Portrait of John Clinton Ashley

ID: 703 ~ Source: Nelson W. Evans, History of Scioto County, Ohio (Portsmouth, 1903): 646.

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

This portrait captures John Clinton Ashley, the father of Congressman James W. Ashley - the author of the 13th Amendment.

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…