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Description
Title
William
Henry
Harrison
Log
Cabin
Raising
Engraving
Subject
Presidents and Politics
Presidential elections
Political campaigns
Log cabins
Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
Place
Chillicothe (Ohio)
Ross County (Ohio)
North Bend (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
This
engraving
depicts
a
William
Henry
Harrison
Log
Cabin
raising
in
Chillicothe
in
May
1840
.
Members
of the
Scioto
Tippecanoe
Club
joined
with the
Straight-Outs
,
another
Whig
organization
, to
build
a
log
cabin
council
house
on the
corner
of
Paint
and
Main
Streets
. The
finished
building
could
hold
one
thousand
people
. The
engraving
measures
5.5
by
4.5
inches
(13.97
by
11.43
cm)
.
Historians
have
described
the
1840
campaign
as the
first
modern
political
campaign
.
Harrison
broke
with
tradition
and
campaigned
actively
for
president
on the
Whig
ticket
. The
log
cabin
became
the
symbol
of
Harrison's
campaign
when
his
Democratic
opponents
ridiculed
him,
saying
he would be
content
to
spend
his
days
in a
log
cabin
drinking
hard
cider
.
Harrison's
supporters
turned
this
insult
around
to
portray
Harrison
as a
man
of the
people
.
Harrison
was a
member
of a
prominent
Virginia
family
. He
served
as
aide-de-camp
to
General
Anthony
Wayne
during
the
Battle
of
Fallen
Timbers
in
1794
.
After
moving
to the
Ohio
country
, he
became
secretary
of the
Northwest
Territory
and
served
as the
territory's
first
representative
to
Congress
. In
1801
,
Harrison
became
governor
of the
Indiana
Territory
and
served
in that
position
for
12
years
.
Harrison
achieved
his
greatest
fame
during
the
Battle
of
Tippecanoe
in
1811
. He was
planning
an
attack
on an
Indian
settlement
known
as
Prophet's
town
.
Instead
, the
Indians
attacked
Harrison's
camp
on the
Tippecanoe
River
.
Harrison's
troops
repulsed
the
Indians
, but
suffered
almost
200
dead
and
wounded
.
During
the
War
of
1812
,
Harrison
commanded
the
Army
of the
Northwest
and
attained
the
rank
of
brigadier
general
. In
1813
, he
defeated
the
combined
forces
of the
British
and
American
Indians
at the
Battle
of the
Thames
,
where
chief
Tecumseh
was
killed
.
Harrison
resigned
his
commission
in
1814
and
returned
to
Ohio
. He
entered
politics
and
served
in
both
houses
of the
U.S
.
Congress
and the
state
senate
.
Although
he
campaigned
for
president
unsuccessfully
in
1836
, he was
elected
president
in
1840
.
Date of Original
May
,
1840
Collection
Presidential
Whig
Campaign
of
1840
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Ross County Historical Society
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om465_1025727_007.tif
Image Height
1320
Image Width
1660
File Size
620.012 KB
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