Skimming through Cincinnati Enquirer articles and came across an October 19, 1913 article that states, "Mrs. F. W. Schmitz, daughter of Ernestine and son Karl, of South Dinmore Park, have returned home after a short visit with relatives in Aurora, Ind."
So F.W. Schmitz may have lived on Earle Ave. In an earlier post I mention how he was secretary of the South Dinmore Park Land Company for a period of time.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
1911 House on Leslie Ave. Between Earle Ave. and 38th Street - Building Permit
Found a building permit listed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for a house between Earle Ave. and 38th Street on Leslie Ave.
Building Permits. (1911, December 9). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/897288471?accountid=48
Building Permits
Building permits were issued yesterday to Walker C. Hall to erect a frame residence on Leslie avenue, between Earle avenue and Thirty-eighth street, to cost $1,000.Building Permits. (1911, December 9). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/897288471?accountid=48
City Bonds to Pay for Local Road Improvements
Came across an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer about the City of Covington selling bonds to pay for road improvements on Leslie and Tracy Avenues on December 23, 1909.
Bidders can obtain further particulars relative to said bonds from Harry G. Klostermann, Clerk of the City of Covington, Kentucky.
H.G. KLOSTERMANN, City Clerk
Sealed Proposals. (1909, December 23). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/895358461?accountid=48
Sealed Proposals. (1909, December 23). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/895356276?accountid=48
A similar article can be found on the same database for Leslie Avenue.
Sealed Proposals
Sealed proposals will be received at the City Clerk's office in Covington, Kentucky until 3 o'clock P.M. on Monday, January 3rd, 1910, for the purchase of $613.86 par value bonds of the City of Covington to provide a fund for the improvement of Leslie avenue, from the south side of Earle avenue to the Infirmary line, by grading. Said bonds to bear interest at the rate of six (6%) per cent and are of the denomination of $100.00 each.Bidders can obtain further particulars relative to said bonds from Harry G. Klostermann, Clerk of the City of Covington, Kentucky.
H.G. KLOSTERMANN, City Clerk
Sealed Proposals. (1909, December 23). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/895358461?accountid=48
Sealed Proposals
Sealed proposals will be received at the City Clerk's office in Covington, Kentucky until 5 o'clock P.M. on Monday, January 3rd, 1910, for the purchase of $735.28 par value of bonds of the City of Covington to provide a fund for the improvement of Tracy avenue, from the north side of Earle avenue to the north line of lot No 166 of the South Dinmore Park Subdivision, by grading. Said bonds to bear interest at the rate of six (6%) per cent and are of the denomination of $100.00 each.
Bidders can obtain further particulars relative to said bonds from Harry G. Klostermann, Clerk of the City of Covington, Kentucky.
H.G. KLOSTERMANN, City Clerk
Attempt to Rob Judge Read - Earle and Glenn Avenues
This doesn't have much to do with the history of South Dinmore Park but is interesting nonetheless. The intersection of Earle and Glenn Avenues is just up the street from my home. A Covington Judge lived in a brick house at the intersection and a 1912 Cincinnati Enquirer article describes an attempted robbery there.
Covington.: Attempt To Rob Judge Read. (1912, September 20). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/895344175?accountid=48
Covington
Attempt to Rob Judge Read.
When Police Judge Read heard Van Friser, a negro, tell yesterday where he attempted to enter a house in South Covington, he leaned over and asked Patrolman Hall if it was the brick house at Earle and Glenn avenues. The Judge was informed that it was. Judge Read looked at the negro and told him it was his house that he tried to enter, and made Friser's eyes twinkle like an electrical sign. Patrolman Hall told the Court Friser acted suspiciously about the town and he had then followed him. Judge Read fined the prisoner $50 and costs and sentenced him to 50 days in jail for loitering.Covington.: Attempt To Rob Judge Read. (1912, September 20). Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.kentonlibrary.org/docview/895344175?accountid=48
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Dinmore Park Springs Company & 1883 Map of South Covington
Was doing some online research and came across a Dinmore Park Springs Company incorporated on May 1, 1886. It was created by John S. Williams, Lewis Vanden, George Mason, J. O'Hara and D. A. Glenn. Here's a website that tells about its incorporation (mostly legal language) (http://archive.org/stream/actspassedatses15kentgoog/actspassedatses15kentgoog_djvu.txt).
I also ran across an 1883 map of South Covington that shows part of Dinmore Park. Doesn't quite cover all of South Dinmore Park but it gives a good layout of the houses in the area (http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt76ww76tb4h_36).
I also ran across an 1883 map of South Covington that shows part of Dinmore Park. Doesn't quite cover all of South Dinmore Park but it gives a good layout of the houses in the area (http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt76ww76tb4h_36).
1937 Flood Map - NKY Views
Monday, January 7, 2013
G.F. Boughner
While doing research today I found a March 23, 1900 deed in which Benjamin Graziani and his wife sold our home to G.F. Boughner. I found a small section written about him in History of Kentucky, Volume 5:
"The only child of John W. Boughner and wife is G.F. Boughner, who was born at Berlin, Bracken County, Kentucky, April 25, 1864, and has lived since infancy in Covington, where he attended the public schools, graduating from high school in 1881. He then took up the study of law with the firm of Carlisle, Goebel & Carlisle, later with Theodore F. Hallam and still later with L.E. Baker. For some fifteen years he was engaged in the leaf tobacco business, but since his admission to the bar in 1898 has been busy in his chosen profession, and throughout those years has had offices with B.F. Graziani at 508-510 Madison Avenue, Covington.
Mr. Boughner has been a member of the Scott Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for fifty years. He is a democrat but has never sought public office. He expressed his convictions during the war by putting all his available means at the service of the Government in the purchase of securities and in assisting committees to fill local quotas and gave a large amount of time to war work."
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On another website I found that he also had a law office at 65 East Front Street and during his fifteen years in the tobacco business he had a company called G.F. Boughner Tobacco Leaf Company. Can't find much online about it.
"The only child of John W. Boughner and wife is G.F. Boughner, who was born at Berlin, Bracken County, Kentucky, April 25, 1864, and has lived since infancy in Covington, where he attended the public schools, graduating from high school in 1881. He then took up the study of law with the firm of Carlisle, Goebel & Carlisle, later with Theodore F. Hallam and still later with L.E. Baker. For some fifteen years he was engaged in the leaf tobacco business, but since his admission to the bar in 1898 has been busy in his chosen profession, and throughout those years has had offices with B.F. Graziani at 508-510 Madison Avenue, Covington.
Mr. Boughner has been a member of the Scott Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for fifty years. He is a democrat but has never sought public office. He expressed his convictions during the war by putting all his available means at the service of the Government in the purchase of securities and in assisting committees to fill local quotas and gave a large amount of time to war work."
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On another website I found that he also had a law office at 65 East Front Street and during his fifteen years in the tobacco business he had a company called G.F. Boughner Tobacco Leaf Company. Can't find much online about it.
The Kentucky Law Reporter, Volume 23 - Graziani v. Hall
Graziani v. Hall &c.
(Filed March 13, 1902 – Not to be reported.)
Bills
and notes – Where two sureties took up the note of their principal and executed
their own, they became joint principals, and either of them could have
maintained an action against the principal for the amount paid for him on the
note. Their relation to the bank and to each other was that of joint
principals, and in a suit by either against the other upon the note it was not
necessary for him to allege or prove the insolvency of the original maker.
H.D Gregory for appellant.
W.C. Hall for appellees.
Appeal from Kenton Circuit Court.
Opinion of the court by Judge Burnam
In 1895 the appellant,
B.F. Graziani, and the appellees, W.C. Hall and John A. Hall, purchased a tract
of about thirty acres of land near
Covington for the purpose of plating into streets and lots and selling; and to
facilitate the business of the South Dinmore Park Land Co. was organized and
the major part of the land conveyed to it. It was deemed advisable to secure
the services of an active young German to act as secretary and assist in the
sale of the stock and property of the company, and with this view F.W. Schmitz
was employed. To enable him to purchase stock in the company the appellant and
appellees signed his note for $1,300 as joint securities to the Farmers and
Traders Natoinal Bank of Covington, which sum was paid by Schimtz(sic) to the
appellant and appellees for thirteen shares of stock in the company. Schmitz
was thereupon elected secretary and a director of the company. He subsequently
sold five shares of the stock for $500 to William Reidlin, and applied the
purchase money to his note to the bank, reducing it to $800. On the 25th
of September, 1895, the directors of the company adopted the following
resolution: “The South Dinmore Park Land Co. will convey to any stock holder
land in its subdivision at a price to be agreed upon by such stockholder and
the directors of the company to the extent of
money actually paid by such stockholder as assessed on stock, provided
said stockholder would erect a house upon the lot, costing not less than $900.
The conveyance of the land was not to be made until the house was under roof,
and the price of the land was to be charged to the stockholder and bear
interest at 6 per cent. From the day of conveyance, and the stockholder thus
taking land should not further participate in the profit of the company until
all other stockholders had dividends from the company that made them equal to
the stockholders taking land.”
Pursuant
to this resolution, Schmitz purchased from the company four lots and erected a
dwelling house thereon, at a cost of about $2,600. The appellant, Graziani,
became bound for this money, and subsequently was compelled to pay it, and in
June, 1896, he and Schmitz entered into an agreement by which Graziani was subsitituted
in place of Schmitz as the purchaser of the lots, and their price was charged
to him, credited back to Schmitz, and the land company convyed the lots to
appellant by general warranty deed, and Schmitz’s connection with the land
company ceased. Appellant and appellees after this transaction paid off the
note of Schmitz to the bank by the execution of their joint obligation to the
bank for the balance due thereon. This note was renewed by them several times
prior to the 9th day of June, 1889, when upon the demand of the bank
appellant paid the full amount of the note, $900.
He
tehreupon instituted this suit, in which he alleged that John A. Hall was
insolvent and asked a personal judgement against the appellee, W.C. Hall, for
$450, one-half of the amount paid by him to the bank. W.C. Hall answered,
admitting the execution of the ntoe, but alleged by way of defense that at the
time of the execution of the original obligation by Schmitz, on which he and
appellant were bound as co securities, that it was agreed by appellant, who was
president of the copmany, that he would not permit the isual to Schmitz of his
stock, but would hold it as a security or the amount of his note; and he
further agreed that no deed should be made to Schmitz for the lots selected by
him until he had paid off his note to the bank; and that appellant had also
agreed that he would see that all moneys due from the company to Schmitz for
services as secretary were applied to the payment of the note. The affirmative
averments of the answer were denied by reply, and a jury trial resulted in a
verdict for appellant. Thereupon the defendant filed a motion for a judgement
notwithstanding the verdict. On the next day, before this motion was passed
upon, they filed grounds and entered motion for a new trial. The trial court
sustained the motion for judgement non obstanti verdicto, and dismissed the
petition. The motion for a new trial was not acted on at all. In brief of
counsel it is said that this action of the trial court was based upon the
theory that this was an action for contribution by one co-security against
another, and that in the absense of allegation and proof of the insolvency of
the joint principal appellee was entiteled to a nonsuit. We think that the
trial judge proceeded upon an entirely erroneous theory. When appellant and the
appellees took up the note of Schmitz and executed their own, they become joint
principals, and either of them at that time could have maintained a suit
against Schmitz for the amount paid for him on the note. Their relations to the
bank and to each other, after the execution of their obligation, was that of
joint principlas and not securites, and in a suit by appellant upon the note,
it was unnecessary for him either to have alleged or proved the involvency of
the orginial maker. The execution of the note itself was an implied admission
of this fact. We are, therefore, of the the opinion that the trial judge erred
in sustaining the motino for a judgement nonwithstanding the verdict.
And
for this reason the judgement is reversed and cause remanded for further
proceedings consistent with this opinion.
The Kentucky Law Reporter, Volume 23
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Thinking the four lots and "dwelling" is a mention of my home on Earle Ave. It was built around 1896/97, sits on four lots, and the deed is under Mr. Graziani's name. Going to see if I can find out more about F.W. Schmitz.
PVA Aerial Map #1
Here's an aerial image (courtesy of Kenton County PVA) that shows properties and street layouts of the South Dinmore Park area. As I described in my first post, 38th Street was supposed to continue through the woods and connect to Tracy Avenue, which should have been built a little further north. My guess is that they were not planning on filling in the woods (almost entirely a valley) but instead clearing the trees and building homes in the valley. According to a map I printed at the court house today (date unknown), 38th Street's original name was Forest Avenue. My guess is it was named that because they were planning on building a road into a "forest." Could be entirely wrong and hope to find out. Another interesting note is that Gilbert Avenue was supposed to continue north and connect to 38th Street (Forest Ave.).
A few other notes. Earle Avenue was formerly named Maple Ave. Mr. Earle was the last mayor of Latonia before it was annexed part of Covington. Also, Tracy, Leslie, and Gilbert were supposed to have been Mr. Earle's children. My dad told me this a few years ago.
First Post
Today was my first day doing real research on the history of South Dinmore Park in Latonia, Kentucky. I have lived on Earle Avenue my entire life and have become interested in learning more about the history of my city, in particular the land and streets near my home. Here's a little about what I knew prior to visiting the court house today. Benjamin Graziani was a well known attorney in Covington, Kentucky and in 1896 purchased land in South Dinmore Park to build a home. He lived in a mansion on Riverside Drive and had an office in downtown Covington as well. He built the house I live in around 1896/97.
Last week I was looking at Kenton County PVA's website and found a small tract of land in the middle of the woods between 38th Street and Southern Ave. I couldn't believe someone owned such a bad piece of land. It floods when it rains and smells like sewage in the summer. PVA said Harvey Myers was the current owner and his address is in Clearwater, Florida. I decided to look for the guy on Facebook. I ended up finding a Harvey Myers in Clearwater and sent him a message learning more about why he owned the property. Well I ended up learning he is Harvey Myers IV and his grandfather was an attorney in Covington and used to live in a mansion on Riverside Drive, just a few houses down from Benjamin Graziani, the man who purchased the land where my home was built. I became even more interested in why someone would purchase land in the middle of the woods in a small valley that often floods and smells.
After talking to my dad about what I found (he's interested in local history as well, I guess that's where I got it from) he came up with the idea that at one time 38th street was supposed to continue through the woods but never did. Harvey Myers must have purchased the land thinking the road would be built and it would be a great place to develop. Sadly, the road was never built and the property became virtually worthless. I looked at PVA again and saw where the roads should have connected in the woods. It looked like 38th street was supposed to connect to Tracy Ave, which should have been built further north. 38th Street wasn't supposed connect all the way to Leslie according to the map. It was designed to be cut off by Tracey and be slightly more northeast.
I spent a few hours at the court house today researching deeds to my home and learning who purchased our house and when. I hope to make another trip and make some scans and will post them here. I also searched for maps of South Dinmore Park when it was being divided into plats. I only spent a few minutes searching but came across a map that shows my dad's assumption to be true. 38th Street, at the time, was named Forest Avenue and was to intersect through Gilbert (which was supposed to continue further north into the woods which never did) and end on Tracy, then continue eastward where 38th street is today. I will attach a map when I am able to make scans.
This is about as far as I will write today. I'm going to try and dig deeper in deeds and maps to learn more about my home and South Dinmore Park. Just trying to get started and put everything I remember into words so I don't forget it. Hope to get everything organized and upload as much as I can. If anyone happens to find this please feel free to contribute or email me at ki4rtg@yahoo.com if you have any additional information. This is a small piece of local history but important to me at least. Thanks for reading!
Last week I was looking at Kenton County PVA's website and found a small tract of land in the middle of the woods between 38th Street and Southern Ave. I couldn't believe someone owned such a bad piece of land. It floods when it rains and smells like sewage in the summer. PVA said Harvey Myers was the current owner and his address is in Clearwater, Florida. I decided to look for the guy on Facebook. I ended up finding a Harvey Myers in Clearwater and sent him a message learning more about why he owned the property. Well I ended up learning he is Harvey Myers IV and his grandfather was an attorney in Covington and used to live in a mansion on Riverside Drive, just a few houses down from Benjamin Graziani, the man who purchased the land where my home was built. I became even more interested in why someone would purchase land in the middle of the woods in a small valley that often floods and smells.
After talking to my dad about what I found (he's interested in local history as well, I guess that's where I got it from) he came up with the idea that at one time 38th street was supposed to continue through the woods but never did. Harvey Myers must have purchased the land thinking the road would be built and it would be a great place to develop. Sadly, the road was never built and the property became virtually worthless. I looked at PVA again and saw where the roads should have connected in the woods. It looked like 38th street was supposed to connect to Tracy Ave, which should have been built further north. 38th Street wasn't supposed connect all the way to Leslie according to the map. It was designed to be cut off by Tracey and be slightly more northeast.
I spent a few hours at the court house today researching deeds to my home and learning who purchased our house and when. I hope to make another trip and make some scans and will post them here. I also searched for maps of South Dinmore Park when it was being divided into plats. I only spent a few minutes searching but came across a map that shows my dad's assumption to be true. 38th Street, at the time, was named Forest Avenue and was to intersect through Gilbert (which was supposed to continue further north into the woods which never did) and end on Tracy, then continue eastward where 38th street is today. I will attach a map when I am able to make scans.
This is about as far as I will write today. I'm going to try and dig deeper in deeds and maps to learn more about my home and South Dinmore Park. Just trying to get started and put everything I remember into words so I don't forget it. Hope to get everything organized and upload as much as I can. If anyone happens to find this please feel free to contribute or email me at ki4rtg@yahoo.com if you have any additional information. This is a small piece of local history but important to me at least. Thanks for reading!
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