History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 97

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

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Scott Bonham received his early education at the village school, from there pro- ceeding to Delaware, Ohio, where he attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, from

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which institution he was graduated in 1882. For some time thereafter he attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He was next, for two years, a stu- dent of the Cincinnati Law College, graduated therefrom, and was admitted to the Bar in 1885, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession. During the past eight years Mr. Bonham has been an active worker for his party (Republican), and has represented his ward, the Sixteenth, as a delegate to numer- ous conventions, and is an active member of the Young Men's Blaine Club. In 1891 he was elected member of the board of legislation of Cincinnati, and was re-elected thereto in 1893 for the full term of two years. As a member of this board Mr. Bonham won the approval of good citizens generally by his earnest and eloquent advocacy of all good measures introduced in that body, and by his equally stalwart opposition to such as were opposed to the best interest of the people. Mr. Bonham is a member of the Second Cincinnati Cavalry Troop, and president of the Cincinnati Cavalry Club, in the organization of both of which he was actively iden- tified. He is a member of the Masonic Order, and also of the Second Presbyterian Church. He is unmarried.

MICHAEL FRANCIS GALVIN, attorney at law, was born in the County Roscommon, Ireland, October 8, 1862. His parents, Thomas and Mary (Green) Galvin, both of whom were natives of Ireland, as were their ancestors for many generations, removed to a farm near Leeds, England, when Michael was but three years old. Near Leeds he received his early education. In 1871 the family came to this country, and located upon a farm near Hartford, Conn., where they resided until 1874, when they came to Cincinnati, Mr. Galvin being actively engaged in business up to a few years ago, when he retired. Michael F. Galvin, who had attended school near Hartford, resumed his schooling here upon the arrival of his father's family, completing it at Woodward High School from which he was graduated in 1884. He began the study of law in the office of Mr. T. F. Shay; entered the Cincinnati Law College and was graduated therefrom and admitted to practice in 1886. For one year he was asso- ciated with Mr. Shay, and then embarked in the practice alone. He is a Democrat, and has been more or less actively identified with the work of his party in Cincin- nati and Hamilton county. Mr. Galvin has a lucrative practice, confined principally to the settlement and management of estates. He is closely interested and identi- fied with local Catholic institutions; is unmarried, and resides with his parents in Fairmount.

LOUIS GOTTLOB HUMMEL, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Decem- ber 1, 1864. His father, the late Christian Hummel, was a native of Hoheneck, Wurtemberg, came to the United States in 1854, and three years later located in Cincinnati where he was engaged in the distilling business for thirty-two years. He died November 15, 1892. His wife, whose maiden name was Louise Goetz, was a native of Hessen-Darmstadt, and came to Cincinnati in 1857, where she now resides.

Louis G. Hummel attended the public schools, completing his education at Woodward High School. At the age of fifteen years he entered the employ of Alms & Doepke, as entry clerk, and was thus engaged some four years. During the lat- ter part of this service he began the study of law at home, in 1884 entered the office of Howard Douglass, attended the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated in the class of 1886 at the age of twenty-one years and four months. For one year there- after he engaged in the practice of law in Seattle, Wash., and was there associated with Fred Peterson, then city attorney, afterward establishing himself in Cincinnati. Mr. Hummel was married June 12, 1888, to Emma, daughter of the late Jacob Yockey, of Ripley, Ohio, and three children were born of this marriage: Violetta, Louis and Florence. The family recently removed from Euclid avenue, Mt. Auburn, to their new home, "Hoheneck," formerly the well-known Markley home- stead, on the Ohio.

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JAMES ELLSWORTH ROBINSON, attorney at law, was born in Amelia, Clermont Co., Ohio, July 3, 1860. He is a son of Francis and Philomelia (Johnson) Robinson, both of whom are natives of this State. He received his education in the public schools of his native county, taught thereafter for four years, then entered the Cin- cinnati Law School, from which institution he graduated in 1886. On June 2, 1887, Mr. Robinson was married to Rose, daughter of Dr. A. C. Moore, of Amelia, and two children born of this marriage are Mary Eloise and Philomelia. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson reside at Wyoming.

ROBERT PALMER HARGITT, attorney at law, was born in Butler county, Ohio, August 3, 1863. He is the third son of the late Jervis and Martha Ann (Waldron) Hargitt, the former a native of Indiana, of English descent, the latter a native of . Ohio, and of Hollandese extraction. Thomas Palmer, the maternal great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch, was a contractor and builder in the earliest his- tory of Cincinnati, and built the first brick house erected here. Jervis Hargitt was an attorney, and was for six years clerk of the courts of Butler county. He was also assistant secretary of the State Board of Equalization. He died in 1888.

Robert P. Hargitt was educated in the public and high schools of Hamilton, taught school for one year, and then became the official reporter of the Butler county courts; came to Cincinnati in 1884, and pursued the study of law with the firm of Butterworth & Crosley, subsequently with Thomas McDougall. He was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886, and in June, 1892, formed his present partnership with Joel C. Clore. Mr. Hargitt was married October 31, 1892, to Mary Deans, eldest daughter of the late James B. Bell, for many years a leading wholesale grocer of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Hargitt reside in Glendale; they are members of the Presbyterian Church ..

WILLIAM FRANCIS Fox, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 5, 1865. His father, the late Bernard Fox, dealt extensively in horses, and was one of the pioneers in that business in Cincinnati. Our subject began his schooling at St. Joseph's College, and completed his education at St. Xavier College, graduating from the latter institution in 1885. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1886. Pending the attainment of his majority, he accepted a position in the office of the Cincinnati Post, where he remained until 1890, when he entered upon the practice of his profession with William W. Symmes, under the firm name of Symmes & Fox. On November 22, 1892, Mr. Fox was mar- ried to Adelaide C., daughter of the late B. G. Stall. Mrs. Fox died October 4, 1893, leaving one child, Francis Joseph. Mr. Fox resides on June street, Walnut Hills. He is a member of St. Xavier's Church.

JOSEPH HARTWELL CABELL, attorney at law, was born in Nelson county, Va., December 24, 1863, a son of Philip B. and Julia (Bolling) Cabell, both natives of Virginia. The paternal ancestry dates back in the history of Virginia to 1718, when Dr. William Cabell settled there from Warminster, England; the maternal ancestry is lineally descended from Pocahontas. J. Hartwell Cabel received his early educa- tion in Virginia, then entered Urbana University, and in 1881 was graduated there- from with the degree A. B. Returning to Virginia, he was for three years con- nected with the United States Internal Improvement. In 1884 he came to Cincin- nati, read law under the preceptorship of E. W. Kittredge, attended the Cincinnati Law School, and was graduated therefrom in 1886; repaired to Urbana, and had the degree A. M. conferred on him, and then entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati, being associated with Edwin Gholson, under the firm name of Gholson & Cabell.

EDWARD S. LEAVITT was born in Cincinnati, May 11, 1861. He is a son of the late Rev. Edward Howe Leavitt, a minister of the Episcopal Church, who died in Cincinnati June 22, 1888, and is a grandson of the late Hon. Humphrey Howe Leavitt, a judge of the United States District and Circuit Court for thirty-seven years, who died in Cincinnati in 1872.

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Edward S. Leavitt attended the Cincinnati schools, prepared for college at Freehold Institute, New Jersey, entered Princeton College in 1880, and graduated in the class of 1884. He studied law under the preceptorship of Hon. John W. Herron; was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in the class of 1886, but was admitted to practice the previous year by the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Colum- bus. He is a Republican, active in local politics, and was for one term a member of the board of education from the Eighteenth Ward. He fills city positions, and is at present practicing law at No. 35 Wiggins block. Mr. Leavitt was married February 16, 1892, to Lily Packer, daughter of Mrs. Rachel Stites Packer, the latter a granddaughter of Maj. Benjamin Stites, who is said to have made the first settlement of Cincinnati in 1787 at Columbia, John Cleves Symmes, his associate, shortly after- ward making the next settlement at North Bend. Maj. Stites was one of the prin- cipals in the Miami Purchase, having purchased 20,000 acres of land in Columbia and its vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Leavitt have one child, Edward Howe Leavitt; they reside at No. 81 Kinney avenue, East Walnut Hills.

HON. MICHAEL T. CORCORAN, attorney, of the firm of Corcoran & Corcoran, general law practitioners, is a native of the "Queen City," born June 2, 1863. He is a son of Michael T. and Mary (Quinn) Corcoran, natives of Ireland. The father was a contractor, and spent many years of his life working on contracts on public works. In order to better his chance in life, he emigrated from Ireland to Cincinnati when he was a young man, and was married in that city. Of their five children, three are now living, all sons: Patrick, a partner in the law firm of Corcoran & Corcoran, was reared and educated in Cincinnati, graduating from St. Xavier College in 1877, and from the Cincinnati Law School in 1879 (he was elected prosecuting attorney in 1889, and served one term); Richard, a priest, presiding over a church at Woodstock, Md., and Michael T.

Our subject was educated in Cincinnati, and was graduated from St. Xavier College in 1882, and was then employed as professor of Greek and Latin in this college for three years, during which time he studied law, and in 1886 he was gradu- ated from the Cincinnati Law School. He then entered on the practice of his chosen profession in company with his brother. The brothers in their political views are in sympathy with the Democratic party, and Michael T. Corcoran was nominated by his party as their standard bearer for senator in 1889, being elected. He was only twenty-six years of age, being the youngest senator ever elected from this District, but young as he was he introduced twenty-six bills in the legislature, all of which became laws. One was the code governing loan and building associations; another was the new charter for the city of Cincinnati; and another was the law establishing the free employment agencies. He takes a lively interest in politics; is an active member of the Society of Elks, a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and still retains an active membership in the Phi Delta Psi. He is a frequent contributor to literary journals.

WILLIAM JAMES DAVIDSON was born in Newport, Ky., October 25, 1867. He is a son of W. A. and Sarah J. (Schofield) Davidson, the former a native of Scotland, the latter of Kentucky, and of English descent. W. A. Davidson is a jeweler of Cincinnati, and resides at Dayton, Kentucky.

William J. Davidson received his early education in the public and high schools of Covington; read law under the preceptorship of Judge H. P. Whitaker, of Cov- ington; entered the Cincinnati Law School, was graduated therefrom in 1886, and became associated thereafter in the practice with his preceptor, Judge Whitaker, under the firm name of Whitaker & Davidson. In 1887 he moved to Chattanooga, and formed a law partnership with E. Y. Chapin. In 1888 he returned to Cincin- nati and formed his present partnership association with W. McD. Shaw, under the firm name of Shaw & Davidson. Socially Mr. Davidson is a Freemason, politically he is a Democrat. He was married April 23, 1890, to Mary Lou, daughter of John

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J. Shaw, a merchant of Paris, Ky. One child, Alma J., is the fruit of this mar -- riage. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson reside in the Phoenix Flat building, Cincinnati; they are members of the Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM HUBBELL FISHER Was born in the city of Albany, N. Y., November 26, 1843. His father was Rev. Samuel W. Fisher, D. D., LL. D., from 1846 to 1858 pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of this city, and subsequently the presi- dent of Hamilton College, New York. His mother was Jane J. Jackson, of New Jersey, descended on her mother's side from the Van de Lindas, an old Holland- Dutch family, and from Peter Schuyler, the governor of New York.

William H. Fisher, the subject of this sketch, passed his boyhood in Cincin- nati; entered Hamilton College, and was graduated therefrom in 1864 with honor. He has recently been elected a member of the Epsilon Chapter of the society of Phi Beta Kappa, an ancient fraternity of scholars. He studied law at the law school of Columbia College, New York City, under Prof. Theo. W. Dwight and Prof. Lieber, and was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in the year 1867. He entered upon the practice of his profession at Utica, N. Y., at which time John S. Crocker, attorney in patent cases, transferred to him all his business relating to letters patent. In 1870 he entered into partnership in the practice of patent law with Hon. Samuel S. Fisher, ex-commissioner of patents in this city. In 1873 the partnership was dis- solved, and Mr. Fisher has since continued in the practice of patent law. He is the author of Fisher's Patent Reports, Vol. I, a compilation of cases of a great deal of value to those engaged in the practice of law relating to patents. On September 10, 1873, he was married to Miss Mary L. Lyon, of Lyons Falls, N. Y., and to them have been born four children, of whom three are living. Mr. Fisher during his stay at Utica, with two other gentlemen, originated the Young Men's Christian Association of Utica, N. Y., an organization now strong, active, useful and vigorous, and pos- sessing a new and handsome building, the property being valued at over one hundred thousand dollars. He is an elder in the Second Presbyterian Church here, is the corre- sponding secretary and director of the Young Men's Christian Association here, and has been president of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. In the line of photo- graphy he has made certain interesting inventions enabling animals to take their own pictures by day and by night, also certain valuable improvements in lens shutters, and in apparatus for supporting cameras. He has contributed a number of valuable papers upon various subjects of natural history. In the year 1893, Mr. Fisher pub- lished an interesting article of original research entitled "The Investigations of the Burrows of the American Marmot," together with full diagrammatic plans of the burrows. The subject was an entirely new one in the field of scientific investigation and the paper has received very favorable notice from American and European scien- tists. It has an ethnological bearing, as it opens to the light, earth openings in which early races of men would be likely to bury or deposit articles of archeolog- ical interest.

Descendant of Officer of American Revolution.

On his father's line of descent, Mr. Fisher is a direct descendant from Jonathan Fisher, of the Massachusetts militia, chosen by Field officers as second lieutenant in Fifth Company of Northampton Second Hampshire County Regiment. Record hereof is dated March 22, 1776, in the Record Index to the Revolutionary War Archives of the State of Massachusetts. On his mother's side, Mr. Fisher is a direct descendant (a great-grandchild) of Adrian Brinkerhoff, Quarter Master Second Reg- iment of the militia of Dutchess county, N. Y. Brinkerhoff's commission was issued October 17, 1775. [Calendar of New York Historical Manuscripts, Revolutionary Paper, Vol. I, page 140.] The grandfather of Adrian Brinkerhoff was Col. John Brinkerhoff. He lived at Fishkill, on the Hudson, and his home was the headquar- ters of Washington in 1778. Reported in Spark's Life of Washington and men-

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tioned by Benson J. Lossing, in his Historical Sketches No. 61, in Poughkeepsie Eagle, issue of February 14, 1874, also recorded in " Ancestry of Von Voorhies " - Jeanette Von Voorhies being the wife of Col. John Brinkerhoff.

WILLIAM MCCLELLAN FRIDMAN was born in Clermontville, Clermont Co., Ohio, February 26, 1863, a son of Franklin and Milly (Bushman) Fridman, the former a native of Stollioven, near Strasburg, Germany, the latter of Ohio, of German descent. Franklin Fridman was born in 1816, came to the United States in 1833, locating in Cincinnati, where he was engaged as a boilermaker for some years. In 1840 he removed to Clermont county, where he has ever since been engaged in mercantile, manufacturing and banking pursuits, and is now president of the First National Bank of New Richmond; president of The Fridman Lumber Company, and presi- dent of The Shaw-Roberts Furniture Company.

William M. Fridman received his early education in the public schools of Cler- mont county, prepared for college at Clermont Academy, entered the Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, Ohio), and was graduated therefrom in 1884. He then began the study of law under the preceptorship of Frank Davis, now (1894) Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Clermont county; was graduated from the Cincin- nati Law College in 1887, and entered upon the practice of law in New Richmond, succeeding to the practice of Frank Davis, who in that year took the judicial seat above mentioned. In the same year, Mr. Fridman became a director of the First National Bank of New Richmond, with which he is still similarly identified. In 1891 he came to Cincinnati and formed a law partnership with Marshal Moreton; and the following year he formed a partnership association with George G. Bright, under the firm name of Bright & Fridman, which firm was dissolved January 1, 1894. On March 14, 1894, he was admitted to practice in the United States Circuit Court. Politically Mr. Fridman is a Democrat; socially he is a member of the Masonic Order, and of the Knights of Pythias. He is unmarried, and resides on Westmins- ter avenue, East Walnut Hills.

SAMUEL WOODWARD was born in Westmoreland, N. H., May 15, 1839, a son of the late Ezekiel and Mary (Wilson) Woodward, the former a native of New Hampshire, the latter of Vermont, and both of English descent. Our subject received a com- mon-school education derived during the winter months of his boyhood, and com- pleted it at the Westminster (Vermont) High School. In 1858 he came west, and was for one year superintendent of the extensive farm near Morrow, belonging to his brother, Ezekiel W. Woodward, who had located there in 1849. In 1859 Sam- uel Woodward became one of the engineering corps of the O. & M. R. R., and in 1861 was appointed private secretary to his brother E. W. Woodward, then superin- tendent of the Little Miami. E. W. Woodward, afterward, and until 1867, was president of the Little Miami, and during a portion of this period, Samuel Wood- ward was the president's private secretary. In 1870 he became superintendent of construction under R. M. Shoemaker, of the Dayton Short Line. In 1873 he was made general superintendent of the Indianapolis & St. Louis railroad. In 1876 he was elected president of the Cincinnati & Eastern, resigning that position in 1878 to accept the general superintendency of the Cincinnati Southern. In 1882 he was made co-receiver with James H. Stewart of the old Marietta & Cincinnati railroad, and, after the sale and reorganization of that road, returned to the Cincinnati & Eastern as general manager, continuing in that capacity until appointed as receiver of the road. In February, 1885, after the completion of the road to Portsmouth, he resigned his receivership, and retired from the railroad business to take up the study of law. He was admitted to practice in Missouri, in 1887, and in this State, in 1890, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession in Cincinnati.

On January 18, 1867, Mr. Woodward was married to Kate L., daughter of the late William Miller, of Circleville, Ohio. Three children were born of this marriage, all of whom survive, namely: Harriet L., Mary and Edith. The first named is the

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wife of Charles S. Mounts, a hardware merchant of Wilmington, Ohio. The family~ reside at Morrow, Ohio.

WILLIAM RENDIGS, attorney at law, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 17, 1855. His father, John H. Rendigs, came to that city from Germany in 1847. Our sub- ject received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati, completing his gen- eral education at Woodward High School in 1870. In 1874 he entered the Cincin- nati College of Pharmacy, from which institution he graduated with highest honors, taking the gold medal in 1876. He established a prosperous retail drug business on Walnut Hills, and was, during the ten years thus engaged, associated with his brothers in the establishment of five additional drug stores. During the closing years of his business as pharmacist he began the study of law, subsequently attend- ing the Cincinnati Law College, and being admitted to the Bar by the supreme court at Columbus in 1888. He immediately embarked in the practice of his pro- fession with Washington T. Porter, with whom he is still associated. Mr. Rendigs has been particularly active in advancing the educational interests of his city, and has been thrice elected a member of the board of education, of which body he was vice-president and president successively. It was largely through Mr. Rendigs' indefatigable efforts that a high school was established on Walnut Hills. While a member of the board of education he was also a member of the union board of high schools, and of the board of trustees of the public library. He was a member of the board of legislation, having been elected in 1892, and served for the full term of two years. Mr. Rendigs is a prominent Mason; he is a member of Walnut Hills Lodge F. & A. M., and Chapter, Royal Arch; Cincinnati Commandery No. 3, Knights Templar; and 32° A. and A. Scottish Rite. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F.

Mr. Rendigs was married September 26, 1877, to Louisa, daughter of William Pieper, an old resident and leading brick manufacturer of Cincinnati, and four chil- dren were born of this marriage, to-wit: William P., Lula C., Nellie and Alma. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church; they reside on June and Wins- low avenues, Walnut Hills.

WADE CUSHING was born at Loveland, Ohio, January 26, 1861. He is a son of Mathew and Mary Ann (Wade) Cushing, both natives of Ohio and of Scotch descent. Mathew Cushing is a lineal descendant of Thomas Cushing, who with Samuel Adams as his associate, represented Massachusetts Bay State in the first Continental Congress. Nathaniel, the grandfather of Mathew Cushing, was a native of Pembroke, Mass. Was second lieutenant Brewers Massachusetts regiment. July to December, 1775; first lieutenant Sixth Continental Infantry, January 1, 1776, to December 31, 1776; captain First Massachusetts January 1, 1777; brigade major, December 1, 1781, to April, 1782; brevet major to closing of war. Remained in army, and when Maj. Goodale was captured by the Indians Nathaniel Cushing was made colonel and given command of the fort at Belpre, Ohio. His son, Henry Cushing, lived at Gallipolis and Cedarville, Ohio, until 1858, when he removed to Loveland, same State. The Wades are also among the early settlers of Ohio.

Wade Cushing received his initial schooling at Goshen Academy, continued it at Xenia Normal School, and completed it at Delaware University. While a student at Goshen and Xenia he taught school for a portion of two years, and after leaving Delaware University was similarly engaged for four years. During this latter per- iod he began the study of law with Nash & Lentz (George K. Nash, John J. Lentz), at Columbus, Ohio, was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court in 1888, came to Cincinnati in 1889, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession in that city. He is a Freemason, and a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati. He resides on Mount Auburn.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 97

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