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Wikipedia Shawnee State University (SSU) is a public university in southern Ohio. It is Ohio's newest state-supported university and lies on the north bank of the Ohio River in the city of Portsmouth in Scioto County. Shawnee State University was established in 1986. The late Vernal Riffe Jr., the former Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, sponsored House Bill 739 authorizing the uni...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Auglaize County, Ohio. Official Website Formed on February 14, 1848, Auglaize County was named from a French word meaning "clay-filled water." The county was originally parts of Allen and Mercer Counties. Auglaize County is located in the western part of Ohio . Its county seat is Wapakoneta, which is the largest city in the county....
Wikipedia =Asbury University, formerly Asbury College, is a Christian liberal arts institution located in Wilmore, Kentucky, United States. Although it is a nondenominational school, the college's foundation stems from a Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. The school offers 50 majors across 17 departments. Primarily a four-year college, Asbury was ranked in the third tier of liberal arts colleges by U...
Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Adams County,Pennsylvania, 11/19/1863: National Cemetery: President of The United States of America Abraham Lincoln: of Pennsylvania Andrew Gregg Curtin: of Maryland Augustus Bradford: of Indiana Oliver P. Morton: of New York Horatio Seymour: of New Jersey Joel Parker:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Official Website Albuquerque, also known locally as Duke City and abbreviated as ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the 32nd-most populous city in the United States , with a census-estimated population of 558,545 in 2017. It is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolita...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Scioto County, Ohio. Official Website The county was founded March 24, 1804 and is named for a Native American word referring to deer or deer-hunting. Adjacent Counties Pike County Jackson County Lawrence County Greenup County, Kentucky Lewis County, Kentucky Adams County For a complete list of Townships & Commu...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Guernsey County, Ohio. Official Website Guernsey County was first formed and organized on 10 March 1810 and it was named for the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel, from which many of the county's early settlers emigrated. Adjacent Counties Coshocton County Tuscarawas County Muskingum County Belmont County Harrison ...
Ohio Governors Since Ohio was admitted to the union on 1 March 1803, there have been 64 governors of Ohio over 70 terms of gubernatorial service. The Ohio governors have been as follows: 1st Edward Tiffin 2nd Thomas Kirker 3rd Samuel Huntington 4th Return J. Meigs, Jr. 5th Othniel Looker 6th Thomas Worthington
This project is for those who are buried in Standing Rock Cemetery, Kent, Portage County, Ohio. Breakneck Cemetery has been moved to the site of Standing Rock Cemetery in Kent, Ohio. It is located in the extreme northeast corner of the Standing Rock Cemetery. Notable Interments Bob "Bob 2" Casale (1952-2014) - Musician Robert Eugene Cook (1920-1988) - US Congress Martin Luther Dave...
Gang=The Ohio Gang (1921-1924) was a gang of politicians and industry leaders closely surrounding Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States of America. Many of these individuals came into Harding's personal orbit during his tenure as a state-level politician in Ohio, hence the name.During the Harding administration, several members of the so-called Ohio Gang became involved in ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cleveland, Ohio. Official Website Cleveland is the county seat of Cuyahoga County. It is also known as "The Forest City", "The North Coast", "C-Town", "Mistake on the Lake" and "The Rock and Roll Capital of the World". It is home to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Cleveland was established on July 22, 1796, by surveyors of the Conn...
This subportal is part of the State of Ohio Portal and the Cemeteries, Memorials & Graveyards Portal . Within the roughly 3,000 towns and cities that make up the State of Ohio , there are approximately 4,100 cemeteries. These range from small, private family burying grounds with only a few graves to large public cemeteries covering hundreds of acres with hundreds of thousands of graves...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Youngstown, Ohio. Youngstown is the county seat of Mahoning County and extends into Trumbull County. Official Website Wikipedia The city was named for John Young, an early settler from Whitestown, New York, who established the community's first sawmill and gristmill. Youngstown is in a region of America that is often referred to ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Akron, Ohio . Akron is the county seat of Summit County . Official Website History The city was founded in 1825 by Simon Perkins and Paul Williams, along the Little Cuyahoga River at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal. The name is derived from the Greek word signifying a summit or high point. It was briefly renamed ...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Ohio .Subprojects: Jews of Cleveland and Jews of Cincinnati .Jewish settlement in Ohio paralleled the opening of new lands to the west of the Allegheny and Appalachian Mountains, the development of canals, roads, and later, railroads. The first documented Jewish settler in Ohio was an English watchmaker named Joseph Jonas , who s...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dayton, Ohio. Official Website Dayton is the county seat of Montgomery County. Dayton was founded on April 1, 1796, by 12 settlers known as the Thompson Party. They traveled in March from Cincinnati up the Great Miami River by pirogue and landed at what is now St. Clair Street, where they found two small camps of Native Americans. ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Toledo, Ohio. Toledo is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, at the western end of Lake Erie bordering the state of Michigan. The city was founded in 1833 on the west bank of the Maumee River, and originally incorporated as part of Monroe County, Michigan Territory. It was re-founded in 1837, after conclusio...
Wikipedia Ohio University is a public research university in Athens, Ohio, United States. One of America's oldest universities, its charter was approved in 1804, and opened for students in 1809. As of 2014, the Athens campus had 23,300 students; the other five campuses had approximately 10,000, and eLearning 5,900. Alumni
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cincinnati, Ohio. Official Website Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, the fastest growing economic power in the Midwestern Uni...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Columbus, Ohio. Official Website Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County. The "Burough of Columbus" was officially established on February 10, 1816. Nine people were elected to fill the various positions of Mayor, Treasurer, and several others. In 1816-1817, Jarvis W. Pike would serve as the 1st Mayor. Although the recent Wa...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . = Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Ohio is the 34th largest by area, the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus.The state takes its name from the Ohio River. The name originated from the Iroquois word ohi-yo’ , meaning "gr...
The cemetery is located on the north side of Haverhill Ohio Furnace Road (County Road 8 ) at its intersection with Bonzo Road (Township Road 314). The cemetery is located in Green Township, Scioto County, Ohio, and is # 10808 (Buckeye Cemetery / Ohio Furnace Cemetery ) in “Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003”, compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society. The cemetery is registered with the Ohio Division o...
Alpha Sigma Phi (ΑΣΦ), commonly known as Alpha Sig, is a collegiate men's secret and social fraternity with 172 currently active chapters. Founded at Yale in 1845, it is the 10th oldest fraternity in the United States.The fraternity practices many traditions. Its Latin motto is Causa Latet Vis Est Notissima ("The cause is hidden, the results well-known"). The fraternity's official symbol is the...
Please add to this project the Geni profiles of those running for Senator. Use "discussions" to identify profiles that need a curator to make into a public Master Profile. The winners of the elections are marked in bold .Up for election: 34 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate. The Louisiana Senate seat will be decided on December 10, 2016 in a Runoff Election.From Wikipedia >Elections for the U...
This cemetery is located on 1229 Neighborhood Road, Green Township, Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio. Find a Grave