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74. Platt Evens operated a tailor shop
at 149 Main Street, said to have been one
of the show places of Cincinnati. He
reportedly made suits for Lafayette and President
Zachary Taylor.
75. Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel
(1809-1862), a graduate of the United States Mili-
tary Academy, taught mathematics there
before moving to Cincinnati in 1832, where
he was for ten years, 1836-45, professor
of mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy
at Cincinnati College. A major general
during the Civil War, he died in service in
1862 of yellow fever.
76. In March 1840 a contested
congressional election in New Jersey had been de-
cided in favor of the Democrats. The
Whigs charged President Van Buren with inter-
ference in the decision and used the
incident for propaganda purposes. See William
J. Chute, "The New Jersey Whig
Campaign of 1840," Proceedings of the New Jersey
Historical Society, LXXVII (1959), 234-238.
77. The Cincinnati Daily Gazette, October
3, gives them as Montgomery, Clermont,
Warren, and Washington.
78. The Cincinnati Daily Gazette, October
3, reported it as 261; the Cincinnati
Chronicle, October 2, reported it as 351.
79. Mrs. John D. Jones was the eldest
daughter of Colonel John Johnston, the for-
mer United States Indian agent, who was
a strong supporter of Harrison. Her husband
was a prominent merchant, railroad and
bank director, and philanthropist.
80. Nathanael Greene Pendleton's
residence was at the corner of Broadway and the
Lebanon Turnpike Road.
81. John Chambers (1780-1852), a
Kentucky political leader, was a close friend of
Harrison's and one of his chief advisers
in 1840. He was appointed governor of Iowa
Territory in 1841.
82. Charles Anderson Wickliffe
(1788-1869) was governor of Kentucky, 1839-40,
and became United States postmaster
general under Tyler.
83. A William B. Christie had been a
Methodist Episcopal clergyman in Cincinnati
from 1830 to 1836, and in 1840 was
stationed in Urbana.
84. John M. Duffield was a Mississippi
editor.
85. The Cincinnati Chronicle of
October 2 and the Cincinnati Daily Gazette of October
3 give detailed accounts of the parade
but say nothing about the speeches and the
fracas in the evening. The red petticoat
was a derisive Democratic symbol for Harrison.
He was dubbed the "Petticoat
General." See Gunderson, Log-Cabin Campaign, 101, 145.
86. John Pope (1770-1845) was a member
of congress. He had been governor of
Arkansas Territory from 1829 to 1835.
87. Thomas Metcalf (1780-1855) was in
congress before serving as governor, 1828-33.
He later was a United States Senator.
88. Alexander Duncan (1788-1853), a
Cincinnati Democrat, was the congressman
from the first district.
89. Mrs. James Findlay was a close
relative of Mrs. Jane Harrison.
90. Lewis Whiteman and Archibald Irwin
were partners in a commission merchant
business on the southwest corner of Main
and Front streets. He became president of
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce in
1839. It was rumored in 1840 that he and
Jane Harrison would soon be married.
91. Gurdon R. Gilmore was president of
the Bank of Cincinnati.
92. John Bates and Company Exchange Bank
was located on the west side of Main
Street between Third and Fourth streets.
93. Noah Lougee's brokerage house was on
the west side of Main Street four doors
north of Third Street.
94. James Saffin.
95. John C. Avery.
96. The "Military" were
probably the City Guards.
97. Charles Fox (1798-1882) began to
practice law in Cincinnati in 1827. In 1840
he was in partnership with Bellamy
Storer.
A CIVIL WAR LETTER
1. That portion of Pike's
autobiographical account dealing with his prewar ad-
ventures in Missouri and Texas was
republished with an introduction and notes by
Carl L. Cannon under the title James
Pike, Scout and Ranger: Being the Personal Ad-
ventures of James Pike of the Texas
Rangers in 1859-60 (Narratives of the Trans-
Mississippi Frontier Series, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1932).
2. William H. Munnell took over as
editor-publisher in early September 1863, after
Sam Pike had edited the Gazette for
thirty-one years. The bound volumes of the
Hillsboro Weekly Gazette of the Civil War years are available in the library of
the
Western Reserve Historical Society,
Cleveland.