A Little piece of Paradise… College Hill, Ohio - SELFCRAFT

Mrs. Schevene Neuzel used to go Dr. Baumeister the dentist, in the RuthEllen building. The dentistwould carry her across Hamilton Avenue and buy her a candy bar before sending her home.Daniel Flamm (1820-188) and his brother, Joseph (1828-1904), were born in Wittenburg, Germany.Daniel built the wooden house at the corner of Cedar and Belmont and a cottage on Cedar near Lathropwhich his son occupied. Daniel owned the property between Cedar and Llanfair on which his son built agrocery store. Flamm’s later became Bolam’s grocery. The store was later slightly remodeled to be usedas apartments.Erasmus Gest (1820-1908) was born in Cincinnati to the pioneer Quaker family of Joseph and RebekahGest. Joseph, who was also a merchant, started a second career as the City of Cincinnati surveyor on apart time basis in 1825. By 1840, this was his full time employment. Erasmus followed his father’soccupation and by 1836 he was working on the Whitewater Canal.When Joseph’s sight started to fail and he could not find a suitable assistant engineer, Erasmusstarted to work for his father (1841) and was hired as the chief surveyor for the city. In 1847 he returnedto the work he preferred as an engineer for the Little Miami Company and left the city. He also was thepresident of several railroads. Gest traveled to Paris and Great Britain to study how steel was madeabroad.After he returned, he served in the Civil War and afterwards returned to Cincinnati in 1864. Heworked for several railroads and in 1869 he developed the Cincinnati Street Railway Company and theCovington White Line Car Street Railway, which he owned and operated. Later these lines were sold tothe Cincinnati Consolidated Street Railway Company.In 1878 Gest estimated the cost of construction of the College Hill Narrow Gauge Railway, whichwas planned to run along the berm bank of the Miami and Erie Canal.Erasmus Gest’s papers, diaries, scrapbooks and letters are in the library of the Ohio HistoricalSociety.Stephen Hauser was the president of the Hauser, Brenner & Fath Company. He was born in 1838 inWhite Oak. He worked in a brewery at 14, learning to be a cooper. After working for several employers,he was able to buy out one and continued business under his own name. His firm used white oak andcypress to make beer and whiskey barrels, steam and fermenting tubs, casks and various types ofcooperage for the beer and whiskey trade. Once they manufactured the largest beer keg in the world forthe Buckeye Brewing Company. The Hausers lived in College Hill.The Haven family owned a foundry. They lived at the bend of Cedar Avenue across from WilliamSimpson’s house. The Haven’s had four children: William who married Mary McCrea, Frances whomarried a Galbraith, George, and Rebecca, who married William Edgeman. Mr. Edgeman purchased theDavey mansion from Dr. Philip Van Ness Myers.Paul Huston came to the Colerain area in 1822, his father first settling the land near by in 1795, “...notlong after Mad Anthony Wayne had gone through these parts after the Indians having come fromPennsylvania to the Western frontier with just one hundred and fifty dollars in silver, which he had savedfrom the wreck of the Continental currency; and his father had been a soldier in the Revolution, and gavehis life at the battle of Brandywine...The homestead was a gift to his son, for the old gentleman hadmanaged to leave a large farm to each of the seven children that survived him..” 23Doris Kappelhoff (Doris Day) lived in College Hill on Elkton as a child. The family then moved to23 Around an Old Homestead, Paul G. Huston, 1906183