The efforts of Oscar W. Kuhn, known for many years as one of the ablest and most distinguished lawyers of Hamilton County, Ohio, have proved of the greatest value of his fellow-citizens as well as to himself. He has shaped his career along worthy lines, and his talents have been discerningly directed along well-defined channels of endeavor. He is a man of distinct and forceful individuality, of marked sagacity, of undaunted enterprise and in manner he is genial, courteous and approachable. His career is such as to warrant the trust and confidence of the public and his activity in legal circles forms no unimportant chapter in the history of the county. The public is rarely mistaken in its estimation of a man, and were Mr. Kuhn not most worthy, he could not have gained the eminent position he has so long held in legal, professional and social life. By his own persistent and legitimate labors he has won for himself a name whose luster future years will most surely augment. Mr. Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 11, 1861, a son of William and Eliza Kuhn, prominent residents of this city. He obtained education in its public schools and later attended the Cincinnati University from which he was graduated with the class of 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In his senior year at the university he entered the Cincinnati Law School and after two years of hard study, graduated from that institution with the class of 1887 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. For fourteen years then, he practiced law in partnership with Prescott Smith, and in 1900, opened an office for himself, where he continues eminently successful at the present time. For seventeen years Mr. Kuhn was on the Board of the Cincinnati University, during the last ten of which he held the office of president. In politics, Mr. Kuhn uses his prerogatives as a citizen to vote with the Republican party, and he has held office as a member of the Board of Education from 1889 to 1891. Fraternally he is a valued member of the Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa (Golden Key) college fraternities, the University Club, and the Business Men’s Club. On the 12th day of June, 1889, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Kuhn was united in marriage with Miss Clara V. Gazlay, a daughter of Theodore and Jane Fitch Gazlay, well-known residents of Cincinnati. Mrs. Kuhn was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., and received her education in the public schools and Hughes High School. She is a lady of refinement and culture, and her friends are without number throughout the city. She is a member of the Cincinnati Woman’s Club. To Mr. and Mrs. Kuhn has been born one son. Spencer Gazlay Kuhn, who married Medora Farrin and resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are the parents of two boys, viz., Spencer Farrin Kuhn and Robert Henry Kuhn.⁶