CLARK COUNTY, OHIO
BOOKLET / PRINTS
Early
days in CLARK COUNTY, including
Springfield, New Carlisle, South Charleston, and Enon, are recalled through
a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this NEW 32 Page Booklet reprinted
from the 1892 Centennial edition of Henry Howe's Historical Collections
of Ohio, The Ohio Guide (a 1940 WPA Writers project), and
other hard-to-find sources. The spiral-bound booklet is printed one-sided
on 60# paper with the print enlarged for easier reading.
IN ADDITION TO THE BOOKLET, the buyer will receive
THREE Computer-Enhanced 8 1/2 x 11 Prints of engravings from the original book, suitable for framing.
These include Fern Cliff, shown below, an 1846 sketch of Springfield, and
an early sketch of Wittenberg College.
Among the many and diverse topics in the booklet
are: anecdotes concerning the life and death of Tecumseh, a the famous Indian
chief, adventures of William Rogers Clark and William Henry Harrison, the
Frankenstein family and homestead, the new Wittenburg College, the Rev. E.
H. Cumming, artist Worthington Whittridge, Col. Robert L. Kilpatrick of
the "Black Watch" regiment, Speaker of the House of Representative J. Warren
Keefer, Reuben Miller's epitaph, and pioneer inventor James Leffel.
GENEALOGY BUFFS will find
a list of 1888 county officers and businesses. A 1933 history of newspapers
in the county, an article on a Pioneer Mother statue, a 1941 look at Wittenberg
College, a look at Springfield attractions in 1940, a map showing the 88
Ohio counties and a map of 1805 Ohio are also included.
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