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Clarence J. Neare,
Member of the firm of Geo. W. Neare, Gibbs & Co., with offices at Nos. 716-719 Union Trust Building, Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of the best-known Democrats of the Queen City. He was born in 1864 at Cincinnati, where his father, Mr. George W. Neare, a native of New York, was engaged in the insurance business. Mr. Clarence J. Neare received his edu- cation in the public schools of his home city, graduating from Hughes High School in 1884. He entered business life at the age of twenty years, was engaged in the drug business for one year, after which he became connected with the firm of his father, of which he is now
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a member. Mr. Neare is a staunch supporter of Democratic principles, and ever ready to serve his party when needed. His party has honored him in nominating him for the office of County Auditor, some years ago, but he was defeated with the rest of the ticket. Again, Mr. Neare was nominated as the Democratic member for Board of Public Service on the municipal ticket, in 1903, when the whole Republican ticket was elected. Mr. Neare is a member and in 1904 was President of the well-known Duckworth Club of Cincinnati. He is married since 1889, and has two daughters and one son. He lives with his family at No. 944 Lennox Place, Avondale. Mr. Neare is a young man of pleasant personality, affable manners, and progressive in the best sense of the word. He has a multitude of friends.
John Goetz, Jr.,
Deceased, who during a life of usefulness was one of the most representative and pro- gressive citizens of the Queen City, admired for his many lovable traits of character, honor- able, kindly of nature, broad-minded, and with an unlimited capacity for making and keeping friends, was a native of the city for which he has done so much. He was of German parent- age, and was born on the 28th of January, 1855. His parents were of the plain people, hard working and conscientious, who made many sacrifices to enable their son to obtain a thorough education. It was their ambition that their boy should occupy a position in life higher in the plane of usefulness than that of his forefathers. Consequently, after attending the public and High Schools of his home city, John Goetz, Jr., prepared himself for the pro- fession of law, and entered the famous Cincin- nati Law School, from which institution of learning he graduated with the class of 1876. Without influential friends to encourage him, JOHN GOETZ, JR. Mr. Goetz, unaided, except by his natural talents, his ability, energy and ambition, started upon his career of usefulness. He practiced law for a couple of years, until after the election of Judge Clement Bates to the position of City Solicitor, Mr. Goetz was appointed an assistant in that office, a position he held for a period of two years, to the satisfaction of Judge Bates, as well as to the people in general. He resigned his position to become connected with the Christian Moerlein Brewing Com- pany, one of the most gigantic and powerful business enterprises in the State of Ohio. To this company he devoted the best part of his life, and for many years he dominated its destinies. At the time of his demise, Mr. John Goetz, Jr., filled the important and responsible position of Vice President of the Moerlein Brewing Company. Notwithstanding the onerous duties of his position as chief executive of this great corporation, Mr. Goetz found time to enter heart and soul into all enterprises originated for the welfare and upbuilding of the city of Cincinnati ; always ready to assist any worthy cause, not only by his own endeavors, but as well by financial support. When Cincinnati prepared for the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of her existence, and it was decided to hold a large exposition, he
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was one of those gentlemen who originated the enterprise, he acting as a member of the Centennial Board in 1888. This exposition attracted the attention of the whole country, and demonstrated the possibilities of Cincinnati as an industrial and commercial center. Since that time there has been no great public movement worthy of the attention of a man intensely public spirited, in Cincinnati, in which Mr. Goetz did not take a prominent and important part. It was thus with the Elks' convention in 1896, with the Grand Army Encampment in 1898 and with the National Saengerfest in 1899, of which Mr. Goetz was Vice President and Chairman of the most important Committee of Entertainment. Unfor- tunately for that enterprise, Mr. Goetz passed away previous to the completion of the preliminary arrangements, and it is conceded by those in the position to know, that if that gentleman had lived, the success of the great enterprise would have been assured. As Mr. Goetz was of German parentage, he naturally held in veneration the memory of those hardy and courageous people, who, coming from the Fatherland, in October, 1686, landed on American shores, and founded the first German colony in the new world, Ger- mantown, Pennsylvania. To perpetuate their memory in Cincinnati, he, in 1896, founded the "German Day Association," an incorporated body, to which nearly all the German socie- ties of Cincinnati belong, and which annually celebrates the anniversary of the landing of those German emigrants. The society, since its organization, has a membership of over 30,000. In 1898 Mr. Goetz was elected President of that body. He was also a member and for one term President of the Cincinnati Zoological Garden. In 1888 Mayor Amor Smith, Jr., appointed him a member of the Cincinnati Board of Fire Trustees, and his services in that board were of such an efficient nature, that he was reappointed to the same position by Mayor Mosby and again by Mayor Caldwell. In the fulness of his career of usefulness, death called him away, on the 23d of January, 1899. His untimely demise was a shock to the whole community. He left a widow, Mrs. Lizzie Moerlein Goetz, with whom he lived most happily since the time of his marriage, in 1881, and three children, the oldest of whom, a son, Christian J. Goetz, is now connected with the institution founded by his grandfather, and of which his father was Vice President. His memory was honored by the German popula- tion of Cincinnati when, on the 10th of Septem- ber, 1899, members of the German Day Asso- ciation held memorial exercises at his resting place in the beautiful Spring Grove Cemetery. His personality is still fresh in the hearts of the people who knew him, and his memory will be perpetuated for many generations to come.
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C. BARTON ADAMS
C. Barton Adams,
For more than twenty years actively iden- tified with Ohio National Guards, Assistant Adjutant General under Adjutant General Gyger, and since 1902 Superintendent of the Boys' Industrial Home, at Lancaster, Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye State, his life having been spent in Delaware County, save when for a short time he served in the con- struction corps of transcontinental railways during the period when those great railways
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systems were most active in pushing their lines into the far West. It was as a student of the Ohio Wesleyan University that his early predilections for military affairs were first formed, and in this institution was laid the foundation of a military education which has since been developed to an extent that has enabled him to render excellent service to his country and his State. After spending three years in the University, he closed his college career to take up the railroad work on the plains. After two years he returned to Ohio, and continued in his home State his occupation as a railroad man until elected County Treasurer of his county, serving two terms. On the 13th of February, 1879, while yet a student at college, Colonel Adams enlisted as a private in the Joy Guards, Company K, Fourteenth Infantry. In 1882, upon taking his position with the railroad company, he was honorably discharged, but immediately after his return to the State of Ohio, he enlisted again, and on the 8th of December, 1885, after two months' service, was commissioned First Lieutenant. On the 23d of May, 1887, he was promoted to Captain, and recommissioned to the same grade on the 23d of May, 1892. In the following year he relinquished the com- mand of Company K to accept a commission as Major in the Fourteenth Regiment, to rank from the 5th of April, 1893. On the 20th of June, 1896, he attained his next grade as Lieu- tenant Colonel of the same regiment, retaining his rank and position until the regiment was mustered out by the general disbandment orders of the 14th of April, 1899. At the out- break of the war with Spain, Colonel Adams, then Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment, was placed in command of the regiment after its mobilization at Camp Bush- nell, on the 23d of April, 1898. He was mustered into the United States service as Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and proceeded with the command to Camp George H. Thomas, at Chickamauga Park, Georgia. Here he was appointed acting Assistant General Inspector on the staff of General James H. Wilson, commanding the First Division of the First Army Corps. Relieved from this duty, he rejoined his regiment, which had been ordered to join the expeditionary forces for the conquest of Porto Rico, where he rendered signal services. He was made Provost Marshai of the District of Guayama on the 15th of August, 1898, and as such distinguished himself by maintaining perfect peace and order, establishing a new government and advancing a sanitary policy, "all of which is specially commanded" (official records). Upon reports contained in official orders, Colonel Adams was recommended to the President by Brigadier Generals Hains and Grant to be Brevet Colonel of Volunteers. He was mustered out with his regiment at Columbus, Ohio, and immediately upon resuming the duties of citizenship, was offered the chair of Pro- fessor of Military Science in the Ohio Wesleyan University. He accepted that position, and held the same until the 8th of January, 1900, when he was appointed by Governor Nash Assistant Adjutant General. Two years later, Colonel Adams was appointed to his present position as Superintendent of the Boys' Industrial Home, at Lancaster, Ohio, an office which he fills with marked ability.
William Pitt Tyler,
Deceased, formerly Chief of Police of Columbus, Ohio, and a man who during his life was one of the best-known officers in the United States, was a native Ohioan, born on the 9th of July, 1852, in Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio. His father, Charles Bristol Tyler, was the first white child born in Fremont, then called Lower Sandusky. At the time of his birth it is needless to say the population of Lower Sandusky was very sparse, and conse- quently the boy grew up amid surroundings which naturally tend to develop the greatest courage and self-reliance, and these traits were inherited by the son, William Pitt Tyler. Up to his sixteenth year, Mr. Tyler attended the public schools of his home town. After
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leaving school he for some time worked in a machine shop, but becoming imbued with a desire for adventure, he left his native city and went West, locating in the Black Hills, Dakota, and remaining in the celebrated city of Deadwood for eight years. There he engaged in business pursuits, and while following his business he was appointed mailing clerk, and later became delivery clerk in the post office at Deadwood. After two years he was promoted to the position of Assistant Postmaster. His next public position was that of Deputy United States Marshal under Marshal John B. Raymond, and his ability in that position resulted in his election to the position of Chief of Police of Deadwood. This position, as well as that of Deputy Sheriff of that county, which he held, was one requiring the most absolute courage, for the country in which he had located was overrun with criminals of the most desperate character, gathered from the four corners of the earth. He pursued his duties unfalteringly, and became a terror to the law-breakers, broke up many lawless bands, and brought a large num- ber of malefactors to justice. During this time he had many adventures and most remarkable escapes from death. After three years of active service he returned to Fremont and engaged in business. Governor Foraker upon his election tendered the position of guard at the State Penitentiary to Mr. Tyler, which was accepted, and he served in that WILLIAM PITT TYLER position for four years. At the expiration of that time Mr. Tyler removed to Columbus, he was promoted to the position of Assistant where he became engaged in business, continuing until 1895. In that year he was appointed patrolman of the police force of the Capital City, and soon became Sergeant. In 1896 he left the police force and again became engaged in mercantile pursuits. On the 15th of August, 1899, Mr. Tyler was appointed Superintendent of Police of Columbus, which position he held until the time of his death, in January, 1903. His marriage to Miss Jennie Main occurred on the 17th of November, 1897.
William L. Rosenberg, Ph. D.,
Director and Manager of the Cleveland Institute for Stutterers, Stammerers and Back- ward Children, located on Windsor Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, is a native of Germany, born on the 10th of January, 1850, of Lutheran parentage, at Hamm, in the Prussian province of Westphalia. His father was a city official. Dr. Rosenberg enjoyed the advantages of a thorough literary training, and after graduating from the Gymnasium at Potsdam he attended the celebrated University at Berlin, from which institution of learning he graduated in 1873, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Dr. Rosenberg started upon his educational career at the age of twenty-six years, in the capacity of teacher of history and ancient languages. In the fall of 1880 he emigrated to the United States, landing in New York, remaining in the metropolis of the East for about one year, when he accepted a position as
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teacher of languages in Boston, Mass. He filled this position from 1881 to 1882. From Boston he went to Chicago, and later to New York, Cincinnati and Cleveland, in which cities he occupied important editorial positions on daily newspapers. Since 1897 he resides in Cleveland. In 1901 he founded the Cleveland Institute for Stutterers, Stammerers and Backward Children, assisted and encouraged by a number of physicians. In his capacity as director of that institution, Dr. Rosenberg has become a benefactor of mankind, for he has given speech to a great many people, who, before they underwent treatment in his insti- tution, were deprived of the power of perfect speech. Dr. Rosenberg is particularly adapted to fill the responsible position of director of his institution. During his literary career all his spare moments were spent in the study of psychology and of the organs of speech, in order to thoroughly prepare himself for the career he had decided to embark upon. Dr. Rosenberg has cured the most difficult cases, some of which had been declared hopeless by other specialists. His work has attracted the attention of the medical profession in all schools. Since the establishment of his now famous institution, more than four hundred patients have been treated by him with the greatest success. As the larger percentage of Dr. Rosenberg's patients are not advanced in years, most of them being pupils of public and WILLIAM L. ROSENBERG, PH. D. High Schools, and realizing that their literary training should not be interfered with during their treatment, Dr. Rosenberg has a corps of specially trained teachers who assist the patients in their studies; consequently their mental development is not retarded. Patients from all over the United States have entered his institution, and with the growth of years his reputation and the fame of his sanitarium ever increases. Dr. Rosenberg is a man of great originality, of broad human sympathies, patient and persevering, and profoundly devoted to the profession in which he has done and is doing so much good. He is an author of many works of fiction and on education.
James Robert Hickman,
Chief Executive of the city of Nelsonville, Ohio, and a man of great popularity in his part of the State, was born on the 5th of March, 1856, at Somerset, Ohio. His parents, W. C. Hickman and Katherine M. Porter, were natives of Ohio, and came from good Ger- man stock. Mr. W. C. Hickman was a veteran of the War of the Rebellion, having served for five years in the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He died in Nelsonville in the fall of 1898, beloved by all who knew him. His son, James Robert, received his early education in the common schools of Nelsonville, after which he attended High School until seventeen years of age, when he entered into business life in the capacity of a clerk in a drug store. Later he worked in his father's law office, and finally became connected with railroad work in the Nelsonville office of the Hocking Valley. Mayor Hickman has always
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been a true adherent of the principles of the Republican party, and has served the party of his choice in many capacities. He was Township Clerk of York Township, Athens County, for seven consecutive terms; Councilman of Nelsonville for one term, and City Clerk for the same length of time. In the spring of 1902 he was nominated for the office of Mayor on the Republican ticket and was elected in the following election by a large majority. On account of the new code for the Ohio cities taking effect in 1903, Mayor Hickman only served one year in his first term, but he received the unanimous nomination from his party for a second term, and having made a splendid record during his incumbency of the office of chief executive, was re-elected in the spring of 1903, by an increased majority. Mayor Hickman is well known in fraternal circles of the State. He is a member of the K. of P., K. O. T. M., Y. O. A. M., and an Eagle. In 1882 Mayor Hickman was united in marriage to Miss Vesper N. Carmes, and by this union is the father of two sons and five daughters. His residence is located at Franklin Street, Nelsonville, Ohio.
Henry Adam Marting,
Of Ironton Ohio, is one of the most influential and best-known business men of Southern Ohio. He was born on the 17th of December, 1850, in Greenup County, Ken- tucky, and is of German extraction. His father was Henry Marting and his mother Mary Elizabeth (Knaper) Marting. Both were natives of Osnabrueck, Hanover, Germany. Henry Adam Marting was the fifth of his parents' nine children. They removed to Jackson Furnace when he was an infant, remained there for a period of five years and then moved to a farm near Wheeler's Mills, on the Little Scioto. Their son, Henry Adam, obtained his education in the district schools. At the age of nineteen he began to work on the railroad as a section hand. He saved a little money, and after the expiration of two and a half years he started a store in company with his brother, John C., at Gebhart's Station. HENRY ADAM MARTING He remained there for two years, then sold out and went to Ironton. In 1873 he started in the dry goods business in Ironton, and remained in this business, alone as well as with partners, until the Ist of January, 1902. In
1882, with J. D. Foster, he organized the Foster Store Company, of Ironton, and became Treasurer, a position he held until 1892, when he resigned. He also was instrumental in organizing the Eagle Iron and Steel Company, which manufactured bar and sheet iron. He became President and Treasurer of that company. In 1899 this company sold out to the Republic Iron and Steel Company. In 1896, with Joseph Clutts and Lewis Vogelsong, he organized the Wellston Iron and Steel Company and operated two blast furnaces. He sold out his interests in this company in 1898, to Clutts and Willard. While connected with this organization, he was Secretary and Treasurer. In 1889 he purchased the Aetna furnace and organized a company known as the Marting Iron and Steel Company, of which
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he is President and General Manager. He also organized the Columbus Iron and Steel Com- pany, in 1899, and is President and General Manager of that flourishing enterprise. In 1901 he finally organized the Ironton Lumber Company, of which he is a director. Mr. Marting is also one of the founders of the Ketter Clothing Company, of Ironton, and acts as Presi- dent and one of the directors of that concern. He furthermore is a director of the Citizen's National Bank and of the Ironton Corrugated Roofing Company. Mr. Marting is also senior member of the firm of Marting, Flehr & Company, shoe dealers, he is director and President of the Register Publishing Company, and a director of the Franklin Stove Company, of Columbus; director of the Crystal Ice Company, of Ironton, and of the Camden Interstate Railway Company. He was a member of the City Council of Ironton for six years, from 1888 to 1894, and was its President for two years. He has a more than ordinary talent for the successful management of business, and has been successful in everything he has undertaken. He was a member of the German M. E. Church, but, in 1897, he became connected with Spencer M. E. Church, of Ironton, and is a member of the official board of that church. Mr. Marting is also a K. of P. On the 7th of March, 1872, he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret C. Duis, daughter of Mr. Henry Duis. They have one child, Neilie M., the wife of Dr. Clark Lowry, of Ironton, Ohio. Mr. H. A. Marting is a man who stands high in the esteem of his fellow citizens. He is a self-made man in the best sense of the word. His school advantages were meager, but he improved his educa- tion whenever he had a chance to do so. As his parents lacked the means to give him the opportunity of a higher education, he had to obtain his training in practical life. He always has shown great energy, push and determination, and whenever he undertook anything he never swerved until the goal was reached. In all his deals Mr. Marting has always been fair and strictly honest, and in his financial ventures he always had in mind the giving of employment to others and their welfare. He enjoys giving for good causes, and is happiest when he can help some one struggling for relief. A more tender-hearted man can hardly be found. No wonder that he enjoys the friendship and esteem of everyone he comes in con- tact with.
William T. Tucker,
Postmaster of the City of Toledo, Ohio, is one of the best-known Republicans in the northwestern part of the State. Mr. Tucker is an Ohioan, born on the 6th of October, 1849, at Laporte, Lorain County, the son of Dr. John A. Tucker and Elizabeth Brush-Tucker. His ancestors on his father's side were Quakers who were prevented by their policy of peace from waring for American independence, consequently the family name is not mentioned in the historical data of the War of the Revolution, but on his mother's side there were many members of the family who took an active part in that tremendous struggle for independence from the English yoke, as well as in the following Indian wars and the war against England in 1812. The family of Mr. Tucker's grandfather came to Ohio in 1816, while his mother's father settled in Lorain County in 1832. Mr. Tucker received his early education in the com- mon schools of Huron County, at the Normal School at Milan, at the Universities of Yale and Cornell, where he remained for one year, rounding out his education by four vear's study in the Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio. He later read law with Haynes & Potter, of Toledo, and in 1876 he was admitted to practice. For ten years he was engaged in the practice of his chosen profession in connection with J. T. Greer, building up a lucrative practive. After the dissolution of partnership, Mr. Tucker practiced independently, making a specialty of real estate and probate business. Mr. Tucker has always been affiliated with the Repub- lican party, and has rendered many valuable services. Many times he has been Chairman of
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Congressional and Executive Committees, as well as delegate to State and National conven- tions. He also has served for many years as a member of the School Board of Toledo. On the Ioth of April, 1884, Postmaster Tucker was united in marriage to Miss Harriet van Gor- der, a daughter of Mr. George W. van Gorder, of Warren, Ohio. The position of Postmas- ter, which Mr. Tucker now so ablv fills, was given to him in recognition of his services by the late President, William Mckinley.
Carl Barckhoff,
President and originator of the celebrated organ manufacturing concern, the Barckhoff Church Organ Company, of Pomeroy, Ohio, is a native of Germany, being born on the 31st of May, 1850, at Wiedenbrueck, Westphalia. The knowledge and genius which he has dis- played in the manufacture of organs was inher- ited from his ancestors, who for several gene- rations were engaged in the making of organs. His grandfather, Carl Barckhoff, as well as his father, Felix Barckhoff, were well-known organ builders in the old country. Mr. Felix Barckhoff emigrated to the United States in 1865, settling in Philadelphia, where he estab- lished a business of his own. His son, Mr. Carl Barckhoff, remained in Germany to finish his education on the Progymnasium at Wied- enbrueck, the Academy at Muenster, and at the celebrated University of Goettingen, where he studied law. In 1869 Mr. Barckhoff entered the German army. While performing his duties toward his country as a soldier the bloody Franco-Prussian War broke out, that resulted in the overthrow of the empire of the Third Napoleon and the establishment of the French Republic. Mr. Barckhoff participated in that tremendous struggle and served all through the war in a cavalry regiment, tak- ing part in many sanguinary battles. After CARL BARCKHOFF the close of hostilities, in 1872, he crossed the Atlantic, came to this country and worked with his father in Philadelphia. After his father's death, in 1877, he removed the business to Pitts- burg, later to Salem, where he could not agree with his partner, and from there to Mendels- sohn, Pa. Here, unfortunately, his growing factory was wiped out by fire. But not discour- aged by this calamity, he again opened temporarily a factory at Lathrobe, Pa., which factory, in 1900, was removed to Pomeroy. Here the business became quickly rooted in the soil of prosperity and has flourished, until today his enterprise has spread over an area of business activity second to none in this country. When Mr. Barckhoff came to Pomeroy he employed thirty skilled artisans. Today 110 are enrolled on the payroll of his concern. Mr. Barck- hoff's specialty are large pipe organs, some of the largest of which are to be found in the Erie Cathedral, the Church of the Gesu, at Philadelphia, and the Church of St. John the Bap- tist, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
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