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On again coming to this city, Mr. Braun took up the study of civil engineering, which he has since followed and has gained a fair share of public patronage in this field of labor. He is prompt and faithful in the di-charge of the work entrusted to him and his knowledge of the scientific principles underlying the profession makes him one of its expert repre- sentatives. He is prominent in Masonry, in which he has attained the thirty- second degree of the Scottish Rite and also holds membership in the Mystic Shrine.
EDGAR M. HATTON, M. D.
In no profession does advancement depend more entirely upon indi- vidual merit than in the practice of medicine and surgery. In this pro- fession there is demanded careful preparation and continual advancement in accordance with the progress that is being constantly made by the medical fraternity at large. Meeting all the requirements of a well equipped physi- cian and performing his duties conscientiously and well, Dr. Hatton now enjoys a large and growing practice. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, June 7,1851.
His father, Daniel Hatton, was a native of Baltimore county, Maryland, where the family was founded shortly before the Revolutionary war. Three brothers, John, China and Aquilla Hatton, came to the new world from Eng- land and settled in Baltimore prior to the time when the colonists threw off the yoke of British oppression. They were descendants from the Hattons who figure in the time of William the Conqueror, representatives of the name being connected with various brilliant achievements that are recorded in Eng- lish history. One of them, Sir Christopher Hatton, was a member to Queen Elizabeth's ministry. Dr. Hatton is descended from that American branch of the family founded by John Hatton. His father came to Ohio in the late '30s and settled at Zanesville. He was well known as a prominent contractor and did work from Pittsburg to New Orleans. He afterward became an iron founder at Zanesville and conducted a prosperous business in that line. He also figured prominently in other fields of industry. He was a leading Mason. He was born in 1817 and passed away in 1889. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Eleanor Wright, was a native of Harford county, Maryland, and a daughter of Captain William Wright, who was a soldier of the war of 1812. Her mother was a Henderson. Mrs. Hatton still survives and has reached the age of eighty-seven years.
Dr. Hatton secured his early education in the public schools of Zanes- ville and afterward became a pharmacist, being graduated from the Phila- delphia College of Pharmacy in 1874 with the degree of Ph. G. He had previously served a term as assistant postmaster in Zanesville. For several years he conducted a successful business as a druggist and was made a mem- ber of the first pharmacy examining board of the state. Determined, however, to take up the study of medicine with the idea of making its practice his life work he entered the Starling Medical College. a student under Dr.
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Starling Loving, and was graduated in 1891. He afterward devoted a year and a half to post-graduate work in New York city. He began practice in Columbus in 1892 and in his professional career has met with that success which logically follows close application, thorough preparation and unfal- tering fidelity to the interests of his calling. For five years he was teacher in the Ohio Medical University, lecturing upon physiology and the diseases of children. He was also connected with the Children's Hospital and to some extent has specialized along the line of children's diseases. He was connected with the Protestant Hospital as a member of the medical staff, and is now a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the National Insurance Examiners Association.
In 1890 Dr. Hatton was married to Miss Jennie Cowell Hough, of Rah- way, New Jersey. Her grandfather, General Joseph Hough, was one of a committee that welcomed La Fayette on his visit to the United States. Her father was Dr. De Witt Clinton Hough, an eminent physician, who served his country throughout the Civil war as chief surgeon of the Seventh New Jersey Regiment. Mrs. Hatton is a lady of superior culture and natural refinement, who has traveled broadly and is prominent in literary work. Both the Doctor and his wife have extensive circles of friends and the hos- pitality of their attractive home is greatly enjoyed by those who have an appreciation for the higher interests of life.
IRVIN E. STEVENSON.
Irvin E. Stevenson, who is successfully engaged in the operation of his farm of one hundred and eighty-seven acres in Madison township, was born on the 17th of March, 1839. The grandfather, William Stevenson, whose birth occurred October 6. 1763, was married on the 15th of February. 1784, to Miss Mary Boone, who was born March 23, 1763, and who was a sister of Daniel Boone, the famous hunter and trapper. In 1810 William Stevenson received the title and settled on a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, of which one hundred and eighty seven acres in Madison township has since been in possession of the family, having been successively the property of the grand- father, father and son -- Irving E., of this review. Joshua Stevenson, the father of our subject, who was one of a family of seven children, was born on the 2d of April, 1803. In 1826 he wedded Miss Mary Glanvell, whose birth occurred December 10. 1811.
Irvin E. Stevenson, who was the youngest of five children born to his parents, lost his father when but nine years of age and thus he was early com pelled to provide for his own living. He inherited one hundred acres of his father's estate and has since purchased the remaining eight-seven acres, so that he now owns the entire place. In its cultivation and improvement he has won a gratifying and creditable degree of success and has long been numbered among the diligent, enterprising and progressive farmers of his native county.
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On the 14th of November, 1872, Mr. Stevenson was united in marriage to Miss Hulda R. Whitehead, who was born in 1839. In his political views Mr. Stevenson is independent, while in religious faith he is a Methodist. He is well and favorably known throughout the community and is a worthy repre. sentative of a family that has been prominently connected with the agricultural interests of Franklin county for almost a century.
PROFESSOR EMILUS OVIATT RANDALL.
While Professor Emilus Oviatt Randall takes his place with the eminent men of Ohio because of the work he has accomplished in literary and pro- fessional lines, there is in him the quality of genial companionship and of genuine interest in his fellowmen that makes him a general favorite in social circles. in the societies with which he is connected, and among his associates in the field of business. A native of Ohio, he was born in Richfield, Summit county, in 1850. His parents were David Austin and Harriet Newton (Oviatt) Randall. Descended from New England ancestry long associated with the early history of the country, the records bring forth the fact that three of his great-grandfathers were soldiers of the Revolutionary war. This enabled him to become a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and among the many honors that have been conferred upon him was his election to the presidency of the Ohio State Society.
In the public schools of Columbus, to which city his parents removed in his boyhood days, Professor Randall pursued his early education and after- ward prepared for a collegiate course at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass- achusetts. in 1869-70. Hle then entered Cornell, from which he was grad- uated with the Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1874, and for two years pursued post-graduate work in history in Cornell and in Europe. Deter- mining upon the practice of law as a life work, he won his diploma in the law college of the Ohio State University and the degree of Bachelor of Law was then conferred upon him, while in 1892 he received the degree of Master of Law from the saune institution.
Professor Randall was admitted to the bar on examination before the Ohio supreme court, and since that time has made steady progress in those lines of life demanding close application and strong mentality. Since 1894 he has been professor and lecturer of the Ohio State University and since 1895 has been official reporter of the Ohio supreme court and has edited and published twenty-two volumes of supreme court decisions. His work as a lawyer. educator and author places him among the eminent men of the state, for his labors in these fields have covered a wide range, bringing him into close and active connection with progressive lines of thought and action.
Official and professional duties have claimed much of his time and yet he has found opportunity to cooperate in works for municipal advancement, and in 1887 officially served as president of the Columbus Board of Trade.
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The following year he was made a member of the board of education and so continued until 1891, while since 1885 he has been a trustee of the Colum- bus Public Library. He is interested in everything that pertains to intellect- ual development, and through his association with many societies for mental progress he has contributed in large measure to the accomplishment of their purposes. He belongs to the American Historical Association and is a trustee of the Ohio State Archaeological & Historical Society, while since 1893 he has been its secretary, is now editor of its quarterly and has com- piled fifteen volumes of the association's publications. As stated, he is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and in 1901 was elected to the presidency of the Ohio Society, while in June, 1904, he was a delegate at large from Ohio to the national congress of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1897 he was associate editor of "Bench and Bar of Ohio," and he is the author of "History of the Zoar Society" and many other works. He is a valued member of the Society of American Authors, of the American Library Association and of the Ohio State Library Association. In more specifically legal lines he holds membership with the American Bar Asso- ciation and the Ohio State Bar Association. Professor Randall's position in any vital question is never an equivocal one, and with recognition of the obligations as well as the privileges of citizenship, he has become a stalwart champion of republican principles, although not a politician in the sense of office seeking. and was a delegate from the twelfth Ohio district to the republican national convention in June, 1904.
Professor Randall was married in 1874 to Miss Mary A. Coy. A beau- tiful and pleasant home, a charming family and a host of friends are attrac- tive features in the life of Professor Randall, and one of his conspicuous traits is his gift of post-prandial oratory combined with humor that sparkles through the mask of seriousness as he presides as toast-master at social func- tions or as master of ceremonies and other public occasions. His life has been an intensely busy one, with a great thirst for knowledge and a seem- ingly unlimited capacity for hard work. He has carried his researches far and wide in the realms of learning while his activity has enabled him to accomplish substantial results, benefiting every connection in which he has been found and contributing to general progress as well.
WILLIAM R. POMERENE.
William R. Pomerene is one of the leading attorneys of Columbus and active, moreover, in business circles. He was born March 19, 1864. in Coshocton, Ohio, where he still maintains his residence, although closely associated with professional and commercial interests in the capital city. His father, Judge Julius C. Pomerene, was a distinguished lawyer. born in Holmes county, Ohio, June 27. 1835. The family is of French lineage and was founded in America by Julius Pomerene, a native of France, who came to America with General La Fayette and served during the Revolutionary
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war, aiding the colonies in their struggle for independence. He determined to remain as a resident of the newly established republic and died near Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania, in 1798. His son, Julius Pomerene, the grandfather of William R. Pomerene, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, Feb- ruary 9, 1792. In early life he removed to Holmes county, Ohio. following the occupation of farming as a life work, and died October 11, 1863. His son, Julius C. Pomerene, reared in Holmes county, removed to Coshocton county in 1859. Preparing for the bar he attained prominence in his pro- fesion. At the time of his death, which occurred December 23, 1897, he was serving as circuit judge of his district, having been elected to that office without opposition in 1892. He married Irene Perky, then of Hancock county, Ohio, a daughter of Dr. John F. and Judith Ann ( Firestone) Perky, the former one of the best known physicians of Wayne county, where he died in 1872.
William R. Pomerene attended the Coshocton schools, was graduated from the high school with the class of 1879, and afterward spent a year and a half as a student in the University of Wooster. He next entered the Ohio State University, where he remained for three years, pursuing a literary course. In preparation for the practice of law he entered the law school of the Cincinnati College and was graduated with the class of 1886. He then entered his father's office, becoming junior partner in the firm of J. C. & W. R. Pomerene, of Coshocton, Ohio, which connection was continued until 1892, when his father was elected to the circuit bench. William R. Pomerene was then alone in practice until 1895, when he was joined by his brother Frank E., forming the partnership of Pomerene & Pomerene, at Coshocton. There the firm have enjoyed a large practice. their clientage connecting them with much important litigation tried in the state and fed- eral courts. In 1892 William R. Pomerene was elected prosecuting attorney of Coshocton county and filled the position for six years or until 1898, having been reelected without opposition in 1895, at which time he was the only democrat elected on the county ticket. Such was his ability and popularity that the republican party placed no candidate in the field. In 1903 he opened an office in Columbus as general counsel for the Columbus, London & Springfield Electric Railway Company and its allied lines. This office has since been the legal department of several interurban electric railways in western Ohio. Mr. Pomerene is counsel for the Ohio Electric Railway Company and has an extensive law practice, being thoroughly familiar with corporation law, of which he has made a specialty. On January 1. 1909, he became a member of the law firm of Booth, Keating. Peters & Pomerene, in Columbus, Ohio.
On the 27th of December, 1887, Mr. Pomerene was married to Miss Annie L .. daughter of General A. J. and Susan E. (Butts) Warner. of Marietta. Ohio. Her father is a prominent political leader and statesman. who has served for several terms as a member of congress and is equally well known by reason of his important business connections. He is an extensive railway promoter and coal mine owner and operator. His daughter. Mrs. Pomerene, was educated at the Ohio State University. Mr. and Mrs. Pom-
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erene have two children, Warner M., born May 5, 1893; and Walter H., born January 21, 1895.
Mr. Pomerene is a member of the Odd Fellows society and the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks; while in more strictly social lines he is connected with the Columbus Club and the Dayton City Club. He is also a member of the State Bar Association and is recognized as one of the strong and able lawyers of Ohio who is prosperous and popular. He has a wide acquaintance throughout the state and is honored no less for his genuine personal worth than his professional skill and business ability. He is a man of strong intellect who readily recognizes the value of any situation in his relations to law, business or to the individual, and his broad, general culture and wide research have made him a man with whom association has come to mean expansion and elevation.
JOSEPH FRANZ BERTSCH.
Joseph Franz Bertsch, attorney and counselor at law, with offices at No. 1391% South High street, Columbus, Ohio, occupies a prominent position in the legal profession and deserves a full measure of credit for his advance- ment to his present prosperous professional worth owing to the fact that about fourteen years ago he came here ignorant of the English language, in which he has since become conversant and through his natural ability has imbibed the learning of several excellent institutions of learning of the country and gradually risen on the strength of his own merits to the enviable reputation he now enjoys as a member of the legal fraternity.
He was born in the town of Wallenstadt, county of Sargans, state of St. Gall. Switzerland, June 12, 1871, son of Alois Henry and Marie Magda- lena (Lendi) Bertsch, his father still living in that place in his sixty-seventh year, while his mother entered into rest April 24, 1904, when sixty-one years of age. In their family were four children, namely: Alois, Albert, Marie and Joseph Franz, only the first and last named having located in the new world.
Joseph Franz Bertsch acquired his premilinary education in the com- mon schools of his native land. completing a course of study in the high school of his birthplace. He subsequently became a student at two colleges in Switzerland, also attending the University of Fribourg as a student of law and philosophy. At the Royal University of Munich, Germany, he pursued the study of law and taught German, French, Latin and Greek at Landshut, a small town located about eighteen miles northeast of Munich, and from the last named place he returned to Switzerland, where he con- tinued his legal studies at the University of Zurich. In that city he was also employed as a teacher of Latin and Greek in Dr. Bertsch's International Institution of Learning .- Concordia,-and while a student in the University in Zurich he became an assistant to Dr. Albert Meili, in his law office, Dr. Meili being professor of international law at the university. While in his
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native land Mr. Bertsch served in the Swiss army as a non-commissioned officer.
On March 6, 1895, he left his home and came to the new world, locating in Columbus, being at that time entirely ignorant of the English language which, needless to say, was in many ways a drawback to his progress, but he soon overcame the difficulty and during the years of 1895 and 1896 attended the Ohio State University, entering the senior year of the law school of that institution September 24, 1895, and completing the three years' law course in one year, at the same time becoming intelligently con- versant with the English language. On June 11, 1896, he was admitted to the Ohio state bar and was graduated from the Ohio State University Law School on June 17 of the same year. On May 27, 1898, he became a mem- ber of the bar of the District of Columbia and on February 13, 1903, he was admitted to the practice of law in the United States circuit and United States district courts of southern Ohio. During the past twelve years he has attained an excellent reputation for his legal learning and ability and has acquired a liberal patronage.
On July 11, 1895, Mr. Bertsch wedded Miss Dora Etta Albert, who was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware, Ohio. She is a native of Brookville, Montgomery county, this state, and a daughter of Henry F. and Mary (Wright) Albert, both of whom reside in Delaware, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Bertsch has been born one daughter, Dora Marie, who is in her tenth year. Mr. Bertsch's career has been attended with remarkable success and, being still a young man, the keen legal ability which he has thus far manifested, reinforced by his wide learning and studious habits, undoubtedly reserves for him a still more enviable place in the legal fra- ternity of this city.
ERNEST SCOTT. M.D.
Dr. Ernest Scott is one of the younger representatives of the medical fra- ternity in Columbus, but has already gained recognition as a practitioner and educator. He was born in Athens, Ohio, July 30. 1875, a son of William Henry and Sarah (Felton) Scott, also natives of this state. The father was born in Chauncey and gained distinction in educational circles, becoming a professor of the Ohio State University and president of that institution.
Reared in an atmosphere of intellectual culture, Dr. Scott pursued his early education in the public schools and afterward attended the Ohio State University until he completed the course by graduation in the class of 1897. He is numbered among the alumni of 1900 of the Ohio Medical University, which he attended in preparation for the practice of medicine and surgery, and following his graduation therefrom he served for a year and a half on the staff of the State Hospital. He afterward traveled and studied in Europe for a year. becoming familar with the methods of medical and surgical prac- tice in European centers, after which he returned to Columbus and opened an
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office. In 1902 he became instructor in histology in the Ohio Medical Uni- versity and in 1903 became connected wth the health department of the city as bacteriologist. He is now professor in the Starling-Ohio Medical Univer- sity on the subject of pathology and pathologist to the Protestant Hospital and to St. Francis Hospital. He has made steady progress in his profession. his ability being recognized by the general public and the members of the medical fraternity. He keeps in touch with the most modern methods of practice and is in hearty sympathy with that movement which is common among the abler . representatives of the profession to prevent the spread of disease by the dis- semination of knowledge concerning the preservation of health. He belongs to the Columbus Academy of Medicine, to the Ohio State Medical Society and to the American Medical Association.
SAMUEL PRESCOTT BUSH.
Samuel Prescott Bush, president and general manager of the Buckeye Steel Castings Company, was born at Brick Church, New Jersey, October 4, 1863, his parents being Rev. James S. and Harriet E. (Fay) Bush. The father was a minister of the Episcopal church and died at Ithaca, New York. The mother is now a resident of Boston.
Samuel Prescott Bush attended the public schools until fourteen years of age and in 1878 entered the Stevens high school, from which he was gradu- ated in 1880. Subsequently he became a student in Stevens Institute, and after his graduation in 1884 secured employment with the Pittsburg, Cincin- nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad as an apprentice in the Logansport shops, while afterward he entered the Columbus shops, his apprenticeship continu- ing for four years. In 1888 he was made assisstant engineer of motive power, retaining that position until 1890, when he was appointed master mechanic of the shops at Dennison, Ohio. In 1891 he was made master mechanic of the shops in Columbus, Ohio, and in 1894 was appointed superintendent of motive power of the southwest system of the Pennsylvania lines in Columbus, Ohio, continuing in that position until the end of the year 1899. At that time he accepted the position of superintendent of motive power of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. with headquarters at Milwaukee, there remaining until June. 1901.
Mr. Bush then resigned to accept the office of vice president and general manager of the Buckeye Malleable Iron & Coupler Company, the name being subsequently changed to the Buckeye Steel Castings Company. In February, 1908, he was made president and general manager of the institution, in which official capacity he has since promoted its success. The concern manufactures the Buckeye and Major car couplers, as well as all kinds of steel castings, and has a capacity of two hundred tons per day. It is one of the largest enter- prises in the city of Columbus and has offices at New York, Chicago and At- lanta. The officers of the company are as follows: S. P. Bush, president and general manager; R. S. Warner, vice president : F. Rockefeller, second vice
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