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Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati

WebThe Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati received its charter from the state of Ohio in 1845 and grew into the leading Eclectic medical school during the 19th century. Between its founding in 1842 and its final incoming class in 1939, EMI matriculated more than 7,000 students and conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine to 4,668 graduates.

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WebCincinnati Sites and Stories is a free mobile app that puts Cincinnati history at your fingertips. Developed by Cincinnati Preservation Association, with funding support from the Haile Foundation, Cincinnati Sites and Stories lets you explore the people, places, and moments that have shaped the city’s history. It brings you stories about Cincinnati's …

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Annie Laws – Philanthropist of Reading Road Cincinnati Sites and …

WebAnnie Laws was born in Cincinnati in 1855 to Sarah Laws and James H. Laws, a merchant. She grew up at 218 Dayton Street in the West End and attended Miss Appleton’s School, which was located at Plum and MacFarland Streets downtown. The school was perhaps the most prestigious in Cincinnati for a time, and Eugene Bliss remarked in 1891 that should …

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Village of Lincoln Heights

WebLincoln Heights, located approximately 13 miles north of Cincinnati's core, is the first all-Black, self-governing city north of the Mason-Dixon line. Cincinnati's early 20th century growth was spurred in part by the Miami-Erie Canal, which served as a major transportation route linking commerce from as far as New Orleans to NYC. The canal’s …

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Home of Alice Easton Leland

WebAlice Easton was born into a distinguished family. She was the daughter of educator Lewis DePugh Easton. And she was the granddaughter, on her mother's side, of famed photographer Alexander Thomas, of Ball & Thomas. In 1904, Alice Easton married Dr. Marshall Frederick Leland of New Brighton, Pennsylvania. After a honeymoon in the …

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The Site of the Yononte Inn

WebKennedy’s construction firm built the hotel overlooking valleys to the south and west. The hotel was named the Yononte Inn, after a legendary Native American maiden who had been married at the site. The inn opened in 1887. The hotel management described the inn as “an oasis in the caloric desert of Cincinnati” with “continuous breezes

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Dr. Lucy Orintha Oxley

WebFamily Medicine Trailblazer. UC College of Medicine class of 1936 Creator: Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions. The oldest of three children, Lucy Orintha Oxley was born in 1912 to highly educated parents. Her mother, Esther (Turner) Oxley, was a teacher and an alumna of the Howard University Teachers’ College, who had

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Marsh Avenue Park

WebMiranda Parker had previously lived in Ripley, Ohio, and she was the widow of a great Underground Railroad conductor named John P. Parker. Here in Ohio, we are proud of Ohio’s historic role in the Underground Railroad. Sometimes, within the white community, a bit too proud. It was underground largely because Ohio was a border state where …

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Findlay Market House

Web1801 Race St. James Findlay was an early and prominent settler to Cincinnati. Born in 1770, he moved to Cincinnati with his wife, Jane, in 1793. Here, he ran a general merchandise store near the riverfront and later served as Mayor. As an early speculator and investor in Cincinnati, he and a business partner bought a plot of land in the

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Gravesite of Eva Alexander “Princess Sotanki” Brister

WebEva Alexander was born in northern Kentucky around 1875. In 1898, in New York, she married a stage magician named James Hammond, who had been born in West Africa. They toured together until his death in Cincinnati on July 23, 1900. Less than a month later, still in Cincinnati, she married Walter Brister. On the marriage license, she listed her …

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Hillcrest Cemetery

WebBy November 1926, they had purchased four acres. They soon had another 23 acres under contract.Lloyd Lancaster was an experienced building contractor, and he began building a road for their new cemetery. Three adjoining landowners, all White farmers, objected to the presence of this “Negro cemetery,” and they filed an injunction suit to stop this project. …

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