Born: November 28, 1901 Died: February 3, 1984 Ohio connection: Former Resident Oxford Walter Havighurst, son of Freeman Alfred and Winifred (Weter) Havighurst, was born in 1901 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He received a B.A. from the University of Denver in 1924, and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1928. He married a writer, Marion Boyd, in 1930. After …
Read More Havighurst, WalterBorn: September 8, 1898 Died: February 25, 1998 Ohio connection: Birth Ironton Harlan Henthorne Hatcher, son of Robert Elison and Linda (Leslie) Hatcher, was born in 1898 in Ironton, Ohio. He received an A.B. in 1922, an A.M. in 1923, and a Ph.D. in 1927, all from Ohio State University. He served in the United States Army …
Read More Hatcher, Harlan HenthorneBorn: November 21, 1931 Died: November 8, 2000 Ohio connection: Birth Marietta William Harrington, son of William K. and Virginia (Pickens) Harrington, was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1931. He received an A.B. from Marietta College in 1953, an M.A. from Duke University in 1955, and a J.D. from Ohio State University in 1958. He …
Read More Harrington, WilliamBorn: March 12, 1936 Died: February 19, 2002 Ohio connection: Birth Yellow Springs “If you can dream it, then you can have it.” A powerful axiom, it encapsulates the accomplishments and triumphs of its speaker, Virginia Hamilton. Descendant of a maternal grandfather who escaped from slavery in Virginia to settle in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Hamilton …
Read More Hamilton, VirginiaBorn: January 31, 1872 Died: October 23, 1939 Ohio connection: Birth Zanesville Zane Grey, one of the founding fathers of the western genre, was born on January 31, 1872, to Lewis Gray, a traveling preacher and dentist, and his wife Alice. Christened Pearl Zane Gray, Grey grew up in the town of Zanesville, Ohio. The small …
Read More Zane GreyBorn: October 7, 1927 Died: October 16, 1996 Ohio connection: Birth Cincinnati Hannah Green was born in Cincinnati circa 1927. Her father, Matthew Addy, was a foreign patent and trademark agent, like the fictional character in The Dead of the House, and her mother, Mary McAlpin Allen, was a homemaker. Green attended Wellesley College, studying with Wallace …
Read More Green, HannahBorn: January 25, 1914 Died: July 9, 1998 Ohio connection: Birth Bellefontaine Mixing the pathos of surrealism with the impishness of cartoons, James Flora was the master of hand drawn album cover art before 1956. Characterized as frolicsome, mischievous and even hallucinogenic, Flora’s artistic style was perfectly matched to his humorous, larger than life wit. Born in Bellafontaine …
Read More Flora, JamesBorn: October 26, 1890 Died: September 23, 1981 Ohio connection: Birth Cincinnati Gustav Eckstein, son of Gustav and Emma (Imig) Eckstein, was born in 1890 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received a D.D.S. from the Cincinnati College of Dental Surgery in 1911 and a M.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1924. He practiced dentistry from 1911 until 1918 and …
Read More Eckstein, GustavBorn: January 30, 1931 Died: July 7, 2011 Ohio connection: Former Resident Bellefontaine Allan Eckert, son of Edward Russell and Ruth (Roth) Eckert, was born in 1931 in Buffalo, New York. He attended the University of Dayton, 1951-52, and The Ohio State University, 1953-54. He married Joan Dowling in 1955, and they had two children, Julie and Joseph. …
Read More Eckert, AllanBorn: June 20, 1911 Died: October 23, 1964 Ohio connection: Birth Toledo Edward McMaken Eager was born in 1911 in Toledo, Ohio. He was raised in Toledo, but spent most of the summers of his childhood and youth in rural Indiana, where he developed a love of nature, gardening, and bird-watching. These interests stayed with him the rest …
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