Description: A photo of Herbert Bigelow, born in Elkhart, Indiana, on January 4, 1870. He attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, before graduating from the latter institution in 1894. He then enrolled at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his supporters founded the Direct Legislation League, which lobbied the state legislature for passage of the initiative and referendum. Ultimately these issues were addressed in Ohio's Constitutional Convention in 1912. Afterward he was elected to the state house of representatives for one term. He was opposed to America's entry into the First World War and was once kidnapped in Newport, Kentucky, shortly before he was to address a Socialist antiwar meeting there. In addition he served as a US Representative and on the Cincinnati City Council. Bigelow died in Cincinnati on November 11, 1951. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04090
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ohio--Politics and government
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);
 

Description: Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, ca. 1840-1849. Lane Theological Seminary was founded in 1829 to educate Presbyterians into the ministry. It was named for Ebeneezer and William Lane, who pledged $4,000 to the school. The first president of the seminary was Lyman Beecher, the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00619
Subjects: Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio); Religious education; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolition
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lane Seminary in Hamilton County, Ohio, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. Lane Theological Seminary was founded in 1829 to educate Presbyterians into the ministry. It was named for Ebeneezer and William Lane, who pledged $4,000 to the school. The first president of the seminary was Lyman Beecher, the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04132
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio); Religious education;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) studied at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and gained a reputation for his oratorical skills. In his sermons, he vehemently attacked drinking and slavery and called for more women's rights. He even convinced his congregations to equip a regiment of soldiers for the American Civil War, along with sending guns to anti-slavery factions during "Bleeding Kansas." His sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04099
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio);
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);
 

Description: Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prominent abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she met her future husband, Calvin Stowe, a professor at Lane Theological Seminary. In 1852, she published "Uncle Tom's Cabin," an anti-slavery novel that depicted the harsh realities of slavery and helped fuel the abolitionist cause in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04184
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Abolitionists; Slavery; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she met her future husband, Calvin Stowe, a professor at Lane Theological Seminary. In 1852, she published "Uncle Tom's Cabin," an anti-slavery novel which depicted the harsh realities of slavery and helped fuel the abolitionist cause in the United States. This illustration appears in "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio," published in 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04185
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Abolitionists; Slavery; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Lyman Beecher, born in 1775, in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1797 and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1799. Beecher served as the president of Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati from 1832 to 1850. Beecher was the father of two prominent anti-slavery advocates, Harriet Beech Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Henry Ward Beecher, a firebrand preacher who sent guns to "Bleeding Kansas" and equipped Union regiments during the American Civil War. Lyman Beecher died in 1863. The portrait is taken from "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio," 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04100
Subjects: Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);