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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 253 Today's Topics: #1 Bio: Rothier, Frank A. - Hamilton [christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000818.100103.-208471.12.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: Rothier, Frank A. - Hamilton county Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Frank A. Rothier Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Linda Isenbarg Prominent among the insurance men of Cincinnati is Frank A. Rothier, who has been engaged in the insurance business in this city for more than forty years and during the greater part of the time named has occupied positions of large responsibility. He was born in New York City, September 30, 1854, and is a son of J. A. and M. A. Rothier. The family is of French origin, the grandfather of our subject being the first member of the family to locate in America. The father first came to Cincinnati in 1856 and was for many years identified with mercantile business in this city. At the time of the Civil War Mr. Rothier was commissioned as Captain of the Home Guard by Governor Brough and assisted in the defense of the city when it was threatened by invasion from the south. He died in 1904, at the age of seventy-seven, and his wife was called away in 1900, at the age of seventy years. They are buried in Spring Grove Cemetery. Frank A. Rothier attended the public schools and Woodward High School, graduating from the latter in 1871. Immediately after leaving the high school he became connected with the insurance business and in 1872 entered the employ of the Cincinnati Underwriters Agency. He began as clerk and advanced through various grades until he became secretary and treasurer and member of the board of directors of the agency. In 1889 he was elected president, a position which he has ever since held. The agency controls the Eureka Fire & Marine and Security Insurance Companies of Cincinnati and is one of the leading concerns of the kind in the city. The Eureka Company was organized by Cincinnati men in 1864 with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars and the Security, in 1881, with a capital of one hundred and fifty thousand. The success of both companies has been highly gratifying and indicates sound and progressive management. Mr. Rothier has not confined his attention entirely to the insurance field but is actively identified with other interests, being president of the Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company and vice president of the Consolidated Boat Store Company. On the 20th of May 1879, he was married, at Covington, Kentucky, to Miss Lura Baker, a daughter of Judge Baker, and they have one daughter, Anna Lee, who is a graduate of the Armstrong school. Mr. and Mrs. Rothier have for many years made their home in Covington and are prominent in social circles of that place. He has devoted the principal years of his life to the insurance business and, as he possesses special aptitude for this calling, he soon demonstrated his ability. He has been successful financially and also enjoys in an unqualified measure the confidence of his associates and acquaintances. In politics he supports the Democratic Party. He has made a close study of free-masonry and has taken the degree of the York Rite and is also a Shriner. Socially he is a valued member of the Fort Mitchell Golf Club. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:59:03 -0500 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000818.100103.-208471.10.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: Graydon, Thomas - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thomas H. Graydon Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by Linda Thompson, Wabash, IN None of the younger business men of Cincinnati have made more notable progress in commercial circles than Thomas H. Graydon, who at the age of twenty-eight years was elected president of The Macdonald-Kiley Shoe Company. He was born in this city on the 30th of March, 1881, and is a son of the late Dr. Thomas W. and Ann H. Graydon. Dr. Thomas W. Graydon, who was for many years prominently and successfully identified with the medical fraternity of this city, was a native of Fermanagh county, Ireland, his birth occurring on the 19th of May, 1850. At the age of eighteen years he emifrated to the United States, locating in the vicinity of Rock Island, Illinois. He practiced the most rigid economy in order to acquire the necessary means to enable him to complete his education, having decided to become a physician. For a time he attended the college at Davenport, Iowa, and later he went to the Iowa State University at Iowa City, where he completed his academic course. In 1875 he came to Cincinnati, where he pursued his professional studies, after the completion of which he established an office and engaged in practice. The possessor of rare mental powers as well as a pleasing personality, Dr. Graydon was able to inspire confidence in his ability, which his unusual skill enabled him to retain, and as a result he built up an extensive practice. He was a self-made man, such success as he was awarded having been won through his own efforts and capabilities. His demise occurred in 1900, when he was but fifty years of age. They boyhood and early youth of Thomas H. Graydon were spent in the parental home, his preliminary education being acquired in the private schools of this city and at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, from which he was graduated in 1899. In the autumn following he entered Harvard University, being awarded his degree with the class of 1903. After the completion of his education Mr. Graydon returned to his native city to engage in business, having in the choice of his vocation decided in favor of a commercial career. He accepted a position in the bookkeeping department of The Maconald-Kiley Company. At the expiration of three years he was elected vice president, which position he retained until the 1st of November, 1909, when he was appointed president of the company. The business has been very successful under the direction and supervision of Mr. Graydon and is giving employment to two hundred men and fifty women. They manufacture a general line of high-grade shoes for men and sell their goods all over the United States. Mr. Graydon is affiliated with the Episcopal church, the Business Men's Club, Harvard Club and Phi Delta Psi fraternity, which he joined while in college. He has always been very fond of all athletic sports and played on the Harvard football team in 1900, 1901 and 1902, and during the two latter seasons he was selected for the American team. Mr. Graydon has the business acumen which enables him to take the initiative in any venture and as a result his friends feel assured of his unqualified success in the industry, with which he has become identified. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:59:39 -0500 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000818.100103.-208471.11.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: Goldman, Louis J. - 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 AAA28555 Louis J. Goldman Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Linda Isenbarg The name of Goldman, Beckman & Company of Cincinnati, manufacturers of men=92s and young men=92s clothing, is widely known, the senior member, Louis J. Goldman, being recognized as one of the prominent and substantial men of the city. He is a native of New York City, born December 20, 1850, his parents being John and Flora Goldman. The father died when his son Louis was only two years old, but the mother survived her husband many years, passing away in Cincinnati in 1904, at the venerable age of Eighty-eight years. Her body reposes in the Jewish cemetery on Walnut Hills. Louis J. Goldman received his preliminary education in the public schools of Cincinnati. At the age of fifteen years he left the intermediate school and entered the employ of the firm of Leopold & Goodheart, wholesale clothiers. After being connected with this firm for six months, although only about sixteen years of age, Mr. Goldman requested to be sent upon the road and, this request having been acceded to, he applied himself with such diligence and ability that he soon became a successful traveling salesman. After eighteen months Mr. Leopold, the senior member of the firm, withdrew and the title of the firm was changed to Goodheart & Brother, so continuing for seven or eight years. Mr. Goldman was then admitted to the firm, Charles M. Thurnauer, a nephew of Mr. Goodheart, also becoming a partner, under the title of Goodheart, Brother & Company. The business prospered and ten years later, Mr. Goodheart having voluntarily withdrawn, the title of the firm became Goldman, Thurnauer & Company. After ten and one-half years Mr. Thurnauer retired and Mr. Goldman associated with himself his brother-in-law, N. Henry Beckman, who later withdrew on account of ill health, and since that time Mr. Goldman has taken into partnership in the business his eldest son, J. Albert and to an interest Leo F. Hirsch and Joseph L., Ronsheim. In October 1911, Charles H. Hooker, formerly one of the firm of Meyer, Scheuer, Oppner & Company, acquired an interest in the firm and is regarded as a decided acquisition to the house=92s personnel. The firm of Goldman, Beckman & Company has maintained its factory and general offices since 1904 at the southwest corner of Fourth and Elm Streets and is one of the long established houses of the city and its patrons are to be found in many states, the reputation of the house being second to that of no other of the kind in Cincinnati. Mr. Goldman is also president of the S. Obermayer Company, of Cincinnati. He possesses the confidence of the best business men of the city and the unqualified respect of his employees, many of whom have been identified with him for a long period of years. Always enterprising and energetic, he early won a responsible position and for many years has been a prominent factor in the business development of Cincinnati. On December 14, 1880, Mr. Goldman was married, at Cincinnati, to Miss Rose Frohman a daughter of Lewis and Fannie Frohman, both of whom are deceased. Three children came to bless this union: Edna, who was educated at Vassar College and is the wife of Benjamin L. Heidingsfeld, an attorney of this city; J. Albert, who is a graduate of Yale University and is now in partnership with his father in business; and Robert P., who just graduated with high honors at Yale and now is at Harvard Law School. Politically Mr. Goldman is a republican, being a firm believer in the principles of protection and centralization represented by that party. Socially he holds membership in the Cincinnati Club, the Phoenix Club, the B=92nai B=92rith and the Free Sons of Israel. He is an earnest friend of education, as is shown in the excellent advantages of training possessed by his children. On account of his long and successful experience in business, his acknowledged interest in the welfare of others and his known integrity of character he stands very high in the estimation of the business men of this city and exercises an influence which is always exerted in channels of beneficence. He and his family occupy a beautiful home at No. 853 Beecher Avenue. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:01:01 -0500 From: christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20000818.100103.-208471.13.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bio: Good, Peter W. - 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 AAA28555 Peter William Good, M.D. Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Linda Isenbarg An able representative of the medical fraternity of Cincinnati is Dr. Peter William Good, who maintains an office in his residence, at 305 West McMillan Street. His birth occurred in this city October 11, 1869, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Schwartz) Good. The father, who was a native of Lancaster, Ohio, came to Cincinnati when a boy with his parents. Here he was reared to manhood, receiving a common-school education after the completion of which he entered the business world. He was a very efficient and capable man and subsequently engaged in business for himself as a commission merchant, being located at 16 East Court Street. This stand was entirely devoted to vegetables and fruits, but at that time Cincinnati was a great pork-packing place and Mr. Good had a number of places about the city where he handled pork products for the retail trade. In addition to his own business interests during the winter months for many years he discharged the duties of meat inspector. His business was becoming well established and the future looked most promising for him when he passed away in 1872, at the age of thirty-five years. He was of German extraction, his father having been born in the old country and the name was originally spelled Guth. Mr. Good always took an interest in all matters pertaining to the public welfare and served in the Civil war during Morgan=92s raid. This city has always been the home of Dr. Good, who attended the public schools in the acquirement of his preliminary education. When old enough to become a wage earner he entered the drug room of the city hospital in the capacity of messenger. He was a very bright, studious lad, ambitious to make a place for himself in the world and so devoted all of his spare time to obtaining a knowledge of the various drugs, and their medicinal properties. His receptive mind and close application soon enabled him to become sufficiently proficient to be made assistant pharmacist. He continued his studies and subsequently entered the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, being graduated from this institution in 1890. It was his ambition to ultimately become a physician, so while discharging the duties of a pharmacist he was following a course of professional study under Dr. A. V. Phelps. He later found it possible to enter the Ohio Medical College, being awarded the degree of M. D. with the class of 1893. Immediately thereafter he opened an office on Vine Street in the vicinity of Mulberry, engaging in practice there until April 1910, when he removed to his present beautiful residence on McMillan Street that had just been completed. The ambition, enterprise and determination of purpose that characterized the boy have developed with the passing years and have been the means of making Dr. Good the capable and thoroughly efficient practitioner he is today. He has always been compelled to make his own way, which undoubtedly has been a most excellent thing as it has developed latent powers that otherwise might never have been discovered. He is a man of pleasing personality, ready sympathy and helpful spirit, who has always applied himself to his practice with a rare sense of conscientious obligation. His natural qualifications combined with his excellent preparation have united in making of him an exceptional physician, while he has proven to be equally competent in the operating room. Like all young professional men he met with more or less difficulty in winning recognition at the beginning, but his subsequent progress was very rapid and most gratifying and he now has a large practice, numbering among his patients many of the best families in the city. He well merits such success as has come to him, however, having at all times made the best of every opportunity afforded him, struggling during his student days against many adverse circumstances that would have killed the ambition of a man of less determination of spirit. Dr. Good married Miss Amanda Freudenberger, a daughter of Henry Freudenberger of this city and they have become the parents of two children: Ralph William and Alice Martha. Fraternally Dr. Good is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, while he maintains relations with his fellow practitioners through the medium of his membership in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, West End Medical Society and the State Medical Association. He is a man who has the faculty of not only winning friends but of retaining them, and is highly esteemed not only by his social acquaintances but by the members of his profession. ________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #253 *******************************************