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For a period of 30 years Mr. Murdoch was a resident of Cincinnati, spending much of his time as a practical farmer and vine grower, overseeing his vineyards and a grain and fruit farm of 200 acres in Warren County,
CHARLES EDWARD CALDWELL, M. D.
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a short distance from the city at a place now called Murdoch. In his 72nd year he acted "Hamlet" with great applause.
Mr. Murdoch's wife died when he was comparatively a young man. He `never married again. One son, Capt. Thomas Forrest Murdoch, was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. His oldest son, Capt. James E. Murdoch, Jr., won esteem in the Civil War and is now an attache of the United States Custom House in Philadelphia. Our subject left three daughters: Mrs. Rosalie M. Hollingshead, Fanny H. and Ida E. Mrs. Ida E. Murdoch and Mrs. Hollingshead still live in Vernonville, Cincinnati.
ALBERT L. HAUCK.
ALBERT L. HAUCK, secretary and treasurer of The Manss Shoe Manu- facturing Company, is a son of Frederick and Margaret ( Ahlers) Hauck, and was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, in 1861. He was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and graduated with the degree of Civil En- gineer from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He followed his profession with the Union Pacific Railroad, the Cincin- nati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway and the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio; from 1890 to 1897 he was superintendent of the East End station of the Cincinnati Gas Light & Coke Company. In 1897 he became in- terested in The Manss Shoe Manufacturing Compnay and has since been identified with this company as its secretary and treasurer.
In 1892 Mr. Hauck was married to Kittie M. Manss, the daughter of John Manss, and they have three children,-Phyllis, Roland M. and Helen Constance.
CHARLES EDWARD CALDWELL, M. D.
CHARLES EDWARD CALDWELL, M. D., whose portrait accompanies this sketch, was born on Walnut Hills, March 14, 1861. He is a son of the late James Crosby and Rebecca (Bunker) Caldwell. His father, who was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, came in the late "thirties" to Cincinnati, where he lived, an honored citizen and successful merchant, until his death in 1888.
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His mother, who was a member of an old Nantucket ( Massachusetts) family, was a daughter of Capt. Alexander Bunker.
Dr. Caldwell was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, Wood- ward High School and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He studied medicine in the Medical College of Ohio, where he was graduated in 1883. He subsequently spent two years in the universities of Strasburg and Vienna, and on his return to America in 1885 settled in practice on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. He was made professor of pathology in the old Cincinnati Col- lege of Medicine and Surgery in the fall of 1885 and in 1886, professor of anatomy. In 1888 he resigned this chair to accept the adjunct professor- ship of anatomy in the Miami Medical College. He was subsequently made professor of descriptive anatomy, and again professor of surgical anatomy in the same institution, in which capacity he served until offered the chair of orthopedic surgery in 1902. In 1900 he was appointed visiting orthopedic surgeon to the Cincinnati Hospital.
Dr. Caldwell is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, Ohio State Medical Society, American Medical and Southern Surgical and Gyne- cological associations.
In 1883 Dr. Caldwell was married to Augusta Jewell Sexton, a native and resident of New York.
CAPT. JAMES W. FOLEY, SR.
CAPT. JAMES W. FOLEY, SR., formerly senior member of J. W. Foley & Company, conducting the Excelsior Iron Foundry of this city, and one of the leading business men of Cincinnati, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1837. His parents, James and Catherine (Bridle) Foley, were both born in Ireland, and both were brought to America in childhood. The father died in 1846, four years after the family located in Cincinnati, while engaged in building and contracting at Memphis, Tennessee.
Our subject is the only survivor of three sons born to his parents. He obtained his education in the Cincinnati public schools, which he left at the age of 13 years in order to take care of himself, the death of his father having thrown him on his own resources. Being industrious, apt, well mannered and ambitious, he soon found employment, pleasing those for whom he worked
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and continually climbing higher. In 1854, after two years with the music printing house of Peters & Son, he entered the foundry of Adams & Will- iams, remained an apprentice there to the trade of molder until the firm discontinued, when he finished in the foundry of Bird, Hollibird & Company, entering then the employ of Lane & Bodley, in 1850. There the call for strong arms and loyal hearts in the defense of country and flag found our subject, and the call was not in vain, for one of the first of that great army of the flower of the land to offer his services was James W. Foley.
Entering the service as a private soldier, on April 18, 1861, in Company A, 10th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., by May 28, 1863, he had been promoted for gallantry to the rank of Ist lieutenant. His term of service expired on July. 17, 1864. Lieutenant Foley immediately began to assist in the organization of the notable 18Ist Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., and was commissioned captain of Company D, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. His regiment was made a part of the Army of the Cumberland, in which branch of the force his whole term of service was passed, during which time he par- ticipated in the greater number of those memorable struggles which de- termined the results of the war. He was in the thick of the fighting of Perry- ville, Stone River, Chattanooga and Chickamauga, and wherever a brave officer was needed for special work, it was known that Captain Foley could be relied upon to perform it.
It has been often remarked that after the close of that great time of strife, the bravest men were the ones who returned to peaceful pursuits most unostentatiously, apparently taking up their lines of activity just where they had left off, although in many cases the years of war had consumed their most productive season. Among those who quietly resumed his former work was Captain Foley, who worked for more than six years in the leading foundries of the city, and in the spring of 1873, in association with other practical men, established a general foundry business on Elm street, which was later removed to its present quarters at Nos. 629 to 637 West Front street. Of the original members of the firm, Captain Foley is the only sur- vivor. The business, under his direction, has grown into one of the largest in the country, its special products being pulleys, drop and poster hangers, journal boxes, etc.
On November 10, 1867, Captain Foley was united in marriage with Bridget Donahue, who is a daughter of Patrick Donahue, of this city, and a
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family of II children have been born to them. The family reside at Home City, Ohio. All are devout members of the Roman Catholic Church.
Politically, Captain Foley is a Democrat, but he has never consented to accept public office. Fraternally, he belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States and the Society of the Army of the Cumberland.
ISAAC ROLLMAN.
ISAAC ROLLMAN, head of the extensive mercantile house of The Roll- man & Sons Company, of Cincinnati, is one of the city's pioneer business men as well as one of its most respected citizens. Mr. Rollman was born in Vonhausen, Germany, on September 6, 1825, and is a son of Joseph R. and Bertha (Hess) Rollman, both of whom spent their lives in their native land.
Mr. Rollman obtained his education in the fatherland. At the age of 21 years he came to America, and in 1847 settled in Cincinnati where he engaged in a small mercantile business, catering mainly to the rural trade. His methods met with success and in 1867 he felt justified in establishing the store of Isaac Rolman, which firm was strengthened in 1878 by the ad- mission of his son Joseph to partnership under the style of Rollman & Son. Two years later he admitted his two other sons, Henry and Samuel, and the firm name was adopted as it stands to-day, The Rollman & Sons Company, representing one of the most modern and prosperous dry goods houses of the city. A spacious building, equipped with every modern luxury and con- venience and stocked with the choicest goods that could be procured, was opened to the public on April 15, 1903. The development of this great busi- ness is but the natural result of the enterprise and energy of its founder, who still holds the controlling hand in its management.
On December 31, 1850, Mr. Rollman was married to Lena Wertheimer, who was a daughter of Jacob Wertheimer. The children of this union were : Jacob and Joseph, twins,-the latter associated with his father in business, the former dying at the age of 23 years; Bertha, who married Joseph Bloch, and died April 17, 1892, leaving a daughter, Leonora, who resides with her grandfather ; Louis, who died at the age of 18 years; and Meyer, who is mar- ried and resides in Philadelphia. Mrs. Rollman died in 1856. On August 25,
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1858, Mr. Rollman was married to Fanny Ehrman, who is a daughter of Samuel and Sarah Ehrman, and the three children of this union are: Samuel, Henry and Sarah. Henry married Hattie Meyerfeld, daughter of a prominent citizen, Wolf Meyerfeld, whose biography appears in this volume, and Sarah married the late M. B. Minster, whose sketch may also be found in this work.
JAMES LESLIE, D. D. S.
A distinguished citizen of Cincinnati, and for the past 60 years a leader in the city's intellectual development, is Dr. James Leslie, who bears a name known and honored through the whole State of Ohio. Few citizens indeed have gained more universal esteem.
Dr. Leslie was born in that great center of learning, the city of Edin- burgh, Scotland, in 1819, and is a son of John and Margaret (Scott) Leslie, names notable in Scottish history. His education was carefully looked after by his parents, but after immigrating to New York, in 1834, with character- istic thrift they decided to also provide the youth with a self supporting trade. Consequently he was apprenticed to the trade of gold-beater, and four years later was considered a skilled workman. In 1838, accompanied by his brother Andrew M., Dr. Leslie came to Cincinnati and formed a business partnership for the manufacture of gold leaf and dentists' gold foil, under the firm style of A. & J. Leslie. In order to more thoroughly fit himself intellectually, Dr. Leslie withdrew from business in 1842 and entered Bethany College, West Virginia, where he remained some time and then resumed the manufacturing business in which he continued until 1863. In the meantime, the elder brother had become a skilled dentist and with natural aptness our subject also acquired a thorough knowledge of the science. From 1863 until 1873, Dr. Leslie very successfully conducted a large dental supply house, retiring from active par- ticipation in business at that date.
The profession and the public at large owe much to Dr. Leslie's laboratory work. It was due to liis scientific study that the discovery was made con- cerning the cohesion of gold and its incalculable value to operative dentistry was ably explained in the address of the president of the Columbian Dental Congress in 1893. For a long period Dr. Leslie's efforts had been directed in the direction of a discovery which he made in 1877, this being the ability to
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produce a crystalline form of gold which could be used in the filling of teeth, something so superior to all past processes that it was greeted with acclaim by the scientific men of the profession and won him commendation at the Vienna Exposition and later a diploma. Dr. Leslie has been honored both abroad and at home, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery conferring his de- gree. He has been president for 10 years of The Ohio Mechanics' Institute, an institution in which he has taken a deep interest for a long period.
Dr. Leslie was first married in 1852 to Rachel Marsh, daughter of William E. Marsh. Mrs. Leslie died in 1853 and in the following year Dr. Leslie was married to Elizabeth Orange, who was born in Kentucky, and died in 1890. The two surviving children of Dr. Leslie are: Lillie R., the widow of E. P. Donnell, who was a noted inventor of Chicago; and Mary. Dollie O. Leslie died January 19, 1903. The handsome family residence is located at No. 508 West Seventh street, Cincinnati.
ANDREW LEE McCORMICK, M. D.
ANDREW LEE MCCORMICK, M. D., one of the prominent and represent- ative medical men of Hamilton County, was born March 5, 1857, at Marietta, Ohio, in which city he received a collegiate education and was graduated in 1878. He is a son of Col. A. W. and Alice J. (Leckliter) McCormick, the former of whom was born in 1830, in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and for the past 25 years has been a pension attorney in Cincinnati.
Dr. McCormick secured his medical education at Pulte Medical College for which he was prepared by Dr. Jirah D. Buck, of Cincinnati, and where he was graduated with honors in the spring of 1883. In the same year he opened an office at No. 3110 Woodburn avenue, Walnut Hills, where he has continued ever since, building up a large and lucrative practice in that desirable section of the city. Soon after graduation, he was made professor of anatomy in his alma mater and later filled the chair of physical diagnosis in the same institution. He is a valued member of the Cincinnati Homeopathic Lyceum and the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, and with care and moderation adopts all modern methods which his study and examination have proved to be of real benefit in combating disease.
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hees, who is a daughter of John T. and Helen Voorhees, prominent residents of Cincinnati, and one child has been born to them. Dr. and Mrs. McCormick are members of the Congregational Church. In politics, the Doctor affiliates with the Republican party. He is held in the highest esteem both by the pro- fession and by the public and ranks with the leading practitioners of Cin- cinnati.
GEN. A. T. GOSHORN.
"Quietly and peacefully as a child sinking into slumber" was the com- forting message brought to friends who awaited the inevitable news of the death of Gen. A. T. Goshorn, who passed out of life into the great beyond, on February 19, 1902, at his palatial home in Clifton. In his death the State of Ohio lost a prominent citizen and the city of Cincinnati, one who had contributed to its up-building and advancement in every phase.
Born in Cincinnati, General Goshorn was identified with its interests all his life, and one prominent feature of his career was his civic pride. He belonged to that group of men of the "sixties" and "seventies," whose mag- nificent gifts to their native city and their services in its behalf, caused it to gain the proud title of "Queen City of the West." So active was he in all that fostered progress and advancement that it is difficult, in the small space of a biographical record, to do justice to the great executive ability and mental qualities of this distinguished man.
. In 1861 a military company was formed among the members of the famous Literary Club of Cincinnati, and named the "Burnet Rifles," which General Goshorn was one of the first to join as a private. Later a second com- pany was formed of which he was elected captain, and still later he was at- tached to the notable 137th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., with the title of major. He was one of the early members of the above-named Literary Club, where he was associated with such men as Oliver P. Morton, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Pope, Salmon P. Chase, Thomas Corwin, Stanley Matthews, Manning F. Force, Edward F. Noyes, Alphonso Taft, Charles Ewing, T. C. H. Smith, R. M. Corwine, Joseph Longworth, George Hoadley and Thomas Buchanan Read.
At different times in his career and often simultaneously, he was trustee of Marietta College, from which institution in 1877 he received the degree of
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LL. D .; trustee of the Woodward Endowment Fund; president of the Union Board of Cincinnati High Schools; president and member of the City Council; trustee of the Springer Music Hall; vice-president of the College of Music of Cincinnati; director of the Cincinnati Museum Association. He also held many other offices. He served at one time as mayor of Clifton, in fact was one of the first mayors of that suburb and gave liberally of his time and money to make it the ideal residence spot it now is. His own magnificent home was located there, a home filled with art treasures and the collections of a life- time from the best in painting, sculpture and literature. Much of his last few years were spent in his library which was a gift to him from the citizens of Philadelphia as a memorial of the services he performed as Director-General of the Centennial Exposition in 1876. The art gallery of the Goshen resi- dence is probably the finest private collection of paintings in Cincinnati and one of the best of its kind in the United States. The pictures were selected by General Goshorn with discriminating care on his many trips to Europe. He possessed also some of the finest decorations from foreign powers ever presented to an American citizen, and among these may be mentioned the Cross of an Officer of the Order of Leopold, Belgium; Grand Cross of the Royal American Order of Isabella the Catholic, Spain; and a gold medal struck to commemorate the participation of the French nation in the Cen- tennial Exposition. He also possessed the decorations of a Knight of the Netherlands' Lion, Netherlands; Knights Commander of the Order of the Pole Star, Sweden and Norway; Knight of the Imperial and Royal Order of St. Stanislas, Russia; Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy; Grand Officer of the Order of Nishan-i-Medjidie, Turkey; Grand Officer of the Order of Nishan-el-Ifibar, Tunis; and Kiyokee Jitsu Cho- Kuo-Sho (Order of the Rising Sun of Meji), Japan. These royal honors were never the subject of boast, for with all his manifold testimonials of esteem General Goshorn was a man of singular unostentation.
In the early "seventies" one of the first expositions was given in Cin- cinnati and it was under the direction of the late General Goshorn who be- lieved so thoroughly in the good these expositions do, that he finally con- vinced every part of the country, the result being the wonderful displays of recent years and the great projects for the future.
As director of the Cincinnati Art Museum, his work is well known to the public, he having most capably served as a member of the board ever
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since the organization of the institution. He was a man of such wide sym- pathy and high ideals that his place will long remain unfilled. Perhaps he is as sadly missed at the Queen City Club as at any other place outside his family circle, because of long and close connection with it.
Thus has passed away one of the leading men of the Queen City; but not to oblivion. His memory will long be tenderly cherished by those who - appreciated his efforts to advance the highest ideals, and by the sorrowing members of an attached family. Around his death-bed gathered his brother, E. C. Goshorn, manager of the National Lead Company, of Cincinnati, and his wife; a sister, Eugenia Goshorn; nieces, Della Goshorn, Mrs. Dr. H. T. Smith, Mrs. R. R. Skees, Mrs. C. W. Shipley and Mrs. Edward Snyder, of New York; and a nephew, Taylor Goshorn, and his wife.
FREDERICK H. ALMS.
When on July 25, 1898, Frederick H. Alms passed into eternity, the citizens of Cincinnati felt they had sustained a severe loss in more than one way. They mourned the departure of a man who exemplified in his earthly career the mental powers of a successful busines man, the high moral qualities of a spotless private life, and an exalted sense of public duty. The elements which make up the good man and the good citizen, shone out so brightly that his departure was lamented both as a private and a public bereavement. Our sketch can give only a fragmentary account of a life so rich in noble deeds and instructive lessons.
Mr. Alms was born in Cincinnati, February 26, 1839. He was the son of Gerhard H. and Louise (Behrens) Alms who had emigrated from Diepholz, Hanover, to this country in 1827 and settled in Cincinnati. Mr. Alms' father had brought with him from his old home a thorough knowl- edge of the cabinet-maker's craft, which secured him employment with the best furniture houses like Mitchell & Rammelsburg, Daniel Meader and Henshaw. He finally established himself independently in the furniture business at the corner of Race and Liberty streets, which he conducted with signal success, having gained a reputation for first class workmanship and fair dealing. To this worthy couple were born several children, of whom
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but two reached mature years, namely: Frederick H. our subject, and William H. of The Alms & Doepke Company. The mother was called to her final reward in 1849 while in the prime of life. Gerhard Alms died in 1866, aged about 58 years.
Frederick H. Alms received his education in the public schools of Cin- cinnati and Woodward High School. After leaving school, he took em- ployment in the retail dry goods store of his uncle, August Alms, with whom he remained seven years. From there he entered the dry goods firm of B. Simon & Company, where he acted as salesman.
His marked ability and his many amiable traits of character promised to be rewarded with high success, when a bugle blast sounded through the land. 'It was in the year 1861. Abraham Lincoln had issued a call for 100,- 000 men to serve three months to preserve the Union from disintegration. It was the first opportunity that Frederick H. Alms had to display his sense of public duty and he nobly responded to the call. Without a moment's hesitation, he sacrificed all his ambitions and all his aspirations on the altar of his country. He enlisted in Company D, 6th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf. Upon the expiration of that term, he was free to return to private life. But with that patriotic sentiment which ever distinguished him he realized that his country, in her hour of danger, had the first claim on him to which he must subordinate all other considerations. He reenlisted in the same company and regiment and served three years under Col. Nicholas L. Anderson. About 18 months after reenlisting, he was transferred to the Signal Corps. of the Army of the Cumberland, with which he was connected until the close of the war in 1865. His ambition to do his full duty won for him the es- teem of his superior officers and he was several times promoted.
With an honorable discharge from the army, he retired to private life and engaged as clerk for L. C. Hopkins & Company in his native city of Cincinnati. A man of his decided mind and character was bound to es- tablish his independence, and in company with his brother, William H. Alms, and William F. Doepke he formed the partnership of Alms & Doepke, each partner owning a third interest. From the beginning, the growth of Alms & Doepke has been phenomenal. Nothing so wonderful has ever taken place in the commercial life of Cincinnati. They constantly forged their way to the front and grew so rapidly that they were compelled, on account of the demands of the ever increasing business, to enlarge the floor
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space of the store every six months during the first few years of their ex- istence. To-day it is the leading wholesale and retail dry goods establish- ment in the State of Ohio. Every year of business with The Alms & Doepke Company showed wonderfully large net profits. Every business man of Cincinnati recognized the progressive spirit of the firm and Frederick H. Alms occupied in consequence a high place in the realm of commerce.
Mr. Alms was married November 9, 1870, to Eleanora C. Unzicker, only daughter of Dr. J. S. Unzicker, who was one of Cincinnati's most prominent physicians and surgeons. In 1894-95 Mr. and Mrs. Alms and Mrs. Alms' brother took an extended trip around the world, starting in October, 1894, and returning in October, 1895. Upon his return to Cin- cinnati, his friends tendered him a reception and banquet at the Queen City Club. Amongst the hosts were Gen. A. T. Goshorn, Larz Anderson, Mel- ville E. Ingalls, Alexander McDonald, J. G. Schmidlapp, Morris M. White, A. B. Voorheis, Herman Goepper, Julius Dexter, William F. Doepke, Will- iam H. Alms and many other leaders in the commercial world of the Queen City.
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