SITE OF THE SALMON P. CHASE LAW OFFICE - Cincinnati, Ohio
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BruceS
N 39° 05.964 W 084° 30.569
16S E 715370 N 4330760
Historic building on the site of the law office for Salmon P. Chase who became the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Waymark Code: WM3Q0J
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2008
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The 4-story sandstone building at the NE. corner of E. Third and Main Sts.
is on the SITE OF THE SALMON P. CHASE LAW OFFICE. Upon arriving in
Cincinnati in 1830, Chase (1808-73) hung up his shingle, wrote his 3-volume
work, Statues of Ohio, and won the derisive epithet of "attorney general for
runaway Negroes" His handling of the Matilda Case in 1837 and his defense
of James G. Birney, the abolitionist editor accused of harboring an escaped
slave, brought him considerable renown. He was elected to the United
States Senate in 1849, served as Governor of Ohio between 1856 and 1860, and was
again elected to the Senate in 1860 but resigned to become Lincoln's Secretary
of the Treasury. Following the death of Roger Taney, Case was appointed
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
~ from Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors,
1943, Tour 2, pg. 158.
The 4-story building mentioned in the Guide is still at the location.
The building is one of six buildings in the the Main--Third Street Buildings
historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.