View of Micklethwait Corner, location of James Ashley's Printshop, Second and Market Streets, Portsmouth, Ohio (c. 1890).

ID: 292 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the Carl Ackerman Collection, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio (Accession No. 1996.2.1237).

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View of Micklethwait Corner, location of James Ashley's Printshop, Second and Market Streets, Portsmouth, Ohio (c. 1890).

This file appears in: James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment

James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

Born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James Ashley moved with his parents and siblings to Portsmouth in the spring of 1826 at the age of four and grew to manhood here. His father, John Clinton Ashley was a minister in the Disciples (Campbellite)…