CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 601 when twenty-one years of age but the mother was brought to this country by her parents when only nine years of age. In the public schools of his native county Daniel D. Mueller received his early education and afterward. became a pupil in the National Pen Art Hall and Business College at Delaware, Ohio. He was seventeen years of age when he took up the profession of teaching in connection with the public schools and subsequently he taught commercial branches in various schools throughout the state, including Marietta (Ohio) College, the Columbus Business College and the National Pen Art Hall and Business College, at Delaware, where he had formerly been a student. The period of his early manhood was one of struggle with adversity and obstacles. He was dependent entirely upon his own resources and it was a difficult task to make progress along the road to success. Perseverance, determination, energy and ability, however, attended his footsteps, and experience at length made the way easier. However a lessons of his own youth and early manhood he has never forgotten and it has been this, that has prompted him to put forth a helping hand to many a young man struggling along life's journey and to carry forward his project of establishing and conducting a school that would thoroughly train and qualify young- people for the onerous and responsible duties of life. In the fall of 1890 Mr. Mueller became the teacher of penmanship in the Bartlett Commercial College of Cincinnati which was then located in the Arno building at the corner of Fourth and Sycamore streets. The following year the college was compelled to seek larger quarters which were secured in the old gymnasium rooms on Fourth street, where the Fifth-Third National Bank is now located. From the time that Mr. Mueller became connected with this institution its grow0 was rapid and substantial. It continued to increase in size and influence until 1901, when still larger rooms were obtained in the new Commercial Tribune building at 528 Walnut street. Professor Mueller continued as a factor in the success of that institution until 1894 and was gradually advanced from his original position of penmanship teacher to that of principal, having in the meantime taught. in succession bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, commercial arithmetic, commercial business correspondence and all other branches of study which are usually included in the curriculum of college training. Some years before severing his connection with the Bartlett. Business College, Mr. Mueller was married, at Hazelwood, Ohio, on the 4th of August, 1896, to Miss Hattie Smith, who was a daughter of John W. Smith, and prior to her marriage was also connected with the Bartlett Commercial College. She entered that institution as stenographer to Mr. Bartlett in 1891, after having successfully filled similar positions in mercantile houses. She quickly won promotion to the position of instructor of shorthand and was afterward given full charge of the shorthand department as its principal. Her ardent love for her profession caused her to continue as a teacher in the Bartlett College .after her marriage, both she and Mr. Mueller remaining with that school until the fall of 1904, when they established a school of their own under the name of the Mueller School of Business, in which Mrs.. Mueller taught the first class of students enrolled. Being present at the school every day Mrs. Mueller proves both friend and guide to all, particularly the young lady students, and wishes ever to make school life interesting, instructive and pleasant for all in attendance. On the opening day Vol. IV-30 602 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY the school had an enrollment of twelve but by the end of the year this had reached two hundred. The first home of the Mueller School, was in the Burnet House block, where they expected to remain for at least four years, but on account of the rapid growth of the school they were, at the end of the first year, forced to move to larger quarters which were procured in the Bell block. They remained there until the fall of 1909, when an unusually large enrollment forced them to obtain additional rooms and they rented one thousand square feet of space on the floor below the one which they were then occupying. On the 28th of December, 1909, the Mueller School of Business purchased at receiver's sale the entire equipment of office, school and bank furniture and fixtures of the Bartlett Commercial College and secured a long lease on the spacious quarters formerly occupied by that institution in the Commercial Tribune building. The Mueller School then removed to these more commodious quarters on the 1st of February, 1910, quarters that have been pronounced by business college experts to be far superior to any business school apartments in the central states and unexcelled anywhere in America. The schoolrooms were originally planned and arranged by Mr. Mueller for the Bartlett College when he was still associated with that institution. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mueller came to their present school well equipped for the onerous and responsible duties which have since devolved upon them. As principal of the Bartlett College Mr. Mueller had had the planning of the courses, 0e hiring of teachers, the graduation of the students as well as having charge of the advanced shor0and department, and during the absence of Mr. Bartlett, which was not infrequent, it also devolved upon him to talk to prospective patrons and to place the graduates in positions.. He was also, during his connection with the Bartlett College and previous to that time, well qualified by personal experience in bookkeeping, stenography and expert accounting, having done much work in all these lines. This has been very valuable to him in the training of his students for the business world. Moreover he has ever been a wide and thoughtful reader and deep student, availing himself of the works of the best authors on the various commercial subjects, thereby keeping abreast of the times. When he and his wife organized their school many favorable letters were received from their former pupils. One of these said : "About five years ago I enrolled as a pupil in one of the business colleges of Cincinnati in which Mrs. Mueller and you were the principal teachers and during my term there, it became very evident to me that the good standing, advanced methods of instruction and, in fact, the entire success of that institution were due not only to the teaching ability of both you and Mrs. Mueller but also to your competency as a college superintendent." All those who knew of the character and ability and experience of Mr. and Mrs. Mueller predicted that their school would meet with splendid success. Nevertheless, none, not even the founders, anticipated the wonderful success which was to come to them. Today the Mueller School has the largest enrollment as well as the best and most elegant quarters of any business college in Cincinnati and is still growing. It is pleasantly and conveniently situated in the new Commercial Tribune building within half a block of Fountain square and is easily accessible to all street car lines. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mueller enjoy an enviable reputation, as thorough pains-taking teachers in the commercial branches and are well known throughout the city and surrounding country. The keynote of their prosperity lies in the fact CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 603 that they are capable, earnest and faithful, studying each pupil individually and planning his work for the most rapid and permanent development of his talents. While in the Bartlett School they, gave thorough instruction and conscientiously and loyally worked for the interests of their pupils, instilling into the youthful minds such practical knowledge and high principles of conduct as would inevitably lead them onward and upward to success. Later on and now in conducting their own school Mr. and Mrs. Mueller applied the same principles of untiring devotion and conscientious and capable effort to the business management as well as to the system of instruction. They recognize the principle of mutual service and cooperation as being the true foundation for any business, because such a foundation is solid and lasting. They are firm believers in progress and are continuously endeavoring to make their school better and of greater assistance to their pupils. Their prestige and success in this direction are well merited and the Mueller School is today regarded as one of the most thorough commercial schools of the country, its standards and its systems being second to none. JAMES HANDASYD PERKINS, JR. History has to do with all those forces which make or mar the civilization of the race, which retard or promote progress and aid in bringing man to his ultimate destiny. The world, however, has comparatively little interest in those who have proven inactive forces but finds inspiration and encouragement in the lives of those whose labors have given impetus to the task of inducing a stronger allegiance to all that is ennobling. In this connection the work of James Handasyd Perkins, Jr., is deserving of more than passing reference. He was a capable and distinguished lawyer of the Cincinnati bar but, more than that, he was a man whose life reached out in deeds of benevolence and helpfulness to his fellowmen. Born in Cincinnati on the 20th of February, 1848, he was the youngest son of James H. and Sarah (Elliott) Perkins. A contemporary biographer has said': "From his father's and his mother's side he came of pure New England stock and from both he inherited the best qualities of that fine race. Their ideality alike with their practical sense, their rigid conscientiousness and their saving grace of humor, their love of liberty and their profound respect for law, all these were his by right of that inheritance. He was tuned therefore to the finest chords which vibrate through our common life. He was of that stuff from which the ideal American manhood is fashioned. His father, in clays long antecedent to the institutional movement among the churches and to the humanitarian impulse now so universal, .was doing here the work of a city missionary among the poor of Cincinnati and was besides an inspiring force in the higher education. But the father's early death left to the mother the training of his boyhood and her devoted love and sacrifice made possible its continuance at Exeter and Harvard. And when he returned here to take up his profession, it was to the home made for him by his mother. To the life of that home how exquisite a charm she gave and how its memory lingers with those of us who shared it ! Sacred to us are those memories and the very walls, yet standing, where that beautiful womanly presence, so wholesome, strong and 604 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY sweet, once bade us welcome. What wonder that such influences developed in him that charm of personality which drew men to him with a force so irresistible." After the death of the father in 1849 the care and rearing of her son devolved upon the mother. His boyhood days were passed on Walnut Hills. In the usual manner of boys of the period the duties of the schoolroom engrossed his attentions during five days of the week, while Saturdays and evening hours were devoted to play. Ambitious that her son should have good educational opportunities, the mother did everything to further this project and James H. Perkins eventually entered Phillips Exeter Academy of Massachusetts. From there he entered Harvard College in the class of 1870. Later he became a student in the law school of Cincinnati College and was graduated in 1872. Even during his days at Harvard he had not seemed to hold that plan or idea in mind, but it proved a fortunate one because the faculties of rapid thinking and forceful statement that he possessed were those peculiarly adapted to an advocate. He entered upon the practice of law in 1872 and continued in active connection with the bar until his demise. For a time he had office connections with the firm of Wulsin & Mills, the latter being Lewis E. Mills who was a warm personal friend of Mr. Perkins. For a year he shared the office of Judge J. Bryant Walker but returned to the former office in 1875 to become the law partner of Drausin Wulsin. This relation was maintained until 1877, when Mr. Perkins was appointed first assistant city solicitor by Judge Clement Bates. Concerning this Judge Bates afterward said : "At that time a large number of the difficulties of that office, and one of the lucrative parts of law practice, arose out of the intricacies of assessment law. There were four lawyers who were remarkably well posted upon that subject. But for Mr. Perkins, any success that that administration of mine had, would have been far less than it was, for upon his shoulders fell, with the exception of one or two cases, the burden of this assessment business, which involved the city's interests very largely. I can say more : that the, entire amount of what credit there was in our assessment successes belong to him." On the 1st of May, 1882, when Judge Worthington went upon the bench Mr. Perkins again became the partner of Drausin Wulsin and the association was maintained until the death of the former. Following his demise the Hamilton county bar held a memorial meeting in which several bore testimony not only to his ability as a lawyer but to his character as a man. Hon. Judson Harmon on that occasion said : "James H. Perkins had the gifts of quick and clear perception, of accurate analysis, of ready application to the concrete of the abstract principles of law and reason. He had learning. He had the power of close and continuous application. He was faithful. He was alert. He was diligent in business. Yet none of these traits, perhaps—few of them, at least, taken singly—were more marked in him than they commonly are in the better class of his profession.. But they were so harmoniously developed and adjusted by perfect growth that he had the nice symmetry of mind which gives both delicacy and power, like the trip-hammer, which can crack a nut or weld a beam. But what gives dominant color and force to the picture was his honesty. Not merely the honesty which will not wrongfully take or keep ; which will not make or endure a lie, nor rest for an instant under the shadow of deceit ; which will not see any one denied his just due. Such honesty he had in the perfection which is the crown of every true lawyer, whether he sit on bench or stand at bar. But CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 605 he had more. He had an honest mind. This is the gift of God, not always bestowed, nor always kept, in a profession so full of open temptations and of the subtle and more insidious influences of which we are scarcely conscious. It is one of the priceless gems with which God has endowed humanity. 'The gold and the crystal can not equal it and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold. It can not be imitated nor replaced. From it shine wisdom and truth. Mr. Perkins had one of the most honest intellects I ever knew. It was set as true as the axis of a planet. It seemed to know neither variableness nor shadow of turning. Not that he never erred, for he was human ; but his reason never shirked through prejudice nor swerved for interest nor shrank from fear. He took his promises truthfully ; he followed faithfully to the conclusion ; he accepted the result without regard to consequence. This made him one of the best men I ever knew to talk with in doubt or trouble. Not only was his immediate aid great, his guidance sure, but it was like keying one's mind by the eternal verities to reason with him. His mind would respond clear and true as an echo in the mountains." Mr. Wulsin bore testimony to the ability of Mr: Perkins in the following words : "James H. Perkins was a man of great ability. I never came across any man whose mind worked faster than his. I never knew any man who could accomplish more in the same space of time. I remember his once remarking to me That he never knew what it was to be mentally tired. With all his quickness and brightness it was extraordinary to see how cautious he was in matters of importance ; he never failed to view the reverse side of a case after he had formed his opinion. He was fearless and bold because he was honest in his convictions and honest in his conclusions, He feared no man. He feared no cause in which he was engaged. No man at: the bar had more warm friends than he had. He met men as friends unless lie believed them to be dishonest. Every one who ever came in contact with him benefited by his open, generous and frank manner and benefited from their consultations and associations with him." Mr. Perkins was united in marriage on the l0th of May, 1887, to Miss Mary Longworth Stettinius, a daughter of John L. Stettinius, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. Theirs was an ideal marriage relation, too shortly terminated by death, for on the 2d of December, 1889, Mr. Perkins passed away. Though never affiliated with any church, he was throughout his life a shining example of those ideals of character with which Christianity is associated. Fourteen years after his death, a building to be used for The Church of the Advent Memorial Club was erected by his widow in his memory. On that occasion William Watts Taylor said : "He did not need (in the words of Emerson) to 'descend to meet,' because what was best in others instinctively arose to meet him. He made men reverent of his intellectual power, his clear insight, his absolute sincerity ; but their hearts went' out to his nobility of soul' and the surpassing tenderness of his nature. He had preeminently the faculty for friendship and there played about his intimate intercourse the full measure of all his powers. The perfect saneness of his mind, his gifts of memory, of close reasoning and of luminous statement, and above all his keen humor and large affectionateness, all these contributed to the charm of that companionship. which none who knew him can ever forget. His character was built on large. and simple lines. With all his manly strength he had the heart of a boy and 606 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY his mastery of practical things still left him essentially unworldly. His nature; therefore, was in a way primitive, uncomplicated ; he took root strong and deep in the native soil he loved. He was simply and heartily fond of the familiar things about him. There was in him an inclination to usage and habit, an almost rustic conservatism in minor matters. What I have thus described as primitive in his nature was manifest also in his intellectual life. He had the keen eye of savage man for the mark he aimed at. No one ever saw clearer or went with more absolute directness and intuitive certainty to the heart of any proposition. He was far from deficient in imagination but no mists of hazy thinking ever obscured his mental vision. Nor was this entirely a mental quality; it went far deeper. Joined with his power to see the truth was that spiritual faculty which knows the truth and absorbs it into the very being. He laid hold of truth with a certain spiritual passion. And so those debasing compromises which make men slaves to party or to social ambitions or to the laying up of fortune were impossible for him. He could be only what he was, a free man, as the truth had made him. And here lay, above and beyond all other gifts and faculties the very heart and fiber of his great character." JEPTHA GARRARD. Jeptha Garrard has spent his entire life in Cincinnati, where he was born April 21, 1836, his parents being Jeptha D. and Sarah Bella (Ludlow) Garrard. The father, a native of Kentucky, became a member of the bar and practiced as an attorney in Cincinnati for many years. The mother was born in this city and was a daughter of Colonel Israel Ludlow, who was the third owner of the original tract on which the city stands. He was also in the employ of the government as a surveyor, being engaged in. surveying the Ohio country before the year 1800. He was thus connected with much pioneer work of the city and state and his labors contributed largely to the work of development and progress. Jeptha Garrard, following in the professional footsteps of his father, entered upon the study of law, having completed his preliminary education in private schools. He was graduated from Yale College in 1858 with the LL. B. degree and the following year completed a course at the Law School of Cincinnati, being graduated in 1859. The same year he was admitted to the bar and has since been a representative of the profession in his native city. Mr. Garrard was just getting well started upon his professional career, however, when the Civil war broke out and, placing patriotism before professional or personal considerations, he offered his aid to the government. He aided in the defense of Washington during the winter of 1861-2, was then with General Banks' army in northern Virginia and still later, in 1862 and 1863, was with Burnside's army in North Carolina, after which he was at Fortress Monroe and Petersburg for a time. On the 27th of September, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of major in the 'Third New York Cavalry, but was transferred to the First United States Colored Infantry as colonel on the 7th of December, 1863. On the 13th of March, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier general of vol- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 607 unteers for gallant and meritorious conduct and continued in active service until after the surrender of Lee at Appamattox when, knowing that this meant the termination of the war, he resigned on the 25th of April, 1865. Mr. Garrard returned immediately to Cincinnati, where he resumed the practice of his profession, his office at present being in the Wiggins block. ALBERT F. HOFFMEISTER. Albert F. Hoffmeister, president of the Albert F. Hoffmeister Company, was born in Cincinnati on the 5th of October, 1861, being a son of Ferdinand Hoffmeister. The father was a native of Germany, having been born at Stuttgart in 1823. He emigrated to the United States in his youth, locating in Cincinnati, where, in 1842, he established the business with which his son is now identified. When the call came for troops in the '60s he enlisted and went to the front as a private, but was promoted to the position of lieutenant for bravery, with which rank he was mustered out at the expiration of his period of service. When he returned home he gave his entire time and attention to his business, in the development of which he met with success. He was a very benevolent man, being identified with all of the German charitable associations and institution. He passed away in 1907 at the age of eighty-four, having survived his wife for three years, her demise occurring when she was seventy-six. They were both laid to rest in Spring Grove cemetery. After completing the course of the grammar school, Albert F. Hoffmeister entered the Woodward high school, from which he withdrew in 1879 to begin his career as a business man. He went to New York and entered the employ of Louis Franke, a large importer of silk and dress trimmings, continuing in his service for three years. He began at the very bottom and during the period of his identification with the company was promoted until the last year of his connection with the firm he was a salesman. Returning to Cincinnati he took charge of the affairs of his father, who wished to retire, and five years later about 1887, he bought out his father's interest in the present business, which he had incorporated in 1892. They are importers and manufacturers of dress trimmings with offices and factory located at Nos. 331-333 West Seventh street. Here and in New York city they employ about forty people, in addition to an average of fourteen salesmen on the road. They do an extensive business, the scope of which is constantly increasing and developing. Mr. Hoffmeister was married on the 6th of June, 1883, to Miss Anna Feldman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Feldman, the father a pioneer dry-goods merchant of Cincinnati, who was living retired at the time of his death. The mother is also deceased, both being buried in St. Bernard cemetery. Mr. Hoffmeister and family are occupying the residence at 2437 Clifton street which was erected by Mr. Feldman, in addition to which they have a very pleasant summer home at Spring Lake, New Jersey. In politics Mr. Hoffmeister is a republican, but he has never aspired to public office. He has a keen sense of the responsibility of citizenship, however, and in 1885 was commissioned as first lieutenant of the state militia by Governor 608 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Hoadly. He was present at the courthouse riot, when Captain Desmond killed, and he fought during the various railroad strikes, being honorably charged in 1888 with the rank of first lieutenant. Mr. Hoffmeister is hig regarded in both his public and private life, having established an enviable rep tation as a business man during the period of his career. JOHN SHILLITO. Of the merchants of Cincinnati who have been most prominent in the up-building of the business interests of the city it is doubtful whether any have surpassed in ability, courage, energy or perseverance the one whose name stands at the head of this review. For practically fifty years Mr. Shillito was a leader in a rapidly growing city which attracted many of the brightest minds of the country and his name became a household word in all of the states bordering on the Ohio river. He was the founder of one of the greatest dry-goods houses in America and the John Shillito Company stands as a monument to his foresight and sagacity. He was born at Greensburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1808. At the age of nine years he arrived in Cincinnati and entered the employ of Blatchley & Simpson, at that time the leading merchants of the city. He continued with 0is firm for thirteen years and acquired a knowledge of .business which he applied with remarkable success during many years of active participation in affairs. In 1830 he opened a dry-goods store on Main street as a member of the firm of McLaughlin & Shillito. Two years later he entered into partnership with Robert W. Burnet and after another period of two years the firm admitted James Pullen to partnership and the title became Shillito, Burnet & Pullen. The business developed rapidly under intelligent guidance and in 1833 the store was moved to Four0 street, east of .Main, as it had outgrown the old quarters. It was now necessary to employ four clerks. In 1837 Mr. Shillito purchased the interests of his partners and established the firm of John Shillito & Company, the other members being M. H. Coates, Isaac Stephens, William Woods and Edward Holroyd. Later he bought out his partners and in 1857 was the sole owner of the business which had continued to prosper with rapid. strides. He purchased a lot on Fourth street, between Race and Vine streets, and erected a large store which was occupied by his establishment from 1857 to 1878. He admitted at different times, his sons, Wallace, John and Gordon, as his partners, and the business having again outgrown existing accommodations, he purchased a location on Race street, between Seventh and Shillito place, and here erected one of the handsomest and best appointed store buildings on the continent. The building embraces six stories with basement and sub-basement, the main frontage being two hundred and seventy-five feet. The store faces one hundred and seventy-six feet on Race street and one hundred and twenty-five feet on Seventh street, and has been for many years a model after which other buildings of a similar character have been planned for various cities in the United States. In July, 1878, John Shillito & Company moved to the new building and on January 1, 1879, Stewart Shillito, another CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 611 son, was admitted to partnership. The business was conducted under the old title for several years after the death of its founder and then a stock corporation was organized as The John Shillito Company, which was incorporated under the laws of Ohio, June 28, 1882. This company carries on a very large manu- facturing wholesale and retail dry-goods business and maintains immense ware-rooms at the corner of Canal and Jackson streets. The officers are : Stewart Shillito, president ; W. A. Hopple, vice president and treasurer ; John Deremo, secretary ; and James H. Rust, assistant secretary. In 1836 Mr. Shillito was married to Miss Mary Wallace, of Kentucky, a daughter of Colonel Robert Wallace, and to this union four sons and 'one daughter were born, namely : Wallace ; John ; Gordon ; Mary ; and Stewart. Mr. Shillito died September 10, 1879, being then in the seventy-first year of his age. Few men can claim the decision of character, executive capacity or knowledge of human nature. possessed by this great business leader. Starting as a mere lad to make his way in the. world, he conquered every obstacle and reached the highest position in his chosen calling. This he did mainly through his unaided efforts, having within himself the powers Which are indispensable for the accomplishment of unusual undertakings. He will be remembered as one of the most important factors in the growth of Cincinnati and his example will long continue to inspire young men to noble effort. Religiously he was identified with the Presbyterian. church. WILLIAM A. McCALLUM. William A. McCallum, general manager of the Electric Railway Equipment Company, which position he has occupied since 1892, is a native of Cincinnati and a son of John and Ellen McCallum. The father was born in Vevay, Indiana, and came to Cincinnati in 1850. The family is of Scotch extraction, the grandparents coming from Perth, near Edingburgh to this country. John McCallum engaged here in various lines of business, eventually concentrating his energies upon the commission and shipping business which he carried on up to the time of his death. William A. McCallum was a pupil of the public schools to the age of fourteen years and then started out in the business world, securing the position of office boy with the W. F. Colburn Piano Company. Two years later he became bookkeeper for Sam Lowery & Company, commission merchants, with whom he remained for a year and a half. He was afterward bookkeeper with William Kirkup & Sons, manufacturers of steam and gas-fitter's supplies, his identification with that house covering an entire decade. His long experience and his developing powers qualified him to engage in business on his own account and at the end of that time he began the manufacture of steam and gas-fitters' supplies, establishing a business which he conducted for a year and a half and then sold out. He later became a partner in the firm of William Kirkup & Sons, but disposed of his interests in that business in 1892. He was later appointed general manager of the Electric Railway Equipment Company and for twenty years has continued to occupy this position. In addition to their extensive plant in 612 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Cincinnati they have two other factories, one in Wheeling, West Virginia, and another in Reading, Pennsylvania. They manufacture a general line of street railway overhead supplies, iron and steel tubular poles for railway and electric lighting plants and in the Cincinnati factory employ about fifty men. Politically Mr. McCallum is a republican but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him. He belongs to Avon Lodge, F. & A. M.; Kilwinning Chapter, R. A. M.; and has attained high degree in the Scottish Rite. He is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, holding membership in Syrian Temple. His life has been one of unremitting industry and he merits the somewhat trite but altogether expressive term of "self-made man" for, starting out at the age of fourteen years, he has worked his way steadily upward and broad practical experience has well qualified him. for the responsibilities that for twenty years have devolved upon him as manager for the Electric Railway Equipment Company. Their output has attained an excellence that insures a ready sale and includes everything needed in this line. Mr. McCallum is recognized as a most industrious, determined business man and laudable ambition and unfaltering industry have brought him to his present creditable position. JOHN LONGWORTH STETTINIUS. It is seldom that men who have opportunities in the business world, turn from these and take up a labor that has its root in a life of humanity and a desire for continuous helpfulness toward others. Such, however, was the record of John Longworth Stettinius, who not only brought to his position as president of The Children's Home of Cincinnati, splendid executive ability and a spirit of enterprise,. but a love for the unfortnunate little ones of the world that made of his work a success. Mr. Stettinius was a member of one of the prominent old families of Cincinnati, being a grandson of Nicholas Longworth and a son of John and Mary (Longworth) Stettinius, of Washington, D. C. He was born at the home of his grandfather, Nicholas Longworth, on Pike street, in Cincinnati, August 15, 1832. His youthful days were passed in this city, where he attended the Brooks school, while later he became a student in the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. He served as a member of the commission to rebuild the courthouse, but never sought to figure prominently in public affairs. His activity ,centered in those interests which seek to ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. He was an Episcopalian and served for many years as vestryman and senior warden of the Church of the Advent in Walnut Hills. Mr. Stettinius was in hearty sympathy with the benevolent spirit of Masonry and on the 10th of June, 1870, was made a Master Mason in Kilwinning Lodge, No. 356, F. & A. M., of Cincinnati. On the 3d of April, 1871, he became a Royal Arch Mason in Cincinnati Chapter, No. 2, and in December, 1870, and January, 1871, he took the degrees of the Scottish Rite, including the thirty-second in Ohio Consistory. On the 13th of November, 1873, he became an honorary member of Supreme Council, A. A. S. R., thirty-third degree, and on the. 22d of September, 1881, was made an active member. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 613 Social pleasures had their part in his life. He belonged to the Union Club of New York city and to the Queen City, Country and Cincinnati Golf Clubs. On the 15th of June, 1854, in Cincinnati, he wedded Eloise B. Olmsted, a daughter of Henry Olmsted, and they became parents of two children : Mary Longworth, who became the wife of James Handasyd Perkins ; and Henry, who married Mary Burnet Foster. Mr. Stettinius' love for his own family was undoubtedly the root of his sympathy and love for the children to whom home care and parental love were denied. When he died the Children's Home Monthly Record published a memorial, saying: "The death of our president on March 19, 1904, took from us one who next to Murray Shipley has done more for the Children's Home than any other. Mr. Stettinius disliked thoroughly to have any publications made concerning himself or his services. So strong a trait was this and so well was it known that his funeral was marked by not one word of eulogy or personal mention. But now that he is gone it is not only due his memory but it may be an incentive to us all to tell the simple story of his goodness and life work at the Children's Home." The beginning of his connection with the Children's Home is quaintly described in a daily record which was kept there. His name appears July 26, 1877, in this entry : "Mr. Stettinius came to meet Mr. Shipley to be enlightened in regard to the Home work. He gave Mr. Shipley one thousand dollars for the building fund and one hundred dollars for the general support of the Home." Two other entries spoke of his meeting Mr. Shipley but from that time on there was no other mention—because it had become a daily matter, but the entries told of people coming to meet Mr. Stettinius and what Mr. Stettinius had decided to do. On December 28, 1877, he was elected a member of its board of trustees and for nearly twenty-four years thereafter he was a daily visitor to the Home. In February, 1878, he was elected vice president and so continued until February, 1899, when, following the death of Mr. Shipley, he was elected to the presidency. Speaking of his association with Mr. Shipley the Monthly Record in its memorial said : "As link within link were the two men in all the management of the institution. They constituted the executive committee. Many were the earnest discussions between them day after day for twenty-one years. Both were perfectly frank ; each formed his opinion and expressed it with entire independence, but always with mutual respect. Every side of every question was presented. But before a conclusion was reached the two were always in substantial agreement. There was often that, which to a stranger might have appeared a warm defense of diverse views, but in the end a perfect unanimity of judgment was reached. Not once in all these years was there a personal unpleasantness. The two men loved each other with ever increasing admiration. Almost the last words of Mr. Stettinius to the writer were 'More and more do I realize how great and good a man was Murray Shipley.' " In 1877 the Children's Home was occupying the old Williamson residence on Third street but larger quarters were needed and Mr. Stettinius contributed five thousand dollars to the erection of a building which had cost sixty-three thousand dollars, and sixteen thousand dollars additional for ground purchased. He not only gave of his means, however, but of his time and effort and was enthusiastic in his cooperation in the fair which was held in April, 1879, in 614 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY order to supply means for the furnishing of the Home. Not only did Stettinius give his personal work but again and again solicited the aid of his friends and each summer when the funds of the institution ran low he gave liberally from his own purse to replenish the treasury, often to the sum of two or three thousand dollars. It was a matter of keen pleasure for him to contribute to the pleasure of the children by providing them with some delicacy such as strawberries, peaches, watermelons, ice cream, etc., and each Saturday for twenty-two years sent a gift of cakes to the children. Each Christmas he was accustomed to purchase many new toys and gave individual presents to the Older children. At times he arranged for them to attend public entertainments, picnics and various outings, nor did he fail to remember other special days such as Easter, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. He entered heartily into the merriment of the little ones and if any were sick or feeble he was continuously bringing or sending to them something that would tempt their appetites or make them forget their troubles. Frequently he would entertain the lame and infirm at his own home and every day he went into the dining room of the Home and tasted the children's food to see if it was just what it should be. He entered into conversation with the children, noticed the newcomers and usually took them back into the office for a closer acquaintance. We again quote from the memorial which said : "The serious work of the institution engrossed his heart and mind. At one time it would seem as if the care of the day-children was prominent in his thoughts, because he appreciated the great usefulness of that department. At another time he was filled with sympathy for the poor families which had been beaten down by misfortune and their homes temporarily broken and scattered. Many times have we heard him comfort the poor with these words : 'Never mind ! We will bridge you over your trouble ; then you can take your children and get together again.' But really the purpose which was ever uppermost and the effort which was ever most strenuous was on behalf of the children permanently surrendered to the institution. Every one such was `My Child' to him. When they were placed in adoptive homes he followed their progress with eager interest. He read the letters which were written about them, asked the visitor what he saw when he visited them and laboriously inspected the reports which came concerning them. He was always keen for photographs ; sharp to know what their studies were at school ; anxious to see what was their conduct and moral and religious growth. It was a familiar spectacle to see Mr. Stettinius with a lot of books, large and small, spread out on every table and chair around him, studying the records of various children. If any of them got into trouble he was ever ready with counsel or command to help them. He never seemed to think that anything he had was his own--his money and his strength were for others. Many a boy or girl received exactly the help he needed and at exactly the right time. No one could be more generous; he poured out his means as if it were unlimited. This was often like throwing bread upon the waters but fortunately he sometimes did not have to wait many days until he could see his reward. If this article were not so long. necessarily we would be glad to give examples of this. It was a subject of remark in the days when he trudged wearily about town after contributions that if he would only quit giving to other charities and concentrate his benefactions on the Children's Home he could carry on our work without asking a penny CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 615 from any one. This was indeed true, but such a course would not have been tolerated by him for an instant. He wanted to help every good object, religious, educational, civic and personal. He had a number of pensioners. He not only distributed alms with his own hands but kept others supplied with money to distribute for him, so that the recipients would not suspect the source of their help or for fear he might miss some valuable opportunity of doing good. Every person who was poor had in him a friend because poor. He did not set a strict accounting to determine just why that person was poor before giving sympathy and help. Of course he would bestow advice and as far as possible aid the recipient in overcoming bad habits. But he believed that all men are not equal in natural endowment and opportunity—and that some more than others are grievously tempted. His heart was tender with compassion for the weak and erring because they were weak and erring. On the day after Thanksgiving, 1901, Mr. Stettinius was here for the last time in an official relation. He made a few social calls later but never took up any work. As we helped him on with his overcoat he said sadly : 'I fear I will have to lay down my work and leave it to others.' But still he signed our papers and we were in telephonic communication with him until the spring of 1903. Then he desired to resign but the board would not entertain it. It was arranged that Mr. D. B. Gamble should act as president. It was Mr. Stettinius' profound wish to see a successor installed and carrying on the work as he and Mr. Shipley had done. In his last interview with the superintendent he pleaded : 'Do not permit the work to slacken. Do not, I beg of you, take any backward step ! I grieve to lay the burden down. Tell them (the trustees) how I feel. Of course they are all good men—there are none better. But beg of them for me to keep the work up. As a perpetual reminder and emphasis of this his pathetic last appeal, and as a perpetual share in our work, he gives to us from his estate ten thousand dollars to the endowment fund." Such a life needs no eulogy ; it speaks for itself as the great work which he instituted and promoted, lives on and his influence will long be felt in the lives of the little ones, many of whom came to look upon him as a father—the only one that they had ever known. JOHN G. GUTTING. The financial institutions of Cincinnati have given the city high rank for stability in business affairs, the safe and conservative yet progressive policy of the banks constituting a strong foundation upon which to upbuild the commercial and industrial development. One of the leading moneyed concerns of southern Ohio is the Second National Bank, whose splendid edifice at the southeast corner of Ninth and Main streets, a modern business structure twelve stories in height, is a credit to Cincinnati ; and as its cashier, to which position he was called on the 1st of January, 1911, John G. Gutting well deserves mention in this connection. He was born in Glendale, Ohio, December 25, 1867, and attended the public schools of that city. He was a high-school student when at the age of seven- 616 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY teen years he entered Nelson Business College and at. the age of eighteen secured a position in the Second National Bank, with which he has since been associated. He entered the bank in a humble capacity but has worked his way steadily upward through intermediate positions until, after five years' service in the position of assistant cashier, he was elected cashier on the 1st of January, 1911. His associate officers in the institution are: E. E. Galbreath, president; William Albert, vice president ; R. V. Johns and R. Telker, assistant cashiers and E. R. Solar, auditor. The bank has an excellent standing. It is capitalized for one million dollars and has a surplus of a million, with undivided profits of about one hundred and forty-three thousand five hundred dollars. It is the designated depository of the United States, of Ohio, Hamilton county and the city of Cincinnati. A general banking business is conducted and there is a well organized bond and steamship department. On the 23d of September, 1891, Mr. Gutting was married to Miss Frances Gordon, in Glendale, where they, with an interesting family of six children, still reside. Mr. Gutting .has filled the position of village clerk for nine years and was recently reelected for another term. His political support is given the republican party and he is well known as a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club. CHARLES J. STERN. Charles J. Stern, who is prominently known in Cincinnati as special agent of the Union Central Life Insurance Company and was for many years connected with the mercantile business, was born in Cincinnati, August 19, 1856, and has spent his entire life in this city. His parents were Joseph and Henrietta (Rothchild) Stern, the latter of whom was a native of Bavaria, now a part of the German Empire. The father was born in Alsace, then a province of France but now of Germany. He was in sympathy with the revolution of 1848 and after the failure of the movement in Europe came to this country in the latter part of the year named, and settled at Cincinnati. He died in this city at the age of seventy-nine and his wife at the age of eighty-nine years. Charles J. Stern attended the public schools of Cincinnati and later became a student of the Hughes high school, from which he was graduated in 1874. Having become well equipped with a good education for the active duties of life, he entered the clothing business in this city as stockkeeper. Two years later, in 1876, he became bookkeeper in a wholesale jewelry house and in 1878 was admitted without capital to the firm of Strauss, Shields & Company. He was associated with Mr. Strauss as Strauss & Stern until 1894 and the business was then conducted for three years under the title of Stern & Company. Owing to failing health Mr. Stern entered the insurance field and since 1899 has been connected with the Union Central Life Insurance Company. As he possesses a pleasing address and a good knowledge of human nature he has steadily made headway and ranks among the most efficient and progressive insurance men of the city. He is a director of the Pearl Street Market Bank and a stockholder CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 617 and director of the John Mueller Licorice Company of Nos. 2117-2123 Reading road. On the 6th of September, 1882, Mr. Stern was united in marriage to Miss Jennie A. Rothchild,. a daughter of Joseph B. Rothchild, of Findlay, Ohio. Two children came to bless this union : Gertrude C., who married Jesse M. Joseph ; and Helen Mae, who became the wife of Nathaniel I. Auer. In politics Mr. Stern adheres to the republican party in national affairs, but locally votes for the man irrespective of party affiliation. He is a member of Cincinnati Lodge, No. 133, A. F. & A. M. ; McMillan Chapter, R. A. M.; and also of the Independent Order B'nai B'rith. He is connected with the Cincinnati Commercial Association, the Business Men's Club, the Avondale Improvement Association and the Cincinnati Gymnasium and Athletic Club. It has been a principle of the life of Mr. Stern to perform to the best of his ability whatever he undertakes to do. As he never yields to discouragement he often succeeds, where others, of less optimistic temperament, have failed. His example of industry and application is a constant inspiration to his associates and is well worthy of imitation by all who aspire to the accomplishment of wor0y aims. ALBERT J. BERKMYER. Albert J. Berkmyer, identified with the commercial interests of Cincinnati, is president and treasurer of the Regal Belting Company and enjoys the reputation of having attained to this position by virtue of his own efforts and progressive spirit. He acquired a thorough mastery .of the details of his business during his long connection as an employe in an industrial plant, manufacturing leather belting and, in 1905 went into business for himself, establishing the leather belting company of which he is now the head. He was born September 10, 1867, his parents being George and Katherine K. (Fink) Berkmyer. His father was a native of Germany, where he grew to manhood and learned the trade of iron working. When about twenty-two years of age he came to America, establishing his home in Cincinnati, where he secured employment in a safe-manufacturing plant. Subsequently he established the Cincinnati Safe & Lock Company and managed this for many years, retiring however, in order to pass his declining years free from the cares and responsibilities of business interests. His death occurred in 1892, at the age of seventy-three years. Albert J. Berkmyer acquired his education in the public schools of Covington, where he now resides, and prepared for a commercial career in the Nelson Business College. Upon embarking on his career he entered the employ of the Bradford Belting Company, remaining with this firm for twenty years. Conscientious in the performance of his duties, he was one of the most valued employes of the firm but he knew, that even the position of high trust which he occupied did not permit the economic freedom which he longed for and thus, at length he severed his connections with the company which he had served faithfully for two decades, and in 1905 organized, in partnership with Louis A. Bode, the concern known as the Regal Belting Company, engaged in the manufacture of leather belting. Employing only three or four people in their service 618 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY at the outset, their capacity has increased until they now have twenty persons in their employment. Their manufactured products are sold through jobbers in every part of the. country. In July, 1892, Mr. Berkmyer was united in marriage to Miss Ella Burke, a daughter of Richard Burke, of Cincinnati. They are the parents of two children, George and Marie. Fraternally Mr. Berkmyer is associated with the Elks and he is a member of the Commercial Association. His life has been one of honest labor, directed, by admirable stability of character and far-seeing judgment. He is looked upon today by his business associates as one of the exemplary men who are deserving of the full measure of success with which sincere effort is rewarded. CARL F. STREIT. Carl F. Streit is the president of a manufacturing enterprise which had its inception on the 5th of January, 1899, under the name of The C. F. Streit Manufacturing Company. Today their trade activities cover a wide territory in the sale of upholstered furniture, their specialty being the slumber chair and the Davenport bed. In the conduct of the business Carl F. Streit has followed most progressive methods and his enterprise has carried him far on the road to success. He was born in Cincinnati, November 1, 1875, and comes of German ancestry, as is indicated by the family name. His father, Charles Frederick Streit, was born in Germany, but when a small boy was brought to the United States and for forty years engaged in the manufacturing business in Cincinnati, being associated for thirty years of that time with Henry Schmit, under the firm style of Streit & Schmit. In 1898 their partnership was dissolved and each engaged in business on his own account. On the 5th of January, 1899, the present firm was Organized under the name of The C. F. Streit Manufacturing Company. Articles of incorporation were taken out and Charles F. Streit was named as the president of the company, with George H. Laib, as vice president and Carl F. Streit as secretary and treasurer. Since that date the company has increased its capacity and its output more than four fold and at the present writing are the largest manufacturers in their line in the city. Their product is upholstered furniture of most attractive design and style, and they make a specialty of the slumber chair, having a foot rest which is their own patent, and also the Davenport bed. The son, Carl F. Streit, pursued his education in the public schools of Cincinnati and in Bartlett Commercial College, and when his course was completed entered the employ of E. T. Sprague in the capacity of bookkeeper. After filling that position for a year, he became a wood carver in the house of Streit & Schmit, serving in that capacity for a year. He afterward worked in other departments of the factory for several years, spending some time in the shipping department and thus gaining a comprehensive knowledge of the business. In 1898 he entered the office as bookkeeper and in the fall of that year the company removed to their present location at No. 1050 Kenner street. With the incorporation of the new firm in the following spring, Carl. F. Streit became the secretary and treasurer and served in that capacity until 1906. His father CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 621 then retired and the son purchased the interest of all the other stockholders and assumed .the presidency of a business which is now one of the most important productive industries of the city. His long and varied preliminary training well equipped him for the duties of management and control which now devolve upon him, and his initiative spirit enables him to carefully formulate and execute well defined plans. On the 24th of February, 1903, in Newport, Kentucky, Mr. Streit was married to Miss Estelle Spatz, of that place, and unto them have been born two children, Carlyle Frederick, born December I, 1904, and Kathryn Magdalene. In his political views Mr. Streit is a republican, where national questions and issues are before the people, but at municipal elections he casts an independent ballot. He is interested in all that pertains to the city's progress and improvement and has been a cooperant factor in many projects and movements for the general good. He is a prominent member and one of the directors of the Auto Club of Cincinnati and is serving as chairman of the streets and good-roads committee of the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati. He is prominent in both business and social circles of his native city and has a wide and favorable acquaintance. His business is one of the important manufacturing enterprises here and a well defined purpose is enabling Mr. Streit to promote the interests of the house and thus contribute in still larger measure to Cincinnati's business activity and prosperity as well as to his personal success. WALTER J. FRIEDLANDER. Walter J. Friedlander, who in July, 1908, became the president of the HiseyWolf Machine Company of Cincinnati, was born in this city, a son of A. J. and Lisette Friedlander. The father's birth occurred in Bavaria, Germany, on the 1st of May, 1830, and in 1848, when a young man of eighteen years, he came to Cincinnati, where he engaged in the business of manufacturing clothing as a partner of the firm of Heidelbach & Friedlander. That connection was continued until his death in 1897. Walter J. Friedlander has been a lifelong resident of Cincinnati and in its public schools acquired his education, leaving the high school, however, when sixteen years of age. He then became connected with his father in the clothing business, acting as manager of the establishment until twenty-two years of age, after which he organized The Day & Night Tobacco Company, of which he was president until he sold out to the American Tobacco Company in 1906. However, he still retained the presidency of the Cincinnati plant until 1907. He then bought out the Hisey-Wolf Company, of which he is now the president. They manufacture a general line of portable electric drills and grinders and their output displays the latest improvements in that line. Mr. Friedlander brought to this undertaking strong executive ability and marked enterprise and from the beginning has met with prosperity in its conduct. He now employs, eighty men in the factory and does business not only all over the United States but in foreign countries as well, their shipments covering a wide territory, while the volume of their busines proves the worth and value of their output. Vol. IV-31 622 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY On the 6th of November, 1901, Mr. Friedlander was united in marriage, in Cincinnati, to Miss Zillah Iglauer and unto them have been born three Children: John, eight years of age, who is attending the University school; Carl, three years old; and Mary, who is in her first year. Mr. Friedlander belongs to the Jewish church and in politics is independent. Fraternally he is connected with the Cincinnati lodge of Masons, with Elks Lodge No. 5, with the Business Men's Club, the Phoenix Club, the Country Club and various other leading clubs and social organizations of the city. He has always made his home here, has a wide acquaintance and enjoys the high regard of those with whom business or social activities have brought him in contact. FREDERICK BERGEWISCH. As the country has increased in population, the commission business developed into immense proportions in the great cities and is today one of the most important branches of business in Cincinnati, employing thousands of persons and involving the investment of great sums of money. It covers many of the principal articles called for in the household, especially food products, and as Cincinnati is a large distributing point, scores of firms are here located who represent patrons in all the states tributary to this market. Among the leading commission firms in this city is that of The Bergewisch & Becky Company at 1009 Race street, which has been in existence for seventeen years. The president, Frederick Bergewisch, is a native of Quakenbrück, Hanover, Germany. He was born April 11, 1854, a son of Henry and Katherine Bergewisch. The parents died in their native land and are buried in the Catholic cemetery at Quakenbrück. Frederick Bergewisch received his preliminary education in the public schools and grew to early manhood under the protection of the parental home.. At the age of seventeen, in 1871, he started out to meet the world with a brave heart and two strong arms, animated by a desire to accomplish a worthy object in life. He landed at New York city and came direct to Cincinnati, where he found employment as driver of a milk wagon for a dairy establishment of this city. He accepted the first position that presented itself and continued at this work for eight years, in the meantime gaining a good knowledge of the language and customs of America, having resolved to make his permanent home in this country. In 1879 he opened a grocery store at Central avenue and David street, and prospered in his business to such an extent that he opened another store at Liberty and Cutter streets. He sold out both places. in 1884 and next engaged in the contracting, excavating and teaming business, in which he continued for six years. His next venture was as proprietor of a cafe, but after four years' experience in this line he sold out and subsequently associated with John P. Becky in the commission business and, both of the partners being energetic and capable men they made a success of it, the firm of The Bergewisch & Becky Company now being known as one of the most flourishing of the kind in Cincinnati. Mr. Bergewisch is also a member of the board of directors of the Merchants Ice & Cold Storage Company, one of the large concerns of Cincinnati, being also one of the most important cold storage plants in the entire CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 623 country, a very large amount of money being invested in produce carried from month to month in this place. It has proved a great benefit to commission men and also to consumers, as the cold storage system meets requirements that could he satisfied in no other way. Mr. Bergewisch was one of the founders of this company and has from the start been one of its most active and efficient promoters. On July 8, 1879, he was married to Miss Minnie Stahl, who died in February, 1889. On January 14, 1890, Mr. Bergewisch was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Bernardine (Niemeyer) Scheper, the widow of Joseph Scheper, by whom she had four children, Edward, William, Joseph and Frank. By his second marriage Mr. Bergewisch has two children: Frederick William, who is a college graduate and is now assisting his father in business ; and Elizabeth, who lives at home. Mr. Bergewisch and his family reside at 830 Academy avenue in a commodious modern residence, erected by him in 1902, he having also erected ten other houses on the same street, thus adding greatly to the value of property in the neighborhood. He was reared a Catholic and has adhered closely to the faith, being also a member of the Knights of Columbus and of various charitable institutions of the church to which he is a liberal contributor. He has been a citizen of the United States for thirty-five years and is a pronounced lover of the republic but is not affiliated with any political party, as he votes according to the needs of the times, supporting those candidates and principles that appear to him most conducive to the general good. By his industry and sound judgment he has become practically independent and has cause to congratulate himself on selecting America as his country and Cincinnati as his permanent home. THE PFAU MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Among the industrial interests of Cincinnati which has developed rapidly and substantially until it is now an enterprise of large proportions, constituting an important element in the business activity of the city, is that conducted under the name of the Pfau Manufacturing Company. This was incorporated, in 1894, with Charles Pfau as president, Edward G. Pfau, vice president and Clifford C. Pfau, secretary and treasurer. Prior to the incorporation, business had been carried on under the name of Edward G. Pfau & Company, since 1885 and the trade had gradually increased, owing to the enterprising and progressive methods of its members, whose management was a source of constant growth. The plant is located at Mentor avenue and Huston avenue, in Norwood, and in 1909 the present fine buildings were erected. One portion of the plant is four stories in height and fifty by three hundred and fifty feet and the other, three hundred by sixty feet. The latter building is one story in height. Charles Pfau has received patents upon a number of inventions which are now in general use by the plumbing trade. The growth of the business necessitates the employment of three hundred people in the manufacture of water-closet tanks, seats and brass work. The company has never sacrificed quantity to quality and the reliable methods of the house constitute an element of success which is most gratifying. 624 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY The firm has had a continuous existence under a partnership and a corporation form since 1885. The house has become a standard for other firms engaged in a similar line and the business now constitutes one of the important industrial enterprises of the city. M. CLYDE PHILLIPS. M. Clyde Phillips is president of The Billboard Publishing Company and managing editor of the magazine, which ranks with the leading class publications of the country. He was called to the presidency in 1904, when but twenty-four years of age, his birth having occurred in Chilo, Ohio, in 1880. His parents were Benjamin F. and Elizabeth (Howe) Phillips. The father, who was born in Neville, Ohio, is now living retired in the Kentucky Highlands. He was at one time superintendent for the McGibben interests at Cynthiana, Kentucky, and as the result of well managed business interests, bringing him success, is now enabled to rest from further labor. He holds membership with the Odd Fellows lodge at Chilo. M. Clyde Phillips was graduated from the Newport high school in 1900 and in 1902 became associated with William H. Donaldson on The Billboard. In that connection he rose from one position to another, demonstrating his capability in each, and in 1904 he was elected president of the company and is also managing editor of the paper. The Billboard is a splendid specimen of the "art preservative" and has done much in the interests of the trade which it represents. Mr. Phillips is recognized as one of the able magazine editors of the country and has ever kept his publication up to the highest standards. He is a member of the Cuvier Press Club and notwithstanding his modest and retiring disposition, which shrinks from publicity and notoriety, he is one of the well known young business wor0f the city, his work and worth winning him recognition among all with whom he has come in contact. JOHN A. RINGOLD. John A. Ringold, now engaged in the real-estate business, has been very active as a director of numerous expositions which have exploited and promoted the interests of the city and state. His sagacity seems to comprehend the extent of possibility in that connection and his practical efforts reach out toward its attainment. He was born in Glendale, Ohio, in 1863, a son of John and Martha Ringold, the former a horticulturist, whose fruit-raising interests were quite extensive. As a boy. John A. Ringold worked with his father and also attended the public schools, receiving not only excellent mental discipline but also learning lessons concerning the value of industry and perseverance. On leaving home he went to Chicago, where he was engaged in the manufacturing business for nine years, but in 1889 he came to Cincinnati, where he devoted his attention to the in- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 625 surance business, first as .a solicitor and later as general agent for the Berkshire Insurance Company, of which he was a representative for twenty-two years. In 1911 he retired from the insurance field and turned his attention to real estate. His ability to plan and to perform, his resourcefulness in business and his indefatigable energy have won him the attention and favorable recognition of his fellow citizens who have made him a director of a number of the expositions held in this city and also of the Ohio Valley Exposition which was held in August and September, 1910. That his services in that connection were greatly appreciated is indicated by a testimonial which was sent him by the Merchants and Manufacturers Association. It is dated November 18, 1910, and was signed by Stewart Shillito, president, and John W. Irvine, secretary. In 1901 Mr. Ringold was united in marriage to Miss Marion M. Meader, a daughter of Joseph A. Meader, of Cincinnati, and they now have two children, John M. and Marion M. Mr. Ringold is a member of the Business Men's Club and has attained high rank in Masonry, being a Knight Templar and also a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory. He is likewise prominent in the Knights of Pythias fraternity, in which he has filled all of the offices, and. was grand chancellor of Ohio in 1908. and 1909. He has attractive personal qualities, strong mentality and clearly defined characteristics which commend him to the confidence and warm regard of all with whom he has been brought in contact. ALEXANDER CUNINGHAME. Alexander Cuninghame, vice president of the I. & E. Greenwald Company, manufacturers of machinery, with offices on Eastern avenue, Cincinnati, may be truly classed among the prominent and successful business men who have won their positions through sound judgment and indefatigable industry. He is a native of Scotland, born near Glasgow, February 23, 1859, a son of Boyd Alexander Cuninghame who was a captain in the British navy and died in 1860, while his ship was cruising in the Red Sea. The family is of ancient Scottish origin and is of the Craigends Cuninghames, the grandfather of our subject having been the Laird of Craigends. Mrs. Cuninghame survived her husband for forty years and died in 1900. She is buried at Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. Mr. Cuninghame received his preliminary education in the public schools and later matriculated at Edinburgh University, where he took a complete course in civil and mining engineering. In 1890, when he was thirty-one years of age, he came to America and for the past twenty years has given his time principally to developing coal mines in various parts of the country. He has been vice president of the I. & E. Greenwald Company since 1908, and is also vice president of the Avon Coal Company. He recently resigned a similar position which he held with the Luhrig Coal Company. He is a prominent club man and holds membership in the Queen City Club, the Columbus Club, the Cincinnati Golf Club, the Hamilton County Golf Club, the Cincinnati Country Club, the Laughery Club and the Chicago Athletic Association, and was formerly a member of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club 626 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY and the Chamber of Commerce. He spends most of his time at the mines in West Virginia. A man of fine education and large powers of observation and discrimination, moreover, being gifted with clear judgment, he has been successful in his various enterprises and is recognized as an authority in matters pertaining to coal mines. He is an untiring worker and has set an example of conscientious application which is eminently worthy of imitation by all who aspire to gain leadership in any honorable calling... HON. AUGUST H. BODE. Hon. Augeducat0rode, attorney, judge, educator and author. The contribution of the Hon. August H. Bode to the world's work and progress has been a valuable one. Not only a capable representative of the bar, he is perhaps even more widely known in the literary field. He was born in Peine, kingdom of Hanover, Germany, July 3, 1845, and from the public schools of his native town, he went to the renowned private schools of Dr. Auhagen in Hanover, and after thorough preparation entered the Polytechnical School in Hanover, reputed to be the finest school of its kind at that time, for a four years' course in the engineering department. After having completed the course, he took a post-graduate course in the University of Berlin and the Gewerbe Akademie, now the world-renowned Polytechnical. School of Charlottenburg, Berlin. To gain practical experience he spent part of each year's vacation in the royal repair shops and supplemented it by a couple of trips as assistant engineer of a Hamburg-American ocean liner. In the early part of 1867 he came to Cincinnati, to visit some relatives; he met some friends of his school days and the city pleased him so well, that he readily accepted an offer as draftsman in the old Franklin Type Foundry. A serious sickness, which confined him for three months in the hospital, closed his career in the type foundry. He successfully passed a teacher's examination and in the first month of 1868 was appointed a teacher for an A B C class in the Thirteenth district school on Findlay street. His success as an able educator was quickly recognized and he was within short periods promoted to be first assistant teacher of the Second district school on Sycamore street, then to be first assistant to Dr. Peaslee, of the Second intermediate school on Ninth street, and in 1875 returned as principal to the Thirteenth district school, where he had taken his first step as a teacher of the lowest grade. He continued at the head of that school until 1882, and succeeded to raise it from a comparatively low standing to one of the highest rank of the city schools. Though at the head of the second largest school, teaching night school besides, his ability and love for work left him time for other labors. He compiled the German Reading Books in five volumes, which were in use in the Cincinnati and other schools from 1873 until 1889. He was a frequent contributor tfmagazines, wrote a "History of the development of Elementary Reading," published in Wittenberg, Germany,. and of Elementary Arithmetic, published in Berlin ; a series of Writing Books in eight numbers, commenced the study of CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 627 law in 1875, and graduated as a bachelor of Law from the Cincinnati Law College in 1880, and in 1882 entered upon the practice of law. His interest in educational matters, however, has not since that time abated ; he was elected to the board of education without any opposition; he was a member of the teacher's examining board, and for fifteen years has been a member of the union board of high schools, and his labors in behalf of making the educational system of this city more practical and in conformity with the demands of the times have been effective, beneficial and far reaching. In 1889 Mr. Bode was appointed judge of the police court to fill a vacancy, and in 1907 Governor Andrew I,. Harris appointed him for the same purpose, and in 1909 he was elected to that office and is now presiding over the police court. Few men have been more closely connected with public affairs. Almost continuously since his arrival in Cincinnati he has been in public service and has taken an active interest in all public matters. His labors have been characterized by fearless devotion to the general good, and while a stanch republican in national politics, in local matters he only considers what, in his opinion, will be most beneficial to Cincinnati. This was splendidly manifested during the years from 1892-96, when Judge Bode was a member of the non-partisan board of elections. He has been very active in other matters. It was under his unceasing direct efforts that the West Cincinnati Turner Hall was built, and for four years he served as its president; he has been very active in church work and served for a long period as financial secretary of St. Pauls' German Protestant church, and as secretary of the German Protestant Orphan Association. He was also president of the Musik Verein, a member and ex-president of the German Literary Club, and vice president of the Erwin Circle, a literary German Masonic Society, and has done much to stimulate the love of literature among the people. of his nationality. He has long been regarded as one of the most prominent German-American citizens, and is now and has been for the last fourteen years the president of the German Day Association, comprising about fifteen thousand members, which was formed to commemorate the founding of the first German colony, in 1683, by Franz Daniel Pastorius, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. The annual celebration of this event takes place on the first Sunday in September, and the efforts of Judge Bode have made the celebration so joyous and instructive for the twenty thousand attendants that the days are looked forward to every year with increased pleasure. In 1872 Judge Bode was married to Miss Augusta J. Pruess, a native of this city, and a daughter of John Pruess, pioneer wholesale shoe manufacturer, who came to this city from Germany when a boy of six years. Six children were born to Judge and Mrs. Bode, as follows : August H., a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, and now a prominent and successful attorney of this city; Edna H., the wife of Albert Diem, the president of The Diem & Wing Paper Company ; Estelle, a graduate of Hughes high school and of the University of Cincinnati, with the degrees of Ph. D. and Master of Arts, and now professor of history in the Walnut Hills high school ; Mildred J., a graduate from the Laura Memorial College, with the M. D. degree, who, having taken a post-graduate course in Berlin, now successfully practices in this city ; Howard D., a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, of Annapolis, 628 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY of the class of 1911, and now a junior officer on the United States flagship California of the Pacific squadron under Admiral Thomas ; and Otto F., who died in 1886, at the age of seven years. Judge Bode is a man of broad education, keen insight, kind heart and wide sympathies. When asked what work of his he thought the most of, he said "Well, one generally thinks most of his youngest offspring, and I therefore ought to think most of my production of last year, a book of about five hundred pages with one hundred illustrations, entitled 'Reminiscenses of my travels in Germany and Switzerland,' but no, most highly I prize something that I did without the slightest motive of selfishness or financial benefit, but which for many years has done, and is doing today a great deal of good, namely—the German Teachers' Relief Association. "Two very distressing cases of sickness and death in the Thirteenth district school had demanded quite a financial sacrifice from the teachers of that school. It occurred to me that it would be just and proper to make provision for such cases, and I prepared a scheme to meet them. A constitution and by law, prepared in the minutest details was presented by me to a German teacher's meeting at the Teacher's Institute, September, 1877 ; it was enthusiastically received and within forty minutes the German Teachers' Relief Association was organized and in working order without any change from the shape in which I offered it, with myself as president, which I ceased to be when dissolving my connection as a teacher of the Cincinnati school. "The association has paid thousands of dollars to teachers in distress; has accumulated quite a handsome reserve fund ; and fulfilled every hope I had when I organized it." Judge Bode has kept in touch with the best thinking men of the age, and his investigations and research have covered a wide field, and with untiring labor he keeps himself acquainted with those vital truths which have existed through all ages in whatever new garb they may appear, and the development of science in their influence upon the progress of the world—and he certainly has succeeded in making valuable contributions in the fields of education, literature and law, and has exercised a blissful influence upon his fellowmen. JOHN EWING BLAINE. John Ewing Blaine, retired manufacturer, was born in Mason county, Kentucky, February 6, 1845, a son of Samuel Lyon Blaine and Anna Coons Blaine. James Blaine, from whom he is directly descended, and the head of the American family of this name, came from a long line of Scotch-Irish ancestors, whose antecedents date back to Wales, when that country was an independent nation. He, with his wife, Elizabeth, were among the early settlers in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. James Blaine was a man of great strength of character, and his influence for the maintenance of law and order is a matter of record. He speedily acquired extensive holdings of land and became prominent in all the affairs of the community, especially so during the French and Indian wars. In his declining years, he gave all his wisdom and sympathy, as well as the CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 631 strength of his sons, to the struggle for independence. Ephraim, his oldest son, received a classical education at the school of Rev: Dr. Alison, in Chester county, a school famous in its time ; and in 1763, immediately on leaving school, was appointed to a position in the Second Provincial Regiment, which took part in the Bouquet expedition, and shared in the dangers and triumphs of the savage "Pontiac war." From 1771 to 1773 he served as sheriff of Cumberland county, and his official record for this period, and in his own handwriting, is in the possession of the subject of this sketch. He took a vital interest in the questions leading up to the Revolutionary struggle and on July 12, 1774, at a meeting of citizens of Cumberland county, was appointed a member of a committee to correspond with the committee of this province, or of the other provinces, upon the great objects of the public attention, and to cooperate in every measure conducing to the general welfare of British America." In December, 1775; he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the First Battalion of Cumberland County Militia and was directed to hold an election for field officers of the battalion. His remarkable executive ability had, however, brought him to the notice of the supreme executive council and on April 1, 1776, by a resolution of congress, Ephraim Blaine was appointed commissary of provisions. Shortly after assuming the duties of this office, he was, at the personal request and recommendation of General Washington, made commissary general of purchases of the northern department and to this position he continued to be elected and reelected by congress until the close of the Revolutionary war. He was with Washington in many of the most trying periods of the war and during the winter at Valley Forge rendered especially distinguished services in devising means and raising money to save the Patriot army from starving; the major part of his own large fortune was sacrificed in this endeavor. During his services as commissary general, millions of dollars of the public monies passed through his hands, without the slightest suspicion of his honesty, purity and disinterestedness. He enjoyed to a marked degree the confidence and friendship of General Washington and his fellow officers, and it was at his home in Carlisle that the first president was entertained for a week, when on his way west during the whiskey insurrection of 1794. General Blaine, when quite a young man, was married June 26, 1765, to Rebecca Galbraith, who died about ten years before his death, which occurred at his estate "Middlesex," February 16, 1804. Their oldest son, James Blaine, was sent to Europe when about fifteen years of age for special professional training and alter completing his education and returning to his home engaged in mercantile pursuits, though nominated by President Adams for the position of captain in the regular army, which appointment he declined. He married Margaret Lyon and their oldest son, Ephraim, became the father of the late statesman, James G. Blaine ; and the youngest son, Samuel Lyon, became the father of John Ewing Blaine. Samuel Lyon Blaine was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1809. He engaged in mercantile business in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1838, and March 11, 1840, was married to Anna Coons, a daughter of George Coons, who, at an early day, settled in Fayette county, Kentucky. It was from his home in Maysville that his nephew James G. Blaine, who later became so prominent in national affairs, entered upon his career in life. Having during 632 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN ,CITY his college days visited his uncle, to whom he was greatly attached, he was attracted by Kentucky life, and immediately upon graduating from college in the fall of 1847, again came to his uncle, and visited with his family until the January following, at which time he removed to Georgetown, Kentucky, to accept a position in the Western Military Institute. During his several years stay at this place, he was a frequent and welcome visitor at the Maysville home. Samuel Lyon Blaine was a man of strong convictions, was a Whig in politics, and, later, became an ardent and enthusiastic republican. He was a great admirer of Mr. Lincoln and, in 1861; was one of seven men in Mason county who voted for him for president and for which offense he, with his six political associates, was burned in effigy at the courthouse door. In 1864 he was appointed by President Lincoln, assessor of internal revenue for the sixth district of Kentucky and discharged the duties of that office with eminent satisfaction, until the office was merged with that of collector in 1873, when he retired to private life. He died at the house of his youngest daughter in Ravenswood, West Virginia, in 1883, and was survived by his wife, Anna. Coons, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. General James L. Botsford, in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1899, and by several children, of whom Mrs. General J. L. Botsford, of Ashland, Massachusetts, Charles C., of Spokane, Washington, William H., of Chicago, and John Ewing, of Cincinnati, are still living. John Ewing Blaine obtained his early education in the private schools of Maysville, Kentucky, and gained his first business experience as clerk in a store in his native. city. In December, 1863, he was appointed to a civilian's position in the United States army and assigned to duty with the Army of West Virginia. He was present, in the discharge of his official duties, at the battles of Cloyd's Mountain, New River Bridge, Lexington, Winchester and Martinsburg, West Virginia, during the spring and summer of 1864. In November of the same year, while stationed at Cumberland, Maryland, he tendered his resignation from the army, to accept a United States treasury appointment in Kentucky, as assistant assessor in the internal revenue service. While discharging the duties of that position, he also served as United States deputy collector in the same branch of the service. In March, 1873, the office of assessor having been merged with that of collector, he was appointed, by President Grant, to the office of collector of internal revenue for the Ninth district of Kentucky, and assumed the duties of the office, May 20, 1873, at the time the consolidation of the offices of assessor and collector took effect. In this office he established and maintained so high a state of efficiency that it was classed, during his entire term of service in the highest grade established by the treasury department. The following is but one of many letters, commending his conduct of affairs: TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE, WASHINGTON, Nov. 18th, 1880. JOHN E. BLAINE, ESQ. Collector 9th District, Maysville, Ky. SIR :—I have received from Revenue Agent Wheeler a very satisfactory report of the condition of your office, upon an examination made by him on the 12th instant. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 633 Your office is graded First Class, as usual, according to the scale of merit. The fidelity, efficiency, energy and pride in the service displayed by yourself and your officers in maintaining your present high standard of excellence, are very gratifying. Respectfully, GREEN B. RAUM, Commissioner. Mr. Blaine continued in this position through the administrations of Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and part of that of President Arthur. Tiring of the public service and wishing to engage in private business, he tendered his resignation as collector of internal revenue, May 20, 1883, and was relieved from duty upon the appointment of his successor in August following. During all these years, he had taken a most active part in the religious, political and social life of his native city and of northern and central Kentucky. On retiring from the government service, Mr. Blaine removed, with his family, to Peoria, Illinois, and at once engaged in and established a most successful mercantile business, which, without interruption, has continued until the present time. His interest in civic affairs, church and politics followed him to his new home and he was frequently urged to become a candidate for office, but peremptorily refused. His only active participation in politics while in Peoria, was during the presidential campaign in 1884, when he consented to serve as president of the "Logan" Republican Club, which club had the distinction of being the largest and most efficient republican organization in the state of Illinois, outside of Chicago. In April, 1892, having disposed of his business in Peoria, he came to Cincinnati to accept the offices of director and treasurer in the Globe Company, to which he had been chosen in the February preceding. In 1899, the rapidly growing business of The Globe Company was still further enlarged by the purchase of the business of The Wernicke Company, and the corporate name was changed to The Globe Wernicke Company. In the new corporation, Mr. Blaine retained the offices to which he had previously been elected and, subsequently, was also elected secretary, to which combined offices of secretary and treasurer, he was annually reelected during his active connection with the business. In June, 1909, he tendered his resignation, to take effect June, 1910, his desire being to retire from active business. He still retains connection with the company as director and secretary of the board of directors, and is also a director in The New River Lumber Company, president of The Blaine-Thompson Company and president of The Miami Improvement Company, all companies incorporated under the laws of the state of Ohio. On the 140 of December, 1871, at Maysville, Kentucky, Mr. Blaine was married to Miss Nannie C. McGranaghan, a daughter of Dr. W. H. McGranaghan, who belonged to an old Virginia family. He was an eminent physician of Maysville and a son of William McGranaghan, who was of Scotch-Irish extraction and settled at Clarksburg, Virginia, at an early day, remaining for many years editor and proprietor of a newspaper at that place. Mr. Blaine has three children, two sons and one daughter. William M., the eldest, is a successful physician residing in Youngstown, Ohio, and was recently elected president of the North Eastern Ohio Homeopathic Association. John Ewing, 634 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Jr., has followed in the footsteps of his father and, upon the latter's retirement, was elected secretary and treasurer of The Globe-Wernicke Company. Anna Coons was graduated at a well known and popular classical school in Cincinnati and finished her education at an old established school for young ladies in New York city. In company with her parents, she has traveled extensively in Europe and America and is now living at home. Politically Mr. Blaine supports the principles and candidates of the republican party, and his religious views are indicated by membership in the Presbyterian church. In July, 1877, he was chosen an elder by the First Presbyterian church of Maysville and by election of the Presbytery was sent as a commissioner to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, held at Springfield, Illinois, in the spring of 1883. In January, 1895, he was chosen an elder by the Avondale Presbyterian church, which position he continues to hold. He has long been actively interested in the work of the society "Sons of the Revolution," to which society he was elected a member in December, 1895. For several years he served on the board of managers and as vice president and in February, 1907, was elected president of the Ohio society. He has been elected delegate, by the Ohio state society, to the three last triennial meetings of the national society, whose sessions are held in the city of Washington. At the 1908 session, he was appointed chairman of a committee to secure the publication by the government of the archives of the Revolutionary war and this committee, with members scattered from New York and Virginia to California, is still actively at work. Mr. Blaine is prominent in social circles and is a valued member of the Queen City Club, the Cincinnati Country Club, the Hamilton County Golf Club and the Pelee Club. He is a man of striking personality, of kindly temperament and genial disposition, and he has ever sought to advance the interests and add to the happiness of employes, as well as of his own associates. On account of his acknowledged standing and personal worth, he is eminently entitled to the respect which is accorded the leaders in every well established community. His life has to many young men been an inspiration and he richly deserves the freedom from active business responsibilities which he now enjoys. NATHANIEL HAMILTON MAXWELL. Nathaniel Hamilton Maxwell, who for the past six years has engaged in the general practice of the law in Cincinnati, is a son of Colonel Sidney Denise and Isabella (Neff) Maxwell. Upon his father's. side he is of the Denise and Schenck families. Through his mother, who is the daughter of Colonel Peter Rudolph Neff, he has the blood of the Burnets, the Curries and the Wallaces. The families on both sides were distinguished in the colonial armies and in the Civil war. The subject of this sketch was born in Cincinnati, January 28, 1880. His primary education was received in Westminster Academy, where in addition to the usual branches of study, he received instruction in art, music and military tactics. In 1898 he was graduated from Woodward high school, having attained CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 635 excellence in English, and having begun, in the same year, the recruiting of a company of Woodward Guards for service in the Spanish-American war, along lines similar to 0ose of a company that went from the school in the Civil war, the stopping of all recruiting by the government having put an end to 0is work. In 1904, Mr. Maxwell came prominently before the public by reason of his authorship of a brief story, "Matt : Man of Affairs," that appeared in Collier's Weekly, the instant popularity of the story and the importance of a political article by ex-President Grover Cleveland in the same number combining to sell out the edition. Foreign privileges of the story were sought within a few clays of its appearance, and as it was followed by other stories of widely varying subject-matter and persistent merit, Mr. Maxwell soon found his services in demand by the best magazines in the country and by leading publishers who desired him to extend his brief stories to book length. The inducements offered Mr. Maxwell to devote himself to literary pursuits have had no effect, however, in diverting him from his profession. He was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, a department of the University of Cincinnati, in 1905, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was at once admitted to the bar, and became associated with the firm of Worthington & Strong. He found his own practice awaiting him and tried his first case in a court of record at the earliest term of court after his admission to the bar. He was later admitted to practice in the federal courts. After three years at the bar, his own clients were taking his entire time, and he has since practiced alone with pronounced success. Mr. Maxwell has the distinction of being one of the few men who thoroughly understand the practical workings of the Cincinnati clearing house in its settlement of the daily balances between the banks. He is a member of various law, literary, civic, social and charitable clubs and organizations, and of the directorate of various corporations. ABE GOODMAN. Abe Goodman, one of the successful horse dealers of Cincinnati, is a native of Germany, his birth having there occurred, on the 12th of December, 1871. He is a son of the late Morton and Hannah Goodman, who emigrated to the United States from the fatherland during the boyhood of their son Abe. The father, who passed away in 1898, at the age of seventy-four years, was a very religious man and a devout churchman. He was a generous contributor to all manner of worthy charities, and was especially liberal in rendering assistance to the more unfortunate of his own people. Cincinnati was for many years his home and here he passed away. The mother, who still lives at the venerable age of eighty-four, is yet quite active physically and retains her mental faculties, her appearance in no way indicating her age. Reared in the United States., Abe Goodman obtained his education in the public schools, laying aside his text-books as soon as his knowledge was deemed sufficient to fit him for a business career. He was. always. an enterprising and shrewd lad, early giving promise of becoming the capable man of affairs 636 - CINCINNATI--THE QUEEN CITY which he is today recognized. Soon after leaving school he began buying and selling horses in Ironton, Ohio, continuing to follow this business there until 1901, when he became associated with Mr. Goldblatt and came to Cincinnati. They have been very successful in their undertakings and now have not only one of the largest horse markets in the city but in the state, and their business is continuously increasing. It has always been their policy to handle only a high grade of stock, and thus they have established a reputation for handling only the best, any animal coming from their market being known to be in good condition, without deficiencies and as represented. Mr. Goodman chose for his wife Miss Bessie Van Cleeff, a daughter of Joseph Van Cleeff, who was a broom manufacturer of Cincinnati, and unto them have been born three daughters : Blanche, who is sixteen years of age and attending the Hughes high school; Ethel, who is fourteen; and Marjorie, twelve years old, the last two attending the Avondale school. The family, who are very happily situated in their home life, reside in Avondale, Mr. Goodman's mother also being a member of their household. They are Hebrews and affiliate with the Avondale synagogue, among whose congregation they number many friends. Such success as has come to Mr. Goodman must be very largely attributed to his own well directed efforts as well as his inherent ability. He concentrates his entire attention upon his business affairs, never undertaking a venture until he has carefully planned every detail ;lid directing all of his energies toward a definite purpose. FREDRICK C. BUSSE. Fredrick C. Busse, who for the past twelve years has been president of the United States Varnish Company, has been engaged in the varnish business in Cincinnati ever since leaving school. He was born in this city on March 15, 1868, and is a son of Fredrick C. and Catherine Busse, both natives of Germany. His father, who was born in 1839, passed away in this city in 1899, but the mother is still living. In the acquirement of an education after completing the course of the public schools, Fredrick C. Busse attended Woodward high school for two years, at the end of which time it was considered that he had sufficient knowledge to enable him to enter commercial life. He then laid aside his text-books and became associated with his father who was operating a varnish business. In order to thoroughly familiarize himself with every detail of the industry he worked in the various departments, being promoted from time to time in accordance with his development. In 1898 he became. a stockholder in the business and following the death of his father in 1899, president. The industry has always flourished from the very beginning, Fredrick C. Busse, Sr.; having labored tirelessly for many years in his efforts to get it established on a sound basis, his efforts in this direction succeeding largely through the quality of their products. The son has followed the policy established by the father, his efforts constantly being directed toward the improvement of their product and their methods of conducting their business. Protection of the interests of their CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 637 patrons, the maintenance of a high standard in the manufacture of their goods and the conscientious fulfillment of all contracts have all proven important factors in promoting the development of this business, which is now highly prosperous. Mr. Busse married Miss Marie La Roux, who was born in France and emigrated to the United States with her mother in 1888, the father having died in his native land. Fraternally Mr. Busse is a Mason and is a member of the Scottish Rite and he is also a Shriner. He is a member of the Queen City Furniture Club and the Furniture Exchange, while his connection with orders of a more purely social nature is confined to his affiliation with the Cincinnati Gymnasium Boat Club. His political support he accords to the republican party, but he does not actively participate in municipal affairs. Mr. Busse is a man of rare business acumen, possessing the qualities essential to the successful pursuit of a commercial career, and by the intelligent direction of his affairs is meeting with returns in every way fully commensurate with his capabilities. EDWARD G. SCHULTZ. Edward G. Schultz, secretary and treasurer of the R. K. Le Blond Machine Tool Company, at 4609 Eastern avenue, was elected to this position in 1909. He is even yet a young man, but well developed business ability and laudable ambition qualify him for the onerous duties that devolve upon him in his business connection. He was born in Cincinnati, December 28, 1878, a son of Daniel and Emma Schultz. The father, a millwright by trade, was a son of Daniel Schultz, Sr., who had established himself in the millwright business in Cincinnati about 1840, subsequently carrying on his enterprise under the firm name of Daniel Schultz & Sons. Daniel Schultz, Jr., was a lad of only fifteen years when, offering his services to the government in defense of the Union cause, he joined the Seventeenth Missouri Regiment, known as the old Turner Rifles. He proved a valiant soldier and remained throughout life an honorable and upright business man. His dea0 occurred April 22, 1907, when he was sixty-one years of age, and his remains were interred at the Sandusky Soldiers Home of Sandusky, Ohio. His widow, surviving him at the age of sixty-one years, resides at No. 2559 Liddell avenue, Fairmount. In the local schools Edward G. Schultz began his education which was continued in the Hughes high school until he reached the age of sixteen years. The call of the business world was been heeded and, putting aside his textbooks, he entered in 1894 the employ of the F. H. Lawson Company as office boy. No better testimonial of his capability, diligence and faithfulness can be given than the statement of the fact that he remained with that house for thirteen consecutive years, being promoted from one position to another until when he resigned he ranked third in the office. His desire to engage in business on his own account, however, led him to sever his connections with that house and he organized the firm of Schultz & Frohliger, public accountants, systematizers and auditors. He thus carried on business for two years, at the end of which time he sold out and it was then that he associated himself with 638 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY the R. K. Le Blond Machine Tool Company, of which he was immediately elected secretary and treasurer. His recognized business ability has caused his cooperation to be sought along various other business lines and he is now a director of the reorganized Ohio Motor Car Company, vice president of the Baker & Byron Company, loose leaf manufacturers, secretary of the J. H. Louis Automobile Company and vice president of the J. H. Louis Carriage & Wagon Company. He is also secretary of the Enterprise Building Association and all of these different concerns benefit by his sound judgment and administrative direction. He readily solves intricate business problems and carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. The obstacles and difficulties which continuously arise in the conduct of every business project seem to serve with him as an impetus for renewed effort and call forth in larger measure a spirit of determination which enables him to come off victoriously in every encounter. On the 9th of June, 1900, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Schultz to Miss Loraine Ingersoll, of Cleves, Ohio, of which city she was a native, her father being Joseph S. Ingersoll, a former mayor of that place. Mr. and Mrs., Schultz have a son and two daughters, Marion Ingersoll, Florence and Esther, aged respectively ten, eight and six years. All are now attending school. The family home, erected by Mr. Schultz, is a modern residence at No. 3632 Linwood avenue, in the attractive suburb of Linwood. Mr. Schultz is a republican and is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner. He also holds membership with the Cincinnati Business Men's Club and is an active member of the Calvary Presbyterian church of Linwood, in which he is serving as treasurer. His interests are varied, making him a man of well rounded character. Without any particular favorable conditions at the outset of his career, he has made good use of time, talent and opportunities with the result that his developing ability and expanding powers have brought him to a conspicuous and creditable position in the business circles of his adopted city. HON. HIRAM D. PECK, LL. D. Hon. Hiram D. Peck, formerly judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, is numbered among those who have held high the standard of professional service and ideals. A Harvard graduate of 1865, he located for practice in Cincinnati and worked his way upward to a position of distinction in legal circles. He was born near Cynthiana, Kentucky, March 23, 1844, and in the paternal line comes of sturdy New England ancestry, being a grandson of Hiram Peck, one of the founders of Montpelier, Vermont, and colonel of a regiment of Vermont troops in the war of 1812. His mother represented an old Virginian family and was also descended from the prominent Broadwell family of New Jersey. The early aptitude which Hiram D. Peck displayed in his studies enabled him to enter upon preparation for a college course when very young. He was instructed by Rev. Cater Page at the academy of Cynthiana and also pursued a classical course in Miami University, from which he was graduated in 1862, when eighteen years of age. The Civil war was then in progress and his patriotism prompted his enlistment in the Eighty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 641 with which he served from May until September. He then returned home to enter upon the study of law, having cherished from his youth a desire to become a member of the profession. His law course was pursued at Harvard and following his graduation there, in 1865, he located for practice in Cincinnati. Almost immediately Mr. Peck gained recognition as a lawyer of ability. His knowledge was broad, thorough and comprehensive and he seemed to grasp almost intuitively the relation of the law to the facts in litigation. He ably served as assistant city solicitor from 1873 until 1876 and in the latter year was elected city solicitor, which office he filled for two years and then resumed private practice. As a member of the bar he became the associate of Mr. Goss and the partnership was continued until Judge Peck's election to the bench. In the spring of 1883 he was nominated by the democratic party for judge of the superior court and won the election. In 1884 he was reelected to the office and continued to the close of the term, when he declined to again become a candidate. He then resumed private practice as a partner of Frank H. Shaffer and is now practicing as a member of the firm of Peck, Shaffer & Peck. This is today one of the strong law firms of the city and, having made an especial study of corporation law, Mr. Peck practices largely in that field, being the legal representative of some of the foremost corporations of the city. In the educational field he has also gained distinction, having for six years filled the professorship of the law of evidence and corporations, while from 1878 until 1883 he was a director of the University of Cincinnati. Miami University conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1892, and from the University of Cincinnati he received the same recognition and honor. Mr. Peck's public service has been of an important and helpful character. He received from Governor McKinley appointment to the position of trustee of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in 1894 and was reappointed the following year. Without his knowledge the democratic convention of 1884 nominated him as congressional candidate from the first district of Ohio. His opinions have always carried weight in party councils and his interest in party success has led to effective work toward that end ; and yet his position has always been rather that of a statesman than a politician—terms which should be synonymous and yet have come to have widely different meanings. He possesses considerable literary ability and oratorical power and his writings have attracted wide attention, while his public utterances never fail to command the interest of his hearers. At the November election of 1911 Judge Peck was nominated by a non-partisan association for a member of the Constitutional Convention of Ohio. There were forty names presented to the electors as candidates for the convention, of whom nine were to be chosen, and when the votes were counted it was found that the name of Hiram D. Peck led all the rest and was ahead several thousand votes of the next highest successful candidate. Judge Peck is now in attendance on the convention at Columbus and has been made chairman of the judiciary committee, from which he has reported a measure for the reorganization of the state judiciary with every prospect that it will be adopted. He seems to be as popular in the convention as out of it and wields therein an influence of paramount importance. On the 18th of November, 1868, Judge Peck was united in marriage to Miss Harriet E. Weld, of Boston, Massachusetts, a representative of the wealthy and Vol. IV-32 642 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY influential family of that name. Two sons and a daughter were born to them, as follows : John Weld, who is a member of the law firm of Peck, Shaffer & Peck; Arthur Minot, who is engaged in the manufacturing business in Cincinnati ; and Edith Weld, at home. The family has a prominent social position and the Judge's friends throughout the state are numerous. With all of his various activities, he regards the practice of law as his real life work and in the profession has made continuous progress. THOMAS H. CARRUTHERS. Thomas H. Carruthers, general manager at Cincinnati of The Bourne. Fuller Company, manufacturers of iron and steel products, with office and warehouses at the corner of Front and Smith streets, was born in this city on the 26th of May, 1873. He is a son of Thomas H. Carruthers, the grandfather having also been named Thomas H. The father was a native of Dumfrieshire, Scotland and came to Cincinnati, Ohio, at the age of fourteen years. He entered the employ of the Globe Rolling Mill Company, of which his son a number of years later became president and general manager. In 1879 Mr. Carruthers, the father of our subject, built the old Riverside Rolling Mill and was for several years vice president and manager of that concern. Later he became a member of the firm of George Kinsey & Company. He was very prominently identified for many years with the iron and steel trade of this city and died in 1893, having gained a position as one of the most useful and progressive citizens of Cincinnati.. The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Jones, was a daughter of John Goodin Jones, one of the prominent attorneys of this city. She was also a granddaughter of Lot E. Brewster, a pioneer business man of Cincinnati, whose store occupied the site upon which the postoffice building now stands. Mr. Carruthers, whose name introduces this review, attended the public schools and the Woodward high school. He made the initial step in his business career by taking a position as office boy under John H. McGowan, a noted pump manufacturer of Cincinnati. After seven months Mr. Carruthers was advanced to the position of shipping clerk and remained with the firm for four years. He next accepted a position with the old Michael Clements Company, manufacturers of safes, but after two years associated with George Kinsey & Company, representatives, at Cincinnati, of the Pittsburg iron and steel firm of Jones-Laughlin. After an experience of five years with Mr. Kinsey, Mr. Carruthers acquired a half interest in the firm of J. L. Adams & Company, who were representatives of the Cambria Steel Company of Cincinnati. Two years later he became treasurer and general manager of the Globe Rolling Mill Company. This was the first rolling mill erected west of Pittsburg and was established in Cincinnati in 1848. The company operated rolling mills here until 1893, when it discontinued manufacturing but remained in the warehouse business until December 31, 1909. On the 1st of January, 1910, the business was taken over by The Bourne-Fuller Company, the headquarters of which are at Cleveland,. Ohio. This company was one of the principal stockholders in the .old Globe Company. When it was absorbed by 'The Bourne-Fuller Com- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 643 pany in 1910, Mr. Carruthers became general manager of the interests of this company in Cincinnati, a position of large importance, as Cincinnati is one of the principal distributing points for the Ohio valley and the south. Mr. Carruthers is also a stockholder in The Bourne-Fuller Company and is one of its trusted representatives. In 1896, at Cincinnati, Mr. Carruthers was married to Miss Reba Ward, a daughter of George W. Ward, of this city, who was an officer in the Civil war and had many thrilling experiences in the field and in prison. A sketch of Mr. Ward appears elsewhere in this work. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Carruthers, Jessie Ward, James Richardson, Thomas H. and Elizabeth. Thomas- H., the third in order of birth of the children named, is the fourth member of the Carruthers family to be so christened. The family resides in Glendale. Mr. Carruthers is not Connected with any religious organization but is an earnest believer in the principles of the Masonic order, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the blue lodge and shrine: His life in an important degree has been controlled by the beneficent teachings of this organization. Always active, progressive and ambitious to perform creditably his duties to those with whom he associates, he has maintained a high standard in business as in all other relations and has been blessed with abundant success. HENRY C. WENDEL, M. D. Dr, Henry C. Wendel as a member of the medical profession has built up a large practice and is also examiner for several fraternal societies, in the membership of which he is prominent and popular because of his affable and cordial disposition. He was born in St. Leon, Dearborn county, Indiana, November 4, 1869. His parents were George and Wilhelmina Wendel, and the mother, a native of the northern part of Ohio, died in 1897 at the age of forty-seven years. The father, a native of Germany, came to America in 1851 and settled in Indiana, where he followed the occupation of farming, winning success in his work in the fields. passed away a year previous to the demise of his wife.  Dr. Wendel was a pupil in the schools of Franklin county, Indiana, to the age of twenty years, when he entered the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati and was graduated therefrom with the M. D. degree in 1894. Immediately afterward he entered upon the practice of medicine in this city and has made continuous progress, now enjoying a large practice and well merited reputation for skill and ability. He is careful in diagnosis, which is a factor in enabling him to successfully cope with the intricate and involved problems which continuously confront the physician. All of his professional work is most conscientiously done and the results that have followed his labors have been most satisfactory. He belongs to the Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is examiner for a number of fraternal societies. On the 9th of November, 1890, in his native town, Dr. Wendel was married to Miss Katherine Bohl, a daughter of Daniel Bohl, of St. Leon, Indiana. The 644 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY father was a farmer who retired from business life at the age of seventy-one years. He is of German birth and was a youth of sixteen years when he crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Indiana. His wife also survives and is now seventy-six years of age. The children of Dr. and Mrs. Wendel are three in number : Catherine, who was born in 1891, and is a graduate of Woodward high school ; Clara, born in 1895, who is a student at the same school ; and Carl, born in 1902, who attends the Twenty-third district school. Dr. Wendel belongs to the Masonic .fraternity in all of its different branches and is connected also with the Knights of Pythias, and numerous social societies. In politics he is an independent republican, being allied, with that movement 4 which is one of the hopeful signs of the times, showing that men will no longer blindly follow party leadership, where the interests of the many are sacrificed to the welfare of the few. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Evangelical Protestant church. They are pleasantly located in an attractiv home at No. 23 East McMillan Street. WILLIAM S. STEARNS. William S. Stearns, vice president of the Stearns & Foster Company, operating cotton mills at Lockland, with offices on East Canal street, Cincinnati, was born about a mile east of Reading, on a farm, in Hamilton county, Ohio, April 10, 1857, a :son of George S. and Amelia (Stephenson) Stearns. The father was a native of Bedford, Massachusetts, and when a young man came to Cincinnati where for several years he was engaged in the manufacture of printing ink; but in 1846, with Seth C. Foster; his partner, he established the present business which was conducted under partnership relations until 1882, when the Stearns & Foster Company was incorporated. Through all of the intervening years it has figured .as one of the leading productive industries of the city, and the success and development of the enterprise are largely due to the untiring efforts and business ability of George S. Stearns. His wife was born in Cincinnati, a daughter of William Stephenson, who in the early days of the city conducted a tin shop on Fifth street, where the postoffice now stands. George S. Stearns passed away in 1889 and was king survived by his wife, whose death occurred in 1909. William S. Stearns, whose name introduces this review, was reared at the place of his nativity and attended the Wyoming public schools. He also spent some time as a high-school student in Cincinnati and then entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, from which he was graduated with the Civil Engineer degree in 1879. He was then employed for a short time as civil engineer at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and later worked as civil engineer on Nebraska. railroads, his services there covering the years 1880-1. About that A time the firm of Stearns & Foster began the erection of the present large cotton mills at Lockland and William S. Stearns entered their employ. After his father's death in 1889 and while still acting as superintendent of Millsthe Stearns & Foster Mills at Lockland, William S. Stearns drew the plans and erected the remainder of the buildings now used by the Stearns & Foster Com- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 645 pany. These were completed about 1890. For over a quarter of a century beginning in 1881, William S. Stearns has been superintendent of the mills in Lockland, where between four hundred and fifty and four hundred and seventy-five people are employed. The Stearns & Foster Company is capitalized for one million, five hundred thousand dollars and the present officers are: Seth C. Foster, of whom mention is made on another page of this volume, president ; William S. Stearns, vice president; Edwin R. Stearns, treasurer; and William R. Foster, secretary. William S. Stearns has charge of the mechanical end of the business and his long experience well qualifies him .for the conduct of an enterprise of such magnitude and he has instituted many progressive measures. Mr. Stearns was united in marriage to Miss Mecia Stout, and unto them were born three children: Lucy, the wife of P. D. Keys, of Glendale, Ohio; Harriet, who is a graduate of Smith College; and Kirk. Mr. Stearns is a member of the, Cincinnati Business Men's Club and is widely and favorably known among the business men of the city. During his long residence in Hamilton county he has become prominently known and is everywhere spoken of in terms of high regard. P. LINCOLN MITCHELL. P. Lincoln Mitchell, surveyor of customs at this port, who is also associated with the law firm of De Camp & Sutphin is one of the promising young attorneys of .Cincinnati. His birth occurred at Newport, Kentucky, on the 9th of August, 1879, his parents.: being Richard H. and Mary (Lincoln) Mitchell. In the paternal line he is of Irish extraction. His grandfather, Robert Mitchell, at the age of eighteen years came to America, about the year 1830, coming directly to Cincinnati, where the family has ever since resided. His son, Richard H. Mitchell, the father of our subject, was born here in 1846. Upon attaining his manhood he entered the United States diplomatic service, and for a time was secretary to S. A. Shellabarger, minister to Portugal, at Lisbon. For his wife he chose, a daughter of T. D. Lincoln, of Cincinnati. They have become the parents of twelve children, eleven of whom are living. All of the family are members of the Roman Catholic church. The father is a member of the firm of Robert Mitchell & Company, prominent furniture manufacturers and dealers of this city. P. Lincoln Mitchell attended St. Xavier Jesuit College of this city, being graduated with the degree of B. A., in the fall of 1897. He then entered Yale University, where he remained for four years receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree with the class of 1901. Upon his return home he entered the Cincinnati Law School, where he pursued his professional studies for two years. Immediately following his admission to the bar, in 1903 he went to Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a member of the firm of J. W. Kelly & Company, distillers. In 1906, having terminated his connection with J. W. Kelly & Company, he went to Oxford, England, and studied for a year at Baliol College. Upon the expiration of that period he returned to Cincinnati and became associated with the law firm of De Camp & Sutphin, with which he is still connected. 646 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Country, Queen City, University, Riding, Cincinnati Business Mens', "The Pillars" and the Cincinnati Polo Clubs. He has always taken a keen delight in. all outdoor sports and athletics. and rowed on the college crew during his four years at Yale. During his university days he was a member of D. K. E. fraternity, and also belonged to the Scroll & Keys. He is now captain of Troop C, First Squadron, Ohio Cavalry. In connection with his professional duties, Mr. Mitchell has for some time been filling the office of surveyor of customs, having been appointed to this position by President Taft. Enterprising and ambitious, with an excellent equipment and rare natural powers, and possessing hosts of influential friends, Mr. Mitchell's future has every assurance of not only being a successful but a brilliant one. JAMES GILMOUR HYNDMAN, M. D. Dr. James Gilmour Hyndman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 12, 1853, and is the oldest son of William Graves Hyndman and Barbara (Gilmour) Hyndman. Dr. Hyndman's parents were born in the north of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock and came to this country and city in their youth. They were married here September 17, 1852. Mr. Hyndman was for many years a prominent and prosperous business man. He died in this city, July 19, 1903, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. Dr. Hyndman was educated in the public schools and Woodward high school and from the latter institution he graduated in 1870. Immediately thereafter he began the study of medicine with Dr. James T. Whittaker, one of the most brilliant teachers the profession has ever had in this city. In the fall of 1870 he entered the Medical College of Ohio. At the end of two years, being still too young to graduate in medicine, he became a resident physician in the Cincinnati Hospital. This position he held for two years, acquiring there a solid foundation for his brilliant career, both as a practitioner and teacher. In 1874, having reached the legal age, he received his degree from the Medical College of Ohio. Immediately after graduation he began practice on Main street, near Webster. He rapidly gained practice and popularity among the people ; and in the profession a reputation for zeal, ability and indomitable energy in the pursuit of all that elevates the calling he had chosen. In 1874 he was made assistant editor of the Clinic, a medical journal conducted by the faculty of the Medical College of Ohio. During the earlier years of his editorship he made abstracts from home and foreign medical journals and translations from the German and French. In 1877 he became managing editor under Dr: Roberts Bartholow. In 1878 he was made editor-in-chief. In 1879 Dr. J. C: Culbertson acquired the Clinic and merged it with the Lancet under the title of Lancet and Clinic. Dr. Hyndman was coeditor until 1881. As a result of his work on that journal he was selected to be one of the translators of Ziemssen's Cyclopoedia of Medicine. In 1879 he was made professor of chemistry and lecturer on diseases of the nose and throat in the Medical College of Ohio. In 1894 he was transferred to the chair of laryngology. He held the professorship of this department until his CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 649 death. For twenty-five years he was a member of the faculty and for twenty-three years its secretary, and during this latter period the virtual chief executive of the college. He took an active part in the negotiations which resulted in the affiliation with the University of Cincinnati. He was for some time consulting laryngologist to the German Hospital. Dr. Hyndman was for a number of years a member of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity ; and president of its national organization from 1900 to 1902. He was a member of Avon Lodge of Masons. In 1893 he was appointed by the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey, medical referee for Ohio, and chief examiner at their Cincinnati office. In 1897 Dr. Hyndman represented the Academy of Medicine at the International Medical Congress at Moscow, Russia. He was .a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati ; the Ohio State Medical Association ; the American Medical Association; and the Cincinnati branch of the American Chemical Society. His practice in the latter years of his life was confined to diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Dr. Hyndman was married June 20, 1883, at Martinsville, Indiana, to Miss Mary Elizabe0 Mitchell, daughter of Samuel Moore Mitchell, a prominent and prosperous citizen of that place, and Ann (Sandy) Mitchell. Dr. Giles S. Mitchell, for many years in the front rank of the profession of this city, was a brother of Mrs. Hyndman. Dr. Hyndman's happy disposition, genial manner ,and rare hospitality endeared him to a multitude of his fellow citizens. He died in this city, September 18, 1904, mourned by a host of friends, both lay and professional. His death was a great loss to the medical department of the university which he had served so long, and so efficiently. "By their fruits ye shall know them." HARRY R. BROWNE. In the fifteen years in which he has given his time and attention to the wholesale lumber business in Cincinnati Harry R. Browne has built up a profitable enterprise upon the foundation of previous experience, thorough college training and commendable ambition. Cincinnati has always been the place of his abode, his birth having occurred at the old homestead belonging to the Rev. Samuel J. Browne, on what was them known as Browne street, north of Canal and opposite Baymiller street. His grandfather, the Rev. Samuel J. Browne, was a pioneer of the early days of Cincinnati and was one of the founders of the Cincinnati Commercial. Pearson C. Browne, his son and the father of Harry R. Browne, engaged in the printing business for many years and also attended to the affairs of his father's property situated in. what was originally the main business part of the city between Broadway and Main, and Second and Third streets. His business career began as clerk for the well known firm of Clemens-Oskamp, on Vine street, where he remained for a number of years. He afterward accepted a position With a St. Louis jewelry house, which he represented