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A Republic of Farm People: Women, Families, and Market-Minded Agrarianism in Ohio, 1820s–1830s

On April , , forty-eight-year-old Aaron Miller departed his native Louden County, Virginia, home on horseback, accompanied by his brother Daniel, to travel westward to Ohio. Their expressed purpose was to seek out and purchase farms capable of profitable wheat production for several of the Miller brothers and their families. Over the next month and a half, Miller recorded his detailed observations about Ohio and its agriculture, farm people, and overall state of economic and material development. Certainly, whatever Thomas Jefferson had envisioned within his agrarian ideology regarding the future growth and prosperity for the young United States and its “republic of farmers” was alive, well, and commercially succeeding in Ohio by the s, major elements of which were documented by Miller.1 Even before crossing into the state, on a route that would traverse central Ohio counties primarily along the National Road and briefly into Indiana, Miller met almost daily with two, three, or five droves of Ohio cattle bound for the Baltimore and Philadelphia