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by personal family visitation and gratuitous distribution of its fine Christian literature in sparsely settled regions where there are limited opportunities for religious instruc- tion. The missionaries of the board organize Sabbath- schools and lay the foundation for churches among the destitute, and when in the bounds of congregations greatly assist pastors by the distribution of sound doc- trinal and evangelical literature. Every paper, tract, or volume continues the influence of the missionary after he has gone, and thus neighborhoods are brought under the power of religious truth. This work in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, under the supervison of Dr. Cooper, is accomplishing much good and has strong claims upon the benevolence of the large and intelligent denomina- tion as one of its most efficient agencies of its growth and usefulness.
Rev. Gottlieb Brandstettner, pastor of the First German Evangelical Protestant church of Green township, was born in Rhein Baiern, Bavaria, in 1830. He belongs to a family of ministers. Gottlieb came alone to America and took a course in theology, completing his studies in 1856, after which he engaged in the ministerial work at Peppertown, near Evansville, Indiana, and at other places. He came here May 1, 1876, and has since taken* charge of the congregation and Sabbath-school, acting as its superintendent. He also gives instruction, three days in each week, to the children of his congregation who are taking a course preparatory to confirmation. The church building, a fine brick structure, was erected in the year 1871, in which service and Sabbath-school have been held ever since. A graveyard of some four acres lies just back of the building. He was married July 24, 1857, to Miss Katharine Wittkamper, of Cincinnati, and is the father of five children, four sons and one daughter. One son, Henry, born in 1859, died in 1880, a most prom- ising young man. He possessed a natural genius for draw- ing, taking up the art and completing the course almost without the aid of instruction ; he, however, spent one year in Cooper institute, New York. He was engraver for Still- man & Co., Front and Vine streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, and has left some beautiful sketchings of which "A scene on the Ohio," "Church-yard Scene," "Lick Run Church', show a master hand in the work. He was also of great as- sistance to his father in his church work, being a musi- cian, and of great service in Sabbath-school work. As the pride of his father's family he was greatly missed from that circle. Rev. Brandstettner is exercising a great in- fluence for good among his people, and of which the membership of his church feel proud.
M. S. Turrill, principal of the Twenty-sixth Cincinnati district schools, was born near Pleasant Ridge in this (Hamilton) county February 8, 1831. His father, Heman B. Turrill, was a native of New Milford, Connecticut, emigrating from there in August, 1818. His mother was a daughter of James Wood, of Chatham, New Jersey, whose family was among the early pioneers of Pleasant Ridge.
Mr. Turill's youth was spent at the district school, and on his father's farm ; but at the age of fifteen, he attended Farmers' co.leg , graduating from there in 1851. Select-
ing teaching as a profession, his chief preparation was made at Summer institute, and by employment in district schools a portion of time during his college years. In December after graduation, he taught first in the "Roll" district, west of Cumminsville, and after three years' service there, was elected superintendent of the Cum- minsville graded school in January, 1854. With the exception of two years as assistant in the Thirteenth Cincinnati district in 1857 and 1858, and another year as a partner with his father-in-law, Caleb Lingo, esq., in the sash and blind business in 1866, he has been con- tinuously in charge of the Cumminsville schools, which, in 1873, when the village was annexed to Cincinnati, was renamed the "Twenty-sixth district." From 1867 to 1872 he was yearly elected corporation clerk of Cum- minsville, and in 1868 was appointed by Judge E. F. Noyes as one of the Hamilton county board of examiners of teachers, serving in that position three years with A. B. Johnson, of Avondale, and John Hancock, superin- tendent of the Cincinnati public schools. In addition to his school work, he is a contributor to educational periodicals and literary magazines, and has frequently made reports of the State Teachers' associations of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky for various newspapers. During the past three years he has been one of the executive committee of the Ohio teachers' association, acting as secretary. As an educator and disciplinarian, his talents are unquestionable; and many of his former pupils are filling honorable positions in professional and public life. As a geologist, he has a deservedly extended reputation, and has collected a valuable cabinet of minerals and fossils of Ohio and other States. Associated with him as educa- tors in the Cumminsville schools, have been the follow- ing : Isaac H. Turrell, Charles E. Jones, Henry Doerner, Louis Kolb, Frederick Conrad, Edward S. Peaslee, Wil- liam Henke, Frank W. Bryant, Mary H. Smith, Electa R. Stanford, Ann J. Moore, Ann M. Wright, Sarah Cum- mins, Janette Thomson, Marilla Buck, Belle Kingsbury, Leonora Heddrington, Martha Heddrington, Mattie Wright, Mary L. Lingo, Lydia G. Stanford, Belle Trask, Belle Murdock, Augusta Tozzer, Kate Smedley, Mary E. Dunaway, Mary Walker, Emily McMichael, Mary A. Hun- newell, Amanda Roller, Mary C. Lakeman, Emma East- man, Alice Bates, Carrie S. Hammitt, Emma De Serisy, Louise Kieffer, Rosa Kromenberg, Helen Matthes, Emilie Kusterer, Carrie L. Peters, Minnie G. Little, Emma Strong, Ametia Butler, Bertha Grabert, Emma Huene, Mary Hill, Hannah R. Hunter, Marion Henderson, Matilda I. Walke, Frieda Bischoff, Emma Von Wyck, Sallie Nunneker, Ella M. Stickney, Mary A. Bohlander, Daisie J. McElwee, Fannie Cist, Katie Girard, Belle C. Hicks, Mary E. Applegate, Emma Multner, Hattie E. Taylor, and Lida Hammitt.
It may not be amiss also to state that Mr. Turrill is one of the charter members of Hoffner lodge, F. and A. M., and has attained to the thirty-second degree in the Masonic order; he is also one of those who instituted the Presbyterian church of Cumminsville in 1855; and is an enthusiastic worker in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific cuck, now in the fourth year of its organization.
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He was married in 1862, to Miss Mary L. Lingo, and has a pleasant family consisting of four daughter and a son, and resides in the Twenty-fifth ward of this city.
Rev. R. J. Myer, president of St. Xavier college, Cin- cinnati, was born in St. Louis, November 8, 1841. He graduated in the St. Louis university in 1858, but not satisfied with this attainment, hc spent yet a number of ycars in quest of knowledge. He was at Boston and Georgetown three and four years respectively, also in Europe. He completed his theological course of study in Woodstock college, Maryland. After returning from Europe he filled the office of vice-president of the col- leges in Chicago and here-each two years-and returncd from the first-named place to take the presidency of the college so well and favorably known, August 18, 1879. The college is in a flourishing condition.
G. F. Junkerman, superintendent of music in the pub- lic schools of Cincinnati, was born in Dielefeld, Prussia, December 8, 1830. He perfected his collegiate and mu- sical education in Prussia and England, and when eigh- teen years of age came to Cincinnati, where he taught mathematics one year in Zion college, then in the graded schools of Cincinnati, and afterwards was principal of one
of the schools. During the war he had charge of the schools at Mount Washington, and during the interval hours of rest and duty, became drill master of troops en- tering military service. Company A, of the Cincinnati regiment that was so fearfully decimated at the battle of Bull Run, was drilled for service by Mr. Junkerman. From 1831 until 1878 he was assistant superintendent of music in the public schools, and since 1878 up to the present time (1881) has filled the position of superintend- ent of that department of instruction, having under him six assistant superintendents. The method used by Mr. Junkerman is the "Movable Do" system, being consid- ered preferable to that of the "Fixed Do" system. He has labored with an enthusiasm worthy of his calling to raise the standard of musical education to a higher plane of influence than that of the Teutonic kirmess, it being purely classical instead. He has written music, many songs, and exercises to meet the especial wants of the Cincinnati schools; he is also an author, his work com- prising many of his own selections, as well as those of others, and is used in the high schools of the city. He was the first to establish the Homc Parlor concerts, of a classical character, so greatly appreciated by the refined and educated of our midst. He was also the first vice- president of the first meeting of the Philoharmic Society of Cincinnati, which orchestra was formed about the year 1851. He has carefully prepared himself for the respon- sible position he now holds, and is meeting with a grand success in his work.
Eliab Washburn Coy, principal of Hughes high school, was born in Maine in 1832. His father was a minister of the Baptist church, having spent "twenty-five years of his life in that work. The subject of our sketch learned the shoemaker's trade, and with the earnings thus collected fitted himself for college in Lawrence academy, Groton, Massachusetts, and graduated in Brown univer- sity in 1854. He immediately came west and took charge
of the Peoria high schools, and also edited the Illinois Schoolmaster at the same time. He also practiced law in that place about three years, but being called to the Illinois normal university, he went there in 1871 and took charge of the high school, where he remained until 1873, when he came to Cincinnati and took the princi- palship of the Hughes high school. In 1863 he was married to Miss Gena Harrington, daughter of Rev. Moses Harrington, of the Baptist church. She is a grad- uate of Framingham normal school, Massachusetts.
D. C. Orr, first assistant teacher in the Second inter- mediate schools of Cincinnati, was born in Miami coun- ty, Ohio, in 1822. He was raised on a farm, and until seventeen years of age attended no school except a few weeks each winter season in an old-fashioned log cabin. He was accustomed to the hardships of pioneer life in clearing land of forest timber, of tilling the soil, of plow- ing the ground and plying the axe and grubbing hoe. He received in all about eighteen months schooling, a term of six months being granted him by his father, at one time, to finish up his course, probably did hin the most good. With this flimsy preparation he began teaching, having been called to take charge of the school "consisting of school-mates with whom he had always been associated; and here he taught several terms, re- ceiving a dollar a day and boarding around. Not hav- ing an opportunity for attending school himself, he laid out a course of study in the natural sciences, mathe- matics, history and ancient languages, and for fifteen years of diligent study, and with increasing interest in his work, followed it out in full and in detail. He also mastered a course in medicine, graduating in the Star- ling Medical college, but his literary or collegiate work was attested in an examination before the Cincinnati board of education in 1866, John Hancock then being superintendent. He was examined for a position as teacher in the schools, and, as remarkable as it may scem, stood the crucial test, coming out with a perfect certificate, after having becn examined in eighteen differ- ent branches of study. He practiced medicine some, but was not successful. His career was varied; taught in different places until 1866, since which time he has been in Cincinnati. During the war he took an active part in politics, and was offered a majorship by Governor Morton, of Indiana, but refused it. He has written considerably, and was correspondent for the Cincinnati Gazette part of the time during the war. Mr. Orr is in every respect a self-made man, and is winning the suc- cess in life he deserves.
Edward H. Pritchard was born in Cincinnati June 23, 1840; educated in the schools of the Queen City; went to the Thirteenth district until his twelfth year, when he obtained a situation in a shoe store; remained there nearly three years, then returned to the Thirteenth dis- trict. In 1855 he was admitted to Woodward high school, and graduated second in his class in 1859. He began to teach in November, 1869, in the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum school, under control of the board of education. In 1860 he was elected second assistant of the Second intermediate school. In 1864, after having
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spent two years as first assistant of the Third district school, was elected principal of the Eighteenth district school, where he remained until January, 1870; then he was transferred to the new Twentieth district, which he organized. In June, 1870, he was elected principal of the Third intermediate school, which he also organized ; and he has been in that position ever since.
Charles H. Evans, principal of the Third district schools, was born in Sidney, Ohio, in 1838. His father, General Washington Evans, had charge of the militia under General Harrison at the battle of the Thames. In 1839 the family moved to Springfield, Ohio, where Charles H. received his education, graduating from the Wittenburg college in 1858. In 1861 he volunteered as a private soldier in the Forty-fourth Ohio volunteers, and fought through the war, being mustered out as major of his regiment, the Eighth Ohio cavalry. After the war he engaged in business until 1869, when he again went to teaching, having the principalship of the high schools in Springfield; and afterwards he was principal of the high school and superintendent of the Dayton schools. In 1874 he was called to Cincinnati, where he has been since in charge of the Third district. In 1874 he was married to Miss Grace Arnold, the only niece of Stone- wall Jackson. He was again married to Miss Katie Armstrong, formerly a teacher in the schools of Cincin- nati.
C. J. O'Donnell, principal of the Fifth district school, was born in New York in 1845; graduated in the Ford- ham college, of that city, in 1865, and after completing a course in the law, practiced that profession for a short time; then came to Cincinnati, where he taught for a time as an assistant teacher, and was then elected princi- pal of the schools, as mentioned above.
J. H. Laycock, principal of the Eighth district school, was born in Clermont county, September 3, 1850; was reared a farmer's boy, but received an academical educa- tion, and afterwards partly completed a classical course of instruction in the Ohio university at Delaware, this State, teaching during intervals. He was principal of the Moscow (Ohio) schools, for three years, in which he became recognized as a successful teacher and dis- ciplinarian. He had charge of other schools as princi- pal, and has always been actively engaged in institute work, having been for thirteen years past identified as one of the leaders of his native county in work of that kind. He was called to Cincinnati in 1869 as assistant teacher in the Ninth district school. In 1868 he secured a life certificate under an examination of the State ex- aminers of Ohio schools. He was principal of the Tenth district school, but in 1874 took the principalship of the Eighth district schools, where he is at present.
H. H. Raschig, principal of the Tenth district school, was born in Cincinnati, March 18, 1841. Mr. Raschig was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, and taught in them the greater part of his life. Entering the 'Tenth district school in 1846, the year of its organiza- tion, he passed through its different grades, and entered the Woodward high school in 1853. He graduated in 1857, and in 1858 began teaching in the Ninth district
school, since which time he has been connected with the public schools. His experience as a teacher ranges through all the grades of the school system.
August H. Bode was born in Peine, a city of the former kingdom of Hanover, July 3, 1844. After care- ful preparation he entered the renowned polytechnical school at Hanover in the year 1860; diligently pursued the study of mathematics, natural science, and engineer- ing for four years, and graduated from that school in 1864. In the same year he went to Berlin to hear lec- tures at the university, aud at the Royal Polytechnic academy. The death of his father occurring at this time compelled him to abandon his cherished scheme of preparing himself for teacher of mathematics and kin- dred sciences at higher institutions of learning, and to enter at once into practical life by accepting, in 1865, a position as draughtsman in a Berlin machine foundry. His desire to become acquainted with America led him, in 1866, to take a position offered him as engineer of an ocean steamer plying between Hamburgh and New York, and after repeated trips across the ocean and in- land visits, he determined to make this land of the free his home. He settled at once in Cincinnati, and re- turned to his first love, teaching, though not to teach the higher branches, but the veriest rudiments of knowledge to the six-year-olds in the Thirteenth district school, where he was appointed assistant teacher towards the end of the year 1867. In 1869 he was promoted to the position of first German assistant teacher of the Second district school, and in 1872 was transferred as first assistant teacher to the Second intermediate school, and finally returned to his starting point in Cincinnati by being elected principal of the Thirteenth district school, which position he still occupies. Mr. Bode is an inde- fatigable worker in school and out of school. The German readers in use in the Cincinnati schools were partly compiled, partly revised by him. He has pub- lished several series of writing books, and a "History of Methods of Elementary Reading." He received the degree of bachelor of laws from the Cincinnati college, and has been admitted to the bar.
Peter J. Fox, principal of the Seventh district school, is a native of Ireland; received his education in Dublin, and came to America in 1845; taught as assistant teacher until 1875, when he was elected to the principalship of these schools.
F. G. Wolf, first German assistant in the Seventh dis- trict school, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1831, and after receiving a liberal education emigrated to the United States in 1854, where he taught in the States of New York, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, coming to Cin- cinnati in 1878.
Joseph Grever was born September 14, 1849, in Dam- me, Oldenburg. He was educated at the commercial college in Sohne, and trained for his profession at the teachers' seminary in Vechta, which he attended for two years, from 1867 till 1869. His singular efficiency as an educator was at once recognized by an appointment as teacher in the Moehere Buergerschule in Damme. Here he taught one year, when the breaking out of the Franco-
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Prussian war took him from his peaceful pursuits and transferred him to the theatre of war. He participated in all the battles in which the army of the Red Prince engaged from Metz to Mars la Tour. Was decorated for his valor and promoted to the rank of ensign. After peace was concluded, he followed the invitation of rela- tives who had long been settled in Cincinnati, to make this city his future home, and he arrived here in Novem- ber, 1871. He was appointed in 1872 as assistant teacher in the Tenth district; promoted to the position of first German assistant teacher in the Twenty-first dis- trict in 1873, and in 1876 transferred to the Thirteenth district, one of the largest German-English schools of the city, where a wide field for usefulness was opened to him, which he at this time still cultivates with great assiduity and pronounced success.
Charles G. Roth, teacher in the Twenty-fourth district of Cincinnati, was born in Saxony in 1839. He received his education at Plauen. Came to Cincinnati in April, 1862, and began teaching in the Fifth district schools, and with an exception of two years spent as music teacher in the St. Paul's Episcopal church, Indianapolis, Indiana, has been in the schools of Cincinnati since his coming to this country. In 1877 he was changed from the Fifth to the Twenty-fourth district.
Francis Ellis Wilson, first assistant teacher in the Twenty-second school district, Cincinnati, was born near New Palestine, Clermont county, Ohio, September 4, 1843. Most of his education was obtained from his mother, she, herself, being a finely educated woman, and possessed intellectuality to a very high degree. He went one year to college at Delaware, Ohio, and afterwards took charge of the schools in Salem and Mount Wash- ington, this State. In 1864 he went into the hundred day service, and upon his return took charge of the schools in Riverside, also afterwards in Storrs, but in 1877 came to Walnut Hills, where he has been success- fully engaged in the duties of the school-room ever since. His pupils rarely fail to bestow upon him some token of their appreciation every year. The Public School, of which he is editor and proprietor, is a home journal, meeting with a grand success. It is largely patronized by the teachers of city and country. Its visit to us is always welcome.
George W. Nye, principal of the Twenty-second school district is a native of New York State, where he was born in 1822. He came to Cincinnati in 1847, and in 1849 was elected to an assistant's position in the Tenth district, and afterward principal of those schools. He remained here in all six years, and then, in 1856, went to Iowa and assumed charge of the schools in Keokuk, but after a three years' stay returned to Cincinnati, and was elected principal of Walnut Hills schools, which were at that time independent of the city, and where he has been for twenty-two years. In 1871 these schools were annexed to the city, and in 1872 the new building -one of the largest and most costly in Cincinnati- was erected. His wife, formerly Miss Emily C. Conklin, was, previous to marriage, a teacher in the Cincinnati schools.
Martin Dell, first German assistant teacher in the Twentieth district school, is a native of Germany, where he received a liberal education, both literary and musical. When twenty years of age he emigrated to New York, in which city-also in Cleveland and Wheeling after- wards-he followed the profession of teaching, and in which calling he has been successful. He is also a music teacher and organist of marked ability. In 1879 he was married to Miss Pauline Schweiter, of Cincinnati, for- merly an experienced teacher in the city schools.
C. C. Long, principal of the Twentieth district school, Cincinnati, was born in Butler county in 1830. He came to Cincinnati when twelve years of age, and received an education in its public schools, perfecting his course afterwards in Asbury university, Greencastle, Indiana. He was principal for a time of the Talmud institute, this city, but after a short stay, left the school-room and went into business in New York city, where he remained five years. He engaged to become private secretary to Col- onel Guthrie, of the Sixth Ohio regiment, but he soon returned to the school-room-a position he is in every way fitted to hold. He was at first elected as first assist- ant teacher in the First intermediate schools, but in 1878 he was elected to the principalship of the Twentieth dis- trict, which position he still holds.
George W. Burns, principal of the Eighteenth district school, Cincinnati, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, February 24, 1848, in which county he received his early education, preparing himself for college at the Savannah academy, where he taught as one of the faculty part of she time in lieu of his tuition. He also taught country schools, and by his own unaided exertions graduated in Bethany college, West Virginia, in the year 1873, taking the degree of A. B. He afterwards held a professorship in Farmers college at College Hill, filling the chair of mathematics, but after a three years' stay resigned. Since that time (1879) he has been principal of the Eighteenth district schoool. He was married July 1, 1880, to Miss Ormsby, daughter of Professor George S. Ormsby, of that place, so well known to the teachers of the State.
J. B. Schudemantle, principal of the Fourteenth dis- trict school, was born in Cincinnati October, 1842. Both of his parents came from Germany when young, and his father being poor, it became necessary for him to assist, during the vacation months, in his father's cooper shop. He graduated in the Woodward high school in 186 1, and immediately became a teacher in the orphan asylum, but resigned before the year was up to accept a position as master's mate on the gun-boat Mound City. Fortu- nately he was delayed and the boat left for White river without him, and was there blown up, most of the crew perishing. In 1862 he became first assistant in what is now the Fourteenth school district (the school he also attended himself), and in 1870 was elected its principal, which position he now holds. In 1871 he was married to Miss Mary A. Hunter, formerly a teacher under him in the schools.
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