Description: Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777, in Hanover County, Virginia. By the age of twenty, Clay had established a law practice in Lexington, Kentucky. He served in the US House of Representatives and Senate throughout his life and even as the Speaker. Clay proposed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. While many Ohioans opposed Clay's compromise, Clay remained popular within the state. His political career is full of attempts to foster compromise with the North and South. Clay died from tuberculosis on June 29, 1852. This engraving of Clay was for the American Review, 1844. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04106
Subjects: Abolitionists; Other--Federal Government; Slavery; Politicians
Places: Lexington (Kentucky)
 

Description: Carte de visite of General John Hunt Morgan, who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Morgan, from Lexington, Kentucky, is best known for his infamous raid through Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. This raid, while a morale boost for the South, was mostly futile, and had little effect on the Union's war capabilities. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_15
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs
Places: Ohio; Lexington (Kentucky)
 

Description: Photograph of a scene at Patterson Homestead, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. The Patterson Homestead was home to Colonel Robert Patterson, a Revolutionary War soldier who helped to found Lexington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Industrialist John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register company, was also raised and lived in the home. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV29_B01F10_001
Subjects: Patterson, John Henry, 1844-1922; Historic houses; Families--Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph of the Johnston and Patterson families at the Patterson Homestead in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. Typed caption on the reverse of an identical photograph reads "Scene at the old Patterson homestead, Dayton, Ohio, (commencing at the right) Mr. John H. Patterson, Dayton, Ohio, Mrs. Mary John Johnston, Piqua, Ohio, Mrs. Margaret Kirk Ayers, Piqua, Ohio, Mrs. Maragaret Kirk, Piqua Ohio, Miss Rachel Vance, Piqua, Ohio, Mr. Wm. B. Johnston, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. R. Patterson Jr., Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs. Julia Johnston Patterson, Dayton, Ohio." The Patterson Homestead was home to Colonel Robert Patterson, a Revolutionary War soldier who helped found Lexington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Industrialist John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register company, was also raised and lived in the home. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV29_B01F09_002
Subjects: Patterson, John Henry, 1844-1922; Historic houses; Families--Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Piqua (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph of the Johnston and Patterson families at the Patterson Homestead in Dayton, Ohio. Typed caption on the reverse of an identical photograph reads "Scene at the old Patterson homestead, Dayton, Ohio, (commencing at the right) Mr. John H. Patterson, Dayton, Ohio, Mrs. Mary John Johnston, Piqua, Ohio, Mrs. Margaret Kirk Ayers, Piqua, Ohio, Mrs. Maragaret Kirk, Piqua Ohio, Miss Rachel Vance, Piqua, Ohio, Mr. Wm. B. Johnston, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. R. Patterson Jr., Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs. Julia Johnston Patterson, Dayton, Ohio." The Patterson Homestead was home to Colonel Robert Patterson, a Revolutionary War soldier who helped to found Lexington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Industrialist John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register company, was also raised and lived in the home. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV29_B01F09_001
Subjects: Historic houses; Patterson, John Henry, 1844-1922; Families--Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph of the Patterson and Johnston families at the Patterson Homestead in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. A handwritten caption on the photograph indicates Mrs. Mary (John) Johnston as the woman standing closest to the tree. A typed caption on the reverse of an identical photograph reads "Scene at the old Patterson homestead, Dayton, Ohio, (commencing at the right) Mr. Frank Patterson, Jr., Dayton, Ohio, Miss Rachel Vance, Piqua, Ohio, Mrs. Mary John Johnston, Piqua, Ohio, Mrs. Margaret Kirk Ayers, Piqua, Ohio, Mr. Wm. B. Johnston, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Julia Johnston Patterson, Dayton, Ohio, Mr. R. Patterson, Jr., Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs. Margaret Kirk, Piqua, Ohio." The Patterson Homestead was home to Colonel Robert Patterson, a Revolutionary War soldier who helped found Lexington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Industrialist John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register company, was also raised and lived in the home. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV29_B01F10_002
Subjects: Johnston, John, 1775-1861; Patterson, John Henry, 1844-1922; Historic houses; Families--Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery (Ohio);
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of Major Frank Y. Commagere , 6th U.S. Cavalry. The photograph was taken by Carpenter and Mullen in Lexington, Kentucky, early in the Civil War and collected as part of the Howard Rossen Collection. Born in Maumee, Ohio, Commagere (1844-1892) served as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861, then joined the 67th New York Volunteers as a second lieutenant from 1862-1863 before being dismissed. He later served as a major in the 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry from January 1865 until he mustered out in April 1866. Following the end of the Civil War, he was appointed first lieutenant in the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1866, serving under Lieutenant Colonel Custer, until his resignation in 1868. He died in 1892 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV13_B01_20
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers; Military uniforms; Portrait photography
Places: Maumee (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "General Nathaniel Massie." The plaque on this marker reads: "Home of General Nathaniel Massie Built 1800, One Fourth Mile South Nathaniel Massie, Born Goochland County Virginia, December 28, 1763. 1800 Married Sarah Everard Mead. Died November 13, 1813. Revolutionary Soldier, Surveyor of wilderness then known as Northwest Territory and location of Revolutionary War land grants. 1786-87 Cut road Lexington, Kentucky to Great Kanawha River 1791 Founded Manchester, Ohio 1790-94 Explored Little Miami and Scioto Rivers to their sources April 1796 Founded Chillicothe, Ohio Massie was member of convention framing first Ohio constitution, was first speaker of state legislature 1799 organized first militia Northwest Territory, Commissioned Major General 1805 Founded Bainbridge Ohio, one of fourteen towns founded by him. Erected: Sept. 23, 1938" Nathaniel Massie was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier. He founded fifteen early towns in what became the State of Ohio, including its first capital, Chillicothe. In 1807, the Ohio General Assembly declared him the winner of the election for governor, but he refused the office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_026_1
Subjects: Historical markers--Ohio; Massie, Nathaniel (1763-1813)
Places: Bainbridge (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Three famous fighters of Montgomery County. (See: Past notables, Dayton.)" This is a photo of a book. The three men are General Robert C. Schenck, Colonel Robert Patterson and General George Crook. Robert Cumming Schenck (1809 – 1890) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and American diplomatic representative to Brazil and the United Kingdom. Colonel Robert Patterson (1753–1827) was a soldier and settler who helped found the cities of Lexington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. George Crook (1828-1890) was a career United States Army officer, most noted for his distinguished service during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F06_017_001
Subjects: American Civil War, 1861-1865; Indian wars of the West
Places: Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a covered bridge near Chester, Ohio, where John Morgan made his escape. John Hunt Morgan was a prominent Confederate cavalry officer in the American Civil War. The Northern soldiers took Morgan and most of his captured men to Columbus after an attempted raid into Ohio. The enlisted men were confined in the Camp Chase Confederate prison camp. Morgan and several of his officers were held at the Ohio Penitentiary. Morgan arrived there on October 1. He and several of his men immediately made plans to escape. They tunneled out of a cell into an airshaft on November 13, 1863. They remained in their cells until November 27, when Morgan and six of his soldiers used the airshaft to reach the prison yard. They then fashioned a rope from their prison uniforms and scaled the wall. Utilizing some of the one thousand dollars that his sister had smuggled into the prison inside a Bible, Morgan purchased a train ticket to Cincinnati. He then made his escape across the Ohio River into Kentucky. After his escape, Morgan returned to the Confederate army. He led cavalry forces in Tennessee and Kentucky. On September 4, 1864, Northern soldiers surrounded a farmhouse near Greenville, Tennessee, where Morgan was staying. The Confederate general attempted to escape from the house, but was shot by the Union soldiers. Morgan died from his wounds. General John Hunt Morgan is buried in Lexington, Kentucky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06520
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio River; Civil War--Prisoners and prisons; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Chester (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio)
 

Description: This carte de visite photograph is of Major General Gordon Granger, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Granger is pictured wearing a dress frock coat with shoulder boards indicating his military rank. Granger was born in Wayne County, New York, on November 6, 1822. He was educated at the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1845, and served his country during both the Mexican War and the American Civil War. His many engagements included the Siege of Corinth and the Battle of Missionary Ridge, but he is most noted for his success at the Battle of Chickamauga. He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on January 10, 1876, and was buried in Lexington, Kentucky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04330
Subjects: Generals--United States; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Soldiers; Military officers; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: Carte de visite of General Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Blair served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and as a Missouri politician was instrumental in preventing the secession of that state. He went on to fight at Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Atlanta. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_26
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; Lexington (Kentucky)