Born: October 15, 1917 Died: February 28, 2007 Ohio connection: Birth Columbus Born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger in Columbus, Ohio, as the oldest son of prominent historian Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. and noted feminist Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger, he changed his name to Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. when he was a teen. Schlesinger graduated from Philips Exeter …
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Born: March 29, 1819Died: March 26, 1900 Ohio connection: Resident Cincinnati American Reform rabbi, author, and editor, Isaac Mayer Wise was born in Steingrub, Bohemia (now Lomnička, Czech Republic) in 1819, the son of Leo Weiss, a school teacher, and Regina Weiss. He was a prominent and influential rabbi in 19th-century America. A brilliant student, …
Read More Isaac Mayer WiseBorn: March 7, 1873Died: April 25, 1936 Ohio connection: Birth Cadiz Prominent drama critic and journalist, Percy Hunter Hammond was born in Cadiz, Ohio. Although his father was Cadiz’s leading merchant, at thirteen, Percy Hammond felt irrepressibly drawn towards newspaper journalism, and worked as a “printer’s devil” for his uncle’s newspaper, the Cadiz Republican. In …
Read More Percy HammondBorn: February 11, 1836 Died: July 2, 1918 Ohio connection: Resident Columbus Minister, author, and social reformer, the Reverend Washington Gladden was born in Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania in 1836. One of the most well-known writers of Congregational literature of his day, Rev. Gladden’s writings and actions earned him the title of “father” of the Social Gospel …
Read More Washington GladdenBorn: January 8, 1891Died: August 6, 1967 Ohio connection: Birth Bellefontaine Born Willard Monroe Kiplinger in Bellefontaine, Ohio, to Clarence and Cora (Miller) Kiplinger, Kiplinger developed an early interest in journalism. Serving as the editor of his high school newspaper, he later became one of the first two students to enroll in the School of …
Read More W. M. KiplingerBorn: January 30, 1931Died: July 7, 2011 Ohio connection: Resident Bellefontaine Allan W. Eckert was born in Buffalo, New York, and was raised in and around Chicago, Illinois. Eckert was a child with an intense love of nature. “I remember crawling about in the gangways between buildings or in vacant lots, overturning boards and pieces of tin …
Read More Allan W. EckertBorn: May 29, 1906 Died: January 1987 Ohio connection: Birth Mount Vernon Delano Ames was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on May 29, 1906. He was the son of Benjamin and Isabel Cooper (nee Kirk) Ames. Delano’s father was a prominent businessman in Knox County, but moved the family to New Mexico in 1917. As a …
Read More Delano AmesBorn: 1948 Ohio connection: Resident Kent Poet, editor, and educator, Maggie Anderson was born in New York City to a mother from Pennsylvania and a father from West Virginia. Anderson has described a childhood of “moving around a lot” but visiting West Virginia every summer. The family moved to West Virginia when Anderson was thirteen …
Read More Maggie AndersonBorn: January 20, 1855Died: December 23, 1914 Ohio connection: Birth Cleveland The son of Isaac Lewis (a carpenter), Alfred Henry Lewis was born January 20, 1855, in Cleveland, Ohio. At the age of 23, Lewis was a prosecuting attorney for Cleveland; but, in 1881, he decided to give up legal work to become a journalist. He was employed …
Read More Alfred Henry LewisBorn: May 3, 1907 Died: January 16, 1987 Ohio connection: Birth Rockford, Mercer County Harvey Earl Wilson, son of Arthur Earl and Cloe (Huffman) Wilson, was born in 1907 in Rockford, Ohio, in Mercer County. A budding career as a news reporter began while he was in high school when he worked as a sportswriter for a …
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