History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 93

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

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with whom he was associated for five years. He then formed his present partner- ship association with Herman P. Goebel, ex-judge of the Probate court. Mr. Bet- tinger was married October 21, 1878, to Antonia, daughter of August Steinauer, a resident flour merchant, and one of the founders of Tell City. Three children were born of this marriage: Charles, Antoinette and Alma. The family reside on Glenway avenue, Delhi township.

OTWAY JOSEPH COSGRAVE was born in Cincinnati, November 15, 1849. He is a son of the late Otway and Catherine (Fitzgerald) Cosgrave, both natives of Ireland, the former emigrating to this country in 1831, when eighteen years of age, the latter being brought by her father's family in her infancy. Otway Cosgrave was for many years, and up to a few years before his death, in 1887, engaged in the leather busi- ness in Cincinnati. His wife survived him five years.

Otway J. Cosgrave received his general education at St. Xavier College, and his legal education under the preceptorship of the late Hon. T. D. Lincoln. He entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in the class of ' 75. Three years later he formed a law partnership with J. B. Mannix, which was dissolved in 1883, when Mr. Cosgrave assumed his duties as county solicitor, to which office he had been elected as a Democratic candidate the preceding fall. In 1888 he was the Democratic nominee for Congress from the First District of Ohio, opposed to Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, who was elected; and was again the nominee in 1890, when he was defeated by his Republican opponent, Hon. Bellamy Storer. Since 1879 Mr. Cosgrave has been actively identified with his party's work in this county, serv- ing as campaign committeeman during several campaigns, and as chairman of the committee in the campaign of 1885. He was one of the incorporators and is now (1894) president of the Duckworth Club. He is unmarried, resides on Carlisle ave- nue, and is a member of St. Peter's Church.

LAWRENCE MAXWELL, JR., was born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 4, 1853, during a visit there of his mother. His father and mother (née Crawford) are both natives of Scotland. His father was a brass founder, for many years connected with the firm of J. B. & T. Gibson, and afterward a member of the firm of Thomas Gibson & Co., in Cincinnati. [The firm was founded by Peter Gibson, a Scotchman. ]

Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati including Woodward High School, and was graduated from the University of Mich- igan in 1874. At once returning to Cincinnati, he entered the Cincinnati Law School, and pursued the study of law in the office of and under the preceptorship of the late Stanley Matthews (afterward a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), and was admitted to the Bar in May, 1875. In the fall of that year he con- nected himself with the law firm of King, Thompson & Longworth, and in the fol- lowing year, upon the election of Nicholas Longworth as a judge of the common pleas court of Hamilton county, Ohio, succeeded him in the firm, the title of same then becoming King, Thompson & Maxwell. During the time of his membership in this firm he tried all of its cases in court. His recognition as one of the strongest men at the Bar, young as he was, was instantaneous. In 1879-80 he delivered lec- tures in regular course to the students of Cincinnati Law School, and in 1881, by request, a special series of lectures upon "The Science of Jurisprudence," which were attended not only by the students of the school but by many members of the

Bar. In 1884, he made the principal argument before the Supreme Court of the United States in the celebrated case of McArthur vs. Scott. The case (which is reported in 133 U. S. 340), after having been argued in January, 1884, was by order of the court re-argued in April, 1884. It involved the title, under the will of Gov- ernor Duncan McArthur, to real estate of great value. Mr. Maxwell succeeded in having annulled the decrees made in 1839 annulling the probate and setting aside the will of Governor McArthur, and recovered for the children of Allen McArthur, son of the governor, the lands devised to them by their grandfather. His argument

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in this case broadened his reputation from a local to a national one, the justice who .~ wrote the opinion of the Court in the case characterizing it as the finest argument he had heard since he had had a seat upon that Bench. In 1884, Mr. Maxwell with- drew from the firm of King, Thompson & Maxwell to form a partnership with Will- iam M. Ramsey, who had been a partner with Stanley Matthews prior to the latter's appointment to the Supreme Court Bench. Mr. Maxwell was selected as one of the arbitrators to hear and decide the Hocking Valley railroad case, involving several millions of dollars. Mr. Maxwell's associates in this arbitration were E. W. Kitt- redge, of Cincinnati, and James C. Carter, of New York.

On March 30, 1893, he was nominated by President Cleveland as solicitor-gen- eral of the United States. The appointment not only came to him absolutely unsought, as all appointments to office should come, but when first offered he was inclined to refuse it; not because he did not realize the dignity of the position or appreciate the compliment implied in its tender, but because he felt a natural reluc- tance to sacrifice for four years a large professional income for a comparatively small salary. His friends, however, and friends of the administration, prevailed upon him to accept the office. His eminent fitness for the position has been abundantly dem- onstrated by the signal ability with which he has fulfilled the duties devolving upon him. He has never held any other public office nor has he ever been identified with politics or politicians. Mr. Maxwell was married in December, 1876, to Clara Barry Darrow, at Ann Arbor, Mich., by whom he has two children, Marjorie (born in 1879) and Jean (born in 1884).

CHARLES LOUIS RAISON was born in Greenup, Greenup Co., Ky., October 29, 1848, a son of the late Charles Louis and Amanda K. (Corum) Raison, both natives of Ken- tucky, the former of French and the latter of German descent. Charles Louis Rai- son, Sr., was a merchant, subsequently becoming prominently identified with the work of the Republican party in his community, and occupying a number of official positions, among them those of county clerk, circuit court clerk, county judge of Boyd county, and mayor of Ashland, Ky. He died in 1887. The name of the family, which for the purpose of simplifying has always been known as Raison in this country, is in the French and in full Raison de la Geneste. The grandfather of Charles L. Raison, Sr., was a native of France, and resided there. He was the owner of a large plantation in San Domingo; and was visiting that property with his family at the time of the insurrection of the natives of that island, and he and his family were among the few whites who were not massacred at that time.

Charles L. Raison, Jr., received his education in the public schools of Greenup and Boyd counties, Ky., was for four years thereafter bookkeeper and assistant man- ager of the East Kentucky Railway Company, in 1872 came to Cincinnati, and was for one year bookkeeper of the Niles Tool Works. He was next associated with the New York and East Tennessee Iron Company as bookkeeper for one year. In 1874 he began the study of law under the preceptorship of Hon. D. K. Wise, of Ashland, Ky. In 1873 he entered Ann Arbor University, where he remained for two years. On April 9, 1875, he was admitted to the Bar in Carter county, Ky., and formed a partnership with B. F. Bennett, with whom he was associated until 1878, when he entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati, subsequently, in 1889, forming his present partnership association with George H. Ahlering. Mr. Raison was married April 17, 1879, to Georgiana, daughter of Thomas Wrightson, of Newport, and the children born of this marriage are Elizabeth and Thomas. The family reside in Newport.

HERMAN PHILIP GOEBEL, of the firm of Goebel & Bettinger, attorneys at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 5, 1853, the son of Christian and the late Elizabeth Goebel, who came to Cincinnati in 1848. His education was acquired at public and private schools, and he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School; upon his attain- ing his majority he was at once admitted to practice. In 1875 he was elected a.

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member of the General Assembly of Ohio. In 1880 he entered into partnership, for the practice of the law, with Albert Bettinger, Esq. In 1884 he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Hamilton county, and was re-elected for a second term. Upon retiring from the Bench he resumed the practice of law with his former partner, Albert Bettinger. Judge Goebel was married to M. Louise Brown, of Dunkirk, N. Y., and four children were born of this marriage, three of whom survive, viz .: Nel- lie E., Hilda K. and Florence A. The family reside at Hermosa Park, a suburb in this county; Judge Goebel and his family are members of the Lutheran Church.

JOSEPH LEE LOGAN, attorney at law, was born in Parke county, Ind., June 26, 1843. He is a son of Samuel McCampbell and Mary (McMurty) Logan, both natives of Kentucky, and of Scotch-Irish descent. Joseph received his early education in the public schools of Parke and Montgomery counties, Ind. At the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in Company H, Thirty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out at Atlanta, Ga., in October, 1864. He was twice wounded, at Peach Tree Creek, and Jonesboro, respectively. For a short period after his return from the army, he taught school and then attended Michigan University, Ann Arbor, graduating therefrom in 1870. During the next five years he was engaged in school teaching in Indiana and West Virginia, during the latter part of which period he commenced the study of law. From 1875 to 1880 he was one of the teachers in the Chickering Institute, Cincinnati, during the early part of which period he attended the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he was graduated in October, 1876. In 1880 he entered into the practice of his profession, in which he is still engaged. In October, 1870, Mr. Logan was married to Martha Ann, daughter of the late Andrew D. Patton, of Remington, Ind., and one child, Cora Lee, is the issue of this marriage. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. They reside at Delhi.

THOMAS JAMES COGAN, attorney at law, was born in the city of New York, June 30, 1855. He is a son of Patrick and Catherine (McDonough) Cogan, natives of Ire- land (the former of the County Sligo, the latter of the County Roscommon) who came to this country in their youth, and were married in New York City, where Mr. Cogan followed the business of marble cutting. The family came to Cincinnati in the infancy of the subject of this sketch. His early schooling was secured at the parochial school of St. Joseph, and was completed at St. Xavier College, from which institution he was graduated in 1873, taking the degree of B.A .; for two years thereafter he read law, and the degree M.A. was conferred upon him. The follow- ing year he was admitted to practice, in which he has since been engaged. He is now associated in business with Thomas F. Shay, under the firm name of Shay & Cogan. The firm has a very lucrative practice.

Mr. Cogan is a Democrat, and has been actively identified with the work of his party in this county. When but twenty-two years of age he was the nominee of his party for prosecuting attorney of the police court, and was defeated by a small majority. He was elected to the Ohio Legislature as Representative, serving in 1884-85. He was chairman of the committee on Municipal Corporations and was the champion of the four-million-dollar street improvement bills, the passage of which led to the most important improvement made in several decades. He was also a member of the Legislative Committee which investigated the alleged election frauds of 1884. He was chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee for the years 1884 and 1885, has served as executive committeeman in numerous cam- paigns, and was chairman of the Democratic City Convention in 1894. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Duckworth Club, and one of the found- ers of the Tilden Club. He is a member of the B. P. O. E. Mr. Cogan is unmar- ried.

HORATIO BASSETT TURRILL, attorney at law, was born near Pleasant Ridge, Ham- ilton Co., Ohio, June 29, 1835. He is a son of Heman B. Turrill, a native of Con-

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necticut, by occupation a farmer and surveyor, who came west with his father, Jared Turrill, who, in 1818, brought his family to this country in a two-horse wagon from Connecticut, and settled in Columbia township, becoming one of the earliest settlers of Pleasant Ridge.

Our subject commenced his education in the district schools of Columbia town- ship, and completed it at Farmers' College in this county, in 1854. Until the breaking out of the Civil war he taught school, then enlisted in Company K, Sev- enty-second O. V. I., and re-enlisted in the same regiment and company, serving until the close of the war, when he was mustered out as first sergeant. Dur- ing the last ten months of this period he endured the hardships of Andersonville, and other Southern military prisons, being one of a number of troops who were captured at Guntown, through the indiscreet movements of Gen. Sturgis during one of that officer's inebriate escapades with his command. He was the first presiding officer of the Andersonville Survivors Association. Returning to this county at the close of the war, he resumed teaching, and commenced the study of law; was admitted to the Bar, and entered into the practice of law in Cincinnati in 1876, and is still engaged therein. Mr. Turrill is a Freemason, also an active mem- ber of the G. A. R., and has contributed much to the magazine military literature. He has been twice married; first time in February, 1856, to Marilla, daughter of Cyrus Buck, a Connecticut farmer. Of the children born of this marriage, two sons survive. The elder, George A. Turrill, was a student of the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity, also a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, and is now engaged in the prac- tice of law; the younger son, Frank M. Turrill, is a law student. Both are unmar- ried. Mrs. Turrill died in 1881. H. B. Turrill was married, the second time, in 1882 to Mary C., daughter of Thomas Gohen, of Cincinnati. The family reside at Pleasant Ridge, with the growth and development of which now populous and thriv- ing suburb Mr. Turrill has been largely identified in every direction. He is now justice of the peace of his township. He and his wife are members of the Ninth Street Baptist Church.

GUSTAVUS HENRY WALD, attorney at law, was born in the city of Cincinnati, March 30, 1853. His early education was received in the public schools of his native city. In 1869 he was graduated from Hughes High School; then entered Yale, and graduated therefrom in 1873. He next attended Harvard Law School, from which institution he was graduated in 1875, and in March of that year was admitted to the Bar in the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Returning to Cincinnati in 1876, he entered into the practice of his profession, becoming associated, in September of that year, with Charles B. Wilby, under the firm name of Wilby & Wald, which firm is still in existence, and is conducting a very extensive business. Mr. Wald is a Dem- ocrat, and received, in 1891, the unsolicited nomination of his party for judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio; the ticket was defeated. Mr. Wald is the American editor of Wald's "Pollock's Principles of Contract."

HON. JOHN ALEXANDER CALDWELL, Mayor of Cincinnati and late member of Congress from the Second District of Ohio, was born in Fair Haven, Preble Co., Ohio, April 21, 1852. He is a son of Alexander P. and Sarah (Pinkerton) Cald- well, both of whom were natives of Preble county, the former of Scotch and the lat- ter of Scotch-Irish descent.

John A. Caldwell had a common-school education at Fair Haven, and was for a time thereafter engaged in school teaching. He read law under the preceptorship of the late Col. C. W. Moulton, of the law firm of Moulton, Johnson & Levy; entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1876; then resumed school teaching for two years in this county. In 1878 he entered upon the practice of the law. In 1881 he was elected, on the Republican ticket, to the city prosecutor- ship, and re-elected in 1883. In 188-, he was the Republican nominee for judge of the police court, and was defeated by James W. Fitzgerald. In 188-, he was again

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the Republican candidate for the police court judgeship against Judge Fitzgerald, and was elected. During his incumbency of this office, in 1888, he received the nom- ination for Congressman from his District; was renominated and re-elected in 1890, and again renominated and re-elected in 1892. In 1894 he resigned his Congress- ional office to assume his duties as Mayor, to which office he was elected, though vig- orously opposed by an independent Republican candidate, by a handsome majority. He has always been actively identified with his party's work, was president of the Republican League of Ohio, by unanimous election, and executive committeeman of the National Republican League. As a Congressman his most notable acts were the introduction of the celebrated Lottery Bill, and his earnest and successful advocacy of the extension of the free postal delivery system. He was married in December, 1876, to Anna, daughter of John Eversull, a civil engineer and resident of Mt. Airy, this county. Three children are the fruits of this marriage, viz. : John A. Caldwell, Jr., a student at Woodward High School, Bessie and Robert Caldwell. The family reside in Cumminsville, and are members of the Presbyterian Church. Judge Caldwell is a 32° Mason, and a member of the K. of P., I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., K. of H., and National Union.

JAMES BLACK SWING, attorney at law, and ex-judge of the Probate Court of Cler- mont county, Ohio, was born in Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio, May 15, 1854. He is a son of Judge George L. Swing (who was also judge of the Clermont County Pro- bate Court, a native of Ohio of German descent), and of Elizabeth (McMean) Swing (a native of Hamilton county, of Scotch-Irish descent).

James B. Swing, the subject of this sketch, received his early education in the public schools of Batavia, and completed it at Hanover College, Indiana, from which institution he was graduated in 1876. He then began the study of law with his father in Batavia, was admitted to practice in 1877, and entered into partnership with his father. In 1881 he was the nominee of the Republican party for judge of the Probate Court of Clermont county, was elected and renominated and re-elected in 1884. Upon the expiration of his last term of office in 1888, he came to Cincin- nati and formed a law partnership with Howard Ferris, which continued until that gentleman's election to the probate judgeship of this county, when our subject formed the present partnership with Frank R. Morse. Judge Swing was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 1884 from the then Seventh (now Sixth) District of Ohio. He was married in April, 1881, to Carrie M., daughter of the late Judge Philip B. Swing, of the United States District Court. The family reside at Batavia, and are members of the Presbyterian Church.

JOHN DOYLE GALLAGHER was born in Steubenville, Ohio, December 5, 1851. He is a son of the late James and Rachel (Shaw) Gallagher, the former a native of Penn- sylvania, of Irish descent, the latter of Ohio nativity, and of English descent. James Gallagher was, up to within a few years of his decease, April 7, 1892, presi- dent of the Jefferson National Bank of Steubenville.

John D. Gallagher received his initial schooling in the public schools of Steub- enville, and then entered Cornell University, where he remained two years. For two years thereafter he was a student in the University of Leipzig (Saxony), following which he was for one year at L'Ecole de Droit, Paris. He was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School May 10, 1877, and after three years stay in the office of Lin- coln, Smith & Stephens, entered upon the practice alone. During 1885-87, he was assistant city solicitor, under Frank M. Coppock, and immediately thereafter formed his present partnership association with the latter under the firm name of Coppock & Gallagher. The firm for a time included Fred Mertenstein, present (1894) cor- poration counsel. Mr. Gallagher was married April 27, 1882, to Dora, daughter of Andrew Cadwallader, late of Warren county, Ohio, now of Chicago, Ill., and the chil- dren born of this marriage are Esther C., James, Rachel, Andrew and John. The family attend the Miami Monthly (Friends) Meeting. They reside on Walnut Hills. In politics Mr. Gallagher is a Republican.

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JOHN CLEVES HART was born at Cincinnati, May 5, 1851. He is a son of the late Judge Samuel M. Hart and Mary (Pugh) Hart, the former a native of Lancaster, Ohio, and of Welsh descent, the latter a native of Cincinnati, a sister of the late Hon. George E. Pugh, and of English descent. The subject of this sketch completed his education at Kenyon College in 1871, began the study of law under the preceptor- ship of George E. Pugh, was admitted to the Bar in May, 1877, and entered at once upon the practice of his profession in which he has since been engaged. He is the senior member of the firm of Hart & Pugh, his associate being Robert C. Pugh, eld- est son of the late George E. Pugh. Mr. Hart was a Hamilton county representa- tive in the Ohio Legislature in 1888-89, having been elected on the Republican ticket.

JOSEPH T. HARRISON, attorney, Cincinnati, was born May 1, 1853, at Scio, Harri- son Co., Ohio, where he was reared and educated. He is the eldest in the family of twelve children of John and Euphemia (Patterson) Harrison, natives of Ohio, the former of English, the latter of Scotch parentage. The Harrison family were among the pioneer settlers of eastern Ohio, and among the prominent farmers. Our subject's grandfather, Joseph Harrison, a native of Otley, Yorkshire, England, set- tled in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1818. The father of our subject made farming the business of his life, and is known as one of the most progressive and successful in that part of the State. He is the owner of 700 acres of land where he now resides, in Harrison county.

Our subject commenced teaching in the public schools five years before he grad- uated from Scio (Ohio) College in 1875. After his graduation he was offered and accepted a position as instructor in the college, and taught one year; then entered the law office of David Cunningham, in Cadiz, the county seat of Harrison county, Ohio. He applied himself diligently to his studies, and in October, 1877, entered the senior class of the Cincinnati Law School, where he graduated in May, 1878, since which time he has built up a lucrative practice (being now the senior member of the firm of Harrison & Ashton) in the Queen City. On September 23, 1884, he was married in Cincinnati to Vannelia, daughter of Thomas G. and Vannelia (James) Smith, natives of Cincinnati, and of Scotch and German descent, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have one child, Louise. Mr. Harrison is an active member of the Masonic Fraternity, and is a Knight Templar; is past master of Kilwinning Lodge; a member of Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine; past grand of Magnolia Lodge, I. O. O. F .; past chancellor of Gillenwood Lodge, Knights of Pythias; and is president of the Walnut Hills Council of the National Union.

PEIRCE J. CADWALLADER, attorney at law, was born December 27, 1853, in War- ren county, Ohio, of Quaker lineage, his ancestors having been members of the Soci- ety of Friends for six generations. He is a son of Andrew Whitacre and Esther Peirce Cadwallader, now residents of Chicago, Ill., the former of whom was a suc- cessful wool merchant in Warren county prior to his removal to Chicago. Jonah Cadwallader, grandfather of subject, came to Cincinnati from Virginia, in 1812, on horseback, and was one of the original subscribers to the fund for the purchase of the lot and the erecting of a Friends Meeting House, which is still owned and occu- pied by the Society of Friends on Fifth street, west of Central avenue. The great- grandfather, Robert Whitacre, was one of the original committee selected by Miami Quarterly Meeting, in 1813, to establish a Friends Meeting in Cincinnati. The grandfather, after engaging in business in Cincinnati for a time, moved to Warren county, Ohio, where he purchased eight sections of land and engaged in farming, his residence being the first brick house erected in that part of the country, and which is now occupied by one of his sons. The mother of subject is a daughter of Rich- ard Peirce, who came to Cincinnati from Delaware in 1812, journeying down the river on a flatboat from Pittsburgh. He remained in Cincinnati only for a short time, and then moved to Clinton county, Ohio, where he engaged successfully in the fur hat manufacturing business.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 93

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