Families Who Built Cincinnati - The Founding Families of the Queen City

Informationen zum Autor WENDY HART BECKMAN is an award-winning freelance writer and editor Founders and Famous Families: Cincinnati is her seventh work of nonfiction. She has also published more than 300 articles in print and online publications, and has received a baker’s dozen of awards for her writing, editing, and desktop publishing. Wendy’s bachelor’s degrees are in geology and natural science/technical communications from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and the University of Cincinnati, respectively. She also has a master’s degree in English from UC with a graduate certificate in professional writing. She has taught English, business writing, and scientific and technical writing at the University of Cincinnati and cultural diversity at Miami University. She frequently offers workshops, from a few hours in length to weekend-long retreats, for writers who wish to get published. Besides writing, Wendy’s passion lies in singing. For 10 years she was a member of the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus, the oldest continuous choral tradition in the Western hemisphere. When she’s not engaged in writing or singing, she can be found with one of her paintball teams, working on behalf of the nonprofit that she co-founded, Athletes Joined Against Spondylitis. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband and three sons. Klappentext Uncover the stories behind how Cincinnati gave the world so much more! Leseprobe CHAPTER 1: They Built Cincinnati MANY OF THE EARLY PEOPLE WHO LIVED in this area are known to us now as Mound Builders. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, those of the Mound Builder culture had disappeared from this area of southwest Ohio. (The work of the Mound Builders closest to Cincinnati, of the Fort Ancient Culture, can best be seen at Serpent Mound in Adams County.) About 100 years went by with no other groups filling the void. Previously farmed fields lay fallow. So at the beginning of the 1700s, southwest Ohio was sparsely populated. Then, having been driven out of New York, the Iroquois entered Ohio and spread quickly throughout the state, fighting other tribes and completely wiping out some, like the Erie, along the way. In their attempts to claim so much land, however, the Iroquois spread themselves too thin and thus left themselves vulnerable to attack from many sides by others. The Miami tribes came in from the west and established a stronghold on that side of the state, eventually giving their name to many landmarks that still exist today, such as Miami University. Three rivers, in fact, bear variations of the Miami name: the Great Miami to the west of Cincinnati, the Little Miami to the east, and the Maumee to the north. From the Great Lakes came the Wyandot Hurons, Ottawas, Potawatomies, and Chippewas (Ojibwes). The Shawnee traveled along the Scioto River from the east, as did the Delaware tribe, who came from Pennsylvania and settled in central Ohio. Fort Ancient itself, in Warren County just northeast of Cincinnati, had become home to other tribes. No one tribe of native people had a clear hold on Southwestern Ohio. At the same time that these Native American forces were fighting each other for the land, the British and French had also discovered Ohio and battled for control of the region. As of July 4, 1776, all this was taking place in a country that we now think of as the United States of America. But back then this area was better described as being an utter state of chaos. In 1780, an expedition of soldiers was launched against the Native Americans. George Rogers Clark led a contingent of more than a thousand men with the goal of driving the Indians back and teaching them a lesson for recent attacks on settlers in Kentucky and Ohio. Official Ohio statistics papers published by the Secretary of State in the late 1800s contain a description, written by a Mr. Isaac Smucker, of the construction of t...

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• Authors: Wendy Hart Beckman, Beckman Wendy Hart
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9781578605217
• ISBN: 978-1-57860-521-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ohio, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History