Buckeye Presidents-- Part 3: "Old Tippecanoe"

Objects, artifacts and photographs displayed throughout the center's upper floors were assembled from the Library of Congress, Ohio History Connection, Western Reserve Historical Society and elsewhere.  The show highlights four aspects of each president's life:  their home life, campaign, time at the White House and Death.

Visitors will find Garfield's bathrobe as well as Warren G. Harding's silk pajamas on display. There are hats, fans, china, walking sticks, furniture, historic campaign materials and other personal items.

The first Ohio president Benjamin Harrison's grandfather William Henry Harrison, was the nation's ninth president and the first to die in office.  He was a famed War of 1812 and Indian fighter hero known as "Old Tippecanoe" (for a victory over the Indians) and died just 31 days into his term of typhoid, pneumonia, and paratyphoid fever, prompting the first protocols for replacing a sitting president when he dies.

--Cooter