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Jacksonville was laid out in 1815, and named for Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), an officer in the War of 1812 and afterward seventh President of the United States. [2] A post office was established as Jacksonville in 1820, the name was changed to Dunbarton in 1827, and the post office closed in 1909. [2] [3]
The Ohio Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio had Sojourner Truth as a speaker on African-American women and equality. [2] 1852. The Ohio Women's Convention in Massillon, Ohio established the Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA). [5] [6] 1853. October 5: The National Women's Rights Convention is held in Cleveland. [7]
Location of Jacksonville, Ohio Street-level map of Jacksonville Coordinates: 39°28′34″N 82°04′47″W / 39.47611°N 82.07972°W / 39.47611; -82
The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame was a program the State of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services ran from 1978 [1] through 2011. The Hall has over 400 members. [ 2 ] In 2019, the Hall's physical archives and online records were transferred to the State Archives in the Ohio History Center .
Let Ohio Women Vote postcard. Women's rights issues in Ohio were put into the public eye in the early 1850s. Women inspired by the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention created newspapers and then set up their own conventions, including the 1850 Ohio Women's Rights Convention which was the first women's right's convention outside of New York and the first ...
Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate for president in 1872, and Second Lady Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, credited with paving the way for the modern American female politician, were leaders in the women's suffrage movement. Ohio was the second state to hold a women's rights convention, the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850. [113]
Ohio woman accused of eating a cat lives in Canton. The Canton woman charged with killing and eating a cat has no known connection to Haiti or any other foreign country.
The Ohio Penitentiary, also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary, was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in what is now known as the Arena District. The state had built a small prison in Columbus in 1813, but as the state's population grew the earlier facility was not able to handle the number of prisoners sent to ...