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charge of the works in Newburg, including steel works, blast furnaces and rolling mills. Ile has two danghters, Kath- arine and Jeannette.
OTZE, ADOLPHUS, Manufacturer, was born in the town of Muenden, in the late kingdom of Hanover, August 11th, 1812. Ilis parents were respectable Germans of the middle class and the proprietors of an inn. It was during the invasion of the French under the first Napoleon, and while the invaders were quartered in the town, and some of them in his parents' inn, that Adolphus was born. The name " Lotze " is German for " pilot," and its representative in Cincinnati has faithfully maintained its significance. At the age of nine he lost his father, but his surviving parent gave him a good education. He attended school until his fourteenth year, and then became an apprentice to a tin- smith in his native town. In this capacity he served four years. Not caring to seek his fortune in a country already overcrowded with skilled labor, and more especially having an aversion to the life of a tramping journeyman, he re- solved to emigrate to America. He embarked at Bremen, October 18th, 1830, and arrived at Baltimore in the De- cember following. After working at his trade for a short time he turned his attention to the solving of the scientific problem of heat and ventilation. From Baltimore he made his way to Philadelphia, and thence to Newark, New York and Boston, in all which places he applied himself to the study of heat and ventilation through the agency of warm- air furnaces. The vigorous prosecution of his experiments was destined to make him a prosperous merchant and a benefactor of humanity. In the spring of 1838 he took up his residence in Cincinnati, and in the year following he founded his present large and important manufacturing in- dustry. He was the inventor and maker of the first warm- air furnace manufactured in the Western States. This furnace was built in the old residence of the IIon. D. K. Este, at Ninth and Main streets; in 1840. So well was Judge Este pleased with it that he ordered one of the same pattern for his new and more palatial residence, twenty years later. In 1853 the inventor visited Europe, including his birth-place, but spent most of his time in examining and investigating the methods of heat and ventilation in vogue there, as well as the various kinds of stoves, cooking- ranges, etc., used. On his return he added to his business the manufacture of cooking-ranges, and with a success that far exceeded his expectations. Two years previous to this he had erected his first business honse at No. 217 Walnut street, and this he was compelled from time to time to en- large, until it now has a frontage of 33 feet on Walnut street and a depth of 200 feet to Lodge street. Up to 1874 the firm-name was A. Lotze & Co., but at this date it was changed to A. Lotze & Sons, although the founder was the only member of the firm. In May, IS75, he asso-
ciated his two eldest sons in the business, each equally sharing with himself. Having for two years been a sufferer from a most terrible and insidious disease, he again visited Europe in the summer of 1875, in the hope of being able to effect a cure. His disease, known as progressive mus- cular atrophy, has to this day baffled the skitl of the most eminent physicians and defied the curative properties of the baths and mineral springs of Europe and America. Al- though a confirmed invalid, his mind is unimpaired, and he is never troubled with low spirits. His visit to Europe was not followed by the least benefit, and he returned to the bosom of his family after seven months' absence. ITis af- fliction, though weakening him day by day, is nevertheless painless. But its silent ravages have unfitted him for the activities of life, and his condition is such that he never leaves his home, where he is surrounded by a large and affectionate family. In February, 1840, he was married to Magdalene Bering, a descendant of a noble family of Rhenish Bavaria, and five sons and five daughters are the fruits of this union. Nine of these survive. Several are married. IIis third son, C. M. Lotze, is an attorney-at-law in Cincinnati. Three sons have charge of the business, the youngest having succeeded the founder. The business is a very prosperous one, and will ever reflect credit upon the originator. For nearly forty years he devoted himself to the study of the science of heat and ventilation, and he ranks with the greatest men of his class in the world. He succeeded beyond expectation in a city where many others had lamentably failed, and the reputation of his manufac- tures extends over the whole Western country. IIe has given character to his business and made Cincinnati a centre for the manufacture of heating and cooking ap- paratus.
EMPEL, FERDINAND FREDERIC, of Logan, Ilocking county, Ohio, Merchant, Banker and Real Estate Operator, was born in Bielefeld, Westphalia, Prussia, June 20th, 1824, and is the youngest son of Hieronymus F. Rempel. Ile comes of a family whose members have held many important positions in their native country. ITis father founded the College of Bielefeld, Prussia, and acted as a professor in and superintendent of this institution until the time of his death; he was widely known, and highly esteemed for his learning and intelligence. IIis oldest brother, Frederic Rempel, was a professor at the college in IIam, while another brother, Rudolph Rempel, attained distinction as a politician, and was engaged extensively in manufacturing pursuits in the city of Bielefeld, Prussia. The laboring classes of that city, in acknowledgment of his great and zealous interest in their welfare, cansed the erection of a splendid memorial monument in the garden of the Concordia Society. He came to this country with his sister and brother- in law, G. Sporleder, in 1834, and settled with them, near
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Lancaster, Ohio, on a farm now occupied by Hon. J. T. Bra- see. Ilere he was subsequently engaged for a time, in the interest of G. Sporleder, in a laboratory. Ilis knowledge of English study and the English language was acquired primarily under the instructions of Captain August Witte, a prominent foreigner of excellent attainments. Through subsequent sedulous application he rapidly mastered the difficulties of the new tongue, and at the present time con- verses fluently in the English language. Ile remained with his brother-in-law until 1838, when he removed to Colum- bus, Ohio, in company with a distinguished German family whose head was Baron Von Raschkauw, holding the po- sitions of English tutor to the children and assistant to the father. At the expiration of a brief period he relinquished his connection with the family and returned to Lancaster, Ohio, where he found employment as a clerk in a whole- sale grocery store owned by F. 1. Boving, there remaining for one year, when he was appointed to take charge of a branch store in Logan, Ohio. In 1843 he became, by purchase, the proprietor of this branch, and since then has successfully conducted it as a general merchandise store. Since 1840 he has been intimately identified as a merchant with the trade interests of Logan and Blocking county, and throughout this section of the State is favorably known as a business man of intelligence, integrity and ability. In 1846 he commenced his operations in real estate, mani- festing from the outset shrewd judgment in his purchases, and unwavering faith in the ultimate development of the locality selected by him as his field of operations. In 1850 he returned to Europe, in order to visit his relatives and friends, and there spent one year, travelling during that time in Prussia, France and England. In 1855 he estab- lished a line of stage coaches in the llocking valley, and conducted this enterprise with great profit until 1868. The line eventually became one of the most extensive in the State, and, through careful and efficient management, con- stantly enjoyed the fullest patronage of the public. Being under the direct superintendency of John Borland, Esq., a veteran stage route manager, and agent formerly of the Ohio Stige Company, in the selection of employés Colonel Rempel exhibited good judgment, as they principally re- mained in said employment, with him, until the completion of the Ilocking Valley Railroad dismissed the enterprise. During the thirteen years of its existence, although its stages traversed about two hundred miles per diem, its record was not marred by a single accident. In politics, prior to the outbreak of the rebellion, he was a supporter of the Dem- ocratie party, but upon the initiation of active hostilitics was one of the first to abandon his ancient allics and join the Union party as a war-Democrat. With that organiza- tion he acted during the ensuing struggle. In 1861 he ran as an Independent candidate, against the regular Dem- ocratie nominee, for the Legislature of his State, and was defeated by only five votes in Hocking county, which had during an extended period of time given an average majority
of seven hundred for the regular Democratie ticket. Colonel Rempel, in politics and representing local affairs, is classed among the independent men of the State; with strong attach- ment to friends, is fearlessly carrying out his own sentiments, if in opposition to local popularity, and supporting with force of character his own conviction of policy in local interests and improvements. December 3d, 1861, he was appointed, by Governor Dennison, Superintendent of Ohio,troops in West Virginia, with the rank of Captain of Cavalry; and on the following December 5th was promoted to the rank of Licu- tenant-Colonel of the 58th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer In- fantry. From December 5th, 1861, until his regiment was ordered to the front he was acting Post Commander at Camp Chase. February 10th, 1862, his regiment was assigned to General Thayer's brigade, division of General Lew Wallace. On the succeeding February 13th he was with, and in com- mand of, his regiment at the important battle of Fort Don- clson. The following lines, from " Ohio in the War," tell their own story : " Preparations were at once made to take part in the assault on the fort. The colonel being sick, the second officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Rempel, took command. lle led the regiment at once toward the enemy. After moving a short distance a furious attack was made by the cnemy, but the shock was met with coolness, and ended with the rebels being hurled back into their intrench- ments." February 14th, 1862, he, with his regiment, was the first to enter on the right of the rebel batteries, fronting the Nashville road. There, forming a square, he received the surrender of the confederate artillery commanders, who were afterward sent to Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. llis regiment participated afterward in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing and in several other prominent actions. For his services in the army he receival the highest commendation from Ins superior officers, especially from Generals Thayer, Wallace, Strickland and McClernand, who, in official re- ports, commended his capacity and gallantry. After his promotion to the office of Provost-Marshal of the army, at Pittsburgh Landing, he became prominently connected with the leading officers of the Army of the Tennessee, and acted an important part in the refutation of the malicious charges then preferred against General Grant. On this oc- casion he reported the facts to President Lincoln, and also to the different departments. lle held the office of Provost- Marshal until he resigned his commission, in August, 1862, in order to resume the conduct of his extensive business, which had been suffering through his protracted absence. Upon his return from the army he was appointed Provost- Marshal in his district, and held this office until the close of the war. That position, owing to the prevailing senti- ment against the draft in Hocking county, was cncompassed with difficulties, but he was constrained to accept it through the carnest solicitations of the best citizens of both the two great political parties, and its duties were performed by him in an entirely satisfactory manner. Ile was subsequently appointed District Revenne Inspector, and, under special
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orders, visited several important cities of the West. Ile | nati. This journal is now the property of a company, of retained this office until it was abolished. Ile has also which he is the President. He is also its editor-in-chief. The result of his South American observations and re- searches he published in a book, entitled " Four Years Among Spanish-Americans." He is the author of a ro- mance, now in the press, and numerous essays on various subjects. Ile is concerned in all movements of importance to the city and State, and ever manifests in his labors a large public spirit. acted as Deputy United States Marshal, under A. C. Sands, General Hickenlooper and Major Thrall. At the time of the invasion of Ohio by the rebels, under General John Morgan, he was noted as an active spirit, and, in command of a volunteer company, continued in pursuit of the guerilla chief until his final capture. After the war he resumed his operations in real estate. In 1871 his enterprise and public spirit found expression in the construction of a superb opera house in his adopted town, a structure which reflects great credit upon the city and upon the builder, and will long stand as a monument of his industry and success. Ile is now one of the largest property holders in the county, and deservedly takes rank among the influential and valued members of the community in which he lives and among the leading citizens of the State of Ohio. Through his in- fluence with the Post-office Department he has thoroughly revised and increased the mail facilities of the county, and in various other ways has aided importantly in increasing its general welfare and prosperity. Colonel Rempel has served as Postmaster, and repeatedly as a member of the Council of Logan, and as Bank Director of the First National Bank of Logan, in all of which his ability was manifested and generally acknowledged.
ASSAUREK, FREDERICK, Lawyer, Journalist and Author, was born in Vienna, Austria, October Sth, IS32. The revolution of 1848 found him a boy at college, where he participated, as a mem- ber of the Academic Legion, in the defence of his native city against the Imperial troops. In 1849 he came to the United States, and to Cincinnati, where he found employment as sub-editor and translator on the Ohio Staats Zeitung, a German daily newspaper. During the following year he commenced the publication of Der Hoch- wächter, a weekly journal, which he sold after several years of prosperous management. Having studied law, he was admitted to the bar in 1857, and soon acquired a lucrative practice. . Taking a natural interest in the politics of the day, he became one of the organizers of the Republican party in Ohio, and one of its most prominent speakers, both in German and English. In 1861 President Lincoln ap- pointed him Minister Resident to the South American Republic of Ecnador, with which he concluded a treaty securing the establishment of a mixed commission for the settlement of claims. Under this treaty he acted as Com- missioner on the part of the United States, and some of his decisions have frequently been cited before similar commis- sions, and also by the Congressional Committees on Foreign Affairs. In 1865 he resigned the mission to Ecuador, and during the same year was connected as partner with the Daily Volksblatt, the leading German newspaper of Cincin-
GODDARD, HION. CHARLES BACKUS, Lawyer, was born, 1796, in Plainfield, Connecticut, and was a son of Ilon. Calvin Goddard, a distin- guished advocate and counsellor at law. Ile received a superior academic education prepara- tory to entering Yale College, and graduated from that seminary in the class of 1814. Ile subsequently entered the office of his father, then residing in Norwich, with whom he commenced the study of law, completing his readings under the preceptorship of Judge Griswold, of Lyme. Ile was admitted to the bar in Connecticut, and removed to Ohio, settling at Zanesville, where, in 1817, he was admitted to the bar of the Ohio courts. Ile at once conunenced the practice of his profession in that town, which he had made his residence, and continued there until his death, nearly half a century afterwards. Ile was twice elected to the House of Representatives of the State, and also twice to the State Senate, and was Speaker of the latter body during one term. Ile married a daughter of Daniel Converse, one of the pioneers of Muskingum county. Ile died in Zanesville, February Ist, 1864.
RMSTRONG, FRANK A., Manager of the West- ern Union Telegraph Company and Member of the Board of Education of Cincinnati, was born in Cincinnati in 1838. Ilis father, Frank N. Armstrong, has been a resident of Cincinnati for fifty years. Ile himself received his education in the public schools of that city. At the age of fifteen he entered the office of the old O'Riley line of telegraphs, as a messenger, and has been uninterruptedly engaged in the telegraph business ever since ; but one man in Cincinnati has now been longer connected with it than he. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the National Telegraphers' Life Associa- tion, and is its agent in Cincinnati, has frequently been the Cincinnati delegate to the New York Conventions, and has been otherwise prominent in telegraph affairs. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Board of Education. In 1874 he was again elected to that body and is one of its most earnest and efficient working members. In the great Bible contest in the schools of Cincinnati, Mr. Armstrong took an
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active outside stand against the sacred volume in the schools. During this long career he has occupied the various inter- mediate positions, until several years ago he was made Manager of the Cincinnati Offices of the Western Union Telegraph Company. He began when telegraphy was in its infancy in this country-when but four or five opera- tors were partially employed in Cincinnati-when busi- ness men were content to receive answer, at high rates, from New York in a day, and he is one of the most thoroughly posted and representative telegraph men of the country. Ile possesses those traits of character which al- ways distinguish the uncompromising opponent in questions of principle, as well as enthusiastic support and attachment in friendship and conscientious advocacy of right. Ile is largely political in his aspirations, and here, as in social and business affairs, is deservedly popular. Ile is yet a young man, with an enviable career before him. In 1863 he was married to S. Bella Peel.
EYS, JOHN FINLEY, one of the leading pioneer merchants of Cincinnati, was born in Maytown, Lancaster county, l'ennsylvania, April 27th, 1786. Ile was the ellest of the three sons of Richard Keys, the son of James Keys, who came to this country from the north of Ireland about the year 1750, and settled in Chester county, Pennsylvania. Richard Keys was born in 1760, and at the age of nineteen became a lieutenant in the revolutionary army. He was afterwards married to Mary Bayley, daughter of James Bayley, also from the same part of Ireland. After Richard's marriage he lived at Anderson's Ferry, or Marietta, on the Susque- hanna river, then at Maytown, and in ISor removed to Baltimore, Maryland, where the subject of this sketch, at the age of fifteen, began his career as a business man in a shipping and commission house. In ISog he was sent to the West Indies on business of great importance connected with his house. Executing this mission with satisfaction, he returned to Baltimore, and in Angust of the following year was married to Margaret Barr, sister of Major William Barr. In December of the same year he moved to Cincin . nati. Remaining but a few months, in the spring of 1811 he took up his residence in Chillicothe. There the mercantile house of Barr & Keys was formed, and carried on an exten- sive and successful business until in 1815, when he again returned to Baltimore, and became a member of the firm of Barr, Keys & Welsh. But finding it to his taste and advan- tage, in 1817 he returned to Cincinnati, with a view to making it his permanent home. And there he did, indeed, remain for nearly fifty years, only a few years before his death re- siding af Glendale. During the greater put of that long period he was actively engaged in business, and was thor- oughly identified with all the best interests of the city. He came to Cincinnati when it was without the pretensions of
a city, being but a village. In 1818 he himself built the first three-story brick house ever erected in that city. This building stood on the south side of Pearl street. He also built, and for years occupied, the frame mansion at the foot of Vine Street Hill, now a part of the MeMicken estate, and constituting a part of the MeMicken University grounds. This was then in the woods, far beyond the village or town limits. Few men were so long uninterruptedly concerned in the growth and business of the city as Mr. Keys. And doubtlessly no man ever lived more in the estcem and con- fidence of the people of Cincinnati. Soon after his location in Chillicothe, he was elected Ruling Elder in the Presby- terian Church of that place. This position he filled in the various churches with which he was connected until his death. In this long Christian record his great effort was to illustrate his faith by his works, and in the church history of Cincinnati, probably few men can be found who suc- ceeded better in this difficult undertaking. Ilis family relations were, like those of his church and society at large, of the most exemplary character. This he realized in his declining years, by the great care bestowed upon him by his children. Four of his family of eight children are now living in Cincinnati, and are known as worthy followers of their universally esteemed Christian father. At his home in Glendale, on the 19th day of May, 1865, this Christian pioneer passed away, with the words upon his lips, " May the Lord not long delay his coming."
ARRETSON, JOSEPII, M. D., Homoeopathic Physician, was born, February 27th, 1808, in York county, Pennsylvania. Ilis parents were of English origin, members of the Society of Friends, and followed an agricultural life. Ile attended the country school near his home in early youth, 6. and upon his father's removal, in 1821, to New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, resumed his studies in the schools which that place afforded. When sixteen years old he left home, and began life for himself in a tannery at Salem, Ohio. After working for four years at this locality, he joined his father, at the age of twenty, in a tannery which the latter had purchased at New Lisbon, meanwhile becom- ing a student in the private medical school of Dr. George McCook in that town. For five years he worked with his father and studied with the doctor. He then removed to Marlborough, Stark county, and joined his cousin, Dr. Ker- sey Thomas, with whom he remained two years. About this time he became acquainted with Dr. Lee, of Ravenna, and was led to investigate and finally adopt homeopathy. Being sanguine of its superiority over the allopathic school, and its final triumph among the intelligent masses, he removed to New Richmond, Ohio, and vigorously commenced his med. ical career. He remained there four years, but believing a larger field was now necessary he went to Richmond, In-
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diana, where he sojourned for eleven years, quietly con- quering much of the opposition and ridicule then so preva- lent against the school of Hahnemann. Becoming unsatis- fied, however, with his limited field, at the end of this long practice in Richmond, among the numerous friends and acquaintances gathered around him, he concluded to pro- ceed to Cincinnati, and in 1865 joined his brother, Dr. Jesse Garretson, in that city. After six years copartnership he found it to his advantage to withdraw from this connec- tion, and as his son George, after leaving the Union army at the conclusion of the war, had completed his medical education, he associated the latter with him in his practice. HIe was, as has been remarked above, one of the pioneers in homeopathy, commencing when there were no schools in- culcating that theory, and the new dogma, similia similibus curantur, was only presented for approval under trying cir- eumstances. Ile thoroughly mastered the hydropathic system, and at present attributes his great success to his careful handling of all hygienic means, together with the indicated homeopathie remedies in which he carly placed his faith and staked both his reputation and chances of success. To him the practice of medicine is a principle and want of his life, and not the road to honor or the accumula- tion of worldly goods. Considering the great mass of men, his private personal habits are remarkable. For the past fifty years he has drank neither tea nor coffee; for forty years he has eaten no meat of any kind whatever, and for sixteen years he abstained from the use of salt. Respecting this latter article, he is satisfied that its disuse has been of great benefit to him; moreover, that his abstinence from ments, coffee and tea, has added years of health and comfort to his life. Ile never retires at night without a thorough dry shampooing from head to fect, and immediately on rising indulges in a bath. During twenty-seven years of professional life he has never been prevented from at- tendance upon a call, by reason of any personal ailment. Ile was married in 1834 to Caroline Hughes, of Maryland, a member of the Society of Friends, who died April 12th, 1874. By this marriage he had three children, two of whom survive. He was married a second time on Septem- ber 22d, 1875.
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