Ohio

Headnote
Boundaries and Extent. — Bounded north by the State of Michigan and Lake Erie ; east by the States of Pennsylvania and Virginia, being separated from the latter by the Ohio River; south by said river, which divides it from Kentucky ; and west by the State of Indiana. The Ohio River washes the border of the state, through its numerous meanderings, for a distance of over 430 miles. From the time when the first census was taken, a period of only 60 years, the number of inhabitants has been augmented from 3000 to nearly 2,000,000....(Gazetteer of the United States of America, 1854)
    Place Unit Type
    State or Province
    Containing Unit
    Name Type
    Adams County, OH County
    Allen County, OH County
    Ashland County, OH County
    Ashtabula County, OH County
    Athens County, OH County
    Auglaize County, OH County
    Belmont County, OH County
    Brown County, OH County
    Butler County, OH County
    Carroll County, OH County
    Champaign County, OH County
    Clark County, OH County
    Clermont County, OH County
    Clinton County, OH County
    Columbiana County, OH County
    Coshocton County, OH County
    Crawford County, OH County
    Cuyahoga County, OH County
    Darke County, OH County
    Defiance County, OH County
    Delaware County, OH County
    Erie County, OH County
    Fairfield County, OH County
    Fayette County, OH County
    Franklin County, OH County
    Fulton County, OH County
    Gallia County, OH County
    Geauga County, OH County
    Greene County, OH County
    Guernsey County, OH County
    Hamilton County, OH County
    Hancock County, OH County
    Hardin County, OH County
    Harrison County, OH County
    Henry County, OH County
    Highland County, OH County
    Hocking County, OH County
    Holmes County, OH County
    Huron County, OH County
    Jackson County, OH County
    Jefferson County, OH County
    Knox County, OH County
    Lake County, OH County
    Lawrence County, OH County
    Licking County, OH County
    Logan County, OH County
    Lorain County, OH County
    Lucas County, OH County
    Madison County, OH County
    Mahoning County, OH County
    Marion County, OH County
    Medina County, OH County
    Meigs County, OH County
    Mercer County, OH County
    Miami County, OH County
    Monroe County, OH County
    Montgomery County, OH County
    Morgan County, OH County
    Morrow County, OH County
    Muskingum County, OH County
    Noble County, OH County
    Ottawa County, OH County
    Paulding County, OH County
    Perry County, OH County
    Pickaway County, OH County
    Pike County, OH County
    Portage County, OH County
    Preble County, OH County
    Putnam County, OH County
    Richland County, OH County
    Ross County, OH County
    Sandusky County, OH County
    Scioto County, OH County
    Seneca County, OH County
    Shelby County, OH County
    Stark County, OH County
    Summit County, OH County
    Trumbull County, OH County
    Tuscarawas County, OH County
    Union County, OH County
    Van Wert County, OH County
    Vinton County, OH County
    Warren County, OH County
    Washington County, OH County
    Wayne County, OH County
    Williams County, OH County
    Wood County, OH County
    Wyandot County, OH County
    Date Title
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Fugitive Slaves," January 10, 1848
    New York Times, "Runaway Slaves," November 26, 1852
    New York Times, “Woman’s Rights,” March 27, 1857
    New York Times, “The Dred Scott Decision in the Ohio Legislature,” April 11, 1857
    New York Times, “The Ohio Legislature and the Slavery Question,” April 22, 1857
    New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “The New Nullification,” May 2, 1857
    New York Times, “Important from the South,” June 23, 1857
    New York Times, “A Negro Assailing a White Man,” August 10, 1857
    New York Times, “The Fall Elections,” October 17, 1857
    New York Herald, "The Late Meeting of Maryland Slaveholders," July 23, 1858
    Newark (OH) Advocate, “The English Bill in Kansas,” September 29, 1858
    Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “A Great Ado about Nothing,” October 19, 1858
    Ripley (OH) Bee, “Desperate Conflict with a Runaway Negro,” November 6, 1858
    New York Herald, “The Case of Douglas vs. Fitch," January 25, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, "Correspondence of the Mercury," April 15, 1859
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Reflex of Opinion,” April 22, 1859
    Newark (OH) Advocate, “Carrying Concealed Weapons a Criminal Offense,” April 27, 1859
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Langston Sentenced,” May 12, 1859
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “You Don’t Know the People of Ohio,” May 25, 1859
    Boston (MA) Liberator, “Letter from the Hon. J. R. Giddings,” May 27, 1859
    Boston (MA) Liberator, “The Supreme Court of Wisconsin,” June 17, 1859
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Important Decision,” July 14, 1859
    Abraham Lincoln to Samuel Galloway, July 28, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Open Declaration of Hostilities,” August 31, 1859
    William T. Bascom to Abraham Lincoln, September 1, 1859
    Abraham Lincoln to Salmon Portland Chase, September 21, 1859
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “In a Nut Shell,” October 6, 1859
    William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, October 29, 1859
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "A Good Sign," November 3, 1859
    Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "The Devil Not As Black As He Is Painted," November 24, 1859
    William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, December 12, 1859
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Northern Sentiment,” December 19, 1859
    Newark (OH) Advocate, “Mr. Douglas and the Presidency,” December 23, 1859
    Boston (MA) Herald, “A Conflict of the Races in Canada,” January 23, 1860
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Census,” February 17, 1860
    New York Herald, “Trouble among the Republican President Makers,” February 28, 1860
    Newark (OH) Advocate, “The Chicago Convention,” March 2, 1860
    Newark (OH) Advocate, “How Mr. Buchanan’s Patronage Is Dispensed in Ohio,” May 11, 1860
    (Jackson) Mississippian, “Violations of the Constitution,” June 15, 1860
    Boston (MA) Liberator, “Piracy in Cincinnati,” July 22, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Making a Cat’s-Paw of Douglas,” July 31, 1860
    Newark (OH) Advocate, “Is Lincoln an Abolitionist?,” August 31, 1860
    Chillicothe (OH) Scioto Gazette, “The Difference,” September 25, 1860
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing,” September 29, 1860
    Ripley (OH) Bee, "The Disunion Slave Code Candidate," October 4, 1860
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “There's No Secession in That,” October 13, 1860
    New York Times, "Douglas Out of the Canvass," November 3, 1860
    William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 10, 1860
    William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 23, 1860
    New York Herald, “Untitled,” November 23, 1860
    William T. Sherman to Ellen Sherman, November 29, 1860
    John Sherman to William Tecumseh Sherman, December 9, 1860
    Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Quick, Sharp, and Decisive,” April 15, 1861
    Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Cannot Be Accepted,” April 22, 1861
    Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Reorganization,” April 22, 1861
    Savannah (GA) News, “Northern Free Speech,” May 1, 1861
    New York Times, “Not a War against the South,” May 10, 1861
    Jesse K. Dubois to Abraham Lincoln, June 8, 1861
    Shreveport (LA) News, “On the Wane,” August 15, 1862
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