History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 89

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

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The subject of this sketch received his education in the township school, and worked upon his father's farm until he was twenty years of age. He taught school for three years, and then purchased a farm adjoining that of his father on the one side, and that of his grandfather on the other, which he conducted for nine years. At the age of thirty-three he attended the Cincinnati Law School, and was gradu- ated therefrom in 1860, entering immediately upon the practice of his profession, in which he has ever since been, and still is, engaged. He is a resident of Lockland,

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of the school board of which village he has been a member for fifteen years, clerk of that body three years, and its presiding officer seven years. He was also a member of the council one term, and mayor of the corporation three terms. Mr. Cornell is a widower; he has two children living, the daughter of his first, and a son of his sec- ond wife. The former is Mrs. Celeste C., wife of Simeon Vorhes, a farmer of Syca- more township; the latter is William W. Cornell, an employe of the Diem & Wing Paper Company, of Cincinnati. Mr. Cornell is a member of the Presbyte- rian Church of Lockland, Ohio, and has been actively identified with its work for forty-eight years.

JOHN JEFFERSON GLIDDEN, attorney at law, was born in Scioto county, Ohio, Sep- tember 19, 1840. He is the son of the late Jefferson W. Glidden, a native of New Hampshire, of Scotch-Irish descent, and who was one of the leading pig iron manu- facturers of the Hanging Rock iron region. Our subject's mother, Catherine (Young), was also a native of New Hampshire, born of English extraction, and whose father, Daniel Young, was a brother of John Young, one of the early leading manufacturers of this county, and founder of the Royer Wheel Company of Cin- cinnati.

John J. Glidden, the subject of this sketch, was educated at New Haven, Conn., and graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1860. He enlisted April, 1861, in Company G, First O. V. I., and served for three months as a non-commissioned officer. At the expiration of this service he accepted an appointment as major in the cavalry service, but resigned on account of ill-health. During the Morgan raid he served as aid-de-camp, with the rank of captain, on the staff of Brevet Brig. - Gen. Kinney. Upon attaining his majority in October, 1861, he was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court at Columbus, Ohio, and immediately thereafter embarked in the practice of law in Scioto county, where he remained eleven years. During the latter part of this period he was city solicitor of Portsmouth, the county seat of Scioto county. In 1872 he came to Cincinnati, where he has ever since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He is regarded as a lawyer of profound ability, and has been prominently identified with much important litigation, notably as counsel for property owners in the Cincinnati Southern railroad litigation, and in the formation of the Ohio Railroad Company by the consolidation of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad Companies. Mr. Glidden was married in 1870, to Ruth H. Glidden, a distant rela- tive, by whom he had three children, Helen, Hope and Ruth. The family reside at No. 126 Richmond street, Cincinnati.

ALBERT JAMES CUNNINGHAM, lawyer, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, February 10, 1833. He is a son of John and Catherine (Perkingpaugh) Cunningham, both natives of Pennsylvania, the former of Scotch, the latter of German descent, both of whom came, about the year 1802, to this vicinity in their early childhood, with their respective families. Mrs. John Cunningham's uncle, Peter Bell, was one of the first judges of the county. John Cunningham farmed in Symmes township throughout his life, and he died in 1848; his wife died in 1873.

Albert J. Cunningham attended the schools of his native township, prepared for college at French's Academy, Milford, entered Antioch College in 1851, and was graduated therefrom in 1855. For eight years thereafter he taught school, and during the latter part of this period he took up the study of law, which he subse- quently continued at the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in 1860. He then formed a law partnership with his late preceptor, Lewis French, with whom he was associated until 1870, since when he has been engaged in the practice alone. Mr. Cunningham was a member of the Ohio Legislature in 1869-70, and was speaker of the House. He is a Knight Templar, and a member of the I. O. O. F. In November, 1864, he was married to Priscilla, daughter of the late Lot Losh, a farmer of Columbia township. Of the children born of this marriage there sur-

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vive: Mrs. Helen, wife of William T. Harris, principal of the Nineteenth District school, Cincinnati; Lillian Belle Cunningham, a teacher in the Intermediate Depart- ment of the Sixteenth District school; Alasana Cunningham, a student of the Cin- cinnati Art School, and one of the three artists who carved the piano contained in the Ohio Women's Department of the World's Fair; Alma Cunningham; Albert James Cunningham, Jr., a Cincinnati University student; Edna Emma, and Eldon Cunningham, The family are members of the Methodist Church. They reside on Harvey avenue, Avondale.

THOMAS BARBOUR PAXTON was born June 4, 1838, near Loveland, Clermont Co., Ohio, on the same farm where his father was born, and which his grandfather cleared and settled in 1796. The Paxtons were from Virginia, and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a Revolutionary soldier from that State. Subsequently he settled near Bedford, Penn., and remained there until Gen. Anthony Wayne started on his western campaign, when he joined him and took an active part with him in the Indian war in northern Ohio. He was present at the battle of Fallen Timbers, and commanded the advance guard in that engagement. After peace was declared he permanently located on the Little Miami river, near the present site of Loveland, and for many years was engaged in surveying and locating Virginia land warrants.

Thomas B. Paxton was educated in the district schools of Clermont county, in the old academy near New Richmond, presided over by Prof. James K. Parker, and at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. After leaving college he taught school one year, and at the same time began the study of law in the office of Tilden, Rairden & Tilden, Cincinnati. He entered the Cincinnati Law College, was gradu- ated therefrom and admitted to practice in 1860, when he at once formed a partner- ship with Isaac B. Matson, the firm occupying the old offices and succeeding to the practice of the late George H. Pendleton. This partnership was dissolved upon the election of Mr. Matson to the county probate judgeship. In 1875 Mr. Paxton formed his present partnership association with John W. W. Warrington. Mr. Paxton was elected county solicitor in 1873, the late Judge Nicholas Longworth being his competitor, and served two years. He has served the city as a member of the board of aldermen, and one term as a director of the City Work House. In 1886 he was appointed, by Governor Foraker, as one of the trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home; was reappointed by Governor Campbell in March, 1890, and is now president of the board. In 1887 he was appointed by the sinking fund commissioners as one of the trustees in charge of the construction of the new City Hall. In politics he has always been a Democrat. Mr. Paxton was married, in 1864, to Adelaide, daughter of Dr. William Wharton, of Kentucky, and two children are the issue of this marriage.

WILLIAM GRANVILLE WILLIAMS, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, June 26, 1838. He is a son of William and Euphemia (Phillips) Williams, the former a native of Leamington, England, where he was born in 1801, the latter a native of the city of New York, where she was born in 1803. They were married in 1837 in Cincinnati, where he conducted a general store until 1853, in which year he retired from business. He died at his home in Newport, Ky., in 1868; his widow passed away December 22, 1889.

The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, including Hughes High School, and began the study of law immediately thereafter in the office of Salmon P. Chase, afterward Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Flamen Ball, afterward and for many years register in bank- ruptcy for the First District of Ohio. He discontinued his law studies for a time to engage in other pursuits, but soon resumed them in the law office of Tilden, Rairden & Curwen, completed the usual course of study in the Cincinnati Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1862. From February, 1864, to February,

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1867, he was chief clerk of the probate court of Hamilton county by appointment of Edward Woodruff, then judge of that court. He then formed a law partnership with John J. McGrath, the firm (Williams & McGrath) pursuing the practice in Evansville, Ind., whence they soon returned to Cincinnati. This partnership was dissolved in 1868, Mr. McGrath becoming associated with the law firm of Moulton & Johnson, and Mr. Williams with that of Jordan & Jordan. In June of the same year Mr. Williams became a partner, and the firm thereafter, and until its dissolu- tion in 1885, consisted of Isaac M. Jordan, Nathan E. Jordan and William G. Wil- liams, and was known as Jordan, Jordan & Williams. During the whole of this period of seventeen years this firm was recognized as one of the strongest in the West, and was retained in many of the most important cases. During this period the senior member, Isaac M. Jordan, served one term as Congressional Representa- tive from the Second Ohio District.

William G. Williams was married September 23, 1868, to Josephine, daughter of Joseph Peckover, for many years a leading manufacturer of Cincinnati, a bio- graphical sketch of whom is contained herein. Six children-three sons and three daughters-were born of this marriage, four of whom survive, viz .: Agnes, Eva, Lawrence and Lucy. The family residence is on Carthage avenue, Norwood.

LOUIS J. DOLLE, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, January 15, 1862. He is a descendant of one of the pioneer German families of the Ohio Valley, his mothers' parents, Joseph and Elizabeth DeBolt, the former a native of France, and the latter of Switzerland, having come to Cincinnati from Pennsylvania in 1816. His father, Philip Dolle, who was a native of Germany, came to this country, locating in Cincinnati, in 1849. He was for a time a school-teacher in St. Joseph's school, then read law, was admitted to practice in 1862, and continued in that profession until his death, June 3, 1886. Louis J. Dolle received his education in the public schools and at St. Xavier College. He graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1882, and one year thereafter, upon attaining his majority, was admitted to practice, in which he is still engaged. He is a worker in the Democratic party, but without aspirations for office, having a practice which engages his entire atten- tion. He is unmarried.

PHILIP HENRY KUMLER was born in Trenton, Butler Co., Ohio, September 1, 1837, a son of the late John and Sarah (Landis) Kumler, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania and of Swiss descent. The subject of this sketch is the eldest of six surviving sons, all of whom but one are lawyers. They are Austin L. Kumler, of Lafayette, Ind., Charles and Alvin W. Kumler, of Dayton, Ohio, the former the present prosecuting attorney of Montgomery county; John F. and Frederick A. Kumler, the former an attorney, the latter a real-estate agent. A deceased brother, Daniel B. Kumler, was for a number of years the leading attorney of southern Indiana, residing at Evansville.

The subject of this sketch received his initial schooling in the district schools of his native county, attended the Otterbein University, near Columbus, Ohio, four years, and then entered Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich., from the law department of which institution he was graduated in the class of 1863. He then enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixty-seventh O. V. I., served for some months, and upon being mustered out returned to Butler county, where he was admitted to the Bar. He engaged in the practice of law in Hamilton, Ohio, until 1873, when he removed to Cincinnati, and here formed a law partnership with the late Henry Snow, which partnership was dissolved in 1879, when Mr. Kumler assumed the duties of corporation counsel of Cincinnati, to which office he had been elected as candidate upon the Republican ticket. To this office he was re-elected for a second term, when he resumed the practice of law, and continued therein until his appoint- ment, by President Arthur, as United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. He resigned the District attorneyship after two years' service.

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In 1887 he was elected as judge of the common pleas court of Hamilton county on .3 the Republican ticket. He made a most excellent record upon the bench, and was at the expiration of his first judicial term re-nominated and re-elected, being the only strictly party candidate for judgeship elected at that time. The regular judi- cial tickets were at this election antagonized by an independent ticket put in nomi- nation by the "Pharisees of the Bar," as the lawyers who took active part in the movement were facetiously designated at the time. He is now serving upon the Bench. Judge Kumler was married in June, 1865, to Josephine, daughter of John G. Long, a farmer of Butler county, Ohio. Of four children, the issue of this union, but one, Paul H. Kumler, survives. The family residence is on Mount Hope road, Price Hill.

CHARLES H. STEPHENS, of the firm of Stephens, Lincoln & Smith, attorneys at law, First National Bank building, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 2, 1841, son of James K. and Elizabeth F. (Guysi) Stephens. James K. Stephens was a manufacturer of harness. He is now deceased. He was born in Indiana, his father having been an early and prominent member of the legal profession in that State, and his mother a native of Washington, D. C. The parents of Elizabeth F. (Guysi) Stephens were born in Switzerland, where their ancestors were prominent in the struggle that country passed through for a more republican form of government. They came to this country before marriage, located at Cincinnati early in their mar- ried life, and died here leaving several children.

Charles H. Stephens received his early education in the public schools of Cin- cinnati, graduating from Hughes High School in 1858, at the age of sixteen. He began the study of law with Hon. T. D. Lincoln, graduating from the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to the Bar of this city about the year 1863. He soon afterward became a member of the firm of Lincoln, Smith & Warnock, and continued as a partner of Mr. T. D. Lincoln until his death in 1890. In 1873 he married Alice V., daughter of Capt. S. W. and Eliza (Mayhew) Bard, both natives of Hamilton county, and they are the parents of three children: Charles H., Jr., Bard and Howard V. Mr. Stephens is a Universalist in religious faith, and has been trustee of an organization of that denomination in Cincinnati for many years. He is a Republican in politics, but quite independent in his political opinions. He was a member of the board of education for six years, and of the board of aldermen four years, of which latter body he was president by unanimous choice two terms. He is also trustee of the Hughes fund, and has been a member of the Union board of high schools for over twenty-five years.

HENRY ALBERT MORRILL, attorney at law, was born at Potsdam, N. Y., February 13, 1835. His paternal grandfather was one of the six brothers who emigrated from New Hampshire to Caledonia, Vt., transforming that wilderness into productive farming lands. His maternal grandparents were among the early settlers of north- ern New York.

The subject of this sketch spent the years of his boyhood and early manhood upon the homestead farm of his paternal grandparents, attending the village school and academy. In 1853 he went to St. Louis, and there embarked in business with a commission house. Mercantile life becoming distasteful to him, he remained but six months in this employ, returning home and entering upon a preparatory course of study for college. He entered Dartmouth in 1856, and was graduated therefrom in 1860. In 1861 he came to Cincinnati and while engaged as teacher in private schools began the reading of law, meantime becoming more or less actively identified with the Republican party. In 1863 he was admitted to the Bar. In 1865 he was appointed by the late Governor E. F. Noyes (then city solicitor) as assistant city solicitor. In the fall of 1866, upon Gen. Noyes' election to the probate judge- ship, Mr. Morrill was appointed by the city council to fill Gen. Noyes' unexpired term of office, and in the following spring, Mr. Morrill was elected to the same posi-

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tion for the full term of two years. In 1869 he formed a law partnership with Alexander H. McGuffey, which partnership continued to exist until 1892. Mr. Mor- rill is a professor of mercantile law, contracts and costs in the Cincinnati Law School to which position he was appointed in 1870. In 1891 Worcester University conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. As a lawyer Mr. Morrill enjoys the con- fidence of a large clientage, and the esteem of the entire community. He has been retained in much important litigation, notably in the contested Wood will case; the T. C. Campbell disbarment trial; the Frank Neufarth impeachment case, and in all of these Mr. Morrill was successful. Mr. Morrill has written much for the Press and for magazines, and has latterly done considerable editorial writing upon the Commercial Gazette.

In 1867 Mr. Morrill was married to Anna, eldest daughter of Alexander H. Mc- Guffey. Five children born of this marriage survive, namely: Mrs. Elizabeth Drake, wife of John C. Edwards, an attorney of Boston, Mass. ; Ellen C .; Albert Henry; Alice McGuffey; and Genevieve Tilton. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. They reside on Ohio avenue, Clifton Heights.

HERMAN FRANCIS BRASHEAR was born July 7, 1840, at Cincinnati. He is a son of the late Benjamin F. and Adeline L. (Osborne) Brashear, the former a native of Kentucky and of Hollandish extraction, the latter a native of New Orleans, La., and of English descent. The grandfather of Benjamin F. Brashear was a Revolutionary soldier from Virginia, who settled in Kentucky contemporaneously with Daniel Boone, and was prominently identified with the early political history of that Com- monwealth, as was also his son. Benjamin F. Brashear was born, in 1806, in Boone county, Ky., came to Cincinnati when a boy, and was for a number of years a dealer in flour and general produce, dealing with southern points principally; he was sub- sequently a steamboat owner and captain in the Cincinnati-New Orleans trade. He died February 22, 1876, his wife July 11, 1881.

Herman F. Brashear attended Heron's Seminary, next entered the Hughes High School, from which institution he was graduated June 26, 1857, and then entered Harvard College, graduating therefrom with the degree A. B. in 1861, and having the degree M. A. conferred upon him three years later. He studied law in the office of Curwen & Wright, attended the Cincinnati Law School, was graduated therefrom, and was admitted to the Bar in 1863, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession in Cincinnati. He is a Democrat, and was a representative from Hamilton county in the Ohio Legislature of 1873-74. He was married March 5, 1884, to Alice, daughter of William and Rachel (Stites) Packer, the latter a granddaugher of Maj. Benjamin Stites, who was the first settler of Col- umbia township and an associate of John Cleves Symmes in the Miami Purchase.

DAVID HEINSHEIMER, JR., attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati January 1, 1841. He is the son of the late Joseph H. and Hannah (Mannheimer) Heinsheimer, the former a native of Baden, the latter of Darmstadt; they were married in Baden, in 1833, came to the United States in 1836, and located in Cincinnati in 1840. Joseph H. Heinsheimer was for many years a member of the firm of A. Schwill & Company, Cincinnati. He died May 20, 1880.

The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Cincin- nati, and was graduated from Woodward High School in the class of 1861. He then entered the law office of Stallo & McCook, beginning the study of law with that firm, and continuing it with its successor, Stallo & Kittredge. He was admitted to practice in 1863, and immediately thereafter formed a partnership with the late Isaac Simon which terminated with the death of the latter in 1881, since which time he has been engaged in the practice alone. He is a Republican, was a member of the city council from his ward, the Seventeenth, in 1878-80, and was one of the Work House board of directors by appointment of Mayor Mosby, until the abolition of that board by the enactment of the new city charter, which transferred its duties

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to the board of police commissioners. Mr. Heinsheimer is a past master of Cin-> cinnati Lodge No. 133, F. & A. M .; a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a noble of the Mystic Shrine. He has a good practice, and, among the corporations, is counsel for the Equitable National Bank, of Cincinnati. He was married November 21, 1866, to Renetta, daughter of M. Wertheimer, a retired merchant of Bavaria. Mr. and Mrs. Heinsheimer reside on Lincoln avenue, West Walnut Hills.

HENRY HOOPER, lawyer, was born in London, England, came to this country when quite a young man, and settled in Cincinnati with some relatives who were then living in Ohio. He read law in the office of Hon. Henry Stanbery, afterward attorney general of the United States, graduated at the Cincinnati Law College, and was admitted to the Hamilton County Bar in 1863. In 1867 he received from United States Attorney-General Stanbery the appointment of assistant to Gen. Durbin Ward, who was then the United States attorney of the Southern District of Ohio, and for the last twenty-five years, with the exception of brief intervals, he has held the appointments of United States commissioner, and assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.

In politics Mr. Hooper is a Republican, but his political activity is limited to voting. There have been no great trials at the United States Court at Cincinnati, Ohio, in which the government was a party plaintiff during the time indicated above, in which Mr. Hooper has not held a brief, either as special counsel or as assist- ant attorney for the United States. Mr. Hooper is a member and one of the ex- presidents of the well-known Cincinnati Literary Club, and is an author of general literary and legal works, besides being an occasional contributor to the periodicals. The titles of his literary books are: "Wash Bolter, M.D., a political satire," and "The Lost Model," published by Lippincott. He is a bachelor, and so far as his religious views are concerned it may be sufficient to say that he is an enthusiastic admirer of Schopenhauer, translations from whose works he has frequently contrib- uted to the journals. Mr. Hooper is a devoted amateur of classical music, and an ardent student of English, German and French literature.

HON. MOSES F. WILSON, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of Hamilton county, was born in Franklin, Warren Co., Ohio, September 10, 1839, and is a son of William S. and Martha (Bigger) Wilson, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, res- pectively, and of Scotch-Irish descent. His father's ancestors immigrated in 1735, and his mother's in 1787, locating first in Pennsylvania, and then in Kentucky and Ohio. William and Martha Wilson were the parents of four children, of whom two are living, viz. : Moses F., and Mary, the wife of Rev. J. L. Russell, a Presbyterian clergyman of Princeton, N. J.

The family moved to Cincinnati in 1848, and here our subject attended the pub- lic schools, graduating from Hughes High School in 1857. After teaching school several years, he studied law with Taft & Perry, and was admitted to the Bar in May, 1864. In October, 1866, he was appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamil- ton county, which position he held until January, 1869, and in April of that year, he was elected prosecuting attorney of the police court, for a term of two years. He was twice elected judge of the police court, filling the position from April, 1877, to April, 1881. He has been a member of the board of education; of the city council; of the board of managers of the public library; of the union board of city high schools; of the board of examiners of public-school teachers, and is now a mem- ber of the board of trustees of the University of Cincinnati. The judge has edited the criminal code of Ohio, with forms of indictments and notes of decisions. In 1891 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas for the term of five years on the Democratic, People's party and Lawyers' tickets, and this high position he now fills with eminent ability. The judge was married October 1, 1867, to Lucy Thorpe, of Dry Ridge, Ky., and they are the parents of three children: Daniel Fal- lis, Alethia and Russell D. The family are connected with the Presbyterian Church. In politics the Judge is a Democrat, and he is a member of the A. O. U. W.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 89

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