Lorenzo Mulford

  General Notes:

The name Ren Mulford , Jr., is widely known throughout the United States as a writer and authority on baseball and other legitimate sports and he is also recognized as a man of special ability in the vocation to which he has for several years past given his attention that of advertising. He is a native of Cincinnati, born November 30 , 1859 , a son of Lorenzo Mulford , who came to this city from the east in the early part of the '50s. He engaged in the dry goods business and for a number of years was with the United States Express Company. He died in 1906.
Mr. Mulford of this review attended the public schools and began life's real struggle as a cash boy for the Weatherby-Stevens Company. At the age of eighteen years he became connected with the Cincinnati Gazette as reporter, being the youngest reporter at that time in Cincinnati. He served as such and as special writer successively on the Cincinnati Gazette, Cincinnati Enquirer, Times-Star, Cincinnati Post and again on the Enquirer . As sporting editor of the Enquirer he for many years traveled with the Cincinnati Reds and lovers of baseball at Cincinnati and in all the principal cities of the country eagerly looked for articles on the national game and other sporting events from the pen of Ren Mulford , Jr. He has also gained an enviable reputation as a writer of epigrams and has been designated as the Human Epigram. Many of his pithy sentences have been printed on postcards and widely distributed throughout the country. As a platform lecturer he has also scored a success with his remarkable study of baseball and life entitled Running Life's Bases. This lecture has been called a classic of the local platform and has been delivered before appreciative audiences in five different states.
Since 1906 Mr. Mulford has been connected with the Blaine-Thompson Company, a well known advertising organization, with offices in the Fourth National Bank building , and since 1909 has been vice president of the company. Mr. Mulford married Miss Ida Wheeler , a daughter of R .C. Wheeler of this city. Two sons have been born to this union, Harrison Scratton and Ariel Byington. For a number of years, Mr. Mulford has been a resident of Norwood, a thriving suburb of Cincinnati, and gave to this place the title of the Gem City of the Highlands, which is emblazoned on Norwood's municipal flag. He is the author of a history of Norwood and has served as vice mayor of the village, being known as one of its most public-spirited citizens. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, a member of the National Union and of the Sons of the Revolution, being secretary of the Ohio branch of that organization and president of the first chapter of the Sons of the Revolution at Norwood. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Working Boys' Home and is ex-president of the Cincinnati Ad Club. He coined the commercial word "notel" meaning a person with a telephone, which has been adopted in several states.
Always wide awake, progressive and thoroughly efficient in anything he undertakes, he has contributed his share toward lightening the burdens of life and encouraging his fellow men once more to take firm hold and press onward in the direction of the desired goal. He is now in the midst of a flourishing business career and, judging by what he has accomplished in the past, his friends freely prophesy many new victories in years to come. ¹

  Burial Notes:

Name: Mulford, Ren
Born:
Died or Buried: 30 December 1932
Age: 73 years 1 month
Buried: Spring Grove Cemetery
Section: 100, lot 307
City: Cincinnati
County/State: Hamilton, OH
Notes: Spouse: Ida Wheeler
Parents: Lorenzo & Martha Stratton Mulford
Buried: 2 January 1933
Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio
Cause of Death: Acute intestinal obstructionResidence = 3707 Davenant Av. Kennedy Hghts, Cincinnati, Ohio
Owner: Lucy E. Wunder

Mortuary = Tredway Bros..
Cemetery record number = 112035.Cemetery notes = Charges: Stone furnished by Tredway $20 Lining $5
Grave size/kind: Stone 7 feet 4 inches x 34 inches
Ordered by/Relationship to Owner: Grandson-in-law.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1880, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio. ²
Lorenzo Mulferd, 49, clerk in dry goods store, born in New Jersey. Martha S. Mulferd, 45, born in Pennsylvania. Lorenzo Mulferd, 20, journalist, born in Ohio. Clara Mulferd, 19, born in Ohio. Nellie Mulferd, 14, born in Ohio. Kittie S. Mulferd, 12, born in Ohio. Mabel Mulferd, 10, born in Ohio. Frank S. Mulferd, 6, born in Ohio. Virg. R. Stratton, 30, sister-in-law, born in Pennsylvania. Will Mort. Heisler, 4, nephew, born in New Jersey.

Lorenzo married Ida Britt Wheeler. (Ida Britt Wheeler was born on 17 Apr 1864 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio and died on 16 Aug 1952.)