VI. MONETARY.
BANKS AND BANKERS.
INCORPORATED.
[page 89] CITY BANK, south side Third, between Walnut and Vine Streets; E. M. Gregory, President; J. P. Reznor, Cashier; E. M. Gregory, L. D. Ingalsbe, J. P. Reznor, William Burnet, Thomas Heaton, J. K. Glenn, William S. Scarborough, Directors.
[This was apparently funded by the Legislature. The next section is entitled "Private banking", and begins with this sentence: "From the limited amount of banking capital, heretofore allotted to Cincinnati by the Ohio Legislature, the business of Private Banking has become an interesting feature in the growing commercial operations of our city.]
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.
WASHINGTON LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Capital, $150,000.
Office, Third Street, next door east of the City Bank,
Reeder's Buildings.
JOINT-STOCK AND MUTUAL.
Board of Directors.--E. M. Gregory, Hon. John McLean, Hon. C. Morris, James K. Glenn, S. F. Cary, L. G. Bingham, John Elstner, J. O. Shoup, G. Y. Root, E. P. Coe, Chas, [sic] Goodman, G. L. Weed, Henry Van Bergen, D. F. Worcester, James Dunlap, J. P. Kilbreth, W. S. Scarborough, J. P. Reznor, L. D. Ingalsbee, R. B. Hayes, A. Morrell, Thomas Heaton, J. F. Forbus, G. McCullough.
Board of Finance.--George L. Weed, James K. Glenn, W. A. Goodman.
Officers.--E. M. Gregory, President; Hon. C. Morris, Vice-President; George L. Weed, Treasurer; S. F. Cary, Secretary and General Agent; C. Benton, Assistant Secretary and Actuary.
The Washington Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, are authorized by their charter to grant or purchase annuities, and make all contracts pertaining to life risks.
It has a capital of $150,000, paid in and well secured. The joint-stock and mutual rates are as low as those of any other company. When the premium amounts to $40 or upward, the assured may pay one-half in cash and the other in a premium note, if insured in the mutual department. Premiums may be paid annually, semi-annually, or quarterly.
[The description continues, but sounds even more like an advertisement.]
[page 122] THE FINE ARTS.
... The following list gives their [sc. artists'] names; the date at which they commenced their course; their present residence, with names of persons in whose parlors their pictures, statues, &c., may be found.
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George W. Phillips, 1848.--Cincinnati. Portraits and landscapes; E. M. Gregory, E. Carll, J. H. Brandt, G. Bown, Studio.
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FARMER'S COLLEGE.
BOARD OF INSTRUCTION.
THE Faculty consists of the following members:--
President.--F. G. Cary, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Superintendent of Buildings, Grounds, and Finance.
R. H. Bishop, D. D., Professor of History and Political Economy.
R. S. Bosworth, Professor of Chemistry, and its application to Agriculture and the Arts.
J. S. Henderson, Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy.
J. S. Whitwell, Professor of Ancient Languages and Belles Lettres.
C. Sheferstein, Teacher of Modern Languages.
G. S. Ormsby, Professor of Preparatory Course.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
President.--E. M. Gregory; Secretary--J. W. Caldwell; Treasurer--S. F. Cary.
Robert Crawford, Giles Richards, Timothy Kirby, Rev. John Covert, W. A. Bagley, James Huston, Joseph Longworth, Sylvester Ruffner, Thomas B. Wetherby, Paul C. Huston, J. P. Reznor, Samuel Wiggins.
This institution, which is situated on a beautiful summit, six miles north from Cincinnati, and is fast rising in public estimation, had its origin in the seminary, called from the name of its founder and proprietor, Cary's Academy.
Near the site of the present college, F. G. Cary, in the spring of 1833, commenced, with only four pupils, a boarding-school, which, at the expiration of eight years, numbered more than a hundred students. This institution was carried on until 1845, extensively by individual enterprise, when a rapidly increasing patronage made an enlargement and re-modification necessary. For this purpose, a joint-stock company was formed, thirty dollars constituting a share; and subsequently a charter was procured, granting the usual college rights and privileges.
In the fall of 1846, the building, under the name of Farmers' College, was completed, and the college organized. Mr. Cary, merging into the establishment, his private interests, was appointed Pre-[page 274]sident, and invested with the power of conducting the internal arrangements of the institution.
Since the organization, there have been annually, over two hundred students connected with its various departments; and in the eighteen years of its existence, one thousand young men have gone forth from its walls into the business of life.
Six instructors have been employed, who have hitherto been remunerated, exclusively, from the fees of tuition. A good chemical and philosophical apparatus, have been procured, comprising a telescope with a reflector of six and one-fourth inches aperture, made by Bruno Hasert, of Cincinnati.
An effort is now being made, fully to endow this institution, and place it upon a permanent basis; and the success which has hitherto attended this education enterprise, gives encouragement to expect its speedy accomplishment.
The prominent character of this institution, has ever been the practical character of its course of instruction. To assert the dignity of labor, has been its object.