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Resting place: Mount Royal Cemetery: Known for: Founder of Redpath Sugar.Builder of the Redpath Museum and the Redpath Library: Spouse(s) Janet McPhee, Jane Drummond: Children: Peter Redpath (1821-1894), John James Redpath (1834-1884), Janet Redpath (1825-1828), George Drummond Redpath (1835-1877), Francis Robert Redpath (1846-1928), Augusta Elenaor Redpath (1850-1910), Harriet Ina Redpath ...
Fifteen individuals have served as directors of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library: [1] John D. Caldwell (1855–1857) N. Peabody Poor (1857–1866) Lewis Freeman (1866–1869) William Frederick Poole (1869–1873) Thomas Vickers (1874–1879) Chester W. Merrill (1880–1886) Albert W. Whelpley (1886–1900) Nathaniel D.C. Hodges ...
The Ohio Common Schools Act, passed on 14 March 1853, included provisions for the establishment of school libraries in Ohio. It allowed Rufus King, the president of the Board of Education, to found a central public library in Cincinnati's Central School. The library was located on Longworth Street, a street which no longer exists. [1]
After further expansion, name changed to Mercer County District Library in 1994. 15: Chillicothe Chillicothe: Apr 13, 1903: $30,000 140 S. Paint St. Opened 1907, now the Chillicothe & Ross County Public Library (Main library) 16: Cincinnati Avondale Cincinnati: Apr 9, 1902: $286,000 3566 Reading Rd. Opened 1913 17: Cincinnati Cumminsville ...
The Mercantile Library of Cincinnati is a membership library located in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The name of the library refers not to the type of items in its collection but to the forty-five merchants and clerks who founded it on April 18, 1835, as the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association. [1] [2] Silencia greets visitors in The ...
Charles John Howard: President of the Ohio Senate: John Wesley Hoyt: 1849, attended Governor of the Wyoming Territory: David P. Hull: 1840 Wisconsin State Assembly: Henry Thomas Hunt: 1903 Mayor of Cincinnati Samuel Furman Hunt: 1867 Ohio Senate, judge advocate general Ohio, and a judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati Stephanie J. Jones
Laurel Homes Historic District is a registered historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1987. It contained 29 contributing buildings. All but three of the historic low-income public housing projects was razed between 2000–02 to make way for new condominiums.
William Howard Taft National Historic Site is a historic house at 2038 Auburn Avenue in the Mount Auburn Historic District of Cincinnati, Ohio, a mile (1.6 km) north of Downtown. It was the birthplace and childhood home of William Howard Taft , the 27th president and the 10th chief justice of the United States .