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The Historical Ohio Book Collection is a collection of 76 volumes relating to the history of Ohio and its people primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations and portraits of relevant historical figures.Here are the computer requirements to run and operate this DVD. You must have a PC running Windows or a Macintosh running OS X or higher software and a web browser. All the manuals in this disk are in DJVU format. This format allows you to page through the manuals, enlarge pages for better viewing and print the individual pages or entire manual as well as many other things. The viewer is very intuitive to use and has a full help system to answer any questions you may have about its more advanced features. The viewer is included on the DVD. ... Read more

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In 1921, the 1890 Population Census was destroyed by fire. This volume continues the series using alternate sources devoted to reconstruction of individuals that may have been listed in the destroyed 1890 census. Data is collected between the time periods ... Read more

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EXCELLENT!
Brilliant! This book is eye-opening about antebellum politics and it is amazing the way Maizlish is able to reveal so much from focusing on Ohio. This book will settle all those questions you had about the rise of sectionalism that kept you up at night. The writing is also excellent. Makes you want to meet Maizlish and talk to him. ... Read more

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When it was created in 1788, Washington County covered nearly half of the presentstate of Ohio. The records in this book are for marriages in this vast area. They consist of acomplete list of 3,600 brides and grooms, with places of residence, marriage dates, names ofofficiating ministers, and page references to the original record books for the period 1789 to1840. Includes a brides' index. ... Read more

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Ohio history brought to life
Harlan Hatcher's intricate history of northern Ohio, encompasing the early days of the Connecticut Land Company in the closing decade of the eighteenth century to the industrial growth period of the early twentieth century, uses a combination of first person narrative and biographical anecdotes, as well as other primary documents, to support and enhance a story that is both informative and enjoyable.In his remarks in the foreward to this revised edition, George Knepper describes Hatcher as having "the novelist's touch," an ability to infuse the story "with the human interest that brings life and meaning to the factual account".Beginning with a piece of western wilderness territory just south of Lake Erie, reserved by Connecticut for itself out of the lands deeded to the federal government in 1786, the surveying, settling and growth of "New Connecticut," the state of Ohio, is a fascinating story of vision and optimism by men of courage and resourcefulness.

The real strength of Hatcher's work is that demographics and dates, while important and recognized, take second place to the words of the people who shaped Ohio, lived in and loved it.He has managed to breathe life into Ohio's story and make what could have been a dusty narrative come to life in the accounts, letters, and journals he quotes.Hatcher's obvious respect for this, his native state, permeates the text and only adds to his credibility.In his closing remarks he summarizes this viewpoint, saying: ". . . the Western Reserve, aware of its background and of its strategic position at the heart of America's industries, rich in education, drama and the fine arts, rooted in the past but with its head erect, faces with equanimity the destiny which persistantly unfolds before it."This is a must read for every student of Ohio history. ... Read more

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It's been 3 days and I haven't been able to put this book down. Absolutely fascinating. And of course the pictures are my favorite part.

Showplace of America: Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910 (Ohio)
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Cleveland History Fan's Delight
A wonderful trip back to Millionaire's Row, and the unbelievable homes that lined Cleveland's Euclid Avenue (including the fascinating men who built them), in the late 1800's.Plenty of pictures too.A must book forany lover of Cleveland history. ... Read more

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The second volume in this three-volume work , this book presents, in an easy to usetabular format, a complete list of the 25,000 persons who bought land in southwestern Ohio andeastern Indiana through the Cincinnati Land Office between the years 1800 and 1840. Datafurnished with each entry includes the name of the purchaser, date of purchase, place ofresidence at the time of purchase, and the range, township, and section of the purchasedland, thus enabling the researcher to ascertain the exact location of an ancestor's land.Previously, in locating a settler in southwestern Ohio, the researcher was obliged to spend hoursif not days searching through numerous volumes of unindexed land records, but with this workthe task is reduced to seconds. ... Read more

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Pubisher's Synopsys of the 2007 reprint edition by Clearfield Publishing.
Under an ordinance passed in 1785 the virgin lands of the Northwest Territory were offered for sale to the public, the first public land in the U.S. to be subdivided. Four land offices were established in Ohio for the auction and private sale of these lands. Sales from the Marietta Land Office, covering twelve present-day Ohio counties--the entire southeastern portion of the state--are the subject of this book.

In an easy-to-use tabular format, there is a complete list of the 7,500 persons who bought land in southeastern Ohio from 1800 to 1840. Data given includes the purchasers' name (in alphabetical order), date of purchase, place of residence at the time of the purchase, and the range, township, and section of the purchased land. The information in this tightly organized book is a distillation of the contents of thirty volumes of unindexed land records.

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Compilers Shoemaker and Rudity have assembled a definitive list of 9,000 marriages performed in this southern Ohio county between 1803 and 1860. Each record contains the names of the bride and groom, the date of the marriage, a source citation, and often ages, places of residence, and the names of parents. For convenience, the records are listed in alphabetical order by grooms' names; brides and all others mentioned in the records are listed separately in the index. ... Read more

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In Ohio University, 1804–2004, a collaborative history published in celebration of the university's bicentennial, Betty Hollow’s lively narrative depicts the historical, academic, and cultural events that shaped the school’s growth.Short sketches describe the colleges, programs of special interest, people of note, and activities unique to Ohio University. Hundreds of illustrations allow readers to experience the ambiance of Ohio University's campus and to appreciate the exuberance of the students’ activities—from tugs of war and mud wrestling to Homecoming and Halloween.In personal reminiscences from alumni, faculty, staff, and friends—sometimes amusing, sometimes poignant—the people and values of Ohio University become more than abstractions. Through them we hear the true voice of Ohio University.In all, from the school’s humble beginnings on the frontier to the university's emergence as a renowned research institution, Ohio University, 1804–2004 is a fascinating mosaic of the people and processes that created the special character of the institution, beloved by so many over its long and singular history. ... Read more

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Goosetown is a story about recovering times in our lives that have nearly vanished. We realize we can't remember everything about our past. We search for signs and symbols to jar our recollections. Joyce Dyer weaves her story around the shadows that remain of her first five years. Her uncle, the self-proclaimed mayor of Goosetown, accompanies her as they travel to unearth lost years. She takes the reader on an erratic and unpredictable process. Is the excursion a wild goose chase or can she really find home? ... Read more

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The Missing Years
Joyce Dyer is searching for what she considers her "missing years," those first four or five years of life of which few people can salvage many reliable memories.Dyer does remember a few things about when she lived in Goosetown, an Akron neighborhood, but she wonders if her memories are more akin to the product of someone else's stories or of the few old photographs of herself in Goosetown settings she has studied.Now, along with her elderly uncle, Dyer is traveling the streets of her old neighborhood in search of buildings and street corners that might help her recover memories of a time and place she barely recalls.

"Goosetown: Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood" is as much about Dyer's reconstruction of what she knows about her family as it is about reconstructing the old neighborhood.She finds, despite how little Goosetown now resembles the area she remembers, that the buildings, homes and other physical markers from her youth point her toward truths about herself and her family she never expected to learn.Goosetown may no longer exist, but what it can teach her about her family will change her forever.

Joyce Dyer, in effect, had two sets of parents.Joyce's mother reacted badly to her birth and was never able to fully accept, or fill, her role as mother to the little girl, and her father dealt with the problem largely by ignoring it and getting on with his own life.Luckily, Joyce's Aunt Ruth (her mother's sister) and Uncle Paul were there to give her the love and guidance she did not always get at home.Joyce spent as much time with Ruth and Paul as she spent with her own parents, and she became as much a sister to their son Paul as she was his cousin.She was also close to her young cousins Carol and Eddie, although Eddie was struck and killed on a Goosetown street when he was just five years old.

Now, all these years later, it is her 89-year-old Uncle Paul, a man who has outlived two wives and jokingly calls himself the "Mayor of Goosetown," who accompanies Dyer on her quest.Paul is there to answer her questions and to put what she learns about her Haberkost grandparents into its proper perspective.Some revelations are triggered by the neighborhood's geography; others come from her study of public records, family letters and diaries; and still others are mined from the memories of relatives.What she learns about her family's history of alcoholism, depression and its tendency to suffer from Early-Onset Alzheimer's explains to her much about the family skeletons she had never really understood.

Near the end of "Goosetown," Dyer hints about the skeletons still in her own closet and what remains to be said if she is ever to tell the whole truth - all the things she keeps inside at the risk of her own well-being.Perhaps what she has learned about Goosetown and her family will make it easier for her to reveal the rest of her story.I hope so.

Personal history at its absolute best
Perhaps there is no mystery quite so tantalizing and yet in the end so unsolvable as that of one's own identity; that nagging question that is always nibbling at the very edge of one's consciousness: Who am I?

Because although the subtitle of Goosetown, Joyce Dyer's slim third volume of memoirs, is Reconstructing an Akron Neighborhood, this is no straightforward sociological study and careful researching of an inner city area which has nearly disappeared. Not by any stretch of the imagination. What Dyer is really doing here is continuing what she began in those other two books. Like so many memoirists, she is simply still trying to figure out who she is. Trying to remember those first five years of her life may be an impossible task, but in the course of seeking out those years, she learns some dark secrets about her Haberkost grandparents, whose intermittent rages, long silences and disappearances she now understands as early signs and inklings of mental illness and probably hereditary dementia.

This is a book filled with mysteries - grandfathers and other relatives who drank, a mother who was distant, a loving aunt who filled that gap, an uncle who was perhaps a better father than her own. Family ghosts, skeletons and characters abound in Goosetown, making it a difficult book to put down. Indeed, I read it in just a couple of sittings in a single day.

While Dyer does fulfill the promise of her subtitle in providing a history and a good picture of the physical geography of what was Goosetown (now mostly gone), she dwells at much greater length on the inner geography of her own extended family. There is her stern and forbidding grandfather, August Haberkost; her cousin Eddie, killed by a car at five; her loving and maternal Aunt Ruth; and her cousins Paul and Carol. But most of all there is her Uncle Paul, twice widowed and the self-proclaimed "Mayor of Goosetown," now an octagenarian who assists her in her quest to find again the old vanished neighborhood, and also gently teaches her about more important things, like forgiveness, and knowing when to just let go of the past.
Dyer is, it seems to me, unflinchingly honest in this look at herself and her family. She was equally honest in her portrayal of her father in her previous memoir, Gum-Dipped: A Daughter Remembers Rubber Town. And yet she accuses herself of holding back certain things about herself in her writing. "I don't lie, exactly, but I keep things hidden." She hints at secrets she has yet to share, things she hasn't "the courage to talk about." But she knows the danger of this. "Words held inside can be as fatal as internal hemorrhaging," she writes. "I have no idea what damage my secrets have already done to me."

Because of comments like this, I suspect we have not heard the last from this exquisitely talented memoirist. I hope I'm right. Because Goosetown, her best book yet, continues to spin out that common thread that connects us all as imperfect, fallible human beings. There is a connection between writer and reader here that can only be found in writing of the very highest caliber. More, please, Ms. Dyer. - Tim Bazzett, author of PINHEAD: A LOVE STORY
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This popular work contains genealogies of the first families who settled inPennsylvania between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Alleghenies, and genealogies of thosefamilies who migrated across the Ohio River and made the first settlements in the NorthwestTerritory, now part of Ohio. About 350 families are listed in alphabetical order, with records ofthe first immigrant settler, including place and date of birth and death, place of residence, nameof wife and date of marriage, names of children and their dates and places of birth, and names ofgrandchildren and great-grandchildren. ... Read more

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Ohio Source Records is composed of articles from The Ohio GenealogicalQuarterly, a periodical so scarce that not even the Library of Congress has a complete set. By thetime it ceased publication in April 1944, the Quarterly had turned out a voluminous body of data,chiefly cemetery records, tax lists (the 1810 tax list, in particular), newspaper abstracts, and vitalrecords, the combined articles bearing reference to about 45,000 persons. Owing to the extremescarcity of the Quarterly, this priceless data has been virtually inaccessible. It seemed areasonable object therefore to gather this material together and bring it out in a reprint edition,which is now in hand, complete with index. ... Read more

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A concise overview of why Akron is
This book describes in detail the "why"s behind Akron's crooked streets and abandoned canals.A complete overview of the growth of this industrial midwest city from before its founding up to 1996.

A beautifully written book..a must have for Akronites!
I was enthralled with this book. It brings together geography, history, and the people of Akron. I truly enjoyed it! ... Read more