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The Cincinnati Red Stockings, a baseball team whose name and heritage inspired today's Cincinnati Reds, began their career in the 19th century as well. In 1868, meetings were held at the law offices of Tilden, Sherman, and Moulton to make Cincinnati's baseball team a professional one; it became the first regular professional team in the country ...
Charles Phelps Taft II was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the youngest of three children born to President William Howard Taft and First Lady Helen Herron Taft. His siblings were U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft and Bryn Mawr College professor Helen Taft Manning. He was named after his uncle, U.S. Congressman Charles Phelps Taft.
Cincinnati (/ ˌ s ɪ n s ɪ ˈ n æ t i / ⓘ SIN-sih-NAT-ee; nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. [10] Settled by Europeans in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky.
The last homegrown Cincinnati president was Republican William Howard Taft, who was in office from 1909 to 1912. Taft's name is all over Cincinnati. He also served as assistant prosecutor of ...
Coolidge, Kansas – Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) [156] Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President; Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner) [156]
Cincinnati has lost a longtime civic leader, but his name remains an integral part of the cityscape, backlit by the dazzling lights of downtown. Stanley Aronoff died on Jan. 31. He was 91.
By Jerry Kronenberg You know that Washington, D.C., is named for America's first president, but did you know that Harrison City, Pa., (population 134) honors ninth president William Henry Harrison ...
Until the charter of 1815, the president of the council served as equivalent of mayor. Two sources agree on the list of presidents: [1] [2] Prior to 1925 (and since 1999) the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio was elected in a separate, partisan election. In 1924, the Charter Party, a local third-party, was founded. It has elected members of the city ...