Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — Cincinnati’s Nickname. [ARTICLE]

Cincinnati’s Nickname.

The nickname of Porkopolis is Of English origin, and was the brilliant inspiration of a sponsor who never saw Cincinnati In the year 1825 there flourished in t|je Queen City a gentleman named Jones. He was the President of the United States Branch Bank, and was locally known as “Bank Jones.* The pork trade had already taken such proportions as to rouse the financial enthusiasm of Bank Jones, and in a succession of letters he dilated upon the prosperity of the pork prospects of the Queen City. The letters were addressed to the Liverpool correspondent of the Cincinnati bank, and this gentleman’s imaginations at length became fired by Bank Jones’ enthusiasm. In a moment .... : .... .■ .

of wild generosity he hied him to the studio of some Liverpudlian Thorwaldsen and ordered the construction of, what is set down in the annals as “a unique pair of model hogs.” These noble effigies were made, of papiermache, and were sent,out to Cincinnati as a present, accompanied by the inscription—destined in part at least to become famous—“To Mr. George W. Jones, as the worthy representative of PorkopoHs.” The hogs have stilt a local habitation and a name. They add to the burden of life in the office of one of the largest “slaughterers”’ of Cincinnati, having passed by inheritance from Bank Jones down, from hand to hand, among the pork monarchs of Porkopolis, for nigh upon half a century.— Olive Logan, in Harper’s Magazine.