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Show t nu; it i nirnivir 2 . . . I WNU Features 'T,HE first settlers In Ohio, remenv bering the nation which had ma' terially assisted the cause of th American Revolution, named then settlement Marietta, In honor o Queen Marie Antoinette of France That was in 1788, during the stirring stir-ring years of expansion and growth following the birth of the new republic. repub-lic. It was a group of New Engenders, Eng-enders, led by Manasseh Cutler and Gen. Rufus Putnam, that founded the frontier town at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. The story of Ohio might be told In the study of names. The word Ohio, from the Indian, means "Beautiful River," but the names of Ohio's sons are known around the world. Seven United States I'residents were born In that state: Grant, Garfield, Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, McKlnley, Taft and Harding. Hard-ing. Howard Chandler Christy, the artist, was born In Morgan county. Buckeye state authors, teachers, lawyers and doctors are known around the world. Thomas A. Edison and Orville and Wilbur Wright are examples ol Ohio names In Invention. Others now household words Include Van Eweringen, Goodrich, Firestone, Sei-berling, Sei-berling, Willys, Proctor, Gamble, ': I .1 ; v - v iiiliTi'ifflMfniP--"-''""'- ---s- Yin ririfiWri itJ Paint Creek Gorge Kroger, Olds, Patterson and Kettering. Ketter-ing. The list is too long to publish here. Rich In Resources. There are many empires In the state of Ohio, for it is rich in its natural resources as well as in men. The farmer's Ohio is 22 million acres of agriculture. The business offer communication with Pennsyl vania and the Mississippi basin. The manufacture of Iron and stee! and their products constitutes th most Important Industry in Ohio anc entitles the state to a place only be low Pennsylvania. It includes th( work of the blast furnaces, rolling mills and steel plants. Pig iron pro duction in Ohio represents approxi mately one-fourth of the nation'l total. World Rubber Capital. Akron is the rubber manufactur ing center of the world. Cleveland and Cincinnati are the centers of the state's clothing industry. East Liverpool Liv-erpool has one of the world's mosi extensive pottery works and together togeth-er with other nearby towns producef about half of the nation's pottery. Ohio ranks first in the production of tires and tubes, machine tools, stoves, ranges, furnaces, electrical appliances, printing and publishing of periodicals, soap, matches, pot tery and porcelain ware, pumps and pumping equipment, cofGns and steam shovels. The state ranks second in the production pro-duction of motor vehicles, bodies . V -i made from ocean to ocean by Eng- B : lish kings to various colonies along e the Atlantic seaboard. . . & After the settlement of Marietta, J - a considerable migration from Vir- ginia was directed to the southern E part of Ohio. A great Impetus was ' given to settlement when Gen. An- j thony Wayne defeated the Indians .. '- of the Northwest in the Battle of . i Fallen Timbers near the Maumee e river. r By an act of congress of April t 30, 1802, the territory was author- f - ized to draft a constitution; and on February 19, 1803, Ohio was de- n clared a state. 1 Edward Tiffin was elected the V first governor. Chillicothe became B ' the first capital and Lancaster, I Newark and Zanesville each shared - the honor of being the seat of state 1 government before it was perma-1 perma-1 nently located in Columbus in 1816. p Mysterious Mounds. Even back in prehistoric days, s men must have found Ohio a good land In which to live. The Mound v ' Builders, whose origin is as mys- a i terious as their destiny, devoted an - j estimated 100,000 man-years of la- P 1 bor to the building of 10,000 mounds P ( and earthworks. These village site3, fortifications and burial places re- 8 main in Ohio as the record of these B ancient people. v Intermingled In the fabric of - Ohio's history and romantic heri- --tage --tage are the French explorers, Jesuit priests, British officers, French D traders and Colonial frontiersmen. J George Rogers Clark, "Mad" An- thony Wayne, Ebenezer Zane and "Johnny Appleseed" march across its pages of history, for Ohio wag once the wild frontier, the uncon-quered uncon-quered Northwest. Ohio's governor was born in ti Cleveland in 1895, the son of Slo- E venian parents. On Cleveland's b sandlots he became a star third ti - j ' IB I ' h : I 1 -f -I' if -1 ii , x - ; r:' Jf I 6 at-jirij- hJhTiWi "ifffiTrfoM 1 FRANK J. LAUSCHE 5 Governor - baseman, and was playing profes- ti 1 sional ball for Duluth when World o War I broke out. He served as a o , second lieutenant, and when the b war was over, studied law. He t served as a judge in Cleveland and T was elected mayor of his home town ;f; . in 1941 and 1943. In 1944 he was o t elected governor of Ohio. ib ' ' 1 ' s s . ' ' ' ' I ""V , j ;sf3n - ' J , ' '..(,! 'V4 I v' ' I ' . I Boat on the Muskingum River. man's Ohio Is the fourth wealthiest j state in the Union. The manufacturer's manufac-turer's Ohio is the factories, the mines, the products shipped around the world. The homemaker's Ohio is blessed with an abundance of human hu-man and material resources for wholesome, happy living for typical Americans, urban or rural. The vacationist's va-cationist's Ohio provides parks, game preserves, smooth highways, 110 lakes, many rivers, good fisn-ing, fisn-ing, deer and small game, rugged hill country, archaeological relics such as Indian mounds, and caves, geological formations, etc. Ohio is largely a manufacturing state, deserving this industrial prominence mainly because of its natural resources. The advantages afforded for transportation by water wa-ter as well as by rail cannot be overestimated. Lake Erie and the New York state barge canal mcke a direct outlet to the Atlantic, while the Ohio and the Muskingum rivers and parts; blast furnace products, iron and steel; generating, distribution distribu-tion and industrial apparatus; and machine shop products. Ohio ranks high in meat packing, bread and baked goods, eggs and poultry, dairy products, hogs, sheep, cattle, wheat, corn, oats, soy beans, hay, apples, grapes, peaches, potatoes, pota-toes, sugar beets and vegetables. Ohio grows more vegetables under glass than any other state in the Union. A Leader in Manufactures. Ohio is also in the top ten states in the production of paper, chemicals, chem-icals, paints and varnishes, men's clothing, footwear, rolling mill products, prod-ucts, petroleum refining, stamped and pressed metal products, hardwoods, hard-woods, limestone, dolomite, clay, sandstone and gravel. As a part of the vast region west of the Alleghenies, what is now Ohio was once claimed by France. It also formed part of the granl t" I :: I OHIO'S MEMORIAL MARKERS Landmarks of Ohio's early days have been carefully preserved or restored. The pageant of history with all its romantic characters is recalled in the state's 46 memorial markers. The bronze statue of Gen. George A. Custer, who died in the Battle .if Little Ei Horn in 1876, is at New i Rumley, north of Cadiz, and marks i the birthplace of the famous Civil war general. Other points of scenic and his toric interest are the George Rogers Rog-ers Clark park, containing the site of the battle of Piqua and birthplace birth-place of the Indian chief, Tecum-seh; Tecum-seh; the house in which Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant, jJ and Thomas A. Edison's birthplace1"1 in Milan. Hockey county contains U! more places of scenic interest than jSt any other in the state. Rock House, j m Ash Cave. Cedar Falls, Conkle's I Hollow. Old Man's Cave and the' Natural Bridge at Rockbr'dge are a in this one county. jQ |