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HISTORY
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CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES, OHIO
From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present
IN TWO VOLUMES
BY BYRON WILLIAMS
Milford, Ohio Hobart Publishing Company 1913
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"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remem- bered with pride by remote generations."-MACAULAY.
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PREFACE.
THE present age is happily awake to the duty of writing its own records, setting down what is best worth remembering in the lives of the busy toilers of today, noting, not in vainglory, but with an honest pride and sense of fitness, things worthy of em- ulation, that thus the good men do may live after them. The accounts here rendered are not of buried talents, but of used ability and opportunity. The conquests recited are of mind over matter, of cheerful labor directed by thought, of honest, earnest endeavor which subdues the earth in the divinely appointed way. "The great lesson of biography," it is said, "is to show what man can be and do at his best." A noble.life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration, and no more interesting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelligent public.
In this volume will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty. by industry and economy have ac- cumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited advantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an influence extending throughout the length and breadth of the land. It tells of men who have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence as statesmen, and whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk of life who have striven to succeed, and records how that success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells also of those who, not seeking the ap- plause of the world, have pursued the "even tenor of their way," content to have it said of them, as Christ said of a woman per- forming a deed of mercy, 'They have done what they could.' It tells how many, in the pride and strength of young man- hood, left all, and at their country's call went forth valiantly "to do or die," and how through their efforts the Union was restored and peace once more reigned in the land.
Coming generations will appreciate this volume. and preserve
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it as a sacred treasure, from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public record, and which would otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the com- pilation of the work, and every opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written; and the publishers flatter themselves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of consequence.
Yours respectfully,
HOBART PUBLISHING COMPANY.
July, 1913.
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INDEX
A
Abbott, E. C. 573
Abbott, J. D. (M. D.) 64
Brown, W. A.
771
Brown, Geo. T.
656
Buchanan, John
508
Adams, Wm. B.
200
Aiken, W. H. (M. D.) 699
Anderson, G. C ..
691
Anshutz, H. F. (M. D.)
628
Applegate, A. B.
446
Applegate, Joseph M.
639
Applegate, Wm. B.
300
Armacost, G. F ..
304
Armstrong, P. G.
238
Aultman, Wm. A.
542
B
Bagby, Rev. W. W. 568
Baird, Chambers
82
Baird, Major Chambers
157
Balzhiser, Andrew
333
Balzhiser, Jacob
338
Bambach, G. G.
52
Bambach. Judge G. 171
Banister, W. H.
655
Barrow, A. D.
315
Barrow. H. C.
325
Bass. J. Q.
302
Baum, W. H.
437
Beasley, S. C.
501
Beasley, Mrs. Helen
494
Bechtold, John G.
251
Beck, Horace J.
477
Beck, John H.
479
Bee, E. C.
836
Belt, Richard C. (M. D.) 638
Bennett, C. A. (M. D.) 453
Bettle. F. E.
34
Bice. Georgia Park
359
Bolender, Daniel 742
Bolender, John J.
737
Boyce, John A.
340
Boyd, Frank E.
487
Bradley. N. E. (M. D.)
640
Broadwell, L. M.
102
Brock, W. W., Sr.
288
Brower, Abram
468
Adams, Mrs. Beulah V
Adams, Chas.
285
Buchanan, Thos.
844
Bushelman, W. R.
788
Bushman, Fletcher
378
Burbage, John
512
Burger, John
295
Butler. Marion
759
C
Cahall, A. P.
558
Campbell, Hon. Robt. E.
178
Canter, S. A. (M. D.)
736
Carnes, Arthur L.
279
Chatterton, C. P.
394
Chatterton, Ezra
395
Chatterton, Philip
392
Christie, W. B.
778
Clark, L. M.
642
Cleveland, Aaron B. 57
Collins, C. O.
544
Cook. F. L.
455
Corbin, C. H.
37
Coslett, John
382
Cox, Greenlief Norton
500
Crain, I. N.
751
Crane, Albert
664
Crane. Cyrus L. :
673
Craver, Wm.
805
Criswell. B. R.
488
Cross, O. P.
697
Crowell, W. C. (M. D.)
817
Cumberland, Jas. A.
517
Curlis. B. E.
807
Curry. F. C. (M. D.)
623
. Cushing. John J., Sr
533
D
Dailey, N. T.
389
Dale, F. J.
837
Davidson, James
659
Davidson, John S.
372
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Davis, Benj. F.
283
Davis, B. T. 650
Flanegan, W. P. 343
Daugherty, Thos.
768
Flinn, Thos. H.
472
Flowers, John C.
821
Fomorin, J. L. (M. D.) 625
Day, J. H.
721
Deeny, J. C.
530
Denniston, H. W.
831
Frazier, Gustavus A.
621
Frebis, Frank X. 578
Freschard, A.
791
Donham, Col. J. S.
335
Frey, Ludwig H.
341
Donaldson, Christian
266
· Fridman, C. D.
689
Dragoo, Samuel
507
Fridman, F.
802
Fridman, F. M.
794
Fridman, F. W.
345
Fridman, L. L.
346
Fridman, L. S.
223
Fridman. Wm. M.
36
Fry, L. H.
341
Fuhr, John C.
231
Edgington, Capt. John Emery. 197
Edgington, Ira L.
539
Edgington, J. S.
Edwards, F. M.
827
Ellis, Amos F.
419
Ellis, P. N.
490
Ellis, T. K.
402
Ellsberry, B. F.
749
Ellsberry, W. S. (M. D.)
653
Ely, A. F.
677
Ely, Edwin C.
21
Emery, J. W.
336
Erion, John G.
462
Ertel, Hon. Earl E.
19
. Evans, Chas. P.
Evans, Joseph H. 485
Evans, Leroy J.
549
Evans, W. H. (M. D.)
211
Eveland Family
255
Eveland, Wm. B.
271
Ewan, Jas. H.
286
Eylar, Wm. A.
608
F
Fagaly, M. W.
660
Fagley, Chas. A.
203
Faul, Win. L. (M. D.)
564
Fee, Chas. B.
604
Fee. Wm. M.
792
Fetzer, F. C.
423
Fite, Rufus L.
610
Games, David W.
830
Games, Hon. John F.
141
Gardner, Hon. B. E ..
160
Gardner, John W.
136
Gardner, Louis ().
843
Gardner. Rev. Matthew
130
Gardner, Wm. M.
514
Garoutte, Elizabeth Park
357
Gatch, Emley Barber
644
Gatch. Geo. W.
466
Gatch. Rev. Philip
119
Gates, Jas. H.
733
Gayley, Joseph
438
Germann. Michael
483
Gilliland, Wm. A
841
Ginnings, JJ. C.
741
Clancy. Allen
428
Gordon, B. W.
584
Gordon. S. C .. M. D.
581
Groppenbacher. M. J.
755
Grimes. W. W.
579
Guynn, Wm. H.
70
H
Hahn. H. D.
711
Halse, Geo. W.
744
Harber, P. C.
154
Harlow, Chas.
823
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781
Dudley, Frank M.
191
Dudley, Otis
275
Dunn, O. F.
605
Dyer, Joseph A.
515
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Fitzpatrick. T. V. (M. D.) 835
Fossyl, Frank
662
Francis, Dr. A. W. 480
De Vore Family
169
De Vore, J. W.
189
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Hawkins, Elisha 272
Hawkins. Rezin 846
. Hawkins, Richard 176
Kearns, M. A. 497
Hawley, Harvey
229
Keen, Geo. A. & Bro. 441
Kelsey, Wm. S.
839
Heiny, Wm. 756
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Heizer, Joseph G.
187
Henning, W. H.
444
Hickey, Geo.
332
Hight, Wm.
528
Hill, Amos S. 306
Hill, Geo. Hand
40
Lady, D. F. 647
Lanham, C. A. 729
Hite, Frank P.
840
Larkin, Joseph L. 425
Hobson, W. H.
813
Leeds, W. H. 809
Leonard, John A. 293
Leever, W. E. (M. D.) 66€
Liming, W. S. 58.
Little, J. C.
259
Lockwood, E. A. 20
Lockwood, Elder James Henry. 432
Lockwood, Wm. J. 459
Long, Clarence G. 526
Long, J. R. 308
Longworth, Geo. C. 83
Lush, John 757
Lyon, Louis 554
Lyon, Manville 798
Lytle, J. E. 445
Lytle, John W.
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J
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Jacobs, W. J. 391
Jamieson, Milton 368
Jamieson, P. F. 47
Jarman, George 828
Jarman, John
110
Mefford Brothers
155
Mefford & Grim Co. 486
Mefford, S. B. 491
Meldahl, Anthony 108
Miller, Robt. W. 498
Miller, Wm. H. 234
Mischler, Louis 183
Mitchell, Chas. 795
Moore, H. U. 400
Moorhead, E. S. 240
Morse, I. S. 411
Motsinger, W. E. 646
Mott, J. V. (M. D.)
681
Kautz, Gustavus 560
Moyer, Geo. W. 370
Moyer, T. J.
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Hill, Thos. W.
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Lanham, G. W. 732
Holman, Ernest L.
525
Holman, H. W. 524
Holman, J. B. 48
Holmes, E. B.
277
Holmes, John G. 296
Hopping, Stewart
473
Houser, T. J.
719
Howe, E. W. 715
Hughes, Wm. J. (M. D.) 103
Hutchinson, Allen 522
Hutchinson, E. J.
80
Ireton, Geo. W.
616
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Iuen, A. C.
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Manning, E. C. 669
Martin, Edmund 127
Martin, Samuel H. 506
Meek, John 153
Jarman, Levi 709
Jenkins Family 216
Johnson, J. R. 818
Johnson, Wm. L. 561
Johnston, Robt. L. 799
Johnston, Wm. 654
Jones, Geo. G. 454
Jones, W. H. 815
Judd, Alonzo 106
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Kain Family
84
Kautz, Samuel 588
Kayser, A. F. 702
Kayser, Chas. 708
Hays, Chas. O. 765
Kennedy, E. H. 593
Kennedy, L. D. 651
King, Ira
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Knight, J. F.
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Murphy, D. W.
636
Murray, Chas. H.
443
Myers, Sumner B.
309
McAdams, Albert
406
McCammon, Geo.
458
McGrew, Andrew
244
McKever, Chas. P.
365
McKever, Jas. E.
383
Mckeever, Wm. E.
367
Mckibben, J. W.
474
Mckinley, Amos
566
McMurchy, Jas. W.
78
McNair, A. J.
McNeil, F. A.
348
MeNutt, M. F.
88
McPherson, D. S.
820
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Nash, Lafayette
679
Neu, J. H. 493
Nichols Family
25
Nichols, Hugh L.
220
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Ochiltree. Mrs. Estelle Norris .. 98
Olmsted, John S.
195
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Page, O. L.
397
Park Family
352
Park, Lt. John Quincy A.
135
Patchell, Edward
162
Patchell, Edward C.
173
Pathe, Paul A.
17
Pattison, Prof. E. H.
206
Patton. Edward P.
531
Paxton Family
297
Pegg, Chas. W.
424
Pence, Michael
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Pence, P. W.
556
Penn, E. G.
825
Penn, Major Julius A.
66
Penn, Major Julius A.
67
Perin, Harvey
686
Perin. Samuel
688
Peterson, S. F.
360
Poeltz, Chas. J.
747
Poeltz. Frank L.
850
Pohl, Francis
363
Potts, Samuel
192
Prather Family
42
Price, Jeremiah 330
Prine. R. T. (M. D.) 482
Purkhiser, H. O.
208
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Quinlan, John G ..
595
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Ragland, John G.
322
Rapp, John F.
785
Redrow, Isaac (M. D.)
30
Reinert, W. H.
414
Remley, Walter L.
Rhoades, Rev. I. N
374
Rice, O. F.
701
Ricker, E. S.
761
Ricker Family
45
Ricker, Jos. T. (M. D.)
112
Richards, J. F.
833
Richey, Rev. Lewis
575
Ridings. J. O.
790
Robb, Chas.
159
Robb Family
205
Robertson, Jas. W.
600
Robbins, J. N.
632
Robinson. W. O.
476
Rogers, Dr. J. G ..
318
Rogers, Levi M.
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Rogers, Dr. Levi M.
323
Ross, Chas. W.
725
Ross, Mark D.
723
Roudebush Family
59
Roudebush, G. M.
62
Roudebush, J. L.
256
Roudebush. Wm.
61
Rush, E. S.
72
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Sapp, James H.
38
Savage, Wm. C.
537
Schafroth, Fred B. 770
Schobert, Henry G.
776
Scott. E. B.
695
Scott. Fred H.
667
Sederberg, Chas. G.
416
Sharp Family
92
Shaw, Hon. John
128
Sheldon, Dr. S. B.
520
Shelley, Julius
115
Shinkle. Wm. A.
713
Shinkle. W. W.
693
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Sillett, James
684
Simmons, W. D.
387
Simpson, R. B.
311
Tyler, Hon. Geo. P.
123
Slade, Geo. W.
384
Smalley, Dana A.
626
Smith, F. M.
597
Smith, J. H.
194
Smith, Joseph and Malinda Me-
daris
236
Smith, Joseph R.
32
Smith, L. B.
243
Smith, P. C.
727
Smith, W. H.
440
Smizer, Henry P.
630
Snider, Frank
763
Sorrell, J. D.
320
South, D. E.
675
Speidel, Eli H.
787
Stevenson, H. S.
470
Stivers, F. A.
164
Stratton, Chas. W.
716
Strickland, Wilbur S.
224
Stroup, J. M.
541
Swing Family
247
Swing, F. E.
262
Swing, Hon. Jas. B.
247
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Taylor, S. R.
547
Teal, Thos. C.
435
Temple, Capt. G. W.
847
Thompson, W. E. (M. D.)
53
Tudor, A. H.
327
Turner, Daniel
316
Turner, Geo. W.
851
Turner, J. B.
427
Tweed, H. E.
139
Tyler, Dr. Geo. P.
117
V
Vinson, Jacob
672
W
Waits, Benj. F.
290
Walker, F. W.
252
Walker, W. R.
376
Warbington, Silas
313
Watson, Henry S.
784
Weaver, J. F.
801
Weaver, Thos. W.
601
West, S. R. S.
264
West, W. N.
495
Whisner, Thos.
504
White, Frank
612
White, John D.
811
White, T. P. & Son
349
Whiteman, H. B.
571
Williams, Byron
144
Williams, Major Dion
448
Williams, W. A.
55
Wilson, Homer G.
510
Wilson, Mrs. Ida Dragoo
509
Winspear, J. B.
464
Wise, F. W.
775
Wise, William E.
753
Wissel, C. J ..
773
Witham, F. P. (M. D.)
181
Wolfer, Jacob
460
Wood, A. C.
670
Woodmansee, Chas. H.
75
Woodmansee, Joseph
143
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Major General William Lytle Vol. 1. 144
Paul A. Pathe. 17
Jos. R. and Mary Smith
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J. B., Luella and Malcolm Holman. 48
J. D. Abbott, M. D. 64
E. J. and Wade Hutchinson
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Thos. W. and Eliza Hill. 96
Dr. J. T. and Catherine Ricker 112
Hon. John and Ida Shaw 128
B. E. and Harriet Gardner
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Richard and Frances Hawkins.
176
Samuel and Ellen Potts 192
H. O. and Laura Purkhiser 208
W. S. Strickland. 224
E. S. and Nancy Moorhead. 240
Lowell Roudebush
256
Elisha Hawkins 272
W. W. Brock, Sr. 288
G. F. Armacost
304
J. D. Sorrell
320
J. W. Emery
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John and Elizabeth Park. 352
Milton Jamieson 368
Geo. W. Slade 384
H. U. and Lida Moore 400
Chas. G. Sederberg 416
J. H. Lockwood. 432
Major Dion Williams 448
J. B. Winspear
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BIOGRAPHICAL
PAUL A. PATHE.
Mr. Paul A. Pathe is pre-eminently a business man, and one who has wielded a wide influence in the business circles of Clermont county, Ohio. His methods are intensely practical and his life of activity has been rewarded with a measure of prosperity that classes him among the foremost of substantial men of the community. His success is undoubtedly due to his wide experience and strict attention to business.
The Pathe family was originally from Germany where Adolph, the father of Paul A., of this mention, was born in 1815, and reared to young manhood with a university educa- tion at Berlin. His parents were people of quality. He took a prominent part in the insurrection of Palatinate and Baden in 1848, the failure of which gave to this country Carl Schurz and many other distinguished German-Americans, and which also obliged Adolph Pathe to immigrate to America. All the property he owned that he could not convert into cash was confiscated.
Sometime after arriving in this country he associated him- self with the then famous Doctor Munde, who conducted what was known as a cold water cure establishment or sani- tarium at Northampton, Mass., and which was patronized by the well-to-do people of that time. Mr. Pathe was the active manager of the establishment and succeeded in this position a man who a few years later became a National character- Henry Wirtz, superintendent of Andersonville prison during the Civil war.
Adolph Pathe was a scholarly man, his knowledge being very diversified. Music, language and chemistry were his spe- cial branches, but he was more or less familiar with other branches of science and art. In his spare time he made many musical compositions, principally for the piano, many of which he was induced to have copyrighted and published. He set- tled in Haverhill, Mass., in 1855, and was there united in mar- riage to Miss Ellen M. Smith, a native of Vermont, whose family was of Staffordshire, England, descent.
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Paul A. Pathe, the first born of this marriage, pursued his education in the common schools of Haverhill, Mass., follow- ing which he attended the Franklin Academy, of Dover, N. H. After his schooling was completed Mr. Pathe began his busi- ness career in the shoe business in Newburyport, Mass., in 1879, remaining with the same firm for nearly fourteen years. During this period he served several terms of office in the dif- ferent branches of the Newburyport city government, and was also prominent in political and fraternal circles. He then moved to New York City, where he was manager of a shoe factory for several years.
Mr. Pathe came to Clermont county, Ohio, in 1896, where he purchased a large interest in a shoe manufacturing plant at Bethel, and became secretary and superintendent of the company. The plant employed about eighty persons in the beginning, which number has since been increased to more than two hundred employes under his management, and pay- ing a high rate of wages, many of the employes owning their own homes. The company is known as the Cincinnati Shoe Company. Mr. Pathe became president in 1908, and his son, Paul A., Jr., is now secretary and superintendent.
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Besides the plant at Bethel, the company has a plant at Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, which employs at present nearly one hundred people, having been in operation less than two years at this writing. The buildings of both plants are substantially made of brick and are splendidly equipped. They send shoes all over the country, and their worth is proven by the large demand for the output of these factories.
The great event in the life of Mr. Paul A. Pathe occurred in 1878, when he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Eliza- beth Rogers, a daughter of Tristram Gould Rogers, of Byfield. Mass., and Nancy Towle (Dow) Rogers, of Seabrook, N. H. Mrs. Pathe's mother was a first cousin to the American states- man, Hon. Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, attorney-general in the cabinet of President Pierce, and also the first United States minister and plenipotentiary to the courts of China and Spain. Mrs. Rogers's father, Capt. Daniel Dow, and Mr. Cushing's mother, Lydia Dow, were brother and sister. Charles Nelson Rogers, a brother of Mrs. Pathe, was a Civil war veteran, who died at Fortress Monroe.
One son and one daughter have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Pathe. The daughter. Bertha M., died when a few years old. The son, Paul A., Jr., was born in Newburyport,
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Mass., in 1884, and came with his parents to Clermont county some seventeen years since. He married Miss Jennie Scott Cook, a graduate of Wooster University. They are parents of one son, Laurence Weissmann, who was born at Bethel in 1912. Paul A. Pathe, Jr., is an independent Republican, and has satisfactorily filled the office of mayor of the town in which he resides ; he is also a member of the Masonic order.
Mr. Paul A. Pathe is an independent Democrat, and has served in several local public offices, but it not an office seeker. He is a member of the fraternal order of the Knights of Pythias, and is a past chancellor of the organization; and was also for several years a director in the First National Bank of Bethel. He is also a member of the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati. He is broad-minded and liberal in his views on all questions, and numbers his friends among all classes. There is perhaps no other man in the town who has been a greater benefit, commercially and socially, than has our subject.
The home and home life of Mr. and Mrs. Pathe, is ideal, having rich simplicity and charming hospitality. Mrs. Pathe is a lady of high intelligence and one whom to know is a pleasure and privilege. She is thoroughly domestic in her tastes and her home is the best evidence of this pre-eminent virtue.
HON. EARL E. ERTEL.
One of the leading young business men of Clermont county, Ohio, who has attained more than local prominence in both commercial and political circles, is Mr. Earl E. Ertel, a man of versatile talent, whose business activity and energy com- bined with great intellectual ability, have been the salient features of his successful career. Mr. Ertel is a member of the mercantile firm of Flinn & Ertel, of Loveland, this association having existed for the past ten years. He is also connected with the Reading Iron Company, of Reading, Pa., as sales- man, with offices in the Pickering Building, at Cincinnati. Mr. Ertel has, in addition to his many other business interests, done some journalistic work for the local papers and for the "Commercial Tribune." Mr. Ertel is a native of Clermont county, his birth having occurred at Loveland, June 13, 1883, and is a son of Benjamin F. and Emma (Prather) Ertel.
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Mr. Earl E. Ertel is a descendant of German ancestors, his paternal great-great-grandfather, who was a noted physician, was born in Germany, and came to America when a young man, locating in Pennsylvania, where, after a useful and suc- cessful professional career, passed to,his eternal reward, some years before the beginning of the Nineteenth century.
Daniel Ertel, a son of the founder of the family in America, was born in Pennsylvania, and there grew to young manhood, and after reaching man's estate, married Catherine Myers, who came with him to Ohio. June 25, 1795, settling at Columbia, near Cincinnati. Daniel Ertel was a farmer by occupation and became the owner of the first farm on record in what is now Warren county, Ohio, purchasing this land from Colonel Paxton, who secured it by a land warrant for services in the War of the Revolution. The first orchard established in War- ren county was probably planted by Mr. Daniel Ertel, from seed, and is remembered by the older residents of that locality.
Jacob Ertel, a son of Daniel and Catherine (Myers) Ertel, was born in Warren county, August 29, 1810, and was a pro- gressive farmer, making a specialty of sweet potatoes and plants, being extensively engaged in this line of work. He was also an expert stone mason, which occupation he followed in connection with his farming interests. He was united in marriage with Miss Malinda Borum.
Benjamin F. Ertel, a son of Jacob and Malinda (Borum) Ertel, was born in Warren county, Ohio. October 4. 1846, and from his father learned the trade of stone mason. For a period of thirty-six years Mr. Ertel followed this trade and worked in twenty-seven states. In 1868. Mr. Ertel traveled through the states of Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska and Colo- rado, finally returning to Illinois, where he located at Lincoln for four and one-half years, engaging in the grocery business. Mr. Ertel returned to Ohio in 1874, and in Newport, Ky., Au- gust 29, 1876, was united in marriage to Miss Emma G. Prather, who was born in Covington, Ky., June 23. 1856. her parents being Joshua Pigman Prather, born at Chilo, Clermont county, Ohio, and Mary Frances Crupper. born at Maysville, Ky.
By this union three children were born :
One child died in infancy.
Earl E .. the subject of this mention.
Elma M .. who is Mrs. O. D. Walker, of Loveland, Ohio, has one child, Maxine.
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For a few years, Mr. Benjamin F. Ertel made a specialty of raising sweet potatoes and plants, after which he engaged in the contracting business. Benjamin F. Ertel cast his first presidential ballot for S. J. Tilden, in 1876, and has always been a Democrat. He has served his party, satisfactorily, in the capacity of justice of the peace and clerk of the council of Loveland.
Mr. Earl E. Ertel acquired his education in Loveland, grad- uating from the high school, at the head of the class of 1901, and the following year entered upon his business career in the employ of the Reading Iron Company, of Reading, Pa., and the next year became a member of the firm of Flinn & Ertel.
On June 21, 1911, Mr. Earl E. Ertel was united in mar- riage to Miss Mabel N. Blair, of Madisonville, Ohio, a daugh- ter of William H. Blair, formerly county commissioner of Hamilton county, Ohio.
Mr. Ertel, as an intelligent citizen, has always taken an active interest in politics, giving his support to the Democratic party. It is almost impossible for a man of the character and ability of Mr. Ertel to avoid prominence in politics, and in 1913 he was elected by his party to the office of State repre- sentative in the Ohio General Assembly.
Fraternally, Mr. Ertel has membership with the Masonic order, of Loveland. and the Modern Woodmen of America, of Loveland. He is also a member of the Loveland Board of Education, and takes an active interest in school affairs.
Mr. Ertel is a regular attendant of the Methodist church, and gives liberally to the support of that denomination and to all worthy enterprises.
Mr. Ertel has made steady progress toward his objective point. his career being characterized by unremitting industry, laudable ambition and successful accomplishment. Moreover, the principles of his manhood have been such as to command the respect and confidence and Loveland numbers him among the representative citizens who are worthy of the trust and good will of their fellow men.
EDWIN C. ELY.
Edwin C. Ely, one of the most prominent attorneys of Cler- mont county, Ohio, whose intense and well directed efforts have brought him into connection with many lines of activity
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of so far-reaching effect that it is almost impossible to de- termine the most important chapter of his life history, was born at Savannah, Mo., October 1, 1864, a son of Rev. William R. and Lavina (Weaver) Ely.
Rev. William R. Ely was born at Batavia, Ohio, May 9, 1827, and died September 13, 1903, at the home of his birth. He was a minister of the Methodist church and for over twenty years was active in the conference. He lived at Batavia until 1852, when he removed to Acton, Ind., remaining there until 1863. At this place, Rev. Ely buried four of his children in three days, of a malignant epidemic of flux. Mrs. Ely was also taken with the same affliction and it was thought best to change climate, which they did, returning to Batavia until she should have recovered her health. While they were away from their home, it and all the contents were burned. This was a great loss to them and they remained at Batavia for a time, and then went to Savannah, Mo., in 1864, where he was in active service in the Methodist Episcopal conference until 1884, when he was retired, returning again to Batavia, where he spent the remainder of his life.
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