History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 90

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

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WENDEN O'NEAL was born in Boone county, Ky., April 28, 1839. He is a son of George and Sarah (Sleet) O'Neal, both natives of Kentucky, the former of Scotch the latter of Irish descent. Wenden O'Neal was graduated from the Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky., in 1859, and afterward, and up to the breaking out of the war, taught school in Boone county, during which time he studied law. In April, 1863, he enlisted, was mustered in as colonel of the Fifty-fifth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, served in that command throughout the war, and was breveted brigadier- general at its close. In 1865 he was admitted to the Bar, and entered upon the practice of law in Covington, Ky., where he remained until 1885, when he came to Cincinnati and formed a law partnership with Maj. Charles H. Blackburn, with whom he was associated until 1892. Mr. O'Neal was United States Marshal for Kentucky under Gen. Grant's second term; was twice the Republican candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky, and was each time defeated, reducing however, the Democratic majority over three thousand.

On September 5, 1862, Mr. O'Neal was married to Caroline, daughter of the late John W. Fenley, of Crittendon, Grant Co., Ky. Three children born of this marriage are John B., George, and Zue Lou. John B. O' Neal is an attorney admitted to the Bar in Circuit Court of Covington in 1886, and is unmarried. George O'Neal married Fredericka, daughter of Judge F. W. Moore, of Cincinnati. The family reside in Covington, and are members of the Fifth Street Christian Church.

HON. HIRAM DAVID PECK, attorney at law, was born in Harrison county, Ky., March 23, 1844, and is a son of John W. and Jane (Veach) Peck, natives of New York and Kentucky, and of English and Scotch ancestry, respectively. His father who was a merchant, was for a time president of the Farmers' National Bank of Cynthiana, also of a branch of the Commercial Bank of Kentucky, and has now reached the advanced age of seventy-four. The subject of this sketch was educated at the Cynthiana Academy, Miami University, and Harvard Law School, graduating from the university in 1862, and from the law school in 1865. Immediately after the conclusion of his college course, he had a brief military experience, serving from May to October, 1862, in Company A, Eighty-sixth O. V. I., which was composed largely of students. He began practice in Cincinnati, in 1866, and has reached conspicuous eminence in his profession. He was assistant city solicitor, 1873-75; city solicitor, 1876-77; and judge of the superior court, 1883-89. A re-nomination was tendered him, but he declined it. Judge Peck is the author of " Municipal Corporations," and "A Guide for Township Officers;" the latter having been pub- lished in 1874, the former in 1876, and numerous editions of both have been issued. Since retiring from the Bench the Judge has been a member of the firm of Peck & Shaffer, with offices in the Smith building. Since 1890 he has been professor of the law of evidence and corporations, at the Cincinnati Law School. In 1892 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from his alma mater, and also from the University of Cincinnati.

On November 19, 1868, the Judge married Harriet E. Weld, daughter of George Minot and Harriet E. (Johnston) Weld, of Boston, Mass., and they have three living children, to-wit: Edith Mary; John Weld, a student at Harvard, and Arthur Minot. The family are adherents of the Episcopal Church. Their residence, No. 32 McGre- gor avenue, was erected in 1886. The Judge is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and of the Cincinnati Literary Club, of which latter he was president in 1886-89. In politics he is a Democrat.

W. H. MACKOY was born in Covington, Ky. His ancestry is Scotch, his father's great-grandfather, James Mackoy, having left Scotland and settled in King William county, Va., prior to the year 1718. John Mackoy, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came from Virginia to Kentucky early in the present century, and pur- chased a farm in the fertile river bottom ten miles below the town of Greenup, Ky. One of his sons, also named John, the father of W. H. Mackoy, left his father's 37

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farm when a young man and removed to Covington, Ky., where he resided until his death, a period of more than fifty years. He was one of the first elders of the First Presbyterian Church of Covington, and took a prominent part in everything that pertained to the moral and material development of his place of residence, enjoying to the fullest extent the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens. The mother of W. H. Mackoy was Elizabeth, daughter of William Hardia, of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

W. H. Mackoy was graduated a Master of Arts of the University of Virginia, subsequently studied law, began its practice in 1866, and has devoted his entire time to his profession, having his office in Cincinnati, and practicing in the Courts of both Ohio and Kentucky. In the summer of 1890 he was elected a delegate to the Ken- tucky Constitutional Convention from the Second Legislative District of Covington. As a member of that body he served upon the important committees on corporations and municipalities, and drafted the articles of the constitution relating to those sub- jects. At the adjourned session of the convention in September, 1891, he was a member of its committee on revision, and rendered important and valuable services in making corrections in the draft of that instrument which were necessary to make it consistent in all its parts and as a whole. Mr. Mackoy was married to Margaret Chambers Brent, a daughter of Hugh Innes Brent and Margaret, his wife, of Paris, Ky. Our subject is the father of two sons, Lewis and Harry, and of one daughter, Elizabeth.

CHARLES WESLEY KARR, attorney at law, was born in Whitewater township, Hamilton Co., Ohio, September 7, 1841. His father, Charles Karr, was also a native of the same township, born in 1808. His grandfather, Hugh Karr, came here from Pennsylvania, in 1797, and cleared the farm in the township named, where his son, and his grandson, the subject of this sketch, were born. Mrs. Charles Karr, the mother of subject, was Jerusha Harvey, who was born in Hillsborough county, N. H., in 1810, and came with the family of her father (Joseph Harvey) to Hamil- ton county in 1816.

Charles Wesley Karr began his education at the district school of his township, and finished at Lebanon Normal School early in 1860. From that time until the breaking out of the war he taught school. In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Second Kentucky Infantry, and was mustered in as sergeant. He served con- tinuously until June 19, 1864, when he was mustered out as captain of the same com- pany in which he had enlisted. His promotions were to fill vacancies, with the excep- tion of the second lieutenancy, which was made by Adjt. - Gen. Finnell, of Kentucky, for meritorious conduct on the field of Shiloh. He received but one wound, and that a slight one at Stone River, December 31, 1862. While yet lieutenant he was given command of Company G, at Chickamauga. Upon being mustered out of service he returned to Cincinnati, read law in the office of his brother, John Karr, and was admitted to practice in 1866, in which he has ever since been engaged, mak- ing a specialty of the prosecution of United States claims. In January, 1876, he was made assistant adjutant-general of Ohio, and in August of the same year rceived his appointment as adjutant-general from Rutherford B. Hayes, to which office he was re-appointed by Governor Thomas L. Young. It was during his term as such that the great railroad strike occurred, which Adjt .- Gen. Karr met and adjusted with courage and tact. Gen. Karr organized the Ohio National Guards, being the author of the Independent Militia Act of April, 1870, the initiatory step toward the law which he subsequently drafted, and which was passed in 1876-77 under which the organization was effected. Gen. Karr has been actively identified with the Grand Army of the Republic since its organization; was its assistant adju- tant-general of the Ohio Department, and, later, commander of the George H. Thomas Post; is now a member of the William H. Lytle Post, of which he is also a charter member. He is a member of the Union Veteran Legion, and a member and past master of North Bend Lodge F. & A. M.

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Gen. Karr was married November 17, 1879, to Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen H. Platt, a merchant of New York. Mrs. Karr is a talented writer, being the author, among other things, of "The American Horse Woman," now in general use as an instruction work for ladies in the art of riding. The family residence is at North Bend, Ohio.

WILLIAM STRUNK was born at Cincinnati on October 31, 1838. His parents, who were natives of Northern Germany, immigrated to the United States, and located in Cincinnati in 1832. William Strunk is a graduate of Woodward High School (class 1855). Later he was elected president of the Woodward Aluminal Association, and was treasurer of the committee which had charge of the erection of the memorial statue of William Woodward, founder of the high school named in his honor. A graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, he was admitted to the Bar in 1876. Dur- ing the war he served in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, O. V. I., as first lieutenant of Company E, serving also under special detail as post engineer of Fort Ohio on the Appomattox river. Mr. Strunk has been prominently identified with the cause of education, and was for fourteen years a teacher in the public schools of Cincinnati; during the last six years of which he was the principal of the Twelfth District and Second Intermediate schools. He also served as a member of the board of education four years, and of the public library board two years, during the last year of which he was its president. He was also for six years a member of the board of examiners of teachers for the public schools. Mr. Strunk was in 1889 appointed as one of the directors of the University of Cincinnati for a term of six years, which position he now holds. In September, 1892, he was appointed a mem- ber of the board of review by the Superior Court of Cincinnati, and in 1893 for the term of three years as a member of the board of supervisors, by his honor Mayor Mosby. Mr. Strunk's practice of law embraces a period of twenty-four years, and he began the study under the preceptorship of Judge Bellamy Storer.

On July 11, 1867, Mr. Strunk was married to Ella C., daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Corey Garretson, old residents of Cincinnati, the former of whom was born in New Jersey, the latter in Boston, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Strunk have been blessed with four children, namely: William Strunk, Jr., a graduate of Woodward High School and of Cincinnati University, and now instructor in English at Cornell Uni- versity, Ithaca, N. Y .; Howard G. Strunk, also a graduate of the Woodward High School, now successfully engaged in business; Ella G. Strunk, a student at the Bartholomew English and Classical School, and Allen C. Strunk. The family reside on Stanton avenue, Walnut Hills; they are members of the Presbyterian Church.

JACOB ROBERT McGARRY, attorney at law, was born in Champaign county, Ohio, December 10, 1836. He is a son of William and Catherine (Conklyn) McGarry, both of whom were natives of Jefferson county. Va., the former of Irish, the latter of French descent. The McGarrys date back in the history of Virginia to a period contemporaneous with the arrival of Lord Fairfax, who sold them the land upon which they lived for many generations.

Jacob R. McGarry received his early education in the public schools of his native county, then entered Wittenberg College. Upon the breaking out of the Civil war, he left college, responding to the first call for troops, was mustered into service in April, and mustered out in August, 1861. Returning to Wittenberg he was gradu- ated in 1862. He then read law for several years, was admitted to the Bar in 1866, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Springfield, Ohio. A year later he was appointed assessor under the revenue laws, and served in that capacity for three years. In 1869, he was appointed to the mayoralty of Springfield, vice its resigned incumbent, and upon the expiration of that term of office was nominated and elected on the Democratic ticket to the office of mayor. In 1871 he removed to Cincinnati, and formed a law partnership with the late Gen. Henry B. Banning, with whom he was associated until the latter's retirement from Congress, since

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which time he has been engaged in the practice alone. Mr. McGarry served one term as first assistant city solicitor under Joshua M. Dawson. He was married in March, 1863, to Mary E., daughter of Rev. John Pearson, of Urbana, Ohio, and two children have been born of this marriage, viz .: Amy W. McGarry, a student at the Cincinnati Art School, and William H. McGarry, bookkeeper for the Krell Piano Company, Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. McGarry reside at Cumminsville. The family- are members of the Episcopal Church.

LEONARD WHITE Goss, attorney at law, was born at Catskill, N. Y., August. 20, 1839. His father, Daniel Goss, was born in Amherst, N. H., in 1801, and his mother, Margaret (Wright) Goss, was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1805. Our sub- ject's paternal grandfather was, when a boy, a fifer and, later, a soldier in the Revo- lutionary war. His paternal grandmother, who was born in 1773, lived to the great. age of 104 years, dying in Amherst, N. H., in 1877. Daniel Goss came with his fam- ily from Catskill to Cincinnati in 1845, and was engaged, up to a few years prior to his death in 1875, in the manufacture of hay, cotton and hemp presses, his establish- ment being located at the corner of Sycamore and Webster streets. His wife, Mar- garet (Wright) Goss, came to this country with her father's family in 1818. Her father and his brothers settled in Fall River, Mass., and there started a bleachery and white cotton goods manufactory, the first establishment of its kind in the United States.

Leonard White Goss, the subject of this sketch, received his education at the public schools of Cincinnati, graduating from Hughes High School in 1855. Imme- diately thereafter, he began the study of law. In 1857 he was appointed, by the board of education, as teacher in the public schools, an occupation he continued to follow for a period of six years. He then engaged for a time in a general commis- sion business. During this period he resumed the reading of law, and in 1866 he was admitted to the Bar. In 1867 he retired from the commission business, and en- tered into the practice of law, in which he has ever since been engaged. Mr. Goss has been actively identified with the educational interests of the city; was a member of the board of education, and its board of examiners from 1871 to 1879, and was president of the board of education from 1872 to 1875. In 1872 he was elected as county solicitor, serving as such until 1876, having at his second election to said office a majority of 10,595. In 1878 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, against the late Gen. Thomas L. Young, who was elected by a small majority.

Mr. Goss' wife is Hannahı R., daughter of James and Anna Hunter, the former of of whom was a stair-builder, who came to Cincinnati from Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Goss have three children: One son, Ralston, a pupil at the Cincinnati Techni- cal School, and two daughters, Leonarda and Marjorie. The family reside at the " Dennison Hotel."

AARON MCNEILL, of the law firm of Archer & McNeill, attorneys at law, was born on a farm near Otsego, Muskingum Co., Ohio, February 8, 1844, and is a son of Malcolm and Isabella (Armstrong) McNeill, natives of the North of Ireland whence, in 1800, his grandparents, Ross and Margaret (Graham) McNeill, emigrated, settl- ing in this country near Cannonsburgh, Penn. The family removed to Ohio in 1820. His father's family consisted of ten children, two of whom are living: Margaret, now Mrs. John McNeill, of Tipton, Ind., and Aaron. Our subject, who was educated in

the public schools of his native county, the Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio, and later entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduated from the latter in 1866. He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession, which he has since fol- lowed, and has been a member of the present firm since 1870. Mr. McNeill was married December 27, 1866, to Rebecca J., daughter of Orville B. and Rachel (Adams) Wiggins. of Covington, Ky. He and his wife are members of the Presby- terian Church of Norwood. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. Politically he is a Democrat.

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ANDREW W. MCCORMICK, attorney at law, was born February 3, 1830, at Waynes- burg, Penn. His father was Robert McCormick, a farmer, and his mother Lavinia Wilson, both of whom were for a number of years residents of Waynesburg. Here, in its public schools, and in Waynesburg College, Andrew received his edu- cation. For three years, from 1848 to 1851, he was engaged in the printing office of the Examiner at Washington, Penn. In 1852-53 he was associated with a part- ner in publishing the News at Parkersburg, W. Va., and from there removed to Mar- ietta where he was publisher of the Republican. From 1857 to 1861 he was post- master of Marietta. At the commencement of the Civil war, he raised a company for the Seventy-seventh O. V. I., and was mustered in as its captain. He was made brevet major for meritorious conduct at Shiloh, in which battle he received a severe wound, was taken prisoner and sent to Madison, Ga., and from there, upon his recov- ery, to Libby prison, but was paroled in October, 1862, six months after his capture. At the battle of Marks Mills, Arkansas, he had command of his regiment, and for his gallant services in that fight was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. Here too, he was taken prisoner April 25, 1864, sent to Camp Ford, and remained prisoner until Feb- ruary 25, 1865. During this captivity he with others escaped, but they were run down by bloodhounds and brought back. About the close of the war in 1865, he was mus- tered out. Returning to Marietta, he read law in the office of David Alban, and was admitted to practice in 1867. From 1870 to 1876 he was probate judge of Washing- ton county, where he made an admirable judicial record. In 1878 he came to Cin -. cinnati, and recommenced the practice of law, making a specialty of pension busi- ness.

The Colonel was married December 25, 1851, to Miss Alice J. Leckliter, and six children were born of this marriage, all of whom are living. They are Frank R. McCormick, law partner of his father, located at Washington; Robert Lynn Mc- Cormick and Andrew Lee McCormick, physicians of Cincinnati; Mrs. Emma A., wife of Daniel R. Greene, president of the Pueblo (Colorado) National Bank; and Misses Ida and Belle. The family reside at No. 115 Kinney avenue, Walnut Hills. They are members of the Baptist Church. Col. McCormick is a member of the Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Republic, Knights Templar, Masons, Odd Fellows, Ohio Historical Society, Lincoln Club and other societies.

CHAPMAN C. ARCHER, of the law firm of Archer & McNeill, was born near Amelia, Clermont Co., Ohio, December 31, 1843, and is a son of Benjamin and Keziah (Sar- geant) Archer, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively, and of English ori- gin. His father, who was a farmer, died in 1874, at the age of fifty-eight years, and his mother in 1860, at the age of thirty-two years. The family consisted of five chil- dren, two of whom are living: Chapman C., and James S., the latter a wholesale flour merchant of Cincinnati.

Our subject was educated in the public schools of his native county and what is now Belmont College, lacking but three months of graduating from the latter in the class of 1864, which he was prevented from by illness. He then entered the Cin- cinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1867. Immediately after his graduation he became a member of the law firm of Cox (H. R.) & Archer. This con- tinued for nearly two years, and from then he practiced alone until 1870, when the present partnership was formed. Mr. Archer was married November 21, 1872, to Miss Alice M., daughter of Nathaniel G. and Rachel (McGuire) Witham, of With- amsville, Ohio. They have one child, Kittie R., who graduated from Bartholomew's select school in 1893. Our subject is a Knight Templar, a member of the I. O. O. F., Knights of Pythias and the Red Men. He has been actively identified with his party's work in this county. He represented it in the Sixty-first General Assembly of the Ohio State Legislature in 1873-74, and was for many years a member of the Cincinnati board of education from the First Ward. He was his party's nominee for probate judgeship in 1893.

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REUBEN TYLER was born in Newbury, Geauga Co., Ohio, June 11, 1839, a son of the .7 late Cutler and Sarah (Fisher) Tyler, both of whom were natives of Massachusetts, and of English descent. Reuben attended the public schools of his native county, and later was for several years a student at Oberlin in the summer seasons, teaching during the winter months. In November, 1861, he enlisted in the Sixty-ninth O. V. I., Col. L. D. Campbell commanding, and served several months as color-sergeant, and the remainder of the term of three years in the quartermaster department in his regi- ment, and elsewhere on detached service. Upon his return to Cincinnati, in October, 1865, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, and graduated therefrom in 1867. He then entered upon the practice of his profession in the office of Judge Hoadly, and remained there until 1874. Mr. Tyler has been twice married. His first wife was Emily L., daughter of Francis M. Stone, a merchant of Cincinnati. She died in March, 1879, leaving two children, Alice E. and Wilfred M. Tyler. Mr. Tyler's second marriage was October 14, 1880, to Alice, daughter of James K. Hurin, for many years engaged in the milling business in Cincinnati, and two children, Arthur H. and Agnes R., are the issue of this union. The family reside at Wyoming. They are connected with the Presbyterian Church.

JOHN WILLIAM JOHNSON was born in Wales, November 15, 1842. His parents came to this country in 1844, and after a brief sojourn in Cumberland, Md., settled in Pomeroy, Ohio, where they continued to reside, and where he was educated in the public and private schools. His parents desired to see him enter the ministry, but the breaking out of the Civil war interfered, and he became chief assistant to Capt. (afterward Col.) C. W. Moulton, assistant quartermaster, United States Army, a brother-in-law of Senator and General Sherman, in which capacity he was employed throughout the war, with headquarters first at Gallipolis, and latterly at Cincinnati.

At the close of the war he entered Harvard Law School, where he remained one year, and then returned to Cincinnati, where he entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1867. Immediately thereafter he formed a part- nership with Col. C. W. Moulton, under the firm name of Moulton & Johnson, which continued until the association with Warner M. Bateman, when the firm became Moulton, Bateman & Johnson. Upon Mr. Bateman's appointment as: United States District Attorney, and consequent retirement from the firm, T. A. Blinn was admitted, the firm name becoming Moulton, Johnson & Blinn, which part- nership expired by limitation in 1876. Lipman Levy succeeded Mr. Blinn, the firm thereafter being known as Moulton, Johnson & Levy until the death of Col. Moul- ton, in January, 1888, since which time it has been that of Johnson & Levy. Mr. Johnson married Belle, daughter of Charles E. Morse, of Maine, a descendant of Gen. Warren, of Bunker Hill fame.

MAJOR LEWIS MONTGOMERY HOSEA, attorney at law, was born in Montgomery, Ala., December 16, 1842, during a brief sojourn of his parents, Robert and Harriet N. (Moore) Hosea, in that city. His father, Hon. Robert Hosea, was for many years identified with the development and growth of Cincinnati, and at one time repre- sented his District in the State Senate.

Maj. Hosea was educated in the Cincinnati public schools, Hughes High School, Brooks Classical School, and Antioch College. Shortly prior to his graduation, in April, 1861, when President Lincoln issued his first call for troops, our subject enlisted as a private in Company A, Sixth O. V. I. He was promoted to a first lieutenancy June 18, 1861, in the Sixteenth United States Infantry, under Maj. Slemmer, of Fort Pickens fame, and ordered into active service, where he remained until the close of the war, taking part in all the battles of the Army of the Cumber- land, and, toward the close, in the cavalry operations of Gen. Wilson through the Southern States, resulting in the capture of Jeff. Davis. In April, 1865, he was brevetted major in the regular army "for gallant and meritorious services at the

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 90

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