History of Brown County Ohio

Description

BROWN COUNTY
,
OHIO
Early days in BROWN COUNTY, including Georgetown, Ripley, Higgensport, Russellville, Aberdeen and Fayetteville, are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this
NEW
23 Page Booklet
reprinted from the 1892 edition of Henry Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio and other hard-to-find sources. The spiral-bound booklet is one-sided on quality paper with the print enlarged 10% for easier reading.
Illustrations
include a 1846 sketch by Howe of the Public Square in Georgetown, an early view of Ripley from the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, and Gen. Grant's boyhood home.
Among the many and diverse topics in the booklet are: the Battle with Tecumseh, "White Burley" tobacco, General Thomas Lyon Hamer, the boyhood home of General Ulysses S. Grant and recollections of his parents and friends, the underground railroad headed by the Rev. John Rankin, with such famous "passengers" as Eliza and George Harris, two of the runaway slaves depicted in "Uncle Tom's Cabin", the Rev. Martin Kundig, founder of Ursuline Convent, and Archbishop John R. Purcell. Additional insight on Grant from an 1869 book,
Sunshine and Shadows in New York City
, has been added.
GENEALOGY BUFFS
will find a list of 1888
county officers and businesses. A 1933 look at the history of newspapers in the county; excerpts from
The Ohio Guide
, a WPA writer's project published in 1940; an article on Ohio's tobacco farming; Henry Howe's rambling account of his Ohio River journey (from the Allen County section of Howe's book), a map showing the 88 Ohio counties and a map of 1805 Ohio are also included in the booklet.
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