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BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present
- Illustrated -
Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers -
1894
Milton T. Carey,
Dr. M. D. |
MILTON THOMPSON
CAREY, physician and surgeon, office and residence
No. 424 W. Seventh street, Cincinnati, was born near the
town of Hardin, in Shelby county, Ohio, July 22, 1831.
He received all the scholastic training which was available
in the town in which he was reared. At the age of eighteen
he entered the office of Henry Smith Conklin, M.D.,
in the town of Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio, and began the study
of medicine. After three years of pupilage, and three
courses of didactic and clinical instruction in the Medical
College of Ohio in Cincinnati, he graduated with the highest
honors of the institution in March, 1852. As a reward
of merit, after a competitive examination he was appointed
resident physician of the Commercial Hospital and Lunatic
Asylum, which occupied the present site of the city
hospital. After this term of service expired, he began
the general practice of medicine and surgery in an office on
Western row, now Central avenue, opposite Court street.
In 1852 he was appointed attending physician to the Venereal
and Contageous Hospital, which was located in Potters Field,
the present site of Lincoln Park. He was elected
demonstrator of anatomy to the Medical College of Ohio, in
which capacity he served until the spring of 1854.
On Nov. 6, 1856, Dr. Carey was united in
marriage with Cornelia M. Burnet, daughter of the
Rev. David S. and Mary Gano Burnet, and four children
have blessed this union, viz.: Burnet, born Oct. 21,
1857, died Apr. 4, 1859; Mollie T., born May 8, 1860,
married Nov. 6, 1879, David T. Williams (they had two
children: Carey, born Feb. 21, 1883, died Mar. 15,
1885; and Gayla Carey, born Jan. 7, 1887);
Lydia K., born Mar. 26, 1862, married William
Luther Davis (they have one child: Lydia C., born
Sept. 7, 1886), and Milton T., born Apr. 17, 1867,
graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Ohio, in
March, 1889, and is a general practitioner of medicine and
surgery at No. 424 W. Seventh street, Cincinnati.
Dr. Milton Thompson Carey was elected coroner of
Hamilton county in the fall of 1857, and served two years.
At the breaking out of the Civil war, he was, Nov. 21, 1861,
appointed and commissioned surgeon of the Forty-eighth
Regiment, O. V. I., and assigned to duty as post surgeon at
Camp Dennison, Ohio. After organizing a Post Hospital,
and assisting in the organization of several regiments he
was ordered into active duty in the field. He took
part in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, was captured on the
first day of the battle, Apr. 6, 1862, and retained a
prisoner of war until July, 1862, at which time he was
paroled and returned home. Soon after reaching home,
he was ordered to Camp Chase, at Columbus, Ohio, and
assigned to duty as post surgeon, in which capacity he
served until October of the same year, at which time he was
ordered to join the army at Fort Pickering, Tenn.; was with
the army at the assault upon Vicksburg; was likewise a
participant in the battle of Arkansas Post, Jan. 11, 1863.
Ill health, however, compelled him to resign his commission,
and he once more returned home. As soon as his health
was somewhat restored, he made application and received the
appointment of acting assistant-surgeon United States army,
and assigned to duty at Woodward Post Hospital in
Cincinnati, serving until near the close of the war.
In 1865 he was re-elected coroner of Hamilton county, and
served two years; was elected a member of the board of
directors of Longview Asylum, and after serving two terms
was re-appointed to the same position by the governor of the
State. He was elected to the common council in 1872,
and served two years; was elected a member of the board of
education in 1880-82. As an evidence of his success in
his profession, there are but few medical men in Cincinnati
who have been more successful in a financial point of view
than he—beginning poor, yet by energy and industry his
investments yielding him a competency. As a medical
officer in the army the Doctor attained some distinction as
an operator [See reports on file in the Medical Department,
U. S. A., Circular No. 2, Page 23; Surgeon-General’s Office
at Washington, D.C.]. Likewise, to show the esteem in which
he was held by the men and fellow-officers of his regiment,
resolutions of sympathy for him in his illness are on
record, as follows:HEADQUARTERS MEDICAL
DEPARTMENT
TENTH DIVISION, THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS.
MARCH 1863.
WHEREAS, the resignation on
account of ill health of Milton T. Carey, Surgeon
Forty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Senior
Surgeon and Medical Director Tenth Division, Thirteenth Army
Corps, has been accepted, and he is about to return from the
hardships and exposures of a soldier’s life to home and
friends: We, the undersigned medical officers of the Tenth
Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, deploring the necessity
which has deprived us of a much-esteemed friend and
fellow-officer, do resolve: (I) That during Surgeon Carey’s
long association with us in camp and field, he has, by his
professional skill, his kind and courteous manner and
gentlemanly bearing, won our highest respect as a surgeon
and our highest regards as a friend and associate. (II) That
in our relations both professional and social we have always
found in him the faithful and obliging officer, the
high-toned and polished gentleman, and the sincere and true
friend. (III) That his professional attainments as
exhibited by his success on the field of battle and among
the sick in camp and hospital, demand from us our highest
regards as talents found only in those who have devoted
their whole lives to the acquisition of medical and surgical
knowledge, and it is with sincere regret that we part with
such a skillful guide. (IV) That we sympathize with
the Doctor in this affliction which deprives the army of the
Mississippi of one of its best surgeons, and we trust that a
kind and beneficent Providence may restore him to his wonted
health. (Signed by the Medical officers of the Tenth
Division of the Thirteenth Army Corps).
To the Medical Officers Tenth Division, Thirteenth
Army Corps, Army of the Miss.
GENTLEMAN: The sentiment
expressed in your communication of this day is highly
gratifying to me, and serves to buoy me up in this hour of
sore affliction. Greatly prostrated from protracted
disease, and depressed by a consciousness of there being but
little hope of recovery, or at least of ever being able to
resume my duties in the service of my country, these
expressions, come to me at this special time in tones of
tender sympathy, and are calculated to remove from my
present condition a part of its gloom and despondency.
In taking my leave of you I do it with feeling of deep
regret. Our association together has been of the most
pleasant character, although we have been called upon to
endure hardships and have suffered great privations, yet
they have been met cheerfully and without complaint. I now
return you my sincere thanks for your willing co-operation
with me in taking care of the sick and wounded of this
command. It is due to your constant and
self-sacrificing care and watchfulness that the sufferings
of the sick in hospital, and the wounded and dying on the
battle field have been greatly mitigated. As a matter
for your encouragement I will say that whether I am ever
sufficiently restored to health or not to allow me to
re-enter the services, I am determined to spend the remnant
of my days in the defense of my country. Your
positions in the army are onerous and honorable, act well
your part, as I know you will, and your just reward will
surely come.
Yours with sincere regards, M. T. Carey.
Cephas Carey,
father of Milton T. Carey, and son of Ezera, a
direct descendant of John Carey, a Plymouth pilgrim, was
born in New Jersey, June 5, 1776. He accompanied his
parents, when a child, to western Pennsylvania, and thence
to Ohio in 1790, stopping for a time on the Ohio river near
Wheeling, thence to Losantiville (now Cincinnati), thence
with a few settlers to the Northwest Territory, then a vast
wilderness, where they were compelled to live in blockhouses
owing to roving bands of unfriendly or hostile Indians.
He assisted in furnishing supplies to Gen.
Wayne’s army while on its march to the lakes of the
north. In 1800 he was elected justice of the peace; in
1803 he was commissioned a captain of militia. In the
same year he married Jane Thompson, who was
likewise born in New Jersey, and moved to the West fork of
Turtle creek, a tributary of the Great Miami in Shelby
county, Ohio. He visited Cincinnati when there were
but two or three log cabins, and made two or three trips to
New Orleans on flatboats with produce, returning by way of
New York City, there being no direct land communication
south of the Ohio river. In the course of six or eight
years following the successful march of the United States
army against the British and their allies, the country
filled up rapidly and civilization pushed forward with rapid
strides. But while the young nation was thus growing
rapidly, and everything was bright and joyous, and high
hopes of the future were entertained, his devoted companion
was torn from him by the unrelenting hand of death, leaving
him with eight motherless children. After the lapse of
two years he married Mrs. Rhoda Gerrard,
nee Rhoda Hathaway, whose father and
mother, Abram and Sallie Hathaway, were
of Scotch descent, and whose husband had been killed by a
roving band of Indians. She likewise bore Mr.
Carey eight children — six sons and two daughters—and
all the sixteen children lived to be adults. The
result was that at his death, Mar. 13, 1868, when he was at
the advanced age of ninety-four, he had sixteen children,
eighty-eight grandchildren, fifty-four great-grandchildren,
and ten great-great-grandchildren, making in all one hundred
and sixty-eight direct descendants. In religious views
he was a Protestant. Politically he was no partisan,
but subscribed to the doctrine as taught by the Republican
party.
Source: History of Cincinnati
and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present - Illustrated - Publ.
Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers - 1894 -
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RICHARD CARROLL, general
manager of the Queen & Crescent Route, was born in Ireland,
Mar. 14, 1847, son of Patrick and Nancy (Kelly) Carroll,
who came to America in 1849, and located in Cleveland, Ohio,
where the mother died before the Civil war, and the father
in 1873. They were the parents of three children, of
whom Richard is the only survivor. He received
a public-school education, and entered Western Reserve
Institute, then under James A. Garfield. In August,
1862, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and served to the close of the war,
during the last two years on detached service as clerk of
the Department of Ohio. After the conclusion of the
war he was brakeman one year on the Atlantic & Great Western
railroad, now the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, and then
conductor on different roads until November, 1881, when he
became trainmaster on the Queen & Crescent Route. He
became assistant superintendent of the same in January,
1882; superintendent July, 1883, and general manager in
February, 1889, and is recognized as one of the leading
railroad officials of Cincinnati. In February, 1889,
Mr. Carroll married Mary Louden,
of Henry county, Ky. In politics he is a Republican.
Source: History of Cincinnati
and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present - Illustrated - Publ.
Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers - 1894 -
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TRAVIS CARROLL, M. D.,
office No. 26 West Eighth street, Cincinnati, was born Mar.
29, 1860, at Clarksville, Tenn., son of P. F. and Anna E.
(Travis) Carroll. His father was a native of
Indiana, his mother of Kentucky, and they are of Irish and
English descent. Our subject’s great-grandfather,
Frederick Carroll, was a pioneer of Kentucky, and
was one of the first settlers of Louisville, that State.
Our subject’s father was a merchant by occupation, but he
has retired from the active duties of life. Dr.
Carroll is second in a family of five children. He
was reared and educated in Louisville, Ky., graduating at
the University there in 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts, and in 1883 graduated from the same institution as an
M. D. He immediately entered on the duties of his
chosen profession in Louisville, Ky., but only practiced
there until the latter part of 1883, when he came to
Cincinnati, where he has since been actively engaged in the
profession. He has built up a lucrative practice, and
takes an active interest in all that pertains to his
profession. He is a member of the American Medical
Association, of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and Ohio
State Medical Society. He is assistant health officer.
He is physician to the Cincinnati Council No. 421, C. B. L.,
and is also an active member of the C. K. of A. and the Y.
M. I. He was married, October 29, 1883, to Miss Mary,
daughter of Patrick and Elenore (McCarty) McKeown.
She is of Irish descent. Dr. Carroll has three
children: Travis C.; Harry R., and Mary E.
The family are members of the Catholic Church.
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Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 501 - Portrait on Page 689 |
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DeWITT C. COLLINS
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AARON WILBER COLTER was born in Cincinnati Oct.
30, 1859, son of Aaron A. and Margaret (Burdsal) Colter.
Aaron A. Colter was a native of Ohio. In 1849
he went to California, and met with good success in his
operations there. Upon his return he embarked in the
wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati, and also
established the well-known canning factory at Mt.
Washington, with which he was actively connected until his
death, in 1880. His first wife was the daughter of
Samuel Burdsal, the first druggist in Cincinnati, and
they were the parents of six children: Martha, wife
of Dr. A. J. Miles of Cincinnati; Josephine,
wife of J. A. Rule, of Mt. Washington; Mary F.;
Cora; Aaron Wilber, and Leroy S.
By his second marriage two children were born: George D.,
of Cincinnati, and Robert C., a bookkeeper in St.
Louis.
Aaron Wilber Colter received his education in
the public schools of Mt. Washington, and at Chickering
Institute, Cincinnati. He began his business career as
a grocer, but since the death of his father has owned and
managed the canning factory at Mt. Washington, and greatly
enlarged its facilities and business. On Jan. 3, 1883,
Mr. Colter married Blanche Corbely who died in
1885 leaving one daughter, Julia M. In
December, 1888, he married, for his second wife, Mary
Mounts, of Toledo, Ohio, and to this union two children
have been born: Rebekah and Maurice Wilber.
Mr. and Mrs. Colter are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He is a Republican in politics, and
has served as treasurer and mayor of his village. He
is also connected with the Masonic Fraternity and the
Knights of Pythias, having served in the latter as first
chancellor commander of Mt. Washington Lodge No. 436.
Source: History of Cincinnati
and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present - Illustrated - Publ.
Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers - 1894 -
Page 929 |
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HON. SAMUEL FULTON
COVINGTON (deceased was born at Rising Sun, Indiana,
Nov.12, 1819, son of Robert E. and Mary (Fulton)
Covington. He began his business career as clerk
in a store, but early entered the river transportation
service as clerk on the steamboat "Renown," owned by
William Glenn of Cincinnati, and also engaged in
shipping produce to southern markets by flatboats.
This was followed by a brief experience in general. In
March, 1843, he established the Indiana Blade at
Rising Sun; two years later he transferred this paper to his
brother, John B., and established the Daily
Courier at Madison, Indiana. In 1845 he was
admitted to the Bar at Rising Sun, and, though he never
practiced, he was a recognized authority on insurance law,
having been connected for some years with the Rising Sun and
Indianapolis Insurance Companies. He was elected the
first auditor of Ohio county, Indiana, in which he was
subsequently deputy clerk of the circuit court; deputy
county recorder, deputy county treasurer, and deputy school
commissioner, eventually filling every county office except
those of sheriff and coroner. He was elected justice
of the peace in 1846, served as postmaster in 1846-47, and
in 1847 was elected to the Indiana Legislature from the
counties of Ohio and Switzerland. In 1851 he located
at Cincinnati, and resumed his connection with the insurance
business. Here he was considered an authority by his
business associates, who elected him president of the board
of underwriters. He was also secretary of the Western
Insurance Company, and in March, 1865, was one of the Globe
Insurance Company, of which he was elected secretary at its
organization, and president from 1865 to 1888. Owing
to poor health, he resigned the presidency May 15, 1888; he
was not permitted to retire from official connection with
the company, however, but was at once re-elected honorary
vice-president, continuing until his death. Mr.
Covington was also connected with the municipal
government in various official capacities. In 1870 he
was elected alderman, and in the following year he became
president of the board. In 1875 he was elected
president of the board of police commissioners. As a
delegate from the Chamber of Commerce, he attended the
convention, in 1868, that organized the National Board of
Trade. In the same year the Chamber of Commerce
elected him vice-president, an honor with which he was twice
again complimented. He became president in 1872,
serving two terms. In 1873 he was elected a delegate
to the National Board of Trade, of which he was
vice-president from that date until 1880. In 1878 he
was elected president of the Cincinnati Board of Trade,
which consolidated with the Board of Transportation in the
following year, and he was the first executive officer of
the resulting organization. For a long time he was
chairman of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce on the
building of the Louisville and Portland canal, and his
correct addresses before the congressional committee on
commerce contributed largely to the early and successful
completion of that important work. He was the first to
suggest traveling post masters, and the weather bureau
reports. He was a constant writer for newspapers on
political and economic subjects. He was especially
interested in the improvements and protection of inland
navigation. At the time of his death he had in course
of preparation a history of Cincinnati. Mr.
Covington was married Apr. 2, 1843, to Mary,
daughter of Jonathan and Eleanor (Davis) Hamilton,
natives of Pennsylvania and of Maryland, respectively.
To this union five children were born: Lieut. George B.,
who fell in the service of his country; John I.,
insurance manager. New York City, and a member of
national prominence in the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity;
Harriet, wife of Rev. J. H. Shields, D. D., of
Omaha, Neb.; Mary, deceased wife of Joseph Cox,
Jr., of Cincinnati, and Florence, wife of
Harry M. Hidden, a wholesale grocer of Kansas City, Mo.
Mr. Covington was a member of the Presbyterian
Church; of the Masonic fraternity, and of the I. O. O. F.
Politically, he was a stanch Republican. He died Dec.
26, 1889, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, where a
fine monument marks his last resting place.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 944 |
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WILLIAM CROTTY was born in the South of Ireland,
Apr. 1, 1832, the son of Patrick and Mary (Ryan) Crotty.
His father came to America in 1849, and located in
Cincinnati, where he died in 1851, his wife surviving him
until 1876. They were the parents of seven children:
Julia, widow of James Bulger; Mary, deceased;
William; John, of Red Bank; Patrick of Camp
Washington; Timothy, deceased; and Matthew, of
California, Ohio.
William Crotty, the subject of this sketch,
received his early education in his native land, and was
seventeen years old when his parents immigrated to America.
When he grew to manhood he learned the blacksmith trade
under Isaac Ferris, with whom he remained four years.
After working on Walnut Hills one year, he conducted
business individually at California eight years, and in 1863
bought his present farm, near that village, where he has
been engaged in raising fruits of all kinds. In 1863
he married Catherine, daughter of Dennis and Ellen
Connelly, and they are the parents of nine children:
Patrick, Mary, Ellen, Nora, Hannah, Kate, James, William
and Thomas of whom Nora and Hannah are
teachers in the public schools, and James and
William are students at St. Xavier College. Mr.
and Mrs. Crotty are members of the Catholic Church, and
in politics he is a Democrat.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 932 |
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