200 OHIO
HISTORY
65. W. T. Sherman, the pre-war
superintendent of a Louisiana military school, said
later that Duncan and Bushrod Johnson
"had joined the popular sneer at Yankees"
when they "knew better."
Letter of Sherman's, April 21, 1865, in Official Records,
Series I, Vol. XLVII, Pt. 3, p. 271.
66. Charles Dufour, The Night the War
Was Lost (Garden City, N. Y., 1960), is
a graphic and detailed account of
Duncan's defense and loss of the forts below New
Orleans. See also, Official Records, Series
I, Vol. XX, Pt. 2, pp. 403, 411, 508.
THE GEST LETTERS
1. Milo G. Williams (1804-1880) later
was principal of a Swedenborgian school in
Cincinnati, professor at Cincinnati
College, head of the Dayton Academy, and dean
of the faculty and president of the
board of trustees at the Swedenborgian Urbana
University.
2. An In Memoriam published by
the Citizens Memorial Association at Cincinnati
in 1881 contains biographical sketches
of the elder Gests. The information on Clarissa
has been taken from the letters.
3. See both the Cincinnati Daily
Gazette and the Daily Cincinnati Republican and
Commercial Register beginning November 21, 1834.
4. Samuel W. Davies (1776-1843) was
first elected mayor of Cincinnati in 1833 and
served until his death ten years later.
5. Kirkby's successful ascension of
December 15, 1834, is not mentioned in the letters,
but it is reported in the Daily
Cincinnati Republican and Commercial Register of
December 16. Kirkby's own account of the
flight appeared in the same paper December
18 and in the Cincinnati Daily
Gazette December 19.
6. Although the name is sometimes given
as Richard Clayton, Shaffer's Cincinnati
directory for 1840 lists a Robert
Clayton as a watchmaker and aeronaut.
7. See advertisements in the Cincinnati
Daily Gazette and the Daily Cincinnati Re-
publican and Commercial Register, March 25--April 8, 1835.
8. As early as March 16 she reported
that "the Legislature have dismissed all the
Trustees of the Medical board but Genl
[William Henry] Harrison and appointed a
new one." Joseph Gest had once
served on the board, a fact which probably accounts
for the strong loyalty of the Gest
family to the Medical College of Ohio.
9. She probably is referring to John
Moorhead (1784-1873), the Irish-born physician
and professor at the Medical College of
Ohio who was the arch foe of Dr. Daniel Drake
for thirty years, beginning in 1819.
10. She no doubt is referring to John
Eberle (1787-1838), who helped establish, and
taught in, the Jefferson Medical College
of Philadelphia before joining Daniel Drake
on the staff of the medical department
of Miami University at Cincinnati. When this
department merged with the Medical
College of Ohio in the early 1830's, Eberle went
with it. He remained there until 1837,
at which time he transferred to Transylvania
University at Lexington, Kentucky.
11. Her name is also given as Amelia in
other letters.
12. Israel M. Bissell was a partner in
the Cincinnati mercantile firm of McCleary
and Bissell.
13. Landon Cabell Rives (1790-1870) was
a practicing physician.
14. Peyton Short Symmes (1793-1861) was
then serving as register of the United
States land office in Cincinnati.
15. Edward King (1795-1836), a son of
Rufus King, practiced law.
16. This undoubtedly is Carey A. Trimble
(1813-1887), the fourth son of Allen Trim-
ble, governor of Ohio, 1826-30. He
taught in the medical department of Cincinnati Col-
lege for four years after graduation.
17. She doubtless means Horatio Gates
Jamison (1778-1855), who was a professor
of surgery in the medical department of
Cincinnati College.
18. Emmet Field Horine, a recent
biographer of Daniel Drake, asserts that Jami-
son's resignation was prompted by his
wife's illness rather than a disagreement.
19. This vessel was built at the
shipyard of Griffin Yeatman. John Rowan is listed
as a steamer captain at Griffin Yeatman's in Woodruff's
Cincinnati directory for 1836-37.
20. Henry Bidleman Bascom (1796-1850)
was at this time professor of moral science
at Augusta College in Kentucky. From
1842 to 1849 he served as president of Transyl-
vania University at Lexington, Kentucky.
21. She probably means Joseph Ridgway,
Jr. (1800-1850), a prominent Columbus
manufacturer and railroad promoter. Of a
Quaker family, he had married a Cincinnati
woman.
22. James Gillespie Birney (1792-1857)
had recently come to Ohio from Kentucky
to find a suitable place to publish an antislavery
newspaper. The first numbers of his