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Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home
1870–1997 In 1869, the Grand Army of the Republic proposed the formation of and began to construct the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home to provide for children orphaned when their father died during the American Civil War. The State of Ohio assumed control of the institution in 1870 and eventually permitted children orphaned as a…
Order To Prevent Evasion Of Military Duty And For The Suppression of Disloyal Practices
August 8, 1862 On August 8, 1862, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, under the authority of President Abraham Lincoln, issued an order making it it illegal of men eligible for conscription to leave the United States and suspending the constitutionally guaranteed writ of habeas corpus for persons accused of disloyal activites. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington…
President Lincoln’s Executive Order for the “Arrest and Imprisonment of Irresponsible Newspaper Reporters and Editors”
May 18, 1864 On May 18, 1864, President Lincoln issued an executive order commanding Major General John A. Dix to arrest and imprison the editors, proprietors, and publishers of the <i>New York World</i> and <i>New York Journal of Commerce</i> newspapers for printing false stories giving comfort to the enemies of the U.S. Major-General John A.…
Relief Law
1864 Upon becoming Ohio's twenty-sixth governor on January 11, 1864, John Brough sought to aid the Union war effort. He succeeded in enacting a two mills property tax to support soldiers' families. Upon becoming Ohio's twenty-sixth governor on January 11, 1864, John Brough sought to aid the Union war effort. He succeeded in enacting a…
Susan B. Anthony
February 15, 1820–March 13, 1906 Susan B. Anthony is frequently recognized as the most influential leader in the struggle for women's suffrage in America. Acclaimed suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second oldest of Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony's eight children. Anthony was raised in…
William Allen
December 1803–July 11, 1879 In the mid to late nineteenth century, one of the most important political leaders in Ohio was William Allen. Born in Edenton, North Carolina in December 1803, Allen had Quaker ancestors in Pennsylvania. In the mid to late nineteenth century, one of the most important political leaders in Ohio was William…
William Dennison, Jr.
November 23, 1815 – June 15, 1882 William Dennison, Jr., was the twenty-fourth Governor of Ohio, serving from January 9, 1860, through January 13, 1862. Dennison also served as Postmaster General of the United States from 1864 to 1866. William Dennison, Jr., was born at Cincinnati, Ohio on November 23, 1815. He was the son…