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CHAPMAN C. ARCHER.
CHAPMAN C. ARCHER, a well known member of the legal profession of Cincinnati, was born in Amelia, Clermont County, Ohio, in 1843. He is a son of Benjamin and Keziah (Sargeant) Archer, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively, and of English origin. He is descended from Gabriel Archer, who removed from England to Virginia in 1604, locating at a place which became known as "Archer's Hope." The father of our subject was a farmer by occupation, giving a great deal of attention to the culture of fruits and grapes, being among the first to introduce the grape . into Clermont County, and for a time he owned the best equipped wine cellar in his section of the country. He died in 1874, at the age of 58 years, surviving his wife some 14 years. Of the five children born to them, two are now living, namely: Chapman C., and James S. Archer, who is engaged in the wholesale flour business in Cincinnati.
Chapman C. Archer attended the common schools of his native county, and then became a student in the old Farmers' College, later known as Bel- mont College, on College Hill, where President Harrison, Murat Halstead and Bishop Walden were educated before him. In 1865 he entered the law school of Cincinnati College, from which he was graduated in 1867, and
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the same year was admitted to the bar. He immediately thereafter identified himself in practice with the firm of Cox (H. R.) & Archer, continuing, with Mr. Cox for two years. He then practiced alone until 1870, when a part- nership was formed with Aaron McNeill, under the firm name of Archer & McNeill, which continued until 1894 when it was only dissolved because of the election of Mr. McNeill as judge of the Insolvency Court. It was a very strong firm and enjoyed a large clientage. Upon Mr. McNeill re- tiring Mr. Archer formed a partnership with G. F. Osler, which association still continues under the firm name of Archer & Osler, and enjoys a large general practice.
On November 22, 1872, Mr. Archer was united in marriage with Alice M. Witham, a daughter of Nathaniel G. and Rachel (Maguire) Witham, of Withamsville, Ohio. They have one daughter, Kitty R., who was grad- uated from the Bartholomew English and Classical School for Girls in Cin- cinnati in 1893. Our subject is a Democrat in politics, and represented the county in the 6Ist General Assembly of Ohio in 1873 and 1874, being at that time the youngest member of that body. He was also a member of the Board of Education for more than seven years. In 1893 he was nominee of the Democratic party for the office of Probate judge, but was unsuccessful. He is a Knight Templar ; an Odd Fellow; a Knight of Pythias; and a Red Man.
CHARLES J. HUNT.
CHARLES J. HUNT, corporation counsel of the city of Cincinnati, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, November 18, 1858, and has resided here nearly all his life. He is a son of Dr. James G. Hunt.
Mr. Hunt attended the public schools and Woodward High School, after which he began his preparation for the legal profession. He attended the Cincinnati Law School, and read law in the office of Matthews, Ram- sey & Matthews. After his graduation, in 1879, he spent three years in Central America as the attorney for a mining company. In 1883 he re- turned to Cincinnati and engaged in practice alone until 1887, at which time he became associated in practice with W. L. Granger. This partnership continued until 1894 when Miller Outcalt entered the firm and the firm name was changed to Outcalt, Granger & Hunt. In 1897, Mr. Hunt withdrew
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from the firm and successfully engaged in practice alone. He established a large clientage and in numerous important cases evidenced his ability as a lawyer. In 1900, Mr. Hunt was elected corporation counsel of Cincin- nati, in which capacity he has served in a most satisfactory manner. He has at all times taken the greatest interest in everything pertaining to the good of his home, the Queen City. He has attained honor in political life and high regard and popularity in the social world.
Mr. Hunt is a Mason and a member of the Blaine Club, the Stamina Republican League, the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati and that of Walnut Hills. His office is in the City Hall and his residence at No. 2400 Grandview avenue, Walnut Hills.
JOHN D. CALDWELL.
The names of very few citizens of Cincinnati awaken so many memories of disinterested public services as does that of the late John D. Caldwell, one of the most universally esteemed retired residents of the Queen City, whose death occurred April 4, 1902. His life covered a long space of event- ful history, reaching back to December 28, 1816. He was a son of James and Harriet Wesley (Day) Caldwell, and on both paternal and maternal sides came of noted ancestry. His grandfather, Joshua Day of Gunpowder Neck, Maryland, could trace an unbroken line of ancestry back to the 15th century.
The early education of Mr. Caldwell was obtained in his native city, Zanesville, Ohio, supplemented by three years at Kenyon College, after which he entered upon a business and public career, which resulted in the merited accumulation of a large fortune and the winning of the esteem and love of his fellow citizens. In 1835 he removed to Cincinnati and from that time until his decease was closely identified with the business, political, social and philanthropic life of this city. For some years he was connected with both steamboat and railway transportation lines, and at one time was manager and proprietor of the old Atlas and Chronicle, which he later dis -. posed of to the Cincinnati Gazette, becoming local editor of the same and stockholder of the company. While so associated, he became clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives. It was at a later period, when he was serv- 48
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ing as clerk of the city's Board of Education, that the present magnificent Public Library was first organized and he was elected first librarian. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Caldwell was made chairman of the first Committee of Safety in Cincinnati and he was the one who first took steps in the organization of a Home Guard, acting for some months as aid-de- camp on the staff of General Burbank. It was due to his disinterested efforts that the Soldiers' Family Fund and the Refugees' Relief Association were organized, and as secretary of the great Sanitary Fair of this city that the notable contribution of $225,000 was applied to the care of the sick and suffering of the Civil War. When the suggestion of Gen. U. S. Grant was adopted, that a testimonial be given to that other distinguished son of Ohio, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, it was Mr. Caldwell who managed the affair to its grand completion. All through the years of national strife, his was the cool head and generous heart, combined with willing hand, that provided for the comfort of the soldiers in the field. In 1877 when the city organized more of its departments, Mr. Caldwell was selected as one of the five commissioners, and his energy and public spirit made his services so valuable that he was retained for a second period of five years.
Mr. Caldwell was always a man of simple tastes, but of social dis- position, the latter making him many friends in all walks of life. He was probably one of the best known Masons in the United States. He was made a Master Mason at Zanesville, Ohio, in 1844, and subsequently ad- vanced to high degrees and held some of the highest positions in the order. For years he was identified with the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio as one of its creators, formerly serving as its secretary, which position he also filled at one time in the Pioneer Association of Cincinnati.
In 1845 Mr. Caldwell was married to Margaret Templeton, the es- timable daughter of Capt. William Templeton of Cincinnati.
JOSEPH MAY.
JOSEPH MAY, whose death in January, 1903, at the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, removed from this city an esteemed citizen and also cut short a business career of activity, usefulness and success, was born in 1840, in Meineck, Germany, and had made his home in Cincinnati since
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1853. During a long period he was extensively engaged in the wholesale clothing business and was as well known for his integrity of character as he was for his success in business. Mr. May was a merchant who did much for the commercial importance of this city and stood high in the esteem of his business associates.
On June 8, 1868, Mr. May was married to Settie Stadler, and she, with three sons,-Jesse J., of Idaho Springs, Colorado, president of The Alma Gold Mining Company ; and Albert and Edwin of this city,-survive and mourn the death of a kind husband and indulgent father. Albert May represents Joseph A. Magnus & Company, and Edwin May was recently graduated from the mechanical department of Purdue University. Mr. May was an active member of the Bene Yeshurun Congregation, and the board of trustees passed the following resolutions of regret upon his death :
"Death has invaded the ranks of the Board of Trustees of K. K. Bene Yeshurun, and one of our most zealous members has been removed from our midst. Ever active in its councils, an ardent and earnest worker in every movement calculated to promote the welfare of the congregation and of Judaism, we feel that we have sustained a keen loss in the demise of our old friend and colleague, Joseph May. He had been identified with our con- gregation for a long period of years, serving both on the Board of Trustees of our congregation and of our Sabbath school, 'The Talmud Yelodin In- stitute.' We bear testimony to his long and faithful service, and now that he has been called to his eternal rest, by the will of God, we can truthfully say, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant.'
"Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon our minutes, pub- lished in the American Israelite, and a copy thereof be transmitted to the family of the deceased, with our sincere condolence in their sad bereave- ment.
"Jacob Ottenheimer, "B. Bettmann, "Nathan Drucker, "Committee."
Mr. May was a man representative of the higher type of intelligence and his honorable and upright course throughout life made him respected and esteemed on all sides. He was very charitable and readily assisted in movements looking toward the amelioration of suffering from misfor-
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tune or disaster, so many of which cases have been brought forward during the past decade. In Jewish circles his benevolence was well known. He was a trustee of the Cleveland Orphan Asylum and of the Denver Hospital for Consumptives. He was a past president and a member of the general committee of District Grand Lodge, No. 2, Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, and of the Independent Order Free Sons of Israel.
GEORGE MERRELL.
GEORGE MERRELL, president and treasurer of The William S. Merrell Chemical Company, ranks with Cincinnati's leading and representative bus- iness men. Mr. Merrell was born February 19, 1845, in Cincinnati, and is a son of William S. Merrell, who was a descendant of one of the old colonial families of the name in Connecticut.
The late William S. Merrell was long identified with Cincinnati, com- ing to this city as an educator in 1814. A man of superior education, a student of science, he gave much attention to chemistry, the result of his studies being the founding of the great company which leads all others of its kind in the United States in scope and importance.
Our subject attended the public schools of Cincinnati and was prepared for college at Hughes High School, when the death of an elder brother threw responsibilities upon his shoulders, which he assumed in 1863, entering his father's business although it necessitated the abandoning of his collegiate aspirations. He has been a very successful business man, not only carry- ing out his father's ideas, but expanding, combining and producing until the name of The William S. Merrell Chemical Company is a familiar one all over the Union. Of this company our subject is president; Charles G. Mer- rell, a son, is vice-president ; and Richard W. Proctor is secretary and super- intendent. There are 325 employees, some 40 serving in the counting room.
Mr. Merrell was married to Cornelia Spear, a daughter of S. B. Spear, of Cincinnati, and these children were born to them: Charles G., a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, having the degree of Bachelor of Science, who is vice-president of The William S. Merrell Chemical Com- pany; Alice W .; Stanley W., a graduate of Harvard University and Har-
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vard Law School, who is one of the leading young attorneys of this city; and Thurston, who is at this date a junior at Harvard University. For many years the attractive family home has been located at No. 540 Prospect place, Avondale, and its members have been associated with the social affairs of this aristocratic suburb.
Fraternally, Mr. Merrell is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, a'nd belongs to the Nova Caesarea Harmony Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M., the oldest lodge of the fraternity in Ohio. He belongs also to many of the leading social organizations, Sons of the Revolution and Society of Colonial Wars, being eligible through both paternal and maternal ancestors, and is promi- nent in the Queen City and Country clubs. He is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association of the United States and of the Society of the Chemical Industry (London, England), which is the most noted chemical organization in the world. He has served both as president and on the directing board of the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy.
Mr. Merrell has shown admirable adaptability to the demands of bus- iness life, these preventing an active participation in political affairs. He is a man of upright character, of frank and genial manner and is valued by a large circle of both professional and personal friends.
EDWIN FREEMAN, M. D.
The death of Dr. Edwin Freeman, on January 4, 1904, at the resi- dence of his son, Dr. Edwin Ricker Freeman, in Cincinnati, brought prom- inently to the minds of the older residents of the city, that one of its emi- nent men had passed away. Dr. Edwin Freeman was born in Milton, Queens County, Nova Scotia, January 1, 1834, being the eighth member of a fam- ily of 13 children.
Although the late Dr. Freeman rounded out a life of 70 years, filled with more stirring events than come to many, and of so useful a character that space will permit mention of only its leading points, he was a youth of delicate constitution and slight frame. After completing the com- mon and high school curriculums, he took the classical course at Gor- ham College and then entered upon the study of medicine. Circumstances led to his becoming interested in Thompsonianism and botanic medicine
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and he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, where his already distinguished elder brother, Dr. Zoheth Freeman, was a professor. In 1854, at the age of 20 years, he matriculated and was graduated in 1856, after four sessions. In this period began his lifelong friendship with Dr. John M. Scudder, his fellow graduate. In the meantime he took courses in the Medical College of Ohio.
Dr. Freeman settled in Cincinnati and applied himself closely to the practice of the modern school of medicine, and in 1857 he was elected dem- onstrator of anatomy in the Eclectic Medical Institute, and in 1859 was professor of anatomy, a position he held at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War. When Gen. Kirby Smith threatened Cincinnati, Dr. Free- man volunteered to accompany the Second Regiment of Home Guards on their hazardous trip into Kentucky, and gladly gave his services as assistant surgeon until the city was out of danger.
The liberal spirit, which is now more and more uniting eminent medical men of all schools, was at that time entirely absent, and the two ambitious young physicians, Dr. Freeman and Dr. Scudder, who presented themselves at Columbus, Ohio, to pass an examination as assistant surgeons, pur- suant to the call for such for the army, found themselves refused because of their school of medicine. However, while this spirit of bigotry pervaded high places, Dr. Freeman was of too determined a spirit to be silent under un- just conditions. Armed with recommendations from Judge Storer of the Supreme Court and others in authority, he applied to Hon. Salmon P. Chase, then Secretary of the Treasury, for permission to pass the examina- tion by the medical board then sitting at Washington, for the position of assistant army surgeon, and received a recommendation for appointment after sustaining a verbal and written examination of six days' duration.
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On November 7, 1862, President Lincoln appointed Dr. Freeman as- sistant surgeon of United States Volunteers and the appointment was con- firmned by the Senate. After resigning his college position and transferring his private practice, Dr. Freeman reported for duty and was assigned to the light artillery, Second Division of the Ninth Army Corps of the Army of the Potomac, his work beginning with the battle of Fredericksburg and contin- ning with the subsequent campaigns of that corps in Virginia and Central Kentucky. His work continued at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he had charge of the surgery cases of Roemer's Battery L, of the Second New
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York Artillery, and of the other batteries of that division; was with the Ninth Army Corps in the second move on Fredericksburg; the march to Belle Plains; the transportation by canal boats to Fortress Monroe and Hampton Roads, Virginia, and the march to Newport News; and was with the First and Second divisions when sent by way of Baltimore to Central Kentucky, to increase General Burnside's force. It was while at Crab Orchard, Kentucky, May 29, 1863, that he received an order from the surgeon-general, to report at Cincinnati as a member of the board of exam- iners for assistant army surgeons. Always a strict disciplinarian, Dr. Free- man was on hand on June Ist, as ordered, and again on June 2nd, when he was informed that the meeting must be postponed as the candidates had not yet arrived. This he found but a subterfuge, the old illiberal and unjust spirit having exercised enough influence to have him permanently excused from serving on the board. As his appointment had come to him entirely un- solicited, he knew just where to place the responsibility for the indignity offered him.
His work was now transferred to Vicksburg and it was while hasten- ing to his post of duty, that he was taken violently ill on board the transport and he was scarcely able to reach Haynes Bluff. There he was seized with the prevailing and at that time fatal fever which was of a typhoid character. Removal to Covington, after six weeks of suffering and prostration, was but an easing of the disease, which finally required a furlough in order that he could recruit. Later he rejoined his command at Knoxville and participated both in the siege of Knoxville and the battle of Fort Sanders. The mettle of the man and the devotion of the surgeon were shown at this battle, where, in spite of a shower of bullets, he calmly and skillfully attended to the wounded inside the fort and later extended his merciful help to the Confederates who were suffering on the outside.
On February 29, 1864, Dr. Freeman was assigned to duty with Dr. Stanton, superintendent of hospitals, at Columbus, and in the absence of Dr. Stanton served in the latter's place. Other honors were in store. On April 16, 1864, he was appointed president of a board of examiners for transferring the Veteran Reserve Corps, but continued ill health induced his resignation from the service, March 23, 1864. Upon April 19, 1864, he received a commission as surgeon of United States Volunteers, bearing date of April 5, 1864, signed by President Lincoln.
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Dr. Freeman was united in marriage in June, 1864, to Rosella A. Ricker, daughter of Maj. Elbridge G. Ricker, of Locust Corner, Clermont County, Ohio, and three children were born to them: Edwin Ricker; Zoheth F. and Rosella . M. .
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Having been honored with the appointment of professor of anatomy in the Eclectic Medical College of New York, in February, 1866, Dr. Free- man removed to that city and there took the part of leading operative sur- geon, and in 1870 was appointed professor of surgery in the New York . College. In the following year, on account of his health, he returned to Cincinnati and again became professor of anatomy in the Eclectic Medical Institute. He had few equals as an anatomist and taught. both anatomy and surgery for more than a quarter century, the former for 21 years and the latter for seven years, in Cincinnati, and anatomy for four years, during his residence in New York, a distinct portion of his work being his lectures on topographical anatomy before the Cincinnati Art Academy. After a sojourn of some five years in California, he returned to Cincinnati, im- proved in health and accepted the chair of surgery in the Eclectic Medical Institute, in which he served until 1899, when, owing to the weight of years, he was made emeritus professor of surgery, closing thus his active career, one of remarkable accomplishment. Belonging to the various medical organ- izations of the Eclectic school, he was a constant contributor to their litera- ture, many of his valuable papers having become standards. A portion of Farnum's famous work on "Deformities" was written by Dr. Freeman, who was also at one time one of Dr. Newton's assistants on the Medical Eclectic.
CHARLES AARON PAULY, M. D.
CHARLES AARON PAULY, M. D., one of the representative professional men of Cincinnati, was born in Mason, Warren County, Ohio, June 11, 1858, and is a son of Milton R. and Mary ( Benedict) Pauly, the former of whom was born in 1831 in Lebanon, Ohio, and the latter in 1837 near Morrow, in the same State.
The father of Dr. Pauly was for many years a well known business man in Ohio, building up first a large jewelry trade and later engaging ex-
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tensively in the mercantile business. He is a man much respected in his home and possesses a large estate.
Dr. Pauly passed from the local schools to a university career at Lebanon, Ohio, then engaged in the study of medicine under Dr. A. C. Ricker, and entered Pulte Medical College of Cincinnati and was there graduated March 4, 1881. He immediately opened his office at No. 142 West Eighth street and built up a large practice in that section of the city. Other demands caused the removal of his office to more central quarters, in the Union Trust Building, where he is most favorably located for consulta- tion.
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Dr. Pauly is a valued member of the American Institute, the Ohio State Medical Society and the Cincinnati Lyceum, and fills the office of professor of genito-urinary and rectal surgery in the Pulte Medical College, and is also physician and surgeon to the Home for the Friendless and Foundlings. His practice has always met with success and he is justly classed with that band of notably eminent men, the medical fraternity of Cin- cinnati.
Dr. Pauly was married in 1885 to Lida Bruen, who is a daughter of Robert G. and Eliza (Bruen) Corwin. Dr. Pauly and family have a beauti- ful home located at No. 662 Forest avenue, Avondale.
THOMAS GILMAN ODIORNE.
THOMAS GILMAN ODIORNE, one of the prominent pioneer business men of Cincinnati, whose portrait accompanies this sketch, passed away on No- vember 16, 1891, after a long and useful life of nearly 88 years. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 3, 1804. The family is an old one and has been traced back to the time of William the Conqueror. The name, originally written "Hodierne," is supposed to have come from the Latin hodiernus, from hodie-"of this day." The earliest known family seat was in the northwest part of France, where lies the bay and town of Hodierne or Audierne. In England, branches of this family settled in Surrey, Sussex and Kent, and the family manor is in Owlie, parish of Wittersham, where the coat-of-arms is painted upon the chancel windows of the church. The family was early established in America, John Odiorne migrating to New
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England in 1650. As a class, the members of the family have been domestic in habits, exemplary in conduct and religious in tendency. They have been marked for energy, self reliance, decision in character and fearlessness in the expression of thoughts and feelings.
Mr. Odiorne, the subject of this sketch, was educated at Bradford Academy, Haverhill, Massachusetts, the early home of his mother, and where his grandfather, Israel Bartlett, resided. After several years of mercantile experience in Boston, he settled in Saco, Maine, in 1825. There he was married to his first wife, Sarah Hartley, daughter of Capt. Samuel Hartley. His wife dying in November, 1833, he moved to the West and located in Gambier, Ohio. There he became agent anl treasurer of Kenyon College, having charge of all the finances, and showing that remarkable efficiency in such matters which was always noticeable. In 1840 he resigned and located in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the retail grocery trade. In 1846 Mr. Odiorne came to Cincinnati and here became actively en- gaged in the commission and shipping business, first engaging with George H. Taylor.
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