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Arkansas, he has been leading a quiet life at his residence, j in the same place. At the expiration of four years he opened No. 483 West Seventh street, Cincinnati. Although he is a dry-goods store in Cincinnati, remained there less than a year, and returned to Montgomery, where, until 1846, he was engaged in general mercantile pursuits. In the fall of 18.16 he moved to Lackland; and there confined his atten- tion to merchandising until 1861, when he bought. an interest in the Cincinnati & Xenia Turnpike Company, and was elected its Secretary and Treasurer. He has since devoted his time chiefly to the advancement of this public enterprise, to the settling of estates and to the insurance business. In 1839 Mr. Brown was elected Treasurer of Sycamore township, which position he held for fifteen years, In 1875 he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Ohio Legislature. Mr. Brown's sterling worth and energy have won him the respect of the community. Socially he is an affable and pleasing gentleman. October Ist, 1840, he married Margaret A. Weaver, a native of Rockingham, Virginia. in the eighty ninth year of his age, h.s constitution is more Jobnst, his step ligler, and his laculties in general less im- paired than the majority of those who have reached so great an age. Ile is well known to all the ofdl enizeny of C'in. cinnati, and his knowledge concerning the early days and subsequent progress of his adopted city is full and precise. When he first arrived, sixty four years ago, the population was only in the hundreds ; he has witnessed its growth to the hundred thousands. At that time the greater portion of the present city was in fields, and Main street was opened only a little above the canal. Then, the banks of the river were nothing but bold bluffs, and the only means by which passengers could land from boats and pass up to Main street was by a plank gangway, built by some enterprising individuals engaged in the fluitboat trade. This gangway was near the old nine-story steam mill on the bank of the river a short distance above the present line of Broadway. He also remembers that beyond Main street to the eastward of the site of the old Lytle mansion, but two houses had been built ; one of these was at the corner of Sycamore and Fourth sheets, and the other at a short distance beyond. As already remarked, he retains an amount of vigor and good health wonderful in so aged a man, and he is now enjoying the competence which he has acquired through a long and careful husbanding of hard-earned labor. The venerable few that connect us with the past are passing away rapidly ; but few of the original pioneers remain, He was married, August, 1812, to Nancy Horton, a native of Westchester county, New York, and is the father of thirteen children, of whom six are yet living.
ROWN, LLOYD SMETHURST, Retired Mer- chant and Capitalist, was born, October 24th, IS12, in Canandaigua, New York. Ile is the second of five children of John Oliver Brown and Elizabeth Smethurst. His father was a shoe- maker. At an early due the family settled in Columbia, Hamilton county, Ohio. After remaining here for a while they removed to New America (now Cairo), Illinois, From New America they went to Veray, Indiana, and thence to Evansville, in the same State, where the father died in 1819 and the mother in 1822. Left an orphan at an early age, the subject of this sketch went to live with his uncle, Lloyd Smethurst, near Montgomery, Hamilton county, Ohio. At the end of two years he went to learn tinsmith- ing, at Montgomery. His early education having been meagre, he devoted his leisure hours to study, strengthening his mind and storing it with knowledge that stood him in good stead in after years. After two years spent at his trade he entered a store in Montgomery, remained there until October of 1840, and then embarked in business for himself
USTON, JAMES, JR., Farmer and Teacher, was born, November 20th, 1819, in Cumberland county, near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of the twelve children of Paul and Mary (Carruthers) Inston. His father, a native of the north of Ireland, accompanied his parents to America when he was about four years of age. The family settled near Coulisle, Pennsylvania, where Paul Huston grew to manhood, and married Mary Carruthers, a native of Cumberland county, though of Irish descent. In 1823 the couple removed to Hamilton county, Ohio, with their family. They lived there for about seven years, and then removed to Logan county, Chio. There the father, who was a farmer, continued to reside engaged in agricultural pursuits until hi, death, and there, too, the mother died. When the family removed to Ohio, James Huston was four years of age. Ilis education was received in the common schools of the frontier settlements of that day. His training at school was supplemented by a still better training at home, where habits of industry, temperance, and morality were formed, which constituted the foundation of his future career. In the year 1837 he removed to Hamilton county, Ohio, and found work on a farm there. Notwithstanding his limited education, he possessed keen and well-cultivated powers of observation, and these powers he had used to good effect. He was, withal, an industrious and intelligent reader, so that he was really better educated than many a youth who had possessed far greater opportunities for school attendance. In. 1838, when he was nineteen years old, he began to teach school in Warren county, near Masou, and continued teaching there for about a year. In 1840 hie went to New Orleans. He had visited the city several times before, both by steamer and flatboat, but after each of these trips he had returned directly to Ohio. On this occasion, after remaining in New Orleans about a week, he went to
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Tennessee and remained near Lebanon, in that State, for about six months teaching. In the summer of 1841 he re- turned to Hamilton county, Ohio, and resumed his work of teaching there. He continued teaching and prosecuting his literary studies until the year 1850. In that year, being infected with the gold fever, he went to California via Panama, the trip occupying over four months. He remained in California about two years, engaged in mining during that time, and in 1852 returned by steamer, coming back by way of Panama and New York. Returning to Hamilton county, he resumed his old work of teaching, and continued en- gaged in that business and the business of farming until the breaking ont of the war of the rebellion, when he entered the army as Captain of Company I, 138th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His political record is that of a liberal Democrat. In 1861 he was elected a member of the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1863. During his second term he was Chairmin of the Committee on Schools and School Lands. In iSzo he was appointed Assistant in the County Treasurer's office. Since 1865 he has devoted him- self mainly to farming in Sycamore township, Hamilton county. Ile has for years past been a member in high stand- ing of the Masonic fraternity, and is closely identified with the order of the Patrons of Husbandry. He was brought up in the Presbyterian Church, but, though of religions tem- perament and convictions, his views are not circumscribed by the creed of any particular church. He has an abiding faith in practical religion, believing that we are on the verge of a change when its vast importance to man in this life, and its benign influence on his actions here rather than his con- dition hereafter will be justly appreciated. Socially he is pleasant and affable, a man of much popularity among all as- sociated with him. Possessing quick and generous impulses, he is yet characterized by a mathematical mind, basing con- clusions on strictly logical premises. He was married, July 34, 1844, to Rebecca Voorhees, a native of Hamilton county, and daughter of Samuel Voorhees, one of the earliest and best settlers of the region.
ARES, SEBASTIAN, Merchant, was born in Ba- varia in 1825. At the age of six, according to the requirements of the strict compulsory school laws of Germany, he started to school, remaining until the age of ten, when his whole family sailed for America. In 1835 they arrived in Auglaize county, Ohio, his brother having preceded them one year and decided on this location for the family. Here the sub- jest of this sketch remained and worked on the farm two years with his father. Leaving home at the carly age of twelve, young Fares began life for himself as a messenger and supply boy to men working on the Mini canal. On different parts of this canal he worked in various capacities for seven years. At the age of nineteen, in 1843, he came to Cincinnati, where in a few months he commenced his
career as a stove dealer, in the house of William E. Childs, on Fifth street. After five and a half years spent with Childs, he found it to his advantage to enter the house of French, Strong & Feine, remaming as a clerk in this house seven years, at the end of which time, there aheady having been several changes in the fim, he, with Mr. Miller, bought out the establishment, which then became the house of Fares & Miller. Now Mr. Fisher is a member of the partnership. Since the time of entering the store of Mr. Childs in 1843 Mr. Fares has been in the stove business thirty-two years. During this lifetime in business he has never left Fifth street, and has been continually prosperous. Some years the busi- ness of his house has run as high as $150,000-in fact he has done the largest retail stove trade of the city. There are represented in his vast variety of stoves, ranges and fur- niture more first-class Eastern manufactories than all other retail establishments in the city. On a great deal of this valuable collection he has received yearly first premiums at the Cincinnati Exposition. Although he has been too busy to dabble in politics, yet during the great rebellion he was not behind scores of busy men who were always ready to lend a helping hand to the cause of the nation. While not one of the wealthiest men of Cincinnati, still he has gathered a competency, and enough to put him beyond the chances of the future. He is a Congregationalist in his religious affiliations and a Christian tradesman, who believes that honorable dealing with his fellow-men is the only road to permanent success. In 1856 he was married to Alma C. Bacon, of Vermont.
EED, WILLIAM P., Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, was born, February 14th, 1839, in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, and is the son of John and B. (Andrews) Reed. lle is of Welsh de- scent, the family having emigrated to America at an early day and were numbered among the Puri- tans of Massachusetts colony. His educational advantages were mengre in the extreme, for he was taken from school at the early age of ten years and sent to a boot and shoe factory to learn the business and earn a livelihood. In his thirteenth year he was engaged by E. A. Goodenow, the well known and successful manufacturer of Worcester, and remained with him about three years. He then removed to the West, and was employed in a shoe store in Rockford, Illinois, until 1856, when he proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, and effected an engagement with Mr. Kimball as a clerk in his store. Twenty years ago he entered that city penniless, but possessing a good knowledge of his business, indomit- able perseverance and untiring industry. These qualities soon showed themselves, and have led him on to fortune. In about three years after his arrival in the capital city of Ohio he had obtained a one-third interest in the store. The retail business failing to give sufficient scope to his enter- prise, he associated himself with Mr. Jones in 1864, and com-
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menced the manufacture of boots and shoes, thus establish- | dence. During the last ten years he has been engaged ing the first factory of the kind in Columbus, The capital invested at the outset was fiteen thousand dollars, Under good management the concern has so prospered that the sales during the past year, although a year of financial de- pression, reached the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, and the profits of the firm for the past eight years amount to over a quarter million dollars. At present there are from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five persons em- ployed in the factory, of whom about one-third are women. Ile was married in 1869 to Grace Kimball, daughter of his first employer and partner, and is the father of two children.
EANS, THOMAS W., Iron Manufacturer, was born in Spartansburg, South Carolina, November 23d, ISa3, being the third child in a family of sis, whose parents were John and Anna ( Williamson) Means, The father, a native of Union county, South Carolina, was chiefly engaged in agricul- tural pursuits. In 1819 he moved to Ohio, settling in Adams county, near Manchester, where he resided until his death. Ile won distinction, and in some cases great hos- tility, through his strong anti-slavery views, and upon re- moval to Ohio took with him his slaves and there set them at hberty. He was a member of the Legislature in South Carolina, and also in Ohio, and was Colonel of militia in his native State. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction, of the Presbyterian faith, and was brother to four patriots who were active participants in the struggles of the revolutionary con- flict. The mother, a native of North Carolina, was of Eng- lish extraction, and of a family distantly connected with Sir Isaac Newton. The subject of this sketch became in his tenth year a student in a select educational establishment located near his home, where he remained only six years, but through diligence in study he acquired in this short time not only a knowledge of the various ordinary branches taught at that period, but also a considerable acquaintance with the classics. He spent his first two years in Ohio upon his father's farm, and in 1821 entered a store in West Union, Adams county, where he remained until 1830, excepting two years spent in merchandising at Union Furnace. Dur. ing this period Mr. Means m dde numerous trips to the East, as was the custom with merchants of the time, in order to procure and personally forward their merchandise, and his nurratives of those early travels are full of interest and in- struction, forming no little put of his vast and entertaining store of anecdotes. Ile returned to Lawrence county in i83o and became Assistant Manager of Uuion Furnace, where he resided murit 1833, and then moved to Union Luding. Here he may be said to have spent the prime of life, devoting himself diligently to his favorite pursuit, the manufacture of iron. In 1866 he purchased a farm near Hanging Rock, Lawrence county, since his place of resi-
mainly in the iron interests of the Hanging Rock iron re- gion as a very large and influential stockholder. He now owns large interests in the Buena Vista, Bellefonte, Pine Grove and Ohio Furnaces, and in the Norton Iron Works, of Ashland, Kentucky. He is also the holder of extensive properties and of bank stock in Ashland, and is the President of the Second National Bank of Ironton, Ohio. His political creed finds expression in the doctrines of the Republican party, and his initial vote at a Presidential election was cast in favor of John Quincy Adams. In religion he is a Con- gregationalist. Ilis present fortune is the result, not of lucky turnings and accidents, or precarious investment of specula- tion, but of careful and far-seeing legitimate business opera- tions, based upon economy, integrity and industry. Now in the calm sunset of a successful life, surrounded by hosts of loving and revering friends and kindred, he may conjure up fearlessly the records of his many years, and leave them to his survivors as an honorable, as a valuable legacy. He was married, December 4th, 1828, to Sarah Ellison, a native of Adams county, Ohio, daughter of John Ellison, an early settler of Manchester, Adams county; she died in April, 1871, having given issue of nine children,
AZEN, GENERAL WILLIAM BABCOCK, was born at West Hartford, Windsor county, Vermont, September 27th, 1830. His parents were Still- man and Ferone ( Fenno) Ilazen. Their ances- tors were from Connecticut, and members of the Ilazen family, serving with distinction in the war of the Revolution. Stillman, Hazen removed to Huron, Portage county, Ohio, in 1833. Of his family of three sons and three daughters, William B. was next to the youngest. After receiving a good common school education, he was made a cadet at West Point, entering there about the time he came of age. After he was graduated, in June, 1855, he was made a Brevet Second Lieutenant in the 4th Infantry, and sailed in September to join his regiment, at Fort Read- ing, on the Pacific coast. Ile served throughout the Indian troubles in Oregon, and in 1856 built Fort Yamhill. Being promoted to a Second Lieutenancy in the 8th Infantry, he proceeded to Texas in the fall of 1856 to join his regiment at Fort Davis. During the Indian troubles in western Texas and New Mexico he served with great credit, and was several times complimented in general orders. In the fall of 1859, while in a hand-to-hand encounter with a Camanche brave, he received severe gunshot wounds. After this, and while convalescent, citizens of Texas presented him with a sword for services rendered on the frontier. Early in 1860 he left Texas, and the same year was brevetted a First Lientenant for gallant conduct in that department, and in the following spring was promoted to a full Lientenancy. When he had sufficiently recovered from his wounds to go on duty, he was
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made Assistant Professor of Infantry Tactics at West Point. In September, 1861, after repeatedly requesting to be sent imo active service, he was given leave of absence with anthority to take command of the ist Ohio Infantry. After being stationed for a few weeks at Gallipolis, be reported to General Bnell at Louisville, and on the 6th of January, 1362, was appointed to command the 19th Brigade, Army of the Ohio. In the succeeding April he took part in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, and in a charge at the head of his troops captured two batteries and a large number of prisoners. He moved with the army to the siege of Corinth, and afterward served in northern Alabama until ordered to take command of the post at Murfreesboro', Ilis brigade m ude a determined stand in the battle at this point, and for this and other soldierly qualities, its commander was made a Brigadier-General. During 1863 he was very active in the military district, and at Chickamauga was in the hottest put of the battle, his being the last organized command to leave the field. Ili brigade was engaged in several suc- cessful military operations after this, and his personal cour- age was conspicuous on many occasions, In Angust, 1864, he was transferred to the Army of the Tennessee, and placed in command of the 2d Division of the 15th Army Corps. He commanded this division in the " march to the sea," and was detailed by Sherman to storm Font McAllister, near Savannah. This he accomplished successfully, eap- turing the garrison, ordnance, and everything connected with its armament, In January, 1865, he was sent with his division to South Carolina, and participated in several en. gagements in that campaign. For bravery displayed in the capture of Fort McAllister, he was created a Major-General, and soon after appointed to command the 15th Army Corps. Since the war he has been in continued service, and in the army holds the rank of Colonel and Brevet Brigadier. General.
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JLTE, JOSEPH HYPPOLYTE, M. D, was born in Meschede, Westphilia, October 6th, ISI1. Ilis father, Hermann Joseph Pulte, M. D., was the Medical Director of one of the government institu- tions for the education of midwives, and as these had to be organized all over the newly acquired provinees, he was especially deputed for that service, besides presiding over those confided to his care. Ile was a man of great strength of character, and left a noble example, which his son labored to imitate. After he had completed his classical course at the Gymnasium of Soest, and his medical studies at the University of Marburg, he accepted an invitation from his oldest brother to accompany him to America, Eagerly embracing the opportunity thus opened to him, he sailed for the United States in the spring of 1834. Landing at New York, he started for St. Louis to meet his brother who had preceded him, and passing through Penn- sylvania, was induced by a personal friend to remain at Cher.
ryville, Northampton county. Here he formed the acquaint- ance of Dr. William Wesselhaft, who, at that time, resided a few miles distant. From him he learned of the system of Hahnemann, and its wonderful snecess, and on his sugges. tion was led to test its merits by actual experiments, The results were so remarkable that he warmly embraced the new system, and became enthusiastie in his devotion to it. lle gave to its study the whole of his energy, and shrank from no hardship or expense necessary to complete aequaint- ance with it. At that time the labor of attaining a thorough knowledge of homeopathy was very great. There were no books upon the subject to be had. Text-books and reper- tories were not known, A large part of the facts and practical knowledge existed only in mannseripts sent from Europe, and- here extensively copied and circulated ; these he thoroughly studied. It was by these means that the first attempt at a more systematic and fixed treatment of Asiatie cholera was transmitted to the Northampton County Society of Homeopathie Physicians, and piously studied and rever- entially copied by its members. Slow and tedious as was this process, it proved effective in keeping alive the zeal of the adherents of the system, and probably made a deeper impression upon their minds. Knowledge thus acquired was not easily forgotten. Dr. Pulte soon joined the band of homeopathists who had formed the society in Northamp- ton county-the first one of the kind in this country. It registered among its members some of the most eminent practitioners whom the State has ever known, and many clergymen who gave the influence of their position and cul- ture to the advancement of the cause. The most valuable accession to the society was Dr. C. Ilering, who had taken up his residence in Allentown to preside over the academy which had been formed by the little band of homeopathists. Dr. Pulte recognized in Dr. Hering a man of power and of admirable administrative abilities, and submitted gladly to the moulding influence of his genius. Having assisted to organize the academy, he now gave his best energies to sus- tain its reputation, and advance its prosperity. After six years of increasing activity, and on the dissolution of the academy, he went to Cincinnati in 1840, on his way to meet his brother in St. Louis .. Hle travelled in company with an intelligent Englishman, Mr. Edward Giles, who, converted to the theory of homeopathy, needed practical proof if it could be had. On the steamer he met with the lady who was destined to be his wife, and to whom he was married in 1840. Remaining in Cincinnati long enough to give Mr. Giles an opportunity of witnessing cures by homoeopathy, he opened a private dispensary, where soon the sick chil- dren of the poorer classes gathered for relief. It was sum- mer, and the usual complaints of the season were prevalent. Mr. Giles was witness to the marvellous cures performed, and yielded to the force of the evidence thus furnished. The news of his success soon spread over the city, and rich and poor applied to him for help; and, in less than six weeks from the time of his arrival, he was in full practice,
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and obliged to relinquish his contemplated visit to St. Louis. In 1846 he published a work on history, entitled " Organon of the History of the World." This volume, altogether original in its mode of dealing with its subject, gained for him the esteem and friendship of such men as Humboldt, Guizot, Schelling, Bunsen, Lepsius, and W. C. Bryant, In 1848, having originated a plan for carrying the electric telegraph around the world, via Behring's Straits, or the Aleutian Islands, to Asia, and thence to Europe, he visited Europe to submit his well-matured plans to the governments immediately interested. Ilis efforts were not successful; but the same project, with the same detailed data, is now carried into effect. He returned to America promptly, as the Asiatic cholera was making rapid strides toward this continent. During the prevalence of this fearful scourge in 1846, he had the satisfaction of seeing the homeopathic tre itment triumphant over all others. It was by his exer- tions and counsel that a uniform prophylactic and curative system was recommended to the Homeopathie Society, and generally adopted by the people. After this memorable encounter with the most terrible scourge of the workl, he had the gratification of seeing homeopathy firmly estab- lished in the West and South, and receiving to its fold large numbers of the ablest allopathic practitioners, In 1850 he published his " Domestic Practice," a work that, entirely original in its arrangement, has rendered, by its immense popularity, many works on the subject unnecessary to the present time. Reprinted in London, it has passed through several editions; and, translated into Spanish, has become the received authority in Spain, Cuba, and the South Ameri- can republics. In 1852, in connection with Dr. II. P. Gatchell, he commenced the publication of the American Magazine of Homeopathy and Ilydropathy. It continned two years as a monthly ; in the third as a quarterly, under Dr. C. D. Williams, and was then discontinued. During this time, Dr. Pulte filled with great acceptance the chair of Clinical Medicine in the Homeopathic College in Cleve- land, and afterwards that of Obstetrics. While lecturing on this latter subject, he prepared for general use a work on the diseases of women, entitled " The Woman's Medical Guide." It appeared in t'incinnati in 1853. This little work gained a very rapid popularity in this country and in England, and was translated into Spanish in Havana, where it has an extended circulation. When diphtheria appeared as . an epidemic, he embodied in a monograph his views, with the results of his experience, and his mode of treat- ment. It was widely spread throughout the West. In 1355, the centennary of Hahnemann's birth, he delivered the address before the American Institute of Homeopathy in Buffalo, New York. Full of years and of honors, Dr. Pulte has made the most valuable contribution to the canse of homoeopathy in the endowment of the college which bears his name. It was opened in Cincinnati, September 27th, 1372, and is one of the most valuable schools for the advancement of homoeopathy.
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