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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 252 Today's Topics: #1 bio: Galvin, John - Hamilton Count [christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000818.094922.-208471.3.frog158@juno.com> Subject: bio: Galvin, John - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Galvin Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Linda Isenbarg The profession of law gives excellent opportunity for men of ability to gain recognition and it was through this channel that John Galvin came to the notice of the people of Cincinnati. For more than a quarter of a century he has been an active and able advocate in the courts, and in offices of trust and responsibility he has demonstrated his personal worth. He ranks today among the leaders of the Cincinnati bar, and as a man of well-proven integrity has a host of friends who stand ready to indorse him for any position to which he may aspire. He is a native of this city, born on Mulberry Street near Main, June 13, 1862. His father, Maurice Galvin, was a native of the Emerald Isle and was born in 1827. At the age of twenty years, believing that the land of opportunity lay westward, he crossed the ocean and in 1851 arrived in Cincinnati. He was married in this city January 13, 1857, to Miss Ellen Cronin, who was born in Cincinnati, August 6, 1836. John Galvin received his preliminary education in the public schools of Covington, Kentucky, and was graduated from the Covington high school in June 1880, being then eighteen years of age. Attracted to the study of law, he entered the Cincinnati Law School and was graduated in May 1883, with the degree of LL. B. He has practiced continuously in this city since his admission to the bar and either as a public official or in a private capacity has endeavored to perform his whole duty. He was appointed assistant city solicitor May 1, 1887, and remained in this office until May 1, 1894. On January 1, 1908, he became vice mayor of the city, a position which he held until July 27, 1909, when through the death of Mayor Markbreit he succeeded to the office of mayor, a responsibility which he discharged until January 1, 1910. He has since filled the office of vice mayor, his present term expiring January 1, 1912. As he possesses rare tact, clear judgment and the fortitude to follow the course which he deems right and just, he has as a public official won the approval of the best citizens irrespective of party and is one of the highly popular men of Cincinnati. On the 28th of February 1889, at Covington, Mr. Galvin was married to Miss Julie Edair Cusson, a daughter of Leon and Elizabeth Cusson. One child, Julie Elizabeth, was born to this union March 29, 1900. In politics Mr. Galvin gives his support to the Republican Party and he is an active worker in the Young Men's Blaine Club and the Stamina Republican League. He has been a member of Cincinnati Lodge, B. P. O. E., since October 1887, and has proven one of its most efficient organizers and workers. In recognition of his interest, in the order he was elected exalted ruler of the lodge and served from April 1896, to April 1897. He was next advanced to the highest position in the order, that of grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America. This office he filled most acceptably from June 1, 1898, to June 1, 1899. He is also a member of the Business Men's Club and the Pen and Pencil Club. He is a man of pronounced social instincts, courteous and affable in demeanor, and a true lover of home, family, friends, city and native land. He is an eloquent and often witty speaker and as an advocate at the bar he has few superiors. Notwithstanding the time he has devoted to public affairs his private interests have been ably managed and he has the satisfaction of having performed his duty in accumulating a competency for his family. He was especially fortunate in the selection of a wife whom he pronounced "the best woman on earth," and his friends will readily agree that the head of the family proved one of the best mayors Cincinnati has known. ________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:11:03 -0500 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000818.094922.-208471.4.frog158@juno.com> Subject: bio: Gantvoort, A.J. - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A.J. Gantvoort Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Linda Isenbarg Not all musicians have the gift of teaching nor do they possess the ability to manage successfully or the executive qualities necessary in the discharge of responsibilities as the head of a musical institution. A. J. Gantvoort, manager of the College of Music of Cincinnati, is fortunate in possessing unusual managerial qualifications and also natural talent, thorough musical and pedagogical training and large experience. As the head of one of the most musical colleges of the country he has greatly advanced its reputation and increased the sphere of its usefulness. He is a native of Amsterdam, Holland, born December 6, 1857. He received his literary education in the Real Gymnasium, which corresponds to the American preparatory colleges. His musical training, including piano and theory, was also secured under competent teachers at Amsterdam, the work being carried forward at Berlin and Paris. In 1876, believing from what he had learned that the possibilities of advancement were much greater in America than in Europe, Mr. Gantvoort came to Cincinnati and for a short time was a student at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, for the purpose of learning English. He taught school for one term and then began as a private instructor in music. In 1881 he accepted a position as instructor in music at Bowling Green Female College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and continued with that institution for three years. After giving up the position he devoted himself to further study for a year and in 1885 he took up his residence at Oxford, Ohio, where he taught music for four years in Oxford College. About this time his attention was called to the general indifference as to musical instruction in the public schools and he make a thorough study of the problems connected therewith. He taught music in the public schools of Piqua, Ohio, for five years and in 1893, having gained wide recognition on account of his ability and progressive methods, he was called to the College of Music of Cincinnati as teacher of piano and theory and continued in that position for two years, also taking class work in sight-reading and delivering lectures in the college. In 1898 he was made assistant director of the college and in 1901 was elected manager, a position which he has ever since filled to the satisfaction of the officers and directors and to the marked advantage of the reputation of Cincinnati as a musical center. For twenty-two years past he has been prominently identified with the National Educational Association and has a number of times taken part in the programs both general and special. He has served as president of the Music Section Association for eight years and also was president of the National Music Teachers' Association for three years and of the Ohio State Music Teachers' Association for a similar length of time. In 1881 Mr. Ganvoort was married to Miss Nettie Looker, a daughter of Milton Looker, of Harrison, Ohio, and granddaughter of Othniel Looker, who served as governor of Ohio. By this union seven children have been born: Carl, who is now a grand opera singer; Hermann, also a professional singer; Gertrude, a teacher of voice and piano; Bertha, who also teaches voice and piano; Brunhilde; Elsa; and Helen. Mr. Gantvoort and his wife are members of the Christian church. Fraternally he is prominent in the Masonic order and is a member of the Blue Lodge, Warren Chapter, of Piqua, Ohio, the Ohio Consistory, and Syrian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a lover of art and an active worker in the promotion of the best methods in teaching, being a member of the Art Club, the Schoolmasters' Club and also of the Business Men's Club. Ever since boyhood a student and an investigator, he has taken advantage of every opportunity to increase his efficiency and to advance the cause of music. His work has always been along practical lines and thousands of students in various parts of the United States have received from him the inspiration which has led them to success. In February 1911, Mr. Gantvoort was appointed by the secretary of state at Washington as a delegate from the United States to the international musical congress at Rome from April 4 to 11. He has been invited by a large musical publishing house of New York to write a concise history of music that can be used in the schools and colleges of this country and has accepted the proposal. When asked when he would start the work he replied that he had already started it about twenty years ago, as the work would be a history of his own study. ________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:20:54 -0500 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000818.094922.-208471.7.frog158@juno.com> Subject: bio: Glenn, William - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William Glenn Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Linda Isenbarg Though almost a quarter of a century has passed since William Glenn was called to his final rest, he is still remembered by many of Cincinnati's older residents as one of its most respected and influential citizens. He passed away on the 17th of July 1887, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, after nearly seventy years of active business life in Cincinnati. A pioneer merchant of this city, he was the head and founder of the well-known house of William Glenn & Sons, which became the largest mercantile concern in the Ohio valley. His birth occurred in Guilford county, North Carolina, on the 13th of March 1800. He came of Scotch ancestry, the first representatives of the family in this country taking up their abode in North Carolina prior to the Revolution, in which conflict several of the name participated with marked distinction. William Glenn lost his father when quite young and soon afterward accompanied his mother and sister to the wilds of the then almost unknown west. For several years they made their home on a farm near Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, and then removed to Dearborn county, Indiana, settling on a wooded tract a few miles north of the present town of Aurora. The country was wild and the Indian had not yet disappeared, the blockhouse still remaining a necessary protection. It was a courageous step for Mrs. Glenn and her two children to attempt life in that new country, but she possessed a high degree of unconquerable resolution. A cabin was built of logs cut from their own forest, and in this humble abode they began a life, which involved great labor and hardships for years. Upon our subject, a boy of sixteen years, rested responsibilities which sturdy manhood alone should bear---a mother and a sister to provide for, with only primitive nature's sources from which to draw. Nothing daunted he went to work, splitting rails, building fences, stables and cribs, plowing, planting and gathering, so that each recurring autumn found the little family with sufficient stores to last until the succeeding harvest. But he had a higher ambition. His opportunities for education, limited as they were, had been sufficient to incite in him a keen appreciation of the value of learning, and he resolved to lose no chance for acquiring more. When the day's toil was ended the evening found him by a blazing fire of hickory, poring over a volume from his own scant library or borrowed from that of a distant neighbor, for books were treasures then in that new country and not regarded as absolutely necessary by the hardy pioneer so earnestly engaged in conquering the forest to provide a home for his family. A love for the systematic study of the English language manifested itself early in his literary pursuits, and he soon acquired a reputation for scholarship in that direction. He became noted for his proficiency in grammar and for several years, during the winter months, he devoted himself to giving lessons and lecturing upon that subject. Cincinnati, Covington, Newport and other places were chosen for his efforts in that way and many poor young men gratefully availed themselves of his instructions. His lectures met with favorable comment in the Cincinnati Gazette, then under the direction of the distinguished Charles Hammond. Far from him then was the thought that in subsequent years the columns of the same paper would be open to the brilliant contributions of one of his own sons, and that he and that son would be among its principal owners. Finding, at the age of twenty-five years, that the labors and exposures of pioneer life were telling upon his health, he took the small capital he had acquired by his lectures and engaged in business, first in Wilmington, afterward in Dillsboro and then in Aurora, Indiana. About eleven years of his life were thus spent with a fair degree of success. During these years he made frequent trips to New Orleans on both steam and flatboats, carrying cargoes of produce for sale and acquiring considerable note as a river trader. At this time, there being an evident opening for a steam packet between Cincinnati and Rising Sun, Indiana, he promptly sold out his business, bought the steamboat Fashion, entered the trade and succeeded so well that he was induced to extend his trips to Madison, Indiana. He was really the pioneer in what afterward became an important packet trade. He subsequently commanded the William R. McKee, in the same line, and during his four years of river life was regarded as a capable and popular commander. It was during this time that he moved his family to Cincinnati and, after relinquishing his packet interests, decided to engage in merchandising here. In so doing he laid the foundation of the business house which was long regarded as the leading establishment of its kind in the west. The modest beginning, with limited means, was at the northwest corner of lower Market and Sycamore Streets. Five years of marked success there induced Mr. Glenn to erect a larger building at the northwest corner of Second and Walnut Streets, where ten years more of prosperity followed, and the firm had attained a position and reputation equal to the best. Then followed the building of the solid and extensive stores on Vine Street. They were the acknowledged leaders in the grocery trade, doing a business amounting to millions annually and possessing a trade extending for hundreds of miles in every direction. They had reason for some feeling of satisfaction in view of the reputation, confidence and credit which by their prudence, energy and honorable dealing they had built up in the commercial world. Four years after the establishment of the house Mr. Glenn admitted two of his sons, Joseph and James M., to a partnership, and the firm name became William Glenn & Sons. A few years later Joseph Glenn withdrew and became directly interested in the ownership and management of the Cincinnati Gazette, a relation which he maintained until his death, in 1874. Upon the withdrawal of Joseph Glenn, Richard Dymond, Mr. Glenn's son-in-law, became a member of the firm. Subsequently a younger son, Omar T. Glenn was admitted, continuing until 1886, when he withdrew. During Mr. Glenn's mercantile life he took an active interest in all that related to the prosperity of his adopted city. Seeing the great benefit that Cincinnati would derive from direct communication with the south, he became one of the earliest advocates of a southern railroad, exerting himself in the effort to raise a bonus fund of one million dollars to offer to any company that would build such a line and heading the subscription himself with a large sum. Although his effort failed, it was a seed sown which soon ripened into a general demand for a direct connection with the vast and growing south, culminating finally in the construction of the Cincinnati Southern Railway. He was of the company leasing this road after its completion and was an active director therein, continuing as such until its transfer to the Erlanger syndicate. Mr. Glenn felt amply repaid for his long continued efforts in this behalf of the triumphant consummation of this great work, so creditable to the energy and enterprise of Cincinnati. He was also connected with the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad in its commencement, being a director when the line reached no farther than Seymour, Indiana and lacked both money and credit to go farther. He, however, continued to urge its continuation to Vineennes, where it would meet the West Branch and thus form a through line, opening up the rich valley of the Wabash and the fertile plains of Illinois to the trade of Cincinnati, and finally as its president concluded the contract with the syndicate which soon thereafter added the necessary link, thus uniting Cincinnati with St. Louis and the far west. He was also a director in the Marietta and Cincinnati road during its earlier existence, not for a moment wavering in his belief that it would ultimately prove a most valuable connection to Cincinnati. His faith was fully justified by the final consolidation of that line with the great Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Mr. Glen was one of the first to see the benefits that would follow from the national banking law and, in connection with Louis Worthington and others, organized the First National Bank of Cincinnati. The perfection of the organization was largely due to the efforts of Mr. Worthington and himself. He served as a director of this noted bank for many years, until impaired health and a desire for foreign travel caused him to resign. He was likewise a director in the Union Central Life Insurance Company and president of the Hammond Building Company. For years he was a leading stockholder and director in the Cincinnati Gazette Company and was also one of the principal owners in the Commercial Gazette. Before his death he was the oldest living member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and was elected an honorary life member of that body several years prior to his demise. On the 17th of April 1825, in Dearborn county, Indiana, William Glenn and Alice Miller were married by the Rev. James H. Jones. On the 17th of April 1875, they were living to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of that event. Their hospitable home was crowded by those who came to offer their warmest congratulations and the occasion was one that was long and pleasantly remembered by all who were present. Four of their children and twelve of their grandchildren witnessed the golden wedding Both Mr. and Mrs. Glenn were earnest, consistent Christians, belonging to the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church and giving largely and constantly to its support. In the upbuilding of churches, the establishing and support of missions, in the cause of temperance and in all other good works they were ever among the most active workers and generous givers. Mr. Glenn was president of the board of trustees of St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church, to the support of which he is said to have contributed over sixty thousand dollars. He was a delegate to the Law and Order Convention held at Columbus in March, 1882, serving as a member of the committee which prepared the forcible resolutions adopted by that noted assembly, composed of able and excellent men from all parts of the state. Amid the cares and responsibilities of a long and active business life Mr. Glenn yet found time for the gratification of a fondness for books and travel. He was a close student and keen observer of passing events, keeping himself well informed in all things pertaining to the literature and politics of the day. He traveled extensively, visiting Europe several times, and as a result acquired a great store of practical knowledge and valuable experience, making business and social intercourse with him highly instructive and agreeable. Until within a week of his death, although in the eighty-eighth year of his age, he attended to business regularly and seemed as spry and active as most men not half his age. In his death Cincinnati lost one of her noblest men, whose entire life had been one of determination, energy of purpose and of the most exalted moral worth. It is am important public duty to honor and perpetuate as far as possible the memory of an eminent citizen-one who by his blameless and honorable life and distinguished career reflected credit not only upon his city and state but also upon the whole country. Through such memorials as this at hand the individual and the character of his services are kept in remembrance and the importance of those services acknowledged. His example in whatever field his work may have been done thus stands as an object lesson to those who come after him and, though dead, he still speaks. Long after all recollection of his personality shall have faded from the minds of men, the less perishable record may tell the story of his life and commend his example for imitation. ________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:58:28 -0500 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000818.100102.-208471.9.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: Golde, George - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by blizzard.columbus.rr.com id LAA23146 George Gold Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Linda Isenbarg George Golde, who has been identified with the haberdashery business in Cincinnati for twenty years, although now only thirty-one years of age, may be named as one of the remarkably energetic and enterprising men of this city. He is of German parentage and was born in Cincinnati in 1880, a son of Charles T. and Anna (Borman) Golde. The father was born in Germany and learned the saddler=92s trade in the old country. When a young man he started out in the world for himself and, having selected Cincinnati as his home, entered business on Court Street, opposite the old Armory. Here he continued during the remainder of his life. He was an intelligent and industrious man and a stanch admirer of republican institutions. Fraternally he was identified with the Odd Fellows. In the public schools George Golde secured his preliminary education. He was energetic and aspiring even in his boyhood and when not busy with his books applied himself in various lines so that as he approached manhood he had a good general idea of business. He was connected with the haberdashery business until he opened a store on his own account, in 1900, starting upon a modest scale as a retailer at No. 535 Vine Street. He is now the head of the firm of George Golde & Company, manufacturers, and wholesale and retail dealers. The firm operates five stores in this city and employs about seventy-five persons. It carries on a large wholesale and mail order business, the former extending into all the surrounding states, while the latter reaches to all the principal countries of the world. In 1900, Mr. Golde was married at Cincinnati to Miss Alma Walker, a daughter of Louis and Kate Walker, and they have two children, Mildred Louise and Elizabeth Marie. Mr. Golde is prominently connected with fraternal organizations and holds membership in E. T. Carson Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; Ohio Consistory, R. A. M.; and Syrian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also a member of the Eastern Star, the Elks, the Eagles and the Turners. He gives his support to the Republican Party and is a member of the Blaine Club. Socially he is connected with the Laughery Club. He is the possessor of clear and sound judgment and is a type of the wide-awake and progressive men who are the pioneers in all large enterprises of the marvelous twentieth century. The almost unexampled growth of the business which he has directed from its start is a tribute to his undaunted energy and perseverance and judging by what he has accomplished, he can safely look forward to many additional conquests in years to come. ________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #252 *******************************************