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48 OHIO HISTORY

48                                OHIO HISTORY

THE WHISKEY WAR AT PADDY'S RUN:

EXCERPTS FROM

A DIARY OF ALBERT SHAW

 

edited by LLOYD J. GRAYBAR

 

 

In 1874 Albert Shaw, later the distinguished editor of the American Review

of Reviews and friend of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson,

was in his seventeenth year. An intelligent youth able to observe events

with some discernment, he kept a diary of his life in the southwestern Ohio

village of New London, better known as Paddy's Run.1 Renamed Shandon

in 1893, this was a small, predominantly Welsh community at a Butler County

crossroad ten miles from Hamilton and twenty-two from Cincinnati.2 The

 

 

NOTES ARE ON PAGES 72-74