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In addition to his professional and political achievements, Mr. Daugherty is connected with many large business enterprises, and has attained an enviable position as a man of
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affairs. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, which nominated Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Mr. Daugherty's family consists of his wife and two children, Miss Emily B. and Master Draper M.
Charles T. Dumont,
Justice of the Peace, Millcreek Township, Hamilton County, and a practicing attorney of Cincinnati, was born on the 17th of June, 1852, at Vevay, Indiana. He is of French descent on his father's side, and of Swiss-French ancestry on his mother's. His father, John J. Dumont, was engaged in the boiler and engineering business at Vevay. His mother's maiden name was Eliza L. Siebenthal. He traces his ancestry back for several generations in this country, his great grandfather Phillips being a celebrated scout in the Revolution- ary War and an intimate friend of Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman. His mother's father was the first Sheriff of Switzerland County, Indiana. Mr. Charles T. Dumont received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati and Indianapolis. His advent in public life occurred on the 9th of February, 1884, when he was appointed Restoration Clerk in the Probate Court under Judge Goe- bel. For six years Mr. Dumont served during Judge Goebel's incumbency, and later for a period of four years under Judge Howard Fer- ris. While engaged in that capacity he read law and for one year attended the Y. M. C. A. Law School, being admitted to the bar on the 5th of December, 1895. Squire Dumont has always been a staunch Republican and has served his party faithfully. He was appointed a member of the Board of Education to fill the unexpired term of Henry Mack, and later was elected to that position for one term, in 1886, representing the First Ward of Cincin- nati. During his incumbency of his present position, Squire Dumont acted as Coroner for two days, during the absence of Coroner Dr. Schwab. His election as Justice of the Peace occurred in April, 1899, and his re-election in 1902. It can truthfully be said that he made CHARLES T. DUMONT an efficient and impartial Justice. Socially, Squire Dumont is a leading member of the Blaine Club, and is Grand Chaplain of the Royal Arcanum in the State of Ohio; he also is a member of the Supreme Circle of the Protected Home Circle, and of the Ancient Essenic Order. Justice Dumont is a man liked by all who come in personal contact with him, and it is conceded even by his political ene- mies that he is fair, conscientious and has a splendid intuition, as well as legal knowledge for the just decisions of questions which come before him. In March, 1875, he was united in marriage to Miss Katie Wilkerson, who died in 1895, leaving three children. In April, 1898, he married Bertha B. Reeder, his present wife, and by this union he is the father of two bright children. One son, Theodore Leclerc Dumont, is now serving his country in the United States Navy. The law office of Justice Dumont is located in the Lincoln Inn Court Building, Cincinnati, while his official office is to be found at 1914 Williams Avenue, Norwood, Ohio.
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William F. Eltzroth,
Lawyer, Lebanon, Ohio, is a native of Warren County, Ohio, and was born on his father's farm in Hamilton Township, December 28, 1846, the youngest son of Daniel and Hannah (Shepley) Eltzroth, both of whom were natives of the same county. The surname is rarely met with and is of German origin. Valentine and Susannah Eltzroth, great-great- grand-parents of William F., emigrated from Germany about the middle of the Eight- eenth Century and settled in Frederick County Maryland, where their son, Francis, was born June 4, 1762. Francis was a youthful soldier in the revolution; married Catherine Oswalt, and, in 1802, emigrated to Warren County, Ohio, and purchased the whole of Mili- tary Survey 3791, consisting of 200 acres, on which he resided until his death, and a por- tion of which is still owned by his descendants. Francis and Catherine were the parents of ten children, five sons and five daughters, seven of whom were born in Maryland, and three in Ohio. Of these, Jonas married Cath- erine Morgan and was the father of ten chil- dren, who lived to maturity, married and reared families, the eldest of whom was Dan- iel, father of William F.
After attending the common schools Will- iam F. entered Miami University, where he was graduated in 1869, receiving the mathe- matical honors of his class. After leaving col- lege he was engaged for a while in teaching and land surveying, and then studied law in the office of A. G. McBurney, at Lebanon. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1873, and at once commenced the practice of his profession at Lebanon, where he has ever since contin- ued. In April, 1876, he was elected Mayor of Lebanon and served in that office two terms ; in 1885 he was elected a member of the Ohio Senate as a Democrat and served a full term, and while in the Legislature was a member of the Judiciary Committee.
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In 1902 he was appointed a Trustee of Miami University, and he takes great interest in the promotion and welfare of his alma mater. He is a director of the Lebanon National Bank ; has served several years as a member of the Town Council, and, as a citizen and a municipal officer, has always been found on the side of public improvement.
Since retiring from the State Senate in 1887 Mr. Eltzroth has not sought any political office, but has devoted himself assiduously to his professional duties. His practice has been large and lucrative; he has often been selected to act in responsible fiduciary capaci- ties, and probably no lawyer of his county, if, indeed, any citizen, has been called to administer so many large estates. His legal business, the trusts committed to his charge, and the industrial enterprises in which he is interested, make him one of the busiest of men.
On September 24th, 1878, he was married to Miss Nellie B. Wilson, of Sandy Hill, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Eltzroth are active members of the Presbyterian Church. They have a beauti-
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ful home in one of the pleasantest parts of Lebanon. Their only child, Clara C., is a recent graduate of Vassar.
Edwin DeWitt Erskine,
A leading attorney in the city of Steuben- ville, Ohio, was born on the 29th of January, 1870, at East Springfield, Jefferson County, Ohio. He is of Irish descent on his father's side, his mother's people having lived for three generations in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Erskine was educated in the district school of his native county, at Mt. Union Col- lege, and is a graduate of the law college of the Ohio State University, at Columbus, Ohio. At the age of 18 years he commenced teaching school, which vocation he followed for four years, after which he began the study of law, commencing to practice in 1895. He is at present practicing his profession in the city EDWIN DEWITT ERSKINE of Steubenville, where he has a lucrative prac- tice. In politics Mr. Erskine is an ardent Republican, and is a member of the Repub- lican County Central Committee. Socially, Mr. Erskine is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, an Elk and a K. of P. He is President of the King Lubricator and Brass Supply Company, of Steubenville, a flourishing enterprise of that community. On the
30th of October, 1900, he was united in mar- riage to Miss Lucy Matlack, an estimable young lady of Steubenville. Notwithstanding his youth Mr. Erskine is recognized as an able, well-read and rising lawyer, who enjoys the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens, and he undoubtedly has a brilliant career before him, both in his profession and politics. His office is located at 317 Market street, Steubenville, Ohio.
Otis H. Fisk,
One of the most prominent members of the younger element of the Hamilton County bar. has the proud distinction of having re- ceivedhiseducation not only in one of the lead- ing universities of the United States, but also in the most celebrated institutions of learning in the old world. He was born in Covington, Kentucky, on the 5th of March, 1870. His father. Mr. Charles H. Fisk, a well-known Covington attorney, gave to his son every
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opportunity to obtain a thorough education, and after a course in the public schools of his native city and some preparatory studies in the schools of Cincinnati, he was sent to the University of Yale, from which famous institution Mr. Fisk graduated in 1892 with the degree of B. A. After his graduation, in order to round out his mental training, Mr. Fisk crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and for four years attended the Universities of Berlin, Leipsic and Heidelberg, where he took up the studies of phylosophy and law. In 1895 he received at Heidelberg the title of Doctor of Phylosophy, and in the year following from the same institution the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. Returning to America in 1899, he, after brilliantly passing an examination, was admitted to the bar. Since that time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession. His offices are located in the St. Paul Building, Cincinnati. Mr. Fisk is a thirty-second degree Mason. He was mar- ried to Miss Helen W. Pogue on the 5th of June, 1901. He lives with his family on Wal- nut Hills, a suburb of Cincinnati.
Harry Frease,
Attorney at law, of Canton, Ohio, one of the well-known lawyers of the Northeastern part of the State, was born at Canton, Stark County, Ohio, on the 5th of January, 1865. His father, Joseph Frease, is a prominent attorney at law, and ex-Common Pleas and Dis- trict Judge. His mother, Sarah Hays Belden Frease, was the daughter of the late Common Pleas and District Judge and United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, George W. Belden, a man whose name is closely identified with the history of the bench and bar of Ohio. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in about 1833, and after serv. ing as Prosecuting Attorney for Stark County. Ohio, was elected by the Legislature as Coni- mon Pleas Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, and served for a period of seven years, from 1837 to 1844. This was under the first Con- stitution of Ohio. He was elected under the Constitution of 1851 a District and Common Pleas Judge of the Ninth Judicial District of Ohio, and served from 1852 to 1855, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law. Two years later, in 1857, without being a candidate, he was appointed United States District Attor- ney for the Northern District of Ohio by Presi- dent Buchanan, and served four years. In the line of duties as United States District Attor ney he successfully prosecuted the "Oberlin Rescuers" under the Federal Fugitive Slave Law. The noted cases of Ex-parte Bushnell 0H10 and Ex-parte Langston were carried to the Supreme Court of Ohio on habeas corpus by the defendent prisoners, where the Federal laws were held to be constitutional, although the five Judges were Republicans. (9. Ohio State reports, page 77). Colonel Frease's HARRY FREASE father, Joseph Frease, was admitted to the bar
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of Ohio in 1851. From 1856 to 1858 he served as Prosecuting Attorney of Stark County, and from 1867 to 1877 as Common Pleas Judge for the Ninth Judicial District of Ohio. Since then and until the present writing he has been a practicing attorney at Canton. He was partner to Judge Belden from 1856 to 1867, the firm name being Belden & Frease. When the late President William McKinley came to Canton at the close of the Civil War, he entered the office of Judge Belden as a partner in place of Judge Frease, the firm name being changed into Belden & McKinley, and so continued until the death of Judge Bel- den. President McKinley's law practice before he went to Congress in 1877 was almost entirely in the courts presided over by Judge Frease. Colonel Harry Frease received his early education in the public schools and High School of Canton, Ohio. He never attended any other school or college, but took a special course in anatomy and dissection in the Western Reserve Medical College, at Cleveland during the winters of 1889 and 1890. At the age of 16 years he started in business life as chainman in the Engineering Corps of the Cleveland, Canton, Coshocton and Straitsville Railroad, now the Cleveland-Zanesville division of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, and in three weeks was promoted to be transitman, continuing as instrument man and draftsman until the 19th of February, 1884. From that time until June, of the same year, he served as chief draftsman for the Ohio Rail- way, now the Northern Ohio Railroad. He then entered the firm of Frease Brothers, and later of Frease & Reed, engineers, at Canton, Ohio, remaining there until 1890. From 1888 to 1892 he served as Chief Engineer of the Valley Railway, now the C., T. & V. divis- ion of the B. & O. Railroad, and in that position he developed the location of the Akron and Chicago Junction Division of the B. & O. Railroad in 1890, and also the route of the Canton & East Liverpool Railway, now the B. & O. franchise, in 1895. For many years Colonel Frease has been identified with Ohio military affairs. He was an original mem- ber of the Canton Cadets as private in 1876, and from then to 1884 was promoted to non- commissioned officer and First Lieutenant of the company. From 1884 to 1885 he was First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Canton Independent Battalion of Infantry, and from 1885 to 1890 Captain, commanding Company C, of the battalion. He was Captain, commanding Company I, of the Eighth Regiment of Infantry, Ohio National Guard, for a term of five years, from the 10th of May, 1892, to the 10th of May, 1897. During the memor- able campaign of 1896, which resulted in the election of Major Mckinley to the Presi- dency, Colonel Frease was "Major," commanding the "Canton Troop," a mounted citizen organization, which received and escorted visiting delegations, and organized and directed the various parades during that campaign. As Chief of Staff of the Chief Marshal, Colonel Frease organized and directed the street arrangements for the reception of the remains and the funeral and obsequies and procession, when the late President McKinley was bur- ied at Canton on the 18th and 19th of September, 1901. Colonel Frease is at present engaged in the practice of law with his father, Judge Frease, the firm name being Frease & Frease. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio on the 4th of May, 1886, and to practice in the United States Circuit Court, Northern District of Ohio, on the 23rd of April, 1902. He is engaged in the practice of law since 1900, and gives special attention to patent law, railroad law and corporation law. He is a solicitor of patents in the United States Patent Office and a right of way attorney for the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Com- pany. He was formerly an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Colonel Frease has been, and is, closely associated with many business enterprises of his locality. From 1892 to 1893 he was Secretary and Treasurer, from 1893 to 1895, Superin- tendent, and from 1896 to 1899, Treasurer of the Canton Stoneware Company, engaged in
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coal and clay mining and the manufacture of stoneware, brick and other clay products. He is a director of The Repository Printing Company, of Canton, Ohio, and a director of The Canton & East Liverpool Railway Company. On the 19th of July, 1900, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel and Chief Commissary of Division, Ohio, National Guard, by Major General Charles Dick, commanding. Colonel Frease was married at Clearfield, Pennsylvania. on the 24th of March, 1898, to Katherina Marie Smith, daughter of Hurxthal W. Smith. Two sons have been the issue of their union. Colonel Frease attends, with his family, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of which Mrs. Frease is a communicant. His residence is loca- ted at 130 West Lake street, and his office in the Central Savings Bank Building, Canton, Ohio.
Theodore K. Funk,
Attorney at law, at Portsmouth, Ohio, enjoys the distinction of being one of the most prominent lawyers in Southern Ohio. He first saw the light of day on the 30th of January, 1848, on a farm in Champaign County, Ohio. His father was Mr. Jacob Funk, a native of Champaign County, where he lived until 1897, to the advanced age of 82 years. He was a farmer and quite prominent in the early poli- tics of Ohio. Mr. Funk's mother was Sarah (Long) Funk, who is still living at the old homestead. Mr. Funk acquired a good educa- tion at the district schools of his home county, and at the Collegiate Institute, at Urbana, Ohio. In the fall of 1866 he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in 1871, after taking a classical course. He finally studied law in the office of Judge William Lawrence, at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court THEODORE K. FUNK of Ohio in 1873, since which time he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1884 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Scioto County on the Repub- lican ticket by a majority of 931 votes. At the close of his first term, having served with distinction, he was re-elected to a second term by the increased majority of 1,223 votes. In 1892 Mr. Funk represented his Congressional District as Presidential Elector and cast his vote for Benjamin Harrison. The year following he was a candidate for Congress in his district to fill the unexpired term of General Enoch, of Ironton, and again in 1894, and though he received the support of his county, he failed to receive the nomination in both cases. In 1874 Mr. Funk was married to Miss Emma Kinney, daughter of Peter Kinney, first Colonel of the Fifty-sixth O. V. I. Five children are the issue of this union. Mr. Funk has always been a staunch supporter of the principles of the Republican party, and always ready to serve his party when called upon. In many campaigns he has rendered con- spicuous services as a political speaker, and his arguments were not only forceful and direct, but also convincing. In his profession he has been remarkably successful, and
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enjoys a most lucrative practice. He is one of the prominent leaders of the Scioto County bar, and enjoys the well-earned reputation of being one of the most successful criminal lawyers in Southern Ohio. His abilities and experience as a lawyer are acknowledged, varied and extensive, and he is admirably equipped for the career he has chosen for himself.
Florien Giauque,
Of Cincinnati, attorney at law and author, is a native Buckeye. He was born on the 11th of May, 1843, near Berlin, Holmes County. His parents, Augustus and Sophia (Guillaume) Giauque, were born of good families in the canton of Berne, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. They came, when young, early in the nineteenth century to the United States, and settled in Holmes County. When Florien was a boy of six years his father left Holmes County and settled with his family in Fredericksburg. Wayne County, where he spent most of his boyhood, and where he attended the public schools and academy. While he was still a youth both parents died, and he had to struggle for his own livelihood. In 1861, shortly after his mother's death, hc went to Vermillion Institute, at Hayesville, Ashland County, Ohio, for the purpose of con- tinuing his education. The entire fortune he FLORIEN GIAUQUE possessed he carried in his pockets. It con- sisted of the sum of twenty dollars, which he had earned making railroad ties. With this as a capital, and supplemented by a determination to acquire a collegiate education, he began a course in the Institute. He literally worked his way through college, paying all of his bills and graduating out of debt. While he was yet a student, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Second Regiment, O. V. I., serving in the armies of Generals Buell, Rosecrans, Sherman and Thomas till the conclusion of the Civil War. Having received an honorable discharge, he resumed his studies at the Vermillion Institute, becoming both a pupil and a teacher. From here he went to Kenyon College, at Gambier Ohio, entering the Freshman class in 1866, and graduating with high honors three years later, crowding a four years' course in three. Soon after graduation he was examined for a teacher's certificate by the State Board of Examiners, and received the best certificate in a class of twenty-seven students. In September of the same year he became Principal of the public schools of Glendale, Ohio, which position he held until 1875, when he declined further election. During his career as Superintendent he became a student of law, with the late Justice Stanley Matthews as preceptor. The year he ceased his services as a teacher he began the practice of the law in Cincinnati after having been admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio. In 1880, Mr. Giauque formed a partnership with Mr. Henry B. McClure. This firm still exists, and has become one of the most prominent and successful law firms of Hamilton County. As an author, especially of law books, Mr. Giauque enjoys a national reputation. There is probably no lawyer in Ohio who is the author and compiler of as many law books as is
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Mr. Giauque. His principal works are "Revised Statutes of Ohio" (seven editions and various supplements thereto) ; Raff's Guide for Executors, etc., two volumes, 1879; Ohio Election Laws, 1879-01 ; United States Election and Naturalization Laws, 1879-01 ; Manual for Guardians and Trustees, six editions, 1881; Dower and Curtesy Tables, two editions, 1882; Manual for Assignees, six editions, 1882 : Law of Roads, Ditches, Bridges and Water- courses, 1885; Notary's and Conveyancer's Manual, two editions, 1888; Manual for Con- stables, Marshals, etc., five editions, 1891; Settlement of Descendant Estates, six editions, 1893; Present Value Tables (for value of dower, damages, etc.), two editions, 1894; Road and Bridge Laws of Ohio, 1894; Drainage Laws of Ohio, 1896. He is also a frequent con- tributor to various periodicals on scientific and popular subjects, and, because of his numerous works a sketch of Mr. Giauque's life appears in Allibone's "Dictionary of Authors." In 1872 Kenyon College conferred upon Mr. Giauque the degree of A.M., and in 1898 he was hon- ored by the same institution of learning with the honorary degree of LL.D. In November, 1884, Mr. Giauque was married to Mary, a daughter of William H. Miller, a lawyer of Hamilton, Ohio, also grand-daughter of John Woods, for many years the leading lawyer of Butler County, Ohio, an active member of Congress, and Auditor of the State of Ohio. Mr. Giauque resides at Glendale, Ohio.
John Henry Goeke,
Was born at Minster, Ohio, on the 28tl: of October, 1869; his father was Mathias Goeke and his mother Dina Goeke, both having been lifelong residents of the village of Min- ster, and his ancestors being among the early pioneers of Ohio.
Mr. Goeke attended school in his early years in his native town and at Celina, Ohio, completing his education at Pio Nono College near Milwaukee, Wis., graduating from that institution in 1888. After graduating and returning home, he was appointed Probate Clerk under Probate Judge Benjamin Linzee. While acting in this capacity he began the study of law, and having pursued the same for one year, he entered the law school at Cincinnati and graduated with high average in 1891. After his admission to the bar of Ohio he formed a partnership with W. T. Mooney at St. Mary's, Ohio. This partnership continued until dissolved by the election of JOHN HENRY GOEKE Mr. Mooney to the Judicial bench in 1892. One year thereafter Mr. Goeke entered into partnership with Anthony Culliton, of the same place, and the firm continued to practice law until 1896, when Charles L. Smith was taken into the firm, and for three years the firm of Goeke, Culliton & Smith was foremost in the litigation that came to the courts from the entire western part of Auglaize County, portion of Mercer County, and even a part of the State of Indiana. In 1893 Mr. Goeke was elected City Solicitor at St. Marys, and upon expiration of term was re-elected. In 1894 and 1897 he was successfully elected to the
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important office of Prosecutor. During the latter part of 1897 he formed a partnership with Samuel A. Hoskins, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, and that firm is now doing an extensive business.
Harvey D. Goulder,
Attorney at law at Cleveland, Ohio, and one of the foremost admiralty lawyers of the United States, was born in 1853, in the city of Cleveland. He is the son of Christopher and Barbara (Freeland) Goulder, who early located in the Forest City. His mother was a native of Scotland, and came to the United States with her parents, and to Cleveland in 1836, and died there in 1887. The father was of English birth, and crossed the Atlantic at an early age, settling in Detroit, Michigan, from which city he removed to Cleveland in the early '30's, making his home in that city until his death in 1894. He was one of the early lake navigators, and throughout his life was connected with maritime ventures. The son, Harvey D. Goulder, attended the public schools, where he received the rudiments of his education, and graduated from Central High School in 1869. Already he had become a sailor, having inherited his father's love for the water. After his graduation he devoted his attention to law, and studied in the office of Tyler & Dennison. Desiring to acquire commercial experience, he entered the employ of Alcott, Horton & Co. as entry clerk for a period of two years. Subsequently he con- tinued the study of laws under direction of John E. Cary, a leading admiralty attorney, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. Imme- diately he began practice, and his progress has been steady. Engaged in the general practice of law. he has given much attention to marine and insurance law, and has been con- nected with nearly all the important cases which have been tried in the districts border- ing upon the Great Lakes during the last two decades, in the particular lines of maritime and insurance law, being considered one of the HARVEY D. GOULDER ablest men of the country, and an authority often called upon in cases requiring technical knowledge. He is interested in large enterprises. As general counsel of the Lake Carriers' Association, he has charge of various matters connected with the lake waterways, the improvement of harbors, etc. He is public spirited, was for a number of years Vice Presi- dent of the Cleveland Board of Trade, director and then President of the Chamber of Commerce of that city and interested in many business concerns. The daughter of Rev. J. E. Rankin, Mary F., is his wife. Rev. Rankin, his father-in-law, was formerly pastor of the First Congregationalist Church of Washington, D. C., and President of Howard University, of that city. Mr. Goulder is a Republican from the ground up, and his advice has often been heard in the councils of his party. In his profession, in business and in civic matters he is accorded conservative, sound and of valuable judgment. He was a candidate for Mayor of the city of Cleveland in 1903, but suffered defeat with the balance of the ticket.
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