Frank A. Rotheir
Prominent among the insurance men of Cincinnati is Frank A. Rothier, who has been engaged in the insurance business in this city for more than forty years and during the greater part of the time named has occupied positions of large responsibility. He was born in New York City, September 30, 1854, and is a son of J. A. and M. A. Rothier. The family is of French origin, the grandfather of our subject being the first member of the family to locate in America. The father first came to Cincinnati in 1856 and was for many years identified with mercantile business in this city. At the time of the Civil War Mr. Rothier was commissioned as Captain of the Home Guard by Governor Brough and assisted in the defense of the city when it was threatened by invasion from the south. He died in 1904, at the age of seventy-seven, and his wife was called away in 1900, at the age of seventy years. They are buried in Spring Grove Cemetery.
Frank A. Rothier attended the public schools and Woodward High School, graduating from the latter in 1871. Immediately after leaving the high school he became connected with the insurance business and in 1872 entered the employ of the Cincinnati Underwriters Agency. He began as clerk and advanced through various grades until he became secretary and treasurer and member of the board of directors of the agency. In 1889 he was elected president, a position which he has ever since held. The agency controls the Eureka Fire & Marine and Security Insurance Companies of Cincinnati and is one of the leading concerns of the kind in the city. The Eureka Company was organized by Cincinnati men in 1864 with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars and the Security, in 1881, with a capital of one hundred and fifty thousand. The success of both companies has been highly gratifying and indicates sound and progressive management. Mr. Rothier has not confined his attention entirely to the insurance field but is actively identified with other interests, being president of the Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Company and vice president of the Consolidated Boat Store Company.
On the 20th of May 1879, he was married, at Covington, Kentucky, to Miss Lura Baker, a daughter of Judge Baker, and they have one daughter, Anna Lee, who is a graduate of the Armstrong school. Mr. and Mrs. Rothier have for many years made their home in Covington and are prominent in social circles of that place. He has devoted the principal years of his life to the insurance business and, as he possesses special aptitude for this calling, he soon demonstrated his ability. He has been successful financially and also enjoys in an unqualified measure the confidence of his associates and acquaintances. In politics he supports the Democratic Party. He has made a close study of free-masonry and has taken the degree of the York Rite and is also a Shriner. Socially he is a valued member of the Fort Mitchell Golf Club.
From History of Hamilton county, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881