History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 116

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1592

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in Avondale. Soon after locating here he was appointed postmaster at this place, and has held the office since then. Mr. Bérubé was married in December, 1890, to Alice M., daughter of William and Susan (Carpenter) Kieffer, of Lancaster, Penn. They have no children, Mr. Berube is one of the most popular druggists in Avon- dale. All prescriptions are carefully put up from the best drugs under his own personal supervision, and by his integrity and strict attention to business he has won the esteem of the neighborhood in which he resides and carries on business.

WILLIAM FEEMSTER, druggist, was born in Richmond, Ky., September 23, 1848, son of E. L. and Mary (Hall) Feemster, the former of whom was a prominent den- tist of Richmond. Ky., where he lived until his death in 1854; the latter a Kentuck- ian by birth, born in 1822, and died in 1877. They had five children, four of whom are living: J. H., employed in Glendale, at the Procter & Gamble Soap Works; Samuel W., engaged in mining in Colorado; E. L., in the employ of the Pullman Car Company, Chicago, and William.

Our subject was reared and educated in New Richmond and in Oxford. He lived on a farm until he was eighteen years of age, when he commenced clerking in a general store, which business he followed for two years. Having graduated from the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, he, in 1876, embarked in the drug business for himself, in what is known as "Old Columbia," where he has since remained. He was married in 1876, but had the misfortune to lose his wife by death a few years afterward. They were blessed with two children: Nellie and Alice, both of whom are living at home. They are all members of the Congregational Church. He beld the office of postmaster, Station C, Cincinnati, from 1877 to 1885, when he was removed; then reappointed when President Harrison came into office. Mr. Feemster is a Republican.

GEORGE K. BARTHOLOMEW, A. M., PH. D. There are few of Cincinnati's well- known educators who are more popular or who have done better work in his profes- sion than George K. Bartholomew, proprietor of the Bartholomew English and Classical School for girls, located at the southeast corner of Third and Lawrence streets, in the conduct of which he is ably assisted by Mrs. Bartholomew.

Dr. Bartholomew was born at Hartford, Windsor Co., Vt., July 4, 1835, a son of Noah and Mary (Freeman) Bartholomew. His paternal and his maternal grand- fathers both went to Vermont from Connecticut and Massachusetts at an early date, and his grandfather, Thomas Freeman, was one of the first two white men who spent a winter (1774-75) in the then wilderness of Barnard, one of Hartford's neighbor- ing towns. During the morning of June 17, 1775, while lying down to drink from a spring, these two young men heard distinctly the roar of cannon at Bunker Hill, 120 miles distant. Both his grandfather Luther Bartholomew, and his grandfather Freeman, gallantly served the cause of the colonies in the Revolutionary war, nota- bly in the battles of White Plains, Trenton and Princeton, and both fought to main- tain America's supremacy in the war of 1812-14. The family of Bartholomew has been known in America since early colonial settlement, the first one to come having been William Bartholomew, who arrived in Boston September 18, 1634, in the ship "Griffin," in company with Rev. Zachary Symmes (afterward minister at Charles- town), Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, Rev. John Lathrop (pastor of the first Independent Church in London, England) and some thirty of his congregation.

He settled in Ipswich in 1635, and for several successive terms served as the chosen representa- tive of Ipswich in the general court at Boston. From this date to 1660, when he removed to Boston, and afterward until his death, January 18, 1680, he was entrusted with some of the most important offices of those stirring times. His grave in Phipps Street Cemetery, Charlestown, is in a prominent position adjoining that of John Harvard, the founder of Harvard College. His son, Lieut. William Bartholomew, settled in Branford, Conn., and became the ancestor of all the Bartholomews of the New England branch of the family. Both in Branford and afterward in Wood-

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stock, Conn., he received almost every high honor in the gift of his fellow citizens both in the general court and in the military service of those towns. In England the family has a history antedating that event by two centuries, and those of the name have been known and honored at Burford through successive generations. Dr. Bartholomew's father was born September 20, 1800, and died November 9, 1871. His mother is still living aged about ninety-two years.

Dr. Bartholomew acquired his elementary education in the public schools of his native town. At the age of fourteen he entered Newbury Seminary, Vermont, and there prepared for college during the principalship of Rev. Dr. Joseph E. King, now president of the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, New York, and Prof. Henry S. Noyes, who afterward became president of the Northwestern University at Evan- ston, Ill. The thoroughness of his preparation is evidenced by the fact that in 1854 he entered Dartmouth College without conditions. He was graduated from that institution in 1858, taking high rank in his class, and was chosen as class day orator. He was at that time elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, an honor which he declined for adequate reasons. From the college to the schoolroom was a step which he took with a promptness that even then foreshadowed his career as an educator. Immediately after his graduation he became principal of Thetford Academy, Vermont, a preparatory school that sent many students to Dartmouth College. In the winter of 1859, he was called to the principalship of one of the public schools in Peoria, Ill. He labored in his western field successfully a year and a half, when he resigned the position in order to respond to a call to Cincinnati as principal of the classical department of Chickering Institute. His labors with that celebrated institution were continued during the ensuing fifteen years, and con- tributed to the preparation of a large number of boys for eastern colleges, where they entered with credit. During the latter part of that period he prepared and published through Wilson, Hinkle & Co., of Cincinnati, a Latin Grammar and "Latin Lessons," and later an edition of "Cæsar's Gallic War," accompanied by copious notes and numerous useful maps and charts. These works were well received, and have been commended by many of the leading scholars of America. In 1875, in association with Mrs. Bartholomew, Dr. Bartholomew established the since well-known English and Classical School for girls. It was for five years kept at Fourth and John streets, whence it was removed to its present favorable location. Much of interest concerning the history of this institution, and most favorable com- ments upon its conduct and efficiency, will be found in Mr. Venable's able and inte- resting chapter on the educational interests of Cincinnati, in another part of this work. In speaking of his important work and its results, Dr. Bartholomew always pays a high tribute to Mrs. Bartholomew's abilities, and insists that fully one-half the credit for the success of the institution is due to her.

Dr. Bartholomew was first married in August, 1860, to Miss Eliza J. Briggs, then of Wellsburg, W. Va., formerly of New Hampshire. Her father, a woolen manufacturer, came to New England from near Manchester, England. Mrs. Bar- tholomew died in 1862, leaving a daughter, now the wife of Dr. George Bigler Ehr- mann, of Cincinnati. In 1864 Dr. Bartholomew married Miss Ellen J., daughter of Rev. Benjamin R. Hoyt, of New Hampshire. Dr. and Mrs. Bartholomew are com- municants of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, with which they have been identified eighteen years; the past twelve years he has been a member of the vestry, and is now the junior warden. He became a member of the Cincinnati Literary Club in 1868; is a life member of the Historical and Archæological Society of Ohio; is a member of the Archaeological Institute of America, and of the American Philo- logical Society. Not educationally and scientifically alone has he become known by his good and useful works. He has been thoroughly identified with Cincinnati's associated charities for more than a decade, and he is at this time an influential member of the executive committee of its board of directors. His labors in behalf

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of the Young Men's Christian Association have been earnest and effective. He is one of the directors of the Y. M. C. A., of Cincinnati, and chairman of the commit- tee of the college department. Politically Dr. Bartholomew is a Republican. He voted for the first Republican nominee for the presidency, in 1856, and has been in helpful sympathy with the work of the party since that time, though in politics, as in everything else, he is an independent and original thinker.

REV. J. BABIN, A. B. This popular educator, the son of Jeremie and Flavie (Pinsonneault) Babin, is a native of St. John's, Canada, and was born July 19, 1837. He received his primary education in common and boarding schools, and in 1857 entered McGill College, Montreal. In due time he graduated at the head of his class from the University of Bishop's College, Lennoxville, where he also studied theology. In 1865 he was made a priest of the Church of England, in the Cathedral of Montreal, and the same year married Miss Elizabeth Bayley Abbott, of St. Andrews, and first cousin to J. J. C. Abbott, late premier of Canada. In 1867 he came to Cincinnati. His young wife did not experience the benefit expected from a change of climate, and died in the fall of 1869. In 1873 he married, in Louisville, Ky., Miss Kate Moore, who has borne him six children. After declining a profes- sorship in Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Mr. Babin accepted, in 1875, a position in Bishop Doan's school for boys at Cooperstown, N. Y. In the fall of 1876 he returned to Cincinnati, and in the following spring became associate principal of the Collegiate School of which he has been principal for the past fourteen years.

Though devoting himself chiefly to teaching, he has from time to time had tempo- rary charge of various parishes, and has performed the duties of pastor both in and out of the sacred desk with a devotion and ability that have won him much favor. As an educator he has a national reputation, and his recommendation alone will admit his pupils to some of the leading colleges. He feels justly proud of his educational work and his " boys," as he proudly calls those who have been his pupils, are many of them among the successful men of the day. His well-known classical school receives most favorable mention in Dr. Venable's history of the educational interests of Cincinnati elsewhere in this volume.

REV. THOMAS J. DODD, D. D. This well-known preacher and educator is descended from William Dodd, of Welsh descent, who lived long in Loudoun county, Va., dying there in 1837. His father, Prof. James B. Dodd, filled the chair of mathe- matics in Centenary College, Mississippi, and the College at Jackson, Louisiana, successively, and was, later, president of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. He was the author of Dodd's Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry, a series of mathematical text-books that was very popular and profitable until the publishers failed at the beginning of the Civil war.

Mr. Dodd was born at Harper's Ferry, Va., August 4, 1837, and was educated at Transylvania University, of which institution he is a graduate. After teaching a few years, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Kentucky Conference, and has been the pastor of several of the most prominent churches of that body. In 1863 he became the principal of the academy at Millersburg, Ky., which later became the Kentucky Wesleyan College, of which he was subsequently made the president. In 1876 he was called to the chair of Hebrew in Underhill Univer- sity, Nashville, Tenn., which position he resigned in March, 1885, his resignation taking effect at the close of the year in June. In 1887 he came to Cincinnati. After teaching a few years he joined the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, with which he he has been connected to the present time. In year 1887 he came to Cincinnati and established the Dodd Classical High School. This institution, which is referred to more at length in Dr. Venable's able chapter on "Education," presents a course of study more than ordinarily full even as compared with the courses of the more advanced academies. As a teacher, Dr. Dodd has unusual power over young men, both in influencing their personal character and

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stimulating them to study. Though engaged for the greater part of his life chiefly in educational work, Dr. Dodd has not been idle in the ministry. His pulpit admin- istrations have been about as constant as those of most pastors, and have been extended cheerfully among all the religious denominations. While a Methodist at heart, and by virtue of his membership in the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he is not sectarian, and, while he has not at this time any pastoral charge, he is constantly employed in the pulpits of neighboring churches of all denominations, and the demands upon him for literary lectures and addresses are frequent. As a theological professor, his aims were to teach his students how to think, rather than what to think. He never required them to accept any statement or view on his authority, or that of any man living or dead, but upon great underlying principles of truth and reason so far as they may be attained. Both as a theologian and as a scholar, these processes, while they have led him to the earnest advocacy of his own views, have caused him also to see the reasonableness of the views of others; hence neither in theology nor in literature does he admit the least dogmatism, as the word is generally understood. His readings and studies, like his sympathies in religion, have been varied. In literature his attention has been devoted to the ancient classical and Semitic tongues, especially the Hebrew, with a few of the modern languages so far as these have been necessary to the prosecution of enlightened scholarship. In 1872, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Centre College (Presbyterian), Danville, Kentucky.

Dr. Dodd was married, in 1873, to Miss Eva Baker, of Covington, Ky., who has borne him two daughters: Mary Louise, and Eva Virginia, the latter deceased. Mrs. Dodd who was graduated with high honors from Notre Dame Convent, Cincinnati, is a woman in whom literary and artistic talent and those qualities of domesticity which give to a home its most desirable characteristics are most happily blended; a true helpmeet in all that the word implies; like her husband, a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South, and in full sympathy with him in his literary tastes and ministerial duties. The family home is at No. 26 East Tenth street, Covington, Kentucky.

PROF. B. H. ENTRUP, one of Cincinnati's oldest and best known educators, pro- prietor of Entrup's English, German and Classical Day and Evening School, at No. 342 Central avenue, was born in Germany, September 12, 1819, and was edu- cated at the Universities of Munster and Bonne. He began teaching at Mt. Airy, near Philadelphia, and later taught at Westchester and Philadelphia. After a year as a teacher of mathematics in the Philadelphia Polytechnic, he became principal of the Washington Academy, Princess Anne. In 1861 he came to Cincinnati, and for two years was employed in the Polytechnic School of the Catholic College. In 1863 he established his private school at the northeast corner of Court street and Central avenue, which he moved to its present quarters in 1864, where it has become known as one of the old and reliable educational institutions of the city. Its course embraces English and German, Mathematics, Latin and Greek, and Prof. Entrup receives and gives special attention to those who wish to take these studies privately.

Prof. B. H. Entrup's English, German and Classical Day and Evening School, at No. 342 Central avenne, is one of the oldest schools of its class in the city, dating from 1863. It was opened at the northeast corner of Court and Central avenue and in 1862 was removed to its present location. Prof. Entrup is a thorough educator of long and varied experience, and has always given his personal attention to each pupil. The course of the school embraces English and German, Mathematics, Latin and Greek.

LOUIS TRAUB was born October 26, 1859, in Thann, a small town in Alsace. After the Franco-Prussian war, in 1870-71, he left for France and became a stu- dent in the Ecole Normale Speciale de Cluny, in the department of Soane et Loire, where he completed a course of studies, including a very thorough course in Ger-

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man and Latin. At eighteen he joined the Legion Etrangere of the French Army in Algiers, as a soldier. During the last eighteen months of his soldier life he was with the force under Col. De Negrier that made the campaign against Bou Amana, a redoubtable Arab chief. In this campaign Mr. Traub had some very trying experi- ences in the rigors of semi-barbarous warfare.

Mr. Traub left Africa on the first of November, 1882, and came directly to this country, landing in New York, December 27, and located in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has since resided. For the first year of his sojourn here, he had a great strug- gle against many disadvantages. However, nothing daunted, he began the study of shorthand after he had been here only about ten months. As it is characteristic of Mr. Traub to apply himself intensely to whatever he undertakes, he absorbed short- hand very rapidly, being able to write over one hundred words of ordinary matter per minute after one month's study. Being somewhat deficient in the English lan- guage, he could not secure a position as an amanuensis, and therefore turned his attention to the study of English grammar and Webster's dictionary, going through the tedious work of putting on paper every word of the English language with which he was not familiar. In due course of time he accepted a position with J. W. Biles & Company. Later he was with Joseph Brigel & Company, and finally with The American Export & Warehouse Company. With the latter house he remained as a shorthand amanuensis two years and a half. When he obtained the situation with the last named firm he had given only four months to the study of shorthand and English, and considering the fact that he had then been hardly more than one year in this country, his progress was quite remarkable. Mr. Traub wrote the Benn Pitman system of shorthand for a little over two years, when he came in contact with Mr. Edwin M. Williams, an expert Graham writer, who soon demonstrated to him the advantages of the Graham system. which he has written ever since. At the Cincin- nati Exposition in 1886, Mr. Traub operated a Caligraph with a blank key-board; he also went to Indianapolis to the State Fair in 1887, for the same purpose. On No- vember 1, 1886, Mr. Traub became stenographer to the law firm of Follett, Hyman & Kelly, of Cincinnati; and since that time he has been a law and general stenogra- pher, doing reporting work for some of the best law firms and railroad corporations of the city, always with perfect satisfaction to his employers. Although Mr. Traub has been in this country little more than ten years, notwithstanding many obstacles he has achieved a place at the head of the profession both in type-writing and in shorthand; and having no knowledge of the language when he came, he has accom- plished what few Americans have done in that length of time.

His is a shining example of what patient industry and diligent application, de- spite obstacles, can accomplish in the profession of phonography and type-writing. On November 1, 1888, Mr. Traub thought there would be a good field in the city of Cincinnati for Standard Phonography, and started Louis Traub's Shorthand and Business College. Owing to prejudice, and Cincinnati being the seat of Pitmanism, he had a very hard struggle for the first three years, but being enterprising and persist- ent, and always aiming to turn out first-class stenographers, his patience was at last rewarded, and he has the reputation of having one of the largest schools in Cincinnati. The best evidence of his success is the fact that he has always on his roll from ten to twenty-five students from other schools who had become dissatisfied and enrolled in his; and each and every one of these has pronounced his system of teach- ing and Standard Phonography far ahead of other systems they had been studying. Mr. Traub has the interest of his students at heart; and they all have nothing but kind words to say of him. His corps of assistants in the shorthand and business departments have had a practical experience in the commercial field, as well as in the school room. The development of the mental and moral character is assiduously observed, and the discipline is without harshness-firm, yet persuasive. No trouble- some pupils are tolerated, thus making the study one of love and admiration. For

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complete work, careful training, and a high standard of professional excellence and ability, Louis Traub's Shorthand and Business College is a paragon. Mr. Traub is energetic and conscientious in the discharge of every duty, and the examples placed before the students command respect and excite their emulation. This school has the patronage of most of the middle, southern and western States, and all of its graduates are to-day employed in lucrative and responsible positions through the instrumentality of Prof. Traub and his corps of assistants.

PROF. E. W. Cor, principal of Hughes High School, Cincinnati, Ohio, was born at Thorndike, Maine, December 6, 1832, fourth in the family of seven children of Elab and Sarah (Dyer) Coy. His father, a minister in the Baptist Church, was en- gaged in ministerial work most of his life, and died in the city of Baltimore, Md., where he had gone on a visit to his eldest son.

Our subject attended school in the State of his birth until he was fifteen years old, when he removed to Massachusetts, and, from that time on, was entirely dependent upon his own exertions. In 1853 he went to the Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., where he was prepared for college. By diligent study he was able, in 1854, to enter Brown University, where he was graduated with honor in 1858. The same year he went to Peoria, Ill., as principal of the high school. Prof. Coy then began to enjoy some of the fruits of his toil, for he had made his own way through college. He held the position for about six years, and in the meantime had been able in addition to his school duties to study law with Judge Weed, of Peoria. He was admitted to the Bar, and practiced his profession three years. He was then nominated and elected superintendent of the schools of the city of Peoria, Ill., with which he was connected until 1871, when he took charge of the Model High School, connected with the State Normal University. In 1873 he came to Cincinnati, Ohio, and accepted the principalship of Hughes High School, which position he still holds. Prof. Coy is a self-made man. He is a contributor to educational journals, and for two years was the editor of the " Illinois Teacher," one of the oldest school journals in the country.

In 1887 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton Univer- . sity in recognition of work that he had done in Greek. At the National Council of Education in 1892, at Saratoga, N. Y., he was elected its president. He was mar- ried in Massachusetts to Miss Genal Harrington, daughter of Rev. Moses Harring- ton, a Baptist minister, and this union has been blessed with three children: Louise, (the wife of J. A. Green), Alice and Helen.

REV. JOS. GLASS MONFORT, D. D., LL. D. The subject of this sketch was. of Huguenot ancestry who fled from persecution in France to Holland, their de- scendants later, in 1620, immigrating to America, and settling on Long Island. He is entitled to as high a place as any other among the pioneers of this region, whether we consider his age, his residence among us, his work, his character, or his reputation here or throughout the country. Dr. Monfort was born in Warren county, Ohio, December 9, 1810. He lived at Carlisle Station, Ohio, ten years, 1810- 1820; at Hamilton, Ohio, 1820-1828; at Cincinnati, two years, 1828-1829, as a teacher in the school of Daniel Chute; at Hamilton, three years, 1830-1832, as a teacher; at Oxford, Ohio, two years, 1832-1834, as a student in Miami University, graduating in 1834; at Hanover, Indiana, two years, 1834-1836, as a student in the Indiana Theological Seminary; at Louisville, Ky., two years, 1836-1837, as editor of the Presbyterian Herald; he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, by the Presbytery of Oxford, in September, 1837; preached one year in Hamilton, Ohio, 1837-1838; in Greensburg, Indiana, eighteen years, 1838 to 1855, except two years, 1843-1845, during which period he served as agent for the New Albany Theological Seminary. While living in Greensburg, he acted as chair- man of the Building Committee for the construction of the courthouse of Decatur county, Indiana, and was for several years a director of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Lafayette railroad, now included in the "Big Four" system. He received the

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 116

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson Number of Pages: 1592

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1592