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Ohio, USA

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Ohio is a midwestern state of the United States. Part of the Great Lakes region, Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads. At the time of European contact and in the years which followed, Native Americans in today's Ohio included the Iroquois, Miamis, and Wyandots. Beginning in the 1700s, the area was settled by people from New England, the Middle States, Appalachia, and the upper south.



Prior to 1984, the United States Census Bureau considered Ohio part of the North Central Region. That region was renamed "Midwest" and split into two divisions. Ohio is now in the East North Central States division.



The name "Ohio" derives from the Seneca word ohi:yo’, meaning "beautiful river" or "large creek", which was originally the name of both the Ohio River and Allegheny River.



Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union under the Northwest Ordinance. Its U.S. postal abbreviation is OH; its old-style abbreviation is O.



Natives of Ohio are known as Ohioans.



History



Native Americans



After the so-called Beaver Wars, the powerful Iroquois confederation of the New York-area claimed much of the Ohio country as a hunting and, probably most importantly, a beaver-trapping ground. After the devastation of epidemics and war in the mid-1600s, which had largely emptied the Ohio country of indigenous people by the mid-to-late seventeenth century, the land gradually became repopulated by the mostly Algonquian-speaking descendants of its ancient inhabitants, that is, descendants of the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian cultures. Many of these Ohio-country nations were multi-ethnic and sometimes multi-linguistic societies born out of the earlier devastation brought about by disease, subsequent social instability, Iroquois. They subsisted on agriculture (corn, sunflowers, beans, etc.) supplemented by seasonal hunts. By the 1650s they were very much part of a larger global economy brought about by fur trade.



The indigenous nations to inhabit Ohio in the historical period (most clearly after 1700), included the Miamis (a large confederation), Wyandots (made up of refugees, especially from the fractured Huron confederacy), Delawares (pushed west from their historic homeland in New Jersey), Shawnees (also pushed west, although they may be descended from the Fort Ancient people of Ohio), Ottawas (more commonly associated with the upper Great Lakes region), Mingos (like the Wyandot, a recently-formed composite of refugees from Iroquois and other societies), and Eries (gradually absorbed into the new, multi-ethnic "republics," namely the Wyandot).



Ohio country was also the site of Indian massacres, such as the Yellow Creek Massacre (Chief Logan) and Gnadenhutten



Colonial and Revolutionary Eras



During the 18th century, the French set up a system of trading posts to control the fur trade in the region.



In 1754, France and Great Britain fought a war known in the United States as the French and Indian War. As a result of the Treaty of Paris, the French ceded control of Ohio and the rest of the Old Northwest to Great Britain. Pontiac's Rebellion in the 1760s challenged British military control, which ended with the American victory in the American Revolution. In the Treaty of Paris in 1783 Britain ceded all claims to Ohio to the United States.



Northwest Territory: 1787-1803



The United States created the Northwest Territory under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. Slavery was not permitted. Settlement began with the founding of Marietta by the Ohio Company of Associates, which had been formed by a group of American Revolutionary War veterans. Following the Ohio Company, the Miami Company (also referred to as the "Symmes Purchase") claimed the southwestern section and the Connecticut Land Company surveyed and settled the Connecticut Western Reserve in present-day Northeast Ohio. The old Northwest Territory originally included areas that had previously been known as Ohio Country and Illinois Country. As Ohio prepared for statehood, Indiana Territory was created, reducing the Northwest Territory to approximately the size of present-day Ohio plus the eastern half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and the eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula.



Under the Northwest Ordinance, any of the states to be formed out of the Northwest Territory would be admitted as a state once the population exceeded 60,000. Although Ohio's population numbered only 45,000 in December 1801, Congress determined that the population was growing rapidly and Ohio could begin the path to statehood with the assumption that it would exceed 60,000 residents by the time it would become a state. On February 19, 1803, President Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries and constitution. However, Congress never passed a resolution formally admitting Ohio as the 17th state. The current custom of Congress declaring an official date of statehood did not begin until 1812, with Louisiana's admission as the 18th state. Although no formal resolution of admission was required, when the oversight was discovered in 1953, Ohio congressman George H. Bender introduced a bill in Congress to admit Ohio to the Union retroactive to March 1, 1803. At a special session at the old state capital in Chillicothe, the Ohio state legislature approved a new petition for statehood that was delivered to Washington, D.C. on horseback. On August 7, 1953 (the year of Ohio's 150th anniversary), President Eisenhower signed an act that officially declared March 1, 1803 the date of Ohio's admittance into the Union.



Statehood: 1803 - present



Eight U.S. presidents hailed from Ohio at the time of their elections, giving rise to the nickname "Mother of Presidents", a sobriquet it shares with Virginia. Seven presidents were born in Ohio, making it second to Virginia's eight, but Virginia-born William Henry Harrison and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison, (who also lived part of his adult life in Indiana) settled in, led their political careers from and/or were buried in North Bend, Ohio on the family compound, founded by William's father-in-law John Cleves Symmes.



In 1835, Ohio fought a mostly bloodless boundary war with Michigan over the Toledo Strip known as the Toledo War. Congress intervened and, as a condition for admittance as a state of the Union, Michigan was forced to accept the western two-thirds of the Upper Peninsula, in addition to the eastern third that was already part of the state, in exchange for giving up its claim to the Toledo Strip. (A war between two states may be unusual, but the Toledo War is not unique; Pennsylvania and Maryland fought Cresap's War over a border dispute a century earlier.)



Ohio's central position and its population gave it an important place during the Civil War, and the Ohio River was a vital artery for troop and supply movements, as were Ohio's railroads. At the End of the Civil War the three top Union generals were all from Ohio, Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. Ohio also contributed more soldiers per-capita than any other state in then Union.



In 1912 a Constitutional Convention was held with Charles B. Galbreath as Secretary. The result reflected the concerns of the Progressive Era. It introduced the initiative and the referendum, allowed the General Assembly to put questions on the ballot for the people to ratify laws and constitutional amendments originating in the Legislature as well. Under the Jeffersonian principle that laws should be reviewed once a generation, the constitution provided for a recurring question to appear on Ohio's general election ballots every 20 years. The question asks whether a new convention is required. Although the question has appeared in 1932, 1952, 1972, and 1992, it has never been approved. Instead constitutional amendments have been proposed by petition to the legislature hundreds of times and adopted in a majority of cases.



Demographics



As of 2006, Ohio has an estimated population of 11,478,006, which is an increase of 7,321 from the prior year and an increase of 124,861 since the year 2000. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 263,004 people (that is 938,169 births minus 675,165 deaths) and a decrease from net migration of -145,718. Immigration from outside the United States contributed of a growth of 92,101 people, most coming from Asia, yet net migration within the country resulted in a decrease of 237,819 people. Ohio has witnessed an increase in the Laotian American and Thai American populations, as well as Asian Indians and Latin Americans.



The center of population of Ohio is also located in Morrow County, in the county seat of Mount Gilead .



As of 2004, Ohio's population included about 390,000 foreign-born (3.4%).



The largest ancestry groups in Ohio are German (25.2%), Irish (12.7%), African American (11.5%), English (9.2%), American (8.5%), and Italian (6.0%).



German is the largest reported ancestry in most of the counties in Ohio, especially in the northwest. Ohioans who cited American and British ancestry are present throughout the state as well, particularly in the south-central part of the state. The cities of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Dayton have large black communities. The cities of Cleveland and Toledo have sizable Hispanic populations, while the Cleveland and Columbus areas have the largest Asian populations. Greater Cleveland is home to a notably large Jewish community. Other Ohio cities, such as Cincinnati, also have sizable Jewish populations.



6.6% of Ohio's population were reported as under 5, 25.4% under 18, and 13.3% were 65 or older. Females made up approximately 51.4% of the population.

Birth

Matches 1 to 30 of 30

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID	Tree
1	Hester	Abt 1837	Ohio, USA	I451108	Nederlandse voorouders
2	Martha	Abt 1853	Ohio, USA	I451646	Nederlandse voorouders
3	Albers, Elizabeth	Fri 05 Aug 1864	Ohio, USA	I48559	Nederlandse voorouders
4	Albers, John Mathias	Wed 22 Aug 1855	Ohio, USA	I48546	Nederlandse voorouders
5	Belden, Hiram G.	Abt 1848	Ohio, USA	I451645	Nederlandse voorouders
6	van Blaricum, George W.	Dec 1849	Ohio, USA	I450538	Nederlandse voorouders
7	Castle, Joel S.	Jan 1858	Ohio, USA	I452502	Nederlandse voorouders
8	Castle, Lavinia	Abt 1851	Ohio, USA	I452530	Nederlandse voorouders
9	Cramer, Catherine	Abt 1831	Ohio, USA	I451876	Nederlandse voorouders
10	Cramer, Jonathan A.	Abt 1828	Ohio, USA	I451875	Nederlandse voorouders
11	Decou, Nancy	Mon 14 Jun 1841	Ohio, USA	I319603	Nederlandse voorouders
12	Eastman, Nelson Weed	1833	Ohio, USA	I674883	Nederlandse voorouders
13	Estep, Charlotte Jane	Jan 1854	Ohio, USA	I452807	Nederlandse voorouders
14	Fisher, Orlando	Sun 04 Sep 1859	Ohio, USA	I451736	Nederlandse voorouders
15	Gable, William Clark	Fri 01 Feb 1901	Ohio, USA	I672268	Nederlandse voorouders
16	Graham, David	1833	Ohio, USA	I449066	Nederlandse voorouders
17	Graham, Elizabeth A.	1840	Ohio, USA	I449069	Nederlandse voorouders
18	Graham, George B.	1842	Ohio, USA	I449070	Nederlandse voorouders
19	Graham, Hannah A.	1834	Ohio, USA	I449067	Nederlandse voorouders
20	Graham, James M.	1830	Ohio, USA	I449065	Nederlandse voorouders
21	Graham, John M.	1846	Ohio, USA	I449072	Nederlandse voorouders
22	Graham, Joseph	Wed 28 Dec 1831	Ohio, USA	I449044	Nederlandse voorouders
23	Graham, Samuel A.	1849	Ohio, USA	I449074	Nederlandse voorouders
24	Graham, Sophia	1844	Ohio, USA	I449071	Nederlandse voorouders
25	McKenzie, Sarah Margaret	Sun 02 Apr 1882	Ohio, USA	I451207	Nederlandse voorouders
26	Monroe, Elmira von Voris	Wed 24 Apr 1833	Ohio, USA	I449116	Nederlandse voorouders
27	Stewart, Mary	Yes, date unknown	Ohio, USA	I449707	Nederlandse voorouders
28	Welsheimer, Barbara Jones	Yes, date unknown	Ohio, USA	I449708	Nederlandse voorouders
29	Williams, Harrison Charles	1873	Ohio, USA	I688831	Nederlandse voorouders
30	Wiltjer, John	Mon 22 Sep 1924	Ohio, USA	I788053	Nederlandse voorouders

Death

Matches 1 to 10 of 10

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death		Person ID	Tree
1	Beilharz, Tobias	Tue 28 Dec 1880	Ohio, USA	I451670	Nederlandse voorouders
2	van den End, Herbert	Wed 29 Jun 1994	Ohio, USA	I612355	Nederlandse voorouders
3	Kramer, Adam Jr	1851	Ohio, USA	I452223	Nederlandse voorouders
4	Kramer, Catherine	1838	Ohio, USA	I452218	Nederlandse voorouders
5	Kramer, George	Yes, date unknown	Ohio, USA	I452222	Nederlandse voorouders
6	Kramer, Jacob	1866	Ohio, USA	I452221	Nederlandse voorouders
7	Kramer, John	Abt 1853	Ohio, USA	I452215	Nederlandse voorouders
8	Kramer, Sarah	Abt 1855	Ohio, USA	I452217	Nederlandse voorouders
9	McKenzie, Sarah Margaret	1968	Ohio, USA	I451207	Nederlandse voorouders
10	Simmons, Patrick John	Sun 01 Jul 1923	Ohio, USA	I451206	Nederlandse voorouders