Milton Adler

Milton Adler Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Page 536, Cincinnati, The Queen City

Prominent among the progressive, enterprising and far-sighted businessmen of Cincinnati is Milton Adler, the Vice President and Executive Manager of the Julian Kokenge Shoe Manufacturing Company, a mammoth enterprise, with which he has been identified since 1893. In this connection he bends his efforts to administrative direction and his keen judgment and the soundness of his business methods are manifest in the splendid results which have attended his undertakings. Mr. Adler is one of Cincinnati's native sons, born in 1869, his father being William Adler, the founder of the Fairmount Woolen Mills, of which the son is still president. The father was a native of Germany but the belief that better business opportunities were afforded in the new world led him to bid adieu to friends and native country and sail for America. He became a resident of Cincinnati about 1854 or 1855 and with his brother Isaac, founded the Fairmount Woolen Mils, which he conducted successfully for many years, this growing industry becoming one of the important manufacturing concerns of the city. He remained a valued and representative businessman here to the time of his death, which occurred in 1903.

Milton Adler was reared in Cincinnati and attended the local schools, being graduated from Hughes High School in 1887. He afterward spent a year or more in the University of Cincinnati and liberal education thus qualified him for many of the practical and responsible duties which have since devolved upon him. He entered business circles as a clerk for the wholesale dry-goods house of the George W. McAlpin Company and there remained for a year and a half, after which he became a partner in the firm of Mayer Br4others & Company, wholesale dealers in liquors. In that business he continued until 1893, when he became Vice President of the Julian - Kokenge Company. His attention has since been concentrated upon the work of office management. For intricate commercial problems he finds quick and ready solution and his judgment is seldom if ever at fault. He possesses, too, the definite aim and determined purpose that enable him to carry forward to successful conclusion whatever he undertakes, and he is recognized in business circles as one of the strong representatives of commercial affairs.

Mr. Adler has won in social circles equal favor with that accorded him in business life. He is a popular member of the Phoenix Club, the Country Club and the Business Men's Club and other organizations. In matters of citizenship he stands for that which is practical and progressive, desiring the best interests of the community. He does not seek nor care for office but in business circles is leaving his impress as one of the foremost factors of the community.

William D. Goforth History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 304 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com

William D. Goforth lives about one and a half miles south of Cheviot, in Green township, with an only daughter. The wife, now dead, was Miss Sallie Gordon, whose ancestry is traceable to Lord George Gordon, of Scotland. She died April 4, 1878. Mr. Goforth is descended from distinguished stock. His grandfather, Judge William Goforth, born April 1, 1731, was appointed a member of the State legislature and was judge of the Northwestern Territory, then comprising the district of Ohio. He came to Ohio in 1788, and died in 1805. His own father, Dr. William Goforth, was surgeon of the army in the War of 1812, and was also a member of the legislature of Louisiana, where he went in 1803, and came back to Ohio in 1816. His oldest son served in the capacity of lieutenant, and William D., then a lad of fifteen years, witnessed the engagement between the forces of Generals Jackson and Packenham at New Orleans. He also served under Scott in the Mexican war, as ensign, and planted the colors on the Mexican capitol. During the late war he carried the colors of the Fifth Ohio cavalry when they made the attack on the Louisiana Tigers at Shiloh. He was offered the pay and rank of a major, both of which he refused. He was crippled at Shiloh by his horse throwing him against a tree. His own son was in forty-seven engagements.

Rev. Samuel J. Browne History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 304 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com Rev. Samuel J. Browne was born at Honiton, England, in 1786, and emigrated to this country in 1796 with his father, Rev. John W. Browne, who settled first at Chillicothe, Ohio, and afterward, in 1798, at Cincinnati, and a few years later was drowned in the Little Miami river while returning from one of his appointments to preach in that neighborhood. His son, Samuel J. Browne, learned the printing business with Nathaniel Willis, and in 1804 started the Liberty Hall newspaper, afterwards the Cincinnati Gazette, and in 1824 the Cincinnati Emporium, afterwards the first daily paper of large size printed in Cincinnati. Through his instigation and pecuniary aid his son, J. W. S. Browne, and his son-in-law, L. S. Curtiss, originated and placed on a paying basis the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. He early perceived the growing tendencies of his adopted city, and was among the first to show his faith by frequent investments in real estate in the city and its suburbs. In 1830 he purchased the late Browne homestead, consisting of twenty-five acres on the north side of the Miami canal, opposite Baymiller street, and erected thereon a fine residence which he occupied until his death.
Mr. Browne was twice married. His first wife, a most estimable and handsome English lady, was wooed and won while Mr. Browne was on a visit to his brother in England, and by whom he had seven children, three of whom still survive. His second wife was a daughter of the late Dr. E. A. Atlee, a lady
of sweet disposition and most amiable character, by whom he had five children, of whom three are still living. Mr. Browne pursued a most active life, retaining both mental and physical vigor to within a short period of his death, which occurred in September, 1872, at the ripe old age of eighty-five years.

Samuel W. Carson History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford pg 304 Submitted by Patti Graman PMRHG@aol.com Samuel W. Carson of Cheviot, mail agent of the Great Eastern railroad from Cincinnati to Chicago, is the oldest member of his father's family, and was born January 1, 1816. In 1850 he went to California, being gone five years, and returning via Panama railroad, coming across the isthmus on the first train over that line. During the war he was provost marshal and afterwards for two years was revenue collector. In 1856 he was assigned a position in the mail service on the Great Eastern railroad from Cincinnati to Chicago, which position he still retains. Mr. Carson is a descendant from a remarkable (page 305) family of old settlers and otherwise noted people, who came from the east about 1804 and settled near Cheviot. They were the first pioneers, and consequently were the first to erect school-houses, churches, establish roads, and otherwise improve the country. Mr. Carson lives comfortably in a nice homestead in Cheviot.