900 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Martha Kinney, born January 12, 1874, was graduated from the Woodward high school in Cincinnati. In December, 1897, she married Myers Y. Cooper and they have two children, Raymond Kinney and Martha Ann Cooper. Joshua Philips Kinney, was born on the old farm, February 18, 1842, and died at Tacoma, Washington, December 2, 1909. He enlisted in the army in 1862 as orderly sergeant in the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, served until the close of the war and afterward became a farmer in the west. He married in 1865 and had four children ; Joel, who is now captain in the fire department of Seattle, Washington ; Mrs. Bell Williams ; Alice and Eunice. Julius Kinney was born on the old homestead farm in Michigan, September 9, 1844, and died unmarried on the 28th of September, 1864. Sylvanus Harvey Kinney was born in Lenawee county, Michigan, on April 2, 1847, and died in Kansas City, Missouri, August 30, 1909. He was educated in the common schools and Adrian College, and in 1867 went to Kansas City, where he successfully conducted a fire insurance business. In 1873 he married Miss. Anna Barrett, and they have two children, Julia and Harvey, the former living with her mother in Kansas City. The latter is in the insurance business there and married Miss Margaret Harrison in 1909. Vernon Kinney, born on the old home farm July 1853, is engaged in the dairy business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is married and has three children, Helen, Clinton and Mabel. Dewitt Clinton Kinney was born in 1855, and is a merchant in Silverton, Washington. He is unmarried. Clare E. Kinney, born in 1857, is unmarried and is a school teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Nelson Kinney, born August 22, 1815, at Levonia, New York, was a farmer and died in Cambridge, Lenawee county, Michigan, November 18, 1895. He married Margaret Young and their children were : Frederick C., who served in the Ninth Michigan Cavalry, and was married and left five children : Franklin, who was married but had no children ; Frances (twin of Franklin), who was married but had no children ; Flavius, who married and had two children; Florence (twin of Flavius), who became the wife of John P. Mills by whom she had two children ; and Alice, who is the wife of Fred Snow, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Delight Kinney, sister of Nelson Kinney, became the wife of Daniel Davidson, and left a son, John who survives. The other sisters and brothers of Nelson Kinney are deceased and left no children. To make a complete family record it is necessary to trace the line of the Walker family. John William Walker was of French and English descent and was a Baptist minister. He was reared in North Carolina and there married Sarah Sales, a daughter of Leonard Sales. Their children were William, John, Edmond, Noah, Merideth, Hiram, James, Leonard, Betsy, Nancy and Pollie. Betsy became the wife of John McBride, Nancy married Samuel Jones and Pollie was married to John Felts. The mother died about 1821, and John W. Walker afterward married Miss Elizabeth Felts, by whom he had the following children: Aaron, Alfred, Jenkins, Isaiah, Harrison, Sarah and Martha. Sarah became the wife of William Kirkpatrick and Martha also married. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 901 James Walker, the seventh son of John William Walker, was born January I, 1819, in Wilkes county; North Carolina, and when a boy went to New Castle, Indiana, and afterward to Rush county, Indiana, where he married Miss Jane McBride on the 1st of March, 1838. Their children were : Irvin, Sarah Ann, Elizabeth Ellen, James Monroe, Mary Emily, Martha Jane, John William, Franklin Pierce and Alfred Benjamin. James Walker died April 12, 1902. Irvin Walker, born in Indiana February 2, 1839, died in 1906. He was colonel. of the Seventy-third Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and tax commissioner of Indiana for twelve years. Also grand commander of the Grand Army of the Republic and chairman of the board of Indiana Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument Association. He married Anna Layton in 1865, lived in Indianapolis, and had the following children : Elizabeth, who became the wife of William Sharp ; Sarah, who married Maurice Black, and after his death wedded Charles Cahier of Germany ; and Percy, who married Harry Hammond ; also one other child, Layton, who is now deceased. Sarah Ann Walker, was born in Rush county, Indiana, June 14, 1840. She was married to Joel F. Kinney at Nashville, Tennessee, April 6, 1865, and died June 6, 1910. She was a devout member of the Christian church for more than fifty years, was a loving and lovable wife, and an indulgent and kind mother. Elizabeth Ellen Walker was born in Rush county, Indiana, and died in Cincinnati April 13, 1911. At the age of eighteen she married Joseph K. Rugg and they had two sons, Walker and Edwin Wood, both married and living in Cincinnati. James Monroe Walker, born in Rush county, Indiana, September 29, 1843, married Ellen Irwin in 1866, and lives in Cincinnati. Their children are Lillie; Edna, who married Julius Benckenstein ; Lucretia, who became the wife of John Archiable ; and Emma Roe, who married Charles Lohmiller. Mary Emily Walker, third daughter of James and Jane Walker, was born in New Castle, Indiana, and married Frank Wittiker. They have one son, James Herbert. Martha Jane Walker was born in New Castle, Indiana. She married Colonel Christian Beck in 1874, and they had one daughter, Mary Josephine, who became the wife of Frank White Wilshire. John William Walker died January, 1876. He was unmarried. Franklin Pierce Walker, born March 4, 1853, was married in 1879, to Mollie Ashton, lives in Cincinnati and has three daughters : Alma, the wife of Elmer Love ; Bessie ; and Grace. Alfred Benjamin Walker, youngest son of James and Jane Walker; was born in 1855. In 1888 he married Miss Mary Hoffman and lives in Cincinnati. They have three daughters : Lucretia, who married Fred Dellinger ; Jane ; and Ethel. William McBride, the father of Jane McBride Walker, was horn in Ireland and had a brother James and nine sisters : Mrs. Nancy Chambers ; Sallie, the wife of Thomas Rash ; Pollie, who married Zeb Baker ; Martha, the wife of Charles Bucey ; Lydia, who married James Jarvie ; Jennie, the wife of Lew Rash ; Ruth, who married Thomas Dillard ; Betsie, the wife of Thomas Clark ; and Rebecca, who married Robert Johnson. His brother James was an officer in the French and Indian war and was tomahawked by the Indians. After coming to this country William McBride married Elizabeth Haithman, of North Carolina, who was of English descent, and their children were, James, John, William, Robert, Sallie, Pollie, Nancy, Ruth and Jane. Sallie became the wife 902 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY of William Walker ; Pollie married a Mr. Crewzen ; Nancy was married to James Edmands ; Ruth became the wife of William Rousseau ; and Jane married James Walker, brother of William Walker. Jane McBride, seventh child of William McBride, was born in Wilkes county, North Carolina, December 5, 1817, and was about nine years of age when her parents removed to New Castle, Indiana, going thence to Rush county, where she became the wife of James Walker, on the 1st of March, 1838. H. F. KRUCKEMEYER. H. F. Kruckemeyer is a member of the L. Kruckemeyer Company, controlling one of the important enterprises of Cincinnati. In connection with this business he has gradually worked his way upward until he now has entire charge of this extensive enterprise. The city in which he makes his home numbers him among its native sons, his birth having here occurred November 9, 1873. His father, Louis Kruckemeyer, was a native of Germany, and at the age of sixteen years came to America, establishing his home in Cincinnati, where his remaining days were passed. In his youth he learned the tinner's trade and in 1863 purchased a business which had been established ten years before. He conducted his interests under his own name, built up the business and enlarged the scope of the trade by extending the variety of the output. In 1904 he in- , corporate& the concern under the firm name of L. Kruckemeyer Company of which he became president and general manager with H. F. Kruckemeyer, as vice president and Walter E. Kruckemeyer, as secretary and treasurer. His plans were well formulated, and in their execution he displayed a readiness of resource that enabled him to accomplish whatever he undertook, producing maximum results with minimum effort. In the Civil war he espoused the cause of the Union, spending two years in the service as a member of an Ohio regiment. He married Miss Lena Bardes, who was a native of Cincinnati and of German parentage. She was related to Mayor Ziegler, who was the first chief executive of this city. She is now nearly sixty years of age and still resides in Cincinnati, where the death of her husband occurred on the 4th of May, 1907. He was a member of a number of leading commercial and social organizations here and was popular in business and manufacturing circles. It came to be known that his word was as good as his bond, that he never deviated from a course which lie believed to be right between himself and his fellowmen, and at all times held equivocally to the position which he felt would serve the best interests of the community at large. After attending the public school Mr. Kruckemeyer pursued a course of architectural drawing in a private school and then began learning the trade of a sheet-metal worker. He mastered that business in the employ of strangers and then entered his father's services as superintendent of the sheet-metal work and roofing branch of the business, in which capacity he remained until 1904, when the company was incorporated and he was made vice president. At that time he took charge of the furnace work in connection with his other duties, and upon the death of his father in 1907 he became general manager. He still CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 903 continues to oversee outside work a part of the time and is in entire charge of the business. They not only conduct a large factory on Liberty street but also have a thoroughly modern retail store at Fifteenth and Vine streets, which, in the line of stoves and ranges carried, is surpassed by none. Since 1853 a stove store has been continuously maintained on this corner, previous to which time the building had been used as a country tavern. Pleasantly situated in his home life Mr. Kruckemeyer was married in Cincinnati, June 3, 1896, to Miss Caroline B. Sohn, a daughter of J. G. Sohn, a member of the firm of J. G. Sohn Company, brewers of Cincinnati. The two children of this marriage are Richard Louis, fourteen years of age, and Elsie L., a little maiden of twelve summers. Both are now in school. The daughter is an excellent pianist and shows wonderful talent for composing. In his political views Mr. Kruckemeyer is a stanch republican. He was reared in the faith of that party, and in his mature judgment has seen no reason to change his views. His father was a very prominent republican and served several times as a delegate to the national conventions of the party. His opinions carried weight in its local councils and he did everything in his power to promote its growth and secure its success. His son, H. F. Kruckemeyer, became identified with the organization when age conferred upon him the right of franchise, and he has for two terms been a director of the Young Men's Blaine Club, the leading republican organization of the city. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the German Evangelical church—associations which indicate to some degree the nature of his interests and the rules and principles which govern his conduct. Like his father, he has made for himself a notable and honorable position in the business world and in the social life of the city, and at all times has been actuated by high principles, prompting him always to choose that which is best and most worth while. THE A. B. CLOSSON, JR., COMPANY. One of the most attractive and interesting retail stores in Cincinnati is that of the firm of The A. B. Closson, Jr., Company, located at Nos. 112-114 West Fourth street. The business was founded in 1865 at No. 170 West Fourth street by A. B. Closson, Jr., who at that time only handled maps and charts. As the business developed he increased the variety of his wares, until the firm now occupies a six-story building, which is entirely filled with beautiful specimens of the artist's and craftsman's skill ; choice statuary, rare pieces of pottery, antique furniture and beautiful rugs and hangings, whose exquisite colorings have softened and deepened with the passing of time ; all are to be found there. In 1906 the company was incorporated with A. B. Closson, Jr., president ; C. E. Lush, vice president ; H. B. Closson, treasurer ; and M. A. Chapman, secretary. A. B. Closson, Jr., was born in Norwich, Vermont, in 1837, of English and Welsh extraction, and in that state was reared and educated. Upon coming west he lived for a time in Ludlow, Kentucky, where he served as president of the Farmers & Mechanics Bank. It was in 1865 that he became identified with 904 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY the business interests of Cincinnati and he continued operations here up to the time of his death on the 8th of August, 1910. He was very successful in his business ventures and was regarded as one of the leading citizens of Cincinnati. Before coming west Mr. Closson was united in marriage to Miss Julia Payne and they became the parents of four children, namely, Henry B., Fannie A., Walter P. and Mrs. J. M. Work, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Closson is still survived by his wife, who continues to make her home in Ludlow, Kentucky. Henry B. Closson is now president of the A. B. Closson, Jr., Company. He is also vice president of the Farmers & Mechanics Bank of Ludlow and is also a member of the Business Men's Club and the Art Club of Cincinnati. HUGH WILSON BROWN. H. Wilson Brown, as he was always called, was born in Greenville, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1826, a son of James Wilson and Jane King Brown and was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, his grandmother, Sarah Wilson, wife of Hugh Brown, being a niece of James Wilson, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Brown was educated in the public schools of his native town—afterward graduating with high honors from Westminster College at the age of twenty-one. In 1847 he came to Cincinnati, his first position being that of shipping clerk for Peter A. Sprigman & Son, forwarding agents. For a short time, Mr. Brown associated himself with river interests, but he soon returned as junior partner to the house he had first worked for, the firm name being changed to Sprigman & Brown and later becoming Brown & Sprigman, with Mr. Brown as t, senior partner. On January 1, 1853, he was appointed western freight agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad and in 1855 in connection with this agency he was appointed by General Robinson, the president of the P. F. W. & C. R. R., their agent in Cincinnati. The district he controlled covered the whole southwestern territory, which included St. Louis, Memphis, Louisville, Nashville and all Kentucky points, and he appointed all the. first Pennsylvania Railroad agents at these points. In 1864 he helped organize and became one of the incorporators of the Star Union Line, one of the great tributaries of the Pennsylvania system and this branch he continued to represent until his retirement—being at that time the oldest in point of service on the Pennsylvania lines. For fifty years he was the trusted employe, whose counsel was sought on many different questions of policy, and time and again he was given charge of many important undertakings. He was the originator of the refrigerating system as well as of the shipping of dressed poultry in car lots—the first car going from Cincinnati to Boston in 1866 conspicuously placarded, and rushed through in four clays. He was always deeply interested in civic affairs and frequently took an active interest in politics for the furtherance of good government, but could never be induced to hold office. During the Civil war he raised a company for the service, and rendered valuable aid to the government in getting provisions to the troops at the front, using his large influence with the railroads to further the interests CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 905 of the Union army. He was a member of the old Volunteer Fire Department, an active organizer and life long member of the Humane Society, a director of the Western Insurance & Transportation Company, one of the founders as well as the president and a director of the Harmonic Society which gave the first oratorios ever given in Cincinnati, and was later merged into the May Festival Chorus. He was one of the founders of the Festival Association and its first vice president for years, one of the stockholders and trustees of The Cincinnati Music Hall Association, and was instrumental in bringing Theodore Thomas to this city, after having heard him in string quartette in New York. Mr. Brown was always one of Mr. Thomas's nearest friends and most ardent supporters, and took an active interest in organizing and operating the Festival Chorus. The record of his entire business career is honorable and public spirited, and although faithful to the exacting duties and obligations of regular business, he found time to give to the promotion of movements for the extension of business activities, the development of trade, the increase of local manufactories and the development of the arts. During many years of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition he was one of its most energetic officers and several times served as first vice president. He was one of the committee to receive General Grant in 1879 during his famous trip around the world and was one of the speakers at the great Grant banquet at Chicago, his subject being, "The Commerce of Cincinnati." Mr. Brown was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce. He was elected vice president in 1868 and 1869, and president in 1879 and 1880. The highest honor within the gift of this body was conferred upon him January 10, 1903, when he was made an honorary member, the vote, by a rule of the chamber, having to be unanimous. The selection for this distinction was made from a number of candidates from among the most prominent business men of the city. It was Mr. Brown who defeated the move of the directors to purchase the property at the southeast corner of Fourth and Elm streets as a site for the Chamber of Commerce in 1879, and it was by his influence that the present old postoffice property at Fourth and Vine streets was secured from the government. This deal was negotiated through the late John Sherman and the association paid the government one hundred thousand dollars for the site. The church numbered Mr. Brown among its most earnest workers. Always interested in religious and philanthropic work he was one of the foremost Presbyterians in Cincinnati, exhibiting in his religious life the same enthusiasm, energy, and devotion that characterized his business career. Among his friends he numbered many men of prominence. Thomas Scott, president of the Pennsylvania railroad and one of Lincoln's assistant war secretaries ; Edgar Thomson, William Thaw, Henry Howard Houston, all Pennsylvania railroad men ; Generals Grant and Sherman ; Senator John Sherman ; Frank Thompson ; James McCrea ; and many others. He also knew personally many of the famous singers of the day—Patti, Cary, Whitney, Lloyd, Davies and others. Mr. Brown himself was possessed of a fine tenor voice and his first wife was a soprano singer of rare ability and more than local reputation. He married in 1852 Louisa Whiteman Coffin, daughter of Christopher Folger and Elsie Gibson Coffin. They had four children : Wilson Coffin, who was drowned in 1874 ; Robert King, by profession a civil engineer and a graduate of 906 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, New York ; Henry Howard, a successful New York musician and critic, celebrated as the originator of the famous Standard Tone theory, and who numbers among his pupils many of the famous singers of today ; and Cora Belle, the wife of Edward Cooke Mills, of Cincinnati. Mrs. Brown died in April, 1881, and on November 10, 1883, Mr. Brown married Mrs. Helen Hulburd Flint, of Chicago, daughter of the Rev. Hiland and Janet Rees Hulburd. Mr. Brown possessed not only musical but intellectual ability, and made all his talents and accomplishments yield to and emphasize his life as a citizen, a patriot and a christian. He passed to the great beyond full of years and honor, June 22, 1906. ISAAC KAHN. In the opening years of the nineteenth century America was forging to the front as the leader of the world in all lines of industrial activity and especially in the invention and manufacture of those things which have utilitarian value, but it was not until the latter half of the century that the country made notable progress along art lines. One of the pioneer establishments in winning for America the reputation which she is now enjoying in this field is that of the Wheatley Pottery Company, of Cincinnati, of which Isaac Kahn has been the junior partner since 1903. He is a man of artistic perceptions and ability, well qualified. to direct and pass judgment upon the work that is being done in every department in the field of ceramic art. He is yet a young man to whom the future holds out much promise of success. He was born in Cincinnati, August 16, 1882, a son of Herman and Hattie Kahn. His father was a native of Hohenzollern, Germany, born in 1843. The first ten years of his life were spent in the land of his nativity and in 1853 he came to Cincinnati. Eventually he entered upon the conduct of a retail grocery house, remaining in that business until 1880, when he retired. As a pupil in the public and high schools of this city Isaac Kahn continued his education until 1900. He has largely given his attention to artistic interests since that date and was a student of painting under Thomas Wheatley until 1903, when he was admitted to a partnership in the business conducted under the name of the Wheatley Pottery Company. This undertaking had its inception in 1879, when Mr. Wheatley built the first art pottery in this city. At that time his experience, skill and ability as a teacher assisted greatly to develop and foster an interest in ceramic art that has never since been lost, but has advanced and matured, becoming one of the country's highest and most enduring art studies. Among his pupils Mr. Wheatley had many of the wealthiest and most brilliant men and women in the country. From the outset his business grew and developed, demanding in time the erection and equipment of a large pottery down by the river. This, however, was carried away in the flood of 1884, at which time Mr. Wheatley left the city but after some years returned with renewed energy and broader knowledge of art, having devoted his attention to study in the meantime. A new Wheatley pottery was built high up on one of CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 907 Cincinnati's hills and from that time to the present not only in Cincinnati but throughout the United States his artistic perception and capacity to realize the highest ideals have been widely recognized and appreciated. In 1903 he admitted Isaac Kahn to a partnership and they have conducted the business along constantly advancing lines. Their art ware is found in the leading stores of the country and includes a complete stock of pedestals, jardiniers, fern and window boxes, vases, bowls, flower stands and receptacles of every size, shape and pattern, candle sticks and almost infinite variety of ornamental pieces of various sorts. In manufacturing they have specialized in the0lding of the shades known as old ivory and moss green. Their antique ivory pottery is fashioned and finished after the manner of production in the famous potteries of Florence and Rome and in it are reproduced many of the finest specimens of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. Of recent date the Wheatley Pottery Company has been giving much attention to the manufacture of tiles for fireplaces. They are strictly art patterns, equal in manufacture and finish and in large degree superior in color to those produced elsewhere. This branch of their business is growing steadily and is becoming a most important department of their establishment. On the 4th of April, 1906, Mr. Kahn was united in marriage in Cincinnati to Miss Gertrude Louise De Leon, and unto them has been born a son, Herman De Leon, who is now about three years old. Mr. Kahn does not hold himself hound by any party ties but casts an independent ballot. He belongs to the Cincinnati Art Club and concentrates his efforts and his energies upon his business and kindred interests. He has ever been a student of all that pertains to ceramics in past ages as well as in the present, and has introduced many progressive ideas in connection with the development of the business in which he is now actively interested. ROBERT P. GILLHAM. Robert P. Gillham is the secretary and general manager of the Campbell's Creek Coal Company, and in business and other relations is widely known. He was born in Cincinnati, January 9, 1854. His father, Alfred Gillham, a native of Kentucky, was born on a farm at Twelvemile, Campbell county, to which point his father, Robinson Gillham, was taken by his father who had previously been a resident of North Carolina and had a patent from the government for the land upon which he located. Robinson Gillham married a Miss Parker, who was Alfred Gillham's mother and whose father was a soldier of the Revolutionary war. Alfred Gillham, the father of Robert P. Gillham, served in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry during the Civil war as a member of Kilpatrick's Brigade and was with General Sherman on his famous march to the sea. While proceeding to the coast the rebels one morning charged the brigade of which Mr. Gillham was a member before rising time and scattered the entire company. While making his retreat on horseback he was hailed by an orderly asking help, who was a small man, while Mr. Gillham was a man of large stature. He reached down 908 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY and took him up with one hand and sat him on the horse in front of him, thus carrying both to a swamp, where they were compelled to dismount and go afoot. There they parted and never met afterward, but when Mr. Gillham reached the summit of a near-by knoll, he was confronted by three Confederate soldiers with their guns aimed at him, was made prisoner, taken to Richmond, Virginia, and later was there exchanged. His brother, William S., also served in the Civil war, continuing at the front to its close and is now residing upon a farm near Augusta, Kentucky. Alfred Gillham died in Cincinnati when about forty-five years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Thompson, was born near the Gillham homestead in Kentucky, and now makes her home with her son, Robert P. Gillham, at Westwood, while the only other child in the family, William F. Gillham, lives in Covington, Kentucky. She had a brother and a brother-in-law who served throughout the entire period of the war without serious injury. In the public schools of Cincinnati Robert P. Gillham pursued his education until he started in the business world at the age of thirteen years as errand boy in a tailoring establishment on Fourth street. At about the age of fifteen he entered the employ of G. W. C. Johnston, who was in the coal and brick business and who later served as mayor of the city. He manifested a friendly interest in the boy and presented him with a course in Gundry's Commercial College, which was then located at the northwest corner of Fifth and Walnut streets. This kindness on the part of Mr. Johnston equipped Mr. Gillham for larger responsibilities and activities of life. Moreover, his friend and benefactor soon after secured for him a position as bookkeeper with John Barrett, who was in the wholesale coal business and who later formed a partnership with John H. Moulton. After several years' service with these gentlemen, Mr. Gillham was recommended to and employed by the Campbell's Creek Coal Company, at which time S. F. Dana, now its president, was its superintendent and general manager. At that time Mr. Dana and Mr. Gillham were the only representatives of the company in the office in Cincinnati, as they did only a wholesale business, mining, freighting and handling coal by the barge load. Mr. Gillham acted both as bookkeeper and salesman. At that time, 1875, there were no railroads to bring coal from West Virginia, all being transported by water. Within a year the company had secured an elevator on the river bank at the foot of Smith street and had added the retail and delivery features to their business, which began to grow rapidly. Ere another three years had passed they had built a larger elevator at the foot of Baymiller street, having previously secured one in Newport, Kentucky, both of which they still operate. Their business has now assumed extensive proportions and includes the ownership of much valuable coal properties in West Virginia, while on their payroll appear seven hundred names. The main office of the company is in the Mercantile Library building of Cincinnati. Since first entering the employ of the Campbell's Creek Coal Company in July, 1875, Mr. Gillham has remained continuously with it,, covering a period of thirty-eight years. Some years since Mr. Dana, then president presented to Mr. Gillham, in appreciation of his long and faithful service, with his first stock in the company, which being a family concern, could not be bought and thus Mr. Gillham became one of the stockholders and a director, and for CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 909 a number of years past has served as its secretary and general manager, being familiar with every phase of the business. On the 16th of March, 1875, Mr. Gillham ws united in marriage to Miss Tillie Patzold, of Cincinnati, and unto them have been born three sons and two daughters : Grace Tillie, who died in infancy ; Clarence R., who is a bookkeeper in the office of the Campbell's Creek Coal Company ; Paul W., secretary and treasurer of the Burlingham Coal Company, of Cincinnati ; Otto Dana, a bookkeeper for the Campbell's Creek Coal Company ; and the youngest, Susie Margaret, who is at home. Mr. Gillham and his family attend the Methodist Episcopal church at Westwood, of which all the family are members. He belongs to the Masonic order and to the Business Men's Club. Politically he is a republican in national matters, but his local ballot is cast independent of party ties. He served for two years as a director and for two years was vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati. N. R. WALKER. N. R. Walker, long connected with insurance interests and well known as the organizer of the Home Fire Insurance Association, was born in Clermont county, Ohio, in 1837. His father, George Walker, a native of Pennsylvania, became a merchant, farmer and tanner of Clermont county, Ohio, where he settled in pioneer times. He married Charity Bratton, who was a native of Virginia and of Scotch parentage. His death occurred in Clermont county, when he was seventy-seven years of age, and his wife continued a resident of Ohio until called to her final rest, at the age of eighty-seven years. The public schools of his native county afforded N. R. Walker his educational privileges and at the age of twenty-one years he enlisted for service in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry as a private, connected with the department of quartermaster. He served for three years in defense of the Union and following his return from the south was engaged in the milling business for a short time. At length, however, he sold his interests in that connection and turned his attention to merchandising, which he followed for seven years. He has since been closely associated with the insurance business, with which he first became connected as an agent. After two years he went upon the road as general superintendent and adjuster, spending a quarter of a century in that way. During a part of the time, he was in charge of the office and field work in Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania. In 1902, however, he returned to Cincinnati to take up his permanent abode and has since remained here, confining his efforts to local interests. In 1909 he organized the Home Fire Insurance Association, which he established upon a substantial and paying basis. He remained as its president until a short time ago, when he sold out. In 1857, near Cincinnati, Mr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss Malissa J. Weeks, a daughter of William Weeks, a Methodist minister, who also followed merchandising in Clermont and Brown counties, Ohio. The three children of this marriage are : William E., an insurance man of Chicago ; Stanley C., president and treasurer of the Kratzer Carriage Company, of Des Moines, Iowa ; 910 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY and Cora, the wife of Dr. L. H. Leonard, of Mount Orab, Ohio. Mr. Walker has long voted with the republican party but has never been active in politics aside from exercising his right of franchise in support of the measures in which he believes. For a half century he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has filled every office in the local lodge. His connection with the membership of the Methodist church covers nearly sixty years and his religious belief has found tangible expression in his upright, honorable life, winning for him the confidence, good-will and high regard of all with whom he has come in contact. SAMUEL LYON MOYER. Gradual advancement since his entrance into business life has brought Samuel Lyon Moyer to his present conspicuous, notable and honorable position as vice president of The Lunkenheimer Company, manufacturers of iron and brass specialties. He was born in Cincinnati, August 17, 1874, a son of Joseph and Missouri (Lyon) Moyer, who were also natives of this city, the former born November 1, 1827, and the latter July 26, 1830. In the public schools the son pursued his education and was a youth of fourteen when he started to earn his own living, securing employment, in 1888, in the iron foundry of the James L. Haven Company. His success is undoubtedly attributable in part at least to the fact that he has always continued in the same line in which he embarked as a young tradesman. He thoroughly acquainted himself with the tasks entrusted to his care and thus proved his ability to advance. He was promoted from time to time and in 1890 he became connected with The Lunkenheimer Company. Twenty-two years' connection with this business has brought him to the position of first vice president and general manager. His equipment was good and he thus passed on to a position of administrative direction and executive control. He thoroughly acquainted himself with every phase of the business that came under his direction and care, and is thus able to control and plan the activities of those who today serve under him. This enterprise is now one of extensive proportions, being regarded as a leading industrial concern of the city—a position which is attributable in no small measure to the efforts and ability of Mr. Moyer. Aside from this he is well known in business circles as treasurer of the Commercial Tribune Newspaper Company. In Cincinnati, on the 28th of May, 1908, occurred the marriage of Mr. Moyer and Miss Ella Hewetson, a daughter of Thomas 'Willett Hewetson. Their religious faith is evidenced in their membership in the Episcopal church and Mr. Moyer is identified with a number of the prominent clubs and fraternities of the city. He is a past master of Vattier Lodge, No. 386, F. & M. and has taken various degrees in Masonry, becoming eventually a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks as a member of Lodge No. 5. He belongs to the Queen City Club, the Business Men's Club, the Cuvier Press Club, the Laughery Club, the Young Men's Blaine Club, the Cincinnati Gymnasium and Athletic Club, and of the last named is a member of the board of directors. His political allegiance has always been CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 911 given to the republican party and he served as a member of the city council from 1908 until 1911, inclusive. He takes a deep and abiding interest in political affairs and his position upon any vital or significant question is never an equivocal one. He stands firmly for what he believes to be for the best interests of the community at large along material, intellectual, social, political and moral lines. His life, purposeful and honorable, has won for him the high regard of all with whom he has come in contact and the warm friendship of many. HENRY ROEDTER. Dear above everything else to almost every individual is the land of his birth —the fatherland from which one and all would willingly and gladly assume the heaviest of burdens, yet a fatherland fettered in chains, steeped in the capricious autocracy of head-strong, narrow-minded sovereigns, such as German lands suffered under in the last half of the nineteenth century, embraces conditions which become unbearable, and to throw off such is the primeval impulse of freedom-yearning souls. Heavy is the yoke of oppression, yet no sacrifice is too great to be laid upon the altar of freedom in behalf of the fatherland. The attempt to gain for his beloved native country representation of its' people in the law-making bodies of the nation, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, in the '30s, was what brought to these shores such men as Henry Roedter. He became widely known as a journalist and lawyer of Cincinnati. Mr. Roedter was born on the loth of March, 1805, in Neustadt-on-the-Hardt, in the Rhenish Palatinate, where his father was the owner of a paper mill. Having mastered the grades in the common school and in the Latin school of his native town, he was early admonished to make himself useful in his father's plant. He became acquainted with the process of paper manufacture and learned to handle the machines, which were then innovations in the paper-making trade, but his restless spirit found no vent in the daily routine in the father's business. As he was among the most promising pupils in the Latin school and showed marked inclination for study, his father sent him in 1820 to the Gymnasium, where he remained for two years. The father then again tried to induce him to devote himself to the paper-making business. His exuberant spirit, however, rebelled at the daily grind and monotony, and the father decided to let him live out his restlessness and exuberant spirit in military life. Accordingly the son enlisted in a Bavarian cavalry regiment stationed at Augsburg. Punctual in service, easily learning the military requirements, he was advanced to the rank of corporal, sergeant and ensign, but still his spirit was not curbed. About this time his father died, and his mother needing him to take charge of the mill, he returned home in 1824 but he could not content himself in mer-cantile life, and still showing strong preference for study he entered the Real-Gymnasium at Speyer. After two years he was graduated there and matriculated in Munich University for the study of law. There he met Dr. J. G. A. Wirth, and between them sprang up a lasting friendship. He assisted the Doctor in proofreading and editing, and even contributed small articles to his paper. But early in 1832 Dr. Wirth removed the Tribune to Homburg in the Palatinate Vol. IV-45 912 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY and changed from a constitutionalist to a republican. Mr. Roedter, also carried away in the enthusiasm., left his school before passing the examination and followed Dr. Wirth to Homburg. While there Mr. Roedter became associated with the "freedom movement" as agitator and secretary of same of the committees and when warrants were out for the arrest of many of the agitators, among them Mr. Roedter, he fled to France and there reached the decision that he would leave the fatherland and seek a home in the new world. Accordingly, in 1832, he sailed for Baltimore, and shortly afterward arrived in Cincinnati, where he determined to establish his future home. He first worked as a typesetter on the English and German papers, among them Der Deutsche Patriot, which ceased to exist after the presidential election. He then received a call to Columbus, to Der Ohio Volksfreund, a weekly paper, from which he received a moderate stipend in recognition of his services until March, 1834. He then returned to Cincinnati and attempted to establish a weekly there. It is not known if a first issue of the paper appeared but a prospectus announcing the first number for May 27th is still extant. About that time Henry Roedter began studying law in this country under Adam N. Riddle, with whom he was associated in practice from 1838. In the meantime he was connected with newspaper and other interests. It was he who first brought to life the Deutsche Gesellschaft von Cincinnati, and was its first president in August, 1834. In his clever but quiet manner he guided the society and became a leader among the German pioneer residents here. At that time he also contributed articles to the paper called the Deutscher Franklin. It was of the Jackson democratic type and when it went over to the Harrison party there was great indignation in German circles. At that time, under Mr. Roedter's guidance, the new German democratic paper, the Cincinnati Volksblatt, came into existence. A stock company was formed of twenty-five stockholders with a capital of about six hundred dollars with which to buy type, material, press, paper and ink, and Henry Roedter became the first manager and editor. On the 7th of May, 1836, appeared the first issue of the paper. To help the new publication he refused any salary for the first six months. Then dissension arose among the stockholders as to his remuneration and as there was no profit accruing from the paper at that time, two-thirds of the stockholders agreed to let him publish the Volksblatt for two years on his own account and whatever profits should accrue should be his own. After that the newspaper should revert to the stockholders if no new business agreement could be reached. The paper, not withstanding many dissensions among the stockholders and others, became the organ of the democratic principle, as Mr. Roedter conceived it. His articles proved a guiding spirit for the party and were even translated into English and used in the Enquirer. Mr. Roedter became a power in the liberal wing of democracy and assisted largely in the election of Martin Van Buren as president. The articles were signed Grachus and over that nom de plume became famous. Mr. Roedter not only wrote largely concerning politics but in considerable measure established the German-American standard concerning education and wrote interesting and instructive essays concerning the love of truth and also under the title Know Thyself. Out of his articles soon developed the German-English school system which attempted to free education from political influence. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 913 In 1838 by a new contract Mr. Roedter took over the Volksblatt, controlling its destiny and its policy until 1840, when he sold out. Two years before he had become associated with Adam N. Riddle but remained more or less active in the field of journalism until 1840, when he entered upon campaign work as a speaker in behalf of democratic principles. By that time he had secured quite a substantial competence in law and in journalism and had won fame in each connection. In 184o he conducted suits before the supreme court and acted at Washington as correspondent for both the Volksblatt and the Enquirer. As his acquaintance widened and he felt that he was gaining support, he became. a candidate for the office of state librarian but while he succeeded in reducing. the strong whig majority, he was defeated by a few votes. In 1842 he was again for a short time news editor of the Volksblatt but soon resigned, terminating forever his connection with that paper. In the meantime Mr. Roedter had become known in military circles. In the spring of 1836, in Philadelphia, was organized the so called Washington Guard, and the military spirit also asserted itself in Cincinnati. It was Mr. Roedter, once the royal ensign of Augsburg, who was the promoter of the Lafayette Guard, which was formed in September, 1836, and is the oldest military company of the city. He was elected its first captain and so served for two years,' or until the autumn of 1838. In 1840 Mr. Roedter returned to the business in which his father had tried to interest him in his youth, becoming connected with a. paper mill at Columbus. Until 1843 he quietly passed his time in the pursuits Of business and professional life, acting as newspaper correspondent, practicing law and taking part in political activities. On the occasion of the Jackson celebration, however, in 1843, he was proposed for the office of justice of the peace and to the petition were signed two hundred and sixty-eight names. He was nominated by the democrats and again was defeated by the whigs but only by a few votes. Two years later, however, he was elected alderman of the newly organized ninth ward and was reelected in 1847, and while serving in the city council he was a member of the committee of the house. He was a man of great capability and liberal views, who possessed a statesman's grasp of public affairs and thoroughly informed himself concerning any questions of vital import which he discussed. In the spring of 1847 he was elected a member of the board of education and a trustee of the first district school. He resigned from the school board when he was elected to the general assembly in the autumn of 1847, and. while in the legislature he served on the committee on laws and on schools. He was a great advocate of working men's rights, was the father of the mechanics' lien law, proposed to stop the swindle of building speculators. In 1849 he was elected to the state senate, where he again did important work in the committee rooms as a member of the committees on laws, municipalities and education. He voted for Salmon P. Chase for United States senator and he incurred the enmity of democrats because of his views. He was the originator of the anti-slavery plank eventually introduced into the party platform and also the originator of the law for establishing the city infirmary. In fact he was closely associated with every progressive and beneficial legislation and left his impress deeply upon the history of the sessions in. which he represented his district in the house and senate. 914 - CINCINNATI - THE QUEEN CITY Thus far little has been said concerning Mr. Roedter's connection with the bar, yet he was one of the most popular German lawyers of Cincinnati and sprang almost immediately into prominence in this connection, winning a large practice. In 1849 he founded the firm of Roedter & Stallo, his associate being one who had studied under him. This connection was continued until 1853, when the junior partner was elected county judge of Hamilton county. In October, 1850, Mr. Roedter again returned to the field of journalism, acquiring the Ohio Staats Zeitung, which he rechristened the Demokratisches Tageblatt. His articles were ever of an instructive character because of the wide reading and study which he gave to the subject under discussion and at that time, as before, his paper was an influencing element among the German-American residents of Cincinnati. In 1855 he sold his paper, which was then being pub-lished under the firm name of Roedter & Vieth. In 1856 he was again elected justice of the peace, an office which he held until his death. He also continued in the practice of law and was the author of many papers and pamphlets on law. Mr. Roedter was likewise very active and prominent in many German organizations. Moreover, he became widely known as an orator and public speaker. He was chosen to deliver the address on the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Gutenberg, on the 24th of June, 1840, and he delivered orations at many Fourth of July celebrations. During the revolution in Germany in 1848 he planned various ways whereby money might be contributed to the revolutionary campaign funds. When Ludwig Kossuth came to America in 1851, Mr. Roedter was secretary of the Kossuth committee and in 1852 when Kossuth visited Cincinnati, Mr. Roedter was toastmaster at the banquet held in his honor. In 1843 Henry Roedter was married to Miss Therese Lempert, who was born in Stollhofen, near Baden-Baden, Germany, October 15, 1821, and died in Cincinnati, December 13, 1902. She was a lady of superior education and a most devoted mother, who gave to her children excellent training and every ad-vantage that lay in her power. There were four daughters and two sons in the family : Anna, the wife of William Hanna ; Mrs. Laura I. Senkstatt, now deceased; John A., who has also passed away ; Bertha ; Henry Arman, who is engaged in the real-estate, business ; and Emma L. Politically Mr. Roedter was a strong adherent of Jefferson. He had himself much of the decisiveness that characterized the democratic leader. The federal republic seemed to him. the most perfect governmental system. He was no destroyer of law and order but sought advancement and progress through those means. He was a splendid type of the German race and yet was truly American in his devotion to his adopted country. He was a deep student of German science and literature and was deeply interested in all that pertains to the progress of his native country. He exerted a very strong beneficial influence in the German life of Cincinnati. His unselfishness was proverbial and he worked untiringly for the uplift of humanity, never thinking to personally enrich himself. He was a man of medium height, his face bearing the stamp of strong intellect. His 'expression was one of dignity and seriousness, his eyes were light, and his high forehead indicated the mind of a deep thinker, while his mouth bespoke energy and resolution, yet was not indicative of harshness. He possessed a lively temperament, was quick to act, yet deliberate in forming his opinions. It was his desire to perceive everything good and beautiful. His law partner, Mr. Stallo, CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 915 spoke of him as aa most able advocate. He might have been a statesman like Schurz, but was too restless. He possessed noble traits and high ideals. He scorned all those methods of journalism which would place the paper in the ranks of the scandal monger. He was regarded as the most able of all Cincinnati's German newspaper men, and William Weber, in his review of the German press of the United States in 1837, speaks of Mr. Roedter as the "leader of the people whose flag they may follow confidently." He died in Cincinnati, July 20, 1857, and was interred with military honors in the German Protestant cemetery at Walnut Hills, Lafayette Guard, of which he was one time captain, acting as guard of honor. He stood preeminently among the best citizens that Germany has furnished to the, United States. E. O. DANA. E. O. Dana is known in the business world as vice president of Campbell's Creek Coal Company, and while he had the advantage of entering upon a business already established, he made his work and worth the basis of his advancement. In military circles, too, he has been well known and was one of those who enlisted for service in the Spanish-America war. He was born in Vanhornesvi1le, New York, February 22, 1864, and in both. the paternal and maternal lines comes of ancestry that was represented in the Revolutionary war. His father, Steven Frink Dana, was a native of New York, and in that state followed the milling business. In 1865 he removed to West Virginia, and in company with others organized the Campbell's Creek Coal Company. He first went to that state on a prospecting trip and such were the advantages and opportunities that he remained there. Through his efforts as prospector, the company was successful in locating and developing good mines in Kanawha county, where they have operated continuously since. The annual output is now three hundred and fifty thousand tons, which is shipped by both river and rail, the greater part being distributed from Cincinnati. The company owns four steamboats, one hundred and fifty barges and a railroad fourteen miles in length, with an equipment of sixty-five cars and three locomotives. They carry passenger cars on each train and handle over five thousand passengers every month. By the interstate commerce commission this line is classed as an interstate road. Something of the volume of business developed by the company is indicated in the fact that they today employ over seven hundred people, having their main business and distributing office the Mercantile Library building in Cincinnati. E. O. Dana was very young when his parents removed to Kanawha county, West Virginia, and there in the public schools he pursued his education to the age of fourteen years, when the family home was established in Cincinnati. At the age of eighteen he entered the employ of the Campbell's Creek Coal Company in a. clerical capacity in the office. His was one of the most humble positions with the house but it was his desire to familiarize himself with all branches of the business and gradually he worked his way upward in the bookkeeping and clerical department, to which he has always held. Gradually his promotion brought him to the position of vice president and he has remained the second 916 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY executive officer of the company for a number of years. In this connection he is familiar with every phase of the management and from this point largely controls and promotes the plans, which, converted into action, constitute the moving force of the business. Mr. Dana is a stanch advocate of republican principles where political issues are involved but is strictly non-partisan in local affairs where only the capability of the candidate for the discharge of the business of city or county should be considered. He has long figured in military circles in Cincinnati, in which connection he is widely and popularly known. In 1880 he entered the Lytle Grays, which was a very popular company some years ago and has since been merged into Company B of the First Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. He served continuously for sixteen years and was occasionally called forth to active duty, for his command was one of the leading companies that settled the courthouse riots of 1884, at which time he was serving as second lieutenant. That riot will long be remembered, for the captain of the company was killed and the first sergeant and others were badly wounded. On many other important missions the company was called out While Mr. Dana was still connected therewith. He served in all branches of the service, in the infantry, cavalry and artillery, a large part of the time being spent with the last named. He enlisted as a private but when he resigned in 1896 had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was for a number of years captain of what was known as the Cincinnati Troop, an organization formed principally for the purpose of perfecting the members in horsemanship. In 1898, following the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, Mr. Dana joined the Tenth Ohio Infantry, of which he was lieutenant colonel, and served for nine months. Since that time. he has confined his attention almost exclusively to his business. He is, however, a member of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American war, and belongs also to the Business Men's Club, the Chamber of Commerce and to the Hamilton County Golf Club. In Dayton, Ohio, on the 8th of February, 1888, Mr. Dana was united in marriage to Miss Annie Laury, a daughter of Colonel Fielding Laury, a veteran of the Civil war, who was at one time postmaster of Dayton. Her father was a direct descendant of Major Ziegler, the first mayor of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Dana are prominent socially in the city, where the greater part of his. life has been passed and where he has arisen to a position of prominence in business circles solely through his own efforts and merit. He is today one of the fore-most men operating in the coal trade and throughout his entire business career has manifested keen discernment and the faculty of separation of the important features of any subject from its incidental or accidental circumstance. GLENDINNING B. GROESBECK. Under the firm name of Groesbeck & Linch, Glendinning B. Groesbeck has for several years engaged in the practice of law in Cincinnati, and although a young man has won a creditable position at the bar of this city, having proven his worth and capability in the presentation of his cases before court or jury. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 917 He was born December 18, 1881, in CinTelford, Ohio, a son of TelfoPd Groesbeck and a grandson of William S. Groesbeck. The last named was born in Rensselaer county, New York, July 24, 1816, and was a son of John H. and Mary (Slocum) Groesbeck, who were among the early settlers of Cincinnati. William S. Groesbeck pursued his education in Augusta College, of Kentucky, and in the Miami University, of Ohio. He was a man of national prominence in politics and as a representative of the bar. He served as a member of the sinking fund commission of Cincinnati in 1851 and the following year was elected to represent his district in the state constitutional convention and made a member of committee to codify the laws of Ohio. In 1857 he was a representative to the thirty-fifth congress and in 1861 was a member of the peace congress. The following year he served as a member of the state senate of Ohio and in 1864 was a delegate to the national convention at Philadelphia. He was considered for the presidency at the national convention at Baltimore, July 9, 1872, and. was a member of the monetary commission in 1875. He served as one of the three United States members of the international monetary conference in Paris in 1878, and thus he was again and again called to positions of public prominence and importance, leaving the impress of his individuality upon important political features in the history of the country. He served as one of the council representing Andrew Johnson in the impeachment trial and was a distinguished lawyer who for many years was regarded as one of the most prominent representatives of the Cincinnati bar. He was a public-spirited citizen and in 1872 gave fifty thousand dollars as a fund for providing music in Burnet Woods William S. Groesbeck married Elizabeth Burnet, a daughter of Jacob Burnet, who was born in New Jersey, in 1770, and was a son of Dr. William Burnet, who died in 1791. Dr. Burnet was elected to congress under the confederation in 1776 and served as surgeon general under Washington. Jacob Burnet was a graduate of Princeton University of the class ofto791, and was admitted tc the New Jersey bar in 1796. He came to Cincinnati in 1797, at which time the population was one hundred and fifty. He was appointed a member of the legislative council of the Northwestern Territory by President John Adams and thus aided in formulating the policy of this section in its pioneer period. He retired from practice in 1817 but was afterward judge of the Ohio supremmember. He served as a meniber of the United States senate in 1828 and in 1847 he published Notes on the Northwestern Territory, thus saving to history many events which were notable factors in the early development of Ohio. His death occurred in the year 1853. The parents of G. B. Groesbeck were Telford and Louise Buickley (Cox) Groesbeck. The father is a graduate of Princeton College and of the Harvard Law School, and is well known as an attorney at law and author. He was one of the attorneys for Governor Thomas Campbell in the proceedings brought to disbar him and was judge advocate general of Ohio. He is now retired from active practice but continues to make his home in Cincinnati. His wife was born on Long Island and was a daughter of the Rev. Samuel Cox, a distinguished minister, who was dean of the Garden City Long Island cathedral for many years. 918 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Thus in both the paternal and maternal lines Galendinning B. Groesbeck comes of an ancestry honorable and distinguished and he is fortunate in that his life has been cast in harmony therewith. His. early education was acquired in. the public and private schools of Cincinnati. He attended for a time the high school and also the Franklin Preparatory School before entering Princeton College. which was the alma mater of several of his ancestors. His professional training was received in the Cincinnati Law School and immediately following. his graduation and his admission to the bar he entered upon active prac-tice. For a year and a half he was associated with the firm of Jones & James, after which he practiced alone for the succeeding year. He. then formed a law partnership with Harry L. Linch, of Cincinnati, under the firm name of Groesbeck & Linch, and their practice has been one of growing importance. On the 4th of January, 1904, in Cincinnati, Mr. Groesbeck was united in marriage to Miss Grace E. Seely, a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Seely, the former a, Yale man. Mr. Groesbeck is an independent democrat in his national political policies but locally is independent, for he believes in the separation of national and municipal politics' and that at local elections only the integrity of the community should be considered. He belongs to the Phi Delta Phi, a fraternity of the Cincinnati Law School and is connected with a number of social organizations, including the Cincinnati Gymnasium arid Athletic Club, the University Club, the Cincinnati Country Club, the Cincinnati Casting Club, the City Club and the Tay Payers Association. Some of these are broader in their interests and purposes than indicated in the term a social club and Mr. Groesbeck is in hearty sympathy with the various objects to he attained. He is, moreover, a man of charitable spirit and is now serving as treasurer of the board of trustees of the Fresh Air and Convalescent Aid Society of Cincinnati. He has. been a close student of the political, sociological and economic questions of the day as well as of his profession and along those lines keeps in touch with the best thinking men of the age. FREDERICK FISCHER. Frederick Fischer, a Harvard man, long connected with the leather trade at Cincinnati, was born in this city, February 1, 1858, his parents being Frederick and Caroline (Hanny) Fischer, both of whom were natives of Germany. They came to Cincinnati in early life and were married here. They made their home in the west end and their son Frederick was their only child. The father conducted a restaurant on Vine street in early days and later removed to the vicinity of the courthouse. About 1865 he purchased a place in Westwood of forty-six acres, where his widow continued to reside until April, 1911, occupying a beautiful. home, which she had erected in 1896. He made extensive improvements there, and opened a summer hotel, which was patronized by the best Jewish people of the city. He conducted the business successfully for fifteen years or until the time of his death, which occurred March 5, 1880. Frederick Fischer, whose name introduces this review, was afforded excellent educational opportunities. After graduating from the Cincinnati schools he CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 919 went east and entered Harvard College, where he also completed a course. He then returned to Cincinnati and became connected with Strauss, Pritz Company wholesale liquor dealers, with whom he remained until he embarked in the leather business on his own account, in connection with Charles Trautman, on Main street. He was thereafter identified with the leather trade until about two years prior to his death and in that connection built up a substantial business, which indicated the worth of his methods and the straightforward policy which he pursued. He became well known to the leather trade and was recognized as a representative business man in the city. Mr Fischer was united in marriage to Miss Emma M. Wanner, a daughter of Herman A. and Carolina (Weber) Wanner, both of whom were natives of Germany and came to Cincinnati in early life, their marriage being celebrated in this city. Mr. Wanner was a tanner by trade and was well known and highly respected among the old German residents here. Both he and Mr. Fischer's father were members of the German Pioneer Society. The death of Mr. Wan-ner occurred December 23, 1879, and his wife passed away in 1906, the remains of both being interred in Spring Grove cemetery. They were the parents of three children : Julius, now a resident of Louisville, Kentucky ; Mrs. Eliza. Gukenberger, of Cincinnati ; and Emma M., who became the wife of Frederick Fischer on the 19th of June, 1884. Unto this marriage were born two children : Carl H. F., who is president of the Fischer Auto & Service Company ; and Arthur G., who is vice president and general manager of the Fischer Auto and Service Company of Cincinnati. Both sons are graduates of the Michigan University at Ann Arbor and the elder has married Josephine Miller of New York. The death of Mr. Fischer occurred October 6, 1891, and his grave was made in Spring Grove cemetery. He belonged to the Business Men's Club and co-operated in its various movements toward the improvement and advancement of trade relations here. He was an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity and. also held membership in the Presbyterian church of Westwood. Those who knew him entertained for him the warm regard which is uniformly given in recognition of honorable, straightforward manhood. His life was actuated by high principles and his example constituted an influencing force for good in the community in which he lived. He was devoted to the welfare of his family, was honorable and straightforward in business, and loyal in his friendships. ANTHONY G. BRUNSMAN. Anthony G. Brunsman, founder of the Anchor Buggy Company, was not only prominent in Cincinnati manufacturing circles, but was favorably known throughout the country as one of the great carriage manufacturers of the United States. Born in Cincinnati in 1866, his was one of those remarkable business careers which found its inception in a modest way in thrift, and developed by legitimate growth into a. career of great success. The growth and expansion of the carriage business necessitated the organization of the Lion Buggy Company, and 920 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY Mr. Brunsman was at the head of both of these concerns at the time of his death, which occurred in March, 1911. His career was not confined entirely to his business, and he was prominently identified with all enterprises of a public nature in his home city. At one time Mr. Brunsman was president of the Carriage Builders' National Association. He was a member of the Business Men's Club, the Carriage Manufacturers' Club, the Queen City Club, and one of the founders and governors of the Hamilton County Golf Club. In 1904 he married Caroline Banning, daughter of the late Colonel J. M. Banning, who served in the Federal army during the Civil war. C. H. M. ATKINS. C. H. M. Atkins, manufacturer, banker, prominent citizen, president of The Warner Elevator Company, and actively identified with numerous business and financial interests of Cincinnati is a native of this city. His father, Richard L. Atkins, was also born here and was for many years engaged in the piano business at 144 West Fourth street, under the firm name of R. L. Atkins & Company, in which connection he was regarded as one of the city's substantial business men. He retired sometime ago, but is still residing here and is now seventy-six years of age. His father, John Atkins, a native of England, was the founder of the family in America and was one of the pioneer residents of Cincinnati. Richard L. Atkins, wedded Anna S. Warner, who was born in Cincinnati and is now in her seventy-fifth year. Her father, Warren Warner, was born in Ohio and lived in this city from his boyhood. He became a partner in the firm of Miles Greenwood & Company, well known in connection with the manufacture of architectural iron work and the building of bridges, jails, bank vaults, and other structures, and during the war constructed boats and cannon for the government. The plant, the largest in the west in its day, was located on the site of the present Ohio Mechanics Institute. In this plant about the year 1858, Warren Warner built the first hydraulic elevator, built in America, Cincinnati thus becoming the pioneer of the hydraulic elevator manufacturing industry. C. H. M. Atkins was educated in the Cincinnati public schools and the Baldwin private school. Immediately after leaving school he became associated with his grandfather, Warren Warner, in business. The Warner Elevator Company was organized in 186o and in 1887 was incorporated with Warren Warner, president and C. H. M. Atkins, secretary and treasurer. Upon the death of Mr. Warner, in 1891, Mr. Atkins became president and has ever since remained the executive head of the enterprise, one of the most important of its kind, ranking third in the output of electric elevators in the United States. The plant with its acres of floor space is equipped with the most modern machinery and the construction departments give employment to a large force of expert workmen. The trade extends to practically every civilized country and under the able management of Mr. Atkins, the business has developed along gratifying and substantial lines. CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 921 Mr. Atkins is interested as officer, stockholder or director in various other financial and manufacturing enterprises. He is president of the First National Bank of Norwood, president of the Acme Machine Tool Company, president of the Cincinnati Planer Company and director of the Brighton German Bank and the Fifth-Third National Bank of Cincinnati. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, being a member of the blue lodge, chapter and commandery. He is a member of the Business Men's Club of which he has served as president, a member of the Queen City, the Hamilton County Golf and the Cincinnati Automobile Clubs. He is also identified with the Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers' Club. Politically he has been a life-long republican where national questions are involved, but locally gives independent support to the men he deems best qualified for the office sought. In Cincinnati on the second of March, 1897, Mr. Atkins married Lilla W., daughter of Captain John S. Jones of Maysville, Kentucky. Captain Jones was one of the pioneer steamboat men and prominent citizens of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Atkins are the parents of one son, Warner Lewis, who is attending the Franklin preparatory school. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. The family residence is at 4008 Rose Hill avenue, Rose Hill Park. No man in the business circles of the city is more freely accorded the honor and respect of his associates and contemporaries. This is not due alone to the success he has achieved, but rather to the straightforward business policy which he has ever pursued. It is true that he had the benefit of entering upon a business already established but since becoming a factor in its management he has contributed to its growth in promoting its activities and in formulating-plans for progress and improvement. Success therefore has come. to him as the outcome of clear judgment, experience and indefatigable enterprise, while his labors have been of a character that have promoted public as well as personal prosperity. JUDGE HARRY MAX HOFFHEIMER. Judge Harry Max Hoffheimer has for eight years been one of the judges of the superior court of Ohio, with three more years to serve, and has proved himself the peer of the ablest members who have sat upon the bench in that court. The specific and distinctive office of biography is not to give voice to a man's modest estimate of himself and his accomplishments, but rather to leave the perpetual record establishing his character by the concensus of opinion on the part of his fellowmen. Throughout Ohio Judge Hoffheimer is spoken of in terms of admiration and respect. His second election to the superior court indicates his high professional standing, while in various other fields of activity it is manifest that his life has been honorable in its purposes and far-reaching and beneficial in its effects. Judge Hoffheimer is a native of Cincinnati and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Hoffheimer, his father a member of the old and well known firm of Hoffheimer 922 - CINCINNATI--THE QUEEN CITY Brothers. He occupied a very high position among merchants of this city and was equally well known through his affiliation with and generous support of many charitable organizations. He was born in Fellheim, Bavaria, Germany, and after acquiring his education in the fatherland, migrated to America. He died in 'this city in 1888 at the age of sixty-six years, while his wife, who was born in Landau, Bavaria, is still living, in her eighty-first year. In the Cincinnati public schools Judge Hoffheimer began his education, which was continued in the Hughes high school, from which he was graduated in 1886. He pursued a special course at Harvard in 1887 and qualified for the practice of law in Cincinnati College of Law, of which he is a graduate of the class of 1889. In the meantime he studied with the firm of Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith & Hoadly, prominent attorneys of Cincinnati, but left there on graduating from the law school to associate himself with Adolph L. Brown in practice, under the firm style of Brown & Hoffheimer. He withdrew from that association in order to accept a position as assistant corporation counsel, under the Hon. Theodore Horstman, with whom he continued until Mr. Horstman retired from office. In the fall of 1899 he was one of two republicans elected to the seventy-fourth general assembly, Hon. Nicholas Longworth being the other, while the Hon. Carl Nippert was elected to the state senate. The other candidates on the ticket were practically overwhelmed by the. fusion ticket. Judge Hoffheimer proved an active working member of the body but after the session was over and before the expiration of his term, resigned as a member of the house of representatives to accept the nomination for county prosecuting attorney. He has always regarded the practice of law as his real life work and is especially interested in the science of the profession. The election proved that he was a popular choice for prosecuting attorney and on the expiration of his first term he was renominated and reelected. Shortly after entering upon his second term, Governor Myron T. Herrick nominated him to fill the vacancy upon the superior court bench caused by the retirement of the Hon. Rufus B. Smith. He assumed the duties of the office on the 4th of May, 1904, and in the succeeding fall was nominated by his party for the full term of five years. He continued in the position until its close and was then again nominated for the term of six years and is now serving under that election. Twice elected to the position, so that his incumbency in office will cover more than fourteen Years—what greater indication of ability on his part could be desired? As a lawyer he is sound, clear minded and well trained. He is recognized as a man of well balanced intellect, thoroughly familiar with the law and practice, of comprehensive general information and possessed of an analytical mind and a self-control that enables him to lose his individuality, his personal feelings, his prejudices and his peculiarities of disposition in the dignity, impartiality and equity of the office to which life, property, right and liberty must look for protection. Through his possession of these qualities he justly merits the high honor which has been conferred upon him in his elevation to the bench. On the 24th of June, 1992, Judge Hoffheimer was married to Miss Stella Feiss, a daughter of Leopold Feiss, deceased—, formerly of the well known cigar manufacturing firm of Krohn,. Feiss & Company. Mrs. Hoffheimer is one of three sisters, the others being Mrs. Robert Kuhn and Mrs. Harry M. Levy. Judge and Mrs. Hoffheimer have two daughters, Jean Sarah and Laura Louise, CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 923 aged respectively nine and six years. The family are members of the Rockdale Avenue temple and for a number of years Judge Hoffheimer acted as one of its trustees, while his father was for many years an officer of the temple, serving as such up to the time of his death. Judge Hoffheimer is interested in the various departments of church work and is a member of the board of gov-ernors of the Hebrew Union College. He was also for two years president of the Hughes Alumni Association. He is affiliated with Highland Lodge, K. P., of which he is a past chancellor and he is a past president of Cincinnati Lodge, I. O. O. F. In Masonry his membership is with Avon Lodge and with the Scottish Rite. He belongs to the Queen City Club, the University Club, the Losantiville Golf Club, the Phi Delta Phi and a number of other social organizations. His interests are broad and varied and he is one who has wielded a wide influence. MILLARD F. ROEBLING. Millard F. Roebling is a member of the law firm of Roebling & Roebling, consisting of himself and Alexander Roebling, well known practicing attorneys in this city. The firm is also well known in connection with real-estate operations in Cincinnati, in the development and improvement of subdivisions which have added greatly to the residence area of the city and enabled many, through the monthly payment plan to become owners of homes. In the industrial as well as the professional line, therefore, the firm of Roebling & Roebling is doing an important work. Millard F. Roebling was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, his parents being Henry C. P. and Theodosia (Brooks) Roebling. The family comes of German, French and English ancestry and was first established on American soil in Pennsylvania: The father, who is now a retired wholesale dry-goods merchant of New York city and Cincinnati, was a volunteer in the Sixth Ohio Regiment during the Civil war and at its close was honorably mustered out with the rank of captain. In December, 1906, he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who was laid to rest in Spring Grove cemetery. The primary education of Millard F. Roebling was pursued in the public schools of Cincinnati, wherein he pursued his studies until graduated from the Hughes high school with the class of 1895. Some years afterward he entered the Cincinnati Law School and upon his graduation, in 1899, received the LL. B. degree. In the meantime, however, he had entered business circles for as soon as his high-school course was finished he became bookkeeper for Charles Meis & Company, of this city, wholesale jobbers, with whom he continued until 1897. The succeeding two years were devoted to preparation for the bar and he has since engaged in a general law practice. At the present writing he is serving for the second term as justice of the peace, this being the seventh year of his incumbency the office. His decisions .arare rendered with an assurance and im-partiality that leave no room for question and in his work in the courts he has also given indication of his familiarity with the basic prnciples of the law. In business, too, his capability and enterprise are shown. He is now senior mem- 924 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY ber of The Roebling Brothers' Building Company and is conducting an extensive building and real-estate business, the firm developing principally their own property. Their subdivision, comprising one hundred and fifty acres, is being controlled by The Roebling Realty Company, of which Millard F. Roebling is the president. In this district they are erecting attractive modern homes of reasonable price, including California bungalows, cottages and Duplex houses. They sell at reasonable terms on monthly payments and thus many have been enabled to secure homes which otherwise they could not have obtained if the purchase had to be made in a single payment. In addition to his other interests Mr. Roebling is a director of the Cincinnati. Lathe & Tool Company and of several other manufacturing concerns. His business judgment is sound, his insight keen, and whatever he undertakes has its root in marked business ability and an enterprising spirit. Politically Mr. Roebling is well known as a republican and while not a politician in the usual sense of office seeking, he seeks the welfare and upbuilding of the community through the adoption of party principles. He has served as a director of the board of education and as solicitor of Delhi township. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, has also attained the Knight Templar degree in the York Rite and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Roebling resides at the corner of Trenton and Foley avenues, in the Roebling subdivision, Cin-cinnati, and he belongs to that class of valuable citizens who promote public progress in advancing individual prosperity. MRS. BERTHA LUND GLAESER, M. D. A noted lecturer has said : "If you want to study heroism, read the lives of women." It is a well known fact that history abounds with examples of the courage and determination of women who amid quieter scenes than the field of battle display as commendable qualities as do the husbands and brothers who face shot and shell upon the battlefield. Of a quiet manner yet forceful nature, Mrs. Bertha Lund Glaeser has accomplished a work whereby her name is engraven high on the roll of Cincinnati's able physicians and surgeons. In telling the story she would simply say that she had merely done her duty day by day, yet a woman of less resolute spirit and of more insignificant ideals would never have attempted what she has accomplished. She was born in Cincinnati, September 28, 1862, a daughter of Charles A. Lund, a native of Stockholm, Sweden. He acquired his education in the University of Lund, in the county of Lund, Sweden, and devoted his life to the artist's profession. He married Anna Orfgen, a native of Alsace-Lorraine, whose father was a Russian officer, while her mother was of French birth. Dr. Glaeser was the second in a family of six children. Her mother died when she was a very small child and after her father's second marriage her home life became unpleasant and she was thus early thrown upon her own resources, starting out to make her way in the world when but a young girl. The public schools of Cincinnati afforded her the educational privileges which served as a foundation upon which to upbuild the superstructure of professional knowl- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 927 edge in later life. At the age of sixteen she became the wife of Andrew Glaeser and when twenty-one years of age she was left a widow with three young stepchildren. Her own child died in early life. Her stepchildren, however, never realized the loss of their mother, for Dr. Glaeser reared and educated them, giving them not only a mother's care but every advantage which she could secure for them. These are : Edward Glaeser, who is now with the Mosler Safe Company ; Nellie, the wife of Charles Sindlinger, of Cincinnati ; and August, who is living in New York city. While caring for the helpless children who were left to her tender mercies Mrs. Glaeser took up the study of medicine under Dr. Joseph Roberts Clauser. She was interested in the work to the extent of continuing her studies in the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia, where she remained through three terms and for a year and a half was connected with its clinic. Later she spent one year as a student in the Cincinnati School of Medicine and Surgery in the "woman's section." There she lectured on diseases of children and also had charge of the clinic. The department was later organized into the Woman's Medical College of Cincinnati and is now known as the Laura Memorial Medical College. In her practice Dr. Glaeser has made steady and notable progress. Her success seems to have had its foundation in native ability, a deep interest in the scientific phase of the profession and a keen human sympathy that has been manifest in helpful spirit. She has been accorded a large private practice, making a specialty of the diseases of women and children, and in addition she was for many years medical examiner for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and also the Masonic Widows and Orphans Relief of Toledo, Ohio. In 1895 she went abroad and studied in the most noted schools of Vienna, Berlin, Dresden and London. Upon her return to America she resumed her practice in Cincinnati, devoting her attention exclusively to diseases of women and children, in which branch of the profession she has been particularly successful, her work commanding the admiration and praise of her brothers of the medical fraternity. She has been a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine since 1892 and belongs also to the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Aside from professional connections Dr. Glaeser is a member of Golden Rod Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, of which she has been a past worthy matron. She also belongs to the Mistletoe Lodge of the Rebekahs and has held its highest office. Her husband was a Mason and a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Workmen lodges and other societies to the number of seventeen. Dr. Glaeser belongs to St. Paul's cathedral and her views upon religious matters are liberal, showing nothing narrow nor closely sectarian. She is not an advocate of woman suffrage, believing that she has always had her rights without recourse to the ballot. She is proud of the fact that she is a Cincinnati product and has won her success in this city. Her noble character and her benevolent spirit have been manifest in her goodness to the poor, to whom she has never refused to extend professional aid. She combines with philanthropy a most tactful spirit and her life indicates the truth of the definition that tact is kindness intelligently directed. To true womanly qualities and culture she has added strong determination and persistence, as manifest in her professional career, wherein she has overcome almost insur- 928 - CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY mountable obstacles, not only winning for herself splendid success but also caring for the little children who were dependent upon her. She is a woman of splendid presence and engaging manner and shows no evidence of the strenuous life she has lived, when driving all over the city and suburbs, night or day, to care for a very large practice. FRANCIS BACON JAMES. Francis Bacon James, a member of the Cincinnati and Washington, D. C., bars, now practicing in the firm of Littleford, James, Ballard, Frost & Foster, was born in this city June 10, 1864, his parents being Francis Bacon and Elizabeth (Faris) James. He divides his time between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D. C., maintaining a residence at both places. His professional training was received in the Cincinnati Law School which in 1886 conferred upon him the LL. B. degree. The same year he was admitted to the bar and has since engaged in practice, his constantly developing powers bringing him recognition as one of the leading lawyers of the United States. From 1889 to 1903 he was a member of the union board of high schools and its president 1902-1903. He has also done excellent work in the field of authorship and of legal education. He is now instructor of interstate commerce law in the law department of the University of Cincinnati, which position he has occupied since 1891, and formerly was dean of the faculty of the Cincinnati College of Finance, Commerce and Accounts. That he occupies a distinguished position in professional circles is indicated by the fact that he is a member of the general council of the American Bar Association and chairman of its committee on commercial law. He is also a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and at one time was honored with the presidency of Ohio state board on uniform state laws. For eight years he was commissioner of uniform state laws in the national conference and for seven years of this time chairman of the committee on commercial law, and in 1904 was a delegate to the universal congress of lawyers and jurists at St. Louis and in 1910-11 was counsel for shippers in advance of rate cases and of cases of interstate commerce of which class of work he is making a specialty. His contributions to the literature of his profession are of recognized merit and ability. He is the author of the Ohio Law of Opinion Evidence, pub-lished in 1889; Collection of Cases on the Construction of Statutes, in 1897 ; and numerous legal and commercial addresses, some of which were published, in 1907, under the title Advertising- and Other Addresses. His reading and investigation have covered a broad field, bringing him comprehensive knowledge of many subjects bearing upon business conditions and the general interests of society as well as in the more direct path of his profession. Mr. James was united in marriage, in 1903, to Miss Miriam Gilman Loud, of Baltimore, Maryland. He belongs to a number of leading clubs, including the Queen City, the Country, Golf and Business Men's Clubs, of Cincinnati, and the Columbus Club of Columbus, Ohio. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party until 1896, when his study of the chief issues of the day and the attitude of the two parties concerning them led him to change his allegi- CINCINNATI—THE QUEEN CITY - 929 ance to the republican party. He has ever been a close student of the science of government and as well has been an attentive observer of men and their motives. His views of life have been formed in what may be termed the post-graduate school of experience, and his opinions at all times awaken definite consideration and regard. In his profession he is constantly inspired by an innate love of justice and a delicate sense of personal honor. His fidelity to the interests of his clients is proverbial, yet he never forgets that he owes a higher allegiance to the majesty of the law. His diligence and energy in the preparation of his cases, was well as the earnestness, tenacity and courage with which he defends the right, as he understands it, challenges the highest admiration of his associates.