was active in the management 0f the Cincinnati Museum, which has several valuable pictures presented by him; he was also very much interested in the growth and development of the Art School. He never would accept political office and declined to fill the position of inspector of railroads offered' him .by President Cleveland. He was always interested in matters of progressive citizenship, however, and his aid and cooperation could be counted upon to further many movements for the general good in Cincinnati. He enjoyed home life and the society of friends and was accorded the warm regard which is always given in recognition of sterling traits of manhood in every land and clime. His quietude of deportment, his easy dignity, his frankness and cordiality of address, betokened a man who was ready to meet any obligation of life with the confidence and courage that come of conscious, personal ability, right conception of things and an habitual regard for what is best in the exercise of human activities. E. A. CONKLING. One of the older and well established industries of Cincinnati is that of the E. A. Conkling Box Company, of which E. A. Conkling has been the president since 1905. He is one of the younger members of the manufacturers' fraternity of the city, having been born on the 12th of March, 1879, at Madisonville, Ohio, his parents being E. A. and Cornelia Conkling. The father was also a native of the Buckeye state, his birth having occurred at Terrace Park in 1844, and there he was reared and educated. In the early days of the Civil war he enlisted and went to the front with the Forty-eighth Ohio Infantry, remaining in service for three years. When mustered out he returned to his native state, locating in Madisonville, now Cincinnati, and engaged in the manufacture of cottonseed oil. He withdrew from this line later to go into the excelsior business with which he was identified until 1870, at which time he established the Conkling Box Company, of which he was sole proprietor until January, 1905, when the company was incorporated with his son, E. A. Conkling, as president. Mr. Conkling passed away in the September following. He married Cornelia M. Whetsel of. Cincinnati, who is still living. The early years of E. A. Conkling's life were spent in the paternal home, his education being acquired in the public and high schools, following the completion of his course, he attended the Pennsylvania Military College for one year. Being attracted to a business career he withdrew from school at the expiration of that period, feeling that he was fully equipped, educationally, to assume the heavier responsibilities of life. He entered the factory of his father at a salary of four dollars per Week and intending to make this his life vocation he worked in all departments of the establishment until he had mastered every detail and process of the manufacturing end, following which he was placed in the office as bookkeeper in order to become familiar with the trade and the methods of handling 712 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY the business generally. Later he was made superintendent and manager during the absence of his father, and when the company was incorporated in 1905, he was elected president, which office he has ever since retained. They manufacture a general line of wooden packing boxes for the jobbing trade, employing one hundred men in the operation of their factory, which is one of the largest of its kind in the city. In February, 1906, Mr. Conkling was united in marriage to Miss Susan Bradley and they have become the parents of two children, Susan and Margaret Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Conkling affiliate with the Episcopal denomination, and he is a member of the Business Men's Club and the Hamilton County Golf Club as well as of the board of governors of the Automobile Club. In the last floral parade he had the honor of being the recipient of the first prize. Mr. Conkling has always been .too much absorbed in the direction of his personal affairs to ever prominently participate in political campaigns, but in municipal elections he always casts an independent ballot. Although he succeeded his father in a well established and thriving industry he is not contented with things as he found them, but being an ambitious, as well as progressive and enterprising man is concentrating his energies upon the advancement of his business in a manner that augurs success.   GEORGE WOODWARD NOYES. Another of the native sons who is successfully identified with the commercial activities of. Cincinnati is George Woodward Noyes, who for the past nine years has been filling the office of secretary and treasurer with The Brunhoff Manufacturing Company. He was born on the 23d of May, 1879, and is a son of Joseph C. and Alice (Hutchins) Noyes. George Woodward Noyes was reared at home, acquiring his preliminary education in the public and high schools of his native city, graduating from the latter institution with the class of 1898, following which he matriculated at Yale University receiving the degree of A. B. in June, 1902. After the completion of his university course Mr. Noyes traveled for several months, returning to Cincinnati in November, 1902. Having decided that he preferred a business to a professional vocation he accepted the position of secretary and treasurer of The Brunhoff Manufacturing Company, the responsibilities of which he still continues to discharge. This firm is engaged in the manufacture of hardware and metal specialties, and is one of the successful and thriving industries of the city. Employment is given to one hundred and twenty-five people in their factory, in addition to which they have four traveling salesmen and an office force. It is a well established company, their responsibility and worth as well as the merit of their goods being known throughout the United States, while the scope of their business warrants them to maintain a branch office at 113 Maiden Lane, New York. In Chicago on the 19th of June, 1909, Mr. Noyes was united in marriage to Miss Louise Leszynsky, a niece of William Woodward. They affiliate with the CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 713 Congregational church and Mr. Noyes is a Member of the Country, University, Queen City, Riding, Miami Boat, and Business Men's Clubs, as well as the Delta Kappa Epsilon. Mr. Noyes has not been especially prominent in politics, never having felt attracted to public life, and although he meets the requirements of good citizenship by casting a ballot on election day, it is in support of the men and measures he considers to be best adapted to meet the exigencies of the situation, regardless of party affiliation. During the brief period of his business career Mr. Noyes has given conclusive proof of possessing the characteristics which enable the ambitious man to succeed in whatsoever he undertake's. ROBERT C. BARNARD. As division superintendent of the Pennsylvania lines, also superintendent of the Cincinnati, Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Robert C. Barnard was transferred to Cincinnati on the 1st of January, 1906, where he has ever since continued to reside. His birth occurred in Montreal, Canada, on the 5th of February, 1869, and he is a son of the late John F. and Julia B. (Keefer) Barnard. His father was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 23d of March, 1829. and there he was reared. He was educated in the public schools of Worcester and later graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic of Troy, New York, in the class of 1850. When he attained his majority he entered the railway service, assuming the duties of his first position in November, 1850. He continued to be actively identified with railroading for fifty-seven years, retiring about three years prior to his demise on the 6th of February, 1910. His first position was as assistant engineer on the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad, following which he was engaged in the same capacity with the Grand Trunk for seven years. At the expiration of that time he joined the forces of the Carrilon & Grenville Railway Company in Canada in the capacity of superintendent for four years. For twenty-one months thereafter he was superintendent of the Buffalo & Goderich division of the Grand Trunk Railroad, after which he became chief engineer of the Grand Trunk south of the St. Lawrence river for three years. From May, 1869, to July of the following year he was superintendent and chief engineer of the Missouri Valley Railroad. In July, 1870, he became chief engineer of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs road, continuing in this capacity until the following June. He subsequently became superintendent and chief engineer of the St. Joseph & Denver Railroad, holding this position from June, 1871, to May, 1872. In August, 1872, he became general superintendent of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad, retaining this post until July, 1884. For several years he was president of the Atchison Union Depot & Railroad Company and the St. -Joseph Union Stock Yards Company. He was also secretary and treasurer of the St. Joseph Union Depot Company and director of various railway companies. From the 1st of March, 1884 to November, 1886, he was general manager of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, and from the 1st of July, 1884, to October, 1886, he was also general manager of the Council Bluffs Railroad. On the 14th of October, 1886, he came 714 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY to Cincinnati as president of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, while on the 1st of November of the same year he was made also general manager of the same road, retaining both positions until the 13th of October, 1892. On the 30th of June, 1897, he was appointed receiver of the Omaha & St. Louis Railroad, in which capacity he also served on the St. Claire, Madison & St. Louis Belt road from the 15th of January, 1897, to the 19th of June, 1901. On the 1st of March, 1901, he was made president of the same road which was reorganized without foreclosure. John Alfred Barnard, oldest son of John F. Barnard, was also well known in Cincinnati, having been assistant general manager of the Big Four Railroad while here; later was general manager of the Peoria and Eastern Railroad, a subsidiary of the same system. While located in Cincinnati, he married a daughter of M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four. After the completion of his preliminary education, Robert C. Barnard was sent to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, for his technical training. He was a student of this institution from 1887 to 1890 and then began his career as a railroad man. He entered the service on the 28th of March, 1890, as assistant on the engineering corps of the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pittsburg. From the 1st of June, 1895, to the 1st of July, 1898, he was assistant engineer of the Chicago division of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. On the 1st of March, 1898, he was made engineer of the maintenance of way department of the Richmond division of the same road, continuing in the latter capacity until the 1st of April, 1900. From that time until the 15th of May, 1902, he was engineer of maintenance of way of the Cincinnati division of this road. On the 15th of May, 1902, he was made superintendent of the Marietta division of the Pennsylvania company, and on the 21st of December, 1903, he was ,transferred to the superintendency of the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Railroad, continuing in this position until he came to Cincinnati in January, 1906. Mr. Barnard's advance has been the steady and permanent progress which invariably rewards the capable efforts of the painstaking, conscientious worker in any capacity in life, his endeavors having well merited every promotion he has won. Mr. Barnard married on September 22; 1897, Miss Helen C. Nelson; a daughter of John C. Nelson, of Logansport, Indiana, and there has been born to them a daughter and a son, Alice N. and Reginald N. During the five years he has been serving in his present capacity Mr. Barnard has in every way fulfilled the expectations he aroused in previous positions, and gives every assurance of attaining higher positions in the ranks of railway officials. ISAAC BATES CARPENTER, M. D. The thorough professional training accorded in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia qualified Isaac B. Carpenter for practice and when he had abandoned the profession the development of his native powers and talents fitted him for equal responsibilities in other lines of life, so that he became a successful merchant. He was one of the early physicians of the city and was a repre- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 717 sentative of an old pioneer family of Cincinnati. His birth occurred here in 1806, his father being Captain Joseph Carpenter, who had come to Ohio from New England in the opening years of the nineteenth century. Here Captain Carpenter published the first newspaper of Cincinnati, called the Western Spy, copies of which can still be seen in the Young Men's Mercantile Library. He died on a forced march while engaged in active service during the war of 1812, leaving a wife and six little children, and there is now to be seen in Eden Park a stone tablet erected to his memory. He was a very active and influential citizen of that early day and did much toward shaping the history of Cincinnati in its formative period. He married 'Eliza Freeman, a daughter of Abraham Freeman, who was the owner of much real estate here and in whose honor Freeman avenue was named. Cincinnati was but a small town when Isaac B. Carpenter became a pupil in her public schools, wherein his literary studies were pursued. He then determined to make the practice of medicine his life work and to this end pursued the regular course of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, from which in due time he was graduated. He practiced for a time in that city but later returned to Cincinnati. Here, however, he abandoned his profession to engage in mercantile life. About fifteen years before his death he gave up commercial pursuits to devote his entire time to literary work and to the supervision of his property. He was always an extensive reader, employing his leisure time in acquainting himself with the works of Master minds of all' ages. He was also greatly interested in the observatory erected in "Cincinnati and was one of its promoters and original stockholders. Dr. Carpenter was united in marriage, in Philadelphia, to Miss Susan Ellmaker, a daughter of David and Julia Ellmaker. Her father was one of the eleven men who founded St. Andrews Episcopal church in Philadelphia and both he and his wife are buried in the old churchyard there. Dr. and Mrs. Carpenter became the parents of four daughters and two sons : Helen H., who is the wife of Frank Lockwood, of Brooklyn, New York, and has two sons and two daughters; Dr. Julia W. Carpenter; Horace E., who was a wholesale grocer of Cincinnati and at his death a few years ago left a widow, who bore the maiden name of Alice Malone, and four sons ; Charles C., of Los Angeles, California, who married Clara Wilshire and who has four children; Susan E., the wife of Judge William Worthington; and Dr. Lily F. Carpenter. The two daughters who have entered professional circles have made creditable records in connection therewith.. Dr. Julia W. Carpenter was graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, after which she spent a year of study in Vienna, Austria, and another year in Paris. She filled the position of interne in the Woman's Hospital in Philadelphia for a year and in 1880 began practicing in Cincinnati. Her standing among the members of the profesion is indicated in the .fact that she has twice been elected vice president of .the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and has also been president of the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, whose members are chiefly the abdominal surgeons of the city. She is also a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association and now has a large and successful practice. Her sister, Dr. Lily F. Carpenter, is a graduate of the Laura Memorial Medical College of Cincinnati and also belongs to the Ohio and American Medical Associations. Vol. III-33 718 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Dr. Isaac B. Carpenter was a republican in his political views, supporting the party from its organization. His religious faith was that of the Episcopal church. He died in the year 1883, and thus was terminated a long, useful and active career, covering seventy-seven years, and practically the entire period was passed in Cincinnati. He had witnessed the growth of the- city from a small town into a thriving city and had seen it converted, into a commercial and industrial center. At all times he had endeavored to promote progress and never regarded a duty of citizenship as of minor consequence but looked upon it as just such an obligation as he owed to his family and to his fellowmen. In his later years he was often consulted concerning some early event of the city and there were few public men here with whom he was not acquainted and whom he did not number among his friends. JULIA W. CARPENTER, M. D. Dr. Julia Wiltberger Carpenter is a native of Cincinnati. Her family were among its early settlers. Her paternal great-grandfather, Abraham Freeman, was an Englishman, the oldest son and entitled to the whole inheritance. Thinking such a division unjust, he divided the estate equally with the other children and came to the United States settling. in Cincinnati, becoming the owner of the tract of land through which Freeman avenue now passes, which was named for him. Her grandfather, Captain Joseph Carpenter, a man of education and enterprise, was in his earliest manhood editor and proprietor of the first newspaper published in Cincinnati, called The Western Spy. Copies of this paper are to be seen at the Young Men's Mercantile Library. He died in the war of 1812 and a stone to his memory .is to be seen in Eden Park. Her father, Dr. Isaac Bates Carpenter, recently deceased, was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. After practicing several years he married and returned to Cincinnati engaging in mercantile business. He retired about fifteen years before his demise to enjoy a life of literary pursuits. Her mother, Susan Ellmaker, was the daughter of David Ellmaker of Philadelphia, one ‘of the eleven men who founded St. Andrews Episcopal church and Who, with his wife, Julia Wiltberger, now rests in its churchyard. Dr. Julia Carpenter is one of six children, two of whom studied medicine. She chose this profession because it was open to women, and not because she preferred it above 'everything else; for there is no department of study that did not have some charm for her. Her mother tells how she insisted on going to school at four years of age and has practically kept it up ever since. Her education was a -very thorough one, including the higher mathematics, with astronomy and the sciences. The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, is her alma mater in medicine. The Doctor was an interne for one year in the Woman's Hospital connected with this college and, before going to Europe to, study, she spent two years in the McMicken University of Cincinnati, studying French, German and practical chemistry. Over two years were then passed in Europe, studying one year in the hospitals of Vienna and one year in those of Paris. From the various professors with whom she studied she has very CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 721 complimentary certificates. After several months more of travel through Europe she returned to Cincinnati and opened an office the last of November, 1878. Dr. Thad A. Reamy immediately called upon her and advised her to join the Academy of Medicine, -to which proposition Dr. Carpenter expressed a readiness if the society was friendly enough to elect her to membership. Dr. Reamy then proposed her name for membership and she was unanimously elected, being the first woman member of the Academy. Two days later, December 18, 1878, in the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, there appeared the following notice in the first editorial column : "The Cincinnati Academy of Medicine has shown its good sense and freedom from antiquated prejudices in electing Dr. Julia W. Carpenter to its membership. She is the first practitioner of her sex to receive this mark of appreciation. It is well deserved. She has adopted her profession not from necessity but inclination, relinquishing voluntarily the life of ease with which so many young women are content, and preparing herself fot her professional duties by thorough, study at home and abroad. The time has passed, here at least, when industry and ambition can be set down as incompatible with social station or feminine refinement." Dr. Carpenter's entrance paper at the Academy was on an eye subject, "Keratoscopy." This was afterward published in the Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic, March 1, 1879, and was copied into several other medical journals, including one in St. Petersburg, Russia. She has continued to write occasional papers for the various societies of which she is a member and these .appear afterward, as usual, in the journals. As a writer her style is concise, clear and forcible. The Doctor has held a number of positions of honor, namely : Vice president, for two terms, of the .Cincinnati Academy of Medicine ; president of the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society ; and professor of physiology in the Laura Memorial Medical College. She is a Member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.. In Dr. Carpenter's case there was no period of waiting for a practice. It began at once. Those of her friends who had opposed her studying medicine soon became proud of her success. Dr. Carpenter has not gone beyond minor surgery in that _domain. Her special interest is more in the causes of disease, and the trend of, her thought and study is in the prevention of disease and the overcoming of it by the application of all knowledge as it is obtained. MRS. RACHEL P. HALLORAN, M. D. Dr. Rachel, P. Halloran has a wide professional acquaintance and patronage, for through sixteen years she has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, specializing largely in the treatment of women's and children's diseases. She is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and a daughter of Mahlon F. and Eliza (Meeker) Parsons. Her father was also a native of Dayton and in that locality carried on agricultural pursuits throughout his entire life. His religious faith was that of the Methodist church, to which his family also adhered. 722 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY At the usual age his daughter Mrs. Halloran became a pupil in the public schools, and 'eventually entered the high school at Dayton, where she completed the. regular course. She then took up the profession 'of teaching, which she followed for three years before coming to Cincinnati. During that period, however, she determined to engage in the practice of medicine and surgery as a life work and was graduated from the Cincinnati Woman's Medical College with the class of 1894. She has since taken post-graduate work in Indianapolis in electrical therapeutics. She located for practice in Cincinnati and has ever been a constant and discriminating student. She has done very advanced work in therapeutics and is extremely successful in diagnosis. In manner she is modest and unassuming, of marked refinement and intellectuality, and she believes that the development of the mental and the spiritual are essential forces in the development and helpfulness of the physical. All of her work is in line with the most advanced thought of today and she has been a close student of the psychological courses of nature. She holds membership in the Ohio-Miami Alumni Association. In 1872 Rachel P. Parsons became the wife of William O. Halloran, a native of Ireland, who has for some years been engaged in the real-estate business in Cincinnati. They are in full accord in their interests, especially in their studies and researches along psychological lines. Dr: Halloran's practice has constantly grown in volume and importance and the demands made upon her time for professional service are now many. GEORGE MERRELL. George Merrell, president of the William S. Merrell Chemical Company and the founder of the present business organization, although the enterprise had its inception many years before; is s native son of Cincinnati of whom the city has every reason to be proud because of the wise use which he has made of time and opportunities, of his native talents and of his inherited possessions. He was born here in 1845, a son of William Stanley and Mehitabel Thurston (Poore) Merrell, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere in this volume. A fter mastering the branches. of learning taught in the grammar grades of the 'public schools he entered the Hughes high school in preparation for Harvard University, but the outbreak of the Civil war prevented him from pursuing a college course. On account of his youth he did not become a soldier until the last year of the war, when he joined Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry—a regiment raised for home protection at the time of the threatened invasion of Ohio by the Confederate forces. He entered business life as his father's assistant, thoroughly mastering every detail necessary to the management Of the interests of the chemical company and gradually more and more relieved his father of the heavy cares and .responsibilities attendant upon the control of the business. Subsequent to his father's death, which occurred in 1880, he reorganized the business, in 1881, under the name of the William. S. Merrell Chemical Company, adopting that name in honor of his father who had founded the business. George Merrell became the president of the CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 723. new company, which was. originally capitalized for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and gradually increased through division of profits and new capital to seven hundred and fifty thousand .dollars. In 1882 the company erected the five and three-story buildings standing at the corner of Sixth and Eggleston streets, now . occupied by the American Tool Works, and having 0utgrown those works purchased a large vacant lot at the corner of Fifth and Butler streets. It was for many years, in the early days of the city, a part of the Longworth Gardens. In 1892 the company erected it the corner of Fifth and Butler streets the, building now standing and in 1902 purchased property at the corner of Fifth and Pike streets, including the old Broadwell residence and the adjoining vacant lot. The. residence, after being. completely overhauled and rearranged, is now used for offices. On the vacant lot have been erected the warehouses of the company which now occupy the entire block from Pike to Butler streets, with an L on Butler two hundred and twenty feet deep.. Two hundred and twenty-five people are employed in the factories and offices and the business is conducted along the progressive lines which have ever characterized the. enterprise, with George Merrell as president . and his son Charles G. Merrell as vice president. In 1866 Mr. Merrell wedded Cornelia Spear, a native of Cincinnati and a daughter of Samuel B. Spear. Their three sons are : Charles, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now an expert in chemistry and 'vice president of the William S. Merrell Chemical Company ; Stanley W., a classical graduate of Harvard and of the Harvard Law School, now one of Cincinnati's leading attorneys ; and Thurston, a Harvard graduate with chemistry as his major study, who is connected with the William S. Merrell Chemical Company as sales manager. Mr. Merrell is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the Sons of the Revolution, both his paternal and maternal ancestry having been represented in the war for independence. He is also a Scottish Rite Mason, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree, and is a member of Harmony Consistory, No. 2. He is a member of Queen City Club and also the Manufacturers' Club; serving for one term as sinking fund trustee. Religiously he is connected with the Swedenborgian church at the corner of Oak street and Winslow avenue and politically is identified with the democratic party, though at local elections he usually votes independent of party ties. He now makes his home at the Navarre apartments, Walnut Hills. He is preeminently a man of affairs and one who has wielded .a wide influence in the business circles of the city and also in municipal life as a stalwart advocate of many measures and movements for the public good. C. W. ZUMBIEL. C. W. Zumbiel, who for thirty years has been engaged in the manufacture of paper boxes in Cincinnati, was born in this city in 1859, and is a son of George and Catherine (Stevens) Zumbiel. The father was born and reared in Germany, emigrating from there to the United States during his early manhood. 724 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY When he first arrived in this country he located in Philadelphia, whence he came to Cincinnati. Later he removed with his wife and family to Manchester, Indiana, where he resided for about thirteen years, when he returned to Cincinnati, where he continued to make his home. As he was only a babe of three' weeks when his parents removed to Manchester, Indiana, practically the entire life of C. W. Zumbiel up to the age of thirteen was spent in that town, to whose public schools he is indebted for much of his education. After eighteen years of continuous residence in Cincinnati he removed to Erlanger, where he continues to make his home, but is conducting his business in this city. He first engaged in the manufacture of paper boxes in 1881, beginning in a very small way, with practically little or no machinery and five employes. During the intervening period he has acquired a factory which is thoroughly equipped with every modern appliance used in the business. The most of the machinery and mechanical contrivances now utilized in the manufacture of paper boxes are of very recent invention. Mr. Zumbiel has succeeded in building up a large patronage, mostly city trade, and now requires the service of thirty-five people on an avera to enable him to fill his orders. Mr. Zumbiel was married to Miss 'Margaret Twohig, a daughter of Jeremiah Twohig, a resident of Cincinnati, and to them have been born two daughters and four sons, the order of birth being as follows : Charles, Catherine, Robert, Richard, Nora and Thomas. Fraternally Mr. Zumbiel is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias lodge of Erlanger of which organization 'he is past chancellor. His is one of the growing and 'lucrative industries of Cincinnati among whose business men he is highly regarded and widely known. SARAH M. SIEWERS, M. D. The knowledge which Dr. Sarah M. Siewers has of her profession and the ability which she has displayed in the practice of medicine would alone entitle her to mention among the representative people of Cincinnati. In other fields as well, however, her work is notable. Few have made a more close and thorough study of the vital and significant problems of the day, political, social and economic. She is particularly broad-minded, seeming to view any question offered from a business standpoint, while her deductions are thoroughly logical. With all her splendid mentality she is thoroughly womanly in manner, and attractive social qualities have made her many friends, while her professional ability has won her many patrons. Dr. Siewers was born in Cincinnati and is a daughter of Charles G. and Rebecca (Carpenter) Siewers. Her father was born in the Danish West Indies, May 24, 1815, his parents being Moravian missionaries there. The grandfather of Dr. Siewers, Henry F. Siewers, was a native of Germany, while his wife was from Denmark. Joining the Moravian people, he became a missionary of that church, devoting many years to active service in its behalf. After retiring from the ministry he resided at Nazareth, Pennsylvania. His wife survived him, living in widowhood,' for forty years and reaching the age of eighty-two. For a CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 727 long period she acted as deaconess at a school conducted under the auspices of the Moravian church at Nazareth. They sent their son, Charles G. Siewers, to Nazareth, Pennsylvania, that he might enter the Moravian College, in which he was educated for the ministry. But he decided not to become a clergyman and turned his attention instead to the manufacture of tools, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in connection with Dr. Emanuel Carpenter, who was also a practicing physician and was a descendant of Heinrich Zimmerman, who .emigrated from Switzerland to the new world in 1708. In this country his name was changed to Carpenter by William Penn. Dr. Carpenter's wife was Sarah Stevens Sangston. She was descended from the Stevens family, who were English Quakers, and the Sangstons, who were French Huguenots. It was Rebecca Carpenter. the daughter of Dr. Emanuel and Sarah (Sangston) Carpenter, who became, the wife of Charles G. Siewers in 1843. In the meantime, in 1837, he had left Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and removed to Cincinnati, where he established himself in the hardware manufacturing business at Eighth and :Broadway, where he was located for many years. He afterward purchased a farm in Kentucky in order to carry on experiments in grape culture and there planted a large Catawba vineyard. He conducted that business as a side issue. The penitentiaries began the manufacture of saws and tools and, not having to pay for their labor, could undersell him. For ten years he engaged in no business and during that period devoted his entire time to entomology, in which he had always been interested, developing a correspondence with entomologists throughout the world. He received honorable mention many times from the Canadian Entomologist,- a journal for which he wrote many articles. This was in the '70s. The excellent work which he did along that line was shown in a collection of six thousand beetles obtained in this section, which Dr. Siewers presented to the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. This collection is of remarkable interest because the beetles in this vicinity have changed greatly, many of the species in that section not being found here at the present time. As a merchant and scientist Mr. Siewers ranked high and the nobility of his character won him honor and respect, while his broad knowledge and successful achievements gained him admiration. His death .occurred in September, 1882. In the family were eight children, of whom five reached adult age. Charles, who enlisted at the age of seventeen and served for three years in the Eighty-third Ohio Infantry is now deceased. Albert, who for thirty years was a United States engineer on the river and made his home in Cincinnati, has also passed away. Dr. Siewers is the third of the family. Warner is a resident of Peoria, Illinois. De Witt, the youngest, is employed in the government printing office in Washington, D. C. Dr. Siewers spent a portion of her girlhood on the farm in Kentucky, there remaining until fourteen years of age, when she attended the Newport high school in which she afterward taught physiology and Latin. In the .meantime she had been a teacher in the intermediate grades and while teaching in the high school took special work in chemistry and physiology at the Eclectic Medical College in order to perfect herself for the teaching of those branches, but while studying she discovered that she possessed a special aptitude for the practice of medicine. Her preceptor was Dr. Henry. Gunkel, a noted physician of Newport, Kentucky. Resolving to enter upon a field of work that she believed would prove congenial 728 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY and for which she believed herself to be fitted—a belief which time has shown to be well wounded—she was graduated from the Eclectic Medical College in 1891 and subsequently pursued post graduate work in the Cincinnati City Hospital and the Ohio Hospital for. Women and Children. She has also taken special work in the Woman's Medical College, now known as the Laura' Memorial College. In 1891 she entered upon the general practice of medicine and her capability and success in this field are well known. She has had broad medical training, having been a student in schools teaching all the recognized and advanced methods of healing, and her agility is attested by the liberal practice accorded her and in which she has met with excellent success. Dr. Siewers has never narrowed her life to only one interest, for while she keeps in touch with the advanced thought and methods of the profession, she has also been a student, of many other questions recognized as of vital importance to the race. Her parents and grandparents were all believers in perfect equality between the sexes and since. hearing Susan B. Anthony upon this subject in 1879, Dr. Siewers has spent all of her spare time in promoting these views. For twelve years she has been president of the Susan B. Anthony Club. In 1888 she organized the Equal Rights Club of Newport, of which she was also the president. Moreover, she believes that a spirit of patriotism should be inculcated in the young, that much teaching along that line should be done, and she herself has written numerous song poems upon patriotic themes, adapting them to popular airs. Her father was a poet of considerable ability and an unpublished volume of his poems is now in the possession of his daughter. He also wrote much for the press, was greatly interested in the political situation of the country and discussed with his children all of the questions of the day. Dr. Siewers, therefore, became not only interested in such themes but, also well informed concerning them and her own reading and observation have further broadened her knowledge. She is a frequent contributor to the Clubwoman's magazine and other publications and is honorary vice president of the Ohio. State Woman's Suffrage Association and.' a member of the National Association. She stands for justice and truth, for humanity. and for her country, without special advantages for one class above another. Her poem, '`The Song of the Ballot," sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, indicates her position in regard to the rights of women. In part it reads : The hosts of waking daughters rise to greet the morning star, They are rousing from a lethargy imposed from ages far, They are coming to the rescue of their brothers in the war, The world is moving .on. Together men and women will control the world of wrong, Together rise and in their might Place justice on the throne, Protect the young and helpless ones and bid the weak be strong, For God is marching on. Again, to the tune of Yankee Doodle she has touched on many of the vital questions of the day and ‘twere well if this could be more widely read. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 729 In seventy-six our Uncle Sam was great and good and dandy, He leveled rank and put up man, and whipt King George so handy. Uncle Sam was superfine, Uncle Sam was Dandy, King George soon got the medicine, And Uncle Sam the candy. Then Civil war gave graft a start, and money got, the saddle, The people kicked and stamped and 'nayed but money held the bridle. Money, money to the front, No matter how 'twas gotten, Till honest labor had no show, And government was rotten. In ninety-three the panic came, because of Wall street gambling, And since that time the Cuban war and Standard Oil and shambling. Graft and pulls and Wall street pranks, Trusts, combines and what-not, Are rousing Dixie and the Yanks, To call a halt on Jack Pot. The "Boss" came next, the cities groaned, for cash the job was landed, The voters followed like poor sheep, democracy was stranded. Jobs, and pulls, and bribes ahead, Democracy, a daughter, With politicians at the helm, "The People" following after. The money and tobacco dope had made the voters sodden, Till Equal Rights brought in new blood that would not be downtrodden. "The People," men and women, too, With democracy arising, Together raised one standard true, In a manner quite surprising; Now peace will come through Equal Rights, and industry will prosper, The grafters go to raising corn, and Wall street shut up shop, sir. Honest statesmen to the front, And mother's help in driving,  With referendum and recall, Will set all classes thriving. So let's go forth with heart and hand, to lift this blessed nation, With justice, truth, fraternal love, and spiritual jubilation. For God and home and every land, For every tribe and nation, We'll raise our glorious standard true, And bless the whole creation. 730 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Dr. Siewers stands for the abolition of war and of capital punishment and her views concerning the use of intoxicants are indicated in the fact that she is now president of the Walnut Hills Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She inherits strong religious instincts but is broad in her views and abhors dogmatism. She is equally broad in her views concerning her profession and believes that there is merit in every method of healing. She advocates having all these methods placed impartially before the students in the medical department of the University of Cincinnati and that all methods of treatment should be admitted to the hospital that the poor may express their preference. In a word, Dr. Siewers is continually putting forth effective effort to uplift humanity, to make life more serviceable and the fruition of honorable effort more certain. L. L. SADLER. For forty-six years a representative of the live-stock business in Cincinnati and now head of the firm of J. F. Sadler & Company, live-stock commission merchants of the Union Stock Yards, L. L. Sadler was born on a farm near Oxford; Butler county, Ohio, August 1, 1843. His parents were Elijah and Cordelia (King) Sadler, farming people who removed to Butler county in 1832 from Massachusetts. The father devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits and stock-raising and the experiences of L. L. Sadler in youth were those which usually fall to the farm lad. He worked in the fields through the summer months and in the winter seasons attended the country schools until fifteen years of age, when :he entered the Broadax Newspaper printing office in Richmond, Indiana. He was forced to abandon the printing trade, however, after a year on account of his health, and returned to the farm, but a year later he took up the profession of teaching, being then seventeen years of age. He was employed as teacher of the school which he had formerly attended as a pupil and gave satisfaction in his work there, imparting clearly and readily to others the knowledge that he had acquired. He put aside the duties of the schoolroom, however, in 1862, in order to respond to the country's call for aid, enlisting as a member of Company C, Ninety-third Ohio Volunteer infantry. He went to the front with that command and remained with the army until the close of the war, being mustered out as orderly sergeant at Nashville in 1865. The regiment was attached to the Army of the Cumberland and Mr. Sadler saw much active service, participating in many hotly contested engagements. He was twice wounded, once at Stone River and again at Missionary Ridge. After sustaining the latter injury he was transferred to the veteran reserve corps and completed his service with that command. He still maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades through his membership in George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R. When the war was over Mr. Sadler returned home and soon afterward directed his attention toward the live-stock commission business in connection with his brother, J. F. Sadler. The firm was first known as Fort, Sadler & Havens and later as Fort, Sadler & Bailey. Still later the firm style of J. F. Sadler & Company was assumed and so continued until the death of J. F. Sadler in 1898. Both Mr. Fort and Mr. Bailey, also early members of I CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 733 the firm, are deceased. J. F. Sadler & Company is not a corporation as L. L. Sadler has been the sole owner and proprietor since the death of his brother, though he still carries on business under the name of J. F. Sadler & Company, and his connection with the live-stock business covers a period of forty-six years. The company formerly operated in Pittsburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in New York city, but is now confining its attention to Buffalo, Cleveland and Cincinnati, our subject being president of Sadler-Borick & Company of Buffalo, New York. He has splendidly appointed offices at the Union Stock Yards in Cincinnati and has also been president of the Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company since its organization in 1906. His name is a synonym for reliability in business transactions and lends Weight to every enterprise to which he gives his attention. For many years he -has been a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and served first as a director, later as vice president and in 1906 was elected president of that organization. He is a member of the Business Men's Club, has been president of the Associated Organizations and has also been prominent in political circles, serving as a member of the city council from the fifteenth ward for eight years, four years of which time he was president of the board. In 1883 he became the republican candidate for mayor but was defeated by a small majority, Thomas Stevens being the successful candidate. He was also a member of the board of education for seven years, twice served as its president and for thirteen years was one of the trustees of the public library.. His interest in the public welfare has never abated and has been manifest in active and helpful cooperation in many projects. for the general good. In 1871 Mr. Sadler was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Beckman, of Cincinnati, who died in 1884, leaving three children : Cora, now the wife of Richard W. Proctor, of this .city ; Edna, the wife of John D. Lutz ; and Alvin Lewis, who is associated with his fathers. Mr. Sadler is a member of the Independent Order of Odd .Fellows. and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has never allowed personal interests to constitute the boundaries of his horizon but has reached out for the larger, .uplifting things of life and has made it his purpose in business circles to turn seeming difficulties into victory and make of his hopes a reality. He stands today with an untarnished reputation in commercial and financial circles, and- possesses the success which is the merited reward of labor and ability. CHARLES EDWIN ILIFF. The student of history cannot carry his investigation far into the records of Cincinnati without learning of the close connection of the Iliff family with many events which have had prominent bearing upon the welfare and upbuilding of the city. It was in the year 1815' that Joshua Iliff and his wife, Margaret (Murphy) Iliff, removed to Cincinnati from Philadelphia. They had been residents of the latter city for a number of years and prior to that time the family had been represented in New Jersey for over seventy-five years. The original American ancestor came from England, settling on the Atlantic seaboard during an early period' in the development of the new world. 734 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Joshua Iliff was a tanner by trade and became the owner of a large, tannery at Newport, Kentucky. He also owned a similar, establishment where the old Miami depot of Cincinnati now stands and another in New Richmond, Ohio. He continued. in that business throughout his entire life and passed, away in 1858. He was the father of ten children : Archibald, Thomas, William, James,. Robert, Mrs. Adelaide Galbraith, Mrs. Clara Smiley, Mrs. Margaret Henderson, Mrs. Elizabeth Stillwell and Jane Iliff, unmarried. The second member of this family, Thomas Iliff, was born in New Richmond, Ohio, in 1825, and died in 1865. He married Josephine Tozona and they had eight children : Charles E., who was born September 1, 1846 ; Frank, who was born in 1850 and died in 1908 ; Oliver, who was born in April, 1857, and is a resident of -Newport, Kentucky ; James, who was born April 12, 1859, and is a resident of Cincinnati ; Edward, who died in 1906; Mrs. Emma Connelly, of Kansas ; Mrs. Ella Dean, of Madison, Indiana ; and Viola, who died in childhood. All of the children were born in Cincinnati or Kentucky and the mother passed away in Cincinnati in 1876. Charles E. Iliff, the eldest son of Thomas Iliff., was born in Cincinnati, September I, 1846, but pursued his education in the schools of Grant county, Kentucky. In early manhood, however, he returned to this city, where he again took up his abode in 1867. Here he started in the building business, doing brick work, and is now engaged in general contracting as a member of the firm of Charles E. Iliff & Son. His work in this connection has placed him in a foremost position among the contractors of the city. They specialize in brick and cement work and have erected a number of the leading buildings, including the Vine street Cable buildings, the Walnut Hills. Cable building, the Rawson building at Fourth and Elm, the Marine building, the Carew building at Fifth and Vine, the building of the Cincinnati Coffin Company, the Miami building at Fifth and Elm, the Cincinnati tanneries and numerous others. Their time is now fully occupied with the demands made upon them by their patrons and their success is gratifying and well merited. In 1872 Charles E. Iliff went to Chicago and aided in the rebuilding of that city following the. great fire. In 1873 Mr. Iliff was united in marriage to Miss Augusta Hawkins and they now have a family of five children. The eldest, Charles E., Jr., was graduated from the Woodward high school and from the Miami Medical College in 1900, since which time he has practiced his profession in Cincinnati. He served as an interne in the Cincinnati Hospital and is a member of the State Medical Society. He was also a teacher in Miami College for eight years and since 1900 he has served as assistant surge0n on the staff of the Episcopal. Hospital. He married Frances Jessie Haag and they have one child, Charles Edwin. Jessie Irene Iliff married William McMiller, of East Orange, New Jersey, and they have one child, Adeline. Mrs. Gertrude Hogan, the next 'in the family, married John J. Hogan, of Detroit, and has one child, Charles Iliff Hogan. William Hawkins Iliff married Adelaide Roux in 1906 and is now engaged in business with his father under the firm style of C. E. Iliff & Son. Mrs.. Emma Pare, the youngest of the family, married William Pare, of Franklin, Kentucky, and has two children, Christopher and Catherine, and resides in Pensacola, Florida.   CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 735 Mr. Iliff, whose name introduces this record, is a worthy representative of one of the old and honored families of the city living in Cincinnati for almost a century. He Was for many years affiliated with, the Builders Exchange and the Contractors and Bricklayers Association, of which he was treasurer and president for some years. He also holds membership in Vattier Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Willis Chapter, R. A. M., Cincinnati Council, R. & S. M., and the Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Commercial Club. Politically he takes an active interest in the success of the prohibition party and has been a candidate for every office up to congressman. His record has ever fully sustained the unassailable reputation of the family and, possessed of the enterprising spirit of the present day, he has made his work of worth in the community as the years have gone by. OLIVER B. JONES. Oliver B. Jones, who has practiced the profession of law in Cincinnati for the past three decades, is a worthy representative of a family that has been prominently and honorably connected with the history of Hamilton county for almost a century and .a quarter. He was born in Cincinnati, a son of J. Dan and Margaretta (Bell) Jones, both of whom were natives of this county. John Jones, the great-grandfather, participated in the Revolutionary war and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis, his name appearing on the memorial tablet which was here erected in honor of the brave men who fought for independence.. The year 1788 witnessed his arrival in Hamilton county, Ohio. Oliver Jones, the grandfather of our subject, was born in this county in 1797 and took part in the War of 1812. Both John and Oliver Jones held many offices of public trust and were honored by election to the legislature. The former served as justice of the peace and his decisions were ever characterized by the utmost impartiality. Peter Bell, the maternal great-grandfather of Oliver B. Jones, became one of the early settlers of Hamilton county and served as an associate judge of the court of common pleas. J. Dan Jones, the father of Mr. Jones of this review, was born in 1818 and became a successful real-estate dealer. At one time he held the office of county auditor, while in 1851 he was a member of the constitutional convention. When he passed away in 1873 the community mourned the loss of one of its most prominent and esteemed citizens. Unto him and his wife were born six children, four of whom are yet living. Larz A. Jones, the brother of our subject, is a resident of New Orleans where he is prominent in railroad circles while the two daughters of the family Misses Laura V. Jones and Annabel Jones make their home in Cincinnati. In the acquirement of an education Oliver B. Jones attended the public schools of Cincinnati, being graduated from Woodward high school with the class of 1875. Wishing to familiarize himself with the principles, of jurisprudence in order that he might follow a legal career, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, then known as the Law School of Cincinnati College, from which 736 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY he was graduated in 1880. The following year he embarked upon his professional career and has since been engaged in general civil practice, in which he has had a wide and extensive experience. He has served as assistant, county solicitor and also as assistant city solicitor, proving himself a capable lawyer and an official of signal ability, His preparation of cases is most thorough and exhaustive; he seems almost intuitively to grasp the strong points of law and fact, while in his briefs and arguments the authorities are cited so extensively and the facts and reasoning. thereon are presented so cogently and unanswerably as to leave no doubt as to the correctness of his views or of his conclusions.. No detail seems to escape him ; every point is given its true prominence and the case is argued with such skill, ability and power that he rarely fails to gain the verdict desired. The Cincinnati Bar Association numbers him among its valued members. On the 28th of September, 1886, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Louise F. Stone, a native of Massachusetts and a daughter of Stephen .W. and Abigail Stone. Her father was a civil engineer by profession. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of four children, namely : Stephen W., Rufus. B., Frances L. and Margaretta Abigail. Mr. Jones is a democrat in politics, believing firmly in the principles of that party. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. His friends and neighbors, those among whom his entire life has been passed, recognize in him a gentleman of splendid manhood whose marked characteristics have ever been such as command respect and good will. WILLIAM ALBERT HOPKINS. William Albert Hopkins, treasurer of Hamilton county, Ohio, was born on the 5th day of June, 1860, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Henry F. Hopkins, a publisher and printer, and Catherine (Forbes) Hopkins. His father, a native of Troy, New York, was of English ancestry, while his mother, who was born in Toronto, Canada, was of Irish parentage, her family having emigrated from County Sligo, Ireland, to Toronto, later coming to Cincinnati. Mr. Hopkins' grandfather, William Hopkins, came to America from Kent, England, in 1830, and settled at Troy., He came to Cincinnati in 1844 and established one of the pioneer sheepskin tanneries and morocco factories of Cincinnati. His grandsons are at present conducting the successor of this Cincinnati concern at Louisville, Kentucky. William A. Hopkins was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, after which he took a business course at Bryant, Stratton & De. Hans' Business College. He graduated in bookkeeping, after which he went to learn the "Art preservative of all the printing trade. He became a member of the Cincinnati Typographical Union, No. 3, in September, 1881. Mr. Hopkins has always taken a keen interest in the affairs of his home city, and for nearly nine years was a member of the board of trustees of the public library of Cincinnati. He resigned his membership in that board at the unanimous request of his colleagues to take up the work of superintending the branch libraries and delivery CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 737 stations of the Cincinnati Public Library and to become the board's clerk and accountant. While so employed Mr. Hopkins organized the efficient suburban extension service of the library. Mr. Hopkins has always been a faithful democrat, working hard in the interests of his party. In 1883 he was elected a member of the board of education of Cincinnati, serving for three years' in that position. He also held. the positions of deputy county treasurer, under County Treasurer Charles A. Miller and Frank Ratterman ; United States internal revenue gauger during President Cleveland's first administration and the first year of President Harrison's administration ; chief deputy county auditor, under Auditor John Hagerty ; and for the past five years has held the position of assistant treasurer, under County Treasurer Charles E. Roth. At the November, 1910, election Mr. Hopkins was elected to the office of treasurer of Hamilton county, Ohio, and was inducted into his office the first Monday of September, 1911. He is interested in many financial and industrial enterprises of his native city, being a director of The Hotel Savoy Company and the Fourth Ward Building & Loan Company. For twenty years he served as president of the Mount Adams Building & Loan Association, and was also a stockholder in several banks and other commercial .enterprises of Cincinnati. On the 27th of March, 1883, Mr. Hopkins was married to Miss Anna' M. D'Arcy, of Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Hopkins died on the 7th of September, 1906, leaving one son and three daughters. On the l0th of February, 1909, Mr. Hopkins was united in marriage to Mrs. Alice E. (O'Neill) O'Malley, and the family reside at No. 1275 Ida street, Cincinnati. Socially Mr. Hopkins is a member of Cincinnati Lodge, No. 5, B. P. O. E:, serving as exalted ruler of the lodge in 1902 and 1903. He was president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and archon of Cincinnati Council, Royal League. He also holds membership in the Knights of Columbus, Knights of Pythias and the Duckworth Club of Cincinnati. THE JOSEPH HONHORST COMPANY. This business was established, in 1877 by Joseph Honhorst, a native of Germany, who in 1847 crossed the, Atlantic to the new world. He learned the iron-working trade with the old Niles Company and was employed on fitting up many steamboats. He began business on his own account as a partner in the firm of. F. B. James & Company in 1860. The partnership was maintained, until the death of Mr. James and in 1877 Mr. Honhorst started for himself, continuing at the head of what is now the Joseph Honhorst Company, until his demise in 1889, when his sons H. E. and C. A. Honhorst took up the work. H. E. Honhorst was born in Cincinnati in 1858 and was a pupil in the public schools until 1877, when he entered his father's employ. He received practical training in all branches of the business and is thus able to capably direct the labors of .those who serve under him. He worked altogether for sixteen years in the shop, as did his brother, C. A. Honhorst, who is five years his junior and who is now superintendent of the works. The business was incorporated in 1900, with .a capital stock of thirty thousand dollars. The present officers are: H. E. 738 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Honhorst, president, treasurer and general manager ; Charles A. Honhorst, vice president and superintendent and Elmer S. Lape, secretary. The business, originally established on East Front street, was there conducted from 1877 until 1900, and from 1900 until 1905 on East Pearl street; since the latter date it has been located at the present site, Nos. 1016 to 1020 West Sixth street. The company erected their own building and they have fourteen thousand feet .of floor space. They are sheet, steel and iron workers and have a splendidly equipped factory and office:' They employ a large number of skilled workmen and, the business is growing along substantial lines. C. W. H. LUEBBERT. C. W. H. Luebbert, treasurer of the German Mutual Insurance Company of Cincinnati, is numbered among the sons of the fatherland who have found in the freedom and appreciation of this growing western country opportunities for business development and advancement, and while in the conduct of his business affairs he has won substantial success, he has also been an active factor in movements and measures which have contributed to public progress. He has been a resident of Cincinnati since 1859, arriving here when nineteen years of age. He was born in Germany, November 27, 1840; his father being J. A. Luebbert, who crossed the Atlantic after the son had come to the new world. Spending his youthful days in Germany, C. W. H. Luebbert acquired his education in the public schools and afterward entered upon an apprenticeship to the joiner's trade. He had completed but half of the time when he came to Cincinnati and in this city finished his term of indenture: He was afterward employed as a journeyman until about` 1867, save that in the interim he served his adopted country as a soldier of the Union army. Hardly had the smoke from Fort Sumter's guns cleared away when he offered his services to the government, bec0ming a member of the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He remained with that command until June 7, 1864, as a private of Company D, and participated in every 'battle in which his regiment took part during that period of three years. He was never ill nor wounded and thus day by day he remained with his company, faithfully defending the old flag and the cause which it represented. We quote in part from an article which appeared in one of the city papers on April 7, 1911. "For forty-five years Private C. W. H. Luebbert, Ninth Ohio Volunteers, has been saving at the rate of a dime a month for the feast he is to give his comrades at the North Cincinnati Turn Verein, on April 23d, when the Ninth celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its enlistment. Only sixty of Colonel McCook's men are left to take part in the feast that has been in preparation for forty-five years. Luebbert was guided by a faith in his personal destiny when on April Is, 1865, the day after President Lincoln was shot, he set aside the first dime for the celebration which takes place this month. He has gone to the bank with his dime five hundred and forty times. Because of the accumulation of interest the money he has put away has quadrupled itself, so that although in forty-five years he has put away fifty-four dollars in dimes, Luebbert is credited in the bank with two hundred CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 741 and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-seven cents. The value of each dime he has deposited during forty-five years has grown to forty-four cents." After being honorably discharged at Camp Dennison, Mr. Luebbert returned to Cincinnati and resumed work at his trade. In 1867, however, he turned from industrial to commercial interests by establishing a grocery store, being first located at Main and Allison streets, while later he removed to Pleasant and Fifteestablishedts. Subsequently he establishd his business at the corner of Freeman and York streets and still owns the proprty there but closed out his .stock of groceries in 1886. For fifteen years he has been connected with the German Mutual Insurance Company, of which J. H. Kohmescher is president, H. A. Rutterman, secretary, and C. W. H. Luebbert, treasurer. This insurance company was organized in 1858 and since 1904 Mr. Luebbert has been its treasurer. He manifests, marked ability in the conduct of its financial interests and his labors, energy and determination have constituted a most important and effective element in its success. The firm is today one of the strong insurance companies of the middle west and its business is constantly growing along substantial lines. In 1867 occurred the marriage of Mr. Luebbert and Miss Lizzie Engelke, of Cincinnati, a native of this city and a daughter of Fred Engelnumberr children are two in nurriber : Carrie, now the wife o0fHenry Vogel ; and Louis R., of the firm of Gloss & Luebbert, attorneys. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School and is married. Mr. Luebbert is interested in social affairs and is secretary of the German Altenheim of Cincinnati. He belongs to Hanselman Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of which he has been secretary since 1896. He has also attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a member of the Mystic Shrine and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is serving as treasurer of the German Literary Club and is the historian of the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His religious faith is manifest in his membership in St. John's Protestant church. His record, characterized by high and honorable purpose and successful achievement, is a credit to both the land of his birth and of his adoption. His fellow townsmen accord to him a prominent position as a representative of financial interests in Cincinnati and his success is well merited, for it has been won through earnest, persistent and honorable effort. D. J. BLACKMORE. The nineteenth century was preeminently a utilitarian age and America led he world in the invention of - labor saving devices and in the development of industrial and manufacturing interests, but also in other paths did she make rapid strides and none more noticeable nor noteworthy than in piano manufacture, showing that the artistic as well as the commercial side of nature was being rapidly developed on this side the Atlantic. D. J. Blackmore as president and general manager of the Krell Piano Company has contributed to this result and is today at the head of one of the important piano-manufacturing concerns in the country, its growth being attributable as much to capable management of Vol. III-34 742 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY manufacturing and commercial interests as to the excellence of its product, which in some lines of construction excels all other pianos made. He has been a resident of Cincinnati since 1875. He is yet a young man, his birth having occurred in Washington, Indiana, in 1873. He was, therefore, but two years of age when brought to this city by his father, Dawson Blackmore, who for some years was well known in connection with the grain, provision and wholesale-grocery business in this city, where he died in 1899. D. J. Blackmore pursued his education in the public schools and after his father's death he became chief engineer of the new waterworks of Cincinnati, which position he filled for a year. He then became connected with the Krell Piano Company in the conduct of a business that was established in 1889 by the Krell brothers. It was incorporated in 1891 but none of the Krells are now identified with the business save as stockholders. Mr. Blackmore was called to the presidency of the company in 1901, having previously served for four years as secretary and treasurer. He bends his energies to administrative direction and has instituted the policy that has made the Krell Piano Company forge. steadily ahead until it controls today one of the largest manufactories of the city, having a splendidly equipped plant. From an insignificant beginning the business has developed uninterruptedly since 1889. After Mr. Krell's death the work was continued by master minds and mechanics, who, not content with old methods, have forged ahead of the times by adding many valuable improvements and making of the Krell piano a distinctively original creation, both as regards the scale and manner of construction. It is today an instrument of unquestioned excellence and recognized among musicians as a piano which has no equal. The greatest possible care has been exercised in developing every part of the instrument so that the most perfect workmanship is assured, and in style and finish as well as in tone quality the Krell piano is unsurpassed. The company employs two hundred and twenty-five workmen and their plant covers one hundred thousand square feet of floor space. It is modern in every department and supplied with the latest improved machinery and their makes are sent upon the market under the name of the Krell and Royal pianos. The output is now about four thousand instruments annually and the company also engages in the construction of piano players. The directors of the company are Smith and Andrew Hickenlooper, P. M. Pogue, A. W. Schell, T. H. Ballman, E. B. Pfau and D. J. Blackmore. The growth of the business has been very rapid and at all times substantial, attractive and judicious advertising being an element in its success, although the excellence of the piano has ever constituted its best advertisement. A. J. GANTVOORT. Not all musicians have the gift of teaching nor do they possess the ability to manage successfully or the executive qualities necessary in the discharge of responsibilities as the head of a musical institution. A. J. Gantvoort, manager of the College of Music of Cincinnati, is fortunate in possessing unusual managerial qualifications and also natural talent, thorough musical and pedagogical CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 743 training and large experience. As the head of one of the most noted musical colleges of the country he has greatly advanced its reputation and increased the sphere of its usefulness. He is a native of Amsterdam, Holland, born December 6, 1857. He received his literary education in the Real Gymnasium, which corresponds to the American preparatory colleges. His musical training, including piano and theory, was also secured under competent teachers at Amsterdam, the work being carried forward at Berlin and Paris. In 1876, believing from what he had learned that the possibilities of advancement were much greater in America than in Europe, Mr. Gantvoort came to Cincinnati and for a short time was a student at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, for the purpose of learning English. He taught school for one term and then began as a private instructor in music. In 1881 he accepted a position as instructor in music at Bowling Green Female College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and continued with that institution for three years. After giving up the position he devoted himself to further study for a year and in 1885 he took up his residence at Oxford, Ohio, where he taught music for four years in Oxford College. About this time his attention was called to the general indifference as to musical instruction in the public schools and he made a thorough study of the problems connected therewith. He taught music in the public schools of Piqua, Ohio, for five years and in 1893, having gained wide recognition on account of his ability and progressive methods, he was called to the College of Music of Cincinnati as teacher of piano and theory and continued in that position for two years, also taking class work in sight-reading and delivering lectures in the college. In 1898 he was made assistant director of the college and in 1901 was elected manager, a position which he has ever since filled to the satisfaction of the officers and directors and to the marked advantage of the reputation of Cincinnati as a musical center. For twenty-two years past he has been prominently identified with the National Educational Association and has a number of times taken part in the programs both general and special. He has served as president of the Music Section Association for eight years and also was president of the National Music Teachers' Association for three years and of the Ohio State Music Teachers' Association for a similar length of time. In 1881 Mr. Gantvoort was married to Miss Nettie Looker, a daughter of Milton Looker, of Harrison, Ohio,. and granddaughter of Othniel Looker, who served as governor of Ohio. By this union seven children have been born : Carl, who is now a grand opera singer ; Hermann, also a professional singer Gertrude, a teacher of voice and piano ; Bertha, who also teaches voice and piano; Brunhilde ; Elsa ; and Helen. Mr. Gantvoort and his wife are members of the Christian church. Fraternally he is prominent in the Masonic order and is a member of the blue lodge, Warren Chapter, of Piqua, Ohio, the Ohio Consistory, and Syrian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a lover of act and an active worker in the promotion of the best methods in teaching, being a member of the Art Club, the Schoolmasters' Club and also of the Business Men's Club. Ever since boyhood a student and an investigator, he has taken advantage of every opportunity to increase his efficiency and to advance the cause of music. His work has always been along practical lines and thousands of students in various parts of the United States have received from him the inspiration which has led them to success. 744 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY In February, 1911, Mr. Gantvoort was appointed by the secretary ,of state at Washington as a delegate from the United States to the international musical congress at Rome from April 4 to 11. He has been invited by a large musical publishing house of New York to write a concise history of music that can be used in the schools and colleges of this country and has accepted the proposal. When asked when he would start the work he replied that he had already started it about twenty years ago, as the work would be a history of his own study. RALPH BROWN GOODRICH. During the greater period of his business career, R. B. Goodrich has concentrated his energies upon the development of the Eagle Manufacturing Company, of which he has been president since 1900. He is another of the enterprising sons of Cincinnati, his birth occurring in November, 1876, and his parents being Charles Taylor and Ann Brown Goodrich. The father, who was a native of Petersburg, Virginia, came to this city in 1850, obtaining employment as a salesman with a wholesale fur house, with which he continued to be identified until he engaged in the wholesale fur, cap and glove business himself. He remained connected with this line until 1884, at which time he disposed of his interests and lived retired until his demise in December, 1903. Mrs. Goodrich still resides in the old home on College Hill. In the pursuit of his preliminary education, R. B. Goodrich attended the public schools until he had attained the age of about fifteen years when he entered Belmont College, remaining in that institution for four years. At the expiration of that period, he laid aside his text-books to assume the heavier responsibilities of life, beginning his business career as a clerk with John Shillito & Company. For two years he remained a member of their clerical force, beginning at a salary of six dollars per week and being rapidly promoted, withdrawing at the end of that time because he had obtained an interest in the Eagle Manufacturing Company, about 1897. He immediately became identified with that company, ultimately being made manager and continuing in that position until 1900. In the latter years, they incorporated and Mr. Goodrich became president, the duties of which office, he has most capably discharged for the past nine years. This company, which is one of the enterprising industries of the city, engages in the manufacture of a general line of metal specialties, including special dies, tools and machinery, in the production of which they employ the services of seventy-five people. The scope of their activities has very rapidly developed during the past sixteen years, the demand for their wares having" increased until their sales department includes a large and constantly increasing foreign as well as domestic branch. The financial success of their undertaking has been most practically demonstrated, by the erection of a substantially constructed, five-story steel and concrete building, in which they are now located. It contains thirty thousand feet of floor space and has been entirely, equipped with new machinery and all manner of modern improvements and conveniences to facilitate the work, as well as for the comfort of the employes, CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 745 being in every way, a modern structure of its kind. Mr. Goodrich is financially interested in the West End Bank & Trust Company, of which he is a director. Fraternally, Mr. Goodrich is identified with the Masonic order, in which he has attained high rank, having taken the thirty-two degrees of the Scottish Rite as well as those of the. York. He is not married, and his religious faith is manifested through his affiliation with the Presbyterian church. He is a member of the Business Men's Club. Being very fond of outdoor life, Mr. Goodrich is an auto enthusiast, enjoys tennis and devotes as much time as he can spare from his business, during the seasons, to hunting and fishing. His political support he accords the candidates of the republican party, always having been an ardent advocate of its policy, which he considers to be the best adapted to subserve the interests of the majority. WILLIAM J. SHRODER. William J. Shroder, law author and successful practitioner, was born in Cincinnati, November 28, 1876, and throughout his professional career has been a member of the bar of this city. His parents were Jacob and Bertha (Fechheimer) Shroder. His father is a prominent lawyer, who served as judge of the common pleas court of Hamilton county from 1887 until 1892 and since 1893 has been a member of .the union board of high schools of this city, serving for two terms as its president. He was also president of the board of trustees of the Miami Medical College of Ohio. from 1903 until 1907. At the usual age William J. Shroder was sent to the public schools and when he had mastered the branches of learning taught in the grammar grades he entered the Hughes high school. His more specifically literary education was acquired in Yale University, from which he. was graduated in 1898, and in 1901 he completed a course in the .Harvard Law School, at which time the B. L. degree was conferred upon, him. With the example of his father to stimulate him to earnest effort he entered upon the active work of the profession; wherein no dreary novitiate awaited him. From the beginning his success has been notable and his advancement has been due to his own efforts and merits. The possession of advantages is no guarantee whatever of professional success. This comes not of itself nor can it be secured without integrity, ability and industry. These qualities William J. Shroder possesses in an eminent degree and he is faithful to every interest committed to his charge. He has contributed largely to legal publications. In 1902 he was the author of "The Essentials of Incorporation," which appeared in, the XXIV, National Corporation Reporter, page 453 ; in 1904 "The Doctrine of Stare Decisis," LVIII, Central Law Journal, page 23 ; and in 1905 "Distribution of Assets of Bankrupt Partners and Partnerships," XVIII, Harvard Law Review, page. 495. In 1906 Mr. Shroder was appointed- special assistant United States attorney, for the prosecution of the government's case against the drug trust, which was brought to a successful conclusion by a final decree May 9, 1907. His clientage is large and of a distinctively representative character. He is connected as director and general counsel with the Public Service Securities Company, the Indiana Electric Trans- 746 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY mission Company, the Spencer Light, Power, Heat & Water. Company, the Gosport Electric Company and the Reliance Operating Company. Mr: Shroder has an interesting military chapter in his life history, for he served ,throughout the Spanish-American war as a private of the First Connecticut Volunteer Artillery, being a member of Battery A. In 1904 he was made national judge advocate general of the United Spanish War Veterans, in 1906 was elected commander of the department of Ohio of the United. Spanish War Veterans' and was also commander of the Society of the Hispano-American War. On the 1st of June, 1908, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Shroder was married to Miss Sophia Joseph, a daughter of. Joseph and Minnie (Brown) Joseph. They have one child, Mary Shroder. In his political connections Mr. Shroder is a republican of the progressive type, seeking the adoption of methods that shall serve to promote the welfare of the many rather than of the few. He has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Masonry and is also a Noble of the. Mystic Shrine. In 1898 he was president of the Epsilon chapter' of the Phi Sigma Kappa and in 1910 was president of the Cincinnati Club. He also belongs to the Ohio Boat Club, the Yale Club, the Harvard Club, the Business Men's Club and the Cincinnati Bar Association. Alert and enterprising, he is in touch with various, movements that promote the social, intellectual, professional and political progress of the community. His entire life has been passed in Cincinnati, where a wide circle of friends accords him the warm regard that is uniformly given in recognition of sterling worth. WILLIAM F. BURBANK. William F. Burbank, agent of the Empire Fast Freight Line at Cincinnati, comes distinguished. American family and was born in Christian county, Kentucky, August 24, 1859, a son of William E: and Mary J. (Fleming) Burbank. Mr. Burbank of this review is ninth in direct descent from John Burbank, who was made a freeman. at Rowley, Massachusetts, May 13,. 1640. Among the distinguished members of the family may be named Elbridge Ayer Burbank, a noted 'artist of Chicago, who was awarded the Yerkes first prize at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and who exhibited at the Paris Exposition in 1906; Luther Burbank, the celebrated naturalist and the greatest plant breeder that the world has known, whose home is in California ; and others who have achieved military distinction in the service of the United States government. A number served during the Revolutionary war. The family was for a number of generations prominent among the paper makers of the country, the business being passed, along from one generation to another. John Burbank, the emigrant ancestor. was twice married, the subject of this review being descended from the second marriage. Tracing the family down from the first ancestor in America, the second generation is representd by Caleb Burbank, who was born May 19, .1646, and died in 1690, having married Martha Smith on the 6th of May, 1669. Next comes Eleazer Burbank, who was born March 14, 1681 (or 1682) and died in 1759. His wife's name was Lydia. Caleb Burbank, the son of Eleazer, was born October 23, 1710, and married CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 749 Margaret (Molly or Peggy) Wheeler. Abijah Burbank, the son of Caleb, was born March 26, 1736, and died September 23, 1813. He was the first having a military record. He was running a fulling mill at the time of the Revolution and served in the army as captain and is on the state roll of soldiers in the war. He also built a powder mill and furnished the state of Massachusetts with powder. Afterward. he built in Sutton the first paper mill in that part of the state which was operated for over seventy years by him and his sons. He also served as captain of a local company before the Revolution, losing part of his company on a scouting expedition to Sabbath Day Point, June 25, 1758, during the French and Indian war. 'He married Mary or Molly Spring, on September 4, 1760. Abijah, Jr., was born March 3, 1776, and died March II, 1842. He married Betsey Foster. John Burbank, the grandfather of our subject, was a son of Abijah, Jr., and was born July 24 1802, and died January 1, 1852. He married Eliza Ladd and they lived at Sharon, Vermont. William E. Burbank, the father of our subject, moved with his parents at six years of age to Evansville, Indiana," and after growing to manhood engaged as a traveling salesman. He married Mary J. Fleming, a daughter of John Fleming, of Garrettsburg, Kentucky, the family having settled in Kentucky from Virginia. He and his wife were members 6f the Christian church, but for convenience Mrs. Burbank joined the Presbyterian church in her later years. The father died in 1884, at the age of fifty-three years. The m0ther was born in 1836 and died June 1, 1911, being then in her seventy-fifth year. William E. and Mary J. Burbank were the parents of five children, namely: William V.; Charles, now deceased; Edward, a resident of Chicago ; Anna, who married H. C. McClung, and resides at Auburn, Indiana; and John, who married Belle Hathorne, and resides in. Wichita, Kansas: William F. Burbank Was reared in Evansville and secured his preliminary education in the public schools. After leaving school he secured employment with the Evansville & Terre Hatte Railway Company, later removing to Louisville, Kentucky, where he became connected with the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Air Line, now the Southern Railway. About 1887 he arrived in Cincinnati, having accepted a position as chief clerk to the general agent of the Bee Line, now a part of the Big Four. He continued in various positions with this road until ten years ago, since which time he has' been agent of the Empire Fast Freight Line, a position which he has filled to, the satisfaction of the officers of the company and to the promotion of the business interests of this city. In 1886 Mr: Burbank was married at Louisville to Miss Lydia Dolly, a daughter of George and Georgia A. (Henneberger) Dolly of Louisville, Kentucky.. The ,maternal grandparents of Mrs. Burbank were Augustus J: Henneberger and Elizabeth Mix (Mead) Henneberger of Louisville, Kentucky. The Henneberger family was from Hagerstown, Maryland, of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. .The Mead family were from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both came to Louisville in a very early day, their marriage occurring in 1838.. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Burbank : Charles, who is in the railway office with his father ; May, the wife of E. W. DeCamp, of Lima, Ohio; W. Fleming, Jr.; Georgia; Richard; Clifford; and Edward. Mr. Burbank and his family are connected with the Hartwell Methodist Episcopal church, in which he takes a great interest, being a member of the official board. He also holds