Excerpt from The Jews of Ohio: Ohio Sesquicentennial, 1803-1953 The other way to Cincinnati lay from the South. In coming from New Orleans, it was necessary to travel over the Natchez Trace, through Indian country to Cincinnati.born west of the Alleghenies was the son of David I. And Eliza Johnson. He was born in Connersville, Indiana, on February 1, 1819. To this same couple belongs the honor of becoming Cincinnati's first Jewish parents. Another son of theirs, Frederick A. Johnson, was born on June 2, 1821, to become the first native Jewish Cincinnatian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.