First Baptist Church of Walnut Hills: Remembrances
First Baptist Church of Walnut Hills has a large, well-organized and rich set of historical documents. In the process of cataloging the archive, we found Continue Reading
Tag: University of Cincinnati
Ida Mae Rhodes
Ida Mae Rhodes was born in 1899 and lived until 2000 – 101 years. She went to the University of Cincinnati; most records show her Continue Reading
Lawrence C. Hawkins, Ph. D.
Lawrence Hawkins was born in South Carolina in 1919, the son of a sharecropper. His family moved to Cincinnati in 1926, and he enrolled in Continue Reading
Eleanora Alms and her legacy
Eleanora Alms survived her husband Frederick by more than 20 years. She stepped in to the role of a leading philanthropist, lavishly memorializing her late Continue Reading
Dr. Lucy Oxley
Dr. Lucy Oxley, the first African American woman to earn an MD from the University of Cincinnati medical school (1935), ran her practice in Walnut Continue Reading
Jennie Davis Porter
Jennie Davis Porter was born in 1876, the daughter of a school teacher and a former slave said to be Cincinnati’s first African American undertaker. Continue Reading