History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 87

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

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He has constantly been retained in leading cases in the Ohio courts, in the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, and in the courts of many dif- ferent States. In 1884, he was employed to contest a will of a wealthy decedent at St. Louis, Mo., and won a great victory for his Cincinnati clients. He was retained in more than forty cases growing out of the failure of the famous Fidelity Bank in 1887. Some of these cases involved hundreds of thousands of dollars, and one case involved nearly three millions. He was also selected to represent the McMicken heirs in the contest for the removal of the University of Cincinnati. His argument in the Supreme Court of Ohio was never answered, and no opinion was rendered in that court. Maj. Lloyd has been associated in practice with C. S. Bates, now a clergy- man in Cleveland; with Governor Edward F. Noyes, with Hon. Alphonso Taft, Attor- ney-General of the United States and U. S. Minister to Vienna and St. Petersburg, and with Hon. W. H. Taft, U. S. Circuit Judge. Maj. Lloyd's scholarly habits, his close application to business, and business-like methods, his strict integrity, his quick- ness of perception, and clearness of thought, accompanied as they are with great facility of speech and perspicuity of expression, have given him a very high rank in his profession and the fullest confidence of his clients. Maj. Lloyd's powers of speech, already alluded to, his creative imagination and literary education make him a successful lecturer and public speaker. He delivered the baccalaureate address before the University of Cincinnati in 1882. Frequent calls have been made on him for lectures on historical subjects, the delivery of which gave the greatest satisfac- tion to his audiences. As a Republican he has gone on the stump and lifted his voice with no uncertain sound in favor of his political principles. He has never held a political office, nor been a candidate for one. A large number of lawyers throughout the district recommended him for appointment as Judge of the United States District Court, after Judge Swing's death. After some consideration he declined to be a candidate, preferring to remain in the practice. The weight of Maj. Lloyd's influence has always been on the side of Christianity, and therefore he has always been actively interested in the Sabbath-schools in Cincinnati, in the Young Men's Bible Society and in the Young Men's Christian Association, of which, at one time, he was president. He was also president of the State Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association, at Toledo, in 1874. He is deeply interested in the organi- zation known as the Grand Army of the Republic, composed of his comrades in the war, and has devoted much of his time to the interests of that order. In 1884 he was elected commander of the Department of Ohio, and served with great ability. The membership rapidly increased under his leadership, and the usefulness of the organization was greatly enlarged. He is a prominent member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and has frequently delivered addresses before its members. Maj. Lloyd is also a member of various clubs- literary, social and political-and was elected president of the Cincinnati Literary Club in 1892. In 1877 he went to Europe, spending several months in travel and study, visiting England, Scotland, France, Germany and Switzerland. He went again in 1882, spending much time in Bavaria and Austria, and later has made two other European trips.

In June, 1869, Maj. Lloyd was married at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to Miss Harriet G. Raymond, daughter of President John H. Raymond of Vassar College. Two children were born of this union, Raymond and Marguerite. Mrs. Lloyd died in April, 1890. In July, 1893, Maj. Lloyd was married to Miss Anna O. von Kienbusch, of New York.

SAMUEL THURMAN CRAWFORD, attorney at law, was born July 18, 1827, on his father's farm near Mason, Warren Co., Ohio. His father, Samuel Crawford, and his mother, Charity (Schofield), were both born in this State, were married and spent their lives here. The former was of Scotch-Irish, the latter of English descent. The father meeting with an accident, by the overturning of a wagon, which cost him his life when his son was but eight years of age, a considerable

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share of the farm work devolved upon Samuel, and in this labor he was engaged during the years of his youth and early manhood. He received a country-school education, and at the age of twenty-two became a school teacher, which profession he pursued in conjunction with his work upon the farm. At that age, too, he began the study of law, and in 1854 came to Cincinnati, passed the necessary examination and was admitted to the practice which he has ever since pursued. His partnership associations in the practice of law have been with Charles I. Bryant, George P. Webster, now of New York, Ransford Smith and the late ex-Governor Thomas L. Young. For the past nine years Mr. Crawford has been almost exclusively engaged in the celebrated Barr will case, which involves the title to several millions of dol- lars' worth of realty on Price's Hill, Cincinnati.

In 1858 Mr. Crawford was married to Prudence Ann, daughter of William Love, a farmer of Sycamore township. Mr. Crawford and family resided for some years in Glendale, this county, of which corporation he was mayor for seven years. The family residence is now on Summit avenue, Walnut Hills. Of the children born of the marriage five survive. Two of these, John J. and William L., are attorneys at. law, the former practicing in New York, the latter in Cincinnati. A third son, Frank, is engaged in newspaper work in Cincinnati. Two daughters, Lily and Mary, unmarried, reside with their parents. The family are members of the Meth- odist Church.

JOHN BURGOYNE, JR., attorney at law, was born in Mill Creek township, now a. part of Cincinnati, May 11, 1831. His father, John Burgoyne, born in Jefferson county, near Harper's Ferry, Va., in 1801, came to Cincinnati with his father's family in 1814.

John Burgoyne, Sr., was a notable man in the history of Cincinnati. He went. to school but three months, studied law and was for eighteen years a justice of the peace in Mill Creek township. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, by legislative appointment; a member of the Legislature, County Fund Commissioner, trustee of Longview Asylum, president of the first Cincinnati Board of Under- writers, president of the National Insurance Company, for thirty years; Judge of the Probate Court for one term, and president of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church. It was through John Burgoyne, Sr., that William Henry Harrison, afterward President of the United States, received his appointment as clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county, and he was the companion of President Harrison in the stage ride from this city to Washington en route for his inauguration. A sister of John Burgoyne, Jr., was born while President-elect Harrison was at the Burgoyne mansion, and she, at his request, was named after the President's wife and daughter, Anna Lucy Harrison. She is now Mrs. Mac- Donald, widow of Thomas L. MacDonald, late of the cotton firm of Robert Moore & Co.

John Burgoyne, Jr., received his education at Woodward College, graduating therefrom in 1851. From there he went to Harvard Law School, where he remained until 1853, and in September of that year was admitted to the Bar. He has been engaged in the practice of law ever since, except for two periods, one during which he served as chief clerk of the Probate Court under his father, and the other in 1870, when he was a member of the Decennial Board of Equalization. In 1891 he was the expert appointed by the board of review to assist in equalizing real-estate taxation. Through his intimate knowledge of real estate Mr. Burgoyne is, and has been since 1870, a most important witness in all condemnation suits. He was mar- ried, in 1853, to Jennie C., daughter of Aaron Greene, of Kennebunk Port, Maine, and of the children born of this marriage three sons survive: Charles Lyman, Harry Lindley and Frank Ward, all attorneys at law. Mr. and Mrs. Burgoyne reside on South Auburn street, Mt. Auburn. They are members of the First Presbyterian Church.

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JOHANN BERNARD STALLO came from a race of schoolmasters, and was born, in 1823, in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. He came to Cincinnati in 1839, and engaged as teacher in a private school. During this period he compiled a German A. B. C. Spelling book, the superior merits of which led the directors of the then newly- founded Catholic St. Xavier College to appoint him a teacher in that institu- tion. The study of higher mathematics led him to German philosophy, and in 1848 appeared his "General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature," and in 1882 his "Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics." Mr. Stallo adopted the profes- sion of law, and from 1853 to 1855 was Judge of Hamilton County Court of Com- mon Pleas, Returning to practice, he gained a brilliant reputation by an argument before the superior court against the retention of Bible reading and religious instruction in the public schools. The Superior Court of Cincinnati decided adversely, but the supreme court reversed that decision on the ground that religion is a matter of individual freedom over which the State by its Constitution has no control. Mr. Stallo was for a number of years associated in the practice of law with E. W. Kittridge, under the firm name of Stallo & Kittredge. 1n 1885 he was appointed minister of the United States to Italy, by President Cleveland, and has since then made his home in Florence, Italy.

JOTHAM FRANCIS BALDWIN, attorney at law, was born at what is now New Sharon, Franklin Co., Maine, May 7, 1829. He is a son of Jotham and Martha (Swan) Baldwin, both natives of this country, as were their ancestors for many generations, both the Baldwins and Swans being traceable to about 1630. One of the former was Loami Baldwin, a prominent man in the later colonial days, and one of the commissioners of the Bay State. The continental currency of that period, some of which is still extant, bears his signature. The great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Nahum Baldwin, was a colonel of New Hampshire troops in the Revo- lutionary war, and fought at the battle of White Plains. His grandfather, also named Nahum, although but a boy of thirteen when the Revolution had its incep-

Jedutham Baldwin, a brother tion, served during the last two years as a soldier.

of his great-grandfather, was a colonel in the Revolutionary war, and a distinguished military engineer. The 16th of June, 1775, he was engaged in throwing up breast- works at Bunker Hill in anticipation of the battle fought the next day. He was. there throughout the battle on the 17th, and the evening and night of the 17th he was engaged in throwing up breastworks on "Prospect Hill." to which place our army had retreated from Bunker Hill. Isaac Baldwin, another brother of Nahum, his great-grandfather, was a captain of artillery at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was killed in that engagement.

J. F. Baldwin received his early education in the public schools of his native county, prepared for college at the Waterville Academy, then entered Waterville College (now Colby University), graduating therefrom in 1853. He then taught for one year in Bloomfield Academy, and the following year in East Machias Acad- emy, in Maine, beginning the study of law during the latter year. He then entered the law office of Abraham Sanborn, Bangor. Maine, and continued the study of law. He went to Belle Plaine, Minn., and in 1857 was admitted to the Bar, becoming a partner of George Bradley. He was a member of the Minnesota State Senate in 1858-60. In 1860 he came to Cincinnati, and formed a law partnership with his brother, Gen. W. H. Baldwin. At the breaking out of the war, the brothers cast lots to determine which should first enlist. It fell to J. F. Baldwin to do so; ac- cordingly, on April 20, 1861, he enlisted for ninety days in Company H, Guthrie Grays, and at once marched to Camp Harrison with the troops which were after- ward organized into the Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Regiments O. V. I.

Gen. W. H. Lytle took command of the camp. The firing on Sumter had . brought matters to a climax so suddenly that there had been no time for prepara- tion. There was no commissary, no military store, neither tin cups, tin plates, 36

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knives, forks, blankets, nor any other articles necessary for a soldier in camp. But soldiers must have something to eat and tools to eat with, and must be clothed. Everything was being rushed into camp as fast as the authorities could procure them. But military supplies were demanded in all directions when the war broke out, and it took time to get them. In the emergency, the governor made a contract for provisioning the troops at Harrison, and Mr. Baldwin was called to headquar- ters by Gen. Lytle, who knew him as a young lawyer, and set to work to help to distribute the rations furnished under the contract, also to distribute blankets, tin plates, cups and other impedimenta of the soldiers, as fast as they arrived. In a few days, by order of Governor Dennison, Gen. J. H. Bates succeeded Gen. Lytle, and it was determined to put the camp on regular army rations, which the recruits must learn to cook for themselves as soon as camp equipage could be obtained. Thereupon Mr. Baldwin was ordered by Gen. Bates to get carpenters and fit up a commissary store, which he did, and thereafter acted as commissary of the post till May 18, when the camp was abandoned and the troops moved to Camp Dennison. Mr. Baldwin never had a commission, but performed the duties of post commissary, and was recognized as such by the general and all regimental officers. When Camp Harrison was broken up, he removed all commissary stores on hand to Camp Dennison by order of Gen. Bates, and turned them over to the commissary of that post. At Camp Dennison he was assigned to duty in the quartermaster's depart- ment in fitting out the four regiments named with arms and equipments for the field. He was with the Sixth O. V. I. during Mcclellan's campaign in West Vir- ginia, but did not re-enlist. He was mustered in by Capt. (afterward Gen.) Gor- don Granger a few days after going to camp, and he was mustered out September 19, 1861. He then resumed the practice of law, and is still engaged therein.

On December 20, 1864, Mr. Baldwin was married to Clara A., daughter of Rob- ert Handy, an old resident and engineer of Cincinnati. Three children born of this marriage are: William Loyd, Charles H., and Clara L. Baldwin. Of these, Charles H. is a graduate of Harvard and of the Cincinnati Law School, and at present is a member of the law firmn of Burnham & Baldwin, of the Bar of Cook county, Ill. He was an attorney for the World's Fair Commissioners. He married Lillian, daughter of John H. White, a lawyer of New York City, now deceased. William L. Baldwin was, until his recent death, an employe of the Southern Pacific railroad, with his last headquarters at Ogden, Tucson, Arizona. He married a daughter of the late Dr. Percy Bonner, of Cincinnati. Clara L. Baldwin is a student at Miss Nourse's academy. The family reside at Tusculum, and are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

GENERAL WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, attorney at law and United States Commissioner, No. 53 West Third street, Cincinnati, comes of Revolutionary stock. In the war for American independence, his great-grandfather, Col. Nahum Baldwin, who com- manded a regiment of New Hampshire troops, and two of his brothers, Isaac and Jedathan, were in the army. Isaac was a captain of artillery, and was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. Jedathan Baldwin was a colonel of engineers, superintended the construction of the defensive works at Bunker Hill, and was in charge of a por- tion of the works on the day of the battle. Col. Loami Baldwin was a cousin of Nahum, Isaac and Jedathan. He crossed the Delaware with Washington, fought in the battle of Trenton, and was in active service during the war. Gen. William H. Baldwin's grandfather, Nahum Baldwin, Jr., was also a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and though young to enter the army, made a proud record. Upon the admis- sion of Maine as a State, he served as a member of the first constitutional convention. Jotham, the father of William H. Baldwin, was also a prominent citizen of that State, and filled positions of trust and honor, at the hands of the people. The maternal grandmother, Mary Pierce Swan, was the great-granddaughter of Daniel Pierce who. came to America from England in the year 1645, and purchased a large tract of land

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in Newbury, Mass., including the present site at Newburyport. She was a cousin of President Franklin Pierce.

The subject of this sketch is a native of New Sharon, Maine. He graduated from Union College, New York, in 1855, and from the Law Department of Harvard Uni- verity in 1858. He was for a time a student of the civil law in the University of Berlin, and subsequently in the University of Munich. He was with Gen. Garibaldi's army in 1860, in most of its important movements from Naples to Capua, and his military genius was probably thus aroused, for he returned to the United States upon learning of our civil strife and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Eighty-third Regiment, O. V. I. In 1862, under Sherman, he participated in the battle of Chick- asaw Bluff, and January 11, 1863, he commanded his regiment in the assault and cap- ture of Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post, and as shown by the official report of the battle "The colors of the Eighty-third Ohio were first planted on the enemy's battle- ments." He participated in the seige of Vicksburg under Grant, and commanded his regiment at the siege and capture of Jackson, Miss. On February.12, 1864, he was assigned to the command of the First Brigade, Third Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, relieving Gen. Macauley. During the Red River campaign under Gen. Banks he distinguished himself. Gen. Ransom, his corps commander, in his official report of the battle of Mansfield, bears testimony to his bravery and soldierly bear- ing. He commanded the brigade which brought up the rear of Gen. Banks' army during the return march to Morganza on the Mississippi, and according to the offi- cial report of the division commander he "Showed much tact in holding the enemy in check and protecting the rear of the column from the frequent and persistent attacks of the enemy especially in crossing the streams and in passing defiles."

In July, 1864, by order of the War Department, he was appointed president of a board sitting at Port Hudson for the examination of the officers of the different regiments of colored troops in the department of the Gulf, and to report who of them should be retained in the service, and who should be mustered out. Having satisfactorily performed the duty assigned him, he returned to Morganza, and was assigned to the command of an expeditionary force consisting of the Eighty-third Ohio, Thirty-fourth Iowa, Sixty-seventh Indiana, Second New York Cavalry, Twenty- first New York Battery, a detachment of the First Kansas Cavalry and the Eighty-seventh Illinois Mounted Infantry, to disperse a force of the enemy which was fortifying on the Atchafalaya. Arriving at Morgan's Ferry the enemy was found in force on the west bank of the river. On the night of October 5th, a strategical crossing of the river was effected three miles below, by swimming the horses and transporting the men in yawls, the enemy taken by surprise and thoroughly routed, with a loss of their supplies and many prisoners.

On October 17, 1864, he left Morganza in command of a second expedition to the Atchafalaya, composed of the troops forming the first expedition, and Col. Davis' regiment of Texas cavalry. He proceeded to Simmsport, which he reached early on the morning of October 19, by a road through the woods; found the enemy in force, and four horses and several men were wounded in getting the battery into position. The west bank of the river was strongly fortified and held by the troops of Gen. Du Bray's command. The day was spent in getting troops, artillery and boats into posi- tion to force a crossing of the river, cutting roads, etc., until 2 o'clock when the enemy was reinforced by two regiments of infantry that marched into the works with colors flying, giving the enemy greatly the advantage in point of numbers. At 4 P.M. Col. Szimanski, Confederate Commissioner of Exchange, Lieut. - Col. Schaumby, inspector-general on the staff of Gen. E. Kirby Smith, accompanied by Maj. John- son, came in under a flag of truce, having in charge 650 prisoners of war, which they desired to exchange for a like number of Confederates. A cessation of hostilities was agreed upon, until the rebel prisoners could be brought from New Orleans, and the yawls which had been brought to cross over the troops were used to ferry over the prisoners of war.

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Gen. Baldwin was a member of the military commission, having in charge the trial of certain English sea captains who had been guilty of violating the law of blockades in the war. In the campaign against Mobile, Gen. Baldwin was with his command, and arrived before Fortress Blakely, April 2, 1865. This stronghold of the enemy included nine forts connected by earthworks, and was garrisoned by a Missouri division in command of Gen. Cockrell, and Thomas' division of Alabama. troops, besides several companies of artillery, and was protected by formidable abat- tis and rifle pits, the approaches, moreover, being planted with torpedoes. On Sun- day evening, April 9, the order was given to storm the fortress, and Gen. Baldwin, in command of the Eighty-third and Forty-eighth Ohio Regiments, at his own request, led the assault over the intervening space of 600 yards, and over the parapet of Fort No. 3, capturing the garrison, including Gen. Cockrell, then leaving a detachment in charge, he moved down to Fort No. 4, which he attacked and captured, and when the main line of troops arrived, he had possession of two forts and their armaments, and 799 prisoners under guard. Though both his flag staffs were shot in two, and the flags riddled with balls, the loss in Baldwin's command was only seven killed and twenty-three wounded. On March 26, 1865, he was commissioned colonel by brevet, "for faithful and meritorious services during the campaign against the city of Mo- bile and its defenses." He was commissioned brigadier-general by brevet "for gallant services in the charge on Fort Blakely, Alabama, April 9, 1865." He sub- sequently served at Selma and Mobile, Ala., and at Galveston, Texas, until mustered out in August, 1865. He then returned to the practice of his profession. Gen. Baldwin has a large and important practice in the United States Courts, especially in land cases. He is an active member of the Loyal Legion. He was the first com- mander of George H. Thomas Post, and has served the Grand Army of the Repub- lic as Judge Advocate General, and as a member of the National Council of Admin- istration. He married Isabella, daughter of the late Jonas Butterfield, an old citi- zen and merchant of Cincinnati. Four children blessed this union, of whom three- survive: Frank, Mary and Edward. The family reside on Harvey avenue, Avondale.

HON. SAMUEL J. BROADWELL, who was one of the most successful attorneys of the Hamilton County Bar, was born in Cincinnati in 1832. and was a son of Jacob. Broadwell. His father, who was a prominent dealer in steamboat supplies on Front street in early times, died when Mr. Broadwell was quite young, but he had accumu- lated a considerable estate with which he endowed his son. His mother being an invalid, Samuel Lewis became his guardian, and he was placed under the care of Rev. Thomas J. Biggs, D. D., of whose family he became a member, and under whose scholarly and Christian guidance he was carefully instructed. He was graduated from Woodward College, of which Dr. Biggs was at that time president, and, though his first inclinations tended toward the Gospel ministry, he soon after began the study of law in the office of Coffin & Mitchell, and in due time was admitted to the practice of that profession.

Judge M. B. Hagans, a fellow student in the same office, was admitted with him, and May 1, 1857, these two young attorneys, destined to win a high place in the estimation of their colleagues and fellow-citizens, established the since famous law firm of Hagans & Broadwell. This partnership lasted until 1884 when Mr. Broad- well withdrew from an active interest in the business, but continued to occupy his old place in the office till the time of his death which occurred July 11, 1893. Mr. Broadwell achieved a degree of success in the practice of his profession which is reached by only a very few, and as an office counselor it is doubtful whether Cincin- nati ever had his equal. He was also a man of excellent business qualifications, and many positions of great responsibility, requiring a thorough knowledge of financial affairs, were entrusted to him. He was a director of the Ohio Life & Trust Com- pany in the early "fifties;" and during his whole life was connected in various ways with many institutions which have made Cincinnati one of the great commercial

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 87

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