History of Butler County Ohio

Description

BUTLER COUNTY
,
OHIO
Early days in Butler County, OH, and its various communities - Miami University at Oxford, Middletown, Hamilton, College Corner and West Chester - are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this
NEW
32 Page Booklet
reprinted from the 1892 Centennial edition of Henry Howe's
Historical Collections of Ohio
,
The Ohio Guide
(a WPA project), and other hard-to-find sources. The spiral-bound booklet
is printed one-sided on quality paper, with the print enlarged for easier reading.
Illustrations include the Butler County Courthouse, an early view of Middletown and Miami University at Oxford.
Among the many and diverse topics covered in the booklet are:
running the gauntlet and execution of deserters at Fort Hamilton, Rossville, John Cleves Symmes, author of "Theory of Concentric Spheres", other prominent residents such as James McBride and Murat Halstead, the Miami Canal, Paddy's Run, Civil War hero Col. Minor Millikin and his Soldier's Creed, etc.
GENEALOGY BUFFS
will find a list of 1888 county officers and businesses. A 1933 look at the history of newspapers in the county, brief pieces on William Dean Howells, writer, Western College and Miami University, area points of interest from the 1940 WPA book, and maps showing the 88 Ohio counties and 1805 Ohio are also included.
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