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Spring-2007.Pdf j C· 1- 1. - 1%*r ......110"119/bille.:.. 1_r'»11 OHIO VALLEY Craig T Friend Vice Chairs Elizabeth York Schiff HISTORY STAFF North Card#n State U,ii.uersity Otto Budig Merrie Stewart Stillpass Jane Garvey Robert Sullivan Senior Editor J.Blaine Hudson Dee Gettler John M.Tcw,Jr.,M.D. Christopher Phillips University of Louisville William C. Portman, III James L.Turner sabbatical) on Richard E.Wirthlin Department ofHistory R. Douglas HuK Treasurer Unircriity of-Cincinitati Pirdue Univmity Mark J. Hauser THE FILSON HISTORICAL Associate Editors James C. Klotter Secretary SOCIETY BOARD OF A. Glenn Crothers G¢ College Martine R. Dunn orgetown DIRECTORS Department of History Uniwrsity ofLouisvilte Bruce Levine President and CEO President University ofMinois Douglass W.McDonald Henrv D. Ormsbv David Stradling Department ofHistory Harry N. Scheibcr Vice President of Vice-President Univenity of Cincinnati Uni·umity ofCalifornia at Museums Berkeley John E. Fleming Orme Wilson Ill Managing Editors Ashley D Graves Steven M. Stowe David Boht Secretary Fe Fihwi Historicd Society Indiana University Cynthia Booth Margaret Barr Kulp Ronald D. Brown Ruby Rogers Roger D.Tate Stephanie Byrd Treasurer Cinciniwiti Museum Center Somerset Commuitity College John E Cassidy J.Walker Stitcs, III Richard 0. Coleman Editorial Assistant Joe W.Trotter,Jr. Bob Coughlin David L Armstrong Brian Gebhart Caritegie David Davis Mello,1 Uiri71(ni ty J· McCarilcy Brown Department of Hi5( Edward D. Diller wy S. Gordon Dabney Uniuersity of Cinei,inti Altina Waller Deanna Donnelly Louise Farnsley Gardner University ofConitecticut Charles H. Gerhardt,III Holly Gathright Editorial Board Leslie Hardy A. Stewart Lussky C] NCINNATI Francine S. Hiltz Thomas T Noland,Jr. Stephen Aron MUSEUM CENTER Greg Kenny Anne Brewer Ogden UitiverSity ofcalifo:,rnia Gt BOARD OF Ronald A. Koetters H. Powell Starks Loi Angeles TRUSTEES Laura Long Dr. R.Ted Steinbock Kenneth W Lowe Joan E.Cashin Chair Craig Maier John R Stern William M. Street Ohio State Uriiversify Keith Harrison Shenan R Murphy Robert W Olson Ettcn T.Eslinger Past Chair Tim A. Peterman Director DePaut Uniq.Mrsify George Vincent Yvonne Robertson Mark V.Wctherington Page composition: Paul Christenson,Blue Mammoth Design Cincinnati Museum Center and' Ihc Filson Historical Society are private non-private organizations supported almost entircly by Obio Valley History (ISSN 746-3472)is published quarterly in gifts, grants, sponsorships, admission, and membership fees. Cincinnati,Ohio,and Louisville, Kentucky,by Cincinnati Museum Center and The Filson Historical Society. Periodical lhe Filson Historical Society membership includes a subscription postage paid at Cincinnati,OH, with an additional entry at to OVH Higher-level Cincinnati Museum Center memberships Louisville, KY also include an OVH subscription. Back issues are 8.$00. Postmaster,send address changes to Ihc· Bison Hisiorical Society, For more information on Cincinnati Museum Center, including S. Third St.,Louisville, KY 1310 40208. membership, visit www.cincymuseum.org or call 513-287-7000 or 1-800-733-2077. Editorial offices are located at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373. Contact the editorial offices at For more information on The Filson Historical Society, including david.stradling@uc,edu. membership, visit www.filsonhistorical.org or call 502-635-5083. collaboration ofthe Filson Historical Ohio Valley Hiwory is a © Cincinnati Museum Center and 'Ihe Filson Hisiorical Socieg Society, Cincinnati Museum Center, and the Department of 2007 History, University ofCincinnati. U;AU,»cabiTU HistoricalTbeFilsonSociety AT UNION TERMINAL OHIO VALLEY HISTORY Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2007 A Journal of the History and Culture of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South, published in Cincinnati,Ohio,and Louisville, Kentucky,by Cincinnati Museum Center and The Filson Historical Societv. Contents Essays 1 The Forging of a Writer Lafcadio Hearn in Cincinnati John Clubbe 32 Proto-Broadcasting in Cincinnati, 1847-1875 Ibe Flow ofTelegrap/0 News to Merchants and the Press Bradford W. Scharlott and Mary Carmen Cupito 47 The Persistence of Place Alice Cary's Authentic Rural Settings Robert T Rhode Collections 60 Edmund Dexterk Residence, Essays A Lithograph by Ehrgott, ForbrigerCo. & 63 Humphrey Marshall Papers at 1[he Bison Historical Society Book 69 Reviews On the cover:Lafcadio Hearn in Japanese Costume,The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn 0 906).CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER. CINCINNATI HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY Contributors John Clubbe has a longstanding interest in cultural history with a particular focus the Ohio on Valley. In 2004 the( centenary of Hearn's death)he was an invited speaker to Lafcadio" Hearn in International Perspectives"at the University ofTokyo. Among his books are Cincinnati Obserged.·Architecture and History 1992)and Byron,Sully,and tbe Power of Portraiture 2005).He lives in Santa Fe. Bradford W.Scharlott is associate professor at Northern Kentucky Uni- versity, where he serves as coordinator of the journalism program. His publications on the social and economic impact of the telegraph in the nine- teenth-century Midwest have appeared in a variety of publications,includ- ing Ohio History,and Journalism 8 Mass Communication Quarterly. Mary Carmen Cupito is associate professor of communication at Northern Kentucky University. Her entry on "Newspapers in Northern Kentucky" is in press for the Encyclopedia ofNorthern Kentucky Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,2008). Robert T.Rhode is professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author of 7be Harvest Story:Recollections of Old-Time Ibresbermen' Classic American Steamrollers 2001)and, with Raymond Drake, 2001),as well as over one hundred and fifty articles,two-thirds of them on the sub- Black Earth and Duo- ject of rural history and literature. His work appears in ry Toiuer 2005),an anthology of contemporary writers on the present rural experience. 41- t\ 1 The Forging of a Writer Lafcadio Hearn in Cincinnati John Clubbe it 9 t'. nt> f f the many travelers who have visited 0 and written about Cincinnati during its more than two hundred years of exis- and tence, none has left more probing, piquant, even seatidalous observations about the city than 1 FC\ I>IC) 1 ILRN Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) Ifhis greatest fame U.ut 1873 lies as a ghoulish interpreter of the city's under- side, Hearn also limned its cultural scene Most Lafcadio Hearn, ca 1873, The Life and Letters oflafcad/o Hearn (1906) CINCINNATIMUSEUM travelers passed through Cincinnati quickly, but CENTER CINCINNATI HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY Hearn remained for over eight years from 1869 to 1877, and his stay had significant repercussions in his own life and for Cincinnati Along with the Now,in those days there was Beechers-sisters Harriet and Catharine, father a young man connected with Lyman and brother Henry Ward-he remains whose the Daily Enquirel tastes the best-known writer associated with Cincinnati were whimsically grotesque and But whereas the Beechers had little specifically to arabesque, He by about the Hearn had deal. Uncle 3 was nature a say city, a great fervent admirer of He Tomk Cabin extremes draws upon Harriet Beecher Stowe's believed only the Revoltingly of Cincinnati but does not address fl#{, in experiences ltS 1 't Horrible the Excruciatingly life directly,while Hearn' by offer or 5,i{}1*i s essays, contrast, f ;i. Beautiful He worshipped the the' *#fullest account of Cincinnati during a time- French school of sensation,and .»the mid-187Os-when the city was undergoing reveled in thrusting a reeking t, ' rapid change Although historians have intermit- Lk',. i'2 ar mixture of bones,blood and hair tently recognized the value and extent of his Cin- 5 Lt-:C under people' at breakfast cinnati writings-well four hundred s noses St over essays, time He was only known to sketches,or notes-they are still little known to tri:,=2 fame by the name of The" Ghoul " Linannatians an d largely unknown to the larger American public They remain,to this day,unsur- Lafcadio Hearn, ' passed for their perspicuity and Insight Through Fttoj. self-description in 18741 them the city comes vibrantly alive 2 i.. 5=.., 1kt{'9 5'1'''2», . 1 4,'P'. 4 *3 ht. ' t'4{* '* w = THE FORGING OF A WRITER Hearn ended his life a professor of Eng- lish literature the University of To- liI at kyo and briefly at Waseda University. He achieved personal happiness as well, 1 1 - marrying a Japanese woman,with whom It. he had four children. The Japanese of today recognize Hearn as the most acute and understanding foreign interpreter of I , 111 their customs, legends, and traditions. Achieving in their day wide popularity both in Japan and in the Western world, Hearn's Japanese books have maintained their appeal. Almost all of them, print 1-* C in f' :- both in Japan and in the United States, continue to attract new readers. This paper makes an additionalclaim: 4. Namely,that Hearn's American experi- ences,particularly the years he spent in 1 Cincinnati,enabled him to become the Lafcadio Hearn s In Ghostly Japan 1899) UNCINNAT, MUSEUMCENTER CINCINNATIH STOR CAL SOCI[TY LIBRARY writer he became in Japan.'Ihe transition from youth to first manhood can be de- cisive. Hearn in Cincinnati underwent an astonishing maturation. Arriving in the city a bewildered, penniless youth of nineteen, he departed a grown man of twenty-seven, a respected if controversial reporter whose revelatory journalism had attracted local and even national attention. His .journalism reflected the enthusiasm and exuberance of a young writer encountering the richness and variety of the world around him. lhe city fostered the matu- ration of Hearn the man and Hearn the journalist. In Cincinnati his writ- ing underwent its first flowering;when he left,he was already an author of marked, if unusual, distinction. His Cincinnati work may not often rise to the level of the mature masterpieces he wrote in Japan but it can be daz- zling in its own right.
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