The Biographical encyclopedia of Ohio of the nineteenth century. Pt. 2, Part 68

Author: Robson, Charles, ed; Galaxy Publishing Company, pub
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Cincinnati, Galaxy publishing company
Number of Pages: 760


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LUDLOW, GENERAL. BENJAMIN CHAMBERS, born in 1836. lle studied medicine and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Ile served with great gallantry in many of the important battles during the late civil war, and rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General. Ile married Frances Jones in 1873, and has two sons, Israel and Ran- dell. Ile is a resident of Austin, Texas.


LUDLOW, ISRAEL, Lawyer and Soldier, was born, 1840, at Ludlow Station, near Cincinnati. Ile was educated at Andover, Massachusetts, and Yellow Springs, Ohio. Dur- ing the civil war, he was an active participant, as Brevet Captain in the 5th Regular United States Artillery, in the battles of Shiloh (or Pittsburgh Landing), Perryville, Dog- walk, Iuka, Stone River, Chickamauga, Cold Ilarbor, and the closing engagements around Petersburg. Ile was badly wounded at Chickamauga, captured, and confined in the Libby Prison. After the war he studied law and practised in Cincinnati, until failing health caused him to remove to Texas, where he established a bank, which became one of the most important in that State. Ile was of commanding appearance, and of genial manners; when once known he was never forgotten. Ile died in 1873, greatly regretted by all who knew him.


AP-JONES, LUDLOW, Lawyer, was born May 4th, 1844, and is a son of Charles A. and Charlotte (Ludlow) Jones. Ile received a thorough collegiate education, and received the diploma of Master of Arts from Harvard University. IIc studied law and was duly admitted to practise, and is a member of the bar of Cincinnati. IIe is also connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders, and is a member of the Queen City Club of Cincinnati, and of the Society of ex-Officers of the Army and Navy. He originated the Cincinnati Societies of Natural Ilistory, and for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals.


ACKSON, HENRY LEVI, M. D., was born in Russian Poland, on March 20th, 1836. Ilis father was also a Russian Pole, but his mother came from Prussian Poland. Ilis education was limited on account of the customs of the country and of the disabilities of Israelites. At a com- paratively young age he left Russia and procceded to Germany, where he began the study of medicine. Later he removed to England, where he continued his studies. After a while, attracted by the opportunities the United States offered, he came to this country, and on his arrival com- menced the practice of his profession. In it he is still en- gaged, practising with flattering success, as what is known


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ai an eclectic physician. Having originally left Russia be- [ of John Marshall, brother of General Thomas Marshall, cause of the tyranny of its military system, he naturally took kindly to Republican institutions, and has been from his ar- rival in America an carms Republican, though he has never held hor aspired to any public office. Indeed he confines his whole attention closely to his profession. Ile was married in 1861, in this country, to Henrietta Cush- burg, a native of Prussian Poland.


ASEY, IION. JAMES B., one of the leading business men of Cincinnati, was born in Coving- ton, Kentucky, on November 29th, 1828. 11is grandfather, Joseph Casey, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, and came of Irish stock, Ins father being a native of Ireland ; he was a soldier in the war of 1812, under General Harrison, and was one of the few who escaped the massacre at Crawford's defeat. John B. Casey, the father of the subject of this sketch, is a native of Kentucky, whither his people immigrated from l'ennsylvania during the latter part of the last century. le is one of the oldest tobacco manufacturers in the West, and is still living, at the age of seventy-five, partially retired, on his fine farm south of Covington, Kentucky. Ile has filled many responsible and honorable positions in the community, and is now surrounded by comfort and friends, and covered with the honors of a well-spent life. His wife, nee Sally McGasson, a member of one of the early pioneer fam- ilies from Virginia, who settled in the " Dark and Bloody Ground," came of Scotch extraction-her mother was a Hamilton. James B. Casey, the subject of this sketch, re- ceived his education in the schools of his native city and at Center. College, Danville, Kentucky. About the time of his leaving college the Mexican war broke out, and, filled with the spirit of adventure and patriotism, he enlisted in the 3d Kentucky Regiment of Infantry, at the second eall for sokliers from Kentucky. That State offered the govern- meut fifty regiments, but his was one of the few received. At this time Mr. Casey was eighteen years of age. With the rank of Lieutenant he served during the war, and was mustered out at Louisville. Ilis regiment contained a large number of men who became noted characters during the war of the rebellion. M. V. Thompson, ex-Governor of Kentucky, was Colonel, John C. Breckinridge was Major, Thomas L. Crittenden, Union General in the rebellion, was Lientenant-Colonel. Besides these there were Leonidas Metealf, who was a colonel in the Union army, Thomas Taylor, who became a general in the Confederate army, and Whittaker, who was a general in the Federal ranks. After returning from the war, young Casey spent several years in · his father's dry-goods house in Covington. In 1853 he started the same business for himself in that city. There, too, in 1852, he was married to I.ucy A. Marshall, daughter


who commanded a Inigade, chiefly of Kentucky troops, in the war with Mexico. The Marshalls constitute one of the oldest, most able and distinguished families of Kentucky. In 1862 Mr. Casey began the manufacture of tobacco, but did not wholly relinquish his connection with the dry-goods business until two years afterwards. Ile had quite early had experience in the tobacco business with his father. From this date his connection with the tobacco trade has remained unbroken. In 1864 he opened a commission house in Cincinnati, and in 1867 he bought into the old Morris warehouse, where his tobacco interest now is under the firm-name of Casey, Timberlake & Co. The business of this house has become very large and lucrative. Since the time of his commencing, in 1862, the tobacco trade has grown to be one of the valuable interests of Cincinnati. lle is one of the five members of the Tobacco Board of Trade, and is Vice-President of that body. In 1865 he was a delegate from Cincinnati to the Tobacconists' National Convention at Washington City, where he took a prominent part in the doings of the Convention. He has, too, been actively concerned in legislation favorable to the tobacco interest of the Ohio valley. In 1871 he was elected with trifling opposition, from Covington, to fill Mr. Carlisle's un- expired term of two years in the Kentucky State Senate. He had been previously mainly instrumental in the nomi- nation of Mr. Carlisle for the Lieutenant-Governorship, and now his own position and that of the Lieutenant-Governor, Carlisle (as Speaker of the Senate), secured the charter for the Southern Railroad, his own vote making a tie, and the Speaker's deciding in favor of the act. The objectionable features of this bill, being a necessity admitted by its friends for its passage, were afterwards removed. At the expiration of his term he was importuned to accept the nomination of his party for the regular term in the State Senate. At this time he was also urged to make the race for Congress in his district, but all these testimonials of popular favor, business necessities and general disinclination induced him to de- cline. He has since, however, been a member of the Cov- ington City Council. Mr. Casey is now in the prime of life, an active, liberal-spirited, genial member of society, a man of large executive and business ability, and must certainly be classed among those who leave the world better for their having lived in it.


ONNER, STEPHIEN, M. D., Physician, was born, September 18th, 1808, in Mount Charles, county of Donegal, Ireland. Ile left home in 1824 for America, and at first landed in Canada, whence he worked his way via the lakes and across Ohio to Cincinnati. Having resolved to study medicine, he entered the Transylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, at that time the first educational in- stitution in the West. lle graduated therefrom in 1833,


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and at once engaged in the practice of his profession. In IS41 his brother, Dr. Ilngh Bonner, of Cincinnati, died, and Dr. Stephen Bonner succeeded to his practice, and during the remainder of his life was one of the most fifthful and esteemed physicians in that city. He was an carnest and zealous member of the Roman Catholic Church; the medical attendant and intimate friend of Arch- bishop Purcell, and filled the position of Attendant Physi- cian at the seminaries of Mount St. Mary, Notre Dame, Cedar Grove and others. Ile also filled for several years the position of a Director of the House of Refuge. Ile was a most charitable man, attending the poor without expecta- tion of any pecuniary consideration. Ile was married, October 22d, 1835, to Lucy, daughter of Major Hanly, of Jessamine county, Kentucky, who survives him. Of the cleven children, which once composed his family, seven are now living, his eldest son, Dr. S. P. Bonner, having died a year previous to his father, from consumption con- tracted during his army career, while Surgeon of the 2d Regiment of Kentucky Infantry. Another son is Rev. John Bonner, of St. Philomena Church. Dr. Stephen Bon- mer died in IS76.


OMBACII, MATTHEW, Capitalist, was born, September, ISI, in Naikirch, Black Forest, Baden, Germany. Ile is the youngest of four children of Charles and Francesca Rombach, both of whom were born and died in Baden. Ilis father, Charles Rombach, was the son of a farmer owning large landed estates at Naikirch, and who in the earlier years of his manhood was employed in various offices of trust and honor recognized by German laws and pertaining to the proper management of a Ger- man country seat. The elder Mr. Rombach was married at the age of forty-two years, about which time he engaged in merchandising, and subsequently carried on the manu- facture of clocks. He was a successful merchant and manufacturer, and a highly respected citizen in the com- munity in which he lived. Young Matthew was reared on a farm until he was sixteen years of age, at which time he was placed by his father in a clock manufactory to learn the trade, which branch of mechanics he pursued until the time of his departure for America. When about nineteen years of age, in the year 1830, he and three others, young men of his neighborhood, resolved to bid adieu to the fatherland and try their fortunes in the new world. After arrangements had been perfected and passports obtained for the party, his companions were persuaded to abandon their proposed journey. Mr. Rombach, with characteristic resolution, was unshaken in his purpose. Ilis father, un- willing that one of so little experience should set out alone to incur the dangers and privations of a voyage to the new world, and hoping to foil his son in his determination to go, refused to furnish him with the necessary pecuniary aid.


| Thus thrown upon his own resources, Matthew collected his limited means together, amounting to about seventy dollars, and, bidding farewell to friends and the home of his childhood, started. on the long journey that should bring him the after experiences of life in America. Inured to hardships, and wishing to husband his means as far as possible, he walked through France on his way to London, a distance of almost six hundred miles, eating but two meals a day and making the distance of from thirty six to fifty miles. Arriving at London he remained abont ten days, then took steerage passage in an American sail vessel bound for New York. Ile contracted for passage at twenty-one dollars, and boarded with the sailors for an ad- ditional sum of twenty-one dollars, He proceeded almost immediately from New York to Philadelphia, and when he arrived at the latter place found his means reduced to the small sum of seven dollars. The next day after his arrival at Philadelphia he found employment at his trade with a German to whom he had been recommended by friends in the old country. Remaining in Philadelphia about six months, and not succeeding as well as he wished, he deter- mined to push farther west, and located at Lancaster, Ohio. Here he again set up in the clock business, which he con- tinued for about nine months, then, in the latter part of 1831, again changed his place to Cincinnati. Here he kept boarding house until the cholera of 1832 compelled him, for want of business and safety, to close the same. In Jaly, 1832, at Cincinnati, he married Catharine Kautz, a native of Baden, Germany, by whom he has one child, a daughter, wife of General J. W. Denver, of Washington, District of Columbia. Having by industry and frugality accumulated some means, he purchased a small farm in Brown county, Ohio, to which he removed and cultivated for some two years. Visiting New Orleans in the year 1835, and having a good opportunity to engage in business, he determined to remove to that place. Having sold his stock, rented his farm and proceeded as far as Cincinnati, his wife being dis- satisfied to go to New Orleans, he changed his purpose and moved to Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio, where he has since resided. Ilis first two years in Wilmington were de- voted to hotel keeping. In 1837 he sold his farm in Brown county and purchased a farm in Clinton county, near Wil- mington; he also opened a bakery and confectionery, which he conducted for several years, at the same time partly giving his attention to trading and farming. Since 1845 he has greatly prospered in his business pursuits, devoting himself to farming and stock-raising, and looking after his numerous investments in bank stocks and the stocks of various other corporations. At this time he is a large stockholder in and Vice-President of the Clinton County National Bank, of Wilmington, Ohio. He is known as one of the substantial business men and capitalists of the State; a man of temperate habits, energy, perseverance and integrity. Though not a politician, and never seeking political preferment, he has always acted with the Demo-


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cratic party. He was brought up a Catholic, his parents being devout members of that church; and while liberal in his religions views, and a generous contributor to the build- ing up and support of other churches, with the natural ten. deney of mankind he adheres to the faith of his early education.


INKSON, BENJAMIN, Lawyer and Farmer, was horn, December 27th, 1800, near Cynthiana, Kentucky. Ile is the third of eleven children of Thomas Ilinkson and Elizabeth Foos. Thomas Ilinkson was a native of Pennsylvania, a farmer, an officer under Generals Wayne and Harmar in the early Indian campaigns, and an officer under Generat Harrison in the war of 1812. Thomas Ilinkson settled in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1806, was one of the first asso- ciate judges of that county and a colonel in the militia. lle died in 1832. Elizabeth Foos Ilinkson, a native of Tennessee, died in 1855. The subject of this sketch did farm work until he was fifteen years of age, attending the county school during the winter months. In IS16 he went in the office of the Clerk of Fayette county, where he acted as Deputy for two years. For the next two years he at- tended Chillicothe Academy, where he spent two years, reading law in the meantime under Colonel Ilenry Brush, ot Chillicothe. In 1820 Mr. Ilinkson was admitted to the bar, and opened an office in Wilmington, Clinton county, where he practised until 1834. In the fall of 1826 he was elected to the Legislature, where he served through five terms, until, the winter of 1834, he was elected Secre- tary of State for three years. In 1836 he was elected Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, remaining on the bench for seven years. In 1843 he returned to the practice of his profession at Wilmington, where he was actively engaged until 1858, when impaired health obliged him to retire from active practice. He sought rest and recupera- tion on his farm, in Wilson township, where he has since lived. In the war of 1812 Mr. Hinkson served for about right mouths, and now draws a pension as an old defender. Ile cast his first vote for Henry Clay. Ile now acts with the Democratic party. September 15th, 1825, Mr. Ilink- son married Mary A. Welsh, a native of New York, who died in 1827, leaving one child.


other Martin D. Follett, of Marietta. The family is an okl New England one, and some of them were prominent actors in the colonial movements, and subsequently in the war of the Revolution; their many descendants are now dispersed throughout the Union. The younger John was prepared for college at Granville, and entered Marietta College, whence he graduated, at the head of his class, in 1855. After leaving this institution he was for one year Principal of the High School at Columbus, and previously for the same period of time a teacher in the Asylum for the Blind. Having previously chosen the law for his profes- sion, he employed all his leisure time during these two years in a course of legal study; after which he entered his brother's office in Newark, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in that town in 1858. IIe then formed a partnership with his brother, which continued until 1868, when he re- moved to Cincinnati. In 1865 he was elected to a seat in the State Legislature, and in 1867 was re-elected; he was made Speaker of the House, having been nominated by the Democrats by acclamation. Since locating in Cincinnati he has abandoned all political aspirations and devoted his entire energies to his profession, where he justly ranks as one of the first men of his age at the bar. Ile is not a specialist, but gives his attention to general practice, having been prominently concerned in many important causes in all branches of the law. He was married in 1866 to Frances D., daughter of Professor John Dawson, of the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, and brother of Dr. W. W. Dawson, of Cincinnati.


OLLIER, OLIVER S, Lawyer, was born, May . 16th, 1817, in Perry township, Lawrence county, Ohio, and is the eighth of fourteen children whose parents were James and Martha (Baker) Collier. ITis father was of English and Welsh lineage, a native of Virginia, and a farmer by occupation, who removed to Ohio in 1806, and was a pioneer in the section where he located; he was a Justice of the Peace in Perry township for a number of years, and where he died in October, 1858, having survived his wife but one month. The latter was a native of Ashe county, North Carolina, and of English and Irish descent. Oliver worked on a farm until he was eighteen years old, attend- ing school in the winter. Ile was next employed in an iron works, where he labored for eight years, and his leisure hours were passed in general reading and study. In 1843 he returned to a farmer's life, which he followed for about four years, and then commenced reading medicine. For eighteen months he was so engaged, and then aban- doned the pursuit. During the winters of 1849 and 1851 he was engaged in teaching school. In 1850 he com- menced the study of law in the office of John M. Clark, a


OLLETT, IION. JOHN FASSETT, Lawyer, was born, February 18th, 1833, in the State of Ver- mont, and is a son of John F. Follett, who rc- moved, in 1838, to Ohio, where he settled on a farm in Licking county; of his nine children, three are engaged in the practice of the law, one of whom is Judge Charles Follett, of Newark, and the prominent attorney of Gallia county, Ohio, and practised


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before justices of the peace until 1855, when, having passed | clined. He was married in 1842 to Harriet P'routy, by the requisite examination, he was admitted to the bar, and whom he was the father of five children, of whom two only survive; his wife died in 1855. Ile was a second time united in marriage, in 1856, to Margaret Clover, of Indiana, who is still living. This union has resulted in one son. at once entered upon the practice of his profession at Iron- ton, where he continued until 1865, when he removed to C'eredo, Virginia, where he continued his legal pursuits for six years. In 1871 he returned to Ironton, where he has since resided and has established a successful and lucrative practice. He has never sought nor held any public office whatever. Politically he is a Democrat, but at an earlier day was a Whig, having voted for William II. Harrison. Ilis religious faith is that held by the Baptists. He is a man of unquestionable integrity and of genial manners, and is painstaking, laborious and conscientious in his profession. Hle was married, May 30th, 1843, to Rebecca, daughter of James Gibson, an early settler of Lawrence county, Ohio.


e UTLER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, was born, December 27th, 1821, in Wellsburg (now West) Virginia, and is a son of the late Dr. Joseph and Eliza- beth (Grayne) Butler. His father emigrated to Canada in early life and practised medicine in Quebec and Montreal, and about 1806 returned to the States, where he married and subsequently removed to Wellsburg, Virginia, where he continued his professional pursuits for upwards of twenty years, being known as an able physician. After his death his widow and family, consisting of four children, removed to Ilolmes county, Ohio, where she remained until her death, in 1838. George was first educated in the school which his mother had kept in Wellsburg for seven years; and he then at- tended the common school until he was eighteen years old, finishing his studies in a select school, where he passed a year. Ile commenced the study of medicine with Dr. 11. L. Jeffers, of Nashville, Holmes county, Ohio, and finished his readings with Drs. Oldfield and Cunningham, of Lick- ing county. He subsequently graduated at the New York Medical College, in 1855. Ile commenced the practice of medicine in 1844 at Alton, nine miles west of Columbus, where he remained until 1870, when he removed to the wider field of the State capital, where he now resides, en- gaged in the control of an extensive practice. In 1857 he performed a rare and critical operation, the subject recover- ing, and is still living. One James O. Harren, while en- gaged in harrowing, fell beneath the timber frame, and his chest was torn open by the iron teeth, filling the cavity and his lungs with earth, etc. Dr. Butler was immediately summoned, and, having enlarged the opening, removed the foreign substances from the wound, washed the exposed viscera, replaced the lung in its proper position, and the patient is now living in good health-a proof of the sur- geon's skill. During the war of the rebellion he was frequently solicited to fill appointments, but invariably de-


OWRY, THOMAS, M. D., was born on Decem- ber 23d, 1820, in Donegal county, Ireland, the younger of the two children of James and Mary (Campbell) Lowry. His father followed agricul- tural pursuits through life, and came to America in 1839; after four years in New York he moved to Pike county, Ohio, where he died in 1846; his wife died in 1848. Thomas obtained his carly education in the best schools of his native county, and while quite young began reading medicine in Donegal county, Ireland. He con- tinued reading for three years, and graduated with honor in 1839 from the famous University of Glasgow, Scotland. In the same year he came to America, and practised success- fully for about three years in New York. Then he passed a few months travelling in Europe, and returning settled, in the spring of 1844, at Waverly, Pike county, Ohio. There, with the exception of a year's practice in Philadelphia, hic has since followed his profession with marked success. Ile has contributed articles on medical topics to the Medical Society of Pike County, of which he has been a member since its first organization, and for years a leading officer. His practice is general, and his reputation as a surgeon is high. A Democrat in political faith, but broadly liberal in his political and religious views, and a man of attractive and sterling qualities, he enjoys the confidence and esteem of a large circle. He was married in December, 1833, to Margaret Campbell, a native of Donegal county, Ireland. On the outbreak of the war, in 1861, he recruited Company 1, 56th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with the command for about seventeen months, participating in the great battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing and Corinth. He resigned in 1863, on account of sickness


OOS, MATHIAS, Merchant, was born in Baden, Germany, August 11th, 1814; came with his parents to America in 1833, and at first located in Sandusky, Ohio, where the family remained a year. In the following year his father entered a tract of land near the town of Upper Sandusky (now Fremont), to which the family subsequently removed, and where Mathias remained for two years assisting his father in clearing and opening the farm; but, having be- come dissatisfied with the place on account of its unhealth- fulness, he returned to Sandusky in 1836, and shortly




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