1836 Letter from Steubenville, OH to Pittsburgh, PA

Description: Letter written from Steubenville, OH by H. G. Pendleton to Jonas M. Tebbets, in Pittsburgh, PA, November 11, 1836. H. G. Pendleton (b. 1801; d.1888) was a graduate of Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, OH, and became the preacher of the Granville, OH Presbyterian Church at its inception in 1839. At the end of his fourth year it was decided by a large majority that he was not satisfactory to the Church on account of his pro-slavery sentiments. It is doubtful that Pendleton was "pro-slavery." More likely he was simply not sufficiently anti-slavery for the taste of at least part of his congregation. He went on to found the Henry, IL Female Seminary, 1847-48. Jonas M. Tebbets (b. c 1820; d. 1914), was educated at Western University of Pittsburgh (this letter was written to him at this time), and after graduation, he became a Professor there. He left his job at the University, and went west as a teacher and steamboat worker, and by 1839, he reached the Arkansas frontier, where he studied law. In 1853, he built his home in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Tebbets practiced law and was a Judge in Fayetteville, and became a popular leader of the town, but when the Civil War began, he became notorious for his staunch pro-Union and anti-Slavery views. Once a member of the Arkansas state legislature and attorney for the Fayetteville branch of the State Bank, he was briefly imprisoned at Fort Smith (Sebastian County) for his Unionist views by Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch following Arkansas’s secession. When General McCulloch was killed at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Tebbets was released, and he returned to Fayetteville. When word came of a plot to kill him, he escaped behind Union lines in Missouri. After the war, he returned to the North, and lived there until his death. James Turnbull (b. 20 July 1795, Philadelphia, PA; d. 13 June 1887, Steubenville, OH). Turnbull accompanied his mother to Pittsburgh, when he was about twelve years of age. In Pittsburgh he learned the trade of a book binder. In 1816 he settled permanently in Steubenville. There he established a book bindery and book store to which his attention was given until 1852. A2

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