In 1914, the richest and busiest art collector in Cincinnati was certainly Charles Taft. Enno Meyer painted this satirical portrait because Taft almost never purchased from living artists, especially ...

For nearly 50 years, Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati left his white Georgian house in prim Pike Street each morning and made his way to his newspaper office, the Times-Star. Neat, small, ...

A man in Cincinnati, married, had a son, married again, then had a son every other year for six years —four sons in all. The first two sons married Cincinnati young women. The third took a wife from ...