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GARRISON M.D. - HAMILT [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:09:46, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CAPT. MALCOLM W. McINTYRE - HAMILTON CO. HISTORY OF KENTUCKY The American Historical Society, 1922 Volume IV, page 225-226 CAPT. MALCOLM W. McINTYRE, a resident of Newport, in former years well known in Ohio River transportation circles, and member of a family that has been identified with steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi for practically a century, is an active business man with interests on both sides of the river, and at Cincinnati is manager of the great skyscraper office building at Fourth and Vine streets of the Union Central Life Insurance Company. Captain McIntyre was born at Cincinnati, January 28, 1868. His grandfather, William C. McIntyre, was born in Scotland in 1806, and came to America in the year 1826, when he was twenty years of age. He was a mason by trade and afterward became a steamboat painter and later bought a steamboat and was engaged in the river traffic as owner and operator until his death. He was a resident of Pittsburgh but died of yellow fever at New Orleans in 1853. He married Charlotta Temple Jones, who was born in 1804 and died July 17, 1883. They had four children: Sterling C., William F., James M. and Virginia C. McIntyre. Their son, Sterling Campbell McIntyre, was born at Steubenville, Ohio, September 9, 1841, and in 1849 his parents moved to Allegheny City, now a part of greater Pittsburgh, and soon afterward became residents of Pittsburgh. He grew up there and practically his entire active carrer was devoted to the Ohio River transportation interests. During the Civil war he was in the Government secret service. He made his home at Cincinnati for several years, but in 1877 moved his residence to Newport, and continued active as a river man until his death. He died in Cincinnati, April 9, 1916. He was a republican and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sterling C. McIntyre married Mary Ann Winter, who was born at Cincinnati, June 7, 1842, and died in that city, January 2,1909. Her father, Thomas Winter, was born in England in 1794, and on coming to America as a young man settled at Cincinnati in the year of 1818, where for many years he was active as a merchant. His wife was Mary Ann Wingert, a native of Pennsylvania, born November 30, 1806, and died October 8, 1857. He died in that city February 9, 1866. Malcolm W. McIntyre is the oldest of his parents' three children. Mary Charlotta, who was born December 4, 1872, is a very exceptional business woman and is in charge of a department in the old and widely known Chicago jewelry house, the C.D. Peacock Company. Sterling Castle, the youngest child, was born October, 8, 1882, and died November 23, 1902. Capt. Malcolm W. McIntyre was nine years of age when his parents moved to Newport, and he finished his education in the public schools there and also took several business college courses at Cincinnati. At the age of fifteen he began running on the river on his father's boats, and some phase of steamboating occupied his energies and attention until February 17, 1891. He began as a clerk and eventually was captain of steamboats, with several runs from Cincinnati to New Orleans, Cincinnati to Memphis and Cincinnati to Louisville, In 1891 for a year he was a bookkeeper at Yellow Springs, Ohio, and from March 1, 1892, to March 15, 1899, was bookkeeper for the Edgewood Distilling Company at Cincinnati. For a long period of years Captain McIntyre was connected with the Coney Island Company of Cincinnati, successively as cashier, bookkeeper, assistant superintendent and eventually as general manager. He left that company in 1911 and since 1912 has been manager for the Union Central Life Insurance Company's Building. This building is one of the tallest structures in the country, located at the southwest corner of Fourth and Vine streets, Cincinnati; the building has offices that employ every day during working hours about 2,000 business people as occupants. Captain McIntyre has other business interests, being president of the Building Owners and Managers Association of Cincinnati, is secretary of the Dubois Soap Company of Cincinnati, and has many other interests in Cincinnati. He is a member of the Chambers of Commerce of Newport and Cincinnati, and during the World war was chairman of the Four-Minute Men and Speakers Bureau of Campbell County, a member and officer of the County Council of Defense, was county chief for the American Protective League, was chairman for some of the Liberty Loan, Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. drives and was active in all war interests. Captain McIntyre is a republican, is a past master of Masonic Lodge No. 94 at Montgomery, Ohio, and now a member of Yateman Lodge No. 162, F. and A.M.; is a member of Cincinnati Chapter No. 2, R.A.M.; Cincinnati Council No. 1; Cincinnati Commandery No. 3, K.T.; Indra Consistory No. 2 of the Scottish Rite at Covington; Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cincinnati; is a member of Opportunity Lodge, Knights of Pythias at Cincinnati; Amrita Temple No. 12, D.O.K.K., and a member of the board for the new Masonic Temple Company of Cincinnati. Captain McIntyre's home is a modern brick residence at 801 Overton Street in Newport. He married at Cincinnati, in 1900, Miss Clara M. Corbly, daughter of John H. and Gertrude L. Corbly, the latter living at Captain McIntyre's home. The father, who died at Newport, owned a feed store and ice business at Cincinnati and was in the ice business at Newport. Captain and Mrs. McIntyre have two sons; Howard Sterling, born March 19, 1902, a student in the Cincinnati College, and Malcolm Thomas, born October 1, 1915. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:09:35, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: WILLIAM R. SCHEIFERS - HAMILTON COUNTY HISTORY OF KENTUCKY The American Historical Society, 1922 Volume IV, page 461-462 WILLIAM R. SCHEIFERS, SR. Born and reared in Cincinnati, where he served a long and thorough apprenticeship in the dry goods business, William R. Scheifers, Sr., thirty-five years ago established a store of his own at Ludlow. From the first he aimed to give an unexcelled service in his line. He is a merchant in the best sense of the term, and has kept his business growing and prospering in the face of all competition and other circumstance. Mr. Scheifers, was born at Cincinnati, September 3, 1860. His father, Rudolph F. Scheifers, was born at Osnabrueck, Germany, in 1836, and after acquiring a practical education came to the United States at the age of eighteen and located at Cincinnati. For some years he was connected with the Cincinnati Transfer Company, and subsequently was bookkeeper and expert accountant for a number of Cincinnati packing houses. He died at Cincinnati in 1881. After acquiring American citizenship he voted as a democrat, was a faithful member of the Catholic Church, was a member of the Railroad Fraternal Insurance Order and during the Civil war was a military instructor of Home Guards with the rank of captain, having acquired military training in his native country. Rudolph Scheifers married Miss Elizabeth Karter, who was born in Cincinnati in 1840, and died in that city in November, 1917. William R. is the oldest of their children; Rose is the wife of E.J. Meyers, who is now retired on a pension after many years of service as a city fireman, and lives at Bellevue, Kentucky; R.F. Scheifers lives at Hyde Park, Ohio; Anna is the wife of C.L. Hils, who has some important business interests at Hyde Park, Ohio, and is manager of the furnishing department of W.R. Scheifers & Son at Ludlow: Clara, the youngest of the family, is the wife of Harry Prues, connected with the Williams Valve Company and living at Hyde Park. William R. Scheifers has had a working experience in mercantile affairs for nearly half a century. His schooling in parochial schools at Cincinnati ended at the age of twelve, when he went to work. For two years he was employed in the dry goods establishment of John Shillito Company, spent six years in the similar business of Alms & Doepke, and four years with the dry goods house of Specker, Buedke & Company. During this period of a dozen years he worked in every department, both wholesale and retail, and regarded every new duty as an opportunity for broadening his knowledge of dry goods. With this proved knowledge, with the confidence of wholesalers, and with a small capital he established a business of his own at Ludlow in 1885. The business for a number of years was conducted as The W.R. Scheifers & Son. Mr. Scheifers is sole proprietor, and his store is the acknowledged leader in the dry goods trade at Ludlow. He owns a large store building, occupying two structures, at 86-88 Elm Street. Mr. Scheifers has been a director in the First National Bank of Ludlow since its organization. He is also secretary and a director in the Luhn and Stevie Company of Covington, and is secretary and treasurer of the Kentucky Improvement Company of Ludlow. He was a contributor to all patriotic objects in the World war, and served as a colonel in the various drives at Ludlow. Mr. Scheifers owns a modern home at 88 Elm Street. In 1884, at Cincinnati, he married Miss Rose Drahmann, daughter of J.H. and Elizabeth Drahmann, now deceased. Her father for half a century was a merchant tailor in Cincinnati, being a member of the Drahmann & Enneking tailoring establishment. Mrs. Scheifers completed her education in the Sisters Convent on Sixth Street in Cincinnati. Of the two children born to their marriage, Leo died at the age of two and a half years. The only son is William R., Jr., who was born in April, 1892. In July, 1918, he enlisted in the navy and went across seas a number of times in convoy duty. He was manager of the store. On May 22, 1918, he married Miss Sallie Faulkner, a native of Highland, Kentucky. They have one child, William R., third, born September 18, 1920. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:09:31, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: SHERWOOD P. GARRISON M.D. - HAMILTON CO. HISTORY OF KENTUCKY The American Historical Society, 1922 Volume IV - page 489 SHERWOOD P. GARRISON, M.D. Born and reared in Cincinnati, Doctor Garrison has practiced his profession as a physician and surgeon for fifteen years at Bellevue, Kentucky, and many social, civic and business interests have claimed an increasing share of his attention in that community. Doctor Garrison was born at Cheviot, Ohio, now a part of the City of Cincinnati, March 10, 1881. This branch of the Garrison family came from England to New Jersey in Colonial times, and his grandfather, Isaac Garrison, was a native of New Jersey, born there in 1810. He was one of the very early settlers in the suburban district of Cheviot at Cincinnati, He was a tailor by trade and also a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died at Cheviot in 1898. His wife, Mary, was born in New England in 1824, and died at Westwood in 1906. Their son, the late Emory M. Garrison, was born at Cheviot in 1842, was reared and married in that community, and after graduating from the Cincinnati Law College practiced forty years in Cincinnati Law College practiced forty years in Cincinnati and in that time achieved a foremost place at the bar. For many years he held the post of city attorney from Westwood, Cincinnati, was an active democrat, very closely identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church as a member, and belonged to the Masonic fraternity. He died at Cincinnati in 1912. His wife was Mary Penny, who was born at Harrison, Ohio, March 6, 1848, and is still living at Westwood. They were the parents of five children: Frank P., who died at Cincinnati in 1912; Walter E., connected with the office of the Methodist Book Concern at Cincinnati and a resident of Westwood; Nellie R., with her mother; Sherwood P., and Bessie H., a teacher in the Cincinnati public schools. Sherwood P. Garrison received a public school education, graduating from the Hughes High School of Cincinnati in 1898. For about two years he did office work for the Big Four Railroad Company, and then entered the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, where he was graduated M.D. with the class of 1905. While in college Doctor Garrison became affiliated with the Alpha Kappa Kappa. His college diploma represented only one stage of the very thorough preparation and training for his chosen life work. During 1905 for a year he was an interne in Speer's Hospital at Dayton, Kentucky. The winter of 1910-11 he spent specializing in surgery and laboratory work at the Chicago, Polyclinic. Doctor Garrison began his practice at Bellevue, Kentucky, in 1906, and has had a wide range of activities in that community. He is a member of the Campbell-Kenton Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. During the World war he was examining physician for the local draft board of Campbell County, and besides devoting much of his time as a patriotic duty to his work he gave to the extent of his means in support of all local war drives. Doctor Garrison is a director of the Bellevue Commercial and Savings Bank. At 616 Fairfield Avenue he built in 1916 a complete and modern two story brick residence, where he also has his office. Doctor Garrison is a republican, is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bellevue, is affiliated with Henry Barnes Lodge No. 607, F. and A.M. at Dayton, Kentucky, Indra Consistory No. 2 of the Scottish Rite at Covington, Kosair Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Louisville, and is a past noble grand of Bellevue Lodge No. 308, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1912, at Bellevue, he married Miss Bessie Lee, daughter of William and Lulu (Freeman) Lee, residents of Bellevue, her father being a ship carpenter. Mrs. Garrison is a graduate of the Bellevue High School. They have three children: Lucille, born January 17, 1914; Edward, born June 17, 1916; and Arthur, born April 15, 1919. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #399 *******************************************