News : 1869: What else is as old as Vinton?

[caption id="attachment_24383" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rutgers and Princeton played the first collegiate football game in 1869, the same year Vinton was incorporated as a city.[/caption] Jesse James and Gandhi.   Professional baseball and college football. As Vinton area residents begin planning the city's 150th celebration next August, we at Vinton Today have begun pondering local history, when Vinton began and what the world was like 150 years ago. How old is 150 years? Here are just a few of the things that happened, and people who were born, the same year that Vinton officially became a city. In 1869, Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th President of the United States. The iconic Civil War General -- who has been honored with cheers of "U.S. Army! U.S. Navy! U.S. Grant!" at the end of the war was the first to be elected following the assassination of Lincoln. As old as professional baseball and college football According to Ohio history, the Cincinnati Red Stockings (now, of course, called the Reds) became the first fully professional baseball team in the summer of 1869. Later that year, Rutgers played Princeton in what is now considered the first-ever collegiate football game, winnng 6-4. P.E.O. The P.E.O. Sisterhood, which still includes a Vinton chapter 150 years later, began in 1869, in Iowa, at Iowa Wesleyan College. Jesse James The famous outlaw's first confirmed crime, the robbery of a bank in Gallatin, Mo., took place in December of 1869. Also born in 1869: Neville Chamberlain, future Prime Minister of Great Britain. Mohandis Gandhi, Indian politician and philosopher. Harvey Cushing, a pioneer in neurosurgery.