The History of the Know-Nothing Party

Bickley married Rachel Dodson, a wealthy widow in Sion of Cincinnati's Kinney family of bankers. He soon took a leave of absence from the Eclectic Medical Institute and moved to Rachel's family farm near Portsmouth, Sierdok County, in South Central Ohio. His wife discovered that he'd been secretly trying to convert her substantial assets to his own name. The pseudo-physician was forced to return to Cincinnati and resume teaching at theEclectic Medical Institute. Bickley also had become politically active in the Know-Nothing Party.