Description: This color image is a view of the front and a side exterior of Gustavus Town Hall, Gustavus Township, Ohio, ca. 1960s. The two-story wood frame structure has a distinctive cupola or bell tower. A sign that reads "Town Hall" hangs just below the cupola on the center front. The Town Hall was built in 1890 and fronts the southeast quadrant of Gustavus Township. The building is part of the Gustavus Center Historic District, National Register of Historic Places. It was added to the register in 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06638
Subjects: City & town halls; City and town life; Local government; Public buildings
Places: Gustavus (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Tintype photograph of Lt. Gustavus Reeling. There is no one by that name listed in the rosters of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry; there is a 2nd Lt. Gustavus Reeling listed as serving with the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery L. Full inscription: "Lieut. Gustavus Reeling, presented to my friend Bessie Campbell, Jan. 31st A.D. 1865 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f20_14
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs
Places: Ohio; Pennsylvania
 

Description: Carte de visite of Cpl. Gustavus Adolphus Wood, who served with Company A of the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company A was recruited from Lowell, Washington County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f14_24
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 36th (1861-1865) Company A
Places: Lowell (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a formal bust portrait of Joseph Rockwell Swan, 36th Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1855-1859). When this portrait was taken, Swan was in his late forties or early fifties. His gray hair is thinning, and his mutton-chop sideburns are white. Joseph R. Swan (1802-1884) was born in Westernville, New York, and began to study law in Aurora, New York. He moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1824 and completed his legal studies under the guidance of his uncle, Judge Gustavus Swan, a justice of the state supreme court. Swan was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1824. In 1830 the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas appointed him prosecuting attorney. Three years later he was elected to the same post under newly enacted legislation that provided for the election of prosecuting attorneys by general vote. In 1834 the Ohio General Assembly elected him president judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit. He served a seven-year term and was re-elected in 1841. Swan left the common pleas court in 1848 to enter private practice with John W. Andrews. He was a delegate to the Ohio state constitutional convention from Franklin County, 1850-51. In 1854 the newly formed Republican Party nominated him to a position on the Supreme Court of Ohio. He won the election and began serving on the court in February 1855. He served as chief justice from February 9, 1859, to his resignation on October 18, 1859. The court case that led to his resignation was "Ex Parte Bushnell" (1859), which challenged the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Despite his personal opposition to slavery, Swan wrote the majority opinion, which upheld the constitutionality of the 1850 law. Soon after this decision, Swan sought re-election to another term on the Supreme Court, but delegates to the Republican Convention denied him the nomination because of their opposition to the Bushnell ruling. Swan submitted his resignation to Governor Salmon P. Chase on October 18, 1859. During the remainder of his career, Swan worked as a solicitor for two railroad companies. He retired in 1879 and died in Columbus, Ohio, in 1884. Swan's greatest legacy to the law was as an author of legal reference books and of legislation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05989
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Supreme Court justices; Ohio. Supreme Court; Swan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rockwell), 1802-1884
 

Description: Caption reads: "Church at Kinsman." The church depicted in the photo is currently known as the Kinsman Presbyterian Church, located in Kinsman, Ohio in Trumbull County. Organized in 1803 by Rev. Mr. Tate and Rev. Joseph Badger, the Hartford-Vernon-Kinsman Church served the communities of these neighboring areas until between 1823 and 1825, when separate churches were formed at Hartford and Gustavus. In 1831, Kinsman formed a separate church which came to be called the First United Congregational and Presbyterian Church. Plans were laid for a new building in 1831 through 1832, at a cost approaching four thousand dollars, with one fourth of the expenses paid by Mrs. Rebecca Kinsman. Worship services were first held in the new building in August 1833. Designed by master architect William Smith, the church was modeled after a church in New Haven, Connecticut called the Old North Church. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_026_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Religion in Ohio; Churches; Kinsman (Trumbull County, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Presbyterian Church--Ohio--History.
Places: Kinsman (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This sample ballot was issued by Daniel J. Ryan, Ohio Secretary of State, before the election of November 3, 1891, intended to illustrate to Ohioans "the form of a state ballot under the new election law of Ohio." An explanation is given for voting a "straight ticket" (voting for all of the candidates put forth by one political party without having to mark each one on the ballot), as well as for individual candidates or propositions. The general voting process is outlined as well. Political parties represented in this election were the Republican, Democratic, Prohibition, and People's parties. An emblem decorates the top of each column; an eagle with arrows in its talons (Republican Party), a rooster (Democratic Party), a rose (Prohibition Party) and a plow (People's Party). William McKinley was the Republican candidate for governor, and would be elected over the incumbent James Campbell by a margin of over 20,000 votes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4678_01
Subjects: Ballots; Election Day; Ohio--Politics and government; Political parties; McKinley, William, 1843-1901; Voting;
Places: Ohio