History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 120

Author: Ford, Henry A., comp; Ford, Kate B., joint comp
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Cleveland, O., L.A. Williams & co.
Number of Pages: 666

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son. He took his diploma of Doctor of Medicine in the summer of 1862, went immediately before the State board at Columbus, for examination as a candidate for appointment in the army, passed it successfully, and was appointed assistant surgeon in the Thirty-fifth Ohio vol- unteer infantry. He was captured at Chickamauga, and for three years was detained as a prisoner at Atlanta and in the famous Libby prison, at Richmond. He was, how- ever, as a medical man, allowed some favors, and was presently released by special exchange, arranged by his friends at Washington. He rejoined his regiment at Chattanooga, during the cold winter of 1862-3 and the starvation period experienced by the army there. He resigned on the day of the battle at Kenesaw Mountain, during the Atlanta campaign, from ill health, and re- turned home. He had then reached the full grade of surgeon. Returning home, he was made a resident physician in the Cincinnati hospital, and also went into private practice. In this he had his father's invaluable advice and aid, and soon undertook the same specialities of practice-obstetrics and diseases of women and chil- dren. He became a member of the staff of the Good Samaritan hospital and lecturer on skin diseases, and was afterwards one of the physicians in charge of the dis- pensary. He has always maintained a large private practice, but has found time to write occasional papers for the professional societies and press, and is an active mem- ber of the Cincinnati academy of medicine, the Obstet- rical society and the State Medical society. He has been called to much service as a medical examiner for the large life-insurance companies, having been examiner, among others, for the Mutual Benefit of New Jersey for sixteen years. He is supreme medical examiner of the Knights of the Golden Rule for the United States, and grand medical examiner for the Ancient Order of United Workmen in Ohio. He does not take a very active part in politics, but retains his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic.

Dr. Wright was married, in March, 1870, to Miss Eva, daughter of David K. and Ann Eliza Cady, of Cin- cinnati, the former a member of the city school board for thirty years. They have three children living, and one, a little girl, in the grave. The surviving children are David Cady, a boy of nine years; Marmaduke B. (named from the paternal grandfather), in his fourth year; and Ann Eliza (from the maternal grandmother), aged two years. Mary L. died an infant in 1874.

DR. P. F. MALEY.

Patrick Francis Maley, M. D., a well-known medical practitioner in Cincinnati, and ex-coroner of the county of Hamilton, is a native of the Emerald Isle, being born in the county Mayo, Ireland, on the 15th of January, 1838. He attended the primary schools of his native land until the age of thirteen, soon after attaining which he was removed with his father's family to the promised land beyond the sea. Arriving in America in 1851, the newcomers pushed on to the beautiful valley of the Ohio,

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and settled in this county. Here the young Patrick was enabled to go on with his course of education, which soon became highly liberal in its character, and included a number of branches in the higher ranges of study. His first business life was as a clerk in the drug store of Mr. J. P. White, in this city, which proved a good beginning of preparation for the profession he was to pursue. He remained with Mr. White seven years, meanwhile taking a diploma from the Cincinnati college of pharmacy, and otherwise perfecting himself thoroughly in the details of the business. His medical reading now began with Dr. John A. Thacker, also of the city, and he presently be- came a student in the Cincinnati college of medicine and surgery, from which he was graduated in 1861. He was soon diverted from local practice, however, by a sum- mons to serve his country during the great civil struggle which broke out about this time. Being appointed assistant surgeon in the United States navy, he was as- signed to duty on the gunboat flotilla, upon the western waters. The next year, near the close of 1862, he was compelled to resign, by reason of swamp fever, contracted during his service at Helena, Arkansas. After his re- covery he recommenced practice at home, but was again drawn into the public service by a fresh appointment in the surgical department, for which he was duly examined and pronounced qualified. He was on duty at Jefferson barracks, St. Louis, until September 22, 1863, when, upon his leaving to join the army of General Rosecrans, just before the battle of Chattanooga, he was presented with a silver ice-pitcher and salver by the officers and patients of the hospital at the barracks, as a token of personal esteem and confidence. The ordinary channels of communication to Chattanooga being interrupted, he traveled on foot over the mountains, above seventy miles, in order to reach the next post of duty. During this perilous and toilsome trip all his effects and instruments were lost by the capture of the wagon train conveying them. Reaching Chattanuga at last, he was put at work at once in the Critchfield House, which had become a hospital. He then accompanied a train of sick and wounded soldiers to Nashville, where he finally resigned from the service. Embarking once more in private prac- tice in Cincinnati, he speedily built up a large and lucra- tive business, which has been steadily maintained and increased to this day. Dr. Maley has found time, how- ever, to do the public some service in official positions. He was an influential member of the board of education of the city for five years; was a councilman from the Fourth ward for two terms; and, upon the death of Dr. Dougherty, coroner of Hamilton county, in the autumn of 1872, he was appointed to fill the vacancy; was reg- ularly elected in 1873, and reelected for the full term the next year. The Biographical Encyclopædia well said of him during this service: "He has shown his complete qualifications for this public trust, and the honors of the reelections conferred upon him by the public indicate that the people of Cincinnati arc amply satisfied with the care and fidelity with which he discharges his duties." Although his convictions and political affiliations had previously been Democratic, Dr. Maley was a supporter

of General Garfield for the Presidency in 1880, and re- ceived from him a handsome acknowledgment of the Doctor's telegram of congratulation, which has been neatly framed and is among the ornaments of his office and home at the southeast corner of Eighth and John streets.

Dr. Maley was united in marriage April 23, 1861, to Miss Josephine E., daughter of Mr. A. C. Holcombe, a native of Virginia, and one of the Cincinnati pioneers. She departed this life on the third day of May, 1880, leaving two sons-both now grown to manhood-Edwin Francis, engaged in business as cashier for Rothschild & Sons, at No. 292 West Sixth street; and George Pollock, bill clerk in the office of the Cincinnati Southern railroad.

GENERAL HICKENLOOPER.

Andrew Hickenlooper was born in Hudson, Ohio, August 30, 1837. His youth was mostly spent at school till in 1854 he entered the office of A. W. Gilbert, city engineer of Cincinnati. With Mr. Gilbert he remained three years, being admitted into the partnership. In 1859 he became the city surveyor, in which position he confirmed the good opinions which has been formed con- cerning his efficiency and energy as an engineer. In 1861, under the auspices of General Fremont, Mr. Hickenlooper recruited "Hickenlooper's battery of Cin- cinnati," afterwards known as the Fifth Ohio independent battery, with which, soon after, he went to Jefferson City, Missouri, where he was appointed commandant of artil- lery at the post.

In March, 1862, Captain Hickenlooper returned to the command of his battery, and was transferred to Grant's army at Pittsburgh Landing. Three days after the bloody battle there, in which he participated, Gen- eral Mckean appointed him division commandant of artillery. In this capacity he served until after the bat- tles of Iuka and Corinth, when, upon the complimentary reports of his superiors, he was ordered by General Grant, October 26, 1862, to report for staff duty to Gen- eral McPherson. The connection thus began which was only terminated by the untimely death of his chief. Mc- Pherson made him chief of ordnance and artillery, and instructed him to complete the fortifications at Bolivar, and still later he was made, by General McPherson, chief engineer of the Seventeenth army corps.

Throughout the siege of Vicksburgh, Captain Hicken- looper had charge of the engineer operations on the front of the corps, and conducted them so well as to elicit the warm approval of McPherson. The approaches were pushed up until somc of the enemy's guns were silenced, and a mine-the first important one of the war -was run under the rebel works. In his honor, Gen- eral McPherson named one of the forts "Battery Hick- enlooper," and made special mention of him in his official reports. In a letter to Halleck, General Mc- Pherson says : "Captain A. Hickenlooper deserves special mention for his ability, untiring energy, and skill in making reconnoissances and maps of the routes passed

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over, superintending the repairs and construction of bridges, etc., constantly exposing himself day and night. He merits some substantial recognition of his services." And again: "I write, without solicitation, to urge the claims for promotion, by brevet or otherwise, of one of the best, and, at the same time, one of the most modest officers on my staff, Captain Andrew Hickenlooper, Fifth Ohio battery. I first made his acquaintance at Jefferson city, in 1861-2, and was most favorably im- pressed with his intelligence and military bearing.

. On assuming command at Bolivar, Tennessee, in October, 1862, I was very much in need of an engineer officer, and, knowing his qualifications, I applied to Major General Grant, and had Captain Hickenlooper assigned to me as chief of artillery and engineer officer. He has made a reputation commensurate with the repu- tation of the corps. As all the Ohio batteries of light artillery are 'independent batteries,' there is no chance for him to obtain promotion in that branch of the service, and I think it but due that the general commanding should give him some token of his appreciation, cheer- ing to the heart of a soldier. I therefore respectfully re- quest that you will present his name for a brevet com- mission of colonel or lieutenant colonel." After the fall of Vicksburgh, the board of honor of the seventeenth corps awarded him a gold medal, on which was inscribed: "Pittsburgh Landing, siege of Corinth, Iuka, Corinth, Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Vicks- burgh."

When McPherson took command of the army of the Tennessee, Captain Hickenlooper was made judge-advo- cate on his staff, and a little later chief of artillery for the department and army of the Tennessee. In this po- sition he accompanied his chief through the Atlanta campaign. After McPherson's death, when General Howard took command of the army, Captain Hicken- looper was returned to his former position of judge advo- cate, and was made assistant chief of artillery. From this position he was relieved at the request of General F. P. Blair, to accept the position of assistant inspector general Seventeenth army corps, which appointment car- ried with it the promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the campaign of the Carolinas was near- ly over, he was recommended for a brigadier generalship, -General Howard indorsing that he "knew of no of- ficer in the service whom he would more cordially recom- mend." General Sherman saying: "He served long and faithfully near General McPherson, and enjoyed his marked confidence; is young, vigorous and well educat- ed, and can fill any commission with honor and credit to the service." And General Grant saying: "He has proved himself one of the ablest and most energetic vol- unteer officers, no one having the confidence of his super- iors in a higher degree." Captain Hickenlooper was ap- pointed a brevet brigadier general of volunteers, May 20, 1865, and assigned to the command of a brigade composed of the Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Iowa veteran volunteers. After the muster out of the troops, he was warmly recommended by Blair, Logan, Howard, Sherman, and Grant, for a commission

as major of artillery in the regular army, or for the of- fice of United States marshal for the southern district of Ohio. He was appointed to the latter position, was soon confirmed, and at once entered upon its duties, being at the time still under thirty years of age. In this position he remained four years, when he resumed the duties of city engineer. In 1872 the Cincinnati Gas Light & Coke company solicited his services, and in order to secure them a new office, that of vice-president, was created. After a few years, Mr. Hickenlooper was made president of the company, the office of vice-president having been abolished. The duties of this position General Hicken- looper discharged well-to the satisfaction of the com- pany and the citizens. In 1879, General Hickenlooper was elected lieutenant governor of Ohio, on the Repub- lican ticket with Mr. Foster. At the time of his nomination for lieutenant governor, one of his neighbors said : "Gen- eral Hickenlooper is the most industrious man I ever knew. He is never idle. His popularity in Cincinnati is great. His courtesy to everybody is proverbial, and applicants to him for assistance are never turned away empty-handed. He is liberal in his ideas of life, and full of charity, but in his own habits is temperate. He has always taken an active part in our local politics, not for fame, honor, or office, but because he deemed it his duty as a citizen." His nomination to the candidacy of lieutenant governor was without his seeking or knowledge. He hesitated to accept, but once decided, he went in to win, and, during his term of office thus far, has fulfilled the expectations of his friends, and confirmed the high opinion formed as to his executive and administrative abilities.

COLONEL DAVID W. McCLUNG.

David Waddle McClung, surveyor of customs for the port of Cincinnati, and ex-officio collector, etc., is of west Scotland or Highland stock. In 1730 his great-grand- father came to this country and settled in Washington county, New York. His descendants mostly resided in that State; but his son, Charles McClung, grandfather of the subject of this niemoir, removed to Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, where David's father and mother were both born, but were both brought to Ohio by their par- ents in early childhood, the families settling in Fairfield county. The father's name was also David; he was mar- ried in 1824 to Miss Elizabeth Brown, daughter of David and Elizabeth (McTeer) Brown. Their fifth child and fourth son was David Waddle, born December 18, 1831, in Eaton township, Seneca county, Ohio, to which his parents had removed two years after marriage. His brothers and sisters were, in due order of birth, Phœbe, William Clark, Robert, James (deceased in February, 1874), Margaret (died November, 1878), Sarah and Har- vey (both of whom died in childhood), John Calvin, and Martha (deceased in August, 1876). But five of this large family, including David, are now living. The father died in October, 1867, and the mother in August, 1877.

David was brought up on a farm, which had been the manual-labor school of his ancestry for generations; at-

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tended the country schools in his childhood, which were very good for the time, the residence of the family being on the border of the famous Western Reserve; and was a member of the Seneca County academy, at Republic, then taught by the Hon. Thomas W. Harvey, since State commissioner of Schools. Here he prepared for college, and entered freshman at Muskingum college, New Con- cord, in October, 1850; remained one term, and then transferred his allegiance to Miami university, at Oxford, from which he was graduated A. B. in 1854. During much of his preparatory course he maintained himself by teaching school, beginning at the early age of fifteen, and for a large share of the expenses of his college course he served the university in various capacities, but had to create a debt, which was faithfully repaid upon his en- trance into business life. After graduation he again un- dertook the pedagogic vocation, but in a higher field, becoming at first principal of the high schools, then su- perintendent of public schools in Hamilton, in which two positions he remained three years. At the expira- tion of his year as superintendent he accepted the charge of the Republican organ at the same place, the Hamilton Intelligencer, which he conducted or assisted in editing for about two years, in association with his old friend and classmate, Colonel Minor Milliken. It was the early day of the Republican party; Butler county was largely Dem- ocratic; it was an important transition period, and the Intelligencer bore its full share in fixing the current of pub- lic opinion. The fight with opponents was at times close and sharp, and Mr. McClung was himself personally at- tacked by an infuriated Democrat, and bore from the conflict an honorable scar which he wears to this day, a testimonial of the later days that tried men's souls. He was during this time of editorial work engaged at inter- vals in the study of the law; and in the winter of 1859- 60 he was appointed by the governor to the position of probate judge of the county, vice William R. Kinder, who died in office. Upon the election of his successor-a Democrat, of course-he spent a few months desultorily in his law office, but, immediately upon the outbreak of the war, the call for volunteers being issued Monday morning, April 16, 1861, he enlisted in a Hamilton com- pany as a private soldier, and went with it to Camp Jef- ferson, Columbus, where it was sworn into service April 24th, and assigned as company F, Third Ohio infantry. On the twenty-seventh of the same month the regiment was sent, with five companies of the Eleventh, to estab- lish Camp Dennison, on the Little Miami railroad, seven- teen miles from Cincinnati. Mr. McClung was taken from the ranks, where he was still serving as a private, and made quartermaster of the camp, in which place of responsibility and honor he was detained, contrary to all precedents of the service, until the following March, hun- dreds of thousands of dollars, in money and property, passing through his hands meanwhile, not only of quar- termaster's, but of ordnance stores. He then received a commission, to date from February 19, 1862, as captain and assistant quartermaster. He remained at the camp until June 15, 1862, having meanwhile rebuilt it, in or- der to fit it for winter quarters; and was then ordered to

Camp Chase, to build the barracks for rebel prisoners there. When the call for five hundred thousand more was made by President Lincoln, Camp Dennison acquir- ed more importance than ever, and Captain McClung was ordered back to equip the regiments forming therein. From first to last, it is believed that he pre- pared not far from one hundred regiments for the field. When the second levy of troops had been equipped, he supervised the conversion of the barracks at the camp, during November and December of 1862, into a conva- lescent hospital. Thence he departed for Madison, In- diana, where hospitals more convenient to the river were to be built, and, after getting that work well under way, he was ordered to Cincinnati, to take charge of the pur- chase of supplies, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. His money accounts with the Govern- ment, during his entire term of service, aggregated about twenty-five million dollars; his property accounts more than twice as much. Like other officers in similar posi- tions, he was from time to time inspected, investigated, "detectived," and "spied," but never once accused, and he long since had his accounts satisfactorily balanced by the officers of the Treasury Department. His services were not finally dispensed with until November 8, 1865, when he was honorably mustered out, at his own reiter- ated request. Shortly before this, October 30, he was breveted major of volunteers, for faithful and meritori- ous services, on the recommendation of General Ekin and other high officers of the quartermaster's department. He returned to Hamilton, and was elected president of the Second National bank in that city, although not then a stockholder. In about a year and a half he resigned that place, and began the manufacture of machinery in Hamilton, remaining in this business for two years, when he exchanged his stock in the machine-shop for an in- terest in the Woodsdale Paper company, of which he took charge and remained its business manager until February 1, 1879, when he removed to Cincinnati and became assistant postmaster. In January, 1881, he was nominated by President Hayes surveyor of the port of Cincinnati, and again by President Garfield upon his accession, when he was promptly confirmed by the senate and received his commission, of date March 10, 1881.

Such a career as that of Colonel McClung needs no embellishment or further illustration. His qualities of mind and character are easily inferrible from this outline sketch of his rapid and sure advancement to his present high position.

Colonel McClung was married on the nineteenth of March, 1861, to Miss Anna Carter Harrison, only daughter of Carter B. Harrison, youngest son of General and President Harrison. Her mother was Mary, of the family of John Sutherland, one of the pioneers of Butler county. She is a worthy helpmate of her distinguished spouse. They have no children, and reside on Walnut Hills, in the First ward of Cincinnati.

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AMOS SMITH, JR.

The Hon. Amos Smith, collector of internal reve- nue for the first district of Ohio, is of English stock on his mother's side, she, nee Sarah Spencer, having been born in Hull, England, and coming with her parents to this country when she was quite young. Here she was married to Mr. Martin Smith, of Cincinnati, and, after his death in Dayton, to Amos Smith, father of the sub- ject of this notice. The elder Smith was a son of John Smith, of Newcastle county, Delaware, and Charity (Smith) Smith, and came to Cincinnati in 1819 with his parents when but three or four years old. He removed to Dayton in 1832, and was married in that place, as be- fore noted. The mother died in Cincinnati in 1850, of cholera ; the father is still living. In Dayton the younger Amos was born October 22, 1840. In 1847 his parents removed to the Queen City, in the public schools of which he received his elementary education, and then, at the age of seventeen, became a student at the Sweden- borgian university, in Urbana, Ohio, but left the school before graduating, in order to make a beginning of ac- tive life. He entered the employment of his father, then a manufacturer of star candles, in Cincinnati, and became partner with him about the year 1865 in another line of business, the manufacture of fertilizers, with a branch of the same in Baltimore subsequently estab- lished. The name and style of the Cincinnati firm at first was Amos Smith & Co., and that of the branch house Amos Smith & Sons, the junior partners in each case being Amos Smith, jr., and Lee Smith. . They are still, after a lapse of sixteen years, in the same business, east and west, with the same partners, at the same stands in both Cincinnati and Baltimore. For a time they had the practical monoply of the productions of ammoniacal products from "cracklings," or the refuse of pork-packing and tallow-rendering establishments, and found it very profitable. The business has steadily enlarged from year to year, with a temporary check about 1876, from the fierceness of competition and the introduction of new and patented processes. Their orders remain large, however, and the manufacture is highly lucrative. The Cincinnati house confines its production to agricultural fertilizers altogether; the Baltimore branch turns out special products for use by the makers of such fertilizers. This division of labor and production is mutually found advantageous. The youngest partner, Mr. Lee Smith, is at present the manager of both houses, the father spend- ing his time and energies mainly upon his farm at Smith's station, on the Cincinnati, Marietta & Dayton railroad, in Butler county, where he resides, and Amos Smith, jr., being wholly engrossed with the duties of his office. The last named, the subject of this sketch was married in 1863 to Miss Mary Jane, daughter of the Hon. Henry Kessler, a well known citizen of Cincinnati. In 1872 he went to Baltimore with his family to take charge of the business of the branch house, and while there, on the twenty-sixth of November in the next year, he was deprived of her companionship by death. He came back to Cincinnati the next month, for the sake of his three young children, and again took up his resi-

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History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 120

Author: Ford, Henry A., comp; Ford, Kate B., joint comp Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Cleveland, O., L.A. Williams & co. Number of Pages: 666

Author: Ford, Henry A., comp; Ford, Kate B., joint comp
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Cleveland, O., L.A. Williams & co.
Number of Pages: 666