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The "Reeder Cadets," consisting of young men fifteen to eighteen years
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old, was organized by Capt. Nathaniel Reeder, and officered as fololws : Charles Potter, Captain ; Thomas Shaffer, First Lieutenant : F. A. Lighter, Second Lieutenant ; and Joseph Wyman, Orderly Sergeant.
Dr. Mallory began raising a company and had forty-two names enrolled. Chas. H. Murray also engaged in recruiting a cavalry company, and the military spirit became general among the people.
The thirty-fifth Regiment was composed largely of Hamilton men, and almost entirely of Butler county men. The following is a list of its regi- mental officers : Col. Ferdinand VanDeveer; Lt. Cols. Chas. L. H. Long, Henry V. N. Boynton ; Major Jos. L. Budd ; Adjutants, Geo. B. Wright, John VanDeveer, James E. Harris ; Surgeon, Perkins A. Gordon ; Asst. Surgeons, Francis D. Morris, Chas. A. Wright, A. H. Landis; Chaplain, John Woods.
This regiment was engaged in the battles of : Corinth, Miss .; Siege of Perryville, Ky. ; Tullahoma-Campaign, Tenn ; Chicamaugua, Ga. ; Mission Ridge, Tenn .; Bussard Roost, Ga .; Atlanta Campaign, Ga .; Dalton, Ga .; Resaca, Ga. ; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga .; Pine Mountain, Ga .; Pine Knob. Ga .; Kenesaw Mountain, (General Assault) Ga .; Peachtree Creek, Ga.
The sixty-ninth Ohio Regiment was also organized at Hamilton. It en- tered the service in the early part of 1862, and was assigned to provost duty in Tennessee, under Andrew Johnson, then Military Governor of that state.
Its first Colonel was Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, who resigned on August 9th, 1862, and was susceeded successively by Colonels W. B. Cassilly and M. F. Moore.
It had other Regimental Officers as follows: Lt. Cols. Chas. L. Gano, Geo. F. Elliott, J. H. Brigham ; Majors, Eli J. Hickox, Jas. L. Hanna, Lewis E. Hicks; Adjutants, Richard H. Cunningham, W. S. Mead. Thos. B. Hoff- man, Joseph W. Boynton; Regt. Quartermasters, Fred B. Landis, Levi E. Chenoweth.
This regiment took part in the following battles : Gallatin, Tenn .; Stone River, Tenn .; Mission Ridge, Tenn .; Resaca, Ga. (including Punkin Vine Creek ;) Kenesaw Mountain, Ga .; Marietta, Ga .; Chatahoochie, River, Ga .; Peach Tree Creek, Ga .; Atlanta. Ga. ; Siege of Jonesboro, Ga .; Bentonville, Ga .; Sherman's March to the Sea.
Many citizens of Hamilton enlisted and served in other organizations, a considerable number in the 5th Ohio Cavalry, and in the 83rd and 93rd Ohio Regiments.
The Morgan Raid called into existence a number of Hamilton organiza- tions for the purpose of resisting the invasion of our state.
The capture of Gen. Morgan is an honor that has been warmly contest- ed, but it has not been successfully disputed that the honor rightfully belongs to our townsman Major Geo. W. Rue of the 9th Ky. Cavalry.
The surrender of Lee, the fall of Richmond, and the end of the great re- bellion, was celebrated in Hamilton with great rejoicings.
The military spirit of the people has been maintained.
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Such military bodies as are usual in times of peace have been organized. Light Infantry Companies and Companies of the Ohio National Guards, have existed here in a high state of dicipline and drill.
The Juvenile Cadet Corps, an organization of boys from seven years up, has attained great proficiency in marching and drill, and has acquired a widely extended reputation.
The Grand Army of the Republic, the Sons of Veterans, and their kin- dred organizations, the Woman's Relief Corps, and Woman's Aid Society, are all in a flourishing condition.
The sentiment of patriotism is inculcated in our children, and it needs only public peril to call them to arms in defense of their countryland her in- stitutions. Let us hope that they may be as conspicuous for their "civic virtues, as their fathers have been for military services.
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STATESMANSHIP AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE.
BY W. H. HARR.
N point of political influence and statesmanship, the citizens of Hamilton during the past one hundred years have exercised their full share as compared with the people of other communities of like size in this state. In the Constitutional Convention of 1802, John Reily was a member from Ham- ilton County, the territory constituting the County of Butler then forming a part of Hamilton County. In the Constitutional Convention of 1851, Elija Vance was a member and acted as one of the Vice Presidents, and in the Constitutional Conventional of 1873, Lewis D. Campbell was a member and Vice President. Vance and Campbell were respective able delegates and very influential in the deliberations of the bodies of which they were mem- bers.
John Woods, Taylor Webster, John B. Weller, Lewis D. Campbell, Henry L. Morey and James E. Campbell, citizens of Hamilton, have repre- sented the Congressional District in which Hamilton is situated, in Congress and have exerted a tull share of influence upon National Legislation. It will not be insidious to say that during the controversy concerning the re- peal of the Missouri compromise, and the exciting legislation immediately preceding the rebellion. Few, if any men in Congress, stood superior to Lewis D. Campbell. He was abreast of such eminent patriots as Thadeus Stevens, Anson Burlingame, Benj. F. Wade, and Zachriah Chandler. The terms of the several members in Congress were as follows : John Woods, four years ; Taylor Webster, two years ; John B. Weller, six years ; Lewis D. Campbell twelve years ; Henry L. Morey, six years ; James E. Campbell, six years ; John B. Weller and Lewis D. Campbell each served as MinisterĮto Mexico. Wm. Bebb and James E. Campbell each served one term as Gover- nor of the State. John Woods served as Auditor of the State for the period of six years to the general approval of the people and to the great benefit of the State. The system of accounts established in the Auditor's office by him have never been changed, the same having been found adequate to the increased demands of that department. Mark C. McMaken now living an honored life at 92 years of age. Joseph J. McMaken his son, Lewis D. Campbell, Thos. Moore, William H. Campbell, Neal C. McFarland, E. G. Rathbone and Jas. E. Neal have at different times been members in high standing of the Ohio Legislature, the latter attained pre-eminence in the speakership of the house of Representatives.
John M. Millikin, served with great credit one term as Treasurer of State.
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In the days of the old Whig and Democratic Parties, the Hamilton In- elligencer newspaper under the editorship of John Woods and Lewis D. Campbell was a party organ of much power and extended political authority.
It would be beyond the purpose of this article to enter into detail more ully touching the statesmanship and political influence of citizens of Hamil- ton during the past, nevertheless it is not out of place to say in this connec- tion that the people of no city of equal size in the state can be said to have exerted so much authority over legislation and over the selection of candi- dates for important public offices as have the party representatives residing in this city. Many of those capable of exerting the most political power in emergencies, have never been candidates and have therefore been able to act independently, and free from selfish motives, and acting alone from patriotic considerations, have wielded an influence far greater than could otherwise have been the case.
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PART V.
HAMILTON: -IT'S-
Transportation Facilities, Manufactures Etc.
HAMILTON, OHIO.
ISRAEL WILLIAMS.
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HIGHWAYS, RAILROADS AND CANALS.
ISRAEL WILLIAMS.
A MONG the advantages that a community may be possessed of are the methods of travel in going to and from, and the means of transporta- tion of commodities to be acquired and those to be disposed of by the people.
In these respects the city of Hamilton should be regarded as very favorably situated.
All of the country roads leading into the city are turnpikes, affording the most convenient and ample means of neighborhood travel and traffic. The Miami and Erie canal which connects the city of Toledo on Lake Erie with the city of Cincinnati on the River Ohio, affords an excellent means of transportation of freight to those cities and intermediate points. On ac- count of the cheap rates of freight charged to shippers on the canal, it has an important bearing upon the charges of freight made by competing rail- roads. The existence and continued usefulness of the canal is almost of vital importance to the local business interests of our citizens.
The railroad facilities are extraordinary, they consist :
Ist. The Great Pan Handle system, comprising upwards of 7,000 miles of road under control of one management and permeating every portion of the United States, and with direct connections with means of communica- tion to all parts of the Commercial world. The great main line of the company's road leading from Cincinnati to Chicago passes through Hamilton, and hence it can be correctly said that we are brought through this means in touch with all the civilized world.
Secondly : The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad system while lacking the vastness in mileage possessed by the Pan Handle, is in its local bearings upon the interests uf our citizens of more direct importance than even the Pan Handle. Between this city and Cincinnati, there are twenty- three passenger trains daily. This company with headquarters at Cincin. nati has independent lines leading by way of Hamilton to Toledo, Chicago and St. Louis and intermediate points, with connections with other lines, notably the Big Four, Baltimore and New York Central and Erie systems, all parts of the United States and beyond.
By the means aforesaid, our citizens have every facility for travel and the transportation of commodities that can be desired or utilized by an in- telligent and enterprising community.
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BUSINESS OTHER THAN MANUFACTUR.
BY P. G. BERRY.
AMILTON, "with its transportation facilities and its close proximity to Cincinnati, has within the last twenty years, developed large commercial and financial interests, and, while at an early time in its history, its being so near Cincinnati was deemed a detriment to its growth, this seeming draw- back has since proved to be one of its chief aids to prosperity, in that it attracts business interests, which a large city, on account of scarceity of room, is unable to retain and at the same time affords a close market for its products.
The increase in the business interests of Hamilton during the past twenty years, has been study and substantial. There has been no "boom" and everything indicates a still greater increase in trade in the future.
There are Eighteen Dry Goods stores in Hamilton, doing a yearly busi- ness of between $600,000 and $700.000.
There are three National Banks each doing a prosperous business and each having a capital of $100,000.
There are four Building and Loan Associations with an aggregate cap- ital of $4,000,000. By their aid many have been enabled to own their homes in Hamilton, who would not otherwise.
There are published in this city, Two Daily, Three Weekly and Two Monthly newspapers and One German Weekly newspaper.
There are Eighteen Churches, viz: one Baptist, one Episcopal, one Evangelical German Protestant, one Jewish, one Lutheran, Three Meth- odist ¿Episcopal, two Presbyterian, one Reformed, three Roman Catholic one Universalist and two United Brethren.
There is a free circulating library, with upwards of 6,000 volumes and the number steadily increasing each year. Here can be found all the latest . works of History, Travel, Fiction, &c., together with the leading magazines and newspapers of the country.
Hamiiton has two organized brass bands, noted for their excellent music, two singing societies, two medical societies and a bar association.
There are eight miles of Electric Street Railway, furnishing rapid transit to all parts of the city.
Five patent medicine companies assist the doctors in relieving suffering humanity.
The bar is composed of forty-nine attorneys, who in ability, honesty and
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caraful attention to business, are the peers of any in the State and are a credit to our city. They manage to take care of the property rights of our citizens, while twenty-seven eminent physicians with the aid of eleven drug- gists take care of our bodily ailments.
There are six undertakers in Hamilton, all doing well.
Our city has for many years been noted for furnishing the best domestic cigar in the country. The yearly sales in the city, by fifteen dealers and manufacturers being over $2,500,000.
Eighty-three dressmakers and fourteen tailors with the assistance of eight milliners, eight hatters and thirty-seven shoe dealers managed to keep us clothed.
Eleven hotels. twenty-six boarding houses, thirteen restaurants and ninety-eight saloons furnish refreshments for the inner man.
Eighteen real estate agents are ready at any time to sell you cheap property, while only thirteen agents can give you insurance.
Of other industries in Hamilton, there are the following :
Barber shops,
20. Clothing renovators 3. Malsters 4 º
Bakeries,
15. Coal dealers
IO. Marble works 4.
Basket mfg's
2. Confectioners
6. Mattress mf'g'r 3.
Beer bottlers
3. Contractors
8. Music teachers
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Auctioneers
I. Daily Market
15. Painters
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Bending factories .
2. Dentists
7. Paper hangers 4.
Blacksmith shops
15. Feed stores
6. Photographers 5.
Book binders
2. Florists 3. Piano dealers 2.
Furniture dealers 6. Plasterers 3.
Booksellers and Stationers
9. Furnishing Goods . 12. Plumbers 3.
Brick layers
6. Gas fitters
3. Pump Dealers 6.
Brick manuf's
5. Hardware dealers
4. Roofers 3.
Business colleges .
2. Ice dealers Steam laundries
3. Slaughter houses 4.
4 Stoves and tinware. 7 .
Carpet weavers
7. Livery stables
II. Wagon makers 9.
Carpet dealers
5. Locksmiths
2. Jewelers
5.
Clothiers
6. Lumber dealers
IO. Wood dealers 6.
Nearly every industry is represented in Hamilton. They all seem to prosper. Everybody appears to be contented and while our city can get along very well as it is, there is room and a hearty welcome for all others who may wish to dwell with us.
There are three wholesale and eighty-six retail grocers, the retail
The fruit and berry trade in Hamilton has assumed increased propor- grocers alone, doing a business of upwards of $500,000 yearly.
tions,
2. Harness dealers . 5.
Carpenters and
Builders
19. Live stock dealers
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JAMES W. SEE.
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MANUFACTURES OF HAMILTON.
BY JAMES W, SEE.
I IN every community of people the wants of that community are supplied by the merchant who buys in quantities. But the results of this com- merce effect no change in the character of material handled. The merchant buys from abroad and retails at home. He brings no income from abroad.
But certain articles of supply can not be bought abroad, but require to be manufactured to suit the wants of users. The shoemaker procures the leather and other materials and fabricates it into the shoe to fit the foot of his customer. The shoemaker is thus a manufacturer, and his art is a creative one. Under his creative hand material changes its form and value, and he gives existence to an article that before had no existence. So also with the tailor, and the plow maker, and the wagon maker, and the blacksmith, and the carpenter. These manufacturers bring material from abroad and from it produce new things for home use. But they too fail to bring income from abroad.
But the manufacturer, whatever line he may be working in, may eventually find that the things that he makes are of such special merit that there is a demand for them away from home, and quite likely he will extend his business until we finally find him bringing material from abroad, manufacturing it into new articles, and sending the new articles abroad, thus finding liis market away from home; and we may in the end find that the outside markets have become so extensive as to cause him to give no further special attention to the home market. As a home manufacturer he advertises in the home newspapers and posts his bulletins upon the local boards, but his market grows upon him. He advertises in the news- papers of the world at large, and advances his banners of trade into all the marts of civilization.
There are many manufacturers in Hamilton, and the space at the command of the present historian is limited and the embarrassing question
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therefore presents itself: where shall the line be drawn? Shall this history · concern itself with every manufacturer in Hamilton? If so the history is too big to be written. But the history must be written, and it has been . determined that the line will be drawn to include only those manufacturing institutions whose principal market is away from home. It becomes the function of these establishments to send money abroad for raw material, put this material into newly created forms, and send the new creations abroad and bring back into the community much larger sums of money than were paid out for the material. This money is the profit of this community, and has built its streets, its houses, its public buildings, and has brought to it its population. This class of manufacturers creates the community, and the class of manufacturers not included in this history supply the local wants of this community but bring no money income from abroad. This history will therefore deal with those establishments whose principal market is found beyond the limits of Hamilton and beyond the limits of the county.
Having thus determined the scope of this history it is decided to deal · with each manufacturing establishment separately. A survey of the gen · eral field exhibits a magnificent line of manufactures in metal, wood, paper and wool, and special satisfaction is found in the fact that the goods pro- duced are of the highest order of merit. The markets of the world call for two distinct grades of articles, namely, those that are of the best, and those that are of the cheapest, regardless of quality. Both of these demands must be supplied, and each is equally respectable, but it is a matter of congratulation that full employment has been found for the industries of the town in producing articles of the highest grade. An ·example can not be called to mind of a Hamilton product seeking low grade markets.
Many of Hamilton's factories are of transplanted growth. The manu- facturer located in the large city has been surrounded by an extensive local market and has cultivated it highly, and has limited his horizon by it. His factory being located upon expensive property in the large city, and being often many stories high his work was done at a great disadvantage, his factory could not be conveniently extended, and his workmen would neces- sarily be of the tenement-house class to a great extent. Being prevailed upon to establish himself in Hamilton his eyes become opened to some startling facts. His factory is new and suited to his work; it is capable
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of unlimited extension ; all his expenses are low; his workmen all become property owners and live in their own homes. But the most startling fact remains to be noted. He has moved away from the local market of the large city which he so highly cultivated. He finds that instead of a home market he must seek a market abroad. He begins to study the map of the world, and is very much surprised to find how big it is; his horizon expands and he reaches out the tentacles of trade, and, instead of wasting his energies upon a local market, he finds himself independent of all special localities, and finds his goods reaching the ends of the earth. His business may grow to an extent without limit and he finds himself entirely indepen- dent of embarrassing local depressions in trade. He advertises abroad, and his goods become known throughout the length and breadth of the land. This is the true history of every manufacturer in Hamilton who has removed from a large city.
Another fact should be noted regarding the manufacturers located in Hamilton. There is no unfriendly competitive strife. Two manufacturers striving for supremacy in a local market are apt to have their personal relationship strained, but when the whole world becomes the market the fact is soon established that the world is big enough for peaceable and friendly work by all.
The success of Hamilton's factories is not due to the money that has been put into them, for money itself contains no element of successful venture ; nor is it due to the brain of the capitalist who controls the money and operates the factory, for a successful marketable produce is not the mere result of capital and of brain in managing that capital ; nor is it due to the salesman who makes the market for the product, for there must be the product before there can the sale; nor is it due to the designers a id inventors and engineers who contrive the product, for the mnost meritorious product will fail if not successfully disposed of; nor is it due to the mechan- ical skill of the workman, for such skill will always be idle if technical talent does not contrive things to be made, and business management does not provide the facilities for manufacturing and the facilities for getting the products upon the market. The success of Hamilton's factories is due to all of these things, to the splendid workmen, to the talented contrivers, to the magnificent business management and to the energetic salesman.
The success of individual factories, which will be pointed out in this history, awaits the newcomers. Hamilton locations, of superior advan-
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tages, are at the immediate disposition of enterprising manufacturers who desire to increase their facilities, better their workmen, improve their pro -- duct and extend their trade, and the present manufacturers of Hamilton. stand ready to welcome them with the right hand of fellowship and the- record of experience and success.
It is of interest to note the diversity of products of Hamilton's fac- tories, and the tendency of these products toward the formation of a complete economic system. An example may be found as you peruse the morning newspaper. The paper on which this newspaper is printed is made in Hamilton. The paper-making machines which fabricated the paper were made in Hamilton. The machinery which made the ink with which the printing is done was made in Hamilton. The engines which furnished the steam power for making the paper and for running the presses were made in Hamilton. The boilers which furnish the steam for the engines were made in Hamilton. The boiler-making machinery The steam employed in making the boilers was made in Hamilton.
pumps which supply the boilers with water were made in Hamilton. The saw-mills that produce the timbers of the paper mill and printing office- were made in Hamilton; and the iron working machinery employed in making the printing presses, and the paper-making machines, and the ink-making machinery and the engines were made in Hamilton. Massive- pumping engines for the water-works of cities are made in Hamilton. Treasure throughout the world is stored in safes and vaults made in. Hamilton. The evening drive is taken in buggies from the buggy fac- tories of Hamilton. The beautiful and artistic tiling which forms the mantel facing and the hearth of the home is made in Hamilton. The finest of woolen blankets are made in Hamilton. The running felts upon the paper-making machines are made in Hamilton. The furniture is made- in Hamilton. The wood-working machinery employed in making the furniture and employed in making the buggies is made in Hamilton. The spring mattresses of the beds are made in Hamilton. The overalls of the workmen are made in Hamilton. The stoves in the kitchens and living rooms are made in Hamilton. The canned fruits and vegetables are made in Hamilton. The cans that contain these articles are made in Hamilton The laundry machinery is made in Hamilton.
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THE WATER POWER OF HAMILTON.
"HE Miami River, the Great Miami River, runs directly through the city 7
of Hamilton, so also does the Miami and Erie Canal. There are two locks on the canal within the city, the surplus flow from which is utilized for power, one in running a paper mill and one in running a flour mill.
About 1843 a number of citizens, L. D. Campbell and John Woods being the leading spirits, determined to utilize in Hamilton the considerable fall of the river in the immediate neighborhood. Between four and five miles above the city a dam was erected and a canal was constructed leading from the dam to the city. A mile below the dam an impounding reservoir of nearly one hundred acres was provided. This is known as the Big Reservoir. Just. within the city limits a reservoir was provided of about fifteen acres, and known as the Little Reservoir. From this little reservoir a canal was con- structed about parallel with the river and running to Market Street, then called Stable Street. This canal constitutes the high level of the water power. Quite a number of manufacturing establishments are operated along this high level and take their water directly from this canal, discharging it into a tail-race which runs back to the river, starting back parallel with the canal, the city lying in a bend of the river. The fall from the high level canal, which is on Fifth Street, to this tail-race, which is on Lowell Street, is. about twelve feet. In the northern part of the city, at Mill Street, a latteral arm was built to the canal, running west toward the river and then turning down along near the river, on Water Street, to Market Street. This canal furnishes power to factories located at various points along its length, the waste water discharging directly to short raceways leading to the river, the fall being about twenty-seven feet. From the end of the high level canal on Fifth Street a canal was constructed through Market Street to the river, and. this canal furnishes the tail-race for powers located near the south end of the high level canal, the fall being ten feet. This Market Street forms also a low-level power canal. At the river end of the Market Street tail-race other powers were supplied with a fall of about eighteen and one-half feet. These various canals in the city have been locally christened "Hydraulics," a word probably employed to distinguish them from the Miami and Erie canal. A stranger lost in Hamilton will be told that High Street is one block beyond the "hydraulic." This Greek is good local English
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