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Underwood Families Of Caledonia, Ohio consists of many segments that are combined to form synergies that enhance the book. The Underwood account is part family history that includes pertinent biographical data, part genealogy that traces descendants, and part local history that provides information about the development of Caledonia and Ohio. It explores the ancestry and family histories of a specific group of people who migrated westward to a central Ohio hamlet in the eighteenth century and later. Individuals with an Underwood surname first appeared in New England in 1637 after they had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Old England. Around the same time, there were other Underwood migrations to the Delaware Bay area, and of principal interest is one group we call the Delaware Family-Caledonia Branch. This family group ultimately spread widely through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the West.We begin this study with Samuel Underwood who appeared in the Delaware Bay area in the mid-seventeenth century. He is the seminal figure in our examination because beginning with him we have been able to establish a direct line of descendants. This genealogical journey is documented through a total of eight men; we conclude with Miller Harland Underwood (1865-1937) who spent his entire life in or near Caledonia, Ohio. We follow these people as they settle in Pennsylvania before moving westward in their Conestoga wagons to become early pioneers in the Ohio Country. Here they face the perils of disease and hostile Indians and overcome innumerable hardships while migrating into central Ohio. Some of them settle in an area that eventually becomes Caledonia, Ohio. While we focus upon the men composing the direct line, we follow their offspring as well as they spread west to the Pacific Ocean.To accomplish this task, we have organized this book into three parts. The first section consists of pertinent historical data that makes the movement of Underwood families into Ohio more meaningful and places these events within the context of the times. The second portion presents genealogical data, intermixed with family history, in a readable narrative that supports the line of succession of the "Underwood eight" and follows many of their offspring. The last part is an appendix that is a full descendant-ordered National Genealogical Society (NGS) report covering up to 13 generations. It documents more than 2700 individuals, in excess of 800 marriages, and over 600 surnames. Also included is an index of these individuals.We expect our approach to Ohio history and Underwood genealogy will be useful to others as they consider their past and its import for their future. In any event, we trust the reader will find the journey offered by this book to be enjoyable, instructive, and rewarding.Book ExcerptThe earliest immigrants to America were from England, but between 1749-1750 more than 30,000 Germans arrived in Pennsylvania. The long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean took two or three months. Gottlieb Mittelberger was a schoolteacher from Germany who, along with 500 of his fellow countrymen, sailed across the Atlantic aboard the Osgood and arrived in Philadelphia in late 1750. He writes of the perils of emigrating from Germany:The people are packed densely, like herrings so to say, in the large sea-vessels. One person receives a place of scarcely 2 feet width and 6 feet length in the bedstead, while many a ship carries four to six hundred souls . . . But during the voyage there is on board these ships terrible misery, stench, fumes, horror, vomiting, many kinds of sea-sickness, fever, dysentery, headache, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth rot, and the like, all of which come from old and sharply salted food and meat, also from very bad and foul water, so that many die miserably . . . That most of the people get sick is not surprising because . . . meals can hardly be eaten, on account of being so unclean. The water which is served out of th ... Read more

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This is a very comprehensive guide to the genealogical records and sources in Ohio,written by one of Ohio's foremost genealogists, Carol Willsey Bell.For each of Ohio's eighty-eight counties, Mrs. Bell supplies the following data: the countycreation date and the name(s) of the parent county; the county seat; the name and address of thecounty courthouse, library, historical society, genealogical society, archival district, and healthdepartment; a list of relevant land surveys (for land and deed research); the surroundingcounties; and the names of all townships in the county. Next is a detailed breakdown of the courtrecords on microfilm (LDS and Ohio Historical Society), listed first by originating office andthen by record group. This includes the records of the State Auditor, Clerks of Court, Court ofCommon Pleas, Children's Homes, Coroner, County Homes, County Commissioners, ProbateCourt, Recorder, Sheriff, Soldier's Relief Commission, and Treasurer.Then there follows an itemization of the census records available for each county, includingspecial schedules, a listing of the county's records on microfilm in the State Library, plusmanuscript collections, newspapers, tax records, articles from periodicals, and an extensive listof published sources for that county. And all of this magnificently detailed data on the countiesis preceded by an elaborate listing of statewide and regional records and publications. ... Read more

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Cairo. Rome. Enterprise. Metropolis. These are but a few of the grand names given to early settlements along the lower Ohio River. So why didn't a major city develop from at least one of these early visions? Historian Darrel Bigham reveals the complex forces that shaped these little places in America. His intimate knowledge of the area discloses fundamental truths about the American dream and how human decisions affected a town's prosperity. 40 illustrations. ... Read more

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While the men of Akron busied themselves laying the economic, legal, and industrial foundations, their mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters were equally busy weaving the benevolent and cultural fabric of the growing city. It was pattern replicated in scores of industrial centers across the nation. This is the story of how it happened in Akron, Ohio. Akron's "Better Half": Women's and the Humanization of the City, 1825-1925 looks at how women brought much-needed services to the city, created health institutions that continue today, and built Akron's cultural and literary foundations. Akron women seldom acted alone; they preferred to work with like-minded women through clubs, organizations, and societies, some of which still survive today. This book covers the first 100 years of Akron's history, a time of enormous growth and change in the city. It was also a time of enormous energy and activism on the part of the women's clubs. It is a different perspective on the city, its history, and its institutions. ... Read more

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Volume V completes the Ohio Quaker genealogical records . It contains thegenealogical records found in all original books known to exist of the twenty-one monthlymeetings belonging to the Wilmington Yearly Meeting, Clinton County, Ohio, and/or theIndiana Yearly Meeting, Richmond, Indiana. All twenty-one meetings are located insouth-central, western, and southwestern Ohio. Records of meetings formerly held in these areas,but now laid down (including Hicksite) are included. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Philadelphia area records from the late 1600's thru late 1800's
Large book that would be cumbersome if in hardback.Heavy enough in paperback.Print is typewriter letters but clearly and solidly set on the page.

I took this volume to bed to read but laid it on the bed for support while reading.

It has a general history of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, a page of abbreviations, and a little history of each of the earliest four monthly meetings (Salem NJ, Burlington NJ, Philadelphia PA, Falls-Fallsington,Bucks Co. PA), their records, and where those records are kept.

There is a 135 page family name index with variations of spellings grouped together before all the page numbers are given.

Notice is made of any individuals within a family group entry of a different name.

I had great fun reading it cover to cover.1126 pages including index.

Essential for Quaker Research
INDEX to the Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy 1750-1930 by William Wade Hinshaw.

DearREADERS, "Totally thrilled" describes my feelings as I received my copy of the index to our library's copy of William Wade Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy 1750-1930. This past summer I discovered I have Welsh and English Quaker ancestry in Chester County, PA. (Merion on the Welsh Tract.) Prior to this I'd had no personal experience doing Quaker Research.

When I asked others about Quaker Research, they raved about Mr. Hinshaw's six volume compilation of Friend's Monthly Meeting records listing births, deaths, marriages and removals. That last term refers to entries in the church books when Society of Friends members moved from one area to another. They were removed from the old Monthly Meeting membership in order to join the new group.

We're fortunate to have Mr. Hinshaw's complete set of Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy at our local public library. As I uncover new names to research, I'll be turning again and again to Henshaw's Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy.

From the publisher: "William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, originally published between 1936 and 1950. Containing approximately 500,000 entries.. each volume ha[s] a separate surname index..."

"Almost no class of records, religious or secular, has been kept as meticulously as the monthly meeting records of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The oldest such records span three centuries of American history and testify to a general movement of population that extended from New England and the Middle Atlantic states southward to Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia; then west to Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The importance of these records cannot be overstated. Not until recently have the vital statistics of Quakers been recorded in civil record offices.

Thus, for more than two centuries, the only vital records identifying these people are to be met with in the Quaker records themselves. Fortunately, the monthly meeting records contain extensive lists of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as details of the removal of members from one meeting to another. (The monthly meeting, during which vital statistics are recorded, is in fact, a business meeting.)"

Painstakingly developed from these monthly meeting records, Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker genealogy.In its production, thousands of records were located and abstracted into a uniform and intelligible system of notation. The data gathered in these volumes of the Encyclopedia are arranged by meeting, then alphabetically by family name, and chronologically thereunder. Volume 1: NORTH CAROLINA Volume II: NEW JERSEY AND PENNSYLVANIA Volume III: NEW YORK Volume IV: OHIO Volume V: OHIO Volume VI: VIRGINIA"

If as the publisher suggests, 50% of our pre-1850 US ancestors were Quaker, than every researcher needs a personal copy of the index, and every genealogy library needs the six volumeEncyclopedia! ... Read more

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Lists Ohio genealogical materials available at the State Library of Ohio for each Ohio county. ... Read more

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Ashland, Dorcas, Centerburg, Crestline, Galion, Loudonville, Mansfiels, Marion, Mt Gilead, MT Vernon, Orrville, Marvin, Carnegie, Wayne Public Libraries ... Read more

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"County by County in Ohio Genealogy" is a revision of the book last printed in 1978. This publication lists Ohio genealgical materials available at the State Library of Ohio for each Ohio cpinty. It serves as a guide to the Ohio resources including 14,000 volumes and 15,000 microforms in the non-circulating genealogy collection.The genealogy collection consists of a broad spectrum of resources including census microfilms and indexes, vital records, family genealogies, and county histories. The strongest component of the collection is the Ohio material with additional coverage for the 17 states that preceded Ohio into statehood, in particular: Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. ... Read more