History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 21

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

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The school went into operation March 1, 1893, and its success was immediate. The course of study includes phonography, typewriting, business correspondence, business forms and tables, legal forms, copying, filing, and special lessons in law reporting and the teaching of phonography. The faculty consists of Benn Pitman, president; Jerome B. Howard, director; Julius E. Rockwell, principal; and a full corps of instructors.

The Nelson Business College .- Richard Nelson, president of the Nelson Business College Company, of Cincinnati and Springfield, Ohio, is the author of a well-known "Mercantile Arithmetic," published in 1859, and of Nelson's "Bookkeeping." For many years he has been identified with the mercantile and manufacturing interests of the city; and the college, which he established here in 1856, has been carried on by him with indefatigable energy and zeal. It occupies two separate buildings, and has all the departments of a completely equipped business school. The branches taught are business penmanship, mercantile law, banking and business transactions, bookkeeping, correspondence, shorthand, typewriting, etc. The institution has a special " Practical School for Boys," in which are taught reading, business forms, writing, bill-making, penmanship, geography, civil government, and composition. The College provides an annual course of lectures by prominent men.

The Nelson Business College, originally located on the corner of Court and Cen- tral avenue, was in 1859 removed to the southeast corner of Fourth and Vine streets, where it remained till 1885. It now occupies two sets of rooms, the one on the northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut, the other on Fifth and Walnut. The officers who manage its business are Richard Nelson, president; Ella Nelson, vice-president and treasurer; Alice Bagott, secretary.

Bartlett's Commercial College .- Robert M. Bartlett, founder of "Bartlett's Com- mercial College and School of Business," in 1834 established in Philadelphia "the first exclusively commercial college in the world." Later he organized a similar

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institution in Pittsburgh. He removed to Cincinnati in 1838, where he built up the school which bears his name, and of which he was the head until March 7, 1892, when he died at the ripe age of eighty-four. The college is now conducted by his son, C. M. Bartlett.

The subjects taught in the college are commercial arithmetic, bookkeeping, concise correspondence, mercantile forms and customs, business penmanship, com- mercial geography, banking, spelling and composition; and, as special branches, phonography, typewriting, telegraphy, and artistic penmanship.

Cincinnati Business College .- This institution, located in the Miami building at Fifth and Elm streets, is under the direction of Prof. C. W. McGee, a practical stenographer and instructor of shorthand of more than thirty years' experience, who is also president of the college, with W. R. Hoeg as secretary, and M. A. McGee, as treasurer. The course of instruction is ample and complete in all its parts, and will with proper attention enable young men and women of ability to take charge of and conduct large and complicated business, or keep the books of the same upon scientific principles. It embraces business, bookkeeping, actual business practice and banking, commercial law, penmanship and correspondence, commercial arith- metic, clerking and office drill and lectures. The system of bookkeeping here taught is exceptionally thorough and practical. The system of actual business practice conducts the students through a course of transactions, correspondence and records, its scope is large, embracing a great variety of transactions, the keeping of a practical set of books, the drawing of business and legal papers, etc. The students engaged in this work condnet their business in connection with the College National Bank, Merchant's Emporium, Commercial Exchange, Transportation Offices, and various lines of business houses, precisely as does the business man on the street; banking business is conducted in banking as in the best regulated banks. Each department is in charge of a principal who is a thorough master of the work in hand. The College is zealous and successful in securing positions for its graduates.

Louis Traub's Shorthand and Business College. - A knowledge of phonography and bookkeeping, and the use of the typewriter are necessary in this progressive age, and this institution, which affords such knowledge, has a wide and well-earned reputation. It was founded by Louis Traub, November 1, 1888, an expert phonographer and typewriter operator, who possesses a peculiar knack of imparting his knowledge to his students. The College is devoted to phonography, typewriting and business educa- tion, giving to the students a thorough and practical training in all the branches necessary to become competent shorthand writers and bookkeepers; teaching the Gra- ham system of phonography .- Mr. Traub is highly recommended by the legal fra- ternity, stenographers, merchants, manufacturers and ministers, and endorsed by Andrew J. Graham, author of the Graham system. The College is centrally located at Seventh and Walnut streets, well ventilated and lighted, and every convenience is provided to enable pupils to obtain a thorough practical training and become pro- ficient shorthand writers, operators of the typewriter and bookkeepers.

LAW SCHOOL.

This school was founded in May, 1833, by lawyers who had received their in- struction in the Law School of Reeve & Gould, at Litchfield, or in the Dane Law School, at Cambridge, and who sought to introduce the advantages of that method of the study of the law in the West. It is understood to be the first law school established west of the Alleghany Mountains. The first term began on October 7, 1833. In 1835 the Law School was incorporated with the Cincinnati College, a literary and academic institution founded in the year 1819; and from that time it has been conducted under the name of the "Law School of the Cincinnati College." As such it became permanently located in the College buildings, on Walnut street, Cincinnati, and has been liberally endowed from the college funds for the establish-

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ment of professorships, and for the formation of a law library adequate to the pur- poses of the School.

Prof. Rufus King, who died March 25, 1891, after a long connection with the School, had a hereditary interest in it, for his father, Edward King, was one of its founders. This interest Rufus King manifested, not only by his earnest and able work as professor and as dean, but he provided in his will for the future endow- ment of the chair of constitutional law. The School has a library of five thousand volumes, comprising the works of the best writers on law and jurisprudence, and the more important reports. It has been selected with special reference to the wants of the School, and is devoted to its exclusive use. Large additions are annually made, a yearly appropriation of one thousand dollars for that purpose being pro- vided by the corporation. Students who are non-residents have, by the courtesy of the directors of the Public Library of Cincinnati, the use of the library, and are admitted to the reading rooms without charge. Very valuable advantages are thus open to those who have time for pursuing any branch of literary or scientific culture in connection with the study of the law. The number of students in the Law School for the academic year 1892-93 was: Senior class, 106; junior class, 61- total 167. The degree of Bachelor of Laws is conferred by the corporation upon all students who have been regularly admitted to the senior class, have attended the full course of senior lectures, and have passed the examination required for gradua- tion. This examination is both oral and written, and is conducted by a committee appointed by the supreme court of Ohio.

The Faculty of the Law School consists of the following gentlemen: Jacob D. Cox, LL. D., dean, professor of constitutional law, civil procedure, real property and elementary law; George Hoadly, L.L. D., emeritus professor of the law of ap- pellate jurisdiction and practice in the Federal courts; Henry A. Morrill, LL. D., professor of the law of contracts and torts; George R. Sage, LL. D., professor of equity jurisprudence and criminal law; Channing Richards, M. A., professor of com- mercial law and the law of contracts; Hiram D. Peck, LL. D., professor of the law of corporations and of evidence; Francis B. James, LL. B., lecturer on the statute law. Trustees of the Cincinnati College .- William Howard Neff, president; Alex. H. McGuffey, secretary and treasurer; Stephen C. Ayres, M. D., Samuel P. Bishop, Rev. Alfred Blake, Jacob D. Cox, John F. Follett, Marcellus B. Hagans, George Hoadly, William Hooper, E. W. Kittredge, Sidney D. Maxwell, George R. Sage, Edward Sargent, Rt. - Rev. Boyd Vincent, D. D., and Obed J. Wilson.

MEDICAL EDUCATION IN CINCINNATI.

From the latest edition (1891) of Dr. John H. Rauch's " Medical Education and Medical Colleges in the United States," published by the Illinois State Board of Health, we obtain severely authentic data for the brief statements that follow.

The Medical College of Ohio, a " regular" college, in the prevailing sense of the word, was organized in 1819. In 1858, the Miami Medical College was merged into the "Ohio," but was separated from it in 1865. The Faculty consists of ten professors, ten assistants, three adjunct professors, two lecturers and four demon- strators. After the sessions of 1890-91, four years' professional study and three regular courses of lectures will be required as conditions of graduation. Since 1879 the College has graduated 863 students. The percentage of graduates to matricu- lates is 33.2. James G. Hyndman, M. D., secretary.

Miami Medical College, also "regular," founded in 1852, was in 1858 merged into the Ohio Medical College, but was re-established in 1865. It has eleven pro- fessors, six demonstrators, and one assistant demonstrator. Lectures on all the sub- jects usually taught in the best medical colleges. Requirements for graduation, four years' study, and three courses of lectures. Graduates since 1860, 313. Per- centage of graduates to matriculates, 29.6. W. H. Taylor, M. D., dean.

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Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery was organized in 1849. It has eleven professors, seven special and adjunct professors and demonstrators. Require- ments for graduation, same as the "Ohio" and "Miami." Graduates since 1880, 205. Percentage of students graduated, 40.2. William R. Amick, M. D., secre- tary.

Women's Medical College of Cincinnati, a department of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, was organized in 1887. The Faculty consists of ten pro- fessors, one demonstrator and three lecturers. A three years' graded course is re- quired, with four years' study, to graduate. Within the four years of its existence, eighty-two ladies have matriculated, and thirteen have received diplomas, a percent- age of 19.1. D. D. Bramble, M. D., dean.

Eclectic Medical Institute, the successor of Worthington Medical College (or- ganized in 1832), was organized in 1845. In it were merged the American Medical College, in 1857, and the Eclectic College of Medicine and Surgery, in 1859. The Institute has eleven professors, one adjunct professor, one lecturer and a demon- strator. Students applying for graduation must have read medicine for four years, and attended three courses of lectures. Number of graduates within the last ten years, 750. Percentage of graduates to matriculate, 36.1. John M. Scudder, M. D.

Pulte Medical College was organized in 1872. It is homeopathic. The Faculty consists of fifteen professors, three lecturers, and one demonstrator. For gradua- tion, three full courses of lectures of at least six months each, and three years' study. Number of graduates within last ten years, 253. Percentage of graduates to mat- riculates, 38.6. Charles E. Walton, M. D., registrar.

Clinical and Pathological School of the Cincinnati Hospital was organized in 1821. Its medical staff is derived from the Faculties of the Ohio and the Miami Colleges. It is controlled by a board of trustees presided over by Dr. David Jud- kins. The medical staff consists of two consulting physicians, two consulting sur- geons, four visiting physicians, four visiting surgeons, four obstetricians, two ocu- lists, two pathologists, four curators and microscopists, one resident physician, seven. internes and seven externes. In 1891-92 there were 233 students.

The Ohio College of Dental Surgery, established in 1845, is controlled by a board of nine trustees, the president of which is now C. L. Keely, D. D. S. The Faculty num- bers six professors and five demonstrators. The number of students matriculated in 1892-93 was 120.

The Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, established in 1871, has a Faculty of seven professors. The dean of the Faculty is Charles T. P. Fennell, Ph. G., Ph. D. The number of students in 1892-93 was sixty-seven.

The Presbyterian Hospital Woman's Medical College, the purpose of which is "to furnish to women a thorough medical education of the highest standard," was organized in 1892. The college building is No. 424 West Sixth street. The pres- ident of the board of trustees is Mrs. Alexander McDonald, and all the trustees are ladies. The dean of the Faculty is Dr. John M. Withrow. There are eighteen professors. The number of matriculates for 1892-93 was fourteen. The number of graduates for 1893 was three. The requirement for graduates calls for four years' study and three courses of lectures.

The entire number of students matriculated in the eight schools briefly described above, for the year 1892-93, as shown in their published reports, was 946. If we deduct. the number 233 attending the clinics at the hospital, as probably having been counted twice, the number remaining amounts to 713, which may fairly be taken to indicate the demand for medical and kindred information, and yearly supplied by the schools of Cincinnati.

LANE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.

The historian of the early history of Lane Seminary, Rev. G. M. Maxwell, D. D., gives the origin of the institution in these words: "In the summer of 1828 occurred

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what led to the first decisive steps towards the foundation of this Seminary. Mr. E. Lane and brother, merchants of New Orleans, Baptists, moved with a desire to bring the means of education within the reach of . pious but intelligent young men,' offered assistance thereto to their Baptist brethren in Cincinnati. The Bap- tists declined the offer. It was then proposed that it should be a joint affair, the Baptists and Presbyterians uniting. This partnership the Presbyterians declined to go into. The offer was then made to the Presbyterians alone, and by them enter- tained, and the first meeting was convened in the First Presbyterian church, Sep- tember 27, 1828. To this meeting a paper was presented exhibiting the plan of an institution, and containing the proposition of the Messrs. Lane. It was resolved to act upon it, and committees were appointed to wait on Messrs. Lane, draft a con- stitution and prepare a circular for appeal to the public."

In October, 1828, an association was organized, having for its purpose the estab- lishment of a "seminary of learning, the primary object of which shall be to educate pious young men for the Gospel ministry." In January, 1829, Elnathan Kemper donated sixty acres of land on Walnut Hills, on which buildings were erected from the years 1830 to 1836. The Seminary was incorporated February 11, 1829. Rev. George C. Beckwith, of Lowell, Mass., was called to take charge of the theo- logical instruction, and he accepted. The Seminary was opened in "Kemper's Schoolhouse," the old quarters of an academy founded by Rev. James Kemper, in 1819, and suspended in 1825.

In September, 1830, Prof. Beckwith resigned, and on the 22nd of October following, Dr. Lyman Beecher, of Litchfield, Conn., was chosen president of the Seminary, and professor of theology. Dr. Beecher, however, did not come to Cin- cinnati until 1832. On December 26, 1832, he was inducted into the chair of sys- tematic theology, which he filled until 1850, when he resigned. Before this, in January, 1831, Rev. Thomas J. Biggs was appointed professor of ecclesiastical his- tory and church polity, which chair he occupied until 1839. Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, of Andover, was appointed professor of Biblical literature, August 9, 1832. He resigned in 1850. In October, 1835, Rev. Baxter Dickinson was made professor of " Pastoral Theology," and he held the position until 1839. Rev. D. Howe Allen succeeded Prof. Dickinson. In 1851, after the resignation of Dr. Beecher and Dr. Stowe, Rev. George E. Day and Rev. Jonathan B. Condit, D. D., became professors in Lane. Prof. Condit was succeeded, in 1855, by Rev. Henry Smith. Other noted names of professors connected with Lane are Rev. H. A. Nelson, D. D., Rev. E. Ballantine, D. D., and Rev. T. E. Thomas, D. D.

The institution has been brought into prominent public notice, of late years, on account of discussions concerning higher criticism in theology, resulting in the trial for heresy of one of its distinguished professors, Rev. Henry Preserved Smith. The later history of the Seminary is succinctly stated by a writer in the Commer- cial Gazette, September 17, 1893. "In 1890 there were in the Faculty Rev. Drs. Edward Morris, Henry Preserved Smith, William Henry Roberts, Arthur McGiffert, Llewellyn Evans and Edward Craig. Smith, Evans and McGiffert were pronounc- edly on the side of the higher critics; Morris and Craig leaned that way, but with a conservative inclination, while Roberts was the sole advocate of that orthodoxy which the General Assembly lately indorsed. Before the battle warmed, Craig left, and Evans accepted a call to the Seminary at Bala, Wales, in which country he died before the full force of the attack on the higher critics, begun by the Cincinnati Presbytery, was felt. Then came the trial and conviction of Dr. Smith by the Cin- cinnati Presbytery, followed by the resignation of Dr. Roberts. Quickly followed the acceptance by Dr. McGiffert of a call from Union Seminary, from which school he had graduated, and the conviction of Dr. Briggs by the General Assembly. At the time of his conviction Dr. Smith tendered his resignation, but the board refused to accept it, and he was allowed to continue his teaching in the Seminary for the

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term. He, however, declined to resume with the new term, as it would appear to be a defiance of the Church authorities. So his resignation was renewed and accepted, and Dr. Morris, who assumed the presidency of the Faculty on the death of Dr. Allen, as the remaining member of the dispersed Faculty, was charged with the election of a corps of instructors for the session at hand."

The following statement of Dr. Morris' plans, for the year 1893-94, is taken from the Cincinnati Tribune: "Naturally, Prof. Morris himself stands first in this extemporaneous faculty. He will continue his courses in theology and apolo- getics as well as lecture upon important epochs in the history of Christian doctrine, and on the structure and delivery of sermons. He will also have charge of all rhetorical exercises and act as dean of the Seminary. The instructor in Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, as well as in general and special introduction, will be Rev. Kemper Fullerton, Princeton 'SS and Union Seminary '91. Mr. Fullerton has been in Berlin during the past ten years as a Fellow of Union. His specialty has been Hebrew.

"Among the lecture courses, which Dr. Morris has arranged, is one of eighteen lectures on the 'External History of the Christian Church,' by Prof. Henry W. Hulbert, A. M., of Marietta College. Rev. S. M. Maxwell, D. D., will lecture once a month on 'Studies Scientific and Practical in the English Bible.' Rev. A. B. Riggs, D. D., will lecture weekly on 'The Pauline Epistles.' Other lecturers include Rev. R. W. Patterson, D. D., of Chicago, upon 'The Christian Evidences; ' Pres. G. S. Burroughs, D. D., of Wabash College, on ' Old Testament Prophecy as Illustrated in Isaiah; ' Pres. W. A. Williams, D. D., of Franklin College, on 'New Testament Exegesis; ' Pres. S. F. Scovel, of Wooster University, on 'Biblical Ethics,' especially as applied to current questions in society and government. In practical theology, W. E. Moon, D. D., will lecture upon 'Church Government; ' G. H. Fullerton, of Springfield, Ohio, on 'The Christian Pastor;' H. A. Nelson, editor of 'The Church at Home and Abroad,' on 'Our Church and Her Work; ' Rev. W. F. McCauley, president of the Ohio C. E. Union, on 'The Christian Endeavor Movement.' Other courses, in which lecturers have not yet been secured, deal with 'Historical Persons' and 'The Art of Preaching.' An eminent lawyer will lecture on 'The Relations of Civil Law to Church Polity, Property and Discipline.'

" It is probable, also, that lectures will be given upon missions, Sabbath-schools, revivals and kindred topics, as it is intended to make the department of training especially prominent. Many isolated lectures are also contemplated. The general aim of the year's work will be to make it as popular and practical as is possible without loss of scientific thoroughness. Prof. Morris has been authorized by the executive committee to assure to all deserving students who may come to Lane pre- cisely the same amount and measure of financial aid they would ordinarily receive in any other seminary of the Presbyterian Church."

The Lane Seminary buildings occupy very beautiful grounds, in Walnut Hills. The institution has an extremely valuable library of theological books. The endow- ments of the school produce about thirteen thousand dollars annual income.

ST. XAVIER COLLEGE.

The institution, known at present as St. Xavier College, was established Octo- ber 17, 1831, by the Rt. - Rev. E. D. Fenwick, D. D., first Bishop of Cincinnati, under the name of the " Athenaeum." In the year 1840 it was transferred, by the Most-Rev. Archbishop J. B. Purcell, D.D., to the Fathers of the Society of Jesus, who have conducted it ever since under the title first mentioned. It was incorpor- ated by the General Assembly of the State in 1842. In 1869 an act was passed which secures to the institution a perpetual charter, and all the privileges usually granted to universities. The course of study embraces the doctrine and evidences of the Catholic religion, logic, metaphysics, ethics, astromony, natural philosophy,

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chemistry, mathematics, rhetoric, composition, elocution, history, geography, arith- metic, penmanship, bookkeeping, actual business, commercial law, the Latin, Greek, English, German, and French languages. The College is provided with suitable chemical and philosophical apparatus, and possesses a valuable museum, containing a large collection of mineralogical and geological specimens. The library numbers about sixteen thousand volumes. There are also select libraries for the use of the students. The institution is not endowed, it is entirely dependent for its support on the fees paid for tuition. Tuition per session of ten months, for all classes, sixty dollars.

There are two main courses of study in the College, the classical and the com- mercial. The classical course has a Collegiate and an Academic department. The number of students in all departments, for the academic year 1892-93, was 423.

The College sustains the following societies: The Alumni Association; The Sodality of the Immaculate Conception; the Acolythical Society; the Philopedian Society; the German Literary Society; the Students' Library Association; the Glee Club; The Gymnasium. The president of the College is Rev. Henry A. Schapman, S. J.

OTHER ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

Besides St. Xavier College, there are, in Cincinnati, a number of other colleges, academies, and select schools, under the control of the Roman Catholic Church.

St. Joseph's College, West Eighth street, according to the latest statistics has 175 students.

St. Francis' Gymnasium, on Bremen street, a classical school for young priests, has eighty-one students.

Notre Dame Academy, East Walnut Hills, has seventy-five pupils.

Notre Dame Academy, corner of Court and Mound streets, has 185 pupils.

Mt. St. Vincent Academy, Glenway avenue, has 110 pupils.

The Young Ladies' Literary Institute, East Sixth street, has 190 pupils.

The Academy of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, Clifton, and the Freeman Ave- nue Academy, have together 104 pupils.

For elementary education the Church maintains a system of parochial schools, conducted in accordance with the religious views of the Catholics. The number of parochial schools at present is thirty three, in which are employed 214 teachers, and in which are taught 13,662 pupils, of whom 7,142 are girls, and 6,520 boys.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 21

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