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99 unusual facts about Ohio


1983 in South African sport

23 September - Gerrie Coetzee, the South African heavyweight boxing champion, wins the World Boxing Association (WBA) title in Akron, Ohio by knocking out American Michael Dokes and becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title.

Ammon Hennacy

Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio to Quaker parents, Benjamin Frankin Hennacy and Eliza Eunice Fitz Randolph, and grew up as a Baptist.

Anthony Sadowski

Whether or not he opened an Indian trading post on the shores of Lake Erie and gave his name to Sandusky, Ohio, here lies the greatest Polish frontiersman of colonial times, an organizer of Amity Township in 1719, and founder of the Sandusky family in America.

Arthur L. Welsh

The funeral was attended by Orville Wright and his sister Katherine, who had traveled from Dayton, Ohio and who were still in mourning for their brother Wilbur, who had died less than two weeks earlier.

Bas de Bever

First American Junior Pro*/Superclass race result: Second place in Superclass at the NBL Christmas Classic in Columbus, Ohio on 28 December 1989.

Bert the Conqueror

There are also episodes which took place in a single amusement park, such as Cedar Point, in which Bert rode 4 roller coasters at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.

Bracken County, Kentucky

White burley tobacco, a light, adaptable leaf that revolutionized the industry, was first sold at the 1867 St. Louis Fair by the farmer Mr. Webb from Higginsport, Ohio.

Buffington Island

During the American Civil War, the Battle of Buffington Island took place on July 19, 1863, just south of the Ohio community of Portland.

Carl Andrew Weinman

Weinman was born in Steubenville, Ohio on January 27, 1903, the son of Andrew G. and Dorothea (Becker) Weinman.

Cassella

Cassella, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Marion Township, Mercer County, United States

Charles B. McClintock

Born in Paint Township, Wayne County, Ohio, near Beach City, Stark County, McClintock was educated in the public schools.

Crosley Broadcasting Corporation

During World War II, Crosley built the Bethany Relay Station in Butler County, Ohio's Union Township, one mile west of its transmitter for WLW, for the Office of War Information.

Dagwood sandwich

In 1950 businessmen Bob Weiler and Art Lang opened a Dagwood-themed restaurant in Toledo, Ohio with hopes of establishing a national chain.

Dave Longaberger

His concern for his community was evident in the money, effort and time he donated in and around Dresden, Ohio.

David Curson

Curson was born in Toledo, Ohio to George Curson, a heavy equipment operator for Washington Township, Lucas County, Ohio.

Dinn Corporation

Dinn Corporation was a roller coaster designing and manufacturing company established in West Chester, Ohio in 1983 by Charles Dinn.

Donald Ayler

Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, he went on to work with his brother in the mid-1960s.

East Rochester, Ohio

East Rochester is a census-designated place in southern West Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.

Elizabeth Ann Blaesing

Elizabeth Ann Britton Harding Blaesing (October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2005) was the alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, and Nan Britton, a native of Marion, Ohio.

Elizabeth Wanless

Her personal best throw is 18.60 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Berea, Ohio.

Ellen Palmer Allerton

Her husband, born February 18, 1831, was native of Cuyahoga County, Ohio and a descendent of Isaac Allerton who, along with his wife and children, had made passage aboard the Mayflower on its maiden voyage to Plymouth Rock.

Ernest Glenn Munn

Munn was buried May 17, 2008, in the family plot in Holly Memorial Gardens in Pleasant Grove, Ohio.

FNB Corporation

FNB Corporation is a financial services corporation based in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, which operates banks under the name First National Bank in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Fred A. Lennon

He lived with his wife, Alice, and their two children in Hunting Valley, Ohio.

Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry

The portage across Marblehead Peninsula is named DeLery Portage because of his documentation of it in his 1754 journal.

George H. Clark

George H. Clark (October 18, 1872 – July 11, 1943) was a Republican lawyer from Canton, Ohio in the United States who sat as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922.

Clark was born to James J. and Ada Schlabach Clark of Canton, Ohio.

Granville, Massachusetts

However, perhaps due to the rocky soil in New England, the settlers eventually migrated west, some establishing the town of Granville, Ohio.

Great Blizzard of 1899

Milligan, Ohio: −39 °F (−39 °C) (still the all-time record low for Ohio)

Harrison H. Dodd

In his early adult life he moved to Toledo, Ohio, where he unsuccessfully ran for mayor under the Know-Nothing Party banner in 1855.

Henry B. Carrington

In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).

Henry Clark Corbin

He was born in Monroe Township, Ohio, and was teaching school and studying law when the American Civil War broke out.

Henry Louis Rietz

Henry Louis Rietz (24 August 1875, Gilmore, Ohio – 7 December 1943, Iowa City, Iowa) was an American mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory.

Heritage Village Museum

The village is located within Sharon Woods Park in Sharonville, Ohio.

Holy Roller

Time on March 4, 1929: "In the village of New Hampshire, Ohio, the Rev. Ray Dotson, 'Holy Roller' Methodist, so wailed and shrieked, so frothed and grovelled, that he got Fred Conrad, a 200-lb. traction worker, all worked up."

Howard P. Whidden

Born in Antigonish Harbour, Nova Scotia, became a Baptist minister in Dayton, Ohio and likely knew John D. Rockefeller and may have been instrumental, along with Cyrus' uncle Charles Aubrey Eaton, in Rockefeller meeting Cyrus S. Eaton.

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft.

Improbable theatre

Improbable's latest show, Panic is a co-production with the Barbican Center, London, and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio and the Sydney Opera House.

Indiana Northeastern Railroad

In Ohio, the INR extends east-northeast from the state line to the Williams County villages of Edon and Montpelier.

Ironton–Russell Bridge

Soon, the Ironton-Russell bridge was followed by numerous others at Ashland, Portsmouth, and Huntington.

Israel Beachy

He was born in the small town of Plain City, Ohio, USA and lived there with his three brothers and father.

J. Edward Anderson

The Sky Loop plan was submitted to the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), but the proposal was ultimately rejected by OKI's Central Area Loop Study Committee.

J. Garber Drushal

Garber Drushal (July 16, 1912 – December 3, 1982) was the eighth President of The College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio USA.

James Celebrezze

James Patrick Celebrezze (born February 7, 1938) is an American politician and jurist of the Ohio Democratic party, who served as a judge of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, common pleas court (domestic relations division).

James Martin Bell

He was admitted to the bar in 1817 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Ohio.

James W. Forsyth

He died on October 24, 1906 in Columbus, Ohio, and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery.

Jefferson Thomas

Thomas resided in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Mary, and a granddaughter, Amber.

Jerry Lynn Young

After only a month on the run, Young was arrested with accomplice William Webb by FBI agents as they left their motel room in Akron, Ohio on June 15.

Joel Barlow

He had previously, however, induced the company of Frenchmen, who ultimately founded Gallipolis, Ohio, to emigrate to America.

John B. McClelland

He was captured by American Indians during the Crawford Expedition and tortured to death at the Shawnee town of Wakatomika, which is currently located in Logan County, Ohio, about halfway between West Liberty, Ohio and Zanesfield, Ohio.

John G. Woolley

Woolley was born in Collinsville, Ohio, on February 15, 1850, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1871, later gaining admission to the Illinois bar.

John L. Rotz

While working at Thistledown Racecourse in North Randall, Ohio in 1975, he met his wife, Mary, whose sister was a horse trainer at the track.

John M. Coyne

John M. Coyne (born 1916) was the mayor of Brooklyn, Ohio from 1948 to 1999, the longest consecutive term of any mayor in United States history.

Jordan Hicks

Hicks attended Lakota West High School in West Chester, Ohio, where he started his final three seasons, posting 216 tackles, 8.5 sacks, 36 TFL, three forced fumbles, four INTs, 10 PBU and a touchdown.

Kansas City massacre

Death of Floyd: After an intensive search, the FBI and a team of local police officers located Pretty Boy Floyd hiding on a farm just outside Clarkson, Ohio, on October 22, 1934.

L'Enjoleur

Pensioned, L'Enjoleur died at the age of 28 in 2000 at Highland Meadows Farm near Petersburg, Ohio.

Llanbrynmair

The two most prominent emigrants were Edward Bebb and Ezekiel Hughes, who settled in Butler County, Ohio near Paddy's Run.

Lou Blessing

As an attorney, Blessing worked from the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court before being elected as a Colerain Township Trustee.

Lynn Ullom

Ullom left Cameron in 1987 to accept a teaching job at Lakeland High School in Freeport, Ohio.

Madison Hemings

In 1836 Madison, Mary and their infant daughter Sarah left Charlottesville for Pike County, Ohio, probably to join his brother Eston, who had already moved there with his own family.

Market socialism

These included "Utopia" and "Modern Times."

Mat Zo

From age one to eleven, Zohar and his family lived in the city of Cleveland, Ohio in the United States.

McLaughlin Mound

In 1972, the McLaughlin Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance; it is one of three Knox County mounds on the Register, along with the Raleigh and Stackhouse Mounds near Fredericktown to the northwest.

Melon heads

Legend holds that the melon heads may be sighted along Wisner Road in Kirtland, and Chardon Township.

Michael Henne

In the Republican primary, he faced Butler Township Trustee Joe Ellis.

Mike Rice Jr.

He attended Boardman High School in Boardman, Ohio where he was a three year starter as a basketball guard.

Mike Trgovac

Trgovac was an all-state defensive lineman at Fitch High School in Austintown, Ohio.

Mouse Island

Mouse Island, Ohio, a private island in Lake Erie in Ohio, United States

Nate Hartley

He attended Rootstown Elementary School in Portage County, Ohio.

Nathan Kelley

No image of the man himself exists and his grave in Green Lawn Cemetery was unmarked until 2012, when a preservation group funded a stone monument fashioned from Columbus limestone-the material used for the Ohio Statehouse.

Norwalk, Wisconsin

Norwalk, Wisconsin was given its name by Selium McGary, one of the pioneers of Monroe County, who named it after Norwalk, Ohio, where he had previously lived.

Ohio Legislative Black Caucus

The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus was founded in 1967 by African American state legislators under the leadership of State Representative C.J. McLin of Dayton, Ohio (Deceased)

Ohio State Route 575

The route is located entirely within the western half of Kelleys Island, one of the Lake Erie Islands.

Ohio's 5th congressional district special election, 2007

Robin Weirauch, public administrator, 2004 and 2006 Democratic nominee

Oliver Spencer

When he arrived in Columbia, Ohio, the governor of the territory Arthur St. Clair made him the colonel of the local militia and probate judge for Hamilton County.

Only the Young

The first individual outside the band to hear the song was sixteen-year-old Kenny Sykaluk of Rocky River, Ohio, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

Oscar W. Ritchie

He was also an active member of the Massillon Urban League and the Canton NAACP, which recognized his work as the leader of their local recruitment drive in the 1950s, that nearly doubled the size of their local membership.

Page Plus Cellular

Page Plus is headquartered in Holland, Ohio, is owned by Abdul Yassine, and as of January 2014, the Better Business Bureau has given it a rating of A+ with 151 complaints closed in the last 3 years.

Paul Fritts

The Fritts organ at St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio is his largest instrument to date, with three manuals (keyboards) and 66 stops.

Pluggy

Originally from a Mohawk band, Pluggy gathered a number of Mingo and Iroquois followers and moved westward eventually setting on the site of Delaware, Ohio in 1772.

PM Toledo Division

The Toledo Division was the southern half of the Pere Marquette Railway's main line, which ran from Ludington, Michigan (on the coast of Lake Michigan) to Toledo, Ohio (on the coast of Lake Erie).

Precious Bunny

After his three-year-old season he retired to stud at Hickory Lane Horse Farm in Findlay, Ohio.

Ralph Tasker

After attending Alderson-Broaddus College on a basketball scholarship, Tasker became the head basketball coach at the high school in Sulphur Springs, Ohio.

Robert Hardy Small

Although a lifelong Toronto resident, Small was born in Morrow, Ohio, United States, near Cincinnati, when his parents were temporarily outside of Canada.

Ross McGregor

Despite not being recommended by Clark County Republicans, McGregor nonetheless received the appointment, and was seated in October 2005.

Ruby Cohn

Born in 1922 in Columbus, Ohio, Cohn moved with her family to New York City, where she completed high school and graduated from Hunter College.

S bridge

The next bridge, four and a half miles east from New Concord on US Route 40, is found at the intersection of US 40 and Peter's Creek Road.

Sidney Rigdon

He moved in May to Trumbull County, Ohio, where he jointly preached with Adamson Bentley from July 1819.

Silver Fox rabbit

The Silver Fox breed was developed after 14 years of selective breeding by Walter B. Garland of North Canton, Ohio and was the third breed to be developed in the United States.

Terry Boose

Boose earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Bowling Green State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech University, and subsequently served as the fiscal officer for Norwalk Township in Huron County.

Thomas J. Arnold

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth took the children back to England and Rugby for their initial education and then moved to Hiram, Ohio, where her children went to college.

Timothy Derickson

Formerly he was a Hanover Township Trustee.

U.S. Route 35

Continuing west, the highway reverts to an expressway until it reaches Richmond Dale.

Wayne A. Cauthen

Wayne Cauthen grew up in Englewood, New Jersey and graduated Cum Laude from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, and attended graduate school at the University of Colorado.

West Chester, Ohio

Olde West Chester, Ohio, the original settlement that gave its name to the township.

Wisdom's Light

Wisdom's Light is a public sculpture located in front of the Lake Branch Library in Uniontown, Ohio.

WIVM-LD

WIVN-LD is carried by Time Warner Cable on channel 4 & channel 989 in Tuscarawas, Holmes & Carroll Counties.

WNHC

WNHC-LP, a low-power radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Lima, Ohio, United States

Young Eagles

In May 2009, EAA joined with Sporty's Pilot Shop of Batavia, Ohio, to provide the Next Step to the Young Eagles Flight experience.


1957 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

The 1957 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was led by captains Galen Cisco and Leo Brown.

43rd Ohio Infantry

The 43rd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 13, 1865.

A. flava

Aesculus flava, the yellow buckeye, common buckeye or sweet buckeye, a tree species native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States

Coingate scandal

However, after two weeks, Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro had released only 3 of the 120 boxes of documents.

Electoral reform in Ohio

The head official in charge of voting procedures in the state of Ohio is the Secretary of State, a position that is currently held by Jennifer Brunner.

F. Ward Murrey

Ward Murrey first became affiliated with the State Library of Ohio in 1961 when he began working for the Southeastern Ohio Library Center (now called Serving Every Ohioan Library Center) in Caldwell, Ohio.

Farm Cove Observatory

Built in 2000, the observatory has a Meade LX200R 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain F/10 telescope, purchased and on loan from Ohio State University Astronomy Dept.

Flush toilet

1924-1927: Philip Haas of Dayton, Ohio, designed and improved a water closet flushing and recycling mechanism similar to those in use today, incorporated in US Patents 1,576,600, 1,601,210, 1,605,939, 1,623,109, 1,629,914, 1,638,395, 1,639,997, 1,660,922.

Franklin County, Ohio

The county was established on April 30, 1803, less than two months after Ohio became a state, and was named after Benjamin Franklin.

Friendly, West Virginia

The 1884 Heirloom tomato variety was said to be discovered by James Lyde Williamson growing in a pile of flood debris along the Ohio River near Friendly, after the Great Flood of 1884.

Harry Toulmin

Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr. (1858–1942), Ohio lawyer who drafted the Wright Brothers' patent application for their "flying machine"

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life

On June 20, 2011, both of Viswanathan's parents were killed when their Cirrus SR22 airplane crashed and burned outside Columbus, Ohio.

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

Jackson Bailey

Bailey was also honored with Honorary doctorate degrees from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Wabash College in Indiana, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Waseda University in Japan.

Jane Frazier

On October 1, 1755, while returning to her home from the Fort Cumberland Trading Post several miles away, Jane was captured by Indians and taken to the Miami River in Ohio.

John Barlow Hudson

Hudson has three degrees, finished in the California Institute Fine Arts, Valencia, CA in 1972 and 1972, and there is nother one institute, he learned at Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.

John Haymaker

Haymaker and his family, who were of German descent, moved west from Pittsburgh to Franklin Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in early November 1805, shortly after Ohio had become a state.

Jon Diebler

Diebler ended his high school career with 3,208 points, more than Ohio high school greats Jay Burson (2,958), LeBron James (2,646), Bob Huggins (2,438), Jerry Lucas (2,438), Jamar Butler (2,412) and Jim Jackson (2,328).

Lakeside Association Police Department

The Lakeside Association Police Department is a special security police formed at the beginning of the twentieth century to patrol and provide security for the private association and Chautauqua community of Lakeside, Ohio, United States.

LeRoy Homer, Jr.

Homer continued his military career as a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, initially as a C-141 instructor pilot with the 356th Airlift Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, then subsequently as an Academy Liaison Officer, recruiting potential candidates for both the Air Force Academy and the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Lybster

However, during the American Revolution, following some victories in the Ohio and Illinois territories, Patrick Sinclair felt it was necessary to move Fort Michilimackinac from its exposed location on the northernmost point of the lower peninsula of Michigan to Mackinac Island.

M. Peter McPherson

After his government service in the Ford administration, he worked in private law practice as managing partner of the Washington office of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, an Ohio law firm.

Marcus Anthony

Anthony began working regularly for the Ohio-based promotion Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) in 2010.

Michael Nunes

Michael John Nunes (born March 6, 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor who played L'il Bee in Thumbelina (1994) and Beany in The Pebble and the Penguin (1995), before Don Bluth and Gary Goldman went to 20th Century Fox to direct the film Anastasia.

Nobuo Tanaka

He graduated from the University of Tokyo in the field of economics in 1972, and has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1979).

Ohio Hub

Following the 2010 gubernatorial elections in Ohio, the newly elected governor John Kasich (Republican) began the process of shutting down the project and returning the money to the federal government.

Ohio State Route 80

Interstate 80 in Ohio, the only Ohio highway numbered 80 since about 1962

Old Gothic Barns

The Old Gothic Barns were a pair of historic agricultural buildings near the city of Cincinnati in Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

Osee M. Hall

Born in Conneaut, Ohio, he attended the local public schools and graduated from Hiram College in Ohio and from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1868.

Preble County, Ohio

College Corner Union School (grades K-5) is physically located in both Ohio and Indiana (the state line runs through the middle of the building) and serves students from both College Corner, Ohio, and West College Corner, Indiana.

Project Blue Book

Ohio Congressman William Stanton said that "The Air Force has suffered a great loss of prestige in this community … Once people entrusted with the public welfare no longer think the people can handle the truth, then the people, in return, will no longer trust the government."

Promont

The Italianate Victorian home was purchased in 1879 by John M. Pattison, 43rd Governor of Ohio.

Red Lion, Ohio

Red Lion is an unincorporated settlement in southwestern Clearcreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States, at the intersection of State Routes 741, 122, and 123.

Robert Consalvo

A graduate of Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Councilor Consalvo matriculated to Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Political Science.

Robert Pinn

The range, used by the university's ROTC component and NCAA rifle team, is one of the premier shooting facilities in the state of Ohio.

Samuel Campbell

Samuel B. Campbell (1846–1917), Republican politician in the state of Ohio

Scat Records

It was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1989, and many of the bands released on the label are originally from Ohio.

Sister Kinderhook

The album revolves around a fantastical theme that explores subject matter such as the New Netherland settlements, Colonial Federalism, feral children, the Anti-Rent Wars of 1844, Early American portraiture, and the prehistoric Mound Builder giants of Illinois and Ohio.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Walter Stone

Walter F. Stone (1822–1874), Republican politician and judge in Ohio

WCSN

WCSN-LD, a low-power television station (channel 33) in Columbus, Ohio, United States

WGAR

WGAR-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which has carried the WGAR-FM callsign twice (1952–70, 1984–present)

William Axton Stokes

Stokes later served as a major in the U.S. Infantry during the American Civil War, including a period in 1861 commanding at the 18th U.S. Infantry Headquarters, Camp Thomas, Franklin County, Ohio.

WLYT

WKRK-FM, a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States, which carried the WLYT callsign from 1971 to 1983

WMTR

WMTR-FM, a radio station (96.1 FM) licensed to Archbold, Ohio, United States