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ACK, HENRY, Merchant, was born on the 23d of December, 1320, near Bamburg, Bavaria. The Bavarian common school system at that time was not very highly perfected, and his early educational advantages were therefore limited. When he was thirteen years oldl he obtained employment with the clerk of the eourt as eopyist, and proved so proficient in his new calling that he was retained in the position for three years. At the end of that time he was apprenticed to a confectioner, but remained only two years, as the judges ap- pointed to examine apprentiees declared him at the end of that period master of his trade. Soon afterwards he and his elder brother, Abraham, determined to seek their fortune in America, and, having obtained the consent of their parents, they left home on the 28th of July, 1839. Bamburg was 300 miles away, and that distance they accomplished on foot, and sailed from Hamburg on the 17th of Angust, and after a voyage of nearly seventy days landed safely in New York. They had hut little money left, and at once set about finding some employment. After a brief consideration, they determined on being independent business men. Therefore they purchased a stock of goods for fifteen dollars, and started through the country as peddlers. They continued in this business for a few months, and then, being in posses- sion of a capital of $180, they unwisely took another partner into the firm and thereby lost all that they had made. Hay- ing severed this unfortunate connection they started anew by themselves. They had good credit, happily, and procuring about $300 worth of goods, started for New London on the deck of a steamboat. They sold out their goods in about two weeks, at a handsome prolit, and ordered a new lot from New York, Business continued to flomish, and by the next
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Jewish faith, he earnestly and ably advocated the use of the ability through a period of many years, gave him a perfect insight to the needs of the school system of the State, which, by all judicious measures, he has undertaken to improve since las election as State Commissioner. His labor has met with the fullest acceptance on the part of the people at large, who have confidence in his thorough fitness to dis- charge the responsible trusts devolving upon him.
Bible in the public schools, and hisaddresses on this subject Were extensively copied and won high commendation. Ile has been interested in many of the public enterprises of C'in cinnati. The Public Library building was erected nuder hi, immediate supervision, and so also was the splendid temple on Plum and Eighth streets. During the war lus services were of the most active and antiring character. Hle was a member of the Military Committee of Hamilton county; was made Chairman of the committee, and, with the excep- tion of about six months, served in that capacity during the entire war. In 1864 the Governor, in consideration of his long and efficient services, commissioned him a- Colonel. He was married, in 1346, to Rosalie Mick ; nine children hwve been born to them, seven of whom are yet alive; one child died during the fatal cholera season already mentioned.
MART, CHARLES SELDEN, State Commissioner of Schools, was born in Charlestown, Virginia, February 24th, 1835, his father, who was of Eng- lish origin, being a native of New Hampshire, and by profession an architect, who moved to Ohio in 1810. His mother's father, Rev. William Caldwell, was cousin to the celebrated Robert Emmet, and in the rebellion of '98 he escaped from Ireland, his family having been proscribed by the English government. Ilis maternal grandmother was a descendant from Alexander Hamilton, ile was educated in the Ohio University, where he pursued a full course of study and graduated with honors. Ile read law with Hlon. John Welch, of the Ohio State Su- preme bench, and during his readings took a scientific and classical course at the university, from which in 1864 he received his degree of A. B. In 1867 the degree of A. M. was conferred in course. During his collegiate career he was selected by the Philomathean Literary Society, of which he was a member, to represent it in a literary contest, in which he distinguished himself. At the time of his graduation he was complimented upon his condition and skill by Governor Salmon P. Chase, afterwards Chief-Justice of the United States, who delivered the diplomas. Upon leaving college he entered upon teaching as a profession. He became promi- nent and successful as a tutor and Superintendent of schools. Ile was early identified with the Democratic party, and was a prominent candidate before the State Convention in 1872 for the nomination for State Commissioner of Schools. ITis nomination was claimed by his friends, but on his own mo-
. tion his competitor was declared the nomince. In the State Convention of the party in Angust, 1874, he was unanimously nominated on the first ballot for State Commis- sioner of Schools, and was elected by the people in the ensuing fall. The labors already performed by Mr. Smart show his eminent qualification for the duties of his important office. His own career as a teacher, conducted with marked
ARTIIOLOW, ROBERTS, Physician, was born, on the ISth of November, 1831, in Howard county, Maryland. He completed his education at Calvert College, in his native State, and from that institution he received the degree of Master of Arts. On leaving college he began the study of medicine, and in the year 1852 he graduated from the University of Maryland. Ile attended subsequent courses of lectures, however, in the years 1855 and 1856. In 1857 he entered the United States army by competitive examina- tion, passing first in his class. Ile remained in the army, in various capacities, until 1864, and then resigned. In the same year he was appointed to a professorship in the Medical College of Ohio. Ever since that time he has continued to hold a place in the faculty of that institution, having his residence at Cincinnati. He now holds the position of Pro- fessor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clin- ical Medicine, and is Dean of the Faculty. Ile is one of the physicians to the Good Samaritan Ilospital ; is a mem- ber of the American Medical Association ; of the Ohio State Medical Society ; of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and of the American Neurological Society. He is also a corresponding member of New York Society of Neurology and Electrology, etc. Ile is the author of a work on " Enlist- ing and Discharging Soldiers," which work is still the official authority on those subjects ; of a volume on " Hypodermic Medication; " both these works published by Lippincott. The Appletons have also recently published a treatise by him ou " Therapeutics."
IIITE, JOSEPHI W., ex-member of Congress, was born at Cambridge, Ohio, October 2d, 1822, his parents being natives of Pennsylvania, who at an early day removed to and located permanently in Ohio. His father, whose occupation was that of a tailor, held at different times the offices of constable and deputy sheriff. Ile attended the country schools until he reached the age of thirteen, when he was engaged in a dry-goods store for eighteen months. Ile then was a clerk. in the County Clerk's office at Columbus until 1838, when he returned to Cambridge and pursued for one year an academie course of study. In the fall of 1839 he went back to Columbus and was a clerk in the United States courts, and continued in that office until the summer of 1842.
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Returning to Cambridge, he began to read law with W. W. Tracy, and in 1844 was admitted to the bar. lle entered at once upon his professional labors, and in 1845 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Guernsey county. In 1847 he was honored by a re-election, and served in that office until IS.19. In 1862 he was elected to Congress from the Six- teenth Ohio District, defeating Hon. John A. Bingham. Ilis term expired in March, 1865, and since that time he has given his undivided care and attention to his profession. In Congress he participated in all the legislation that was before it during his term. Ile was married, on January 21st, 1846, to Nancy B. Sarchet, of Cambridge, Ohio.
ORGAN, MAJOR JAMES, Superintendent of the City Workhouse of Cincinnati, was born in Ire- land, at a place called Bandon, April 12th, 1835, and was the sixth child in a family of nine chil- dren whose parents were James Morgan and Catherine (Coun) Morgan. Ilis father, a native of Ireland, was engaged there in mercantile pursuits until he set out for America, where he landed, in New York, in 1846, bringing with him his entire family with the exception of James and one of his sisters. Ile then moved direct to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided constantly until his death in 1862. Ilis mother's decease occurred in the old country about three years previous to the departure of the family for the United States. In the fall of 1848 he also left his native country, and, landing in America, travelled at once to Cin- cinnati. Ilis early education was liberal, and while still quite young he was taught the advantages of industrious labor. While in his fifteenth year, he found employment with Jacob Ernst, at book-binding, in whose establishment he remained for about eighteen months. He then, in a three year,' apprenticeship, learned the trade of edge-tool making, under the guidance of John Fowler, and subse- quently worked at his trade rather irregularly for about five years. In 1859 he went to Pike's Peak, in search of gold, and there, during a stay of eleven months, was engaged in successful operations. Later, he removed to Denver City, and interested himself in the trading business, in connection with Asbury Gatch, of Clermont county, Ohio. After a sojourn in this place of five months or more, he returned to Cincinnati, and until 1861 worked at the marble business for Charles Rule. Ile afterward, as Sergeant of Company B, accompanied the 27th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer In- fantry to the field, and served with that body until the close of the war. Ile was an active participant in various cam- paigns in Missouri under Fremont ; served under Pope at interests, however, are not confined entirely to railroads and the taking of Island Number Ten ; under Halleck at Pitts. coal mines : he has held the office of Treasurer of the Franklin County Agricultural Society for ten years, from 1861, and subsequently was made its President. In 1874 he was elected a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and is now its Treasurer, and was also appointed a member burgh Landing ; under Rosecrans at Corinth ; took part in the various Tennessee engagements ; and marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, In August, 1861, he was made First Lieutenant of Company B, and in June,
1862, was appointed to the Captaincy of the same company. In November, 1864, he was promoted to the rank of Major of the 27th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. During the Savannah campaign he was the actual commander of the regiment, and was offered the coloneley by brevet, an honor which, however, he chose to decline. In 1865 he returned to Cincinnati, and was temporarily employed in the post- office, under Postmaster Myer. In 1866 he established him- self in business on his own account, as an edge-tool manu- facturer, on the corner of Eighth and Sycamore streets, where he remained during the following four years. Ile was residing at this time in the Eighth Ward, and for three consecutive terms was elected a member of the City Council. For two years also be acted as a member of the Board of Aldermen. In 1874 he was elected Superintendent of the City Workhouse, and in 1875 was re-elected to fill the same position. Ilis political views are of the most liberal char- acter, while he is religiously a believer in Protestant doc- trines. Ile was married to Caroline Kroell, the second daughter of Rev. Auguste Kroell, of Cincinnati.
UGHI, HION. JOHN M., Lawyer, Probate Judge of Franklin county, Ohio, was born in the said county, November 7th, 1823. Ilis parents, David Pugh and Jane ( Murphy) Pugh, followed agricultural pursuits. After receiving an elementary education in the common schools of his native county, hie engaged for a year in teaching, and in 1848 commenced the study of law in the office of Samuel Brush, of Column- bus. In 1851 he was admitted to the bar, and in the same year was elected Clerk for Montgomery township. In 1853 he was elected Auditor for Franklin county, and re-elected in 1855. After the expiration of his term of office as Au- ditor, he entered on the active practice of his profession in the city of Columbus. In 1863 he consented to stand for the office of Probate Judge, was elected, and has since been four times re-elected to the same honorable position, and will have served, when his time is out, in all fifteen succes- sive years. Ile has been prominently identified with many of the more important public improvements of central Ohio, is President of the Columbus & Mineral Valley Railroad, and also of the Hanging Rock Narrow-gauge Railroad, which will connect the capital directly with several of the manufacturing towns on the Ohio river. The former line, running into the best coal-fields of the State, will add greatly to the rapid development of Columbus as the most desirable manufacturing centre in the country. Ilis public ยท
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of the Centennial Commission for the Twelfth Congressional District of Ohio. In the Order of Old Fellows he is l'ast Grand. Ile was married, December 25th, 1851, to Mutha F. Cook, of Delaware county, Ohio, and by her has had right children. Seven of these are still living-four sons and three daughters. His chest son is cashier of the Citizen,' Savings Bank of Columbus; his second son will graduate from Princeton College, in the class of 1876.
EINHARD, JACOB, Banker and Editor, was born in Niedernberg on the Main, Bavaria, February 28th, 1815. He is the son of Michael Reinhard and Barbara Reinhard, who, with their family, left Bavaria in 1833, came to this country, and settled on a farm in Franklin county, Ohio, where the former is still living. He received his education princi- pally in Germany, but also attended school in Ohio, while assisting his father in the labor of the farm. He then applied himself for a few years to the study of law under the preceptorship of Congressinan Heman A. Moore, of Colum- bus. In 1839 he became Assistant Engineer on the National Road, under Dr. Thomas M. Drake and General Patterson. That appointment was held by him until 1843, when he started, with F. Fieser, the Westbote, the only German newspaper published in the State capital. This journal has had a remarkably successful career, and is favorably known throughout Columbus and all the Western States. In ISGS the firm of Reinhard, Fieser and Falken- bach established their banking.house, under the style of Reinhard & Co. That venture also met with great success from the outset. In the prosecution of private business, hc has not forgotten his duty to the publie. Since 1852 he has been a member of the City Council, for a period covering twenty years, and for five years officiated as President of this body. Ile is also Director of the Franklin Iron Company, and a stockholder in several other manufacturing enter. prises of Columbus, The integrity, energy, and business sagacity which he has displayed throughout his business and public career, have secured for him not wealth alone, but also the confidence and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. Ile was married, July 12th, 1841, to Catharine Haman, of Perry county, Ohio. His present family consists of four sons and two daughters.
LLEN, CHIARLES W., of Allen & Ellis, Tobacco Merchants and Manufacturers at Cincinnati and Chicago, was born at Holyoke, Massachusetts, September 29th, 1837. He springs from the old Puritan stock, and his grandfather was a captain in the war of 1812, and his father a manufacturer of cotton goods. He was educated at the academy in Con- way, Massachusetts, and in 1855 became a clerk in a dry-
goods store at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1857 he re- moved to Beloit, Wisconsin, where he was employed in the same capacity, and went thence to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1858, continuing in the same line, but his health liked shortly afterward, and he returned to Beloit, and associated with his father in the livery business, and in October of the same year married the eldest daughter of W. S. Hunn, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the well-known grocery man. In 1862 he removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he continued in the same line until he engaged in the tobacco trade in 1864. July Ist, 1870, he formed a copartnership with Almon D. Ellis, under the firm-name of Allen & Ellis, and engaged extensively in the manufacture of fine cut tobacco. Their works were entirely destroyed by the great fire of October, 1871, and they were thus left absolutely without the means of supplying their customers, but, nothing daunted, they looked immediately for the needed facilities to enable them to continue. Our subject removed imme- diately to Cincinnati, and set about the resumption of oper- ations with so much energy that, within ten days, another Factory was in full operation. Mr. Ellis, whose name ap- pears in the " Biographical Encyclopedia of Illinois," re- mains in charge of the Chicago branch. The Cincinnati works occupy the large five-storied building, Nos. 11, 13, 15 and 17 Vine street, within which all is activity, employ- ment being given to from 300 to 400 hands throughout the year. It is the most extensive fine-cut manufactory in the whole West, the firm having paid a government tax of over $400,000 during the year 1874, and during February, 1875, the shortest month of the year, paid tax on over 300,000 pounds of fine-cut tobacco. This marked pre-eminence in a city that pays three-fourths of the tobacco tax of the whole country, is a sufficient attestation of the energy and ability with which the operations are conducted.
'UNTINGTON, HENRY DWIGIIT, Retired Merchant of Cincinnati, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. Ile belongs to one of the old Puritan families, with a history dating back sev- eral hundred years, and having representatives in all branches of life. Ilis own father was Erastus Huntington, who was a graduate of Yale College, and a prominent manufacturer of Norwich. His mother was a daughter of General Joseph Williams, a leading merchant and prominent public man in Connecticut in the last century. In the year 1836 the subject of this sketch, having finished his school education in his native town, entered the queens- ware store of his brother at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1838 he became a principal in the business, in connection with Charles V. Wallack, afterwards Mayor of Washington City. In the following year Mr. Wallack retired, and Mr. Oliver A. Brooks entered the house, which then became Hunting- ton & Brooks. This house still exists, and is one of the
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oldest firms in Ohio in which the original members are yet mmagers. It has never met any reverses, In 1813, find. ing the field of their operations too small, they established a home in Cuicinnati, of which Mh. Huntington became man- ager, residing in that city. In 1845 they began the direct importation of glassware from Europe, a hazardous adven- ture at that time, but which was eminently successful. In 1854 he was elected President of the Young Men's Mer- cantile Library Association. In ISOS he was elected Di- rector of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company ; and he has been variously connected with schemes for advancing the interests of the city. Amid the cares and responsibilities of his active business career, he has found time to make several trips to Europe. Few men of his age enjoy better health, and seldom can a man be found at any age with a memory so extraordinary. Ile has at thnes reproduced on paper, from memory, whole lectures heard on the most abstrase subjects, and that in the most rapid manner. Ilis personal habits have been unexception- able. Ilis social and business reputations are praiseworthy, and he is a sincere Christian. He has been twice married ; first, in 1846, to the daughter of Rev. Samuel Johnston, the earliest rector of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church of Cincinnati, a lady of most attractive qualities, by whom he had two living children-Edward Hallam and Frank ; July 220, 1873, he was married to Mrs. Augusta M. Shumway, of Chicago, daughter of William S. Johnston, of Cincinnati. This lady is a cousin of his former wife, and is of great re- ligious and social worth. She has travelled over the greater part of the world. Among some noble charities she has built a fine church, at a cost of $30,000, at Faribault, Min- nesota.
EHRMANN, LOUIS F., Furniture Manufacturer and Dealer, and one of the most noteworthy self- made men of Cincinnati, was born in Germany in 1820. In 1837 he came to the United States and at once located in Cincinnati, where his father had preceded the rest of his family in the year 1834. In making the nip to Cincinnati over the country, Mr. Wehrmann walked from Baltimore to Wheeling. This event he remembers as no particular hardship to that which the boys of those days were required to submit. Now a trip to the Brighton, or any short distance in the city, must be made on the cars. Soon after arriving in Cincinnati, he obtained a situation, at $50 a year, with boarding included. At this rate he had contracted for five years, but his friends being dissatisfied with the treatment he received, in a few months he was induced to seek a better place. This he se- cured in a furniture and upholstering establishment, where he learned a trade, and remained five years. In the mean- time his father having started a bakery, he then went into that and served a regular apprenticeship. Afterwards work- ing a while in the furniture-house where he had learned his
trade, and having saved the greater part of the money he had earned, in 1847 he started the furniture business for himself, with a capital of a few hundred dollars, At the time of aniving in Cincinnati, he was permiless, and during the ten years of Labor from 1$37 to 1847, he had never made more than from one to seven dollars a week, yet he was able to start business on his own account, with a fine reputation and an almost unlimited credit. This he has continued unbroken to the present time, and now has one of the largest and most prosperous furniture establishments, chiefly retail, in the city. And in a noiseless way, for twenty years, doing a straight, legitimate business, he has become one of the solid men of the town. He married Catharine Nichter, who came to the United States during the same year in which he himself arrived. They have a family of seven children. One of his sons is now in business with him. Mr. Wehr- mann received bnt a rudimentary common school education in the old country, to which he has made from time to time such additions as he could throughout his business career here, and certainly most deservedly stands among the class of quiet, unassuming self-made men, who have not only gathered themselves competencies, but honorable reputations among their fellow-men.
OIINSON, ORANGE, Banker, was born in Mans- field, Connecticut, February 7th, 1790. Until the year 1807 he resided with his parents, assisting his father in the cultivation of his farm, and attending school during the winter seasons. In that year he was apprenticed to a comb-maker to learn the trade, and continued in this business in Mansfield, Souther- ington, Berlin, and Utica, New York, until 1814, when he started for Ohio, making the journey on horseback, and meeting his expenses by the sale of combs. On August 11th, ISI4, he arrived at Worthington, Ohio, and established the comb business in that place, on a capital of $16.50, the ag- gregate of all the money he possessed. His first customer, Robert Neil, of the firm of William & Robert Neil, mer- chants, of Urbana, made a wholesale purchase amounting to $10.50. In order to pack his goods in a merchantable manner, and to show them off to the best advantage, he needed paper and twine, but a thorough search of the town failed in finding them. He secured the services of " Mother Fairfield " to spin the twine, and in the morning, with this, and with paper which, during the night, he had accidentally discovered, he was enabled to present Mr. Neil with his wholesale purchases in pro forma condition. The business thus commenced grew rapidly and prosperously. In 1827 he was appointed Commissioner to open a turnpike road to San- dusky, and he was occupied in this labor about ten years. During this period he was engaged in farming and in deal- ing in real estate, his ventures being judiciously made. Ile was also appointed, with two other gentlemen, to make the first survey for a railroad to Xenia, and in all the publie ser,
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