History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 137

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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Adam Metz, butcher, was born in Loudow, Germany, October 19, 1810. He came to the United States, and landed in New York July 15, 1832, going to Portsmouth and working on the canal at that place, where he con- tracted a fever. In 1838 he came to Cincinnati, and

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worked on the canal here at twelve dollars per month. He managed to save a little capital, and entered the butcher business in company with John Hauck. In 1836 Mr. Metz commenced business for himself, and to-day is probably the oldest butcher in business in the city. He made several trips to New Orleans in the pro- duce business with poor success. The secret of Mr. Metz's success is hard work and good management, by which he has accumulated a large property. He married Miss Anna Maria Leiginger, of Cincinnati, and has had ten children, five of whom are living. Mr. Metz em- ploys nine men in his business.

Bernhard Kluemper, foreman of the Park brewery, was born in Hanover, Germany, May, 1826, and came to the United States, landing at New Orleans in 1852. He came to Cincinnati, then went to Covington, Ken- tucky, and finally back to Cincinnati. He worked in a foundry for eight years. In 1861 he entered the brew- ery business, in which he has since continued. He has been foreman of the Park brewery since 1869, and to-day stands as one of the oldest and best-posted brew- ers in the city.

Henry B. Woste, was born in Honover, Germany, May 13, 1851, and is the son of Henry and Maggie (Speckmann) Woste, both natives of Germany. Our subject came to America and landed in Baltimore in 1868, thence to Cincinnati. In 1870 he began to learn his trade as cigar maker, and in 1873 began business for himself in Cincinnati. In 1878 he moved to his present place of business, which is two and a half stories high, eighteen by sixty feet in size, using the first floor in the cigar business. He employs seven men and manufac- tures some five thousand cigars per week. He manufac- tures the celebrated brands, "La Espanola," "Princepe DeCales," and "La Rosa." Mr. Woste is doing a very extensive jobbing trade, and his retail department is very good. He keeps a full line of tobaccos and pipes. He was the first regular cigar maker to locate on East Walnut Hills.

B. H. Heithans, dealer in boots and shoes, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1824. He, in 1849, came to America and located in Cincinnati. Here he began to work at the shoemaker's trade. In 1861 he established business for himself in Cincinnati, where he remained until 1874, when he began in the boot and shoe business in Woodburn, where he has remained ever since, now the oldest, and, as well, the first boot and shoe establish- ment in Woodburn. Mr. Heithans is a member of the Catholic church. Since he has been located in Wood- burn he has been very successful in his business, having established a very good trade.

Edward Schaefer, M. I)., was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany, September 1, 1846, and is the son of Dr. Joseph and Margaret (Hock) Schaefer, both parents na- tives of Germany. His father was a leading physician of Aschaffenburg, Germany. Our subject, after receiving a thorough education in the high schools of his native town, graduated with the highest honors in two leading medical colleges of Germany. He spent several years in the largest hospitals of Vienna and Berlin in the study

of surgery and medicine. In 1875 he came to America, and located for a short time in Memphis, Tennessee. He then came to Cincinnati and located in Woodburn. Here he has built up a very large and lucrative business.

Joseph Kleine, retired, was born in Oldenburg, Ger- many, April 27, 1814. He learned his trade as a tailor in Germany, and, in 1834, sailed for America and lo- cated in Baltimore, where he worked at his trade for some six months, when he came to Cincinnati in meagre circumstances. Here he began to work at his trade, tailoring, which he worked at until 1837, when he had saved enough money and entered the merchant tailoring business for himself, which he continued for some twenty- five years, on Fifth street, Cincinnati, when he entered the jobbing business, which he was very successful in for ten years, when he retired from business. In 1849 Mr. Kleine moved to Woodburn. Here he has been very actively engaged in building. At this place he has erected some twelve handsome residences, his house being one of the finest in the place. He was married August 8, 1837, to Miss Agnes Deckhaus, of Germany, by whom he has three children-two daughters and a son. Mr. Kleine is one of the oldest members of St. Francis DeSales church, of Woodburn.

Rev. John Herman Burwinkel, assistant pastor of St. Frances DeSales church, was born in Cincinnati, April 28, 1851, and is the son of John and Elizabeth (Over- man) Burwinkle, both parents natives of Germany, hav- ing come to Cincinnati some forty years ago. After receiving a thorough education, he, in 1876, was or- dained, when he received an appointment as assistant of St. Francis DeSales church, where he has remained faithfully since.

Rev. Charles Schmidt, pastor of St. Francis DeSales church, was born in Prussia, May 2, 1853, and is the son of Joseph and Mary (Dany) Schmidt. Father Schmidt received a very thorough education in his native country, and was ordained there as a minister in 1875. He was pastor of a church for some six months when, in 1876, he arrived in America and came to Cincinnati. He was first pastor in St. Boniface church, where he filled the pulpit for three years, when, in 1879, he came to the present charge and has remained since ..

William Durrell, of Mill Creek, East Walnut Hills, was born in Dixmount, Hancock county, Maine, June 16, 1804, and is the son of Thomas and Persela (Gorten) Durrell. He, with his parents, in 1818 moved to Ohio and settled in what is now known as Avondal Mill Creek township, Hamilton county. Here he was engaged in farming, and he soon after moved to a farm near where the Zoological Garden is located, of eighty-six and a half acres, which cost him from eight and one-third to twenty- four dollars per acre. Here he remained for some four- teen years, when he moved to his present place. He was married in this house March 6, 1826, to Anna B. Phillipps, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania, and in 1806, with her parents, moved west and located on the farm now owned by Mr. Durrell. Her father, Richard Phillipps, kept a hotel here for a number of years, part of the house now being occupied by Mr.

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Durrell. Here Mr. Durrell and wife held their golden wedding, and in this room her funeral sermon was preached. She died December 7, 1876, aged seventy- one years, seven months and twenty-eight days. They have four children living. Mr. Durrell was for ten years school director, in which he took a very active part. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he has been an elder for the last twenty years.

Joseph S. Cook was born in Northfield, New Hamp- shire, September 28, 1815, and is the son of Robert H. and Esther (Hunt) Cook. When very young he, with his parents, moved to Boston, Massachusetts. There he learned his trade as a builder, and afterwards removed to Brooklyn, New York, where he engaged in business. In 1839 he came to Cincinnati, and located on Sixth street. Here he commenced to work at his trade, and soon after he had the largest force of men at work in the city building sewers, cisterns, and general plastering work. Being a very successful builder he continued in the- busi- ness fifteen or twenty years, when, one day, he was made a present of about fifty fine plants by Mr. Nicholas Long- worth. From this start he gradually grew into the nur- sery and florist business, since which he made the finest display at the first Exposition, and carried off some of the highest honors. He did a large and profitable busi- ness. At one time he had over one million five hundred thousand trees in his nursery, his florist business was very complete, and he owned one of the finest salesrooms in the west, attending to the largest orders for theatre and other decorations. He is to-day one of the oldest flor- ists of Hamilton county. Mr. Cook was married April 14, 1841, to Miss Catharine M. Williams, whose family were among the earlier settlers of Cincinnati. Mr. Cook moved to his present residence in 1848, and it has been his home since.

Henry Fasse, saloon-keeper, was born in Prussia, Sep- tember 9, 1833, and came to America in 1851, landing in New Orleans, and then came to Hamilton county, where he engaged in farming for a short time, when he moved to the opposite side of his present place of busi- ness, building a little frame house, the first in the neigh- borhood. From there he moved to his present place of business. Here he has erected a good hall for the sing- ing societies which meet here. He has made good im- provements on his place, and has one of the most attrac- tive places in the vicinity. He was married in Cincinnati to Miss Gieser, by whom he has had six children.

J. A. Orth, grocer, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, April 6, 1823. He is a carpenter by trade. In 1853 he came to Cincinnati, and in 1849 engaged in the grocery business in that city. In 1878 he built his pres- ent place of business, and moved to Walnut Hills. Here he keeps one of the most complete and neatest groceries on the Hills.

B. H. Boedker, grocer, was born in Germany, April 18, 1835, losing his father and mother when he was seven years of age. In 1854 he sailed for America, coming direct to Cincinnati, he located in Fairmount, where he learned the chair-maker's trade. He followed that busi- ness but a short time, when he entered a grocery store as

a clerk, at three dollars per month; from that, by his strict attention to business, he was raised to six dollars per month, and then to twelve dollars. He then entered a grocery in Fulton, where he soon after, by hard work and good management, became the owner of a grocery. He remained in Fulton a year and a half, when he sold out, moved to Cincinnati, on the corner of Court and Cutler streets, and in 1862 Mr. Boedker moved to Walnut Hills, being one of the first merchants on the hill. Here by his good management he has been very successful. He has filled several offices of public trust with honor, hav- ing been trustee of Mill Creek township, and also repre- sented Woodburn in the council for one year. He is an active member of the Catholic church, and has eight children.

Fred Kraus, druggist, was born in Budwers, Bohemia, Austria, May 1, 1814. He received a thorough educa- tion, graduating at the Vienna university on July 22, 1863. He was for a time drug clerk in the old country, and also for eighteen months served a similar position in the army during the Austrian war. In 1869 he came to America and landed in New York city, coming direct to Cincinnati, where he accepted a clerkship in a leading drug store, which he followed up until he began business for himself. He, in 1870, moved to Walnut Hills, since which time he has been very successful, doing a good business. He has also established a branch drug store on the Madison road and Huckelberry street. Mr. Kraus is perhaps one of the best posted druggists in the city, doing a large manufacturing business in the drug line.

Isaac Huffman, merchant, Walnut Hills, was born in Carthage, Hamilton county, Ohio, in 1828, and is the son of John Huffman, who was born in Virginia, he being the son of A. Huffman, also a native of Virginia. John Huffman, with his parents, came west and located in Kentucky, in 1808, where they remained until 1810, then moved to Hamilton county, Ohio, on a farm. Our subject was raised on the farm, engaged in farming and gardening. In 1859 he moved to Walnut Hills, and in 1860 entered the grocery business in the rear of his present locction, on the old Montgomery road. In the year 1873 he erected his present stone block, and commenced business. Here he has remained ever since, now one of the oldest, if not the oldest, business men on Walnut Hills. Mr. Huffman was married, in 1852, to Miss Jane Kemper, daughter of Presley Kemper, a pi- oneer of Hamilton county. She is also a native of Hamilton county. Since Mr. Huffman established bus- iness at his present stand, he has built up a leading and profitable trade.

William Reudigs, druggist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1854. After receiving a thorough education, he entered the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, where he graduated in 1876 with honors, receiving the highest medal of his class of twenty-two members. He then came to Walnut Hills and established his present busi- ness, which he has been very actively engaged in ever since, building up a large and ¡profitable trade. Mr. Reudigs' father is one of the old pioneers of Cincinnati.

Froelich & Froehlicher, wagon-makers and black-

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smiths .- This establishment was formed in 1875 by Jacob Froehlich, who was born in Germany. He came to Cincinnati and worked at his trade, established the present busines and employed two hands. Being very successful, he built up a large and profitable business. He died in May, 1879, respected and honored for his good qualities. The present firm was then formed, con- sisting of Conrad Froehlich and Anton Froehlicher, both practical workmen, having had a number of years ex- perience in the blacksmith and wagon trade. These gentlemen do a general wagon manufacture and re- pairing.

Cooper & Welland, carriage manufacturers .- This firm is composed of Samuel Cooper and Harry Welland, and was first established in 1880. Samuel Cooper is one of the old settlers of Walnut Hills. He built and carried on the first livery stable in that place. He is now in the livery business, and keeps on hand some of the best stock in that line that can be found in the livery trade. Mr. Harry Welland, the junior member of the firm, was born in Cincinnati, October 8, 1859, and is the son of Henry and Annie (Martin) Welland, who are old settlers of Cincinnati. Our subject, at fifteen years of age, be- gan to learn his trade as a carriage painter. This busi- ness he has followed ever since learning his trade in the shop; he is now half owner. He has been very in- dustrious, and, by hard work and good management, has got a fair start. He is recognized as a number one car- riage painter, and a good manager of his business. The shops are doing a good business, as the people of Walnut Hills are realizing that they can get as good work done at Cooper & Welland's as they can get by going else- where. Mr. Welland was married January 29, 1880, to Miss F. B. Hartmann, daughter of Henry Hartmann.

Quinton Eagle, manufacturer of shoe uppers, was born in England, and in 1857 came to America, locating in Cin- cinnati. In 1858 he established business in Cincinnati. In about 1864 he moved to Walnut Hills. Here he en- tered in his present business in a two story frame house fourteen by thirty-four feet in size. He has here all the modern improvements, and employs as high as eighteen hands, doing a general custom-work for the city trade. Mr. Eagle has had some forty-two years' experience in boot and shoe business, and since locating on Walnut Hills, he has been successful in the manufacturing busi- ness.

George Stribley, shoe-manufacturer, the subject of this brief notice, was born in England, having come to America and located in Cincinnati in 1847. He worked at his trade as a shoe-maker near his present place of business. In 1849 he entered the manufacturing busi- ness in a meagre way on McMillen avenue, near Kemper lane, Walnut Hills, thence to McMillen, near Gilbert avenue. He commenced, with two hands, manufactur- ing shoes by hand up to 1862 or 1863, when he purchased a McKay sole sewing-machine, being the first to introduce this machine west of the Alleghany mountains. While on McMillen avenue his business grew very rapidily ; he was employing as high as fifty hands. In 1873 he moved his business to 89 Pearl street, and in 1879 moved to the

present building, No. 12 Fourth street, which is one of the largest shoe manufactories in the country, employing be- tween four hundred and five hundred hands. In July, 1874, the firm of G. Stribley & Co. was formed, com- posing George Stribley & Frank Droppelman, which has been very successful in operation ever since.

George Lapthorn & Sons, shoe-manufacturers. This firm is composed of George Lapthorn and his two sons, George and Thomas H., all practical shoe-manufacturers. George Lapthorn, sr., was born in England, and in 1850 came to Cincinnati, where he worked at his trade, when he soon after moved to Walnut Hills and established the present business, commencing in a small frame building in the rear of his present shops. Here, by the help of the family, he manufactured some one hundred and fifty to two hundred pairs of shoes per week, his business having since then gradually improved until now they oc- cupy the present brick building, a two-stories high, twenty by forty feet in size, and part of a two-story frame on the right. Here they employ some thirty hands in the manu- facture of shoes, with all the modern improvements, with a capacity of turning out eight hundred pairs of shoes per week, doing the very best of work and finding ready sales for their goods in the city. George Lapthorn, jr., was born on Walnut Hills. He entered the shoe business with his father, and has continued at that business ever since; he attends to collecting, and is the general man- ager. Thomas H. is superintendent of store room and men's department. He is also a native of Walnut Hills, and has been actively engaged in the business.

B. G. Harff was born in Cologne, Germany, September 19, 1847, and is the son of Albert and Josephine (Scho- enefeld), both parents natives of Germany. Dr. Harff, after receiving a thorough school education at Cologne, began to prepare himself for the practice of medicine. He entered the university at Bonn on the Rhine and graduated from there July 26, 1875, receiving the highest honors. Graduating from one of the leading medical colleges of Germany, he practiced his profession in the Cologne hospital for some six months; he was also in the St. Thomas and Bartholomew hospitals of London for a short time. He was engaged by the English govern- ment to bring emigrants to Australia, where he visited and remained some five months. In 1877 he was mar- ried to Miss Amelia Kaeuffer, of Germany. They both sailed for America and located in Cincinnati, locating on Elm street. Here the doctor remained until 1880, when he moved to Walnut Hills, where he is meeting with very good success.

B. H. Moormann, retired, was born in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, August 3, 1823, and is the son of Gerhart and Elizabeth (Hellman) Moormann. In 1839 our subject came to America and located in Cincinnati. Being in poor circumstances he entered a hotel on Main street, working in the kitchen at five dollars per month, where he soon after became porter; he then went to the Henric House, working as porter, when soon after he was made clerk, which position he filled for a number of years. He afterwards entered the dry goods business, which he was very successful in, retiring from business in 1870,

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Mr. Moormann was married in 1846 to Miss Catharine Brune. By this marriage they have five children. In 1862 Mr. Moormann moved to Walnut Hills, where he has been one of its active citizens since. He is a member of the Catholic church.

F. B. Williams, retired, was born in Hamilton county June 2, 1825, and is the son of Thomas and Mary (Tur- ner) Williams, who were among the pioneer settlers of Cincinnati, his mother having come here as early as 1810. She died May 14, 1865. His father, Thomas Williams, was born in North Wales. He, when very young, was bound over to his uncle to learn the tannery trade, where he remained for several years. Not being satisfied he determined to come to America. At twenty- one years of age, he, having no money, went aboard a ship, where he hid himself in an empty hogshead, where he was discovered the third day after being at sea. He came on in the vessel and was landed in New Orleans. He then set out with a party and walked to Bardstown, Kentucky ; on the way he came near starv- ing. After remaining in Bardstown a short time he moved to Cincinnati and located on the southeast corner of Main and Second streets. Here he established a tannery in a log cabin, tanning mostly deer skins, making parchments. Being very successful in his business he invested in real estate. He owned where the Coliseum theatre is on Vine street, where he pastured his cows. After remaining in the tannery business for a number of years he moved to the farm on Walnut Hills. Here he operated a grist-mill and a distillery, with a capicity of two barrels of whiskey per day. Here he carried' on business until he built a residence where the Coliseum theatre is, and there moved and remained until his death. He died at about sixty-nine years of age. Our subject has remained on the old farm until it has ac- cummulated in great value, being one of the most de- sirable pieces of property on Walnut Hills.

Rev. Peter Tinsley, pastor of the Church of the Ad- vent, was born in Powhatan county, Virginia, August 25, 1833, and is the son of John B. and Eliza (Trueheart) Tinsley, both of Virginia. Our subject remained a resi- dent of his native county until he was fourteen years of age, when he moved to Prince Edwards county, Vir- ginia, where he received his principal education, having graduated from the Hapden Sidney college in 1851. He then went to Petersburgh, Virginia, where he was princi- pal of a select school. He there attended the Alexandria Theological college, and in 1860 was ordained. His first appointment was in Ronaoke county, Virginia, where, soon after, he was made chaplin in the confederate serv- ice, serving in General Robert E. Lee's army. He was with Lee's army at the time it surrendered. At the close of the war Rev. Tinsley was made chaplin of the Uni- versity of Virginia, where he remained two years. In 1869 he came to Cincinnati and took charge of his pres- ent congregation, where he has remained ever since.

Rev. J. J. Kennedy, pastor of the Church of the Presentation, was born in Ireland, June 24, 1849, and is the son of Dennis and Nora (Scanlan) Kennedy, both natives of Ireland. Our subject, when very young, came

to America with his parents and located in New Orleans. In 1852 they canie to Cincinnati, which has been Father Kennedy's home ever since. He entered the St. Thomas seminary, of Bardstown, and from there he entered the Mount St. Mary's college, where he graduated in 1869 in high honor, and was ordained June 7, 1873. Rev. Kennedy took charge of his present congregation in its infancy, and by his faithful work has done wonderful good.

Rev. Bernard H. M. Roesener, pastor of the Catholic church at Sedamsville, was born in Cincinnati in 1852, where he received his principal education, having gradu- ated from the St. Xavier college in 1873. He was or- dained as minister and appointed to Brown county, where he remained some four years, when he went to New Boston, Clermont county, and from there came to Cincinnati, and is assistant at his present place.

John Reichert, saloon, was born in Germany, in March, 1814. He learned his trade as a brewer and cooper in Germany, and in 1850 came to America and landed in New York city. He worked for some three years in Harrisburgh and Philadelphia at his trade, and in 1853 he came to Cincinnati, where he worked in the breweries until he entered his present business, when, in 1864, he moved to Mt. Auburn, where he has remained ever since. Mr. Reichert was inarried in Cincinnati to Sophia Ernst, by whom he has had four children.

John B. Neeb, proprietor of Mt. Auburn garden and restaurant, was born in Germany, July 17, 1836. He came to the United States and landed in New York city; thence went to St. Louis and New Orleans. At the break- ing out of the late civil war we find him at Louisville, Kentucky. Here he enlisted in the army for three years in company H, Fifth Kentucky regiment. He served as orderly sergeant, participating in some of the most severe battles and marches during the war-Pittsburgh Landing (Shiloh), Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, sixty-five days under fire at Atlanta, Chickamauga, etc. Mr. Neeb was wounded twice-once at Mission Ridge, and once at Chickamauga. He was mustered out at the expiration of time, September 14, 1864, when he soon after came to Cincinnati and commenced in the trunk manufacturing business. In 1866 Mr. Neeb moved to Mt. Auburn. Here he is engaged in keeping a garden and restaurant, being a first-class place in every respect.

D. W. Landwehr, grocer, was born in Germany. Came to America and located in Cincinnati December 10, 1848, where he has been one of its active and highly honored citizens ever since, with the exception of a few years Mr. Landwehr was in Aurora, Indiana. Since returning from that place he has been actively engaged in the mercan- tile business. He is a cabinet-maker by trade, which he followed for a number of years in Cincinnati. He then entered the grocery business, and in 1874 he moved to his present place of business. Mr. Landwehr has filled several offices of trust. He was one of the organ- izers of the German Protestant orphan asylum, which he has taken an active part in ever since. He is an active member of the German Protestant church of Mt. Auburn, being its honored treasurer for several years.

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History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 137

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