The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-06-15
DEATH OF ID. ]. FALLS.
Stricken With Instant Death While
Far From Home and Friends.

OF residence Since 1852 he has been q
resident of Cincinnati, and one of the
city's most honorable and successful
business men. He had conducted the
banking businessi in which he was inter.
ested many years, and was for long
time President of the Cincinnati Mer.
chants National.
Those who remember him here speak
of him in glowing terms as man Of
the highest moral, social and financial
standing. His relatives here have the
sincere, heartfelt sympathy of the entire
community.
Mr.. Falls died suddenly of heart fail
ure in the railroad depot at jamestown,
New York, Thursday morning. Although
in poor health, he had started, against
the wish OF anxious friends, without an
attendant, from Cincinnati to Bradford,
Pa, where he had some business inter.
ests to look after.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says OF him !:
The deceased's business career WAS
long and most honorable one. He was
born August lS, 1909, and came to Gin.
cinnati from Hillsboro about 1852. His
first business venture here OF any note
was the formation of the private bank.
ing house OF Fallis, Brown & Co., his
principal partner being DIR. Brown, who
died several years ago.
The business was started at No. 33
West Third street, where the Citizens
National Bank is now located, in 1853.
Subsequently the firm became known in
business circles as Falls & Co., the placs
of business at the south.east corner of
Third and Main streets, where the Lon.
don, Liverpool and Globe Insurance
head. quarters are situated.
Next the firm name was changed to
read Falls, Young & Co., the late John
Young being the chief support OF Mr..
Falls. The Office was then at the south.
west corner OF Third and Walnut streets,
where Seasongood & Mayer are now
located. In 1865 the present institution,
the Merchants National Bank, develop
ed out of the business which Mr.. Falls
had gradu ely built up on Third street.
Mr.. Falls was chosen President of the
bank, and the Vice. Presidency went to
his principal business associate, John
Young.
Mr.. Falls retained the Presidency of
the bank, which was, until it was moved
into the present elaborately furnished
quarters at the south. east corner OF Third
and Vine street, on the south side OF
Third, opposite Bradstreets, or next
door west of the Ohio Valley National
Bank, up to August, 1891. He then re.
tired from the head of the institution,
and was succeeded by the present
President, MIR. H. G. Yergason. Mr..
Falls still remained Director of the
bank and held that position up to the
time of his death.
He acquired considerable wealth in his
long and successful business career, and
has been for years one of the best known
personages on Third street, where he
was seen ALMOST every day during good
weather. His death occasioned deep
sorrow in the bank to which he had
given the most of his business life in
building up the enviable position in
the Cincinnati business world, and on
Third street and on Change, where he
was well known.
There were many expressions OF regret
and sorrow yesterday when 1T became
known that he was dead. His properly
consists largely of real estate, bonds and
stock in concerns in which he was inter.
ested. There is peculiar incident con.
nected with Mr.. Falls resigna.
ton from the Presidency of the Mer-
chants National. On June II, 1891, he
he handed in his resignation to take
effect on August l9, 1891, the day he was
eighty.two years OF age, so that had he
lived until August 10, this year, he would
have celebrated his eighty. fourth birth
day.
The Merchants National, after the
close OF the war, absorbed the Ohio
National Bank, concern which was
organized during the war, and OF which
Mr.. Falls son.in.law, @. 6. Rogers,
was the President, George w. Forbes
was connected with the concern which
was absorbed.
The only son of the deceased, John
Falls, young man who was well known
in this city and in Covington, where he
was a member of the School Board, died
a few weeks ago. Mr.. Falls thought a
great deal of his son, and the young
mans death was sad blow to his father,
who died under such sad circumstances
at jamestown, N. Y.
There are some very interesting events
connected with the deceased's family
history and his struggle for footing
which he finally gained.
He was born near Fredericksburg, Va,
ON the 10Th OF August, 1909, and was
descendant OF Scotch-Irish ancestry.
History of the Falls family tells of how
his great. great grandfather presided over
a meeting of manufacturers in 1898, and
was forced to sell his factory as a pauper
on account of ruinous taxation, and was
finally executed for treason.
Some years after his great grandfather
came to America and settled. Twenty
years after he moved to Virginia and
settled on farm in Stafford county ad.
joining that of General George Wash
ington. The Falls were members of a
Quaker organization, and Mr.. Falls
father was personally acquainted with
George Washington.
In 1926 d. J. Falls went to Greenfield,
in Highland county, Ohio, and was q
clerk for w. & s. E. Hibbin, and his first