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BIOGRAPHIES
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History of
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1894
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ARCHIE
B. HAHN was born at Newton, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Jan.
17, 1851, the son of Abner and Lucinda (Barrows) Hahn.
His father was also a native of this county, and was a very
successful farmer, owning at the time of his death 200 acres
of fine land. His wife was born Mar. 12, 1813; she now
lives with the subject of this sketch at the advanced age of
eighty years. Their family consisted of eight
children, four of whom are living. Our subject spent
his boyhood on the farm, which he left at the age of
seventeen to enter the services of the Kentucky Central
Railroad Company, where he was employed for a while as
brakeman and subsequently as engineer. For a time he
was in the employ of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railroad Company,, his railroad services covering altogether
a period of three years. He has since been
successfully and praofitably engaged in farming and
marketing. On Apr. 22, 1892, Mr. Hahn married
Carrie Smith, who was born Sept. 12, 1864.
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JOSEPH T. HARRISON,
attorney, Cincinnati, was born May 1, 1853, at Scio,
Harrison Co., Ohio, where he was reared and educated.
He is the eldest in the family of twelve children of John
and Euphemia (Patterson) Harrison, natives of Ohio, the
former of English, the latter of Scotch parentage. The
Harrison family were among the pioneer
settlers of eastern Ohio, and among the prominent farmers.
Our subject’s grandfather, Joseph Harrison, a
native of Otley, Yorkshire, England, settled in Harrison
county, Ohio, in 1818. The father of our subject made
farming the business of his life, and is known as one of the
most progressive and successful in that part of the State.
He is the owner of 700 acres of land where he now resides,
in Harrison county.
Our subject commenced teaching in the public schools
five years before he graduated from Scio (Ohio) College in
1875. After his graduation he was offered and accepted
a position as instructor in the college, and taught one
year; then entered the law office of David
Cunningham, in Cadiz, the county seat of Harrison
county, Ohio. He applied himself diligently to his
studies, and in October, 1877, entered the senior class of
the Cincinnati Law School, where he graduated in May, 1878,
since which time he has built up a lucrative practice (being
now the senior member of the firm of Harrison & Ashton) in
the Queen City. On Sept. 23, 1884, he was married in
Cincinnati to Vannelia, daughter of Thomas G. and
Yannelia (James) Smith, natives of Cincinnati, and of
Scotch and German descent, respectively. Mr. and
Mrs. Harrison have one child, Louise. Mr.
Harrison is an active member of the Masonic
Fraternity, and is a Knight Templar; is past master of
Kilwinning Lodge; a member of Syrian Temple of the Mystic
Shrine; past grand of Magnolia Lodge, I. O. O. F.; past
chancellor of Gillenwood Lodge, Knights of Pythias; and is
president of the Walnut Hills Council of the National Union.
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DANA WARREN
HARTSHORN, physician and surgeon, office on Ninth
street, and residence in Avondale, was born at Walpole,
Mass., Aug. 1, 1827, son of Ebenezer and Polly (Smith)
Hartshorn, both of English descent. The father,
who was a millwright and farmer, died in 1855, followed by
the mother in July, 1859. Of their eight children,
only two survive: Elbridge G. Hartshorn, of San
Francisco, and Dana Warren.
The subject of this sketch received his literary
education in the common schools and academies at Wrentham
and Wilbraham, near Springfield, Mass., graduated from the
Medical Department of Harvard College, Mar. 4, 1854, and
began practice at Dedham in his native State. There he
remained until 1857, when he migrated to Urbana, Ohio.
In 1861 he was appointed surgeon for United States
Volunteers, and began service on September 4, in the army of
the Tennessee. For more than one year he was on
Gen. Sherman’s staff as medical director, and for some
time was assistant medical director under Gen. Grant. Dr.
Hartshorn organized Gayosa Hospital at Memphis, Tenn.,
in 1862, under the direction of the United States
government, and had charge of the same for three months.
He resigned his position in the army because of physical
disability, and began practice in Cincinnati in 1864.
From 1872 to 1891 he filled the chair of professor of
anatomy and surgery in Pulte Medical College, gave
instructions in other special branches, and served as dean
of that institution for one year. The Doctor is a
member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and the Ohio
State Medical Society. He is a Republican, and served
as a member of the pension board of Hamilton county during
President Harrison’s administration. He
belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Army of the
Tennessee, and the Loyal Legion. Dr.
Hartshorn was married Mar. 28, 1858, to Mary
Abigail Knight, daughter of Robert and Eunice (Wight)
Knight. The Wights were originally from the
Isle of Wight. Dr. and Mrs. Hartshorn
have one son, Dana Warren Hartshorn, who is pursuing
a classical course at Woodward High School.
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ENOCH HAYES of Whitewater
township, born June 19, 1854, near Elizabethtown, is a son
of Moses and Mary Jane (Guard) Hayes, the former of
whom was born July 19, 1828, in Whitewater township.
He was reared on a farm, and engaged in agriculture all his
life, meeting with success. He was twice married. On
June 28, 1848, he married Mary Jane Guard, born Sept.
13, 1829, and the following children were born to them:
Ezera G., born Feb. 9, 1849; Charles S., born
Nov. 13, 1851; Enoch, born June 19, 1854; and
Isaac, born Nov. 30, 1856. Mr. Hayes
married, for his second wife, Oct. 16, 1860, Sarah Jane
Rittenhouse, and to this union came two children:
Mary Jane, born Sept. 4, 1861, and Harriet H.,
born June 2, 1863. Moses Haves departed
this life May 2, 1864.
Our subject, Enoch Hayes, remained at
home and attended the public schools of his native township
up to the time of his father’s death, when he and his three
brothers went to live with an uncle, Silas Van Hayes,
of Elizabethtown, until they reached manhood. Each
attended Moore’s College for two years. After leaving
school Enoch engaged in farming in that township for
a time. In 1875 he married Miss Minnie M.,
daughter of N. C. and Charlotte (Miller) Clark,
natives of this county, the former of whom was a physician.
Mrs. Hayes has only one sister, who resides in
Decatur, Ill., and is the wife of Russell Guard.
After our subject’s marriage he farmed in Indiana for nine
years, and then moved on his own farm, a part of the same
formerly owned by his father, where he has since remained.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayes are the parents of four children:
Edna Blanch, Flossie Wilbur, Everett and Minnie
Byrle. In his political preferences Mr.
Hayes is a stanch Democrat.
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ERASTUS B. HAYES
was born at Mt. Nebo, Miami township, Apr. 18, 1842, son of
James and Minerva J. (Iliff) Hayes, the former a
native of Dearborn county, Ind., who was brought to this
township when a mere child. His father was a
successful farmer residing near Elizabethtown, where he died
in 1867. Mrs. Hayes is a descendant of
an old English family; she resides at Cleves, Ohio. By
this marriage eleven children have been born: Erastus B.,
Wilson (deceased), Eliza, Catherine, Flora, Mitchell
(deceased), Jennie (deceased), Stephen H.,
James, Eva, Stanley (deceased).
Erastus B. Hayes, when eighteen years of age,
enlisted in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, Company D, and was with
Sherman’s division of the army; he was taken prisoner
at the battle of Trenton, but was held for only a short
time; he was commissioned sergeant and served the last year
of his army life in that capacity. After returning
from the war, he remained with his parents until Dec. 24,
1868, when he was married to Miss Roxanna
West, born Nov. 1, 1848, daughter of Warren and Mary
J. (Hayes) West, the former a native of Pennsylvania,
who emigrated with his parents to Lawrenceburg, Ind., in
1814. Five children have blessed their union:
Roxanna; Walter and Zedick (twins), deceased;
Mary, and Warren. Mr. and
Mrs. Erastus B. Hayes are the parents of eight
children: Cora, wife of Dr. J. L. McHenry, of
Somerville, Ohio; Warren W.; Minnie; Raymond E.;
Stephen H.; Mary; Catherine, and Anna. In March,
1874, Mr. Hayes removed to his present home, a
farm of one hundred acres in the Whitewater Valley.
Mrs. Hayes is a member of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Hayes has served as school trustee and
assessor of his township. Socially he is a member of
the Odd Fellows, North Bend Lodge, No. 402, also of the John
Campbell Post, G. A. R., of Harrison, Ohio. Politically he
is a Democrat.
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WILLIAM HAYES, deceased,
was born near Elizabethtown, Dec. 5, 1848, son of Joseph
and Mary (Newton) Hayes. His early life was spent
in Dearborn county, Ind., near Lawrenceburgh. He
remained at home until 1864, when he enlisted as a private
with the Fifth O. V. I., in the Ninth Brigade. After
the war, on Nov. 1, 1866, he was married to Miss Rachel
Mason, and removed to the farm now occupied by Mrs.
Hayes, in Whitewater township, where he remained to the
time of his death. Mrs. Hayes was born Feb. 27,
1840, in Dearborn county, Ind., daughter of Isaac and
Mary Ann (Lynch) Mason, the former of whom was born in
Pennsylvania, Oct. 23,1803, came to Dearborn county when a
young man, and remained a resident of same all his life,
becoming one of its honored and respected citizens.
Mrs. Mason was born Sept. 9, 1803, and is of
Irish extraction. Abiah Hayes, our
subject’s grandfather, was born in 1780, in Pennsylvania,
and remained there until twenty years of age, when he came
to Whitewater township, this county, and invested all the
money he possessed in two and one-half acres of land.
He spent his life in Hamilton and Dearborn counties,
becoming the wealthiest man in the community.
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THOMAS W. HAYS, M. D., was
born Oct. 22, 1863, at Bantam, Clermont Co., Ohio, a son of
George W. and Amanda Elizabeth (White) Hays.
His father was also a native of Clermont county, born Sept.
20, 1825, son of John and Martha (Greer) Hays, the
former a native of Ireland and the latter of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Amanda Hays was born in Clermont county,
Aug. 1, 1834, the daughter of Forman and Mary (Rogers)
White. Dr. Hays was educated at the public
schools of Bantam and under the private tutorship of
Prof. Samuel D. Shepard. At the age of seventeen
he began the study of medicine under Dr. W. E. Thompson,
of Bethel, Ohio, with whom he remained but a short time, and
then came to Cincinnati and continued his studies under
Drs. E. G. and B. Zinke. In 1885 he matriculated
at the Ohio Medical College, graduating in 1888; in 1887 he
was awarded Prof. W. W. Dawson’s gold medal for best
bandaging. Immediately after graduating in 1888 he was
one of the successful contestants for the position of
interne at the Cincinnati Hospital, where, after one year’s
service, he was appointed senior resident physician.
In 1890, at the expiration of his hospital service, he began
the practice of his profession in the office of E. B.
Zinke, No. 674 Vine street, but nine months later left
for Europe, spending five months in the general hospital at
Vienna. In June, 1891, he returned and resumed
practice at No. 674 Vine street, where he is at present
located. The Doctor is a general practitioner. He is
physician to the Humane Society, assistant to Samuel
Nickles, M. D., professor of materia medica at the Ohio
Medical College, and assistant-surgeon to St. Mary’s
Hospital. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of
Medicine and the Mississippi Valley Medical Society.
In politics he is a Republican.
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JACOB D. HEGLER, captain
and owner of the steamer “Guiding Star,” was born July 28,
1835, on a farm near Xenia, Ohio. His father, Jacob
Hegler, was a Virginian, and his mother, Malinda (Paullin)
Hegler, was a native of Ohio, and they were of German
and English extraction, respectively. Mr. Hegler
moved to this State in 1817, and, purchasing a farm of 410
acres near Xenia, carried on farming until his death.
Our subject attended the public schools of Xenia for a
short time, but tiring of the quiet home life, and
possessing a roving disposition, he left home at the early
age- of eight years, and found employment herding cattle in
Illinois. During this time he made two trips from near
Springfield, Ill., to Lancaster, Penn., on foot, driving
cattle over the mountains; for this work he received forty
cents a day. After this he made his way to New York,
where he shipped as cabin boy on a vessel bound for China,
engaged in the tea trade, and he followed the sea for
sixteen years, as sailor before the mast and as mate. During
this time he sailed around the world seven times, in the
China tea trade, and made twenty-seven voyages between New
York and Liverpool, England, in the Black Ball Line, owned
by Gimnell, Minton & Company by them he was promoted
to the rank of mate, and in this capacity made several
voyages between New York and the island of Sicily.
Mr. Hegler was in California before the discovery of
gold. Tiring of the sea he engaged in digging for gold
in Australia; from there went to Peru, South America, where
he also worked in the gold mines, and then back again to
California, where he again worked in the mines.
Having made and saved considerable money during this
time, and longing for the sea again, he returned to it, this
time as owner and captain of a ship engaged in the
Mediterranean sea trade as a fruiter; this he followed for
two years, when, in 1859, he finally left the sea, settled
in Nebraska among the Indians, and made an effort to build
up the town of Aspinwall, on the Missouri river. In
this venture he invested all his money in a general
merchandise store, operated a steam ferry, and served as
postmaster. The investment proved a failure, and
Capt. Hegler lost everything he had. From
here he went to Cincinnati, where he secured a position with
Babbitt, Harkness & Company, wholesale
grocers, by whom he was employed six years as traveling
salesman. He then returned to the profession of
navigation, this time as owner and captain of the steamer “
Annie Laurie,” engaged in the Cincinnati and Kenawha river
trade. He built and owned the steamer “ Kittie Hegler,” and
the Golden City,” and now owns the “ Guiding Star, ” the
finest and the largest steamer on the Ohio river.
Capt. Hegler was married Dec. 21, 1859, to
Mary I., daughter of Henry and Anna P. (Beall)
Kealhofer, of Xenia, Ohio, by whom he had three
children: Kitty, now Mrs. A. N. Paxton;
Harry, and George. Mrs. Hegler
died at Cincinnati, June 30, 1879. On Nov. 7, 1883, he
was again united in marriage, this time to Anna D. Paxton,
daughter of Samuel and Hannah A. (Eveland) Paxton, of
Loveland. By this union there is one child: Jacob
Lawrence. Captain Hegler moved to
Loveland in 1875. Politically he is a Democrat; he is
a member of Kilwinning Chapter of Royal Arch Masons.
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GEORGE M. HERANCOURT,
who was long known in Cincinnati as one of its principal
producers, was of Huguenot stock, and was descended from
John de Herancourt, who moved from France in 1685, after
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, to Muehlhofen, Rhein
Pfaltz, Bavaria, where the subject of this sketch was born
July 4, 1807. The father, George Michael
Herancourt, was a farmer in good circumstances, and
put the son to school until he was fifteen years of age,
when he was sent to learn the brewing and distilling
business, for which the proprietor was paid eighty-eight
florins. This he followed two years, then obtained
employment in another establishment, where he remained one
year; then traveled and worked his way through the cities of
France, Germany and Switzerland for four years, after which
he returned to his native place, thoroughly imbued with
Republican principles, and with a desire to go to America.
The monarchical government of Bavaria was soon made more
obnoxious to him by his being drafted into the army before
he had been home two weeks. His father, however,
purchased a substitute for him, and would have established
him in business, but being bent on going to the great
Republic of the West to try his fortune, he preferred a
passport to Havre, France, where on the thirteenth of June,
1830, he took passage in a sailing vessel, and crossing the
ocean landed at New York, August 27. During the few
days he was in that city, he ascertained that there were
only four ale and porter breweries there. From New
York he went to Philadelphia, where he was employed in the
ale and porter brewery of Badenheimer & Drexel
until the following spring, when the works were stopped, as
the manufacture of those beverages was not carried on during
the summer until several years after, by Reichert, of
Philadelphia, and Lauer, of Reading, Penn. He then
traveled through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West
Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana. Cincinnati he visited for
the first time in 1833, during the prevalence of the
cholera, and found half of the stores on Main street,
between Fifth street and the river, closed, some of the
parties having died, and some removed to the country.
The first day he was here no less than sixty five deaths
occurred, the largest number of any one day during the
epidemic. He then returned to Philadelphia for a few
months, but again came west, this time to Columbus, where he
engaged in the jewelry and music business, continuing in
same from 1834 to 1844, when he sold out, as his health was
suffering from confinement. Being one of the charter
members of the Ohio Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company,
he was appointed its general agent, and served in that
capacity about five years. In connection with a
partner he also carried on brewing; in 1836 he formed
another partnership, building the City Brewery, and this
business connection he maintained some twenty-eight years,
although he came to Cincinnati in 1847, and started a
separate establishment. In 1834 he first tasted lager
beer in the saloon of a Mr. Fleishman, on Main
street, between Ninth and Court streets, who merely brewed
enough to supply his customers over the counter. One year
later he built a lager beer vault on the corner of Main and
Twelfth streets; but it was closed the following year,
because the beer would not keep during summer. In 1843
or 1844 two others commenced the manufacture of lager in an
alley between Fourth and Fifth streets, on Western row, and
continued about two years. In 1846 Fortmann &
Muenzenberger were manufacturing it on Main near Twelfth
streets, and continued the same for two years. Next in order
came Peter Noll, who also brewed lager in a
small way on Vine street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets; from which it can be seen that the growth of this
branch of business has been very remarkable within the last
forty-five years. Mr. Herancourt erected
his brewery on the site of the present extensive
establishment, with a capacity, at first, of fourteen
barrels per day, but increased to forty-five per day the
second year, and continued to increase until 1851 when he
commenced brewing lager. From that time forward the
business developed rapidly, and became correspondingly
remunerative. In 1852 he built the first large cellars
in Cincinnati for keeping lager during hot weather, making
his contracts at Christmas for the whole year; and when
others wished to buy from him they were refused, on the
ground of not having bought of him in winter. His
connection with the City Brewery was continued until 1864,
when he disposed of his interests to his partner, Mr.
Huster. Besides this, Mr. Herancourt
purchased a brewery built by his brother in 1854, on the
comer of Central avenue and Denman street, and successfully
operated it for five years, and then leased it to other
parties.
In 1840 Mr. Herancourt was married to Miss
Louise Ampos, of Columbus, a native of Bavaria, by whom
were born to him two children; she died in 1843. He
was married, the second time, in 1847, to Mrs. Barbara
Juengling, and the fruit of this union was children as
follows: Christina, married to H. Heuck, of
Memphis, in 1865, and died in February, 1870, at the age of
twenty-six, leaving three children; Elizabeth (Mrs.
Henry Faehr), Paulina, Wilhelmina,
Louis Albert, George L., Edward S.,
Robert H., Lilly C. and William. Mr.
Herancourt died June 29, 1880. He acquired an
abundance of this world’s goods, and spent the eventide of
life quietly and comfortably. As a man of business,
Mr. Herancourt had the reputation of being prompt,
energetic and methodical; one whose foresight in reference
to mercantile probabilities was remarkably correct. He
never withdrew from an enterprise in which he was fairly
engaged, until success was evolved from it, although the
prospect at times might be very poor. He was a man of
a thoughtful turn, and kept pace with the times in all that
pertained to trade, commerce and natural science, and might
be emphatically called a man of progress. He had an
enviable reputation for candor and integrity among his
fellow citizens; was possessed of high ambition, and was
thorough in all his undertakings. To be able to
appreciate him, it was first necessary to gain his
confidence; for, after he was assured of the real worth of a
person, there was hardly anything he would not do for him.
To the truth of this many flourishing business men in the
city can testify. In fact he was possessed of many manly
virtues that made him worthy of the remarkable success that
followed him through life, and gathered about him a host of
ardent friends. He was president of the board of
trustees of St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal Church of
Cincinnati, and a thirty-second degree Mason.
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GREAR C. HILL,
conductor on the B. & O. R. R., was born at Fort Harmar,
Washington Co., Ohio, February 14, 1840, and is the son of
John and Anna (Carnig) Hill.
John Hill emigrated from England in 1817 and
settled at Fort Harmar; he was a bricklayer in England, and
also worked at his trade for many years in this country.
The subject of this sketch, the youngest of twelve
children, was educated in the common schools of Marietta,
Ohio. After leaving school he went to work in a bucket
factory at Marietta, where he stayed three years, leaving to
enter the employ of the old Cincinnati & Marietta Railroad
Company, now the Baltimore & Southwestern, with which he has
been connected thirty-five years, serving as brakeman,
baggage master, freight conductor, and passenger conductor.
He is now conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
express, between Parkersburg, W. Va., and Cincinnati, and
is one of the old conductors on the road. He bought
his present home and removed to Loveland in 1868. Mr.
Hill was united in marriage, Oct. 14, 1866, to
Maggie, daughter of George and Jane
(Laurie) Patterson, residents of Cincinnati,
Ohio, and of Scotch descent. By this union there are
two children: Nettie, wife of Joseph Stiles,
and Jennie, now Mrs. Clifford
Haniford. Mr. Hill is a 32° Mason,
and politically he is a Republican.
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THOMAS J. HOFFNER
(deceased) was born, in 1827, in Springfield, Ohio, son of
George and Mary (Tucker) Hoffner, both natives of
Maryland. He lived with his parents until he was
sixteen years of age, when he came to Cincinnati and engaged
in the tinner’s trade with his brother Jacob, which
he followed three years. He then went to Dayton, Ohio,
and started in the tinning business for himself, conducting
same three years, and then located at Licking, Ohio.
After a few years residence in that place he removed to
Lockland, same State, where he remained in business as a
tinner and general hardware dealer until his death, which
occurred Dec. 5, 1889.
On Nov. 7, 1850, he was married to Miss Sarah
Gismere, born Feb. 13, 1829, in Sycamore township,
Hamilton Co., Ohio, daughter of Samuel and Mary Dorel,
both natives of Pennsylvania, who came here in 1833 and
located on a farm near Reading. Mr. and Mrs.
Hoffner had two daughters and one son. Arabella,
one of the daughters, is a music teacher by profession, and
lives at home for the purpose of managing her mother’s
business affairs. Jessie, the second daughter,
is the wife of B. F. Curtis, and lives in New Haven,
Conn. They are all members of the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Hoffner started in life with very little
money, but was fairly successful in business, and left his
widow in comfortable circumstances. During the latter
part of the Civil war he served his country in the One
Hundred and Thirty-eighth O. V. I. He was a member of
the Presbyterian Church, in politics a Republican.
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JOHN S. HOPPER
was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, June 22, 1817,, son of
Abraham and Elizabeth (Sharp) Hopper. They came to
Hamilton county in 1812, traveling by wagon from New Jersey,
and were accompanied on this long and laborious journey by
an uncle named Stagg. They first located at
Cincinnati, where they remained one year, during which time
Mr. Hopper worked at his trade, that of blacksmith.
He then entered into partnership with Mr. Stagg in
the purchase of a thousand acres of land in Anderson
township, which at first was jointly owned; but a division
was soon found to be desirable, and to his portion Mr.
Hopper subsequently added six hundred acres. He
was not only one of the most extensive farmers but also one
of the most successful in the township, in which he resided
until his death, in 1863, at the age of seventy-four.
He was twice married, and was the father of sixteen
children, twelve by his first marriage, and four by the
second.
The subject of this sketch was reared in his father's
farm, with the exception of three years that he spent in
Cincinnati with a brother-in-law. After reaching his
majority he worked in a country store for his father, and
was also employed by him on the farm. On Dec. 10,
18480, he married Martha, daughter of Samuel and
Cynthia (Durham) Woodrough, and to this union eleven
children have been born; Samuel, a grocer in
Forestville; Elizabeth, wife of Theodore Johnson;
Hester, who became Mrs. Stagg; Cynthia,
wife of Abraham Llewellen; Catherine, wife of V.
Johnson; Mary (wife of George Powell; Abraham;
Alice, wife of John Kendall; Hattie, wife of
Charles Wilfer, and two deceased. Mr. and Mrs.
Hopper are members of the Methodist Protestant Church,
and in politics he is a Prohibitionist.
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ALONZO C. HORTON,
real-estate agent, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 1,
1838. His father, Henry V. Horton, a native of
the State of New York, came to Cincinnati in 1830. and was
here engaged for many years in conducting a silversmith
establishment. He was prominently identified with the
Sons of Temperance for many years, and up to the time of his
death was the grand scribe of the national division of the
Order. He died in Cincinnati in 1870.
The subject of this sketch received his early education
in the public schools of Cincinnati, and completed it at
Herron’s Academy. For a time thereafter, he was employed
with the Cincinnati Daily Times, after which he was for a
brief period an employe of the O. & M. R. R. Co. In 1865 he
entered into the real-estate brokerage business, in which he
has had several partnership associations, the first being
with Samuel Sargent, the second with the firm of
Geo. H. Shotwell & Company, and the third and last with
George F. Meyers; he is now engaged in the same
business alone. Mr. Horton has been very
actively identified with the development of the suburban
districts, one of the very earliest subdivisions made in the
county being that of a large tract of land in the now
extensively improved and populous north end of Vine street,
known as Corryville, in which he was associated with the
late Truman B. Handy. He was among the earliest
of the real-estate dealers to make a specialty of, and
engage extensively in, auction sales. He was urgent in
his endeavors to establish a real-estate exchange in
Cincinnati, and it was largely through his efforts that this
was finally accomplished; he was the first president of that
body, with which he has ever since been connected. He is a
Republican and an active member of the Lincoln Club, of
which he was president two terms. Mr. Horton
was married, in 1865, to Maria R., daughter of
Nathaniel Bartlett, one of the pioneer merchants of
Cincinnati. Three sons and one daughter born of this
marriage survive, namely: A. Bartlett, a journalist,
now Cincinnati correspondent for several newspapers of New
York City; George M., who is associated with his
father in the real-estate business; Alice M., wife of
William L. Harvey, who is engaged in the grain
business in Cincinnati; and Alonzo C., Jr., a
student. The family residence is on North Crescent
avenue, Avondale. They are members of the
Swedenborgian Church.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 874 |
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F. H. HUELSMAN, M. D.,
veterinary surgeon, office on Vine street, Cincinnati, began
the study of his profession in 1858 in the military service
of the Kingdom of Prussia, and, in 1861, graduated a
veterinary surgeon. He remained in the service of the
Kingdom of Prussia nine years, and then came to America,
where he followed his profession. The Doctor attended
a course of lectures in the Cincinnati College of Medicine
and Surgery during the sessions of 1887 and 1888, and to-day
enjoys one of the largest and most lucrative practices of
any of his profession.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 649 |
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JAMES G. HUNT, M. D., was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 12, 1821. He received a
good literary education at Woodward College, of that city,
and graduated in medicine from the Eclectic Medical
Institute of Cincinnati, in March, 1848. He entered
into partnership in practice with Prof. B. L. Hill.
In 1852 they issued jointly a work upon homeopathic surgery.
In 1853 he retired from the profession for a short time, but
such were its attractions to him that he soon returned
again, and continues in it to the present time. He
enjoys good health, and a fair practice mostly limited to
chronic diseases.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 722 |
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SAMUEL HUNT, president of
the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia Railroad Company, was
born in August, 1849, in Warren county, Ohio, son of Dr.
Samuel P. and Eliza (Thomas) Hunt, natives of
Connellsville, Penn., and Barnesville, Ohio, and of English
and Welsh descent, respectively. The Hunts were
early settlers near Alexandria, Va. Dr. Hunt
died in 1884, at the age of eighty-three; his wife died in
1851, aged forty-three. Their family numbered eight
children, six of whom are living: Thomas; John E.,
of Little Rock, Ark.; Eliza, widow of W. R. Hoel,
deceased, of Warren county, Ohio; Martha, of Kennedy,
Hamilton Co., Ohio, Rachel and Samuel.
The last named was educated in the public and private
schools of his native county and learned telegraphy.
He began his business life as an operator at Chicago, on the
Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago railroad; was assistant
station agent at Lexington, Ky., one year; division
superintendent on the Cincinnati Southern, with headquarters
at Danville, Ky., several years; superintendent of the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad, between Rome and
Macou, Ga., with headquarters at Atlanta, two years;
superintendent for the Fitzgerald & Mallory
Construction Company in the construction of the Denver,
Markham & Atlantic railroad, now part of the Missouri
Pacific system; superintendent of the Ohio & Northwestern
railroad one year, and subsequently receiver and agent for
this property until the organization of the present company
in 1871, when he became president. Mr. Hunt
resides at Walnut Hills. He was married, in 1876, to
Martha Trotter, of Xenia, Ohio, and they have
two children, Harry and Philip. Mr.
Hunt is descended from a Quaker family, and his wife
is a Presbyterian, but both attend the Presbyterian Church.
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 - Page 801 |
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THOMAS HUNT, secretary and
treasurer of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia Railroad
Company, was born Jan. 22, 1834, in Belmont county,
Ohio. He obtained a public-school education, attended
Robert Way's Academy, and was a student at St. Xavier
College, Cincinnati, 1851-52. For thirteen years he
was agent and telegraph operator for the Little Miami
railroad at Morrow. He then entered the service of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, for which he was
agent at Lexington, Ky., one year, and at Danville four
years. For two years he was ticket agent for the
Cincinnati Southern at Cincinnati. His first official
position with the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia was that
of train dispatcher, which he filled in 1890. In 1891
he became secretary and treasurer, which office he has since
held. Mr. Hunt is a Quaker in religious faith.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 802 |
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WILLIAM W. HUNT was born
in Clermont county, Ohio, a son of John M. and Elizabeth
(Conklin) Hunt, natives of New Jersey, and of English
descent. The mother died in Clermont county, in 1891;
the father, who was a builder and contractor throughout his
active business life, spent his last years upon a farm.
Their family numbered ten children, eight of whom are
living.
William W. Hunt was reared on his father’s farm,
receiving a public-school education, which was supplemented
by a course of study at Clermontville Academy. He
began to learn the carpenter trade in 1880, under Henry
Fisher, and with him worked one year. During the next
year he was employed in Cincinnati, and then after spending
a year on his father’s farm began building and contracting
at Madisonville. In connection with this business, he
has also conducted a lumber yard since 1892. On Dec.
28, 1882, he married Addie C., daughter of Hubbard
and: Martha (Wood) Baker, to which union five
children have been born, viz.: Howard; Roland,
Wilber, Helen and Arthur. Mr.
and Mrs. Hunt are members of the Baptist Church, and in
politics he is a Prohibitionist.
Source: History of
Cincinnati and Hamilton Co., Ohio, Past & Present -
Illustrated - Publ. Cincinnati, Ohio - S. B. Nelson & Co.,
Publishers - 1894 - Page 945 |
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