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founders of the commerce and prosperity of Cincinnati, he
w i l l ever hold a prominent place. His advanced age at the
t ime of his death attests his exceptionally good personal
h a b i t s, and his long life of business successes was marked
by the strictest honor and integrity in all his dealings with
h i s fellow-men. In 182I he was married to Clarina Bartow,
of West Chester, New York. From this union five child r e n remain-two sons and three daughters: William, who
l ive s in Chicago, was married to Jane Butterfield; Samuel,
a bachelor,' also resides in that city; Cornelia married
S inmeon B. Williams; Emily married Robert L. Fabian,
a n d Augusta married Horatio G. Shumway, a prominent
l a w y e r of Chicago, and after his death she was m arried to
H e n r y D. Huntington, one of the most respected a nd successfiul retired business men of Cincinnati.
'branch, for which he is eminently qualified by his native
gen ius and q u ick perception. His public career began by
his election to the City Council in I86I, when only twentyfive years of age, and, except for a brief period, he has since
be e n a m ember of that body by successive re-e lections. He
was elected County Commissioner of Hamilton county in
I864, and in I868 was elected a Representative in the State
Legislature. He was elected President of Council in the
spring of I869, and was confirmed as Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney of Hamilton county in the fall following. Under
the n ew law he was elec ted Pre s ident of the Bo ard of Coun cilmen ill I872; served as Vice-President of the same body
in I874, and was re-elected President in I875. That was
his seventh term in Council, and he has served the city in
that body for a longer period than any one of the seventy two members of which the Council is composed. His pres ent prominence and influence may be attributed to the early
political training he received from his employer, Charles
Rule, who was one of the prominent Democratic politicians
of the West. He was the nominee of the Democratic party
for Police Judge in I875, and few men of his age have
received more marks of the confidence and esteem of his
party and the general public.
eAtRIMKE, HON. FREDERICK, Lawyer, Jurist
and Author, was born, September Ist, I79I, in
the city of Charleston, South Carolina. He com pleted his education at Yale College, graduating
in the class of I8IO, and subsequently studied law.
He removed to Ohio in his early manhood, and
engaged in the practice of his profession. Ile subsequently
served for several years as Presiding Judge in one of the
circuits of that State. II- I836, without any solicitation on
his part, he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court,
which position he held for the next seven years, discharging
his duties with ability and inflexible integrity. IHe published a work entitled "1 Considerations upon the Nature and
Tendency of Free Institutions " (Cincinnati, I848), and
"1An Essay on Ancient and Modern. I iterature." I-Ie left
a fund to his executor to provide for the publication of a
collection of his various writings in two volumes. Ile died
in Chillicothe, Ohio, March 8th, i863
towuy OORHES, RICHARD M., Lawyer and Soldier,
hi pt, wmas born, October 6th, 1838, in Harrison county,
Apr1 Ohio. His parents were both natives of Pennsyltie w vania, his father being a farmer by occupation.
waslise received his prenliminary education inn the
Normal School at Hopedale, and also attended
the Damascus, Ohio, Academy until he was nineteen years
aold. lie then taught school in Holmes county for two terms,
reading law in the vacation with the firm of Barcroft &
Voorhes, of Millersburg, and was admitted to the bar in that
town July 6th, 1860. Ie commenced the practice of his
profession during the same month, being associated with
Thomas Campbell, of Coshocton, and so remained until
April i5th, i86i, the date of President Lincoln's proclama
tion calling for 75,000 men to suppress the rebellion. He
was the first person to sign enlistment papers in Coshocton
has a private, and was assigned to Company A, i6th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was also among the first
body of troops that crossed the Ohio river into Virginia,
acting as Orderly Sergeant. These troops were under the
command of General McClellan. He was mustered out of
the service in August, IS6I, and on his return home reenlistecl in- the three years' service, October 28th, I86i, as a
private in Company F. 56th Ohio Volunteers, under' Colonel
Charles Harker. On November 6th following he was
elected First Lieutenant, and on the 30th of the same month
was promoted to the rank of Captain. He was subsequently
transferred to the United States service, being commissioned
by President Lincolnl, and served until November, i865
~ITZGERALD, HON. JAMES W., Lawyer, was
sbor n a t Queenstown, Irel and, February I 5th,
i 836. H e attended the schools of his native city,
and was a stud ent of the college at that place
when he embar ked for Canada in i85I. He re miai n ed in Quebec until the fall of I853, when he
remov ed to Cincinnati, where he became a clerk in a grocery
store. In I854 he engaged as bookkeeper for the wellknown marble firm of Charles Rule & Co., at Fifth and
Broadway, and entered upon a systematic course of reading
and study, devoting much of his spare time to the law. He
began the grocery business on his own account in I86I, but
still pursued his studies, and was admitted to the bar in I864.
He at once engaged in practice in Cincinnati, where he has
continued to the present time, except as interrupted by
official duties, being especially devoted to the criminalb
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