Woodward Career Technical High School is a public high school located in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio , United States. It is part of the Cincinnati Public School District .
15-472: Samuel Lewis or Sam Lewis may refer to: Politics [ edit ] Samuel Lewis (educator) (1799–1854), American politician, Ohio Superintendent of Common Schools and Liberty Party candidate Samuel A. Lewis (1831–1913), American politician and philanthropist Samuel Lewis (barrister) (1843–1903), Sierra Leonean politician, lawyer, first African to be knighted Samuel S. Lewis (1874–1959), Secretary of
30-560: A Whig, affiliated with the abolitionist Liberty Party . In 1846 he stood for office as the Liberty Party's candidate for governor of Ohio, coming in a distant third in the final canvass behind the Whig and Democratic nominees, with 11,000 votes. In 1851 he was once again an unsuccessful candidate for governor, this time as the nominee of the Free Soil party, polling 17,000 votes. In 1852 he attended
45-637: A fund to create one of the first free public schools in America, the historic Woodward Free Grammar School . Lewis was made a trustee of the school for life, with the power of appointing his successor. Notable educators associated with this school in its early days include Joseph Ray and William McGuffey , the author of the McGuffey's Readers . In 1831 Lewis was one of the organizers of an annual teachers' institute that met in Cincinnati for many years, and in 1837, when
60-602: A third of which is unusable (including the swimming pools on the top floor). The building is listed in the Over-the-Rhine (South) Local Historic District and the Over-the-Rhine National Register Historic District . In 1953 Woodward High School moved to a new location in Bond Hill at the corner of Reading Road and E. Seymour Avenue, designed to serve the postwar surge in population in
75-408: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Samuel Lewis (educator) Samuel Lewis (March 17, 1799 - July 28, 1854) was an American educator, lawyer, and politician, who from 1837 to 1840 served as Ohio's first state superintendent of common schools. He was also one of the candidates for Free Soil Party 's vice-presidential nomination in
90-460: The 1852 US presidential election . Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts , his father, Samuel Lewis Sr., was the captain of a sea vessel. In 1813 the family migrated west and settled in Cincinnati, where young Samuel took up the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1822. As a young lawyer one of Lewis's clients was the Cincinnati philanthropist William Woodward, and in 1826, when Woodward endowed
105-477: The Good Samaritan Hospital (still in operation at its later Clifton Heights location). In 1865 it became St. Luke's Hospital, where disabled Civil War soldiers were treated. It was replaced by residential homes in 1874, which were demolished to clear ground for the new Woodward school building in 1907. The current five-story building has 150 rooms and 225,000 sq ft (20,900 m ) of space,
120-1144: The Pennsylvania Department of Forest and Waters in 1951–1954 Sam Lewis (trade unionist) (1901–1976), Australian trade unionist Samuel W. Lewis (1930–2014), American diplomat Samuel W. Lewis (politician) , American politician Samuel Lewis Navarro (born 1957), vice president of Panama Other [ edit ] Samuel Lewis, early South Australian stonemason who carved the cross on William Light 's first memorial Samuel Lewis (publisher) (c. 1782–1865), editor and publisher of topographical dictionaries and maps Samuel Lewis (financier) (1837–1901), English money-lender and philanthropist Samuel E. Lewis (1840–1907), Union Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient Sam M. Lewis (1885–1959), American singer and lyricist Samuel L. Lewis (1896–1971), American Sufi founder, Zen educator Sam Lewis (rugby union, born 1990) , Welsh rugby union player Sam Lewis (rugby union, born 1998) , English rugby union player Sam Lewis (game designer) , American designer of board games [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
135-461: The day after his election, President Elect William Howard Taft , who graduated from Woodward High School in 1874, laid the cornerstone of a third building, which opened to students in 1910 ( 39°6′38″N 84°30′36″W / 39.11056°N 84.51000°W / 39.11056; -84.51000 ). The site is also linked to the Underground Railroad . William Woodward built a home on
150-462: The national convention of the Free Soil party where his name was put forward as a candidate for the party's vice-presidential nomination; he withdraw after coming in second to the eventual nominee, George W. Julian , on the first ballot. In 1853 he ran again as the Free Soil nominee for governor, increasing his vote total to 50,346. He died on July 28, 1854, of a typhoid fever, at the age of 55. Woodward High School (Cincinnati, Ohio) Woodward
165-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Lewis&oldid=1212508877 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732851389872180-629: The site in 1832, where Levi Coffin and his wife, Catharine, lived from 1856 to 1863. Coffin (known as "The President of the Underground Railroad"), sheltered over one hundred fugitive slaves each year on their way to freedom in Canada. The home was first occupied by Henry Rucher, an early principal and math teacher at the Woodward school, and it was commonly known as the Rucher House. It later served as
195-528: The state legislature created the office of Superintendent of Common Schools, Lewis was named the first incumbent of the office for a three-year term. During his term in office he is said to have visited 300 schools, traveling on horseback. More than 1400 new schoolhouses were constructed in Ohio during his tenure. His report to the Ohio legislature requested additional teacher pay and the need for small class size. After leaving office Lewis, who up to that time had been
210-505: The suburbs of Bond Hill, Golf Manor, Roselawn, Hartwell, and Carthage. The old downtown building was designated Abigail Cutter Junior High School until the School for Creative and Performing Arts took over the entire facility in 1977. In August 2006, the City of Cincinnati opened Woodward Career Technical High School , which features a mixture of college-preparatory and vocational education. With
225-412: Was one of the first public schools in the country. The land for the original school was donated by William Woodward and his wife Abigail Cutter in 1826 to provide free education for poor children who could not afford private schooling. The Woodward Free Grammar School opened on the site in 1831 and was the first free public school in the city. The original two-story school building was replaced in 1855. On
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