Excerpt from Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Vol. 4For more than a century the Longworth family has figured most prominently in connection with the history of Cincinnati. It was in May, 1804, that Nicholas Longworth, grandfather of the Hon. Nicholas Longworth, the representative of the family in the present generation, arrived in this city. He was then a young man of twenty-one years, his birth having occurred in Newark, New Jersey, on the l6th of January, 1783. Attracted toward the legal profession, he be came a student in the office and under the direction of Judge Burnet, at that time the most distinguished lawyer of the city. Following his admission to the bar Mr. Longworth engaged in active practice until 1819, when he retired from the legal profession to give his supervision to his property and other in terests. He had ever regarded the purchase of real estate as the safest of all investments and as his law practice brought him substantial financial return, he bought 'land and by its sale added materially to his financial resources, rein vesting still more largely in property. At times he was enabled to purchase city lots for ten dollars or less. Remarkable sagacity seemed to indicate to him what would prove a profitable investment and after holding a purchase for a time he would sell at an advanced figure that would permit of more extensive purchases. It is related of him that on one occasion a client agreed to give him in payment of a fee two second-hand copper stills but afterward approached Mr. Longworth with the proposition that he would give him instead thirty-three acres with frontage on Western Row from Sixth to Seventh streets. The latter proposition was accepted and today the property is worth about two million dollars. Wherever opportunity offered for investment Mr. Longworth added to his realty holdings until his aggregate possessions were greater than that of any other property owner of the city. It is said that in the year 1850 his taxes on realty were greater than that of any other man in the United States save William B. Astor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.