Ohio’s Salmon P. Chase featured in Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum’s upcoming “Team of Rivals” Exhibit, many Chase artifacts on loan from the Ohio Historical Society
October 14, 2010 – August 15, 2011

SPRINGFIELD, IL – U.S. Senator Salmon P. Chase of Ohio believed he should be President.   Instead, he ended up working for the man who [...]

In 1857, the Battle of Lumbarton occurred between federal marshals, who were enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and anti-slavery Ohioans.
Addison White, an escaped slave, set the chain of events in motion that culminated in the Battle of Lumbarton. In 1856, White ran away from Kentucky to Ohio along the Underground Railroad. He eventually [...]