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1867 Hickenlooper Plat Map of Prospect Hill, Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio
ProspectHillSub-phillipshickenlooper-1867Robert Christmas Phillips (December 25, 1811 - December 30, 1881) was an American civil engineer and surveyor. Born in Ohio, Phillips worked in Cincinnati for nearly fifty years, most of that time as an engineer. He served for a time as City Engineer. Over the course of his career, he surveyed numerous parts of the city and laid out lots. For a time, he operated an engineering and surveying firm with Andrew Hickenlooper called Phillips and Hickenlooper. By 1872 Phillips was serving as the Chief Engineer of Public Works in the District of Columbia. He married Mary S. Humber on August 2, 1843, with whom he had five children. More by this mapmaker...
Andrew Hickenlooper (August 10, 1837 - May 12, 1904) was an American civil engineer, surveyor, and Union Army veteran. Born in Hudson, Ohio Hickenlooper attended St. Xavier and Woodward High School before embarking on a surveying career. He began his professional training in 1853 as a rodman in the City Engineer's Office of Cincinnati under A. W. Gilbert, then the city engineer. After Gilbert's term in office ended two years later, Hickenlooper went into business with him and formed the firm Gilbert and Hickenlooper. This firm lasted for two years, until Gilbert won another term as city engineer, at which point Hickenlooper went into business for himself. He entered military service on August 31, 1861, as captain of 'Hickenlooper's Cincinnati Battery', which was mustered into the army as the Fifth Ohio Battery of Light Artillery at the St. Louis Arsenal, Missouri. Hickenlooper spent the next four years in the Union Army and fought in the Battle of Shiloh, the Siege of Vicksburg, the Battle of Atlanta, and Sherman's March to the Sea. He also fought in the Carolina campaign and was at both Columbia and Raleigh. He eventually rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general. He was mustered out on August 31, 1865. After the war Hickenlooper returned to Cincinnati where he partnered with R. C. Phillips in the engineering and surveying firm Phillips and Hickenlooper. He was appointed United States Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio on July 7, 1866, and served until January 1871, when he resigned to become City Civil Engineer of Cincinnati. He resigned that position on May 8, 1872 to become vice president of the Cincinnati Gas, Light, and Coke Company, and rose to president on May 8, 1877. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio on October 14, 1879, and served a two-year term. Hickenlooper married Marial Lloyd Smith on February 13, 1867, with whom he had six children. Learn More...
William Mills Donaldson (March 14, 1840 - October 22, 1931) was an American businessman and lithographer. Born in Cincinnati, Donaldson's father died when he was a few months old and his mother died when he was ten. He was a sickly child but sought an education, mostly at the encouragement of his grandfather. In the late 1850s, when his uncle (who was in charge of his estate) forbade him entering medical school because it was too expensive, Donaldson left school and found work at Middleton-Wallace and Company, a lithographer in Cincinnati. Middleton-Wallace closed in December 1860, but reopened in January 1861. Donaldson went into business for himself in 1863, opening a lithographic firm with his close friend and fellow lithographer Henry Elms, with Donaldson as the senior partner. Then, in 1864, Donaldson decided to begin printing chromolithographs, which caused the firm's success to grow exponentially. By 1868 they had been forced to relocate twice because of a need for bigger premises. Henry Elms died in 1872, leaving Donaldson to run the business on his own. Nonetheless the firm continued to grow and prosper. Donaldson used this success to further expand the business and began framing as well. Donaldson sold the Donaldson Lithographing Company to the Consolidated Lithographing Company in 1905. Learn More...
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