Description: Carte de visite of General George G. Meade, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Meade, born in Cadiz, Spain to a Pennsylvania family, fought at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. He is best known for Gettysburg, having assumed command of the Army of the Potomac only a few days before. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_28
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union
Places: Ohio; Cadiz (Spain); Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Harrison County Courthouse is located in Cadiz, Ohio. Cadiz was established in 1803. Construction for the courthouse began in 1893. Joseph W. Yost designed this and several other Ohio county courthouses. This courthouse represents a variety of architectural styles, such as Greek Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, Romanesque Revial and Beaux-Arts Classicism. Although the courthouse was finished in 1895, the county could not take possession of it right away due to a lien on the property. Rachel E. and William Greer owned a brickyard nearby and provided the bricks for the courthouse but were not paid for them. The matter was settled within a month, the lien released and the county was able to claim its new building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_004_001
Subjects: Ohio Government; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Courthouses--Ohio--History.
Places: Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harrison County was formed in 1813, from Jefferson County and Tuscarawas County. It is named for William Henry Harrison a hero of the War of 1812, and the first president of the United States from Ohio. The courthouse is located on South Main and West Market Streets in Cadiz, Ohio. The courthouse was designed by Joseph Yost, who designed other courthouses in the area. The architectural style is Second Empire. It was built from 1893 to 1895, with high arched windows, mansard-roofed towers, and a central clock tower. The tower is domed and topped with a statue of Justice. A balcony covers the entrances. This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 1974. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_059_001
Subjects: Harrison County (Ohio); Courthouses; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Government buildings
Places: Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Mountaineer is a stripping shovel built by the Marion Power Shovel Company, based in Marion, Ohio, ca. 1955. Stripping shovels remove overburden, which is dirt lying above a seam of coal; this allows the coal to be mined. The Mountaineer was operated near Cadiz in Harrison County, Ohio, from 1956 to 1979. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03324
Subjects: Marion (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Marion Power Shovel Company--History; Strip mining
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio); Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
 

Description: A postcard depicting Clark Gable's birthplace in Cadiz, Ohio. An image of Gable is included in the bottom left corner. Cadiz was established in 1803 and is the County Seat of Harrison Country, Ohio. As of 2010, the village was home to 3,353 people and is primarily focused on the shale industry. Clark Gable was born in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio. His mother died shortly after his birth, so gable lived with his grandparents until his father remarried in 1907. His step mother, Jennie Dunlap, encouraged him to read and learn music. When his father, William, bought a farm, he wanted Gable to help him on the farm, but Jennie convinced him not to. Instead, Gable worked in theater companies. Gable moved to Portland, Oregon, where he met Josephine Dillon, an acting teacher. She took an interest in Gable, gave him acting lessons and fixed his hair and teeth. They moved to Hollywood together and were married in 1924. Gable struggled to find acting roles because of his large ears. His break came from his supporting role in The Painted Desert (1931), which impressed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) executives into signing Gable. Over the next several years Gable became a Hollywood leading man. He appeared in movies such as Red Dust (1932), Dancing Lady (1933), It Happened One Night (1934), and many others. In 1939, he appeared in what was perhaps his most famous role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. Gable married his third wife, Carole Lombard, in 1939, but the actress was killed in a plane crash in 1942. After her death, Gable left Holylwood to join the Army Air Corps, where he served as a tail gunner in World War II. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. After the war, he returned to acting. Some of his well known films include The Hucksters (1947), Mogambo (1953), and The Misfits(1961), in which Marilyn Monroe costarred. Gable died from a heart attack on November 16, 1960. By his death Gable had starred in sixty-five films. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07666
Subjects: Birthplaces; Motion picture actors and actresses; Actors; Postcards
Places: Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Albert George of Cadiz, Ohio, in Civil War uniform, 1862. George served in the 30th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B. He was killed on September 17, 1862 at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03690
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History
Places: Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
 

Description: William Rogers (1817-1898) was involved with the Underground Railroad in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio. This cabinet card from 1865 is from Spiker and Haverfield Art Photography. It was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03135
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of Albert George from Cadiz, Ohio who served in the 30th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B during the Civil War. He enlisted on October 22, 1861 for three years service and was killed in action on September 17, 1862 at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02751
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Washington (Iowa)
 

Description: This photographic reproduction of an engraving is a portrait of John A. Bingham, who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1855 to 1863 and again from 1865 to 1873. The image appears to be one of several portraits of government officials; portions of oval frames are visible to the lower right and left of Bingham’s portrait. Header text on the page reads: “Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District…” The caption underneath Bingham’s portrait identifies him as “Bingham, Ohio.” Likely the portraits are included in an official government directory or record. Bingham, an early advocate of emancipation, is credited with drafting the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He also served as a prosecutor during the trial of the individuals charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives chose Bingham as one of seven “managers” to lead impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Bingham was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Bingham and Ester Bailey Bingham. The elder Bingham was a prosperous artisan who was active in local politics. When John Bingham was twelve years old, his mother died, and he went to live with his uncle, Thomas Bingham, in Cadiz, Ohio. He worked as a printer’s apprentice for two years, then attended Franklin College (New Athens, Ohio), studied law, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1840. He established a law practice in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, but later returned to Cadiz, where he married his first cousin, Amanda Bingham, in 1844. Active in local politics, Bingham originally was a member of the Whig Party. In 1846, Tuscarawas County voters elected him to the office of prosecuting attorney, a position he held until 1849. Five years later he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig and was re-elected as a Republican for three more consecutive terms (serving from 1855 to 1863). He unsuccessfully ran for re-election to the House in 1862. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him judge-advocate of the Union Army with the rank of major in 1864. That fall Bingham defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Joseph White, a Democrat, in the Congressional elections. Bingham began his second tenure in the House in March 1865, just weeks before Lincoln’s assassination. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton appointed Bingham to a three-member team that prosecuted the defendants on trial for conspiring to assassinate Lincoln. In December 1865, Republican leaders selected Bingham as one of nine congressmen to represent the House on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. In January 1866, Bingham introduced a proposal that the United States Constitution be amended to establish that "The Congress shall have the power to make all laws necessary and proper to secure to all persons in every state within this Union equal protection in their rights of life, liberty and property." Bingham's proposal subsequently became the basis for the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was approved by Congress in June 1866 and ratified by the states in July 1868. On March 2, 1868, House members selected Bingham as one of seven "managers to conduct the impeachment against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the part of the House" Bingham chaired the committee of managers and presented the prosecution's closing, three-day summation in Johnson's trial before the Senate. In 1872 Bingham lost his bid for re-election to the House. In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as U.S. minister to Japan, a post he held until 1885. Bingham returned to Cadiz, Oho, where he was a vocal opponent of Jim Crow laws that were being enacted in the South. He died on March 19, 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05833
Subjects: Bingham, John Armor, 1815-1900; United States--Politics and government--1861-1865; United States--Politics and government--1865-1883; United States--Foreign relations--Japan; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: Photograph of janitor Thomas Lawrence with mop and pail at the Citizens Telephone Co., Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1900-1918. Born in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1848, Lawrence relocated to Columbus in 1872. He passed away in 1918. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02866
Subjects: African Americans--Employment; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin (Ohio)
 

Description: The Harrison County Courthouse, completed in 1895 by architect Joseph Yost has elements of Greek Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, Romanesque Revival and Beaux-Arts architectural styles. A statue of Justice sits on top of the round dome's lantern. This image shows the statue sitting on the front lawn of the courthouse which honors John A. Bingham, a Republican congressman from Ohio. He was also a judge advocate of the Abraham Lincoln assassination trial and a prosecutor in the Andrew Johnson's impeachment trials. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F03_204
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; Statues--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; pediments; mansard roofs; arches; hip roofs; clock towers; Greek Revival; Second Empire; Italianate (North American architecture styles); Romanesque Revival; Beaux-Arts
Places: Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio); 100 W. Market St.
 

Description: The Harrison County Courthouse, completed in 1895 by architect Joseph Yost has elements of Greek Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, Romanesque Revival and Beaux-Arts architectural styles. A statue of Justice sits on top of the round dome's lantern. This image shows the side facade of the building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F03_203
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; pediments; mansard roofs; arches; hip roofs; clock towers; Greek Revival; Second Empire; Italianate (North American architecture styles); Romanesque Revival; Beaux-Arts
Places: Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio); 100 W. Market St.