The Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati

How A Doctor And A Young Woman Changed The Literary World

Harriet Beecher Stowe (Cincinnati Enquirer, 6/14/1896)

1832 was a very tough year in Cincinnati.

In February, the Ohio River rose to 63 feet, a flood that caused major damage along the riverbank. In April, a measles epidemic swept through the Queen City. No sooner than things were beginning to return to normal that summer, the great Cholera Epidemic reac…