That business activity is not the foe of
longevity, is a fact readily demonstrable in
every mart and a business center. That
it is the case in Columbus is shown in what
follows later.
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for from thirty-five to sixty-six years.
Nor are they bent and decrepit men, feeble
and slow with lack-luster eyes, looking
askance for the Oslerian executioners to
smite them; but men strong of body and mind
full of optimism, and proper human ambitions
and aspirations; clear of eye and voice and
not uncertain of step; abreast the times and
interested in all that makes for the
advancement of the race.
A
Striking Monograph.
This list by
no means comprises all the eligibles in the
city, scores of others, evidently too
bashful to concede the facts and join the
procession, when the mastering officer of
history called them into line. Too
modest and shrinking, in fact, to have their
names and ages enrolled in the! state
capital's centennial annals. The
following named gentlemen, however, were
young enough to remember back to their
beginnings, and their names are set down in
the reverse order: That is to say, the
highest degrees appear at the top and go
down from the highest to the lowest, with
the privilege remaining over to the reader
to follow the Sanskrit and read from the
bottom of the page upward.
The
Sixty-sixth Degree
William Greene Deshler, banker, has
attained his distinction. He entered
the banking business as teller of the
Clinton Bank at the corner of Broad and
High, where now stands the Deshler National
Bank, founded by him and in which he is
still the important factor. He resides
at 68 East Broad. He has always been a
banker at the "old stand."
The
Sixty-second Degree.
Charles Hardy, banker, became
collection clerk of the City Bank of
Columbus, Jan. 2, 1846; was elected cashier
of the Exchange Branch of the State Bank of
Ohio, Jan. 7, 1856; has filled the position
as cashier since that date; is cashier at
this writing of the Deshler National Bank.
Residence 46 South Sixth street.
The
Fifty-ninth Degree.
John W. Brown, manufacturer, began as
drug clerk in 1849. Three years later
he became a railway conductor out of
Columbus. Later he en tered
manufacturing and is now the head of a
manufacturing company for the production of
vehicle lamp and mill and mine supplies,
etc.
The
Fifty-ninth Degree.
Dr. William
F. Schwartz, druggist, is one of the two
fifty-niners. He entered Denig's drug
store in Columbus in 1849. His health
failing, he took the newspaper cure in 1855,
becoming pressman and circulator of the Ohio
Statesman, under Governor Samuel Medary.
After running a hand
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press for a few years, he was satisfied, if
not entirely cured, and again entered the
drug business in the Ohio drug store, South
High; the Scheuller drug store, Rich
and High; and the Diess drug store.
East Main; and in 1887, founded the well
known Schwartz drug store, Fifth and
Main streets. He retired in 1892.
Resides at 492 South Third. If he
re-enters business, it will be as a fruit
grower in Florida.
The
Fifty-fifth Degree.
Pelatiah Webster Huntington, banker,
became clerk in the Exchange Branch of the
State Bank of Ohio, Aug. 3, 1853, and was
elected cashier in 1856. He is
stockholder and officer in various other
Columbus banks; founded the Huntington
National Bank, southwest corner Broad and
High, of which he is president. He has
devoted himself almost exclusively to
banking since he entered upon the business.
Residence East Broad.
The
Fifty-third Degree.
Henry Laufersweiler, harnessmaking
and grocer, began in the harness trade with
Burdell in 1855 and followed that
line of business until 1864. He then
engaged in the grocery business on East Main
street, continuing until his retirement
early in 1908. Residence 471 East
Main.
The
Fifty-third Degree.
Henry C. McClellan, books and
stationery, entered the business Nov. 10,
1856, and in 1859 was located at 113 South
High. He became a member of the firm
of Randall, Aston & Company,
in 1874. He founded the present house
of H. C. McClellan & Company, corner
of Gay and High with Frederick W. Flowers
as his partner. Residence 321 East
Broad.
The
Fifty-second Degree
Robert E. Sheldon, wholesale dry
goods, entered the grocery store of John
Mclntire & Company, High and Rich
streets, in 1857. He was with
Dwight Stone & Company, dry goods, from
1859 to 1863; with Kelton,
Bancroft & Company in 1864; with
Miller, Green & Joyce;
admitted to the firm in 1874. He
established the wholesale dry goods house of
Miles, Bancroft & Sheldon
in 1885; founded the present The Sheldon
Dry Goods Company in 1900; and located its
extensive buildings at Chestnut and Third
streets in 1905. Residence 683 East
Broad.
The
Fifty-first Degree.
Gustavus Patton, bookbinder,
stationer and blank book manufacturer,
entered the business in 1857; has been
engaged in the business with short
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vacations since. He is president of the
Miller Patton Company, binders, etc.
Residence 569 Franklin avenue.
The
Forty-eighth Degree.
John Duffy, of Ireland, came to the
United States in 1853, and in 1860
established an extensive grocery house,
where he continued to do a thriving business
until 1882, when he disposed of the
establishment and retired with a handsome
competence. He resides at 319 East Gay
street.
The
Forty-sixth Degree.
Louis Link, livery and sales stables,
engaged in the business in 1862. He
has occupied the same site, 21 West Rich
street for more than a third of a century,
and many of his present customers were his
clients during the period of the great Civil
war. Residence 97 West Rich.
The
Forty-sixth Degree.
Andrew Dobbie, retail dry goods,
entered the business (when a young
Scotchman) as a clerk in the store of
Bain & Son, Dec. 1, 1862. He
entered into partnership with Gilchrist,
Gray & Company in September, 1867.
He became sole proprietor of the business in
1881. Since 1902 he has occupied the
large Osborn building South High,
midway between State and Town. Residence 691
East Broad.
The
Forty-fifth Degree.
Walter A. Mahoney, real estate and
mortgage loans, from 1868 to 1876 was
engaged in the sale of confections and
fruits and other like delicacies. In
the latter part of 1876 he entered the
real-estate and loan business and has been
very successful. He is one of the
prominent business men of Columbus who takes
a deep and active interest in the world-wide
peace movement. He was a prominent
delegate in the recent World's Peace
Conference at London, England.
The
Forty-fourth Degree.
Fred Lazarus, clothing and
furnishing, entered the store of his father,
Simon Lazarus, Apr. 1, 1864; has been
with the house ever since and has been its
head since it changed to F. & R. Lazarus
& Company in 1878. It is now the F.
& R. Lazarus Company, located at
southwest corner Town and High, opposite the
site of the firm's great steel building, now
in process of completion. Residence
1080 Bryden Road.
The
Forty-fourth Degree.
David E. Putnam, fire insurance and
real estate, was bookkeeper for J. D.
Osborn & Company, from May, 1864, to
April, 1875; engaged in fire in-
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surance
1875-6; was cashier of state treasury
1876-8; was with Kershaw, Krauss
& Putnam, carpets, 1878-80; from 1880
in the insurance business; stockholder,
former vice president and president of the
Commercial National was a soldier in the
Civil war; and wounded at battle of
Chickamauga.
The
Forty-fourth Degree.
Frederick W. Schueller, druggist,
began business at Rich and High, as clerk
and pharmacist, Nov. 20, 1864, at
Schueller's Eagle drug store; still in
business at the same place. The firm
has been: 1856-63, Ernest
Schueller; 1878-83, F. W. & A. M.
Schueller; 1883 to present date, F.
W. Schueller. Residence 814 Bryden
Road.
The
Forty-second Degree.
Charles Huston, druggist, entered
business as proprieor of Huston's
drug store at 47 South High street, January,
1868; conducted the business at the same
stand for thirty-six years; and retired in
1902. Residence 46 South Monroe
avenue.
The
Fortieth Degree.
John G. Drayer, building, cement and
stone, entered the business in 1868 and has
been so engaged from that time to the
present date. He is vice president of
the Fish Stone Company. Residence 267
Hamilton avenue.
The
Thirty-ninth Degree.
Herbert Brooks, banker, entered the
banks of Brooks, Butler &
Company as collection clerk 1869; was with
the bank until it went into liquidation, and
later was connected with other financial
institutions. Residence 99 North
Monroe avenue.
The
Thirty-eighth Degree.
William M. Fisher, commission
merchant, entered business April, 1870, on
South Fourth street; change the present site
122-124 East Town street in 1882.
Residence 695 Bryden Road.
The
Thirty-sixth Degree.
Frederick John Williams, tea and
coffee merchant, began this business in 1872
at the corner of High and Town streets;
removed to 19 East Town, where the business
is still carried on. Residence 1224
Bryden Road.
The
Thirty-sixth Degree.
James H. Sells, hardware, harness and
saddlery. Began business with
McCune, Lonnis & Company, Apr. 1,
1872. Changed to 172 South High street
in 1880. Present business location 32
East Chestnut street. Is pres-
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ident of the J. H. & F. A. Sells
Company, wholesale harness and saddlery.
Residence 91 Winner avenue
The
Thirty-sixth Degree.
Arthur Harris Smythe, bookseller,
etc., began business in hardware house of
P. Hayden & Company, 1872. Later,
in the same year, entered the book store of
Randall & Aston. At
present proprietor of the book store in the
Neil House Block.
Residence 242 East Gay.
The
Thirty-fifth Degree.
Moses M. McDaniel, wholesale
groceries, retired in 1907. Entered
the wholesale grocery business in 1873.
Later in the manufacturing business.
Previous to coming to Columbus, from which
date his degree is reckoned, he had 30
years' experience in the wholesale and
retail mercantile business in Roseville,
McConnelsville and Zanesville, so that his
actual degree, uniting the two is
sixty-five.
The
Thirty-fifth Degree.
Fred J. Gottschall, entered the dry
goods business in 1873, and was with
Gustavus Maier for twelve years.
For twenty years he was proprietor of a dry
goods store on South High street. He
has, at present, the charge of a department
in the Dunn-Taft Company, dry
goods store. North High street.
Survivor of Lincoln Electoral College.
At the November election in 1860, the
following persons were elected and
constituted the electoral college of Ohio,
and cast the electoral vote of the state for
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois
for president and Hannibal Hamlin
of Maine for vice president: Frederick
Hausaurek. Joseph M. Root,
Benjamin Eggleston, William M.
Dickinson, Frank McWhiney,
John Riley Knox, D. W. H. Howard,
John Kellum, Nelson Rush, Abraham Thompson,
John F. Hinkle, Hezekiah H. Bundy, Daniel B.
Stewart, Richard P. L. Baber, John Beatty,
Willard Slocum, Joseph Ankeney, Edward Ball,
John A. Davenport, William K. Upham, Samuel
B. Philbrick, George W. Brooke, Norman K.
McKenzie.
The fifteenth elector, General John Beatty, was
in 1860 a resident of Cardington, Ohio,
where he had been engaged in the banking
business from 1852. He is the sole
survivor of the electoral college of Ohio,
which cast its vote for Abraham Lincoln
in 1860, and as far as known the only
surviving elector who cast a vote for
President Lincoln when he was
chosen to his first term almost half a
century ago.
General Beatty was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in
1828 and in 1852 entered the banking
business in Cardington. In 1861 he
entered the military service, first as
captain, and was promoted lieutenant colonel
of the Third
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GEN. JOHN BEATTY
Last Survivor of Lincoln Electoral
College, 1860.
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Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was
promoted colonel of the regiment in 1862,
and brigadier general later in the same
year. He stepped from the counting
room into the tented field and was, with his
men, seasoned to war and the shock of battle
within three months. He served with
gallantry and distinguished bravery in
Kentucky, at Stone River, around
Chattanooga, at Chickamauga and in other
campaigns until the close of hostilities and
then came back to his bank at Cardington.
He was elected three times to congress and served in
the fortieth, forty first and forty-second.
He came to Columbus and took up the banking
business here, with which he is still
connected, but not in the active manner that
characterized the first half century of his
business career.
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