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Mr. Feder was united in marriage with Johanna Tugendrich, who is still living at the age of 93 years. They became the parents of the following children : Louis, senior member of the firm of Feder, Silberberg & Company, whosesale clothing dealers of Cincinnati; Harry and Gus, residents of New York City; Isaac, a dry goods merchant of Birmingham, Alabama ; Ernstina, widow of G. Holznian; Henrietta, deceased in 1895, who was the wife of Lip- man Levy ; and Dora, deceased in 1901, who was the wife of Max Silberberg.
Marcus Feder loved little children and was pleased to see them gather in the households of his children; he had at the time of his death 25 grand-
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children and two great-grandchildren. He was a valued member of the Richmond Street Temple and the B'nai B'rith. He was laid to rest in the beautiful United Jewish Cemetery on Walnut Hills. He was widely known for his charity and benevolence.
JOHN MANSS.
JOHN MANSS, founder of The Manss Shoe Manufacturing Company, of Cincinnati, one of the largest enterprises of its kind west of the Atlantic Coast, died of pneumonia, after a very short illness, at his home on Price Hill, January 21, 1903. The death of Mr. Manss removed from this city one of the pioneers in the shoe business, and one of the old-time, energetic and enterprising business men who founded the industries of Cincinnati. He was born in 1837, near Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, and was nine years of age when he accompanied his parents to Cincinnati.
The youth attended the public schools, and in the course of time went to work at a shoemaker's bench with his father and brothers. Later on with one brother, he opened a retail shoe store on lower Market (East Pearl) street, and in a few years their increasing business justified them in opening three more stores ; at one period they operated four shoe stores on Pearl street, between Main and Ludlow streets. In 1890 he formed a partnership with George Hocker, under the style of the Hocker-Manss Shoe Manufacturing Company. After the death of Mr. Hocker in 1892, the firm name became, as at present, The Manss Shoe Manufacturing Company. The company's great plant now occupies 75,000 square feet of floor space and 500 skilled workmen are employed, the output having expanded in 10 years from 250 pairs daily to 3,000, a specialty being made of high grade men's shoes. Mr. Manss was a successful business man and continued to be actively inter- ested until within a short time prior to his death, spending his last days in restful retirement at his beautiful home on Price Hill.
The late Mr. Manss was a man of genial nature and social instincts and possessed a wide circle of friends. During the early days of his business life in Cincinnati, he was one of a coterie of congenial friends, among whom were numbered : Pollock Williams, William H. Lytle, Louis Meliner, John Bates, Jerry Kiersted and others, who were accustomed to gather together at
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the old Indian Queen' Restaurant, a noted place of the time. He was also closely associated with Gen. U. S. Grant, who was then a resident of Cler- mont County, and the friendly contests in checker-playing, between these veterans of the game, always drew an audience at "Mehner's Grocery."
In 1864 Mr. Manss was married to Sophia Beste, and their children are two sons,-Harry L., and J. Albert Manss,-and one daughter, Kittie M., wife of Albert L. Hauck.
John Manss was a self made man in all that the term implies. He was simple and unpretending in his tastes, but was keenly alive at all times to the upbuilding and guarding of his'large business. He was one of the founders of the Westminster Presbyterian Church and was noted for his many private charities. It is justly said of him that no worthy cause or individual ever appealed to him in vain. His portrait accompanies this sketch.
JAMES GILMOUR HYNDMAN, M. D.
JAMES GILMOUR HYNDMAN, M. D., one of the leading medical men of Cincinnati, who is prominently identified with the medical institutions of the city, was born September 12, 1853, in Cincinnati, and is a son of William G. and Barbara (Gilmour) Hyndman, who were natives of the North of Ireland. Both parents came to America in childhood and were educated in the common schools.
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William G. Hyndman, the father of our subject, a prominent and suc- cessful business man of Cincinnati, widely known as the head of the metal roofing concern of W. G. Hyndman & Son, on Second street, near Broad- way, died July 19, 1903, in his 74th year. With advancing years his health had failed rapidly and in short intervals he had suffered two strokes of paralysis. A year ago he celebrated his golden wedding anniversary, and, although ailing at the time, his death was not expected to come so soon. A widow and four children survive him. His sons are; Dr. James Gilmour Hyndman, the subject of this sketch, and Robert J. Hyndman, who is pro- prietor of the Hyndman Steel Roofing Company. His daughters are Mrs. Belle T. Scott, of Champaign, Illinois, and Mrs. Margaret Adriance, of Belle- fontaine, Ohio.
Dr. Hyndman attended the public schools of Cincinnati and was but
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17 years of age when he was graduated at the Woodward High School. He then entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. James T. Whittaker, and in 1874 graduated from the Medical College of Ohio. From childhood he had shown a quick and attentive mind and all through his educational career he stood high. In a competitive examination at the close of his medical course, he secured the appointment of resident physician to the Cincinnati Hospital, and served two years in that capacity. He then opened an office for private practice and for several years acted as assistant editor of the Clinic, a local medical journal. He has continued to be a regular contributor to medical literature and his papers are esteemed of the greatest scientific value by his brother practitioners. Dr. Hyndman is also a ripe scholar and he was one of the translators from the German of "Ziemssen's Cyclopedia of Medi- cine," which is probably the most comprehensive medical publication ever issued.
In 1883 Dr. Hyndman was made professor of laryngology in the Medical College of Ohio, which chair he still occupies. Since 1881 he lias been secre- tary of the faculty. For several years he has been chief surgeon of the large throat dispensary connected with the college, and is also consulting laryn- ologist of the German Hospital. He is a valued member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; the Ohio State Medical Society; the section of laryngology and otology of the American Medical Association; the Cincin- nati section of the American Chemical Society, and many others.
In June, 1883, Dr. Hyndman was married to Mary E. Mitchell, daughter of Samuel M. Mitchell, a prominent banker and one of the oldest citizens of Martinsville, Indiana.
BENJAMIN H. SIMMONS.
BENJAMIN H. SIMMONS, one of Cincinnati's pioneer citizens, who for many years was identified with her business interests and political life, died at his home on Eastern avenue, September 2, 1896.
The early part of Mr. Simmons' life was spent in Laurel, Ohio; he later went to Covington, and still later to Newport, Kentucky, thence removing to Cincinnati, where he became prominent. He was his party's candidate for mayor of Cincinnati at one time; his opponent secured the position by a very
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small majority as Mr. Simmons was popular and most highly respected by the mass of the people.
Mr. Simmons was active in all movements of the Republican party in Hamilton County and counted as his personal friends many of the leaders, one being ex-Mayor John A. Caldwell. He belonged to the Lincoln Club and many other political as well as benevolent and social organizations.
In 1870 Mr. Simmons was married to Cordelia Kelsey, who still survives, with two children. After 78 years of honorable life, Mr. Simmons passed off the stage of human affairs. He lived the honorable, upright life of an American citizen. His name belongs in the list of public spirited citizens, who have contributed to the upbuilding of the municipal integrity and the commercial importance of Cincinnati.
CHARLES T. GOODRICH.
CHARLES T. GOODRICH, who for many years was one of the prominent business men of Cincinnati whose sterling qualities and commercial activities assisted in the development of this city, died at the Glencoe Hotel, Mount Auburn, December 17, 1901. He was born in 1829 at Petersburg, Virginia, where his people had lived for many years.
Mr. Goodrich was very young when his father died, and shortly after the family moved from their Virginia home to the State of Indiana, where our subject received his early schooling. He was still a young man when he came to Cincinnati to make his home, and this city has witnessed the whole of his great business activity. He amassed a large fortune in the wholesale hat and fur business as a member of the firm of Goodrich & Company, in which he continued until 1887. In that year he retired from business and occupied his time in looking after his large investments and in congenial pursuits. At the time of his death, he and his family were living at the Glencoe Hotel, his home having been destroyed by fire. He lived on College Hill for a period of 13 years and was contemplating with pleasure the prospective early occupancy of his elegant mansion then under course of construction. The building of this handsome residence and its elegant furnishings had given him the greatest delight, but just prior to its completion he was stricken withi heart failure and passed away.
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On January 29, 1862, Mr. Goodrich was married to Nancy A. Brown, who was born in Cincinnati and is a daughter of Samuel C. and Nancy ( Rus- sell) Brown. The last years of Mr. Brown's life were spent in Oberlin, Ohio, whither he removed from Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich had the following children who grew to maturity : Nellie, deceased, who married Samuel F. Cary, Jr., and had a daughter,-Alice Ethelwyn; Alice R, wife of Captain Thomas H. Slavens; Ralph B., president of The Eagle Tool Company of Cincinnati; Grace, who was married April 29, 1903, to William Aspinal Bradley, a son of William H. Bradley, who is a resident of New York City; and Florence. The marriage of Miss Grace Goodrich. to Mr .. Bradley took place in the College Hill Presbyterian Church. It was one of the most elegant and beautiful weddings that ever occurred on College Hill and was at the same time the most elaborate and perfect in cvery' detail. Mr. Bradley is identified with the McClure Publishing Company of New York City, and is a progressive business man. The Goodrich family has long been prominent in the social circles of Cincinnati and other cities.
Rev. George H. Lee, D. D., pastor of the College Hill Presbyterian Church, which Mr. Goodrich frequently attended, had this to say of the latter : "Mr. Goodrich was a man, the fragrant memory of whose name will- endure in the loving thoughts of his acquaintances. For his spotless integrity, he will be remembered. For his tender-heartedness, and affectionate dispo- sition ; for his simplicity of tastes and spirit, and his considerateness of and courtesy towards others; for his freedom from pride and from ways that beget envy or resentment, he will ever be held a model; and for the kindness with which he considered the needs of those whom he could help, he will be regarded a man of spirit as benevolent as it was just and wise."
HON. AUGUSTE FREDIN.
HON. AUGUSTE FREDIN, deceased, was the French Consul at Cincinnati, Ohio, for a period of 30 years and was one of the foremost residents of the city. He was born at Bauvais, France, in November, 1818, and grow to maturity in his native country.
Mr. Fredin was educated in the common schools of France, and when a young man learned the process of dyeing, under the government in his native
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town, which is famous for its fine tapestry. After having been established in business there for a number of years, he came to America in 1865, opening a furnishing establishment in Chicago, Illinois. After the Chicago fire in 1871, he came to Cincinnati, and was later appointed French Consul, the duties of which office he faithfully discharged from 1872 until the time of his death, February 5, 1902. He was a representative from Cincinnati to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. During the year 1901, he established in Cincinnati the "Alliance Francaise," an organization existing alinost everywhere in the entire civilized world. He most ably represented the interests of France in this locality, and held the confidence and love of his fellow countrymen to a marked degree.
Mr. Fredin was joined in marriage with Blanche M. Mathieu, a daughter of Louis Mathieu. Her mother was Marie Sophia Ruez, who came of a very prominent French family. To this union were born two daughters, both of whom live with their mother at the beautiful family home on Madison road, East Walnut Hills. Miss Aline Fredin, eldest daughter, is an ac- complished pianist, having graduated from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and at the time of her father's. death was studying under the master Leschetiszky in Vienna. Her father was very devoted to her, and as he felt his end approaching continually called for her. A cablegram was dis- patched, and she was on the voyage home when her father passed away. The younger daughter assists her mother in teaching the French language in a school established by the latter. Mme. Fredin in the year 1901 received the honor of the "Palmes Academiques." It was given in recognition of her faithful work in the propagation of the love of the French language and the good work she has done as a French teacher.
GEORGE H. THUMAN, M. D.
GEORGE H. THUMAN, M. D., for many years a prominent physician and surgeon of Cincinnati, Ohio, died January 14, 1901, under most peculiar circumstances. Among his patients was one. Mrs. Backus, who was afflicted with heart disease. He was suddenly called to her home, which was in the second story of the building located at No. 1731 Elm street. Know- ing her condition and from the facts stated by her husband who called for
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him, Dr. Thuman realized that if anything was to be done for her it must be done quickly. He hastened to the home of the patient and hurriedly climbed to the second floor. He applied all the remedies which science could suggest, but to no avail. Shortly after her death, while still holding the woman's pulse, the Doctor's grasp relaxed; he swayed and fell. The be- reaved husband of the woman who had just died, thinking it only a fainting spell from over-exertion, went across the street to call the Doctor's wife. When she arrived he sat on a chair with eyes closed, showing no sign what- ever of a death struggle. Dr. Stammel was hastily summoned, but the stricken one would respond to no medication. He was beyond relief ; life had fled. He had died without a struggle, while fulfilling the duties of his calling.
Dr. George H. Thuman was born July 5, 1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was a son of the late Gerhard Thuman, who was well known in Cincinnati. From the time he was 16 years of age he was a protege of the late Dr. New- ton, with whom he continued until the latter died in the city of Pittsburg. Dr. Thuman then came to Cincinnati and completed his course in the Cincin- nati College of Medicine and Surgery, since which time he was a successful practitioner until his death. He was a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, was the local examining physician of the C. M. B. A., and was con- nected with a number of other societies. He was a man who had the respect of all who knew him, and his friends and family suffered a severe shock in his sudden death.
On May 24, 1888, Dr. Thuman was joined in marriage with Louise Godar, a daughter of John Godar, who was born in Europe and removed to Cincinnati, where he resides. Dr. Thuman was a devout member of the Catholic Church, of which Mrs. Thuman is also a member. He was a Dem- ocrat in politics, and took a deep interest in all that pertained to the welfare of his country and his native city.
HARRY I .. MANSS.
TIARRY L. MANSS, president of The Manss Shoe Manufacturing Com- pany, is one of the Queen City's leading business men. He was born in 1865 and is a son of John and Sophia ( Beste) Manss, of Cincinnati. He
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was educated in the public schools. He married Jennie Floy Zimmer- man, daughter of the late J. E. Zimmerman, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway, and Ruth DeHaven. A son of this marriage bears the name of Stuart Walker.
Harry L. Manss is a member of the Business Men's Club, a director of the Cincinnati Industrial Bureau and was one of the directors of the Fall Festival of 1900-01. He takes an active interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare and growth of his native city, sounding her praises at every opportunity and devoting no little time in endeavoring to promote her inter- ests. He resides at the Manss homestead on Carson place, Price Hill.
J. H. CHARLES SMITH, A. M.
J. H. CHARLES SMITH, A. M., a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, is a native of this city, and a son of Charles and Katherine ( Huneke) Smith. He completed the prescribed course of study in the public schools of his natal city, then attended college. He attended a course of lectures in the Cincinnati Law School, of which he is a graduate, and possesses the degrees . of A. M. and LL. B. He also took a course in the Medical College of Ohio to broaden his field of information.
After his admission to the bar, Mr. Smith opened an office and has since been engaged in the continuous practice of his profession, his office now being in the Wiggins Block. He has had charge of many assignments and estates, and has repeatedly been appointed executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, trustee and referee, in all of which positions of trust he has ably executed the duties that were to be performed.
He is counsel for many large business firms and corporations, and his legal business has made it necessary for him to travel a great deal about the country. He has also attained prominence as a writer on legal subjects for various law journals, and was legal editor for the Express Gasette. He has delivered law lectures at the Normal School, Queen City Commercial College, and at the Y. M. C. A. When but 23 years of age, he was elected to the School Board of the city. He was renominated for a second term by the Republicans, received hearty indorsement from the Democrats, and was reelected. He was an active member of the Board of Examiners of public
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schools for three years. He has also served a number of years as vice- president of the Public Library Board, and was a member of the first com- mittee to consider the establishment of the Technical School of Cincinnati. He was one of the first to advocate a new Public Library building in Wash- ington Park, a branch library in each of the suburbs, and of purchasing a large library of classic music for circulation. And so with all questions pertaining to the improvement of the city, he has ever been on the right side and demonstrated that he is a progressive and public spirited man. He has not sought political preferment, but his name has frequently been men- tioned for a judgeship in Hamilton County.
Mr. Smith married Eliza Perlee Waterhouse, a daughter of Dr. J. P. and Hester (Hardin) Waterhouse. She is a descendant of Maj .- Gen. Joseph Cilley of Revolutionary fame, and is a Daughter of the American Revolution. She was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware, Ohio, with the degree of A. B. Fraternally, Mr. Smith is a 32nd degree Mason; a past sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men; has served as lecturing knight in the Benevolent and Protective Order .of Elks, is past excellent senator and was formerly supreme attorney-general of the Ancient Essenic Order, and is past chancellor and grand representative of the Knights of Pythias, and has served as president of the county relief committee. He is a Republican.
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HENRY W. STREIT, a prominent steel manufacturer of the South, a leading factor in many of the business enterprises of Cincinnati, and one of the city's leading capitalists, passed away at his home on East Ninth street, Cincinnati, January 22, 1902. He was born November 10, 1863, in New York City, and was a son of George W. Streit, the well known citizen of Birmingham, Alabama, now retired from business, and member of the old and aristocratic family of that name. Our subject was a great-nephew of Hon. Whitelaw Reid, and a nephew of Henry Robinson, the great steel magnate of the South.
Although Mr. Streit was not an old resident of Cincinnati, he became largely interested in many local enterprises, and had made this city his home for the eight years preceding his death. Miss Sallie A. Long, who became
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his wife in early manhood and who now survives him, is a daughter of William J. Long, who occupied a responsible position with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company. Mr. and Mrs. Streit were prominent social factors, and their lavish entertainments were types of the hospitality which it has long been the pleasure and pride of Southern aristocracy to offer. Mrs. Streit is president of the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mr. Streit was a business man of integrity and was welcomed into the business world of the Queen City. The immediate cause of his demise was an attack of pneumonia, that malady which has, in the past few years, taken away so large a number of the conspicuous and useful business citizens of Cincinnati. A portrait of Mr. Streit accompanies this sketch.
ANDREW McMICKEN.
ANDREW McMICKEN was long one of the honored business citizens of Cincinnati, and his passing out of life removed from this city one who had been a leading factor in both its commercial and moral development. Andrew McMicken was born April 28, 1823, at Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsyl- vania, and was a son of Andrew and Elizabeth ( Ewer) McMicken.
The McMicken family originated in Scotland and were noted for their sterling traits of character and their strict adherence to the Presbyterian faith. The American founders of the family came in 1700 and settled on large tracts in Pennsylvania and the original homestead is in the posses- sion of a member of the family to this day. Among the pleasant little family notes of these forebears, a record is found of the grandmother, who came of . French ancestry. Mr. McMicken's own mother was a Quakeress of great personal attraction. From her French mother, perhaps, she inherited an artistic taste and with her embroidery scissors was able to daintily cut a per- fect silhouette of any one she saw.
Our subject at an early age came to Cincinnati and joined his uncle, Charles McMicken, who was the founder of the University of Cincinnati. At the age of 27 years he made a trip to the West, but returned in 1876 and made Cincinnati his home thenceforth until his death, October 20, 1893. He was educated at Cary's Academy on College Hill, Cincinnati, later suc-
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ceeded by Farmers' College. His associates and companions in his class at the law school in Cincinnati were men who have since been distinguished, among them being Rutherford B. Hayes and Don Piatt. At the beginning of the Mexican War, his loyal patriotism induced him to raise troops and offer his services; he was given the rank of major. Before he took the field, however, the contention had been settled and the troops were dis- banded. In all the real progressive movements in the city, he was con- spicuous, one of these being the volunteer fire department and he always remained proud of his fireman's hat inscribed with his name. He was charitable far beyond his means and was earnest in moral and religious work. The Bethel Rescue Mission in Cincinnati is an outgrowth of his efforts. His name is inscribed high on the records of Cincinnati's good men.
On April 28, 1847, Mr. McMicken was married to Anna R. Trimble McDowell, daughetr of Gen. Joseph J. and Sallie A. ( McCue) McDowell, a young lady who had been one of the belles of Washington society during the administration of President Polk, while General McDowell represented Highland County in Congress from 1842 to 1847. The McDowell family is a very aristocratic one in Ohio. It originated among the old Irish kings of early days and became large and wealthy in North Carolina, from which State the grandfather of Mrs. McMicken went to serve in the Revolutionary Army. An aunt married Allen Trimble, then Governor of Ohio. The chil- dren born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. McMicken numbered nine, two of whom died in infancy, the others being : Lalla, who remained 10 years the widow of S. T. Lewis of Washington, D. C., and then married Gen. B. P. Runkle, U. S. Army; Andrew, Jr., who married Helen Cannon of Illinois and is a lawyer at Rawlins, Wyoming; Joseph, a prominent physician of Portland, Oregon, who married Anna. Craig of Pennsylvania and died September 13, 1902, leaving four children,-Craig, Donald, Ewer and Anna ; Lucy Bell, who married Charles W. Hine of Iowa; Jeannie; Revell, who is a prominent and well known citizen of Cincinnati; and Mary, who married William M. Strobridge, of The Strobridge Lithographing Company, of Cin- cinnati, and has one son, Hines.
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