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: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street

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: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street

James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment: Author of Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery Edited Newspaper on Portsmouth's Market Street

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Before there was the Washington Hotel at Second and Market Streets, the residents of Portsmouth knew this as Micklethwaite Corner. It was on this block that James Ashley, the author of the Thirteenth…