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PORTER - CINCINNA [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:32:46, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: REV. GEORGE C. BEALER - HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY The American Historical Society, 1922 Volume V - Page 234 REV. GEORGE C. BEALER, who was ordained a Catholic priest in the Cathedral at Covington in 1888, has given a third of a century in fruitful labors to his ministry and is widely known over Eastern and Northern Kentucky. For the past five years he has been pastor of St. Henry's Catholic Church at Erlanger. This church originated as a mission and was instituted as such in 1890 by Rev. William Gorry, who held service here in addition to his other duties as pastor of the churches at Florence, Independence and Walton. He was succeeded in 1891 by Rev. B.J. Kolb, whose name remains an inspiration to the people of this vicinity on account of his long association with churches at Erlanger and throughout Kenton County, In 1893 a schoolhouse was built on Shaw Avenue, and since 1899 the school has been under the direction of the Benedictine Sisters. The school is now on Garvey Avenue and Lexington Pike. The old church on Shaw Avenue was burned August 27, 1899, nothing being saved. Soon afterward three lots were procured on Garvey Avenue, and a handsome modern brick church was erected, being dedicated May 20, 1900. In 1904 St. Henry's was constituted a separate parish and Rev. B.J. Kolb became its first resident pastor. Rev. George C. Bealer succeeded to the pastoral duties in 1916. Father Bealer was born in Cincinnati January 21, 1857, and was given his preliminary education in a public school on Third Street in his native city. For eight years he applied himself to his classical and philosophical studies in St. Xavier's College at Cincinnati, and did his theological work in St. Mary's University at Baltimore and St. Meinrad's Theological Seminary in Spencer County, Indiana. He was ordained at St. Mary's Cathedral at Covington by the late Bishop C.P. Maes, June 25, 1888. The following five years he was assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Church at Maysville, Kentucky. Some of Father Bealer's most interesting and fruitful labors resulted from his long service, beginning in 1893, as pastor of St. Luke's Church at Nicholasville, Kentucky, from which he attended and looked after the welfare and maintenance of numerous missions of the church throughout the mountainous districts of eight counties in Eastern Kentucky. Leaving this field in 1906, he was pastor of St. Edward's Church at Cynthiana until he came to Erlanger in 1916. Father Bealer is a son of Cornelius Bealer, who was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1816, was reared there until young manhood and then moved to Cincinnati. For many years he was in the wholesale liquor business and also owned a fleet of river steamboats and had many prominent relations with the business affairs of the Ohio Valley. He died at Cincinnati May 10, 1870. He was a member of the Lutheran Church. In Cincinnati he married Miss Mary Lowen, who was born in France in 1830 and died at the home of her son, Father Bealer, at Nicholasville in 1902. Rev. George C. Bealer is the youngest and only surviving son of five children. The oldest child, Charles, enlisted as a Union soldier and was killed during the Civil war. Mrs. Ada Milliken, a resident of New Orleans, was the wife of a traveling salesman for the Caldwell lace house. The daughter, Carrie, who died at New Orleans at the age of seventy-two, was the wife of the late T.D. Jones, a noted sculptor of Ohio. The youngest daughter, Rosa, was burned to death in 1863, while her parents were living at their summer home at Camp Harris, a place subsequently taken over by the United States Government and used for a military camp. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:33:18, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: PIERSON CONKLING - CINCINNATI BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana John M. Gresham & Company - Chicago Printing Co., 1889 - page 229 PIERSON CONKLING -The subject of this sketch, was one of a family of nine children, of whom six are living at this writing. At the age of ten years his father moved with his family to the country, a few miles from Cincinnati, and engaged in farming with good success until his death. And he followed the same occupation until 1865, when he sold his farm, and in 1868 came to Indiana and engaged in a general merchandise business; first at Nebraska, Indiana, and later in 1874 at North Vernon, where he still resides. He was married in November, 1845, to Miss Abby, daughter of the Rev. J.D. Conrey, of Butler county, Ohio. She died in 1850, leaving two children, James D., who is in business at Kentland, Indiana, and Anna R., who died at the age of six years. Mr. Conkling was married again in 1855 to Miss Sarah J. Travis. They had two children, Elmer P., (dead) and Frank T., who is in business in Greenville, Ohio. Mr. Conkling was married again September 10th, 1872, to his present wife, Miss Martha M. Burke, of Bethel, Ohio. They have no children. He has ever been in active business life, and has been blessed with remarkably good health, and is one of the most progressive business men and enterprising merchants, builders and contractors in the county. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:32:51, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: MATT HEROLD - HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY The American Historical Society, 1922 Volume V - Page 209 MATT HEROLD. Judging from the important business interests that claim his services Matt Herold is one of the foremost corporation lawyers of the Newport bar, widely known as an attorney, is also a banker, and a business man whose activities have contributed to the constructive welfare of his section of the state. Mr. Herold was born at Cincinnati March 3, 1859. His father, Andrew Herold, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1819, was brought as a child to the United states, was reared and educated at Cincinnati, and became an expert organ builder. He died at Cincinnati in 1860, when his son Matt was a year old. He was a democrat and a member of the Catholic Church. His wife, Susan Barwig, was born in Alsace, France, in 1819, and died at Cincinnati in 1904. She reared four children. Catherine became the wife of Peter Lehner, a brick contractor, and died at Cincinnati at the age of forty-five. George is in the furniture business at Dayton, Ohio. The third in age is Matt Herold. Mary was married to Nicholas Faeth, and both died in Cincinnati. Matt Herold's early education in the parochial schools at Cincinnati was limited to the advantages he could obtain up to the age of fourteen. After that he went to work, and until he was twenty-two was employed in coffin factories at Cincinnati and St. Louis. Thereafter until 1888 he was a grocery merchant at Bellevue. Mr. Herold abandoned a commercial career long enough to complete the course of the Cincinnati Law School, from which he was graduated LL.B. in 1892. He has been a practicing lawyer at Newport now for thirty years, his offices being in the American National Bank. He is attorney for the American National Bank, for the South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Company at Covington, for the Union Light, Heat & Power Company of Covington, for the Columbia Gas & Electric Company, for the Home Loan & Savings Association of Bellevue, the Fletcher Manufacturing Company of Newport, and other corporations. Mr. Herold is also a director of the American National Bank of Newport, is vice president of the Homes Savings & Loan Association of Bellevue, a director of the Union Building Association of Bellevue, director of the Fletcher Manufacturing Company of Newport, is president of the Campbell County Bankers Association and is president of the Bellevue Commercial and Savings Bank. The Bellevue Commercial and Savings Bank was organized May 10, 1919. It has a capital of $25,000, surplus and undivided profits of $7,500, and deposits of $500,000. The other officers are Charles Patzold, vice president, and George W. Meyer, cashier. Mr. Herold takes appropriate pride in the fact the bank is housed in one of the most artistic bank buildings in the state. He had complete supervision of the work of remodeling to accomplish this purpose, the work being finished in July, 1920. Mr. Herold was a member of the Council at Bellevue for two years and for ten years city attorney. He is a democrat, a Catholic, is a past grand knight of Newport Council No. 1301, Knights of Columbus, is a past exalted ruler of Bellevue Lodge of Elks and now a member of Newport Lodge No. 273. He also belongs to the Campbell County and Kentucky State Bar associations. Besides doing his bit as a contributor to the various quotas assigned to Campbell County during the war he gave much time to assisting the questionnaire board. In 1880, at Cincinnati, he married Miss Caroline Huber, a native of that city. She died at Bellevue in November, 1919, thirty-nine years after their marriage. She is survived by three sons. Matt J., the oldest, is a resident of Chicago. George J. is a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School and is now practicing in the same offices with his father in the American National Bank Building. Vincent William, the youngest, enlisted in April, 1918, was trained for a brief time at Cincinnati, then at Camp Sheridan, and next in the flying school of the University of Texas at Austin, where he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Aerial Service, as a pursuit plane pilot, and is now a reserve officer in the same branch. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:33:16, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JUDGE WILLIAM A. PORTER - CINCINNATI BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. John M. Gresham & Company - Chicago Printing Co., 1889 - page 143-144 JUDGE WILLIAM A. PORTER was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, in January, 1800. His parents who were of the sturdy stock from the north of Ireland, died while he was yet young, so that he was early thrown on his own resources. He educated himself, and by alternate work and teaching through summer and winter was able to pass through Miami University, graduating from that institution in 1827. He came to Corydon in 1828, studied law chiefly by his own exertions, and was admitted to the bar in 1831. In that year he married Miss Elizabeth McClelland, of Crawfordsville, and brought his wife to her new home on horseback behind him. He was identified with the pioneer practice in Harrison county and his name appears oftener than any other on the early records. He was a man of the stictest integrity and had abounding reverence for the dignity of his profession. His papers were never curtailed or abbreviated,and the majesty of the law was upheld by him in every particular. He was not an orator, but his speeches were logical and full of force and conviction. He was Judge of the Probate Court from 1831 to 1836. In 1836 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the State Legislature, was re-elected in 1846, serving until 1849 - the last term as Speaker of the house - and in 1849 was elected to the State Senate. He made his trips to and from Indianapolis on horseback with his "leggings" on, and his saddlebags under him. He was all his life a character in southern Indiana and retained many peculiarities to the last; but his "long head" was trusted for safe council until old age deprived him of his powers. He was truly the Nestor of the Indiana bar, and many students went out from under his instruction to fill high places in the profession. He demanded lessons perfect to the letter, and his pupils were wont to say that a term of study under him was equal to a course of lectures. He had an eye to their morals also, and woe befell the young man who attempted to play the fiddle on Sunday, while many a deck of cards was slyly hid in a table drawer when the Judge unexpectedly entered the office. Among his student were Walter Q. Gresham, Ex. Postmaster General of the United States and U.S. District Judge, of U.S. Courts; Col. Wm. Boone, formerly of Louisville, Ky.; Hon. S.K. Wolfe, deceased, New Albany, and a number of others. The venerable copy of Blackstone used by these embryo lawyers is now preserved as a curiosity by one of his daughters. Although not a member of any church, he was a rigid Calvinist and died in that faith on the morning of January 23rd, 1884. His law library was found after his death to contain many old and rare books that he had accumulated in his long and honorable career. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #376 *******************************************