Location of James Ashley's office and printshop on Market Street, Portsmouth, Ohio (c. 1898).

ID: 322 ~ Source: The Portsmouth Blade Industrial Edition (6 August 1898), Portsmouth Public Library, Local History Digital Collection, https://www.yourppl.org/history/items/show/12794.

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

Location of James Ashley's office and printshop on Market Street, Portsmouth, Ohio (c. 1898).

James A. Maxwell's Feed Store, had previously been the location of James Ashley's office and printshop.

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)…