History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 142

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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APPENDIX.

The following addition to the chapter on Religion was received too late for insertion in its proper place :

The Catholic churches of the Mill Creek valley, form- erly in Mill Creek township, but now within the city limits, are: St. Boniface, of Cumminisville, which was built by the Franciscan Fathers of Vine and Liberty, the Reverend G. Topmoeller having now been in charge for a period of about ten years. It has a large congregation, and also a large parochial school. St. Patrick's, of Cum- minisville, the church building having been erected by Rev. D. B. Walker, the present pastor being the Reverend P. Mazurett. The Sacred Heart of Jesus, at Camp Wash- ington, was built by Rev. H. Kemper, the present pastor being the Rev. Henry Paul.

The following notices were received too late for inser- tion in their proper place in the chapter on Education :

HISTORY OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT SCHOOL.

This school is located in the northern part of the city, about a block and a half north of Music hall, at the intersection of Elm and Adams streets.

The school-lot, which has a frontage of ninety feet on Elm street and a depth of one hundred and ninety-eight feet on Adams street, cost fourteen thousand dollars. The school-house was erected during the years 1855-56. It is a very substantial and fine-looking brick edifice, four and a half stories high, and contains twenty-four rooms, which have a capacity for seating one thousand four hundred and forty-two pupils. The original cost of erection, including also that of a subsequent remodelling, was thirty-six thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars.

The present school was organized out of the surplus pupils of the adjacent districts-the Tenth, the Eleventh, and the Thirteenth, and went into operation on January 5, 1857. It numbered at that time about one thousand pupils.

The present boundaries of the district are as follows: the west side of Vine street on the cast, the east side of John street on the west, the south sides of Green and Liberty streets on the north, and the north sides of Fifteenth, Fourteenth, Ann, and Betts streets.

The first principal of the school was Mason 1). Parker, who was transferred to the position from a similar one in the Tenth district. He continued in charge of the school until the beginning of the school-year 1858, when he was transferred to the principalship of the Second intermediate schools, and his position in the Sixth district was filled by the appointment of William E. Crosby. The latter re- mained in charge of the school until October, 1865, when he was transferred to the First intermediate school

as principal; and N. K. Royse succeeded to the position thus vacated. This completes the list of administrative changes experienced by the school, the last-named prin- cipal being in charge at the present writing.

ST. XAVIER COLLEGE.

St. Xavier grew out of an institution founded in 1831 by the first bishop of Cincinnati, the Right Rev. E. D. Fenwick, and named by him the Athenaeum. At the time of its transfer to the Society of Jesus, the Athenaeum was half college, half seminary, the seminarians assisting in the care and instruction of the other pupils. The in- stitution had, during the nine years of its existence, been only partially successful, and it was the earnest hope of friends and patrons that the putting of it into the - hands of the Jesuits would establish it on a firmer basis and give it new life and vigor. If we may credit the city journals of the period, their hopes were from the out- set realized to the full.

It was in 1840 that Archbishop Purcell addressed his invitation to the fathers of the Society of Jesus to come to Cincinnati. They eagerly responded to the call, and Rev. J. A. Elet, with six companions, made up the first deputation. The earliest care of the new faculty was to have the institution incorporated by the general assembly of the State of Ohio. The Athenaeum then became St. Xavier college, and the Rev. Father John Elet was ap- pointed its first president.

We cannot hope to interest the public with the details of St. Xavier's, and we will, therefore, be contented with its very general outlines. Few institutions of forty years' standing will truthfully boast a career of unmingled pros- perity. It is safe to say that St. Xavier has met with a large measure of success. Its beginnings, as we have stated, were eminently auspicious. At the close of the sixth year of its existence its catalogue counted two hundred and sev- enty students. The number was at that period made up both of boarders and day scholars. Later, about the year 1853, after the presidency of Rev. George Carrel, S. J., and his elevation to the episcopate as first bishop of Covington, the college ceased to receive boarders.

The decade following was a period of some gloom in the history of the institution, noticeable in a sensible de- cline in the number of students. Scarcity of funds, too, operated as an obstacle to greater capabilities and useful- ness-for it must be borne in mind that no State aid has ever been given St. Xavier's, and that it has depended almost entirely on the tuition fees received from its schol- ars. However, the college bore up bravely through all adverse circumstances, and from 1866 onward has wit- nessed some of its palmiest days. In that year was

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erected the handsome edifice standing on the corner of Seventh and Sycamore streets.

Of its later history we need say nothing. "Old St. Xavier" is a name that is to-day in many mouths, and that awakens pleasant recollections in many hearts. It has educated hundreds in the city which it adorns. Its graduates are to be found in honored places on the bench and at the bar. The medical profession counts many of them among its members, some well known to fame, and others fast rising into prominence. To ministers of the religion it professes it has given birth by scores. But we can give no more practical illustration of its work as an educational institute, than by presenting to the public its course of studies. We do this for the classical course only, observing that the commercial course, designed to qualify young men for the various branches of business life, is con- ducted on the same general plan as far as this is consist- ent with the different studies pursued therein.

The following notices, if received in time, would have been included in the chapter on banking and insurance:

Cincinnati Equitable Fire Insurance company, No. 169 Race street. This company was chartered in 1829-the first in Cincinnati. The plan is mutual and equitable, as well as virtually perpetual. Risks are taken on brick or stone buildings in Hamilton county for a period of seven years, at about the same rate of premium as the other companies, and at the expiration of the term the policy will be renewed, if desired, for seven years, and for as many periods of seven years as the holder may wish ; or if the depositor wishes to cancel his policy at the termin- ation of any period of seven years, the whole deposit, or premium, will be returned. The present deposits, which are held subject to the order of the depositors, amount to one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, the interest on which, by judicious investment and careful discrimin- ation in taking risks, has accumulated a surplus of over one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, which, with the aid of our efficient fire department, will render it im- probable that any assessment will be made to pay losses -one small one, only, having been made in the last thirty years. It cannot be denied that it is as safe, and certainly the most economical mode of insurance on first class risks in the world. It simply costs the insured the use of the deposit, and, in case of loss, there is no de- duction in the amount of deposit or insurance. Every member of the first board of directors of this company has passed away long since, but there are a very few of the members who have served over forty years. The in- corporators were : Ezekiel Hall, John Jolly, John Wood, Joseph T. Hodgson, Henry Miller, Henry Gassaway, William Burke, John Duval, Stephen Burrows, Benjamin Mason, William Barr, and Oliver M. Spencer, and they formed the first board of directors. The names of the present board of directors are: R. R. Springer, S. S. Smith (the two oldest members in the board), George Crawford, William H. Harrison, Charles Andress, James Gilmore, M. B. Hagans, William Woods, William H. Al- len, Jacob Seasongood, George Wilshire, and John Car- lisle. S. S. Smith, president; T. S. Goodman, secretary and treasurer ; Charles H. Baldwin, assistant secretary

and surveyor. This was the first local company formed in Cincinnati-and the only one on a similar plan.

Amazon Insurance company, of Cincinnati, has the largest amount of assets of any fire insurance company organized in Ohio. Its cash capital is three hundred thousand dollars, and total assets six hundred and five thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars. The stockholders, although the capital is full paid, are, under the laws of Ohio, individually liable for an additional equal to their stock. Since its organization in 1871, the Amazon has paid losses amounting to two million, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The com- pany's office building is at No. 260 Vine street. The president is Gazzam Gano, and the secretary is J. H. Beatie.

The Union Central life insurance company, which is domiciled in its own elegant building at the corner of Fourth and Central avenue, was organized in 1867, and having outlived and absorbed all other Cincinnati life in- surance companies, is now the sole representative of Cin- cinnati enterprise and capital in that line. And it is one to be proud of, its history being a continuous record of the triumphs of correct insurance principles, judicious enterprise, faithful management, and growing patronage. Through these the Union Central has been brought to the highest point of excellence as regards strength, soundness, promptness, reliability and popularity, all desirable ele- ments in an institution of its class, and possessed by it in a degree that gives it rank among the first life insurance companies of the country. The special features of ex- cellence in the system adopted by the company confirm it in this position. The company since its organization has paid out in death losses and matured endowments about one million dollars.

John Cochnower, president; John M. Pattison, vice- president; E. P. Marshall, secretary; Jesse R. Clark, cashier; John Davis, M. D., and William B. Davis, M. D., medical directors; Matthews, Ramsey & Matthews, counsel; John Cochnower, John Davis, M. D., William B. Davis, M. I)., J. W. Weakly, D. D., William Glenn, of William Glenn & Son, wholesale grocers, N. W. Har- ris, late secretary Union Central Life Insurance company, William M. Ramsey, of Matthews, Ramsey & Matthews, J. M. Pattison, of Yaple, Moos & Pattison, attorneys, Jesse R. Clark, M. Cassat, M. D., R. S. Rust, D. D., corresponding secretary Freedmen's Aid society, Cincin- nati, Ohio, Hon. Peter Murphy, banker, Hamilton, Ohio, W. G. Williams, M. D., Delaware, Ohio, directors.

Mr. Cochnower was the first president of the Union Central Life Insurance company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and has occupied that position during the existence of the company, except two years, when Mr. John M. Phil- lips was president. He has lived in Cincinnati since his eighth year, now more than a half century past, and has been one of our most enterprising and successful business men, noted for his integrity, energy and perseverance, and for his warm and liberal interests in charitable, relig- ious and public affairs.

Hon. John M. Pattison is the vice-president of the Union Central Life Insurance company, of Cincinnati,

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Ohio. He is a member of the eminent law firm of Yaple, Moss & Pattison, and served as a member of the Ohio legislature to the credit of himself and his constit- uents. He was the attorney of the committee of safety, an organization composed of the leading business men and capitalists of our city, and has been identified with all the important reforms in our municipal government that have been attempted during the last several years.

The name of Law has long been prominent in the insurance business in Cincinnati. Dr. John S. Law was appointed Cincinnati agent for the Royal Insurance company of London and Liverpool, England, in 1852, and he and his son have held this post ever since. Dr. Law was the first representative of this company in the west, and one of the three agents first appointed in the United States. His son, Mr. John H. Law, began in the business of insurance in 1852, in the office of his father. Here he remained until 1857, when he entered business on his own account, as agent for the Howard, Mercantile, and Commonwealth of New York. This agency continued until 1871, when Mr. Law formed a partnership with his father under the name of Law & Son, which lasted until the death of Dr. Law in 1877. Since then Mr. Law has conducted the business alone. In 1868 he was appointed the first agent of the Imperial of London. He is now general agent or manager for the Royal, of England, for the States of Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia, and for the London and Lancashire for the same territory; and for the United Fireman's, and Fire Association, of Philadelphia, and British Amer- ica, of Toronto, Canada, for the States of Ohio and Indiana. In this field for these companies Mr. Law has six hundred agents, whose premiums amount annually to four hundred thousand dollars, Mr. Law represents a greater number of companies as general agent than any other underwriter in the west. Under his guidance the companies he represents are securing a constantly in- creasing business, and his general agency ranks among the leading offices of Cincinnati.

Isaac H. Turrell, principal of the Fourth district school, was born in Franklin county, Indiana, December 17, 1839, and received his early education in a country district school. He was fortunate, however, at this time in having for his school-master William Cumback, then a rising young pedagogue, but afterwards member of Congress and lieutenant-governer of the State. Mr. Turrell subsequently attended Springfield academy, at Mount Carmel, Indiana, where he began the study of Latin and Greek under the supervision of George A. Chase, now principal of Louisville female seminary. M. Louisa Chitwood was at that time a student in the academy; she was a very attractive girl of about sixteen years, and always had an original poem to read on Fri- day afternoons - or composing day. She afterwards contributed to the leading literary magizines of the day. George D). Prentice, then editor of the Louisville Journal, esteemed her very highly, visited her at her home in Mount Carmel, and after her death, at the age of twenty- two, edited a volume of her poems. While at the acad-

emy Mr. Turrell devoted his leisure moments to litera- ture and the study of languages, but about the year 1859 he decame interested in mathematics, chiefly through the mathematical department of the Indiana School Journal, then conducted by W. D. Henkle. In the year 1862, after having prepared himself for the junior class in a university, he enlisted in the Eighty-fourth Indiana volunteer infantry, then just organizing, and re- mained in active service until the close of the war. In the spring of 1866 he was mustered out, "his services being no longer required." He has been a contributor to several mathematical publications, which are devoted to the higher branches of science.

ERRATA.

Page 9-Second column, twentieth line, for "places," read "planes." Page 10-Sixth line, for the second "in," read "is" ; second column, twenty-fourth line from the bottom, for "district," read "distinct."

Page 12-Second column, seventh line from the bottom, for "1848," read "1847."

Page 15-Thirty-second line, for "Fourth," read "Twelfth"; second column, twenty-ninth line, for "1794." read "1793."

Page 16-First column, fifth line from the bottom, for "Indian," read "English."

Page 17-Sixteenth line, for "Mound," read "Main."

Page 21-Second column, eleventh line from the bottom, for "Wil- liam," read "Cyrus."

Page 35-Eighteenth line, for "Lutner," read "Luther."

Page 37-Second column, thirtieth line from the bottom, for "route," read "fort"; eleventh line, for "September," read "August"; eleventh line, for "Western," read " Eastern."

Page 45-Second column, twenty-third line from the bottom, for "Williamson," read "Wilkinson."

Page 47-Seventeenth line, for "1764," read "1794."

Page 49-Second column, twenty-fifth line from the bottom, for

"William," read "James." Page 60-Second column, twenty-eighth line from the top, for "movements," read "moments."

Page 80-First column, twenty-sixth line from the bottom, for "ex- perience," read "expectation."

Page 86-Third line, for "Corrington, " read "Covington."

Page 90-Tenth line, for "1849," read "1839;" thirty-second line, for "twenty-nine," read "twenty-six."

Page 97-Second column, as the seventeenth line, insert "Eighteen hundred and forty-eight."

Page 108-Eighteenth line, after "Weitzel," remove the asterisk.

Page 109-Thirteenth line, between " though" and "always," read "not; " thirty-fourth line, for "first," read "fruit."

Page 125-First column, tenth line from the bottom, after "fifty," insert "thousand."

Page 142-Seventeenth line, for "Hetch," read "Hecht."

Page 154-First column, ninth line from the bottom, for " Carter," read "Collins."

Page 163-Second column, twenty-seventh line from the bottom, for "contest," read "contrast."

Page 201-Second column, tenth line from the bottom, for "coun- try," read "county."

Page 205-Second column, twenty-eighth line, before "1880," read "directors."

Page 222-Second column, seventeenth line, for "we," read "is."

Page 243- First column, seventh line from the bottom, for "west," read "cast."

Page 253 -- Second column, eleventh line, omit " four hundred and."

Page 255-Second column, nineteenth line, for "Whitney," read "Whiting." Page 257-Second column, twenty-ninth line, for "by, " read "be."

Page 290-Second column, sixth line from the bottom, for "1815." read "1816."

Page 294-Second column, nineteenth line, enclose "New Jersey" in brackets.

l'age 312-Thirtieth line, for "found," read "fond."

Page 317-Thirtieth line, for " Hamilton, " read " Hammond."

Page 329- First column, sixteenth line from the bottom, for "1849," read "1840."

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Page 333-Second column, fourth line from the bottom, for "That year," read "The year 1873."

Page 346-First column, seventh line from the bottom, for "Na- tional," read " Natural."

Page 350-Thirty-first line. The general statement in the books is as here given. Drake and Mansfield, however, in their Cincinnati in 1826, say the first steamer built at the city was the Vesta, in the year 1816.

Page 362-Seventeenth line, for " fire," read "fine;" first column, tenth line from the bottom, for " Kiljour," read "Kilgour;" second column, twenty-second line, for "piroque," read "pirogue."

Page 363-First column, twenty-ninth line from the bottom, for "games," read "game."

Page 364-Fifth line, for " Odin," read "Ohio."

Page 366-Second column, seventh line from the bottom, for "there, ' read "these."

Page 368-Twelfth line, for "Niswell," read "Wiswell;" second col- umnn, third line, for "Sniton," read "Sinton."

Page 371-Thirty-first line, read "feet," after "twenty-four;" second column, twenty-ninth line, for "printed, " read "re-printed."

Page 373-Twenty-first line for " Latton's," read "Letton's;" second column, third line, for "1836," read "1834."

Page 374-Second column, twenty-first line, for "Trivoli," read "Tivoli."

Page 375-Fifth line, for "Heuicks," read "Heuck's."

Page 377-Eleventh line, for "Coleman," read " Colerain;" second column, tenth line, for "Their," read "there;" eleventh line from the bottom, for "place," read "price."

Page 378-First column, tenth line from the bottom, for "Farnshaw," read "Earnshaw;" second column, twenty-eighth line, for " Ewens," read "Evans."

Page 379-First column, twenty-seventh line from the bottom, for "Miller," read "Müller;" twenty-sixth line, for "Rudolph," read "Randolph;" last line, for " Rieley," read "Reily."

Page 380-Twenty-first line, for " Nimrur," read " Nimmo;" second column, eleventh line, for "Davis," read "Davies;" eighteenth line (also page 382, fifth line), for "Johnson," read "Johnston;" nineteenth line, add "William Means, 1881;" twenty-ninth line, for "Statton,"' rcad " Stratton."

Page 381-Fifth line, for "Brudsall," read "Burdsall;" twenty-eighth line, for "Laffin," read "Saffin;" second column, twenty-second line, for "Gaple," read "Yaple."

Page 382-First column, twentieth line from the bottom, for "un- due," read "unpaid;" second column, twelfth line, for "rapidly," read "ardently."

Page 383-Second line, after "necessary," insert "means;" second column, twenty-sixth line, for "eight," read "cighteen;" thirty-fifth line, for "next," read "forty-fourth."

Page 384-Thirteenth line, for " the, " read "two."

! age 388-Second column, first line, for "cause," read "cost."

Page 389-Twenty-third line, for " find," read "fluid;" tenth line from the bottom, for "no," read "on."

Page 390- Thirtieth line, for "neat," read "new."

Page 394-Fifteenth line, for "4866," read "1866."

Page 396-First column, fifth line from the bottom, for " character,' read "charter;" second column, twenty-eighth line from the bottom, for "changed," read "charged."

Page 397-First column, eleventh line from the bottom, after "1826,' read "the health of;" second column, fourth line, for "2.23," read "2,230;" tenth line, for "22,867," read "2,867."

Page 398-Second coluinn, eighth line, for "chance," read "channel." Page 399-Second column, twentieth line from the bottom, after "five," read "hundred;" nineteenth line, for "1859," read "1869;" sec- ond line, for "Bulloch," read "Bullock."

Page 400-Twenty-fourth line, for " Convent," read "Covent;" sec- ond column, thirtieth line from the bottom, for "crowed," read " crowded."

Page 402-Second column, second line from the bottom, for "Har- meyer " read "Havemeyer."

Page 403 -- Second column, seventeenth line, for "1887," read "1877;" twenty-second and twenty-fifth lines from the bottom, for " tracts," read "tracks."

Page 404-Seventeenth line, for "Sedain," read "Sedam."

Page 406-Twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth lines, before each sum read "$."

Page 407 -- Tenth line, for "thirty-eighty," read "thirty-eight;" sec- ond column, eleventh line from the bottom, for "note, " read "vote;" sixth line, for "probable," read "probably."

Page 408-Second column, fifth line from the bottom, for " writer," read "village."

Page 409-Second column, sixth line, for " Hischmann," read "Fleischmann."

Page 410-Second columnn, nineteenth line, for "appear," read "ap- peal."

Page 411-Second column, eleventh line, for "Biegler," read "Ziegler." Page 412-First line, after "which," read "was."

Page 413-First column, sixth line from the bottom, for "Mr." read "Mrs."; second column, twenty-sixth line, for "mission," read " Mis- souri."

Page 414-Second column, nineteenth line, for "Dearbon," read "Dearborn; seventh line from the bottom, for "stone," read "store."

Page 415-Second column, fifth line from the bottom, for "did," read "do."

Page 438-In Dr. James H. Buckner's biography, in fourth line, for "Missippi," read "Maryland;" in eighteenth line, for "Harry," read "Henry;" in" twentieth line, for "1827," read "1828;" in third para- graph, twelfth line, for "Otto," read "sixth."

In Cyrus D. Fishburn's biography, page 440, in third paragraph, fifth line, for "had removed," read "removed;" same paragraph, twenty-fifth line, for "were," read "proved."

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History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 142

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