A Little piece of Paradise… College Hill, Ohio - SELFCRAFT

of the wedding march burst forth before the summons to the banquet table. She relates that she andothers who had been present at the wedding were invited to celebrate the anniversary of that date formore than forty-five years. The exact same menu of the original occasion was served, a realThanksgiving spread. Members of the Sayre family lived in this home until 1941, when it was sold toDr. Keene.This interesting old house has scratched on a wavy glass pane of glass in a second floor window,“April 26, 1857 John Price.”Dr. John W. Scott was born Jan. 22, 1800 in Pennsylvania. He was Professor of Physics &Chemistry at Miami University, 1828-1845. Scott left Miami because of his anti-slavery stance. Hetaught at Farmers’ College until 1849 when he left to become president of the Oxford FemaleInstitute, located in College Hill. He relocated the school to Oxford where he died in 1892. Dr. Scott’shome in Mt. Healthy was built in 1840 and had several tunnels and rooms as a station on theUnderground Railroad. The brick building still stands at 7601-7603 Hamilton Avenue. Scott’sdaughter, Carrie, married president to be, Benjamin Harrison, in the parlor of this house according tolore. Dr. Scott married Mary P. Neal and they had fifty years together before Mary died in 1876. Thefollowing year their unmarried son died as a result of the Civil War.Captain A. D. E. Tweed was a director of the City Insurance Company, Fire & Marine, located at #8Front Street. He came to College Hill in 1855 along with other businessmen seeking large suburbanhomes. He purchased two lots from the Farmers’ College, about five acres for $434.16. He laterbought a strip of land from Charles Cist adjoining his property to straighten out Belmont Avenue. Hebuilt a large, nine room frame mansion on a hill that overlooked the Colerain valley. His house wasdescribed 12 as having ...one of the finest sites on the hill. It is said to be exceeded in altitude by butone location in Hamilton Co...Capt. Tweed has 20 acres of land, and a spacious dwelling, erected in1865. Tweed was an early trustee of the village of College Hill. The property was purchased byArthur H. Pounsford in 1883 and sold in 1968. The house was bought and demolished in 1969 and isnow the site of the new building for the First United Church of Christ. Tweed was also an architect inthe firm of Tweed & Sibley.The Upson 13 house at 5640 Belmont Avenue was constructed in the 1830-40 era. The builder isunknown. The two and one-half story Federal vernacular house was purchased in 1869 from Maryand Henry Hickman by Ashbel Augustine and Maria Upson. A. A. Upson was a partner with GeorgeD.Winchell in an iron ware business located on the north-west corner of Walnut and Pearl Streets.,downtown Cincinnati. Mr. Upson was a trustee on the council of municipal officers for College Hill,1870-71.The house stayed in the Upson family until 1923 when it was purchased by George Weller. Heremodeled it, making a two family home. About that time, a large one story curved porch running thewidth of the house was torn down and the current entry way added.John Van Zandt: The Dutch name of VanZandt has been spelled many ways - Vansant, Vanzandt,Van Zant, Van Sandt; almost as many ways as the states they originally came from - New York, NewJersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Locally, the Thomas Vanzants lived in Cheviot; John VanSandtin Sharonville/Glendale; Reuben, Isaac and Henry Van Zandt in Mt. Healthy and Finneytown.These various Van Zandt lineages were probably related as cousins. Having many children, they12 The Suburb’s of Cincinnati, Sidney D. Maxwell, 1870.13 Source: LaVerne Alexander, July 29, 1982.96