The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . he becamejunior partner in the firm,and, as their buyer, made fre-quent trips to Europe. Hevery soon conceived the ideaof making in this country cer-tain dyed and printed cottonfab
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . he becamejunior partner in the firm,and, as their buyer, made fre-quent trips to Europe. Hevery soon conceived the ideaof making in this country cer-tain dyed and printed cottonfabrics, which he was in thehabit of buying in Manches-ter for his firm in NewYork. Receiving encourage-ment from Gov. Philip Allen,of Rhode Island, he soon be-gan to have a great many ofthese fabrics made, and wasdoing a good business in themwhen the civil war broke out,and the price of cotton and cot-ton goods became so high thatgoods of this description couldno longer be made. When the war terminated thefirm of Bernheimer Bros, was dissolved, and then started, on his own account, the manufac-turing of dyed and printed cotton fabrics, and maybe called the pioneer of this industiy in the UnitedStates; for, until he undertook this business, all suchgoods had been imported. Mr. Bernheimer is a mem-ber of the Chamber of commerce, and is well knowrfor his generous contributions to worthy 206 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPiEtdA SCHENCK, Robert Gumming, congressman,soldier, diplomatist, was born at Franklin, O., , 1809, son of Gen. William C. Schenck, an earlysettler in the Miami (O.) valley, who was an efficientofficer in the Northwestern army under Gen. Har-rison, and was afterward a member of the OhioGeneral Assembly. He died in 1831, and his son,placed under the guardianship of Gen. JamesFindley of Cincinnati, O., but residing with hismother at Franklin, entered the sophomore classof Miami university in November, 1824. He wasgraduated thence in 1837, but remai
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