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Benefactors Ohio Canton Biography Benevolence Ohio Canton History 20th century Canton (Ohio) Biography Canton (Ohio) Economic conditions 20th century Canton (Ohio) History 20th century Large type books Murder Investigation Ohio Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 Stone, Samuel 1887-1981Gup, Ted
Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 977.162 GUPAlexander, Brian
Summary: "In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass house, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion."--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 ALEEckert, Allan W.
Summary: Recreates events which actually occurred in the opening up of the Northwest Territory in the period 1700 to 1900 based on written documents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jesse Stuart Foundation 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 ECKKhouw, Petta.
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Publisher / Publication Date: State Library of Ohio 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3771 KhouwHanna, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Priv. Print. [J.J. Little & Co.] 1900
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977 HannaGiffels, David
Summary: "In the tradition of J.D. Vance, Sarah Smarsh, and Amy Goldstein, BARNSTORMING OHIO is an on-the-ground look at the diverse challenges facing Ohio, and its national significance as the state that has historically sided with the presidential election winner more than any other -- from award-winning lifelong Ohioan author and writer David Giffels, dubbed by the New York Times as "the Bard of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.1 GIFSchwartzman, Nancy
Summary: An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the "Big Red" high school football team. They took turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 SCHSummary: The first section of the book contains full page portraits of each of the first 23 Presidents of the United States along with brief biographies. The remainder of the book comprises biographies and histories of prominent figures in the history of these three counties of Ohio. Illustrated with 63 portraits and 18 views.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chapman Bros. 1892
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF GEN 929.3771 PortraitHeyman, Stephen
Summary: "How a literary idol of the Lost Generation launched America's organic and sustainable food movement. In interwar France, Louis Bromfield was equally famous as a writer and as a gardener. He pruned dahlias with Edith Wharton, weeded Gertrude Stein's vegetable patch, and fed the starving artists who flocked to his farmhouse outside Paris. His best-selling novels earned him a Pulitzer-and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROMFIELD, LOUIS HEYMorhard, Ruth Hanford
Summary: "As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Cleveland, Ohio, wrestled triumph out of adversity by creating a community activity that would inspire the nation. Josephine Morhard's daughter-in-law recounts the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the woman who established the first boys' baseball league in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 796.357 MORGup, Ted.
Summary: During the Great Depression, the impoverished residents of Canton, Ohio were offered ten dollars to pen their tales of woe. Seventy-five years later, author Ted Gup came across these moving stories and made it his goal to chronicle the families' subsequent generations. Here, Gup's sweeping narratives embody the struggles faced by the quintessential American family over the last several decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 977.16 Gup 2010Meckler, Laura
Summary: "In this searing and deeply researched examination of the promises and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler aims to uncover where the problem lies and to shed light on what's being done to move forward-in housing, in education, and in the promise of shared community. In the late 1950s, Shaker Heights became a national model for housing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MECRenner, James
Summary: "In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy's home. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations, theories, and rumors among Lisa's friends and peers. Together they wove a damning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 RENEllenport, Craig
Summary: "Learn about the key players and big wins that have made the Ohio State Buckeyes one of the most popular teams in college football. Readers will get a glimpse into the team's history, its home stadium, its fans, and the team's most memorable moments. Additional features to enhance comprehension include a table of contents, informative sidebars and captions, a glossary of key words and phrases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ELLCaldwell, J. A. (John Alexander)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unigraphic. 1880
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.377193 CALFaber, Don
Contents: The Battle of Phillips Corners -- Roots of the dispute I : the Northwest Ordinance -- Roots of the dispute II : Ohio statehood -- Prelude to war, 1815-30 -- Path to statehood -- A war of words opens the curtain -- Acts of provocation -- Events of April-June 1835 -- Bloodshed in Toledo -- The case for Ohio -- The case for Michigan -- Governor Mason is fired -- Statehood in the balance --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.103 FABJordan, Brian Matthew
Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict. Brian Matthew Jordan's Marching Home, a "powerful exploration" (Washington Post) of the fates of Union veterans, vaulted him into the first rank of Civil War historians. Now, in A Thousand May Fall, Jordan sends us trundling along dusty roads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 JORAbdurraqib, Hanif
Summary: "While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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Summary: The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.162Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.162 GUPGroene, Gordon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Country Roads Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.71 GROHagedorn, Ann.
Summary: "The decades preceding the Civil War were rife with fierce sectarian violence along the borders between slave and free states. The Ohio River was one such border. Here in the river towns of Ohio and Kentucky, abolitionists and slave chasers confronted each other during the 'war before the war'. Slave masters and bounty hunters chased runaway slaves from Kentucky into Ohio, hoping to catch their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7115 HAGContents: v. 1. 1802-1990 (Augusta, East, Fox, and Washington Townships) -- v. 2. 1806-1991 (Lee and Loudon Townships) -- v. 3. 1817-1993 (Center Township) -- v. 4. 1811-1995 (Orange, Perry, and Union Townships) -- v. 5. 1818-1996 (Harrison and Monroe Townships)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll County Genealogical Society 1990
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.377167 CARFenn, Lisa
Summary: "An Emmy-winning ESPN producer describes how she developed a surprising, profound and lasting bond with two disabled African-American, inner-city high school wrestlers after filming a segment about them for television,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2016