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Henry Frechtling, Jr., was born in Cincinnati, June 16, 1850, and is the son of Henry and Wilhelmina (Buck) Frechtling. Mr. Frechtling came to Hamiltou with his parents in 1853, where he was a pupil at the connnon schools until he was fourteen. He received a fair education. and was brought up to mercantile pur- suits, entering hiz father's store at the age of ten. In 1875 he was admitted as a partner in the house of H. & W. Frechtling & Co., and continued there until begin- ning his present business in 1879. He now deals exten- sively in dry goods, groceries, and other articles. It has more than doubled in the short time it has been carried on. Mr. Frechtling was married in 1877 to Miss Mary, daughter of Philip Hartman. They are the parents of one son and one daughter -- P. H. Paul, born January 2, 1879, and Elizabeth Birdie, boru January 24, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Frechtling are members of the Lutheran Church. He is doing one of the most extensive mercan- tile businesses in Hamilton.
R. C. Stockton Reed, A. M., M. D., of Fairfield Town-
ship, was born in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio, Feb- ruary 2, 1825, and was the third child of Gilbert and Catherine C. Reed. His father, Gilbert Reed, was born in Delaware, in 1800, and was a member of the Reed family of that State that was identified with the Revolutionary movement twenty-four years before his birth. He was but little more than au infant when his parents died, and he was adopted into a Quaker family, living not far from Trenton, New Jersey, where he remained nutil near his eighteenth year. It was a condition of young Gilbert's adoption that he was to be received into the family as a member, and granted a liberal amount of schooling; but each of these conditions was grossly violated by his guardians, from whom he took his departure, without the formality of an adieu, a short time before the expiration of what was really his servitude.
He went to Philadelphia, and soon caught up in the general western movement, joined an emigrant party, and made his way over the mountains to Pittsburg, and thence by keel-boat down the Ohio to the city of Cincin- nati, arriving at the latter place in 1818. He remained but a short time in Cincinnati, going thence to Treuton, Butler County, and subsequently to near Franklin, War- ren County, where, in 1820, he met and married Cath- erine Cummings Stockton, who was born in New Jersey in 1798. She was the eldest daughter of John Robert Stockton by his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Van Schaick, of New York State. John Robert Stockton was the eldest son of Philip and Catherine (nee Cum- mings) Stockton. Philip Stockton was a member of the New Jersey family of that name. His brother, Richard Stockton, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey. One of his sisters mar- ried Dr. Benjamin Rush, and another became the wife of Elias Boudinot. 2 prominent New Jersey divine. But Philip Stockton, being a clergyman of the Established Church of England, was not as loyal to the American in- terest as were the rest of his family ; he identified himself with the Tory party, and was i zealous supporter of the crown. It is believed that at the conclusion of the war he went to England, where he died, but his family re- mained in America.
This family consisted of John Robert Stockton, Lu- cius Withan Stockton, William Tennant Stockton, Rich- ard Cummings Stockton, and Elias Boudinot Stockton. The first named, after his marriage with Miss Van Schaick, near Schenectady, moved to Western New Yerk, and lived for a while near Aaburu. He thence started West, and arrived in Ohio in 1816, and located temporarily near Franklin, Warren County, but soon re- moved to and occupied a tract of land still known as the ' Stockton section," near Pisgah. It was, however, during his stay at Frankliu that his eldest daughter, Catherine C., married Gilbert Reed.
A few months after the birth of R. C. S. Reed, who was the third son, his father removed to Union Town-
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ship, Butler County, where he remained until 1832, when, after a few months' sojourn with his father-in-law, he took his family to Montgomery County, Ohio, where he purchased laud lying on the National Road and the Dayton and Union Railroad, where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1860. At eleven years of age R. C. S. Reed left his parents' home in Montgomery County to live with his grandfather near Pisgah. John R. Stockton was a gentleman of the old school, but was a haughty and austere man, who would tolerate no op- position to his authority and allow no dissent to his dic- tum. It can readily be understood how an example of this kind should, during a period of three years, exert a permanent influence upon a susceptible lad.
During his stay at Pisgall, which lasted until the death of his grandfather, in 1839, young Reed enjoyed the advantage of the neighboring schools. He stoutly demurred upon his return home to his father's proposition to put him at a trade. He carried his point, and was given three more years of coveted opportunities at private schools. At the expiration of this time he secured a cer- tificate as teacher, aud began that occupation in Preble County, Ohio. During the few succeeding years, he fol- lowed the calling of a teacher in the counties of Preble, Butler, Warren, and Hamilton.
While teaching at Sharon, he began the study of medi- cine in the office of Dr. Thomas, and proscented his studies subsequently with Dr. S. P. Hunt, at Morrow, and finally with Dr. Isane Kay, then of Lewisburg, but now of Springfield, Ohio. In 1851 he attended lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, where he en- joyed the teachings of one of the best faculties ever con- neeted with a medical college. After taking his course at Starling College, be located in 1851 in the practice of medicine at Wolf Lake, Noble County, Indiana.
The next year he married Miss Nancy Clark, daughter of John Clark, of Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio, and began housekeeping at Wolf Lake, Indiana, where in 1854 his first son, now Dr. John G. Reed, of West- chester, Ohio, and two years later his second son, ROW Dr. C. A. Lee Reed, of Hamilton, Ohio, were horn. Ou July 14, 1856, his wife died-a loss that for a time threatened to completely crush him. With his dearest ties now severed, he abandoned his prosperous practice in Indiana and spent a period in travel. Ou his return in 1859, he married Mrs. Susan W. McClelland at Ham- ilton, and returned for a time to Wolf Lake, where his third son, Horace Greeley Reed, was born. In 1860, he removed to Union Township, and has since been a resi- dent of Butler County. In 1860, he accepted the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, with which institution he soon be- came closely identified.
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ously for seventeen years, resigning in 1878, but waz ini- mediately elected to an Emeritus professorship. In 1882 he was appointed by the board of trustees, of which he was and is a member, to reorganize the faculty, the former one having resigned in consequence of some internal dissen- sions. In this task, as in two former instances of a similar kind, he was successful, and the institution, through his instrumentality, was again placed upon a career of prus- perity. With the reorganization, however, Dr. Reed again resumed an active connection with the institution, assuming the duties of his old professorship. As a re- ward for his services, and in recognition, not only of his long connection with the institution, but of his executive ability, Dr. Reed was by his colleagues electeil dean of the faculty.
Dr. Reed resides at Jones's Station, Butler County, in the easy enjoyment of a comfortable home. Ho bas for several years been out of active practice, and now attends only such of his friends and neighbors as it may suit bis convenience to look after. Of his children but two, Kate and William, aged respectively sixteen and thirteen, remain at home. In politics Dr. Reed is a staunch Kc- publican, and while very liberal in religion, his tendency is toward Presbyterianism. In 1882 he received the hon- orary degree of Master of Arts from Summit College, Kentucky.
William H. Millikin was born in this city, July 26, 1844, being the only son of Samuel and Louisa ( Halstead) Millikin. He was a pupil at the public schools in the First Ward until the breaking out of the war, in 1861, when, on the 19th of April, he enlisted in Company F, Third Ohio Volunteers. This was the first company raised in Hamilton for the three years' service. Mir. Millikin participated in the campaigns in West Virginia under Mcclellan, taking part at Rich Mountain. He was transferred to the army of the Ohio under Buell, in Ken- tucky, going overland to Nashville, being at the capture of Bowling Green, and proceeding to Huntsville, Ala- bama. There he was engaged on gaard duty under General O. M. Mitchell. They went in pursuit of Bragg, and suffered severely at Perryville. He was at Stone River, ou detached duty, and the raid under Colone! Straight, near Rome, Georgia. The command was cap- tured and taken to Richmond and City Point, being after- wards exchanged. They again went to the front at Chattanooga, and were on garrison duty until the expira- tion of their term of service.
With the regiment he was mustered out at Camp Dennison on the 234 of June, 1864. Returning home after an interval of some eight months, Mr. Millikin again entered the service for oue year, in the Ninth Uni- teil States Infantry, under General W. S. Hancock. He served out this term of enlistment, and was discharged at the end of the war. He was mustered out April !, 1866. Returning to Hamilton, be entered the employment of
In 1862 Dr. Reed was elected professor of materia modica and therapeutics in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and hell that position continu- i the Hamilton Plow Works, with which he has ever since
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continued, although under different firm names. He first | Newport, Kentucky. He moved to Cambridge City, Tu- learned the trade of a machinist, which he worked at until 1870. Since then he has been engineer for the com- pany. He was married in 1867, to Miss Amelia Johnson, daughter of James M. Johnson, a well-known resident of Hamilton. They have been the parents of five children, of whom three are living-Jessie F., Helen M., and Leah M. He is an active Republican in politics, first voting for General Grant.
Franklin W. Whitaker, dealer in groceries, queens- ware, and country produce, was born in Mason, Warren . County, Ohio, December 8, 1849. He is the son of David R. Whitaker and Mary A. Thompson. He was married, in Hamilton, September 3, 1870, to Sowara E. Cassedy, a native of Mason, where she was born October 15, 1851. She is the daughter of Samuel M. Cassedy and Elizabeth E. Meighan. Mr. Whitaker was elected justice of the peace, April 12, 1877, for Lemon Town- ship, and was also assessor for the years 1880 and 1881.
Dr. Alanson Smith was born August 21, 1806, in the town of Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. When but an infant his father traded his farm for three hundred and fifty acres, at the outlet of Cayuga Lake, and then removed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, and began teaching. From him the doctor received his pri- Tuary education. His father died when the boy was about eight years old, and he soon afterwards went to live with his uncle Jabez, a farmer. At fifteen he began liv- ing with his step-brother, Lovel Hartwell. Smith at- tended the institute in New Marlborough a part of the time, and read much, seeking to improve himself. He began teaching in 1827 in Great Barrington, Massachu- setts, and came to Perry City, Ohio, in 1829, teaching school there, and subsequently elsewhere. He began the study of medicine in the Inst mentioned place, with Dr. Willard. Soou after he enine to Cincinnati, and intro- duced at the county fair a corn-sheller, now in common use. He then attended Van Doren's Institute in Lex- ington, Kentucky, and then traveled extensivo'y on busi- ness and pleasure.
In 1831 he came to Hamilton and engaged in teach- ing. He was elected secretary of the Temperance So- ciety, and a member of the Elocutory Society. He was elected superintendent of the public schools, and hell that position for a number of years. January 5, 1833. he was married to Nancy Ann MeNiel. In the Spring of 1838 he entered into partnership with Governor Bebb in the morus multicaulis speenlation, but it failed. The doctor moved on his farme west of the city seventeen miles, in the Spring of 1841, and while living there fre- quently addressed publie meetings on the subject of tem- perance. After a while he rented his firm, entered the medical college in Cincinnati, and graduated. Since that tinte he has been nearly continually in practice.
diana, where he was in active practice eight years, at the end of that time eoning to Hamilton. Since coming here he has done much speculating in patents. After getting a good trade in the cil and lamp business, he turned it over to his two sons, Julian G. and Edward A. Smith. He is a member of the Baptist organization, having joined more than fifty years ago. He is a man of excellent character, benevolent, and enterprising, and is in good health and strength. He has had eight children. Louisa Jane was born September 1, 1839 ; Henry McNeil, December 8, 1841; Ellen Maria, March 5, 1844. By his second wife he had Charles Edmund, born July 7, 1848; Julian Gardner, August 1, 1850; Albert Berry, February 2, 1853; Edward Alanson, July 4, 1835; and Walter Ladd, April 25, 1866. Charles Edmond died April 20, 1865, and Walter Ladd, December 25, 1868. Henry M. Smith was under Sherman four years.
Charles Stewart, one of the early settlers of Butler County, Ohio, was born in New Jersey, December 2, 1781. In his early youth he crossed the mountains with his parents, who settled in the Ligonier Valley, Pennsyl- vania, where he grew to manhood, and married Miss Mary Hunter, of Laurel Hill, Pennsylvania, emigrating to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1810, where he remained ouly a short time, moving to Middletown, Ohio, in 1812. lie bought of the government 190 teres of land in Reily and Morgan Townships where the town of St. Charles now is. This place was in after years called St. Charles in honor to Mr. Stewart. Here be erected his log-rabin and settled down, with his nearest neighbors more than three miles away. In this place Mr. Stewart lived with his wife (who survived him several years) until his death, which occurred December 24, 1854. He raised a family of ten children to manhood and womanhood.
Mr. Stewart was a soblier in the War of 1812, serving five months under General Winchester, and was honor- ably discharged at the close of the war. Mr. Stewart was of Scotch descent, his forefathers coming to this country in the days of the colonies, making their voyage in the vessel Caledonia. Mr. Stewart was a pioneer of Methodism, and his house was always open for the weary itinerant minister, as he traveled from house to house through the newly settled regions. He lived a life-long devoted Christian, reaching the ripe old age of seventy- three years.
Of ten children who grew to manhood and woman- hood but two are now living, Samuel Stewart, of Kings- ton, Indiana, and Charles J. Stewart, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Two of their sons, John C. and Charles J., served with distinction in the late war of the Rebellion, both having enlisted at the beginning of the war, and serving over three years -- John C. dying while in the service, from the exposure, having been promoted from a private to captain of Company I, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.
November 26, 1846, he married his present wife, dla- : hala S. Ladd, daughter of Ephraim and Susan Ladd, of | The only descendants of the funily now living in Butler
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County are Frank P. Stewart, now engaged in the mon- ament business, in Hamilton, and Samuel P. Stewart, monumental draughtsman, both sons of John C. Stewart.
Henry Moudy was born in Loekland, Hamilton County, February 8, 1830. He is the only son of Othias and Elizabeth (Hazleton) Moudy. Othias Moudy is a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was born in 1807. In 1812 he came with his parents to this county, settling two miles south of Hamilton. The grandfather was Henry Moudy. Othias Moudy was married in 1826, and reared a family of two children. His daughter, Mrs. Harriet Longfellow, lives on a place owned by Henry Moudy, in Fairfield Township. The other child is Henry Moudy. Othias Moudy was a successful busi- ness man and farmer. He died February 12, 1877, and his wife died in 1871. She was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Henry Moudy was brought up to farming, remaining with his parents until their death. Mr. Moudy was married, in 1872, to Miss Hettie J. Morgan, who was born in Delaware. Mr. and Mrs. Moudy are the parents of two daughters. Laura was born June 10, 1874, and Bessie M. May 7, 1876. Mr. Mondy continued to reside in Fairfield Township till the Spring of 1881, when he removed to Hamilton. He is a member of the Masonic order. He is engaged in cul- tivating his farm of one hundred and sixty acres.
George Kramer was born in Greene County, Penn- sylvania, January 27, 1807, and came out to this county with his parents, George and Barbara Kramer, in 1817, where he has ever since remained. Both his parents were of German descent, but were born in Maryland. They lived on the Monongahela, and when they made up their minds to come out West, built a flat-boat, the whole family embarking with their household goods. One horse only was brought with him, that being all the live stock he then possessed. When he arrived in Mil- ford Township he bought three hundred acres of as good land as there is in the township, situated north of Darr- town on the pike leading from Hamilton to Richmond. He lived on the farm the remainder of his life, dying at the extreme age of ninety two years. He was survived by his wife, who lived to see her ninety-seventh birthday.
The present Mr. George Kramer has been three times married. His first wife was Eliza Brown, daughter of William and Mary Brown; the second, Eleanor Swan, daughter of Robert and Ellen Swan; and the third is Margaret Hoyt, daughter of John and Mary Hoyt. By them he has bad six children. William was born Sep- tember 18, 1899; George, October 14, 1840; Andrew, July 15, 1842; Mary Elizabeth, January 22, 1845; Bar- bara Ann, June 15, 1848, and Elizabeth, September 4, 1855. Andrew Kramer lives in Centerville, Indiana. Mr. George Kramer owns three hundred acres of land in Wayne County, Indiana, and one hundred and sixty in Milford. He has earned all his own property, and has passed through many trials. Although very old, he en-
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joys himself well. He has been subject to rheumatism lately.
Henry Kessling was born in Lunbergen, Hanover, May 27, 1819, being the son of Dederick and Anna Mary (Baerling) Kessling. He was educated in such schools as offered in the vicinity of his father's home, and was brought up to farming, until coming with his parents to America in the Summer of 1836. The fam- ily settled on a farm now owned by J. P. P. Peck, join- ing the corporation of Hamilton. Dederick Kessling raised a family of four children to maturity, of whom three survive-Henry, Catherine, now the wife of Johu Tabler, and Mary Theresa, now Mrs. Joseph Ja- cobs. Dederick Kessling was a successful man, and continued to farm until his death, which was about 1800.
Henry Kessling was married in April, 1841, to Mary Catherine Werrike, born in Germany in 1816. They are the parents of six children, of whom only one is living. Four died in infancy. Mary Elizabeth died November 8, 1878, aged thirty-six. Mary Catherine is now the wife of Augustus Soehner. Mrs. Kessling died March 28, 1875. After marriage Mr. Kessling engaged in farming, in the vicinity of Hamilton, for some ten years, when he began keeping the hotel known as the . Kessling House. He kept the Schmidtmann House, now known as the Central House, for some five years, during which time he also conducted the marble busi- ness, employing some twenty or twenty-five hands, under the firm name of Horssnyder & Kessling. He sold out to Mr. Horssnyder in 1852, and disposed of his city prop- erty for a farm two miles west of Hamihon, in Han- over Township, living there some four years. ITe still owns the same place, which consists of one hundred and fifty aeres, well improved. In 1876 he retired from business, and with his daughter made a tour of Europe, being absent four months. He is a member of the Catholic Church. While in the marble business he fur- nished the store work of many of the principal buik !- ings of Hamilton.
James L. Kirkpatrick, M. D., was born in North Lib- erty, Adams County, Ohio, April 17, 1841, and was edu- cated at the academy in that place. After reading med- icine one year at Xenia, Ohio, he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati in 1865, and remained through 1866 and 1867, excepting six months of the latter year. He practiced in Celina, Mercer County, Ohio. After graduating at the Eeleetie Medical Insti- tute, he came to Hamilton in the Spring of 1867, where he has since continued, and now has an excellent prac- tice. He was the secretary of the State Medieal Society in 1874, 1875, and 1876, and is a member of the Miami Valley Medical Society and of the National Eckefic Medical Association. He was married iff 1877 to Lizzie, daughter of Theodore Marstou, of Middletown, and has by her one son, boru in November, 1880. He is a mem- by and an older in the United Presbyterian Church.
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As a surgeon he has been very successful, and has had experience in some very complicated eases.
Dr. Kirkpatrick is a large and intelligent collector of Indian and prehistoric relics and curiosities. In pipes his museum is unsurpassed in the United States. From every portion of Butler County and the neighboring country, he has gathered axes, knives, clubs, fleshers, gorgets, breast-pieces, carved work, and ornaments, till his collection is an honor to the city. He is likewise a well-known numismatologist, having a nearly complete array of the coins of the United States, and many foreign and antique pieces. He served in the United States army during the war, and was elected surgeon-general of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Ohio, in 1869.
John Krebs was born in Bavaria in 1814, and mar- ried Elizabeth Bachman, boru in Bavaria about 1826. They had five children: Frank; Clara, wife of Thomas Waltz, of Illinois; Charles, married, lives in Hamilton ; Philip, and Elizabeth, wife of August Schurfranz, lives in Hamilton. Mr. Krebs came to Butler County in 1854, and settled in Hamilton. He was a grinder in a machine shop, and was killed by the bursting of a grind- stone, November 11, 1856. His son Frank was born in Bavaria in 1844, and was married in 1866 to Ellen M. Smith, born in Indiana in 1851. They have had five children, three of whom are living: Ernest, Stella, and Daisy.
He enlisted September 25, 1861, in the Thirty-sev- enth Ohio, Company K, and re-enlisted in January, 1863, in the Marine Cavalry, Company D, and was inus- tered out March, 1865. He was taken prisoner at Princetown, Virginia, and confined on Belle Isle, Vir- ginia, for five months, when he was exchanged, being one of the first squad exchanged with the Confederate States. He was engaged at Princetown, siege of Vicksburg, Sun- nyside, Mississippi, and Rodney, Mississippi. While with the cavalry he was employed mostly in scouting. Since returning he has twice held office in his city. He was on the warer-works board and was street commis- sioner, serving from April, 1877, till April, 1881. He had charge of the works for cutting off the basin from the canal. He is a member of the Knights of Honor and the United Workmen, and is treasurer of the Butler County Democratic Central Committee.
James T. Imlay was born in Jacksonburg, Wayne Town- ship, October 27, 1825, and is the oldest son of William E. and Helen (Tapscott) Imlay. His father was a native of New Jersey, where he was born about 1796, coming to Ohio about 1820, in company with his sister, after- ward Mrs. James Craig. They came from Trenton, New Jersey, to Jacksonburg, Ohio, in a one-horse wagon. He was a cooper by trade, but afterward a merchant in Jacksonburg, and then on a farm. He raised a family of four children, of whom two survive-James T. and Lydia. Ann, wife of John Ross, of Colorado. Mr. Intry
died in 1846. His son was educated in the common schools in this vicinity, receiving a fair degree of knowl- edge. He was brought up to farming, and acting as clerk in a store, and various other occupations at home, until he was of age. He was married, in 1847, to Miss Susannah Look, and is the father of five children, of whom four are living, three sons and one daughter.
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