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for the organization of a library society, the " Schul und ing, and sought after and obtained a position in the office Lese Verein," which was in successful operation for many years, and has laid the foundation for many of our best edu- cated citizens. The founding of the Catholic Institute, in which magnificent buikling-one of the chief ornaments of our city-is the " Grand Opera House," and the " Mozart Concert-Hall," was prominently the work of Mr. Ilemann. Ile was also one of the first projectors of the " German Pioneer Society," of this city, and the first man to urge the publication of the historic monthly magazine, the Deutsche Pionier, published by this society, of which he edited the first volume. Ile was married at Canton, Stark county, Ohio, on the 28th of January, 1839, to Ann Margaret, daughter of John B. Deville, who emigrated from Ilachy, Province Luxembourg, Belgium, 1831. Their happy union was blessed with eleven children-six sons and five daughters, and seventeen grandchildren, five of the children being married at the present time, January, 1876.
PROAT, COLONEL, EBENEZER, was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, in 1752; received a good education, including a knowledge of sur- veying, and, after service in the revolutionary war, was appointed Surveyor for Rhode Island, in the territory northwest of the Ohio. From the Indians he received the name of " Iletout," or " Big Buck- eye," in token of their admiration of his commanding figure. This is said to have given rise to the name " Buck- eye," as applied to natives of Ohio. By Governor St. Clair he was appointed first Sheriff of Washington county. Dur- ing the Indian troubles he was conspicuous in organizing militia. In later life he followed farming. Ile married Catherine, daughter of Commodore Abraham Whipple. Ile died very suddenly in February, 1805.
of the United States Marshal. There he rose to the posi- tion of Chief Deputy Marshal, and in that position he re- mamed until the year 1863. At that time he left the mar- shal's office, and entered the office of the Auditor of Hamilton county as a deputy. He left there in the follow- ing year, and went to California. In January of the following year he returned from the Pacific coast, and went to Philadelphia. He obtained a clerkship there, and con- tinued to fulfil its duties until 1867, and then he went again to Cincinnati. There he entered the office of the Clerk of the United States Court, and remained there until the 16th of April, 1874. At that time he was elected to the position of City Clerk, for a term of two years. In all the posi- tions he has held, he has devoted his entire energies to the proper performance of his duties, and has won his way thus far in life by the sheer force of his energy and faithful per- severance. Ile was married, on the 10th of May, 1859, to Mary B. Brinkmann, of Cincinnati, a woman of strong energy, who has, by her warm and judicious support of her husband's enterprises, aided in no small degree in his ad- vancement.
IESER, FREDERIC, Editor and Banker, was born in Wolfenbüttel, Brunswick, October 15th, 1817. Ile is the son of John Jacob Fieser and Augusta Fieser. Ile received his education at the Wolfen- büttel schools and Brunswick College, in his native place. Ilis mother dying when he was quite young, his home possessed no longer its former attrac- tions, and in 1836, while in his nineteenth year, he emi- grated to America, landing in Baltimore, Maryland. There he remained about one year, engaged during that time in the sale of pianos. In 1839 he moved to the West, and desiring to hold a situation where his natural talents and attainments would find a proper sphere for exercise and de- velopment, attached himself to the Ohio Eagle, a German newspaper, published in Lancaster, Ohio. In 18441 that journal was moved to Columbus, and in the following year, retiring from its editorship, he became editor of the Volks- blatt, a paper of great influence, published in Cincinnati. In September, 1843, in conjunction with Mr. Reinhard, he started in Columbus the Westbote, also a German paper, which has had a highly successful career. Independent in politics, the Westbote has succeeded, by its honesty of pur- pose, by the reliability of its varied information, and through the excellence of its matter, in securing a foremost place among the many journals of this section, and, as a profitable
O1.MER, RICHARD C., City Clerk of Cincinnati, was born in Philadelphia, on the 6th of April, 183S. Ile is of Swiss descent, his parents having been natives of Switzerland, who emigrated to this country, and settled in Philadelphia in the year 1832. Ile received his education in the public schools of Philadelphia, and in 1854 he left school and engaged as salesman and bookkeeper in a grocery store in that city. Two years later, in 1856, he removed from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, and there became salesman and investment of its kind during an extended period of time in bookkeeper in a leading boot and shoe house. Ile con- the State capital, stands confessedly alone. A paper that has enjoyed a prosperous career of thirty-two years testifies suf- ficiently, without the need of other testimony, to the business capacity of its conductor. In 1868 he became a member of the banking firm of Reinhard & Co. He has been so com- tinned in that position until June, 1857, when he gave up the quiet of the counting-house for the excitement of " rail- roading." The panie came, and Western railroad enter- prises felt it heavily. He thereupon gave up his new call-
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pletely engrossed in his journalistic labors that he has been able to give, comparatively speaking, but little time to the performance of public duties. For nine years, however, he has been a member of the City School Board, and for six years, from 1865, held by election its presidency. He is a stockholder in several of the manufacturing enterprises of Columbus, and, in various ways, is identified with the busi- ness interests of the city. He was married, June 25th, 1845, to Louisa Schode, a resident of Dayton, Ohio, who had emi- grated from Neuwied, Germany, to this country. Ilis present family consists of one son and one daughter.
AFT, IION. CHARLES PHELPS, Lawyer, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 21st, 1843. Ile attended the common schools in his native city, and also the Woodward 'High School. Ile then became a student in Vale College, and grad- uated from that institution in 1864. Subse- quently he attended the law school at Columbia College, whence he graduated in 1866. In the following May he was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, Ohio, and at once entered on the practice of his profession, in which he was engaged until October of the same year. Ile afterward pursued an additional course of studies at the University of Berlin, Prussia, and from this institution passed, in March, 1867, to the Heidelberg University, Germany, where, in the following December, he took the degree of J. U. D. After spending the ensuing year in Paris, France, he made the tour of Italy, and finally returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, in October, 1869. Ile was then successively associated in partnership, for the practice of law, with Murray C. Shoe- maker and Hon. Edward F. Noyes. In the fall of 1871 he was elected by the Republicans to the State Legislature for two years, and served as Chairman of the Committee on Common Schools. While acting with that body, he ren- dered valuable service in the codification and enactment of the existing system of the school laws of Ohio. In the fall of 1872 he was nominated to fill the vacancy in Congress caused by the resignation of Hon. Aaron F. Perry, but failed to secure an election. Ile had previously, in January, of the same year, formed a copartnership with his father, Ilon. Alphonso Taft, widely known as an eminent jurist, and since that date has remained an active member of the law-firm of A. Taft & Sons. IIe was one of the originators of the Zoological Garden of Cincinnati, and is now one of its directors. In March, 1875, he became one of the pro- prietors of The Cincinnati Volksblatt, a German newspaper of influence and merit. Fortunate in having secured not only a thorough elementary education, but also an excellent subsequent training at home and abroad, he has made a wise and profitable use of his abilities and attainments, and by rendering them subservient to his own welfare and the improvement of the community amid which he is a valued
member, has deservedly secured a high and honorable posi- tion in profession.d and in social circles as well. Fully awake to the importance of obtaining worthy men in office, he watches with keen interest the events of the hour, and denounces or supports in accordance with the knowledge and views which he brings to bear upon men and measures. Ile was married, December 4th, 1873, to Anna Sinton, daughter of David Sinton, an influential and honored citizen of Cincinnati, Ohio.
UTCHINS, ROBERT GROSVENOR, Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio, was born, April 25th, 1838, at West Killingly, Connecticut, descending from English and Scotch ancestry. His preliminary studies were pursued at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and at Williams College, while his professional course was divided between Union and Andover Theological Semina- ries. Ile commenced his ministerial labors at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, but after a little more than a year, assumed the pastorate of the Bedford Congregational Church, Brook- lyn, New York. Here he remained for seven years, and then (October 27th, 1872) entered upon the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, Ohio, the position which he still occupies. Mr. Hutchins has been very suc- cessful in his ministerial work, and has established his repu- tation as a learned and eloquent divine. Ile has won the love and affection of his congregation by his sincere regard for their spiritual as well as temporal welfare, and by his gifts as a pulpit orator. Few men in the clerical profession in Ohio stand higher in public estimation than does Rev. Mr. Ilutchins. Ile was married on November 27th, 1862, to Ilarriet P. James, of West Killingly, Connecticut.
ARROWS, REV. ELIJAII PORTER, Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in Oberlin Theological Seminary, Ohio, was born, January 5th, ISos, in Mansfield, Connecticut, his parents having been Nathan and Sophia (Ilanks) Bar- rows. Ile was prepared for a collegiate course of study in Baltimore, and entered Yale, from which he graduated in 1826. Upon leaving college he went to Ilart- ford, Connecticut, where he became Principal of the Hartford Grammar School, and in that capacity employed himself from 1826 10 1831. He was ordained to the ministry in June, 1832, and during the years 1835-6 was Pastor of the First Free Presbyterian Church of New York city. In 1837 he was elected to the Chair of Sacred Literature in the Western Reserve College, and filled this professorship until 1852. Ile became Professor of Ilebrew Language and Literature in Andover Theological Seminary in 1853, and remained as such until 1866. In 1872 he was chosen to fill
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the same professorship in Oberlin Theological Seminary, and in this capacity is still connected with that institution, Mr. Barrows takes rank among the emineut theological professors of the day, and is without a superior in the knowledge and interpretation of the Hebrew language. He is learned in all that relates to sacred geography, sacred literature and the antiquities of those lands which were the scenes of the events spoken of in the Old and New Testa- ments. In addition to being a graeefut writer upon theo- logical and historical subjects, he is an effective speaker, with the rare power of holding the attention of those whom he may be addressing. He completed the " Commentary " of the American Tract Society, New York, which, by the death of Dr. Justin Edwards, was left unfinished, and is the author of a " Companion to the Bible," a work on "Shered Geography and Antiquities," a " Memoir of Rev. Everton Judson," and some smaller works. He is one of the most influential and learned members of the faculty of Oberlin College, and has the affection of its students as he has the admiration and esteem of all who know him. Two of his sons served in the Union army during the recent rebellion, one remaining four years in the Army of the Poto- mae, and the other three years in the Army of the Cumber- land. He was married March 9th, 1829, to Sarah Maria Lee, of Hartford, Connecticut, by whom he had ten children, all but one surviving.
OGAN, THOMAS A., Attorney-at-Law, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 25th, 1829. His father was C. A. Logan, an actor who not only obtained great celebrity as a com- edian, but also acquired an enviable reputation in 6 Europe and America as an author and poet. Eliza Logan, sister of Thomas, was a tragedienne who was recognized in the United States as among the finest aetresses who ever appeared upon the stage. Ilis brother, C. A. Logan, is a physician who has much prominence as a writer upon medical and scientific subjects, and is at pres- ent the United States Mmister to Chili, South America. Hle has other sisters who have made themselves favorably known in literature. The family, therefore, has become celebrated, as a family, for its intellectual ability. Thomas A. Logan was intended by his parents for commercial pur- suits, but being called as a witness before the Hon. Thomas M. Key, Judge of the Commercial Court of Cineinnati, that gentleman was so struck by the clearness and logical pre- cision of the boy's evidence that he induced his parents to forego their resolution and to put him to the law. Aceord- ingly he was entered as the student of Hon. T. Walker, then the leading lawyer of Cincinnati. Mr. Logan was ad- mitted to the bar April 9th, 1851. Ile at once took a prominent position. In the next year he was elected As- sistant City Solicitor, and held the office two terms. Ile was then elected Prosecuting Attorney of the city, and upon
vaeating this position returned to private practice. In October, 1855, he was admitted to the local Federal Courts, and in aSos to the Supreme Court of the United States, In each tribunal hi, very marked ability and refined deport- ment won for him the admiration and esteem of bench and bar. Ilis practice is varied and extensive. As a great criminal lawyer he has achieved renown and suceess, not only in Ohio, but in most of the Western States. It is in this elass of cases that his astonishing power as a jury law- yer is best displayed. Ilis varied talents, broad learning, keen perceptions and seope of eloquence render him almost irresistible as an advocate; and there are but few causes celebré tried in the West wherein he is not retained. He devotes himself chiefly, however, to important civil ques- tions, the law of corporations and of insurance receiving his greatest attention. Mr. Logan was an early and per- sistent advocate of codification in Ohio, and sinee its adop- tion has been closely identified with all movements to secure thorough and lasting legal reforms. He is a Dem- oerat in politics, and in all strongly contested campaigns his services are invariably demanded by his party. His gifts of oratory make him as popular on the stump as he is effective in court, and prove him to be an invaluable ally. Ile has been offered the nomination of his party for Con- gress, or as one of the Judges of the Superior Court, but has declined any politieal preferment, believing that he has no right to abandon the important interests which his clients have committed to his eare. Being in the prime of life, in the front rank of American lawyers, known at home and abroad, and admired wherever known, his friends in- dulge the most exalted expectations of his future.
EEDS, LEARNER B., Editor, was born in Cler- mont county, Ohio, on the 20th of July, 1816, of mixed English and German aneestry. Like a very large proportion of our self-made men, he passed his early years on a farm and in the train- ing-school of poverty and hard work. Until he was nearly eighteen years of age he labored as a farmer's boy, and during those years his educational opportunities consisted for the most part of winter terms at the district school. From two to three months each year he was at liberty to go to school; and, in addition to that, he studied at night and at such times beside as he could be spared from the farm work. In the year 1834 all this enme to an end-farm work and attendance at the district school. In that year he was apprenticed to learn the printer's trade, serv- ing his apprenticeship under the late Governor Samuel Me- dary, who then published the Clermont Sun. During his ap. prenticeship he served as assistant editor of the Sun, and dur. ing a portion of the time did duty as sole editor. After having mastered his trade he went to Cincinnati, and there worked as compositor for a considerable time, being employed prin-
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cipally in the Gazette and Philanthropist offices. In the | were unpopular, but he had the " courage of his opinions," first-nanied office he worked for two years. Eventually he and advocated them fearlessly, often at the risk of both life and property, and by his manifest honesty won the respect even of those who most bitterly opposed him. He is one of the oldest " newspaper men " in the State of Ohio, and one who has given himself earnestly and unceasingly up to the duties of his profession. In the year 1838 he married Ilarriet Smith, by whom he had three children. In 1860 she died, and in 1864 he married for his second wife Miss Millspaugh. returned to Clermont, and in the mouth of November, 18.10, he purchased the Sun establishment, in Batavia. At the time of the purchase the fortunes of the establishment were at a very low ebb, but he, by his energy, enterprise, untiring industry and judiciously exercised ability, raised it into prominence and power in the county, and in doing so greatly benefited the Democratic party also, in behalf of which his paper was conducted. Ile continued to publish and edit the Sun, with the exception of an intermission of about two years, until 1864, when he sold the paper to II. V. Kerr, and in the month of April of that year he pur- ICKS, CAPTAIN A. W., Merchant, was born in Cherry Valley, Otsego county, New York, Sep- tember 14th, 1So3. Ilis father, Lucas Hicks, a native of Massachusetts, removed to New York in 1796 or thereabout, where he settled in the above-mentioned county, remaining there until his deccase, which occurred in 1847. Ile was engaged throughout his life in farming, and was also a manufacturer of potash. Until he lind reached his twenty-first year he remained with his father, receiving in the meantime his education at the schools of his native place. In 1825 he left his home, the possessor of seventeen dollars, and, with his gun and knapsack, travelled on foot fifty-two miles to Albany, New York, intending to take passage on a steam- boat to New York city. Arriving too late, however, for this boat, he engaged a berth on the sloop " Utica," run- ning from Albany to New York, at eight dollars per month, continuing thus occupied for about three months. Later, owing to the sickness of the captain, he was promoted to the supercargoship, at a salary of $100 per month. At the expiration of one month he went to Rhode Island, where he secured a position on a brig as second mate, and became successively mate and captain. In 1832 he connected him- self with the dry-goods business, as partner in the firm of Ilicks & White ; in 1835 he disposed of his interests therein, and then engaged in the manufacture of cotton wadding in New York, dealing also in cotton and domestic goods and manufacturing straw bonnets. That business he sold in 1836, and, having a quantity of straw goods left on hand, purchased as additional stock about $20,000 worth of other goods, and shipped them to Charleston, South Carolina, where he opened a store, which he placed in charge of an employé. Ile then went to Augusta, Georgia, where he opened another store; bought subsequently a fresh lot of goods, about $20,000 worth, and established still another store in Savannah, Georgia. Ile eventually disposed of all his interests at a fair profit and returned to New York, where, in 1837, he engaged with a firm to sell 1600 cases of goods in Cincinnati. Within eight months he fulfilled this engagement, and received for his services the sum of $1000. In 1838 he opened a store on Fourth street, Cin- cinnati, firm of Hicks & Robinson, and at the expiration of six months purchased his partner's interest, and there con- chased from John G. Doren the Irgus, of Georgetown, Brown county, and a year later changed the name of the paper to the Brown County News, and this paper he still continues to publish and to edit, and its influence has be- come steadily more and more marked, not only in its own immediate locality, but in a wider field than "county papers " usually reach. Politically, its editor, as has been stated, is a Democrat, and he is an active and earnest member of his party. Ilis ability and integrity have won practical recognition from his fellow-citizens, and repeat- edly he has been called upon to occupy one public position and another. Twice he was elected Recorder of Clermont County, serving six years in that position. Ile was time and again elected member of the School Board in Batavia, and was several times a Town Councilman in both Batavia and Georgetown. In 1869 he was elected a member of the Ohio State Senate, and in 1871 he was re-elected to that body. During his four years of service in the Senate he was absent from his post of duty only three and a half days, making the best record, for close attention to the business for which he was elected, of any man who ever served in either branch of the Ohio Legislature. Ile gained, by his zeal, uprightness and straightforward honesty, the respect and confidence of all in the Senate, and he seklom failed to carry any measure that he introduced or urged in that body. In debate he was not a wordy or rhetorical orator; he spoke to the point and to the purpose, and always with excellent effect. An carnest party man, he has always shown himself to be conscientious and tolerant also. Ile entertains positive views in both politics and religion, and has never been known to sacrifice principle for position, power or popularity. Ilis zeal for his party and his party friends is unbounded, and he has never spared either time, labor or expense in promoting their interests; indced few men have done more than he to further the cause of his party and his friends for the same pay; for, though during the past thirty years he has been frequently in public position and has held almost constantly the county patron- age of both Brown and Clermont counties, yet he has not grown rich through his opportunities, a fact which proves him to be a politician of some other school than that of to. day. Ilis opinions concerning the war of the rebellion
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tinued in business alone until 1841, when he removed to [ street. In 1862 he was engaged by the government to take Fifth street, and six months later sold his interests in the La steamboat and proceed to Fort Pillow, for the purpose of opening the blockade. In this venture he met with entire success. Ile was at the time the only steamboat man who could be found to undertake the service, and while en- gaged in it received a wound from a passing cannon ball, which partially paralyzed his right side and deprived him almost entirely of the use of his right arm. For his services on this occasion le was promised by the government, or its proper officers, the sum of $200,000, but owing to the death of the colonel then in command he failed to receive his pay. . The case has been before the Congress of the United States during the last two sessions, but, on account of various informalities, has not yet been decided. In 1863 he was employed by the goverment to rebuild the bridges destroyed by John Morgan while on his famous raid, and later secured a contract to furnish a large quantity of cord- wood for governmental use. He is now seventy-two years of age, and is free from any active business relations. Ile was married in Massachusetts, June 29th, 1831, to Rebecca F. Fisher, by whom he has had nine children ; of those but two are living at the present time, and they reside on the paternal possessions in Kansas, establishment. Hle afterward entered into a copartnership with A. Dewett, and purchased a large stock of boots and shoes in Boston. He then opened a wholesale house on Pearl street, Cincinnati, and in 1844, possessing at this time in his partnership relation two houses, the stock was divided and the partnership dissolved. He finally disposed of his entire interests in the business to his former partner, and in 1845 purchased a large tract of land in Kentucky, where he resided until 1847. Hle finally sold a portion of this property, rented the balance of it, and in 1850 sold his entire possessions to Abel D. Breed for the sum of $50,000. Procuring a fresh supply of goods he then moved to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and opened a store, which, at the end of six months, he sold at a good profit. In 1851 he returned to the East, secured a fresh stock of goods, and again de- parted for Fort Smith on the steamboat " Express." When at a point below Little Rock the boat struck a snag and sunk, but was ultimately raised and conducted to its des- tination, while his goods, which had been insured, were taken in charge by the underwriters and shipped to Fort Smith, where they were sold. On his return to Cincinnati he received the money due him from the insurance com- panies, and in 1853-54, in connection with Captain Samuel - Holden, he built a steamboat called the " Franklin Pierce," which for two years was run in the Arkansas, Mississippi GLEVEE, JOHN F., Lawyer, was born in llarri- son county, Ohio, May 10th, 1840. Ilis father was John Oglevee. His mother, Eliza Ann (Ilanna) Oglevce, was the daughter of John Hanna, Associate Judge of Harrison County. lle was educated at the Franklin College, Ohio, but left that institution in his senior year in order to join the Union army. August 6th, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company C, of the 98th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this body joined the Army of the Ohio, under Buell, in Kentucky. He was an active participant in the battles of Perryville and of Franklin, Tennessee, and at Chickamauga, where he was the color-bearer of the regi- ment during the action and was wounded in the shoulder by a ball. Ile was then sent home on furlough, and recommended for promotion for gallantry on the field. November 24th, 1863, he was commissioned Second-Lien- tenant of Company 1, and returned to his regiment, March Ist, 1864. lfe subsequently participated in Sherman's campaigns until the surrender at Greensboro'. In Septem- ber, 1864, he was promoted to a First-Lieutenancy and Adjutancy. After the grand review he was mustered out of the service, June 4th, 1865, and returned to his home. Later, he was engaged for three months in teaching mathe- matics at Franklin College. In the spring of 1866 he removed to Springfield, and there commenced the study of law under the instructions of General J. Warren Kiefer, and, December 3d, 1867, was admitted to the bar. January Ist, 1868, he formed a partnership with his former tutor, and Illinois rivers, in the cotton trade. On her last trip down the Mississippi she struck on a snag near Paducah, and in consequence of the damages resulting was placed on the docks at New Orleans. On the return to Cincinnati, in passing the Falls of the Ohio river, at Louisville, she picked up the disabled steamer " Niles," and, with two barges, towed her to New Albany, Indiana. The officers of the " Niles " then entered into a contract with the captain of the " Franklin Pierce " to take the two barges, which were laden with valuable cargoes, to New Orleans. After dis. charging the cargo of the " Franklin Pierce," she was re- conducted to New Albany, in order to tow the barges to the proposed point, but upon reaching this place they were not to be found. She was then put about at once for New Orleans, where the barges and cargo were attached, the owners giving bonds in the sum of $200,000. The subse- quent outbreak of the war, however, prevented the trial of the case involved, although eventually the sum of $14,000 was secured. On the return to Cincinnati the @ Franklin Pierce " was sold, and soon after it sank in the Black river, Arkansas. In 1857 he moved to Kansas and purchased an extensive tract of valuable land, which he still owns, and remained there until 1860, building in the meantime various houses and improving in many ways his property. Leaving his houses in possession of the tenants he then returned to Cincinnati and entered a wholesale house on Pearl street, where he remained until 1861, at which date he started what is known as the " Lawson Shoe store," on Fifth
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