Cincinnati in 1841: its early annals and future prospects

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IN* 'INN AT I LANDING CINCINNATI IN 1841: I T » EARLY ANNALS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. BY CHARLES CIST. CINCINNATI: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1841. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, BY CHARLES CIST, In the Clerk's Office for the District Court of Ohio. Stereotyped by J. A. Jamea, Cincinnati. ' ■ E. Moj-jun & Co. I'nwer rr*"E3. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. Topography 13 Historical Sketches 14 Boundaries and Divisions -. 29 Climate 30 Population — 32 Census of 1840 32 Comparative Table 35 Increase of Population 38 Elements of Population 38 Dwelling-houses and Stores 40 Occupations, Trades and Pursuits 42 Bar, Pulpit, Faculty, Literature, Science and the Fine Arts 42 Commerce and Navigation - 42 Manufacturers and Mechanics 43 Miscellaneous 43 Municipal Government 44 Courts of Judicature ---44 Justices of the Peace - - 46 Legislative and Executive Authority - - 46 City Council 47 City Officers 48 County Officers - 48 Township Officers 48 Commerce 49 Chamber of Commerce 49 Banks 50 Insurance 52 Manufactures and Industrial Products 54 Meteorology - 59 Temperature - - - 59 Winds 62 Rain 63 Weather 64 Height of Barometer G5 Geology - 65 Magnetism 70 Terrestrial Magnetism at Cincinnati 73 Canai-s, Railroads and Turnpikes 76 Miami Canal - - - --84 Whitewater Canal 86 Publications 93 Churches and Religious Societies 96 Charitable Institutions 99 Orphan Asylums ; 99 Commercial Hospital, and Lunatic Asylum of Ohio - 101 House of Employment for Female Poor 102 Intelligence Office 102 TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page. Benevolent Societies * *Jr| Masonic Lodges 'r: Odd Fellows *"* Savings Institution ■}"' Science and Literature -J"? Academy of Natural Science - Jy-j Apprentices' Library - jj" Ycrang Men's Mercantile Library Association 110 Education - *|J Common Schools 111 Private Schools J|® Classical Schools **~ Colleges - JJ6 Theological Schools J'jj Law Schools *£* College of Teachers - 121 Lane Seminary - 122 Medical College - - 125 Ohio Mechanics' Institute - 128 Fine Arts - 133 Musical Societies 136 Arts and Artists IS*' Portrait and Landscape Painters 139 Miniature Painters 141 Modelers and Sculptors-- - - 141 Societies of the Fine Arts 141 FœE Department - - - 143 Fire Association 143 Fire Companies 144 Public Cisterns 145 Fire,Plugs 146 Water Works 147 Steam-boats - 150 United States Offices - 152 Surveyor General 152 Post Office 153 Annals of Cincinnati 155 Pioneer Sketches - 195 Census Sketches - 233 Manufactures 236 Steam Vessels - 252 Our Schools 256 Reverses of Fortune 260 Publications - 262 Value of Property 263 Improvements in Prospect or in Progress - 268 The Catholic Cathedral 269 The Baptist Western Theological Institute 270 Fuel 272 Appendix PR EFACE.

I presume that books may always be read to more advantage, if the reader be enabled to enter on the perusal with some general idea of their origin, design and character, and propose, therefore, in these prefatory remarks, to furnish this advantage to those who peruse these pages. The reports which I made through the Cincinnati public prints, of my progress in taking the census of this city for 1840, enlivened and illustrated as they were, with various observations and incidents springing from my official inquiries, proved of sufficient interest to induce their republication, in whole or in part, elsewhere, in different sections of the United States. When these census labors were finished, suggestions were made to me from various quarters, abroad and at home, that a volume prepared from the materials I had gathered in the fulfilment of my trust, which should embrace what was worthy of record respecting Cincinnati, would be acceptable, not merely in the city which it professed to describe, but at various points, particularly to the east, where Cincinnati had long been an object of attention and curiosity, and which section of country had always appeared greatly deficient in knowledge of our statistics, — local, moral, and political. It was alleged, that although much had been published in the eastern newspaper press respecting this place, it a 2 v VI