Straub Home lodge attracted these in leisure

Gene Weiler was well-known amongst “show-people” and drew many stage stars and circus celebrities to the Straub Home. Visitors on the lodge included William Frederick “Buffalo Invoice” Cody, the midget Tom Thumb, actor Joseph Jefferson, reformer Susan B. Anthony, creator James Whitcomb Riley, opera diva Julia Gaylord, burlesque star Lydia Thompson, and a veritable “who’s who” checklist of circus managers, performers, minstrels, the humanities and politics. Polish actress Fanny Janauschek gave appearing classes to Josephine Weiler and coached her efficiency of Shakespearean scenes throughout stays on the lodge.

James E. Murdoch, professor of elocution at Cincinnati Faculty of Music, additionally labored to assist Josephine develop her efficiency abilities. She additionally obtained further coaching from Howard Ticknor, elocution professor at Harvard and Brown universities.

Eugene and Josephine had two daughters, Lillian Estella and Eva Marie, seen in {a photograph} taken someday round 1880. Lillian (1869-1953) married Robert Norwood Taylor in 1894, however the match was not long-lasting. Taylor abandoned his spouse after six months, by no means to be seen or heard from once more.

Stella Weiler Taylor started a profitable 36-year profession as a instructor in Hamilton’s faculties in 1899. She additionally wrote the favored “Rosemary” column for the “Journal-Information” from 1931 till 1948. She was very lively in native beginner stage productions and regularly printed theater critiques in native newspapers.

Eva Marie (1871-1952) was additionally a creative girl. She turned an artwork instructor and supervisor within the Hamilton metropolis faculties, and was identified for giving well-received lectures on subjects reminiscent of Well-known Madonnas, American Illustrators, Lifetime of Chopin and James Whitcomb Riley. She was an completed singer and composer.

At a celebration on Jan. 11, 1901 she learn the palm of Warren C. Harding and advised him that he would develop into President of the US sometime, an achievement that occurred in 1921. Eva married Benjamin Noble and moved to Colorado.

The 1880 U.S. Census signifies that Straub Home was being operated by Eva Straub and Josephine and that she and Gene Weiler had divorced. Josephine was very lively in native beginner theater stage productions in Hamilton, Oxford, Middletown and Eaton. She toured one season as a number one woman in George C. Gentle’s Dramatic Firm, performing Shakespearean roles reminiscent of Queen Gertrude in “Hamlet,” Emelia in “Othello” and the nurse in “Romeo and Juliet.”

In 1877, town organized a profit on the Globe Opera Home in Josephine’s honor not solely “in recognition of her benefit as an actress, however as a testimonial of the excessive esteem during which she is held by the residents.” She carried out scenes from “Macbeth” together with the plotting of Duncan’s homicide, the dagger scene and the sleepwalking scene. The Cincinnati “Gazette” critic in attendance reported she performed Girl Macbeth “most vividly and with nice energy.”

Josephine supported the native effort to create a monument for Civil Conflict veterans. She carried out in each annual leisure program and promenade live performance given to boost funds for the Troopers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Affiliation of Butler County from 1880 to her demise in 1898.

In 1882 she staged a profit for the Ornament Day Fund and the Wetzel-Compton Submit Quantity 96 of the Grand Military of the Republic gave her a gold badge and made her an honorary life member. She labored with Kate Sherwood (Canton, Ohio) and Emma Sibley (Cleveland) to prepare the Ladies’s Aid Corps in 1883 to deal with invalid troopers, widows and orphans and was the group’s first president.

Josephine was additionally an lively member of the Ladies’s Auxiliary Conflict League and labored to offer reduction to the needy amongst households of absent troopers in 1898.

In 1930, the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil Conflict acknowledged her work by naming the Josephine Straub Weiler Tent Quantity 117 in her honor. Members of the Weiler tent donated a bronze sundial memorial honoring the reminiscence of the Grand Military of the Republic to the Pioneers, Troopers and Sailors Monument in 1941. This {photograph} from the Might 26, 1941 “Hamilton Journal Each day Information” reveals, left to proper, Jacob Inman, age 99; Helen Baxter, tent president, and Clinton Orr, age 97, through the dedication of the sundial. Inman and Orr have been the county’s final two remaining Civil Conflict veterans.

By 1885, Straub Home had been offered and Josephine was beginning a profession within the Hamilton Metropolis Colleges, first as an elocution instructor at the highschool after which as a primary and third grade instructor. She regularly used right here elocutionary abilities to offer readings and talks to a number of conferences of instructional teams such because the Lecturers’ Affiliation of Ohio.

Josephine was thought-about to be one of the vital environment friendly lecturers within the faculties and significantly endeared to her pupils. In January 1898, Josephine turned unwell, and after a short restoration and journey to Chicago in August turned unwell with typhoid malaria, which contributed to her demise on Nov. 2 from coronary heart failure.

Josephine’s life was eulogized by a memorial written by her colleagues and printed within the native newspapers. They mentioned, partially, “she was in a big measure a self-educated girl: a lover of artwork, science, and literature, she studied effectively the masters of every. In her dwelling, in her career, in her public duties, in each stroll and work of life, and hers was a busy life certainly, she was diligent and trustworthy, laboring in season and out of season for the accomplishment of her excessive beliefs. In thought and motion she was a vigorous, exceptional girl, whose sturdy character was laid broad and deep upon the eternal basis of morals and faith.” (”Butler County Democrat,” Nov. 10, 1898, p. 7.)

On Nov. 11, 1898, the ten members of the Hamilton Board of Schooling unanimously adopted the next decision expressing their collective respect for Mrs. Weiler: “Whereas, on November second, demise invaded the ranks of the lecturers of the general public faculties of this metropolis and claimed one of many ablest of the corps. Due to this fact, be it resolved, that within the decease of Mrs. Josephine S. Weiler town faculties have misplaced an incredible instructor and the neighborhood a most useful citizen. As a lady, Mrs. Weiler mixed all these qualities of thoughts and coronary heart so important to the right educating of the younger and her nice success with the little individuals was however a pure end result with one who embodied the best beliefs of life, and who realized the sacredness of responsibility in her dwelling.” (Cone, Stephen D., A Concise Historical past of Hamilton, Ohio, Vol. 2. Middletown: Press of George Mitchell, 1901, pp. 236-237.)

Josephine was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. She made many contributions to college students in her school rooms and left a legacy of two daughters who additionally labored to make Hamilton a greater place during which to dwell.