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Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) 1808-1873 Benefactors Ohio Canton Biography Benevolence Ohio Canton History 20th century Canton (Ohio) Biography Canton (Ohio) Economic conditions 20th century Canton (Ohio) History 20th century Oaksmith, Appleton 1827 or 1828-1887 Shawnee Chief Tecumseh 1768-1813 Stone, Samuel 1887-1981 United StatesEvers, C. W. (Charles W.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 1909
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-Gen 929.3771 EversSummary: 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 PortraitThoreau, Henry David
Contents: The texts of Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: Walden -- Civil disobedience -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Walking -- Wild apples -- Journal: The Journal and Walden -- Selections from the Journal, 1845-54 -- Reviews and posthumous assessments -- Modern criticism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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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 ECKCaldwell, 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 CALFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLEMcDaniel, W. Caleb (William Caleb)
Summary: "In Sweet Taste of Liberty, W. Caleb McDaniel focuses on the experience of a freed slave who was sold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man who had sold her back into bondage. Henrietta Wood was born into slavery, but in 1848, she was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed. In 1855, however, a wealthy Kentucky businessman named Zebulon Ward, who colluded with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 MCDHanna, 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 HannaGup, 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 2010Stahr, Walter
Summary: "From an acclaimed, New York Times bestselling biographer, a timely reassessment of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable Secretary of the Treasury: a leading proponent for black rights both before and during his years in cabinet and later as Chief Justice of the United States. Salmon P. Chase is best remembered as a rival of Lincoln's for the Republican nomination in 1860-but there would not have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHASE, SALMON P. STAContents: History Northwest Territory -- Illustrations -- History of Darke County -- Biographical sketches -- Lithographic portrais -- miscellaneous.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Beers & Co. 1880
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.147 HISHake, Terrence
Summary: Operation Greylord was the longest and most successful undercover investigation in FBI history, and the largest corruption bust ever in the U.S. It resulted in bribery and tax charges against 103 judges, lawyers, and other court personnel, and, eventually, more than seventy indictments. And it was led by Terrence Hake, a young assistant prosecutor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Bar Association 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAKE, TERRENCE HAKVan Zoeren, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Van Zoeren 2011
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 929.2 VANRichardson, J. M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: s.n. 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 977.1 RICPerrin, William Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baskin & Battey 1881
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.377162 PERSmith, Otis Milton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, OTIS MILTON SMIHarrison, Kim.
Summary: Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the FIB, former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth--a would-be creator is determined to make his (or her) own demons. But it can't be done without Rachel's blood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARGup, 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 GUPEvans, Henrietta C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.C. Evans 1984
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1 EvansWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6092 WHIHarig, Bob
Summary: "Bob Harig's Tiger & Phil provides an in depth chronicle of the decades-long rivalry that drove the success of golf's two biggest stars, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. For two decades now there have been two golfers who have captivated, bemused, inspired, frustrated, fascinated, and entertained us, and in doing so have demanded our attention - Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Even with all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022