Information Wanted With Reference To The Early Settlers Of Losantiville (Now Cincinnati)

Before Cincinnati had boulevards and bridges, it was Losantiville - a river-edge experiment of cabins, claims, and kin. Every name has a history. Compiled by Cincinnati bookseller and antiquarian Robert Clarke, Information Wanted with Reference to the Early Settlers of Losantiville gathers the questions, notices, and leads that early residents and descendants placed in search of one another. Part local history reference, part historical query compilation, it reads like the city speaking in fragments: who arrived, who married, who moved on, and where the trail of papers might still be found. For readers tracing early Cincinnati settlers and Losantiville pioneer families, it is a practical genealogical records collection; for anyone curious about the Ohio Valley settlement history, it is a vivid glimpse of community-building on the edge of the American frontier. The result is both a genealogy research resource and an engrossing window onto the Cincinnati frontier era and eighteenth century Ohio, where memory was kept in oral reports, letters, and courthouse lines. Dip in for a single surname, or follow the webs of migration downriver and inland as the settlement becomes a city slowly. Valued by Ohio history researchers and collectors of foundational Americana, this volume preserves a strand of American pioneer genealogy and Midwest pioneer history that standard narratives often overlook: the everyday search for belonging, inheritance, and proof. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.