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would be prohibited north of the southern boundary of Missouri (the 36°30' parallel) in the rest of the
Louisiana Purchase.

Perhaps that was what inspired Grandpa to move to Missouri?

Cincinnati was incorporated as a city in 1810, It exported pork and its byproducts, hay and,
becoming a center of pork Processing in the region from 1810 to 1830 its population nearly tripled, from
9,642 t0 24,831 Completion of the Miami and Erie Canals, in 1827, to Middletown, Ohio further
stimulated businesses, and employers struggled to hire enough workers,

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Chapter 21 Chapter 21 --
1880’s in OHIO

The 1880 Democratic National Convention was held June 22 to 24, 1880, at the Music Hall in
Cincinnati, Ohio, and nominated Winfield S. Hancock of Pennsylvania for President and William H. English
of Indiana for Vice President in the United States presidential election of 880.

Six men were officially candidates for nomination at the convention, and several more also
received votes. Of these, the two leading candidates were Hancock and Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware.
Not officially a candidate, but wielding a heavy influence over the convention,

was the Democratic nominee from 1876, Samuel J. Tilden of New York. Many Democrats believed
Tilden to have been unjustly deprived of the presidency in 1876 and hoped to rally around him in the
1880 campaign. Tilden, however, was ambiguous about his willingness to participate in another
campaign, leading some delegates to defect to other candidates, while others stayed loyal to their old
standard-bearer.

As the convention opened, some delegates favored Bayard, a conservative Senator, and some
others supported Hancock, a career soldier and Civil War hero, Still others flocked to men they saw as
surrogates for Tilden, including Henry B. Payne of Ohio, an attorney and former representative, and Samuel
J. Randall of Pennsylvania, the Speaker of the United States House
of Representatives. The first round of balloting was inconclusive. Before the second round, Tilden's
withdrawal from the campaign became known for certain and delegates flocked to Hancock, who was
nominated. English, a conservative politician from a swing state, was nominated for Vice President.
Hancock and English were narrowly defeated in the race against Republicans James A. Garfield and
Chester A. Arthur that autumn.

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Chapter 22 Chapter 22 --

Dad, didn't talk about it too mot much, other than during our summer trips to Missouri, and the
farm where we went to see Grandma and Grandpa Vaughan. Dad took us upstairs, in the house to see
Great Grandma Meyers. (She was Grandma Vaughan's mother.) I think she may have had a problem
understanding Dad because; he counted on his hand; one, two, three, four, to let her know he had four
children. I think she passed away soon after that because the next thing I remember was seeing them,
Grandma and Grandpa Vaughan, in their house in town. They had sold the farm and moved into town
(Mountain Grove).

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