History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 130

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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Joseph Rausohoff, M. D., F. R. C. S. England, was born in Cincinnati on the twenty-sixth of May, 1853. His parents are Germans by birth. His father, Nathan Rausohoff, although a native of Westphalia, has resided in this country fifty-seven years. At the age of six Dr. Rausohoff entered the public schools of Cincinnati, and continued in them until he graduated with merit from Woodward high school in 1870. In the fall of this year he commenced his medical studies at the Medical College of Ohio, where, after three years of diligent work, he obtained a gold medal awarded to the author of the best thesis on a special theme, competition being open to all the alumni of the institution. After a rigid competitive examination, Dr. Rausohoff was elected interne of the Cin- cinnati hospital, where he practised from March, 1873, to March, 1874. Having now obtained his degree, and

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exhausted the fountains of medical learning in his native city, he spent the next four years of his life at the uni- versities and hospitals of Würzburg, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London, devoting especial attention to the study of diseases of the skin and surgery. In London the doctor was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a title and honor obtained, we believe, by only one other member of the profession in the United States. Upon his return to the city of his birth, Dr. Rausohoff was chosen demonstrator of anato- my at the Medical College of Ohio, a position which he occupied until the death of Professor Laudon R. Long- worth, when he was appointed his successor to the chair of anatomy and clinical surgery. During the last two sessions of the Medical College of Ohio, the oldest institution of its kind in the west, the subject of this sketch has lectured upon his special branches both in the amphitheatre of the college and of the Good Samar- itan hospital. The opportunities afforded by hospital and private practice have been grasped by the doctor, who, notwithstanding the paucity of his years, has achieved an enviable position among medical men. In March, 1877, Dr. Rausohoff married Minnie, eldest daughter of Julius Freiberg, a lady as distinguished for her attainments as amiability. The birth of a son has added not a little to the happiness of the parents.

James Taylor Irwin, D. D. S., was born in Buckskin township, Ross county, Ohio, in 1833. In his early youth he removed to Greenfield, Ross county. He was educated in the academy at South Salem, in the same county. He was an adventurous boy, and at one time took a pedestrian tour over the mountains and over the Eastern States with a couple of boy companions. At the age of seventeen he came to Cincinnati and entered the office of Drs. J. & J. Taylor. He spent five years in this office, and during these years took three courses in the Ohio Dental college, whence he was graduated. He was then for a short time a demonstrator at the col- lege, and took an especial interest in mechanical dentist- ry, in which he became quite proficient. He then took a trip throughout the northwest of our country, and practiced about six months in Dubuque, Iowa. He came thence back to Cincinnati and went into partner- ship with Dr. James Taylor from 1857 to 1866. Since then he has carried on his business alone. He built himself a very handsome building exclusively for his business, on West Seventh street, where he still practices his profession. He has since added to it a winter resi- dence for his family. He was married in July of 1860 to Miss Annie M. Underwood, of Cincinnati. He is a member of the Mississippi Valley Dental association, the Ohio College Dental association, and the American Dental society.

Jonathan Taft, D. D. S., was born in September of 1820 in Russellville, Brown county, Ohio. At the age of two the family moved to Adams county, Ohio, where Dr. Taft acquired some knowledge of Latin, Greek and mathematics in an academy. He was afterward engaged in farm labor and school teaching. In 1841 he began the study of dentistry under Dr. George D. Tector, of

Ripley, Ohio, and after eighteen months began the prac- tice, which he has kept up ever since. He practiced in Xenia for six years, during which time he did much to advance the then imperfect knowledge of this profession. He then entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, whence he was graduated in 1850. In 1854 he was ap- pointed professor of operative dentistry in this college, and has probably taught longer in this capacity, without interruption, than any one living. During most of this time he has been dean of the faculty. He has been a member of the Ohio Dental College association since its organization in 1852, and for twenty years has been its secretary. In 1856 he became part proprietor of the Dental Register of the West, and in a few years be- came its sole proprietor. The paper is now called the Dental Register. In 1857 he removed to Cin- cinnati. In 1858-9 he wrote a treatise on "Opera- tive Dentistry," which was received as a text-book in the colleges and has been translated into German and other languages. Dr. Taft is a member of all the principal dental societies, and his labors have been conspicuous in over fifty different societies. He has been presiding officer of the board of examiners in dentistry appointed by the State, ever since its organization. In 1875 he was appointed professor of the principles and practice of operative dentistry in the Dental college of the Univer- sity of Michigan. Dr. Taft is an earnest and profound student, a public-spirited citizen, and a conscientious Christian.

Dr. T. C. Bradford, M. D., was born in October, 1835, in Cincinnati. After acquring an education in the institutions of his own State, he pursued his studies in Jefferson college, in Philadelphia, and afterwards in the Bellevue Hospital college, in New York city, whence he was graduated in 1864. His advantages for a thor- ough medical education were thus the very best. In 1864 he returned to Cincinnati and began the practice of his profession. The death of several of the oldest physicians of both schools opened a road to success to a man of ability, and Dr. Bradford soon attained this success. Dr. Bradford is absorbed in the practice of his profession. He has a very fine medical and miscellane- ous library. He is treasurer, a member of the faculty, and one of the incorporators of the Pulte Medical col- lege. He is a member of the Second Presbyterian church. He was married in October, 1868, to M. A. McCroskey, of his native city.

Samuel Wardle, D. D. S., was born in Leicester, Eng- land, in 1822, and came to America in 1832. After working on a farm for five years, he became an appren- tice to a silversmith in Philadelphia. After two years and a half of this service, he ran away and determined to go to sea. After several trials he made satisfactory arrangements with a whaler, the "William C. Nye." In this ship he made a voyage of twenty-two months, full of adventure. The ship doubled Cape Horn, went to the sea of Kamschatka, touching the famous island of Juan Fernandez on the way, and finally entered the har- bor of San Francisco in 1843. Mr. Wardle returned with his ship to New London, Connecticut. Thence he

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returned to Philadelphia and was employed in doing mechanical work for dentists, in which he became a very skilful workman, and met with very great success. He soon opened an office of his own. In 1853 he came to Cincinnati. On leaving Philadelphia he was presented with a large gold medal by fourteen of the most promi- nent dentists in the city, as "a token of appreciation of his skill in mechanical dentistry." He established a dental furnishing house, and manufactured artificial teeth; but, on account of the costliness of material, he fell back on his profession for a livelihood. In 1859 he received a diploma from the Cincinnati College of Den- tal Surgery, then the second dental college in the coun- try. He manufactures all the teeth which he uses in his practice, and also those intended for peculiar and difficult cases taken in charge by other dentists. He has received the first premium on artificial teeth every year in the Cincinnati industrial exposition, and the first pre- mium in dentistry on the only occasion on which he en- tered the lists. He received first medals from Mechan- ics' institute, Cincinnati, and from the State board of agriculture; also, premiums from New York, Philadel- phia and Baltimore; also, in 1851, a certificate and medal at the World's fair, in London, England. He is an active member of the Mississippi Valley Dental association, and an honorary of the Pennsylvania Asso- ciation of Dental Surgeons. He was married to Miss Margaret A. Little in 1846.

A. C. Carr, of Cincinnati, a native of New York, came to Licking county, Ohio, with his parents when quite young, in the year 1843. In this county he received his education and performed manual labor on the farm until 1864, when he began to teach school and further do for himself. He took a thorough course of training in the legal profession, and was admitted to the bar in 1873, previous to which time, however, he engaged in mercan- tile pursuits about five years, but since the year 1873 has been practicing his profession, having his office in Tem- ple Bar. From 1873 until 1875 he held a membership in the Cincinnati board of education; at present he is a member of the city council, having been elected to that office successively four times.

Mr. Charles H. Stephens was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2, 1841. He was graduated from the Hughes high school in 1858, and a few months after began the study of law with the firm of Lincoln, Smith & Warnock. He was admitted to the bar in 1863. In a few years he became a partner in the firm with which he had studied. He was elected to the board of education in 1872 and was a member for six years. He was also made a trustee of Thomas Hughes, the founder of the Hughes high school, in 1870, and he still holds that position. He is now a member of the firm of Lincoln, Stephens & Com- pany, in the practice of law.

Ira B. Maston, judge of the probate court, is a native of the city. He received his early education in Cincin- nati; studied law here and in 1857 began the practice of his profession in the courts of this place. In 1872 he was elected judge of the probate court, which position he still holds.

Judson Harmon was born in Newtown, Hamilton county, Ohio, February 3, 1846. His parental ancestors were among the first settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts, and northern Connecticut, and later of Jefferson county, New York. He graduated at Denison university, Gran- ville, Ohio, June, 1866, and at the Cincinnati Law school, April, 1869. On June 1, 1870, he married Olive Scobey, of Hamilton, Ohio, and has three children. In October, 1876, he was elected one of the judges of the courts of common pleas, which office he held until April, 1877, when his election was successfully contested before the senate of Ohio. In April, 1878, he was elected one of the judges of the superior court of Cin- cinnati for the full term of five years.

Mr. W. M. Ampt, a lawyer by profession, was born in Trenton, Butler county, Ohio, February 1, 1840. Both his parents emigrated from Germany, one in 1832 and the other in 1837, the father coming from Hesse-Darm- stadt, and the mother, whose maiden name was Rosa, from Bavaria. Mr. Ampt is descended from Abram Ampt, a Protestant minister in the Rhine country from 1696 until 1727. The son of Abram was Abraham Francisca Ampt, who, in 1715, was a student at Heidel- berg university. He also was a Protestant minister, and died at Dalsheim, near Worms, in 1735. The latter left two sons, Frederick and Abram, the first of whom, the great-grandfather of W. M. Ampt, entered Heidelberg university in 1744 as a theological student. Both went to Holland and entered the Holland army, the former returning to Germany, while the latter remained in Hol- land, and became a professor of philosopy at Neuchatel, dying at the age of eighty-two years, leaving many de- scendants, of whom C. G. Ampt, major general, com- manding the fortress at Nymwegen in 1816, was his son. Frederick Ampt, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was for thirty years or more burgomeister at Flonheim. He had two sons, who, after studying jurisprudence for some time at Heidleberg, entered the government civil service, in which they served for many years. Their descendants have scattered to Germany, England, France, Algiers, and one, the father of W. M. Ampt, came to America nearly fifty years ago, and is now living near Dayton, as one of the German pioneers of Ohio. W. M. Ampt graduated at Oberlin college in 1863. He was chosen by vote of his class, numbering seventy- five, as the veledictorian, and during his college career was an active member of his literary society. In 1866 he graduated from the Albany Law school, and in the same year was admitted to the bar both in New York and Ohio, settling in Lima, Ohio, where he served as city solicitor. In 1864 and 1865 he was in the quartermas- ters' department of the United States as chief clerk, and in 1862 came to Cincinnati, during the Kirby Smith raid, with a company of college students, of which he was. captain. In 1867 he located in Cincinnati, where, two years later, he was one of the Republican nominees for the legislature. In consequence of the "reform" move- ment of that year the whole ticket was defeated. In 1870 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county, and two years later was endorsed for reelection

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by the Republican nomination, but the Greeley move overwhelmed the ticket by six thousand majority. At the request of the Ohio State Republican committee, in 1876, Mr. Ampt went to Florida and took part in the contest before the Florida returning board. He was placed in charge of several counties, among others Ham- ilton county, in which he secured the rejection of two precincts, that had given Governor Tilden one hundred and sixty-three majority. In 1878 Mr. Ampt introduced the Grant resolution in the Ohio State convention, at Cincinnati, and gave the first impulse to the Grant boom that two years later so much excited the country. After a short trip to Europe in 1879, visiting Ireland, England, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and France, he returned, continuing his advocacy of Grant for the pres- idency, by a series of articles on the third term, for which General Grant afterwards expressed his thankful appreciation.

Mr. Charles Evans was born in Warren county, Ohio, in 1843. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan uni- versity in the class of 1863. After the war he read law with Mr. Samuel Shellabarger, of Mansfield, Ohio. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1866. After this he settled in Springfield, Ohio, where he practiced until 1872; thence he came to Cincinnati, where he has practiced ever since. He was elected county solicitor in the fall of 1880. Mr. Evans was appointed United States district attorney for the southern district of Ohio in March, 1878, and resigned in the fall of 1879.

Mr. E. C. Williams was born May 10, 1842, in Cincinnati. His father, George W. Williams, was one of the oldest settlers in this part of the State. Mr. Williams was educated in the public schools of the city, and in 1861 was graduated from Woodward college. He enlisted in April, 1861. He was transferred to the gun- boat flotilla, then a part of Fremont's army. This flotilla was soon transferred to the United States navy. In this Mr. Williams served throughout the war, being engaged in all the famous fights through which this flotilla passed, Vicksburgh, Fort Donelson, etc. At the close of the war he went to the Harvard Law school, whence he was graduated in 1867. He then returned to Cincinnati and was nominated for the State legislature, but defeated by a coalition between the Democrats and the German element. He entered into partnership with the well- known W. S. Scarborough. In 1877 Mr. Scarborough retired from business, and Mr. Williams formed a part- nership with Mr. A. B. Champion, with whom he is still engaged. Mr. Williams is now a member of the city school-board. In 1851 he was elected librarian of the Young Men's Mercantile Library association. In 1860 he began the practice of law with Edward F. Noyes, late minister to France. At the outbreak of the war he en- tered the Thirty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, of which his partner was colonel, and afterwards major. On May I, 1865, he was appointed surveyor of customs for Cin- cinnati by l'resident Andrew Johnson, but was removed the following October on account of his not endorsing the President's policy. He then formed a partnership

with several gentlemen and founded the Cincinnati Chronicle, an evening paper, of which he was the first business manager. This paper afterwards became the Cincinnati Times. In May of 1869 he was reappointed surveyor of customs by President Grant, and held this post until his death, which occurred January 13, 1881. On August 10, 1862, he was married to Miss Louisa Wright, who survives him with two sons.

Mr. Reuben H. Stephenson, late surveyor of customs of the port of Cincinnati, was born at Lancaster, New Hampshire. Until his sixteenth year he was educated in the dirtrict schools and at a neighboring academy. From 1838 to 1842 he taught school and prepared for college. In the last-named year he entered Dartmouth college, at Hanover, New Hampshire, as a sophomore. He was graduated in 1845. He came in the same year to Cincinnati, and for three years taught in Vevay, In- diana, Newport, Kentucky, and in Louisiana. He returned to the city in 1848. At this time he entered into partnership with Mr. Otis C. Wright, opening a school called the Collegiate Institute. Mr. Wright left the city in 1849 on account of the cholera, and Mr. Stephenson carried on the school alone. Mr. Stephen- son, with some other gentlemen, founded the Cincinnati Literary club, of which very many distinguished men have been members, such as R. B. Hayes, Salmon P. Chase, etc.

Mr. Jesse L. Wartman, of the United States custom house, was born in Lewisburgh, Virginia, in 1830. He came to Cincinnati when four years old. His father having died, he came to the city to live with his grand- father, Mr. Bohlen, who is well known among old Cin- cinnatians. Since he first came to Cincinnati, Mr. Wartman has resided for ten years in southern Indiana, and for two years in Keokuk, Iowa. In the last named place he was married to Miss S. W. Cossler. One son was the only fruit of this marriage, Harry L. Wartman. He died of consumption in his twenty-first year. Mr. Wartman has been engaged for the past nineteen years in the custom house in the city.

Hon. Chaning Richards is a native Cincinnatian, hav- ing been born here on the twenty-first of February, 1838. His given name is the family designation of a maternal ancestor. His maternal grandmother was a sister of General Jonathan Dayton, one of the original proprietors of the Symmes or Miami Purchase. His uncle, Dr. Wolcott Richards, was the first of the family to reach the Queen City. He came in 1830, his brother, Chaning, father of the subject of this notice, following two years afterwards, and becoming a prominent merchant here. He died in Washington in 1879. Young Chaning was educated in the famous academy in Cincinnati conducted by Professor E. S. Brooks, and at Yale college, from which he was graduated with the class of 1858. He then took a course in the law school of his native city, going through in one year and receiving his diploma in 1859. At once he entered upon practice, but imme- diately upon the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion enlisted in the Guthrie Grays, or Sixth Ohio infantry, with which he served through the West Virginia cam_

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paign, and subsequently, in the organization of new troops, served as aid-de-camp on the staff of General Wade, at Camp Denison. In January, 1862, he was commissioned first lieutenant in the Thirteenth Missouri, afterwards more fittly the Twenty-second Ohio infantry, and served with it through the campaign of Forts Henry and Donelson and at Shiloh, and remained nominally connected with it to the end of the war. He was much of the time, however, on staff and detached duty as ord- nance officer with General Kimball at the siege of Vicks- burgh and provost marshal (subsequently military mayor) and judge advocate at Memphis. In this city the close of the war found him on duty. He was mustered out of service with the grade of captain and resumed prac- tice in that place, remaining until March, 1871, when he returned to Cincinnati and began business as a member of the firm of Stanton & Richards. In September fol- lowing he was appointed assistant United States district attorney. In February, 1877, he was appointed district attorney by President Grant, having meanwhile served continuously as assistant, and reappointed by President Hayes in January, four years thereafter. His official ca- reer has amply justified those appointments. The busi- ness of no other court, probably, has been so closely kept up, and more faithfully and ably attended, than that of the southern district of Ohio. At the present moment cases are on trial which have been instituted only with- in the last half year, which is truly a phenomenal fact in the courts of this grade.

Charles Jacob, jr., late mayor of Cincinnati is a native of Glan-Münchweiler, in the Pfalz, Bavaria, where he was born November 24, 1834. He came to this country in 1852, and shortly afterwards to Cincinnati. From very small beginnings he advanced to a large and profitable business, and is now head of the firm of Charles Jacobs, jr., & Company, pork and beef packers, corner of Sec- ond and Vine streets.' He early engaged in politics, and acquired considerable influence, especially among his countrymen. He was elected by the Republicans mayor of the city in 1878, but was defeated as a candi- date for reelection by a coalition of Democrats and dis- affected Republicans. He was married in October, 1857, to Miss Catharine Wuest, by whom he had several chil- dren.

Joseph Benson Foraker, a judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, born near Rainsborough, Highland county, Ohio, July 5, 1846, and was reared on a farm. When but sixteen years of age he enlisted as a private in com- pany A, Eighty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, July 14, 1862. He served, until the close of the war, with the army of the Cumberland, and in the meanwhile rising by regular promotions to the rank of first lieutenant and brevet captain of the United States volunteers. After the close of the war he resumed his studies and gradua- ted from Cornell university, at Ithaca, New York, in 1869, it being the first graduating class from that insti- tution. He read law while at school in addition to his regular studies. August 16, 1869, he located in Cin- cinnati. Here he pacticed law until April, 1879, when he was elected judge of the superior court. He was

married October 4, 1870, to Miss Julia Bundy, daughter of the Hon. H. S. Bundy, of Jackson county, Ohio. They have four children.

Howard Douglass was born January 21, 1846, in Cin- cinnati, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar by the su- preme court of Ohio January 22, 1867. He was elected a member of the board of education April, 1869, and was reelected April, 1871 ; he was also a member of the Union board of high schools in 1870. He was nomi- nated for the State senate in 1879, but resigned. In April, 1881, he was elected a member at large of the board of education for three years.

Rev. W. J. Halley, rector of the cathedral, Cincinnati, was born in Ireland November 14, 1837. He came to Cincinnati in the year 1853, and completed his collegi- ate course at St. Mary's seminary, of Cincinnati, after which he was ordained pastor and became assistant in that capacity until he succeeded the Right Rev. C. B. Borges. He has been connected in the work since the seventh of July, 1860, having been in the cathedral since that time.

Rev. Edward Cooper, D. D., district superintendent of the missionary and Sabbath school department of the Presbyterian board of publication for the synods of Co- lumbus, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Indiana south, and Ten- nessee. He was born near Troy, Rensselaer county, New York, and graduated at Union college. Devoting a few years to teaching, he was eminently successful as principal of the academy at Aurora, and afterwards at Waterloo. He then accepted the invitation of the New York State Teachers' association to edit the Teachers' Advocate, a weekly paper, devoted to the interests of the profession. After two years he gave up this position to take the District School Journal, the organ of the State superintendents of common schools, and became one of the proprietors and editors of the Syracuse Daily Journal. Disposing of these interests, he purchased one- half of the Troy Daily Post, with which his editorial labors closed after two years. He returned to educa- tional pursuts, and was president of the Odd Fellows Female college, at Paris, Tennessee, an institution that acquired eminence under his administration. At the commencement of the war he was president of the Fe- male institute and pastor of the church at Brownsville, Tennessee, which positions he relinquished to become identified with the interests of the north. For three years he was principal of the academy and pastor of the church at Munroe, Butler county, when he was appointed, without solicitation, chaplain to the Eighth Ohio volun- teer cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He then took charge of the academy and became pastor of the church at Bloomingburgh, Fayette county, and after three years accepted a call to the Presbyterian church of Atchison, Kansas, where his labors were eminently suc- cessful for nearly nine years. He was then invited to organize and superintend the important operations of the board of publication in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, which position he has since held. The contributions to the misssonary fund of the board of publication are economically applied to its systematic and efficient work,

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History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 130

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