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EDMUND KITTREDGE STALLO
under direction of Judge Kittredge, one of the most eminent jurists in the State of Ohio. After his admission to the bar, Mr. Stallo became associated with the law firm of Gerard & Lampe, as a partner, the firm being named Gerard, Lampe & Stallo. This partnership was continued until 1897, when Mr. Stallo became associated with Messrs. Richard and Shaw, under the firm name of Stallo, Richard & Shaw. In 1902 the partnership was dissolved and since that time Mr. Stallo has practiced in New York exclusively. He is identified with some of the most gigantic enterprises of the country, and his name as a promoter is known throughout the whole country. Mr. Stallo has been married twice. By his first wife, now deceased, he is the father of two daughters.
Charles S. Sparks,
Attorney at law at Cincinnati, Ohio, and founder of the Agnostic Sunday School of the Queen City, was born on the Ioth of June, 1868, at West Union, Adams County, Ohio. His father, Salathiel Sparks, a native of Ohio, followed the profession of the law. His mother came from Winchester, Kentucky. The early antecedents of Mr. Sparks were of English origin, who emigrated from Virginia to Ohio in the younger days of the State's history. Mr. Sparks was educated in the West Union public schools and at the Cincinnati law school, from which institution of legal training he graduated in 1890, with the degree of B.L. At the age of twenty-two years, in June, 1890, he began the practice of his pro- fession under his own name, and has continu- ously followed his chosen field of labor ever since that time. Three months after his admission to the bar, he was acting Prose- cuting Attorney and Police Judge, being the youngest Judge ever presiding in the Police Courts of Cincinnati. In political affairs he takes a keen interest and belongs to the Republican party. He is a member of the Blaine Club and the Stamina Republican League, of Cincinnati, two of the great party clubs of this country. As a public speaker. Mr. Sparks' services are in great demand, during the different campaigns, and he has been a delegate to a number of State Con- ventions. Mr. Sparks is a lecturer of National prominence on agnosticism and kindred scientific subjects, and is the founder of the
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Agnostic Sunday School, which meets every Sunday in the Lincoln Inn Court Building. The school was founded in February, 1901, and he is the Superintendent and moving spirit of the same. Mr. Sparks is original in his conceptions, a deep student of abstract subjects, and a believer in the principles expounded in the Golden Rule. As an orator he has great ability and is gifted with an easy and forcible style of expression, which holds his audiences interested to the end. On the 26th of November, 1896, he was united in marriage to May Elizabeth Buckley, a descendant of members of the House of Lords of England. His children are named Dorothy Grace, Charlotte Ingersoll and Temple Tolstoi. He lives with his family in Covedale, a pleasant suburb of Cincinnati.
Walter Aiken,
Superintendent of Music in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a musician of more than ordinary ability. He is recognized as an authority on all questions pertaining to music in the public schools of our country. Mr. Aiken is a Cincinnatian, born on the 27th of September, 1856, in the Queen City. His father, Charles Aiken, was a native of New Hampshire, of Scotch-Irish descent, while his mother, Martha Merrill Aiken, was of English ancestry. His father's people came to this country about the year 1720, and his mother's progenitors about 1640. Members of both sides of the family took part in the French- Indian War and the struggle for independence from the English yoke. Mr. Aiken's father came to Cincinnati in 1839, and three years later became connected with the music depart- ment of the public schools. He was the first Superintendent of Music of the Cincinnati schools and remained in that position until WALTER AIKEN 1879, when he resigned. He died in 1882. Mr. Walter Aiken received his literary training in the Cincinnati public schools and his musical education under supervision of his father. He entered upon his professional career at the age of seventeen years, when he accepted the position of Supervisor of Music in the Middletown schools. He remained in this position for two years, and for three years filled a like position in the schools of Hamilton. In 1879 he came to Cincinnati and became connected with the music department of the schools of the Queen City in the capacity of Supervisor. For twenty years he served under Super- intendent Junkermann. Upon the resignation of Professor Junkermann he was promoted to the Superintendency. On the Ist of August, 1880, Mr. Aiken was married to Miss Lucy B. Avery, a daughter of Dr. C. L. Avery. Two sons and one daughter are the issue of their union. Mr. Aiken is a member of a number of school associations. For five years he had charge of the herbarium of the Natural History Society, and at the present writing he is curator of the herbarium of the Lloyds' Library. He has written a number of songs for schools, and has compiled and edited some supplementary work for schools. He lives with his family in College Hill, Ohio.
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William Edward Kennedy,
Chief Examiner of Stationary Engineers of Ohio, is a man well and favorably known in political and labor circles all over the State. He is a native Cincinnatian, born on the 4th of August, 1862. His parents, Dan. Kennedy, a shoemaker, and Rozane Kennedy, were natives of Ireland, the father having emigrated to the Queen City about 1850. Mr. William E. Kennedy received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati, until the age of ten, when he went to work in a machine shop. After many years of hard work, he, in 1886, was offered a position as assistant engineer in the Water Works Department, a place he filled for a period of four years. In 1890 he was examined for stationary engineer, and received a first-class license. Resigning his position as assistant engineer, he accepted a place as night engineer with the Cincinnati Ice Manufacturing and Cold Storage Company, but after nine months he took the position of engineer of the Hunt Street Pumping Station. After a period of nine years he again became connected with the Cincinnati Ice Manufacturing and Cold Storage Company, remaining with that firm for twenty months. Returning to the Hunt Street Pumping Station, this time as chief engineer, Mr. Kennedy remained in that position until the 25th of September, 1903, when he was appointed by the Governor to the responsible office of Chief Examiner of Stationary Engineers of Ohio. In political belief Mr. Kennedy is an active working Republican. He is a member and director of the Young Men's Blaine Club of Cincinnati, and member and Treasurer of the Cincinnati Engineers Union, No. 1. He lives with his family, consisting of four children, at No. 1129 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati. His office is located in the Capitol Building, Columbus, Ohio.
Joseph Samuel Trevor,
Councilman-at-large of the city of Cincinnati, and Secretary and Treasurer of The H. & S. Pogue Company, one of the largest business houses of the Central West, is a native of the Emerald Isle, born in 1859. He received his education in the public and private schools of Ireland and emigrated to the United States at the age of eighteen years. Coming to Cincinnati, he secured employment with the above-named firm, starting as errand boy, and later working as salesman. His business ability, energy and integrity soon found recog- nition and appreciation, until to-day Mr. Trevor enjoys the distinction of being one of Cincinnati's foremost business people. Socially, Mr. Trevor is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity. In political belief he is an unswerving Republican, who has served his party faith- fully. In the spring of 1903, after the new code for the municipalities of Ohio took effect, Mr. Trevor was honored by the people of Cin- cinnati with the election to the City Council, as Councilman-at-large. His record as a public official is an enviable one. In September, 1885, Mr. Trevor was united in marriage to Miss Kate C. Frazier. Two daughters have blessed their union.
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A Corner in Pressroom
Art Department
Private Office H. W. Weisbrodt
A Corner in Electrotype Foundry
A Corner in Operating Room
UGO WILLIAM WEISBRODT, proprietor of the well-known Engrav- ing and Printing firm of H. W. Weisbrodt, Cincinnati, Ohio, a business whose reputation extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada's frontiers, is a self-made man in the best and fullest sense of the word. He was born on October 26, 0 1856, at Cincinnati, the son of William and Antonia Weisbrodt, both natives of Glogau, Germany. The father, William Weisbrodt, was for many years prompter in the German Stock Company at Cincinnati. Young Weisbrodt received his education in the public schools of his home city. When he was fourteen years of age, he started in the engraving business as apprentice with Joseph A. Williams, at that time the leading wood engraver in Ohio. After an apprenticeship of three years, and after mastering all the details of his profession, young Weisbrodt started in business of his own. His enterprise was a suc- cess from the beginning, thanks to the ability and thoroughness of the young proprietor, who always kept himself abreast with the times and never let an opportunity slip by to improve his methods. In order to study the art of making halftones, he, in 1882, crossed the ocean and went to Munich, Bavaria, where he learned the process of halftone engraving. It was left to Mr. Weisbrodt to improve this process in many ways, and it can be truthfully said, that his establishment has no superior on both sides of the Atlantic. The splendid pictures and por- traits, which appear in this work, amply show his ability. After returning from Munich to his native city, Mr. Weisbrodt opened a business in the Esplanade Building, on Fifth and Walnut Streets, later removing to the Blymyer Building and to the Oskamp Building. These removals were always necessitated on account of the growth of Weisbrodt's business. Two years ago the business moved in the Commercial-Tribune Building, where a printing establishment was added to the engraving and electrotyping depart- ments. The firm of H. W. Weisbrodt is con- sidered to be one of the best equipped in the United States. "We do it all" is the motto of Mr. Weisbrodt, and in fact, there is hardly any firm in the printing and engraving line in the HUGO WILLIAM WEISBRODT United States, which can boast of such splendid and modern equipment as Weisbrodt's. An examination of the pages of this work will convince everybody of the correctness of the above statement. Mr. Weisbrodt is one of the most progressive and popular business men of the Queen City. Jovial of nature, of affable and pleasant manners, and thorough business instincts, Mr. Weisbrodt possesses all the qualities which are bound to make a man successful in everything he undertakes. He expects nothing of his numerous artists what he is not able to do himself. In social life he is a Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He was married to Miss Alice Miller, daughter of the late William Miller, in 1884, and lives with his wife in a splendid mansion in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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GUY H. KENNEDY Public Accountant and Auditor 403-404 Traction Building Cincinnati, O.
George Klotter,
President and Treasurer of the Bellevue Brewing Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a man who stands high in the esteem of his fellow citizens, was born on the 25th of August, 1835, in the city of Cincinnati. His father, George Klotter, a native of Baden, Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1835, settling in the Queen City, where in 1846 he founded Sohn's Brewery. Mr. George Klotter was educated in the public schools of his native city and received a collegiate training at the well-known St. Xavier's College. At the age of fifteen years he became employed by Gustav Herder, a hardware man, working there for five years. The three following years of his life were spent in his father's brewery, and then he became first asisstant of H. A. Rattermann, who had just founded the German Mutual Insurance Company. In that business he met with considerable success, and later he became a partner in Klotter's Sons Brewery, the present Bellevue Brewing Company. On the Ist of January, 1900, he was made President and Treasurer of that flourishing corporation, in which since its incorporation in 1888 he had filled the position of Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. Klotter is recognized among all classes, irrespective of nationality, as a man of splendid natural ability, broad-minded, progressive, and with the welfare of the people at heart. He belongs to a number of charitable and social organizations, and there never has been made a worthy call upon his purse that he has not been ready to immediately grant. His mar- riage occurred in 1856, when he took for his wife Miss Margaretha Wuest. His wife has been dead for over twenty-five years, but the union has been blessed by three sons and six daughters.
William F. Cassedy,
President of The James A. Cassedy Company, book binders, at Cincinnati, Ohio, is a native Ohioan of Scotch-Irish descent. He was born in the Queen City in 1866, where his father, James A. Cassedy, was a prominent book binder, and a pioneer in his business. For thirty-eight years he had been in charge of the book binding department of the Meth- odist Book Concern. He resigned that position and in 1882 organized a firm of his own, which soon became an important factor in the world of books. Thirteen years later the business was reorganized as a stock company, and Mr. W. F. Cassedy was chosen as its President, a position he still holds with marked success. Mr. Cassedy was educated in the public schools and Hughes High School of Cincin- nati, and at the age of eighteen years he entered the business of his father, learning all the details of his art. The Jas. A. Cassedy Company enjoys the distinction of not only being the largest book binding business in the State of Ohio, but of creating the most beauti- ful and artistic covers in the United States. The products of the firm can be found in any library, and the binding of this work has also been done by the Jas. A. Cassedy Company.
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The plant of the firm is equipped with the most modern machinery, and its capacity is almost unlimited. Mr. William F. Cassedy is a business man of more than ordinary ability and enjoys great popularity in his native city. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and a mem- ber of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club. He lives with his family, consisting of his wife, a daughter and a son in Ludlow, Kentucky. His plant is located in the Commercial Tribune Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
John J. Dittgen,
Mayor of Madisonville, Ohio, and pro- prietor of the printing firm of Dittgen & Co., located at 641-643 Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of the best known Democrats in the southwestern part of the State. He is a native of Indiana, of German parentage, born on the 20th of May, 1861, his parents, John Dittgen and Clara Dittgen, having emigrated to the United States when quite young. Mr. John J. Dittgen received his education in the public and private schools of Madison, Indi- ana. After leaving school, he learned the printing trade. Coming to Cincinnati at the age of seventeen years, he followed his voca- tion for a number of years, until, in 1881, he started in business for himself, which in the course of time has become very successful. The firm makes a specialty of the manufacture of cigar and tobacco pouches and bags, which are made by special machinery, invented, JOHN J. DITTGEN patented and built by Mr. Dittgen. The latter is a business man of marked ability, who enjoys the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens to a high degree. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the K. of P. In political belief, he is a staunch supporter of the principles of the Democratic party, and has served the party of his choice in many capacities. For many years he has been a member and director of the celebrated Duckworth Club of Cincinnati, the Demo- cratic crack organization of the Central States. In 1886 Mr. Dittgen moved to Madison- ville, and the year following he was elected to the Village Council. He served with such distinction, that he was re-elected twice to the same office. In October, 1897, after the death of Mayor J. Anderson Ward, Mr. Dittgen was appointed to fill the unexpired term of that gentleman. Since that time he has continuously filled that office, being elected to that responsible position in the years 1898, 1900, 1902 and 1903. His term of office will expire in January, 1906. Mr. Dittgen enjoys the reputation of being a model chief executive, his administration being clean and business-like. He is married, and has two children, a son and a daughter, his wife being formerly of Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Dittgen resides with his family in Madisonville, a pretty suburb of the Queen City.
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Daniel Bartley,
Captain of the police of Chester Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, is a man well known in police circles all over the State. He is a native Ohioan, born on the 11th of January, 1863, at Cincinnati, where his father, Daniel Bart- ley, Sr., was engaged in the contracting busi- ness. Mr. Bartley, Sr., was for eighteen years Marshal and Superintendent of Roads of Clifton, and he planted many of the beautiful trees which adorn the driveways of that pretty suburb. Mr. Daniel Bartley received his edu- cation in the common schools. Upon leaving school, he became engaged as teamster in the employ of his father, in which business he remained, until he accepted a position with the Metropolitan Police of Cincinnati, under Colonel M. F. Riley and Colonel Armstrong. After having served in that capacity for a DANIEL BARTLEY period of six and a half years, he, in 1891, joined the guards of the Cincinnati Work- house. One year later, he was promoted to the positions of Sergeant and Lieutenant, and in May, 1895, he was elected Deputy Superintendent of that institution, in which position he made a brilliant record. After the new code for the Ohio municipalities took effect, in May, 1903, and the Cincinnati Workhouse came under the supervision of the Board of Public Service, Mr. Bartley left his position, after having served twelve years and twenty- six days. He then accepted the position of Captain of the Chester Park police. He was married in 1887, and is the father of four boys and one girl. Socially, he is a mem- ber of the Blue Lodge, F. & A. M.
Benjamin Merrill Ricketts, Ph. B., M.D.
Of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born in Proctor- ville, Brown County, Ohio, on the 20th of May, 1858. He is the son of Dr. Girard Rob- inson and Rachel Mclaughlin Ricketts. Dr. Ricketts received his early education in the public schools of his home city, and attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, from which institution he graduated in 1881. He practiced his chosen profession at Ironton. Ohio, for two years, and at Columbus, Ohio, for one year. During the years of 1884 and 1885 he was a student in the Medical Depart- ment of the Columbus University, and in 1884
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was house surgeon of the Skin and Cancer Hospital at New York City. He was Professor of Chemical Surgery in Miami Medical College during 1886 and 1887, and in the following year organized the Cincinnati Polyclinic, which was devoted exclusively to post-graduate work. He was visiting physician for skin diseases and cancer at the German Deaconess' Hospital, Christ Hospital and the Presbyterian Hospital. In 1895 he resigned all his hospital positions to devote his time exclusively to the perfection of his knowledge of surgery by practical experiments. In 1887 he opened his private hospital on Fourth and Broadway. His studies and experiments have been of great benefit to the medical pro- fession and to the people at large, as he has contributed many important and valuable articles to medical journals and societies. For a long period he was engaged in interesting and original experiments in the surgery of the heart and lungs. The results of his research were in part made known at various times to the medical world through published articles, as mentioned above, as well as addresses to different learned bodies, the whole being edited and published in book form under the title of "The Surgery of the Heart and Lungs." Dr. Ricketts belongs to the following societies: The Ohio State Medical Society, The Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, The American Medical Association and the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. On the 20th of May, 1885, Dr. Ricketts married Miss Jennie L. Clark, of Ironton. On the 16th of December of the same year she died, and in 1891 he married Miss Elizabeth Laws. Two sons are the issue of their union.
Edwin Ricketts, M. D.,
A representative member of the medical profession in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, was born on the 18th of May, 1853, the son of Dr. Gerard R. and Jane Mclaughlin Ricketts, natives of Virginia and Ohio, respectively, and descendants of Scotch and Irish progenitors. The father's ancestors came to the United States about 1770, and settled in Virginia. Dr. Ricketts' early education was obtained in the common schools of Marshall, Ohio, and he later attended Wesleyan and Annapolis Universities, after which, deciding to follow his father's profession, he took a course of study at the Miami Medical College, at Cincinnati, and at the Medical Department of the Columbia University at New York. Upon receiving his degree he located in the city of Portsmouth, Ohio, in March, 1877, where he practiced until September, 1888. He then went abroad and for one year devoted himself to the study of sur- gical diseases of women. Returning to his native land, he took up his residence in the Queen City, where he has been engaged in the medical practice ever since. He is a well-known contributor to medical journals on subjects pertaining to surgery. Dr. Ricketts belongs to a number of professional organizations.
B. F. CLARK, M. D.
B. F. Clark, M. D.,
One of the best known physicians of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and since the last twelve years surgeon of the Cincinnati Fire and Police Departments, is a native Cincinnatian, born on
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the Ist of October, 1856. His father, Benjamin Clark, a mechanic, was of Scotch-Welsh ancestry, his forbears having settled in this country about 1710, while his mother, Julia Ann Bevin Clark, was of Pennsylvania German descent. Dr. Clark received his education in the Cincinnati public schools, Hughes High School and the Medical College of Ohio, from which latter institution he graduated with the degree of M.D. After his graduation, Dr. Clark went abroad and took a special course of study at the celebrated Universities of Strassburg and Vienna. Returning to his home country, he settled in Cincinnati, and became engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he obtained a high standing. Dr. Clark is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. In political belief he is a staunch Republican, and is a member and Vice President of the Blaine Club. Socially, he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is Past Eminent Commander of the Cincinnati Commandery Knights Templar, No. 3. In 1883, he was united in marriage to Miss Allie Fisk. Two daughters have been the issue of their union. For a period of ten years Dr. Clark was Chief Surgeon of the C., H. & D. and the B. &. O. S. W. Railroads. For the last six years he has been United States Pension Examiner. Dr. Clark is President of the staff of St. Francis Hospital and Special Examiner for the Locomotive Engineers' Association and the National Association of Traveling Freight Agents.
John G. Reed, M. D.,
One of the foremost physicians of Cincin- nati, Ohio, is a native Indianian, born in 1853 in Noble County. He obtained his education in the independent school at Glenvale, Ohio, after which he took a trianing course at the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, to prepare himself for the teacher's profession. After leaving that institution, Dr. Reed taught school for a couple of years. He then entered the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Sur- gery, graduated from same in 1876, and entered upon the practice of his profession in the Queen City. Three years later, in 1879, he took a post-graduate course at the New York Polyclinic, after which, in order to regain his health, he settled in the little country town of Westchester, Butler County, Ohio. where he practiced until 1886. In the latter year he came to Elmwood Place, and in 1898 he also opened an office in Cincinnati. Here he soon became known as one of the most efficient JOHN G. REED, M. D. physicians of that city. Dr. Reed is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Association and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. For a period of five years he occupied the Chair of Anatomy in the Cincinnati College of Med- icine and Surgery. His offices are located in the Groton Building, Cincinnati, and at Elmwood Place, Ohio.
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