NOTES
225
178, December 1850.
40. Morning Herald, January 5,
1846; Cincinnati Journal, January 17, 1839; Philan-
thropist, October 27, 1841.
41. Quoted in Cincinnati Journal, January
17, 1839.
42. Ibid.
43. Coffin, Reminiscences, 352,
362, 396; Morning Herald, January 5, 1846.
44. The Address and Reply on the
Presentation of a Testimonial to S. P. Chase, By
the Colored People of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, 1845), 33.
45. Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, Proceedings
. . . 1835, 33; Philanthropist, July 21,
1840; Cist, Cincinnati in 1841: Its
Early Annals and Future Prospects (Cincinnati,
1841), 96-97; Cist; Cincinnati in
1851, 80-81.
46. Birney to Tappan, July 4, 1839, Birney
Letters, I, 494-495; Philanthropist, July
21, 1840; Woodson, "Negroes of
Cincinnati," 20.
47. Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, Report
on the Second Anniversary . . . 1837 (Cin-
cinnati, 1837), 63-64.
48. Morning Herald, November 19,
1846; Barber, "Report."
49. Morning Herald, July 25,
1844, November 23, 1846; Cincinnati Daily Times,
July 9, 1841; Cincinnati Daily
Dispatch, October 5, 1848; Commercial, September 24,
29, 1849.
50. Ibid., July 12-August 30,
1849.
51. Morning Herald, January 22,
1845.
52. Ibid., August 16, 1844
(quoting Daily Inquirer), January 22, 1845; Cist, Cincinnati
in 1851, 151; Williams, History of the Negro, II,
143-144.
53. Morning Herald, January 22,
23, 1845, July 15, 17, 1846, January 5, 6, 1847,
January 7, 1848; Daily Dispatch, December
27, 1848, March 24, 1849.
54. Commercial, April 1, June
13, 1845, March 21, 1846, August 18, September 16,
1848, September 1, 1849; Daily Times,
August 17, 20, 27, 1841; Daily Dispatch, July
20, 1848; Morning Herald, May 10,
11, 12, 14, 1848.
55. Commercial, November 20,
1848; Daily Atlas, June 16, 19, 1845; see also Stanley
M. Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in
American Institutional and Intellectual Life (Chicago,
1959) for a controversial discussion of
the "Sambo" personality.
56. Drake's Letters, 33-34.
57. Commercial, July 10, 1845.
58. William D. Howells, A Boy's Town (New
York, 1890), 229-230.
RISE AND DECLINE
OF PRIVATE ACADEMIES
IN ALBANY, OHIO
1. For brief statements on academies in
Ohio, see Francis P. Weisenburger, The
Passing of the Frontier, 1825-1850 (Carl Wittke, ed., The History of the State of Ohio,
III, Columbus, 1941), 173, and Eugene H.
Roseboom, The Civil War Era, 1850-1873
(Carl Wittke, ed., The History of the
State of Ohio, IV, Columbus, 1944), 182.
2. Albany's population in 1860 was 541,
U. S. Bureau of the Census, Eighth Census
of the United States: 1860.
Population Schedules, Athens County (National
Archives
Mircofilm), 141-154. More information on
Albany, Ohio, can be found in History
of the Hocking Valley (Chicago, 1883), 602-625 and Ivan M. Tribe, "The
Development
of a Rural Community: Albany, Ohio,
1840-1880" (unpublished M. A. thesis, Ohio
University, 1967).
3. William E. Peters, Athens County,
Ohio (Athens, Ohio, 1947), 56-64.
4. Thomas N. Hoover, The
History of Ohio University (Athens, Ohio, 1954), 25-26,
92-93.
5. Fletcher Stanton Coultrap,
"Education in Athens County," Centennial
Atlas of
Athens County (Athens, Ohio, 1905), 119; Arena, 1959 (Athens,
Ohio, 1959), 4-7. The
Akron Law made it possible for
municipalities having a population in excess of 200
to organize their own school districts
and to set themselves apart from the township
district schools.
6. Census, Seventh Census of the
United States: 1850. Population Schedules, Athens
County (National Archives Microfilm), 181; General
Catalogue of Oberlin College,
1833-1908 (Oberlin,
Ohio, 1909), 592.
7. History of the Hocking Valley, 608;
Rebecca Stanley, "Albany Seventy-Five Years
Ago," Albany Messenger, May,
1924, 7.