Alfred B. Mack

Note from Jonathan Mack (lightly edited): Alfred was a member of law firm Simrall & Mack 1883-1892 then Cohen, Mack, & Hurtig, 1894-1930 then as Common Pleas judge, 1930-1950. He received his LL.B. degree from Harvard University School of Law 1883 where he was taught by future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Was trustee of University of Cincinnati 1919-1930; member of Hebrew Union College’s Board of Governors, member of the Cincinnati Zoo’s Board of Trustees; President of Cincinnati’s B’nai Yeshurun aka The Isaac M. Wise Temple.

Obituary: New York Times, 24 Apr 1950, pg. 25:

    "Cincinnati, April 23---Judge Alfred Mack, said to have been the last survivor of the 1883 class taught at Harvard by the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States Supreme Court, died here today at the age of 88. At his death he was still serving on the Hamilton County Common Pleas court bench. He had been on it for twenty years.

     A native Cincinnatian, Alfred Mack was a son of Henry Mack, a founder of the Cincinnati Southern Railway. For twelve years Judge Mack was a member of the board of trustees of the University of Cincinnati. He also served on the Hebrew Union College board of governors and was a trustee of the Cincinnati Zoological Society.

     Surviving are his widow, Mrs. May Henley Mack; their daughtrer, Mrs. Charles K. Yontz; and three grandchildren, Mrs Donald Burkholder, Mrs. Robert Betts and Alfred Mack."  From https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/992481