History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 167

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

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Michael and John Pope were born and reared in this country. Michael was born September 27, 1858, and after reaching manhood engaged in farming, a vocation he- followed until 1885, when he and his brother managed a hotel on the corner of Harri- son and Western avenues, Cincinnati, continuing in this until 1888, when they sold out and together bought a farm of 138 acres in Whitewater township, where they

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iboth engaged in farming. In April, 1893, they purchased a farm of twenty-two acres, and in 1894 purchased a farm of ninety-three acres, for which they paid $5,000. On January 3, 1883, Michael Pope married Miss Rose Woerthwine, born in Green township January 17, 1862, and two children have blessed this marriage: Arthur Andrew and Edward M.

John Pope was born November 5, 1856. After reaching manhood he engaged in farming, which he has followed all his life. He was a silent partner in the hotel "conducted by his brother in the city. He was married October 20, 1886, to Miss Rachel Woerthwine, born in 1866, to which union one child has been born: Louetta. The brothers married sisters; they are the daughters of Jacob and Nancy (Aethler) Woerthwine, of Wurtemberg, Germany, the former born March 21, 1824, the latter October 29, 1826. They were married in 1850, and emigrated to this country in 1852, locating in Green township; in 1872 they came to Whitewater township, where Mr. Woerthwine remained until his death, which occurred September 20, 1876. The mother is still living with her two sons. They were the parents of eight children: Anna, Louisa, John, Nancy, Rose, Jacob, Rachel and Edward. Politically John and Michael Pope are Democrats.

DAVID LEMMON, of Whitewater township, was born October 27, 1840, son of David Lemmon, who came from Baltimore, Md., in 1816, and settled in Colerain township, residing there for ten years, after which he came to Whitewater township, where he remained until his decease, in 1871. The mother, Margaret (Shrill) Lem- mon, was of German descent and was connected with the nobility of Europe. "They were both members of the United Brethren Church.

David. Lemmon was educated in the public schools of Whitewater township, was reared on the farm, and after reaching manhood rented his father's farm until he was twenty-eight years of age. He then bought a place in Harrison township, on which he remained ten years, when he sold out and bought his present farm near Miami, where he has since resided. He was married, in 1862, to Miss Anna Lewis, daughter of Welcome and Nancy (Mason) Lewis; she died October 1, 1877, a mem- ber of the Methodist Church. They became the parents of six children: Timothy, Thomas, Charles, Maggie, David and Helen. Socially Mr. Lemmon is a Mason, a member of Columbia Lodge No. 44. Politically he is a Democrat.

ANDREW POPE, of Whitewater township, was born September 1, 1813, in Ger- many, son of Andrew and Agnes Pope. Our subject was married in 1843 to Miss Mary Ann Betts, a native of Germany, who was born May 13, 1819, and they became the parents of children as follows: Martin, Caroline, Adam, John, Mary, Michael, . Otto, Andrew and Barbara.

He emigrated to this country in 1853, and, after remaining in New York a short time, purchased and settled upon his present farm. He and his wife are members of the Catholic Church, and politically he is a Democrat.

WILLIAM HAYES, deceased, was born near Elizabethtown, December 5, 1848, son "of Joseph and Mary (Newton) Hayes. His early life was spent in Dearborn county, Ind., near Lawrenceburgh. He remained at home until 1864, when he enlisted as a private with the Fifth O. V. I., in the Ninth Brigade. After the war, on November 1, 1866, he was married to Miss Rachel Mason, and removed to the farm now occu- pied by Mrs. Hayes, in Whitewater township, where he remained to the time of his death. Mrs. Hayes was born February 27, 1840, in Dearborn county, Ind., daughter of Isaac and Mary Ann (Lynch) Mason, the former of whom was born in Pennsyl- vania, October 23,1803, came to Dearborn county when a young man, and remained a resident of same all his life, becoming one of its honored and respected citizens. Mrs. Mason was born September 9, 1803, and is of Irish extraction. Abiah Hayes, "our subject's grandfather, was born in 1780, in Pennsylvania, and remained there #until twenty years of age, when he came to Whitewater township, this county, and

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invested all the money he possessed in two and one-half acres of land. He spent his life in Hamilton and Dearborn counties, becoming the wealthiest man in the community.

ERASTUS B. HAYES was born at Mt. Nebo, Miami township, April 18, 1842, son of James and Minerva J. (Iliff) Hayes, the former a native of Dearborn county, Ind., who was brought to this township when a mere child. His father was a successful> farmer residing near Elizabethtown, where he died in 1867. Mrs. Hayes is a descendant of an old English family; she resides at Cleves, Ohio. By this marriage eleven children have been born: Erastus B., Wilson (deceased), Eliza, Catherine, .. Flora, Mitchell (deceased), Jennie (deceased), Stephen H., James, Eva, Stanley (de- ceased).

Erastus B. Hayes, when eighteen years of age, enlisted in the Fifth Ohio Cav- alry, Company D, and was with Sherman's division of the army; he was taken pris- oner at the battle of Trenton, but was held for only a short time; he was commis- sioned sergeant and served the last year of his army life in that capacity. After returning from the war, he remained with his parents until December 24, 1868, when he was married to Miss Roxanna West, born November 1, 1848, daughter of Warren and Mary J. (Hayes) West, the former a native of Pennsylvania, who emigrated with his parents to Lawrenceburg, Ind., in 1814. Five children have blessed their union : Roxanna; Walter and Zedick (twins), deceased; Mary, and Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Erastus B. Hayes are the parents of eight children: Cora, wife of Dr. J. L. McHen- ry, of Somerville, Ohio; Warren W .; Minnie; Raymond E .; Stephen H .; Mary; Catherine, and Anna. In March, 1874, Mr. Hayes removed to his present home, a farm of one hundred acres in the Whitewater Valley. Mrs. Hayes is a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Hayes has served as school trustee and assessor of his . township. Socially he is a member of the Odd Fellows, North Bend Lodge, No. 402, also of the John Campbell Post, G. A. R., of Harrison, Ohio. Politically he is a Democrat.

JOSEPH GIERINGER, merchant and manufacturer, whose place of business is situ- ated on State and Ferry streets, Miamitown, in the township of Whitewater, was - born in Mill Creek township April 4, 1846, a son of Anthony Gieringer, a native of Germany. Our subject was reared to farm life, and received only a public-school : education. At the age of eighteen he enlisted, on February 16, 1865, in the Fifth- Ohio Cavalry, in which he served about nine months, being mustered out October 20 of the same year, at the conclusion of the Rebellion. In 1866 he went to Green township, where he learned the wagon-making business, in which he has been since engaged. On January 1, 1890, J. Gieringer & Son opened a general store in. Miamitown, where to-day they are doing a large and steadily increasing business, - which has been gained by strict integrity and careful attention to the wants of their patrons.

Mr. Gieringer was married, in 1868, to Rachel, daughter of Nicholas and Bar- bara Minges, natives of Germany, and their union has been blessed with thirteen children, nine of whom survive, viz .: Joseph, who married Miss Millie Wetherbee, . of Whitewater township; Annie Barbara; Julia; Edward; Charles; Albert; Peter F .; Clifford Harold, and Lawrence Leonidas. Mr. Gieringer is a prominent mer- chant in the township in which he resides, and is held in high esteem by his fellow citizens for his sterling qualities, genial manners, and business qualifications. He and his wife were brought up in the Roman Catholic faith. He is a Democrat politically, has been township trustee for over eleven years, and also treasurer of Miamitown . Cemetery for a number of years. Mr. Gieringer's parents are both dead; the father died in Miamitown, in Whitewater township, in 1874, and the . mother passed from earth in Colerain in 1850, when our subject was but four years. old. The father was twice married; by the first marriage there are four living :

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.children, viz .: Joseph; George, who resides at Camp Washington; Louise, wife of P. Aulgier, of Cincinnati, and Julia, wife of Valentine Boreman, of Glandorf, Put- nam Co., Ohio. By the second marriage there are two living children: William, engaged in the butcher business at Cumminsville, and Annie, wife of Joseph Kerst- ing, residing at Glandorf, Putnam county, Ohio.

GEORGE JOHN NEIDHARD, undertaker and embalmer, who resides in Whitewater township near Miamitown, and whose place of business is located in Sheartown (Taylor's Creek P. O.), was born in Sheartown December 8, 1868, son of Andrew and Mary (Frankhan) Neidhard. He was educated in the public schools of Green township, and after leaving school worked at the carriage and wagon making busi- ness for about two years, when about eighteen years old engaging in the undertak- ing business with his father, in which he has continued ever since. He brings an active experience to bear in his business, and as a thorough exponent of the same has no superior. His store is tastefully and appropriately fitted up and provided with all the latest improvements for the successful prosecution of his business, containing as fine an assortment of funeral furnishing goods as can be found in any similar establishment. He supplies everything necessary for a funeral, from the laying out of the body to its final disposition in the ground. He is a live and progressive business man, and is highly esteemed in the community in which he resides for his high ability and unswerving integrity. Mr. Neidhard was united in marriage, January 26, 1893, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph H. and Rachel V. Ahthews.

The parents of our subject were of German nationality but born in the United States. They still reside in Sheartown, Green township. They had born to them thirteen children, six of whom survive: William, who resides in Mack, Ohio; Charles, a carriage painter residing at Sheartown; Mary, wife of George Myers, of St. Louis; "George John; Matilda, wife of Cleves Markland, of Man, Ohio, and Edward, resid- ing with his father. The father of Mrs. Neidhard was born in Cincinnati and was of Irish nationality. He died October 28, 1889. Her mother was of English descent and died November .5, 1892.

ENOCH HAYES, of Whitewater township, born June 19, 1854, near Elizabethtown, is a son of Moses and Mary Jane (Guard) Hayes, the former of whom was born July 19, 1828, in Whitewater township. He was reared on a farm, and engaged in agriculture all his life, meeting with success. He was twice married. On June 28, 1848, he married Mary Jane Guard, born September 13, 1829, and the following children were born to them: Ezera G., born February 9, 1849; Charles S., born November 13, 1851; Enoch, born June 19, 1854; and Isaac, born November 30, 1856. Mr. Hayes married, for his second wife, October 16, 1860, Sarah Jane Rit- tenhouse, and to this union came two children: Mary Jane, born September 4, 1861, and Harriet H., born June 2, 1863. Moses Hayes departed this life May 2, 1864.

Our subject, Enoch Hayes, remained at home and attended the public schools of his native township up to the time of his father's death, when he and his three brothers went to live with an uncle, Silas Van Hayes, of Elizabethtown, until they reached manhood. Each attended Moore's College for two years. After leaving school Enoch engaged in farming in that township for a time. In 1875 he married "Miss Minnie M., daughter of N. C. and Charlotte (Miller) Clark, natives of this county, the former of whom was a physician. Mrs. Hayes has only one sister, who resides in Decatur, Ill., and is the wife of Russell Guard. After our subject's mar- riage he farmed in Indiana for nine years, and then moved on his own farm, a part of the same formerly owned by his father, where he has since remained. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are the parents of four children: Edna Blanch, Flossie Wilbur, Everett and Minnie Byrle. In his political preferences Mr. Hayes is a stanch Democrat.

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GENERAL THOMAS TINSLEY HEATH is the eldest son of the late Rev. Uriah Heath and Mary Ann (Perkins) Heath, and was born at Xenia, Ohio, on the 10th day of March, A. D. 1835. His paternal and maternal ancestors were soldiers in the Rev- olution, and his father was a major in the militia of Ohio. Young Heath inherited the martial spirit, and when a child belonged to a school-boy company, uniformed in blue and armed with tin-headed spears.

His father was one of the leading Methodist preachers in the Ohio Conference; was a champion and advocate for higher education, an ardent Abolitionist, possessed of one of the best libraries in the State, and successively filled the pulpits of his Church in some of the most desirable towns and cities of Ohio. His mother was possessed of all the graces which adorn Christian womanhood. It is not surprising that such parents had taught their son to read, and that he had read the Bible before he was five years old and before he was sent to school.

Among his school and play mates he was with the first in study, and took the first prize in the preparatory department of Marietta College, "Maxwell's Academy." In skating, swimming, ball playing, fishing, hunting and riding he excelled, and his teachers classed him as bright, generous and brave. His father, an eloquent and most devoted minister, no doubt wished that he might become " A soldier of the Cross," like himself; but the boy early determined to become a lawyer, and so it came to pass. In leisure hours, and vacations, he indulged a native bent for me- chanics, made his own wagons, sleds, book-cases, took a turn at the tailor's, black- smith's, harness-maker's and carpenter's trades, put up a kite, large as a door, carrying a light through the night which "shone like a star." Before he was out of school he surveyed and platted a town, with his own hands built a dwelling house, and seems to have believed in the truth of the writing master's copy, " What man has done man may do."

His father was a trustee of the Ohio University at Athens, and also of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and when the subject of this sketch had been prepared for college at Springfield High School under the late Dr. Solomon How- ard, and at Maxwell's Academy at Marietta, his father's removal from Marietta District to Columbus District caused young Heath to matriculate in the Ohio Wes- leyan University. He accomplished Greek, Latin and Hebrew, with the usual mathematics and sciences, and at the same time clung to his first love, and read Walker's American Law, Blackstone's and Kent's Commentaries, and, impatient of the delay, after three years at Delaware, he came to Cincinnati, entered the Cincin- nati Law College, and, at the same time, the private office of the late Hon. Bellamy Storer, then judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, where he remained two years. In 1858 he graduated and was admitted to the Bar in the class with Col. Fred. C. Jones (who fell at Stone River), Gov. E. F. Noyes, Judge William L. Avery and others. The first year thereafter he spent in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Paris, observing the procedure in their respective Judicial Courts. Returning, he entered the practice in Cincinnati, forming a co-partnership with the late Hon. Thomas C. Ware, as Ware & Heath. Upon the election of his partner to the city : solicitorship, he declined the appointment of assistant, offered him, and retained the firm office and business.

When the wires flashed the news that Sumter was fired on, his soul was in arms -and his office closed. Appointed on a committee for the purpose, he went to Wash- ington, and procured the acceptance of three regiments recruited in Cincinnati, and then, under authority from Gen. Fremont at St. Louis, he mainly recruited, organ- ized and equipped the regiment known as the Fifth Regiment Ohio Cavalry. Not having been educated in a military school, and being without experience in war, he shrank from the responsibility of the command; and being told that W. H. H. Tay- "lor, a nephew and son-in-law of President William Henry Harrison, had been in com- mand of a battalion of cavalry in Virginia, and knew the tactics, and inasmuch as all

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the cavalry officers of the regular army had either joined the Rebellion or been assigned other commands in the Union army, he induced Col. Taylor to be mustered in as colonel, and himself became lieutenant-colonel. He was constantly in camp, and the instruction and discipline of the regiment devolved upon him. Tiring of being held in Camp of Instruction, he appealed directly to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who read his appeal aloud to a room full of persons in waiting, approved it, ordered Col. Townsend to make out the orders, which came through Maj. - Gen. Halleck, and in two days Col. Heath, with two battalions of the regiment, was on steamboats going down the Ohio river with orders to report to Gen. Sherman, at Paducah, Ky. Gen. Sherman gave him the advance up the Tennessee river, past Fort Henry, and Savannah, and on the 16th of March, 1862, in a night march attempting to destroy the railroad at Iuka, his command of 600 picked men were ambuscaded by Col. Clanton's brigade of Alabama Cavalry, about three hundred yards from Shiloh Church, which gave the name to the famous battle fought on the 6th and 7th of April, 1862. Though it was night, in woods with thick underbrush, no roads, and the guide wounded, the troops were thrown into columns of squadron and the charge sounded, when the enemy were driven back, and a number of prison- ers taken. The orders were to return if attacked, and, on reporting, Gen. Sherman pronounced the christening a success.

At the battle of Shiloh, Col. Taylor being sick, Col. Heath led the regiment in the only cavalry charge made in that battle, a charge which saved the left flank of Gen. Hurlburt's Fourth Division. Worn out with the labors and exposures, on the day before Corinth fell, Col. Heath was stricken with fever, and was in hospital for three months. On recovery, he joined his command, corrected laxity and abuses which had crept in, and the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, by honest service and merit, gained a rep- utation throughout the army corps, and was second to none. Gen. Sherman gave Col. Heath the advance of Osterhaus' division from Mississippi to Missionary Ridge, and then the advance to the relief of Burnside at Knoxville.

He established the courier line which kept up the communication between Gen. Burnside at Knoxville, and Gen. Thomas at Chattanooga, and then reported to Gen. Logan, at Huntsville, Ala. Col. Taylor being absent from the field, not earlier re- signing, and orders prohibiting promotion over a ranking officer in the same regi- ment, he did not receive his promotion to colonel until August, 1863, although he had as lieutenant-colonel been in command of a brigade of five regiments of cavalry. Just before the March to the Sea, Gen. Sherman transferred his command from the Third Division Army Corps to the Third Division Cavalry Corps, and added the Mc- Laughlin Squadron to it.

At the battle of Waynesboro, Ga., the First and Second Brigades of the Division, opposed by Wheeler's and Anderson's Divisions of rebel cavalry, were staggered and confused, when, without waiting for orders, he led the reserves which he commanded in a flank attack, with such impetuosity that the enemy gave way, were pursued for several miles, and the railroad bridges over Bear Creek were destroyed. For this action he was promoted to brevet brigadier-general from its date. Arriving be- fore Savannah he opened communication with the fleet in Ossabaw Sound, the same day that Fort McAllister was captured. From Savannah he was sent North with despatches to the War Department, and in command of the soldiers on board the "North Star." He rejoined the army in North Carolina, took command of the Third Brigade of the Cavalry Corps, and commanded the escort to our flag at the surrender of Gen. Johnston's army to Gen. Sherman. He succeeded Gen. Kilpat- rick in command of the Third Cavalry Division of the Cavalry Corps, and, after the fighting was over, was assigned by Maj .- Gen. Schofield to the command of the District of West North Carolina, with headquarters at Salisbury, of prison pen fame.

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He reconstructed fifty-seven counties, appointing justices of the peace, paroling rebel soldiers, and starting the civil machinery of government; mustered out the troops of his Division, and in November, 1865, was himself mustered out of service, and gladly returned to home and peace.

Engaged when the war broke out, the wedding was postponed on account of hos- tilities, and in November, 1862, he procured a week's leave of absence and was mar- ried to Miss Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Josiah and Jane Bagley, of Cincinnati. He saw his wife but once each year of the war. She visited him in camp at Memphis, for one week; the next year one day at Camp Davies, Miss., and he did not again see her until she joined him in North Carolina after the surrender.

Upon the return of peace, he entered into a co-partnership in the practice of law in Cincinnati, with Charles B. Collier, Esq., and so continued until Mr. Collier re- moved to Philadelphia. Since that time Gen. Heath has practiced alone. As a law- yer, he is well read, clear, strong and original. He never went on the criminal side, and preferred office business and patent practice to less inviting general practice in small cases in the courts. He has settled large estates, and managed some of the largest suits with marked success.

In politics Gen. Heath inherited the birthright of a Whig-bearing the name of Tinsley, after Judge Tinsley, the law preceptor of Henry Clay, and for whom his grandfather was named - and from the birth of the party being a Republican, acquainted with and interested in the principles and history of the party, yet, though often solicited, he has never been a candidate for any office. Practicing in Cincin- nati, he made location of a country home at Loveland, and his family dwells at " Miamanon," where hospitality is free and sweet. He is a member of the Method- ist Episcopal Church, was one of the founders of "Epworth Heights" Camp Grounds, and for a number of years president of the Association.

As a public speaker Gen. Heath has rare power; in extemporaneous effort, and after-dinner talks, he has few equals. His first wife died in 1872, without children. In the Centennial year he was married to Miss Mary Louise, daughter of Ralph and Catherine Slack, of Middletown, Ohio. The union proved most happy, four sons and three daughters having been born to them. The heaviest blow that can be given a father's heart was suffered by Gen. Heath in 1889, when his two beautiful and promising boys, Ralph and John, fell victims to that dread scourge, diphtheria.

Of great energy and self-reliance, Gen. Heath has succeeded in all the various bus- iness he has undertaken; has stretched forth the helping hand to many a youth; has seconded every work for the public good; is known as a most generous man, and yet has saved for himself a handsome competence. He was the ardent friend and elo- quent eulogist of the late Judge William Johnston, who loved him as a father loves his son.

For the past ten years Gen. Heath has devoted constant study, with intense ap- plication, and has spent a large amount of money, in creating a system of matrix printing, and machines, by which " The art preservative of all the arts" could be so readily and cheaply practiced as to release the craft from the thralldom of hand com- position. He is the inventor and owner of " The Justifier," which justifies printers' lines by machinery ; and of "The Typograph," which makes the matrices from which the column of a newspaper, or page of a book, are cast, in stereotype plate at one pour. These machines are marvels of ingenuity, will certainly work great changes in body-letter printing all over the earth, and, it is supposed by competent judges, will give Gen. Heath, now in his prime, added fame and great wealth. They could

come to no more deserving man.

COL. PHILIP H. DEITSCH, chief of police, Cincinnati, was born in Rhenish Bava- ria, October 7, 1840. When quite a young man he came to the United States, en- listed in the regular army, and was detailed for duty in the West. He was sent to Washington Territory, and assigned to Company B, Fourth United States Infantry.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 167

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