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charge of the works in Newburg, including steel works, I)dast
furnaces and rolling mills. He has two daughters, Katharine and Jeannette.
ciated his two eldest sons in the business, each equally
sharing with himself. Having for two years been a sufferer
from a most terrible and insidious disease, he again visited
Europe ill the summer of I875, in the hope of being able
to effect a cure. His disease, known as progressive muscular atrophy, has to this day baffled the skill of the most
eminent physicians and defied the curative properties of the
baths and mineral springs of Europe and America. Although a confirmed invalid, his mind is unimpaired, and he
is never troubled with low spirits. His visit to Europe was
not followed by the least benefit, and he returned to the
bosom of his family after seven months' absence. His affliction, though weakening him day l)y day, is nevertheless
painless. But its silent ravages have unfitted him for the
activities of life, and his condition is such that he never
leaves his home, where he is surrounded by a large and
affectionate family. In February, I840, he was married to
Magdalene Bering, a descendant of a noble family of
Rhenish Bavaria, and five sons and five daughters are the
fruits of this union. Nine of these survive. Several are
married. His third son, C. M. lIotze, is an attorney-at-law
in Cincinnati. Three sons have charge of the business, the
youngest having succeeded the founder. The business is a
very prosperous one, and will ever reflect credit upon the
originator. For nearly forty years he devoted himself to
the study of the science of heat and ventilation, and he
ranks with the greatest men of his class in the world. He
succeeded beyond expectation in a city where many others
had lamentably failed, and the reputation of his manufactures extends over the whole Western country. He has
given character to his business and made Cincinnati a
centre for the manufacture of heating and cooking apparatus.
OTZE, ADOLPHUS, Manufacturer, was born in
fui th n ten en i towngdo of Muenden, in the late kingdom of
Hanover, August iith, I8I2. His parents were
an s respectable Germans of the middleclass and the
'x7 pro prietors of an in n. I t w a s during the invasion
of the Fre nch un thethe first Napoleon, and while
the invader s wer e qu arter ed in the town, and some of them
in his par ents' inn, that Adolphus was born. The name
" Lotze " is German for " pil ot," and its representative in
Cincinnati has faithfully maaitained its significance. At
the age of nine he lost his father, but his surviving parent
gave him a good education. He attended school until his
fourteenth year, and then became an apprentice to a tinsmith in his nati ve town. In this c apacity he served four
y ea r s. Not caring to seek his fortune in a country already
overcrowded wi th skilled labor, and more especially having
an aversion to the life of a tramping journeyman, he resolv ed to emigrate to America. He embarked at Br emen,
October I8th, I83o, and arrived at Baltimore in the December follow ing. Af ter working at his trade for a short
time he turned his a ttention to the solving of the s cientific
probl em of heat and ventilation. From Baltimore he made
hi s way to Philadelphia, and thence to Ne wark, New York
and Boston, i n all which places he applied hi m self to the
study of heat and ventilation through the agency of warmair furnaces. The vigorous pros ecut ion of h is experiments
wa s destined to make him a prosperous merchant and a
benefactor of humanity. In the spring of I838 he took up
his residence in Ccicinnati, and in the year following he
founded his present large and important manufacturing industry. He was the inventor and maker of the first warmair furnace manufactured in the Western States. This
furnac e was built in th e old residence of the Hon. D. K.
Este, at Ninth and Main streets, in I840. So well was
Judge Este pleas ed wit h it that he or dered one of the sanme
p attern for his new and more palatial residence, twenty
years later. In I853 the inventor visited Europe, including
his birth-place, but spent most of his time in examining
and investigating the methods of beat and ventilation in
vogue there, as well as the various kinds of stoves, cooking.ranges, etc., used. On his return he added to his business
the manufacture of cooking-ranges, and with a success that
far exceeded his expectations. Two years previous to this
-he had erected his first bousiness house at No..217 WAalnut
street, and this he was compelled from time to time to enlarge, until it now has a frontage of 33 feet on Walnut
street and a depth of 200 feet to Lodge street. Up to I874
the firm-name was A. Lotze & Co., but at this date it
was changed to A. Lotze & Sons, although the founder
was the only mhember of the firm. In May, I875, he asso
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EMPEL, FERDINAND FREDERIC, of Logan,
Hocking county, Ohio, Merchant, Banker and
Real Estate Operator, was born in Bielefeld
Westphalia, Prussia, June 2otb, 1824, and is the
youngest son of Hieronymus F. Rempel. He
comes of a family whose members have held
many important positions in their native country. His
father founded the College'of Bielefeld, Prussia, and acted
as a professor in and superintendent of this institution until
the time of his death; he was widely known, and highly
esteemed for his learnin, and intelligence. His oldest
brother, Frederic Rempel, was a professor at the college in
Team, while another brother,, Rudolph Rempel, attained
distinction as a politician, and was engaged extensively in
manufacturing pursuits, in the city of Bielefeld, Prussia. The
laboring classes of that city, in acknowledgment of his great
aiid zealous interest in their welfare, caused the erection of a
splendid memorial monument in the garden of the Concordia
Society. He came to this country with his sister and brotherin-law, G. Sporleder, in 1834, and settled with them, near