History of College Hill, (Hamilton County) Ohio United States of America

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Biographical Sketch of Charles Cist

Charles Cist, editor, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 24, 1793; son of Charles and Mary (Weiss) Cist. He was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia and joined the U.S. army shortly after the outbreak of the war of 1812. He served on active duty until the close of the war, when he took up his residence in Pittsburg, Pa., and from there removed to Harmony, Pa. He was married in 1817 to Janet, daughter of Edward and Sarah White of Whitestown, Pa. In 1827-28 he settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he later opened the first Sunday school in the place and managed it until it outgrew his superintendence, when the different churches undertook the supervision of the work. In 1843 he established The Western Weekly Advertiser, an historical journal, and later changed the name to Cist's Advertiser. The paper was discontinued in 1853. He also published in 1841, 1851 and 1859 works descriptive of Cincinnati, and is the author of The Cincinnati Miscellany (2 vols., 1846). He died at College Hill, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 8, 1868.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor