Cist, Charles (1851) Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in 1851 - Illustrated

Hardcover. Bound in black fabric-covered boards with stamping on spine in both gilt and blind, front and rear covers in blind only. 365 pp., 26 illus (23 full page). Catalogs on front and rear endpapers.

Condition: VG. Top quarter inch of spine missing. FFE has been excised. Minor foxing. Previous owner signature on title page, bleeding onto frontispiece and through to the next several pages. Several gatherings have the beginnings of splitting in the gutter.

Charles Cist “was the son of printer Charles Cist. He was educated in Philadelphia, and during the War of 1812 was engaged in garrison duty in the eastern forts. After the war, he settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a few years later moved to Harmony, Pennsylvania, where he opened a store, and was for a time postmaster.

During the winter of 1827/8 he moved to Cincinnati, where he opened and superintended the first Sunday school in Cincinnati, and continued it until it grew beyond his control, when it was divided among the churches. Cist also worked for the success of free schools.

In 1843 Cist established The Western Weekly Advertiser, a family journal devoted to the early history of the [Native Americans] of the west, and to statistics relating to Cincinnati and the state of Ohio. A few years later the name became Cist’s Weekly Advertiser, and it continued until 1853. He prepared and published Cincinnati in 1841 (drawing largely on an 1815 work by Daniel Drake), Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in 1851, Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in 1859, and The Cincinnati Miscellany, the last composed largely of incidents in the early settlements, with many of his own writings (2 vols., 1845 and 1846). – Wikipedia