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Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio
Table of Contents


Table of Contents

Title and Preface

Pages 25-130 -  Presidents of the United States - [Not online]

Pages 131-170 - Governors of Ohio [Not online]

Dayton, Ohio. - The Gem City.

Pages 171-188 - General Robert C. Schenck, Henderson Elliott, Robert W. Steele, David Anslie Sinclair, Benjamin & William Van Cleve, Judge Daniel A. Haynes, John H. Patterson, Dewitt C. Spinning, Eliam E. Barney, Isaac Van Ausdal

Pages 188-207 - Rev. William John Shuey, William P. Callahan, John A. McMahon, John C. Reeve M.D., Hon. Lewis B. Gunckel, William Havelock Crawford, Capt. Ephraim Morgan Wood, Judge John Allen Shauck, Benjamin B. Childs, John W. Stoddard, William M. Mills, Alvan A. Simonds

Pages 207-227 - William Henry Negley M.D., John K. McIntire, Rev. Charles J. Hahne, James Manfort Weaver M.D., Jefferson A. Walters M.D., Thomas P. Gaddis, Admiral James Findlay Schenck, Daniel C. Larkin, William C. Crume, Richard P. Burkhardt

Pages 227-242 - Gen. William H. Martin, Oscar F. Davisson, William L. Caten, William Earnshaw D. D., Rev. Maurice Emery Wilson D.D., Edmond Stafford Young, Robert I. Cummin, Charles Wesley Dustin, Eugene J. Barney, George W. Heathman, Morris Woodhull

Pages 242-263 - Robert Murphy Nevin, Samuel D. Bear, George R. Young, William H. Young, Charles Frederick Snyder, J. M. Appleton, Charles A. Lucius, Robert R. Dickey, Rev. Edgar Whittaker Work, Hon. John L. H. Frank, Ellis Jennings M.D., Frank J. Kunkle, Oren Britt Brown

Pages 263-280 - Jacob Linxweiler Jr., George Goodhue M.D., William Webster M.D., Fielding Loury, Emerson L. Horner, William Craighead, Abram Darst Wilt, Robert Cumming Schenck, Arthur Melville Kittredge, S. H. Carr, Harry E. Feicht, Samuel B. Smith

Pages 280-299 - William J. Blakeney, Col. Jerome B. Thomas, Herbert A. Crandall, John S. Beck M.D., Willard D. Chamberlin, A. Lincoln Bowersox, Horace A. Irvin, Charles Edward Pease, Rev. James Rowland Hughes, Daniel W. Allaman, Oscar M. Gottschall

Pages 299-315 - Alvin W. Kulmer, Joseph W. Kennedy, W. L. Blumenschein, Rev. George M. Mathews, John Henry Vaile, J. Elliot Peirce, Capt. John A. Miller, Andrew Ferris Smart, Charles J. McKee, Howard F. Peirce, John Charles Cline, J. Hale Pardonner, Adolph Newsalt, Philip A. Kemper

Pages 315-333 - George W. Buvinger, Frederick W. Newcomer, Harman Rogge, Edward Everest Buvinger, Henry Webbert, Edwin S. Fair, Edwin P. Matthews, Henry Zwick, Rev. Leander S. Keyser A.M., Carl Freigau, Charles Eugene Rowe, William Keifer Callahan, James B. Hunter, John McGregor, Benjamin F. Hershey

Pages 333-352 - George O. Warrington, Charles Whealen, Grafton Clagett Kennedy, Edward B. Weston, Edward E. Euchenhofer, J. Russell Johnston, William G. Zwick, Maj. Alvan Stuart Galbrath, Lewis Henry Webber, Thomas Elder, Prof. Claude Michelon, Michael Walter, Rabbi Max Wertheimer Ph.D., Rev. Edward Lorenz

Pages 352-371 - Philip E. Gilbert, John Charles Patterson, Ezra Lewis Acton, Herbert Henry Weakly, Dayton College of Music, Frank Anderson, Rev. John Kerfoot Lewis, Capt. Thomas G. Adkins, Maj. Carl Berlin, Adam Adelberger

Pages 371-386 - John Newton Allaback, Robert Morris Allen, James M. Allan, Pius P. Altoff, Joseph W. Allison, John Aman, William J. Ambrose, Rev. Charles S. Kemper D.D., Charles Anderton Sr., Charles Forsman Anderson, Silas S. Augue, Benjamin F. Arnold, The Aull Brothers Paper & Box Company

Pages 386-403 - Thadeus Joseph Backus, Jesse H. Bates, John R. Brownell, James H. Baggott, Capt. Allen M. Baker, Edwin Ruthven Baker M.D., John L. Baker, Brederick D. Barker M.D., D. L. Bates & Bro., R. Otto Baumann, Charles Beck, Capt. John Nelson Bell, Ns Doren Bates, Dr. Henry J. Becker D.D.

Pages 403-418 - William Denison Bickham, Capt. Francis M. Billings, John Blum, Louis H. Poock, Daniel Boone, John W. Boren, Edmond E. Boheender M.D., Col. John Bothast, Daniel G. Breidenbach, Luther Moral Bryant, Edwin F. Burkhert M.D., Albert H. Poock, Frank S. Breene

Pages 418-438 - Capt. Newton R. Bunker, Frank J. Burkhardt, Rignal R. Butt, A. M. Hassler, James J. Buttler, Col. John Whitehead Byron, Jacob Clemens, Wilbur Conover, Francis Marion Clemans D.D., Claude North Chrisman M.D., Emile Coblentz, Frank Conover, Frank C. Clemens, John Collins

Pages 438-455 - Charles Judson Coffman, Charles F. Corns, Eli Fasold, Albert Clayton Carney M.D., Charles A. Cooper, Col. Robert Cowden, Capt. Thomas J. Crooks, Charles W. Dale, Lewis Dancyger, Joseph Light, Capt. Lorenzo N. Davis, Claiborne M. Davis

Pages 455-470 - John Davy, David A. Dean, F. M. Compton, John Friend Debra M.D., Joseph J. Deger, Thomas Penryn Evans, William Denise, Joseph L. Deger, Albert Dhein, Oliver Edgar Davidson, Lewis P. Earnshaw M.D., William Havelock Crawford, Zenas A. Craig, William Densmore, August J. F. Diers, Prof. John Marriot Ebert

Pages 470-488 - Ms. Martha Jane Rouzer, Charles Eckstein, George W. Edwards, Charles W. Elliff, Dr. Clarke S. Eppley, John Gates Doren, Fiorini & Sherer, Henry L. Ferneding, Edward W. Hanley, Trenanian Dupuy M.D., Lewis M. Fansher, William Hanby Flack

Pages 488-509 - Marion Richardson Drury D.D., Frederick Ecki, Rev. E. Lee Fleck, F. D. Bittinger M.D., Capt. William Edward Fay, Zelora D. Fleming, Warren E. Beeghly, Capt. James R. Fletcher, Joseph Frank, Michael Freudenberger, Christian Fromm, Frederick P. Beaver

Pages 509-529 - Joshua G. Galloway, Edward A. Fry, Rev. John Baptist Fruhmiller, Capt. John Birch, George H. Gebhart, George H. Geiger M.D., Jonathan H. Gerlaugh, Calvin A. Bonner M.D., Gem City Stove Company, Rev. Francis Joseph Goetz, Henry Cellarius, John Geyer M.D., Curtiss Ginn M.D.

Pages 529-548 - Charles O. Grauseer, Elvin Henry Coe, Albert H. Grim, John L. Gusler, William F. Haas, Charles Henry Crawford, Col. John A. Gorgas, William G. Haeussler, Ernest Zwick, William W. Hackney, Walter E. Haas, Louis P. Hagedorn, Hugo Cook

Pages 548-573 - John A. Hahne, Rev. W. A. Hale D.D., William Hall, Capt. Jasper Newton Hall, Dennick Bros., Charles J. Hall, Capt. Edward Hamilton, John Frederick Ditzel, Joseph M. Hand, Edward F. Hamm, Ellsworth C. Halteman, John G. Feight, Vorus E. Hall, Henry K. Harker M.D., Benjamin F. Hargrave

Pages 573-590 - John W. Harries, Uriah C. Hartranft, James Otto Hartshorn, Benjamin F. Hathaway, Wilson S. Hawker, Winfield Scott Hawthorn, Frank Carey Garrett, Lemuel E. Hecker M.D., Rolla O. Heikes, John Hoban, Samuel Fletcher George M.D., Charles Herby, Thomas Babbitt Herrman, Patrick Hickey

Pages 590-609 - Emil C. Haeseler, Joseph E. Himes, Albert F. Hochwalt, Theodore Hollenkamp, Warren E. Hooven M.D., William P. Huffman, A. H. Iddings M.D., Oliver Perry Hutchins, John Hiller, Herman Isreal, Frank E. James, A. E. & H. G. Jenner, Henry Hollencamp

Pages 609-626 - Robert Thomas Johnson, David Jones, Maj. David Clark Huffman M.D., Charles Frederick Kamrath Sr., William J. Jones, Walter D. Jones, Rev. John Kaufman, David Kemp, William Hughey Kemper, Walter S. Kidder, Christian Gottlieb Kellner, William M. Kinnard, Henry S. Kimmel M.D.

Pages 626-644 - Charles S. King, Henry Klepinger, George Monroe Leopold, Henry Kissinger, Robert Everett Kline, Joshua R. McCally M.D., George C. Lautenschlager, William Kuntz, George F. Krug, Dr. Osmer W. Lounsburg Jr., Judge John W. Kreitzer, Richard J. McCarty, Perry M. Klepinger, John P. Lenz, Herbert W. Lewis, Theodore H. Lienesch, Theodore C. Lindsey

Pages 644-663 - Rev. Ezekiel Light D.D., Rev. Michael Loucks D.D., Samuel Marow Logan, E. B. Lyon, Col. William McClellan, Samuel B. McDermont, Charles MacGregor M.D., W. D. McKemy, John W. McKeown, William C. Marshall M.D., Lieut. John Marshall

Pages 663-682 - Ulysses S. Martin, David M. Martin, John Mathias, Warren G. Matthews, Alvin Lawrence Mendenhall, Bredrick C. Merkle, Louis Mehlberth, Joseph C. Merkle, Peter Meyer, Henry W. Meyer, David W. Miller, James R. Meyers, Capt. Henry C. Meyer, George W. Miller M.D., John Charles Miller, Harry F. Nolan

Pages 682-699 - Prof. Samuel Arnold Minnich, Rev. D. R. Miller D.D., William Harrison Miller, J. M. Morgan M.D., Michael Moran, John Mull, Frank W. Murphy M.D., George Neder, William T. Mooney, Camaliel C. Myers M.D., Norman S. Nier, Rev. Jacob G. Neiffer, Abram H. Nixon, John M. Nutt, Alfred K. Oates, Robert O'Donoghue

Pages 699-716 - James P. O'Neill, George W. Ozias, William S. O'Neill, David A. Onskt, John F. Oehlschlager, Frank J. Otter, Clifton Leander Patterson M.D., Hamer W. Parrott, Perry R. Pease, Enos Phillip Robinson, Abraham M. Osness M.D., Capt. Thomas N. Patterson, Charles Philipps

Pages 716-734 - Andrew Ploocher, Maj. Alphonso Pettit, Prof. William J. Patterson, William G. Powell, Col. Harley H. Sage, Gideon F. Pond, Alfred B. Powers, Jacob A. Pritz, John W. Prugh, E. Oscar Pryor, Capt. Martin E. Quinn, Capt. James Ratcliffe, Jacob William Sortman

Pages 734-749 - Edward D. Regan, Rev. Godfred I. Reiche, Daniel George Reilly M.D., Harry E. Randall, N. P. Ramsey, Henry William Requarth, Jacob Renner, Thomas A. Selz, Newton H. Rice, John B. Ritchie, Capt. Henry Riley, William Schultz Rock, John Rock, Saint Mary's Institute, Bruno Ritty

Pages 749-765 - Rev. William A. Robinson D. D., Capt. Paul Sandridge, Charles William Salisbury M.D., Capt. Frederick Schaefer, Edmund J. Schwind, George E. Shepherd, George W. Shroyer, Gustave Stomps, Alfred H. Shry, Maj. William W. Showmaker, Bert D. Shroyer

Pages 765-783 - John A. Smith, Daniel L. Smith, Charles A. Starr, Capt. Robert C. Snead, Andrew J. Smith, Hackman A. Smith, Eli Newton Snyder, Henry Benton Sortman, Hon. William Edwards Sparks, Maurice L. Spear, George W. Houk, Charles Albert Stainrook, Capt. Jacob C. Staley, Robert Stein M.D.

Pages 783-796 - Thomas L. Steward, Capt. John R. Stweart, Frank A. Stetson, Henry Stoddard, E. Folwer Stoddard, John H. Stoppelman, Joseph Straub, Wayland P. Sunderland, Capt. Charles J. Terwilliger, Frank Leopold Sutter, Nicholas Thomas

Pages 796-812 - Maj. Milton McCoy, Henry Theobald Jr., Evan Owen Thomas, Henry E. Thomas, Albert Thomas, Rev. Henry Adams Thompson D.D., William Henry Tomlinson, Charles R. Thomas, Joseph Robb Thomson, Samuel D. Trone, Thomas Edward Tucker, Fred L. Turner, James C. Turner

Pages 812-827 - James Turpin, Leonadas Hamlin Vaughan, William Belville Anderson, William H. Van Riper, Charles H. Warford, Elihu R. Watrous, Elmer E. Watson, Frederick T. G. Weaver, Frank W. Weglage, Peter Weidner, August Wehner, Christopher F. Weinman, Stark & Weckesser

Pages 827-842 - Rev. Edward Thompson Wells, Christian J. Weinman, Prof. Frank Werkmeister, Richard Whitcomb, Theobald, D. Eichelberger, Joseph C. Whaley, Elias Weinreich, Col. William J. White, Paul Weldon, John G. Will

Pages 842-858 - Samuel Sears, Albert C. White, Thomas Will, Albert Milton Williamson M.D., Isaiah B. Wilson M.D., Milton E. Williamson M.D., William L. Winchell, Capt. John H. Winder, Wilson G. Tanner, Joseph Milton Wine M.D., Capt. William J. Winter, Lewis W. Winters, Milton Wolfe, George H. Wood, William F. Wollenhaupt

Pages 858-874 - Capt. Francis Marion Work, Joseph A. Wortman, Bishop Milton Wright D.D., John A. Wight, Frederick Wunderlich, Thomas Yenny, Bruno Zimmerman, John Fowler Young, Otto Zeil, August Zwiesler, Charles Worthington Raymond, Joseph Zizert, Prof. J. Emil Zwissler, George V. Allen, Orion L. Bouck

Pages 874-892 - N. H. Brookins, Benjamin F. McCann, William L. Darrow, John Wesley Mundorff, Elihu Thompson, Rev. Mendenhall J. Dennnis D.D., Dennis Ensey, Samuel W. Hoover, Thomas J. Farrell, John O'Connor, John Henry Prinz

Pages 892-902 - William L. Bates, Jesse Booher, George W. Houk, Obed W. Irvin, Rev. Edmund Simon Lorenz D.D., Rev. Edward Herbruck D.D., Frederick Brenner, Dr. Lee Corbin, Gustave A. Hochwalt M.D., A. S. Byrne Nellis M.D., Darius Wetzel

Pages 902-914 - Jonathan Weaver D.D., Bernhard Mescher, Samuel Craighead, William Lawrence Blocher, Otho Evans Francis, Charles F. Kimmel, Col. Robert Patterson, John Jacob Spatz

MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

Pages 915-930 - The Macy Family, John Carroll, Charles Crook, Jacob Smith, Charles R. Allen, Rev. Christopher Albrecht, Philip M. Ackeret, Ellwood Allen

Pages 930-944 - Charles Baum, George W. Bleachler, Julius Allen, Henry Bleachler, Henry Becker, Jesse A. Binkley, Samuel Binkley, Samuel Haines Binkley M.D., Newton Binkley, Walter A. Black, Capt. B. F. Bookwalter, Daniel Bookwalter, David Basore, Maj. Flavius K. Bowles, Joseph Brandt

Pages 944-956 - Henry P. Brehm, Joseph Alfred Brown M.D., Orvon Graff Brown, Rev. Jesse K. Brumbaugh, John Buehner, Jacob Frederick Buehner, Otto Buehner, Robert W. Burns, Abraham K. Burtner, Amos Kendall Clay, Newton J. Catrow, Henry Crauder, Maj. Elijah Culbert, John J. Detrick

Pages 956-970 - Eli Diehl, Charles W. Dodds, Lehm Dodds, Peter W. Eagle, Isaac Early, George M. Ebling, Dr. Theodore P. Eby, William S. Eby, David Emert, Jacob Eby, Capt. Augustus J. Eminger, Charles Francis Eminger, William Ewry, Mathew Fabing, Levi Falkner, Theodore S. Fox

Pages 970-983 - Daniel C. Fox Jr., Adam Frank, Rev. Jacob Garber, John Geiger, John Martin Gephart, Emanuel A. Gebhart, Mahlon O. Gebhart, Henry B. Graf, David Groby, Henry Groby, Hon. George A. Grove, Adam Gruver, Frederick G. Winner, John A. Hall, Jacob Hammel, Abraham Harley

Pages 983-997 - David Heckman, Henry M. Hermann D.D., William H. Hoffman, Rev. Samuel L. Herr, Henry Herr, John Hershey, Jacob W. Holderman, George W. Hous M.D., George W. Hubler, Henry C. Hunt, Samuel Judy, Jacob Kauffman, Thomas Joseph Kauffman, Felix Kersting, William J. Kauffman

Pages 997-1012 - Charles Edward Kinder, Franklin Klepinger, John B. Koeppel, Leonard S. Krauss M.D., Charles S. Kurtz, Benjamin Krug, Abraham M. Landis, John Martin Lefevre, William H. Lefevre, Samuel Lindermuth, Tobias Kuhnle, William Leis, Frank Liesenhoff, Thomas Venard Lyons Sr. M.D., Horace Bentley Lyons M.D., Thomas Venard Lyons Jr.

Pages 1012-1027 - John J. McCarter, Henry Loesch, Orville McCray M.D., The Mays Family, Arnold Meienberg, Levi W. Mease, Arnold Macy, George W. Mellinger, Christian Meyer, Joshua V. Mills, Lee Mitchell, John F. Moist, Frank S. Nelson

Pages 1027-1041 - Louis Newburgh, Oliver Perry Niswonger, Bernard J. Pansing, Emory C. Oblinger, Ira S. Owens, William H. Pansing, Gamaliel Pease, John D. Piatt, John Plocher, Thomas Luther Prugh, Hon. William A. Reiter, Rev. Dr. Isaac H. Reiter, Fleming Rice, Wilson Rice, John Rison, Jesse J. Rogers

Pages 1041-1054 - Christian Rohrer, David Rohrer, John S. Robertson M.D., Moses B. Schaeffer, John C. Schaeffer, Andrew Cass Schell, Hon. Henry Schoenfeld M.D., Louis Schellhaas, Peter Schreiber, Jacob Schneider, Henry Christian Schuberth, Joseph W. Shank, Henry Shank, Noah Shank, Frank Shuey, Hon. William Shuler M.D., Hon. Emanuel Shultz

Pages 1054-1069 - Hon. Charles A. Simonton, Rev. John Smith, Andrew Sneller, David Julius Snepp, John T. Snepp, William S. Zeller, Noah E. Spitler, John J. Settler, John Henry Stamm, Samuel Stiver Sr., Henry Peter Treon, William Stiver, Isaac Treon, Capt. Porterfield H. Troxel, Hezekiah M. Wagner, The Waymire Family

Pages 1069-1083 - Joseph Weaver M.D., Henry Weaver, George Washington Weaver, William Perry M.D., Christian Weber, William D. Welsh, Samuel Wenger, John Wenger Sr., Joseph Wenger, Amos Wenger, Levi Wenger, Jerome Wertz, Walter C. Wilson, Daniel W. Young Sr., Harrison Wolpers, Levi Zehring, Hon. Lewis Henry Zehring

Pages 1083-1096 - William Henry Harrison Bridgman, William Clemmer, Jonathan Creager, James Cook, Abraham A. Denlinger, Isreal Denlinger, Samuel Earnst, Jacob Eby, Isaac Erbaugh, Albert J. Zimmerman, Napoleon B. Bailey, Thomas Bridgman, Samuel Erbaugh, George Erbaugh

Pages 1097-1110 - Daniel Frantz, Daniel Garrison, Joseph Hous, Michael Huston, Rev. Amos Hyre, Jesse P. Kimmel. Edward Franklin Newcom, George Oldt, John H. Plander, Clark Pine, John W. Priser, William Richman, Daniel Yike, Henry Apple, Samuel Beck

Pages 1110-1123 - Andrew H. Baker, Samuel G. Clagett, Jonathan Bruestle, David Cripe, William A. Crosby, Henry L. Eckhardt, Joseph L. Ensley, Andrew Forney, Carris W. Falkner, Samuel L. French, Ananias Frantz, Dr. Hayes E. Gardiner

Pages 1123-1136 - Henry A. Garlaugh, Austin Gebhart, George Getter, Abraham Hartzell, Samuel Hammel, David L. Heck, George C. Henkel M.D., Daniel Hoops, Rev. Jonas Horning, George W. Houk, William F. Howell, Charles Hunter, Joseph Izor, Lewis W. Johns

Pages 1136-1150 - Sebastian B. Keener, George Washington Kemp, William Henry Kemp, Joseph Kennedy, Richard J. Ketrow, Jacob Knecht, Henry Klepinger, David Landis, Cyrus Walter Laughlin, Henry Meckley, Benjamin Metzger, Michael Meyer, Henry Clay Mumma

Pages 1150-1163 - Clinton Myers, Benhart Ortman, Philemon W. Peirson, Charles F. Powell M.D., Jacob Puls, Henry N. Reed, John Reel, James A. Rice, Frank J. Riegel, Christian Rohrer, William Rhodes, Jonathan Schell, Owen G. Shiveley, James W. Smith, Noah Swank

Pages 1163-1176 - Caleb Thomas, Samuel Teeter, William Umbenhauer, William Wagner, Samuel Waitman, John O. Warner, Samuel H. Weaver, John J. Weaver, William S. Welsh, William Wenger, Henry Wessel, Samuel Wiggim, Stephen Wysong

Pages 1176-1192 - Jess Arnold, Jacob Anspach, Noah Baker, James M. Cusick, Amos J. Coover, Christopher Gish M.D., Mrs. Joseph Davidson, John Knee, Louis Kunnike, John M. Landis, Benjamin Meckley, John C. Heidinger, Jacob C. Pote

Pages 1192-1204 - William S. Mundhenk M.D., Albert Quance, William Piatt, Capt. Benjamin F. Shoe, Samuel Schlosser, James Sunderland, Lewis R. Smith, Levi H. Turner, Jeremiah West, David L. Booher, William Wells

Pages 1204-1218 - Rev. Aaron Zehring, Jacob Seybold, Jacob Detwiler, Rev. John Brumbaugh, George Horner, Jesse L. Jackson, Miss Sarah Sophia Munger, John Myers, Peter Rasor, David Rasor

Pages 1218-1232 - William H. Reynolds, John Saylor, Bartholomew Wilson, Isaiah Wilson, Frank Wilhelm, Solomon Wormon, George Bixler, John F. Beardshear, Samuel Brumbaugh, Jesse Gilbert

Pages 1232-1244 - Thomas Gilbert, Rev. Samuel Horning, Abraham Neff, Isaac C. Haines, Jacob A. Hepner, Isaac Miller, John R. Peiffer, John Riegel, Joshua Swartzel

Pages 1244-1261 - William Duckwall, Clark Yount, John R. Brumbaugh, Squire Henry Cuppy, Joseph M. Hendrix, Aaron Kimmel, William N. Kinsey, William Kreitzer, Daniel Long

Pages 1261-1277 - Solomon Spitler, Richard Sunderland, John Q. A. Coover, John W. Underwood, Jacob Carmony, Aaron Miller, Rev. Jesse Kinsey, Irvin Thomas, Isaac Stockslager, John Francis Allen

Pages 1277-1292 - John Spitler, Levi Baker, Solomon Beyl, Christian A. Coler, Lewis F. Hoffman, Daniel Boomershine, Sherebiah Joseph Bradford

Pages 1292-1307 - Walter L. Martindale, Robert Carson, John W. Drill, Moses Evans, The Arnold Family, The Martindale Family, Samuel F. North

Pages 1308-1310 - John P. Creager, Samuel Swadener, John Zehring