Edward Woodbridge Strong
Among the men who by their talents and accomplishments grace the bar of Cincinnati and have ably assisted in advancing the general welfare of the city should be named Edward Woodbridge Strong. He is a native of New Brunswick, New Jersey, born December 7, 1853, a son of Woodbridge and Harriet Anne (Hartwell) Strong. The father was a prominent lawyer of New Brunswick and served for many years as juudge of the courts of Middlesex county.
Mr. Strong of this review received his early education in a preparatory school at New Brunswick and later entered Rutgers College, graduation in 1872 with the degree of A.B. Three years later he received the degree of A.M. from the same intitutuion. He was admitted to the bar in his native state and began practice at New Brunswick but has now, for twenty-five years or more, been engaged in practice at Cincinnati. In addition to his law business he has been for a number of years interested in farming, coal mining and banking. He was a director of the Fifth National Bank of Cincinnati and is connected in a similar capacity with its successor, the Fifth-Third National Bank, which is a consolidation of the two banks. He is also interested in a number of other corporations.
On the 26th of October, 1882, at Chillicothe, Ohio, Mr. Strong was married to Miss Annie P.T. McClintock, a daughter of William T. and Elizabeth M. McClintock, of Chillicothe. Mr. McClintock served as general counsel and director for the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway and its predecessors; and spent a large part of his time in Cincinnati, where he was well known for many years. Mr. Strong was also connected with these railroads in the same capacities for several years but retired in 1900 to take up the general practice of law. He has been associatied in partnership with Judge Willima Worthington, under the firm name of Worthington & Strong, since 1904 but for years prior to that time was alone in practice
Mr. Strong gives his allegiance to the republican party but is a stanch advocate of honesty and good government irrespective of party and is a promoter of local reform. Socially he is connected with the Queen City Club, the Cincinnati Country Club, the Cincinnati Golf Club and the Optimists Club. He takes and active interest in religious affairs and for many years has served as vestryman of the Church of Our Savior of the Protestant Episcopal denomination at Mounty Auburn and as a trustee of the Children's Hospital of the Episcopal church at Cincinnati.
From Cincinnati: The Queen City 1788-1912; Vol. 4 by Charles Frederick Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. Chicago / Cincinnati,. 1912