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STE, DAVID K., Jurist, was the son of Moses and Ann Este, of Morristown, New Jersey, and was born October 21st, 1785. Captain Este, his father, was severely wounded at the battle of Monmouth, and would have died from exposure but for the personal attentions of Colonel Ham- ilton, aide to General Washington, who found him among the dead and dying, and provided him with food and medi- cal assistance. He was subsequently Collector of Revenue under President Adams, and died at the age of eighty-four. David K., his son, received his elementary education in his native town, and entered Princeton College, where he pur- sued the full course of studies, and graduated with dis- tinction in 1803. In April, 1804, he commenced to read law in the office of Gabriel Ford, Esq., at Morristown, and after thorough preparation was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court at Trenton, in May, 1808. He commenced practice in Morristown at once, and after continuing there one year as a lawyer he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio; but with the intention of making his practice a very general one, covering all the courts in that judicial district, includ- ing the United States District and Circuit Courts at Chilli- cothe, and subsequently at Columbus, he opened an office in Hamilton in order to be centrally located. In the spring of 1814 he located in Cincinnati, and established himself at the corner of Main and Fifth streets, and by careful atten- tion to his business and the exercise of rare legal talent, he soon secured a very large and influential clientage. In 1817 he formed a partnership with Bellamy Storer, and this business relationship continued until 1821. In 1830 he admitted Ezekiel Haines to an interest in his large and in- creasing business, and this partnership existed until Mr. Este was made President Judge of Hamilton county, and after the organization of the Superior Court, in 1837, he was appointed Its judge. Upon the expiration of his term, in the spring of 1845, he retired from public and professional
guished one. He was profoundly read in civil and crim- inal law, his knowledge of the science being constantly improved by continuous research. He was as indefatigable a worker as a student, and gave to all the business intrusted to his care his close attention. He was especially forcible as a pleader, and had rare power for the analyzation of evi- dence in order to present it clearly to the jury and the court, forming from it a plain and easily understood exposi- tion of the continuity of circumstances involved in the case. He was skilful in the interpretation of the law, and logical in his arguments, which were models of rhetorical expres- sion. His decisions from the bench were accepted as authority, and were characterized by an entire absence of personal bias. He was at all times firm in his support of the integrity of the law. These qualities won for him the sincere respect of the entire community, and his retirement from professional duties was regarded as a public loss. His career was closely identified with the growth and pros- perity of Cincinnati. He was zealous in his efforts to secure public improvements, and to make the city attractive, not alone as a place of residence, but as a good field for capi- talists, in the way of increasing mercantile and commercial traffic. The first building erected by him was his own residence on Main street. Subsequently he erected fourteen structures on the same thoroughfare and Ninth street, three on Sycamore street and one on Fourth street. In 1858 he reared a handsome stone residence on West Fourth street, which he occupied at the time of his death. In the fall of 1819 he was married to Lucy Ann, daughter of General William Henry Harrison. She died in April, 1826, having been the mother of four children, three of whom died when quite young. The surviving daughter became the wife of Joseph Reynolds, of Baltimore, and died in 1869, at the age of forty-seven years, leaving seven children. In May, 1829, Mr. Este married Louisa Miller, daughter of Judge William Miller, by whom he had seven children, four living at the present time. Even when ninety years of age he took a great interest in the course of public affairs. For many years he was Senior Warden of Christ Church. He died in the early part of the year 1876,
OLLINS, REV. JOHN, Minister of the Pioneer Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio, was born, November Ist, 1769, in New Jersey. Early in life he became an earnest and devout member of the Methodist Church, and determined to be- come a preacher, a resolution which he carried into effect with characteristic energy. His carlier efforts in his chosen vocation as a preacher gave little promise of his future eminence. So small was the evidence they gave of special qualification that his wife, solicitous for his reputa-
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tion and usefulness, advised him to desist, believing that he | teen years later. No more devoted, zealous, eloquent, or could never succeed. Ile rephed to her, in all candor, successful preacher labored in the church than he. IIIs eloquence is described as something wonderful. His pres- ence. was commanding and attractive, his voice rich, melodi- ous and greatly expressive, and the fervor of his utterances almost irresistible. None could listen to him unmoved, and during the time of his ministrations thousands were converted through his agency. As early as 1809 he was Presiding Elder in the Cumberland District of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, embracing all of West Tennessee, part of Middle Tennessee, on the Elk and Duck rivers, Madison county, in the Mississippi Territory, and all of Kentucky below the mouth of Green river, with the counties of Ohio and Breckinridge, above Green river. To this day many an old pioneer remembers the sympathy excited and the profound sorrow felt in Cincinnati and throughout the Methodist Church when his death occurred, in 1815. It was a few days after the adjournment of conference in Cincinnati. He and his wife were crossing the Ohio river in an open ferry-boat. The horses on the boat became frightened, and, running together, forced several of the pas- sengers overboard into the river. Leander Blackman was among the number. He swam for some time, but before help reached him he sank and was drowned in full view of his agonized wife. His body was recovered and followed to the grave by a vast concourse of friends. that he thought her predictions quite likely to be correct, but nevertheless, although he might never be a successful preacher himself, he purposed to continue trying until he should be instrumental in converting some one who would be a preacher, His subsequent career showed how un- founded were his wife's misgivings, and how wise was his own determination. In the year 1801 he visited the North- western Territory, now the State of Ohio, and in the follow- ing year he removed his family to the West, and settled on a farm in Clermont county, Ohio, on the east fork of the Little Miami river, about twenty-five miles east of Cincin- nati. In 1804 he preached the first Methodist sermon ever preached in Cincinnati. The meeting was held in an upper room, and the congregation comprised twelve persons. He also preached the first Methodist sermons heard in Ripley, Dayton and Urbana. In 1807 he travelled the Miami Circuit, in connection with B. Larkin, an excellent preacher. In 1808 he travelled the Scioto Circuit, and in 1809 and 1810 the Deer Creek Circuit. IIe was next assigned to the Union Circuit, which embraced the towns of Lebanon and Dayton. In the years 1819 and 1820 he was Pre- siding Elder of the Scioto District. In 1821 and 1822 he was stationed in Cincinnati. The following year he was stationcd in Chillicothe, and in 1824 he was appointed to the Cincinnati District, and afterwards to the Miami Dis- trict. He continued to travel in this district during the years 1825, 1826 and 1827. Next he was transferred to the Scioto District, where he labored from 1828 to 1831. LARK, SAMUEL S., M. D., of Belvidere, was born in Flemington, New Jersey, November 8th, 1825. He is a son of the Rev. John F. Clark, and a grandson of the Rev. Joseph Clark, D. D. The last named was a student at Princeton Col- lege at the breaking out of the revolutionary war, and, entering the colonial army, served with distinc- tion on General Washington's staff. The war ended, he returned to Princeton, completed his education, took holy orders, and was for many years pastor of the First Presby- terian Church at New Brunswick. Dr. Clark's great uncle, General John Maxwell, commanded the New Jersey battal- ion in the war of the Revolution, thus giving him a doubly patriotic ancestry. He received his preparatory education at the school of the Rev. John Vanderveer, at Easton, and in 1841 was admitted to Lafayette College. After re- maining here two years he entered the junior class at Princeton, and graduated in 1845. Among his classmates at Princeton were Judges Depue and Van Syckel, of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and his cousin, IIon. George M. Robeson, late Secretary of the Navy. After passing through the regular three years' course in the medical de- partment of the University of New York, he received Ins degree in 1848, and in the same year established himself at Belvidere, where he has since resided. Ile has an exten- sive practice, and his professional reputation is unchallenged. In 1832 and 1833 he was on the New Richmond Circuit. He returned to the Cincinnati station in 1834, and in 1835 he travelled the White Oak Circuit. This was the last cir- cuit he ever travelled. On the minutes of the Ohio Annual Conference of 1836 he was returned as superannuated, which relation remained unchanged until his death. He died at Maysville, Kentucky, at the residence of his son, General Richard Collins, August 21st, 1845. JIis last words were, " Happy, happy, happy!" On his death the official members of the church at Maysville passed resolu- tions expressive of their grief at his loss, and of the highest appreciation of his labors and eminent qualities as a gospel minister. It may truly be said of him that he was one of the most eminent and eloquent preachers in the early days of Methodism in southern Ohio.' He married Sarah Black- man, a woman of great energy and force of character, and whose life was an embodiment of the Christian virtues. She was a sister of Leander Blackman. In the spring of 1797, shortly after her husband assured her of his deter- mination to " keep trying to preach until he had converted some one who would preach successfully," her brother Leander was converted through the preaching of her hus- band. This was in 1800, and the new convert at once entered the ministry and worked in it with extraordinary power, earnestness and success until his death, some four-
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He is a member of the United States, New Jersey, and ' rious enterprises, which he has so conducted as to increase at Warren County Medical Societies. In politics he was a once his fortune and his reputation, placing him easily in the front rank of the business men of the community. He was one of the founders of the Clinton Bank, now the Clinton National Bank, of which he was chosen one of the first Di- rectors, and is at present the Vice President. He is a mem- ber of the Baptist church, of which he is a zealous and liberal supporter, having been chiefly instrumental in secur- ing for the society its handsome edifice in Clinton. In politics he is a Democrat, though not an extremist, being often found in opposition to the pet schemes of huis party. He is, however, a steadfast adherent to the cardinal princi- ples of the Democracy. He was elected Mayor of Clinton on the Union ticket. He has been twice married ; first, in 1843, to Miss Van Syckel, daughter of Aaron Van Syckel, who died in 1860, and again, in 1862, to a daughter of William Van Syckel. His eldest son, B. O. Leigh, is at present the efficient Cashier of the Clinton National Bank.
Whig until the formation of the Republican party, when he became and has since continued a member of that organi- zation. He is a partisan, however, from a sense of duty only, having never sought nor held any public office save that of Superintendent of the Draft in Warren county, an appointment that came to him, unsolicited, from Governor Olden, and which he held only until a provost marshal was appointed in his stead. His practice has of late so greatly increased that he has been compelled to seek the assistance of a medical partner, and has accordingly associated with him Dr. McGee, a young gentleman of ability and ranking well in the profession Dr. Clark was married in 1854 to Jane C., daughter of James C. Kinney, M. D., of Warren county.
EECE, LEWIS C., Banker, was born, June 19th, 1817, in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He was educated at the Phillipsburg public schools, and upon completing his education was given a posi- tion in the carriage manufacturing business carried on by his father. In this business he remained during the succeeding thirteen years, displaying a consider- able amount of mechanical ability and a good understanding of commercial affairs. In 1849 he was elected Surrogate of Warren county, holding the office for the full term of five years, and some years later was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1856 the Phillipsburg Bank was founded under a special charter, and of this institution he was chosen Cashier, an office that he still continues to hold. Under his management the bank has been exceptionally successful in its operations, especially since 1865, when it was reorganized under the national banking law. Mr. Reece was married, August 23d, 1848, to Sarah A., daugh- ter of Andrew Lomison, late of Mount Bethel, Pennsyl- vania.
EIGH, JOHN T., Banker, of Clinton, was born in 1821, in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. He is the son of Samuel Leigh, whose father, of the same name, served in the war of the Revolution, the Leigh family being one of the oldest in New Jersey. Ile received a fair common-school edu- cation, and at the age of twelve became a clerk in the large mercantile establishment of Peter Dayton & Son, in New Brunswick, assisting in that and similar establishments in New Brunswick until 1844, when he removed to Clinton, New Jersey, where he established himself in the general mercantile business, which he pursued successfully for five years, selling out at the expiration of that period on account of failing health. Since 1849 he has been engaged in va-
ONGWORTH, NICHOLAS, Lawyer, Vine- grower and Horticulturist, was born, January 16th, 1782, in Newark, New Jersey. His father had been a Tory during the war of the Revolu . tion, and his large property had been entirely confiscated in consequence. Young Longworth's childhood was passed in comparative indigence, and while yet a boy he went to South Carolina as a clerk for an elder brother ; but the elimate proved unfavorable to his health, and, returning to Newark, he resolved to study law. Be- lieving that the region then known as the Northwest Territory offered the best opportunity of success to young men of enterprise, he removed thither in 1803, and, fixing upon the little village of Cincinnati as his residence, he continued his legal studies in the office of Judge Jacob Burnet. His first case after admission to the bar was the defence of a horse-thief, receiving for his fee two copper whiskey-stills. These he bartered for thirty-three acres of land, Central avenue being its eastern boundary. . Owing to the great influx of emigration this land in process of time arose to the value of over two millions of dollars, From the time of his arrival in Cincinnati he held to the idea that the log village of that day would become the metropolis of the future. He was outspoken and decided on this point. His convictions determined all his actions in this direction ; but they were the merest visions to the old men around him. While a student in Judge Burnet's office he offered to purchase the judge's cow-pasture, and, thinking to obtain it on a long credit, proposed to pay five thousand dollars for it. The judge reproved him sharply for what he was pleased to term the folly that would assume such a debt for such worthless investment; but he lived to sec the cow. pasture valued at one and a half million dollars. When
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Mr. Longworth began the practice of law he was known as tem, which he studiously carried out, of selling his land to the attorney who would always take land for fees; and poor tenants on long time, thus enabling them to pay for it gradually, often deeding to widows of tenants half of the property leased by their husbands : in this way favoring poor men in securing homes for themselves. He was a benefactor to poor authors and poets, the liberal patron of art and the friend of Hiram Powers. He was a life-long Whig, but held no identity with any political party, and was certainly no politician. He had as little care and respect for politicians as for preachers, being a determined, but a silent, opponent of the latter. Nevertheless, he was a man of high moral rectitude and a firm believer in the Christian religion ; and he attended the ministrations of Rev. Dr. Wilson until the death of that eccentric Presby- terian clergyman. For some time Mr. Longworth was President of the " Pioneer Association of Cincinnati." A very honorable action was taken by that body on the oc- casion of his death ; as was also the case in the meeting of the Cincinnati bar. He died in that city, February 10th, 1863. during his connection with that profession all his earnings were invested in lands in and around Cincinnati, so that he became, in the course of a few years, a large lot and land-owner and dcaler. At that time property was held at a very low figure ; many of his lots cost him but ten dollars eich, while vast tracts represented but a lawyer's fee. He had for some years given much attention to the cultivation of the grape, with the view of making wine ; and at first at- tempted, though with but little success, the acclimation of foreign vines. He tried about forty different varieties before the idea occurred to him of testing the capabilities of our indigenous grapes. In 1828 he withdrew from the practice of his profession and commenced experimenting upon the adaptation of native grapes to the production of wine. Two of the varieties-the Catawha and the Isabella-seemed to him to possess the best qualities for wine in that climate and soil, and he gradually adopted these throughout his vine- yards, though not entirely to the exclusion of others. He had two hundred acres of vineyards, and extensive wine. vaults in the city, where the vintage of each year was stored by itself to ripen. He also purchased wine and grape-juice UDLOW, ISRAEL, First Surveyor of the North- west Territory, now Ohio, was born, in the year 1765, at Long Hill Farm, near Morristown, New Jersey, where his father, Cornelius Ludlow, re- sided. He was of English ancestry, his grand- father having left Shropshire, England, at the time of the restoration of the Stuarts, to escape the persecu- tions of the crown, as the Ludlow family had espoused the cause of the Parliament, and had taken a prominent part in the affairs of the commonwealth. Sir Edmund Ludlow, the head of the family at that time, was banished from England, and died in exile at Vevay, Switzerland. In 1787 Israel Ludlow received the following letter from the Surveyor- General and Geographer of the United States: "To Israel Ludlow, Esq .: Dear sir: I enclose an ordinance of Con- gress, of the 20th instant, by which you will observe they have agreed to the sale of a large tract of land, which the New Jersey Society have contracted to purchase. As it will be necessary to survey the boundary of this tract with all convenient speed, that the United States may receive the payment for the same, I propose to appoint you for that pur- pose, being assured of your abilities, diligence and integrity. I hope you will accept it, and desire you will furnish me with an estimate of the expense, and inform me what moneys will be necessary to advance to you to execute the same. I am, dear sir, yours, Thomas Hutchins, Surveyor- General of the United States." He accepted the appoint- ment, received his instructions and an order on the frontier posts for a sufficient escort to enable him to prosecute the surveys; but the extreme weakness of the military force in the Northwest Territory-as Ohio was then called-left him in a very hazardous and exposed condition. His great energy, bodily strength and personal beauty, however, soon in large quantities, to be converted by his processes into the wine of commerce. These vineyards eventually became profitable to him, and to the thousands of wine-growers and vine-dressers who emigrated from the wine countries of Europe and established themselves on the hill-slopes of the Ohio, in the vicinity of Cincinnati; but for some years his expenditure was greater than his income from his vineyards. He did not, however, confine his attention to the culture of the grape. He was also much interested in the improve- ment of the strawberry, and published the results of his numerous experiments on the influence of the sexual char- acter of the strawberry in rendering it productive. Cin- cinnati he made famous for strawberry culture; and from him the celebrated " Longworth Prolific " derives its name. In private life he was a genial, kindly, but very eccentric man, dressing always in the extremest simplicity and plain- ness, often to the extent of shabbiness. He was singularly unostentatious in his display of wealth and in his personal habits. He was never accused of meanness nor of illiber- ality. He was public-spirited and useful; his brain ever teeming with valuable suggestions to the people. He con- tributed largely to public charities; but his name was rarcly found on published lists of contributors to charitable enter. prises, His gifts were made in secret, and oftenest to those whom he termed " the devil's poor "-the vagabonds and estrays of social life. Many citizens of Cincinnati cannot fail to remember the winter when he gave hundreds of men work in his stone quarries on the Ohio river, above the city ; or, indeed, of his donating, each week, a sack of meal to a large number of equally poor women. It was no de- light or virtue to him to help those who could possibly receive sympathy or aid from others. He had also a sys-
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attracted the attention and admiration of the Indians, and over the mountains they reached the Monongahela river, won friends and safety for his little band, where the toma- and descended in a small boat to the vicinity of Pittsburgh, where they embarked on the waters of the Ohio. Colonel Ludlow was soon afterwards appointed to establish and sur- vey the boundary line between the United States and the Indian Territory, agreeably to the treaty of Greenville, made by General Wayne, in 1795. It was a most dangerous un- dertaking, and while absent from Ludlow Station, which he had made his residence, his wife was in constant dread of hearing that some fatality had befallen his little party. In fact she could not anticipate any happiness while separated from her " beloved Ludlow," as she calls him, especially during his constant absence from the fort upon his arduous duties. She writes to him in 1797 of her increased fear for his safety, upon hearing that the Shawnees had appointed a chief, unknown to him, to attend him; and she urges him not to relax his vigilance for one moment. Her distress of mind can be better imagined than described when she learned than he was unable to obtain an escort, and at the same time knowing the great importance of the boundary being established, both to the government and to the set- tlers. It is a fact that he made a great part of the surveys with only three active woodsmen as spies, and to give him notice of danger. He died in January, 1804, at his home at Ludlow Station, after four days' illness. The house still remains in a good state of preservation, notwithstanding it is now eighty six years old ; and his great-grandchildren may stand in the room where he died and resolve to imitate his virtues. He was not permitted to witness the wonderful results of the enterprise to which his untiring industry was directed in forwarding. That he had a prescience of its importance is shown by his large entries of land in the. re- gion tributary to Cincinnati. Looking forward to a long life, he felt his immediate object was to lay the broad foun- dation of pecuniary fortune. Modesty was a well-known trait of his character. With an eye quick to discern, and energy to have applied, every measure conducing to the prosperity of the territory and the city, he was himself in- different to his own political advancement, and willing to wait until the fulfilment of his plans. Thus it is, without legislative record of the facts, his name is not known in a manner commensurate with his services to the infant colony and youthful State. He was no politician in the clamorous sense of the term. He was a man for the times in which he lived, and possessed a peculiar fitness for the capacious sphere of his influence. His life was illustrated by a series of practical benevolences, free from ostentation, and the laudation of scarcely other than the recipients of his disin- tercsted kindnesses. The shock created by the announce- ment of his death was great. The inhabitants joined the Masonic fraternity in paying the closing tribute of respect to his memory, and an oration was pronounced by Hon. John Cleves Symmes. Among his numerous descendants several have occupied prominent positions in Ohio and other hawk and scalping-knife would, but for these, have been used against them. There are letters still preserved from General Joseph Harmer, addressed to Israel Ludlow, of date of 1787, and August 28th, 1788, which speak of the impossibility of affording him an adequate escort, and of the danger of his pursuing the survey at that time; but such danger and privations incurred by him did not deter the prosecution of the work. In 1789 he became associated with Mathias Denman and Robert Patterson in the proprietor- ship-to the extent of one-third-of the settlement about Fort Washington, which was to be called by the whimsical name of Losantiville, a compound word, intended to express " the city opposite the mouth of the Licking." To it, how- ever, was given the more euphonious appellation of Cincin- nati by Israel Ludlow, in honor of the Cincinnati Society of revolutionary officers, of which his father was a meniber, and which society was much criticised at that time. Late in the autumn of 1789 Colonel Ludlow commenced a survey of the town, which has since become the " Queen City of the West." In 1790 White's, Covolt's, and Ludlow Stations were created. The latter was near the north line of the town plot of Cincinnati, and a block-house was the first tenement erected there. As the Indians had become very savage and ferocious, strong forts were built, and military placed therein for the protection of the few whites who had ventured to settle in their neighborhood. So dangerous was the situation that persons who ventured beyond a certain limit of these forts fell victims to the brutality and ferocity of the savages. In 1791 General St. Clair's army was en- camped at Ludlow Station, along what is now called Mad Anthony street, and the present site of the Presbyterian and Christian Churches. From thence, on September 17th, 1791, St. Clair proceeded to the Big Miami, and erected Forts Hamilton and Jefferson, and on November 4th follow- ing was fought the bloody and unfortunate battle called " St. Clair's Defeat." Israel Ludlow, now Colonel Ludlow, pursued his surveys under great difficulties, but completed them, and May 5th, 1792, made a full report of the same, and of all the expenses incident thereto, which were ac- cepted by Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. In December, 1794, he surveyed the plot of a town adjacent to Fort Hamilton-hence the name -and was sole owner. In November, 1795, in conjunction with Generals St. Clair, Dayton and Wilkinson, he founded the town of Dayton. Previous to this, however, General Wayne had succeeded General St. Clair-after the latter's defeat-and prosecuted the Indian war until its termination in 1795, when emigration commenced again, and new towns and farms spread through the yielding forest. On Novem- ber Ioth, 1796, Colonel Ludlow married Charlotte, second daughter of General James Chambers, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and on the 20th of the same month they started on their journey to Cincinnati. After a tedious ride , Western States.
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