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of Cincinnati. Ile then returned to Ripley and pursued a course of professional studies under his father, who was a dentist, and whose profession the son had decided to adopt. In 1861 he entered upon his first comse of lectures at the Chio Dental College. From this institution he graduated, with the degree of D. D. S., in the month of February, 1864. Immediately after his graduation he entered the army, and continued in the volunteer service until the close of the war in 1865. After leaving the army he returned again to Ripley, and engaged in the practice of his profession in con- nection with his father. This association continued until about 1867, when he removed to Vernon. There he re- mained practising until 1871, and then he removed to Cin- cinnati. There he has ever since remained, engaged in a practice that grew rapidly to large proportions. Ile is a member of the Mississippi Valley Dental Association, and of the society of the class of 1864 of his Alma Mater
ICHMOND, JOIIN M., Clergyman, was born on the 13th of May, 1848, in Ayr, Ontario, Canada. Hle is of Scotch descent, both his parents having been natives of Ayrshire, Scotland. He studied at the University of Toronto, Canada, and after leaving that institution, he entered the Theologi- cal Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, and in April, 1871, he was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, at Trenton, New Jersey. In the year 1872 he was called to the charge of the congregation of llope Church, Columbus, Ohio, and was ordained and installed on the 18th of April, 1872. Ile still occupies the position of pastor there, and fulfils all the duties of his sacred office in such a manner as to win the confidence, esteem and love of all. IIe was married on the 11th of May, IS71, to Julia E. Phillips, of Princeton, New Jersey.
LENNERHASSETT, HON. HARMAN, was born in Hampshire, England, in 1767. He was descended from a noble Irish family, and his parents were in England on a visit at the time of his birth. He was thoroughly educated, and grew up an accomplished and scholarly gentleman. At the death of his father he inherited a large estate, but he became politically involved in the troubles of Ireland, and disposed of it, taking up his residence in England. Ilere he married into a family of distinction, his wife being Margaret Agnew, daughter of the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Being too free in the expression of his republican views, he found it advisable to leave England. Ile arrived in New York in 1797, where his wealth and social position brought him at once into prominence. His stay in New York was brief, as he departed for Marietta,
OODWARD, WILLIAM HENRY, Dentist, is of New England nativity, having been born at Nor- wich, Connecticut, on the 12th of . January, 1843. Ilis parents, Caleb and Amanda (Scott) Wood- ward, were both descended from the old Revolu- tionary stock of Connecticut, his mother belonging to the same family as that from which General Winfield Scott was descended. In the year 1850 his parents re- moved to Ripley, Ohio, and there he received his general education in the schools of the place. In 1858 he went through a course of special studies with General Ammeu, 'and arrived in the same year. He soon after purchased a
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the old law, and during the late war was Hospital Surgeon at Camp Dennison. On the 12th of October, IS75, he was elected as a Republican to the State Legislature of Ohio. Ile has at all times been closely identified with educational matters, and has been a faithful advocate for the cause of temperance, having at no period of his life imbibed liquor as a beverage. Thirty-nine years of incessant labor at his profession has not impaired either his physical or mental energies. During his practice some of the ablest and most successful physicians of Hamilton county have studied under his supervision. Ile was married January 3d, 1833, to Rachel McGee Wilson, who died June 29th, 1839. Ile af- terwards married Catherine V. Cosbey, in November, 1840, who died May 3d, 1859. On April 10th, 1860, he was married to Sarepta Robinson, widow of Samuel Slaback. In 1875, having sold their property in the town of Mont- of a long succession of troubles; misfortune followed upon , gomery, Sycamore township, Hamilton county, Ohio, they misfortune, and he died in poverty, in the island of Guernsey, in 1831. Ilis accomplished wife survived him eleven years, dying in New York, in 1842. Not a vestige remains of their once happy home.
plantation on an island in the Ohio river, since famous as " Blennerhassett's Island." Upon this island he spent considerable sums in improvements, and lived a life of clegance. Ile was a man of literary tastes, and a fine musician. He was a very hospitable neighbor, and kind and charitable to the unfortunate. The splendors of luis home and the delightful features of the social life, of which he was the brilliant centre, have been celebrated in prose and verse. In 1805 Aaron Burr visited the island and first met the owner. The great intriguer opened his dazzling southwestern scheme, and from that. moment the proprietor was doomed. Ile became involved in the " Burr Conspiracy," his beautiful home was invaded by armed men, and his family subjected to insuit. The property was much damaged. The owner was tried for treason, but was acquitted. This was only the beginning
AYLOR, JOIIN E., M. D., was born February 15th, I So3, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, near Cynthi- ana. Of a family of ten children he was the cighth. Ile was the son of Ralph and Nancy (Stewart) Naylor, both natives of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, who, after a residence of many years in that county, emigrated to Kentucky, where his mother died. His father being a man of strong anti- slavery opinions, and opposed to raising his family in a slave State, came to Ohio and settled in Clermont county, where he lived until his death, which occurred August 25th, 1827. The early life of John E. Naylor was passed at hard work on his father's farm, and his education was obtained at in- tervals in attending the ordinary country schools in the vicinity. At the age of seventeen he began learning the trade of tanner at New Richmond, Ohio, which he diligently pursued till he was twenty-one years of age, when, on ac- count of impaired health, he was obliged to abandon it. Ile now devoted himself to study, and succeeding in quali- fying himself, he began, in 1831, teaching school, and during the intervals of his labor attended a course of study at Lane Seminary, preparatory to the reading of medicine, which he had selected as a profession. Soon after he en- tered the Ohio Medical College, and graduated from that institution in 1836, and the following summer commenced practice with Dr. Duncan, at Montgomery, Hamilton county, Ohio. In the fall of the same year, Dr. Duncan having been elected to Congress, transferred his practice to Dr. Naylor, who has continued the duties of his profession in Montgomery and the adjoining counties, up to the present time. For several years he was Surgeon of Militia, under
purchased a comfortable residence in the town of Madeira, Columbia township, where they hope to spend the remain- der of their lives. .
LOWERS, JOAB R., M. D., was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, July 25th, 1836. Ilis father, origi- nally a Methodist preacher, was in later years en- gaged in the practice of allopathic medicine in Perry county, Ohio. Ile was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, in Delaware, Ohio, and commenced the study of medicine under the guidance of his father in 1853. In 1855 he attended a course of lec- tures in the Starling Medical College, and subsequently en- tered the office of Professor J. W. Hamilton, in order to study surgery. In August, 1857, he was appointed Apothe- cary of the Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, which office he retained until, in 1859, he received the appointment of As- sistant Physician to the Ohio Penitentiary, under Dr. J. W. Hamilton. In the following year, Dr. D. R. Kinsell, a homeopathie physician, was appointed successor to Dr. Hamilton, while he was retained and placed in charge of the surgical department. Ile then availed himself of the favorable opportunity thus presenting itself for the thorough investigation of the new system, and was soon convinced of its great superiority over the allopathic practice of medicine. Ile remained at the hospital with Dr. Kinsell for two years. In 1861 he graduated at the Western Homoeopathic College, in Cleveland, Ohio, and in the following February entered on the general practice of his profession in conjunction with Dr. Kinsell. Two years later he was professionally engaged alone. In 1872 he formed a partnership with Dr. A. O. Blair, a well-known western pioncer of the Ilahnemann school. Ile served one week during the war of the rebel- lion. At the present time he is a member of the City Council of Columbus, was elected President of the Homero- pathic State Medical Society in 1875, and was nominated
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for the office of State Legislator by the Republican party of | well as Secretary of the National Association of Superin- Franklin county in 1875. Ile was married in 1863 to Louisa R. Conners, the daughter of an old-school physician.
TEWART, GILBERT IIOLLAND, Lawyer, was born at Boston, Massachusetts,. on the 15th of March, 1847. Ile is of New England stock as well as of New England birth, both his father and his mother having been natives of the State of Maine. Ilis father was engaged in mercantile pursuits, and in 1851 removed with his family to East Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. At that time Gilbert was four years old, and shortly afterwards he commenced going to Putnam school. When he was thirteen years of age he entered the Cambridge High School. His course of study there occu- pied four years, and at the end of that time he left the Iligh School and entered Harvard College in the class of 1868. Ile studied at the college until the year 1867, and then en- tered the Harvard Law School, and was a student there for a period of six months. Leaving school now, he went to Galion, Ohio, where he arrived on the 19th of July, 1867, and began the study of law in the office of II. C. Carhart. He studied with Mr. Carhart until May 5th, 1869, and then was admitted as a member of the bar at Columbus, Ohio. Ile remained at Galion, in the practice of his profession, until April 15th, 1873, practising alone. Then be removed to Columbus, and there formed a partnership with R. P. Woodruff, which partnership still continues. In politics he is a Republican. He was married, June 22d, 1875, to Clara L. Ogden, daughter of Professor John Ogden, of Worthington, Ohio.
TEVENSON, ROBERT W., Superintendent of Public Schools of Columbus, Ohio, was born near Zanesville in the same State, July Ist, 1833, de- seending from Scotch ancestry. Ilis father was by occupation a farmer, and his mother was the daughter of a Reformed Presbyterian clergyman. He was prepared for college by his grandfather, and gradu- ated with distinction from Madison College, Antrim, Ohio, in 1854, after pursuing a very thorough and comprehensive course of study. Upon leaving this institution he com- menced the study of law, engaging at the same time in teaching school. In 1855, before he had completed his law course, he was appointed Superintendent of Public Schools of Dresden, and continued in this position until 1860, when he was appointed to the same office at Norwalk, Ohio, which he held for eleven years. In July, 1871, he was ten- dered the position of Superintendent of Public Schools at the State capital, accepted it, and entered at once upon its duties, which he still fulfils. He has been both Treasurer and President of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, as
tendents, Mr. Stevenson is a man of rare culture, and has ail the qualifications necessary to take rank as a leading educator. For twenty years he has devoted his attention to the improvement of the systems for popular instruction, and in that time has accomplished reforms and developed methods of such practical utility as to merit the esteem of the public wherever his name is mentioned. Since his ad- vent to the superintendency of schools at Columbus, they have been placed in a flourishing condition, and individu- ally, or as parts of a general system, they receive the highest commendation of all who take a deep interest in the cause of popular instruction. Mr. Stevenson is well and honora- bly known to all the leaders in this cause, not only in his own State, but through the country at large, and his voice is potential in the important proceedings of the State Teachers' as well as the National Superimendents' Associations. In 1856 he was married to Rebecca McConnell.
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NDREWS, WILLIAM H., Merchant, of Cincin- mati, was born in Youngsville, Warren county, Pennsylvania, January 14th, 1840, being the son of Dr. J. Andrews, who settled in Pennsylvania at an early age. William II. left his home at the age of fourteen years, and went to Jamestown, New York, where he obtained a clerkship in the dry-goods store of Will & Stevens, where he remained until 1861. Ile then returned to Pennsylvania, and engaged on his own account in the same line of business, and soon after opened a branch store at Akron, Ohio. In 1865 he sold his inter-
ests in Ohio, and concentrated them in the oil region of Pennsylvania, and there did a very large and lucrative busi- ness; and in 1870 he opened a wholesale and retail dry- goods house in Titusville, the metropolis of the oil country. About the same time that Mr. Andrews commenced busi- ness in Titusville, the oil excitement was running high, which caused the emigration to the place of first-class citizens, and his success was far beyond his expectation. He re- mained there until 1873, when the oil interests of the place were no longer an inchicement for him to remain, and in the fall of 1873 he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and purchased the business and stock of Messrs. Johnson & Co., Nos. 76 and 78 West Fourth street. Prior to the time that Mr. Andrews took charge of the house it had not been very prosperous, but is now the leading dry- goods house in the city, and doing, with perhaps one or two exceptions, the largest business west of the Alleghenies. Mr. Andrews' store is 75 feet wide by 150 in depth, with salesrooms on three floors, and the services of 150 hands are required to run the house. Although this house is literally alive with customers from top to bottom and from morning until night, none are suffered to go away dissatisfied, peace and har- mony being one of the supports of the institution. Besides
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this store, Mr. Andrews has a branch house at Nos. 506, 50% and 510 Vine street, which is almost as large as his Fourth street house. This one requires the services of seventy five hands. Mr. Andrews was thrown upon his own resources at an early age. Possibly the trials of youth de. veloped the character of the future man. At all events his business capacity was soon made known. While he has been unremitting in his attention to business, and quick to perceive the wants of the public, he has always maintained a quiet demeanor. His private character is exemplary, and in point of business integrity the record of none stands higher. Mr. Andrews was married, October 2d, 1862, to Rose, daughter of James II. Eddy, Esq., of Warren, Warren county, Pennsylvania, by whom three children have been born, all living.
esteemed for his many sterling characteristics. Politically he is a Democrat, and in 1824 cast his vote for Clay. Al- though he is known as a Democrat, he nevertheless enjoys the confidence of the leading Republicans of Hocking comty -- in fact, of the entire Congressional District at large, as a reliable and well-meaning public gentleman. He was married in March, 1823, to Sarah Friend, who died October 4th, 1864. Ile was again married, December 27th, 1864, to Mrs. Sarah l'ayne.
EMANN, JOSEPH ANTIIONY, Banker, (for- merly prominent German-American Publisher,) was born in the town of Oesede, near the city of Osnabrück, in the late kingdom of Hanover, De- cember 13th, 1816. Destined by his parents for the church, he made his studies at the " Gymnasium Carolinum," founded by Charlemagne, in the year So, in the city of Osnabrück-one of the most celebrated colleges of Germany-where he acquired a thorough knowledge of the Latin, Greek, French, and English languages, mathe-
ING, EDWARD, Lawyer, was born in the city of New York, in March, 1795, and was the fourth son of Rufus King, the distinguished statesman and Senator. In the year 1815 he settled him- self at Chillicothe, in the practice of his profession, matics, and history (both secular and church). The young and was noted for his eloquence at the bar and student, however, did not relish the idea of finishing his in politics. Ile was for many years in the Senate and theological studies, and notified his parents accordingly. House of Representatives of Ohio, and Speaker of the latter body. In 1831 he removed to Cincinnati, where he died February 6th, 1836. Having read American history, he became thoroughly im- bued with a love for freedom and republican institutions. " We Germans," said he afterwards, in an oration delivered July 4th, 1844, "have learned in the land of our fathers only to obey. We had no power to decide our own good, our own welfare. For the love of freedom we left the land of our birth, friends, relatives, all that was dear to us, to gather here, in a strange country, the fruits of liberty, so magnanimously offered to the oppressed of all the world. It is our special duty to make ourselves acquainted with the language, the laws and the institutions of this our self- chosen new home." This desire for freedom, coupled with romantic ideas of the adventurous life of the early pioneers of America, the imagination of which is generally more brightly colored than the reality afterwards proves to be, left him no rest at home, and he made his parents acquainted with his intention to emigrate across the Atlantic. They, however, tried to persuade their son to remain with them, and choose some other vocation, but his mind was fixed, and he carried his inclinations into effect by severing the ties which bound him to the land of his ancestors. On May Ist, 1837, he embarked at the harbor of Bremer-Haven and sailed for fair Columbia's shores. After a tedious and stormy voyage the ship " Favorite" entered the Chesapeake Bay carly in July of the same year, and on the 3d of that month dropped anchor in the harbor of Baltimore, where she had to lay for quarantine duties until July 5th. On board the ship the German emigrants witnessed for the first time the celebra- tion of the birthday of this republic, and their hearts throbbed when they beheld the decorated and illuminated city in the
IIITE, ALEXANDER, Pioneer and Farmer, was born in Ross county, Ohio, January 10th, 1803. Ili, father, a native of Virginia, and a farmer, set- tled in Ohio in 1802. Ilis mother was a member of a family which found a home in Kentucky at a very early day. Ilis carly education, of a very limited kind, was obtained in a country school, and during winter evenings. While quite young he assisted in the labor of the farm, and for many years was thus constantly employed. Through the winters of 1837-38-39-40 he was engaged in a flour mill, and in the latter year moved to Logan, Ohio. Here he was elected Justice of the Peace, and served for three years. In 1843 he was elected County Auditor, and performed the duties of that office for five con- secutive terms, of two years each. Through these years he retained also his position as Justice of the Peace. In 1851 he was elected to the State Board of Equalization, and was re-elected to the same office in 1858 and in 1869. In 1852 he purchased a farm near Logan, and has since continued to reside on it, and to superintend its management. In 1873 he was elected to serve on the Constitutional Convention. One of the oldest inhabitants of this section of the State, his memory is a perfect storehouse of interesting and valuable data concerning its history and development, and through- out his town and the environing region he is revered and Idistance, which they were not allowed to enter and share in
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the joyful proceedings. The next day they landed. Mr. Ilemann, who brought with him prominent credentials to Professor Beleke, paid a visit to him, when the professor advised him to go to Cincinnati, where he might complete his studies at the "Atbenaum," the Catholic seminary of the diocese-now the St. Xavier College, Having, how- ever, no further means, Mr. Hemann had to work a month on the canal, near Hagerstown, Maryland, to earn sufficient money to enable him to make the journey. After that period he joined an emigrant-train of large mountain. wagons, and in their company crossed the Alleghanies, and traveled on the National Road to Wheeling. Being the only one in the company who could speak the English lan- guige, Mr. Ilemann had to act as interpreter for the rest, and buy the provisions for them, for which he was held in high estimation by his companions. After a prolonged voyage, which to the young traveller was highly interesting, as he was enabled to study the romantic scenery and the people of the country through which they travelled, he landed safely in the port of the " Queen City of the West," on the 7th of October, 1837, buoyant with bright spirit, and a good, cheerful outlook for the future. Provided with letter, of credence which Professor Beleke had given him to Dr. Joshua Young, afterwards Bishop of Erie, then prefect at the Athenaeum, he was welcomed at the seminary, where he continued his studies till he followed a call of the Rev. Ferdinand Knehr (whose acquaintance he made at the Athensum), as teacher of the Catholic parochial school in Canton, Ohio, where he remained about a year and a half. Ile then returned to Cincinnati and took charge of the new German Catholic school in the upper portion of the city, which he opened in the large hall of the then " Rising-Sun" tavern, on the corner of Main and Thirteenth streets. This school became the nucleus of the second German Catholic congreg ation of Cincinnati, which in the next year founded the St. Mary's Church, at the corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets. In Cincinnati, at that time, the question of intro- ducing the German language as a regular branch of instruc- tion in the public schools was agitated with great vehemence, and after a severe struggle the Legislature of Ohio passed a law, making it the duty of the trustees of the common schools of Cincinnati to have that language taught in the schools under their care. Accordingly an examination for teachership was advertised, and among the several candi- dates that passed successfully, and received certificates, was also Mr. HIemann. The celebrated German traveller, Frederick Gerstæcker, made his examination .at the same time, and had it not been for his inherent impulse, which drove him from place to place, according to his motto, "Rast ich, so rosť' ich !" (If I rest, I will rust !), he might have lost himself in the school-room of a Cincinnati school, and the world would now be minus his numerous and valu- able writings. Mr. Ilemann shortly afterwards received his appointment, and accordingly began the organization of the first public German- English school in America-1840.
Differing, however, from the majority of the school trustees, who endeavored to squelch the efficiency of the whole sys- tem, he resigned in July, 1841, when the celebrated German- English school struggle ensued, which caused great como- tion in the then quiet annals of the city. The Germans withdrew their children from the public schools, and organ- ized schools of their own, and Mr. Hemann was appointed Principal. The differences between Mr. Ilemann and the Germans on the one part, and of the school-trustees on the other, were: the Germans insisted upon a system of com- parative education, whilst the board wanted separate in- structions. The Germans kept up their own schools until the next year, when they induced the majority of the trustees to modify their system, and adopt that of comparative tui- tion. Mr. Ilemann, however, quit the public schools, and went back again to the principalship of the St. Mary's school. Ilere he remained for five or six years, during which period he also kept an evening school, in which class several of the now most prominent citizens of Cincinnati, such as Uncle Joe Siefert, John II. Kochnken, and others, were then sitting to study their English. Ile then became tired of the schoolmaster's " baculus," and opened a dry- goods store on Main street, opposite Twelfth street, which, in 1848, he removed to the corner of Linn and Laurel strects. Ilere he made the acquaintance of a prominent literary gentleman, who animated Mr. Ilemann not to bury his talents in a dry-goods shelf, but to go into the literary pursuit, and while on a journey to his native country in the summer of 1850, subject to his instruction by letter, the Wahrheitsfreund, the first German Catholic newspaper in the United States, was purchased for him. Ile then hastened home and took the publishing of the paper in his own hand ; and on the 12th of October, 1850, he began the publication of the Cincinnati Daily Volksfreund, one of the principal German daily newspapers of the country. Originally neutral in politics, it afterwards, when the Demokratisches Tage- blatt, one of the organs of the Democratic party, ceased to exist, and when the Volksblatt went over to the Republican party, became the leading German Democratie paper of Ohio. Mr. Ilemann was, however, very conservative in his views, and when, in 1863, the waves of political agitation ran bigh, which towered in the nomination of Clement L. Vallandigham, then an exile in Canada, for governor of Ohio, he declined to advocate Vallandigham's election in his paper. This caused a spirit of opposition among his subscribers, which led Mr. Ilemann to dispose of his in- terest in the Volksfreund, and to retire from a long and eventful literary career, in which he had been prominently successful. Being yet in the prime of his life, he did not want to withdraw from business altogether, and therefore, in 1865, embarked in the life of a banker, in which he is at present still successfully engaged. Mr. Ilemann has also been very active in the fostering of charitable and educa- tional institutions in Cincinnati. In 1840, when German books were very scarce in this city, he was the first mover
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