Rufus Putnam served in important capacities in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the most highly respected men in the early years of the United States. In 1776, Putnam created a method of building portable fortifications, which enabled the Continental Army to drive the British from Boston. George Washington was so impressed that he made Putnam his chief engineer. After the war, Putnam and Manasseh Cutler were instrumental in creating the Northwest Ordinance, which opened up the Northwest Territory for settlement. This land was used to serve as compensation for what was owed to Revolutionary War veterans.
Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
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who is john sherman?
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He was a politician from the U.S. state of Ohio
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did he stand in any election?
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Yes - in the election of 1880
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what connection does he have with the senate house?
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Sherman was elevated to the Senate in 1861.
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is he related to any war?
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Yes - the American Civil War
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when did he retire?
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1898
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A politician from the U.S. state of Ohio, a member of the Republican Party, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State
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Yes -  more than 200 earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or higher have occurred in Ohio since 1776.
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who is known as the father of this state?
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In 1780, the directors of the Ohio Company appointed him superintendent of all its affairs relating to settlement north of the Ohio River. In 1796, he was commissioned by President George Washington as Surveyor-General of United States Lands. In 1788, he served as a judge in the Northwest Territory’s first court. In 1802, he served in the convention to form a constitution for the State of Ohio.
Ohio | Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
In 1780, the directors of the Ohio Company appointed him superintendent of all its affairs relating to settlement north of the Ohio River. In 1796, he was commissioned by President George Washington as Surveyor-General of United States Lands. In 1788, he served as a judge in the Northwest Territory’s first court. In 1802, he served in the convention to form a constitution for the State of Ohio.
History of Ohio | Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
It encompassed what became Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. Had those states been slave states, and their electoral votes gone to Abraham Lincoln's main competitor, Lincoln would not have been elected president. The Civil War would not have been fought. And, even if eventually there had been a civil war, the North would probably have lost. Putnam, in the Puritan tradition, was influential in establishing education in the Northwest Territory. Substantial amounts of land were set aside for schools. Putnam had been one of the primary benefactors in the founding of Leicester Academy in Massachusetts, and similarly, in 1798, he created the plan for the construction of the Muskingum Academy (now Marietta College) in Ohio.
Ohio | Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
Rufus Putnam served in important capacities in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the most highly respected men in the early years of the United States. In 1776, Putnam created a method of building portable fortifications, which enabled the Continental Army to drive the British from Boston. George Washington was so impressed that he made Putnam his chief engineer. After the war, Putnam and Manasseh Cutler were instrumental in creating the Northwest Ordinance, which opened up the Northwest Territory for settlement. This land was used to serve as compensation for what was owed to Revolutionary War veterans.
Ohio | Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
It encompassed what became Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. Had those states been slave states, and their electoral votes gone to Abraham Lincoln's main competitor, Lincoln would not have been elected president. The Civil War would not have been fought. And, even if eventually there had been a civil war, the North would probably have lost. Putnam, in the Puritan tradition, was influential in establishing education in the Northwest Territory. Substantial amounts of land were set aside for schools. Putnam had been one of the primary benefactors in the founding of Leicester Academy in Massachusetts, and similarly, in 1798, he created the plan for the construction of the Muskingum Academy (now Marietta College) in Ohio.
History of Ohio | Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
Rufus Putnam served in important capacities in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the most highly respected men in the early years of the United States. In 1776, the Continental Army had encircled the British Army in Boston, but could not dislodge it, and a long stalemate ensued. Putnam created a method of building portable fortifications, which were put in place under cover of darkness, along with cannon. This then drove the British from Boston. George Washington was so impressed that he made Putnam his chief engineer. After the war, Putnam and Manasseh Cutler were instrumental in creating the Northwest Ordinance, which opened up the Northwest Territory for settlement.
History of Ohio | Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
This land was used to serve as compensation for what was owed to Revolutionary War veterans. It was also at Putnam’s recommendation that the land would be surveyed and laid out in townships of six miles square. Putnam organized and led the first group of veterans to the territory. They settled at Marietta, Ohio, where they built a large fort called Campus Martius. Putnam and Cutler insisted that the Northwest Territory would be free territory - no slavery. They were both from Puritan New England, and the Puritans strongly believed that slavery was morally wrong. The Northwest Territory doubled the size of the United States, and establishing it as free of slavery proved to be of tremendous importance in the following decades.
History of Ohio | Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
It was also at Putnam’s recommendation that the land would be surveyed and laid out in townships of six miles square. Putnam organized and led the first group of veterans to the territory. They settled at Marietta, Ohio, where they built a large fort called Campus Martius. Putnam and Cutler insisted that the Northwest Territory would be free territory – no slavery. They were both from Puritan New England, and the Puritans strongly believed that slavery was morally wrong. The Northwest Territory doubled the size of the United States, and establishing it as free of slavery proved to be of tremendous importance in the following decades.
Ohio | Rufus Putnam, the "Father of Ohio"
Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison (grandson of William Henry Harrison), William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding. All seven were Republicans.
Ohio | "Mother of presidents"
Peter Rawson Taft's son, Alfonso, started the Ohio family branch which rose to prominence in American politics. Deacon John Hall and Sarah had four children. Their son Baxter Hall drummed the first musters in the American Revolution.
Nathan Webb | Career
Father of Amos, Clara, and Jonathan. His name is unknown.
Danger Along the Ohio | Father
Rufus Putnam (April 9, 1738 – May 4, 1824) was a colonial military officer during the French and Indian War, and a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. As an organizer of the Ohio Company, he was instrumental in the initial settling of the Northwest Territory in present-day Ohio following the war. He was known as "Father of the Northwest Territory"
Rufus Putnam | Introduction
Manasseh Cutler, who was instrumental in adoption of the Northwest ordinance of 1787, led the formation of the Ohio Company of Associates, and became "Father of Ohio University".
Rufus Dawes | Introduction
The Samuel Huntington Birthplace is a National Historic Landmark. His nephew and adopted son Samuel H. Huntington moved to the Ohio Country region that he had been instrumental in opening up, and later became the third Governor of Ohio.
Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician) | Later events
Worthington is a member of the Ohio Hall Of Fame. The city of Worthington, Ohio, was named in Worthington's honor, as was Thomas Worthington High School. Worthington is known as the "Father of the Ohio statehood".
Thomas Worthington (governor) | Legacy
Following in his father's footsteps, Orton served as the State Geologist of Ohio from 1899 until 1906. He purchased, created and donated Camp Mary Orton (named after his first wife) to the Godman Guild of Columbus which operated it as a summer camp and retreat for young mothers and their babies. He was elected President of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce in 1921 and re-elected for a second term in 1922 (only the second citizen to succeed himself). In 1922, he received a Doctor of Science from Rutgers College. In 1931, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Alfred University.
Edward Orton Jr. | Citizen
Morris was the father of Isaac Newton Morris and Jonathan David Morris.
Thomas Morris (Ohio politician) | Family life
She had eight children, three of whom survived him. In 1856, as an alternate, he attended the National Convention of the Republican Party in Philadelphia, which Nominated Fremont for the Presidency. He sold the Chronicle in 1858 and was in real estate in Bellaire. In the 54th General Assembly, he was Chief Clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives, and served during the 1860 and adjourned 1861 session. In October 1861 he was elected Ohio Secretary of State, but resigned for War duties in May 1862.
Benjamin R. Cowen | Introduction
On May 8, 1844 he married Elizabeth Dwight Hoadley of the New England Dwight family. Her father was Ohio politician George Hoadley (1781–1857) and brother was George Hoadly who later became Governor of Ohio. Their children were:
Joshua Hall Bates | Birth and early years
The Marietta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution leased the building starting in 1905. In 1917, the state bought the Campus Martius site, and placed it under the control of the Ohio Historical Society. Few Putnam pieces remain to decorate the interior, so other pioneer families donated items about 1927, including the Meigs, Fearing, Devol, Blennerhassett, Mason, Hildreth, and Sprague. The building, which now has a basement, was enclosed in the south wing of the museum later. A 1903 history says the building was commonly called The Old Block-House.
Rufus Putnam House | History
Orton Jr. is the son of Dr Edward Orton Sr., a Harvard educated geologist, and Mary Jennings Orton. Shortly after his birth, in 1865, his family relocated to Yellow Springs, Ohio, when his father became principal of the preparatory school of Antioch College. In 1873, he began attending public school in Columbus after his father relocated the family when he was appointed first President of The Ohio State Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Edward Orton Jr. | Early years
Eight US presidents hailed from Ohio at the time of their elections, giving rise to its nickname "mother of presidents", a sobriquet it shares with Virginia. It is also termed "modern mother of presidents", in contrast to Virginia's status as the origin of presidents earlier in American history. Seven presidents were born in Ohio, making it second to Virginia's eight. Virginia-born William Henry Harrison lived most of his life in Ohio and is also buried there. Harrison conducted his political career while living on the family compound, founded by his father-in-law, John Cleves Symmes, in North Bend, Ohio. The seven presidents born in Ohio were Ulysses S.
Ohio | "Mother of presidents"
Richard Falley Cleveland (June 19, 1804 – October 1, 1853) was an American Congregationalist and Presbyterian minister. A graduate of Yale College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he spent most of his life as a pastor, outside of a brief period as a district secretary for the American Home Missionary Society. He is best known as the father of Grover Cleveland, who was twice President of the United States.
Richard Falley Cleveland | Introduction
His father, Dr. Samuel Hildreth of Massachusetts, died while visiting him in Ohio during 1823 and was buried at Mound Cemetery in Marietta.
Samuel Prescott Hildreth | Massachusetts to Ohio
Rufus Putnam is depicted on a commemorative stamp issued on July 13, 1937 by the U.S. Post Office which commemorated the 150th anniversary of the North West Ordinance of 1787. The engraving on the stamp depicts a map of the United States at the time with the North West Territory between the figures of Putnam (right) and Manasseh Cutler. Putnam's home in Marietta has been designated a National Historic Landmark in his honor. His home in Rutland, Massachusetts (the General Rufus Putnam House) is on the National Register of Historic Homes and is currently being operated as a B&B. The town of Putnam, Ohio (now a part of Zanesville, Ohio) was named for him.
Rufus Putnam | Legacy and honors
Ten delegates were elected from Hamilton County. Schenck finished in 14th place. He also laid out the town of Newark, Ohio, in 1802. He was proprietor with his uncle and Judge Burnet. They chose the forks of the Licking River as the town site. Schenck and family moved to Franklin in 1802 or 1803. They eventually had nine sons and a daughter, including Robert C. Schenck and James F. Schenck. He was the clerk of the Ohio Senate during the 1st General Assembly, (1803). That General Assembly gave a charter to the Miami Exporting Company, the first bank in the state.
William Cortenus Schenck | Move west
Thomas Edison, a native of Milan, is widely regarded as a father of the modern industrialized world and the originator of mass-energy generation and distribution concepts, as well as the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Another Ohio native, Charles F. Brush is said to have invented the first electric dynamo, resulting in the present-day United Kingdom-based Brush Electrical Machines. Arthur Compton, of Wooster, invented the fluorescent light tube and was a pioneer in the study of atomic energy.
Energy in Ohio | Early innovation
John Marshall Matthias was a Republican politician from Columbus, Ohio who served in the Ohio House of Representatives and followed his father as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, serving 1954 to 1970. Matthias was the son of Edward Shiloh & Mary F. Crouch Matthias. He was born January 20, 1903 in Van Wert, Ohio. His family moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1915, when his father was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1928, attended both Ohio State University Law School and Franklin University Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1931.
John M. Matthias | Introduction
John Scott Harrison (October 4, 1804 – May 25, 1878) was an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. Harrison was a son of U.S. President William Henry Harrison and First Lady Anna Harrison as well as the father of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. He is the only person to be both a child and a parent of U.S. Presidents.
John Scott Harrison | Introduction
His father, Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The Grover Cleveland birthplace—the church's former rectory—is now a museum and is open to the public.
Caldwell, New Jersey | Introduction
Kent's father Zenas had several business ventures during the 1830s-1850s in Franklin Mills and briefly operated a tannery with John Brown. He also had considerable land holdings and built a four-story commercial block in what is now downtown Kent in 1837 that was said to have been the tallest building in Ohio at the time. He eventually would relocate to Franklin Mills in 1851. Marvin Kent's son William Stewart Kent played a key role in the establishment of Kent State University in 1910 by donating the land for the original campus.
Marvin Kent | Relatives
Cutler had tried to purchase all the land between the Ohio and Scioto rivers, but the western half was optioned by the Scioto Company. It later failed without having purchased any of the land.
Rufus Putnam | The Ohio Company
Benjamin Ives Gilman (29 July, 1766 – 13 October, 1833) was a pioneer of the U.S. state of Ohio. He was a shipbuilder on the Ohio River and an extensive landholder. He was a delegate to the convention that wrote a constitution for the new state.
Benjamin Ives Gilman (1766) | Introduction
They organized a coalition of tribes to try to expel the Americans from their territory. From 1792 to 1793, Putnam served as a brigadier general in Anthony Wayne's Ohio campaign against these Native American tribes, including Shawnee, Lenape and Seneca, who were ultimately defeated. In 1796, Putnam was appointed by the President as the first Surveyor General of the United States, a position he held until 1803. As Ohio residents organized to write a constitution and be admitted as a state, in 1802 Putnam was elected a Washington county delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention.
Rufus Putnam | Later life
OSU constructed a geology building in 1893, and named it Orton Hall, in tribute to Orton's seminal contributions. In 1920, his son Edward Orton Jr., the first Chairman of Ceramic Engineering at The Ohio State University, honored his father with the Orton Memorial Library of Geology, inside Orton Hall, for perusing the theories and records of earthly change. He was also the author of various addresses, scientific papers, and contributions.
Edward Orton Sr. | Legacy
His father and grandfather were both members of the Kent Co. Delaware Committee of Observation and Inspection during the American Revolution. He moved to Ohio in 1808, at the end of the 10 years required for his administration of his father's estate.
John E. Hamm | Early life
His father, Samuel Hildreth, was a shareholder in the Ohio Company of Associates, and had considered moving to Ohio. Since he was a boy, Samuel Prescott Hildreth had a desire to see the Ohio Country; he acted on his desire at the age of 23, traveling by horseback to Marietta, Ohio during September and October 1806. He spent about nine weeks in Marietta, then traveled 15 miles down the Ohio River to Belpre, Ohio. In August 1807 he married Ms. Rhoda Cook in Belpre. They permanently resettled to Marietta in March 1808. Subsequently, during 1810 and 1811, Dr. Samuel Prescott Hildreth served on the Ohio legislature.
Samuel Prescott Hildreth | Massachusetts to Ohio
O'Dell's father officiated at his wedding to Catharine Pittinger in Adams County, Ohio, on February 28, 1804.. They had three children who died in childhood, Alen, Jasper, and Samuel, one who died at age fourteen, Elizabeth, and seven who lived to adulthood, William, Eliza Ann, Thomas Edward, Josiah, Emeline, John Wesley, and Nathan. William went on to serve in the Ohio Legislature.
James O'Dell | Family
Born in 1837, Martin Bushnell was a member of one of Richland County's oldest families; his ancestors were pioneers who arrived in 1820. His father William served three terms in the Ohio House of Representatives, and Martin himself served one term in the Ohio Senate, beginning in 1897. Before entering into public office, Bushnell attended Denison University and worked for a succession of Mansfield companies, soon building himself into one of the city's leading businessmen. Erected in 1892, Bushnell's house became known as the home of the city's most prominent civic figures: Bushnell occupied the position of superintendent of city schools and served as a trustee for the Columbus State Hospital, and he further perpetuated his name by giving the city a Johnny Appleseed statue for placement in a public park.
Martin Bushnell House | Bushnell
He was a member of the Territorial councils of Ohio from 1799–1802 and served in the Ohio State House from 1814–1816. Burnet was considered the "father of the Ohio constitution" and was an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1821 until his resignation in 1828 to serve as United States Senator. He was elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Henry Harrison. He served in the Senate from December 10, 1828, to March 3, 1831. Burnet was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law and served as president of Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio.
Jacob Burnet | Political career
Caldwell was born on Caldwells Run in Ohio County near Wheeling to Mary Yarnell Caldwell (1781-1819) and her husband Joseph Caldwell (1777 - 1864). His grandfather, James Caldwell (1724-1804), emigrated from northern Ireland with his family and in 1770 settled in the near-wilderness that became Ohio County. With Ebenezer Zane, he helped found the town of Wheeling on the Ohio River, becoming a justice of the peace in 1777 and militia commander during the American Revolutionary War, as well as raising a large family. His sons (Bolton's uncles) James Caldwell (Ohio politician) and Alexander Caldwell (Virginia) helped found the state of Ohio (and became the first U.S.
Aquilla B. Caldwell | Early and family life
Orton also served as the Dean of the College of Engineering from 1902 to 1906 and again from 1910 to 1915. Orton honored his father with the Orton Memorial Library of Geology, inside Orton Hall at Ohio State University, for perusing the theories and records of earthly change. Orton Hall would later house the Orton Geological Museum.
Edward Orton Jr. | The Ohio State University
Daughter Julia Huntington married and moved to Chicago. King was active in promoting Akron's Union School System. In 1850 he was elected by the Ohio General Assembly as Ohio Secretary of State to a three-year term. A new constitution, adopted in summer of 1851, made the office elective, and an election was scheduled for autumn, 1851, shortening King's term to January 1852.
Henry W. King | Biography
Some historians believe this is how Ohio came to be known as the Buckeye State, though a more commonly accepted explanation involves the later presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison. During the Northwest Indian War he was authorized by Secretary of War Henry Knox to superintend the military affairs of the United States in Washington County. He was a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and helped form the American Union Lodge No. 1 of Freemasons at Marietta along with others including Rufus Putnam, Benjamin Tupper, and William Stacy. Ebenezer Sproat was the first sheriff in the Northwest Territory, serving fourteen years from 1788 to 1802 as sheriff of Washington County, the oldest county in Ohio.
Ebenezer Sproat | The Ohio Country
On his arrival in 1833 Bishop Purcell found himself in a city of about 30,000 inhabitants and only one Catholic church. The diocese embraced the whole State of Ohio. The difficulties increased, for soon the tide of immigration turned towards Ohio. Immigrants from Germany and Ireland came in thousands, and as most were Catholics it became his duty to provide for their spiritual needs. A seminary had been founded by Bishop Fenwick in the Athenaeum, which stood near the cathedral, but the number of students was as yet very small. He was untiring in his labour, preaching and giving lectures, writing articles for the "Telegraph", a Catholic paper founded by Father Young, a nephew of Bishop Fenwick, the first Catholic paper published in the West.
John Baptist Purcell | Founder bishop
Although few have registered as noticeable to the average resident, more than 200 earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or higher have occurred in Ohio since 1776. The Western Ohio Seismic Zone and a portion of the Southern Great Lakes Seismic Zone are located in the state, and numerous faults lie under the surface. The most substantial known earthquake in Ohio history was the Anna (Shelby County) earthquake, which occurred on March 9, 1937. It was centered in western Ohio, and had a magnitude of 5.4, and was of intensity VIII. Other significant earthquakes in Ohio include: one of magnitude 4.8 near Lima on September 19, 1884; one of magnitude 4.2 near Portsmouth on May 17, 1901; and one of 5.0 in LeRoy Township in Lake County on January 31, 1986, which continued to trigger 13 aftershocks of magnitude 0.5 to 2.4 for two months.
Ohio | Earthquakes
Douglas Putnam's grandfather was the famous Israel Putnam, an American army officer and general, who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War. Putnam's father, Douglas Putnam Senior, resided in Harmar, Ohio, which at that time was the western part of the town of Marietta. Putnam Senior married Mary Ann Hildreth in the early 1820s, with their marriage producing five children. Samuel and Benjamin Putnam were Douglas' older brothers. His two sisters were Catherine Hildreth, and Elizabeth Perkins Putnam.
Douglas Putnam | Family and early life
His father was also named Aaron Cleveland. At the time of the Aaron's birth his father was making a modest living as a publican in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Aaron was born, and also working in construction. His father would later become a militia captain and a man of some wealth. The son graduated from Harvard in 1735. He was a man of great physical strength and activity, and the best skater, swimmer, and wrestler in the college in his day. In 1739, he was made pastor of the church in Haddam, Connecticut, where his father possessed landed property. In this year, he also married Susannah, the daughter of Aaron Porter of Medford, Massachusetts.
Aaron Cleveland | Biography
Cooke was born in Granville, Washington County, New York. He was the son of Asaph Cooke (1748-1826) and Thankful Parker (1745-1819). His grandfather was Asaph Cooke (1720-1792). His first name commemorates the framing of the United States Constitution in 1787, the year of his birth. He was educated at Union College in Schenectady. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began a law practice in Granville. He later moved to Madison, Indiana in 1817 and to Sandusky, Ohio in 1819. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1822, 1823, and 1825 and 1840. He obtained from the Ohio Legislature in 1826 the first charter granted to a railroad in the United States—the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad (later the Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati railroad)—and ground was broken for it in 1832.
Eleutheros Cooke | Biography
Many members of the family became prominent, including Samuel Leavitt, who served as an Ohio state representative; John Leavitt Jr., who served as Trumbull County treasurer; Humphrey Howe Leavitt, the son of pioneer Capt. John Leavitt and an early United States Congressman and United States District Court judge; and Daniel Leavitt, the first public school teacher in Warren. John Leavitt, the original family settler, acted as captain of the local militia, from which he derived his title. Like most pioneers, the Leavitt family had to provide the initial services in the region. John Leavitt Jr. founded the first public school.
John Leavitt (Ohio settler) | Other family members
The Historic Ohio Gallery displays 19th and early 20th century tools, firearms and furnishings, most of which were donated to the museum in 1946 by a local family. Their descendants were Nicholas Miller and Mary Darling, Ohio pioneers. Nicholas came to what is now Coshocton County in 1802 with $36 and two axes. During his first winter he slept in a cave with his dog, which subsequently was killed by a bear. Nicholas used the money he earned surveying the land to purchase property. Meanwhile, the Darling family migrated from Virginia to the area in 1806. Eighteen-year-old Mary drove the four-horse team that pulled the covered wagon.
Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum | Notes of Interests
Edward Francis Baxter Orton Sr. (March 9, 1829, Deposit, New York – October 16, 1899, Columbus, Ohio) was a United States geologist, and the first president of The Ohio State University.
Edward Orton Sr. | Introduction
General Simon Perkins (September 17, 1771 - November 6, 1844) was an early settler, businessman and surveyor of the Western Reserve of Connecticut, which would later become northeast Ohio. He co-founded Akron, Ohio with Paul Williams in 1825. He served as a brigadier-general during the War of 1812.
Simon Perkins | Introduction
He became a Vermont state legislator. He died in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. His son, Alphonso Taft, was born in Townshend, Vermont, and attended Yale University, where he founded the Skull and Bones society. He later was Secretary of War and Attorney General of the United States and the father of President William Howard Taft. Elmshade in Massachusetts was the site of Taft family reunions such as in 1874.
Taft family | Overview
NOTE: J. Donald Cameron was also son of U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron. William Tecumseh Sherman was also adoptive son of U.S. Secretary of the Interior Thomas Ewing. Thomas W. Bartley was also son of Ohio Governor Mordecai Bartley.
List of United States political families (S) | Shermans of Ohio
Matthew was born in Cadiz, Ohio. His grandfather, Thomas Simpson, was a British soldier who emigrated to Ireland. Matthew's father came to America in 1793. Matthew's grandfather Tingley was a Revolutionary soldier. Matthew's uncle also was Matthew Simpson, who also emigrated from Ireland to America in 1793. This Matthew Simpson represented Harrison County, Ohio, in the Ohio State Senate for ten years, and served as judge of the county court for seven years. In later life, he lived with his nephew, reaching the advanced age of ninety-eight. Matthew, the nephew, married Ellen H. Verner of Pittsburgh. Matthew was consecrated at birth for the ministry by both of his parents.
Matthew Simpson | Early life and family
Kingsley Arter Taft (July 19, 1903March 28, 1970) was an American politician and distant relative of Ohio's more famous Taft family. He served as chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and also served briefly as a United States Senator. Kingsley's father, Frederick Lovett Taft, II was also a noted figure in the Ohio legal profession.
Kingsley A. Taft | Introduction
Nathanael Greene Pendleton (August 25, 1793 – June 16, 1861) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, and the father of George Hunt Pendleton. Born in Savannah, Georgia, August 25, 1793, he moved to New York City with his parents (Nathaniel Pendleton and Susan Bard Pendleton). Pendleton was graduated from Columbia College at New York City in 1813. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served in the War of 1812. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1818 and practiced law. He served as a member of the State senate 1825-1827. Pendleton was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843).
Nathanael G. Pendleton | Introduction
Rufus Erastus Hart (September 10, 1812 – December 24, 1891) was an American politician and lawyer. Hart, the son of Joseph and Anna (Hotchkiss) Hart, was born in Middlebury, Ohio, on September 10, 1812. He graduated from Yale College in 1833. He studied law at home from 1833 to 1835, and then began practice in Akron, Ohio. In the fall of 1837 he removed to Marietta, where he spent the rest of his life, with the exception of the years from 1852 to 1856, during which he was the principal of the Ohio Asylum for the Blind, at Columbus. He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1845 to 1847.
Rufus Erastus Hart | Introduction
He was elected as a Whig delegate to the Ohio constitutional convention in 1850 called to revise the 1802 constitution. In this capacity he contributed to reorganization of the judicial tribunals of the state, and still continued to discharge his duties on the bench. He was called the "Father of the constitution of 1851." One of the debates was over granting the power of the veto to the governor. As a good Whig, Judge Peter Hitchcock opposed it: The convention did not give the governor the veto in the new constitution.
Peter Hitchcock | Constitutional convention of 1850
Seth Taft was the grandson of President William Howard Taft. His father was Cincinnati, Ohio mayor Charles Phelps Taft II and his mother was Eleanor Chase Taft, whose father ran the Waterbury Clock Company. Taft had five sisters and one brother and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He married Frances "Franny" Prindle from New Haven, Connecticut.
Seth Taft | Early life and education
Thomas Ewing Sr. (December 28, 1789October 26, 1871) was a National Republican and Whig politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate as well as serving as the Secretary of the Treasury and the first Secretary of the Interior. He is also known as the foster father (and subsequently father-in-law) of famous American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.
Thomas Ewing | Introduction
Nathan Mortimore Newmark (September 22, 1910 – January 25, 1981) was an American structural engineer and academic, who is widely considered as one of the founding fathers of Earthquake Engineering. He was awarded the National Medal of Science for engineering.
Nathan M. Newmark | Introduction
Foster was born March 4, 1815 in Petersham, Massachusetts where his father, Festus Foster was a minister. When Festus quit the ministry in 1818, the family moved to Brimfield, Massachusetts. Wells was educated locally, spent a year at Wilbraham Academy and then entered Wesleyan University in 1831. After graduating with honors in 1834, he studied law in Zanesville, Ohio and was admitted to the bar. In 1837 the Ohio legislature authorized a geological survey of the state to be led by William W. Mather. Foster had studied under Mather at Wesleyan, and accepted an invitation to join the survey. Foster was assigned to a district in the central part of the state and mapped the area's basic stratigraphy.
John Wells Foster | Biography
The university was first envisioned by Manasseh Cutler, credited as the school's founder along with Revolutionary War Brigadier General Rufus Putnam. In addition to being instrumental in its founding, Putnam was also an original trustee of the university. Putnam Hall there is named for him. Cutler had served as a chaplain in Washington's Continental Army. The institution's first name was American University. President Thomas Jefferson's policy initiatives included a westward expansion of the new nation, with the addition of several territories to U.S. statehood. In 1797, settlers from Marietta traveled downstream on the Ohio River and up the Hocking River to establish a location for the school, founding Athens due to its location directly between the original capital of Chillicothe and Marietta.
Ohio University | The Ohio Company
Rufus Putnam Ranney (October 30, 1813 – December 6, 1891) was a Democratic politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who helped write the second Ohio Constitution, and was a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1851–1856 and 1863–1865. Rufus Putnam Ranney was born at Blandford, Hampden County, Massachusetts. The family moved to Portage County, Ohio in 1824. He earned enough money chopping firewood to enter Western Reserve College then at Hudson, but not enough to complete the college course. At age 21 or 22 he began the study of law at the office of Joshua Reed Giddings and Benjamin Wade, and was admitted to the bar in 1836.
Rufus P. Ranney | Introduction
Born into poverty in Cumberland County Pennsylvania, he moved to Ohio as a child. In his teenage years and early 20s, he did farm labor, taught school, saved his money, and attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio for three years. He then edited the "Spectator" newspaper in Wilmington, Ohio, but sold his interest in it in about 1823. The next year, Reynolds began a lecture tour with John Cleves Symmes Jr.. Reynolds had become a convert to Symmes' theory that the earth is hollow. Symmes' idea was accepted as possible by some respected scientists of the time. The two presented talks on the subject.
Jeremiah N. Reynolds | Early life
In 1840 and 1841, he won election to the Ohio Senate for the 39th and 40th General Assemblies.
James H. Godman | Introduction
Prugh had been raising funds for the project for some time. Rev. Prugh is thus referred to as the "Father" of the movement to establish a home. Additionally, Chaplain George W. Collier is credited with being the first to suggest the idea of a home to the GAR. In 1869, the Grand Army of the Republic established the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home in Xenia, Ohio. The "Home" was commissioned by Abraham Lincoln, and was a self-contained community with a farm, dairy barn, hospital, power/heating plant, gymnasium, banquet hall, chapel, and residence halls. Lincoln challenged the states to bind up the wounds of the Civil War by meeting the needs of widows and orphans created by the conflict.
Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home | Early history
Nathaniel Massie (December 28, 1763 – November 13, 1813) was a frontier surveyor in the Ohio Country (including the Virginia Military District) who became a prominent land owner, politician, and soldier. He founded fourteen early towns in what became the State of Ohio, including its first capital, Chillicothe. In 1807, the Ohio General Assembly declared him the winner of the election for governor, but he refused the office.
Nathaniel Massie | Introduction
Caleb Atwater (December 1778 – March 13, 1867) was an American politician, historian, and early archaeologist in the state of Ohio. He served several terms as a state politician and was appointed as United States postmaster of Circleville, Ohio. He was known best during the 19th century for his publication "History of the State of Ohio" (1838), the first book-length history of the new state. It also included much natural lore. Atwater was recognized by contemporaries as a pioneer of the study of the mounds or massive earthworks in the Ohio Valley; he published an account during 1820. These are now known to have been constructed by ancient Native Americans of the United States.
Caleb Atwater | Introduction
Gregory John "Greg" Holbrock (June 21, 1906 – September 4, 1992) was an attorney, politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. Holbrock was born in Hamilton, Ohio, the son of George H. and Clara C. (Beck) Holbrock. His father was a shoemaker by trade who became a successful merchant and partner with his younger brother William G. Holbrock in the Holbrock Brothers Dry Goods store in Hamilton and a branch, Middletown Dry Goods, in Middletown, Ohio.
Greg J. Holbrock | Introduction
Three years later, his parents emigrated to America and located in Franklin Co., PA, near the village of Waynesboro. There the father rented a farm for two years, after which he purchased of land at the foot of the mountains, which he made his home the succeeding six years. He then came west to Richland Co., Ohio, and after a residence there of two years, removed to Marion Co., the same state, where he erected a log house, and improved his land. Eight years later, he sold his property and removed to Crestline, Ohio where he remained twelve months and in 1853 came to Allegan Co., Michigan, where he entered a half-section of land from the government.
Francis Adam Goodman | Biography
His father James Caldwell (1724-1804) and his wife Elizabeth were Irish gentry whose name reflected Castle Caldwell established in Ulster Plantation a century earlier. They had emigrated with nine children to Maryland in 1769 and then moved to what became Wheeling in what was then Virginia in 1772. During their sea voyage, Elizabeth Caldwell gave birth to Samuel Caldwell, and in Baltimore, Maryland she bore this James Caldwell Jr., then Susana Caldwell (b. 1772), Alexander Caldwell(1774-1838), and Joseph Caldwell (b. 1777). James Caldwell the elder became a Virginia justice of the peace and militia leader in the developing rural area, and his son/James's brother John Caldwell helped erect Fort Henry to defend the new settlement against Native American raiders.
James Caldwell (Ohio politician) | Early and family life
Enoch's son, Enoch Jr. became a well-known local physician who resided on his farm at Leavittsburg and by the time of his death in 1827 at age 52 had accumulated roughly of land in Trumbull County.
John Leavitt (Ohio settler) | Other family members
In 1786, Rufus Putnam and Benjamin Tupper founded the Ohio Company of Associates. During that year, Anselm joined his father in a survey of the Seven Ranges in the Ohio Country. Anslem became a shareholder of the Ohio Company of Associates, and was engaged as a surveyor with the company. Subsequently, on April 7, 1788, Anselm Tupper and a group of American pioneers to the Northwest Territory, led by Rufus Putnam, arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers to establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory. Anselm's parents, Benjamin and Huldah, arrived several months later.
Anselm Tupper | Post-war and the Ohio Country
Thomas Welles Bartley (also known as Thomas W. Bartley) (February 11, 1812 – June 20, 1885) was an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. He served as the 17th Governor of Ohio. Bartley was succeeded in office by his father, Mordecai Bartley, one of only a few instances of this occurring in high elected office in the United States.
Thomas W. Bartley | Introduction
Richter wrote that this early form of spoken language no longer survived in the Ohio Valley. He learned that it was found in some areas of the South and Southwestern areas of the country. He noted that, although it is often mistaken for a "native" form of speech there, it should be considered “a living reminder of the great mother tongue of early America.”
The Awakening Land trilogy | Writing style
Samuel Augustus Fuller was August 8, 1837, in Vienna, Ohio, one of five children born to Augustus and Mary Ann ( Hutchins) Fuller. He was a direct descendant of Edward Fuller, a passenger on the "Mayflower", the ship that transported the first English Puritans (known today as Pilgrims) from Plymouth, England, to the New World in 1620. His father, Augustus Fuller, had been born in August 1805 in Burlington, Connecticut, and emigrated to Trumbull County, Ohio in 1830. His mother, Mary Fuller, was born in Vienna in August 1806. She was the sister of Representative John Hutchins, and daughter of Samuel Hutchins (who had walked from Connecticut to Ohio as part of a survey party in 1789).
Samuel Augustus Fuller | Early life
Cooke was born at Sandusky, Ohio, the son of Eleutheros Cooke and Martha Carswell Cooke. Eleutheros Cooke was a pioneer Ohio lawyer and Whig, a member of the Ohio General Assembly and member of Congress from Ohio in 1831-1833.
Jay Cooke | Early life
Manasseh Cutler (May 13, 1742 – July 28, 1823) was an American clergyman involved in the American Revolutionary War. He was influential in the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and wrote the section prohibiting slavery in the Northwest Territory. Cutler was also a member of the United States House of Representatives. Cutler is "rightly entitled to be called 'The Father of Ohio University.'" Cutler was born in Killingly in the Connecticut Colony. In 1765, he graduated from Yale College and after being a school teacher in Dedham and a merchant – and occasionally appearing in court as a lawyer – he decided to enter the ministry.
Manasseh Cutler | Introduction
Born in East Haddam, Connecticut, Crowell moved to Ohio in 1806 with his parents, who settled in Rome Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, where his father, Samuel Crowell, was the first settler. He attended the district school. He moved to Warren, Ohio, in 1822. He attended Warren Academy 1822-1825. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1827 and commenced practice in Warren. He was also part owner and editor of the Western Reserve Chronicle at Warren. He served as member of the State senate in 1840. Crowell was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851).
John Crowell (Ohio politician) | Biography
Thornton was a member of a pioneering Ohio and Indiana family that had migrated to the region from South Carolina over opposition to slavery. The Thorntons and related families were devout Scots-Irish Presbyterians and formed a supportive community on Rattlesnake Creek, Ohio. His parents, John and Mary Johnston Thornton, raised twelve children in central Ohio and were respected farmers in the local communities. Several of their sons became soldiers; several others became pioneering ministers. According to Thornton's sister, Minerva Thornton Bickell, James J. Thornton was an avid reader and left home at the age of 19 to pursue an education: he worked constantly and studied, spending a term at Bloomington College (now, University of Indiana at Bloomington) and teaching preparatory classes (1835).
James Johnston Thornton | Early years
Joseph Jefferson McDowell (November 13, 1800 – January 17, 1877) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Joseph McDowell.
Joseph J. McDowell | Introduction
While at OSU he was editor of the school newspaper, "The Lantern". When he graduated he was one of the first two journalism graduates from the school. His first job after graduation in 1913 was with the "Ohio State Journal". On June 20, 1914, he married his first wife, Irene Austin of Toledo, in Lucas County, Ohio. She introduced him to Unitarianism and he would be a member of the church for the rest of his life. Their first child, a daughter named Jane Austin, died shortly after birth in 1916. They would have a son named Austin and a daughter named Jane Ann before divorcing.
W. M. Kiplinger | Introduction
Lydia Hoyt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July 19, 1842. Her father was the Hon. James Madison Hoyt (1815–1895), of Cleveland. Ohio. Her mother was Mary Ella Beebe, daughter of Alexander M. Beebe, LL. D. of New York. Her father practiced law before he engaged in the real estate business, with large and lucrative results. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Cleveland, and for twenty-five years, superintendent of its Sunday School. For twenty years he was president of the Ohio Baptist State Convention, and for many years president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. In 1870, he was elected a member of the Ohio State Board of Equalization.
Lydia Hoyt Farmer | Early years and education
They traveled with Moravian missionaries and their Delaware (Lenape) and Shawnee converts to christianity. While still living in Ohio, James was ransomed from the Shawnee and returned to his parents. The Conner's second and third sons, John (1775–1826) and William, were also born in Ohio. (Sources disagree on whether William's birthplace was the Moravian settlement in Lichtenau in Coshocton County or at Schoenbrunn in what is now Tuscarawas County, Ohio.) During the American Revolutionary War, the Conners joined a group of Moravians and their Native American followers in their British-forced removal to what became the state of Michigan. The Moravian missionaries and their followers returned to Ohio, but the Conner family remained at what was later named Macomb County, Michigan.
William Conner | Early life
From the early 1800s, the Moore family was known for moving on when the area in which they lived became too civilized, preferring as many farmers did, to live on the frontier. R. A. Moore's grandfather Seth Moore, a descendant of the original colonists (his father, Joseph, served under and was a bodyguard to General George Washington,) migrated to Ohio in 1826 and staked a claim on land that now lies near the center of the great city of Cleveland. It was here that he farmed and his nine children were born, including Ransom Moore’s father, Seth Jr. The country was settled rapidly, which interfered with his trapping, so Seth sold his farm for the magnificent sum of $4600, which at that time was considered one of the best sales of farm lands that had occurred in that region.
Ransom Asa Moore | Parents
As a result, when the error was observed a year later, the judge came under such heavy criticism that he was forced to move out of state. Elsewhere, the phrase has been viewed more kindly: as a "quaint, old Irish bull", or as simply as the creation of a well-meaning pioneer who was possessed of bad rhetoric.
Old Perry County Courthouse (Ohio) | Inscription
Hall was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Fred and Annie Hall. His father is a Baptist minister. Hall performed as a magician when he was a child. He graduated from Warrensville Heights High School in Warrensville Heights, Ohio in 1973, after he briefly attended John F. Kennedy High School. He later attended college at Kent State University.
Arsenio Hall | Early years
The Father of Columbus Baseball is a bronze sculpture depicting Harold Cooper by Alan Hamwi, installed outside Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio's Arena District, in the United States. The statue was unveiled in 2009.
The Father of Columbus Baseball | Introduction
Ortha Orrie Barr’s father, Eugene Barr was born in Auglaize County, Ohio on September 21, 1957 to medical doctor, Dr. Tobias Barr (born on April 04, 1813 in Quarryville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; died on December 25, 1857 in Tremont City, Clark County, Ohio). Dr. Tobias Barr was buried at the Rector-Gard Cemetery in Mad River Township, Champaign County, Ohio. Eugene Barr’s mother was Margaret Weaver. Eugene Barr had his early education in Clark County and Lebanon, Ohio. He became a teacher at local schools in Champaign and Clark Counties. He matriculated at the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati and graduated on March 3, 1880.
Ortha O. Barr Sr. | Parentage
Ashley was born on January 11, 1923 in Toledo, Ohio, and raised on the Old West End. He was the son of Mary Alida Gouverneur (née Ludlow) Ashley and William Meredith Ashley, who owned a small steel manufacturing firm. His older brother William was killed in May 1944, at age 22, when his Army bomber exploded during a training mission over Massachusetts. His maternal grandmother was Harriet Frances Putnam (née Carnochan) Ludlow, a direct descendant of Declaration of Independence signer Lewis Morris and Thomas William Ludlow III. Among his great-grandfathers were James Mitchell Ashley, who was also a congressman from Ohio (who left the Democratic Party because of his anti-slavery beliefs), and John Murray Carnochan, a surgeon who performed the first successful neurosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia.
Thomas L. Ashley | Early life and education
DiSalle has two current structures in Ohio named for him: Also, the DiSalle Center (no longer standing) at the Ohio Expo Center and the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio, was named in honor of DiSalle.
Michael DiSalle | Legacy
Danquart Anthon Weggeland (March 31, 1827 – June 2, 1918) is considered the "Father of Utah Art" and was an artist and teacher in the early history of Utah Territory.
Dan Weggeland | Introduction
His father was Zadok Casey, the Governor of Illinois.
Samuel K. Casey | Introduction
Midgley was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, to a father who was also an inventor. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from Cornell University in 1911 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Thomas Midgley Jr. | Early life
Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, then a frontier region. His grandfather, Rev. John Emmett (1759–1847) had been born in Cecil County, Maryland, and after serving as a private in the American Revolutionary War and fighting at the Battle of White Plains in New York and later in Delaware, became a Methodist minister in the then-vast frontier Augusta County, Virginia, and then moved across the Appalachian Mountains to Licking County, Ohio and also served in the Ohio legislature representing Pickaway County, Ohio in the Scioto River valley. His father, Abraham Emmett (1791-1846) served as a private in the War of 1812 while his father served in the Ohio legislature.
Dan Emmett | Early and family life
Howard Thurston was born July 20, 1869, in Columbus, Ohio. He was the middle son of William and Margaret Thurston. His father William Henry Thurston was a wheelwright and carriage maker who served briefly as a private during the Civil War in the Third Ohio Regiment. His mother Margaret (Cloude), was the daughter of an Ohio farmer. He attended Mount Hermon School for Boys in Northfield, Massachusetts, class of 1893. Among his fellow students were Lee de Forest, "The Father of American Radio," and musical humorist Charles Ross Taggart, "The Old Country Fiddler."
Howard Thurston | Early life
Ephraim Tanner Sturtevant (July 28, 1803 – December 12, 1881) was an American professor, planter, and politician. He was the father of Julia Tuttle, known as the "Mother of Miami". Sturtevant, son of Warren and Lucy (Tanner) Sturtevant, was born in Warren, Connecticut, July 28, 1803. In 1816, his family removed to the Western Reserve, and settled in Tallmadge, Ohio, from which place he entered college. He graduated from Yale College in 1826. For twenty years after graduation he was occupied in teaching, beginning in Derby, Connecticut. In the fall of 1827, on the opening of Western Reserve College, at Hudson, Ohio, he was appointed instructor in mathematics, and in the absence of other teachers performed the duties of the entire faculty for the first year.
Ephraim Sturtevant | Introduction