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Philipp Winkler,
Justice of the Peace of Hamilton County, is one of the most popular and best-known citizens of the Queen City. He is of good German stock, his father, Mr. Charles Winkler, having emigrated from Bavaria, Germany, in 1849, to the land of the free and the home of the brave. He settled in Cincinnati. Philipp was born in that city on the 18th of June, 1864. The public schools of Cincinnati afforded him his educational opportunities, and when
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but fifteen years of age he began his public career in the capacity of clerk in the office of the Corporation Counsel. He held that position for five years, and left the office to accept a position in the City Engineer's department, where it was his duty to examine the titles of real estate. In 1893 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and re-elected ever since by increased majorities, the best proof of his ability and popularity. Mr. Winkler is an active worker in the ranks of the Republicans of Hamilton County. He was married in 1888, and is the father of one child, a son. His resi- dence is located at Fairview Heights, Cincin- nati. Socially, Squire Winkler is a member of the Blaine Club, the Stamina Republican League, K. of P. and Ancient Essenic Order.
William Ruehrwein,
The popular Superintendent of the Cin- PHILIPP WINKLER cinnati Workhouse, has for many years been actively identified with the business and labor interests of the Queen City. His loyalty to the cause of labor has made him well known not only in the city, but throughout the State, and his appointment as Commissioner of Labor Statistics by the late Governor Asa S. Bushnell was a recognition of long services in the interests of labor and capital, which Mr. Ruehrwein has struggled to bring into closer relations.
He was born on the 21st of February, 1840, and came to Cincinnati as a boy. His parents were natives of Germany, and he has always been closely associated with the best German element of this city. His education was obtained in the common schools. Early he recognized the importance of having some honorable trade, and learned one by which he earned a good living for several years. His close application to his work merited and won for him promotions, and he remained in the employ of one concern for thirty years, reach- ing a position as foreman. He became an expert mechanic, and always sought to better the conditions and surroundings of the work- ingmen in factories and elsewhere. His inclination in this direction induced him to make a special study of labor and capital, and no man in Cincinnati is better informed on the actual conditions existing between these ele- ments. Mr. Ruehrwein has endeavored to
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bring them into closer relations, and to a great extent has been successful. He soon devel- oped an active interest in politics, like all good German citizens, believing that politics is a part of real citizenship. He allied himself with the Republican party, and has been a con- stant worker for its interests since he was of legal age. His first important political office in this city was as a member of the Board of Education, to which office he was elected for several terms in succession. His work in behalf of educational interests was the same as in all other lines-conscientious. He also served several terms as a member of the Union Board of High Schools. In 1893 he was nominated by the Republicans for the State Legis- lature and was elected, serving through the Seventy-first General Assembly with credit to himself and his constituents. He was renominated and re-elected, retiring on the 31st of March, 1896, to become State Commissioner of Labor Statistics, the appointment being a compliment unsought from Governor Bushnell. He resigned to become Superintendent of the Cincinnati Workhouse, a highly important position, and one to which he gives his whole time, aiming to better the condition of the unfortunates who are compelled to spend their time working for the city behind closed doors. He was married in 1860, and is the father of eight children. Mr. Ruehrwein is a Scottish Rite member, a Knight Templar, Mason, an Odd Fellow, belongs to the Knights of Honor, and takes an active interest in the Prot- estant Reformed Church, to which he belongs. His home life is all that could be asked, he believing in domestic affairs and a happy family. His honesty is proverbial.
Daniel Appel,
Of Cleveland, Ohio, a man who has acquired a National reputation by his inventive genius, was born on the 18th of July, 1850, at Neunkirchen, Rhenish Bavaria. His educa- tion was received in the elementary schools of his native country, until he had reached the age of fourteen, when he was apprenticed to a wood turner at Kaiserslautern. During his apprenticeship Mr. Appel attended a trade school, where he took a special course in draw- ing and designing. In early youth he displayed a lively interest in constructive work, and his inventive genius at that time first became apparent. After having become proficient in his trade he made a tour through the Rhine country. Returning to his home, he entered the machine works of Pfeifer, at Kaiserslau- tern, remaining there until 1869. In the latter year he emigrated to the United States and came to Cincinnati, there accepting a position in the machine factory of Krueger & Co. For two years Mr. Appel was employed with that firm, at the termination of which period he became connected with the Cincinnati Type Foundry. The Hall Safe & Lock Company was the next firm which employed him, his work there being the making of the most exact tools for the manufacture of combination locks. It was during his stay in Cincinnati
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that Mr. Appel made his first invention of importance, a machine which later revolution- ized the paper bag manufacturing of the world. While the first machine was not a financial success, owing to the fact that a system for distribution of the great output was not at that time perfected, it later became effective. In 1874, Mr. Appel removed to Cleveland, where three years later he showed his plans to Mr. Taylor, President of the Cleveland Paper Com- pany, and received an order from him to build one machine. This machine had a capacity of turning out 180 bags a minute, and for the invention Mr. Appel became a shareholder in the Eastern Paper Bag Company, an organization which was formed for the manufac- ture and distribution of the products of his invention. Mr. Appel's share in the business was represented by $35,000 worth of stock. Unfortunately for him, notwithstanding the great success of his invention, his entire interest was lost, owing to the manipulations of those with whom he was connected. Not discouraged, Mr. Appel immediately commenced the perfecting of other machines on entirely different principles, and success crowned his efforts. He received patents for a number of others, and the latest machines made by him are now in use all over the world. His inventive genius has not been limited to this par- ticular field of labor, for he has made a number of important inventions for astronomical purposes. Another of his inventions is in use to-day, in the hands of nearly every timer on a race track, an invention for an exact timing of speed, a watch-stopper. During the World's Fair in Chicago, Mr. Appel was the resident representative for the celebrated firm of Warner & Swasey in the exhibit of their instrumental department. At present he is consulting engineer for one of the largest Chicago manufacturing concerns. Mr. Appel during his leisure hours is often engaged in literary pursuits, and is a well-known contrib- utor for different scientific and trade journals. He is a married man and resides with his family on Holyoke Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
CHARLES J BOWLUS
Charles J. Bowlus,
Chief Executive of the city of Springfield, Ohio, was born on the 17th of December, 1866 on a farm in Clarke County, Ohio. George C. and Barbara (Crabill) Bowlus were his parents. The father was a farmer and the son. in early life, worked on the farm and acquired in healthful surroundings that rugged consti- tution which marks him to-day the man of sound physique and strong mentality. He was educated in the common schools of his native district during the time he was employed on the farm. Deciding, however, not to follow the career of his father, but to enter a mer- cantile life, in which he early showed an unusual ability, he took up his abode in Spring- field, where he secured a position as clerk in a grocery store. Working for a number of years in that capacity, carefully saving his money, in 1888 Mr. Bowlus went into business by himself, and in 1897 associated himself with William R. Hackett under the firm name of Bowlus Fruit Company, doing a general com-
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mission business, with offices and storerooms located at 23 West High Street, Springfield, Ohio. This business has gradually and persistently expanded, until to-day it is the leading commission house of that city. In political life Mr. Bowlus is a strong and ardent Demo- crat, most pronounced in his views and emphatic in the expression of those principles which he believes are right. That the people of Springfield had confidence in his executive ability is evidenced by the fact that in April, 1899, he was elected to the office of Mayor, which position he filled ably and to the satisfaction of the people for the term of two years. Appreciating the splendid record made by him during his incumbency, he was again elected to that honorable office in 1903. In social circles Mr. Bowlus holds a prominent place in his community. He is a Mason, a K. of P., Elk, Commercial Traveler, a member of the Commercial Club, the Board of Trade, and a director of the Y. M. C. A. He also belongs to the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati Episcopal Hospital. On the 3Ist of March, 1887, Miss Fannie Lee Duvall, of Springfield, became his wife. Three sons and one daughter were born to the parents. The daughter lived only ten days.
Horace L. Chapman,
A plain business man, who has made a success of everything he has undertaken; a man whose advice and views are always of value, and whose record bespeaks the confi- dence the people have in him ; who has never betrayed a trust-such are the prominent features in the life of Horace L. Chapman. Mr. Chapman comes from good old English ancestors. They emigrated from England between 1633 and 1640. His ancestors, some of them from both branches of the family, were in the Revolution and the War of 1812. His father and grandfather on both sides were farmers. Horace L. Chapman was born in the town of Independence, Allegheny County, New York, on the ioth of July, 1837. He only had the advantages of a common school edu- cation. When but seventeen years of age he came to Ohio, and rode from Columbus to Portsmouth in a stage coach, making the trip in a day, there being no railroads at that time down the Scioto Valley. He at once embarked in business, engaged with his uncle, Horace
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Leet, in the lumber trade, where he remained until 1861. He then read law in the office of Colonel Oscar F. Moore, in Portsmouth, and was admitted to the bar in 1865, but never practiced his profession. In 1863 he went into the private banking business under the name of Kinney & Chapman. In 1865 he went to Jackson, Ohio, and established a private bank, converted the same into a National in 1870, and became its President, a position he still holds. Later he engaged in the coal and iron business, and was connected with the build- ing of what is now the Detroit Southern Railroad; also the Ironton Division of the C., H. & D. From 1861 to 1865 he was First Lieutenant of an independent rifle company in Ports- mouth, Ohio. Mr. Chapman has always been a staunch defender of the Democratic faith,
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and on several occasions been honored by his party. He was twice elected City Treas- urer of Portsmouth; member of the School Board and Town Council of Jackson for several terms, and refused to stand as the Democratic candidate for Congress when the district in which he resided was Democratic and he could have had the honor unopposed. In 1897 the Democratic State Convention that assembled in Columbus nominated Mr. Chapman for Governor. The outlook from a Democratic standpoint was poor. Governor Bushnell had been elected in 1895 by 92,000 majority in round numbers, but the popularity of the Demo- cratic candidate was such that he succeeded in cutting down Bushnell's majority for a second term to 28,000. Mr. Chapman has been a district delegate to several Democratic National Conventions, and was one of the delegates-at-large from Ohio to the Kansas City National Democratic Convention in 1900. Some years ago Mr. Chapman removed with his family to Columbus, but he still owns a residence in Jackson, where he always votes and claims as his place of citizenship. He belongs to the various branches of the Masonic fraternity. For nearly forty years Mr. Chapman has been a prominent figure in the development of the material interests of the Jackson coal field as operator, iron manufacturer, banker and in general business, and his prominence in that regard is well deserved. He was among the pioneers who brought the attention of the world to the rich coal deposits in that section of Ohio, and invested his money and energy along the line of their disclosure. Mr. Chapman stands to-day as one of the foremost business men engaged in the coal trade.
William C. Chapman, M.D.,
Of Toledo, Ohio, was born on the 15th of August, 1840, in Cincinnati. He is the son of Dr. M. B. Chapman, a leading physician and pharmacist of the Queen City. His mother, Margaret Crossman Chapman, was the daugh- ter of a prominent member of the Society of Friends in that city. Dr. Chapman received his early education in the public schools of his home city, and took an academic course in a private school of Charles E. Matthews. At the age of eighteen he directed his attention to the study of pharmacy under the preceptorship of his father, but three years later, in 1861, he entered the Ohio Medical College, taking a partial course of lectures, pursuing his studies under the preceptorship of Drs. William Clen- denin and William H. Mussey. His course of study was for a time interrupted by reason of business engagements, but later it was resumed and in the spring of 1873 Dr. Chapman was WILLIAM C. CHAPMAN, M. D. graduated from the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati. After his graduation, Dr. Chap- man took up his permanent home in Toledo, where his success has been marked, his practice being of a steady and healthy growth. For several years Dr. Chapman was a member of the Toledo Board of Health; he is a member of the State Board of Health, and President of the Ohio Medical Association. On the 3d of March, 1863, he was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Mitchell, daughter of
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Mr. Jethro Mitchell, of Cincinnati, by which union he is the father of five sons. In religious faith, Dr. Chapman is a Presbyterian, and has been for many years an Elder of that church in his home city.
Andrew J. Crilly,
Chief Executive of the city of Newark, Ohio, and a leading Democrat in the central part of Ohio, was born on the Ioth of July, 1848, in Union Township, Licking County, Ohio, His father was a laboring man, and a native of Pennsylvania, his mother coming from Vir- ginia. The family on both sides are of Irish ancestry. Mr. Crilly was educated in the com- mon schools, and at the early age of sixteen was compelled by force of circumstances to earn his own living. He started in life as an ordinary laborer, but by careful and assiduous study educated himself sufficiently to obtain the position of school teacher, which occupa- tion he followed for a period of ten years. In 1883 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, which position he held for over four years, when, in 1887, he was appointed Sheriff of Licking County for the unexpired term of Sheriff Brown, who had resigned. To this office he was elected by the people in 1888. From 1893 to 1896 Mr. Crilly was engaged in the real estate business, and in 1897 was elected Jus- tice of the Peace. This office he occupied for a period of five years. In 1903, when the new code of the cities of Ohio became effective, Mr. Crilly was elected Mayor of Newark on the Democratic ticket. He has been a staunch supporter of Democratic principles all his adult life. Mr. Crilly is a man of strong con- victions, great energy and forcefulness of character. He is genial, a good fellow and has a multitude of friends. Socially, he is a mem- ber of the Masons, Eagles, I. O. O. F., K. of P., Modern Woodmen of the World, and has often been a delegate to State and District Conven- ANDREW J. CRILLY tions of the Democratic party. He also has been honored with the Chairmanship and Secretaryship of Executive Committees numerous times. Mayor Crilly is a married man, and the father of four daughters and two sons. His residence and offices are located in the city of Newark, Ohio.
W. T. Sherman Culp,
Of Cleveland, Ohio, was born on a farm near Richmond, Jefferson County, Ohio, on the 12th of May, 1866, and was the third son of Samuel Culp and Harriet Wright-Culp. His parents on his father's side were descendants of Baltzer Culp, who, with his brother, came to America from Hanover, Germany, before 1800 settling in Pennsylvania, but later coming to Jefferson County, Ohio, locating but a few miles from the old blockhouse fort not far from Wellsville, Ohio. His mother was of English ancestry, who for a time settled in Mary- land, and as early pioneers helped to blaze the trails throughout the Eastern part of the
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State. With a lineage rugged and successful, Mr. Culp received from parentage and farm life a vigorous body and mind. He attended the country school until sixteen years of age, when he entered Richmond College, Richmond, Ohio, and spent a year and a half there. Then, matriculating at Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio, he completed the classical course, graduating as Latin orator in the class of 1888. In college he was distinguished by proficient work in the class-room, and was the best orator of the class. After graduation he was Superintendent of the High School at Eding- burgh, Ohio, one year, and in September, 1890, entered the ministry of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, joining the East Ohio Conference. Since then he has filled charges at Hanover, two years; Akron, two years; Mantua, three years; Madison, four years, and Ashtabula, five years. Soon after his graduation his serv- W. T. SHERMAN CULP ices were sought for in public work, and he entered the lecture field, where he has won distinction and is constantly in demand, his 'Uncrowned Kings" having been given a thousand times. His A.M. was received from Mt. Union College, and Ph.D. and D.D. from Richmond College, at Richmond, Ohio. In September, 1887, he was married to Tinetta Davis, of Mt. Union, Ohio, and to them were born two children, Ruby and Miriam. While pastor at
Madison, Ohio, in 1899, his wife died, beloved by all the people. On the Ioth of January, 1904, he was united in mar- riage to Jeanette Upton, of Madison. Dr. Culp is a deep thinker, aggressive in plan and action ; endowed with unusual executive pow- ers, and has distinguished himself in the build- ing of churches and in directing business affairs. Magnetic, practical, genial and kind, he enjoys the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens.
Dr. Frank Dowd,
Cleveland, Ohio, is by profession a dentist, located in the Schofield Building, corner of Euclid Avenue and Erie Street. He was born in Chautauqua County, New York, on the 23d of September, 1847, and is a son of Benjamin and Rhoda Dowd. The former was born in Rutland, Vermont, and the latter in Cazinovia, New York. The father, a carpenter, con- tractor and builder, came from Vermont to
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Allegheny County, New York, in 1824, moving from thence to Mainsburg, Tioga County. Pennsylvania, and from there to Chautauqua County, New York, in 1837. He was a pioneer in his business in that part of the State, and was a member of the Baptist Church for many years, dying at the age of seventy-one years. He was a useful man, extensively known and highly respected as a most worthy citizen. As a skilled workman in his line, no less than as an honored, representative citizen, his death was mourned as a loss to his family, the community and to the church of his choice. His father, Zina Dowd, took part as a faithful soldier in the Revolutionary War. Zina Dowd was one of three brothers who came from England to Vermont in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and the whole Dowd race in the United States are fruit from these trees. Our subject's mother died at the home of her son in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 13th of March, 1904, at the age of ninety-one. She was a lifelong member of the Baptist Church. She bore her husband eight children, among them Thurzah L., widow of Chester Tanner, a prominent farmer of Chautauqua County, New York, and William E. Dowd, deceased, for a number of years a resident of Erie, Penn- sylvania, serving faithfully the people in the capacity of mail carrier, and was honorably discharged after three years of faithful service in the Civil War, as a member of the Seventy- second Regiment of New York, in Company B, from Jamestown, New York. The gentle- man whose name introduces this sketch was educated in Panama, Chautauqua County, New York. At his majority he entered into partnership with his father as a contractor and builder and remained as such until the death of his father, in 1875, when he immediately took up the study of dentistry and began the practice of his chosen profession without anything but formal knowledge of the work. He opened an office in Jamestown, New York, and was successful from the very beginning, in three years working up the largest practice in James- town. Feeling the need of being in good standing in the profession, he entered the Indiana Dental College, at Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was a demonstrator of bridge and crown work for the college. Dr. Dowd is a graduate from that college. He came to Cleveland in 1885. He is a skilled workman of much nat- ural genius, and is classed among the best dentists of the country, is thoroughly posted in his profession, progressive in his views, and in every way a good and enterprising citizen. Socially, Dr. Dowd is a member of the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias, and is Colonel on the staff of General James R. Carnahan, who is Major General commanding the Uni- form Rank of the Knights of Pythias of the world. He has by his wife, Mary A. Campbell, a daughter, Cora, who married Dr. Frank Olds, a successful practitioner of dentistry in Toledo, Ohio, and Herbert H. Dowd, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1880.
Herbert H. Dowd, D.D.S.,
At Cleveland, Ohio, the son of the well- known and popular Cleveland dentist, Dr. Frank Dowd, was born in the Forest City on the 12th of August, 1880. He received a care-
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ful literary education in the public schools of his home city, after which he decided to enter the same profession in which his father has made such a marked success. For this purpose Mr. Dowd attended the dental department of the Western Reserve University, from which famous institution he graduated on the 16th of June, 1904, receiving the degree of D.D.S. Immediately after his graduation, Dr. Dowd opened an office at No. 50 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, where he already has built up a good practice. He undoubtedly is one of the most popular of the younger dentists of Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Dowd has inherited a military spirit from his father. When the war with Spain broke out, he enlisted in Company C of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in on the 8th of June, 1898, and with this regiment he saw service until the 5th of November, 1898, when he received an honor- able discharge. On the 24th of May, 1899, Dr. Dowd entered Company C of the Fifth O. N. G. Regiment, remaining with that military body until the 28th of August of the same year, when he enlisted in the United States service, joining Company K of the Sixth United States Infantry. His regiment was dispatched to the Philippine Islands, and he took part in numerous expeditions and skirmishes on the Island of Paney. He remained in the Philippines for a period of two years and six months, in active duty, and on the 27th of August, 1902, was mustered out, he then being Color Sergeant. Returning to his home city, he then took up the study of dentistry, with the above mentioned result.
Joel D. Hendrickson, M. D.,
A well-known physician of Portsmouth, Ohio, was born on the ist of July, 1865, at Tolesboro, Lewis County, Kentucky, and is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth Rummann Hendrickson. His mother is a descendant of Daniel Boone, the famous frontiersman. His paternal great-grandfather, O. K. Hendrick- son, was a Hollander, and served as First Lieutenant in the Continental army during the American struggle for independence. His father, Daniel Hendrickson, was Captain of the Forty-fifth Kentucky Infantry and lost his life in the War of the Rebellion, and is sup- posed to have been drowned in the Red River, Louisiana. The boyhood of Dr. Hendrickson was passed in Tolesboro, Kentucky, where he attended school. At the age of twelve years, he was compelled to help sustain his family, and he became employed in a grocery store. However, he continued his studies at home, JOEL D. HENDRICKSON, M. D. and saving his money carefully, he was able, at the age of fourteen, to enter Lebanon Col- lege, where he prepared himself to teach school. He followed the occupation of teaching in winter and went to school during sum- mer, until he graduated, after taking a scientific course. Dr. W. H. Campbell, of Vance- burg, Kentucky, then gave him special instructions in medicine, and he later entered the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, from which institution he graduated in 1894, receiving the degree of M.D. He then came to Ohio, in 1895, in which State he has made
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