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BELL - HAMILTON COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:33:49 -0400 From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman Subject: NEWSPAPER FUNNY From Fulton County Sender: DitsyMM@aol.com Subject: Sharing an all toooooo funneeeee article . . . read on!! While Colleen and I spent the day genealogy searching in Fulton Co., Ohio, a gold mine was found at the Wauseon Public Library - after ice cream, breaking a chair, and then laughing our heads off, here is what we found and wanted to share the smiles with all of you . . . tell me if you should know their names since no one knows to this date - LOL - we are still laughing with them 100 years later and then some!! Fulton Co. Expositor, May 1883 A Naughty, Naughty Man and a Naughty, Naughty Woman The usually quiet, virtuous village of Morenci is in a fever heat over a scandal in high life, which broke out there Tuesday night last. It appears that a prominent man of that town, a devoted member of the church whose wife is in poor health, became warmly attached to a married lady of the place, who lately left her husband, and who had by the way been working for the "man of sin" for a few weeks. The lady heroine of the affair but lately withdrew from her church and joined the one to which her "Benny" belonged in order, doubtless to be nearer to her new found friend and christian adviser. Matters went smoothly with them - all was lovely as they supposed - none but the crickets knew of their secret devotions. But the husband of the errant woman had "smelt a small sized mice" and to make "assurance doubly sure," he, with a couple of friends crept quietly up to the apartment where the misguided pair were closeted and patiently watched through a tell-tale place in the window, that they had neglected to make secure against intruders and they were rewarded for their pains by having the suspicions of the deserted husband confirmed. The husband sent for the Sheriff of Lenawee county on Wednesday and had the pair arrested and after a hearing at Adrian were bound over to court in the sum of $500 each. We suppress names but the parties and facts are well known in Morenci and the affair common talk upon the streets. >>>>>> tee hee!! >>>>>>>>>>>>> ditsy Maggie me! ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:00:12, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: ALFRED A. LOVETT, M.D. - HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The Ohio Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V - page 240 ALFRED A. LOVETT, M.D. For more than forty-five years the community of Eaton, in Preble County, has enjoyed the services of a high class physician and surgeon in the person of Dr. Alfred A. Lovett. Doctor Lovett graduated from Medical College in the Centennial year of 1876, and since the first two years has practiced in Preble County. He was born near Colerain, Hamilton County, Ohio, August 14, 1849, and is of English ancestry, the Lovett family record in England going back to the time of William the Conqueror. His father, William Taylor Lovett, was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1808, coming to the United States when a young man, and for many years engaged in farming. He was a man of upright character, and died in 1878. The mother of Doctor Lovett was Eliza Ann Larrison, of Holland Dutch ancestry. She was born near Cincinnati in 1811, and died in 1893. These parents had two sons and four daughters. Alfred A. Lovett, during his early infancy was taken by his parents to Franklin County, Indiana, and lived the first sixteen years of his life on their farm near Brookville. The family then returned to Ohio, and located at Oxford, where Doctor Lovett, who had attended public schools in Indiana, continued his education in Miami University. He is an honor graduate of that old and splendid institution of learning, receiving both the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in 1873, and his scholarship record made him a member of the fraternity Phi Beta Kappa. During the year following his graduation, while acting as superintendent of schools at Goodland, Indiana, he took up the study of medicine, and in the fall of 1874, entered the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, where he graduated in March, 1876. Doctor Lovett for two years practiced medicine at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, giving up his practice to return home during the last of his father. Shortly after his father's death he located at Eaton, and has been continuously represented in the professional work of that vicinity ever since. For many years Doctor Lovett was the only homeopathic physician in that county. He is a member of both the ohio Homeopathic Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Shriner. Politically he is a republican. For several years he was a member and president of the Eaton Board of Education. Doctor Lovett in connection with his medical practice owns and gives his supervision to a fine farm in Preble County. He married in 1880, Miss Nettie F. Minor, whose father, Dr.W.H.H.B. Minor, long enjoyed an enviable place in the medical profession. Doctor and Mrs. Lovett are members of the Presbyterian Church. They had two children, a son, W. Lloyd E., who died several years ago, and a daughter, Martha L., who is the wife of Walter E. McWhinney. Mr. McWhinney is in the automobile business at Richmond, Indiana. Doctor and Mrs. Lovett have two grandchildren, William W. and Francis Elizabeth. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:59:50, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: FRANK C. DECKEBACH - HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V - page 213 FRANK C. DECKEBACH, public accountant and auditor at Cincinnati, has had a wide and diversified experience in all the practical branches of his profession. He was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, November 11, 1879, son of George O. Deckebach. His father was well known in public affairs in Cincinnati for half a century. Second in a family of four children, Frank C. Deckebach attended grammar schools in Cincinnati, the Woodward High School and had training in a business college. His first employment was as bookkeeper. For a time he was examiner for the Bureau of Inspection and had supervision of public offices of the State of Ohio. For several years he was with a Cincinnati firm of public accountants, and in 1913 engaged in that business for himself, with offices in the Traction Building. He has a large clientele, including many individual firms and large corporations for which he has done auditing and special accounting. His services have also been engaged from time to time by civic bodies. Mr. Deckebach handled a large amount of profession work in behalf of the Government during the World war. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:59:54, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CHARLES S. BELL - HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V - page 227 CHARLES S. BELL, prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, has practiced law in Cincinnati for fifteen years. He is a trial lawyer, of great resourcefulness and technical skill, very able also as a public speaker. Mr. Bell was born in Hartwell, Hamilton County, Ohio, October 8, 1880, son of Samuel Walter and Mary (Logan) Bell. He is the youngest of five children, and the younger brother of Judge Samuel Walter Bell, long a prominent attorney and public official at Cincinnati. Samuel W. Bell, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania, and was engaged in the real estate business until his death in 1896. He was a democrat, and held several public offices, including real estate appraiser and sidewalk inspector for the City of Cincinnati, and was also a member of the Board of Control. Charles S. Bell, was educated in the grammar and high schools at Carthage, and then entered the railroad service, remaining in their employ until 1910, in the meantime working and studying at every opportunity to prepare himself for the law. For the railroad he served as yard clerk, chief clerk and yard master. He was admitted to the bar at the age of thirty-one, and in September, 1910, engaged in practice at Cincinnati, His private practice brought him a successful business, and he has handled many important cases. He is the executor of estates involving many valuable business interests. In 1918 he was made first assistant to the county prosecutor, and served in that capacity until January 1, 1923, when he became prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County. His administration has been one proving his resourcefulness in handling the many complicated and perplexing problems involved. He successfully prosecuted the case of Durr vs. Anderson, in which the question of the taxability of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange was involved. Mr. Bell carried the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, where a decision favorable to the State of Ohio was obtained. He also undertook the long investigation and presented to the Grand Jury the indictment of the brokerage firm of Beazel and Chatfield on charges of embezzlement. He secured conviction in the Court of common Pleas, and the conviction has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals. The case was given a great deal of publicity, and was important as being the first attempt for many years on the part of the state to determine whether the criminal laws were violated by the practices prevailing in many brokerage offices. The testimony of the case was secured by Mr. Bell in the City of New York from the members of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Bell is active in fraternal and social affairs, being a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and Ohio Fellow, an Eagle, belongs to the Elk Lodge of Cincinnati, and is a member of the Country Club, State and National Bar Association, Maketwah Country Club, Municipal Country Club, Cuvier Press Club, Optimist Club and Blaine Club. His hobby is golf. Mr. Bell is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #373 *******************************************