basin of the city. Cincinnati residents followed the inclines, streetcars, and railroads, as well as already existing waterways to new neighborhoods. During this time period many public institutions and buildings were also established in Cincinnati. Early plat books of the Joseph Earnshaw Engineering Company include surveys completed for the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, Eden Park, the Chamber of Commerce, and the post office during the 1860s and 1870s.Joseph Earnshaws E stateJoseph Earnshaw passed away on January 13, 1906 due to complications from heart disease. He left his estate and possessions to his wife Eleanor, but his will stated that in the event of her death within eighteen months of his demise, without her having made a will, the entire estate is to be created into a trust fund to be known as the Earnshaw Relief Fund and to be presented to the city. The Earnshaw estate, with Thomas Punshon serving as executor,consisted of valuable real estate in the center of the city, suburban property, and securities. Eleanor Earnshaw did survive her husband for more than eighteen months. Because the Earnshaws had no surviving children, she left her and her late husbands estate to the trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, the church she and Joseph attended. According to the will, the diocese was to pay her sister and brother Miranda and Theodore Bayless, each an income of $300 per year during their lives, and the remaining balance of the income is to go to the Board of Trustees or managers of the Lawrence Episcopal Home, to be used as desired to promote the work of their home. She also created a fund for the perpetual care of her burial lot, and left her collection of Indian baskets, butterflies, and English candelabra to the Cincinnati Art Museum. On January 12, 1910, a codicil was added to Eleanors will giving herbrother and sister all the household goods and personal effects in her home at 960 Lenox Place.Sources: Spring Grove Cemetery Burial Records. Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, No. 73091; Earnshaw Relief Fund, The Washington Post, January 27, 1906; Executors Sale, The Cincinnati Enquirer, March 2, 1912, 7; For Relief of Cincinnati Poor, The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, January 27, 1906. 28