Description: This image is a photographic reproduction of an engraved portrait of Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823). The artist portrays Cutler in his mature years: a clean-shaven man with slightly wavy hair and a serene expression. He wears a clergyman's collar with Geneva bands. The engraving includes Cutler's signature and a notation by the engraver: "Eng'd by J. C. [John Chester] Buttre, N.Y." Cutler was a major figure in the settling of Ohio in the years following the American Revolution. Born in Connecticut, he was descended from a long line of clergymen but entered Yale to become an attorney, thus breaking with family tradition. He graduated in 1765 but worked as a schoolteacher and store clerk before becoming an attorney. However, disenchanted by his current life, Cutler eventually pursued the clergy as his career choice. He became the minister of the Congregational Church in Ispwich, Massachusetts, in 1771 and held that post until his death. Although Cutler finally had settled on a career, he still pursued many outside interests. During the American Revolution, he was a committed patriot and served as a chaplain for several military units. The war caused serious economic problems in Massachusetts, and Cutler's parishioners faced great difficulty in paying their minister's salary. To supplement his income, Cutler studied medicine. When a smallpox epidemic struck Massachusetts in 1779, Cutler cared for as many as forty patients at a time. He also studied astronomy and was especially fond of determining the distance between the Earth and certain stars with a telescope and sextant. In a different field of study, he provided the first detailed account of plant life in New England, identifying roughly 350 different species. Because of these scientific endeavors, he was selected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He continued with his scientific interests until his death. In 1786, Cutler joined several other Revolutionary War veterans, including Rufus Putnam and Winthrop Sargent, in forming the Ohio Company of Associates. They hoped to secure from the Confederation Congress the right to develop land in the Ohio Country. After company representative Samuel Parsons failed to secure the land grant, Cutler entered negotiations with the Congress on behalf of the Ohio Company. Present while the Congress debated the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Cutler played a vital role in that document's eventual adoption. Some scholars claim that Cutler was responsible for this document's anti-slavery provisions. He also secured from the Congress the Ohio Company's right to purchase up to 1.5 million acres of land in Ohio for roughly eight cents an acre. In December 1787, Putnam led the first group of settlers to Ohio. In April 1788, where the Muskingum River flows into the Ohio River, the Ohio Company established Marietta. Cutler visited the settlement later that year and actively investigated the area. His primary interest was in earth mounds that he believed had been created centuries earlier by a Native American civilization. He returned to Massachusetts in 1789 and played an active role in Massachusetts's government for the next two decades. In 1795, President George Washington offered him a position as judge in the Northwest Territory, but Cutler refused. He did not return to Ohio after his trip in 1788. He died in Hamilton, Massachusetts, on July 28, 1823. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07015
Subjects: Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823; Clergy; Ohio Company (1786-1795); Portraits; United States. Ordinance of 1787; Northwest Territory--History
 

Description: Benjamin Snow was an Underground Railroad worker in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts. This cabinet card is from J.C. Moulton at 159 Main Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The image 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: AL03071
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Fitchburg (Massachusetts); Worcester County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Simeon Dodge was affiliated with the Underground Railroad in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts. This cabinet card is from the Notman Photographic Company, Limited, of Boston, Massachusetts. The photograph was probably taken in the 1880s. The image 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: AL03058
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Marblehead (Massachusetts); Essex County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a bridge spanning the Parker River. Fugitive slaves waited on the far side of this river, located a few miles south of Newburyport, Massachusetts, for Richard Plummer and his spring wagon to take them to his barn or to Amesbury, Massachusetts. The image 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: AL03053
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Newburyport (Massachusetts); Essex County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Mrs. Betsy Dodge kept a station on the Underground Railroad at Marblehead, Massachusetts. This cabinet card is from Cross Photo on Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts. The photograph was taken in the 1880s. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03055
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Women
Places: Marblehead (Massachusetts); Essex County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Mrs. Samuel S. Crocker was an Underground Railroad worker in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts. This cabinet card is from J.C. Moulton at 368 Main Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The image 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: AL03070
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Women; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Fitchburg (Massachusetts); Worcester County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: A black and white photograph on card stock features the Emancipation Memorial located at the Park Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts. The statue, sculpted by Thomas Ball, depicts a standing Abraham Lincoln with his left hand outstretch over a male African American slave. The shirtless slave is depicted as partly kneeled with broken chains on his hands and feet. Abraham Lincoln’s right hand is placed over a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. The statue represents Abraham Lincoln freeing black slaves due to his Emancipation Proclamation. The inscription of the memorial reads “A race set free and the country at place, Lincoln rests from his labors.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F05_005
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Statues--Massachusetts--Boston
Places: Boston (Massachusetts); Suffolk County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Little Building in Boston, Massachusetts. Youngstown pipe was used in the building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F42_001
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry and trade--Massachusetts; Boston (Mass.)
Places: Boston (Massachusetts); Suffolk County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a building at 75 Federal St., Boston, Massachusetts. Youngstown-Buckeye conduit was used in the building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F42_002
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry and trade--Massachusetts; Boston (Mass.)
Places: Boston (Massachusetts); Suffolk County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Youngstown pipe was used. The Alumni Association published this photograph. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F42_010
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel in; dustry and trade--Massachusetts; Boston (Mass.); MIT Association of Alumni and Alumnae
Places: Boston (Massachusetts); Suffolk County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Boston & Albany Railroad Company's Springfield Station in Springfield, Massachusetts. Youngstown-Buckeye conduit was used in the station. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F42_011
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel in; dustry and trade--Massachusetts; Boston (Mass.); Boston & Albany Rail Road Company; Springfield (Mass.)
Places: Springfield (Massachusetts); Hampden County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Cadillac Building in Boston, Massachusetts. Youngstown-Buckeye conduit was used in this building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F42_014
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel in; dustry and trade--Massachusetts; Boston (Mass.)
Places: Boston (Massachusetts); Suffolk County (Massachusetts)