F. H. Oehlmann, of the law firm of Oehlmann & Lundy, room 24 Temple Bar, northwest corner of Court and Main streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, was born January 13, 1848, on Race street, Cincinnati. His father came to this county when but fourteen years of age (1833), and died October 3, 1875, at the age of fifty-eight years; his mother is still living. F. H. Oehlmann received a good common school education in the public schools of Cincinnati, perfecting his course in the Woodward high school at the age of seventeen years.  Following his course in school, he obtained employment as clerk in the recorder's office, court house, where he remained for a period of eight years, when he went into the practice of law, and is to-day the senior member of the firm of Oehlmann & Lundy. He, with his parents, removed from Cincinnati to Westwood in the spring of 1865, where he still resides. He was elected as assessor of Green township when he was but twenty-one years of age, defeating a worthy and popular citizen in the election. He was elected member of the council of the village of Westwood, in which capacity he served until the spring of 1878, when he was elected mayor of said village, and was reelected in 1880, and is at present the presiding officer of that village. He married Miss Augusta Patzold in 1871, from which union he has been blessed with several children.

        Joseph Siefert was born December 11, 1810, at Baden, Germany. Coming directly from that country to Ohio, he settled in Cincinnati in 1834. For eight years he was a member of the city council, twelve years director of the Longview Lunatic asylum, and two terms, or twelve years, president of the Cincinnati Relief union, of which society he was a member for twenty-one years. lie paid the relief fund to the soldiers' widows during thirteen years, for five years was appointed by the governor, and the remainder of the time held the place through the council. His wife, Elizabeth Siefert, was born in Europe November 1, 1813, and died December 7, 1875. Of the seven children, Charles only remains a resident of this township. Elizabeth Huy resides in Richmond, Indiana, and Ellen Drum, Rosa Hegle, Mary, Josephine, and Frank Joseph, are in Cincinnati.
 

        Dr. G. H. Musekamp was born in Prussia in 1802. He arrived in Cincinnati in 1837, after a protracted journey of forty-two weeks, by sea, land, canal, and river. His death occurred in 1874, at his home in Green township. He was one of the earliest German physicians of Cincinnati, practiced principally minor surgery. At his death he was one of the oldest German physicians in Hamilton
county. He left Cincinnati and moved into Green township in 1850. Mrs. Musekamp (Charlotte Guttemuller) was born in 1803, and died in 1845. Their family consists of Louisa, now living in Goshen, Clermont county, and Elizabeth, Sophia, and Dr. George H. W., all three of Green township.

        Sidney S. Jackson, a horticulturist of Green township, was born in the year 1803 in the city of Philadelphia. His father, Isaac H. Jackson, was a native of that city, and was bred to the mercantile profession. In 1804 he removed to New York, where he established himself in that business and continued in the same until the breaking out of the last war with Great Britain, when he sold out and quit the business altogether. In 1813 he removed his family to the State of Ohio, purchased three quarter sections in Green township, and after settling upon them remained there until his death, which occurred in the seventy-ninth year of his age, October 20, 1849.
        Although Mr. Jackson was unacquainted with the business of farming he soon gained sufficient knowledge of it to support his family very nicely by that kind of employment, and, notwithstanding much of his time was taken up with commercial transactions of life, there were few men of his day who found time to read so extensively as he had done; very few men read so much to so good advantage, he becoming simply by his fondness for reading a walking history of the transactions of his country and of matters pertaining to his government ever since he arrived at the age of maturity. He was also designated by his fellows as a leader in the affairs of his county, having held among other offices that of commissioner of Hamilton district. Mr. Sidney S. Jackson received some education in Long Island before coming west, but it was limited, as he was but ten years old when he left for Ohio, which was but a barren wild region for great schools or colleges; nor had he ample opportunities for receiving much of the log cabin instruction then in vogue, but was compelled to be content with what he could obtain from contact with the world and by reading good books and papers.
        He remained with his father until the age of maturity and in the year 1826 married Miss Elizabeth Hutchinson, whose father, John Hutchinson, was an early settler of Whitewater near Harrison; he came to Cincinnati about 1807, and to this place one year before she was born; she is now in the seventy-fourth year of her age. In 1830 Mr. Jackson began the nursery business, and his green-house established then is now one of the oldest in the United States. He deals extensively in rare exotic plants, and is a widely and well known horticulturist of the great west. He was one of the founders of the Horticultural society of Cincinnati, and has been identified with it many years. His farm consists of about eighty acres of which his nursery comprises thirty plat of these acres, and contains three green-houses. He has also one of the best amateur workshops in the country; formerly he was divided in his inclinations for following the floral business with that of the mechanical; being of an ingenious turn of mind he was capable of handling tools in many kinds of manufacture, and has his shop well supplied with them. Mr. Jackson has now but two children living--having lost three sons, two of whom, John H. and Isaac H., born July 22, 1836, were twins, and were much alike, the family always found difficulty in distinguishing them apart. They were much in each other's company, dressed alike, and took pride in their similarity of resemblance; their loss to the family was keenly felt. John H. was shot during the desperate attack his regiment, the Eighty-third Ohio volunteers, made at Vicksburgh, and from the effects of which he died. He had received a flesh wound at Arkansas Post, and could have received a furlough to come home, but preferred to remain, and soon after engaged in the siege of Vicksburgh. He was sent to the Cincinnati hospital, but died a few days after reaching that place. The Cincinnati Horticultural society, Peter Gibson in the chair, upon receiving news of this sad occurrence, passed resolutions very eulogistic of his character, both as a citizen and as a member of that body.
        Isaac, the other twin, and his brother Lewis, the youngest of the family, were drowned in the Big Miami, while bathing. They were in company with a number of their companions on a gala excursion, but the brothers going too near a whirlpool were drawn in and under one after the other and were lost before help could reach them, and thus lost their lives.
        Mr. and Mrs. Jackson lately celebrated their golden wedding. Rev. Mr. Challen, the pastor who officiated at the former nuptials fifty years before, was present to sanctify the occasion and assist in bringing remembrance of the former times.