650 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY upon the road in Texas and Arkansas. He was engaged in the bicycle business during its most successful days and afterward turned his attention to the wholesale lumber trade in which he has now been engaged for about fifteen years. In this field he has won success, gaining a good profit upon his investment and his labors. Careful management and energy have constituted the basic elements in his business advancement, combined with a strict conformity to commercial ethics. On the 9th of January, 1895, at Sayler Park, Ohio, Mr. Browne was united in marriage to Miss Edith M. Leighton, a daughter of G. N. and J. A. Leighton. Their children are : Harold Leighton, born March 4, 1898 ; and Pearson George, born July 30, 1903. The parents are members of the Episcopal church and Mr. Browne is associated with a number of business organizations of the city. I His activities, however, have chiefly centered upon his business and while there has been nothing spectacular in his career, his is another illustration of the fact that obstacles and difficulties surrender before industry and determination, and that success depends upon the individual and not upon his environment. ALBERT J. BELL, M. D. In the history of prominent professional and business men of Cincinnati mention should be made of Dr. Albert J. Bell, whose knowledge and ability as a physician and surgeon have gained for him an enviable reputation. He was born in this city August 8, 1873, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Miller) Bell. Mr. Bell, Sr., was a native of Ireland and came to Cincinnati in his young manhood, becoming identified with the dry-goods business. He was for a number of years a member of the well known firm of Bell, Miller & Company. He died in this city in 1893. Dr. Bell was reared in Cincinnati and received his early education in the public schools. He then took a short course in Upper Canada College at Toronto, Canada, but finished his college preparatory work at Kenyon Military Academy at Gambier, Ohio. He matriculated in Kenyon College and was graduated at that institution in 1895. In the fall of the same year he became a student of Miami Medical College at Cincinnati and continued there for one year, at the end of which time he went to Belfast, Ireland, and studied for a year in Queens College. He returned to Cincinnati, and, in the fall of 1897 again entered Miami Medical College, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1899. He began practice the same year and has ever since made a specialty of diseases of children. He was instructor in the old Miami Medical College in diseases of children until the merger of the Miami Medical College and the Medical College of Ohio, being now assistant clinical professor of diseases of children in the Ohio Miami Clinic and also physician in charge of the new II contagious group of the Cincinnati Hospital. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Greek letter college fraternity Psi Upsilon and the medical college fraternity Alpha Kappa Kappa. He is known as a physician of good judgment and clear discrimination, possessing CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 651 candor and courtesy which qualities greatly endear him to those with whom he comes in contact. By intelligent attention to his profession he has acquired a competency and few men of his age in Cincinnati rank higher as representatives of the healing art. On the loth day of June, 1893, Dr. Bell was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Meacham, a daughter of D. B. Meacham. Three children were born to this union, only one of whom, Lida Elizabeth, is now living. Their son, Meacham, died on May 18, 1908, aged four years. Although he has engaged in practice only twelve years Dr. Bell has gained a reputation which is not confined to the limits of Cincinnati or Hamilton county. As an instructor he has been eminently successful and in the management of responsible interests intrusted to his charge he has displayed a capacity which is greatly to his credit. His attention has been concentrated on his profession, all other matters being subordinated to attainment and perfection in this one aim, and this accounts in a large measure for his success. He has, however, taken a lively interest in the welfare of the community and as a useful and progressive citizen is greatly respected. His office is at the corner of Reading road and Ridgeway avenue and his home is in the Virginia building, Avondale. FRANCIS LOUIS SCOTT. One of the younger representatives of the lumber interests of Cincinnati is Francis Louis Scott, whose birth occurred in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 16, 1885. His father was the late Thomas P. Scott, who was born and reared in Owensboro, Kentucky, and was a son of Judge Henry W. Scott, of that city. There Thomas Scott subsequently learned the jeweler's trade and engaged in business for himself until he came to Cincinnati about 1886. After locating here he became identified with the lumber interests of the city, continuing to be successfully connected with this industry until the year 1902. He was one of the very first to foresee the great popularity of the bicycle and severing his connection with the lumber business he opened a bicycle store, being one of the pioneer dealers in the city. This undertaking proved to be fully as lucrative as he had anticipated and absorbed his entire time and attention until. 1900, when he closed out his interests and again engaged in the lumber business, establishing the firm of T. P. Scott & Company. They do a wholesale business only, dealing exclusively in hardwoods, and are enjoying a very large patronage. Thomas P. Scott was the head of this enterprise until his death on June 15, 1909, at the age of fifty-four years. He was well known in the business circles of the city, particularly among the lumber dealers, belonging to the Business Men's Club, the Lumbermen's Club and the Furniture Men's Exchange. For his wife Mr. Scott chose Miss Anna Julia Cotter, a daughter of Dr. William D. Cotter of Louisville, Kentucky. Of this marriage there were born five children, but one of whom, the son Francis Louis, lived to attain maturity. When he died, Thomas Scott was a member of the Holy Name church of this city. He was both a capable and successful business man and the company 652 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY that bears his name was firmly established on a profitable basis at the time of his death. Reared at home Francis Louis Scott was sent to a private school of this city in the acquirement of his early education, subsequently matriculating at St. Xavier College. He was graduated from this institution with the class of 1904 and two years later was awarded the degree of Master of Arts. After the completion of his education he became associated in business with his father, who carefully trained him in all its phases, first in the forest; then at the sawmill, then in the city yards and finally in the office, so that he had practically entire charge prior to his father's death. Although he is little more than twenty-five years of age, Mr. Scott has proven himself to be a capable business man and would seem to have a most promising -future., T. P. Scott & Company is one of the flourishing lumber firms of the city and annually ships from three to five million feet of lumber through the north and east, Where practically all of their business is done. Mr. Scott belongs to the Lumbermen's Club, the Business Men's Club, and the Furniture Men's Exchange, and he is also affiliated with the Sons of the American Revolution, all of his ancestors of the time with the exception of one, in both the maternal and paternal lines, having participated in the war for Independence. Although he is interested in the development of the municipality and the promotion of all public utilities, Mr. Scott does not participate in political activities, giving his undivided attention to his business, in which he is meeting with gratifying success. CHARLES BOLDT. Charles Boldt, president of The Charles Boldt Company, is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, born January 21, 1868. His paternal grandfather, William Boldt, founder of the American branch of the family was an expert cabinet maker, who came from Lubeck, Germany, to the United States in 1826. After a brief residence in Baltimore, Maryland, he removed to Louisville, Kentucky, and it was in that city that Charles Boldt, Sr., was born in 1836. He became a carpenter and builder. He married Margaret Schwenck, whose birthplace was Wiesbaden, Germany. His death occurred in 1871, while his wife passed away in 1888. Charles Boldt, whose name introduces this review, was a pupil in the public schools of Louisville and entered the Southern Business College of that city when fifteen years of age. His first employment after leaving school was in the capacity of bookkeeper for a bottling concern and subsequently he accepted a clerkship in the Louisville postoffice, where he remained for about a year. In 1888, when but twenty years of age, he organied the Muncie Glass Company at Muncie, Indiana, and in the following year, in a well equipped factory, the company began the manufacture of bottles. The business proved immediately successful and in ,1900 a factory was established in Cincinnati to accommodate the rapidly increasing demands of the trade. Numerous additions were made to the plant from time to time and in 1911 a second factory, which more than dupli- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 655 cated the capacity of the first, was erected, the two covering a total ground space of eight acres. The entire plant is equipped with the most modern automatic machinery, notably the Owens automatic bottle-blowing machines, of which this company is the sole licensee for the manufacture of liquor bottles. Their output, made exclusively for the liquor trade, consists of bottles of every description, labels, bottle caps, liquor cases, corrugated paper goods and a general line of bottlers' supplies. The business has grown along substantial lines from a modest beginning to one of the largest producing industries of Cincinnati and the Ohio valley. Mr. Boldt has served as president of the company since its inception. In 1900 the name was changed from the Muncie Glass Company to The Charles Boldt Company and the business is now capitalized for five hundred thousand dollars. The executive officers are : Charles Boldt, president and general manager ; M. J. Owens, of Toledo, Ohio, vice president ; and F. W. Schwenck, secretary. Eight hundred workmen are employed in the various departments and the rapid growth of the business is indicated in the fact that it has increased over four hundred per cent in the past decade. The remarkable success of the enterprise is a splendid tribute to the integrity, industry and business genius of its founder. Mr. Boldt is a member of the National Association of Manufacturers. He belongs also to the Queen City Club and to the Cincinnati Golf Club and is a Scottish Rite Mason. He has crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, being affiliated with Murat Temple at Indianapolis, Indiana. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and his recreation is found in golf and motoring. The social interests of his life make his a well balanced character, while his business enterprise and developing ability have gained him prominence as a representative of the productive industries of Cincinnati, which are not only proving an element of individual success but also a factor in the city's progress and advancement. THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO. In the year 1822 the Ohio legislature passed an act incorporating the Historical Society of Ohio, but no advantage was taken of this until nine years later, when, on the 11th of February, 1831, a charter was issued to Benjamin Tappan, S. H. Hildreth, Alfred Kelley, James McBride, Ebenezer Lane and a number of others, organizing the Historical ,,and Philosophical Society of Ohio. The Cincinnati charter members were Dr. J. Cobb, Dr. Elijah Slack, N. Longworth, John P. Foote and Timothy Flint. The society was organized on the 31st of December, 1831, at Columbus; Ohio, and Benjamin Tappan became the first president. The first seventeen or eighteen years of its existence the society had its home in Columbus and its members came from all parts of the state. The few possessions of the society were in a case kept in the room of the Canal Commission. The society seemed to have but little vigor and its meetings ceased for two years. At an annual meeting it was suggested that the headquarters be removed to Cincinnati and its papers turned over to the 656 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Cincinnati Historical Society. This was adopted and thus the society cam to the Queen City. The Cincinnati Historical Society was organized in August, 1844, with James H. Perkins as president ; John P. Foote and M. D. Gallagher, vice presidents ; E. P. Norton, recording secretary ; Robert Buchanan, treasurer; and A. Randall, librarian. The transfer of the Columbus organization to Cincinnati took place in February, 1849, at which time the two societies were united. The members of the Cincinnati society were elected members of the older association, and all the property of the Cincinnati society was donated to. the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. The president of the new organization was M. D. Gallagher, and prominent among its officers were James H. Perkins, E. D. Mansfield, Robert Buchanan, A. Randall, John C. Wright, John P. Foote and David K. Este. In 1850 the society's constitution was revised and its primary object was to be research in every department of local history, with the collection, preservation and diffusion of whatever may relate to the biography, literature, philosophy and antiquities of America, especially of the state of Ohio, of the west and of the United States. Among those who took a most prominent part in the work of this society were Robert Clarke, Rufus King, Manning F. Force, Julius Dexter and Eugene F. Bliss, who did much to make the society useful, its library and collections valuable and its name prominent in the country. They occupied all the offices and may be said to have been related to the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio a good deal as Washington and Lincoln were related to the United States government. Joseph Wilby is now president and the society since its removal to Cincinnati has maintained a flourishing existence, accomplishing its objects and constantly extending the field of its usefulness and influence. HENRY C. EBERT. In 1902 was organized the Cincinnati Car Company, of which Henry C. Ebert became president in 1905 and in the intervening period to the present he has been actively engaged in the work of management and in extending the trade relations of the house. Notably energetic, prompt and reliable and basing his actions upon principles which conform to the strictest standards of business ethics, he has won for himself a creditable name and position in business circles and in the conduct of his enterprise has also contributed to the city's commercial and industrial growth. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, July 4, 1865, and attended local schools there. As a boy of eighteen years he entered the Westinghouse Company, being employed in connection with that business when it was but a small concern. He advanced from a humble position, step by step, until his worth and ability were recognized and he became organizer of the construction department, which sent out its engineers to equip horse-car lines with electricity. Still later he was made superintendent of construction and subsequently was elected to the position of vice president, in charge of manufacturing. He thus continued a CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 657 resident of Pittsburg until his removal to Cincinnati. He severed his connection with that concern to become president of the Cincinnati Car Company and he now has full charge of the selling of the output of the company. Their plant is located at Winton Place, one of the suburbs of Cincinnati, and the business was organized in 1902. Its present officers are : Henry C. Ebert, president ; Dana Stevens, vice president ; Robert Dunning, vice president and general manager; Walter A. Draper, secretary ; and H. L. Sanders, treasurer. In 1905 Mr. Ebert was called to the presidency of the company, which manufactfors all kinds of passenger cars fOr the electric railway service, turning out those of both steel and wood construction. The company employs altogether about five hundred workmen and they occupy the large stone offices and factory buildings that were erected, for the old Cincinnati Street Railway Company in 1895. Under the capable direction of Mr. Ebert the business has constantly grown and developed along broadening lines and th extent of its trade renders it today one of the leading productive industries of the city. What Mr. Ebert has accomplished is but the logical result of constantly developing powers intelligently directed. At the outset of his career he recognized the fact that diligence and determination are indispensable elements of success and in the employment of those qualities has continuously advanced. His name is now a prominent one in industrial circles of the city, for during seven years he has been at the head of one of the important productive industries of Cincinnati. HARRY A. PHILLIPS. Harry A. Phillips, who since 1897 has been superintendent of the Cincinnati branch of the National Lead Company, was born in this city in March, 1859. His father, Richard C. Phillips, is a contractor and bridge builder who was also born in Cincinnati.. He is, however, of German lineage, although the family has been represented in America for several generations. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and his fellow townsmen have called him to various offices of public trust. He is still filling the position of clerk of Mill Creek township and for four years he held the office of mayor of Carthage and for eight 'years was a member of the city council, within which time he took active part in shaping the policy of his municipality. For thirteen years he was a trustee and director of the schools and has also been a trustee of Mill Creek township. 'He still makes his home in Carthage, where for many years he has been accorded the recognition and respect that are indicative of an honorable and well spent .life. His wife passed away October 16, 1910. Harry A. Phillips, spending his youthful days in his parents' home, attended the public school of Carthage and for three and a half years was a student in the Hughes high' school. At the age of nineteen years, regarding his education as completed save for the lessons which he would learn in the .school of experience, he began assisting his father, to whom he gave the 'benefit of his services in the building business from 1878 unil 1883. For a year thereafter 658 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY he occupied the position of shipping clerk with the firm of L. H. McCammon Brothers. In 1884 he accepted the position of foreman with the Anchor White Lead Company, of which Edwin C. Goshorn was the leading representative; and has since that time been connected with the same house. Gradually his ability and faithfulness had won him recognition in promotions until in 1897. he was made superintendent of the Cincinnati branch of the business. Like his father, Mr. Phillips has taken an active and helpful interest in politics as a supporter of the republican party and on several occasions has been called to public office. From the twenty-first to the twenty-fifth year of his age he was precinct assessor and for four years he served as a member of the city council of Carthage. During the past thirteen years he has been a member of the board of education of Carthage and the public schools find in him a stalwart champion who entertains progressive ideas concerning what may be accomplished through an improved school system. In Carthage, Ohio, on the 9th of April, 1890, Mr. Phillips was united in marriage to Miss Luella Ashar, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ashar, the former a house builder and contractor and one of the old residents of Cincinnati. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were born three children : Royal Ashar, who is a student in the Cincinnati University, attending the chemical engineering department ; Blanche Loree, who died August 29, 1910 ; and Neva Juanita, attending the Hughes high school. The family reside at No. 226 West First avenue in Carthage. They are members of the Methodist church and Mr. Phillips belongs to the Knights of Pythias, while in Masonry he has attained the Knights Templar degree ; he is also a member of the City Club. Without pretense or display, he is recognized as a man of genuine personal worth, reliable in business, progressive in citizenship and faithful at all times to the ties of friendship. GEORGE A. SCHULZE. George A. Schulze, cashier of the West End Bank & Trust Company, has been identified with Cincinnati banking circles (luring the entire period of his business career. His birth occurred in this city in 1877, his parents being Louis August and Eleanor ( Jansen) Schulze, both natives of Germany. The father was born in Osnabruck, where he was educated and reared to the age of eighteen years, when he came to the United States. Upon his arrival in this country he -came directly to Cincinnati and soon thereafter he enlisted in the Tenth Ohio Infantry and went to the front, where he remained for three and a half years. He had the misfortune to be shot at the battle of Perryville and was confined to the hospital for eight or nine weeks thereafter. The injuries lie sustained were very severe and he never entirely recovered from the effects, but suffered more or less during the remainder of his life. When he was mustered out he returned to Cincinnati and opened a retail grocery store at the corner of Walnut and Moore streets. This proved to be a very successful undertaking and his enterprise flourished from the first. A man of unusual business ability he built up an excellent trade, and prospered in a most gratify- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 659 ing manner, remaining at that location until his retirement about twelve years ago. Mr. Schulze passed away on the 17th of August, 1910, at the age of seventy years, but the mother is still living. They were the parents of nine children and of the eight that attained maturity seven are still living, our subject being the fourth in order of birth. In matters of religious faith they originally affiliated with the Dutch Evangelical denomination, but in more recent years they have held membership in the church at Twelfth and Elm streets. After the completion of his public-school education, George A. Schulze pursued a course in the Nelson Business College, thus qualifying himself for the responsibilities and practical duties of a business career. He subsequently entered the Atlas National Bank in the capacity of messenger, remaining in their service for fourteen years. Being a bright, energetic youth he was ambitious to make rapid progress in his business career, and attentively applied himself to his duties. Efficient and capable he used intelligence and foresight in the execution of his tasks and his capabilities were brought to the attention of his employers, who in appreciation of his services promoted him from time to time in accordance .with the ability he displayed. His aspirations were high, however, and he kept studying to .acquire a broader knowledge of banking conditions and to become more widely informed on all financial matters, until he was ultimately placed in charge of the foreign and safety deposit box departments. In 1906 he withdrew from the service of this company to become cashier of the West End Bank & Trust Company, which had just been organized, and has ever since been identified with this position. A man of pleasing personality, genial and accommodating in his manner, Mr. Schulze is very popular with the patrons of the bank, and has undoubtedly been an influential factor in promoting its development. Cincinnati was the scene of the marriage of Mr. Schulze and Miss Martha Hoffman, a daughter of Louis Hoffman, of this city, and they have become the parents of two children, Dorothy Louise and George Robert. The family affiliate with the church at Twelfth and Elm streets and fraternally he holds membership in Price Hill Lodge, F. & A. M. Mr. Schulze is enterprising and progressive in whatever he. undertakes, using the intelligence and discretion in directing any activity with which lie may be connected that assures its successful development. CHARLES R. BISHOP. Charles R. Bishop, who is now the head of the George H. Bishop Company, which is the third largest saw and butcher-supply manufacturing company in the United States, their plant being situated at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, was for more than thirty-four years connected with railroad work. He is a native resident of Cincinnati, his birth having occurred October 1, 1840. He is the son of John and Mary Ann (Ryder) Bishop, who died when the subject of this sketch was only a young child. The father and mother both came from England in 1835, the father from County Kent, and the mother from Northamptonshire. Charles R. Bishop obtained his early education in the public schools of this 660 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY city, and later was a student in the high school at Dillsboro, Indiana. After leaving his school he took up the blacksmith trade, which :he followed for four years. He then entered the employ of the old Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company, which is now the Baltimore and Ohio, and was a freight conductor for thirteen years and afterward passenger conductor for twenty-one years. In 1893 he entered into partnership with his brother, George H. Bishop, in his present business of manufacturing saws and butcher supplies, under the firm name of the George H. Bishop Company, but still continued in railroad work. From 1901 to 1903 he was division superintendent of a western railroad. The partnership was continued until the death of George H. Bishop, April 12, 1911. Since that time Charles R. Bishop, together with Mr. Louis Duhme, who was also a member of the firm, has operated the establishment under the firm name of George H. Bishop Company. Their factory is located at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and gives steady employment to two hundred and forty men. During 1858 Mr. Bishop drove across the plains to California, and a couple of years later, going by way of the Isthmus of Panama, returned to Cincinnati, and has been a resident of this city ever since. Mr. Bishop wedded Miss Amelia J. Doneka, daughter of Augusta and Elizabeth (Wulbert) Doneka of Jeffersonville, Indiana. Mr. Doneka enlisted in a Kansas regiment at Wyandotte, Kansas, and was killed during the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have become parents of three children : Beulah, the wife of August W. Frank, born 188o; Pearl, born 1882, the wife of Harry K. Pruden ; and Charles E., born 1884, who is engaged with his father in business. Mr. Bishop is a Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree in that order, and he is also a member of the Business Men's Club at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In his political views he is a republican, and he is an active member of the Presbyterian church. He has a wide and favorable acquaintance in both business and social circles in this part of the country, and his genuine personal worth is indicated by the warm regard given him by all with whom he is associated. He was extremely successful in all his railroad life on account of the faithfulness and promptness with which he performed his duties, and on turning his attention to business, he has ever proceeded with that same trustworthiness that has made him so highly respected. EUGENE SWIGART. Eugene Swigart, a well known business man of Cincinnati, was born in Toledo, Ohio, on the 26th of June, 1857, and there his youth and early manhood were spent. On coming to Cincinnati in 1887 he embarked in business in partnership with his brother under the firm name of the E. &. J. Swigart Company, doing a wholesale jobbing business of jewelers' supplies and materials. Later he bought out his brother and in 1906 the business was incorporated, though the name of the E. & J. Swigart Company was still retained. On the 21st of May, 1896, Mr. Swigart was united in marriage to Miss Louise Gortner, of Goshen, Indiana, and unto them was born a son, Eugene Swigart. The family residence is at No. 1003 Dana avenue, where after a CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 663 brief illness of only three weeks Mr. Swigart passed away on the 21st of June, 1908. He was prominent in the club life and fraternal circles of the city, holding membership with the Avondale Golf Club, while in Masonry he attained a high degree. He was also a member of the Business Men's Club and at one time served on its board of governors. Mr. Swigart was of a gentle ,and charitable disposition, loyal to the ties of friendship and holding the family relation as sacred above all else. He was unostentatious, yet his deeds of charity and helpfulness were many. While he was preeminently successful in business, his life was never self-centered but reached out to the broader interests which affect mankind in sociological, economic and political relations, and although he never sought honors nor office in those fields of activity, he cast the weight of his influence and aid on the side of progress in all those connections. WINTON MEREDITH YEATMAN. The legal profession, constantly winning, recruits from the ranks of the young men, furnishes them the opportunity of proving their ability and worth, for in practicing before the courts success and prominence are only gained by reason of a quick., alert mind, clear insight and the careful analysis that enables the individual to see the correct relation of the principles of jurisprudence to the points at issue. Winton Meredith Yeatman is numbered among the younger attorneys of the Cincinnati bar to whom success has come comparatively soon, for he is well established in the profession for one of his years, practicing law as a member of the firm of Yeatman & Yeatman, of which his father is the senior partner. He was, born at Winton Place, August 4, 1880, and was named in honor of his grandfather, Meredith Yeatman, who was a brother of Griffin Yeatman, one of the earliest settlers of Cincinnati, coming here some time between 1788 and 1790. The city was then a little village on the river bank in what was then the Northwest territory. But the course of civilization was following the waterways westward and there had sprung up here a little settlement in which Griffin Yeatman conducted the first hotel or tavern, its situation being at Front and Sycamore streets. Later he served as recorder of Hamilton county for twenty-seven years, a record unequalled in the history of the county. He also filled the office of justice of the peace in 1811 and prior to that time. He was likewise a very prominent Mason, was one of the first representatives of the fraternity. in Hamilton county and in his honor Yeatman Lodge was named. The parents of W. Meredith Yeatman were Walker Meredith and Ada Belle (Miller) Yeatman. The father, long a prominent attorney, is now senior partner of the firm of Yeatman & Yeatman and his name has been associated with much of the important litigation held in the courts of the district. He is a Civil war veteran and has long been a conspicuous figure in republican ranks, being recognized as one of the honored and leading members of the republican party. He was elected auditor of Hamilton county in 1871, when only twenty-seven years of age and was then known and referred to by his friends as the "kid auditor." He has been state senator from Hamilton county IV-33 664 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY and is a republican member. of the board of deputy state supervisors and inspectors of elections of Hamilton county. In the public schools of Winton Place W. Meredith Yeatman pursued his early education and afterward attended night classes in the high school of this city. Providing for his own support at an early age, he entered the employ of the Procter & Gamble Company with which he continued until he prepared for the bar. In choosing a profession he turned his attention to that with which he had become somewhat familiar through the work that his father was doing before the courts. While employed in the daytime he attended the night law school conducted under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was graduated therefrom in June, 1904, since which time he has been practicing law under the firm name of Yeatman & Yeatman, attorneys. On the 1st of January, 1910, he took the office of justice of the peace for Cincinnati, having been elected for a four years' term. He is attorney for and was one of the organizers of the Winton German Savings & Loan Association, of Winton Place,, a rapidly growing organization. On the 21st of October, 1909, Mr. Yeatman was united in marriage in Cincinnati to Miss Alma Margaret Bauer, a daughter of Ulrich and Madline Bauer, her father being one of the oldest active grocers of Walnut Hill. The only child of this marriage is. Isabelle Margaret Yeatman. The parents hold membership in the German Protestant church at Winton Place, which congregation has recently erected one of the attractive houses of worship in that section of the city. Mr. Yeatman gives his political allegiance to the republican party and belongs to the Young Men's Blaine Club and the Third Ward Republican Club. He is likewise connected with the U. S. Grant Camp, No. too, of the Sons of Veterans of Cincinnati, of which he is a charter member, and with the North Cincinnati Turnverein. He also holds membership in Yeatman Lodge, F. & A. M., in which he is now senior warden. He is a member of the Commercial Association and his activities and interests lead out along many lines, showing him to be a worthy successor of the older generations of a family, who took active and helpful part in the various interests which at an earlier day contributed to the upbuilding and progress of the city. EDWARD NAGEL. Edward Nagel as president of the firm of H. Nagel & Son, proprietors of the Brighton Flour. Mills, is at the head of a business which has had a continuous existence since 1869. The firm name has ever been synonymous with honorable and straightforward dealing and progressive methods, and the policy instituted at the beginning has been maintained under the present administration. Edward Nagel was born in Cincinnati in 1861. Even prior to that time his father, Henry Nagel, was engaged in the milling business here. The father was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1825, and there spent his youthful days to the age of nineteen years, when he came to America, making his way direct to Cincinnati, where he established his home in 1844. He was employed on the Ohio and Mississippi river steamboats from that time until 1851, when he CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 665 became identified with milling interests in this city. In 1853 he was operating a mill at the corner of Sycamore and Webster streets, having the first flour mill in Cincinnati operating by steam. He continued the business until 1860, when he retired to a farm in Greene township, this county, owning eighty acres of rich and arable land which is now the property of his son Edward. His attention was thus given to agricultural pursuits for about eight years, but in 1869 he again entered the milling business, establishing what are now known as the Brighton Flour Mills, located at 2168 McLean avenue. The enterprise. prospered from the beginning. The business was first conducted on Harrison avenue a half mile west of the present location, but in 1883 the present mill was erected and equipped with modern machinery. Henry Nagel was actively connected with the business up to the time of his death, which occurred in this city in 1902. He was married here in 1853 to Miss Henrietta Meyer, who passed away in the same year in which her husband's death occurred. Edward Nagel is fir only surviving member of their family of six children. In his youthful days he was instructed in the work of the mill and throughout his entire life has been connected with the manufacture of flour. His training under his father's direction was thorough and systematic, so that he became acquainted with every detail of the business. The company now manufactures two grades of wheat flour called the Fancy and the Patent, and their output also includes rye flour. The excellence of the product commends it to the patronage of the public and ready sale is found for the .entire output. Edward Nagel is today sole proprietor of the Brighton Flour Mills, a large brick plant located at No. 2168 McLean avenue. Sound judgment and careful management make the business a profitable investment and for years the Brighton. Flour Mills have been counted with the successful manufacturing industries of the city. Mr. Nagel is a director of the Brighton German Bank and his name has long been an honored one on commercial paper: In 1889 Mr. Nagel was married to Miss Matilda Gaefe, of Cincinnati, and unto them have been born three children, Laura, Helen and Henry. In Masonry Mr. Nagel has taken the commandery degrees and is now a Knight Templar. While he became interested in a business already established, in controlling and enlarging such an enterprise many a man of even considerable resolute purpose, courage and industry, would have failed. He had demonstrated, however, the truth of the saying that success is not the result of genius but the outcome of industry, clear judgment and experience. GEORGE BLONG. One of Cincinnati's enterprising and capable business men, who has achieved success from a small beginning through the intelligent direction of his affairs is George Blong. He is the head of the firm of George Blong & Company, proprietors of the Eggleston Avenue Stock Yards, located on Deer Creek road, north of Court street, since 1897. A son of Thomas and Sarah Blong, he was born at Camp Washington, Hamilton county, Ohio, in April, 1857. The father, now the oldest living butcher in Cincinnati, was one of the pioneers in his 666 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY trade in Camp Washington, where he emigrated from Ireland in 1855. He has now attained the age of eighty-two years and is living retired at Price Hill. The mother passed away in 1906 and is buried on the family lot at Spring Grove cemetery. The elementary education of George Blong was obtained in the common schools of Camp Washington, after the completion of which he attended high school until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to Chickering Private Institute, where he spent two years. After finishing his education he settled upon his father's farm, where for many years he was successfully engaged in general farming and stock-raising. He has ever since been more or less actively identified with these occupations, which he is now following on his farm at Foster, Ohio. Mr. Blong is one of those fortunate individuals whose determination of purpose and indomitable courage enables him to rise above defeat and use his failures for stepping stones to success. When he started this business fourteen years ago, he had practically nothing, but now his sales amount to over a million dollars per annum. In all of his relations of life both public and private he has striven to do to others as he would have them do to him, and to this he attributes much of his success. Warren county, Ohio, was the scene of the marriage of Mr. Blong and Miss Annetta Parkhill, the ceremony taking place on the 22d of October, 1880. Mrs. Blong is a daughter of James and Martha Parkhill, pioneer settlers of Warren county, where for many years the father was identified with agricultural pursuits. Of this union there were born four children : Grace, who married Clinton Black, a farmer of Warren county Ella, the wife of Louis Swift, a school teacher of Hamilton county ; Edna, who married A. B. Hoff, a farmer of Warren county ; and James T., who is managing the home farm. Mr. Blong is a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, while his political support he gives to the republican party, but the development of his personal interests require so much of his time as to prevent him from active participation in municipal affairs, although he is most loyal in his allegiance to Cincinnati and solicitous as to its progress and enterprises. OTTO M. ELZEMANN. Otto M. Elzemann, residing at No. 3108 Highland avenue, is filling the position of district examiner of stationary engineers of the Cincinnati districts. He was born in this city, February 7, 1872. His father, Rudolph Elzemann came from Germany and took up his abode in Cincinnati when a young man. He was a fresco artist of the better class, and his ability gained him a liberal patronage. He married Minnie Raubach, also a native of Germany. His education was acquired in the public schools until he reached the age of twelve years the last two years of which time, however, he began earning money as a newsboy, selling papers and shining shoes. He then accepted the position of cash boy in the store of the Alms & Doepke Company. A year later he became telegraph messenger, which position he filled for three years, and later served as printer's devil on a German paper for a year. Subsequently he accepted a CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 667 position with the Brush Electric Company, on Plum street and was handy man there for one year. He entered the services of the Jones Brothers Electric Company as oiler and wiper and worked up from that position until he became chief engineer of the night shift, continuing with the company until they sold out to the Union Gas & Electric Company, having been in their service for thirteen years. He afterward held various positions, being chief engineer at the Standard Marble Works for two years and at Goldman, Beekman & Company for four years until May, 1911, when he was appointed district examiner of stationary engineers for the Cincinnati district and is now acting in that capacity. For two years he was chief engineer of the City Hospital. Mr. Elzemann was united in marriage to Miss Emma Knittle, a daughter of Charles Knittle, a tailor of Cincinnati, and they now have one child, Herbert Carl, eleven years of age. The parents are members of the Presbyterian. church and Mr. Elzemann gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He belongs to the Twelfth Ward Jefferson Club and is a member of the Engineers Union, No. 18, and the National Association of Engineers, No. 15, also the Ladies Auxiliary of that organization which looks after its sick and destitute members. Mr. Elzemann has gained his present official position by honesty and square dealing. He treats all fair and alike, endeavors to place the men in the positions for which they are best fitted and by faithfulness and efficiency has advanced to a creditable place. CHARLES BERNHARDT. Charles Bernhardt, conducting a wagon-making and repairing department under the name of The Bernhardt Company, established the business about thirty-eight years ago, or in 1875, on Spring Grove avenue. There he remained for six years, or until 1881, when he removed to his present place at No. 1223 to 1227 Gest street. He manufactures wagons of all kinds and does wagon repairing, and employment is given. to from twelve to fifteen workmen. The company was incorporated in .March, 1911, with Charles Bernhardt as president and treasurer, Mary Bernhardt as vice president and Christopher Bernhardt as secretary. Charles Bernhardt came to Cincinnati in 1856, or about fifty-five years ago, in company with his parents, who were natives of Germany ; believing that better opportunities awaited them in the new world, they left that country for the United States when Charles Bernhardt was but five years of age. His birth had occurred in Germany in 1851. The father was not long permitted to enjoy his new home, for three years after his arrival he passed away, his death occurring in 1859. Charles Bernhardt received good home training and his educational advantages were those offered by the public schools. He was twenty-four years of age when he started out in life for himself. He had previously received business training under the direction of Mr. Corning and by reason of his diligence he made rapid advancement. He was also employed for a time by Mr. Hissell on Clay and Liberty streets, but as soon as careful expenditure and unfaltering 668 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY industry had brought him sufficient capital to engage in business on his o account he started out independently. In 1874 Mr. Bernhardt was married to Miss Kate Rudolph, who died two years later, leaving a son, John, who is now working with his father. In 1884 Mr. Bernhardt was again married, his second union being with Miss Mary Shinkle, of Cincinnati. There has been one son by this marriage, Charles B., Jr., who is now studying for the ministry of the Methodist church. The family reside on Price Hill. Mr. Bernhardt is a member of the Methodist church and also of the Business Men's Club. Honorable principles have been the guiding forces of his life and he has endeavored to so live as to merit the respect and confidence of those with whom he has been associated. He has never sought to figure prominently in any public connection but has been content to do his duty day after day, and such citizens form the bone and sinew of the Country. FRANK D. SCHERL. Frank D. Scherl is one of the younger business men of Cincinnati who has left and is leaving the impress of his individuality and ability upon the manufacturing interests of the city, for since February, 1908, he has been the secretary of the Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Company. He was born in this city, October 25, 1877, his parents being William and Louise Scherl. The father was a native of West Virginia and in 1850 came to Cincinnati, where he took up the business of cigar making. At the usual age the son entered the public schools, passed through consecutive grades to the high school and at the age of fifteen years upon the death of his mother was compelled to put aside his text-books and entered business life. He first engaged as clerk with the National Life Maturity Insurance Company, with which he continued for a year. He then joined an uncle who was engaged in conducting a livery and boarding stable business, Mr. Scherl having charge of the office for two years. He next became connected with the Marmet Coal Company, which he represented as assistant cashier for a year and at the end of that time engaged with the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Company as assistant bill clerk of the Cincinnati branch. In that connection he gradually worked his way upward as he demonstrated his ability, resourcefulness and trustworthiness and when he left the firm after eight years he was serving as credit manager. The Whitman & Barnes Company closed its business, at which time the Cincinnati branch was taken over by S. D. Baldwin & Company, dealers in general machinists' supplies and rubber goods. Mr. Scherl served with the new company in the same capacity until the Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Company was organized in 1905, at which time he was made office manager and so continued until October, 1907, when he was promoted to the position of assistant secretary. In February, 1908, he was elected secretary of the company and has had entire charge of the factory since 1909. In this connection he has contributed largely to the success of the undertaking. They now employ one hundred and twenty-five people in the manufacture of a general line of mechanical rubber CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 671 goods, their ramifying trade interests reaching out to all parts of the United States and to foreign countries as well. Outside of business circles Mr. Scherl is well known as a Mason, holding membership in Avon Lodge, No. 542, F. & A. M., and Kilwinning Chapter, No. 97, R. A. M. He also belongs to the Norwood Business Men's Club and gives his political allegiance to the republican party. His religious faith coincides with the teachings of the Lutheran church. In February, 1897, Mr. Scherl was married in Cincinnati to Miss Ida May Haigh and unto them has been born one child, Louise, who is now twelve years of age and is attending the public schools. Mr. Scherl is yet a comparatively young man but has made a creditable position in business circles, placing his dependence upon those qualities of industry and determination which eventually win advancement. MORRIS STRAUSS. Morris Strauss is at the head of the French Benzol Dry Cleaning Company and is not only a successful business man in the usually accepted sense of the term but is one who has gone far beyond the mere management of the daily routine of duties in his establishment. He has held to scientific principles—the principles of chemistry and of manufacture—which underlie the work, and his labors in some respects have been a direct contribution to the world's progress. It is true that he has won notable success and this has come as the direct result of his determination to master every question which in any way bears upon his chosen pursuit. He was born in Tilsit, Germany, in 1873, a son of Joseph and Anna (Friedman) Strauss. One hundred and nine years have passed since his great-grandfather, Abram Strauss, started in the business of dyeing wool for farmers in Livland, Sweden, now Russia. His son, Joseph Strauss engaged in the business of dyeing furs and wool and was located at Mitau in Kurland. Joseph. Strauss, Jr., the father of Morris Strauss, was born at Mitau and in his youth was taken into the business by his father, there receiving his practical training, while later he turned his attention to the dyeing of piecegoods, yarns and clothing. From 1875 until 1881 he engaged in the dry-cleaning of garments by the French process with great success. He was ambitious, energetic and wide-awake, and in the latter year came to the United States, hoping to find better business opportunities on this side of the Atlantic. After traveling for eight months he returned home, finding that the dry-cleaning business in the United States was then in its infancy. After a few years, when his eldest son, Morris, was twelve years of age, the family sailed for Baltimore. At that time the country was in the throes of a financial panic. The dry-cleaning business was still little known and it required time and capital to acquaint the public with its possibilities. As previously stated .Morris Strauss has not only acquainted himself with the phases of the business which require judicious management but also took up the study of the underlying principles. He made a study of chemistry under Mr. Gurmatev, who was a chemist and an expert on cleaning. Great interest was displayed by the professor in utilizing a coal tar product called benzol, which 672 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY was not well known at that time in the market. Its volatile character, especially adapted it for removing heavy stains such as paints, oils, grease and tar. It was secured from gas companies who used coal in the manufacture of artificial gas, and was a by product which from 1885 until 1903 could be purchased at various prices. It was used mostly for removing paint and for dissolving rubber but its adoption for dry-cleaning was impossible because of its heavy odor. As the result of Mr. Strauss' study he developed a redistillation process by which he makes the benzol clear in color and odorless. In 1901 a trust obtained control of the crude benzol, since which time the clarified and odorless product is on the market at a cost which makes it almost prohibitive. although Mr. Strauss still uses it in cleaning fancy garments. There are now on the market several cleansing fluids for dry-cleaning, most dry cleaners using naphtha, which is of low gravity and make the garments clean, but the effect is not lasting. A new by product has been developed by the carbon manufacturers known as carbon-tetra-chloride. It has all of the merits required but its cost is such that it is used only in small quantities for the removal of spots. Large plants that receive good prices and are liberally patronized are able to use this. However Mr, Strauss says that the dry-cleaning business in general is still. in its infancy but in this day when sheer materials are used they cannot stand the rough handling at the wash-tub and dry-cleaning must be resorted to. In an earlier day there was great hazard from fire and explosion and there was little protection ; the fumes of the gases, too, kept the workers in a hall intoxicated condition and produced a number of ailments such as indigestion thin blood, lack of memory, irritable tempers and nervousness. Most dyeing establishments were in the basement or other dark and illy ventilated places With modern progress, however, all of this is changed. The dyer today usually has a good knowledge of chemistry, the rooms are well lighted and well ventilated and the anilin manufacturers are ahead in the dyeing processes as the produce in their laboratories anilin for the purpose. Very few vegetable dye! are now used, most of them being coal tar dyes, and it seems probable that a dry-cleaning process will be evolved when alcohol and benzine and other volatile substances will take the place of water, especially in dyeing light shades. Tc be a thoroughly up-to-date and progressive dyer and dry-cleaner, therefore, one must have knowledge of chemistry and must also understand modern machinery Mr. Strauss annually visits the leading plants in this country and is in corn. munication with foreign agencies, thus endeavoring to gain as many points possible and thereby promote the best interests of his business. One must alsc understand the sanitary conditions and work should not be taken in by those who might spread disease. Dyeing establishments are certainly a matter for board-of-health inspection and in 1907 Cincinnati passed an ordinance which was outlined by Mr. Strauss governing the construction of dry-cleaning plants, so that the air is changed in such establishments once a minute. The buildings are erected of brick and concrete and the boilers and fire pits are thirty feet away from the dry-cleaning plant, removing danger and hazard heretofore incurred. From the establishment of the business Mr. Strauss has met with substantial success. He has thoroughly systematized the undertaking and every garment is rapidly examined and the customer informed within a few hours whether it CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 673 can be cleaned or dyed. Eleven wagons and automobiles. are used in the collection of goods in Cincinnati and from time to time removals and changes have been made to secure a larger plant. The business was begun with two employes and today there are employed one hundred and ten people. In 1910 the French Benzol Dry Cleaning Company was incorporated with Morris Strauss as the president. In that year they bought out two other firms which increased the size of their business and they have also purchased dry-cleaning plants in Dayton and Columbus and have seven branch stores in Cincinnati besides branches at other places. They have a building forty by one hundred and ten feet, five stories in height ; another fifty by seventy-five feet, two stories in height ; and a one-story structure, fifty by seventy-five feet. All of this place is utilized in the business and theirs is one of the largest plants in the United States. Mr. Strauss was united in marriage to Miss Rose Goldamer, a daughter of the Rev. Julian Goldamer, of Cincinnati, and they now have two sons, Lucian and William Joseph, aged. respectively eleven and three years. The family reside in Avondale and are members of the K. K. Bena Israel Temple. Mr. Strauss belongs to the Walnut Hills Business Men's Club ; Hyde Park Business Men's Club ; Avondale Improvement Club ; Business Men's Club ; Advertisers Club ; Cuvier Press Club Sales Manager's Club ; Temple Club ; Knights of Pythias ; B'nai B'rith ; Commercial Club ; the National Association of Salesmen ; and the National Dry Cleaners Association, and of the last named is serving as vice president. He also holds membership with the Associated Charities and of various Jewish charitable associations. He has prospered as the years have one by and has won success which has placed him with the leading German-American citizens of Cincinnati. Whatever he undertakes is carried forward to completion, and. he is working his way steadily upward. His views of life are liberal, his business policy has been broad and his well merited success commands for him the respect and admiration of those familiar with his history. BENJAMIN KROEGER. During the greater part of his active life Benjamin Kroeger has been identified with the undertaking business and is now proprietor of an establishment, of which for many years he was manager. He was born November 2, 1860, in Cincinnati, and acquired a common-school education, while in business circles he made his initial step as office boy in a tobacco warehouse. He soon turned from that, however, and in his youth became identified with the undertaking business, entering the employ of the Ackerman & Busch Company. In that connection his ability was soon manifest and he worked his way upward, be:ming manager of the establishment, in which position he continued until the pith of May, 1911, when he purchased the business. He afterward disposed of the same and is now superintendent of the Cincinnati Tobacco Warehouse Company. In 1886 Mr. Kroeger was united in marriage to Miss Philima Hoenschemeyer, a daughter of Frank Hoenschemeyer, who is a tailor of Cincinnati. The lye children born of this marriage are : Harry J., twenty-five years of age ; 674 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Loretta P., aged twenty-three ; Francis V., twenty-one ; Maria V., thirte and Lawrence F., eight years of age. The family is well known socially in Cincinnati and Mr. and Mrs. Kroeger have many warm friends. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus, also to the Catholic Knights of Ohio and to the Catholic Knights of America, and in those organizations is well known and popular. His career on the whole has been a prosperous one, for he has worked his way upward through close attention and energy. A definite purpose and aim has brought him to a place among the prominent representatives of his line and his thorough reliability has gained him an enviable reputation. JUDGE CHARLES FRANKLIN MALSBARY. Judge Charles Franklin Malsbary, of Cincinnati, is a prominent and successful representative of the legal fraternity here and long filled the office of probate judge of Hamilton county in a most acceptable manner, being first appointed to fill a vacancy and then being twice elected to the position. His birth occurred on a farm near Montgomery, Hamilton county, Ohio, on the 21st of February, 1855, his parents being Job and Sarah R. (Stickel) Malsbary, the former of Quaker English stock and the latter of English and Pennsylvania German descent. Price Thompson, the maternal grandfather of our subject, served in the Revolutionary war for six years and seven months, holding the rank of corporal in a New Jersey regiment. Job Malsbary, the father of Judge Malsbary, was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1823 and came to Ohio in 1833, spending the greater part of his life in Hamilton county. He was successfully engaged in general agricultural pursuits throughout his active business career and passed away in 1885. He served as a member of the "Squirrel Hunters" or Home Protective League. His wife is a native of Hamilton county, her birth occurring in 1828. She is yet living at the age of eighty-three years and is still active both mentally and physically. Her children were seven in number, three of whom still survive, namely : Charles F., of this review ; Eva, a successful teacher in the Cincinnati public schools ; and Luella. Charles F. Malsbary supplemented his preliminary education, obtained in the graded and high schools, by a course of study in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated about 1880, winning the degree of B. E. Wishing to become a member of the legal profession, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, which institution conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1889. Prior to that time he had become identified with the educational interests as an instructor in the country schools, while subsequently he was made school principal and superintendent at Mount Healthy, Ohio. He came to Cincinnati from Clermont county and practiced law in this city from 188o until 1904, when Governor Herrick appointed him probate judge of Hamilton county to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Nippert. On the expiration of the term he was elected to the office, discharging his judicial duties in so satisfactory and commendable a manner that when his term had ended he was honored by a banquet at the Grand Hotel. His CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 677 filial devotion was at all times marked. When he received the telegram notifying him of his appointment to the bench and the lawyers gathered around him with congratulations, he said: "That's all right, boys, and I thank you; but I must hurry home and tell mother." That his course on the bench won uniform approval is indicated by the fact that he was chosen probate judge for a second term, being at that time the only man elected on the republican ticket. His decisions indicate strong mentality, careful analysis, a thorough knowledge of the law and an unbiased judgment. As a lawyer he is sound, clear-minded and well trained. His fidelity to the interests of his clients is proverbial; yet he never forgets tat he owes a higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. He is an orator of note, possessing a magnificent voice of great power and resonance and at all times commanding the undivided and interested attention of his audience. In the line of his profession he is connected with the Cincinnati Bar Association and the State Bar Association. In politics Judge Malsbary is a republican, while fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masons, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. His religious faith is partially indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church. He belongs to the Sons of the Revolution and also takes great pride in the fact that he is the youngest member of the R. G. F. Club of Cincinnati. Judge. Malsbary has the ability to put aside for the moment the perplexing problems of jurisprudence and enter cordially into the joys or interests that may present. Such a quality indicates a well balanced mind and one of remarkable concentration. Well versed in the learning of his profession and with a deep knowledge of human nature and the motive springs of human conduct, with great shrewdness, sagacity and extraordinary tact, he is in the Courts an advocate of great power and influence. WALTER. RICHARD GRIESS, M. D. Dr. Walter Richard Griess, well known as a successful practitioner in private and hospital work and as an able educator, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Justin Griess, is a member of the firm of Griess, Pfleger & Company, wholesale leather dealers of Cincinnati, and is president of the Griess-Pfleger Tanning Company of Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Griess pursued his early education in the public schools, continuing his course until graduated from the high school. He was afterward a student in the University of Cincinnati and was graduated from the Miami Medical College with the class of 1897. Subsequently he became a student in the University of Berlin and pursued special courses in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Following his graduation he entered the Cincinnati Hospital on competitive examination and served as interne and house surgeon. He was appointed resident physician and continued in the hospital for a period of four and a half years, his professional skill and knowledge enabling him to render great aid to the patients in that institution. On the expiration Of that period he entered upon private practice in 1902 and has since been engaged in the work of his profession, specializing largely in surgery. During this time he has held various positions in local medi- 678 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY filial schools, lecturing on physical diagnosis in the Laura Memorial College and also serving as clinical instructor in surgery in the same college. He has been lecturer of physiology at the Miami Medical College and has also lectured on embryology at the same institution. He was also clinical instructor in surgery and assistant demonstrator in surgery at the Miami Medical College, and after the college merger he held the position of lecturer of topographical anatomy in the Ohio Miami Medical College, the medical department of the University of Cincinnati. He also acted as quiz master and conducted private classes for many years. He was appointed on the staff of St. Mary's Hospital in the female surgical department and holds that position at the present time. He also served as assistant surgeon to the Cincinnati police and fire department for about five years. He is likewise professor of materia medica in the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, clinical instructor of gynecology of the Ohio-Miami Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, and his work in the educational field as well as in practice has brought him into a prominent position as representative of the medical fraternity of. this city. He is medical director of the American Liability Company and medical examiner of the Preferred Accident Insurance Company. On the 26th of November, 19o2, Dr. Griess was united in marriage to Miss Ella Muhlhauser, a daughter of Henry Muhlhauser, Sr., .president of The Windisch-Muhlhauser Brewing Company. Dr. Griess is a Mason and belongs to the Alpha Kappa Kappa, a medical Greek letter society, of which he was primarius for two years. He also holds membership with the Queen City Club and the Research Society of Cincinnati, and is president of the Ohio Miami Alumni Association. He keeps in close touch with the proceedings of the Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, of which organization he is a member, and is a recognized leader in much of that progress which has advanced the standard of professional service in his native city. JOHN DOSCHER. John Doscher, one of the best known business men of Cincinnati, who is head of the firm of Doscher Brothers, manufacturers and wholesale dealers in confectionery, was born in Germany, December 15, 1848. He was reared and educated in his native land and in 1866, being then about eighteen years of age, crossed the ocean to America and came to Cincinnati. He soon found employment in a confectionary store, where he thoroughly learned the art of making fine candies. In 1874 he associated with his brother Clarence and they began on a small scale in the manufacture of candy, their first headquarters being on Fifth street, between Sycamore and Broadway. The business prospered and the firm continued as it was originally organized until the death of Clarence Doscher, in 1882. John Doscher then took in as a partner his younger brother Henry who proved entirely worthy of the responsibility and assisted in developing the business until it attained a wide reputation. He died in January; 19o7. In the meantime Doscher Brothers had moved from their old headquarters to CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 679 a more commodious location at No. 152 West Fifth street, where they occupied a brick building of four stories as a factory and retail store. In 1906 they erected a fine modern four-story pressed brick office, warehouse and factory at Nos. 9-15 West Canal street which was made the general headquarters, the downtown store at No. 152 West Fifth street still being maintained. The firm manufactures a large line of chocolate candies and confectionery, in addition to handling at wholesale and retail many of the leading brands of candies. About one hundred persons are given employment and several traveling men solicit business in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and the neighboring states. Mr. Doscher is the sole proprietor although the firm is still maintained under the old and well established name of Doscher Brothers, which has long been a synonym for legitimate and honest dealing. Mr. Doscher was married to Mrs. Clarence Doscher and three children came to bless this union : John Jr., who is now assistant manager of Doscher Brothers ; Minnie, who is living at home and Harry. Mr. Doscher, as is indicated by the growth of the establishment of which he is the head, is primarily a business man, but he has found time to cultivate fraternal relations and has many friends in various lodges in Cincinnati. He is a valued member of Hanselmann Lodge, F. & A. M., the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He owes his success to a laudable ambition to win an honorable name in the world. Starting as a young man in a strange country, he applied himself with energy and clear judgment and gained a position of comparative financial independence. He has no reason to regret seeking his fortune under the friendly influences of the stars and stripes, for here he found opportunity and friends and now he enjoys the results of his early toil and self-denial. SAMUEL BECKER. Samuel Becker, who is well known throughout Cincinnati from his connection with a prosperous cleaning and dyeing establishment, is a native resident of this city and was born September 28, 1875. His parents were Jacob and Hattie Becker, both of whom were natives of Koenigsberg, Germany. The father is still living in this city, while the mother passed away in 1900. Samuel Becker began his education in the public schools of Cincinnati and later completed a course in the Hughes high school. Afterwards he was a student in the chemistry department for three years at the Textile College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Subsequently he returned to his native city, and began the cleaning and dyeing business, in which he has proved to be eminently successful. He started out in life with nothing but his knowledge of chemicals, and today has a strictly up-to-date cleaning and dyeing plant, which is situated at Nos. 2206-8-10 Reading road, with three branch houses and one main store, the same being located at 623 Vine street. Mr. Becker wedded Miss Minnie Schunke, daughter of Fred Schunke, a well known leaf tobacco merchant at West Alexander, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Becker have been born two children, one son and one daughter. In his political views Mr. Becker is a republican and he is a faithful member of the Jewish 680 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Temple in Avondale. Socially he is a member of the Business Men's Club, the Walnut Hills Business Men's Club and also of the I. O. B. B. lodge. He has ever been a busy man, and in his active, useful life has gained a notable and enviable success, while at the same time he has won the confidence and good-will of his fellowmen by reason of the honorable and straightforward policy he has ever followed. FRANK H. ALDEN. One of the best known advertising agents and advertising writers west of New York city is Frank H. Alden, president of The F. H. Alden Company, of Cincinnati. He was born in this city on the 21st of September, 1848, and is a son of John T. and Elizabeth (Tilton) Alden, direct descendants of John Alden of the pilgrim fathers. The old homestead in Duxbury, Massachusetts, has been in the family until recently, when Frank H. Alden, who inherited it from his brother, turned it over to the Alden Kindred Society. John T. Alden was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he resided until he was eight years of age. His education was acquired in the east and for a time he lived in Pennsylvania, whence he came down the river in a flat boat to Cincinnati, before the days of railroads. He located on a farm, and at one time conducted a truck garden on the present site of the Cincinnati Hospital. This was not as lucrative an occupation at that period of the city's development as it is today, and Mr. Alden used to take great delight in telling how he one time brought a load of potatoes to town, the total proceeds of which he invested in a straw bonnet for his wife. Mrs. Alden was a native of New England also, coming to the west with her husband during the early years of their domestic life. She passed away in 1851. Ten children were born of their union of whom the son Frank H. is the youngest. The father was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. After the completion of his education, in the acquirement of which he attended the public and high schools of this city, Frank H. Alden entered the book store of Robert Clarke & Company. He continued in their service for twelve years, at the expiration of which period he engaged in newspaper and magazine advertising, with which he has ever since been identified, having the oldest advertising agency in Cincinnati. In 1894 the business was incorporated under the name of The F. H. Alden Company, with Mr. Alden as president and his son C. H. as secretary. They have a very large business, numbering among their patrons some of the most extensive advertisers in the country. The American business man has made an art of advertising. It requires as much literary skill and versatility, fancy and imagination to inspire the muse of the "ad" writer, as that of the novelist. The successful follower of this vocation must be well informed on an almost unlimited variety of subjects, in addition to which he must have creative ability, a good literary style, and an understanding and appreciation of the weakness and foibles of humanity generally. The Alden family from the earliest period has produced more or less men and women of literary ability. Among these must be numbered Frank H. Alden, whose creative faculty, CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 681 originality, terseness and happy faculty of choosing the right word has been of inestimable value in enabling him to make a success of his vocation. In fact, it is to this talent he is entirely indebted for the position he occupies today among advertising writers. He plans and executes advertising campaigns for his patrons, resorting to all sorts of unique methods to call attention to their products. For some years after embarking in this field of activity, he made his headquarters at Newport, Kentucky, of which city he was a resident. Mr. Alden married Miss Sarah E. Walker, a daughter of Dr. J. P. Walker, a native of Wilton, Maine, from which state he early migrated to Ohio. Dr. Walker was one of the pioneer physicians of Cincinnati in which city Mrs. Alden was born. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Alden there were born four children, the order of birth being as follows : Frank W., the eldest member of the family ; Edith, the wife of Samuel E. Anderson, of Newport, Kentucky ; Clarence H. ; and Annis Eastman. They affiliate with the Congregational church, and while residing in Newport, Mr. Alden organized the first church of this denomination south of the Mason and Dixon line, after which he contributed the lot and erected the building. He always has taken an active and helpful interest in all church and educational matters, and during the period of his residence in Newport served for eight years as a member of the board of education. Although he has never prominently participated in municipal affairs, he is public-spirited, possessing high ideals as to the duties of citizenship. U. A. CARRIER. U. A. Carrier, who has been successfully engaged in the lumber business in Cincinnati since September, 191o, maintains his offices in the Bell block. His identification with lumber interests dates back to 1894, when he first entered the trade as a youth of seventeen years. His birth occurred in Van Buren county, Michigan, on the 15th of December, 1877, his parents being Albert and Anna (Anderson) Carrier, natives of the state of New York. The father, who came west immediately after leaving school, was a physician by profession, practicing medicine in Van Buren county, Michigan. He remained a resident of the Wolverine state until the time of his demise, which occurred in 1887. His widow is still living at the age of sixty-four and makes her home in Van Buren county, Michigan. Colonel David Anderson, the maternal grandfather of our subject, served throughout the Civil war as an officer of the Nineteenth Michigan Infantry. U. A. Carrier obtained his education in the public schools of his native county and when seventeen years of age went to Traverse City, where he gained his initial experience in the lumber trade, being employed in the shipping department of Wells, Higman & Company for about six months. On the expiration of that period he went to Memphis, Tennessee, where he had charge of shipping for the Anderson-Tully Company, remaining in their service for six years. At the end of that time he removed to Evansville, Indiana, and spent about a year in the service of the Fullerton & Powell Hardwood Lumber Company as a 682 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY traveling inspector of lumber. Subsequently he became buyer and shipper of lumber for the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, ably discharging his duties in that connection for one year. Going to Alabama, he there embarked in the commission lumber business, handling lumber for the Cypress Hardwood Company and other mills in that territory. From the Cotton state he came to Cincinnati and here embarked in the lumber business on his own account in September, 191o, and his undertakings in this connection have since been attended with a gratifying measure of success. On the 23d of August, 1907, in Van Buren county, Michigan, Mr. Carrier was united in marriage to Mrs. Ida M. Low, of that county. He has a stepson, Harold, a youth of fourteen, who is attending school. In politics Mr. Carrier is a. stanch republican, while in religious faith he is a Methodist. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, being past master of the lodge in Moundville, Alabama. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Carrier is a thoroughgoing business man, improving his opportunities for the attainment of financial success, and his diligence has been the source of his prosperity. JAMES BARKER, SR. James Barker, Sr., whose demise occurred in Cincinnati in 1905, was long and successfully identified with industrial interests here as a manufacturer of saddletrees. His birth occurred at Bilton, near Birmingham, England, in 184o, his parents being Herbert and Ann (Burns) Barker. The Barker family lived in Birmingham, England, for many generations and its male representatives were stone cutters and setters by trade. Herbert Barker did a great deal of the stone cutting and setting for Windsor Castle. James Barker, Sr., spent the first twenty-three years of his life in his native land and in 1863 crossed the Atlantic to the United States, coming direct to Cincinnati, Ohio. Here he entered the employ of Joseph Troutman, who in 1843 had established a factory for the making of saddletrees. Mr. Barker was continuously associated with Mr. Troutman until the latter's death, in 1890, when he acquired the business, conducting the same successfully throughout the remainder of his life. His wife, a niece of Joseph Troutman, had inherited the business at the time of her uncle's death and the enterprise has since been conducted under the name of James Barker & Son. Mr. Barker was considered one of the best workmen in his line in the United States and owned a model factory, receiving many medals for the excellence of his product in all parts of the world. His business was the paramount interest of his life and the prosperity which crowned his efforts came as the well merited reward of untiring industry, indefatigable energy and capable management. On the 5th of March, 1865, Mr. Barker was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Patton, a daughter of David and Ellen (Smith) Patton, both of whom were natives of Glasgow, Scotland. Following her husband's demise Mrs. Patton emigrated to America with her children in 1854, establishing her home in Cincinnati. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Barker were born ten children, as follows: Joseph, living in Cincinnati, who is married and has two children ; James, Jr CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 685 who wedded Ada Keayes, who passed away in December, 1906; Madge, the wife of Israel Hirschberg, of Cincinnati, Ohio ; Helen, at home; Harriet, the wife of Samuel B. Duncan, of Coloma, Michigan, by whom she has two children; Sarah, who gave her hand in marriage to Frank Lukens, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by whom she has one son ; Herbert, who is still at home ; and three who died in infancy. Aside from his business duties Mr. Barker took an active and helpful interest in charitable work and did everything in his power to ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. His religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Episcopal church, which his widow and children attend. During the period of his residence in Cincinnati, covering more than four decades, he had gained an extensive circle of warm friends and his demise was therefore the occasion of deep and widespread regret. James Barker, Jr., one of the bright and enterprising young business men of Cincinnati, his native city, is ably carrying forward the work begun by his great-uncle and continued by his father. The establishment is still known under the name of James Barker & Son and constitutes one of the important industrial concerns of the Queen city. JOHN J. CONWAY. John J. Conway, who for over eighteen years has been the superintendent of the Underwriters Salvage Corps, of Cincinnati, was born in this city, November 23, 1858. He is a son of Thomas and Catharine (Lynch) Conway, natives of Ireland, the former of County Cork and the latter of County Kerry. Both came to America about 1840, when quite young, and were married here and resided in Cincinnati until their deaths. The father was connected with the police department of the city but had retired from active service before his death; he was previously for over twenty years in charge of the turnpikes for Hamilton county. John J. Conway was reared in this city and obtained his education in the public schools here. Having rounded out a course of studies sufficient to enable him to make his own way in the world, he found employment on a farm in his native state and there worked two years, after which period he went to Kansas, where he remained about four years. On his return to Cincinnati he entered the fire department and was a member thereof for eight or nine years, finally filling the position of captain of Company No. 3. On his resignation he became connected with the Salvage Corps, of which he has been superintendent ever since. Mr. Conway has been very successful in the business world and owns some very valuable real estate. An extremely interesting possession of his is a house at Montgomery, Ohio, which is the first brick house ever built in Hamilton county. He also owns some apple and pear trees that were transported by wagon from Rhode Island, and planted here in 1802. These trees are now bearing annually large crops of apples and pears. Mr. Conway wedded Miss Maggie Ankenbauer, who is a daughter of Fred Ankenbauer, of this city. To Mr. and Mrs. Conway were born four children : Vol., IV-34 686 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Margaret, John, Jr., and Dorothy, who are living; and May Catharine, who died in infancy. Socially Mr. Conway is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is also a member of the Business Men's Club. In his political views he is an independent and both he and his family are of the Roman Catholic faith, belonging to the Church of the Assumption. Mr. Conway is a man of keen discrimination and sound judgment, and his executive ability and excellent management have brought to the company with which he is now connected, a large degree of success. He is justly accorded a place among the prominent and representative citizens of Cincinnati, for he belongs to that class of 'men whose enterprising spirit is used not alone for their own benefit, but for the advancement of the general good and the promotion of the public prosperity. CHARLES H. HESS. Charles H. Hess, prominently identified with Cincinnati's commercial interests as president of the Charles H. Hess Company, and president of the Merchants Ice & Cold Storage Company, is a native of Aurora, Indiana, his birth having there occurred on the 22d of December, 1868. His father, Charles Hess, came from Germany to the United States when a young man. Splendid educational opportunities had been his and he became especially proficient in mathematics and as a linguist, having a knowledge of twenty languages, while pf eight he was master. He served as an instructor in various schools and colleges of Indiana and Kentucky and became widely recognized for his ability as an educator. Before sailing for the United States he had served in the German army and after coming to this country he rendered valiant aid in the Mexican war. In 1867, at Aurora, Indiana, he married Miss Margaret Charity Ott, a native of Berlin, Germany, who still survives, in her seventy-sixth year and is a resident of Cincinnati. Mr. Hess died in New Orleans during th yellow fever epidemic of 1877, when fifty-one years of age. Charles H. Hess of this review acquired his elementary education in the public schools of Kentucky, after which he came to Cincinnati and took a commercial course. in the old Cincinnati Business College, then conducted by Professor Charles McGee, on the present site of the Sinton Hotel. He supplemented that course in the night classes of the Young Men's Christian Association and his first employment was as a grocer's clerk, in which business he continued in various capacities through the succeeding ten years. By careful economy he gathered together a small capital, so that in 1892 he was able to engage in the produce business on his own account, at No. 24 West Court street. The venture met with gratifying success and in 1906 the business was removed to the modern plant which it yet occupies at Nos. 12 and 14 West Court street. Systematic methods in the conduct of his enterprise have continually promoted the interests of the business. In 1910 he organized the Tri State Butter Company, Incorporated, of which he is president and owner, and in March, 1911, he was elected president of the Merchants Ice & Cold Storage Company. Since 1897 he has been an active member of the Produce Exchange and has served CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 687 for two terms as president of the organization. In this connection he has done much to further trade interests in his line, seeking through understanding and cooperation to further the welfare of those who are engaged in similar enterprises. On the 29th of September, 1897, in Cincinnati, Mr. Hess was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Weidmer, a daughter of John and Margaret (Stengler) Weidmer, natives of Germany, and unto them have been born four children, Marguerite, Howard, Charles H., Jr., and Catherine. Mr. Hess is devoted to the welfare of his home and family and his life interest centers in his own household. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Association. Politically he is a progressive democrat in consideration of national issues but in local affairs votes independently of party ties. He is fond of outdoor life and sports and seeks recreation during the summer vacations in boating and fishing in northern Michigan, where he has a summer home. He is a man of genial manner, able and industrious, and through sheer merit has won a most enviable place in the business and social life of his adopted city. T. J. PEALE. Destiny seems to have made it man's lot that he devote the greater part of his time, thought and energies to business and when his salient qualities are harmoniously balanced and when ambition and effort are intelligently directed, progress and advancement are certain and success ultimately assured. Along commercial lines T. J. Peale has made his way until he has attained a creditable position in mercantile and financial circles, yet with him. business affairs have not excluded other interests and in recognition of his duties to mankind he has put forth effective effort in charitable and educational circles and in furtherance of the moral development of his community. He was born in Lynchburg, Ohio, August 19, 1842. His parents, Samuel and Margaret (Crissey) Peale, were natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. The father came to this state as a young man and took up the occupation of farming at Lynchburg but spent his last days in Cincinnati, where he died when sixty-four years of age. His wife passed away in this city several years ago. She was a lifelong resident of this state and was one of the school children who scattered flowers on Broadway before General LaFayette when he visited the city. T. J. Peale became a resident of Cincinnati when six years of age and acquired his education in the public schools here and in Herron's Seminary. Later he pursued a three years' course in the Ohio College of Medicine and was graduated in the class of 1862, at which time the M. D. degree was conferred upon him. For two years thereafter he engaged in practice and then there came a call from the government for physicians to go to the front and minister to the sick and wounded. To this call he responded and made his way to Nashville, where he passed examination and became surgeon of the Third Regiment of Minnesota Volunteers, with which he continued until the close of the war. He then practiced again for two years, this, however, terminating his active connection with the medical profession. 688 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY On the expiration of that period Mr. Peale joined his brother, W. C. Peale, and took charge of the extensive paint and glass business at No. 906 Central avenue, which had been established by their father about ten years before. T. J. Peale has ever since confined his attention to this business and his activity has been largely instrumental in making it one of the substantial concerns of the kind. The house carries a large line of paints, glass and artists' materials and their trade is constantly growing in volume and importance. The successful management of the business is attributable in no small degree to the efforts of T. J. Peale, whose judgment is sound and his determination and sagacity keen. Moreover, in addition to his commercial interests he has been a director in the City Hall Bank since its organization .and is the owner of considerable valuable real estate in Cincinnati including both business and residence property. In Cincinnati, in October, 1876, Mr. Peale was united in marriage to Miss Clara Liddell, of Cincinnati, and unto them have been born seven children, three sons and four daughters : Eva, at home ; Florence, the wife of Dr. August McLeod, a resident of Mississippi ; Clara, who also .resides at home Corinne, a junior in the University of Cincinnati ; Robert and Herbert, who are associated with their father in business ; and Albert, employed as a bookkeeper. Both Mr. and Mrs. Peale take a very active part in church work and kindred interests, holding membership in the Norwood Baptist church. Mr. Peale is associate superintendent of its Sunday school and for twenty years was superintendent of the Sunday school of the Lincoln Park Baptist church. His wife has taken an active and helpful interest in various lines of church work and has also been a Sunday school teacher. Mr. Peale was for many years a director of the Young Men's Christian Association and for some years a director of the House of Refuge. He also served on the directorate of the Lincoln Club and is a member of the Commercial Club of Cincinnati. In politics he has ever held to republican principles and while never an office seeker has kept well informed on the questions and issues of the day and was vice president of the Stamina Republican League, 1907-09. He is systematic and methodical in business and those who meet him in other relations of life, find him a genial, friendly man and one to whom the helplessness or hardships of individuals make strong appeal. He is ever ready to aid one who is meeting with difficulties in the path of life and has done much to alleviate suffering. He is a believer, too, in the moral teaching which brings out the best in the individual and stimulates him to rise to high ideals. IGMUND WISE. Sigmund Wise, who is vice president of the firm of The Meyer, Wise & Kaichen Company, wholesale dealers in notions, furnishing goods and fancy dry goods, was born at Steingrub, Bohemia, on the 5th of July, 1858, and is the son of Samuel A. and Hannah (Wise) Wise. The parents emigrated to the United States in 1869, the father engaging in the retail dry-goods business until 1885. Withdrawing from commercial activities at that time he lived CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 689 retired until his death which occurred on the 1st of January, 1895, at the age of seventy-two years. The mother passed away in 1888, when she was fifty-four, being laid to rest in Walnut Hills cemetery, where her husband was later interred. Only a lad of eleven years when his parents brought him to America, in the acquirement of his elementary education Sigmund Wise attended the schools of his native land. After the family located in the United States he went to live with his uncle, Dr. Isaac M. Wise, on his farm at College Hill. He remained there for eighteen months during which time he attended the district schools, being assisted outside of school hours with his English by his uncle and cousins. Returning to his parents, who were living at Reading, Ohio, he entered the public schools, which he attended until he was fifteen. At the expiration of that time he began his career by entering the employ of M. Loth, who had a wholesale notion store at 121 Main street. During the first six months of his service with that company he assisted in stock-keeping, following which he was made assistant salesman, continuing in that capacity for two years. Being an ambitious youth he was desirous of engaging in business on his own account, so resigning his position he bought samples from the various wholesale houses, and went out soliciting trade with these in the mornings and in the afternoon he filled and delivered his orders. This proved to be much more lucrative than a salaried position as at the end of eighteen months he had accumulated a capital of fifteen hundred dollars. His parents feeling that he was too young to carry so much responsibility, his father procured for him a position with Bohm Brothers & Company, as city salesman. At the end of two years he made a contract with the firm on a salary of twenty-one hundred dollars for a position as salesman both within and without the city. He possesses to a marked degree the requirements for work of this kind, not only being able to win trade, but to retain it, so that his sales constantly increased. He developed the business of the firm so much, that he was given an interest in the company in 189o. On the 1st of January, 1895, he severed his connection with Bohm Brothers & Company, becoming associated as a partner with Messrs. Meyer and Kaichen. They then located at the corner of Pearl and Race streets, where they remained for five years. In 190o they removed to the northeast corner of Third and Race streets, formerly the stand of Bohm Brothers & Company, who had gone to St. Louis. From there they came to their present location at No. 26 East Sixth street, where they are conducting the largest house of the kind in the United States. On the 28th of December, 1888, Mr. Wise was united in marriage to Miss Nannie Bloom, a daughter of the late Solomon and Rachel Bloom, long residents of Cincinnati, of which city the mother as well as Mrs. Wise are natives. Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Wise there have been born four children : Hazel, who is in her senior year at Vassar College ; Solomon, who is a senior in the Hughes high school ; Rita, a student of the Avondale school ; and Nana Belle, who is an interesting little maid of four years. Mr. Wise built in 1907 one of the most beautiful residences on South Crescent avenue, Avondale, and he has also recently erected two modern apartment buildings in the same vicinity. Mr. Wise is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, being identified with Kilwinning Lodge, and he also belongs to the B'nai B'rith and is one of the board. 690 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY of the Walnut Hills cemetery. He is also a member of the Cincinnati Club and of the Losantiville Country Club. He always takes an active interest in community affairs and is identified with the Avondale Improvement Association. His political support he gives to such candidates as he deems best qualified for the position, irrespective of platform or party. He is one of the affluent citizens of Cincinnati, and his success is all the more commendable from the fact that it is attributable to his own efforts and capabilities intelligently directed. JUDGE D. THEW WRIGHT, A. B., A. M. Entering upon active connection with the Cincinnati bar in 1850, judge D. Thew Wright has since the initial period of his professional career occupied a commanding position among Cincinnati lawyers. He is, moreover, one of the city's native sons and has reached the age of seventy-seven years, his birth having occurred in 1825. His parents were Nathaniel and Caroline Augusta (Thew) Wright. The Wright family is of English origin and when representatives of the name came to America the ancestral home was established in New Hampshire. The line is traced back to John Wright, lord of Kelvedon Manor in Essex, England, whose son, Nathaniel Wright, was a merchant of London, becoming an active member of the Winthrop colony, owning an eighth interest in the ships which brought the Winthrop colony to America in 1630. Judge Wright began his education in his native city, attending the public schools and the old Woodward College, wherein he continued his studies until he entered Yale in 1844. He was graduated in 1847 and was one of the early college-bred men of this city. Something of the primitive method of travel in that day is indicated in the fact that it required a week for him to reach New Haven. He left Cincinnati early Monday morning by stage and arrived in New York on Saturday night, there taking the six o'clock boat for New Haven. Subsequently he attended the Harvard Law School and was graduated in 1849 on the completion of a two-years' course. For a time he read law in the office of Judge Alphonso Taft and entered upon the active work of his profession in 1850, as a member of the firm of Lord & Wright in the old Times building on Third street. Sixty-two years' connection with the profession in Cincinnati gives Judge Wright the title of nestor of the city bar. In the earlier years of his connection with the profession, he engaged in the general practice of law and demonstrated his ability to handle the varied legal problems which continually confront the lawyer in the early days of practice here. Careful preparation of each case won him a reputation for thoroughness and broad knowledge and in his later practice he has been enabled to select the kind of legal work which he prefers to do and confine his attention and energies to those branches which he regards as most congenial, as well as most profitable. He has always held to high ideals with strict regard to the ethics of the profession and has never allowed the zeal of an advocate nor the pleasure of success to make him forget that there are certain things due to the court, to his own self-respect, and above all, to justice and the righteous administration of the law. He was given the first supreme court commission of Ohio by President Hayes in 1873 and filled CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 693 the position for three years, which period was passed in Columbus, Ohio. On the expiration of his first term he returned to Cincinnati and has since practiced law in connection with his son Rogers. In 1859 Judge Wright was united in marriage to Miss Juliet Rogers, a daughter of John and Anne Rogers, whose parents came from Virginia, her father being a prominent merchant of Cincinnati. Unto this marriage were born three sons and four daughters : Rogers, who is his father's partner in the practice of law ; Nannie, who became the wife of Thomas Johnston of Boston, and after his death married Harry Colburn ; Dan Thew, who married Alice Williams, of Cincinnati ; William Shrewsbury ; Annette, the wife of Edwin Besuden, of Cincinnati ; Nathalie ; and Marie Louise, the wife of Harry Eldridge Goodhue, of Boston. With the public life of Cincinnati in many of its leading phases Judge Wright has been closely associated. He was a stalwart advocate of the Union cause during the Civil war and went to Pittsburg Landing to act as a volunteer nurse after the hotly contested engagement which there occurred. He was one of the earliest members of the Cincinnati Literary Club, with which he has always retained his membership and he likewise belongs to the Yale Club. In politics he has been a stalwart republican since the organization of the party and was very active in support of Fremont in the campaign of 1856. In 1862 he was offered the candidacy for congress but declined the nomination, as his ambition has never been in the line of office holding. He was the organizer of the liberal republicans and at all times has been a leader in political work in as far as he has wished to engage therein. His opinions have ever carried weight because of the recognized soundness of his judgment and his keen discrimination. He has long been associated with the Second Presbyterian church and his labors in this connection, as in other things, have been effective forces for advancement. Judge Wright has been able to command a strong personal following, because it is well known that he has ever placed patriotism above partisanship, general welfare before individual aggrandizement and integrity before expediency. His mind is naturally analytical, logical and inductive, and when his sound judgment has passed favorably upon any question his support can always be counted upon to the utmost. JOHN WEBB, JR. Life to John Webb, Jr., ever meant more than the attainment of business success. The teaching concerning universal brotherhood early found lodgment in his heart, and his life became a serviceable one in the effort to make the world better, to ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the unfortunate, and to extend a helping hand to the fellow traveler who was attempting to laboriously climb upward. His name will ever find an honored place on the records of the House of Refuge and also of the Home of the Friendless. His sympathies reached out particularly to the children, and his life exemplified much of the spirit of the One, who centuries ago said : "Suffer little children to come unto Me." As long as memory remains to those who knew him, the remembrance of John Webb and his good deeds will be cherished. 694 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Mr. Webb spent the greater part of his residence in Cincinnati, although he was an Englishman by birth. He first opened his eyes to the light of day in the little town of Frome, in Somersetshire, England, August 5, 1823, and was twenty years of age when he accompanied his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Webb; on their emigration to America. The family home was established in Cincinnati, where both the father and son spent their remaining days. Here they established a wholesale and retail millinery house on Fifth street near Elm, and conducted the enterprise successfully for a number of years, after which John Webb, Jr., purchased his father's interest, carrying on the business alone until about ten years prior to his demise. As the years passed by he prospered, though he never accumulated wealth. A desire for riches was never a paramount force in his life, and he rejoiced in his success only as it gave him opportunity to provide a comfortable living for his family and to give to the poor and needy those things which money could buy. Mr. Webb had been a resident of Cincinnati for only a brief period, when he met and married Miss Mary Kingsworth, who was also of English birth and had crossed the Atlantic on the same steamer with the Webb family, although they did not become acquainted until after their« arrival in this city. Their married life was always a most happy one. A unity of tastes and interests were theirs and their mutual love and confidence increased as the years passed by. Unto them were born five children, all of whom are still living, namely: Mary R., the wife of Charles E. Sorin, and Hannah M., the wife of Willi C. Biles, both of Cincinnati ; John B., who is engaged in business in New Yor city ; Henry S., who is at the head of the electrical department of the Inter national Correspondence Schools at Scranton, Pennsylvania ; and Lydia P., the wife of J. W. Simms, of Brooklyn, New York. It was at the home of the named that Mr. Webb was visiting when his fatal illness came upon him, to minating his life in the eighty-second year of his age. It is said that in business Mr. Webb's word was as good as any bond ever solemnized by signature or seal. He never misrepresented anything, he demanded that honesty should be the policy of every employe, and he won success by straightforward, honorable dealing. Not only in this but in eve respect in life he leaves behind him the record of a good, clean and upri character. In all of his charitable work, which covered many years, he w entirely devoid of ostentation. For thirty years he served as one of the dir tors of the House of Refuge, continuing in that position until the board directors went out of office at the time the institution came under public c trol. However, he continued to show his interest in the house in many ways. He was also deeply interested in the Home of the Friendless, did much to further its work and served as its treasurer for twelve years. James Allison, the superintendent of the House of Refuge, said : "Mr. Webb was elected a director in 1874 and only retired when the new code went into effect. He served at various times on every committee of this home and was associated in many ways with other charitable organizations. His chief thought, however, was that of caring for the little children, without hope or expectation of a reward other than that contained in the divine words 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto Me.' To the poor, the helpless, the CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 695 unfortunate and the sinning, he was always a friend. To him each was a human soul, susceptible to good influences if. only the proper chord could be touched. It was his aim, his ever present wish to find in all the best that was in them, to care for the tender and strengthen the weak, raise the unfortunate, care for the sinning and rear the, children to be upright citizens, true men and women. As chairman of the committee on Homes for the Children, he labored with unflagging zeal. Through summer's heat and winter's cold he unfalteringly pursued the work day by day and year by year. Discouragement did not conquer but nerved him to greater effort." During the Civil war Mr. Webb took up his first important work for the benefit of others. He was associated with a number of citizens in organizing the Cincinnati Relief Union for the assistance of the wives and children of the men fighting in the Union army. As a director of the Relief Union he became one of its most active workers. He was also for years a helpful member of the Young Men's Bible, Society, and the cause of education also benefited by his championship. In many ways he befriended Pulte College and at the time of his death was its treasurer. The Free Medical Dispensary connected with the institution was the outgrowth of one of his ideas for aiding the distressed. He was also treasurer of the Western Tract Society and for many years was an elder of the Mount Auburn Presbyterian church. Magnolia Lodge, No. 83, I. 0. 0. F., also found in him an enthusiastic worker and faithful member. Resolutions of respect were passed in .his memory by several organizations. One read as follows ; "The Board of Lady Managers of the Home for the Friendless and Foundlings would express in this public way their deep sense of loss in the death of John Webb, Jr. As Mr. Webb has held in trust the funds of the Home for the Friendless for many years, we have been brought into close contact with him in many branches of our work. We found in him a supporter of all progressive plans. He has expressed in many ways his broad sympathy for humanity and his loving care for the unfortunate. He was always a welcome visitor at the Home. One of the last acts of his public life, before leaving for the east, was to heartily indorse and to use his influence to make possible the starting of a kindergarten in the chapel of the Home. We feel grateful for his long and valuable services in connection with this work. Our deep sympathy is extended to his family and the wide circle of friends who will feel that a personal loss is sustained in his death. He is one of whom we can say, 'We are better for having known him.' Clara Langdon Bailey, president ; Rose F. Weimer, Cynthia D. Robertson, Anne K. Benedict, committee." It was said that even after the board of directors of the House of Refuge passed out of existence, the members thereof, knowing that they had no authority to do anything officially for the institution, nevertheless continued their meetings, because they loved to talk of the boys and the girls in the House and listen to the humorous minutes which Mr. Webb had written of the last meeting. It is said that he had a most entertaining way regarding what had occurred, and the reading of his minutes was always one of the delights of such a meeting. His fellow members therein related many anecdotes concerning his kindliness and his generosity. One told that it was his habit to go out among the worthy poor of the city each autumn, to ascertain the size of the shoes desired 696 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY by these friends of his, and when he had received from them several hundred requests, he would make his way to a store, where he was able to find the sort of shoes he wanted, to assist through the winter the hundreds of poor people whom he knew "better than any one in Cincinnati." The board of directors with which he was so long associated, penned the following memorial : "We hold that one who subordinates all thought of self to solicitude for others, who gives of his time and effort and substance to the elevation of his fellowman, with special tenderness for those who have fallen in life's struggle, we hold him to have realized the truest type of Christian. Among the many works which will be recorded to the credit of John Webb, Jr., the above came most closely under the observation of the undersigned who served for many years with him upon the board of directors of the Cincinnati House of Refuge. We therefore desire here to express our appreciation of his character, which was an inspiration to practical charity to all those who knew of his personal service and unostentatious giving, and we grieve at his death, not only because of the great loss to the community, but also because of the personal void left in our circle, for he combined with good works and a pure spirit all the elements of good fellowship and the personal charms which could not fail to draw to himself in warmest friendship all those who had the privilege of close association. We also wish to tender our sympathy to the family, well knowing that such a character, however valuable to the community, however precious to his friends, is only known and appreciated at its best in the sacred family circle. To widow, sons, daughters and grandchildren, we can but say, you have been blessed in the relationship, and mourned by all who knew him and by thousands more who knew only of his good works; he has gone to his reward. Henry Behrens, James Dalton, Lawrence Poland, W. B. Carpenter, Guy W. Mallon, R. S. Fulton, Thomas J. Peale." For many years Mr. Webb served as elder of Mount Auburn Presbyterian church and filled the office of treasurer of the session fund. His political views were in sympathy with the republican party and on behalf of it he exercised his citizen rights. As previously stated, when the end came Mr. Webb was visiting his daughter in Brooklyn, New York, but his remains were brought back to Cincinnati for interment in Spring Grove cemetery. His wife survived many of the noble qualities which won him regard and honor and was pre him more than seven years, passing away January 17, 1912. She possessed eminently loyal and devoted to her home. His was one of the large funerals held in Cincinnati, hundreds gathering to pay their last tribute of respect to one whose life had indeed been an exemplification of that which is highest and best in the world—a life of devoted service to others. RUDOLPH TIETIG. Rudolph Tietig, a member of the firm of Tietig & Lee, prominent architects of Cincinnati, was born in this city on the 25th of April, 1877, and is a son of Arnold and Sophia (Thoke) Tietig, both natives of Germany. The parents are still living and continue to make their home in Cincinnati. The father was born CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 699 in 1845 and was twenty years of age when he crossed the Atlantic to become a resident of America. Here he engaged in the manufacture of cigars. At the usual age Rudolph Tietig was sent as a pupil to the public school and eventually reached the high school, in which he spent one year. He was afterward for two years a student in the Technical School of Cincinnati and then went to Boston, where he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing a four years' course by graduation with the class of 1898 with the degree of bachelor of science. Thus well qualified for a professional career, Mr. Tietig went to New York, where he spent five years in connection with Robert Maynicke and G. K. Thompson. In 1903 he returned to Cincinnati, where he formed a partnership with Mr. Lee and opened an architect's office. They have made the plans and erected some of the fine buildings of this city, including the Western German Bank, the Fourteenth district school, the Highland school, the Merchants building at Sixth and College streets and Temple K K Ben Israel on Rockdale and Harvey ,avenues, also the Engineering College of the University of Cincinnati. The members of the firm are thoroughly acquainted with the scientific principles which underlie their work and with all the practical phases of the business, and the standing which they have gained in the profession assures them a liberal patronage. They now employ about ten people and their offices comprise a suite of six rooms in the Lyric building. In 1905 Mr. Tietig was united in marriage to Miss Margaret L. Andrews, a daughter of A. L. Andrews, of Newport, Kentucky, and they now have two children, Rudolph and Albert Andrews. Mr. Tietig is a Mason, belonging to the blue lodge, and he is also connected with the Hamilton County Golf Club, the Business Men's Club, the Hyde Park Business Men's Club, the Cincinnati Art Club and the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, of which he is now president. He has ever held to high standards in his profession and originality as well as knowledge of artistic design and scientific principles have enabled him to contribute much to the architectural adornment of this city. CHRIST C. SEAL. Christ C. Seal, senior member of the firm of C. C. Seal & Company, livestock dealers, was born in Davis county, Indiana, on Christmas day, 1873, being a son of William M. and Minerva J. Seal. The father was formerly a shipper of live stock, but now resides in Loogootee, Martin county, Indiana, where for many years he has been superintendent of the county infirmary. He has always taken an active interest in all public affairs, giving his political support to the men and measures of the democratic party. The Seals were originally of English extraction but for many years have been residents of this country, having located here during colonial times. A great-grandfather of our subject, John A. Podgett, participated in the Revolutionary war, where he was killed, while three of his grandsons, James, John and Tom Podgett, were killed at the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil war. The boyhood and early youth of Christ C. Seal were spent on his father's farm, his education being acquired in Seal school, so called from his father