Description: This photograph is of Dr. Peter Allen's home, located on Williamsfield Kinsman Road (County Road 277), just north of Kinsman Rd NE (OH 87), in Kinsman, Ohio. This home was built in the Federal style by Will Smith between the years 1800-1824. It was added tot the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Dr. Peter Allen, former surgeon in the Western Army under General Simon Perkins, began his practice in Kinsman 1808, using a log cabin as an office. In 1835 he was elected the first president of the Ohio Medical Convention, which later became the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he was president in 1856. His medical saddlebags on exhibited at the Howard Ditrick Museum of Historical Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_028
Subjects: Architecture; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Kinsman (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: A sign for the birthplace of Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) in Kinsman. Darrow came to prominence as a lawyer originally working for business owners, eventually deciding to work for workers instead. He became famous, and possibly infamous, for his defense of the head of the American Railway Union, and his clients victory in the case. Darrow changed his focus again, this time deciding to defend criminals, often men facing the death penalty for their crimes. He was the defense attorney in the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, where the two defendants had committed a grisly murder and faced a likely death sentence. Despite the gruesome nature of the crime, the two men avoided a death sentence after pleading guilty and were put away for life. Incredibly, he successfully defended almost every one of his clients charged with a crime. Darrow also participated as the defense attorney in the sensational Scopes Monkey Trial. The state of Tennessee banned the teaching of evolution in schools entirely, and soon after one man famously broke that law. Darrow was immediately recruited to defend him, while William Jennings Bryan would became Darrow's adversary in the case. Although he lost the case, since there was an obvious breaking of state law, he made a strong argument against literal interpretation of the Bible. He put Bryan himself on the stand, and brilliantly made a spectacle of Bryan. He questioned Bryan on the Bible and publicly embarrassed him by showing that Bryan wasn't able to give a satisfactory answer to many of his questions about the Bible. The story was soon told all around the country and the reporters of the day clamored that Darrow had torn down the idea that the Bible could be interpreted as fact. The case would be his last sensational victory, afterwards Darrow rarely practiced law and lived quietly until his death in 1938. Darrow is still held in high regard for his skill as an attorney. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06729
Subjects: Lawyers--Ohio; Education and state; Human evolution
Places: Kinsman (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1935, this photograph shows the porch of a home identified as the Kinsman house in Kinsman, Ohio. The entryway features screened French doors and an elaborate projecting gable roof supported by Ionic columns, and a semicircular transom window. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, Ihna Thayer Frary was a prominent American art and architecture scholar, whose primary interest was the architectural heritage of the region of northeastern Ohio known as the Western Reserve. In addition to serving as publicity and membership secretary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he was a professor of Ohio and American architecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, Frary was a design consultant for private clients and designed furniture, and was an active member of several prominent arts councils in the Cleveland area. In 1963, Frary and his two sons donated his entire photographic collection to the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). The Ihna Thayer Frary Collection consists of 4,000 5 x 7 photographs of private residences, churches, taverns, and public buildings, as well as select rural buildings, bridges, archaeological sites, and public monuments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P112_B54B_4093_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Western Reserve; Domestic architecture; Doors & doorways
Places: Kinsman (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Kinsman House in Warren, Ohio, was built by Frederick Joseph Kinsman in 1832. This photograph was among those produced by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935 and 1943. Mrs. Thomas Kinsman, heir of Frederick Kinsman, deeded the Greek Revival-style house to Hiram College, which formerly used it as a classroom building for the Dana School of Music. The Kinsman House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06386
Subjects: Greek revival (Architecture); Warren (Ohio); United States. Work Progress Administration; Architecture--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image is a view of the front and exterior exterior of the Kinsman House, Warren, Ohio, ca. 1960s. A portico supported by four pillars leads to the main entrance. Designed in Greek Revival architectural style, the white two-story residence has a flat roof. Three chimneys are visible. Snow is on the ground. General Simon Perkins (1171-1844) built this home in 1832 as a wedding gift for his daughter, Olive Perkins, and her husband, Frederick Kinsman. A brick addition was built in 1846; in 1860 a frame addition was built to provide servants' quarters and a woodshed. The Kinsman House once served as classrooms for the Dana School of Music, Hiram College Branch. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06637
Subjects: Historic houses; Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844; Warren (Ohio); National Register of Historic Places; Greek Revival
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Built in 1832 in the Greek Revival Style, the Kinsman House once served as classrooms for the Dana School of Music, Hiram College Branch. It features four 2-story Ionic columns at the entrance. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_006_001
Subjects: Architecture; Hiram College; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)