Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840 by William Cooper Howells (1807 - 1894)

William Cooper Howells recounts his family's settlement in Ohio in 1813, including setting up a woolen mill and life on the frontier.

A reading of William Cooper Howells' autobiography about his early life in Ohio from 1813 to 1840, detailing pioneer experiences and observations.

William Cooper Howells recounts his early life in Ohio from 1813 to 1840, offering a personal perspective on pioneer and immigrant experiences.

A historical account of the 1836-1837 financial panic in Ohio, describing unsound banking and speculative mania.

William Cooper Howells recounts his work in a printing office and the eccentric author of an epic poem about Napoleon.

William Cooper Howells recounts his family's failed farming experiment and move to Wheeling, where he learns the printing business.

William Cooper Howells describes early Ohio households where a quarter section of land, a log house, and a barn could make a family "well off," while cloth sold for $1.25 to $1.50 a yard and wheat often stayed near 35 cents a bushel.

["William Cooper Howells describes 1836-1837 as years of \"unsound money,\" reckless bank charters, speculative paper wealth, and banks that soon suspended specie payments.", "A 1839 trip from Martinville to Hamilton takes him through Zanesville, Lancaster, Washington Courthouse, and Dayton, then into ownership of the Hamilton Intelligencer on credit before the 1840 Harrison campaign.", "He supports Harrison in 1840, Henry Clay in 1844, and Tom Corwin's anti-Mexican-War stance in 1848, then breaks with the Whigs over the Fugitive Slave Law and the Free Soil cause.", "The chapter ends with his later life in Jefferson, a Quebec and Toronto consular posting under Grant, a failed Virginia farm, and a final old age marked by gardening, humor, a stroke of paralysis, and death at eighty-seven."]

William Cooper Howells moves from printing Thomas H.

Methodist conflict in Steubenville turns on New Lights who let anyone preach, fill meetings with shouting, and pull away dissatisfied members.

["Howells says his formal schooling totaled about three months, including two Steubenville quarters and sixteen evenings of grammar.", "He credits Mother and conversations with men for most of his learning, while noting that Ohio's common school system had not yet been established.", "The memoir moves through Battle of New Orleans celebrations, Quaker silence, the 'Dark house again!' taunt, and his first Federalist politics.", "It closes on John Finley's school, Edwin Stanton as a seatmate, and Father's Methodist zeal during the typhoid winter."]

William Cooper Howells recounts his childhood in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, focusing on his limited formal schooling and self-education at home.