Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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returned ; Ayres fell,riddled with bullets. His wife, Mrs. Young,has been actively engaged in various benevo-lent and charitable works. Jesse Wakeman Scott was born in Ridge-field, Conn., in 1789, and died at Toledo in1874. He was the earliest journalist of thisregion. In 1833, while engaged in the prac-tice of the law, he started the pioneer paperof the Maumee valley—the Miami of theLake, that then being the appellation ofthe Maumee river. In 1844 he first madeToledo his residence, and for years edited theToledo Blade. As early as 1828, while livingin the South, he formed his views upon theultimate results of population and trade inrespect to interior cities, and especially hisbelief that the future great city of the worldwould be found, not on the seaboard, but inthe interior. This belief led him to emigrate,and finally to settle in Toledo, which he feltwas to be the Great City of the Future. Andthis conviction he promulgated through life,thereby attracting wide-spread notice from
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