(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 150 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE ents to Covington, Kentucky, when but ten years of age, Charles C. Boyd received his elementary education in the public schools of that city, afterwards attending Chickering Institute of Cincinnati. After graduation he entered the employ of his father in the lumber business in this city, and in 1887 the firm was reorganized under the name of C. C. Boyd and Company. The firm dealt in hardwood lumber and veneers which found a market in many cities throughout the country. A manufacturing plant was maintained at North Bend, Ohio, with offices in Cincinnati. Mr. Boyd was a member of the Christian Church of Covington and devoted his life to its interests. He was distinctly a home-loving man and found his chief pleasure in his home surrounded by members of his family. Charles Calvert Boyd was married, in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 30, 1895, to Genevieve Kinsey, a daughter of Joseph and Ann Frances (Ammidown) Kinsey, well known residents of that city, whose lives will be reviewed further on in this volume. To Charles C. and Genevieve (Kinsey) Boyd, one son, Calvert Ammidown Boyd, was born in Covington, Kentucky, on March 9, 1902. Mr. Boyd died at his home in Covington on November 5, 1906. He is survived by his widow and son, who are residents of Cincinnati. CHARLES WESLEY COLE, A. M. The name of Charles Wesley Cole, whose death occurred in the year 1907, will long be remembered and respected throughout Cincinnati and its environs for the life of high integrity which he led undeviatingly. He was an influential and foremost member of the Queen City's great legal fraternity; a man widely respected for the strict code of professional ethics which he rigidly adhered to, a code whose chief ramifications included those prerequisites to success, no matter what the field of endeavor, of ability, efficiency, industry, perseverance, probity, almost indefatigable energy, and absolute, unquestioned honesty of thought, purpose and deed. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 151 Charles Wesley Cole was born in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, on April 28, 1843, the youngest of the seven children of Samuel Paul and Mary (Eastlack) Cole. On both the paternal and maternal sides of his family Mr. Cole was lineally descended from Revolutionary War ancestors, and he always took a pardonable pride in his membership in the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Charles Wesley Cole was educated in the district schools of his birthplace and under private tutors, following which, at the age of nineteen years, in 1862, he enlisted in the Union Army for service in the Civil War, and was stationed at Washington, District of Columbia, for one year. He returned to his home in the following fall and matriculated at the Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1867, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At a later date he received the degree of Master of Arts from the same time-honored institution, and subsequently was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of the University, in which capacity he gave able service for five years. Mr. Cole embarked upon his career two years after graduation by becoming superintendent of public schools of the city of Greenfield, Ohio. In 1869 he was admitted to the Bar of the State of Ohio, following which he resigned his position as superintendent of schools and removed to Cincinnati where he was destined to be prominently identified until his death. During the first year of his practice he was in partnership with the late Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker, who later became Governor of the State of Ohio and United States Senator, and who was also his fellow student and a warm personal friend. Mr. Cole was in active practice as an attorney in Cincinnati for more than three decades, but during his later life the duties attendant upon the business of the numerous corporations and large enterprises with which he was connected interfered to a great extent with his private practice. He retained an office, however, and continued to be legal adviser and counsellor for the many who had relied upon his efficient services for so many 152 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE years. He was president and general manager of the Cumberland River Route, president and manager of the Burnside Land Company, and president and general manager of the Burnside and Burkesville Transportation Company. Mr. Cole was one of the most prominent citizens of Cincinnati, and a leading and most influential member of the Hamilton County Bar, holding the esteem and respect of all his colleagues. Politically, he was a staunch member of the Republican party, although never making himself conspicuous in any way in local politics. His religious affiliation was given wholeheartedly to the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a constant attendant and a liberal supporter. Fraternally, he held active membership with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and always maintained a deep interest in his old college society, Phi Kappa Psi, one of the foremost of the national Greek-letter fraternities, and one to which he had been honored by election to membership during his undergraduate days. He was as firm in his beliefs and convictions as he was in his friendships. He was also deep and unforgetting in his gratitude, never allowing the memory of Judge James Sloan to die, which prominent jurist of Hillsboro, Ohio, had been his mentor and preceptor in the study of jurisprudence. The death of Charles Wesley Cole occurred at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 9, 1907, in his sixty-fifth year. Charles Wesley Cole was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 30, 1879, to Rebekah F. Kinsey, a daughter of Joseph Kinsey (q. v.) and Ann Frances (Ammidown) Kinsey, and a sister of Mrs. Charles Calvert Boyd, of Cincinnati. Mrs. Rebekah F. (Kinsey) Cole died in that city on April 23, 1925. To Charles Wesley and Rebekah F. (Kinsey) Cole were born four children, only one of whom, Mary Antoinette Cole, survives her parents. Thus was born, and thus lived, labored, and died Charles Wesley Cole, a member of the legal fraternity of the city of Cincinnati for more than thirty years, a foremost business man, a well-known fraternalist and Christian gentleman, and a sincere citizen and devoted patriot. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 153 JOSEPH KINSEY. The late Joseph Kinsey, prominent business man of Cincinnati in the eighties, was a fine example of the self-made man. The scope of his education was curtailed by times in which he lived and limited by resources and environment, but nothing daunted he started out for himself at the age of fourteen years, at the age when the youth of today are in grammar school, and after casting about for a suitable medium in which to apply his talents, he finally made a decided success in the industrial life of Cincinnati, and became a power in that city's business circles. He was an excellent type of commercial and industrial pioneer, one of that class of men whose foresight and prevision builded the foundations of the present city of Cincinnati, and gave the initial impetus to the growth and advancement of the State of Ohio and its institutions. No man is more worthy of especial mention in a work of this kind than the late Joseph Kinsey. Joseph Kinsey was born near Baltimore, Maryland, on January 18, 1828, a son of Oliver and Sarah (Griffith) Kinsey. He was a representative of a family which for nearly two hundred years had prospered in the United States and had been intimately connected with the progress and upbuilding of this nation. The members of the Kinsey family always adhered to the principles of the Society of Friends, the earliest ancestor of Joseph Kinsey coming to America from England as early as the year 1677, and purchasing a tract of three hundred acres of good land near the site of the famous "Treaty Tree" of William Penn. In the year 1833 the parents of the late Joseph Kinsey removed from the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland, to Wayne County, Indiana, locating on a farm there. In this county was Mr. Kinsey reared and educated, as well as conditions at that time afforded, and at the tender age of fourteen years started out in the world for himself. His first job was in the store of William Owens, at Richmond, Indiana, following which, in 1845, he made his way to Cincinnati, Ohio. 154 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE where he found employment with J. K. Ogden & Company, in whose employ he continued for two years. He then went with the firm of Clark & Booth, which position he relinquished in order to accept a partnership in the firm of Tyler Davidson & Company. Eight years later he severed this connection and bought a large interest in the 'Rolling Mill firm of Worthington & Company, with which he continued until the year 1866. In that year the business of the firm was transferred into what later became the Globe Rolling Mill Company, of which Mr. Kinsey became president, and whose industrial destinies he controlled with a wise and steady hand for many years. In the year 1868 Mr. Kinsey was elected a member of the City Council, and served with distinction in this office. He was noted for the liberality of his benefactions, especially to the Home for the Friendless and the Colored Orphan Asylum, both of which institutions benefited greatly by his generosity. He was vice-president of the Cincinnati Board of Trade, and one of the leading members of the Cincinnati Industrial League, as well as one of the chief promoters of the Cincinnati Southern Railway and the North Georgia Railroad. The death of Joseph Kinsey occurred at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 12, 1889, in his sixty-first year. He is survived by several children and grandchildren. Joseph Kinsey was married, in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 15, 1851, to Ann Frances Ammidown, a daughter of Ebenezer Davis and Rebekah (Fisher) Ammidown, natives of Southbridge, Massachusetts. Joseph and Ann Frances (Ammidown) Kinsey were the parents of thirteen children, Genevieve Kinsey, the only living child, became the wife of Charles Calvert Boyd, whom she survives. Biographies of both Charles Calvert Boyd and Charles Wesley Cole precede this sketch of the life and labors of Joseph Kinsey. COLON SCHOTT. Learned in the law and a factor in oil production, Colon Schott has filled for several years offices calling for a variety GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 155 of abilities not often found in one man, and he has discharged his duties with increasing energy and devotion. But those who have known and admired Mr. Schott for his professional and business success alone, have little known how generously he has given himself to the public service, taking a part in many civic and municipal activities. He is also active in church and religious welfare activities, and while not exactly—to use an abused term—a pillar in the church, he is nevertheless a believer in its teachings, a witness to the power of its teachings, a champion of the faith, and an example and exemplar of the workings of that faith. Incidentally, he is a student of theology. In the professional, business and social life of Cincinnati, Mr. Schott has the trust, confidence and affection of his fellows. His associates know of his entire integrity, his kindness, his tolerance, his wisdom, his devotion to his ideals. He is known to the community as a man whose rule of life is what we call "The Golden." Mr. Schott is revered for his good judgment and his indomitable spirit, and he has endeared himself to everybody by his kindness and geniality. He is great-hearted and broad-minded. Colon Schott, son of Dr. Arthur Charles Victor and Auguste (Tafel) Schott, was born in Washington, District of Columbia, December 4, 1863. Dr. Arthur C. V. Schott, his father, a native of Germany, was engaged as a naturalist in connection with the United States Boundary Survey in Washington until his death in 1875. The mother of Colon Schott, likewise born in Germany, died in 1901. Colon Schott received his preliminary education in the public and high schools of Washington. He was graduated at the Cincinnati Law School in 1885 with the degree of LL. B. In the same year he was admitted to the Ohio bar and began the practice of his profession in Cincinnati. Subsequently, he was admitted to practice in all the courts of the State, including the Federal courts. He has long maintained offices in the Keith Building. Aside from his professional activities he is president of the Mirando Oil Company, and a director in the 156 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Schott Oil Company, the Texpata Pipe Line Company, and the Misko Refinery Company. He is a member of the Cincinnati and the North American Gymnasiums, and the Lawyers' Club, of Cincinnati. He finds his chief recreation in music, also in studies in comparative theology. He attends the Swedenborgian Church. Colon Schott married, in 1905, Catherine Sander, a native of Ohio. The children of Colon and Catherine (Sander) Schott, all born in Cincinnati : Colon, Jr., a Sophomore in Princeton University ; Katharine M., and Vera Virginia. WALTER BOHRER. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a member of one of the city's old pioneer families, Mr. Bohrer had been a resident of his native city throughout his entire life, with the exception of a few years during his youth and early manhood, spent at college and in foreign travel. Since he had completed his education, he had been engaged in business in Cincinnati and in recent years had been considered one of the most popular, progressive and successful of the younger generation of Cincinnati's business men, having been from 1908 until his unexpected and untimely death, in February, 1926, at the age of only forty-four years, president and treasurer of the Monarch Tool & Manufacturing Company. Walter Bohrer was born in Cincinnati, February 22, 1882, a son of George H. and Olga (Mott) Bohrer and a grandson of George Adam Bohrer, the latter one of the early pioneers of Cincinnati. His father was for many years president of the Lincoln National Bank and was a leading figure in the financial circles of the city. Mr. Bohrer was educated in the public schools of his native city and after graduating from Woodward High School took up the study of engineering, first at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and later at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, from which latter institution he graduated in 1905 with the degree of M. E. Having GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 157 always been interested in travel and for the purpose of becoming personally acquainted with conditions and people in foreign countries he visited, in company with several fellow students of similar bent, a number of European countries. Even then his strong liking for nature and out-door life asserted itself and he spent considerable time in touring the Alps, during his student days at Ithaca. Later, upon his return to this country, he also made an extended canoe trip down the Mohawk River in New York State. When he returned to Cincinnati after his European tour, he became associated for a short time with the Cincinnati Engine & Machine Company. While still a student, he had invented the "Little Skipper" engine, a motor-boat engine, the manufacture of which was taken up by the Monarch Tool & Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati, and in 1908 Mr. Bohrer bought a controlling stock interest in this concern. It was then incorporated and he became its president and treasurer, both of which offices he continued to fill most ably and effectively to the time of his death. Though having numerous outside interests, being by nature very genial and sociable, and devoting considerable time to his family life, to his many friends and to fraternal affairs, he was most scrupulous in his attention to his business duties and up to two days before his death had not missed a day at his office for eighteen years, excepting only such periods which he took off for vacations. Besides manufacturing Mr. Bohrer's invention his company produced tools of all kinds, mechanical specialties and piano fixtures, and in these various lines has built up a large and profitable business, which, since his death, is being carried on under the energetic supervision of Mr. Bohrer's widow. He was also for several years president of the Beneficial Loan Society, a position which gave expression to his consistent interest in the welfare of others and in the progress of his native city. His fraternal associations were with the Masonic Order, in which he was a member of the Lafayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; the local Temple, Ancient Arabic Order 158 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; a thirty-second degree member. He was also one of the most popular members of the Cuvier Press Club and a charter member of its subdivision, the Milestone Club, and served the former as a trustee and, at times, as treasurer. His interest in outdoor life remained with him throughout his entire life. In his youth he was a well-known tennis player and later he became very fond of automobiling, spending the last summer of his life, 1925, on a motor tour with his wife through the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Animal life in general and bird life especially had always held much attraction for him and he was also very fond of the water and the several sports connected with it and, as a result of these various interests, he had been for a number of years a member of the Cincinnati Astronomical Club. In politics he was a supporter of the Republican party, while his religious affiliations were with the Christian Science Church, being a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Cincinnati, also member of the Mother Church, in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Bohrer married, in 1921, Alice Roll of Cincinnati. Mrs. Bohrer is very active in club circles and is especially interested in music, having been for a number of years a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Association. She is also a charter member of the Hyde Park Symphony Circle, a member of the Matinee Musical Club, and of the League of Women Voters. Mr. Bohrer died after a brief illness at his home, No. 569 Stewart Place, Cincinnati, February 8, 1926, and was buried from the old Bohrer homestead at No. 211 Loraine Avenue, Clifton. Besides his wife he was survived by one sister, Mrs. Otto Creutz. Through his sudden death his family lost a loving and devoted husband and brother, his host of friends, amongst whom he was known familiarly as "Duke," a genial, kind, and faithful associate, and his community an upright, progressive and very able citizen. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 159 FRED E. BULLERDICK. Young America of to-day, impatient of beginning at the bottom and working hard all the way to the top, could learn a lesson of inestimable value from the life-story of Fred E. Bullerdick, who built from nothing one of the most modern, most prosperous, and largest mattress factories in the country, and one of the oldest and best-established enterprises in Cincinnati, Ohio. Facing odds which would have defeated a weaker man, he fought on, beginning his plant when the industry was totally unregulated, bringing order out of chaos, systematizing and expanding his plant, preserving his reputation for integrity and quality, and winning out. It is a gratifying story of success to the man who refuses to give up. Fred E. Bullerdick was born in Cincinnati, on January 25, 1863, son of Fred and Elizabeth Bullerdick. His father, a farmer, died during the son's youth, and the boy had therefore scant educational opportunity. As a boy he started working in a chair factory for two dollars a week, and during the next few years could not secure more than nine dollars in spite of all his zeal and energy. With characteristic initiative, therefore, he determined to go into business for himself in 1884, when he founded the Fred E. Bullerdick Mattress Factory. At that time he attended the Cincinnati Business College. His capital was eighty-three dollars, borrowed from his mother ; his first place of business on Walnut Street, and his first delivery wagon a wheelbarrow. He made and delivered his own mattresses. Hard work showed good results, and he was able to move to a larger plant on Dempsey Street, where the business grew and the quarters were enlarged steadily, until his large trade demanded better and more modern facilities. In 1921 he erected the present up-to-date and well-equipped plant at No. 3168 Beekman Street, considered one of the finest bedding factories in the country. It is a three-story, steel, brick and concrete building, in which is installed the most modern machinery. A pioneer in the industry, Fred E. Bullerdick had 160 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE to fight all sorts of cut-throat methods and was one of the few to survive a troubled period in industry. His work is a testimony more eloquent and more lasting than any marble that may be erected over his grave and a more instructive lesson than a dozen discourses may provide. Fortunate it is that one of his children, his daughter, Ethel, inherited his ability and his liking for the business, learned it, and took over the entire management when it dropped from her father's hands when he died, February 12, 1926. Besides his great industrial achievement, Mr. Bullerdick was regarded as a leading business man of the city ; and he had an excellent mentality to apply to business problems. He loved nature and enjoyed outdoor sports, particularly hunting and fishing. His sympathies were with the Republican party, though his views were liberal. He was a member of the North Side Christian Church, a trustee and member of the board, and at the time of his death was treasurer. His clubs were the Cincinnati Gun, the Frog Bowling, and the Amateur Trap Shooting Association of America enrolled him as a member. In 1890, Fred E. Bullerdick married Catherine Bonin, and they were the parents of six children : Ethel, associated with her father in the plant for eight years, and now proving an able head ; Lorene ; Ellen ; Roberta ; Winifred ; and Weldon Bullerdick. In spite of his determination and strength, Fred E. Buller-dick was a man of the kindliest and most tolerant nature. He loved his home and family and gave to his children every educational opportunity that life had denied to him. As his business endeavors proved an important contributory factor to the prosperity of the community, so did his Christian life and his active church work enhance the spiritual values in his circle. JOHN H. BUSKER. In contributing more than fifty years of his unflagging energy and marked ability to advancing the interests of the GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 161 John Shillito Company, John H. Busker played an important part in the general prosperity of Cincinnati, Ohio, of which that large mercantile establishment is so outstanding a factor. Mr. Busker was born August 15, 1855, in Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, son of John B. and Elizabeth (Oberberg) Busker. He was educated at St. Mary's School in Cincinnati and grew up without a father's care, for his father died when he was an infant of eighteen months. It was therefore necessary for the boy to get to work at an early age. When he was twelve he entered the employ of John Shillito in his store as office boy in the office of the superintendent of the wholesale department. Though he never worked behind the counter as salesman, he learned the whole system from the bottom up, his unusual efficiency, loyalty, and readiness to assume responsibility, and ability to discharge responsibilities well advancing him from one position to a higher, until he had held every important position the organization had to offer except the management. He was finally made general manager and held that position for several years. He was a member of the Fidelity Club of the John Shillito Company, which was composed of the older employees of the firm, of the Mutual Aid Fidelity Club, and of the Holy Name Society of the Holy Cross Catholic Church of Latonia. In 1884 John H. Busker married Mary Wellinghoff, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Koh1s) Wellinghoff. Children : 1. John H., Jr. 2. Mary Elizabeth, now Sister Mary Loyola, Order of St. Benedict, of the Blessed Sacrament Church, Fort Mitchell. 3. Bernard, who enlisted in the United States Army, April 3o, 1918, sailed for France, July 22nd with the 337th Infantry, from which he was transferred on August 22nd to Company F, 7th Infantry; he was captured in the fighting in France and held prisoner for over six weeks until the Armistice freed him, and then served in the Army of Occupation until August 28, 1919, when he was mus- Cin.-11 162 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE tered out. 4. Crescentia. 5. Walter, who served in the Aviation Department of the United States Navy. Seventy years was allowed to John H. Busker for his life and work, and he achieved signal success, the best sort of success in that it brought prosperity to others and happiness to his home and family. He died February 10, 1926, at his home in Latonia, Kentucky, and he was interred in the Mother of God Cemetery in Covington. Kindliness, uprightness, a love for the genuine and worth-while things of life characterized him, and he was an example to all the young people who observed him. He especially loved reading and everything that pertained to his home, and this was a center of happiness and love for the whole family. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EDWARD H. LOVELL. One of the most picturesque as well as one of the most inspirational officers of the old First Regiment, Ohio National Guard, was Lieutenant-Colonel Edward H. Lovell, in private life an authority on precious stones, and store manager for various jewelers. Mr. Lovell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on West 6th Street, March 13, 186o, son of R. Harry and Emma (Estep) Lovell. His father was born in New York, but his mother and maternal grandparents, Benjamin and Marie Estep, were natives of Cincinnati. The father was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and captain of Company C, 102d New York National Guards. Edward H. Lovell was educated at Penn Yan, New York, Academy and the Cincinnati High School. He early evinced a love of precious stones and learned the jewelry trade. His first business engagement was with the Duhme Brothers Jewelry House, where he remained for several years. He was then store manager for Hellebush, and finally for George H. Newstedt, with whom he continued until the time of his death, January 25, 1926. His interest in military affairs was the paramount one of GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 163 his life. He enlisted as private in Company B, First Infantry, February 1o, 1878, and was promoted as follows : Second lieutenant, Company I, October 12, 1883 ; first lieutenant, Company I, July, 1884; captain, Company F, February 8, 1888; re-commissioned captain, July 15, 1891; major, June 1, 1893 lieutenant-colonel, December 28, 1896; and honorably discharged April 14, 1899, after fifteen years of service. He was a life-member of the Toledo Cadets, one of the originators of the Lytle Greys, recipient of an antique vase from General Lytle, which is a prized family possession. Colonel Lovell was second in command at the time of the Washington Court House Riot in 1884, and colonel of the regiment when it left for Florida to take part in the Spanish-American War, in which he participated with bravery and high patriotism. He helped get new colors for his regiment. He was also in charge of his regiment at the St. Louis World's Fair, as well as of the special detail sent from Cincinnati to General Sherman's funeral. A letter from the company commending Colonel Lovell's services is still in possession of the family. He was a member of the Loyal Legion and a communicant of Grace Episcopal Church in Avondale. Active in politics and a staunch Republican, Mr. Lovell was appointed secretary to Mosby, mayor of Cincinnati, but did not further aspire to office. He supervised President McKinley's funeral. In 1899 Edward H. Lovell married Mabelle Mears, daughter of John Bradford Mears (see following sketch of John Mears) and Carrie E. (Dalton) Mears, both natives of Cincinnati. Mr. Mears was a stove-maker. Mrs. Lovell's maternal great-grandparents were Joseph and Jane Dalton, the former a carriage maker by trade. They traveled overland from Washington, District of Columbia, where their son was born, to Cincinnati in a covered wagon. Their son grew up in Cincinnati, and became prominent as broker, banker, and for twenty-five years director of the House of Refuge. To Mr. and Mrs. Lovell were born four children : two daugh- 164 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE ters who died in infancy, and two sons, who survive their father. Charles Leonard Lovell enlisted in Company A, 166th Regiment, 42nd or Rainbow Division, in 1917 for service in the World War, became a corporal, served in France, where he was badly gassed, participating in the offensives at Champagne, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne. In Europe when the Armistice was signed, he returned to America, April 5, 1919. His brother, Clifford Mears Lovell, enlisted along with his brother, in the same company, and sailed for France in October, 1917. He was wounded in the battle of Chateau-Thierry and sent home in a plaster cast, October 30, 1918. He was mustered out in April, 1919. A man of gallant and kindly nature, Lieutenant-Colonel Lovell was loved alike by his fellow-officers and his men, who were inspired to remarkable efficiency and loyalty by his example. He particularly delighted in his own home and made it the center of hospitality and happiness. A substantial business man, a responsible citizen, a devoted husband and father, and the ready defender of his country's peace and prosperity, thus might be summarized a man typical of the ideal American. JOHN MEARS. No one of those hardy and courageous pioneers who opened up the rich hinterland of America was a more picturesque or consequential personage than John Mears, English born, who spent most of his youth on the American frontier as it marched westward, and who, when he had hardly attained man's estate, took a heroic part in expediting the march. John Mears was born in London, England, November 3, 1782, son of an established physician of that city who possessed considerable and valuable property. There were four other children in the family: William, Walter, Mary, and Thomas. With his wife and family, Dr. John Mears immigrated to America in the spring of 1790. They crossed the Alleghany Mountains on horseback, packing their belongings, and settled on a farm in Westmore- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 165 land County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Mears continued to practise medicine, winning the gratitude of a wide country-side where the skilled physician was almost unknown, and his farm was operated by hired labor. About i800, the family moved on to Pittsburgh, where Dr. Mears devoted himself exclusively to his profession, associated with a Dr. Bedford. When John Mears was about twenty, he and his brother, William, were fitted out with a small flat boat, which was loaded with the queer assortment of goods in demand by new settlers scattered along the river front, and they floated down the Ohio, trading as they progressed. Finally they reached Cincinnati, where William died shortly after their arrival. John Mears soon got employment in the shop of Thomas Best, where he was apprenticed to the tin industry. Becoming skilled in that trade, he entered the shop of Harman Long, similarly engaged. Soon he became a partner in the new shop, and by the time he became owner, his plant was manufacturing copper and tinware. During the War of 1812, Mr. Mears prospered greatly through large government contracts covering thousands of camp-kettles, cartridge boxes, and canteens. As his business grew, he took in Daniel H. Horn as partner, and the firm of Mears and Horn long flourished, at the original site on Main Street between Second and lower Market. John Mears adopted the Methodist faith. He was the tenth member to join the first Methodist group organized in Cincinnati. One of the prominent and respected citizens of the town, he died June 10, 1856. In 1808, John Mears married Mary Lynes, by whom he had eleven children, of whom the first six died in infancy. One of the sons, Daniel Horn Mears, born October 16, 182o, married Debbie H. Huston, by whom he had a son, John Bradford Mears, father of Mrs. Edward H. Lovell. (A sketch of Edward H. Lovell precedes this.) A vigorous, resourceful man, John Mears was a constructive force in shaping a new community and a new industry in the wilderness. To men of his type belong the praise for the 166 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE remarkable industrial development of the Middle West, which might otherwise have settled into the sleepy calm of a farming community. FRED A. LAMPING. Having signalized his career at the Cincinnati Bar with service for one term in the Ohio Legislature and for four years as a justice of the peace, Fred A. Lamping has been a practitioner for more than forty-five years. His fine record as counsellor in office practice and as a pleader of causes before the courts has been made chiefly in his native city of Cincinnati. In addition to his larger service in legislative halls and on the bench, he has held several minor offices within the gift of the people or the appointing power. He enjoys the esteem of the judiciary and his brethren of the bar, and has qualified long since with a large and select clientele for his ability as an expounder of the law and a negotiator between the parties in complicated litigation. Fred A. Lamping was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 18, 1858, the son of Bernard H. Lamping and Elizabeth (Westerkamp) Lamping, both of Hanover, Germany, the former having died in 1896 and the latter in 1905. His father was a soap manufacturer. The son Fred, received his elementary and college preparatory training in the parochial schools of Cincinnati, to which city his parents had removed in their early married life. He then entered St. Xavier College, whence he was graduated in the class of 1876 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Later his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. He next entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws upon his graduation with the class of 1878. He also studied law in the offices of Hoadley, Johnson & Colston. Having been admitted to the bar of the State of Ohio in 1879, he engaged in practice for a few years in association with the firm of Baldwin & Bruner, and at the termination of that arrangement he established himself in his own offices and has GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 167 since done an independent law business, his present location being in the Gwynne Building, Cincinnati. He is attorney for the North Cincinnati Loan and Building Company, and the Calhoun Loan and Building Company. His faithful adherence to the political fortunes of the Democratic party encompassed his election as a member of the Ohio Legislature. He served in 1890-91 and gave an excellent account of himself in the capacity of legislator. Again taking up his invaded law practice, he continued to practice without serious interruption because of his willingness to be of service in political office until he was elected a justice of the peace for the term of 1905-10, and afterwards accepted offices of lesser importance, in all of which he distinguished himself for ability and thoroughness as a lawyer and for his professional integrity and fidelity to the public trust. Mr. Lamping married, in 1899, Christina Stamm, of Chicago, Illinois, a daughter of George and Mary (Schaub) Stamm. Children : 1. Fred C., a senior at St. Xavier College. 2. Genevieve M., a student at the University of Cincinnati. 3. Dorothy E., a student at the Mother of Mercy School. 4. Florence A., a student in a parochial school. Mr. Lamping has his law offices at No. 201 Gwynne Building, and his residence at No. 3418 Chevoit Avenue, Cincinnati. Mr. Lamping and his family are members of St. Catherine's (Roman Catholic) Church, of Westwood, Ohio. CHARLES BARNES. Continuing in his new regime and present-day methods of construction, the history of steamboat building for the great Central States river traffic, Mr. Barnes is an enterprising successor to the old line of river boat builders, and is everywhere acknowledged as a captain in that industry in Cincinnati, where he has launched no less than half a hundred of the fleet of staunch steamers known throughout the river system as vessels of a first-class type. With the exception of a very few 168 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE years, Mr. Barnes has engaged in the construction of steel and wooden steamers as his vocation, and thus practically all his life has been a prominent ally to river industry. He is a son of Alfred Barnes, who was born in London, England, and Florence (Todd) Barnes, who was born in Bath, England, and died in Cincinnati. Alfred Barnes, who died in Cincinnati, July 24, 1853, at forty-two years of age, was a banker in Cincinnati, and owner of steamboats on the Ohio River. Charles Barnes was born March 9, 1836, in Louisville, Kentucky, and with the removal of the family to Cincinnati, he attended the public schools there, afterwards graduating at Saint John's and Saint Francis Xavier's colleges. Mr. Barnes then applied himself to learning the machinist's trade, but he afterwards established a bookstore at Newport, so continuing from 1857 to 187o. The opportunity of his career presented itself when Mr. Barnes began the business of river boat construction, at first in association with the firm of Warden, McClelland & Company, and purchasing the interests of that concern in 1878, he has continued its activities to the present under the title, The Charles Barnes Company, with headquarters at Nos. 53 and 55 Main Street, Cincinnati, where he has been located since 1910, the former location having been Sycamore and Second streets. The steamers that this firm has built or equipped with machinery include a number of the better known river steamers of this section of the country, as well as boats for the United States Government, for the Lakes traffic, for Yukon River, for the Australian Government, for prominent industrial concerns, and others. Mr. Barnes is owner of a cottage in Michigan on the chain of lakes, and he there spends the summer with his family, for hunting and fishing; and there, also, with a number of old friends, he established, August 1, 188o, the Cincinnati Club; and his is now the only one of the six families of Cincinnati Point, where the club was first projected. Mr. Barnes' religious faith is that of the Roman Catholic Church. Charles Barnes married, in June, 1863, in Cincinnati, Car- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 169 oline Mathilda Hazen, who died January 24, 1922, daughter of Burton Hazen, formerly a leading citizen in Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes' children : George Barnes, born May 23, 1865, died June 7, 1925 ; Americus Warden Barnes, born September 9, 1867, general manager, secretary and treasurer of The Charles Barnes Company ; he married Lillie Furman. MAJOR ALBERT DRUITT ALCORN. Major Albert Druitt Alcorn, prominent in legal and fraternal circles in Cincinnati, Ohio, is especially noteworthy for his work in coordinating and strengthening organizations of veterans of various wars. Commander-in-Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans in recent years, Mr. Alcorn was, on August 13, 1925, made commander of the Federated Veterans' Organization of Hamilton County, composed of delegates from posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, the United Spanish War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Army and Navy Union, the American Legion, and the Disabled Veterans of the World War. Major Alcorn was born in Hamlin, Lincoln County, West Virginia, son of Dr. Eli Greenville and Nancy Alice (Bickel) Alcorn. The Alcorns emigrated from the northern part of Ireland. James Alcorn served in the Revolutionary War. Our subject's father's cousin, James L. Alcorn, was governor of Mississippi during the Reconstruction Period, and later United States Senator. Major Albert Druitt Alcorn's father was a Kentuckian, as were his grandparents, and his mother was born in Ohio of parents from Virginia on her father's side and North Carolina on that of her mother's. The family moved to Gallipolis, Ohio, when all the children were young. Albert Druitt Alcorn was the oldest of this group of six children, now grown to manhood, and prominent in professional and business life in Columbus and Cincinnati, two being physicians in the former place, one a bank examiner there, and two being lawyers in Cincinnati. Dr. Eli Greenville Alcorn, the father, was 170 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE a physician, specializing in the treatment of eye and ear, and he has the distinction of being the first surgeon to make a movable artificial eye. Major Alcorn, subject of this biographical record, was educated in the public schools of Gallipolis, graduating from the high school. He attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, and from the Law School of the University of Cincinnati he secured the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in 1892. For a number of years he practiced law in Gallipolis. When the Spanish-American War began, he enlisted in the First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was recruited largely from Cincinnati and vicinity, and served throughout the war in Company F. Contracting typhoid fever while in the service, Major Alcorn was delayed in being mustered out until December 15, 1898, and was long in recovering from the ill effects of the fever. For some years thereafter he was connected with the Ohio State Insurance Department, from which he resigned when he moved to Cincinnati and opened law offices in partnership with his brother, Robert S. Alcorn. Since that time he has continued to care for an ever-growing practice. At the same time he has continued his patriotic service to his country and volunteered for active duty in the World War. His age prevented his acceptance in the infantry branch, however, and he applied for a commission in the Judge Advocate General's Department, which he received with the rank of major in the Officers' Reserve. Soon afterwards he was assigned to active duty and for a time was stationed at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, whence he went to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, to join the 7th Regular Division, then outfitting for overseas duty. Crossing to France on the "Leviathan," Major Alcorn served with the 7th Division on the staff of General Barth and General Wittenmeyer until the division was ordered home, when he was detached for service in the Rents, Requisition and Claims Department, remaining in France to adjust claims growing out of war conditions. Major Alcorn served in France for sixteen months. He has held only one GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 171 political office in his long and honorable legal career—that of city solicitor for Gallipolis, Ohio. He has been active in associations connected with the law, local, State and national ; for several years on the executive committee of the State Bar Association, of which he also was a vice-president. Major Alcorn has long been active in fraternal circles : Past Master of Avon Lodge, No. 542, Free and Accepted Masons, Cincinnati ; Past Sovereign, Prince Dalcho Council, Princes of Jerusalem ; the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Cincinnati. He holds the Thirty-third degree in Masonry. He is a member of Syrian Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a charter member of Cincinnatus Camp, No. 74, Department of Ohio, of which he is a Past Commander. He was appointed Department Judge Advocate and later Judge Advocate General on the staff of Commander-in-Chief Busch, from which he resigned at the time of the World War. At the department encampment at Portsmouth, in 1922, he was elected commander of the Department of Ohio, an unsolicited honor, but as always he has administered the duties of the office admirably and at the sacrifice of his personal inclinations. He won State-wide recognition for his good results. In 1923 he was even more highly honored, without solicitation, with his election to the post of Commander-in-Chief of the United Spanish War Veterans at the Twenty-fifth National Encampment of that organization at Chattanooga, Tennessee. In this capacity, too, Major Alcorn has won deserved praise from organization members and from legislative groups with whom his duties have brought him in contact. He is an active member of the Young Men's Blaine Club, and a communicant of the Clifton Methodist Episcopal Church, on whose board of stewards he is now serving. His avocation is astronomy, and while in France he was made a member of the French Astronomical Society. That hobby, with his telescope, his fine library, and his wife's music, makes his a happy home for himself and his friends. He is a member of the American Legion, and vice-Commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, Cincinnati Chap- 172 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE ter, No. 1, and member of the National finance committee of that organization. Major Alcorn married, on July 25, 1917, Catherine Van Horn, daughter of George DeLarge and Eliza Francesca (Alexander) Van Horn. Before her marriage, Mrs. Alcorn was an instructor of harmony in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. JOHN LEWIS PAYNE, M. D. The people of Cincinnati and its environs are familiar with the humanitarian work of Dr. John Lewis Payne, for it was in this city that he gained his medical education, and it is this city that has been the scene of his successful and highly valued professional services for more than a quarter of a century. There are no traditions of which this country has more right to be proud than those of the American medical profession, with its host of illustrious names, its brilliant record of achievements and noble services rendered to the cause of humanity ; and nowhere have these traditions been better established and maintained than among those splendid men who from the earliest period of its history down to the present time, have been numbered among the members of the medical fraternity of the city of Cincinnati. Typical of these men who have written this magnificent record for their city is Dr. John Lewis Payne, Professor of Pharmacology at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, and none is more worthy of mention in a work of this character than he. Dr. John Lewis Payne was born in Hickory, North Carolina, on December 22, 1873, a son of John W. and Mary (Moore) Payne, both of whom are now deceased, the father having been a successful farmer during his comparatively short but useful life. John Lewis Payne was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Lenoir College, Hickory, North Carolina. He then took up the study of medicine, and for that purpose came to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he entered GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 173 the Eclectic Medical College, whence he was graduated with the class of 1899, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After graduation he added to his professional knowledge by taking a post-graduate course at the University of Cincinnati. In the same year he started the general practice of medicine in Cincinnati, which he has continued with ever-increasing success since then, his offices being located at No. 707 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to his practice, he also holds the chair of Pharmacology at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, his alma mater, and in the pedagogical branch of his work has been correspondingly successful. Politically, Dr. Payne has always been an Independent, preferring not to have the often too strictly drawn party lines obscure the State and Federal issues which every man, as a good citizen, should make his prime consideration. His religious affiliation is given to the Roman Catholic Church, and more particularly to St. Lawrence's Roman Catholic Church of Cincinnati. He is an active member of Tau Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, and of the Cincinnati, Ohio State, and National Eclectic Medical associations, being a past-president of the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association. Though of a very sociable and genial disposition Dr. Payne does not belong to any fraternal organizations or clubs, but devotes all of his leisure time to his family life, which, indeed, may be said to furnish the principal source of his recreation. Dr. John Lewis Payne was married, on October 10, 1905, to Anna Brophy, a daughter of James and Marie (Farrel) Brophy, respected residents of Cincinnati. The father is now deceased, but the mother survives him and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. John Lewis Payne. Dr. and Mrs. Payne are the parents of three children : 1. Virginia Payne, senior in Cedar Grove Academy, and now (1926) in her junior year at the Schuster-Martin School of Expression. 2. Adele Payne, at present attending the Cedar Grove Academy. 3. John H. Payne, an undergraduate at Cedar Grove Academy. 174 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE SAMUEL B. HAMMEL. A prominent and successful lawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio, with offices in the St. Paul Building, Samuel B. Hammel has been instrumental in the vigorous industrial and business development of Carthage, Ohio. He was born in Cincinnati, January 21, 1857, son of John H. and Mary A. (Morton) Hammel, of Cincinnati. His father was a farmer until his death in 1895, and his mother passed away in 186o. Samuel B. Hammel was educated in the Cincinnati public schools and supplemented this course with the academic course at Lebanon College, from which he graduated in 1879 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His legal training was acquired at Cincinnati Law College, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1881. Mr. Hammel was promptly admitted to the bar and began practice in 1881. Until 1900 he was associated with W. J. Coppock. In that year he established an independent practice of his own, with offices at No. 111 East Fourth Street, and his son is associated with him there. In addition to conducting important litigation for prominent clients, Mr. Hammel has been identified with various enterprises in Carthage, where he is vice-president and director of the First National Bank. Mr. Hammel is a Democrat in political affiliations, and a charter member of Carthage Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He has been an influential member of the City Club, as well as several others. He is a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. Samuel B. Hammel married, in 1887, Mamie L. Morris, of Cincinnati, Ohio. They are the parents of the following children : I. Hazel R., who married Oscar Nordstrum. 2. Frances P., who is a teacher in the public schools. 3. Larz R., who married Iris Miller. JOHN JOSIAH EMERY. John Josiah Emery, Jr., is proving himself to be a worthy son of his honored father, the late John J. Emery, Sr., and is at GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 175 present carrying forward the many important interests and enterprises instituted by his grandfather, his father and his uncle. Probably no other family name signifies more in the annals of Cincinnati and its environs than does that of Emery, for since the time that the Queen City was a little agricultural community there have been Emerys closely identified with its steady growth and advancement. The name Emery has stood for progress for scores of years, and the manner in which the present John J. Emery has assumed his birthright and his duties speaks well for a continuance of this enviable reputation. His background, in point of family, is distinctly impressive, and a short review of the Emery family's identification with Cincinnati is herewith presented. The firm of Thomas Emery's Sons, Inc., whose real estate activities extended from New York City to San Francisco, was without a doubt the largest and most influential realty establishment in the history of Cincinnati. It was founded in the year 1840 by Thomas Emery, father of Thomas J. and John J., and incorporated in 1925, by the Emery brothers : Thomas J. and John J. Emery. The former died in Egypt in 1906, and the latter died at Bar Harbor, Maine, in 1908. Their father, Thomas Emery, was born in England, came to America in his young manhood, and became one of the early settlers of the Queen City. He engaged in the real estate business and established offices at Fourth and Hammond streets (only a block away from the present location), which was in the very heart of the city's financial and business district, and which showed his farsightedness and good judgment in selecting business property. At that time Cincinnati was largely agricultural, and he dealt almost exclusively in farm properties. Subsequently, he engaged in the manufacture of lard oil, having established a plant for that purpose on upper Sycamore Street, but owing to the importance of the traffic on the Ohio River, he soon removed his establishment to Water Street. In addition to making lard oil, he embarked upon the manufacture of candles, which was at that time a vastly important industry, 176 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE and, strange as it may seem to many, is still as thriving and prosperous as of old. The factory was located on the banks of the Ohio River at Vine and Water streets, where it remained until 1887, in which year the plant was removed to the then new soap and candle district at Ivorydale, Ohio, just outside of the city proper. Upon the death of the American progenitor, Thomas Emery the first, that part of the business was incorporated under the name of The Emery Candle Company, his two sons owning a controlling interest and taking an active part in the management until their respective deaths only two years apart. The estates still own a large majority of the stock of this lucrative enterprise. Mrs. Mary M. Emery, the widow of Thomas J. Emery, a most estimable and public-spirited woman, has done and is still doing much for Cincinnati. Through her representative, Charles J. Livingood, she is at the present time (1926) building the new town of "Mariemont," located about nine miles east of Cincinnati, where people of moderate circumstances can enjoy splendid living quarters at most reasonable rentals, with all the advantages of city comforts and conveniences, and with the joys of residing in the country thrown in for good measure. This great work is of inestimable value to the people of her beloved city. Nothing finer in the way of civic and public welfare has ever been undertaken, but by so doing she is assuring her name and memory of perpetuity. Mrs. Emery takes a deep personal interest in the building of this new community, and is as keenly interested in its daily progress as any young and youthfully energetic person could possibly be. Nearly three hundred families are already enjoying their attractive homes, and the town of Mariemont, Ohio, is rapidly progressing towards completion. The Girard Trust Company of Philadelphia, one of the oldest, most reputable and best known trust companies in the United States, is the trustee of the estate of John J. Emery, and under its wise and careful management the estate has grown to still larger proportions. During the year 1925, the GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 177 real estate held in common by the two estates was partitioned and the business incorporated under the name of Thomas Emery's Sons, Inc. The Girard Trust Company owns all of the stock of Thomas Emery's Sons, Inc.; the corporation managing Mrs. Mary M. Emery's properties originally held in common, as well as the real estate of the late John J. Emery, originally held in common. Today, John Josiah Emery, Jr., son of one of the founders, is vice-president of the corporation, which has the distinction of being the oldest real estate concern in Cincinnati. John Josiah Emery, of whom this genealogical and biographical review, was born in New York City, on January 28, 1898, the son of John J., Sr., and Leila (Alexander) Emery, the former deceased, the latter still living. He received his early education in private schools and at the Groton Preparatory School, and then matriculated at Harvard College, whence he was graduated with the class of 1920, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He also studied law at the Harvard Law School for one year, and economics at Oxford University in England for one year, following which he spent one-and-a-half years in traveling through the Orient. On April 1, 1924, having completed a thorough and comprehensive education, he returned to Cincinnati, the home of his forefathers, and assumed the duties and responsibilities of being the head of an important family and large business interests. He became vice-president of Thomas Emery's Sons, Inc. ; president of the Emery Candle Company; director of the Twitchell Process Company ; and started a new business—the Emery Carpenter Containing Company ; treasurer of the new City Charter ; chairman of the Negro Civic Welfare Association ; and also became identified in various capacities with many other business, civic and charitable organizations. He is an active member of the Queen City Club, the Pillars Club, the Cincinnatus Club, the University Club, all of Cincinnati, as well as the Union Club, of New York City. During the late World 178 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE War, Mr. Emery enlisted in the United States Navy and was later transferred to the Naval Aviation, stationed at Pensacola, Florida, where he served as an instructor with the rank of ensign. Mr. Emery is an enthusiastic sportsman, enjoying all out-of-door sports, but particularly interested in dogs and bird hunting. Thus, although only in his twenty-ninth year, John Josiah Emery has become one of the outstanding young business men of Greater Cincinnati, and is carrying on his family traditions in a most commendable manner. CHARLES ORMOND ROSE. A man who found his place in the law after success in other fields of endeavor is Charles Ormond Rose, of Cincinnati, the city where he was born on December 7, 1872. The Rose family is of English origin, widely diffused throughout the world. His father, John Ormond Rose, was born in New York City, March 6, 1836, and came to Cincinnati at the close of the Civil War. He enlisted in that conflict from his native State, and returned to the front as a result of two subsequent enlistments. He served with the Army of the Potomac and saw heavy fighting in its campaigns. He engaged in the insurance business on coming to Cincinnati, and continued to follow that calling until his death in June, 1919. He married Caroline M. Hidden, born June 13, 1844, in Cincinnati, died in October, 1906. They were the parents of six children, two of whom are living. One is the sister of Mr. Rose, who lives unmarried in Cincinnati. The other is Mr. Rose himself. Charles Ormond Rose attended the schools of his native city, following the public school with the first intermediate high school, and the high school from which he was graduated in 189o. He attended the McDonald Institute of Law, and was graduated in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to practice on June 7, 1895. For the succeeding ten years he acted as passenger agent for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. In 1905 he gave up this post to GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 179 engage in the practice of law. In the years 1906-07-08 he was assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County. He was a member of the City Council from 1916 forward until 1925, when he was reelected for the term of two years. His favorite recreation is outdoor sports, baseball, tennis and athletics. In the World War he served as a lieutenant in the Cincinnati Home Guards. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and of the Sons of Veterans ; also of the Chamber of Commerce; the Hyde Park Business Club, and many others. He is eligible to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a member of the Hyde Park Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Rose was married, February 16, 1901, in Cincinnati, to Julia L. Kreimer, a native of Cincinnati, and daughter of A. H. and Katherine (Slenderman) Kreimer, both of whom are dead. They are the parents of two children : 1. John K., born July 3, 1902, and a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, class of 1924, when he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts ; and of the University of Cincinnati Law School in 1926, when he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 2. George W., who was born February 24, 1909, and is attending school. Mr. Rose has offices at No. 605 First National Bank Building; his house address is No. 2711 Observatory Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. HERMAN H. HOPPE, M. D. A leading physician of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a nationally known neurologist is Dr. Herman H. Hoppe, whose offices are at No. 19 West Seventh Street, and who is associated with the various hospitals of the city as well as with the medical department of the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Hoppe was born in Cincinnati, son of Dominick and Mary (Dusterberg) Hoppe. His father, who was born in Germany, came to the United States in 1848, and settled, in 1850, in Cincinnati, where he built up the prosperous commission house of D. Hoppe & Company. He died in 1885, a wealthy and prominent 180 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE citizen. His maternal grandfather, John H. Dusterberg, also born in Germany, immigrated to America with his parents in 1834, lived first in New York, then settled in Cincinnati, where he was well educated as the son of a successful business man, and where he became also prominent in business. Dr. Herman H. Hoppe was reared in Cincinnati and received his elementary education in the parochial schools of the Catholic Church. At the age of thirteen he became a student at St. Xavier College. Graduating there in 1886, he began the study of medicine under Dr. J. S. Cilley, and in September, 1886, entered the Medical College of Ohio, where his scholarship advanced him to the rank of second in the graduating class of ninety members in the spring of 1889. In competitive examination, Dr. Hoppe secured the post of interne at Cincinnati Hospital, where he remained until his departure for Europe. At the best clinics and under the leading scientists and physicians of the old country he had exceptional advantages. At Strassburg he studied pathology under Professor Recklinghausen, and at Berlin he was accepted as first assistant to Professor Oppenheim, a distinguished authority on diseases of the nervous system. In August, 1892, Dr. Hoppe began his practice in Cincinnati. In the course of his years of professional service, he has been a lecturer on neurology at the Medical College of Ohio, professor of nervous diseases at the University of Cincinnati, director of the department of nervous and mental diseases in Cincinnati General Hospital, and neuropsychiatrist to the Veterans' Clinic at Cincinnati General Hospital. He is professionally associated with the leading medical organizations : The American Medical Association, the Academy of Medicine, the American Neurological Association, the Berlin Neurological Society, the Ohio State and Mississippi Valley Medical societies, the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and the Cincinnati Neurological Society. Dr. Hoppe has contributed weighty and authoritative articles on his specialty to the medical press. He is a member of the Queen City, Country and Riding clubs, and politically is a Republican. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 181 Dr. Hoppe married (first), in 1895, Herminie Richard, daughter of Dr. C. Richard; she died in 1912. He married (second), June 4, 1914, Mary Monica Mitchell, granddaughter of the well-known furniture merchant, Robert Mitchell, of Cincinnati. Dr. Hoppe is the father of two daughters by his first marriage : Rosemary, born February 23, 1906, who attends Manhattanville College, in New York City; Elizabeth, who is in her fourth high school year at Noroton, Connecticut, in care of The Madams of the Sacred Heart. CHARLES H. STEPHENS. There are no traditions of which this country has more right to be justly proud than those of the American Bar with its long list of illustrious names, its brilliant record of high achievement and lofty service rendered to the causes we have held most dear, and nowhere have these traditions been better established and maintained than by the members of the Ohio Bar, and especially of its greatest city, Cincinnati ; and, among these, none more worthy of mention in a work of this character than Charles H. Stephens, a man whose name and whose work have for more than sixty years signalized every excellent quality in general law practice. He is an attorney of very comprehensive legal learning, senior associate of law firms that have been factors in making legal history in the State of Ohio, civic leader and educationalist, and continues today in active practice and in the esteem of all his associates and the public in general. Mr. Stephens' expert study and practice in admiralty and insurance matters have given him a special leadership in those branches; while in the business and the financial concerns of Cincinnati his advice and counsel are substantial factors for progress. He is a son of James H. K. Stephens, a harness manufacturer, and of Elizabeth (Guysi) Stephens, born in 1822, and died in 1922, one hundred years of age. Charles H. Stephens was born October 2, 1841, in Cincinnati, where he received his preliminary education in the 182 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE public and Hughes High School of Cincinnati. He then entered the Cincinnati College, graduating in 1864 with his Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduation he made careful and thorough reading of law in the office of Lincoln, Smith, & Warnock, and with his admission to the bar in 1864, began his long career of practice. His first association was with that firm as Lincoln, Smith, Warnock & Stephens, so continuing until Mr. Fayette Smith became a judge of the Common Pleas Court of Hamilton County, and the prior death of Mr. James Warnock, when the firm was Lincoln and Stephens. Upon the death of Mr. T. D. Lincoln, Mr. Stephens received into the firm S. W. Smith, Jr., and Mr. John Ledyard Lincoln, the son of his old partner. Later, upon S. W. Smith, Jr., being elected as judge of the Common Pleas Court, Charles H. Stephens, Jr., was admitted as partner, under the firm name of Stephens, Lincoln & Stephens, until the death of John Ledyard Lincoln, which, with offices in the First National Bank Building, has continued a general law practice to the present. Mr. Stephens is a member of the board of directors of the Atlas National Bank; the United States Printing and Lithographing Company, and several others. A Republican in his political views, he was at one time a member of the Board of Aldermen, and for two successive terms its president ; a member of the Cincinnati School Board, president and trustee of the Hughes High School ; and is now and has been a member of the Union Board of High Schools since 1865. Mr. Stephens, who is noted as an authority concerning admiralty law and insurance law, is a member of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar, and the Cincinnati Bar. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a Past Noble Grand ; and he is a member of the Queen City Club, Cincinnati Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, and several other civic and social organizations. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Universalist Church. Charles H. Stephens married, August 13, 1873, Alice May- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 183 hew Bard, of Cincinnati, daughter of Sylvester W. and Louisa (Mayhew) Bard. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens are the parents of : 1. Charles H. Stephens, Jr., graduated from Harvard University with his degrees, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Laws. 2. Bard. 3. Howard V., married Eloise McLoed, who resides in St. Louis, Missouri, and they are the parents of four children. RICHARD J. NELSON. A leading educator of Ohio, who specializes in the commercial phases of the subject, and a leading business man as well, is Richard J. Nelson, president of the Nelson Business College Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Richard J. Nelson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 29, 1858, son of Richard and Eleanor (Higginson) Nelson. His father, born in Castle-ward, County Down, Ireland, July 9, 1822, son of Captain James Nelson, was well educated in the elementary schools of his native country and at Belfast University. He came to America in August, 1849, and in 1856 settled in Cincinnati, where he established Nelson's Business College of Cincinnati. He published three widely used text books : Nelson's "Mercantile Arithmetic" ; Nelson's "New Bookkeeping," and Nelson's "Accounts and Business." For a number of years also Richard Nelson issued an educational journal. As the college in Cincinnati grew in success, a branch was opened in Springfield, Ohio. The two were incorporated under the name of the Nelson Business College Company, capitalized at $50,000. Richard Nelson died in 190o, and his wife in 1897. Richard J. Nelson was educated in the grammar and high schools of Cincinnati, in Chickering Institute, and he supplemented this academic training by a course in the Nelson Business College. Thus he was admirably prepared for a business career, in which a large measure of success might have been predicted ; such was the case. Mr. Nelson began his business career with the John Church Music House in Cincinnati; from 184 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE here he became manager of the Cincinnati Printing Concern. Since then he has engaged most advantageously in various business enterprises. When his father died in 1900, Mr. Nelson took over the management of the Nelson Business College, and he has had entire control of its development since that time. This school is now one of the largest in Ohio, having an annual enrollment of seven hundred well trained young applicants. It occupies the entire fourth floor in the Odd Fellows' Temple building in Cincinnati. So practical and thorough is the course that Nelson graduates are much in demand in all the business houses of the city and its environs. Mr. Nelson's own wide business experience, gained as executive in a dozen or more important enterprises, his uncommon administrative and pedagogic ability, his progressiveness and his foresight have enabled him, almost singlehanded, to erect this splendid educational structure. Mr. Nelson is a Republican in political sympathies, but has never sought office. He is a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, the Cincinnati Club, and the Maketawah Golf Club. His religious affiliation is with the Methodist Church. Richard J. Nelson married, on June 1, 1881, in Cincinnati, Carrie N. Mitchell. They are the parents of two sons : Richard C., a public auditor of Chicago, Illinois ; and Charles H., assistant manager of the American Laundry Machinery Company, of Chicago. THOMAS JAMES GLENN, M. D. Choosing a calling which perhaps means more to humanity than any other profession, Dr. Thomas James Glenn has contributed untiringly in his endeavors to alleviate the sufferings of mankind, and particularly those of children, specializing in pediatrics. Dr. Thomas James Glenn was born in Cincinnati, May 7, 1884, son of Michael and Mary (Bennan) Glenn, his father an employee of a Southern Ohio railroad. He was educated in GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 185 the parochial schools of Cincinnati and St, Xavier College; then entered the University of Cincinnati, where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1908. He was interne at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, for a time, after which he commenced active practice in Covington, Kentucky, where he remained thirteen years. He then returned to his native city, and has since practiced continuously at No. 22 West Seventh Street. Dr. Glenn is a member of the staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital and of the General Hospital, and holds membership in the American Medical Association, Central States Pediatric Society, Ohio State Medical Society, and Academy of Medicine. Dr. Glenn is a member of the Knights of Columbus, fourth degree, and is a regular communicant of the St. Francis De Sales Roman Catholic Church. In politics he is a Republican. Dr. Thomas James Glenn married, at Cincinnati, October 7, 1914, Margaret A. Downs, and to them were born five children : Mary Jane, Helen, Thomas, John, and James. ALFRED BETTMAN. One of the prominent lawyers of Cincinnati is Alfred Bettman, a man who has held several public offices in city and county with marked success. He is the son of Louis and Rebecca ( Bloom) Bettman, the father born in Saxe-Weimar, in 1842. He was a clothing manufacturer in Cincinnati, where he lived for sixty years. Alfred Bettman was born in Cincinnati, August 26, 1873, and attended the Cincinnati public schools. He then became a student at Harvard, graduating from the college in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and from the Harvard Law School in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. From the date of his graduation in 1898 to the present day he has practised his profession in Cincinnati, having been admitted to the bar that same year. Politically Mr. Bettman is a Democrat. He served from 1909 to 1911 as assisting prosecuting 186 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE attorney of Hamilton County, in charge of the Civil Division, and in 1912-13 he held office as city solicitor of Cincinnati. During the World War Mr. Bettman was called into service as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in the War Division of the. Department of Justice, in connection with the enforcement of the Selective Service and Espionage laws, Alien Enemy statute and other war measures. He served in this capacity from October, 1917, to May, 1919. Mr. Bettman is a member of the Queen City Club, of Cincinnati, the Business Men's Club, of Cincinnati, Losantiville Club, of Cincinnati, Harvard Clubs, of Cincinnati and of New York City, and Cosmos Club, of Washington. He is also a member of city, State, and National Bar associations, and of the Judicial Council of Ohio. He has been extremely prominent in the movement for town and city planning, is chairman of the United City Planning Committee of Cincinnati, which promoted Cincinnati's city plan, is a director of the American City Planning Institute, and a legal member of the. British Town Planning Institute. Mr. Bettman's favorite sport is canoeing, and he has a beautiful summer cottage on Georgian Bay, Ontario, in which he and his family spend the summers. His religious affiliations are with the Jewish Synagogue. Mr. Bettman married, at Cincinnati, on June 20, 1904, Lillian Wyler, daughter of Louis and Sophie (Swartz) Wyler, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Bettman have no children. SAMUEL DARLINGTON HEED. Samuel Darlington Heed has realized the ambition nursed by most engineers in being throughout his business career connected with vital and impressive public business. He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1884, the son of John Clement and Emma (Darlington) Heed, both born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The Heed family originated in England, where their ancient lineage is recorded, and it was Samuel D. Heed's great-great-grandfather who came to Amer- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 187 ica and settled in Eastern Pennsylvania. John C. Heed was born October 19, 1848, lived in West Chester, where he still makes his home with his wife, and before his retirement from active life was commissioner of public works. Mr. and Mrs. Heed were the parents of four children : Frank ; Howard, Samuel Darlington, of whom further, and A. May. The early education of Samuel D. Heed was acquired in the public and high schools of his native town, and he graduated from the Engineering Department of Swarthmore College, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Civil Engineering, in 1907. His business career has been most active and full of responsible achievements. During the summers of his college years, he worked with the engineer corps, Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company, with the borough engineer of Morton, Pennsylvania, and as civil engineer with the borough engineer of Darby, Pennsylvania. For three years after he graduated, he was civil engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on the tunnel and terminal extension into New York City, as chairman, rodman, instrument man, chief of party, estimator, designer, office engineer, and assistant to the resident engineer. Next he was sales engineer with Hess & Son, of Philadelphia, and later with a manufacturer of electric storage batteries in Niagara Falls. The appointment as engineer inspector in the Bureau of Highways of New York called him to that city, where he later became resident engineer on the famous Hell Gate Bridge with responsible charge of construction work that totaled a cost of twenty-five million dollars. As executive secretary of the Alumni of Swarthmore College, he organized and administered a campaign for an increased endowment. He then became executive assistant to the general sales manager of the H. J. Heinz Company, in Pittsburgh. The World War interrupted his career in 1918, and he was advanced to the rank of major in 1919, his assignments being : Engineer of the Plant Facilities Section, Production Division ; officer in charge, U. S. Propellant Assembly Plant at Tully- 188 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE town, Pennsylvania, until the Armistice was signed. He was then administrative officer of the Claims Board, in the Plant Facilities Branch, then chairman and executive officer of the Claims Staff, Investigating Branch, Philadelphia District Ordnance Claims Board. Major Heed was special representative of the Secretary of War at Nitro, West Virginia, during 1920 and 1921, acting as chairman of the Sales Control Committee on disposition of Explosives Plant "C." In 1921 he became general manager of the Union Gas & Electric Company in Cincinnati, and in 1924 was advanced to a vice-presidency in the organization. In 1925 he was elected vice-president of the Columbia Engineering and Management Company, having jurisdiction of the many properties forming the Columbia Gas & Electric Company. In January, 1926, Mr. Heed was elected president of the Hurley Machine Company, of Chicago, and of necessity removed to that city. He was chosen as the editor of "The Industrial History of Greater Cincinnati" in three volumes, but owing to his leaving the city before its publication was forced to abandon the work. Mr. Heed was for two years president of the Cincinnati Electric Club, is a member of the American Society of Engineers, and a member of Fort Mitchell Country Club, where he has opportunity to indulge in his favorite diversion of golf. A member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, he is president of the local group. He belongs also to the Engineers' Club of Cincinnati, to the Queen City Club, and to the Sigma Tau Fraternity. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Samuel D. Heed married, in Cincinnati, October 15, 1924, Elizabeth Ellison, daughter of the lately deceased Captain J. F. Ellison and his wife, Frances (Taylor) Ellison. Mr. Heed was the recipient of many testimonial gifts, banquets, etc., given in his honor before his departure for his new field of labor. J. ANTON AVRIL. The death of J. Anton Avril, during the early days of 1926, brought to a close the activities of one of Cincinnati's best and GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 189 most widely known business men. Mr. Avril, a native of Germany, came to Cincinnati while yet a young man in his twenties, established a meat market and applied himself so diligently to his business that upon his death he was classed as one of the city's wealthy and influential men. In his business life Mr. Avril applied those fundamental principles of fair-dealing and honesty which he had learned at his mother's knee and at the gymnasia of his native land. He was ever courteous, kindly in manner, and among the characteristics of his make-up were those prerequisites to success—ability, efficiency, industry, perseverance, and almost indefatigable energy. He lived a noble and upright life, and that he will be greatly missed, not alone by the members of his immediate family, but also by the many hundreds who were glad to call him friend, is a foregone conclusion. He was always deeply interested in public affairs, and was a devoted citizen of his adopted city and country. J. Anton Avril was born in Bavaria, Germany, on August 28, 1862, a son of Anton J. and Catherine (Schneider) Avril. He received a liberal and comprehensive education in the schools and gymnasia of his native land, and in the year 1887, at the age of twenty-five, came to America, the land of opportunity, settling at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was destined to spend the rest of his life. He was an experienced butcher by trade, and upon taking up his residence in the Oueen City, found employment in that trade, working for various establishments until the year 1894, at which time he opened his own meat market at the corner of Court and Finley streets, where he continued in active business until his death. Mr. Avril was a hard and tireless worker, and by industry and close application he worked up a meat business second to none in size and scope in the city of Cincinnati and its environs. As the business grew, Mr. Avril added to it, and in this way, in addition to the fact that he always tried to please every customer, he was soon known to thousands. His business in the Findley and Court Streets Markets soon became noted for the superior quality of 190 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE boiled ham which it offered to the retail trade, and in a short time Mr. Avril was known throughout that section of the State as the "Boiled Ham King." The business is now managed by one of Mr. Avril's sons, Ferdinand Avril, who took over the establishment when his father retired from active business in March of 1925. Mr. Avril was especially prominent in fraternal circles in Cincinnati, and that he was ever "in search of further light in Masonry," is proved by the fact that, in addition to holding membership in Hanselmann Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, he had also become a member of the Scottish Rite and Shrine bodies. He was likewise a member of the Inner Circle and the Pioneers. Politically, he was a firm believer in, and an ardent advocate of, the principles of Republicanism, while his religious affiliation was given to St. John's Unitarian Church, of which he was a regular attendant and a liberal supporter. He held membership in many of Cincinnati's singing societies, was very fond of travel, and traveled extensively in America. A short time before his death he had arranged for an extensive European trip with his wife. This would have been his first trip to the home of his nativity. He was also a devotee of all out-of-door sports and motoring. His death occurred at his home, No. 4601 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 24, 1926, during his sixty-fourth year. Funeral services were held at the residence on the Wednesday following, interment taking place in the Vine Street Hill Cemetery. He is survived by his widow, and their daughter and three sons. J. Anton Avril was married, in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 8, 1892, to Florentine Conver, a daughter of Christian and Catherine (Strassner) Conver. J. Anton and Florentine (Conver) Avril were the parents of four children, as follows : 1. Ferdinand, served with the 331st Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces, during the World War ; was in France in active service for nine months ; took over the meat market in 1925 when his father retired ; married Helen Ritter. 2. George, attended University of Cincinnati, owns the GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 191 George A. Avril Smelting Works at No. 2818 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, served in France during the late war with the 180th Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces ; married Olga Bauer, and they have one child, Thomas Avril. 3. Alma, married George H. Riehl, who served in the late World War, stationed at Camp Taylor, is now bookkeeper for the Union Trust Company of Cincinnati. 4. Arthur, a graduate of the Ohio State University in the Engineering Department ; is now associated with the France Stone Company, of Toledo, Ohio, as an expert mining engineer. J. Anton Avril led a long and useful life. He was a devoted husband and father, and a credit and an asset to the community in which he spent his most fruitful years. He is survived by his widow and the four above-mentioned children. Mrs. Florentine (Conver) Avril continues to reside in the family home at No. 4601 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. CARROLL W. DE COURCY, M. D. The eldest of five sons of a physician who, through many years of general practice, had established for himself an enviable professional reputation, Dr. De Courcy chose for himself, too, the pursuit of a medical career. He was born in Cincinnati, July 11, 1883, a son of William E. and Frances (McCarthy) De Courcy, his father a physician, now retired. Dr. Carroll W. De Courcy was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and then attended the University of Cincinnati from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1902. He then served as an interne at St. Mary's Hospital, Cincinnati, and was also on the staff of the Cincinnati General Hospital and the Good Samaritan Hospital. Licensed in 1904, he began practicing in the same year and specialized in internal medicine in which branch of his profession he is considered one of the leaders. He maintains offices in association with two younger brothers, at No. 210 West Ninth Street. During the World War he served with the United States Army Medical Corps with the rank of captain in 1917 and 1918. 192 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Dr. De Courcy is a Fellow of the American Medical Association, and a member of the Ohio State Medical Association and the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. His religious affiliations are with the Roman Catholic Church, and he is a communicant of St. Peter's Cathedral. Dr. De Courcy is unmarried and makes his home at No. 3014 Woodburn Avenue. GILES ANTHONY DE COURCY, M. D. Like four of his brothers, Dr. Giles A. De Courcy decided to follow in the footsteps of his father by choosing a medical career. He was born in Cincinnati, September 3, 1886, a son of William E. and Frances (McCarthy) De Courcy, the father a physician, now retired. Dr. Giles Anthony De Courcy was educated in the public schools of his native city and then attended the University of Cincinnati from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1911. He then joined the staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital in which institution he also did some post-graduate work. In 1912 he began the practice of medicine as a member of the Medical Corps of the United States Army. After the end of the World War in 1918 he returned to Cincinnati, joining two of his brothers in the practice of medicine at No. 210 West Ninth Street. He specializes in surgery exclusively, and is especially well-known for his success in obstetric surgery. Besides holding membership in his professional associations, the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Association and the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, he is also a member of the Knights of Columbus, and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Dr. De Courcy was married in Cincinnati, June 20, 1914, to Martha Sudbeck. Dr. and Mrs. De Courcy are the parents of four children : Ruth ; Giles, Jr. ; Martha F. ; and Carol Mae. The family home is at No. 1041 Academy Street, Price Hill. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 193 JOSEPH LUKE DE COURCY, M. D. The youngest of the five sons of Dr. William E. De Courcy, M. D., is one of Cincinnati's best known general practitioners of the last generation, and chose like his two older brothers to become a member of his father's profession. He was born in Cincinnati, March 2, 189o, a son of William E. and Frances (McCarthy) De Courcy, his father a physician, now retired. Dr. Joseph Luke De Courcy was educated in the public schools of his native city and then attended the University of Cincinnati from which he graduated with the degree of M. D., in 1913. He then went to New York City to do post-graduate work and from 1913 to 1915 also served as house surgeon on the staff of the New York Polyclinic Hospital. Upon his return to Cincinnati in 1915 he began the practice of surgery in which branch of his profession he has specialized since then. He has been chief surgeon and a member of the staff of Seton Hospital since 1915, and a visiting surgeon of the Good Samaritan Hospital since 1924. From 1916 to 1920 he was associate professor of genito-urinary surgery at the University of Cincinnati and at Cincinnati General Hospital, and in 1920 organized the De Courcy Clinic. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Association, the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Catholic Hospital Association, the American Association of Science, and the American Association for the Study of Goitre. He has published in various medical journals numerous articles dealing chiefly with surgery, particularly with goitre surgery. His clubs include the Cincinnati Business Mens, University, and Catholic, and he is also a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, while his religious affiliations are with the Roman Catholic Church, in which he is a communicant of St. Mary's Church. Dr. De Courcy was married at Cincinnati, November 28, Cin.-13 194 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE 1918, to Cornelia Bickett, of Chicago, Illinois. Dr. and Mrs. De Courcy are the parents of three children : Cornelia, born September 3, 1919 ; Helen M., born February 7, 1921; and Joseph, Jr., born November 19, 1922. He makes his office with two brothers, also physicians, at No. 210 West Ninth Street, while the family residence is at No. 2990 Observatory Road. CHALMERS HADLEY. Chalmers Hadley, a librarian of large experience, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, September 3, 1872. Simon Hadley, his great-great-great-great-grandfather, came to this country in 1712 from Kings County, Ireland, of English descent. The father of Chalmers Hadley, Dr. Evan Hadley, was born in Indiana in 1845, and died in Indianapolis in 1903. His mother, Ella (Quinn) Hadley, is living in Indianapolis. They were the parents of four children, Chalmers Hadley being the eldest. 2. Evan Hadley. 3. Dr. Harvey Hadley. 4. Paul Hadley. Chalmers Hadley was graduated from the Shortridge High School in 1892; from Earlham College in 1896, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Letters. He attended the New York State Library School at Albany, and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Denver. He engaged in newspaper work in Philadelphia, where he remained for five years. At the end of that time he became secretary of the Indiana Library Commission. He was secretary of the American Library Association for two years ; after that librarian of the Denver Public Library. Mr. Hadley came to Cincinnati in September, 1924, and accepted his present position. He was president of the American Library Association in 1920; and president of the Colorado Library Commission by appointment from the Governor of Colorado from 1913 to 1924. He was on the State Food Commission of Colorado, and Inspector of Libraries in camps during the World War. His recreation he finds in gardening at home and in collecting first editions and book plates. He is a member of the Society GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 195 of Colonial Wars ; Cincinnati Library Club, the Business Men's Club, etc. In religion he belongs to the Society of Friends. Chalmers Hadley was married, in New York City, October 29, 1917, to Edna Florence Hendrie, born in Colorado, the daughter of Charles Francis and Sarah (Crocker) Hendrie. Mr. Hadley's business address is No. 629 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. GREGOR BERNARD MOORMANN. One of the prominent members of the legal fraternity of Cincinnati is Gregor Bernard Moormann, whose activities in local juridicial circles have been largely devoted to corporate practice. Mr. Moormann brings to his profession a large fund of legal knowledge and well defined forensic ability, which perquisites, in addition to a strict code of ethics, have contributed to his success in his chosen field of endeavor and have brought his name well to the fore, among the most successful of Cincinnati lawyers. Gregor Bernard Moormann was born at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 10, 189o, eldest child of Frank J. and Rose (Foss) Moormann, both of whom reside in Cincinnati at the present time (1926). The father, Frank J. Moormann, was born February 16, 1861, and after a successful career as attorney-at-law, is at the present time retired from active professional work. He was graduated from St. Xavier College, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1880; and in 1883 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Harvard Law School, having been graduated from that institution with honors. The mother, Rose (Foss) Moormann, was born on September 3, 1867. She received her education from the Sisters of Notre Dame, finishing her studies at the Mother House of this order in Namur, Belgium. Frank J. and Rose (Foss) Moormann are the parents of nine children, as follows : 1. Gregor Bernard, of whom this biographical review. 2. Ambrose F. 3. Catharine M. Fennell, 196 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Washington, District of Columbia. 4. T. Aquin, Bachelor of Arts, Cincinnati University; Master of Arts, Ohio State University. 5. Jerome E. 6. Rose Marie, Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Washington, District of Columbia, at present field secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, Washington, District of Columbia. 7. Margaret M., Sister Margaret Marie, Sister of Notre Dame. 8. Hilda M., sophomore, Trinity College, Washington, District of Columbia. 9. Augustine J. Frank J. Moormann's father was Bernard H. Moormann, one of the early pioneers of Cincinnati, with Henry Foss, the father of Mrs. Frank J. Moormann. Gregor Bernard Moormann received his early education in the Notre Dame Academy, at Grandin Road, East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, following which he prepared for College at St. Xavier High School. He then matriculated at St. Xavier College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1909, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The Master of Arts degree was conferred upon him by St. Xavier College in 1911. Mr. Moormann then entered the Cincinnati Law School, where he prepared for his life's work; was graduated in 1912, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His admission to the bar of the State of Ohio took place in June, 1912. Mr. Moormann embarked upon his professional career at once, and soon had built up a large clientele. His work, however, was temporarily halted by the World War, during which time he served as an officer in the United States Field Artillery. After the Armistice he resumed his practice, and in a short time became the legal advisor to the United States War Department Claims Board. In the year 1921 he became connected with the well known law firm of Maxwell & Ramsey of Cincinnati, a connection he still maintains. He is also Professor of Conflict of Laws and Agency at St. Xavier Law School, having been appointed to that chair in 1922. During his undergraduate days, Mr. Moormann was active GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 197 in college athletics, and in the years 1907 and 1908, he played the position of right end on the varsity football team of St. Xavier College. His present recreational sports are hunting and horseback riding, in both of which he excells. Mr. Moormann holds active membership in the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, St. Xavier Alumni, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Cincinnati Law School Alumni, the University Club of Cincinnati, and several other organizations. He is a member of the Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church, of Grandin Road, East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. Gregor Bernard Moormann was married at Cincinnati, Ohio, November 24, 1914, to Alma Marie Rabe, a native of Cincinnati, and a daughter of Henry G. and Louisa ( San-ten) Rabe, who now reside in Utica, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Moormann are active in the social and church circles of their community, and reside at No. 4 Arcadia Place, in Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. RUDOLPH TIETIG. Well known in Cincinnati, Ohio, as joint architect of many of the public buildings of which the city is proudest, Rudolph Tietig is famed for the distinctiveness and originality of his creative work as far afield as Memphis, Tennessee. Although both members of the firm of Tietig and Lee are comparatively young men, the firm has a deservedly high reputation and is one of the most widely known and most firmly established in the list of architects of the city. Rudolph Tietig was born in Cincinnati, on April 25, 1877, son of Arnold and Sophie (Thoke) Tietig, both deceased. The son was educated in public and technical schools, and his architectural and structural engineering training was acquired at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. His professional career began as usual in the lower branches of architecture, and he was a draftsman and designer until 1902. In that year he associated himself with the firm of Tietig and Lee, the other member of 198 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE the firm being Walter H. Lee (q. v.), with whom he has since continued to cooperate in designing beautiful buildings. The list comprises a wide variety of structures : the Doctors' Building, the Atlas National Bank Building, the Strand Theatre, the Garfield Hotel, and the Western Bank Building, among commercial types ; for the University of Cincinnati, the Engineers' Building and the Chemistry Building; at Memphis, Tennessee, the Medical Arts Building. Other schools designed by this firm are : the Stowe School, the largest in Cincinnati; the Sands School ; and the Hughes School, nationally known for the beauty of location and the artistic adaptation of style to setting. The Temple K. K. Ben Israel was the work of this firm, and the new Chamber of Commerce Building, in which Mr. Tietig was associated with Harry Hake, is in part his handiwork. Mr. Tietig is very popular in club and organization circles. He was formerly president of the local branch of the American Institute of Architects, of which he is still an active member. His clubs are the University and the Queen City. He is a Republican and an alert member of the Chamber of Commerce. His religious affiliation is with the Knox Presbyterian faith. He is a member of the Avon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, entitled to membership in the Blue Lodge. In 1905, Mr. Tietig married Margaret L. Andrews, of Newport, Kentucky, daughter of Albert and Agnes (Gaff) Andrews. To Mr. and Mrs. Tietig were born the following children : Rudolph Tietig, Jr., April 3, 1909 ; Albert Andrews Tietig, August 27, 1911; and Agnes Sophie, November 15, 1914. WALTER H. LEE. A member of the well known firm of Tietig and Lee, Walter H. Lee ranks high in the profession of architecture not only in Cincinnati, Ohio, where many beautiful public buildings bear testimony to his creativeness and artistry, but in many other sections of the country. Native ability, wide and GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 199 varied experience, and careful technical training combine to give finish and excellence of quality to the designs of Mr. Lee. He was born in Cincinnati February 1, 1877, son of Thomas and Wilhelmina (Brockman) Lee. The son was educated in the local public schools, continuing his studies along technical lines in the technical high school ; in 1898 he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the degree of Bachelor of Science, a classmate of Rudolph Tietig (q. v.). For four years Mr. Lee worked as draftsman and designer in various firms. His alert and retentive mind speedily absorbed the details and the underlying principles of architectural work. In 1902 he and Mr. Tietig became associated in the partnership of Tietig and Lee, which has since continued. This firm has designed many of the most attractive public buildings in Cincinnati, comprising both commercial and educational structures. Among these are : the Doctors' Building; the Atlas National Bank Building; the Strand Theatre; the Garfield Hotel; the Western National Bank Building; and, in association with Harry Hake, the new Chamber of Commerce Building. The firm designed the Temple K. K. Ben Israel. Mr. Lee and Mr. Tietig are justly renowned for their educational architecture as illustrated by the Engineers' and the Chemistry buildings at the University of Cincinnati, the Medical Arts Building in Memphis, Tennessee, the Stowe, Sands, and Hughes schools in Cincinnati. Mr. Lee is a member of the American Institute of Architects and in touch with the best current trends in his profession. He is a Republican and affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce. His religious affiliation is with the Presbyterian Church, on whose board of trustees he is influential. In 1904, Mr. Lee married Marie L. Leighton, of Cincinnati, and they are the parents of Mary L. Lee, and Margaret D. Lee. GEORGE A. DORNETTE. In his general practice of a lucrative law business in Cincinnati and the State from the time of his admission to the bar,