History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 92

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

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CHRISTIAN MATTHEW LOTZE was born in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, October 8, 1850, a son of the late Adolphus Lotze, who was a native of the Kingdom of Hanover, born in 1812, and came to this country in 1833, a poor young man, but full of energy and inventive genius. He formed the firm of Lotze & Lohn, in the carrying on of a stove business on the southeast corner of Fifth and Vine streets, Cincinnati, and invented the first warm-air furnace ever manufactured in this country. At the time of his death, December 11, 1877, Adolphus Lotze was the head of the well-known firm of A. Lotze & Sons, manufacturers of ranges and furnaces, now composed of A. H. Lotze, F. B. Lotze and Adolphus Bering. His venerable widow (whose maiden name was Magdalena Bering), the mother of C. M. Lotze, is a native of the Kingdom of Bavaria, and still resides with her unmarried children in Cincinnati, the head of a large family of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The subject of this sketch is a graduate of Woodward High School, since 1869; read law under the late Stanley Matthews of the United States Supreme Court, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1871, after which he attended the universities of Leipsic, Heidelberg and Berlin (Germany) until 1873, when return- ing to America he began the practice of his profession, in October of that year, in the law offices of Stallo & Kittredge, in Cincinnati. In 1875 he formed the law firm of Lotze & Bettinger, which continued into the year 1880, since when he has been practicing law, without a partner, in his office in the Wiggins block, which is built on the same corner of Fifth and Vine streets, where his father had his business nearly sixty years ago. On October 5, 1876, he re-visited Europe, and there married his cousin, Emma Magdalena Lotze, a daughter of Prof. William Lotze, in the city of Hanover, having become engaged to her in 1871, while studying law in Leipsic. Mr. Lotze is a Democrat in principle, although his father and brothers were all Republicans, becoming a free-trader in his youth at high school and later an enthu- siastic supporter of President Cleveland, with whom he had a personal interview in Albany in October, 1884, upon political questions prior to his election to the Presi- dency, and with whom he found he was in full accord upon the tariff, civil service reform and financial questions. Mr. Lotze has never held office, but has been a candidate for the legislature and for Judge of the Common Pleas Court, though too little of a politician to be successful. He was also identified as a leader in the Municipal Reform movement in April, 1883, and in the Highland House Independ- ent Democratic movement, which held its convention in College Hall in September, 1883, and of which he was chairman. He was president of the Friends of Inquiry, which society became well known and popular by its meetings for social and scien- tific discussions in the Unitarian edifice on Eighth and Plum streets. He is one of the original and leading advocates of cremation, and together with his brother-in- law, C. A. Nulsen, Esq., instigated the formation of the Cincinnati Cremation Company, which was formed at his office in September, 1884, and of which he is still one of the officers.

Mr. Lotze and his wife and children-Edmund William Lotze and Erna Magda- len Lotze-reside on East Ridgeway avenue, Avondale. He is in the full vigor of manhood, active in the practice of his chosen profession, and just as enthusiastic as ever in the propagation of his political and philosophical principles of progress.

GEORGE WILLIAM HARDING was born in Ripley, Brown Co., Olio, November 22, 1847. He is a son of the late James S. and Lavina (Frazer) Harding, the former of whom was a native of Virginia, whose fatlier was a soldier in the war of 1812, and whose grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, of English descent; the mother of our subject was a native of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent.

George W. Harding was educated in the schools of his native town, and there began the study of law under the preceptorship of Hon. W. H. Sly. In 1871 he was admitted to the Bar by the District Court at Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio,

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entered upon the practice at Aberdeen, where he remained for two years; from there removed to Ripley, where he was located until October, 1879, when he went to Georgetown, and formed a partnership with J. R. Moore, with whom he was associ- ated until 1885, in which year he came to Cincinnati and formed a partnership with A. E. Moore, which partnership was dissolved April 1, 1893. He is now engaged in the practice alone. Mr. Harding is a Democrat, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was married June 30, 1873, to Emma E., daughter of the late Thomas Simpson, of Adams county, Ohio, and three children born of this marriage are: Mayme, William G. and Alma. The first named is the wife of James M. Cox, private secretary of Hon. Paul J. Sorg, member of Congress from the Third Dis- trict of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Harding reside at No. 253 West Seventh street, and attend the Presbyterian Church.

THOMAS FRANCIS SHAY, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati April 7, 1853. He is a son of the late Thomas and Margaret (Steele) Shay, both of whom were natives of County Longford, Ireland, who came to Cincinnati in their early youth with their fathers' families, and were married here. Mr. Shay was by business a grocer; a Democrat in politics, he was an earnest worker for his party, but never held nor aspired to hold office. He died February 2, 1876; his wife died June 20, 1891.

The subject of this sketch completed his education at St. Xavier's, Cincinnati, in 1870, and began the reading of law in the office of Maj. Charles H. Blackburn, with whom, after his admission to the Bar, he was associated in practice for eleven years, during which period he was one of the counsel in the majority of the impor- tant criminal cases in the county and State. He was next associated with the late Michael Kary, afterward, and at present, with Thomas J. Cogan, under the firm name of Shay & Cogan. Mr. Shay is an ardent Democrat, and an active worker for his party. He has served the municipality as a member of the board of education two years, and a member of the board of aldermen four years, but has been without political aspiration. Mr. Shay was married November 22, 1874, to Josephine, daughter of Jacob Costigan, attorney at law, of Somerset, Ohio. One daughter, Rose, is the issue of this marriage.

CLARENCE MORRIS was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 1, 1844, a son of the late William R. and Sarah (Powers) Morris, the former a native of Ohio, of Welsh descent, the latter of Vermont, of Irish extraction, and a sister of the late Hiram Powers. William R. Morris located in Cincinnati in the "thirties," and was one of the clerical force of the late Mayor Daniel Gano, then clerk of the courts of Ham- ilton county. He entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati, and was senior member of the firm of Morris, Tilden & Rairden until 1853 when Mr. Morris retired from the practice. He died May 29, 1859. Clarence Morris was a student in the senior class of Farmers' College, this county, at the breaking out of the war. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Battery H, First Ohio Light Artillery, and served until June 14, 1865, when he was mustered out. He read law at Toledo under the preceptorship of the late Chief Justice M. R. Waite, and was admitted to practice in 1872. He was for two years thereafter located at Toledo, and since then has been engaged in the practice of law in Cincinnati. Mrs. Morris died in November, 1871, leaving two children: Clarence W. and Fannie P., the former of whom died in July, 1892, and the latter resides with her father at Carthage. Mr. Morris is a member of the Christian Church.

WILLIAM C. COCHRAN was born at Oberlin, Ohio, March 29, 1848. He is a son of William Cochran, formerly professor of mental and moral philosophy in Oberlin College, and Helen (Finney), daughter of the distinguished theologian and revivalist, Charles G. Finney, then president of Oberlin College. His mother, widowed before the birth of the subject of this sketch, married Jacob D. Cox, about a year and a half after. The family removed to Warren, Ohio, where William received his initial

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schooling, graduating from Warren High School in 1863. He then engaged for two years in the positions respectively of clerk, bookkeeper and cashier in dry-goods stores in Warren and Quincy, III. In 1865 he entered Oberlin College, and was graduated therefrom in 1869. During the last two years of his college course he taught Latin, Greek and geometry. After his graduation he served a year and a half as clerk in the Interior Department, Washington, D. C., during which time he began the study of law. After this period of service, and a year spent in foreign travel, he returned to Cincinnati, renewed the study of law, and was admitted to practice in 1872. The following year he became a member of the firm of Cox, Fol- let & Cochran, and continued to be associated with John F. Follett, during the years of Gen. Cox's residence in Toledo. In 1879 he again became associated with Gen. Cox, upon that gentleman's return to Cincinnati, and so continued until 1885, since which time he has been alone in the practice. Mr. Cochran is a Republican. He has been a member of the Cincinnati Literary Club since 1875 and has made numerous literary contributions thereto. He is the author of " The Student's Law Lexicon," a valuable book of reference. In November, 1878, he married Rosa D. Allen, sister of Prof. F. D. Allen, formerly of the University of Cincinnati, later of Yale, and now of Harvard. Five children born of this marriage are: Mary R., William S., Helen F., Allen D., and Frances E. The family reside on Gilman ave- nue, Mount Auburn; they attend the Presbyterian Church.

JOHN WILLIAM GRACE, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 18, 1852. His father, John William Grace, was a native of Ragate, England, and in early life settled in Canada upon a large tract of land granted his father, also named John William Grace, in settlement of a claim against the British government. The father of the subject of this sketch came to Cincinnati in 1835, and established a flour-milling commission business in which he was engaged until his death in 1858. John W. Grace, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati, com- pleting it at Hughes High School. He then read law, and attended the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he was graduated in 1872. He did not begin the active practice of law until ten years later, but since 1882 has been engaged therein. Politically he is a Democrat, without aspirations for office.

JOHN A. SLATTERY, attorney at law, is one of the many members of the Hamilton County Bar accredited to the good old town of Marietta. His early education was acquired in the public schools of that city, and he lived there from infancy to young manhood. In 1864 he enlisted in as an artificer in the First Regiment New York Volunteer Engineers, organized for the express purpose of furnishing engineering skill to the armies in the construction of fortifications, bridges, pontoons, roads. etc. At the end of the war he returned to Marietta, and in 1868 was appointed chief clerk in the office of the collector of internal revenue of what was then the Fifteenth District of Ohio, with headquarters at Marietta. With the change of the adminis- tration of said office in 1869, he removed with it to Athens, and, although a Demo- crat in politics, served as chief clerk and chief deputy of said Revenue District dur- ing the entire administrations of Grant and Hayes, until 1877.

During his services in the internal revenue bureau Mr. Slattery entered the office of DeSteiguer & Jewett as a law student, filing his certificate from Athens. In 1873 he was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of the State. At the con- clusion of his services in the internal revenue department in 1877, he entered into partnership with his law preceptor, and formed the firm of DeSteiguer, Jewett & Slattery, and commenced practice at Athens, which continued until 1879, when Mr. Slattery came to Cincinnati and associated himself with T. D. Lincoln and Charles H. Stephens, in the practice of law, forming the firm of Lincoln, Stephens & Slattery. This continued until 1884, when Mr: Slattery formed a law partnership with Thomas A. Logan, which partnership was dissolved in 1890, and he has since been alone in his practice. Mr. Slattery is a successful lawyer, has made many friends in the profes-

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sion, and is exceedingly popular in circles outside. What success has attended his- career is due entirely to his own efforts. He is a genial, pleasant and sociable gen- tleman, a prominent member of the F. C. Jones Post, G. A. R., and of the Masonic Order, having been the presiding officer of his Lodge, Chapter and Council, and com- mander of Cincinnati Commandery No. 3 Knights Templar. In 1891 he was the nominee of his party for the office of corporation counsel, and in the same year, and again in 1893, one of its candidates for judge of the court of common pleas, but shared the fate of the other candidates on the ticket. In 1876 he was married to Lena, daughter of Judge Rodolph DeSteiguer, one of his early friends and first law partner. Two children are the issue. Mr. Slattery has a residence on Park avenue, Walnut Hills.

LOUIS REEMELIN, attorney at law, was born on his father's place at Dent, Hamilton Co., Ohio, January 17, 1852. He is a son of Hon. Charles Reemelin, a biographical sketch of whom is contained in this volume. Our subject received his education in Cincinnati, graduating from Woodward High School in 1871; he then attended the Cincinnati Law College, graduating therefrom when twenty years of age. Pending the attaining of his majority, he went to Heidelberg, where he completed his college life. In October, 1873, he returned to Cincinnati, was admitted to the Bar, and began the practice of law in association with Edward C. Reemelin, an elder brother, the partnership still continuing under the firm name of Reemelin & Reemelin. Mr. Reemelin has been an active worker in the Democratic party since 1876; became an executive committeeman in 1878, and served as such continuously until 1892. During seven campaigns he was a member of the Democratic campaign committee of Hamilton county, serving as secretary, treasurer and chairman. While a resident of Westwood, he was a member of the school board, council and mayor of that cor- poration, being elected to the latter office, though a Democrat, at a time when the Republicans outnumbered the Democrats of that town two to one. Upon the reor- ganization of the Westwood railroad, Mr. Reemelin was one of the leading spirits, a large stockholder, and secretary of the company. Mr. Reemelin was appointed by Governor Campbell, March 13, 1890, as a member of the board of public improve- ments of Cincinnati. He was elected president of said board through the machin- ations of the corporations (street and gas) in Cincinnati. Governor Campbell was led to believe that Mr. Reemelin was not honest in his actions as a member of said board. This resulted in the celebrated extra session of the legislature in 1890 being called by Governor Campbell, and the removal of the board by an Act of the Legis- lature. An investigation of Mr. Reemelin and the acts of the board was ordered by the legislature which was made by a committee of two Democrats and two Republi- cans. After a most searching investigation the committee unanimously exonerated Mr. Reemelin and associates on the board from all dishonesty. The supreme court of the State reinstated the board, and Mr. Reemelin served out his term until the new charter of the city went into effect. His sturdy and square fight for his honor in the matter, and its successful result, gave him the respect of even his political enemies. He is now actively engaged as an attorney, and enjoys an influential clientage and lucrative practice.

Mr. Reemelin was married September 7, 1875, to Emma, daughter of Dr. John Livingston, of Cincinnati, and six children have been born to this union, viz .: Louisa, Amelia, Louis, Jr., Eugene, Walter, and Clarence. The family residence is at No. 24 Wesley avenue, in Cincinnati.

JOHN P. MURPHY was born in the village of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, June 24, 1844. He is a son of Timothy and Mary (Sullivan) Murphy, who came to this country during the early childhood of the subject of this sketch, and located in De- troit, Mich., subsequently removing to Laporte, Ind., where both parents died in 1854.

The schooling of John P. Murphy was comparatively meagre. In 1859 he was apprenticed to learn shoemaking, but at the breaking out of the Civil war he

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enlisted in Company K, Fifth O. V. I., for three months' service. At the battle of Antietam he rendered distinguished service in the capture of the colors of a Con- federate regiment, and in so doing received a wound which necessitated his being mustered out in January, 1863. For this act of bravery, Congress awarded Private Murphy a medal of honor. Returning to Cincinnati, he began an apprenticeship as machinist at the Niles Works, in which employ he continued some four years and a half, when he entered Antioch College, Yellow Springs. In 1871 he began the study of law in Cincinnati. In the fall of that year he was made deputy, under county clerk H. H. Tinker, in which capacity he was employed for two years when he was admitted to the Bar, and entered upon the practice in which he has since been engaged. In 1877 he was elected on the Republican ticket as prosecuting attorney of the police court, and was re-elected to the same position in 1879. His services have been frequently called into requisition as acting judge of the police court. Mr. Murphy has been an active member of the Republican party since attaining his majority, and was, in the campaign of 1892, chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Executive Committee, and in 1893 chairman of the Campaign Committee, conducting a canvass that resulted in the election of the Republican ticket headed by Governor William McKinley by an overwhelming majority. He is a member of Avon Lodge, F. & A. M., and has attained the 32nd degree; also of Magnolia Lodge, I. O. O. F. On May 29, 1877, he was married to Cora, daughter of the late James T. Dean. Mrs. Murphy is one of Cincinnati's most distinguished vocalists. The family residence is at Bond Hill.

GEORGE J. MURRAY was born in Rochester, N. Y., December 1, 1834. He is a son of the late George and Mary (Murphy) Murray, natives of Dublin, Ireland, who came to this country early in their married life, and located in Cincinnati in 1845. The mother died in 1866, the father in 1867.

George J. Murray was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and Louis- ville, and then learned the trade of designing and wood carving. He followed this employment in Cincinnati and Louisville until 1865, when he established a machine shop in Cincinnati, which he conducted for a time, and then embarked in furniture manufacturing. His factory burning out in 1871, he abandoned manufacturing business and began the study of law with James Moore, entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1873. Immediately thereafter he commenced the practice of law, making a specialty of patent practice, in which he has been

almost exclusively engaged since 1880. He was married November 15, 1864, to Louisa, daughter of James Haslan, of Cincinnati, and of the children born of this marriage

six survive. They are: Mary, a graduate of Hughes High School, and the Normal School, now a teacher in the First District School; Mrs. Alice, wife of John J. Nooman; Walter, a graduate of Hughes High School, and a student at the Cincinnati University; Bertha, a student at Hughes High School, and Louis and Ruth, at school. The family reside on Hawthorne avenue, Price Hill. They are members of the Church of the Holy Family, Price Hill.

CHARLES FREDERICK HORNBERGER was born March 1, 1846, in Port Gibson, Clai- borne Co., Miss. He is a son of the late Frederick and Martha (Repsch) Horn- berger, natives of Bavaria, whose parents settled in Mississippi, and who were mar- ried in 1844 in Port Gibson, where the father was engaged in business until 1849, when he came to Cincinnati; he died in October, 1886.

Charles F. Hornberger was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, after- ward graduating from R. M. Bartlett's Commercial College. He then became bookkeeper for Gardner & Eichenlaub, coal dealers, with whom he remained until he was appointed executive deputy by Sheriff Henry Schlotmann. This deputyship he occupied under Sheriffs Col. Daniel Weber and Joseph E. Heart, and was then made chief deputy under Auditor W. M. Yeatman. During the latter service he began the reading of law under Law Librarian M. W. Myers and the late George

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E. Pugh, and was admitted to the Bar in 1873 while serving as chief deputy auditor. In 1873 he formed a law partnership with Hon. Thomas E. Powell and W. M. Yeatman, the firm name being Powell, Yeatman & Hornberger. Mr. Horn- berger was a member of the board of health by appointment of city council in 1880-81-82, and justice of the peace in 1886-87-88, having been elected as a Republican nominee. In 1872, when but twenty-five years of age, Mr. Hornberger was Republican nominee for sheriff, and was again nominated for the same office two years later. He was one of the founders of the Blaine Club, and is a Knight of Pythias. On April 16, 1872, he was married to Minnie, daughter of the late Sebastian Fey, for many years an importer of and dealer in wines in Cincinnati. Of the children born of this marriage three survive: Martha F., Frederick S. and Charles F. The family reside in Corryville, and attend St. John's Protestant Church.

WILLIAM HOWARD DICKS, attorney at law, was born near La Porte, Ind., Novem- ber 2, 1854. His parents in religious faith were Quakers, and his father by occu- pation was a farmer. Our subject lived upon the farm until twenty years of age, at the same time receiving a high-school education. In 1874 he came to Cincinnati and began the study of law in the office of Hon. Benjamin Butterworth. He attended the Cincinnati Law School, graduating in 1875, was admitted to practice immediately thereafter, and was actively engaged therein up to a recent date, when he became associated with the real-estate firm of Leslie, Dicks & Company, which business now engages the most of his time.

Mr. Dicks is a Republican, and was elected in 1891 as Hamilton county representative to the State Legislature. He is a 32° Mason, a Knight Templar, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. On November 6, 1883, Mr. Dicks was married to Alice J., daughter of Wesley Kirkpatrick, a farmer of Montgomery county, Ind., and they have one child, Bodley Kirkpatrick Dicks. The family residence is in Norwood, Hamilton county, Ohio.

LIPMAN LEVY was born in Prussia, August 25, 1836. In 1848 his parents came to this country, locating at once in Cincinnati. His father, Lewis Levy, who was a merchant, died in 1887. His mother died in 1880. Lipman Levy began his schooling in Prussia, continued it in England, and completed it in Cincinnati. From 1861 to 1874 he was engaged in mercantile pursuits, during the latter part of which period he began the study of law. In 1875 he was graduated from the Cin- cinnati Law School; in 1876 he formed a partnership with the law firm of Moulton & Johnson, which was thereafter known as Moulton, Johnson & Levy until the death of Col. Moulton, when it became Johnson & Levy. Socially Mr. Levy is a member of the F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. and of the B'nai Brith Order. Since its organization he has been Secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which has for its main object the maintenance of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. On August 30, 1860, Mr. Levy was married to Henrietta, daughter of Marcus Feder, a retired merchant. Seven children were born of this marriage, viz. : Selena, Belle (married to Frederic A. Johnson, of Cin- cinnati), Rachel (married to Samuel Seitner, of St. Louis, Mich.), Addie, David M. (student at Yale), Esther and Florence. The family reside on Ninth street and worship at the Temple, Eighth and Mound streets.

ALBERT BETTINGER, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati May 3, 1854, a son of Michael and Elizabeth (Angst) Bettinger, both natives of Wurtemberg. Michael Bettinger was for many years engaged in the brewing business in Cincinnati, and is now identified with the woolen factory at Tell City, Ind., of which now thriving and populous town he was one of the founders. Albert Bettinger completed his education at the Indiana State University (Bloomington) in 1874, taking up the study of law during his last year in that institution. He continued the study the following year with Kebler & Whitman, attorneys, of Cincinnati, was admitted to the Bar in 1875, and entered upon the practice of his profession with C. M. Lotze,

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 92

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