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1787
Member of Congress John Cleves Symmes of New
Jersey and a group of investors bought this land from Congress.
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1788
Losantiville settled by Mathias Denman, the
second major settlement in the Ohio Country.
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1790
Losantiville named the capital of the Northwest
Territory; Governor Arthur St. Clair changed the name to Cincinnati,
in honor of the Revolutionary Veterans association, the Society
of the Cincinnati.
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1830s
Cincinnati earned the nickname "Porkopolis"
because of the large number of slaughterhouses in the city.
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1869
The Cincinnati Red Stockings fielded as the
first professional baseball team in the country.
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1888-1910
Boss George B. Cox dominated Cincinnati
politics as one of the most notorious and successful big-city
political bosses in the country.
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1908
Cincinnatian William Howard Taft elected the
27th President of the US. He also Served as Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, 1921-1930.
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1938-1953
President Taft's son, Robert A.
Taft, served as an influential United States Senator and sponsor
of the Taft-Hartley Labor Management Act that restricted labor
unions.
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