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Joseph Pogue was a member of The H. & S. Pogue Dry Goods Com- pany at the time of his decease. This company was organized in a small way, prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, by his eldest brother, the late Henry Pogue, whose sketch and portrait appear elsewhere in this vol- ume, who gradually secured his brothers as partners, and unitedly they built up one of the largest enterprises in the mercantile line in this portion of the State. After a very successful business life on West Fifth street, it was found desirable to materially enlarge their accommodations, and in 1878 the present quarters on Fourth street, between Race and Vine, were obtained and there the business is still carried on, with the only surviving brother, Samuel Pogue, as president.
Joseph Pogue was a prominent factor in commercial circles and his death left a vacancy which few men were able to fill with the same efficiency. Devoted to the upbuilding of his business, the interests of his life were centered, aside from his home and family, in the great house so firmly and substantially erected by the sagacity, prudence and excellent judgment of himself and his brothers. He believed in it, he took pride in its far-reaching connections and cordial trade relations, and he was equally proud of its reputation for the highest standard of business integrity.
Mr. Pogue was survived by his widow and two daughters-one the wife of Rev. George N. Eastman, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, and the other, Helen, who is the wife of Otis H. Fish. In private as well as business life, Mr. Pogue had a courteous and considerate bearing towards others, and was universally regarded with feelings of the highest esteen1. His large estate was gained through the legitimate accretions of his busi- ness, and much of it was used for benevolent and public spirited purposes.
HON. THOMAS W. GRAYDON, M. D.
When Cincinnati pauses to take note of hier long list of illustrious dead, she must recall with peculiar regret the late Dr. Thomas W. Graydon, who for so many years occupied so prominent a position in the medical, social
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· and political world. Dr. Graydon was born in 1850, in Ireland, and was 18 years of age when he came to the United States.
In his native land he had been given educational advantages, but an eye weakness developed at the age of 15 years which precluded study for a season and threatened to prevent his study of medicine, which had become the aim of his ambition. Some years devoted to an active existence on an Illinois farm built him up physically, and in 1871 he entered Gris- wold College, at Davenport, Iowa, where he remained until graduation aud then entered the State University of lowa. While a student there, his oratorical ability made him the Iowa representative to the Inter-State Ora- torical Contest, at Indianapolis, Indiana, where he secured one of the prizes. In 1875 he graduated from the University and in 1876 established his home in Cincinnati.
Dr. Graydon was too true a citizen not to take an active interest in public affairs touching his State and city. He was an ardent member of the Republican party and represented the same in the State Legislature in 1885-86, his services proving to be of such value that he was urged to accept a renomination. This honor, however, he declined. In 1888 Gov- ernor Foraker appointed Dr. Graydon a member of the old Board of Public Affairs of Cincinnati, on which he served until the abolition of the office, in 1890. A few months later the mayor of the city appointed him a member of the Board of City Affairs, of which he became a conspicuous member on account of his earnest advocacy of various municipal improvements, the value of which he could justly determine, both as a physician and as a public official.
The high esteem in which Dr. Graydon was held was attested, in a measure, by the representative gathering which assembled to pay a last loving tribute to his memory. The pall-bearers were selected from among lifelong friends, and represented many of the prominent citizens of Cincinnati, as well as of other cities, namely: ex-Governor Frank B. Jackson, of Des Moines, Iowa; ex-Mayor John A. Caldwell, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio; ex-Mayor J. J. Sullivan, Perin Langdon, Joseph T. Carew, A. H. Pugh, John B. Mosby and Prof. Uri Lloyd. The Elks' pall-bearers were: Exalted Ruler Thomas J. Cogan, George B. Cox, Tilden French and August Herrmann. The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick selected Norman G. Kenan, John R. Kingsley, Thomas Logan and S. P. Egan. Under the auspices
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of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the remains were solemnly laid to rest in Spring Grove Cemetery.
Dr. Graydon is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna H. Graydon, and by five sons and four daughters, namely : Joseph S., John A., Thomas Il., Lorna E., Bruce J., Ethel M., Margaret H., Frank S. and Helen H. The family residence is on Lafayette circle in Clifton.
GEORGE PUCHTA.
GEORGE PUCHTA is president of the Queen City Supply Company of Cincinnati, which during the last decade has built up a marvelous business. It occupies a big building at the corner of Pearl and Elm streets and is owned by George Puchta, president of the Business Men's Club, and F. X. Pund, both prominent business men of our city. The business of this firm is a peculiar one. It deals in all kinds of goods used in machine shops, factories, mills, quarries, railroads, etc. An idea of the extensiveness of this business in all its different departments can be gained from looking over the catalogue of the firm which is being issued every year and which con- tains nearly 3,000 illustrations of various articles. It can be said without exaggeration that the firm handles over 5,000 different articles, all of which are daily being used in shops, factories, mines, mills, quarries, on railroads and in hundreds of other industrial enterprises.
In the various stories of the very strongly constructed building, there can be found goods of more than 30 firms, the representative of which in Cincinnati is the Queen City Supply Company. Belts made of rubber and of leather, bellows, fans, anvils, wire and Manila ropes, drills, metals, grind- stones, sandpaper, saws, files, pulleys, wheel-barrows, shovels, axes, asbestos goods, tools used by artisans, rubber hose, screws, nails and thousands of other things have systematically been arrayed so that orders can be filled in the shortest time possible.
The Queen City Supply Company has business connections in all parts of the country, and is therefore enabled to accommodate every one of its customers promptly. Anything and everything can be bought from this concern. The smallest nail, as well as the most complicated piece of ma- chinery, can be had.
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The Queen City Supply Company was organized in 1890. It was the successor to Post & Company's supply departments, which had been in existence for more than a quarter of a century.
Mr. Puchta is a member of Norwood Lodge No. 576, F. & A. M .; Willis Chapter No. 131, R. A. M .; Ohio Consistory, 32nd degree ; and Syrian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.
HON. ALBERT JAMES CUNNINGHAM.
HON. ALBERT JAMES CUNNINGHAM, one of the prominent members of the Cincinnati bar, a leading politician and an ex-Speaker of the State House of Representatives, was born in 1833 in Hamilton County, Ohio, and is a son of John and Catherine (Perkinpaugh) Cunningham, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania.
The early ancestors of Mr. Cunningham were natives of Scotland and Germany, who established themselves in Pennsylvania at an early day. From early childhood, the parents of our subject were residents of Hamilton County, Ohio, coming here in 1802. John Cunningham, our subject's father, was a prosperous farmer of Symmes township, where he died in 1848; his wife died in 1873.
Albert J. Cunningham was educated in Milford Academy and Antioch College, graduating at the latter institution in 1855. He immediately began to teach, and followed that profession for eight years, in the meantime pre- paring himself for entrance to the Cincinnati Law School, where he was graduated in 1860. He began to practice in partnership with his former preceptor, Lewis French, and continued with that able attorney until 1870, when he engaged in practice alone and continued thus until 1899, when he admitted to partnership his son, Albert J. Cunningham, Jr., who is a grad- uate of the University of Cincinnati and of the Cincinnati Law School. The junior member of the firm is a well known young attorney of the Hamilton County bar, and is distinguished for his ability. He is a strong Repub- lican and one of the leading members of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion. The well equipped offices of Mr. Cunningham and his son are most conveniently located in the Blymyer Building.
For many years Mr. Cunningham has been interested in politics. In 1869 he was elected a member of the State Legislature, and developed snf-
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" ficient strength to be elected Speaker of the House, a position he filled with the greatest ability and efficiency. The measure known as the "15th Amend- ment Bill" was introduced while he was speaker, and it was his vote as Speaker that broke the tie vote and decided its passage.
In November, 1864, Mr. Cunningham was married to Priscilla Cath- arine Losh, a daughter of Lot Losh, who is a prominent farmer of Columbia township, Hamilton County. A family of seven children have been born to this marriage. The beautiful family home is located on Harvey avenue, Avondale. The religious connection of the family is with the Methodist Church.
Fraternally, Mr. Cunningham is a Mason and Knight Templar, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Professionally, politically and socially, he is one of Cincinnati's leading citizens.
FRANK MAGIE OGDEN.
FRANK MAGIE OGDEN, whose extensive real estate holdings and impor- tant business associations mad'e him one of the most conspicuous capitalists in a city noted for great wealth, died at his magnificent home, No. 62 Richmond street, Cincinnati, April 9, 1901. He was the only surviving brother of Mrs. Philip D. Armour, widow of the millionaire packer of Chicago. Mr. Ogden was born September 27, 1850, in Cincinnati, and was a son of John and Eliza- beth Ogden.
For many years Mr. Ogden's name and personality were well known in Cincinnati on account of his connection with so many of the city's leading in- terests. Where great financial operations were under way, where public spirited movements were in progress, where needful charities were waiting : . a promoter, the public usually found Frank M. Ogden a leading spirit. His loss to the city of Cincinnati was irreparable. His private charities were liberal, many of them so quietly distributed that only the recipients knew whose generous hand had bestowed the gifts.
Mr. Ogden married Gussie Debenath, a lady of many accomplishments and a social ·favorite ; her parents were of French extraction. Mrs. Ogden has become known in the literary world and has also acquired some knowledge of the law. Both she and Mr. Ogden were members of the Young Men's 17
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Mercantile Library Association, and she is having a memorial window made to be placed in the Library's new building, in memory of her late husband. Another monument to his memory will be a magnificent hotel which is to be erected on the north side of Fourth street, between Walnut and Main, on prop- erty lately acquired from Mrs. Ogden. This was a notable deal in real estate as Mr. Schmidlapp, the buyer, paid approximately $4,367 a front foot for his purchase. Mrs. Ogden would not consent to dispose of the property except under condition that the new structure should be called the Hotel Ogden. Mr. Ogden left an estate which was quoted at $500,000. Mr. Ogden was interred in that beautiful resting place for the departed, Spring Grove Cemetery. His portrait accompanies this sketch.
On April 6, 1903, Mrs. Frank M. Ogden married Ernest Drewitz, a well known musical composer and critic of Cincinnati and a thorough musician, whose place of birth was Germany, where he received a very complete edu- cation, musically and otherwise. Prior to settling in Cincinnati, he was pastor of a Lutheran congregation at Washington, D. C.
EDWARD H. BAKER.
EDWARD H. BAKER, a well known attorney-at-law of Cincinnati, was born in Athens, Ohio, May 22, 1856, and is a son of Col. George W. and Amanda (Mahon) Baker.
Col. George W. Baker came of New England stock and was also born at Athens, Ohio. He was a merchant most of the time up to the Civil War, although in 1851 he went west to the gold mines of California, and was reasonably successful. In July, 1861, he enlisted at Camp Dennison, in the 39th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., as captain of Company C. For a time he was commissary at Vicksburg, and served with General Banks in the Red River expedition. He was mustered out in 1866 as lieutenant-colonel. After leav- ing the army, he returned to Athens, where he was soon after elected mayor. He later served four years as treasurer of Athens County, after which lie was elected clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in which capacity lie served for 12 years. Leaving that office, he embarked in the book and stationery business and continued until the election of Benjamin Harrison to the presidency, when he was appointed postmaster of Athens. He served in
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that office until President Cleveland appointed his successor. He was a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Grand Army of the Republic and a Knight Templar in the Masonic order. His death occurred July 12, 1896, as the result of rheumatism contracted during his service in the army.
Edward H. Baker attended the public schools of Athens and Ohio University, from which he was graduated in 1877, and then worked with his father in the office of the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. In the fall of 1878 he entered the Cincinnati Law School and was admitted to the bar in June, 1879. He immediately thereafter opened an office in Cincinnati, where he has since been successfully engaged in practice. He stands high among the members of the profession, and has many friends throughout the city. In politics, he is a Republican.
In 1889, Mr. Baker was united in marriage with Rose E. Lillich, who died in 1895. He formed a second matrimonial alliance, in 1897, with Stella V. Sherwood, a daughter of Henry and Celia Sherwood, of Cin- cinnati, Ohio.
LOUIS SCHWAB, M. D.
LOUIS SCHWAB, M. D., one of the best known members of the medical profession in the city of Cincinnati, was formerly coroner of Hamilton County and is now a member of the board of medical directors of the Cin- cinnati Hospital. He is learned in medical science and a careful, painstaking practitioner; well meriting his rapid advancement to the front rank of the profession.
Dr. Schwab was born November 26, 1850, in Cincinnati, and is a son of Mathias and Solomena ( Yeck). Schwab. His father was born near Frei- burg, Baden, Germany, and his mother in Switzerland. A brother of our subject, Judge Schwab, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, is a prominent citizen of Cincinnati.
Louis . Schwab received his early education in the public schools and in 1879 entered the Medical College of Ohio, from which he was grad- uated in 1883. After serving one year in the Cincinnati Hospital, he entered upon a practice at Cumminsville, where he to-day enjoys a very extensive
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practice. Dr. Schwab has been an enthusiastic Republican in politics, and in 1897 was chairman of the City Republican Convention. In 1898 he was elected coroner of Hamilton County, was reelected in 1900, and served with credit to himself and party. With Dr. A. B. Isham and Dr. C. R. Holmes, he was recently appointed by Mayor Fleischmann a member of the board of directors of the Cincinnati Hospital.
Dr. Schwab was joined in the bonds of wedlock with Fanny Sheppard. a daughter of Edwin F. and Mary J. (Ewing) Sheppard of Cincinnati. Mrs. Schwab died in May, 1891, leaving the following children: Mathias, born August 30, 1886; Nelson, born June 9, 1888; and Abigail, born No- vember 16, 1889. Fraternally, he is a Mason.
GEORGE A. PRICHARD.
Death comes as a shock when its victim has passed the Psalmist's accorded years, and particularly so when it removes from the midst of attached kindred and admiring fellow citizens one still so well fitted to adorn the social circle and to feel interested in passing events, as was the late George A. Prichard, who passed away on May 21, 1900, at his beautiful home in Avondale.
Mr. Prichard was of New England ancestry, born in Brookfield, Massa- chusetts, December 5, 1815, and his formal education was such as was afforded in that intellectual State at the time, although it was small com- pared with his acquirements later in the school of experience. He was reared in habits of thrift and industry, and when he left his native village it was to accept a clerkship in a large wholesale house in Boston. Two years later he reached Cincinnati, and his business ability made him a welcome partner, in #839, to his cousins, R. P. and R. A. Holden. An association of 10 years followed. Later he. entered into the shoe business, in partnership with Charles Johnson establishing the Johnson & Prichard Shoe Company, which was at a later date succeeded by the George A. Prichard Shoe Com- pany, which developed into the Prichard-Alter Shoe Company, a name that for a long period represented the highest class of workmanship and quality. After a long and honorable business career, Mr. Prichard retired from
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activity about 1875, and passed the later years of his life in enjoyment of large means and in the following of congenial pursuits. Through life he was noted for his benevolence, as well as for his integrity, and his interest never waned in the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he was one of the founders and to which he was ever a most liberal contributor.
Mr. Prichard was twice married, first to a daughter of Daniel Colby, and second to a daughter of James J. Faran.
Mr. Prichard was a very successful business man, but he was one of the old fashioned kind, who accumulated his large fortune entirely by legiti- mate means, many of the modern methods meeting with his condemnation. A man of genial presence and kindly personality, he was venerated by his neighbors and most dearly beloved by his kindred. As one of the "Old Guard" business men of Cincinnati, the name of George A. Prichard will long be remembered with honor and esteem.
JOHN M. WITHROW, M. D.
JOHN M. WITHROW, M. D., one of the most prominent physicians and surgeons of Cincinnati, was born in Butler County, Ohio, October 10, 1854, and is a son of John L. and Margaret ( Murphy) Withrow, of Scotch and Irish extraction, both natives of Butler County.
John Withrow, great-grandfather of Dr. Withrow, removed to Butler County, Ohio, in 1801, and purchased the property afterward owned by his descendants. Samuel Pattinger Withrow, the grandfather, was born in North Carolina, and died in Butler County, Ohio, in 1890, aged 92 years. He was a man of unusual learning and of remarkable character, and became one of the foremost citizens of his community. John L. Withrow, who had been a farmer by occupation, died in 1894. His wife died September 14, 1891.
. Dr. John M. Withrow was the eldest of seven children born to his parents. He obtained his education in the common schools of Jacksonboro, the select school of Prof. Benedict Starr, of Seven Mile, and Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. He then taught school in Jacksonboro for one year, after which he attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and then served a year as principal of the school at Amanda, Butler County, later
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entering the Ohio Wesleyan University again and graduating there in 1877. Dr. Withrow then returned to Amanda; after one year of teaching there, he was elected superintendent of the public schools at Eaton, Ohio. There he remained for four years, at the end of which period he entered medical college and graduated in 1884, after two years of study. That Dr. Withrow should have carried off six of the eight prizes offered the class of 100 stu- dents, is a pretty fair test of his learning and ability, and his succeeding years of activity have proved that no mistake was made in awarding them. In June of the same year he opened an office in Cincinnati and one year later entered into practice with Dr. Thaddeus A. Reamy, with whom he remained two years and then opened an office at No. 294 West Fourth street. In October, 1890, he purchased the residence at No. 300 West Seventh street, and in 1901 removed to the Herman Goepper homestead in Vernonville. Dr. Withrow is a close student in his profession and makes a specialty of the diseases of women. His practice is large and absorbing and among a class which makes it satisfactorily remunerative. He is a member of the American Medical Association; the Ohio State Medical So- ciety; the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; and the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society. He is medical examiner of the Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia; is clinical lecturer on diseases of women at the Miami Medical College; is professor of gynecology and dean of the Laura Memorial Woman's Medical College. He is connected with Christ, Presbyterian and Cincinnati hospitals in the department of diseases of women. Governor Campbell wisely appointed Dr. Withrow president of the board of trustees of the Cincinnati Hospital. He is a member of the board of trustees of Miami University. He was first appointed a member of this board by Governor George Hoadly in 1884, being reappointed in 1889 by Governor J. B. Foraker.
On October 16, 1888, Dr. Withirow was married to Susanna Barrett, daughter of George Barrett, one of the prominent merchants of Pittsburg. Mrs. Withrow died in 1894. In 1897 Dr. Withrow was married to Sarah 'Hickenlooper. Fraternally, the Doctor is a Mason and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity of the Ohio Wesleyan University. Politically, he is a Democrat. For a long period he has enjoyed membership in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. His reputation as a physician and surgeon extends far beyond the confines of Cincinnati.
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CHARLES HENRY DAVIS.
CHARLES HENRY DAVIS, president of the Second National Bank of Cincinnati, and one of the leading financiers of Ohio, was born in this city in 1849, and. is a son of John H. Davis. The family was established here by the father of our subject and his brothers, who were pioneers in the pork packing business. Their energy and business enterprise contributed largely to the early prosperity of the Queen City, and all became large capitalists.
Mr. Davis was educated in Cincinnati and during a busy life has been mainly identified with the interests of this city. Formerly connected with the firm of E. Morgan & Company and later with Teepen & Davis, being the junior member of the latter, he formed many business acquaintances and secured many friends and established the splendid reputation which has been his ever since. The latter firm became connected with the Second National Bank of Cincinnati, of which Mr. Davis was first elected vice- president, and in 1885, president. His conservative management of this great financial concern has earned it a just reputation for safety, and no bank in the State enjoys more prosperity or handles more important inter- ests.
Mr. Davis married Grace A. Aikman, who was born in Indiana. The beautiful family home is situated at Pleasant Ridge, and is the scene of many social functions.
THOMAS KNOTT.
THOMAS KNOTT, who was the pioneer of Avondale, where he was en- gaged in tite nursery business, and owned considerable valuable land, passed away March 7, 1901, on the 85th anniversary of his birth. He was well known to the citizens of Cincinnati and was always a familiar figure at the floral exhibitions of the city.
Mr. Knott was born in the little village of Boyle, Ireland, March 7, 1816, and was a son of Capt. William Knott, who was a man of considerable importance about Tavanalı, where the family estates were located. Our sub- ject was 20 years of age when he came to this country ; soon after his arrival lie located in Cincinnati. Here he went into the drug business, but re- linquished it, as medical advisers told him his days were limited unless
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he worked in the open air. About 1841 he left the city and opened nurseries in Locust Grove, now Avondale, when Reading road, or Main street, as it is now called in Avondale, was nothing more than a country mud road, and Mr. Knott's habitation, which still stands, was the only house within miles around. He was a great reader and was considered a well informed man, but in the science of horticulture he had no peer. He unceasingly worked at his nurseries and his exhibitions in Floral Hall never failed to attract a great deal of attention. Upon settling in Avondale, Mr. Knott purchased considerable land which became very valuable, as it afterward was included in one of the city's most beautiful residence districts. Knott avenue, the thoroughfare upon which the greenhouses are situated, is named after him. Mr. Knott continued hale and hearty up to three weeks prior to his death, when a general breakdown, due to the infirmities of old age, caused him to take to his bed. He was laid to rest in Spring Grove Cemetery.
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