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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Biographical
and
Historical Sketches
A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents
From 1792 to 1896
By Stephen D. Cone
Illustrated
Hamilton, Ohio
Republican Publishing Company
1896
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ROBERT
HARGITT was a native of Yorkshire, England, and came
to this country, when a boy, with his parents. They
settled in Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county, Indiana.
In 1851 he came to Ohio and established the first news
depot in Hamilton. He was the first mayor of the
consolidated villages of Hamilton and Rossville. He
was justice of the peace for several years.
Of his family of eight children only two survive.
A few years ago he was killed by being run down by a
passenger train at Cumminsville. He was Mayor of the
village of Rossville from December 10, 1853 to April 19,
1854, when the villages of Rossville and Hamilton were
united.
Source: Biographical & Historical Sketches - A
Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 -
Publ. 1896 - Page 132 |
Charles E. Heiser |
CHARLES E. HEISER Source: Biographical & Historical
Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from
1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page _____
Portrait between pps. 168 & 169
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John E. Heiser |
JOHN E. HEISER Source: Biographical & Historical
Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from
1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page _____
Portrait between pps. 168 & 169 |
Daniel H. Hensley |
DANIEL H. HENSLEY
was born in Logansport, Ind., January 10, 1844, where he
received a liberal education. On July 21, 1862, at the
age of eighteen, he entered the army, enlisting in Company
H, Seventy-third Indiana volunteers, Col. Gilbert
Hathaway's regiment, which was in active service for
three years, being mustered out July 1, 1865.
In the spring of 1863, during the darkest hours of the
rebellion, this regiment was one of four picked regiments,
composing the "Independent Provisional Brigade," under the
command of the famous Col. A. D. Streight. On April
7, 1863, this brigade left Murfreesboro, Tennessee, under
sealed orders for the interior of the Confederacy.
After a month's hard riding, much of the time day and night,
with frequent severe fighting the brigade was compelled to
surrender to Major-General Forrest May
3, 1863, near Rome, Ga. After a short confinement on
Belle Isle the rank and file were exchanged and sent North.
The officers were confined in Libby Prison, and the brigade
was without a commander. The privates were assigned to
other organizations. Sergeant Hensley
was placed in the Twelfth Indiana battery, serving until the
spring of 1864, when he was detached for special service at
Gen. Hooker's headquarters, then in the
Lookout valley. A few of the regimental officers
having escaped from Libby through the famous tunnel, the
regiment was reorganized in the summer of 1864, and
Sergeant Hensley rejoined his old command.
He located in Hamilton in 1866, where he taught school
for about one year. Afterward he removed to New
Albany, Ind., and followed the profession of teaching for a
short time. He returned to Hamilton in 1867, where he
was married. He was Secretary and Collector for the
Hamilton Gas Light and Coke Co., for a period of twenty
years. Mr. Hensley was appointed
Postmaster March 20, 1890, and served until June 13, 1893,
when he was removed by President Cleveland and
John E. Lohman appointed. As an official Mr.
Hensley was always painstaking, courteous and
accommodating, thereby giving the public excellent service.
Source: Biographical & Historical
Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from
1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page 127
Portrait between pps. 120 & 121 |
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GEORGE E. HOWE
was born in Livonia, New York, May 21, 1825, and
received an excellent education in Eastern colleges.
He was Superintendent of the schools in 1858-59. As a
man he was liberal and kind-hearted almost to a fault.
How well we remember him, giving us financial aid and
private instruction while struggling for an education.
Subsequently he became the beloved Superintendent of the
Boys' Industrial school at Lancaster, Ohio. He was one
of the best officers the state ever had in any capacity.
He was a successful reformer. His genius in this line
of work and faithfulness to all duties raised the Ohio
Industrial school to the highest plane among institutions of
its kind.
In 1878, he assumed control of the Connecticut State
Reform school where he died Nov. 23, 1893, of apoplexy.
It was difficult to fill his place officially. In the
hearts of all who knew him he will be long remembered and
endeared. Reform school; Frank M., Principal of
the Elmwood school for boys, Milford, Conn.; Charles C.,
Superintendent of the mica mines, at Bristol, N. H.; and
Mrs. Clara B. Warner of Meriden, Conn.
Source: Biographical & Historical Sketches -
A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896
- Publ. 1896 - Page 106 |
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EDWARD HUGHES was born in
Symmes Corner, June 25, 1848. He was educated in the
public schools of Hamilton, and in 1873 entered
Bartlett's Commercial college, of Cincinnati, where he
received a thorough business training. After
graduation he immediately entered upon his chosen profession
as book keeper for Hunter & Brant in the old
mill at the east end of the suspension bridge. In turn
he was employed by William Murphy on the West
side; Kinsinger & L'Hommedieu, at Canal mills,
and by John W. Sohn. In 1874, he married
Miss Clara B. Mars. Six children have resulted
from this union—three girls and three boys. In 1877 he
was elected Mayor, defeating M. N. Maginnis who stood
for re-election. He was Governor Campbell's executive
clerk and has been in his employ for the last ten years.
Source: Biographical & Historical Sketches - A
Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 -
Publ. 1896 - Page 138 |
Francis W. Hurtt |
FRANCIS W. HURTT, was
born in the village of Dry Run, near Tarlton, Pickaway
county, Ohio, Sept. 26, 1832. He was educated partly
at the schools of Frankfort, Ohio; taught in country
schools, in the same county, before he was seventeen; and
studied at Athens college, under the presidency of J. G.
Blair, where he made a reputation as a mathematician.
He left He left college at the age of 20, before graduating,
being called to superintend the schools at Ripley, Ohio,
which he organized, graded and raised to a high standard.
In 1854, he was appointed first assistant to Dr.
Joseph Ray, and also appointed professor of chemistry at
Woodward High school, Cincinnati, Ohio. During this
period he contributed a series of articles to a mathematical
journal, published at Cambridge, Harvard, Mass., and
achieved a remarkable reputation for his talent in this
direction, for which he was awarded the degree of M. A. by
his Alma Mater, Athens college. In January, 1855, he
married Sarah Ives, one of the
prominent teachers in the Texas school, Clinton street,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
In the fall of 1855, he was appointed Superintendent of
the public schools at Springfield, Ohio. Alter
successfully grading the same he returned to Cincinnati
where he spent the greater part of 1856 in a publishing
enterprise, being the first one to publish a business
directory in that city. In 1859, permanently from the
profession of teaching and returned to Cincinnati, resuming
his publishing business. In January 1860, he was
invited by the Ohio State Journal, of Columbus, to assume
its business management. After consideration, he
accepted, and subsequently became the proprietor. The
Journal at that time was the leading organ of the Republican
party in Ohio; had a staff, including not only Mr.
Hurtt, but also Henry D. Cooke, as
editor-in-chief, (afterward governor of the District of
Columbia) W. D. Howells as literary editor and
Samuel Reade, assistant editor. Howells was
appointed consul to Venice, Italy, early in the war.
Later, Mr. H. D. Cooke removed to Washington
to assume charge of the Washington branch of the great
banking firm of Jay, Cooke & Company, who
negotiated most of the government loans made during the war.
During this period he was also editor and proprietor of the
Ohio Journal of Education, or Educational Journal.
Mr. Hurtt then formed the firm of Hurtt,
Allen & Company, but being unable to devote all of
his time to the management of the paper, having been
appointed an officer in the army, he sold his interest to
Mr. Allen and others. In August, 1865, he
removed to New York and became later interested in the
manufacture of the well known medicine, Pond's Extract.
It was largely due to Mr. Hurtt' s foresight,
great business sagacity and indomitable energy that this
large business was developed from its insignificant
condition, when he took charge of it, to its present
proportions. Mr. Hurtt recognized at
once the great value of the medicine, and felt sure that his
efforts toward its world-wide publicity would be profitably
recognized by the public. During the later years of
his life he traveled
extensively, not only visiting Europe many times, but
crossing the Pacific to China and Japan. In March,
1884, he died suddenly in New York, leaving a widow and two
sons.
Source: Biographical & Historical Sketches - A
Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 -
Publ. 1896 - Page 107 |
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