A Portrait and Biographical Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio
A Portrait and Biographical Record of Portage and Summit Counties, Ohio

Author: Pub A W Bowen & Co

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-12

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 9780342561896

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Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900
Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900

Author: Mary Sayre Haverstock

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1096

ISBN-13: 9780873386166

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A three-volume guide to the early art and artists of Ohio. It includes coverage of fine art, photography, ornamental penmanship, tombstone carving, china painting, illustrating, cartooning and the execution of panoramas and theatrical scenery.

Kentuckians in Ohio and Indiana
Kentuckians in Ohio and Indiana

Author: Stuart Seely Sprague

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0806311428

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Information abstracted from 200 rare county histories & atlases published between 1876 and 1916.

Britain to America
Britain to America

Author: William E. Van Vugt

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780252067570

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From 1820 to 1860, the United States and Great Britain were the two most closely interconnected countries in the world in terms of culture and economic growth. In an important addition to immigration history, William Van Vugt explores who came to America from Great Britain during this period and why. Disruptions and economic hardships, such as the repeal of Britain's protective Corn Laws, the potato famine, and technological displacement, do not account for the great mid-century surge of British migration to America. Rather than desperation and impoverishment, Van Vugt finds that immigrants were motivated by energy, tenacity, and ambition to improve their lives by taking advantage of opportunities in America. Drawing on county histories, passenger lists of immigrant ships, census data, and manuscript collections in Great Britain and the United States, Van Vugt sketches the lives and fortunes of dozens of immigrant farmers, miners, artisans, skilled and unskilled laborers, professionals, and religious nonconformists.

British Buckeyes
British Buckeyes

Author: William E. Van Vugt

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780873388436

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How early British immigrants shaped Ohio? Because of their so similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, the English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the invisible immigrants assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their ethnic identities. Yet, of all of Ohio's immigrants the British were the most influential in terms of shaping the state's politics and institutions. Also significant were their contributions of farming, mining, iron production, textiles, pottery, and engineering. Until British Buckeyes, historians have all but ignored and neglected these Industrious settlers. Author William E Van Vugt uses hundreds of biographies from county archives and histories, letters, Ohio and British census figures, and ship passenger lists to identify these immigrants; and draw a portrait of their occupations, settlement patterns, experiences and to underscore their role in Ohio history.