History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 91

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

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battle of Selma, and the succeeding campaign in Atlanta and Georgia." Resigning from the military service at the beginning of 1866, lie entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduated in 1868, and immediately began the practice of law in Cincinnati, where he has since acquired a large and valuable practice. In more recent years his attention has been given chiefly to patent cases in the supreme and circuit courts of the United States, in the interest of which he has made occasional visits to several of the European countries. Maj. Hosea's active interest in scientific studies and pursuits has been much appreciated. He was elected a "Fellow" of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for "contributions to the literature of science," chiefly in the field of American archaeology. He is also a member of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History; the Ohio Mechanics' Institute (in which insti- tution he was for many years chairman of the Department of Science and Arts); was one of the editors of the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science until it was merged into the Journal of the Natural History Society. He was also an active member of the U. C. D. Literary Society; the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion; the Engineers' Club; president of the Symphony Club (a large and flourishing musical society), and is at present secretary of the treasury at the Miami Medical College. Mr. Hosea was married at Columbia, Tenn., July 20, 1865, to Fanny, daughter of Rev. F. G. Smith, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and founder of the Columbia Athenaum, one of the most popular young ladies' colleges in the South. The issue of this marriage is three children: F. Louise, Sara Davis and Lydia C. The family worship at the Protestant Episcopal Church, Mt. Auburn. He affiliates with the Republican party, but has declined all political honors, excepting a service of one year as assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton county.

JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER. ex governor of Ohio, and attorney, was born in High- land county, Ohio, July 5, 1846. He was educated at South Salem (Ross county), Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1869. While at Cornell he helped to found the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He studied law while at College, finished with Judge Sloan at Cincin- nati, and was admitted to the Bar in 1869. He at once began practice, and has become one of the leading lawyers in the State. Governor Foraker enlisted in Com- pany A, Eighty-ninth O. V. I., was made second sergeant, and rose to the rank of captain. His regiment immediately went into active service. Its terrible marches and camp privations, as well as losses in battle, rapidly thinned the ranks and made way for promotions, by loss of commissioned officers. As captain, our subject com- manded two companies in the attack at Mission Ridge, and led them over the ridge into the enemy's works, being the first man of the regiment to enter. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea, and was at the fall of Atlanta; afterward an aid to Gen. H. W. Slocum, who commanded the left wing of Sherman's army. In 1878 he was appointed supervisor of the Congressional elections at Cincinnati, and dis- charged the duties of that position with firmness and impartiality. In 1876 he was nominated for common pleas judge, and ran ahead of his ticket, although defeated. In 1879 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court, and served with credit and ability. In 1882 he resigned on account of impaired health. He was nominated and elected governor of Ohio in 1883; was defeated for a second time by George Hoadly, who was in turn defeated by Governor Foraker. James E. Campbell defeated Governor Forker, who was nominated for a third term. He was subse- quently a candidate for the United States Senate from Ohio, but was defeated by John Sherman. Notwithstanding the disappointment which naturally follows defeat, Governor Foraker is always found in the front of the battle for the success of the party he loves so well, and no Republican in Ohio is more highly respected than he, nor is his party yet done with his public services.

Governor Foraker was married October 4, 1870, to Miss Julia Bundy. daughter of Hon. H. S. Bundy, of Jackson, Ohio, and several children have blessed this union.

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BELLAMY STORER is a native of Cincinnati. His father, Judge Bellamy Storer, was born in the town of Wells, Maine, in the close of the last century, and died in Cincinnati in 1875. The family were settlers in Maine, and Storer's Garrison was famous in the early French and Indian wars. Bellamy Storer, Sr., was admitted to Bowdoin College when but thirteen years of age, coming near being styled, like Thomas Wolsey, " the boy bachelor." He studied law with Daniel Webster in Boston in the early part of this century, and came to Cincinnati in 1817, when he had but just attained his majority. He was a member of Congress in the " thirties," in 1844 was a Presidential elector, and had the privilege of casting his vote in the Electoral College for Henry Clay. In 1854 he was elected Judge of the Superior Court, and remained continuously on the Bench until 1872, when he resigned to go into a law partnership with his son, the subject of this sketch. Mr. Storer's mother was Elizabeth Drinker Storer, a native of Philadelphia, Penn., and directly descended from the companions of William Penn.

Bellamy Storer, Jr., was a member of the class of 1867 at Harvard University, read law with Stanley Matthews, and in 1869 graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, in which his father was long a professor. In 1869-70 he was Assistant United States District Attorney in the Southern District of Ohio. He served a term as trustee of the Cincinnati University, and is now president of the Ohio Humane Society. Mr. Storer has been a member of three law firms: From 1872 to 1874, of the firm of Storer, Goodman & Storer; from 1874 to 1878, of Goodman & Storer, and from 1878 to 1888, of Storer & Harrison. In the convention for the nomination of a candidate for Congress in the First Ohio District, held September 18, 1890, in Cincinnati, Mr. Storer was the unanimous choice of the delegates. The Republican fight in the First District was believed to be a forlorn one, inas- much as it had been rearranged and made overwhelmingly Democratic by Mr. Storer's political opponents. He was elected, and re-elected for a second term in 1892. In March, 1886, he was married to Mrs. Maria Longworth Nichols, daughter of the late Joseph Longworth. Their home is on Grandin road, East Walnut Hills.

PRICE J. JONES was born in Rome, Adams Co., Ohio, March 17, 1844, a son of the late Milton and Ruth (Tracy) Jones, the former a native of Kentucky, of Welsh descent, the latter a native of New York. Milton Jones was for a number of years a farmer of Adams county, and latterly of Edgar county, Ill., where he died October 24, 1892. His father, Dr. John Jones, a Virginian by birth, was the first physician to locate at the stockade at the Falls of the Ohio river, the present site of Louisville.

Price J. Jones read law under the preceptorship of the late Judge John M. Col- lins, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and was admitted to practice by the Circuit Court of Adams county in September, 1869. He then came to Cincinnati, and has ever since then engaged in the practice of law. At the breaking out of the Civil war he en- listed in the Eighty-first O. V. I., and was mustered in as a private. His regiment was of the Army of the Tennessee. He was mustered out as first lieutenant July 21, 1865. He is a member of the G. A. R., I. O. O. F., and K. of P. On August 5, 1879, Mr. Jones was married to Isabella, daughter of Martin Clements, an old resident of Cincinnati.

JOHN W. WARRINGTON was born July 22, 1846, in Clarke county, Ohio, where liis father, Rev. Charles B. Warrington, a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, then had a charge. Our subject was educated in the public schools of the State, read law under the preceptorship of Alexander McGuffey, attended the Cincinnati Law School, was graduated therefrom in April, 1869, and at once entered upon the practice of law. A few months later he received the appointment of assistant under City Solicitor J. Bryant Walker, and in 1873 was himself chosen city solic- itor. Upon the expiration of his term of office as solicitor Mr. Warrington formed

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his present partnership association with Thomas B. Paxton. Mr. Warrington served his country as a solicitor of the Army of the Potomac from the latter part of 1862 until the close of the war. In the engagement before Petersburg, April 2, 1865, he was severely wounded. He was a Presidential elector in 1876 and voted in the electoral college which chose Rutherford B. Hayes as President. He was mar- ried June 29, 1871. Mrs. Warrington died November 2, 1888, leaving two chil- dren. The family reside in Avondale.

ROBERT SHANNON FULTON, attorney at law, was born near Newark, Licking Co., Ohio, January 8,'1842, a son of John M. Fulton, a prominent and public-spirited farmer of that community, a Virginian by birth, of Scotch-Irish descent. The mother of our subject was a native of Ohio, of Pennsylvania-Dutch extraction.

Robert S. Fulton received his early education in the public schools of Newark, graduating from the high school in 1862. He then entered Marietta College, from which institution he was graduated in the class of '66. Immediately thereafter he came to Cincinnati to assume the duties of superintendent of the Young Men's Christian Association of Cincinnati under the reorganization that year effected in that institution. The following year he resigned that position and began the study of law under Lincoln, Smith & Warnock. In 1869 he was admitted to practice, remained in the office of his preceptors until 1873, then entered into the practice alone, and is still engaged therein. Mr. Fulton was married at Mt. Washington, this county, October 5, 1873, to Mary F., daughter of Stephen Morse, the then president of the American Insurance Company. One child, born of this marriage, Blanche Fulton, is now a student at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. The family residence is on Baymiller street. Mr. and Mrs. Fulton are members of the Central Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder, an office he has held for twenty years. He is one of the board of trustees of the Western Female Seminary of Oxford, Ohio, and a member of its executive committee. He is now and has been for twenty years a member of the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association. He has been for ten years corresponding secretary, for four years president of the Sunday-school Association of the Cincinnati Presbytery, and is the present superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Central Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM AUSTIN GOODMAN, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb- ruary 2, 1845. He is a son of the late William Goodman, who was born in 1797, and came to Cincinnati from Hartford, Conn., in 1817, entering the employ, in a clerical capacity, of his brother, Horace Henry Goodman, a merchant of Cincinnati. In 1828 William Goodman returned to the East and married Margaret Rand Adams, of Boston, a daughter of Samuel Adams, and a grandniece of John Quincy Adams. Returning to Cincinnati, he was associated in business with his brother for a few years, and then became one of the organizers and charter members of the Washing- ton Fire Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, of which company he was president up to the day of his death, August 12, 1876. Mr. Goodman was always actively iden- tified with the educational interests of the city, and was for a number of years a member of the board of education, and of the union board of high schools. He was also one of the founders of, and active workers in, the Unitarian Church.

William Austin Goodman received his early education at E. S. Brooks' school, where he prepared for college; subsequently entered Harvard University, from which institution he was graduated in 1866. Returning to Cincinnati he was for a short time associated with Robert Clarke & Company. He then entered upon the study of law in the office of the late United States Supreme Judge Stanley Matthews, attended the Cincinnati Law College, was graduated therefrom, and admitted to practice in 1869. He then became a member of the law firm of Tilden, Stevenson & Goodman, his associates being Judge M. H. Tilden and Hon. Job E. Stevenson. In 1873 this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Goodman became associated with

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the late Judge Storer and his son, Hon. Bellamy Storer, which partnership contin -- ued during the lifetime of the former, and with the latter until 1884, since which time Mr. Goodman has been engaged in the practice alone. He is a 32nd degree Mason, Scottish Rite, and a Knight Templar. Mr. Goodman was married June 19, 1873, to Grace Hastings Griswold, daughter of Hezekiah Griswold, an insurance agent of Hartford, Conn. One son born of this marriage, William Goodman, is a member of the junior class at Haverford College, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Goodman and his aged mother, Mrs. William Goodman, reside on West Fourth street; they are members of Christ Church.

ALMON MITCHELL WARNER was born at Plainfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., March 6, 1843, and is a son of James and Fidelia Warner. His father was of English origin, and his mother's ancestry is traced in a direct line to Robert Bruce, the famous Scottish chieftain and king. Our subject was educated in the common and select schools of Massachusetts, graduating at Williston Seminary in 1862. On August 6, in that year, while only nineteen years of age, he enlisted in Company H, Thirty seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, Col. Oliver Edward, and was made second sergeant. He was afterward transferred to Company E, same regiment, and pro- moted to the fank of first sergeant. At the battle of Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865, he was severely wounded while attempting the capture of a rebel flag, and in recognition of this, and similar services, he was promoted to a lieutenancy. Dur- ing its entire history his regiment formed part of the Sixth Army Corps. It was in eighteen engagements, including Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Winchester, and Petersburg, in all of which he participated. After three years hard service Lieut. Warner was honorably discharged August 28, 1865.

On January 1, 1866, he began the study of law in the office of Church & Saw- yer, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. His preceptors were both lawyers of exceptional ability. Sanford E. Church was lieutenant-governor of New York, and chief jus- tice of its court of appeals; John G. Sawyer served four.terms in Congress, and was county judge of Orleans county. Mr. Warner was admitted to the Bar in May, 1869, and practiced in Albion, N. Y., until March, 1870, when he removed to Lees- burg, Va. Two years later he located at Huntington, W. Va., and in 1874 came to Cincinnati, where he has since practiced. In 1883 he was the Republican nominee for Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, but was defeated with the rest of the ticket. Mr. Warner was married October 12, 1870, at Albion, N. Y., to Elizabeth H. Densmore, whose parents, Dennis and Christina Densmore, were old residents of Orleans county. Two children, Maude Loraine, and Carrie Elizabeth, have blessed. this union. Mr. Warner is a Republican in politics, is a member of the Congrega- tional Church, and is connected with the I. O. O. F., F. & A. M., and the G. A. R. In the I. O. O. F. he was, for three years, major commanding battalion of Patriarchs Militant in Cincinnati; he is a past grand, past chief patriarch, past grand representative ; and in the G. A. R. he is past Post commander; past Department commander of Ohio, and member of committee on pensions of the National Encamp- ment. He has also held various staff positions in the G. A. R. He and his family attend the Walnut Hills Congregational Church, of which he has been a member many years.

MILTON SATER, attorney at law, was born in Crosby township, Hamilton Co., Ohio. April 2, 1849, a son of the late John J. and Nancy Larison Sater, the former born in this county in 1810, the latter in 1815. The father died in 1864, the mother in 1863. Milton Sater's maternal grandfather, Jonathan Larison, came to this vicinity in 1803, purchased a farm and planted the first nursery in the county, near Mount Pleasant. Milton Sater received his education at the public schools and began his collegiate course at Hanover College, which he was compelled to abandon in the Sophomore year on account of ill health. After a few years recuperation upon his father's farm, he came to Cincinnati to read law in the office of Hollister &.

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Butterworth; attended the Cincinnati Law School, and in 1870 was admitted to practice, in which he has been since engaged. He has a lucrative clientage, enjoy- ing the confidence and the esteem of the community generally. Politically he has always been identified with the Democratic party, and he was one of its nominees for a common pleas judgeship in 1891. On March 4, 1875, Mr. Sater was married to Clara E., daughter of Robert S. Dunning, for many years associated with Louis- ville Mail Line Company. Their residence is on Grand avenue, Price Hill. Mr. Sater is a member of the F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., and K. of P.

WILLIAM WHIPPLE SYMMES, attorney at law, was born in Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, February 17, 1849. He is a son of Americus Symmes, who was born in Bellefontaine, Mo., and now resides near Louisville, Ky. Americus Symmes was a son of Capt. John Cleves Symmes, Jr., a United States army officer who served in the war of 1812. Capt. John Cleves Symmes was a son of Timothy Symmes, who was a brother of Judge John Cleves Symmes, the latter being one of the most conspic- uous figures in the history of the Northwest Territory. During the Revolutionary war he served as colonel; immediately thereafter he was Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of New Jersey, and still later a member of Congress from that State. After his settlement in the West, he was one of the common pleas judges of the. Northwest Territory. He it was who first conceived the idea of sectionizing lands and subdividing them into sections and ranges, and it was this territory of the Miami Purchase which was first so sectionized. The government of the United States afterward adopted this plan of surveying government lands.

Capt. John Cleves Symmes, Jr., author of "The Theory of Concentric Sphere and Polar Voids," is buried in the center of the park (formerly a cemetery in Ham- ilton, Ohio), his remains having been left there to secure to that city the title to the park property, which had been dedicated to the city for cemetery purposes. The youngest son and child of Capt. John Cleves Symmes, Jr., who bore his father's and granduncle's name, was a graduate of West Point, and took the most distinguished rank, in many decades, as a graduate of that institution. He invented breech-load- ing firearms, which closely resembled the present Remington. At the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion he was on furlough in Berlin, Prussia, whither he had gone for the treatment of his eyes. Returning for duty he was reported by the examining board of surgeons as unfit for service on account of the loss of one eye, and the impaired condition of the other. In his disappointment he resigned from service and returned to Berlin, where he married, and he now resides near that city. The first bridge ever wholly constructed of iron was the work of this latter John Cleves Symmes; he also built the arsenal at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His eldest son is a tutor in the University at Heidelberg. Americus Symmes married Frances, daughter of Chastine Scott, of Boone county, Ky., who came to Kentucky from Virginia, and was a member of the same family of Scotts from which Gen. Winfield Scott and Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock were descended. In its various branches, the Symmes family has been a notable one in the political history of the country. A daughter of Judge John Cleves Symmes was the wife of President William Henry Harrison, and the grandmother of another, Benjamin Harrison. Of the children of Americus Symmes, three reside in Cincinnati, viz .: Anthony Lockwood Symmes, a leaf tobacco dealer and broker; Mrs. Florence, widow of the late Mayor S. S. L'Hommedieu, and William W. Symmes, who is mentioned in the opening lines of this memoir.

William W. Symmes received his education at Louisville, completing it in the Louisville University, from which institution he graduated in June, 1869, being the valedictorian of his class. For one year thereafter he taught school at Frankfort, Ky., reading law during that time in the office of the late Col. John Mason Brown. For one year, subsequently, he read law in the office of Pirtle & Caruth, attorneys, Louisville, Ky., was admitted to practice in Louisville, in 1871, came to Cincinnati a few months thereafter, and has engaged in the practice of his profession in that

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city ever since, for a time being associated with his brother, the late C. Scott Symmes. Mr. Symmes is a Democrat, and has always been actively interested in the work of his party. Though often urged to become a candidate for office, he has invariably declined. He is president of the Tilden Club. His place of residence is at River- side, and his office in the Pickering building.

HERMAN MERRELL, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 30, 1849. His education was received in the public schools of his native city. In 1868 he graduated from Hughes High School, then entered the law office of J. F. Baldwin, and became a student of the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated in 1871. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Cincinnati until January, 1885, when he went to Hillsborough county, Fla., where he was admitted to prac- tice, remaining one year, and from there going to St. Louis, Mo., where he was admitted to practice, there remaining three years. In January, 1889, he returned to Cincinnati to take the position of assistant clerk of the Sinking Fund Trustees, in which capacity he was employed three years, when he resumed the practice of law in the city, and is still engaged therein. In February, 1881, Mr. Merrell was married to Mary, daughter of George Bewley, and three children have been born of .this union, viz. : William Stanley, Bewley Edward and George Bewley Merrell. The family reside at Arlington Heights, of which corporation Mr. Merrell is solicitor; they attend the Swedenborgian Church. Mr. Merrell is a son of the late William S. Merrell, a biographical sketch of whom appears in this volume.

WILLIAM GEORGE ROBERTS, attorney at law, was born in Baltimore, Md., January 12, 1845. He is a son of the late William D. and Mary (Hoburg) Roberts, both natives of Maryland, the former of English, the latter of German, descent. Will- iam D. Roberts was an architect by profession, but during the last twelve years of his life was chief judge of the Orphans' Court of Talbot, Maryland.

William G. Roberts received his early education in the public schools of Baltimore, and, later, under private tuition. He studied navigation with a view of devoting his life to seamanship, and received his certificate at Liverpool, England, in 1867. Abandoning that idea, he returned to this country, and began the study of law with Hon. Philip T. Kennard, at Easton, Md., where he was admitted to the Bar in 1871. He formed a law partnership with Judge Henry H. Goldsborough, of that place. The firm shortly thereafter removed to Baltimore, and there remained in practice until November, 1875, when Mr. Roberts came to Cincinnati, and formed a part- nership with Hon. George B. Hollister, which continued under the firm name of Hollister & Roberts until 1882, when Howard C. Hollister, son of George B. Hollis- ter, became a member of the firm which was thereafter, and until its dissolution in December, 1892, known as Hollister, Roberts & Hollister. Since the latter date, Mr. Roberts has been engaged in the practice alone. He is a 32nd degree Mason Scottish Rite, and a Knight Templar. He was married February 6, 1877, to Annie M., daughter of William T. Pierson, of Easton, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts reside at Pike and Third streets; they are members of the Wesleyan M. E. Church.

CHARLES WRIGHT EARNIST was born in Richmond, Ind., December 7, 1847, a son of the late Abraham and Eliza (Ward) Earnist, the former a native of Kentucky, of Irish descent, the latter of Maryland, of English-Scotch lineage. Abraham Earnist, who was many years a merchant of Richmond, Ind., died in 1882; his widow now resides in Richmond. Charles W. Earnist completed his education at the Miami University, graduating therefrom in 1869. He then came to Cin- cinnati, and read law under the late Judge M. H. Tilden; was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and admitted to the Bar in 1871; then entered upon the practice of his profession, and is still engaged therein. He was married March 7, 1874, to Emma, daughter of William Hopper, a native of Cincin- nati, whose father was among the early settlers of Cincinnati. Two children born of this marriage are George C., a student of Woodward High School, and May. Mr. and Mrs. Earnist reside on Forest avenue, Walnut Hills.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 91

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