The Ohio Almanac

by Baskin, John

• ISBN13: 9781882203291
• ISBN10: 1882203291
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Orange Frazer Pr Inc

Table of Contents

The Ohio chronicles	1	(32)
Our origins	1	(4)
Stephen Ostrander
Marietta, conceived in greatness	5	(3)
John Fleischman
An illuminating exposition on the Buckeye State as Mainstream America	8	(5)
Douglas Hurt
The most significant dates in Ohio history	13	(11)
Dr. George Knepper
Practical Ohio moments	24	(2)
An Ohio timeline	26	(6)
The Ohio presidents	32	(24)
An essay on the eight Ohioans who have occupied the White House	32	(11)
Melissa Faye Greene
A modern appraisal	43	(1)
James Cash
Evolution of the national clerk	44	(2)
Michael O'Bryant
Biographies of the Ohio presidents	46	(8)
Eight moments of Presidential homage	54	(2)
James Cash
Ohio at war	56	(28)
Ohio and the late unpleasantness	56	(2)
John Fleischman
Marching through Civil War Ohio, a guide to historical sites	58	(5)
Ohio: the war years	63	(5)
15 Ohioans you want on the next stool when the fight breaks out	68	(3)
How mad was Mad Anthony Wayne?	71	(1)
John Baskin
The brash menagerie, Ohio style	72	(6)
The Ohio National Guard	78	(4)
None but the brave	82	(2)
Annotated Ohio	84	(8)
Who we are, statistically speaking	86	(2)
Advanced Buckeye, the fine points	88	(1)
The lay of the land, a geographic and demographic summary	89	(1)
Buckeye essentials: state flag, song, slogan, fossil, and assorted other miscellanies of citizenship	90	(1)
the Buckeye tree and its distinguished political history	91	(1)
Politics	92	(160)
Local government	96	(5)
Home rule in Ohio	101	(3)
Thomas Bier
The state hierarchy: a chart	104	(2)
Executive branch	106	(6)
the Governor's cabinet	112	(4)
Governors of Ohio	116	(10)
Legislative branch	126	(3)
State Senators	129	(4)
and Representatives	133	(13)
Election results 2000--2002	146	(6)
The hatbox capitol	152	(4)
Richard Coleman
Election results, 1802--2002	156	(12)
U.S. Senators	168	(3)
U.S. Representatives	171	(17)
Campaign finances	188	(6)
Ohioans who have held National office	194	(4)
Notables from the State's political past	198	(12)
Ohio women in politics	210	(2)
Judicial branch	212	(3)
Mapp and Brandenburg: fundamental American rights	215	(3)
Michael O'Bryant
Ohioans on the U.S. Supreme Court	218	(10)
6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals	228	(2)
Tom Diemer
Political superlatives	230	(2)
State budget	232	(4)
Taxes	236	(4)
Wages in Ohio: the good, the bad, the ugly	240	(2)
Who carries the tax burden?	242	(3)
Deborah A. Geier
State government toll free numbers & website directory	245	(7)
Ohio and the Arts	252	(44)
Museums; symphonies and orchestras, opera and light opera, dance, theatre, arts festivals, arts centers and events, outdoor dramas	260	(5)
Heisey glass: Ohio sets a fine table	265	(8)
Dayton's Schuster Center	273	(1)
Ohio soundbites	274	(9)
When post offices became museums in Ohio	283	(1)
14 cinematic moments in Ohio history	284	(2)
Ohio's historic theatres	286	(9)
Mr. Murphy's monument on Main Street	295	(1)
John Baskin
Culture	296	(18)
The Ohio States	296	(6)
Jeffrey Hammond
II high cultural Buckeye moments	302	(8)
John Baskin
Classic moments in Ohio waggery	310	(4)
Awards: Ohio in the limelight	314	(12)
Pulitzers, the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal and Caldecott, the Hugo and Nebula, the Nobel, Academy awards	314	(5)
Miss Ohio	319	(2)
Ohioans in the National Aviation Hall of Fame	321	(4)
Neil Armstrong: Watch that next step	325	(1)
John Baskin
Literary Ohio	326	(32)
Tony Morrison: Protector of American realism	328	(1)
The Ohioana Awards for literature and the performing arts	329	(2)
Ohio's library	331	(13)
Buckeye literature, a pocket companion	344	(5)
Ohio bestsellers	349	(1)
Ohio literary favorites: A dozen plus	350	(8)
Architecture	358	(16)
Ohio: The best buildings	362	(4)
Jane Ware
Museum on rails: An Art Deco masterpiece	366	(5)
Places that matter	371	(2)
Jane Ware
Father Brunner's amazing Western Ohio empire	373	(1)
John Baskin
Engineering landmarks	374	(8)
Ohio's built landscape	374	(3)
The Ohio canals: Once a great notion	377	(1)
Richard Coleman
Birth of the electronic computer age	378	(2)
Michael O'Bryant
Flights of fancy	380	(2)
Stephen J. Beard
The invention of America by Ohio	382	(8)
Humility aside, it sometimes takes vision and imagination to spot Ohio's deft hand in great events. But if you know where to look, there it is
Education	390	(60)
Education, the plus & minus chart	395	(1)
Profiles of colleges and universities	396	(5)
Antioch: ideal of democratic education	401	(1)
Kenyon: Leafy, liberal arts, and venerable	402	(5)
It's round on the ends: Buckeye U., everybody's school	407	(1)
Losing our minds: Grads with advanced degrees leave Ohio	408	(3)
Sandra Livingston
Hotbed of intellect	411	(6)
Wooster: Midwestern ivy league	417	(4)
Cost, enrollments and test scores of four-year colleges and universities	421	(4)
The ABCs of public school revenues	425	(4)
Education by the numbers, a chart	429	(1)
Public school districts	430	(12)
Testing the tests	442	(8)
Michael O'Bryant
Libraries	450	(24)
The Ohio system	450	(3)
Thomas Suddes
Andrew Carnegie sends greetings to Ohio	453	(1)
Where the books are---from the State Library	454	(4)
to local branches	458
The card catalog: A skill passes	457	(3)
John Fleischman
The exacting price of frontier literacy	460	(7)
A guide to databases	467	(7)
Religion	474	(12)
A religious timeline	474	(5)
McGuffey: Good ole American pie	479	(1)
Addresses and memberships of Ohio denominations	480	(2)
23 acts of Ohio faith	482	(2)
Churches and membership	484	(2)
Business and Industry	486	(44)
A business overview	486	(4)
Stephen Ostrander
Gross State Product	490	(3)
Ohio business, the plus and minus chart	493	(1)
Profiles of retail, wholesale, finance, and service industries	494	(4)
Restructuring Ohio, the clusters	498	(6)
Business, a timeline	504	(2)
Housing	506	(1)
Honda steers new course in automaking	507	(1)
Christopher Jensen
Ohio's job growth	508	(5)
Ohio's top-ranked companies	513	(2)
Ohio's Top Employers	515	(2)
Ohio's top 100 publicly held companies	517	(2)
Coal mining	519	(1)
Minerals	520	(1)
One of America's great business stories	521	(1)
Clay and shale	522	(1)
Flint	523	(1)
Ohio exports	524	(2)
Residential energy prices	526	(1)
The telephone in Ohio	527	(3)
Inventive Ohio	530	(12)
Inventing the wheel	530	(1)
John Baskin
Ohio makes it up	531	(1)
15 Ohio classics	532	(5)
Accidental Ohioans: Not by the book	537	(1)
19 culinary Ohio moments	538	(3)
Ohio's patent libraries	541	(1)
Agriculture	542	(24)
Hankering for the countryside: A sprightly agricultural history	542	(4)
Stephen Ostrander
Agriculture, the regions	546	(3)
Crop summary	549	(1)
Agricultural profile	550	(4)
Bountiful Ohio: The pertinent statistics	554	(1)
Agricultural hall of fame	555	(4)
Research	559	(5)
Ohio's national agricultural standings	564	(2)
Transportation	566	(34)
Transportation profile	566	(3)
Ohio's highway system	569	(1)
10 barnstorming moments in Ohio history	570	(3)
Travel time	573	(1)
On congestion in Ohio	574	(3)
Motor registration	577	(1)
How Ohioans get themselves to work	578	(1)
Crashes	579	(5)
Fast company: A cautionary compendium on speed	584	(1)
The turnpike, a profile	585	(2)
Bridges	587	(3)
A system for the traveler	590	(2)
Richard Coleman
Poetic Ohio license	592	(3)
Railways, airports, waterways, and ports	595	(5)
Population	600	(24)
Ohio, the profile	600	(1)
A census of cities and villages, including ZIP codes	601	(8)
The most densely populated places in Ohio---and the least	609	(12)
Census designated places	621	(2)
The return of Buckeye nationalism	623	(1)
John Fleischman
Matters of Fact	624	(10)
Firsts	624	(2)
An average day in the life of Ohio	626	(2)
National standings	628	(1)
Founders: It all started here	629	(1)
Tall stories: The highest points in Ohio	630	(4)
Vital Statistics	634	(18)
The pertinent statistics	634	(2)
Births, deaths, marriages, and divorces	636	(2)
Leading causes of death in Ohio	638	(2)
A collection of notable Ohio couples	640	(7)
Ohio's notorious feminist	647	(2)
Mercer County love story	649	(1)
Great moments in Ohio medicine	650	(1)
Up in smoke	651	(1)
Crime	652	(16)
The deadly art: Ohio's most notable murders	652	(1)
The unruly passions	653	(5)
Crime and punishment in Ohio	658	(2)
Correctional institutions	660	(1)
Deadly encounter at Lucasville	661	(1)
Doing time in Ohio: The numbers	662	(2)
The ultimate penalty	664	(4)
Wealth in Ohio	668	(4)
Getting and spending: A glossary of Buckeye boodle	668	(3)
A bookkeeper's legacy	671	(1)
Metropolitan Profiles	672	(22)
Profiles, in statistics	672	(2)
Sketches of the cities of Akron	674	(2)
Cincinnati	676	(6)
Cleveland	682	(3)
Columbus	685	(3)
Dayton	688	(4)
and Toledo	692
America's rubber capital moves on	674	(6)
A tale of two cities: Cleveland and Cincinnati	680	(4)
An Ohio masterpiece	684	(3)
Jane Ware
Why O, why O, Christopher Columbus, Ohio?	687	(2)
John Fleischman
The man who invented salesmanship	689	(2)
John Baskin
The urban Ohio dilemma: Everyone's problem	691	(3)
Michael O'Bryant
County Profiles	694	(70)
The facts of life in Ohio's 88 Counties . . . Population, area, income, labor forces, transportation, voting, attractions	694	(27)
Ohio's average hourly wage, by county	721	(10)
Guide to Archibald Willard country	731	(28)
Marietta: A colony of favorable auspices	759	(4)
A pronouncing gazeteer	763	(1)
The Weather in Ohio	764	(14)
The probabilities, essay	764	(6)
Jay Paris
Stormy weather: an Ohio chronology	770	(2)
Weather reporting begins in Cincinnati	772	(1)
The climate of Ohio: rain, sleet, snow, sunshine, and other natural occurrences	773	(4)
Ohio's ten warmest and wettest years	777	(1)
The Environment	778	(1)
Teeming Ohio	778	(2)
Stephen Ostrander
Earth	780	(1)
Ohio's Superfund sites	781	(1)
Air	782	(2)
Fire	784	(2)
Water	786	(3)
Ohio's container: Half-empty or half-full?	789
Stephen Ostrander
Ohio Disasters	550	(246)
The worst of times . . . fires, floods, tornadoes, pestilence, and the blizzard	790	(6)
Media	796	(10)
The Ohio Daily Paragon, the newspaper you've always wanted to read	796	(3)
Thomas Suddes
Ohioans take Big Apple by storm	799	(1)
Ohio newsmakers: all the news that fits	800	(2)
Public information in Ohio and the Sunshine Laws: How it works	802	(3)
Stephen Koff
Christopher Evans
Ohio's Januarius MacGahan: liberator of Bulgaria	805	(1)
Recreation	806	(36)
The seven wonders of Ohio---and some lesser wonders	806	(6)
Attractions	812	(1)
Zoos and theme parks	813	(1)
Speciality museums	814	(7)
Ross County's house museum	821	(5)
Historic sites	826	(2)
Roscoe Village: Tribute to an incredible labor	828	(1)
Restored communities	829	(2)
The State Fair: Ohio's most elaborate pageant	831	(1)
Natural wonders	832	(2)
The Mound-builders: This land was their land	834	(4)
Sporting venues	838	(1)
The good fight to protect a wooden-trussed heritage	839	(2)
Making Ohio wine into an industry	841	(1)
Index	842