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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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CLERMONT COUNTY, OHIO
BIOGRAPHIES
SOURCE: HISTORY OF
CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES, OHIO
— VOLUME II —
1913 |
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THOMAS H. FLINN, one of
the successful and highly progressive young business men
of Loveland, Ohio, is senior member of the well known firm
of Flinn & Ertel,
grocers, whose up-to-date and thoroughly equipped place of
business is located at the corner of Broadway and Railway
avenue, was born at Loveland, Feb. 28, 1882, his parents
being Stephen Flinn,
for the pas twenty years watchman and flagman at the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad crossing at Loveland, during
which time he has never been suspended nor has anyone been
injured at this point, was born in county Meath, Ireland,
near the city of Dublin, May 25, 1847, son of
Thomas and Margaret (Melady) Flinn, who came to America in 1856,
when Stephen
was about nine years of age.
The sailing vessel on which they took passage was
nine weeks on the ocean and encountered a severe storm
before landing at
New Orleans.
They came to Cincinnati,
and on to
Loveland.
Thomas Flinn
was a stonemason, and after a time entered the employ of
the old Hillsboro railroad, building stone bridges, and later
worked in
Loveland
and vicinity, finally becoming a contractor.
Subsequently he purchased lots in
Loveland, on which he erected
houses, selling the properties in incoming residents.
He lived to the age of seventy-four, while his
widow survived him some fifteen or sixteen years.
Both are buried at Milford.
Stephen
Flinn received a fair common school education and
worked on the farm in his youth, also starting in to learn
the shoemaker’s trade.
During the Civil war, at the time of
Kerby Smith’s
raid, he was called out and served for ninety days,
receiving an honorable discharge, and afterwards spent
nine months more in the Government service as a teamster.
Shortly after the close of the war he entered the
employ of the Marietta & Cincinnati railroad, now
the Baltimore & Ohio, working on the section for years,
finally becoming a section foreman.
His marriage to
Miss Susan Terrill
was solemnized at Loveland, she being a native of Perry county, Ohio.
Their two children are:
Thomas H.,
of this review, and
Margaret, who is the wife of
Charles Roush,
of
Norwood,
Ohio.
Thomas H.
Flinn graduated form the
Loveland
High School in the class
of 1901 and for one summer was employed as a book
solicitor, in which he proved himself a success,
incidentally receiving a training useful in after life.
Was for a short time engaged as bookkeeper at
King’s Mills, in Warren
county, Ohio, resigning to accept a position as assistant agent
for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at
Loveland.
One year later he resigned, and on Feb. 28, 1903,
formed the present partnership with
Hon. Earl E. Ertel,
the present representative from Clermont county to the
Ohio Legislature.
The business of this firm has been most
satisfactory, having grown rapidly under their progressive
management.
Mr. Flinn
was married at Cincinnati,
Feb. 12, 1907, to
Miss Nellie M. Daly, who was born, reared and educated
in the Queen City, a daughter of
Timothy and Mary (Linsky)
Daly, residents of Cincinnati.
Both are natives of
Ireland, coming to
America
prior to their marriage.
Mr. and Mrs.
Flinn have two children:
Roland Earl and
Thomas Charles.
Although reared a Democrat,
Mr. Flinn is a
staunch Republican and cast his first Presidential ballot
for Theodore
Roosevelt in 1904.
He was reared in the Catholic church, being
confirmed at fourteen under
Bishop Elder. Socially
he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, of which
he served as clerk for three years and for six years as a
member of the official board of the local camp. ~ Page 472
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WILLIAM
M. FRIDMAN. The career of the business
man has few of those spectacular phases which make the
life record of the military or political leader of
wide-spread interest, yet thinkers throughout all the ages
have regarded the profession of law as that which most
greatly conserves public stability and progress. It is to
the work of the courts that William M. Fridman has
given his time and attention since 1887, coming to the bar
with good equipment and since that time making the most of
his opportunities for advancement in the difficult and
arduous profession of the law. He has practiced in
Cincinnati since April, 1891, and the court records show
his connection with various cases of importance. He was
born in Clermontville, Clermont county, Ohio, February 26,
1863, son of Franklin and Milly A. (Bushman) Fridman,
the former a native of Stolhoven, Baden, Germany, and came
to America in 1830. Franklin Fridman was the
pioneer merchant of Clermontville and more extended
mention of his remarkable activities are to be found on
other pages of this work.
William M. Fridman attended the public schools,
continued his studies in the Clermont Academy, at
Clermontville, Ohio, until his sixteenth year; next
entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio,
graduating in 1884 with the degree of Bachelor of Science.
His literary knowledge served as an excellent basis upon
which to build the superstructure of his professional
knowledge. Mr. Fridman's law study began
under the preceptorship of Frank Davis, the
present judge of the common pleas court of Clermont and
Brown counties, Ohio. He came to the Cincinnati Law School
in 1886, and the following year won the degree of Bachelor
of Laws upon his graduation in May, 1887. Mr. Fridman
at once began practice at New Richmond, Ohio, where he
remained until April, 1891, and then came to Cincinnati
and formed a partnership with Marshall Moreton; one
year later engaged in practice in association with
George G. Bright, under the firm name of Bright
& Fridman, which firm was dissolved January 1,
1894. He was then associated with Edward J. Dempsey,
until May, 1898, at which time Mr. Dempsey
was elected judge of the superior court. He was then
associated with Edward Barton until the latter became
general attorney of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
In May, 1903, he formed a partnership with Judge Edward
J. Dempsey, as Dempsey & Fridman, until
January, 1906. Mr. Fridman has since
followed his profession independently, and with notable
success. He has indicated his ability to cope successfully
with intricate and involved legal problems and to present
his cause in such clear and logical form that he never
fails to hold attention of court or jurors and seldom
fails to gain the desired verdict. Other business
interests have to a limited extent claimed his attention,
for he has been a director of the First National Bank of
New Richmond, Ohio, and is now a director of the
Fridman Lumber Company, and of the Fridman
Seating Company, both paying enterprises.
June 12, 1900, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Fridman
was married to Miss Katherine Tombach, a daughter
of August and Rose Tombach.
Her father was superintendent of the Powell Brass Work
Foundry, but passed away in 1878. The mother, however,
still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Fridman reside
at No. 2256 Jefferson Place, Norwood. Mr.
Fridman was elected mayor of Norwood in November,
1911. In politics always a Democrat, since age conferred
upon him the right of franchise, and fraternally a Mason,
widely known in the order. He is now past master of
Vattier Lodge, No. 386, Free and Accepted Masons, and has
also taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite and the Mystic
Shrine. In sympathy with the benevolent and beneficent
purpose of the order, he also enjoys its social relations,
for he is a man to whom friendship means much and to his
friends he is ever loyal. The same loyal spirit is
manifested in his professional work, and his capability as
a practitioner of law has enabled him long since to leave
the ranks of the many and to stand among the more
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