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Mr. Couden has been a factor in political life in Warren County for a long time and on more than one occasion has been slated for high official life.
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He is a stanch Republican, and in 1897 was a candidate of the party for the State Legislature from his home district, but in the interest of peace later withdrew in favor of Hon. Alexander Boxwell, as he would not allow his own ambitions to stand in the way of party harmony. He is looming up as a favorite candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District, which is comprised of Warren, Clinton, Greene, Highland, Brown and Cler- mont counties. He has many personal as well as business friends who recog- nize his fitness for this position and what an influence a man of his ability and integrity could wield as a statesman.
In 1894 Mr. Couden was married to Julia Southgate Smith, who was born in Illinois. He has continued to make his home at Morrow.
JOHN ALBERT THOMPSON, M. D.
JOHN ALBERT THOMPSON, M. D., who is known far beyond the city of Cincinnati as a specialist in all nose, throat and ear troubles, was born at Mount Carmel, Indiana, January 7, 1859. The family is of English and Scotch origin, a combination that has developed some of the most dis- tinguished men of the century.
Dr. Thompson is a son of John and Mary (Jenkins) Thompson, the former of whom was born in 1822 at Mount Carmel, Indiana, where he subsequently became a farmer and merchant. On the maternal side, the family was of Massachusetts stock, where the grandparents were born, but removed to Ohio where Dr. Thompson's mother was born in 1827.
Dr. Thompson was reared in a comfortable home and was afforded excellent educational advantages, being sent to Earlham College, at Ricli- mond, Indiana, after completing the common school course. There he was most creditably graduated in 1880, receiving the degree of B. S. After a course of reading under Dr. Mackenzie he was graduated in 1884 from the Miami Medical College and soon after entered upon the general practice of medicine and surgery. This he continued with unusual success for eight years, during which time he was clinical instructor in the diseases of the nose, ear and throat at liis alma mater and through close study and thorough investigation became so interested in this complicated branch of practice that he decided to make it a specialty. Since 1892 he has given his entire atten-
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tion to these important organs and the medical literature of the day has been enriched by many valuable scientific articles from his pen.
Dr. Thompson is connected with all the leading medical societies, is a subscriber to all the reliable medical publications, and in every way is continually adding to his knowledge. His practice extends over a wide territory and he is justly regarded as an authority on all diseases pertaining to the throat, ear and nose. Few are beyond his skill and his scores of grateful testimonials tell of his success when others less patient and skilled have failed.
Dr. Thompson was married April 21, 1886, to Lillie Morris, daughter of Augustus and Elizabeth (Shepard) Morris. In politics Dr. Thompson is a Prohibitionist. His well appointed offices are situated at No. 628 Elm street, Cincinnati.
· JOSEPH W. WAYNE.
JOSEPH W. WAYNE, a representative citizen of Cincinnati, died Septem- ber 12, 1903, at the beautiful family home, at No. 717 Gholson avenue, Avon- dale. Mr. Wayne was born in Philadelphia, in 1821, of Quaker parentage; he spent the greater part of his life in Cincinnati, having settled here in 1843.
Mr. Wayne embarked in a hardware business on Main street in 1844, disposing of his store to Mr. Pickering some years later in order to engage more extensively in the manufacture of ice chests and other articles of popu- lar demand. He continued in the manufacture of these articles until within a few years of his retirement from business, in 1899. He had numerous in- terests, one of these being the Second National Bank, of which he was a director for 35 years. At the age of 78 years, Mr. Wayne retired from business activity with the esteem and respect of contemporary and younger competitors, his business methods during this long period having been those of an honorable man.
In 1852 Mr. Wayne was married to Mary Frances Gove, who with two children survives. The daughter, Laura, resides with her mother in the beautiful home in Avondale, where the family has been located for 17 years. William G. Wayne, the only son, has charge of his father's large business interests. Mrs. Wayne belongs to one of the old families of New England,
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and is a daughter of the late Amos Gove, senior member of the old and well known commission firm of Gove & Swasey, and one of the band- of pioneers who settled in Cincinnati in 1838.
Mr. Wayne was a successful business man, but he was much more. He was interested in literature and art and spent his leisure in travel, becoming the possessor of many art treasures. A beautiful marble statue, which adorns the Cincinnati Art Museum, was a gift of Mr. Wayne, in 1878. He be- longed to the Art Club and was a charter member of the Queen City Club. Politics did not especially interest him, although he was an intelligent voter and supported the Republican party. Mr. Wayne was a man of diversified interests and took an active position in the work of advancing the city, not only promoting its commercial supremacy, but as far as possible also advanc- ing its educational and moral enterprises. Reared in the Quaker belief, in later years with his family he united with the Unitarian Church.
WILLIAM LOWRY DICKSON, A. M., LL. B.
WILLIAM LOWRY DICKSON, A. M., LL. B., son of the late Hon. Will- iam Martin Dickson, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume, was born in Cincinnati, March 7, 1856. After a thorough preparatory course of edu- cation acquired in the city schools, he entered Yale College; graduating there- from in the class of 1878. Returning to Cincinnati, he commenced read- ing law under the direction of his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1881, after a comprehensive, systematic and severe course of instruction. While studying law, and for a time after being admitted, Mr. Dickson was instructor in Latin and Green in the Cincinnati schools, after which he took up practice, which has steadily advanced and developed into a lucrative as well as an important one. As a lawyer Mr. Dickson is chiefly distinguished for the care and attention bestowed on the preparation of his cases, and the profound and exhaustive researches into all the points bearing upon them. His scholarly attainments, together with the gift of a natural and easy flow of language, render him particularly well qualified for liis chosen profession, a fact which his large clientage and high standing at the bar clearly demon- strate. He has well appointed offices in the Union Trust Building.
In addition to his law practice, Mr. Dickson is lecturer on medical juris-
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prudence in the Eclectic Medical Institute, a position to which he was ap- pointed in 1890, and which is in itself a distinguished mark of honor. Mr. Dickson was married in 1887 to Minnie Goodhue. They have no children.
MARTIN FOX.
That the success of any great reform does not rest upon its justice is but all too evident, and when high ends are attained in any great movement the world may be sure that master minds have so directed the currents that obstacles have been overcome and human progress is just that much more advanced. These reflections come naturally in noting the voluntary retire- ment of Martin Fox from the presidency of the Iron Molders' Interna- tional Union, after an association with that body for 28 years, and after a quarter of a century of official connection.
Through his resignation, the American trades union movement loses one of its most interesting figures and capable leaders. Through years of unflagging industry, with indomitable energy and resolution, facing most discouraging conditions at many times, Mr. Fox pressed on in the path of reform until to-day he stands one of the most respected labor leaders as well as one of the most highly esteemed comrades. He was the first of the great trades union leaders of this country to advocate and adopt the policy of arbitration and conciliation in the settlement of labor strikes. That his long struggles finally resulted in success has been but recently shown in the amicable mutual agreement signed all over the country by employers and employees. The first fruits of this policy of conciliation was the estab- lishment of an arbitration board between the Stove Founders' National De- fense Association, representing the employers in this industry, and the Iron Molders' International Union. That the past 13 years have been ones of peace in various iron industries is due in great measure to the cool, quiet, persuasive influence of Martin Fox and those closely interested with him.
Mr. Fox has been honored many times by the organizations which he has represented. In 1878 he was elected a trustee of the national union: in 1880, clerk to the president ; in 1886, international secretary ; and since 1890 has been international president. Failing health compelled Mr. Fox to resign responsibilities which he has carried so long. He still consents to
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serve in an advisory capacity but he feels as if his active efforts were brought to a close. No one more than Mr. Fox can realize what this means, but he can retire in the just belief that his life labor has been crowned withi success and that the time is fast coming when strikes and lockouts will be entirely things of the past, and when employer and employee will stand to- gether as brothers on the great peace platform of arbitration he has erected.
HENRY POGUE.
In the death of Henry Pogue, who passed out of life on January 15. 1903, of bronchial pneumonia, Cincinnati lost one of her prominent pioneer business men and most highly valued citizens. This great merchant was born in May, 1829, in County Cavan, Ireland, and was the oldest of five brothers, all of whom came to Cincinnati and here engaged in business. After serving an apprenticeship in the dry goods business at Cavan, in 1851 he followed the rest of his family, who had come to the United States the year before. He located in Cincinnati and here obtained a clerkship in a dry goods store on Fifth street, and as he was industrious and frugal accumulated means.
Just prior to the Civil War, Henry Pogue bought an interest in a small dry goods store on Fifth street, and entered the arena of business under the firm style of Pogue & Jones. In 1865, despite the depression incident to the Civil War, the business had so prospered that Mr. Pogue was in a condi- tion, financially, to buy the large interests of John Crawford, then the lead- ing merchant of the city, and at this time was formed the company of H. & S. Pogue, Samuel Pogue becoming a partner; later, the other brothers, Thomas, William and Joseph, also entered into partnership. In 1878 removal was made to the present site of the business, on Fourth street, between Race and Vine. Much of the surrounding property has been acquired by the family. and in the near future the company will build here the greatest dry goods emporium west of New York. Henry Pogue was the secretary and treasurer of the great company he founded, of which his only surviving brother, Sam- uel Pogue, continues as president. It was the wish of Mr. Pogue that his two sons, after graduating at Princeton College, should enter the firm
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and still farther expand a business which owes so much of its remarkable growth to the enterprise of their father.
Although gifted with a business faculty which enabled him to excel competitors, Mr. Pogue was something more than a merchant, and was well qualified by nature, study and travel, to fill almost any position in life; but his tastes were so simple, his wants so few, that he sought neither social nor political distractions; he belonged to several clubs but to no secret organiza- tion. His elegant home with the domestic circle intact, his well selected li- brary, his treasures of art, his choice of friends, and his private deeds of beneficence, made up the sum of interest in his life, outside the cares of his business. It was his habit to leave business cares behind about June of every year and remain at his summer home at Lakewood, New York, until late in September. He was a man of strong will and this was noted in his last illness, when, through its sheer force, he combated with death until he could take one last look upon the faces of his sons, who had been hurriedly sum- moned from college.
Mr. Pogue was an acknowledged Christian, a pioneer member of the Central Presbyterian Church at Mound and Barr streets, and was for years its treasurer. He was a man of a kind, loving and generous disposition, and extremely charitable.
In 1875 Mr. Pogue was married to Mary I. Crawford, second daughter of John Crawford, and he is survived by his widow and six children, viz. : Mrs. William Walker Smith, Jr., Elsie, Natalie and Margaret, and Henry, Jr., and John Crawford. Two daughters died in infancy: Charlotte and Elizabeth. Tributes of esteem from the world of business were tendered to the memory of Mr. Pogue on the day of his funeral obsequies, many of the leading business houses remaining entirely closed. Upon that sad occa- sion, six nephews officiated as pall-bearers. The beautiful home on Park avenue and Cypress street was visited by vast crowds, and among these few of Mr. Pogue's employees were absent, the desire being general to take a last view of one who had ever proved a just employer and also a kind and helpful friend.
The death of Mr. Pogue was a blow to the Chamber of Commerce where he was regarded with feelings of profound respect. His influence will long be felt in Cincinnati, and his name commemorated by the great busi- ness of which he was the head and front, and which, it was his pride to
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realize, had been founded on the rock of business integrity. A portrait of Mr. Pogue accompanies this sketch, appearing on a page in proximity to this.
JACOB R. McGARRY.
JACOB R. McGARRY, a prominent representative of the legal profession in Cincinnati, was born December 10, 1836, in Champaign County, Ohio, and is a son of William and Catherine McGarry, both of whom were natives of Jefferson County, Virginia. The McGarry family history dates back to a period contemporary with the arrival of Lord Fairfax, of whom the first McGarry in this country purchased the estates in Virginia on which the fam- ily resided for generations.
Mr. McGarry obtained liis early education in the public schools of Champaign County and then entered Wittenberg College, where his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil War. With others of his age, he enlisted for service on the first call of the President in April, 1861, and performed the duties of a soldier until he was mustered out in the following August. He then resumed his collegiate studies and was graduated at Witten- berg College in 1862. For several years he then applied himself to the thorough study of the law and in 1866 was admitted to the bar and soon entered upon the practice of his profession at Springfield, Ohio. One year later he was appointed assessor under the revenue laws then put in force, and he served in that capacity for three years. His public course met with such popular approval that upon the resignation of the mayor of the city he was appointed to fill the municipal chair and at the following election was the successful candidate of the Democratic party for the honor.
In 1871 Mr. McGarry removed to Cincinnati and formed a law partner- ship with the late Gen. Henry B. Banning, with whom he was associated until the latter's retirement from Congress. Since that date, Mr. McGarry has handled a very large and lucrative practice alone. He served one term as first assistant city solicitor under Joshua M. Dawson. He is regarded as not only a safe counsellor but as one of the ablest pleaders of the Hamilton County bar.
In March, 1863, Mr. McGarry married Mary E. Pearson, who is a daughter of Rev. John Pearson of Urbana, Ohio. Two children were born to
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this union: Amy W., a student at the Cincinnati Art School, and William H., who was bookkeeper for the Krell Piano Company of Cincinnati until his death, which occurred August 6, 1897. The family residence is in the pleas- ant and attractive suburb of Cumminsville. The religious connection of the family is with the Protestant Episcopal Church.
MORDECAI M. WHITE.
MORDECAI M. WHITE, a leading financier of Cincinnati and one of the city's most respected and esteemed citizens, was born in Washington County, Indiana, of North Carolina parentage. The White family has been one of prominence and substance in the Old North State for generations and there its members still represent the high born courtesy of the old nobility from which they sprung, combined with the general sincerity and simplicity of the Quaker faith to which almost all adhere.
Among such home surroundings Mordecai M. White spent his child- hood years. His education was carefully pursued at Earlham College at Rich- mond, Indiana, an institution of high repute, under the management of the Society of Friends. After completing a course which included bookkeeping. Mr. White went to Philadelphia and there filled a position in a mercantile establishment for some years. His subsequent location in Cincinnati came in the way of a chance acquaintance and friendship with Mr. Wells, who at that time was the proprietor of a large grocery house in the Queen City. The death of his grandfather, in 1847, placed a large amount of capital in the hands of Mr. White, including a number of slaves on the North Carolina estate. These human chattels were brought to the North by Mr. White in 1857 and 1859, given their freedom and comfortable homes provided for them. Mr. White did not sympathize with slavery and was only willing to accept his grandfather's gift until he could place the slaves where they could care for themselves.
With plenty of capital Mr. White came to Cincinnati in 1853 and with his friend Mr. Wells formed the well known business partnership of Wells, White & Company, the firm soon after admitting our subject's brother, Frank White, when the firm style became White Brothers & Company, and thus continuing business until 1875. In 1862 Mr. White engaged in a banking
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business in partnership with John H. Hewson, and in 1873 the control of the Fourth National Bank passed into the management of this firm, Mr. White later becoming president of the bank. Mr. White probably owns more bank stock than any other individual in Cincinnati, being interested in the First National and the National Lafayette banks. After serving one years as vice-president he was elected president of the National Bankers' As- sociation, a position of responsibility.
Although never a politician or office seeker, Mr. White has always been a most active citizen, all matters pertaining to Cincinnati receiving his atten- tion and his strongest influence for their support whenever his judgment has deemed them beneficial. Mr. White has been the kind adviser of many young men who have come within the scope of his acquaintance and many owe a large measure of their success to this benevolent interest. He is a man of gentle dignity and is naturally kind and generous. His charities are large but they are not heralded to the world. The family residence is located in the aristocratic part of Cincinnati at No. 2343 Auburn avenue.
SIGMAR STARK, M. D.
SIGMAR STARK, M. D., gynecologist in the Cincinnati Hospital and the Jewish Hospital, is one of the learned and skillful physicians and surgeons of Cincinnati. His birth took place July 6, 1863, in Lowenberg, Saxony, Germany, and he is a son of Dr. William and Cecelia ( Kaiser) Stark, and a · grandson of Moses Stark, one of the noted Jewish rabbis of his native land.
In 1867 Dr. Stark accompanied his parents to Cincinnati, completed the public school course of this city, and graduated from the Woodward High School. He entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in the city of New York, and after graduation there served as interne in the German Hospital for one and a half years. The young student was not satisfied until he had visited the great medical centers of Dresden, Breslau, Vienna and Berlin, those homes of wonderful scientific investigations. Dr. Stark returned from this field of study in 1887 and immediately opened an office in Cincinnati, where he has continued in successful practice ever since. He has made a specialty of gynecology and has contributed many learned articles
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on the subject to current medical literature. His professional member- ships include the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Walnut Hills Medical Society, the Obstetrical Society of Cin- cinnati and the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Dr. Stark was happily married in 1888 to Lilly Reis, who is the ac- complished daughter of Julius and Julia (Seasongood) Reis, the former of whom was born in Germany, and the latter in Cincinnati, a member of one of the prominent families. Two sons have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Stark, namely : Robert II., born July 2, 1889, and Jack, born September 1, 1893. The family is connected with the Plum Street Temple. The charming fam- ily home is located at No. 1108 East McMillan street, Walnut Hills, while the Doctor is professionally located on East Eighth street.
EDMOND C. BOYCE.
EDMOND C. BOYCE, a most highly esteemed, prominent citizen of Cin- cinnati, is a familiar figure and has, since 1831, been identified with the city's life and interests. Mr. Boyce was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1829, and is a son of Dr. Charles F. Boyce, who came to Cincinnati in 1831 and was one of the earliest dentists of this city. His office was on the west side of Walnut street, north of Pearl.
In his youth Mr. Boyce worked at the trade of bookbinding, which he learned with E. Morgan & Sons, on the west side of Main street, above Third, and he also served two years at the trade of planemaker. Mr. Boyce was an active fireman in the volunteer department as a member of Invincible Company, No. 5.
From 1865 to 1868, Mr. Boyce was a city commissioner; from 1871 to 1872, he was superintendent of street cleaning, under Mayor S. S. Davis ; and from 1879 to 1885 he was a member of the Board of Public Works. In addition to work in public positions, Mr. Boyce has dealt largely in real estate and has engaged in extensive contracting, a work of this character being the superintending of the excavations for the United States Custom House.
Mr. Boyce was married in 1855. Since 1856 he has been prominently identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Few citizens of Cincinnati can more entertainingly recall the city's early days and promi-
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nent men, than can Mr. Boyce. Many who have made records on the pages of history are in his reminiscences recalled in their local surroundings before public notice cast its effulgence upon them. His shrewd and witty com- ments supplement his wonderful recollections of events and localities and make a day spent with him most memorable.
RUFUS BARTLETT HALL, M. D.
RUFUS BARTLETT HALL, M D., one of the most distinguished physicians and surgeons of Cincinnati, was born in Aurelius township, Washington County, Ohio, May 15, 1849, and is a son of Joseph B. and Irene ( Bartlett ) Hall. Our subject's parents were of Scotch-English extraction and natives of the State of New York. The paternal grandfather of Dr. Hall was Justis Hall, a native of New York, who removed to Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, and later settled on farming land in Aurelius township, the same being now owned by Levy Hall, brother of Dr. Hall. Joseph Hall was a farmer and millwright and engaged in those occupations until his death, which occurred in April, 1886. His family consisted of 14 children, of whom the following eight, of whom six now survive, grew to advanced maturity : William H., a merchant of Osceola, Iowa; James, a farmer of Aurelius town- ship, Washington County, Ohio, who died in 1893; George W., a farmer at Morse, Kansas; Rufus Bartlett, of this sketch; Dr. Willard A., of Chilli- cothe, Ohio; Levy, a farmer living in Aurelius township, Washington County, Ohio; Dr. Willis W., of Springfield, Ohio, who died in 1889; and Margaret Ann (Mrs. McCurdy), of Barlow township, Washington County, Ohio.
Dr. Hall was reared on the homestead farm and attended the local schools. At the age of 13 he entered a select school at Marietta and five years later he returned as a teacher to his native township, where he continued for two years. It was during this period that he began the study of medicine and in 1869 he matriculated at Miami Medical College, where he was gradu- ated in 1872. On March 26th of that year he opened an office for practice of his profession, at New England, Athens County, Ohio, two years later remov- ing to Santa Barbara, California, where he practiced one year. After re- turning to his home for a short visit, he started on a tour of the Southern States. Upon his return he located at Chillicothe, where he successfully prac-
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