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Timeline of Christ Church Cathedral 1826-1850
1826
Women found American Temperance Union to fight alcoholism
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1827
The rector and half the families leave the church over policy differences with vestry and establish St. Paul’s Church on West Fourth Street
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1829, 1836, 1841
White mobs attack African-American neighborhoods in city
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1829
Cincinnati Public Schools open for whites only
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1830-40s
Floods of immigrants arrive from the eastern part of the U.S., northern Europe, Germany, and Ireland
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1830
Cincinnati Union Bethel service agency opens on the riverfront
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1830s
Church women respond to fires, floods, and cholera epidemic
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1830s
Longworth Hall, east
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1830s
Strader Home, east
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1830
Indian Removal Act forces Native Americans west
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1831
Broadway Street, south
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1832
Children’s Orphan Asylum opens
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1832-52
The Rev. Lyman Beecher preaches against slavery
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1833
American Anti-Slavery Society is established
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1833
Oberlin College (Ohio) opens as first co-educational college in the world
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1835
New church, designed by architect Henry Walter after London’s Stepney Church, opens on Fourth Street at a cost of $50,000 for land and building; $1,675 for organ by Corrie & Habig of Philadelphia
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1835
With earlier loss of members, the church has significant debt, since pew sales are the major source of income
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1836-1900s
Church member A.H. McGuffey helps brother publish Eclectic Readers for school children
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1837
Fourth Street, west
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1841
Funeral for church co-founder and U.S. President William Henry Harrison is held at the larger Fifth Street Wesley Methodist Chapel to hold crowds
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1843
Women pursue prison and insane asylum reform
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1844
First church bill for new gaslights is $23.72
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1845
Roman Catholics dedicate St. Peter in Chains Cathedral
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1845
U.S. annexes Texas
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1845
U.S. gains southwest territories in Mexican War
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1848
Riverfront with Christ Church
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1848
Women convene at Seneca Falls, New York, for women’s rights 1850
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1849
German-Americans start Saengerfest, first municipal songfest in the U.S.
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1849
City buys church burial grounds for future Washington Park; church moves graves to Spring Grove Cemetery
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1850
Fugitive Slave Act makes it a crime to assist runaways
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