(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 200 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE George A. Dornette has made his place of leadership an enduring and substantial one as a pleader and a counsellor. He has borne the responsibilities of many interesting problems that have been brought before the courts, and as an attorney he has expertly aided in their solution. He is a son of Henry Dornette, a native of Germany, who was a desk manufacturer throughout his life, and of Mary (Scherzer) Dornette, a native of Cincinnati, who died in 1901. George A. Dornette was born December 1, 1886, in Cincinnati, where he attended the public schools and the Woodward High School. Preparing for his profession in the Law School of Cincinnati University, he was graduated there in 1909 with his degree Bachelor of Laws. With his office at No. 717 Providence Bank Building, Mr. Dornette has been admitted to practice in all the courts in the State. Enlisting in the United States Army in December, 1917, Mr. Dornette was first assigned to Fort Morgan, Alabama, for the coast defense of Mobile ; and in June, 1918, he was commissioned second lieutenant of coast artillery, and assigned to Sandy Hook. In October of the same year, he was transferred to the 37th Regiment, 41st Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps, and with the American Expeditionary Forces, when he was commissioned first lieutenant of the Coast Artillery Corps at Camp Eustis. In January, 1919, he was placed on the Coast Artillery Reserve Corps, with the rank of first lieutenant. Fraternally, Mr. Dornette is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons in all bodies of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, including the Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; and with the Knights of Pythias, as Past Chancellor of Douglas Lodge, No. 21. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 5. His professional relationships are those of the Cincinnati Bar Association, American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, and Lawyers' Club ; and he is also a member of the Business Men's Club, the Chamber of Commerce, Western Hills GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 201 Country Club, Blaine Club, and American Legion. His leading hobby is baseball. George A. Dornette married, June 3o, 1919, Anna Lueders, who was born in Cincinnati, daughter of William H. Lueders, probate judge. ALBERT WIDMANN. The banker holds a strategic position in any community, understanding its business opportunties and needs, and conversant with the assets and liabilities of its citizens, and to this powerful group belongs Albert Widmann, cashier of the Western Bank and Trust Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Widmann was born in Cincinnati, April 1, 1868, son of Peter Widmann and his wife, Katherine (Thress) Widmann, both German born. The father was engaged for forty-eight years with the Moerlein Brewery Company until his death in 1898; the mother died in 1917. Albert Widmann was educated in the Cincinnati public grammar and high schools. His business career began early, when he was thirteen, in 1881, as messenger for the Western Bank and Trust Company. With them he has remained for forty-four years, rising through positions of many grades and finally receiving, in 1913, the appointment to the position of cashier which he still occupies. Thoroughness and loyalty are outstanding characteristics of Mr. Widmann, who has also well-balanced judgment and an excellent memory. He is a director of the bank he serves as cashier. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and of several clubs, including the Blaine, the Cincinnati Club, and the Cincinnati Bankers' Club. His hobby is baseball. He is a communicant of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Widmann married, in 1892, Pauline Johnen, and they are the parents of two children : Erna, and Albert J. Widmann. EDMUND DANIEL LYON. To no group of public servants is greater acclaim due than to educators, who devote their superior intelligence and years 202 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE of training to the direct preparation of the young for the business of right living. A leader of such a body in Cincinnati, Ohio, is Edmund Daniel Lyon, the able and constructive principal of Withrow High School, at Erie and Madison Roads. His whole life has been devoted to educational service, and he is a part of the march of progress throughout the country. Edmund D. Lyon was born in Martinsburg, Ohio, September 6, 1862, son of Aaron Jackson and Olive (Weatherby) Lyon. His preparation for a pedagogic career was thorough, including academic work at Ohio Wesleyan, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1882, and the higher distinction of Master of Arts twenty years later. In 1908 he received from Miami University the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy. Mr. Lyon's professional career has included the position of superintendent of schools at Berea, Ohio, 1888 to 1893; at Mansfield, 1893 to 1901; at Madisonville, 1901 to 1906; and thereafter work with individual schools of Cincinnati. He was principal of Woodward High School for six years, beginning in 1906, and at Hughes High School for seven years. In 1919 he began building up the school he now heads, where he has met with signal success. In addition to his regular duties, Mr. Lyon has also served as trustee of Ohio Wesleyan University; as president of the Ohio State Teachers' Association; also as president of the National Association of High School Principals. He is a member of the National Education Association and the Ohio State Teachers' Association. His political affiliation is with the Republican party, his religious with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Tree and Accepted Masons. On December 31, 1891, Edmund D. Lyon married Camilla Gallup, of Strongsville, Ohio, and they reside at No. 5505 Arnsby Place, Madisonville. JAMES ALBERT GREEN. No roster of significant figures in the Cincinnati that exists today nor that town which became Greater Cincinnati would be GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 203 complete without mention of James Albert Green, veteran newspaper man and executive in the iron and steel business, director in the Southern Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Company. James Albert Green was born in Melbourne, Province of Quebec, Canada, on December I, 1862, son of Joseph and Melissa (De Golyer) Green. His grandfather, Rev. James Green, came from England to Canada in the year 1842, and his father, a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, further distinguished by the possession of a Master's degree from that institution, was a successful merchant. Mrs. Green was descended from Anthony De Golyer, who came to America from France in 1754, settling at Frenchman's Corner, near Gloversville, New York. He and three sons were with the American forces in the campaign which ended in Burgoyne's surrender. James Albert Green attended Farmers' College, at College Hill, Ohio. His newspaper career began as reporter in 1882 on the Cincinnati "Gazette" and the Cincinnati "Commercial Gazette." From 1884 to 1890 he was city editor of the "Times Star." Since that time he has been in the iron and steel business, where his wide acquaintance and knowledge of city affairs and conditions have contributed materially to his success. Mr. Green is director of the Southern Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Company, trustee of the Cincinnati Public Library, a position he has held since 1892, and he has served on two civic commissions—that to build the Cincinnati General Hospital, and one to erect the Hamilton County Court House. He is a popular clubman, member of the Queen City Club, and the Literary Club of Cincinnati. He is a communicant of the Presbyterian Church. James Albert Green married, March 31, 1886, at College Hill, Louise Washburn Coy, daughter of Eliah W. and Georgiana (Harrington) Coy. Mr. and Mrs. Green are the parents of five children : Joseph Coy, born April 12, 1887; James Albert, born December 2, 1888 ; Harrington, born January 28, 1891; Robert Morris, born February 12, 1892; and Matthew Addy, born May 15, 1900. 204 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE MURRAY MARVIN SHOEMAKER. Prominent counsel in many of the vital law interests of Cincinnati and of the State, honored member of leading law associations and judge advocate in the World War both at home and abroad, Murray Marvin Shoemaker is a sterling representative of the Cincinnati bar, and one of the best known members of the legal fraternity in the State. He is active and influential, as well, in both business and political affairs, and a directing force in the work and progress of charitable and benevolent organizations. Mr. Shoemaker is a son of Murray Colgate Shoemaker, a native of Tiffin and a prominent attorney-at-law, whose death occurred in 1885, and of Frances (Barnum) Marvin, who was born at Ballston Spa, New York, and died in January, 1925. Murray Marvin Shoemaker was born September 6, 1874, in Saratoga Springs, New York, and he attended the public schools of Glendale, Ohio, and Saint John's School at Ossining, New York. His college course was with the class of 1896, in Yale College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree; and he prepared for his profession in the Albany Law School, Albany, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1899. Mr. Shoemaker has been admitted to all the courts in Ohio, as well as the Federal courts, and since his graduation he has practiced law in Cincinnati, with his offices at Nos. 1814-15 First National Bank Building. Mr. Shoemaker has always advocated civic and political measures whose purpose is that of advancing legal and community matters ; and he is a member of the Ohio State Board of Uniform State Laws, and was vice-president of the Cincinnati City Charter Commission in 1917. In the field of business, he is a member of the board of directors of the Federal Electric Company, the Webb Fuel Company, and the Webb Coal Mining Company; and he is president of L'Alliance Francaise of Cincinnati ; vice-president of the Associated Charities ; and a past president of the Anti-Tuberculosis League of Cincinnati. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 205 On June 18, 1918, Mr. Shoemaker was commissioned major in the judge-advocate general's department of the United States Army ; and he was first assigned to Washington, District of Columbia, and later to Camp MacArthur, Texas, where he served as camp judge-advocate on the staffs of Brigadier-General Hartmann and Major-General Buck. In January, 1919, he was transferred to general headquarters at Chaumont, France ; and he was detailed to the office of the acting judge-advocate general of the American Expeditionary Forces until July 8, 1919, when he was transferred to Paris, returning to Washington, and then receiving his discharge in October of that year with the rank of major. Fraternally, Mr. Shoemaker is affiliated with the Cincinnati Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, American Bar Association, National Probation Association, American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, and the Cincinnati Lawyers' Club ; also with Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, University clubs of Cincinnati and New York, Duckworth, The Pillars, and Miami clubs ; and the American Legion. His hobby is fishing. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. Murray Marvin Shoemaker married, June 29, 1911, Estelle Curtis Tullidge, a native of Cincinnati, and a graduate of Miss Peebles' and Miss Ely's schools, of New York. REV. LOUIS A. TIEMAN. Since March 1, 1918, the Rev. Louis A. Tieman has been the pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Cincinnati, and the leading spirit of the community in which his parish lies. The years of unremitting toil which Father Tie-man has given to his work in this part of the city have brought forth abundant fruit. Few priests in Cincinnati have been able to raise the large sums of money which he has gathered and put to use in renovating and building edifices which house the various departments of his church work, and in maintaining the many charities which lie close to his heart. 206 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Father Tieman was born in Cincinnati, on March 4, 1870, son of John G. and Mary A. (Brunklaus) Tieman. His father came to the United States in 1825, when twenty years of age, and after landing in Baltimore, he went to Cincinnati, where he was employed as a mechanic by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad for thirty years. Louis A. Tieman began his education at St. Lawrence's Parochial School, later attending St. Xavier College. In the meantime, he had decide to devote his life to the service of the Church, and entered Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West, at Price Hill, Cincinnati, to engage upon his theological studies. His ordination took place on December 8, 1893, and he was placed at Holy Trinity Church, Cincinnati, as assistant pastor. At the expiration of two years, he was transferred to St. Mary's Church, where he served for two years. For a like period, he was stationed at St. Augustine's Church, and on March I, 1900, was named by his bishop as pastor of St. Rose's Church. This parish he shepherded for eighteen years, until his appointment to his present charge. When Father Tieman took charge of his parish of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it was carrying a debt of $23,350. Its history dates back to July, 1870, when the Rev. Joseph Goebbles was appointed as its first head. At that time a lot was secured on the corner of Marshall and Massachusetts avenues, with a frontage of one hundred and six feet on Marshall Avenue and a depth of two hundred feet on Massachusetts Avenue. The first building erected on this site was a two-story combination church and school. The next year Father Kemper assumed charge of the parish and during his incumbency the priest's house on the corner of Massachusetts and Heywood avenues went up. In May, 1875, the Rev. H. Paul began his pastorate at this new center, and carried the church through very difficult and troublous times. When Father Paul died on March 29, 1884, the Rev. J. M. Feldmann became his successor. He found a debt of over $9,000 on the property and set himself to free his people from this burden. Success was his, and in less than GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 207 two years he had cancelled their every financial obligation. The parish was now steadily growing, and larger numbers made more commodious quarters a necessity. An adjoining lot was purchased on Heywood Avenue, and the years 1888 and 1889 saw the completion of the new church on Marshall Avenue. The next development was a ten-room school house on the adjoining Heywood Avenue property in 1894. A home for the Sisters had been erected in the meantime on a lot at the corner of Heywood and Massachusetts avenues. In 1886, the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg, Indiana, had taken charge of the school, and their home was completed in 1891. So the work has developed. In 1870, the parochial school of this parish consisted of one class room and thirty-two scholars. The teaching force, which began with three Sisters, now numbers eighteen, and the fifteen class rooms accommodate the six hundred pupils enrolled. The year 1920 was their Golden Jubilee. On April 25, the fiftieth anniversary of the Men's Society held an inspiring celebration, a procession of over a thousand men being one of the memorable features. All this rapid growth with its demands for more space had brought the debt by this time up beyond the twenty thousand dollar mark. On October 17, 1920, as another event of the Jubilee year, the Most Rev. Archbishop and numerous priests participated in the Golden Jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving. The church debt was cancelled and improvements amounting to $18,000 were made and paid for. Again in 1921, new property acquisitions were made when a fine stretch of land, fifty-five by two hundred and twenty-five feet, came into their hands. Still on the forward march, this Camp Washington parish marked the year 1924 by marvelous changes. The Marshall Avenue school, erected in 1870, was demolished and a children's playground was laid out on its site. The Gothic church was re-frescoed, and the Heywood School remodelled at a combined cost of $27,000. But the crowning achievement was the erection of a beautiful auditorium and new addition to the school, $10o,000 being paid down for the work. The most recent work was the reno- 208 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE vation, in 1925, of the home for the Sisters. It is now one of the most commodious, and with its pretty chapel, one of the most complete in the city. Father Tieman's Parish of Camp Washington numbers six hundred families, three thousand souls. To them all he is not only the spiritual head, but friend and counselor as well. He is deeply interested in things that concern his people and influence the development of his young people and children; education, good literature, good plays in the theatres, playgrounds to keep the children off the street, and, of course, care of the needy. His capable assistant is the Rev. F. Bernard Iding, also a native of Cincinnati. His civic service is recognized by these words of an official of the parish : "Father Tie-man is keeping up this dear old section of Cincinnati by keeping up a first class school and church." ESTEL OTIS SMITH, M. D. Prominent in Cincinnati because of his high professional standing, his long connection with the medical department of the University of Cincinnati, and his happy social temperament is Dr. Estel Otis Smith. He was born in Rushville, Indiana, February 2, 1871, son of George Washington and Josephine Smith. His father was a prosperous farmer, and from him and his early country environment, Dr. Smith inherited a sturdy body and vigorous health, as well as an optimistic outlook on life. His primary education was obtained in the local public schools, and he continued his schooling at Valparaiso Normal and at De Pauw University. His medical training was procured at the Medical College of Ohio, which he completed in 1896, and supplemented by post-graduate work in the best of European clinics. His whole business career has been given over to the practice of his profession as physician and surgeon, and he has been professor of Urology at the University of Cincinnati since 1908. He is a Democrat in political GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 209 sympathies and a member of the Phi Kappa Psi and Nu Sigma Nu fraternities. Dr. Smith also finds time for active club life and is a member of the Rotary Club of Cincinnati, which he served for three years as director ; of the Business Men's Club, and of the Maketewah Country Club. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His hobby is golf. Dr. Smith married in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 4, 1901, Eugenia Bradley, daughter of Henry Clay and Elizabeth Bradley. Dr. and Mrs. Smith are the parents of three children : Elizabeth Lucille Smith, born April 16, 1904; Bradley Haddon Smith, born October 21, 1906; and Eugenia Josephine Smith, born October 17, 1914. EDWARD D. SCHORR. Promoting by his example and activities the highest interests of the legal profession in Cincinnati and throughout the State, Edward D. Schorr has always shared prominently as a counsel in law matters in his native city, and in his representation of foremost corporations, he has at the same time benefited the public in general by an efficient, prudent and capable service. His associations with the bar of the State, both fraternally and as an attorney-at-law, are those of progress and leadership. He is also an influential factor in military matters. Edward D. Schorr, a son of Adam Schorr, at one time in the courthouse employ, but now deceased, and of Amelia (Messerschmitt) Schorr, was born October 14, 1893, in Cincinnati, where he attended the public and the high schools. He then attended the University of Cincinnati, and later prepared for his profession at the Young Men's Christian Association Law School, and with the firm of Renner & Renner. With his admission to the bar in 1916, Mr. Schorr commenced a general law practice, and has so continued to the present. His offices are located in the Citizens' National Bank Building, where he is attorney for the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners. He is also president of the John J. Bruce Foundry Cin.-14 210 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Company, and secretary and member of the board of directors of the Cincinnati Electric Building Company. During the World War, Mr. Schorr was assistant division adjutant for the 83d Division, with the rank of captain, and he received his discharge with that rank, January 3, 1919. He is now captain in the 329th Infantry, Organized Reserves. A Republican in his political activities, Mr. Schorr, with his vote and influence, supports the principles of that party. He is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, Lawyers' Club, Business Men's Club, Chamber of Commerce, Blaine Club, Clovernook Country Club, and Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. His hobbies consist of fishing and the breeding of German police dogs. Captain Edward D. Schorr married, May 12, 1917, Ada Renner, of Cincinnati, and they are the parents of Edward D., Jr., a pupil in Miss Waterman's Private School. SAMUEL R. MEYER. It is a pleasure to read the biography of a successful self-made man. Peculiar honor attaches to that individual who, beginning the great struggle of life alone and unaided, gradually overcomes environment, removes one by one the obstacles in the pathway to success, and by the master stroke of his own force and vitality succeeds in forcing his way to the front and winning for himself a position of esteem and influence among his fellow citizens. Such a man is Samuel R. Meyer, who, playing a large part in the prosperous financial development of Cincinnati, Ohio, is active in its civic interests, and president of the Meyer, Wise & Kaichen Company. For thirty years he has made his dynamic personality a factor in the life of the community, and he is to-day regarded as a leader in worthwhile advancement. His paternal ancestry is of Prussian extraction, though his father was a citizen of the United States. Samuel R. Meyer was born in Memphis, Tennessee, December 15, 1857, son of Jacob and Hannah Meyer. During his mi- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 211 nority his father and mother, with two of their seven children, fell victims to an epidemic of yellow fever in 1873, and the young man was left in charge of the five surviving members. His educational opportunities were limited to an early public school course. At the age of eleven he was employed as cash boy with the firm of Menken Brothers, with whom he remained ten years. During the yellow fever trial of 1878, he played a heroic part in caring for Nathan Menken, head of the firm, also his guardian, who was stricken with the dread disease, until his death. When the junior member of the firm, Leopold Iglauer, also fell ill, Mr. Meyer cared for him, and as he convalesced brought him to Cincinnati, where Mr. Iglauer was cared for in the homes of his brother, Arnold Iglauer, and of his brother-in-law, Nathan Stix. But Mr. Iglauer suffered a relapse and died. During this yellow fever epidemic in 1878, Mr. Meyer had full charge of Menken Brothers stores of nine floors, for over a period of sixty days. During this terribly trying time Mr. Meyer was also active in relief work, furnishing large quantities of supplies for the relief of fever victims. To the hospitals, also, he gave personal service, receiving and answering telegrams and letters of inquiry from refugees and non-residents concerning relatives and friends. Some of these highly prized messages are still owned by Mr. Meyer. Mr. Meyer rendered splendid service to the stricken city and cared for his own family of little brothers and sisters. At the earnest solicitation of Messrs. Stix and Iglauer, the following year Mr. Meyer moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to begin employment with the firm of Louis Stix & Company as stock-keeper. During his eight years with them he was steadily advanced to positions of greater responsibility. For a time he had an interest with the firm of H. & G. Feder, wholesale dealers in notions and furnishing goods. In 1887, Mr. Meyer joined Mr. Wise and Mr. Kaichen in organizing the firm of Meyer, Wise & Kaichen, of which he is today president. The business was almost instantly successful. Although it began modestly, it now ranks as the largest of its kind in the United 212 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE States, occupying a fine building eight stories high, with a total floor space of nearly 100,000 square feet. Over sixty employees are on the pay roll, the stock is complete and well selected, and the patronage in the Southwest, the South, and the Central West gratifyingly large. This success is due to the personality of the firm members, and particularly to the energy, resourcefulness, and sterling integrity of its president. Many activities outside his business interest has Mr. Meyer, who is a tower of strength to civic, social and philanthropic movements. He has rendered valuable service as a member of the ways and means committee of the Cincinnati Commercial Association, is a member and director of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, and was a director of the Chamber of Commerce, also very active in the Business Men's Club. He is a member of many organizations and a contributor to every charity organization in the city, as well as every civic movement for the betterment and happiness of the citizens of Greater Cincinnati. In political matters Mr. Meyer votes for the men and the measures which he considers are to the best interests of all the people of his city, State and nation. He is a member of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, is affiliated with the Plum Street Temple, and serves as trustee and treasurer of same. Among his varied philanthropies, in which he is unusually generous, are the United Jewish Charities, the Altenheim, of which he is a member and supporter, the Jewish Hospital, and the Home for the Aged and Infirm. He is a contributor to the Jewish Orphan Asylum, at Cleveland, Ohio, and to the Jewish Hospital at Denver, Colorado, for his heart is larger than his own city. He contributes liberally to the Community Chest and other charities of Cincinnati. He finds enjoyment and relaxation in motoring and golf. Thus Mr. Meyer finds himself at the pinnacle of an eminent career, whose steep ascent he has planned and managed alone, and the general esteem in which he is held is a reward to the fineness of his ideals and accomplishments. Mr. Meyer has given of the best of his talents to the world and to aiding his fellowmen. He is a man GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 213 of impressive personality, broadminded, and has had the characteristics which ever beget esteem, confidence and friendship. Viewing his life in its perspective, none can fail to have an appreciation of what he has accomplished. He will ever be remembered as a sincere, kindly and public spirited man of affairs. Samuel R. Meyer married, June 16, 1880, Ernestine Newman, daughter of Mrs. Mary Newman, of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer were the parents of four children, of whom two survive : Marie, wife of Max Joseph, and the mother of two children, Jean and Erna; and Lawrence, who is associated in business with his father. JAMES H. CLEVELAND. The legal fraternity of Cincinnati lists among those of its younger members the name of James H. Cleveland, whose associations in the life of the city include close touch with the progress of the Episcopal Church. He was born in Glendale, Ohio, August 28, 1894, son of Harlan Cleveland, who was born in Augusta, Kentucky, and was district attorney in Cincinnati for several years, where he engaged in the practice of law for over twenty years. He died in 1907. James H. Cleveland's mother, Grace (Matthews) Cleveland, is the daughter of Stanley Matthews, Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Cleveland was educated in the public schools of Glendale, the Howe School, of Howe, Indiana, and he attended Princeton University for two years, in 1916 graduating from Columbia University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and from Harvard Law School, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in the class of 1922. He was admitted to practice in the State and Federal courts and after teaching school for one year in Kent School, Kent, Connecticut, began law practice in Cincinnati, locating at 1605 Union Trust Building, where he has since remained. James H. Cleveland enlisted in the United States Army. 214 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE April, 1917, and attended the First Training Camp at Plattsburg. Commissioned second lieutenant, United States Infantry, in August, 1917, he was transferred to Camp Upton, where he was assigned to the 3o6th United States Infantry, and served overseas nine months with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He took part in the action in the Baccarat Sector, and the Aisne-Vesle, and Aisne offensives, being wounded in action and invalided back from the front, September 6, 1918. He was discharged February, 1919, with rank of first lieutenant, and had received a divisional citation. He is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Lawyers' Club, Disabled American Veterans, the University Club, and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. In politics he is a Democrat, and attends the Episcopal Church, in which he was a member of the Vestry of Christ Church, Glendale, Ohio, and secretary of the Trustees of the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Mr. Cleveland's favorite recreations are golf, tennis, and football. James H. Cleveland married June 7, 1919, Elizabeth Mc-Laren, who was born in Detroit, Michigan, and they are the parents of three daughters : Helen McLaren, Grace Elizabeth, and Betty Lee. LOUIS SCHWAB, M. D. "Dr. Schwab, skilled physician, useful citizen, lover of children, friend of man," thus was characterized in a public testimonial Dr. Louis Schwab, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Most physicians are content with efficient and kindly performance of their professional duties. This was only the beginning of Dr. Schwab's service to his fellows, for he gave himself unstintedly to the furtherance of the welfare of the schools, of the municipal government and all civic activities, and of public health facilities. Louis Schwab was born in Cincinnati, November 26, 185o, son of Mathias and Solomena (Yeck) Schwab. The father, born in 1808, near Freiburg, Baden, Germany, came to GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 215 Cincinnati early in 183o and established himself as a pipe organ manufacturer, an industry to which he devoted himself to his death in 1865, when he was survived by his widow, born in 182o near Basel; Switzerland, and six children. Mathias Schwab, the oldest son, was captain of a city fire department and lost his life in the burning of the old Mercantile Library in 1869; Vincent Schwab, a lawyer and justice of the peace, is now deceased;- Louis is the subject of this record ; George is now deceased ; Edward, once judge of the Police Court, is now deceased ; Emanuel is a practicing physician. The three oldest sons served in the army during the Civil War. Dr. Louis Schwab attended the public schools, and St. Xavier College for two years. He then clerked in a general store in West Liberty, Ohio. Returning to Cincinnati, he was a drug apprentice until he secured his pharmacist's license after studying at Cincinnati College; this in 1874. During the next five years he operated a drug store in Cumminsville in order to obtain funds to meet the expenses of medical training. He studied medicine at Ohio Medical College, now a department of the University of Cincinnati, interning for a year at City Hospital, and receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1883. Since that year, until the illness which just preceded his death, he has practiced his profession in Cummins-vine. He made friends of his clients, of whose health interests he was most careful and conscientious, and held a high place in the esteem of Cincinnati doctors. He was often chosen to represent them in public addresses and served, once, as president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, in 1898, and also of the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, the Union District Medical Society, and the Ohio State Medical Society. During the Fleischman administration he was appointed to serve as a member of the Board of Medical Directors of the City Hospital with Dr. A. B. Isham and Dr. C. R. Holmes, and he was later appointed a member of the Cincinnati Pharmacy Commission. 216 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE This well-rounded professional career by no means completed his services to his fellow-citizens. A Republican, he was in 1898 chosen coroner of Hamilton County, a position to which he was in 1900 reelected. The City Republican Convention chose him chairman in 1897. His election in 1904 to a two-year term on the Board of Education resulted in a reelection for a four-year term. That service gave place to his election in 1910 to the office of mayor of Cincinnati, which he filled to the eminent satisfaction of his constituency. From 1916 until his death he was on the School Board, part of the time as vice-president. He was once president of the Union Board of High Schools; was a member of the Cincinnati Charter Commission; a member of Draft Board No. 10; director of the Provident Loan Company ; and a member of the City Planning Commission. Death came to him June 4, 1926, in his seventy-sixth year. Dr. Schwab was associated with many organizations, including the North Side Business Club; the 5th Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Grand Army of the Republic, as an honorary member; and the following fraternal bodies : Hoffner Lodge, No. 253, Free and Accepted Masons ; Cumminsville Chapter, No. 158, Royal Arch Masons ; Cincinnati Commandery, No. 3, Knights Templar ; Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Cincinnati, Orient of Ohio ; Syrian Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; and the Society of Past Masters. Cincinnati University, on November 6, 192o, bestowed on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. On October 22, 1885, Louis Schwab married Fannie Sheppard, daughter of Edwin J. and Mary Jane Sheppard, of Cincinnati. The father was then cashier of the Amazon Insurance Company. Mrs. Schwab died May 4, 1891. Children : 1. Mathias, born August 3o, 1886, graduate of the College of Pharmacy and at present in the employ of the United States Government in the department of virus serum control, Bureau of Animal Industry, also a graduate of Cincinnati Veterinary College. 2. Nelson, a biography of whom follows. 3. Abi- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 217 gail, born November 16, 1889, a graduate of Woodward High School, Western College at Oxford, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts; until recently connected with the Vocational Bureau of the Cincinnati Public School, serving now in the Child Labor Division as placement secretary. All Cincinnati united in mourning the loss of so devoted and constructive a citizen, Mayor Seasongood ordering the flag on City Hall hung at half mast, and Dr. Condon, superintendent of schools, addressing a memorial service to him held by the city schools. The following excerpts from an editorial convey the popular estimate of Dr. Schwab and his work : Though devoted to the practice of his profession, medicine, Dr. Schwab, characteristically American, took a keen and active interest in public affairs generally, and of public affairs of the city in particular. He was the friend of the common schools and of all civic interests ; a sane, dependable, conservative citizen, whose life view accentuated effort for progress and development in his immediate community environment. Dr. Schwab was a man of sterling worth and a valuable asset to his home city. As official chief administrator of its affairs he demonstrated efficiency and faithfulness. Dr. Condon said : From his "house by the side of the road," he has gone forth for many years to heal men's bodies and to comfort their souls—the well-loved doctor, kind of heart, gentle of spirit ; tender, sympathetic, strong and helpful ; a disciple of the Great Physician—he gave himself for others. NELSON SCHWAB. Well and favorably known throughout Ohio is Nelson Schwab, a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, member of the firm of Clore, Schwab & McCaslin, with offices in the Provident Bank Building. Mr. Schwab has been active in public life, as well as in military service during the World War. 218 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE He was born in Cincinnati, June 9, 1888, son of Dr. Louis Schwab (q. v.), and his wife, Fannie (Sheppard) Schwab. His father was a practicing physician. Nelson Schwab was educated in the Cincinnati public schools and completed his academic training at Miami University with the class of 1912, receiving his baccalaureate degree. His legal education was obtained from Cincinnati Law College, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1915. Admitted to the bar that same year, he began to practice under the firm name of Schwab & McCaslin. With a somewhat changed personnel, the firm became Clore, Clayton, Schwab & McCaslin in 1916, and at the withdrawal of Mr. Clayton, assumed its present title of Clore, Schwab & McCaslin. The firm has played an important part in litigation in large affairs and stands high with the community because of a reputation for integrity and devotion to the interests of clients. Nelson Schwab is affiliated with the Republican party. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1917 and 1918. On June I, 1919, he entered the office of the county prosecuting attorney, where he was soon elevated to the position of first assistant in charge of the criminal division, and he remained there until April 15, 1924, when he resigned. During the World War, Mr. Schwab served in the 40th Field Artillery. His fraternal affiliations are with Oxford Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; and the Beta Theta Pi and the Phi Delta Phi fraternities. Mr. Schwab married, September 15, 1917, Frances M. Carlile, of Columbus, Ohio, daughter of William Searle and Abigail (Cott) Carlile. To Mr. and Mrs. Schwab were born the following children : Nelson, Jr., born July 19, 1918 ; Louis, born August 26, 1919 ; and Dorothy Carlile, born June 19, 1923. HARRY BRENT MACKOY. The Mackoy family is of Scotch extraction, descended probably from the Highland Clan Mackay, living in the extreme GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 219 north of Scotland, a warlike group said to have had a fighting force at one time of four thousand men. The American progenitor, James Mackoy, migrated to Virginia after the unsuccessful insurrection of the Earl of Mar and settled in King William County, with his widowed mother and two sisters, some time before 1718, and engaged in farming. He married Sarah Gresham, daughter of Charles and Anna (Lawrence) Gresham, of King and Queen County, and they were the parents of two sons: James and John; and two daughters. The line was carried by their son James, who married Martha, daughter of Benjamin Roberts; their son, John Mackoy (2), who moved westward until he settled finally on a farm in Greenup County, Kentucky, on the bank of the Ohio River, and who married Lavinia Fuqua, daughter of Captain Moses Fuqua, ranking as second lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army, and wife Judith (Woodson) Fuqua, of French Huguenot extraction, residing in Charlotte County, Virginia; their son, John Mackoy (3), born September 8, 1802, grandfather of the subject of this biographical record, Harry Brent Mackoy. John Mackoy settled in Covington, Kentucky, in 1830, where he lived until his death, on April 6, 1882. He was a part of every phase of community development—a member of the first city council, serving ten years, a director of the company which built the Covington and Lexington turnpike, from 1840 until his death ; deputy clerk of both the circuit and county courts from 1840 to 1854. He was director of the Northern Bank of Kentucky from 1843 until his death and for more than thirty years an elder in the First Presbyterian Church. John Mackoy married Elizabeth Gravit Hardia, daughter of William Hardia, formerly of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Elizabeth (Timberlake) Hardia, his wife. They were the parents of seven children, among whom was William Hardia Mackoy, father of Harry Brent Mackoy. William Hardia Mackoy was born in Covington, Kentucky, on November 20, 1839, was educated in local private schools and graduated at the University of Virginia with the 220 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE degree of Master of Arts. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1866, thereafter practising his pr0fession in Ohio and Kentucky until his death on September 14, 1923. In 1890-91 he was a member 0f the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, serving on the Committees 0n Corporations and Municipalities, drafting the articles of the constitution relating to those subjects. In 1901 he was elected the first president of the Kentucky State Bar Association. For six years, from 1883 to 1889, he served as a member of the Covington City Council. In 1896 he was delegate to the Sound Money Democratic Convention at Indianapolis, and in 1899 to the Independent Democratic State Convention, held at Lexington, Kentucky. A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Mackoy always fought free silver. Mr. Mackoy was a member of the Filson Club of Louisville, Kentucky, of the Kappa Alpha (Northern) Fraternity, honorary member of the Literary Club of Cincinnati, of which he had been a member since 1887 and president in 1901-02. He was also a founder and one of the trustees of the Kentucky Tax Reform Association, and a member of the American Bar, of the Kenton County Bar, and of the Cincinnati Bar Association. Mr. Mackoy was a member and an elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Covington, Kentucky. He married, November 18, 1868, Margaret Chambers Brent, of Paris, Kentucky, daughter of Hugh Innes Brent and his wife, Margaret Chambers Brent. William Hardia and Margaret C. (Brent) Mackoy were the parents of three children : Lewis Dixon, who died June 8, 1897; Harry Brent, of further mention ; Elizabeth Cary, wife of Rev. Edmund T. Jillson, Rector of Holy Trinity Parish, Hertford, North Carolina. Harry Brent Mackoy was born in Covington, Kentucky, July 18, 1874. He prepared for college in private schools in his native city and attended the University of Virginia for one session, 1890-91. In 1894 he graduated from Yale University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and he completed his legal training at the University of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 221 Mackoy was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio and Kentucky in 1897 and has since 1899 been active before both State and Federal courts. For many years he was a member of the firm of Mackoy & Mackoy, of which his father, William H. Mackoy, was senior partner. The business has consisted principally of corporation law and the management of estates. He is director of and attorney for various corporations, including the Central Savings Bank and Trust Company of Covington, Kentucky. Mr. Mackoy has been a member and vice-president of the school board of Covington and is now a member and vice-president of the board of trustees of the Covington Public Library. During the World War, Mr. Mackoy served from June, 1917, to January I, 1919, in Covington, Kentucky, as "Four-Minute Man" ; precinct chairman, first Red Cross War Fund campaign ; city chairman, Young Men's Christian Association, War Fund campaign; member of executive committee in Red Cross Membership Drive; member of executive committee and chairman of county organization committee ; second Red Cross War Fund campaign ; member of Legal Advisory Board of Kenton County; member of British and Canadian Recruiting Committee for Cincinnati ; member of Military Entertainment Council for Kentucky; chairman, legal aid committee for Red Cross and Council of Defense; chairman, Kenton County Young Men's Christian Association War Recruiting Committee; chairman, county committee for National War Savings drive; member of Council of Defense ; member of Civilian Relief Committee of Red Cross ; registrar for selective service registrants in Tranter's Precinct, Kenton County; local field examiner for Bureau of War Risk Insurance, Treasury Department; member of advisory committee for the U. S. Military Training Camps Association, Southern Ohio Division ; member of executive committee, Kenton County Chapter, American Red Cross ; member of executive committee for Red Cross Christmas Membership Roll. Mr. Mackoy is affiliated with many professional and fraternal, social and cultural organizations. He is a Mason, a member of the Delta Kappa Ep- 222 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE silon academic fraternity and president for several years of the Cincinnati Alumni Association of that fraternity; he is also a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and was president of the local chapter. At Yale he was a member of the Wolf's Head Senior Society. He is a member of the American Law Institute, of the bar associations of Cincinnati and Kenton County (Kentucky) ; also of the Kentucky State, Ohio State, and American Bar associations. He has held executive office in some of these, and is ex-president of the Ohio Society, Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Ohio. At the present time he is president of the New England Society of Cincinnati. In addition, Mr. Mackoy is enrolled in the Literary Club of Cincinnati, of which he is ex-president; the University Club of Cincinnati, of which he was an organizer ; the Fort Mitchell Country Club ; the Industrial Club of Covington; the Filson Club, of Louisville. He is an elder of the First Presbyterian Church, of Covington, Kentucky. Harry Brent Mackoy married, on November 18, 1905, in Covington, Kentucky, Ruth Barrington Simrall, daughter of Charles Barrington Simrall, a prominent lawyer, and Isabelle Downing (Price) Simrall, of his native city. Mr. and Mrs. Mackoy are the parents of four children : Harry Brent, Jr., born October 18, 1906; Margaret Barrington, born July 26, 1908; Ruth Simrall, born March 12, 1916; Isabel Bartow, born June 8, 1922. CHARLES BERNARD RATTERMANN. Because of his lifelong residence and continuous interest in the business, the community and the civic affairs of Cincinnati, Charles Bernard Rattermann shares very conspicuously in the present-day history of the city, a moulder of the affairs of its manufacturing and mercantile life, a successful man in all business lines wherein his name is so well and so prominently designated. Very closely allied with Cincinnati's leadership GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 223 in mercantile and business advancement, and factors therein that have won most satisfactory opinions from business sources throughout the State and from beyond its borders, the Charles B. Rattermann enterprises, inclusive of the wholesaling and retailing of carpets and curtains, are the result of Mr. Rattermann's practical purpose and foresight in the large field of activity that he has been the means of developing. Mr. Rattermann is a son of John Henry Rattermann, who came to Cincinnati with his parents, where he later engaged in the tobacco business under the firm name of Wayne and Rattermann ; and he also was the founder, in 1885, of the Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco Company. John Henry Rattermann, who died in March, 1907, aged sixty-eight years, married Wilhelmina Beitman, who died in 1890, aged fifty years ; and they were the parents of the following children, all of whom are living but one, Estelle ; the others : Edwin; Oscar F.; Antoinette ; Dr. Frank L. ; Adelle ; Clarence ; Marie. Charles Bernard Rattermann was born February 23, 1867, in Cincinnati, where he attended the 21st District Public School, the Mount Auburn School, the Woodward High School for a year, and a private school. In 1893, Mr. Rattermann, with his brother, Oscar F. Rattermann, founded the business of Charles B. Rattermann and Brother, wholesalers and retailers of carpets and curtains, at first at the corner of Race Street and Opera Place, later removing to No. 430 Race Street. The concern was located here for nine years, and outgrowing these quarters, removed to the present headquarters, No. 630 Race Street, occupying the entire building of eight floors, with a warehouse at No. 237 West Court Street. In March, 1925, the business was incorporated as The Charles B. Rattermann and Brother Company, and has since continued in business under this name. Fraternally, Mr. Rattermann is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; and he is a member of the Business Men's, the Automobile, and the Rotary clubs. His hobby is baseball ; he played on the high school team, and he was one of the very first to throw a curved ball. 224 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Charles Bernard Rattermann married, October 14, 1891, Estelle Marie Bodemer, daughter of William and Louise (Knagge) Bodemer ; and they are the parents of : 1. Herbert Henry, enlisted in the 16th Engineers Corps in the World War, and was one of the first in service overseas, sailing on the "Tuscania." He was five months with his corps, receiving the commission of lieutenant while in active service and later being promoted to captain ; now associated with his father in business. 2. Louise Estelle, married Eldridge Hannaford, an architect. VINCENT HENRY BECKMAN. With the best traditions of the bar behind him, Vincent Henry Beckman has achieved the distinction at the Cincinnati bar which was his due. He was born in Saint Henry, Mercer County, Ohio, December 1, 1879. His father, Judge John G. Beckman, was born in Mercer County, Ohio, where he died in April, 1897, at the age of fifty-three, while serving as judge of that county. His mother was Catherine Beckman, also born in Mercer County ; she died at Celina, Ohio, in September of 1920. Judge Beckman and his wife were the parents of ten children, five of whom are still living, namely : Rose, Leo, Mark, Viola, and Vincent. One of the sons, Clem, was killed in the World War, where he served as sergeant in the Intelligence Department. In 1807, during the Napoleonic wars, the great-grandfather of Vincent H. Beckman, Gerhard Beckman, then a young man, immigrated to this country and located in Cincinnati. Later on, he became one of the pioneers of Northern Ohio, moving to what is now the southern part of Mercer County. He was the first white settler in that territory. Vincent H. Beckman attended the public schools, Miami University, and the University of Cincinnati, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1905 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1905 and immediately after located in Cincinnati, and has practiced law ever since in the Queen City. He assisted in GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 225 the organization of the Banking Department of the State of Ohio, and was its attorney at the time it was organized. He is a Democrat in politics, and was a delegate to the National Convention that nominated Woodrow Wilson for President in St. Louis in 1916, and was also a delegate to the National Convention in New York in 1924. He was chairman of the Hamilton County Central and Executive Committee, and also of the advisory committee for ten years until in 1926 he declined to serve longer. He is a member of the Cincinnati Club ; the Knights of Columbus ; the Cuvier Press Club ; the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce ; and the Western Hills Country Club. He is also a member of the Hamilton County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. Although the father of six children, he, nevertheless, finds opportunity to devote considerable time to the orphans. For a number of years he was president of the St. Aloysius' Orphan Society, and during his incumbency he introduced numerous innovations, including recreation rooms and playground equipment to add sunshine to the lives of the boys and girls, and he also instituted a high school course in their curriculum in order to enlarge the scope of their activities. Mr. Beckman was married, in Cincinnati, January 15, 1915, to Irene Gertrude Hummel, a native of Cincinnati, and daughter of Joseph and Christine Hummel. His wife's father, who is now eighty-eight years of age, until his recent retirement, was treasurer of The Eagle-Picher Lead Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her mother died in 1915. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Beckman are : Vincent H., Jr. ; Mary Elizabeth ; Paul Clem ; Irene Gertrude; John J.; and Robert. The office address of Mr. Beckman is Nos. 1617-19 First National Bank Building, Cincinnati. His home address is No. 535 Purcell Avenue, Price Hill. TRAVIS CARROLL, M. D. For more than four decades Dr. Carroll has been a highly successful and greatly valued medical adviser to that large Cin.-15 226 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE group of men, women and children of Cincinnati amongst whom he has carried on his general practice of medicine. He was born in Tennessee, March 29, 1861, a son of Philip F. and Annie (Travis) Carroll, his father being a manufacturer. Travis Carroll was educated in the public schools of Louisville, Kentucky, and then attended Ohio Medical College, now the medical department of the University of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1883 with the degree of M. D. He then commenced the general practice of medicine in Cincinnati where he has followed his profession ever since. During the World War he was a member of the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Association, and the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. His religious affiliations are with the Roman Catholic Church. Dr. Carroll was married, in Cincinnati, in 1883, to Miss Mary McKeown. They are the parents of two children : Harry Ralph and Mary Elinor. The former was born in 1889, and after graduating from the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati in 1912 with the degree of M. D., became associated with his father in the practice of medicine at No. 113 West Seventh Street. JOSEPH SAMUEL TREVOR. A broad-gauged business man and citizen, Joseph Samuel Trevor, secretary and treasurer of the H. and S. Pogue Company, Cincinnati, participated in the many-faceted community life. Through the impetus given by his genius and his spirit grew up one of the largest department stores of that section, a stimulant to general business. His part in municipal government was actual and constructive. He was a social asset and popular in club and fraternal gatherings. In fact, he entered into the diverse elements that went to the making of a greater Cincinnati. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 227 Joseph Samuel Trevor was born in Ireland, November 13, 1859, and was educated in the public and private schools of that country. When seventeen years of age, he came to America, soon arriving in Cincinnati, where his uncles, H. and S. Pogue, were already well established and proprietors of a store. He became errand boy for them. His zeal and ability soon won him promotion to the position of salesman, which was a springboard for further advancement, and he ultimately became secretary and treasurer of the newly incorporated company, in 1892. Possessed of unusual vision, keenness of judgment, and courage tempered by good judgment, he threw himself into building up the H. and S. Pogue Company into the powerful enterprise it now is. The establishment owes no small part of its greatness today to his progressive spirit and close application. With the same fervor he threw himself into constructive civic effort. In 1903 he was elected to the city council as councilman-at-large and made a noteworthy record as a public official. His political affiliation was with the Republican party, and his genial and approachable disposition, his keen intelligence and clear understanding of municipal problems, and his unwearying attention to public affairs made him a party leader. He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, a holder of the thirty-second degree, and popular in the long list of clubs to which he belonged. He had, also, a host of friends and a pleasant social life. In September, 1885, Joseph Samuel Trevor married Kate C. Frazier, who shared with him his social triumphs and who survives him. Children : 1. Gladys, wife of Major J. W. Downer, of the United States Army, by whom she has two children : John Trevor, and Joseph Platt Downer. 2. Katherine, wife of Howard H. Besuden, who is associated with the American Laundry Machinery Company of Cincinnati. When Mr. Trevor was forty-nine, in the prime of life and social usefulness, he died, December 6, 1908. He was a man of unusually broad intelligence and interests, a student of the 228 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE sociological, political and economic issues of his day. He thought out remedial measures for many ills and used his influence to put these into practice as well as to support movements for public betterments inaugurated by other thinkers. His personality was delightful, and his home a center of culture and happiness. WALTER A. KNIGHT. Thinking in terms of Cincinnati and its remarkable progress in the various departments of municipal life is to recall the splendid service rendered by one of her most illustrious sons, Walter A. Knight, a leading member of the Ohio bar, and noted for his successful arbitration of at least two serious labor difficulties—the street railway men's and the ice employees' strikes. His non-partisan attitude in Cincinnati's political activities is a powerful factor in the great strides made in the humanitarian improvement of court procedure and in educational practice. On all sides in Cincinnati it is freely acknowledged that no man of the present generation has contributed more of constructive thought and development to that city's welfare along civic lines than has Mr. Knight. His life is bound up with Cincinnati, and he thinks and does little else besides those things which have to do with a greater and better municipality. "Build Cincinnati" has been the lifelong slogan of Mr. Knight, whose zeal and enthusiasm have become contagious to a highly appreciable degree to a majority of the people of the city. Walter A. Knight was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 23, 1871, the son of Levi A. and Sadelia S. (Sweet) Knight, his father a native of Vermont and a school teacher, dying April 22, 1887, and his mother, a native of New York State, dying December 16, 1911. The son Walter in his early school days received private tuition by his mother, and then entered the Madisonville High School, whence he was graduated to the Young Men's Christian Association Law School, where he GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 229 received the degree of Bachelor of Laws upon his graduation. He was admitted to the bar of the State of Ohio, March 17, 1899, and entered upon the practice of his profession under his own name in Cincinnati. He has been a member of the following law firms : Hosea, Knight and Jones ; Knight and Jones ; Hosea and Knight ; Hosea, Knight and 'Phares ; Knight and Phares ; and his present firm, Knight and Lytle. At first he carried on a general practice, and then made a specialty of patent law. Early in his career Mr. Knight exhibited forward-looking tendencies, which developed into a firm grasp and a broad outlook of affairs of great magnitude affecting the vital interests 0f Cincinnati. It was he, actuated by the spirit of reform, who conceived that ideal improvement 0f our courts, the Court of Domestic Relations, which he suggested and assisted in procuring the necessary legislation to establish. This splendid advance has been made the basis upon which have been reared many other of our present reforms. He was the first person here to advocate the passage of the constitutional amendment enabling nine or more persons on a civil jury to bring in a verdict, instead of compelling all to agree as was before required. Another movement to which Mr. Knight lent his strength and influence was the giving of civic instruction in the public schools, now a part of the curriculum. Still another conspicuous act, in the nature of a reform, for the accomplishment of which Mr. Knight was one of the foremost leaders, was the reduction of the number of members of the Cincinnati City Council from a large number to nine members. Thus the governing body of the city is now less vulnerable to the evils which attack a more unwieldly council, and so retard necessary legislation or help pass ordinances and appropriations that are not desirable. In this respect alone Mr. Knight, with his colleagues, achieved a lasting benefit for the people. Recognizing in Mr. Knight the strong man they needed to head their organization, the Federated Improvement Associations elected him president. In that capacity, in 1913, 230 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE he was instrumental in bringing about an amicable settlement of the street railway strike in Cincinnati. For this triumph he earned the everlasting gratitude of a stricken city. Six weeks following this achievement, Mr. Knight was called upon to act as arbitrator in the ice employees' strike, a difficulty which carried the dangers of an epidemic of diseases throughout the community. Mr. Knight succeeded in bringing the warring factions to a point of agreement, and thus the issues of that unfortunate affair were composed. In many other ways, perhaps not so spectacular, but none the less important within their sphere, has Mr. Knight been a constructive force for civic betterment and in helping materially to bring the city of Cincinnati to the high standard it has attained. Mr. Knight is a director of the DeHaven Ice Cream Company. He was formerly associated with a number of corporations, but he resigned all official connection with them that he might devote his time and energy more fully to the law, and to the multifarious endeavors that he has championed. In his politics, so far as Cincinnati is concerned, he is a man without a party. In national political affairs he is a Republican. During the World War Mr. Knight gave valued service as an active member of various boards and committees. He has been a member of the board of directors of The Community Chest and Council of Social Agencies, and is on the Board of the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati. He is a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, the American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Cincinnati Bar Association, and the Lawyers' Club. Mr. Knight married, in 1897, Theresa' L. Richards, of Madison, Indiana, a daughter of John C. and Olive B. Richards. Children : 1. Norma N., graduated from Miami (Ohio) College; married Eric H. Bradley. 2. Bennett R., married Hazel Grote, and they have one child, Jean Ann. 3. Arthur L., a student. Mr. Knight has his office at 719 Gwynne Building, and his residence at No. 5955 Lester Road, Cincinnati. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 231 REV. FRANCIS KESSING. One of the most highly honored priests in Cincinnati is Rev. Francis Kessing, pastor of St. Henry Church of Cincinnati, who on July 5, 1925, celebrated the completion of fifty years in the priesthood. He is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Brokamp) Kessing, both of German birth. Henry Kessing was born in Oldenburg, Germany, December 1, 1822, and came to America as a young man, settling in Cincinnati, where he was engaged as a blacksmith and wagoner. He died February 28, 1910, in Oldenburg, Indiana. His wife also died in Oldenburg, on August 14, 1918, at the age of eighty-five. They had twelve children, of whom nine survive : 1. Father Kessing. 2. Henry, of Cincinnati. 3. Anthony, of Hammond, Indiana. 4. Sister Frances, of Zaveria. 5. Mrs. Anna Glosden. 6. Clement, of Cincinnati. 7. Bernard. 8. Edward, of Westwood, Ohio. 9. Mrs. Elizabeth Griesehof, of Indiana. Francis Kessing was born in Cincinnati, August 8, 1852, and was baptized in St. Mary's Church. He took his first communion at Oldenburg, Indiana, in 1865. Ten years later, in 1875, he was ordained to the priesthood at Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, and the same year became pastor of St. Anthony's Church at Madisonville, where he remained for three years. From 1878 to 1881 he was pastor at the parish of St. Aloysius in Delhi ; from 1881 to 1888, assistant in St. Anthony's Parish in Cincinnati ; from 1888 to 1901, pastor of St. Leo's Church ; from 1901 to 1908 pastor of Holy Rosary Parish in St. Mary's, Auglaize County, Ohio ; from 1908 to 1909 pastor of St. Stephen's in Cincinnati, and since 1909 pastor of St. Henry Church in Cincinnati. Father Kessing is founder of the Hamilton County Local Council of the Catholic Knights of Ohio, and is well loved by his parishioners. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into the priesthood he presented his congregation with an address embodying memories of his experiences of a long and well spent life in the service of the church. 232 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE DR. JOHN LEWIN McLEISH. Dr. John Lewin McLeish, long a practicing physician in Cincinnati, continues to do a large work in the cause of Americanization, in which he has been actively engaged for some years, being at present the director of "Americanization Activities," an organ of the work signified by its title, which is published in Cincinnati. Dr. McLeish has a wide experience in his own profession of medicine, and a fine record of versatile service in constructive welfare work, at home and abroad, in the employment of his literary and medical gifts, with especial appreciation of his efforts during the World War. Since the close of that conflict he has continued to devote his attention to Americanization work almost exclusively. In this connection, it may properly be said, he is the best known of Cincinnati's residents. Born in Chicago, Illinois, February 17, 1871, Dr. John Lewin McLeish is the son of Dr. John and Emma Elizabeth (Cochran) McLeish, the former a well-known physician of his time, who also served as chaplain of the 26th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. The son John passed through the public schools of Cincinnati, inclusive of the Hughes High School, from which he was graduated in 1890, going thence to Princeton University, where he received his Bachelor's degree on his graduation in 1894, making his Master's degree at the same institution in 1897. He had elected the medical profession, and in its pursuit took the course at the Medical College of Ohio, University of Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in the class of 1897, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the year of his graduation he entered upon practice as physician and surgeon in Cincinnati, and was thus engaged with attendant success until 1918, in which latter year he diverted his talents in another channel of helpfulness for his fellows. In 1918 he was the managing editor of "American Home News," in London, England, which was published by the United States Commission for Public Information and the Young Men's Christian Asso- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 233 ciation. In November, 1918, he was surgeon to the Russian Relief Expedition, on board the steamship "Junin." From 1918 to 1919 he was educational secretary under the Young Men's Christian Association with the Allied Armies of North Russia, having his station in Archangel, Russia. After his return to the United States, he resumed activities in Cincinnati, and in 1920 he was made director of the American House, Americanization Executive Committee, at Cincinnati, holding this office until 1925. His subsequent and present work is, as has been stated, as director of "Americanization Activities," with headquarters in Cincinnati. Dr. McLeish is prominently identified with the Masonic order, a member and Past Master of Excelsior Lodge, No. 369, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cincinnati ; a member and Past High Priest of Walnut Hills Chapter, No. 151, Royal Arch Masons, Cincinnati ; a Past President of the Cincinnati Masonic Library Association, and a member of the Past Masters' Society of Cincinnati, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a member of the American Whig Society of Princeton University and of the Princeton Alumni Association of Cincinnati. His religious fellowship is with the Presbyterian Church. Dr. McLeish has a foster son, Nicolas Nicolief, born in Kazan, Russia, December 25, 1906, whom he adopted at Archangel, Russia, in 1919. Dr. McLeish has his business headquarters at the American House, 1901-07 Central Avenue, and his residence at No. 1800 Josephine Street, Mount Auburn, Cincinnati. FREDERICK E. MACKENTEPE. In a service to his profession that has been productive of beneficial results to the recent years of law history in Cincinnati, Mr. Mackentepe holds a foremost place in the legal fraternity in city and State, his practice along general lines and his devotion to the highest principles of the law being the conspicuous elements of his success. Mr. Mackentepe is loyal in 234 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE all matters pertaining to civic and social progress, and a most enthusiastic sharer in every effort that is put forward in the interests of good government. And he is one of the most reliable allies in behalf of the city's advancement in industry and business, as well as in professional matters. He is a son of Bernard Mackentepe, a wholesale grocer and merchant, born in Germany, and died January 6, 1885, and of Maria (Menkhues) Mackentepe, also a native of Germany, who died December 13, 1891. Frederick E. Mackentepe was born November 7, 1866, in Cincinnati, where he attended Holy Trinity School. He took the course of liberal arts at Saint Francis Xavier College, where he was graduated in 1886 with his Bachelor of Arts degree, receiving his Master's degree from that college in 1892. Preparing for his profession at the Law School of the University of Cincinnati, he was graduated therefrom in 1892, with his degree Bachelor of Laws. With his admission to the bar in that year, Mr. Mackentepe has continued to conduct a general law practice in his own name to the present time, with his offices located in the St. Paul Building, No. 111 East Fourth Street. A Republican in his political allegiance, Mr. Mackentepe is a staunch supporter of the principles of that party. During the World War, he was of very practical service to the various organized movements for munitions and funds for the carrying on of the war. He was actively associated with the Red Cross, with the work of the Liberty Loan drives, with the Community Chest interests, United War Work, and other activities of the time and the hour ; and he received a certificate from the Government in recognition of his service. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Sinking Fund of the City of Cincinnati appointed in 1919, and served until the completion of his term in 1926. Mr. Mackentepe is a great traveler, and has visited almost all the civilized countries of the world. He has always been a student of economic and financial conditions and his advice on GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 235 these subjects is constantly sought. He is associated with the foremost matters of the business life of the community. Fraternally, he is a member of Phi Delta Phi fraternity ; he first introduced the Young Men's Institute in eastern territory and was honored by being selected as its first Grand President of the Atlantic Jurisdiction. He is a member of the St. Xavier College Alumni Association, and served as its president for the year 1906. He is a member of the Cincinnati Club, charter member of the Western Hills Country Club, the National Economic League, the American Bar Association, and many others. He is a communicant of Saint Lawrence Church, Price Hill. Frederick E. Mackentepe married, February 5, 1890, Amelia Limberg, daughter of the late Frank and Christine Limberg, of Cincinnati, and their children are: T. Alma Marie, who married Henry Ratterman, Jr. 2. Frederick F., chemical engineer for the Whiting Corporation, Chicago. 3. Lee Virginia, who married Walter Edward Ibold. WILLIAM BROMWELL MELISH. An able business man, president of the Bromwell Brush and Wire Goods Company, William Bromwell Melish is especially notable for his Masonic career. He is the oldest thirty-third degree Mason in Ohio, is undoubtedly one of the most widely known Masons in the United States and Europe, an honorary member of more than forty lodges of Masonry, and has been exceptionally honored in many ways. He was born on July 28, 1852, son of Rev. Thomas Jefferson and Maria (Bromwell) Melish, in Wilmington, Ohio. His grandfather, John Melish, was born in Paisley, Scotland, and after his arrival in America in 1817, at the request of President Thomas Jefferson, he became a prominent book publisher in Philadelphia. His son, father of the subject of this record, the Rev. Thomas J. Melish, was for many years rector of St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal Church of Cincinnati, where he resided 236 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE from 1845 until his death in 1896. He married, in 1849, Maria Bromwell, a native of Ohio, and daughter of William and Sarah (Davis) Bramwell, her father being a leading merchant of Cincinnati who once served on the City Council. William Bromwell Melish was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. In 1871 he began on his business career as clerk and bookkeeper for the company of which he is now president, the Bramwell Brush and Wire Goods Company. Four years as traveling salesman then familiarized him with the trade interests of the house, and he was then admitted to a partnership. He participated in the executive control and management of the business as secretary and treasurer from 1883 until 1896, when he was elected to the presidency. A Republican in politics, Mr. Melish has held no office, except membership in the commission in charge of building the new waterworks system for Cincinnati, and a place as senior aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Asa S. Bushnell, with the rank of colonel. He is a life member of the Chamber Cincinnati, and is well known in other important clubs. He is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The most important factor in a large part of his life, however, has been his Masonic affiliations. He has been associated with Masonry for fifty-two years, during all but nine of which he has served in one office or another. From 1910 to 1913 he was Grand Master of the Grand Encampment, Knights Templar, United States of America, and he is today the oldest living Past Imperial Potentate of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North America. He is the only American Mason to receive the highest Templar honor from England, which honor, known as the Grand Cross Templar, was bestowed on him by the Duke of Connaught, then Grand Master of the English order. Among his other foreign representations is the Great Priory of Canada. Five times Mr. Melish has crossed the Atlantic to visit continental orders. He GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 237 is a Past Grand Master of the Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio ; Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery, Knights Templar, of Ohio; honorary member of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America, thirty-third degree ; and Provincial Grand Lodge of the Royal Order of Scotland, of the United States. During the World War, Mr. Melish served as executive manager of the Masonic War Relief Association of the United States. This organization sent thousands of dollars to Europe to care for the orphans and widows of Masons who fell in battle and to maintain orphanages in various Allied countries. In 1919 Mr. Melish made a personal inspection trip to these European activities. William B. Mellish married, on September 16, 1873, Sallie H. Gatch, daughter of Captain Francis M. and Selina (Barber) Gatch, of Clermont County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Melish are the parents of two children : Mrs. May (Melish) Harris, and Thomas G. Melish. WILLIAM PERRY ROGERS. No history of Greater Cincinnati would be at all complete and comprehensive without some extended mention of the life and labors of the late William Perry Rogers, who, over a long period of years, was one of the most prominent and influential members of the vast legal fraternity of the Middle West. He was, to quote one writer, "a man remarkable in the breadth of his wisdom, in his indomitable perseverance, his strong individuality, and yet one whose entire life had not one esoteric phase." He was well-known throughout the juridical circles of Cincinnati, and his death in the latter part of 1921, lost to that city one of the most brilliant legal lights it had ever known. William Perry Rogers was a native of Indiana, born near Bloomington, on March 3, 1857, the youngest of nine children of William K. and Sarah 0. (Boruff) Rogers, both now deceased. He entered a preparatory school in Bloomington, and upon the completion of his course there he matriculated at the 238 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Indiana State University, whence in due time he was graduated with the degrees 0f Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. Upon the completion of his scholastic work he at once embarked upon the practice of his chosen profession by opening law offices in Bloomington, where, in a very short time, he gained recognition as a lawyer of more than ordinary attainments. Soon, he was offered a professorship in the law department of Indiana University, and upon the death of Judge Banta, the dean of that department, Mr. Rogers was chosen to succeed him. He served as dean of the law department of Indiana State University until 1902, in which year he came to Cincinnati, Ohio, to accept the position of Dean of the Cincinnati Law School, in which latter position he served with his usual ability and efficiency until 1916, when he resigned in order to give his attention to the many important business interests with which he had become identified. Investments in Kentucky oil lands proved most lucrative, and at the time of his death Mr. Rogers was serving as president of the Bald Rock Oil Company and of the Provident Oil Company, both of which enterprises he had established himself. He was a man of far-seeing judgment and marked executive ability, was eminently successful in his business affairs, and was accorded a place of prime importance in the commercial circles of the Queen City. In 1919 Mr. Rogers and his family removed to Los Angeles, California, with the intention of making that city their permanent home, but after his death the remainder of the family returned to Cincinnati to live. Mr. Rogers was very public-spirited, and never lost an opportunity to give an additional impetus to local progress and advancement. In 1914-15 he served as president of the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati, and for three years was an able member of the Board of Directors of that organization. He was also a member of the Literary Club, and at one time served as president of the Ohio State Bar Association. In 1906 he was greatly honored by being elected as president of the Association of American Law Schools. Politically, he was a GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 239 staunch Republican; while his religious affiliation was given to the Disciples Church of Cincinnati, of which he was a regular attendant and a most liberal supporter. His death occurred in the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on October 9, 1921, in his sixty-fourth year, leaving behind a large circle of friends who have never ceased to mourn the loss of so brilliant an intellect and so charming a personality. One biographer, in speaking of his outstanding characteristics, has written as follows : It can be safely said that those who knew Mr. Rogers best loved him most and were grateful for the privilege of association with him, because of the gentleness and purity of his life, of his unfailing courtesy and consideration for others, which was as much a habit with him as breathing, of the strength and elevation of his character and the uprightness and nobility of his conduct. The clearness of his intellect, the vigor of his reason, were not more remarkable than the directness and disinterestedness of his action. His lofty ideals were not marred by inconsistency of conduct. He had the faith of Lincoln that "right makes might"; he sought the truth, and having found it he dared to follow where it led. With the gentleness of a woman, he combined the courage of stalwart manhood, and, being true to himself, he could not be false to any man. He could always be relied upon to support by voice, by labor and by example the cause of righteousness, and his influence for good in the community was incalculable. Every local benevolent or charitable movement found in him a hearty supporter. His culture, his learning, his urbanity, his exquisite humor and kindliness made him the most delightful companion, and his sincerity and loyalty made him the truest of friends. William Perry Rogers was married, on March 30, 1882, in Bloomington, Indiana, to Estella B. Clark. He is survived by his widow and their three daughters, Ethel Rogers Turner, wife of W. M. Turner; Mrs. Norine Rogers, and Kathryn Rogers Gates, wife 0f John Gates, Jr. Maurice, the first son, died in infancy, and the other son, Clark W. Rogers, in his twenty-first year. Thus was born, and thus lived, labored and 240 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE died one of the most brilliant lawyers of his age, a man whose achievements equalled his ideals, a man whose career and record is eminently worthy of emulation by the present generation of rising young lawyers; and a man of whom one annalist has spoken in the following glowing but most worthy phrases : His entire accomplishment but represented the result of the fit utilization of the innate talent which was his and the directing of his efforts along those lines where mature judgment and rare discrimination led the way. There was in Mr. Rogers a weight of character, a native sagacity, a far-seeing judgment and a fidelity of purpose that commanded the respect of all, but greater than these was his unswerving integrity. In the largest and best sense of the term, Mr. Rogers was distinctively one of the most notable men of his day and generation. As a citizen he was public-spirited and enterprising to an unwonted degree; as a friend and neighbor, he combined the qualities of head and heart which won confidence and commanded respect; as an attorney, who had a comprehensive grasp upon the philosophy of jurisprudence, he was easily the peer of his professional brethren, and as a business man he exhibited ability of the highest order. It is scarce less than supererogation in outlining the leading facts in his life to refer to him as a lawyer in the ordinary phraseology which meets requirements when dealing with the average member of the legal profession. He was a master of his profession, a leader among men distinguished for the high order of their legal ability, and his eminent attainments and ripe judgment made him an authority on all matters involving a profound knowledge of jurisprudence and vexed and intricate problems of law, CHARLES MOORE PAUL, M. D. In lifelong and active association with the leading medical interests of Cincinnati and its hospitals, Dr. Charles Moore Paul, a surgeon of highest standing, head of the Bethesda Hospital staff, is particularly well known throughout the State for his pronounced success as a surgeon, whose advice and counsel are sought for their vital value to the profession and GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 241 to the public. With the exception of the period during which Dr. Paul served in the World War as a chief surgeon, his successful and useful career has been devoted in its entirety to Cincinnati, its institutions, and its increasing professional, civic and social interests. He is a son of Moses D. Paul, a cabinet maker of Aberdeen, who is now deceased, and of Mary Wilson Paul, also of Aberdeen, who survives her husband. Dr. Charles Moore Paul was born December 5, 1868, in Aberdeen. He gave his attention to pharmacy, and for four years conducted the business of a registered pharmacist, then matriculated at the Medical College of Ohio, where he was graduated in 1896 with his degree Doctor of Medicine. For a year and a half he served as interne at the Cincinnati City Hospital, and in 1898 established the general practice in which he has gained a remarkable record of success. Since 1910, Dr. Paul has made a specialty of surgery, and he is now president of the staff of Bethesda Hospital. In his political views he is a Republican, and with his vote and influence he supports the principles of that party. In June, 1917, Dr. Paul enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, and he served as chief surgeon, with the rank of major, in the Overseas Base Hospital, No. 25. His professional and fraternal affiliations are with the Academy of Medicine, the State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association ; and he is also a member of the Nu Sigma Nu college fraternity, the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, and the Wyoming Club. His hobby is automobiling. Dr. Charles Moore Paul married, June 10, 1903, Alice Sayler, of Hamilton County, who is president of the Garden Club. They have one son, Tom D. Paul, graduate of the Hughes High School, member of the class of 1927, University of Chicago, and president of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, and president of the University of Chicago Young Men's Christian Association. Cin.-16 242 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE BRAXTON W. CAMPBELL. To name Braxton W. Campbell to one even slightly acquainted with Cincinnati, is to win instant recognition of a man who had long been prominent in industrial, financial, and civic developments in that city. Mr. Campbell was president of the Perkins-Campbell Company, largest manufacturer of harness and saddlery in the United States, with which he had been associated for forty-nine years. He was a director of the Union Trust Company and of the Union Savings Bank and Trust Company. Below is given the long and varied list of his achievements, a solid and appreciable part of the development of Greater Cincinnati. Braxton W. Campbell was born in Covington, Kentucky, November 22, 1851, son of Morgan and Sally Campbell. He attended public school and completed his education at Kentucky Academy, Burlington, Kentucky. In 1869, at the age of eighteen, he moved to Cincinnati, where his first position was a clerkship in the candy factory of C. H. Reinhardt and Company. He soon became their traveling salesman and was so occupied until 1875. Mr. Campbell then began to travel as the representative of DeCamp, Perkins and Lavoy, harness manufacturers. In the four years of this association he learned the details of the industry and of its market so that he was able to organize his knowledge and utilize it to form a company, in association with others, in which he could play an executive part. In 1879 he, together with Henry A. Perkins and William S. Perkins, organized the Perkins-Campbell Company, of which Mr. Campbell was vice-president and general sales-manager, located on Main Street. The factory built in 1886, at No. 622 Broadway, has been in use up to the present. In 1904 Mr. Campbell bought out the interest of W. ,S. and Henry A. Perkins, one of the more recent partners, and increased the capitalization from $250,000 to $500,000, and became president. In 1915 W. B. and Milton D. Campbell came into the company and purchased the remaining Perkins interests and GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 243 became respectively vice-president and secretary of the company in association with their father. In addition to building up this enterprise Braxton W. Campbell was a director of the widely known Dow Drug Company, whose chain of stores is surpassed by none in the country in quality of stock and service, and of the Cincinnati Model Homes Company, of the Braxt0n Hotel Company, the Braxton W. Campbell Realty Company, and, as above mentioned, of the Union Trust Company. He took an active part in civic affairs, serving as president of the Manufacturers' Association of Cincinnati and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Building Committee of the Hamilton County Court House, and chairman of the Ohio Committee of the Jamestown Exhibition held at Norfolk, Virginia. From 1902 to 1907 he was president of the Decatur Street Railway Company of Decatur, Illinois, and also served Delhi, where he formerly lived, in every public office from councilman t0 mayor for some twenty years, and was chairman of the village commission. His fraternal affiliations were with the Free and Accepted Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Chamber of Commerce, the Ohio Society of New York, the Travelers Club of New York, the Jersey Cattle Club of New York. He was a life member of the Cuvier Press Club, and a member of the Cincinnati Golf Club, the Queen City Club, the Walnut Hills Business Men's Club, and others, and an ex-member of the Business Men's Club. His religious affiliation was with the Walnut Hills Methodist Episcopal Church. Braxton W. Campbell married, in Chillicothe, Missouri, Hattie de Garmo, daughter of James and Hattie (Carpenter) de Garmo. Children : Wendell B. Campbell, born April 4, 1886, and Milton D. Campbell, born June 3, 1888. WILLIAM LOUIS BENHAM. Thoroughly equipped in training and practice, highly regarded in his profession, and doubtless best known as one of 244 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE the leading business and general corporation attorneys in the State, William Louis Benham, of the firm of Bolsinger and Benham, in Cincinnati, represents many of the foremost interests of his profession in city and State. For years associated with practical business affairs, and formerly manager of leading business interests, Mr. Benham continues in the directorship and the attorneyship of well-established industrial and mercantile concerns. William Louis Benham, son of Louis and Ella (Green) Benham, was born May 23, 1880, in Cincinnati. His father, a native of Cincinnati, had engaged in the retail furniture business to the time of his retirement, and his mother, a native of Dayton, Ohio, died in 1912. William Louis Benham attended the public schools of his birthplace, afterwards reading law in the office of the law firm of Burch, Peters & Matthews. In 1915 Mr. Benham was admitted to the bar of Williamstown, Kentucky, and the headquarters for his practice has been located in Cincinnati since that date. Since 1922 he has been in partnership with the widely-known law firm of Bolsinger & Benham, with offices at No. 730 Keith Building, and he has been admitted to the courts of the States of Ohio and Kentucky and to the Federal courts. His business training has been a great factor in Mr. Ben-ham's career, for previous to his study of law, he had been engaged as a retail clothing salesman, from 1891 to 1910, having entered upon his employment when he was but a youth, with Knopf & Company, clothiers, of Cincinnati. He was then a stock boy with a salary of five dollars a week, and he afterwards worked his way through the various grades to that of the management of the business of the Broh Clothing Company, of Huntington, West Virginia. Mr. Benham serves as attorney and secretary of the Big Three Overall Manufacturing Company ; as director of the Krueger Fischer Company, and the D. Jacobs Sons Company ; and he is attorney for the Superior Tailoring Company, Roth GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 245 Shoe Manufacturing Company, Adler & Pollock Company, Koch & Adler, and many other corporations. Fraternally, Mr. Benham is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, and its Royal Arch Chapter, and he is a member of the Cincinnati Bar Association, Chamber of Commerce, the Lawyers' and the Duckworth clubs. His favorite recreation is fishing. William Louis Benham married, in 1899, Anna Rice, a native of Cincinnati, daughter of Joseph M. Rice a prominent citizen of Cincinnati, who passed away in 1924. Her mother was Alice (Perry) Rice, also deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Benham are the parents of : William R. ; Edward ; and Grace Antoinette. HOWARD PHILIP FISCHBACH, M. D. The fine old family name of Fischbach, long noted in the Greater Cincinnati area because borne by members of distinguished in the professions, and more especially in this connection as expert practitioners of medicine, Dr. Howard Philip Fischbach is one of two sons of a father, all of whom have illumined the noble calling of physician and surgeon. The marked significance that attaches to this unusual and happy sequence of these three members of one family engaging in so fine a service of the same kind lends itself to the enhancement of family prestige and also to the promotion of the health of the community to which the medical profession is devoted. The standing of the Drs. Fischbach in the field of their labors is all that could be desired, and reflects credit upon those who are similarly engaged. The first to bear the name Fischbach in America was Dr. Fischbach's paternal great-grandfather, who arrived from the German Fatherland in his early youth and settled in Pike County, Ohio, where he became something more than a local celebrity as a powerful preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On the maternal side, Dr. Fischbach's grandfather, 246 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE Philip Fischer, also a native of Germany, came to the United States, and set himself up in the shoe business at Marietta, Ohio, where he developed a large and profitable establishment. Dr. Frederick William Fischbach, father of Dr. Howard Philip Fischbach, was born in Newark, Ohio, October 21, 1861, and died October 29, 1926, at Cincinnati. During his life he maintained a summer residence in Michigan, and practiced medicine in Cincinnati, where he passed the spring and winter seasons. He married Mary Emma Fischer, daughter of Philip Fischer, and a native of Marietta, Ohio, where she was born January 25, 1862. To Dr. Frederick William and Mary Emma (Fischer) Fischbach were born two sons, both of whom emulated their father in pursuing the medical profession : 1. Dr. Howard Philip Fischbach, of this review. 2. Dr. Victor William Fischbach (q. v.). Dr. Howard Philip Fischbach, elder son of Dr. Frederick William and Mary Emma (Fischer) Fischbach, was born in Marietta, Ohio, March II, 1885. His early school years were supplemented by a college preparatory course at the Newport (Kentucky) High School, from which he was graduated in 1902. At that early date he had elected the medical profession for his life-work, and thereafter pursued his higher studies with that objective ever in view. He entered Kenyon College, where he took the full academic course, graduating in the class of 1906 with his degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He received his professional training at Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, whence he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in the class of 1909. He was now fully equipped to enter the ranks of physicians and surgeons, and chose to make the city of Cincinnati the scene of his professional labors. Thus it came about that when his brother, Dr. Victor William Fischbach, had also come on the stage as a Cincinnati specialist in diseases of the eye, nose and throat, these two, with their honored father, formed a triumvirate of the same surname who brought to their profession the talents with which they have been en- GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 247 dowed and the splendid training and experience which they have acquired through their college years and cumulative practice. Dr. Fischbach soon began to grow in favor with his colleagues and the increasing number of patients to whom he has so successfully ministered. He has built a large practice drawn in representative proportion from some of the best families of the city. As a surgeon of the modern school he keeps in close touch with the advancement made in materia medica, and thus can be depended upon to employ in his practice the very last word in the treatment of the case in hand. He is deeply interested in all that pertains to his profession, including the general welfare of his patients, and is esteemed throughout the city of Cincinnati and its environs for the thoroughness and skill with which he discharges his responsibility as an exponent of his calling. He is now rounding out a score of years in which he has confined his practice to the Cincinnati zone. During the World War period he proffered his services to the government and was enlisted in the Medical Corps, in 1918, rendering valued service that won him the appreciative commendation of his departmental head. Dr. Fischbach enjoys high standing in the professional organizations which have honored him with election to membership : Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Ohio State Homeopathic Society, and the Academy of Medicine, of Cincinnati. He is affiliated with the Delta Tau Delta and the Alpha Sigma fraternities. In harmony with the family's religious association, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Fischbach married, November 23, 1909, at Newport, Kentucky, Helen Morris, daughter of Edward James and Myrtie (Bryan) Morris, and they are the parents of two sons : William Morris, born April 11, 1912. 2. Howard Philip, Jr., born May 12, 1918. 248 - GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE DR. VICTOR WILLIAM FISCHBACH. A famous philosopher once said that the three greatest professions open to man were medicine and surgery, the ministry, and pedagogy•and it is significant that he headed the list with medicine. Dr. Victor William Fischbach has followed this profession with the most signal success, and has become a foremost practitioner and prominent member of the legal fraternity not only of Cincinnati and its environs, but of the entire State of Ohio. With an aptitude for medicine both inherited and acquired, Dr. Fischbach has applied himself to his chosen profession with that sincerity and indefatigability that this field of endeavor jealously requires of her devotees, and that by so doing he has become a decided asset and credit to the Queen City is a fact not to be denied. Dr. Victor William Fischbach was born in Newport, Kentucky, on April 17, 1894, a descendant of a fine old German family. His paternal great-grandfather was the first to bear the name of Fischbach in America, coming from his native Germany to the United States in his extreme youth and locating at Waverly, Pike County, Ohio, where he became a widely known minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Fischbach's maternal grandfather, Philip Fischer, also was a native of Germany, and upon his advent into the United States, he established himself in the shoe business at Marietta, Ohio, where he built up a large and profitable trade. Dr. Frederick William Fischbach, father of Dr. Victor William Fischbach, was born in Newark, Ohio, on October 21, 1861. He had a summer home in Michigan, but practiced medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he passed the spring and winter months. Dr. Frederick William Fischbach married Mary Emma Fischer, a daughter of Philip Fischer, and a native of Marietta, Ohio, where she was born on January 25, 1862. Dr. Frederick William and Mary Emma (Fischer) Fischbach were the parents of two sons, both of whom followed in their father's professional footsteps : 1. Dr. Howard Philip Fischbach (q. v.). 2. Dr. GREATER CINCINNATI AND ITS PEOPLE - 249 Victor William Fischbach, of whom this genealogical and biographical review. Dr. Victor William Fischbach received his early education in the public schools of his native community, following which he attended the Newport (Kentucky) High School, whence he was graduated in June, 1912. He then matriculated at the University of Cincinnati, from which he was graduated with the class of 1916, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science. He thereupon took up his professional training by entering the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, whence he was graduated with the class of 1918, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He served for one year as interne at the Cincinnati General Hospital, during which time he turned his attention especially to the treatment of the diseases of the nose and throat. He then embarked upon the active practice of his profession, which he has followed successfully ever since, becoming known as one of the outstanding eye, nose and throat specialists in that section of the State. Dr. Fischbach's undergraduate activities are noteworthy. He served as president of his class in college in 1913-14; played on the Cincinnati University football team as right half ; was all-State halfback for one season ; built up an enviable reputation as a star player ; and also played with distinction on the Varsity track and basketball teams. He was still an undergraduate in 1917, when on December 24th, he enlisted for service in the late World War, entering the Medical Reserve Corps and being assigned to duty at the General Hospital. Since giving up the more strenuous college sports, Dr. Fischbach finds recreation in tennis and touring. During his college days he was honored by election to Delta Tau Delta fraternity, one of the foremost of the national Greek-letter fraternities, as well as to Alpha Kappa Kappa (professional fraternity), and Sigma Sigma, and still maintains his deep interest in the welfare of these fraternities. He also holds active membership in the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Association, the Academy of Medicine, and the Cincinnati Oto-