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The city's name is said to derive from a small joke among divinity students at Western Reserve College, which in the early 19th century was in Hudson, Ohio.The students, who were called upon to preach in the small hamlet 6 miles (10 km) to the north, recalled Acts 16:10: "...we sought to go to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them."
Moore was born on June 10, 1912, in Uhrichsville, in Tuscarawas County in eastern Ohio, the second of three sons of Clara Aurelia Moery and Eugene Albert Moore.By the time he was a teenager, he was working in railroad construction along with playing with independent baseball in the area.
The Canton "Nadjys" continued minor league baseball play in 1888, as the Ohio State League was renamed to become the Tri-State League, beginning play with ten teams.The Nadjys joined the Columbus Senators, Jackson Jaxons, Kalamazoo Kazoos, Lima Lushers, Mansfield Pioneers, Sandusky Fish Eaters, Toledo Maumees, Wheeling Nail Cities and Zanesville Kickapoos teams in beginning the season schedule ...
We heard from people across the country when I enlisted the public’s help in identifying some of the photos from a collection of 26 glass plate negatives from the late 1890s and early 1900s.
Louis Francis Sockalexis (October 24, 1871 – December 24, 1913), nicknamed the Deerfoot of the Diamond, was an American baseball player. Sockalexis played professional baseball in the National League for three seasons, spending his entire career (1897–1899) as an outfielder for the Cleveland Spiders.
There is a discrepancy in Radbourn's victory total in 1884. The classic MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia, the current edition of The Elias Book of Baseball Records, his National Baseball Hall of Fame biography, and Baseball-Reference.com all credit Radbourn with 60 wins (against 12 losses). [11]
The following is a list of famous people born in the U.S. state of Ohio, and people who spent significant periods of their lives living in Ohio. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Macedonia, Ohio. Pages in category "People from Macedonia, Ohio" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.