(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 250 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Laryngological Society. He is a member of the Hyde Park Business Men's Club, while his religious affiliation is given to the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a regular attendant and a liberal supporter. His extensive and specialized practice is carried on in conjunction with a firm of physicians, whose personnel comprises Doctors M. F. McCarthy, Francis Sigel, Albert L. Brown, in addition to Dr. Fischbach himself. The firm maintains offices at No. 2700 Union Central Building, in Cincinnati. Dr. Victor William Fischbach was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 30, 1926, to Aline Moore, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Morehead, and one of the most prominent society women in the Queen City. HARRY N. CHAPMAN. Among the important business men of Cincinnati is Harry N. Chapman, treasurer of the French Brothers-Bauer Company, and an important contributor to the healthy growth of that outstanding enterprise. Harry N. Chapman was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, June 1, 1867, son of Thomas J. Chapman, of English birth, who died in 1918, and his wife, Emma M. (French) Chapman, born in New York. The father was engaged in the ice cream and dairy business. The son was educated in the public grammar and high schools of Cincinnati, which are noted for their excellence. As a young man he entered the employ of the French Brothers and Bauer Company, with whom he has spent virtually all his mature years, advancing from one minor position to another in his youth and ultimately reaching the position of treasurer, to which he was elected in 1911. Mr. Chapman is still treasurer. The company was established about 1862 by Thomas French, and located across the river, on the Kentucky side. Some time later he admitted into the company his two sons, Algernon S. F'. and Albert French, and Thomas J. Chapman, father of the subject of this record. Prosperity accompanied the venture, GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 251 and in 1889, twenty-seven years after its inception, it was incorporated under the name of French Brothers Dairy Company, which, on April 1, 1910, became the French Brothers-Bauer Company. In 1910, also, the site was changed to Plum Street. In 1919 the company erected a handsome new building at the corner of Central Parkway and Plum Street, one of the finest in the United States devoted to the manufacture of ice cream and dairy products. The building is four stories high and contains 175,000 square feet of floor space, employing all told over one thousand workers. The company makes use of several branch plants and receiving stations and over a hundred trucks and automobiles in their distribution department. With its products widely used in Cincinnati, indeed, almost universally used, and its ice cream cones nationally reputed excellent, the company is also famous for the quality of food and service maintained in its restaurants scattered throughout Cincinnati. The business is firmly established as one of the oldest and largest in the United States today. Mr. Chapman is a member of the Republican party and the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, as well as of Carson Lodge, No. 598, Free and Accepted Masons, and he holds the thirty-second degree and Scottish Rite, and member in the Syrian Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His religious affiliation is with the Swedenborgian faith. In 1904, Mr. Chapman married Lulu M. Austin, of Hamilton County, Ohio, daughter of James F. and Katherine (Hornig) Austin. To them were born the following children : Harriett A., May 26, 1910; and Marian L., May 26, 1914. HIRAM S. MATHERS. In the field of fixing tax valuations and appraisal of real estate, wherein transactions often on an immense scale are negotiated, and in the completion of which the municipality frequently has a vital interest, Hiram S. Mathers, recognized 252 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE as one of the ablest experts in his profession, has rendered the city of Cincinnati and the county of Hamilton a service, the importance of which cannot be measured by monetary standards nor the rhetorician's skill. His private practice, too, is of a nature and volume as to furnish additional evidence of the high standing he enjoys in the Cincinnati area. His seemingly inexhaustible resources are at the command of a steadily increasing clientage, which regards his findings based on soundness of judgment, accuracy of computation and a thorough knowledge of values. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 18, 1859, Hiram S. Mathers is the son of William and Emily (Smith) Mathers, his father having been successfully engaged in the pork-packing business in this city for many years. The grade and high schools of Cincinnati furnished the son Hiram with an excellent academic education as far as their courses went, and he prepared for taking his place in the commercial world by a series of study at the Queen City Business College. He filled the position of clerk in various lines of business until he was thirty years of age, when, in 1889, he made the connection that was to have the most important bearing on his future career, entering the real estate business, in which he reached the conclusion that he had "found himself." He was engaged in a private capacity for thirty years, and in that period came to be more and more widely and favorably known to the interests demanding his services. In 1919, he entered into a co-partnership with William Ruhl and W. H. Dyer, forming the firm of Ruhl, Mathers & Dyer. This arrangement was only in operation a short time when the co-partnership was dissolved, and was succeeded by the firm of Mathers & Dyer. The purpose of the firm is to act as counsel or agent in the placing of business investments, dealing in industrial properties and in general real estate appraising. More important commissions which Mr. Mathers has executed in his personal practice of his profession include the fixing of the benefits to be derived from the construction of the GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 253 Central Parkway, under appointment as appraiser by the Rapid Transit Commission, and his fixing of tax valuations in the down town section of Cincinnati, under appointments by the County Auditor, in the years 191o, 1917, and 1924. His firm is advantageously located in offices in the Mercantile Library Building. He enjoys high standing among those similarly engaged, and is a member and trustee of the Cincinnati Real Estate Board. In politics Mr. Mathers is an Independent Republican, without aspiration for public office. In the World War period he was very active in different departments of service : a member of the Cincinnati Home Guards, member of the Marine Recruiting Corps, the Liberty Loan Committees, and otherwise engaged in patriotic and welfare work. He is a communicant of St. Francis De Sales' Roman Catholic Church, Cincinnati. Mr. Mathers married, January 29, 1890, at Cincinnati, Anna Julia Braunstein, daughter of Frank X. Braunstein, and they are the parents of six children : 1. Paul J., associated with the Baldwin Piano Company, of Cincinnati. 2. Hiram S., Jr., associated in business with his father. 3. Mary, married L. Lawton Terhune, of Cincinnati. 4. William H., manager of the Gabriel Snubbers Company, of Cincinnati. 5. John F., associated in business with his father. 6. Richard F., a student at Georgetown University. GEORGE EDWARD PFAU. The "Pfau Farm," owned by George Edward Pfau, was a beautiful and hospitable expanse of woodland and improved land always open to city-dwellers who wished to picnic there, for Mr. Pfau, like his father before him, loved Cincinnati and contributed in every way that he could to public happiness and well-being. He also played an important part in business and civic phases of community life. George E. Pfau was born in Cincinnati on January 31, 254 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE 1857, son of Jacob Peter and Margaret (Bogen) Pfau, who were among the earliest settlers of the town, and a descendant of Jean Thierry, of Chateau Thierry, since made famous by the war. Most of his adult life was spent on the Hartwell Heights farm, first developed by his father, who, with Michael Pfau and Nicholas Longworth, grandfather of the present Congressman, had terraced the land for grapes and produced the first white wine made in the United States. Wonderful masonry is to be found in the stone-arched cellar of the old residence, material for which was quarried on the farm. Stone for churches in the valley and for the city infirmary were donated by Jacob Pfau, who took a keen interest in every evidence of progress. When the white miller proved a pest to farmers, Mr. Longworth and Jacob Pfau, with others, imported English sparrows to kill off the millers, which they did. These same gentlemen established the Zoo Garden in Cincinnati, as the earliest records of lists of stockholders indicate. George Edward Pfau continued the activities of his home farm. He was also an organizer of the North Baltimore Glass Company, now of Terre Haute, Indiana, and president of the Elmwood First National Bank. He was also, at the time of his death, the oldest member of the Hamilton County Agricultural Society. His part in the World War was an outgrowth of his superintendency of the Hamilton County Pair Grounds, known for the duration of the war as Camp Columbia, and Mr. Pfau was the only citizen who could issue a pass, one of which remains as a souvenior among the family possessions. His farm was one of the happiest picnic places of the vicinity. Beautiful, it offered hospitality to all, and Mr. Pfau's only request of those who accepted was that they come again. There occurred the first "Round Up" of the Boy Scouts, who camped for a week and were addressed by Judge Hoffman, and the Camp Fire Girls there experienced first the joys of camping, remaining for two weeks. Schools in botany, geology, art students, and philanthropic organizations were all invited there for outings, and Government bird census takers visited the GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 255 place to report on the variety of birds making their homes there. The Ohio State Guards had target practice there under command of Captain Lincoln Mitchell. On the farm is found the largest trilobite in the United States. This unique property is still a family possession. George Edward Pfau was married in September, 1902, to Bess Early Elliott, who survives him with their three children : Margaret Anne; Edward Duncan; and George E. Pfau. Death came to Mr. Pfau after a long and useful life on November 9, 1925, in his sixty-eighth year. He spoke truly when, throughout his lifetime, he said that he was a member of the biggest church in the world—that of Brotherly Love. He loved all his fellow-men, rich and poor, good and bad, and gave of his heart and mind and possessions to bringing to all the gifts of happiness and goodness. To his funeral services in recognition of his friendship came Gentile, Jew, Protestant, Catholic, and even members of the colored race. He was public spirited. His whole contribution to Cincinnati civic life was rich and wholesome. MORTIMER MATTHEWS. A member of a family distinguished in the profession of the law, Mortimer Matthews, of Cincinnati, whose father, Stanley Matthews, was a Justice of the United States Supreme Court and a member of the United States Senate from Ohio, has reflected honor upon that worthy name and graced his profession for now nearly forty-five years. He has made a specialty of corporation and real estate law for many years, and the extent of his practice may be gathered from the fact that he is a member of the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the District Court of the Southern District of Ohio, the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio and all other Ohio courts. His broad learning in the law has been recognized by temporary appointment to the chair of Equity Jurisdiction at the Law 256 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE School of the College of Cincinnati, and he has also served as counsel for important industrial and railroad interests in Ohio. Mortimer Matthews was born in Glendale, Ohio, June 22, 1858, the son of Stanley and Mary Ann (Black) Matthews. He is a great grandson of William Brown, who was amongst the first settlers of Columbia (now a part of Cincinnati) in 1789. William Brown, as sergeant of a company of the 5th Regiment, Connecticut Line, led the forlorn hope in the taking of the first redoubt at Yorktown, October 14, 1781, and for his gallantry was one of three persons only during the Revolutionary War to receive the Purple Heart Badge of Military Merit. His father, Stanley Matthews, was a United States Senator from Ohio, serving in the years 1877-78, and took his seat on the bench of the United States Supreme Court in 1881, rendering noteworthy service as a member of that august tribunal until his death in 1889. His mother died in 1884. She was a native of Tennessee, and his father a native of Cincinnati. The son Mortimer began his education in the public schools of his native place, and then attended Freehold Institute in New Jersey, for three years, and there prepared for college. He entered Princeton University, whence he was graduated in the class of 1878 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1882 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Next entering the Law School of Cincinnati College, he was graduated in 1881 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar of the State of Ohio in 1881, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he has attained a wide reputation as a lawyer of ability, with a practice that ramifies throughout his native State and reaches to the highest court of the land. From 1881 to 1887 he was at different times a member of the law firms, Ramsey, Matthews & Matthews, Ramsey & Matthews, and Ramsey, Maxwell & Matthews. In 1887 Mr. Matthews withdrew from his association with legal firms, and engaged in practice independently, and this arrangement he has followed to date. He has been conspicuously successful. Noteworthy commissions GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 257 which he has filled included legal representative of the Pullman Company at Cincinnati, and in Southern Ohio for forty years, and for a part of that period as counsel for several railroads at Cincinnati. His practice otherwise in corporation and real estate law has been extensive and has embraced some noteworthy cases brought before the c0urts. In 1885 he was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, 0f which his honored father was at that time a Justice. His professorship in the Cincinnati College Law School was of predetermined temporary duration, his appointment to the chair of Equity Jurisdiction being made in 1906. Mr. Matthews' Republican faith has been his political guide through all the years. He was a member of the Republican County Executive Committee in 1890. He has numerous important interests outside the law, and of these is the Matthews Selected Dairies Company, of which he is president. During the World War he was of aid to the United States Government in the capacity of assisting in the matter of the "questionnaires" under the Selective Service (Draft) Law. His standing in the legal profession has been frequently acknowledged by his brethren, who in their respective organizations have elected him to membership in the American Bar Association, Ohio Bar Association, and Cincinnati Bar Association. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, England ; trustee and vice-president of the Bethany Home for Boys, and of the Society of Transfiguration, Glendale, Ohio ; member of the Cincinnati Law Library Association, the Chamber of Commerce, Y0ung Men's Mercantile Library Association of Cincinnati and the Glendale Lyceum. His clubs are : University and Episcopal Church of Cincinnati, Princeton of New York, Nassau of Princeton, New Jersey; Chicago Yacht of Chicago, Illinois. His religious association is with Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he is a vestryman. Mortimer Matthews married, December 28, 1881, Marianna Procter, of Glendale, Ohio, daughter of William A. and Cin.-17 258 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Elizabeth ( Jackson) Procter, her father being the senior member of the famous soap manufacturing house of the Procter & Gamble Company, of Cincinnati. Children : 1. Elizabeth M. 2. Isabella, died in infancy. 3. Olivia, now Sister Olivia, in the Convent of Transfiguration. 4. Mary, now Sister Mary Catherine, in the Convent of Transfiguration. 5. Stanley, an architect. 6. William Procter. Mr. Matthews takes a special delight in yachting, and he is the owner of a beautiful power yacht, which plies chiefly on the waters of Lake Huron. Mr. Matthews has his offices at No. 514 Main Street, 73 Blymyer Building, Cincinnati, and his residence near Glendale, Hamilton County, Ohio. REV. JOHN ALFRED DIEKMANN. A devoted and practical public benefactor is the Rev. John Alfred Diekmann, president of Bethesda Hospital, in Cincinnati, Ohio. A Christian with unusually high ideals of service to mankind, thoroughly trained in the ministry, Mr. Diekmann has long put his gifts at the service of Bethesda Hospital. He was born at Doltons Station, Cook County, Illinois, August 8, 1872, son of Ernest and Wilhelmina (Osterhagen) Diekmann, both of whom were born in Germany and came to this country in 1848, settling in Dolton, Illinois. Ernest Diekmann, a farmer, died there in 1908 at the age of eighty-three, and his widow still resides there at the age of ninety. Ernest Diekmann and his wife were the parents of twelve children. John A. Diekmann graduated from Baldwin Wallace College at Berea, Ohio, from Nast Theological Seminary, and from Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey. He then held the position of professor in Baldwin Wallace College for three years, and for a time thereafter, for some fifteen years, served various churches as pastor. In 1912 he became educational and religious director for Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati, with which he has since been connected. Since 1921 he has been president of the hospital. Mr. Diekmann is a member GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 259 of the Board of Hospitals and Homes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of the Board of Directors of the National Methodist Tubercular Sanatorium at Colorado Springs, Colorado, a member 0f the board of directors of Bethesda Hospital, and on the directorate of William Nast College. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His administration of Bethesda has been notably efficient, and the atmosphere of the hospital under his supervision is wholesome and happy. He married on November 29, 1898, in Chicago, Illinois, Lydia Elizabeth Keller, daughter of William and Anna (Walter) Keller, the latter of whom resides in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Diekmann are the parents of three children : Carl Keller, born May 14, 1901; Laura Adela, born March 27, 1904; and J. Waldo, born August 15, 1906. WILLIAM H. DYER. Well known in the real estate world in particular, and throughout Cincinnati in general, which owes much of its prosperous development to his activities, William H. Dyer is a member of the Mathers Dyer Company, realtors, whose offices are in the Mercantile Library Building, in Cincinnati, Ohio. William H. Dyer was born in Newport, Kentucky, April 19, 1868, son of William H. and Virginia Prentice (Hawthorne) Dyer. His father, born in England, was a manufacturer of blank books until his death in 1869. His mother, born in Newport, Kentucky, died in 1874, was descended on the maternal side from Richard Southgate, one of the well-known early settlers of northern Kentucky. Mr. Dyer was educated in the Newport public schools and at Babbins Collegiate School in Cincinnati. His first entry into the business world was in Texas real estate in 1890. After four successful years there, he moved to Newport, Kentucky, in 1894, and has been in the real estate business in Newport and Cincinnati since that period. In 1920 Mr. Dyer became associated with Hiram Mathers in his present enterprise, 260 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Mathers & Dyer, realtors. An experienced business man, Mr. Dyer has a very accurate and keen sense of realty values, together with phenomenal foresight. His endeavor has always been to make his business an asset to the city as well as a source of prosperity for himself. He is a member and past president of the Cincinnati Real Estate Board, member and past president of the Ohio State Association of Real Estate Boards, member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, of which he has been vice-president; past president of the Covington and Newport Real Estate Boards. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, and the Business Men's clubs, as well as of the Cincinnati Automobile Club. Mr. Dyer's p0litical sympathies are with the Republican party. During the World War he was active in all the movements furthered in this country on behalf of the war. He was an energetic member of the United States Housing Corporation, having served as a scout investigator and as a negotiator. He aided in the Liberty Loan drives; in campaigns to enlist the interest of young men in service; on the Council of National Defense, and in the United War Work Campaign. In addition to his business and patriotic activities, Mr. Dyer has also been faithful to his responsibilities as a citizen and served for a term as Senator in the Kentucky State Legislature. JOHN RANDOLPH SCHINDEL. Member of a family of gifted men, John Randolph Schindel is one of the outstanding members of the Cincinnati bar. He has an honorable ancestry, on his father's side being descended from Johann P. Schindel, of Euerlebach, County of Erbach, Germany, who came to Pennsylvania, and settled in what is now Lebanon, in 1751. His grandson, John P. Schindel, was ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church in 1812, and c0ntinued in the ministry until 1858. His son, Jeremiah Schindel was ordained June 1, 1831, and was continuously in the ministry until March, 1870, with the exception of three GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 261 years at the time of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1864, when he served as chaplain of the i l0th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He also, just prior to the Civil War, represented his district in the Pennsylvania Senate. He was the father of Jeremiah P. Schindel, father of John Randolph Schindel. Jeremiah P. Schindel was born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, January 18, 1839. He enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil War, and was commissioned as lieutenant in the Sixth United States Infantry, participating in the Peninsular campaign, and was brevetted for gallantry at the battle of Malvern Hill. He was present at the second battle of Bull Run, and the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. After the war he continued in the United States regular army until his death in 1894. His wife, Mary Pintard (Bayard) Schindel, survived him eleven years, and died in 1905. Of the four children in their family, three attained maturity : i. Samuel John Bayard, who was a Colonel of Infantry, United States Army, having participated in the Spanish-American War, being present in the engagements before Santiago, and during the World War was a Brigadier-General. 2. John Randolph, of this review. 3. Louis Pintard, who was a member of the Sixth United States Infantry, and is now deceased. On the maternal side, Mr. Schindel is descended from Rev. Nicholas Bayard, a French Huguenot, who fled from France to escape religious persecution and settled in Holland. His grandson, Samuel Bayard, married, in 1638, Anna Stuyvesant, a sister of Peter Stuyvesant, who became the first Dutch Governor of New York. Samuel Bayard died in 1647, and his widow, with her three sons, came to New York with her brother, Peter Stuyvesant, the latter, in 1674, marrying Blandina Kierstedt. Their great-grandson, John B. Bayard, was mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey ; trustee of Princeton College, and, during the Revolution, was Colonel of a New Jersey cavalry regiment. He was United States Commissioner to Ghent, and made a trip to France to arouse the interest of 262 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE the French Government to assist the American colonies in the Revolutionary War. He married, in 1759, Margaret Hodge, and they had a son Samuel, who, in 1790, married Martha Pintard, a niece of Richard Stockton. Samuel Bayard practiced law in Philadelphia, was Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, and afterward Agent for the United States Government in Admiralty courts in London, England. His son, Samuel J. Bayard, the grandfather of John Randolph Schindel, married, in 1833, Jane Dashiell, the daughter of a Protestant Episcopal clergyman of Baltimore, Maryland. He lived in Camden, New Jersey, where he practiced law and was Secretary of the Camden & Amboy Railroad. Their daughter, Martha Pintard Bayard, married Jeremiah P. Schindel. John Randolph Schindel, son of Jeremiah P. and Martha Pintard (Bayard) Schindel, was born at Fort Stevenson, Dakota, June 8, 1875. He was educated in the Army Post schools of Fort Douglas, Utah, and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Plattsburg High School, New York; Hughes High School, Cincinnati, and the Law Department of the University of Cincinnati, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in 1899, and was associated with Maxwell & Ramsey from 1899 to 1906; was Assistant City Solicitor of Cincinnati, 1906-08; formed a partnership with Morison R. Waite, under the name of Waite & Schindel, in 1909 ; in 1916 Herman A. Bayless was admitted to the firm, when the firm name became Waite, Schindel & Bayless ; in 1926 Herbert Shaffer became a member of the firm. Mr. Schindel was Attorney for The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway, 1909-17; has been Attorney for The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company since 1917; for The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company since 1909; a Director and General Counsel of The Columbia Life Insurance Company since 1921, and Attorney for The Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railway Company since 1920. He specializes in railroad and corporation law. He is Vice-president, Attorney and GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 263 Director of The Mariemont Company ; Vice-president and Trustee of the Thomas J. Emery Memorial ; was a Director of The C. N. 0. & T. P. Railway Company, 1919-22 ; is a Director of the Hamilton Belt Railroad, and The Holmes Coal Company, and Joslin-Schmidt Corporation; a Trustee of the Cincinnati Law Library Association, and the Babies Milk Fund Association of Cincinnati. He was a member of the Cincinnati Charter Commission and Chairman of its Public Utilities Committee, 1913-14; was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cincinnati Bureau of Municipal Research, 1911-17; a member of the Advisory Committee of the National Municipal League, 1909-12 ; President of the City Club of Cincinnati, 1909-11. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, and Cincinnati Bar Association, having served the latter body as President, 1925-26. He is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and of the Academy of Political Science ; University Club, of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Country Club, Camargo Country Club, Cincinnati Club, Old Colony Club, of whose National Advisory Board he is a member ; Cincinnati Literary Club, Cincinnati Automobile Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Loyal Legion. His political faith is that of the Republican party. He is a vestryman of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, of Cincinnati. Mr. Schindel married, in 1918, Ella B. Baker, a native of Cincinnati. REV. FRANCIS ALOYSIUS ROTH. Rev. Francis Aloysius Roth, priest of St. William's Parish, Cincinnati, which he organized in 1910, and which has grown under his guidance from one hundred families to five hundred and fifty families, was born July 21, 1872, at Reading, Ohio. He is a son of Aloysius and Catherine (Kuhn) Roth. His father, Aloysius Roth, was born in Germany and came to America as a young man, settling in Reading, where he was 264 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE employed as a teamster for many years, and where he died, July 6, 1878, at the age of fifty-four. Father Roth's mother, Catherine (Kuhn) Roth, was born on the Rhine, in Germany, and died in Reading, March 16, 1918, at the age of eighty-one. They were the parents of nine children, of whom two survive : John Conrad, who lives in Reading and is employed in the Colton Mills, and Father Roth. As a boy Father Roth attended the parochial school of Sts. Peter and Paul, at Reading, then entered St. Xavier College, leaving there in 1889 to go to Emmetsburg, Maryland. In 1892 he graduated from Mt. St. Mary College and then entered the Theological Seminary and at the same time taught the Latin and Greek classics. On September 15, 1895, he entered Mt. St. Mary's of the West and was ordained to the priesthood, December 22, 1895. He was assistant to Rev. John Albrinck from January, 1896, to October of that year, and then was associated with St. Gregory's Seminary where he was professor, procurator, and treasurer of this institution until it was closed in 1907. He was then appointed chaplain of Mt. St. Joseph Motherhouse Sisters of Charity, and held this post until 1910, when he organized the Parish of St. William's, Cincinnati, where he is still at work. His efforts have been very successful ; from a community of one hundred families in the parish at its organization, it has grown to five hundred and fifty families, and the parish is expecting to erect a fine $300,000 church within the next few years. At present Father Roth is assisted in his duties by Rev. Basil Haneberg. Father Roth is an active member of the Knights of Columbus and Knights of Ohio. His hobby is fishing and he occasionally makes trips to Alabama. In 1925 he took an extensive tour through Europe, visiting London, Rome, Paris, Ireland, Belgium, and Holland ; and in the summer of 1925 he made the pilgrimage to Rome and was favored by being permitted to introduce the Holy Father in Rome to the others of his party, on July 7, 1925. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 265 NORA CROTTY, M. D. Dr. Nora Crotty is distinguished for two accomplishments : She is a leading physician and broadminded welfare worker of Cincinnati, Ohio ; and she is a feminine pioneer in a profession long closed to women, that of medicine. Her work stands out as of exceptionally high quality because of the humane spirit by which she is inspired and because her temperament, mentality, and training for her profession have been of an ideal blend. Nora Crotty was born in Mt. Washington, December 4, 1869, daughter of William and Kathryn (Connelly) Crotty. Her father, who was a farmer, died in 1910, a year later than his wife. The little girl received her elementary schooling in the public schools of Mt. Washington, now a part of Cincinnati. She received her degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1902 in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, from which she graduated after a thorough general course. Dr. Crotty then pursued special lines of medical study in Vienna for three years. She served her interneship at the Children's Hospital in Vienna. Her practice of general medicine began January I, 1903, and continued uninterruptedly until 1910, when she took a post-graduate course in Europe. Dr. Crotty is a member of the American Medical and Ohio State Medical Associations, the Women's Medical Society, and of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, The Catholic Women's Association, The Women's City Club, and is a charter member of the Women's Business Club. She has a very large following in Cincinnati, because of her broad-minded and altruistic point of view, and because of her widely known spirit of service. Dr. Crotty inaugurated the work of teaching Social Hygiene in the public schools of Cincinnati and vicinity. She is medical director for the Catholic Ladies of Columbia, and also Supreme Medical Director, and she is vice-president of the Good Samaritan Hospital staff. Dr. Crotty is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. 266 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE WILLIAM J. CREED. A prominent member of the Cincinnati bar is William J. Creed of the firm of Creed & Creed, with offices in the Mercantile Library Building. By inheritance and by careful training Mr. Creed is fitted for legal work, for his father was a noted attorney of Cincinnati. In that town William J. Creed was born January 3, 1885, son of Jerome D. and Mary F. (Brigel) Creed. The father died August 28, 1913. The son was educated in the parochial schools of Cincinnati and completed his academic schooling in 1906 at St. Xavier College, which conferred on him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He next attended St. Xavier Law College, receiving his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1909. Being admitted to the bar, Mr. Creed entered the office of his father, and the two began a joint practice under the name of Creed & Creed, which lasted until the elder's death, August 28, 1913, when the brother of William J. Creed succeeded his father. The firm conducts a general practice which has covered many important pieces of litigation. He is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association. Mr. Creed is a member of the Republican party, and of the Blaine Republican Club. He is affiliated with the Knights of C0lumbus, Northside Council, of which he was formerly Chancellor, and with the Alumni Association of St. Xavier College. He is a communicant of St. James' Roman Catholic Church. William J. Creed married, in 1921, Agatha Dorger, of Cincinnati, daughter of Frank J. and Clara W. (Wetterer) Dorger. Mr. and Mrs. Creed are the parents of two children : Mary Therese, born in May, 1923; and William J. Creed, Jr., born in November, 1924. WERTER GRANVILLE BETTY. Forty-six years of continuous service with the Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Company is the record of Werter GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 267 Granville Betty, editor of the company's magazine. He was born October 7, 1858, in Cincinnati- His father was Edward Betty, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and after coming to the United States was engaged as a journalist and editorial writer. He served through the Civil War as a correspondent at the front, and died in 1902. His mother was Kate Emily Harris, born in County Cork, Ireland, and died in 1892. Mr. Betty was educated in the public and high schools of Cincinnati, and the Ohio Mechanics Institute. After completing his studies he worked for four years at civil engineering. In 1879 he left the employ of the Cincinnati Southern Railway Company, for which he had been working as a civil engineer, and in 1880 became associated with the Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Company in the capacity of collector. He was made assistant clerk soon after and finally became assistant cashier, next taking charge of collections and earnings, and becoming paymaster, an office he held for twenty years. At the close of this peri0d he took over the editorial charge of the Cincinnati Telephone Company's magazine, and has continued as such for sixteen years. All told his service with the telephone company covers forty-six years, the longest of any living employee now with the company. Mr. Betty has seen the company grow from a total of nine hundred and seventy-six telephones in service to the present number of 165,000 telephones in service. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a life member of the Scottish Rite. He is a member of the Norwood Republican Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. He served one term on the council of Norwood, Ohio, and seven years as a member of the Norwood Board of Review, and served as a member of the Sinton Cadets, 1874 to 1876, and from 1876 to 1879 he served in the Cincinnati cadets. His recreation is his fellow men, that is collecting autographs and stamps. His address is with the Cincinnati Telephone Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. 268 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE STANLEY MATTHEWS. Ranking at the top of the architectural profession in Cincinnati, is Stanley Matthews, whose originality and good taste, whose sense of balance and proportion, are outstanding characteristics of his creative work. He was born in Glendale, Ohio, April 30, 1892, son of Mortimer and Marianna ( Proctor) Matthews. His father, who was born in Glendale, is a Cincinnati attorney, with offices in the Blymer Building, and his mother, also a native Ohioan, is still living. Stanley Matthews was educated in the public schools of Glendale and prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated from Princeton University with the class of 1913, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and he received his degree in architecture from Columbia University in 1920. Since that date he has been in business for himself with offices in the Blymer Building in Cincinnati. Mr. Matthews was architect for the remodeling of the Second Presbyterian Church, and for the Children's Hospital, in which latter undertaking he was associated with Elzner and Anderson. Mr. Matthews was also creator of the designs for the Julius Fleischman, the Charles L. Harrison, and other residences which are regarded as among the most beautiful and characteristic of the city. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects. During the World War Mr. Matthews was first lieutenant in Battery F, 340th Field Artillery, of the 89th Division, serving with his division overseas for eleven months as part of the American Expeditionary Forces. He participated in several battles and in the St. Mihiel drive. At the time of his honorable discharge in June, 1919, Lieutenant Matthews retained his rank as first lieutenant. His clubs are the Gyro Club, the Wyoming Golf Club, the University Club, and the Princeton Alumni Association. He is a communicant of the Christ Episcopal Church of Glendale, in the Sunday School of which he teaches. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 269 Stanley Matthews married, in 1913, Maude Holley Aldrich, wh0 was born in Bayshore, Long Island. They are the parents of two children : Barbary Holley, and Judith Angela. JOHN H. CLIPPINGER. Son of an attorney and, on his mother's side, grandson of another, it is 0nly natural that John H. Clippinger should choose for himself, too, a legal career. He was born in Cincinnati, August 21, 1897, a son of Walter Welty and Helen Louise (Glidden) Clippinger ; his father, born at Monrovia, Indiana, April 20, 1865, was the son of Rev. John Henry and Rebecca (Armstrong) Clippinger, the former a Methodist Episcopal minister who died while his son was still a small child, the latter a native of Staunton, Virginia, whose ancestors had fought in the Revolutionary War and six of whose brothers had taken an active part in the Civil War, three on the side of the Confederacy and three for the Union cause. Walter Welty Clippinger was educated in the public and high schools of Evansville, Indiana, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same year he began the practice of civil law in Cincinnati and, on June I, 1894, was married to Helen L. Glidden, daughter of John J. and Ruth Glidden, the former a leading attorney of Cincinnati, whose ancestors had been prominent in the affairs of the country from Revolutionary times on and who was himself a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and very active in Masonic affairs. John H. Clippinger was educated in the public and high schools of Cincinnati and, after attending Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, was graduated from the University of Texas in 1922, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His education was interrupted by the World War through the entire duration of which he served in the United States Army. Having enlisted in May, 1917, he was at first placed with the aviation corps, but was later transferred to Battery E, of the 270 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE 136th Field Artillery, with which he sailed overseas in June, 1918. He served in France with the American Expeditionary Forces until April, 1919, when he was discharged with the rank of private, having taken part in the fighting in the Morbach sector, the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and the battle of St. Mihiel, in which latter he was on special detail. After his discharge he resumed his studies and, having been admitted to the Bar after graduation in 1922, began the practice 0f law in Cincinnati, with offices at No. 710 Second National Bank Building, his practice covering both State and federal courts. On January I, 1927, Mr. Clippinger was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney for the criminal courts of Cincinnati. He is a member of Alpha Tau Omego and Phi Alpha Delta fraternities, and is also prominently identified with Masonic activities, being a member of all bodies of the Scottish Rite, including the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Ohio State and of the Cincinnati Bar Associations, the American Legion, the Lawyers, Blaine, American Business, and Cincinnati Business Men's Clubs, also of the Cincinnati Young Men's Christian Association, in which latter he is a member 0f the board of management of its Central Branch. His commercial interests include membership in the board of directors of the Southern Optical Company. His religious affiliations are with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a trustee of the local church of this denomination, at which he is an attendant, while he finds his recreation chiefly in athletics, especially boxing, wrestling and swimming. CARL G. WERNER. Carl G. Werner, the editor of the Masonic Chapter of this publication, has been recognized for his ability in like activities in the field of public service. In 1926 he was chosen by the City Council to codify the ordinances of the city of Cincinnati, in which task he is now actively engaged. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 271 Mr. Werner was born January 30, 1888, at Cincinnati, the son of Gustav R. and Anna 0. (Dupuis) Werner. He attended the grammar schools of Cincinnati, entered the Woodward High School, and was graduated therefrom with a creditable record in the year 1907. After working a while in business, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his father, Gustav R. Werner, an attorney 0f note. Accordingly, he entered and was graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Law School of the University of Cincinnati. Upon his admission to the bar of Ohio, in 1913, he took up the practice of his profession in his native city for four years, until the World War. Mr. Werner was enlisted in the Tank Corps, and saw duty overseas in France. Upon his return, in 1919, he resumed his practice, in which he has since been active, with offices located in the St. Paul Building. Mr. Werner is a Past Master of Hanselmann Lodge, No. 208, Free and Accepted Masons ; a member of Cincinnati Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite ; and of Almas Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Washington, District of Columbia. His interest in and close study of Masonry brought about his selection as editor of the Masonic section of the "History of Greater Cincinnati." WILLIAM H. DUNHAM, M. D. Inheriting from a long and notable line of New England ancestors a lofty conception of his responsibility to his fellowmen and from his father an aptitude for the medical profession, William H. Dunham, M. D., of Cincinnati, Ohio, was one of the broad-minded and constructive citizens of the community. His earliest American ancestors came to New England in the "Mayflower," in 1620, under the assumed name of John Goodman. Deacon John Dunham, whose sixth son, Jonathan, was born in 1632 at Martha's Vineyard. The line descended directly to the grandfather of Dr. Dunham, Tristram Dunham, also a native of Martha's Vineyard, where he 272 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE was born in October, 1787. At the age of fourteen the youth took up the support of his family, left without a provider by the death of his father. At eighteen he engaged in the drug business in Albany, where he prospered and established and operated, as the years went on, several important drug stores. For a time he lived in Rochester, and later in New York City, and was buried in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He married a Miss Burke, of Rochester. Their eldest son, John Dunham, father of the subject of this record, was born in 1810. Determined to be a physician, he studied in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, and practiced his profession until he had twice suffered attacks of cholera, which forced him to abandon it. He purchased a drug store in St. Clairsville in the '30's, which he operated for some time. He then passed on to a task more congenial to a man of his rare culture and discriminating taste—newspaper work. He purchased the St. Clairsville "Gazette," which he edited for several years before selling it and moving to Wheeling, in 1848. There he was the proprietor and editor of the Wheeling "Argus," later called the "Register," until his death in 1853. He contributed greatly to the movement for raising the standards of provincial journalism in a day when the Metropolitan dailies and syndicated news were unknown throughout the larger part of the country. His erudition and cleverness made 0f his own papers informative and interesting publications. He married and was the father of three sons, all now deceased. William H. Dunham, son of John Dunham, and his wife, Letitia (Patton) Dunham, was born in St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, October 21, 1846. There and at Wheeling his early years were spent, and his education in fundamentals obtained in the local schools. He later attended Miller Academy in Washington, Ohio. Attracted to the medical professi0n, he entered the office of Dr. A. H. Hewetson, of St. Clairsville, to study medicine, which he continued to study at Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. Ultimately, after fourteen years of practice as a licentiate, he attended GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 273 Cincinnati Medical College, in 1879 and 1880. In 1880 Dr. Dunham moved to Cincinnati, began to practice medicine independently, and continued until his death, October 27, 1925. In this nearly half century of public service, he showed himself a capable physician and a constructive force in the community. For several years he occupied the chair of therapeutics in Laura Memorial College, was assistant professor of obstetrics in the old Cincinnati Medical College, and one of the organizers of the Women's Medical College in Cincinnati, where he was a professor of the diseases of children. While still residing in eastern Ohio he had been United States pension examiner for six years, and under ex-President Cleveland was United States pension examiner in Cincinnati. William H. Dunham married Mary Kennon McPherson, daughter of Dr. Jeremiah Townsend McPherson, of Guernsey County, a physician and the son of a physician. Children : Henry Kennon ; Mary L., wife of Judge Stanley Matthews (q. v.) ; and Lida, wife of E. H. Matthews. In all the relations of community life, Dr. Dunham was admirable. He was progressive as a physician, a student, who kept in touch with all modern thought and scientific research, and retained his membership in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and the State and American Medical associations. He was idealistic in his outlook, faithful to the interests of his patients, and a devout Christian, a member of the Presbyterian Church. His home life was happy and complete, and his tender devotion to family and friends unwearying. The influence of, such a man is far greater than his actual accomplishments, for the young are bound to pattern their own ambitions after so noble a man. JUDGE STANLEY MATTHEWS. Born of a family of notable lawyers, endowed with a natural aptitude for that profession and the suitable force and dignity of character that should accompany the legal type of Cin.-18 274 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE mind, Judge Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, achieved distinction in his general legal practice and as a teacher of certain branches before his elevation to the bench. He was born on a farm in Clinton County, Ohio, December 14, 1878, son of John W. and Sarah 0. (Pierce) Matthews. On the paternal side, as far back as his great-great-grandfather, the men of the family were lawyers, and that gentleman was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Highland County, Ohio. His maternal grandfather also was a lawyer. Stanley Matthews was educated in the Clinton County public schools, in which he himself began to teach at the age of sixteen. Meantime he was reading law. He then attended the University of Cincinnati, a student in the law department for three years and always at the head of his class, and graduated in 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. His first legal work was as law clerk in the offices of Harper & Allen for a short time. In 1901 he formed a partnership with Whittingham Underhill which continued until the death of Mr. Underhill in 1903. After two years of practice alone, Mr. Matthews then formed the partnership with his brother, E. H. Matthews, which through fourteen years of success in conducting important litigation became one of the best known in Hamilton County. The firm of Matthews & Matthews achieved a widespread reputation for profound knowledge of the law, for commonsense interpretation of facts in the light of general business, and for unswerving loyalty to integrity and to the client's interests. Judge Matthews was also a member of the faculty of the Young Men's Christian Law School, dealing with real property, equity, and negotiable instruments. In 1918 came his election to the bench as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, on which he has served since 1919 with eminent satisfaction to the public and to the legal confraternity. As the sole Democratic candidate to be elected to office in Hamilton County, Judge Matthews was naturally regarded as a candidate chosen largely on his own merits. As his term drew to a close he was importuned by a unanimous bar to stand GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 275 for reelection, but declined in order to return to the practice of his profession. He resumed his place in the law firm of Matthews & Matthews, composed of himself, E. H. Matthews, and J. W. Matthews. In 1925 he was urged to become a candidate for Council under the then new city charter form of government, adopted by Cincinnati. He was elected and was then chosen vice-mayor by the Council. He is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, and the Cuvier Press Club. On October 28, 1903, Judge Matthews married Mary L. Dunham, daughter of Dr. William H. and Mary K. (McPherson) Dunham (q. v.). Children : Mary McPherson, Sarah Pierce, William Dunham, Letitia Dunham, and Stanley, Jr. WILLIAM HENRY BURTNER, JR. An outstanding figure in the legal profession in Cincinnati, is William Henry Burtner, Jr., who has been 0f great individual and civic service during the years in which he has practiced his profession. He was born in Cincinnati, April 30, 1874, son of William Henry and Teresa E. (Deagle) Burtner. A man of fine mechanical talent and executive ability, William H. Burtner was one of the originators of the machine tool industry there, which he developed after long years of service as secretary and treasurer to the old Lodge & Davis Company, now the American Tool Works Company. William Henry Burtner, Jr., was the only child, and he was given every educational opportunity. He attended public school and the high school of Cincinnati. He received his college degree of Master of Laws from Yale, and the degree of Bachelor of Legal Science from the University of Michigan, and is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and at twenty-one was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio. He immediately began to practice in Cincinnati, and has worked up a splendid reputation in his specialty of corporation law and civil practice in behalf of the machine tool industry, although he has had an extensive practice in admiralty cases, most of which was in the 276 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Southern District of New York, where for some time he had an office, representing real estate investors of Cincinnati. He has also been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Michigan and in the circuit and district courts of the United States. He is recognized as an authority on matters concerned with the machine tool industry. Keenly interested in public events, and with a mind trained to catch the significance of international commerce and relations in general between this country and Europe, Mr. Burtner is a profound thinker, a wide reader, and a keen observer, and has written many articles on traffic and congestion, one of which was published by the city of Cincinnati. He is often called on for public addresses in current matters of interest. A Republican, he always supports the platform and candidates of that party, because he believes the interests of the country are best served by it. He has studied deeply into Free Masonry and belongs to various branches of the order, including the Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite, and Shrine. His training in the Cincinnati Cavalry Troop, of which he was guide sergeant, was of advantage to the city and to the Cincinnati Home Guard, in which he was commissioned and served as regimental sergeant-major. He was one of the earliest members of the Cincinnati Automobile Club, and has toured most of the main highways of the States and Canada, and regularly contributes his experiences on the road to the motor magazines. His intelligence work for the Government during the war was of real value as well as his service as a "Four-Minute" speaker. Having a farm overlooking the Great Miami River, and seeing the paucity of game and game fish, he has for some years advocated a State Department of Conservation. For some time he has been secretary of the Fish and Game Protective Association of Southwestern Ohio, and is a director of the League of Ohio Sportsmen. William H. Burtner was married, August 14, 1915, to Alice Muller, the daughter of Henry Muller, formerly postmaster of Cincinnati. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 277 HERBERT EUGENE MICHAELS. Herbert Eugene Michaels, the present executive secretary of the American Legion, and one of the most prominent men in the city of Cincinnati, was born on March 13, 1890, at Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr. Michaels is a son of August Philip and Mary A. (Ima) Michaels, both of whom were descendants of well known families in this part of the State. August Philip Michaels, the father, who is now deceased, was for a very considerable portion of his life a railroad engineer, and one of the very prominent men in this type of endeavor. His son, Herbert Eugene Michaels, received his early education in the public schools of the community in which he was reared. Immediately after the completion of these courses of study, Mr. Michaels at once branched out for himself, obtaining his first real contact with the world as a railroad mechanic, a type of work which he followed from the year 1910 until 1917. As will be remembered, 1917 marked the beginning of the period of the emergency created by the entry of the United States into the conflict of the World War, and, like so many others of the young men of our land, Herbert Eugene Michaels was among the first to offer his services to his country. Enlisting, he was assigned to duty with Company D, 6th Engineers' Regiment of the famous 3rd Division, and with them he saw much active service as an integral part of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He was under fire and in more or less direct contact with our erstwhile enemy throughout all the major engagements in which American troops participated, and he was severely wounded in the fighting which took place around La Charmel, in the Marne Sector of the Western Front. He was still in the hospital at the cessation of hostilities, and in due course of time he was repatriated and permitted to return, by honorable discharge, to civilian life. To those who took part, however minor, in that great conflict, will come a vision of the life that was lived in a day, of the excursion that took them half round the world, 278 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE and from which a woeful number never returned. Of this great company is Herbert Eugene Michaels. He has returned from the war, and is a civilian again, yet not quite as before. He has never lost contact with the men and the life that he knew, and as a consequence of the great interest he has maintained he is now the executive secretary of the American Legion, his own headquarters being at the Robert E. Bentley Post, in Cincinnati. He is also an active member 0f the Disabled American Veterans; he now is affiliated, fraternally, with the Scioto Lodge, No. 6, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Chillicothe, Ohio. Mr. Michaels, who is unmarried, maintains his business headquarters at No. 322 Br0adway, in Cincinnati, while his residence is at No. 2416 Copeland Street, in that same city. NEVIN M. FENNEMAN. A recognized scholar and intellectual leader of Cincinnati, Nevin M. Fenneman has attained national distinction as a geologist. He is head of the department of Geology and Geography in the University of Cincinnati, and author of valuable papers on his subject. Nevin M. Fenneman was born in Lima, Ohio, December 26, 1865, son of William Henry and Rebecca (Oldfather) Fenneman. He graduated from Heidelberg College, in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1883, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and 0btained from the University of Chicago two higher degrees, that of Master of Arts in 1900, and Doctor 0f Philosophy in 1901. His whole adult life has been devoted to his profession, the science of geology. He was professor of Physical Sciences in the Colorado State Normal School, now known as Colorado State Teachers' College, from 1892 to 1900. The years 1902-1903 found him professor of Geol0gy at the University of Colorado, from which he passed to a similar position at the University of Wisconsin in 1903, and remained until 1907. Since that date he has been at the University of Cincinnati. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 279 Assistant geologist from 1901 to 1919 of the United States Geological Survey, he advanced in 1919 to the rank of associate geologist, and in 1924 to that of geologist, a position he held with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey in 1900 and 1901, and with the Illinois State Geological Survey, 1906 to 1908, and the Ohio Geological Survey, 19141916. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Prof. Fenneman was vice-president and chairman of Section E, in 1923. He is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. In 1918 he was president of the Association of American Geographers, in which he remains a member, and he is enrolled in the Sigma Xi fraternity, the National Research Council, of which he has been division chairman for geology and geography, 1922-23, and other bodies. His clubs are the Literary, of Cincinnati, of which he was president in 1924-25, and the Cosmos, of Washington, District of Columbia. He is a member of the Congregationalist Church. Prof. Fenneman is the author of "Physiographic Divisions of the United States," and numerous government bulletins and scientific papers. On December 26, 1893, Nevin M. Fenneman married Sara Alice Gilsan, of Fredonia, New York, who died April 2, 1920. REV. HENRY JOSEPH LEHMAN. Rev. Henry Joseph Lehman has spent nineteen of the twenty-one years of his ministry in the churches of Cincinnati, where he is now the pastor of St. Leo Roman Catholic Church. The Lehman family, of which he is a descendant, has been in America for over one hundred years. His father, Henry Martin Lehman, fought three years in the Civil War, taking part in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. After the war, he was sheriff of Shelby County, Ohio, for two terms and then became the proprietor of a hostelry at Botkins, Ohio, where he died on July 21, 1890. Father Lehman's 280 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE mother, Mary Catherine (Stolle) Lehman, is a native of Shelby County, and is still living with him. She had three children, all of whom have consecrated themselves to the service of the church. The daughter, Sister Magna, a Sister of the Precious Blood Community, is a teacher at St. Mark's School, Evanston, Cincinnati. The two sons, Henry Joseph, and Edward C., entered the priesthood. Father Henry Joseph Lehman was born at Sidney, Ohio, on October 7, 1881, and was taken by his parents when still an infant to Botkins, Ohio, where he was educated in the parochial school until he was fourteen years of age. Then he went to St. Gregory's Preparatory Seminary, where he studied for six years. The next five years of his preparation were spent at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, and at the end of this period, he was ordained to the priesthood, on June 22, 1906, and stationed as assistant at St. Lawrence Church, Price Hill, where his labors covered eight years. He was then transferred to Tippecanoe City, Ohio, as pastor of St. John's Church and Missions. He shepherded this flock for two years, and then was again removed by his bishop to St. Louis' Church, Cincinnati. After a short pastorate here, he was placed in charge of his present parish, St. Leo's Church, which he has served since June, 1918. Father Lehman is a member (fourth degree) of the Knights of Columbus; C. K. of 0.; a Knight of St. John; and of the Catholic Order of Foresters. JOHN MURPHY WITHROW, M. D., F. A. C. S., LL. D. Cincinnati, Ohio, ranks high throughout the country on account of the excellence of her public school system and the beauty of the buildings that house it; and the arbiter of this excellence for the past twenty years, its most progressive era, has been John Murphy Withrow, M. D., LL. D. Nor have his civic activities been confined to the Board 0f Education, GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 281 for Dr. Withrow has thrown himself heart and soul into every social, civic, and philanthropic movement. His rare personal charm, his sane and liberal judgment, and his broad experience of men and affairs have made him an invaluable consultant in all such matters. John M. Withrow was born at Jacksonboro, Ohio, on October 10, 1854, son of John L. and Margaret Murphy Withrow. His father was a farmer. At the age of twelve John had determined to fit himself for the medical profession. He was the oldest of seven children and the family finances made it necessary for him to earn his education. After completing his elementary work in the local public schools he attended Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, for two years, and then at the age of eighteen taught as principal in the old home district school at Jacksonboro, which he had attended as a boy. After teaching one year in this district he entered the junior class at Ohio Wesleyan University, and after completing this year he was elected principal of the graded school at Armanda, Butler County, Ohio. At the end of one year he reentered Ohio Wesleyan, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1877. After graduating, it was again necessary to resume teaching to secure means to begin the study of medicine, and he was elected superintendent of schools at Germantown, Ohio, and one year later he was made superintendent of schools at Eaton, Ohio, where he remained for four years. He then entered the Medical College of Ohio, where he was graduated in 1884 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. On this occasion he was awarded the faculty gold medal and five other prizes for general excellence in college work. From Miami University he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1888, and that of Doctor of Laws in 1922, in the interim having been honored by Ohio Wesleyan University in 1917 with the degree of Master of Science. Since his graduation from medical college in 1884, he has been practicing as a physician and surgeon in Cincinnati. He is professor of Clinical Gynecology in the Medical Depart- 282 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE ment of Cincinnati University. He is also president of the staff and gynecologist at Christ Hospital, in Cincinnati. Fr0m 1894 to 1904 Dr. Withrow acted as dean of the Laura Memorial Woman's Medical College. He was health officer of Cincinnati in 1897 and 1898, and in that capacity he introduced and began the enforcement of the anti-spitting ordinance. He was a charter member of the Anti-Tuberculosis League, and was exceedingly active in the l0cal war against the White Plague. Governor J. E. Campbell appointed Dr. Withrow a member of the Cincinnati Hospital Board of Trustees in 1888. During his service on that Board he succeeded in establishing a wider recognition of the specialties in medicine and surgery, and the departments of Oto-Laryngology and Neurology were created. In association with that splendid citizen and eminent physician, Dr. C. G. Comegys, he led the movement to segregate tubercular patients in the branch hospital in Lick Run, which was the beginning of the present hospital for tuberculosis, and the group 0f buildings constructed f0r that purpose which now constitute the Cincinnati Tuberculosis Hospital. Simultaneously with his professional career Dr. Withrow has taken an active part in educational matters in Cincinnati and elsewhere, and in other phases of public life. From 1905 to 1924 he was a member of the Cincinnati Board of Education, being president from 1913 to 1924. Yielding to the pressure of professional duties and convinced of the splendid character and service of the Board of Education, Dr. Withrow resigned his membership in that body on May 5, 1924. The Board of Education and the Union Board of High Schools at a joint meeting on May 12, one week later, unanimously voted to call the high school building 0n Madison Road and Erie Avenue the Withrow High School in testimony and appreciation of Dr. Withrow's twenty years' service t0 the public schools of Cincinnati. Immediately after his resignation from official connection with the public schools, he was made chair- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 283 man of the Citizens' School Committee of Cincinnati, a position which he still holds. From 1909 to 1912 he was a member of the Building Commission which planned and supervised the erection of the Cincinnati General Hospital, and since 1924 he has been a member of the Board of Directors under Cincinnati's new Charter Committee. Governor James M. Cox, in 1917, appointed Dr. Withrow a member of the first State Board of Education established in Ohio, which position he resigned two years later. He has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, since 1885. During the World War he was chairman of the District Exemption Board for Southwestern Ohio, 1917-18. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, and fellow, as well as one of the founders, of the American College of Surgeons. He has been a member of the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity since 1876, of the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity since 1904, and of the Phi Beta Kappa, an honorary college fraternity, since 1909. In 1915 he was made a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha, the honorary medical college fraternity. He joined the Royal Arch and Free Masons in 1879. His clubs are : The Cincinnatus Association, of which he is an honorary life-member, and the Cincinnati Country. The Cincinnati Club, in appreciation of his twenty years' membership in the Board of Education, and distinguished service in behalf of the public schools, conferred upon him honorary life membership in 1924. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On October 16, 1888, Dr. Withrow married Susannah Slemmons Barrett, daughter of George Bushfield and Martha (Slemm0ns) Barrett, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. No children were born, and Mrs. Susannah S. (Barrett) Withrow died April 8, 1894. Dr. Withrow married (second), June 16, 1897, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sarah Smith Hickenlooper, daugh- 284 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE ter of General Andrew and Maria (Smith) Hickenlooper Dr. and Mrs. Withrow are the parents of four children : Margaret (Withrow) Farny, born July 12, 1898; John Andrew Withrow, born February 18, 1901; Andrew Hickenlooper Withrow, born November 28, 1903 ; and Sarah Withrow, born March 19, 1906. L. ALVIN KREIS. A prominent lawyer in Cincinnati, L. Alvin Kreis is general counsel for the Cincinnati Real Estate Board, and a member of the law firm of Bettinger, Schmitt & Kreis. Mr. Kreis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 6, 1875, son of John A. and Anna (Schiff) Kreis, both natives of the same city. The father, head of one of the best known wholesale grocery enterprises of Cincinnati, died in 1908, and the mother on March 4, 1915. L. Alvin Kreis attended the excellent public and high schools of his native city, supplementing that course with a literary course at the University of Michigan, which he completed in 1898. His legal training he also procured at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1901. Admitted to the bar that same year, Mr. Kreis began the practice of his profession in the offices of the firm with whom he is now associated. The connection has prospered unbroken throughout a quarter of a century, and the three names stand for legal ability of a high order, a reputation for integrity and loyalty that is unblemished, and successful management of important litigation. Mr. Kreis is a member of the American Bar Association, the bar association of the State of Ohio, and the Hamilton County Bar Association. With a lively interest in progressive civic issues, he ably filled the position of President of the Zoning Commission, and he was formerly a member of the State Republican Executive Committee. He is a member of Price Hill Lodge, No. 524, Free and Accepted Masons ; holds the thirty- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 285 second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and belongs to Syrian Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His clubs are the Western Hills Country, and the Business Men's clubs, both of Cincinnati. He is a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity ; and he is affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kreis is a communicant of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Kreis married, in 1904, Clara Manss, of Cincinnati, daughter of Louis and Philipine (Renner) Manss. FRANK WITTE ROSTOCK. His practical and comprehensive share in the present-day history of the progress of the press in the State of Ohio, and that of Missouri, has included in Mr. Rostock's experience the broadest range of the life of the newspaperman, from the reportorial field to the business management of the Cincinnati "Post," a mid-continent journal of national standing. With the necessary accompanying qualifications not only of clear vision, but of concentrated work and purpose and of newspaper business development, Mr. Rostock has proceeded through the grades of the everyday university of journalism, with successful and prosperous results to the newspapers with which he has been associated as well as to his own honor and high merit. Frank Witte Rostock was born September 16, 1882, in New York City, and with the removal of his parents to Akron, Ohio, he attended high school in that city ; and he afterwards attended University School, in Cleveland, Buchtel Academy and also Buchtel College. From the beginning of his career, Mr. Rostock gave his professional attention to the activities of newspaperdom, and as a reporter he served on the staff of the Akron "Press" and that of the "Beacon-Journal." Soon afterwards he was called to the desk of the sporting editor in succession, of the Cincinnati "Post" and the Cleveland "Press," and he eventually became editor-in-chief of the Cincinnati 286 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE "Post." Returning to Cleveland, he was placed in the responsible office of general manager of the Newspaper Enterprise Association; and from that time 0nwards he had the general management of the St. Louis (Missouri) "Times," and later, as at present, the business management of the Cincinnati "P0st." It was while he was editor-in-chief 0f this newspaper that he was decorated by Albert, King of the Belgians, with the King Albert Medal, in recognition of war-time service in behalf of the Belgians. Fraternally, Mr. Rostock is affiliated with Cleveland City Lodge, No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons, and Phi Delta Phi college fraternity; and he is also a member of Queen City Club, Cincinnati Club, Advertisers' Club, Cuvier Press Club, Chamber of Commerce, Hyde Park Golf Club, Clovernook Golf and Country Club. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran Church. Frank Witte Rostock married, August 17, 1907, at Sandusky, Ohio, Virginia Karolina Dangeleisen, daughter of William A. and Julia Dangeleisen. C. LAWSON REED. C. Lawson Reed was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 4, 1888, the son of Dr. Charles Alfred Lee Reed and Rena (Dougherty) Reed. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Cincinnati and continued in Europe, where he studied in Geneva and Florence, there laying the foundation of the several foreign languages of which he was a master in later life. Upon his return to the United States he attended the Culver Military Academy. He entered Yale in 1907, and was graduated in 1911 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At Yale he received a Second Dispute appointment, was manager of the University Hockey Team, a member of the Sophomore Wranglers, 0f the Psi Upsilon, and the Senior Society of Scroll and Key. His business career began in Cincinnati. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 287 where he organized the International Sales Company, which acted as selling agent for various European concerns up to the outbreak of the World War. In 1914 he entered the employ of the Stearns and Foster Company, cotton mills, of Lockland, Ohio, subsequently becoming assistant secretary of the Company. When the United States entered the World War, C. Lawson Reed volunteered for active military service and received his commission as first lieutenant from the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. After six months at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, he sailed for France, June 12, 1918, with the 322d Field Artillery. After intensive training in a French Artillery Camp at Coetquidan, he went to the front on September 18, of the same year. His brigade, an independent one, acted as divisional artillery in offensive operations for the 91st, 32d, 33d, and 29th Divisions, American Expeditionary Forces, and for the 17th French Division. He was with the Seventh French Army on the Alsace front just before the Armistice. After five months near Coblenz with the 32d Division as part of the American Army of Occupation, he returned to the United States via Brest and Camp Merritt, and was mustered out on May 28, 1919, at Camp Sherman. As a member of the Officers' Reserve Corps, he was appointed in August, 1920, to the committee of three Reserve and three Regular Army officers to write new regulations for that organization, serving as major in Washington, District of Columbia, with the General Staff Corps, War Plans and Operations Division, until November I, 1920. With the energy and enthusiasm he always displayed for worthy causes, Lawson Reed threw himself into civic activity. In 1914 he was elected secretary of the Cincinnati Yale Club ; in 1921, chairman of its Scholarship Committee; and in 1922, vice-president of the Cincinnati Yale Club. In 1920 he was Chairman of the executive committee of the Citizens' More 288 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Daylight League, which succeeded in establishing "daylight-saving time" in Cincinnati. He was a charter member of the Cincinnatus Association, organized to further civic projects in Cincinnati, and became its president in 1921. At the same time he found the opportunity to act as associate editor of the "History of the 322d Field Artillery," published by the Yale University Press in 1920, and to write many informative newspaper articles on the Organized Reserves. During 1923 he was a director and secretary of the Foreign Policy Association of Cincinnati; vice-chairman of the Citizens' School Committee; vice-president of the Civic League ; director and secretary of the Better Housing League; member of the executive committee of the Cincinnatus Association ; member of the American Legion, and of the Queen City Club ; a governor of the University Club, and chairman of its Committees on Admissions and War Memorabilia. He was commander of the Cincinnati Chapter of the Military Order of the World War ; president of the Cincinnati Yale Club, and a trustee of the Children's Hospital. On June 5, 1915, in Calvary Episcopal Church, Clifton, Cincinnati, Mr. Reed married Pauline Carson Foster, daughter of William Resor and Pauline (Carson) Foster, and the niece of Julia Resor Foster. They had three daughters and two sons. The children's names are Pauline, Priscilla, C. Lawson, Jr., Rosamond, and Foster Reed. C. Lawson Reed died at the age of thirty-five, after a short illness, at his home in Clifton, Cincinnati, on December 8, 1923. The Cincinnati "Times Star," in an editorial said : Lawson Reed wanted to help his city, and not himself. He was gallant in the best sense of the word, finding his reward in a form of municipal chivalry all too rare these days. It is one of fate's inscrutable events that he should have been taken from the city he wished to serve so unselfishly. But in the span allotted to him, Lawson Reed wore, with the spirit that citizenship was knighthood, the white flower of civic patriotism. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 289 The Board of Trustees of the Children's Hospital said : Mr. Reed put into his service of the Hospital and of its sick and suffering children the same marked personal influence, the same interest, enthusiasm and efficiency, as in his social and business life and in his active service of the community and his devoted service to his country and to humanity in the late World War. The Cincinnatus Association, in concluding its memorial to C. Lawson Reed, said : This, then, was the friend who has gone from us. No cold, selfish business man of one idea; but one who was a part of all that he had met, who saw life as a great and many-sided enterprise, worthy at its best of the best that was in him. As a man of affairs, as a soldier, as a citizen and as a friend, he gave his time and thought and energy like a largess of gold to all his fellow-men. ARCHIBALD IRWIN CARSON, Sc. B., M. D. A surgeon of pronounced status in his profession, and with a record of skill and increasing success in his hospital and general practice, Dr. Carson continues in the results of his own well-proven abilities the prestige of his family name so l0ng established and maintained by his father, Dr. William Carson, in Cincinnati. Throughout his career he has served with professional intelligence and understanding the best interests of the community. He is a son of Dr. William Carson, who was born November 25, 1827, in Chillicothe, Ohio, and coming to Cincinnati in 1850, was a practitioner here for forty-three years ; and, a member of the staff of the Cincinnati Hospital more than a quarter of a century, where he made the first autopsy there in 1869. Dr. Carson, who died July 10, 1893, was then sixty-five years old, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. He married Esther Allibone Irwin, who was born January 14, 1831, in Cincinnati, and died June 8, 1891, descendant of Cap- Cin.-19 290 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE tain Abram George Claypoole, a soldier of the American Revolution. Dr. and Mrs. Carson were the parents of Dr. Archibald I. Carson, of whom further; and Mary Claypoole Carson, who resides in Cincinnati. Dr. Archibald Irwin Carson was born March 10, 1864, in Cincinnati, where he attended Chickering Institute, and was graduated from Woodward High School in 1883. Receiving, in 1887, his degree of Bachelor of Science from the University of Cincinnati, he prepared for his profession at Miami Medical College, where he was graduated in 1889 with his degree, Doctor of Medicine. For a year and a half he served as an interne at the Cincinnati Hospital, and since 1891 he has engaged in general practice, making a specialty of surgery. His professional affiliations are with the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati; Ohio State Medical Association; American Medical Association; and in 1913 he became a fellow at the first convocation of the American College of Surgeons. Since 1897 Dr. Carson has served at the Cincinnati Hospital as curator, pathologist, assistant surge0n, and now surgeon, and secretary of the hospital staff. He was also assistant surgeon and surgeon and president of the staff in the Episcopal Hospital for Children. Dr. Carson is also professor of clinical surgery in the Medical College, University of Cincinnati, and also was director of the University from 1908 to 1914. He was also instructor in bandaging, and demonstrator and professor of pathology at Miami Medical College. He was for several years a member of the Board of Health and served as president of this body for one year. In view of his services to the University of Cincinnati, the athletic field of the university was named Carson Field, in honor of Dr. Carson. Dr. Carson is a member 0f the Sons 0f the Revolution, and his son William Carson is assistant secretary of the local chapter of that society. Dr. Carson possesses a certificate of the Society of the Cincinnati issued to Abram George Claypoole, and bearing the signature of George Washington. In June, GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 291 1890, Dr. Carson was first elected president of the University of Cincinnati Alumni Association, and has been reelected on two different occasions since that time. He is a life member and former secretary and president of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. During the World War Dr. Carson served as a member of the local Draft Board, No. 5, of Cincinnati. His hobby is photography and out-of-doors life ; and his father is remembered as having been one of the first to put a canoe on the Little Miami River. Dr. Carson's college fraternities are Sigma Chi Chi, and Alpha Kappa Kappa; and he is a communicant of Christ Episcopal Church. Dr. Archibald Irwin Carson married, October 2, 1894, Elizabeth Resor, who was born in Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of William Resor, Jr., and Isabelle Livingston (Brown) Resor, both of whom are now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Carson are the parents of : William Carson, born June 27, 1895 ; and Archibald Irwin Carson, Jr., born September 9, 1898, and they also have three grandsons. CHARLES H. URBAN. One of the most popular of the law practitioners in the courts of Cincinnati and of the State, of eminent service to his pr0fession and its fraternities, Attorney Charles H. Urban has a long established practice inclusive of all legal interests, his reliability and trustworthiness being those of the well-informed and experienced lawyer, who throughout his life has made Cincinnati his place of residence and business. Mr. Urban has held professional and civic offices to the satisfaction of his constituency and the entire community, and he has an unfailing belief in the steady pace of Cincinnati and its institutions among the great cities of the mid-continent. He is the son of Herman and Isabella (Ficke) Urban, both natives of Cincinnati, of whom the former, veteran of the Civil War, with the 170th Ohio Militia, and a member of the firm MacNeale and Urban, manufacturers of safes and vaults, died in 1911. 292 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Charles Urban, the grandfather of Charles H. Urban, was the first safe manufacturer in this part of the country. Charles H. Urban was born February 27, 1870, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended the public and the high schools. He afterwards attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, Massachusetts. Later in preparation for his professional career, he matriculated at the University of Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1897 with his degree of Bachelor of Laws. Passing his examinations before the bar of Ohio, Mr. Urban began the practice of law in the same year, and was admitted to practice in all the State and Federal courts. His offices are located at No. 711 Mercantile Library Building. In his political affiliations, Mr. Urban's interests are those of the Republican party. He was a member of the City Council of Cincinnati from 1900 to 1905 ; he was city prosecutor during 1910 and 1911, and first assistant county prosecutor in 1916 and 1917. He was active during the World War in all the patriotic plans and movements and was prominently identified with the various drives of the period. He served as a first lieutenant of the Cincinnati Home Guard, and is now a captain of the Officers' Reserve Corps. His fraternal affiliations are with the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the local lodge of the Benev0lent and Protective Order of Elks; and he is likewise treasurer of the Cincinnati Gymnasium and Athletic Club, and he is a member of the Gymnasium and Boat Club of Cincinnati, of which he is a past president. Mr. Urban is also a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Lawyers' Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Blaine Club, the Cincinnati Business Men's Club, and is past president of the Walnut Hills Business Club, and the Business Men's Club. He is a communicant of the Walnut Hills Congregational Church, and is fond 0f river sports, swimming and rowing. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 293 LILLIAN (TYLER) PLOGSTEDT. Of the group of Ohio women, who, because of their widely recognized accomplishments in the musical world, as well as their own personal gifts as composers and directors in music, have become members of the American Guild of Organists, Lillian (Tyler) Plogstedt has brought honor both to Milford, her native town, and to Cincinnati, her place of residence for the larger portion of her professional and business career, for her pronounced attainments as organist, director of music and of musical festivals and for her compositions popular everywhere with lovers of music. She is a daughter of John Alexander Tyler, a patent attorney and college professor, who was born in Grafton, New Hampshire, and died July 8, 1887, in Latonia, Kentucky, aged seventy-five years, and Clara Belle (Stallo) Tyler, who was born in Cincinnati, June 19, 1842, and died December 13, 1922. Lillian (Tyler) Plogstedt was born in Milford, Ohio, and with the removal of her parents to Latonia, she attended the public schools in Covington, Kentucky, afterwards attending the Woodward High School in Cincinnati. Making a technical preparation for her profession at the College of Music in Cincinnati, she graduated there in 1890, and then began teaching organ and piano. During a series of successful years, Mrs. Plogstedt presided as organist, successively at the Richmond Street Christian Church, and the Church of the Epiphany, and Christ Church ; and she is now organist and director of the music at Temple Bene Israel. She has served with conspicuous results as accompanist for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and from soloist with the Symphony Orchestra at the May Festival, she has become organist for that annual event. She is also music editor of the Cincinnati "Post," and she prepares piano records for the Vocalstyle Music Company, of Cincinnati. For many years she has been accompanist for America's foremost artists; and as a composer, she has written two operas and has had several songs published. She is a charter member of the Cincinnati MacDowell Society; a char- 294 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE ter member of the Matinee Musicale Club, and of the American Guild of Organists ; and is eligible to membership with the Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a member of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church. Also editor of the Musical Chapter in this work. Mrs. Plogstedt is a member of the Fort Mitchell Country Club. Her hobby is being out-doors, and she engages in golfing and horseback riding. HARRY W. CORDES. No one man has done more for the cause of progress and advancement in the Queen City than has Harry W. Cordes, who, without a doubt, is the foremost architect and builder in the State of Ohio; and in a most real, tangible and practical manner is Mr. Cordes, as the chief executive head 0f H. W. Cordes & Sons, contributing to the realization of a truly Greater Cincinnati. He and his firm are playing a highly important part in working out the extensive program of expansion for bringing to the city additional prestige, increasing its commercial and industrial growth, and creating those charming residential districts which are such prime assets in the making of a city beautiful and of a contented people. To the credit of the firm of H. W. Cordes & Sons is placed the astounding record of having built more than seven hundred high class residences in the Cincinnati area, while the number and character of the industrial structures tell of the great forward movement of commercial enterprises. All of these movements and developments interlock so that Cincinnati already has become a more thriving center of trade and a larger and better place in which to live. Under Mr. Cordes' wise direction the firm continues to grow steadily and surely, and at the present time has in mind many more constructive projects to help make Cincinnati even greater. Mr. Cordes is eminently well fitted to direct the policies of s0 large and influential a company, for he is an GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 295 astute business man, with a deep knowledge of the building and realty markets, and possesses to a marked degree that forcefulness and aggressiveness of action which is so necessary to any successful endeavor. To his business Mr. Cordes daily applies a strict code of professional ethics among whose ramifications may be mentioned, those prerequisites to success : proved ability, wide experence, great efficiency, perseverance, unflagging industry and energy, integrity, probity, and absolute unquestioned honesty of thought, purpose and deed. He is accounted one of Cincinnati's most influential and prominent business men, a credit and an asset to his native city, which in turn has rewarded him a place of high standing with a well merited and justly earned success. Harry W. Cordes was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 10, 1871, the son of William and Charlotta (Steinkamp) Cordes. His father, a native of picturesque Alsace-Lorraine (now fortunately returned to its native France), died April 17, 1901. His mother, who was born in Amsterdam, Holland, died April 17, 1917. William and Charlotta ( Steinkamp) Cordes came in their early married life to this country and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where William Cordes was for many years actively and successfully engaged in the lumber industry. Their son, Harry W. Cordes, received his early education in the graded and grammar public schools of his native city, following which he attended the Cincinnati High School. Since his boyhood days he had possessed a native talent and a distinct aptitude for architectural and construction work, and to this he gave free rein in his younger years by studying architecture under the wise preceptorship and expert tutelage of Des Jardins & Hayward, one of the oldest and best-known firms of architects in Cincinnati. Under them, too, he acquired his first practical knowledge of the fundamentals of building and construction work. In the year 1913, Mr. Cordes, believing that he had laid a good foundation on which to erect the superstructure 0f his 0wn career, launched out into business on his own account ; and the name of Cordes, as 296 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE architect and builder, soon began to be spread abroad in the city of Cincinnati and its environs. For the following six years Mr. Cordes carried on his business under his own name, accomplishing more and more valuable work in his line, and the business had been so firmly founded and stabilized by Mr. Cordes that the World War, and the subsequent business depression incident upon it, had little if any effect upon Mr. Cordes' endeavors in the building line. After the war, Mr. Cordes took his two sons into the business with him, and thus has today the well and widely known firm name of H. W. Cordes & Sons firmly established. Since that time the business has continued to grow apace, until the volume and scope have exceeded even the most sanguine expectations of the firm and its satisfied patrons. Among the outstanding examples of the Cordes type of construction are the Reading Road Apartments in Avon, a suburb of Cincinnati, which were declared to be the finest of their kind throughout the Middle West for the time in which they built; also the City Hall Bank Building, the Smith & Nixon factory building, the Cincinnati Rubber Works, the Globe Folder Box Company, and others. The number of high-type dwellings erected by H. W. Cordes & Sons throughout Greater Cincinnati is already approaching the three-quarter thousand mark, and the firm is still looking for new fields for their enterprising operations. They have recently acquired possession of a number of tracts of land, on which they are doing extensive development work, notable among these projects being East Hill, Observation Drive, and Stratford Place. H. W. Cordes & Sons maintain up-to-date offices at No. 907 Ingalls Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Cordes maintains a strictly non-partisan and independent attitude in his politics, preferring not to let the often too closely drawn party lines hamper or obscure the importance of great political issues. His religious affiliation is wth the Presbyterian Church, of which he is a regular attendant and a most liberal supporter. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 297 Harry W. Cordes was married, in 1895, to Amelia Helwig, a daughter of William and Helene (Peters) Helwig. Harry W. and Amelia (Helwig) Cordes are the parents of the following three children : 1. Walter W. Cordes, a graduate of the Cincinnati Art School, married Carolyn Milliken, and they have one child, Brandon M. Cordes. 2. William A. Cordes, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston. He married Martha Terhune. 3. Helen C. Cordes, a graduate of Penn Hall. CHARLES THEODORE GREVE. Charles Theodore Greve was born in Cincinnati, January 3, 1863, son of Theodore L. A. and Clara Esther (Emrie) Greve. The father, a native of Schleswig-Holstein, a subject of the King of Denmark, studied at the University 0f Kiel and came to America in 1849, and to Cincinnati in 1855, where, for nearly forty years, he conducted a drug store. The son received his education in the public and high schools of Hillsboro, Ohio, was graduated there in 1878, from Harvard College, in 1884 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, and from the Cincinnati Law School, in 1885, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He read law with Bentley Matthews, of Cincinnati, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar and to the bar of the Federal District Court in May, 1885. His practice immediately began in Cincinnati in partnership, until 1889, with Mr. Matthews, the law firm being known as Matthews, Holding and Greve, and later as Matthews and Greve. He then engaged in independent practice. He is a Democrat, and was assistant United States Attorney from 1894 to 1898 for the Southern District of Ohio, which he resigned in order to accept the position of referee in bankruptcy in 1898 upon the passage of the Bankruptcy Act. He has thus been continuously connected with the Department of Justice for thirty-three years. In 1892 he was candidate of his party for the office of Congressman from the Second Ohio 298 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE District. In 1902 he was the Democratic candidate for the office of Probate Judge, but was not elected. He has been the secretary of the trustees of the Sinking Fund of Cincinnati since 1906. Meantime Mr. Greve has been busy with a wide variety of personal and civic activities, including distinctive educational and literary work. He was professor of law at the Cincinnati Law School of the University of Cincinnati from 1904 to 1917, and at the Young Men's Christian Association Law School from 1919 to date (1927). He accepted a similar position with the Eclectic Medical College in 1920 and continues his association with that institution as president. He was literary editor of the Cincinnati "Tribune" from 1894 to 1897, and of the "Times Star" from 1898 to 1901. His own writings have had a wide reading, and include : "The Centennial History of Cincinnati," in two volumes, 1904, together with contributions to the "Encyclopaedia Americana," the "Encyclopaedia International," and the "Enclyclopaedia Britannica." He was associate editor in 1897 of the "Bench and Bar of Ohio," in two volumes, and collaborated in the "Life of Alphonso Taft," and "Tafts of Today," 1919. He has contributed many articles, papers and stories to various newspapers, magazines and other publications, including biographies of Mr. W. S. Groesbeck (Lewis Publishing Company), Stanley Matthews, and William H. Taft and others. As a member of the Publication Committee of the Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society, he has edited several of the quarterly numbers. A member of the Cincinnati Literary Club since 1885 (now honorary life member), he was president in 1898-99, is Corresponding Secretary of the Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society, and life member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Society of Colonial Wars, the Ohio section of which he served as governor in 1906, while he was deputy govern0r-general of the national society for Ohio from 1916 to 1922. He belongs also to the Society 0f Founders and GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 299 Patriots, the Society of the War of 1812, the New England Society, of which he was president from 1923 to 1925, the Society 0f Indian Wars, the MacDowell Society, the Ohio Valley Historical Society, of which he is a founder and was chairman in 1907 and president in 1908-09, the Archaeological Institute of America, which he served for some years as president of the Ohio chapter, the American Political Science Association, the American Federation of Arts, the American Economic Association, the American Historical Association, the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. His professional affiliations are with the Cincinnati Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, and the Bar Association of the City of New York. He is the director for the Sixth Judicial Circuit including the states of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee of the National Association of Bankruptcy Referees. He was president of the Cincinnati Section of the Drama League of America from 1916 to 1921 ; vice-president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, 1921 to 1923, and president the following year, 1923-24; director of the Harvard Alumni Association, 1923-26, class agent of the Harvard Fund, and member of the Nati0nal Geographic Society. Clubs : University; Cincinnati ; Harvard, of which he was president in 1907 ; Guentico ; Queen City, Cincinnati ; Authors', of London; Harvard, of Boston ; and Town Hall, of New York. On October 23, 1895, Charles Theodore Greve married Laura Belle Cherry, daughter of Major E. V. Cherry, of Cincinnati, and his wife, Emma Miles (Hamlin) Cherry. Children: Theodore, a law student; Cherry, graduate in 1924 of Radcliffe College, attached to the staff of The Cincinnati Art Museum. HARRY HAKE. Harry Hake is the son of Charles F. and Caroline (Lukens) Hake, and a brother of Charles F. Hake, Jr., and Edward W. Hake. 300 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE He was born July 8, 1871, in Cincinnati, where he attended the public schools, the Ohio Mechanics Institute, and the Cincinnati Art Academy. Although a young man he has established a reputation second to that of no architect in the State, among his achievements in building being some structures that have attracted attention throughout the Nation. Mr. Hake received his practical experience with George W. Rapp, William Martin Aiken and Lucien F. Plimpton, following his foundation work in academy and college ; and entering the field for himself in 1891. His advance since that time has been rapid. The Western and Southern Life Insurance Building at Fourth Street and Broadway, Cincinnati, is one of Mr. Hake's leading creations, and it is considered a most beautiful building in the Greek style. Other prominent buildings designed and erected under his supervision are : Cincinnati Base Ball Park, the Havlin Hotel, the Andrews Building, the Provident Bank Building, the Elks' Temple, Exchange building for the Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Company, the United States Parcel Post building, the Queen City Club, and the new Masonic Temple building, a group of academic buildings at the University of Cincinnati, and the Liberty National Bank, at Covington, Kentucky. Mr. Hake's work being a distinct addition to the artistic, as well as to the commercial atmosphere of the city. Fraternally, Mr. Hake is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and several other fraternal, civic, and social organizations. Harry Hake married Minnie Spreen. There are two children : Harry Hake, Jr., a student of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1925 ; and Dorothea Hake, a graduate of Smith College. THE REV. THEODORE STUBER. One of the successful pastors 0f Roman Catholic Churches in the city of Cincinnati, is the Rev. Theodore Stuber, pastor GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 301 of the Church of Our Lady of Loretto, at Heekin and Eastern avenues. He was born at Galion, Ohio, June 28, 1886, son of Leo and Appolonia (Miller) Stuber, now residing in Marion, Ohio, where Leo Stuber is engaged with the Marion Steam Shovel Company. They are the parents of ten children, of whom seven are still living. At an early age Father Stuber went to Marion, Ohio, and there studied at the St. Mary's Parochial School, after which he came to Cincinnati, where he attended St. Gregory's Seminary, graduating therefrom in 1905. Shortly after he went to Rome and attended the College of the Propaganda Di Fede, receiving the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Divinity. He was ordained to the priesthood in Rome, Italy, in 1911. His first appointment was as assistant pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart at Dayton, Ohio, where he remained from 1911 until 1915, being transferred to St. Raphael's Church, Springfield, Ohio, for three years, 1915 to 1918. He was professor of Sacred Scripture at Mount St. Mary's Seminary from 1918 to 1921, when he accepted the pastorate of Our Lady 0f Loretto Church, Linwood, where he has since continued, also being in charge of Our Lady 0f Loretto Parochial School. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and the Catholic Knights of Ohio. His address is No. 4944 Reeves Place, Cincinnati, Ohio. HAROLD M. CHAPMAN. Though New England was the place of his birth, Cincinnati has been the scene of Mr. Chapman's business activities for the last five years as the local sales manager of the Certain-Teed Products Corporation, manufacturers of asphalt roofing, linoleum, paints and varnishes, and similar products. He was b0rn in Salem, Massachusetts, June 23, 1892, a son of James P. M. and Helen B. (Larabee) Chapman, the latter a native of Salem, Massachusetts, the former a native of Summerworth, New Hampshire, and for some years sales manager for the Jewel Belting Company of Hartford, Connecticut. 302 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Harold M. Chapman was educated in the public and high sch0ols of his native city and then attended Salem Commercial College. After completing his education he became associated with Stone & Webster, Incorporated, an engineering firm of national reputation, with which he remained for four years. The World War interrupted his business career at that time, and in March, 1918, he entered the United States Army, being stationed at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia. In July of the same year he was commissioned a first lieutenant, after having spent some time at the Central Training School for machine gun officers, and he continued to serve in this capacity until his discharge in December, 1918. Returning to civil life, he then became associated with the Certain-Teed Products Corporation as a member of its sales force. In the following year, 1920, he was promoted to sales manager of the Cincinnati office of this company, in which capacity he has continued since then with offices in the Union Central Building, Room No. 1027. As a result of his pleasing personality, a thorough knowledge of his business, an undoubted talent for salesmanship, and an unlimited capacity for hard work, he has met with marked success. His principal source of recreation is hunting and fishing, while his religious affiliations are with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Chapman married, in 1917, Genevieve R. Knapp, of Salem, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the parents of two children, Samuel Everett, and Genevieve Ruth. The family residence is located at No. 5813 Valley View Avenue, Kennedy Heights, Hamilton County, one of Cincinnati's most attractive suburbs. GUY WARD MALLON. An outstanding member of the Ohio bar resident in Cincinnati is Guy Ward Mallon, who within the realm of his profession has rendered distinguished service to the State and his native city. A memorial of his progressiveness and contention GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 303 for clean elections is the Ohio form of the Australian Ballot System, of which he was the author. He was one of the four authors of the new city charter for Cincinnati, an instrument of which the people of that municipality are commendably proud. During the World War both he and his wife did yeoman service in welfare work, his wife serving overseas for one year. Three of his sons and two of his daughters served in the World War, s0 that it is readily seen the house of Mallon exemplifies almost to the last member of the family the spirit of active patriotism. Guy Ward Mallon was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 28, 1864, the son of Patrick and Sophia (Beadle) Mallon. His father, a native of County Tyrone, North of Ireland, was a well-known lawyer, served as a judge on the Ohio bench and was the senior member of the firm of Mallon & Coffey. He died in 1896. The mother, who was born in New York State, died in 1894. The son Guy attended the grade schools and was graduated from the Woodward High School 0f Cincinnati, then entered Yale College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1885 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, whence he was graduated in the class of 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar of the State of Ohio in 1888, he has been engaged in the practice of law to the present time. In 1904 Mr. Mallon became a member of the law firm of Mallon & Vordenberg, this firm being the successor of Mallon & Coffey, which entered into the law business in 1867 and continued under that style until 1888, Judge Mallon, the father of Guy W. Mallon, having been the founder and senior partner. In the latter year, the junior Mallon entered the co-partner-ship and the name of the firm was changed to Mallon, Coffey & Mallon. Upon the death of Mr. Coffey, Harry W. Vordenberg was received into the firm, and the style of the firm was again changed, this time to Mallon & Vordenberg, under which Mr. Mallon and his partner c0ntinue to practice, the present arrangement having been in force since 1904. 304 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE As has been stated, Mr. Mallon, who is a member of the Democratic party, has played an important part in the political history of Ohio and of Cincinnati. He was elected to represent his constituency in the Legislature, having accomplished that victory as a champion of the Australian Ballot System, which he was instrumental in having adapted to the use of the State of Ohio. It was he also who gave his name to this particular bill for the purification of elections, and he had the satisfaction of seeing his measure passed while he sat in the Legislature. This was one of the actually big things that Mr. Mallon achieved as a lawyer and legislator. Mr. Mallon produced his "Manual on Elections" in 1892, which is held to be a valued authority on the methods and procedure of elections. He was one of the organizers of the Cincinnati Trust Company, and served as its president in 1901-03, resigning his office in the latter year that he might devote more of his time to his law business and other endeavors commanding his interest. Mr. Mallon is deeply interested in the cause of education and was, for eighteen years, a trustee of the Ohio State University, and has been a trustee of Berea College, Kentucky, for thirty years. He and nearly all his immediate family gave splendid service in various channels during the World War. He was a director of personnel in the Red Cross Service, and participated efficiently in other services. Mrs. Mallon served overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces, having charge of a Young Men's Christian Association post at Saumur, France. She was in actual service overseas for fourteen months. Mr. Mallon is a member of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Cincinnati Bar Association. His clubs are the Cincinnati Business, University, Literary, Yale, of Cincinnati, Yale of New York, and the Lawyers of Cincinnati. He is an attendant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Psi Upsilon college fraternity. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 305 His chief recreation is taken in mountain-climbing, which he greatly enjoys for its varied and alluring elements. Guy Ward Mallon married, November 12, 1891, at C0lumbus, Ohio, Hannah Neil, of which city she is a native. Children : 1. Mary, served in the Red Cross at Washington, District of Columbia, as a member of McCracken's Division, during the World War. 2. Henry Neil, served as a major of artillery in the World War. He was with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas for a short time. 3. John Howard, was first lieutenant of artillery, and served with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas for eighteen months. 4. Patrick, served as a pilot and bomber in the United States Army Aviation Corps. 5. Sophia Beadle, served in military hospital. 6. Horace Taft. 7. Hannah. 8. Dwight Stone. Mr. Mallon has his law offices at No. 2003 Union Central Building, and his residence at Mount Auburn, Cincinnati. ERNEST NUTTER BEATTY, M. D. One of the leading members of the medical profession in Cincinnati is Dr. Beatty, who quickly is establishing for himself a reputation as a specialist in obstetrics. He was born at Lexington, Kentucky, August 21, 1895, a son of James P. and Mary Elizabeth (Nutter) Beatty, his father being a farmer, and with Mrs. Beatty, a resident of Lexington. Ernest Nutter Beatty was educated in the public and high schools of his native city and then attended college, first, for two years, the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and then for one and a half years, Ohio State University at Columbus. The next two and a half years he spent in the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in the class of 1920 with the degree of Medical Doctor. Having spent one year as interne at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, he commenced, in 1921, the practice of his profession, with offices in the Doctors' Building, No. 19 Garfield Place, Cincinnati, where he specializes in obstetrics. Dr. Beatty is a member of Cin.-20 306 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE the obstetrical staff of Cincinnati General Hospital. During the World War he served in the Students' Army Training Corps in 1917 and 1918 and at present is a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps. He is a member of the Nu Sigma Nu fraternity; Newp0rt Lodge, No. 358, Free and Accepted Masons; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Loyal Order of Moose; Foresters of America ; American Medical Association; Ohio State Medical Association ; and Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Beatty married, in 1918, Madeline Louise Feigel, of Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. and Mrs. Beatty are the parents of three children : Vivian Louise; and (twins) Nancy Ann, and Mary Elizabeth. FRED W. BREHMER. A successful manufacturer of Cincinnati, who has won success through his own unaided efforts is Fred W. Brehmer, president of the Brehmer Machine Tool Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Brehmer was born on February 11, 1880, in Newport, Kentucky. His father was Frederick Brehmer, of Newport, who died in 1911, and his mother, Catherine (Summers) Brehmer, who is living. His father was a carpenter by trade. Fred W. Brehmer was educated in the schools of Newport. He began to earn a livelihood by his own efforts when he was thirteen years old, and learned the trade of machinist. Afterward he worked for the Bickford Drill & Tool Company; and was superintendent of Miller & Peters just before he engaged in business for himself in 1909. His first establishment was on a small scale. It occupied a small shop in an old stable at Newport, Kentucky, and began business alone. He moved his business to Cincinnati in 1916 and occupied premises at No. 815 Broadway. He incorporated, on November 23, 1917, as the Brehmer Machine Tool Company, and GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 307 elected Mr. Brehmer president, and Martin L. Albrecht, secretary and treasurer (see following biography). The business grew apace. It occupies two floors, and employs more than fifty persons. It produces tools, jigs and fixtures, and the concern finds itself obliged to procure larger quarters. Mr. Brehmer is a Republican in his political opinions. He is a member of Robert Burns Lodge, No. 163, Free and Accepted Masons; also of the Scottish Rite bodies, in which he has received the thirty-second degree; and of Syrian Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a Protestant in religion. Mr. Brehmer was married, in 1913, to Alma Weidner, a daughter of Stephen and Louise (Heitz) Weidner. They are the parents of Louise H. Brehmer, who was born August 11, 1916. The business address of Mr. Brehmer is No. 815 Broadway, Cincinnati, Ohio. MARTIN LUTHER ALBRECHT. A successful business man in Cincinnati, Ohio, is Martin Luther Albrecht, secretary and treasurer of the Brehmer Machine Tool Company, of which Fred W. Brehmer is president (see preceding biography). Mr. Albrecht was born in the Queen City on December 4, 1886. His father, John M. Albrecht, a native of Ontario, Canada, and a printer by trade, came to Cincinnati early in life, and remained. He married Mary Bisdorf, the mother of Martin L. Albrecht. Mr. Albrecht was educated in the schools of Hamilton, Ohio, and disclosed the artistic bent which led him to learn the trade of designer. He found ready employment at his trade with various concerns of the city until 1919, when he became associated with the Brehmer Machine Tool Company, and in the following year of 1920 was made secretary and treasurer of the company. He has continued to occupy this post for the five years that have followed. Mr. Albrecht's political affilia- 308 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE tion has been with the Republican party from the start of his career, although he has not been active in the organization. He is a member of Linwood Lodge, No. 567, Free and Accepted Masons ; a thirty-second degree member of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite ; and a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle. He is a Protestant in religion. Mr. Albrecht was married, in 1909, to Effie S. Rose, of Hamilton, Ohio, daughter of Samuel L. and Ida W. Rose, of that city. His business address is No. 815 Broadway, and his house address is No. 844 East McMillan Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. PAUL A. NEUHAUS. Paul A. Neuhaus is one of Cincinnati's lawyers, practicing under his own name, with his offices at No. 401 Temple Bar Building. Though admitted to the bar in 1912, Mr. Neuhaus has only been actively connected with the profession since 1921. He was born in Cincinnati on October 5, 1886, son of Frederick Neuhaus, a native of Baltimore, and Johanna (Remke) Neuhaus. Before his death, Frederick Neuhaus held various civic positions in Cincinnati, and was a member of the Board of Education. Paul A. Neuhaus attended the Law School of the Young Men's Christian Association, and took the State Bar Examination with the class of 1912. From 1912 to 1917 he was engaged as a general accountant. In 1917, he enlisted for service and was sent to the office of the Quartermaster General at Washington, later he was transferred to the Ordinance Office at Cincinnati, where he was engaged in the settlement of unfinished contract claims. Mr. Neuhaus supports the Republican party and is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally, he is affiliated with Lafayette Lodge, No. 81, Free and Accepted Masons, and with the Knights of Pythias, Past Chancellor, and now (1927) keeper of seals and records. In 1917, Paul A. Neuhaus married Emma F. Unger, of Cincinnati, daughter of Adolph and Josephine Unger. Mr. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 309 and Mrs. Neuhaus have one daughter, Marion Alma, who was born on April 30, 1919. THOMAS MALONEY. No record of the development of Greater Cincinnati would be complete without the name of Thomas Maloney, building contractor and construction expert, who completed important public contracts and was a real factor in building the city of today out of the village of the past. He was a leader in many other phases of civic life, generous, charitable, Christian, and socially popular. Thomas Maloney was born in Galway County, Ireland, in 1853, son of Patrick and Mary (Kelleher) Maloney. Educated in his native country, he came to America in 1876, settling in Cincinnati, where he at first practiced his trade of stone cutter and mason. Endowed with shrewdness and vision, however, not only for himself but for his town, he saw larger opportunities for service in the contracting business, entered it, and met with great success in the nearly half a century of his activity. In his later years two sons were associated with him. Among the important public works for which he contracted was the construction of the piers for the suspension bridge, which had been started in 1860, and which he completed. He also cut through the hill at St. John's Park in Hyde Park, which resulted in the linking of Madisonville with Cincinnati by electric transportation. In 1918 he installed the sewage system in Madisonville, a feat which won praise from public health experts throughout the country. Thus he won by merit his preeminence as a contractor. Mr. Maloney was interested in politics and active in the Republican party and in the Blaine Club. Horse racing was his hobby, and he had a stable of fine thoroughbreds at the time 0f his death. He was a communicant of the Catholic Church. Mr. Maloney died at the age of seventy-three, on March 2, 1926. 310 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE In 1884 Thomas Maloney married Lucy O'Connell, daughter of Michael and Ellen (Logan) O'Connell, and seven children were born of the union : 1. Mary, wife of John J. Harrigan, of Cincinnati, and mother of Thomas Logan and Joseph Harrigan. 2. John G., served in the 129th Engineers, United States Army, in France for several months. 3. Thomas. 4. James. 5. Joseph. 6. Margaret. 7. Agnes. Mrs. Maloney and her children survive Mr. Maloney. This man who carved out success for himself and at the same time made his business subservient to the best interests of the public he served is of the type of creative American business man to win the admiration of the whole country. Of a strong and forceful personality, he forged his way to the front, but he never forgot the rights and needs of others. He was genial, kindly, a fine Christian, and a devoted husband and father. ARCHBISHOP JOHN T. McNICHOLAS. An inspired and broad-minded leader of the Catholic Church in America, Most, Rev. John T. McNicholas, Archbishop of the diocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, enters upon his new responsibilities with a splendid record 0f achievement throughout his quarter of a century of religious service. The Archbishop was born in Kiltimagh, Ireland, December 15, 1877, son of Patrick J. and Mary (Mullany) McNicholas. He was brought to the United States at the age 0f four and educated in this country, attending St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia; St. Rose College in Springfield, Kentucky; and St. Joseph's College at Somerset, Ohio. He was Lector of Sacred Theology at Minerva University, Rome, Italy, and granted the degree of Master of Sacred Theology in 1917. He was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1901. He has attained eminence in various departments of Catholic activities. From 1904 t0 1909 he was a professor in the Dominican House of Studies, first in Somerset, Ohio, then in Washington, District of Columbia. Thence he went to New GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 311 York City, where he labored for five years at St. Vincent Ferrer Church, and for three years as pastor of the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, 1913-1916. Eight years the Most Rev. McNich0las devoted to organization work for the Holy Name Society, which was instituted to combat profanity in every day life, and which now enrolls more than a million and a quarter members. Rev. John T. McNicholas was elected bishop of the diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, July 18, 1918, and consecrated in Rome, September 8, 1918. After some years of service there, characterized by constructive leadership, Bishop McNicholas was chosen archbishop of the archdiocese of Cincinnati, which offers a fertile field for a church official of his initiative and broad understanding. LOUIS F. WALTER. More than thirty years of the constructive and useful life of Louis F. Walter, of Cincinnati, Ohio, went to building up the firm of Walter and Wallingford, pig iron dealers and brokers, which became a force for general business prosperity in the industrial life of the town. He was a broad-minded citizen and so delightful a man that he had a host 0f friends. His influence was always on the side of progress and general welfare. Louis F. Walter was born in Cincinnati, December 11, 1858, son of Samuel and Amelia (Myers) Walter. His father was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, son of Henry Walter, a prominent architect and builder 0f Cincinnati, who erected the Cathedral, Christ Church, and Lafayette Bank, among other notable structures. His uncle, William Walter, was also a prominent architect. Louis F. Walter was educated in the Cincinnati public schools. Having completed the course, he entered the wholesale grocery house of Tweed and Andrews. His second business engagement was with Thomas A. Mack, who was the head of a flourishing pig iron business. When Mr. Mack died, Mr. 312 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Walter in association with another employee, Mr. Wallingford, took over the business under the firm name of Walter, Wallingford and Company. Dealing in pig iron alloys and coke, they built up a large and successful business, reaching preeminence in their line. Mr. Walter was interested in all phases of community welfare and generous in contributing time, effort, and money to worth-while movements. He was a member of the Business Men's Club. Death came to him in his sixty-seventh year, January 28, 1926. In 1916, Louis F. Walter married Mabel Howard, who is a woman of charming personality who entered wholeheartedly into all the activities and interests of her husband. So engaging was the personality of Mr. Walter, so mellow his humor, so affable his disposition, so kind, gentle, and thoughtful his nature, that he counted his friends by the score. His hospitality and the happy atmosphere of the home he so loved gathered a pleasant circle about his fireside. He was charitable to a fault, always ready to help others in large or small ways, always sympathetic and unobtrusive in his good works. Though a Republican in politics, he was liberal in his views and devoted to the non-partisan best interests 0f the town he so loved. A substantial business man, a loyal citizen, a devoted husband, and a faithful friend, he measured up in every respect to the American ideal of the good citizen. ROBERT G. THAYER. His increasing activities in the general practice of law have been brought about by Mr. Thayer's well-applied abilities and his broad aptitudes in all branches of the profession in whose principles his training has been most thorough ; and in that portion of the legal field of action in which he has established himself he maintains those traditions and usages of probity and rectitude that signalize the Ohio Bar. Prominent in Cincinnati's general public and business life, devoted to the city's organized advancement and its institutional progress. Mr. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 313 Thayer is a citizen and a lawyer who merits the regard in which he is held by his fellow citizens. He is a son of Arthur L. Thayer, of Grafton, West Virginia, an executive official in the United States Railway Mail service, and of Mabel N. (Niswander) Thayer, of Bridgewater, West Virginia. Robert G. Thayer was born February 9, 1898, at Parkersburg, West Virginia, where he attended the public and the high schools. His college course was taken at the University of Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1920 with his degree, Bachelor of Arts, and from the Law School of that University he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1923. Mr. Thayer was admitted to the bar in that year, and he then commenced his general practice in association with the firm of Roettinger & Street, with offices in the First National Bank Building. A Republican in politics, Mr. Thayer with his vote and influence supports the principles of that party. Enlisting in the United States Infantry, during the World War, Mr. Thayer was at first assigned to Fort Sherman, and he was afterwards transferred to Reserve Officers' Training Camp as an instructor, with the rating of top sergeant. He is a member of the college fraternities, Sigma Chi and Phi Alpha Delta; member of Calvary Clifton Lodge, No. 700, Free and Accepted Masons ; of the Patriotic Order Sons of the American Revolution; Lawyers' Club ; and a member of the board of directors of the American Business Club. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian Church; and he is a teacher of the Men's Bible Class. Mr. Thayer married Lulu Frances Wyatt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wyatt, of New Richmond, Ohio. TYLOR FIELD. A leader in the business world of Cincinnati, Tylor Field was born in the Queen City on September 26, 1875. He comes of an old English family long represented in the country. His father, Walter H. Field, was born in Cincinnati, in September, 314 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE 1846, and died November 14, 1912. He was president of the American Cotton Seed Oil Company, and a successful and pr0minent business man. His mother was Abby Murdock (Tylor) Field, born in Cincinnati, where she lives at the age of seventy-one years. Tylor Field attended the public and private schools, the Franklin school and the Lawrenceville school, at Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He was graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1897, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His first business association after he left college was with the Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company, as secretary and general sales manager. He was serving in that capacity in 1903 when he resigned in order to join W. P. Anderson in founding the Ferro-Concrete Construction Company, of which Mr. Field is president. He became secretary and treasurer of the concern at the time of its organization, and succeeded to the presidency in 1924. The company is one of the largest in the country, and the largest in its field in Cincinnati. Mr. Field is a director of the Cincinnati Equitable Fire Insurance Company; of the Cincinnati Manufacturing and Cold Storage Company; secretary and treasurer of the Ferro Realty Company; director of the American Mortgage Company, Cincinnati Terminal Warehouse Company, American Building Lot Syndicate, and active in other corporations, and a director of the Community Chest. When the United States entered the World War, he was in government service in connection with ammunition, while in September, 1918, he enlisted as a private. At the close of hostilities he was in Officers' Training Camp, and received an honorable discharge. His hobby is golf and he is a generous contributor to charities. During one year was organization chairman of Community Chest. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial Club, Commonwealth Club, the Queen City Club, the Cincinnati Country Club, the Camargo Country Club, and the Cincinnati Automobile Club. In GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 315 November, 1925, Mr. Field was elected a member of the small Council of Cincinnati. His recreation is golf. Mr. Field was married, in Cincinnati, 0n October 27, 1906, to Marion Andrews Harrison, daughter of E. P. Harrison, since dead, and of Carrie Frances (Andrews) Harrison, who lives in Cincinnati. They have three children : Harrison, born July 27, 1909; Joseph, born March 9, 1911 ; Caryl Marion, born April 3, 1916. The address of Mr. Field is No. 2285 Grandin Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. LOUIS JOHN DOLLE. Active in professional circles in Cincinnati is Louis John Dolle, one of the successful lawyers of that city. His father, Philip Dolle, was born in Alsace Lorraine, October 20, 1834, and died June 3, 1886, in Cincinnati, an attorney-at-law ; his mother, Philomina (De Bolt) Dolle, was born in Cincinnati in 1836, and died July 6, 1866, a victim of the cholera epidemic. Philip and Philomina (De Bolt) Dolle had three children, of whom there survive Mary, wife of Charles A. Lamping, of Chicago, and Louis John, of further mention. Philip Dolle's second wife was Catherine De Bolt, and of this marriage the following children were born : Eugene A. ; Elizabeth ; Florence, who married Albert Greyer ; Grace, the wife of James B. O'Donnell ; Charles P. ; Agnes Dolle Pletz ; and Rose Marie Meyer, now deceased. Louis John Dolle was born January 15, 1862, in Cincinnati. He received his early education in the Cincinnati public schools and St. Xavier College, and later attended the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in June, 1882. On January 15 of the following year he was admitted to the bar and soon built up a substantial practice, which he has continued ever since. Mr. Dolle is a member of the County, State, and American Bar associations, and of the Maketewah Country Club. His religious affiliations are with the Roman Catholic Church. 316 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE He married, in Cincinnati, April 26, 1900, Augusta De Rose Lodge, born in Cincinnati, daughter of William and Mary G. Lodge, the father deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Dolle are the parents of four children : 1. William Lodge, born December 4, 1902, a graduate of St. Xavier College in 1923. 2. Mary Louise, born February 14, 1904, a graduate of Trinity College, Washington, District of Columbia. 3. Elizabeth Lodge, born April 15, 1907. 4. Louis J., Jr., born May 30, 1910. REV. LAURENCE GEORGE WESSEL. When the grandfather of George Laurence Wessel left his home in Hannaford, Germany, to settle in a foreign land, his destination was the city of Cincinnati, and here the family have since resided. His father, Joseph Wessel, and his mother, Louisa (Martin) Wessel, were both born in this city, and here their eight children were born, four 0f whom are living : Charlotte, wife of Frank Unger ; Laurence George, Gertrude, and Edward. The father of the family died when but thirty-eight years of age, but the mother still survives and is living with her son. Rev. Laurence George Wessel, son of Joseph and Louisa (Martin) Wessel, was born in Elmwood Place, Ohio, on May 6, 1891, and as soon as he was of age to attend school, was enrolled as a pupil in St. Aloysius Parochial School, graduating in 1904. His further preparation for college was made at St. Gregory Preparatory Seminary, where he studied for three years. Three years he spent then in St. Xavier College, and completed his studies at Mount St. Mary Seminary of the West. He was ordained to the priesthood, June 17, 1916, and placed as assistant in the parish of St. Pius Church, at South Cumminsville. After a year at this church, he was sent, on July 1, 1917, to St. William Church at Price Hill, and this congregation he served until October 1, 1924. At this time, he was placed over the Church of St. Jerome as pastor, where he is at present earnestly performing the sacred duties of his office. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 317 During the World War Father Wessel applied for appointment as a chaplain in the army, but before he received his notification, the armistice was signed. He takes a keen interest in out-of-door sports and is an active member of the Knights of Columbus. ROGER SYLVESTER MORRIS, M. D. To his office as professor of medicine in the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Dr. Morris has bestowed also the accomplishments of a practical physician, as well as one who has imbibed from the Old World founts of medical learning the advanced science of their classrooms and clinics. He is a son of George Sylvester Morris, who was born November 15, 1840, in Norwich, Vermont, and was professor of philosophy at Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Michigan, for many years, and to the time of his death, which took place March 23, 1889; and who was for three years lecturer on philosophy at Johns Hopkins University; he married Victoria Celle, who was born June 1, 1850, in New York City, where she now resides. The first of the Morris family in America, came from Waltham Abbey, in England, in 1620. Professor and Mrs. Morris were the parents of : Roger S. Morris, of whom further; and Ethel Celle Morris, who lives in New York City. Dr. Roger Sylvester Morris was born September 24, 1877, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduating from the University of Michigan with his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900, he prepared for his medical career in the Medical School of that University, where he was graduated in 1902. After taking a post-graduate course in Johns Hopkins University in 19021903, he took special studies chiefly at the University of Berlin, in Germany. Returning to the University of Michigan, he there served as instructor of internal medicine from 1903 to 1906, and was assistant resident physician at the Johns Hospkins Hospital, and associate in medicine in the Johns Hopkins Univer- 318 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE sity from 1906 to 1911. From 1911 to 1913, he was associate professor of medicine in Washington University, at St. Louis, Missouri. After engaging in sanatorium work, Dr. Morris came to Cincinnati in 1915 as Taylor professor of medicine, the position he now holds, and director of the medical clinic at the Cincinnati General Hospital. Since its opening in January, 1925, he has been consultant in Internal Medicine to the United States Veterans' Bureau's Diagnostc Center at the Cincinnati General Hospital. His professional affiliations are with the American Medical Association, the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, and the American Heart Association. He is also a member of the University Club, the Cincinnati Country Club, the Cincinnati Automobile Club, and the Chicago Yacht Club. His hobby is sailing his sloop "Columbia" on the lake at Old Mission, Michigan, where he has a summer home. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Dr. Roger Sylvester Morris married, September 10, 1907, at Baltimore, Maryland, Mary Bledsoe, daughter 0f Mrs. R. H. Bledsoe, and they have one son, Roger Sylvester Morris, Jr., who was born August 12, 1911. JAMES G. STEWART. Following in the footsteps of his father, a member of the Ohio bar for some fifteen years, Mr. Stewart decided upon a legal career and has been a practicing attorney for more than two decades. He was born in Springfield, Ohio, November 17, 1880, a son of James E. and Mary E. (Durbin) Stewart, the latter a native of Mount Vernon, Ohio, the former a native of Cincinnati, where he practiced law after his return from the Civil War until his removal to Springfield, Ohio, where he died in 1889. During the Civil War he saw service with the 2d Kentucky Volunteers, and rose from private to the rank of colonel with which he was discharged, after having been wounded in acti0n in the battle of Shiloh. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Loyal Legion. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 319 James G. Stewart was educated in the public and high schools of Springfield and then attended Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, from which he graduated with the degree of Ph. B., in 1902. He then took up the study of law at the Cincinnati Law School, graduating in 1905 with the degree of LL. B. In the same year he began the practice of his profession in Springfield, but after three years, in 1908, moved to Cincinnati where he has continued in practice since then, at first alone, but since 1922 as a member of the firm of Nichols, Morrill, Stewart & Ginter with offices at No. 914 Provident Bank Building. His practice covers cases in the State and Federal Courts as well as before the United States Supreme Court. During the World War he served on the Cincinnati Legal Advisory Board and as one of the local "Four-Minute" speakers. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Cincinnati Country, University, Literary, Blaine, Cincinnati Gymnastic, and Cincinnati Business Men's clubs, and is also very active in fraternal affairs, being a member of Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Delta Phi, as well as of the various Masonic bodies including the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Sons of Veterans. His religi0us affiliations are with the Protestant Episcopal Church, and he finds his recreation chiefly in fishing and life in the open. Mr. Stewart was married, in 1910, to Harriet L. Potter, a native of Jackson, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are the parents of three children : Irene P., Potter, and Zeph. THEODORE H. SCHOEPF. As a consulting electrical engineer, Theodore H. Schoepf has gained for himself a high place in the professional life of Cincinnati, his adopted city. With a th0rough education in several branches of engineering, he has also proved himself a man of fine natural ability, great steadfastness of purpose and 320 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE loyalty to any cause which he espouses. Progressive and enterprising, he has kept abreast of the times in everything that has to do with electrical engineering, especially the essentials of street railway work and organization. He has solved many puzzling perplexities of electrical street railway engineering by his own mental processes. In every phase of life he has shown the same high courage. He is of the most genial personality, open-hearted, and with a reputation for integrity and reliability. He has proved his faith by his works. Men and corporations come to him for advice and counsel confident that they can count upon it. He is vigorous and aggressive in his undertakings. He is also a man of strong convictions, and he never hesitates to voice his belief on any public question. In all the relations of life he has sought the right course, and his conclusions, when arrived at, are stoutly maintained and fearlessly followed. Theodore H. Schoepf, son of Albin and Julia B. (Kesley) Schoepf, was born at Hyattsville, Maryland, December 11, 1874. His father, a native of Hungary, was engaged as principal examiner in the United States Patent Offices in Washington. He served during the Civil War as brigadier-general in the Federal Army, and had a brilliant record with the Army of the Potomac until wounded; he died in 1886. His wife, a native of Washington, died in 1914. Theodore H. Schoepf received his preliminary education in public and private schools in Washington. He was graduated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1898 with the degree of Civil Engineer, and the following year he took post-graduate work at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He then became associated with the Westinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, remaining with this corporation for seventeen years. He started in the capacity of a construction engineer, and during the years 1901-07 he was assigned to the British Westinghouse Company for important work in Great Britain and on the Continent. He then returned to Pittsburgh, and when he GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 321 left the service of the company he held the title of general engineer. After the United States entered the World War, he was commissioned as captain in the Engineers' Corps of the Army, and assigned to the Fifth Reserve Engineers. Subsequently, this became the Fifteenth United States Engineer C0rps, and with it he joined the American Expeditionary Forces, sailing from New York in July, 1917. He served overseas until March, 1919, when he was honorably discharged with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Engineers Corps. He participated in both the St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne offensives. Upon leaving the army he became associated with the Cincinnati Traction Company as acting vice-president, thus continuing until October, 1925, when this company was taken 0ver by the Cincinnati Street Railway Company. He then went into business in Cincinnati for himself as a consulting engineer, with offices in the Traction Building. He specialized in electrical traction work, both heavy and light. He had also served the Cincinnati Traction Company as a director, and he was vice-president of the Ohio Traction Company. Mr. Schoepf is a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a member 0f the Delta Chapter of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, also of the Cincinnati Engineers' Club, the Cincinnati, the Queen City, the Cincinnati Country, the Hyde Park Golf and Country, and the Camargo clubs, of Cincinnati. In his religious affiliation he is a Protestant. He finds his chief recreation in golf. He is unmarried. DR. WILLIAM GILLESPIE. In the medical profession of Cincinnati no physician and surgeon stood higher than Dr. William Gillespie, and neither in his profession nor in any other walk of life did he shirk his duty as he conceived it. Through more than a generation of active service Dr. Gillespie, who was of the third generation of physicians, was a worthy exponent of all that is best in medical tradition. He was thoroughly equipped for his work, Cin.-21 322 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE a consistent student of medical science, and amply equipped to cope with the problems of medical pathology and diagnosis, in the solution of which he excelled. He did a large amount 0f work among the poorer classes of s0ciety. He was always courteous and friendly in his attitude toward his medical brethren. While independent in his views, he never aroused antagonism, and was a careful observer of medical etiquette. His many years 0f membership in local medical societies, and his continuous service in the community, exacted from all who came within the sphere of his influence an expression of high appreciation of his worth and of deep valuation of his association. Emulating his honored father, who was a surgeon in the Civil War, Dr. Gillespie served as a surgeon with high rank in the World War at one of the most important base hospitals in France. Both his sons served with him in the war, leaving the university where they were students to enlist in the army. In the passing of Dr. Gillespie, the city of Cincinnati and the surrounding area lost one of the most skillful and faithful physicians. He was industrious, conscientious, self-reliant, familiar with the resources of his calling and sagacious and capable in their use. He was faithful to the best traditions of the medical profession, loyal to his patients, courtly in bearing and the soul of honor. He possessed in eminent degree the courage of his convictions reached by diligent study and investigation. He was not a faddist accepting with blind credulity the crudities of visionaries and the unverified theories of dreamers, yet no one was more ready and delighted to welcome and adopt the proven or plausible contributions to the physician's armamentarium. Dr. William Gillespie was born in Rising Sun, Indiana, April 28, 1868, the son of Dr. William and Margaret (Boyle) Gillespie, and grandson of Dr. Robert and Margaret (Roberts) Gillespie. Dr. Robert Gillespie was the son of a captain in the British navy, and was graduated from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, with the degree of Master of Surgery. Upon the completion of his education in his native land, he GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 323 sought the opportunities of the New World, arriving in the United States in 1819, and settling in a sparsely populated district of Indiana—the first in that section of the country to have a thorough and systematic training in medicine. He practiced both medicine and surgery until his death in 1846. His son, Dr. William (I ) Gillespie, was born in Indiana in 1821, and read medicine under the preceptorship of his father, He later attended the Evansville (Indiana) Medical College, and afterward took a course in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, whence he was graduated in the class of 1846. At the first call for troops for the Civil War, he enlisted and was sent to the front as assistant surgeon in the 7th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. (His father had been one of the first of the so-called "Black Abolitionists.") After serving for three months, he reenlisted for three years as assistant surgeon. Upon the organization of the 83d Indiana Regiment, he was transferred to that command, and afterward became chief surgeon, serving with distinction until the end of the war. He suffered great hardships, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. In his last years he was consulting physician to the whole countryside. He was affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic. His wife was a daughter of James Boyle, of Sc0tland. Their son, Dr. William (2) Gillespie, received his preliminary education in the grammar and high schools of Rising Sun, Indiana. He was graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1890 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and at once became associated with his father, who had an extensive surgical practice, remaining with him until 1896, when he removed to Cincinnati. There he specialized in obstetrics, and enjoyed a wide and important consultation practice, particularly in his special field. In 1915 he became professor of obstetrics at the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, and director of the service at the General Hospital, Cincinnati, in which positions he continued until his death, June 6, 1925. 324 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Dr. Gillespie enlisted April 26, 1917, for the World War, and was commissioned a major in the Medical Section of the Officers' Reserve Corps, United States Army. In 1918 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and organized Base Hospital, No. 25, at Cincinnati. Later he was ordered to Camp Sherman and then to France, at the head of his organization, the base being located at Allerey, which became one of the m0st important hospital centers in the World War. Dr. Gillespie remained in charge of his outfit until the end of the conflict. He had the unusual distinction of having b0th his sons with him and attached to the base hospital for the duration of the war. On April 19, 1919, General John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, awarded a citation t0 Dr. Gillespie as "an expression of appreciation for exceptional, meritorious and conspicuous services at Base Hospital No. 25, France." Following the signing of the armistice, Dr. Gillespie returned to Cincinnati and resumed his practice. He was a member of the obstetrics staff at the Bethesda Hospital, and was dean of obstetrics at the Cincinnati Medical College. He had served the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society as both president and secretary; was past president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; past president of the Alumni Association of the Ohio Medical College; member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society ; a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and a member 0f the Caledonian Society. Dr. William Gillespie married, in 1893, Mary Reamy, daughter of Pembroke Somerset Reamy. The family are members of the Avondale Methodist Episcopal Church, Cincinnati. The children of Dr. William and Mary (Reamy) Gillespie, all born in Cincinnati : 1. Dr. Thaddeus Reamy. 2. Dr. William Pembroke. 3. Dorothy, a student at Cincinnati University. Both the sons, veterans of the World War, are practicing physicians in Cincinnati. Dr. Gillespie was a man of marked culture; he was public- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 325 spirited and progressive. He was held in the highest regard by those with whom his professional and social activities brought him in contact. He was fond of his home and devoted to his family. In every relation 0f life he was the ideal man and thorough gentleman. WILLIAM WOOD. A merchant of the old school in Cincinnati, and long an important figure in the religious activities of that city, William Wood was acknowledged to be one of the leading laymen of Methodism in the Cincinnati Conference. For many years an auction and commission dealer in dry goods, subsequently a member of a large dry goods house, and finally the president of a white lead manufacturing concern, Mr. Wood enjoyed a very large and valued acquaintance in that section of Ohio dominated by the influence 0f Cincinnati. He was held in high esteem by his contemporaries in the business world. For a quarter of a century he was a class leader in the Walnut Hills Methodist Episcopal Church, 0f which body he was a trustee for many years, and for two decades he served the Sunday School as superintendent, being looked upon as a model holder of that position. William Wood was born in Dutchess County, on the Hudson, New York, September 18, 1808, died in November, 1883, the son of Captain Ebenezer Wood. In 1822, when he was fourteen years of age, he was brought by his parents to Cincinnati, and his father engaged in the dry goods business on Lower Market Street, in that city. The son William, having received his education, displayed an inherited bent for merchandising. In 1831, when he had attained the age of twenty-three, he purchased a stock of goods, acquired a lease 0f the building containing them, at Sixth and Race streets, Cincinnati, and became an auction and commission merchant, operating under the style of William Wood & Company. In 1834, the business having grown to larger proportions, he moved to a location on Main Street, below Fourth Street, and received 326 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE George P0meroy as a partner. The success attaching to the operations of the enlarged firm was most gratifying, and the concern again moved to better and more commodious quarters, this time to a location on Main Street, above Fourth Street. Here there was formed a new firm, known as Wood, Lockwood & Company, and this concern carried on extensive operations in dry go0ds, having a branch house in New Y0rk City, which was known as Lockwood & Company.. Following the dissoluti0n of this company, Mr. Wood again took his place in the business world by becoming a member of H0pper, Wood & C0mpany, which had its headquarters on Pearl Street, Cincinnati, the ownership continuing in accordance with its style until 1842, in which year Mr. Wood withdrew in order to engage in another line of business. His newest venture was one of the most pretentious of his career. In association with Edward Conkling he engaged in the manufacture of white lead. Upon Mr. C0nkling's withdrawal, Mr. Wood carried on the business as William Wood & Company, until 1867. In the latter year there was organized the Eagle White Lead Company, which was incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio, with a capital stock of $200,000. William Wood became president ; his son, William C. Wood, vice-president, and his son-in-law, John E. Douglass, secretary and treasurer. This c0ncern became one of the leading business enterprises in Cincinnati, and Mr. Wood and his associates became prominent in the commercial life of this section of Ohio. Mr. Wood's religious life was a continuous manifestation of that devout spirit which actuated him all through the years. His service to the Walnut Hills Methodist Episcopal Church, as trustee, twenty-five years as a class leader, and twenty years as superintendent of the Sunday School, cannot be measured in terms of human language. He was a pillar of strength, a wise and resourceful official, a counselor of rare qualities, and a spiritual leader, whom all that knew him loved and delighted to honor. William W0od married, April 8, 1831, Mary A. Hopper. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 327 Children : 1. Mary Elizabeth, married James S. Burdsal. 2. William Christie. 3. Caroline Frances, married John E. Douglass. 4. Edmund Sehon (q. v.). 5. Charles H. 6. Alice S., married William Fletcher Boyd (q. v.). 7. Virginia J., married George W. Boyce. 8. James Franklin. EDMUND SEHON WOOD. Valiantly, and with a courage borne of the memories of many a hard-fought field in the waging of the Civil War, Captain Edmund Sehon Wood continues to occupy a conspicuous place in the thin blue line of Cincinnati's veteran soldiers, being the adjutant of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the sole surviving member of General Eli Long's staff, which figured in many important battles of the Rebellion. It is not for choice of a commanding position before his comrades and fellow-citizens that Captain Wood stands out as a leading officer of those who like him are facing the setting sun with a smile on their faces, and with the confidence that is synonymous with the hope of the complete victory that is to crown a life of faith. He is there because of the inherent qualities of mind and heart which have won for him the preferment of his former comrades-in-arms. Cincinnati, as do all other cities and towns, wherein abide the survivors of the greatest of all civil strifes, or whose soil treasures the hallowed dust of those who have gone to their place of untrammeled peace, delights to honor these noble souls, whose mellowing years bestow a benediction of peace and security upon the present generation. Edmund Sehon Wood was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1842, a son of William and Mary A. (Hopper) Wood. He received his education in the scho0ls of his native city, and at the age of seventeen years enlisted for service in C0mpany L, 4th Ohio Cavalry. The Civil War broke upon the Nation, and our soldier boy Edmund was soon to be in the thick of the fray. He exhibited qualities which brought him to the attention of field and staff officers, and he was made a member of General 328 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Eli Long's staff, this after he had been promoted to captain of Company K. He rendered conspicuous service on a number of bloody fields, being famous throughout his command for extreme bravery in action and under fire. In one gruelling battle he had his horse shot from under him, but with a fresh mount he carried 0n until the day was done and the field was won. He received severe wounds, the scars of which are not less precious than the many medals that have been bestowed upon him for his gallantry. His association with General Long as aide-de-camp marked a most important period of his service in the army, which lasted three years and two months. Back from the scenes of carnage and glory, over which the dove of peace had hovered with the olive branch in its beak, Mr. Wood engaged in business pursuits in association with his brother-in-law, James Burdsal, Druggist, as cashier and bookkeeper. He then became commercial traveler for the Eagle White Lead Company, established in 1843, of which William Wood was president. The memories of '61-'65 were given their proper place in the records 0f the newly-formed branch of the Grand Army of the Republic, which was named Post No. 47, and in honor 0f William H. Lytle. Into this organization of his fellow-veterans Captain Wood infused a native energy and patriotic ardor which the years have never dimmed. The post made him its adjutant, and he still occupies that honorable and useful 0ffice. He is a staunch member of the Republican party, in whose victories at the polls he has participated with true citizen's zeal, while its rare defeats, in national elections, he has never allowed to shake his political faith. His religious fellowship is with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Captain Wood married, in 1876, Elizabeth Bowen. For some years he has made his home at the residence of his sister, Mrs. William Fletcher Boyd, at Phillips and Purcell streets, Cincinnati.