SCPA Students Enjoy Researching Gaines High School
Brynn Thomas’ class on African American History has been doing research on Gaines High School, a Black school that operated in downtown Cincinnati from 1866 Continue Reading
Category: Civil War and Reconstruction
Consuelo Clark, MD: The first Black woman licensed to practice medicine in Ohio
Cincinnati native Consuelo Clark earned an MD in 1884 from the Boston University School of Medicine. She was the only Black student at the school Continue Reading
Andrew DeHart’s Years in Tennessee, 1881-1884
A. J. Dehart’s travels in the decade after he left Cincinnati in 1877 fit a pattern for ambitious young African Americans during the Reconstruction era. Continue Reading
Louis Rebisso and Very Large Men on Even Larger Horses
We have met the Italian-born sculptor Louis Rebisso, who lived on Lincoln Avenue in Walnut Hills, in the context of his first major public work Continue Reading
Lane Seminary, Chinese Missionaries and Chinese Students during Reconstruction
Lane Theological Seminary on the east side Gilbert Avenue between Yale and Chapel was the first institution founded in Walnut Hills. It dated from about Continue Reading
Washerwomen and the organization of their work
Walnut Hills had a long tradition of African American women taking in laundry. Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe engaged the services of an “Aunt Frankie” Continue Reading
Rutherford B. Hayes in Cincinnati and (briefly) Walnut Hills
Rutherford B. Hayes got his political start in Cincinnati. He arrived in 1850 as a young lawyer from a prominent family in Central Ohio educated Continue Reading
Hayes vs Tilden: Cincinnati’s own Rutherford B.
Recent events have drawn attention once again to the famous Hayes-Tilden election in 1876 when Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes became president. (We shall return Continue Reading
Census 1870-1880, Long Haul Transportation Occupations: Steamboats
We saw in an earlier post that a number of African American men, and one woman, living on Lincoln Avenue in 1870, worked on steamboats. Continue Reading
Lincoln Avenue in 1870: What did men do all day?
We have been looking at the Census data from 1870 and 1880 to understand the people who lived on what became Lincoln Avenue in 1877. Continue Reading