In 1832 the newly formed Lane Seminary in Cincinnati welcomed the prestigious Reverend [[Lyman Beecher]] as its president. Trouble began almost immediately in 1833 when [[Theodore Dwight Weld]] became a student and attempted to make antislavery the principal work of the seminary, leading to the expulsion of Weld and other antislavery activists.
In 1828 wealthy Englishwoman Frances Trollope arrived with a plan to become rich by opening a department store. She opened Trollope's Bazaar, a grandiose structure featuring fancy goods, a coffee house, and a ballroom. Although the bazaar was a spectacular failure, her book, critical of the habits of the citizens of the natives, ''Domestic Manners of the Americans'' (1832), published after she returned to London, made her famous throughout America and remains a delightful read.<ref>See [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=ClOwPGhU06MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Domestic+intitle:Manners+intitle:of+intitle:the+intitle:Americans&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=1&as_pt=ALLTYPES online edition]</ref>
The high death rate in Cincinnati's two major cholera epidemics, 1832 and 1849, was in part due to the complacency of city officials, lack of leadership in the medical community, and the