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100 unusual facts about Ohio


2009 Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio

After losing out at the previous round at Lime Rock Park, Fernández Racing Acura won the LMP2 category for the fifth time this season, ahead of class newcomer Team Cytosport's Porsche RS Spyder.

2011 MAC Men's Soccer Tournament

The tournament will be held in Akron, Ohio at the University of Akron's FirstEnergy Stadium.

Alija Izetbegović

The parties agreed to meet at Dayton, Ohio to negotiate a peace treaty under the supervision of the United States.

Ammon Hennacy

Hennacy was born in Negley, Ohio to Quaker parents, Benjamin Frankin Hennacy and Eliza Eunice Fitz Randolph, and grew up as a Baptist.

Amos H. Jackson

He settled in Fremont, Ohio, in 1882 and engaged in the retail dry goods and shoe business and later engaged in manufactures.

Anthony Sadowski

Whether or not he opened an Indian trading post on the shores of Lake Erie and gave his name to Sandusky, Ohio, here lies the greatest Polish frontiersman of colonial times, an organizer of Amity Township in 1719, and founder of the Sandusky family in America.

Bas de Bever

First American Junior Pro*/Superclass race result: Second place in Superclass at the NBL Christmas Classic in Columbus, Ohio on 28 December 1989.

Bert the Conqueror

There are also episodes which took place in a single amusement park, such as Cedar Point, in which Bert rode 4 roller coasters at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.

Bracken County, Kentucky

White burley tobacco, a light, adaptable leaf that revolutionized the industry, was first sold at the 1867 St. Louis Fair by the farmer Mr. Webb from Higginsport, Ohio.

Bryan Volpenhein

Originally from Cincinnati, Volpenhein graduated from Kings High School in Kings Mills, Ohio and attended The Ohio State University, where he rowed for The Ohio State University Crew Club.

Buffington Island

During the American Civil War, the Battle of Buffington Island took place on July 19, 1863, just south of the Ohio community of Portland.

Cassella

Cassella, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Marion Township, Mercer County, United States

Charles Owsley

The majority of Owsley's work was in the Mahoning Valley area of Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, and several of his significant buildings remain in Youngstown, Ohio, Sharon, Pennsylvania, and Salem, Ohio.

Contaminated currency

In a study reported in Forensic Science International, A.J. Jenkins, at the Office of the Cuyahoga County Coroner (Cleveland, OH), the author reports the analysis of ten randomly collected one-dollar bills from five cities, and tested for cocaine, heroin, 6-acetylmorphine (also called "6-AM"), morphine, codeine, methamphetamine, amphetamine and phencyclidine (PCP).

Cristy's Pizza

Cristy's Pizza is locally owned independent pizza company headquartered in Lancaster, Ohio that offers a variety of pizza, subs, and salads that is consistently ranked as one of the Top 100 Independent pizza chains in the United States.

Crittenden Farm

Among their ten children was Alvin, who succeeded his father in the stock-raising business before moving eastward near the Troy Township line and establishing the present farm in 1882.

Daniel W. Mills

He moved to Corwin, Ohio, in 1859 and engaged in the mercantile, grain-shipping, and pork-packing businesses.

Dave Longaberger

His concern for his community was evident in the money, effort and time he donated in and around Dresden, Ohio.

Dinn Corporation

Dinn Corporation was a roller coaster designing and manufacturing company established in West Chester, Ohio in 1983 by Charles Dinn.

Donald Saddler

In 1958, Saddler won critical acclaim for his choreography for a Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival "dance drama" adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, in which he also performed.

Douglas Shulman

He graduated from Oakwood High School in 1985.

East Rochester, Ohio

East Rochester is a census-designated place in southern West Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.

Edgar Odell Lovett

Lovett was born in Shreve, Ohio, to Zephania and Maria Elizabeth (née Spreng) Lovett.

Eli Bowen

Eli Bowen was born in Richland County, Ohio to Robert and Sarah Bowen with his undeveloped feet attached to the hips due to a rare birth defect - the so-called seal limbs, which was caused by a genetic disorder phocomelia.

Elizabeth Ann Blaesing

Elizabeth Ann Britton Harding Blaesing (October 22, 1919 – November 17, 2005) was the alleged illegitimate daughter of Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, and Nan Britton, a native of Marion, Ohio.

Ernest Glenn Munn

Munn was buried May 17, 2008, in the family plot in Holly Memorial Gardens in Pleasant Grove, Ohio.

Esther Boise Van Deman

She was born in South Salem, Ohio to Joseph Van Deman and his second wife Martha Millspaugh.

FNB Corporation

FNB Corporation is a financial services corporation based in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, which operates banks under the name First National Bank in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Fred A. Lennon

He lived with his wife, Alice, and their two children in Hunting Valley, Ohio.

George H. Clark

George H. Clark (October 18, 1872 – July 11, 1943) was a Republican lawyer from Canton, Ohio in the United States who sat as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922.

George Henry Fox

He was professor of dermatology at the New York Medical College for Women, Starling Medical College in Columbus, Ohio, Columbia University and the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.

Great Mound

Great Mound (Marietta, Ohio), at Mound Cemetery, aka "Conus" or "Mound Cemetery Mound" (NRHP site #73001549), listed on the NRHP in Washington County, Ohio

Henry D. Hatfield

He graduated from Franklin College in New Athens, Ohio.

Henry Louis Rietz

Henry Louis Rietz (24 August 1875, Gilmore, Ohio – 7 December 1943, Iowa City, Iowa) was an American mathematician, actuarial scientist, and statistician, who was a leader in the development of statistical theory.

Heritage Village Museum

The village is located within Sharon Woods Park in Sharonville, Ohio.

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft.

Hugh L. Nichols

In 1922, Nichols was appointed chairman of the U. S. Grant Memorial Centenary Association, which directed the restoration of the Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and directed the state to acquire it.

Israel Beachy

He was born in the small town of Plain City, Ohio, USA and lived there with his three brothers and father.

J. Edward Anderson

The Sky Loop plan was submitted to the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), but the proposal was ultimately rejected by OKI's Central Area Loop Study Committee.

James Martin Bell

He was admitted to the bar in 1817 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Ohio.

James Simester

He entered the Newark Conference in 1896, and had several appointments (1890 in Strongsville, Ohio, 1891 and 1892 in Litchfield, Ohio and Whippany, New Jersey) before transferring to the Foochow Conference in China in 1896.

Jefferson Thomas

Thomas resided in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Mary, and a granddaughter, Amber.

Jerry Lynn Young

After only a month on the run, Young was arrested with accomplice William Webb by FBI agents as they left their motel room in Akron, Ohio on June 15.

Joe Jurevicius

On June 26, 2009, Jurevicius filed a lawsuit in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas naming the Browns, the Cleveland Clinic, and Browns team physicians, Dr. Anthony Miniaci and Dr. Richard Figler, as defendants.

John L. Rotz

While working at Thistledown Racecourse in North Randall, Ohio in 1975, he met his wife, Mary, whose sister was a horse trainer at the track.

John M. Coyne

John M. Coyne (born 1916) was the mayor of Brooklyn, Ohio from 1948 to 1999, the longest consecutive term of any mayor in United States history.

John McKecknie

Born in Clarksville, Ohio, McKechnie studied for two years at Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio, (1880-82) before entering Princeton University (AB, 1886), which he followed with two years at the Columbia School of Mines, New York City.

Jordan Hicks

Hicks attended Lakota West High School in West Chester, Ohio, where he started his final three seasons, posting 216 tackles, 8.5 sacks, 36 TFL, three forced fumbles, four INTs, 10 PBU and a touchdown.

Jorge Gurgel

He currently resides in West Chester, Ohio.

Judy Dodge

As of January 14, 2008, Dodge was elected as President of the Montgomery County, Ohio Commission.

Kansas City massacre

Death of Floyd: After an intensive search, the FBI and a team of local police officers located Pretty Boy Floyd hiding on a farm just outside Clarkson, Ohio, on October 22, 1934.

Krakauer Brothers

In 1977 Howard K. Graves purchased the company and moved it to Berlin, Ohio.

KRTM

On February 1, 2012, Calvary Chapel started WTPG-FM 88.9, a 11 kW station outside of Whitehouse, Ohio and serves the Toledo, Ohio market.

Lakeside, Ohio

It is located in Ottawa County's Danbury Township, near the town of Marblehead.

Lenape settlements

In 1808-09 early European-American settlers to the area of what is now Jeromesville in Ashland County, Ohio, on the Jerome Fork of the Mohican River found Delaware people living at the old Mohican village of Johnstown (about three-fourths of a mile southwest of the present site of Jeromesville) near which was located the home of Old Captain Pipe.

Lenny Simonetti

After his football career, Simonetti worked as a weighmaster for the state of Ohio in Bolivar.

Lou Blessing

As an attorney, Blessing worked from the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court before being elected as a Colerain Township Trustee.

Lynn Ullom

Ullom left Cameron in 1987 to accept a teaching job at Lakeland High School in Freeport, Ohio.

MadMouse Records

Hopetown House Studio in Chillicothe, Ohio is the sole production facility for MadMouse Records.

Mark Romanchuk

Romanchuk represents the 124,475 residents of Richland County, including Mansfield, Shelby, Ontario, Lexington and Bellville, Ohio.

Mat Zo

From age one to eleven, Zohar and his family lived in the city of Cleveland, Ohio in the United States.

McLaughlin Mound

In 1972, the McLaughlin Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance; it is one of three Knox County mounds on the Register, along with the Raleigh and Stackhouse Mounds near Fredericktown to the northwest.

Melvin Lorrel Nichols

Nichols was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Joseph Wiseman Nichols, a cabinetmaker, and Sarah Rebecca Heidelbaugh.

Mike Trgovac

Trgovac was an all-state defensive lineman at Fitch High School in Austintown, Ohio.

MIMIC

MIMIC, known in capitalized form only, is a former simulation computer language developed 1964 by H. E. Petersen, F. J. Sansom and L. M. Warshawsky of Systems Engineering Group within the Air Force Materiel Command at the Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

Morris Schaff

Morris Schaff (1840–1929), was a native of Etna Township, Ohio, USA.

Mouse Island

Mouse Island, Ohio, a private island in Lake Erie in Ohio, United States

Nate Hartley

He attended Rootstown Elementary School in Portage County, Ohio.

Nathan Kelley

No image of the man himself exists and his grave in Green Lawn Cemetery was unmarked until 2012, when a preservation group funded a stone monument fashioned from Columbus limestone-the material used for the Ohio Statehouse.

Norwalk, Wisconsin

Norwalk, Wisconsin was given its name by Selium McGary, one of the pioneers of Monroe County, who named it after Norwalk, Ohio, where he had previously lived.

Oliver Spencer

When he arrived in Columbia, Ohio, the governor of the territory Arthur St. Clair made him the colonel of the local militia and probate judge for Hamilton County.

Only the Young

The first individual outside the band to hear the song was sixteen-year-old Kenny Sykaluk of Rocky River, Ohio, who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.

Oscar W. Ritchie

He was also an active member of the Massillon Urban League and the Canton NAACP, which recognized his work as the leader of their local recruitment drive in the 1950s, that nearly doubled the size of their local membership.

Pee Wee Hunt

Pee Wee Hunt (May 10, 1907, Mount Healthy, Ohio – June 22, 1979 in Plymouth, Massachusetts), born Walter Gerhardt Hunt, was a jazz trombonist, vocalist and band leader.

Penguin Pete

While Iceburgh's name is a play on both iceberg and Pittsburgh, not reviving the Penguin Pete name was likely done to avoid confusion with the mascot of the same name at Youngstown State University in nearby Youngstown, Ohio.

PM Toledo Division

The Toledo Division was the southern half of the Pere Marquette Railway's main line, which ran from Ludington, Michigan (on the coast of Lake Michigan) to Toledo, Ohio (on the coast of Lake Erie).

Precious Bunny

After his three-year-old season he retired to stud at Hickory Lane Horse Farm in Findlay, Ohio.

Rosicrucian Fellowship

The first Rosicrucian study center had been already previously formed in Columbus, Ohio (November 14, 1908), where Heindel lectured and taught for a number of months.

Ross McGregor

Despite not being recommended by Clark County Republicans, McGregor nonetheless received the appointment, and was seated in October 2005.

Rufus P. Spalding

Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854, anti-slavery politicians from various parties met in the Town Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio to form what became the Fusion Party.

San Ysidro, San Diego

On July 18, 1984, James Oliver Huberty, a 41-year old former welder from Canton, Ohio, committed a mass murder of 21 people inside of a McDonald's restaurant in the community.

Silver Fox rabbit

The Silver Fox breed was developed after 14 years of selective breeding by Walter B. Garland of North Canton, Ohio and was the third breed to be developed in the United States.

Susan Narvaiz

Narvaiz, a native of Dayton, Ohio, raised in San Antonio, Texas moved to San Marcos in 1995 to open a branch office for a national staffing company.

Terry Furlow

On May 23, 1980, Furlow was killed in a car accident when he crashed into a pole on Interstate 71 in Linndale, Ohio.

The Convention Crasher

In the first episode Justin was to crash a Magic Convention in Canton, Ohio and take part in The Battle of Magicians for a cash prize.

Thomas J. Arnold

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth took the children back to England and Rugby for their initial education and then moved to Hiram, Ohio, where her children went to college.

Thomas Mears Eddy

He was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, educated at Greensborough, Indiana, and from 1842 to 1853, was a Methodist circuit preacher in that State, becoming Agent of the American Bible Society the latter years, and Presiding Elder of the Indianapolis district until 1856, when he was appointed editor of the "The Northwestern Christian Advocate," in Chicago, retiring from that position in 1868.

Tirrel Burton

Burton began a long career as a college football coach in 1968, accepting a position as an assistant football coach at the historically black Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

Tracy Maxwell Heard

Between 2006 and 2012, Ohio's 26th House District included Berwick, Downtown Columbus, Driving Park, Olde Towne East, and other parts of East and South Columbus.

Trident submarine

Ohio-class submarine of the U.S. Navy, armed with Trident Ballistic Missiles (SSBN) or Cruise Missiles (SSGN).

Valentigney

During the 19th century and into the early 20th century, many Montbeliardaise from Valentigney and neighboring areas emigrated to northwest Ohio, particularly Williams County.

Veolia Environnement

On May 4, 2009, a Veolia Environmental Service's plant in West Carrollton, Ohio exploded.

Waycross Community Media

WCM programming can be seen on Time Warner Cable in the Cincinnati suburbs of Forest Park, Greenhills, Springfield Township and Colerain Township

Wayne Lifeguard

After the closure of Wayne Corporation in 1992, production was shifted to Marysville, Ohio after the rights to Wayne product lines were acquired.

West Chester, Ohio

Olde West Chester, Ohio, the original settlement that gave its name to the township.

Westel Willoughby, Jr.

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->The town of Willoughby, Ohio was named for Dr. Willoughby, and also the Willoughby Medical College (now a part of The Ohio State University College of Medicine).

William Lafayette Strong

He was born in Loudonville, Ohio; was a dry-goods salesman in Wooster and then in Manchester, Ohio; in 1853 went to New York City, where he engaged in similar business, and in 1869 became the head of the firm of William L. Strong & Co.

William V. Wheeler

William V. Wheeler was born in 1845 to Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth Stubbs Wheeler in West Elkton, Ohio.

Wisdom's Light

Wisdom's Light is a public sculpture located in front of the Lake Branch Library in Uniontown, Ohio.

WIVM-LD

WIVN-LD is carried by Time Warner Cable on channel 4 & channel 989 in Tuscarawas, Holmes & Carroll Counties.


13th Aero Squadron

After a short period of organization, which included "snake-chasing and cactus-cutting", the squadron was moved to Wilbur Wright Field, Ohio in the beginning of July where its aviation cadets began flight training on the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny trainer.

2010–11 Kent State Golden Flashes men's basketball team

Greene won the award by three votes over Julian Muvunga of Miami and D. J. Cooper of Ohio.

43rd Ohio Infantry

The 43rd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 13, 1865.

78th Ohio Infantry

The 78th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 11, 1865.

Ana Marie Cox

Cox and Wonkette gained notoriety in the political world for publicizing the story of Jessica Cutler, also known as "Washingtonienne", a staff assistant to Senator Mike DeWine (R.-Ohio) who accepted money from a George W. Bush administration official and others in exchange for sexual favors.

Boardman High School

Joe Schiavoni, current Ohio state Senator representing Mahoning, Carroll, and parts of Stark and Tuscarawas Counties.

Bowling Green Plateau

It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) (1962–63); Professor Charles C. Rich, geologist and deputy leader of the VUWAE, was affiliated with Bowling Green State University of Ohio.

Charles Follis

In August of 2013, a play named "The Black Cyclone" was put on at the Malabar Farm State Park in Lucas, Ohio.

Cutaway van chassis

In the early 1990s, Mid Bus, an Ohio manufacturer specializing in small school buses, purchased the tooling and product rights to build the Busette from Wayne Corporation, and produced Busettes for a few more years.

F. Ward Murrey

Ward Murrey first became affiliated with the State Library of Ohio in 1961 when he began working for the Southeastern Ohio Library Center (now called Serving Every Ohioan Library Center) in Caldwell, Ohio.

Garrett, Pennsylvania

Garrett is named for the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad John Work Garrett.

Gold Star Mothers Club

In the 1974 Ohio Senate primary race between Howard Metzenbaum and John Glenn, Metzenbaum contrasted his business background with Glenn's military and astronaut credentials, saying his opponent had "never worked for a living."

Grape pie

Vineyards that grow the grape, which was developed in the U.S., stretch from Western New York across Pennsylvania and into Ohio, forming a "narrow 100-mile-long strip" which includes Westfield, New York (known as "Concord grape juice capital of the world"), on the southern Lake Erie shore.

Guy Stern

After teaching at Columbia, he received an assistant professorship at Denison University in Ohio, and was later professor and head of the department for German Language and Literature at the University of Cincinnati in 1963.

Harold Burton

Harold Hitz Burton (1888–1964), mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, member of the United States Senate and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Henry B. Carrington

In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).

Jackson Bailey

Bailey was also honored with Honorary doctorate degrees from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Wabash College in Indiana, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Waseda University in Japan.

James Patton Brownlow

After a brief expedition to fight Native Americans (Indians) and guerrillas from North Carolina in Cocke County, Tennessee, Colonels Brownlow and Palmer with about one thousand men of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry and 10th Ohio Cavalry held the army's right wing, watching for arrival of a Confederate force reportedly approaching East Tennessee from North Carolina.

John G. Cooper

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, but went on to serve as chairman of the Board of Claims, Ohio Industrial Commission from 1937 to 1945.

John J. Gilligan

In 1964 he was elected to the Eighty-ninth Congress as a representative for Ohio's 1st district, serving from January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967.

Jon Diebler

Diebler ended his high school career with 3,208 points, more than Ohio high school greats Jay Burson (2,958), LeBron James (2,646), Bob Huggins (2,438), Jerry Lucas (2,438), Jamar Butler (2,412) and Jim Jackson (2,328).

Laban T. Moore

Born in Wayne County, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Louisa, Kentucky, Moore attended Marshall Academy in Virginia and was graduated from Marietta College in Ohio.

Larry Tomczak

Born into a Roman Catholic family in Ohio, Tomczak became locally famous as the drummer for the Lost Souls, a five-piece rock'n'roll band described by Richie Unterberger as a "Cleveland sensation".

Michael Nunes

Michael John Nunes (born March 6, 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor who played L'il Bee in Thumbelina (1994) and Beany in The Pebble and the Penguin (1995), before Don Bluth and Gary Goldman went to 20th Century Fox to direct the film Anastasia.

Michelle Schneider

Michelle G. Schneider, former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Mini-Tuesday

The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.

Nobuo Tanaka

He graduated from the University of Tokyo in the field of economics in 1972, and has an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (1979).

Ohio Army National Guard

The 1st Ohio Volunteers comprised part of the army under Gen. Zachary Taylor and took part in the battlefield victories of Monterrey and Buena Vista.

Ohio Hub

Following the 2010 gubernatorial elections in Ohio, the newly elected governor John Kasich (Republican) began the process of shutting down the project and returning the money to the federal government.

Ohio University – Chillicothe

About eight miles (13 km) outside Chillicothe, the property was envisioned as an OU-C facility for therapeutic riding, recreation, and outdoor education, as well as for enabling a partnership with the equestrian education program of Ohio's southern campus in Ironton.

Old Gothic Barns

The Old Gothic Barns were a pair of historic agricultural buildings near the city of Cincinnati in Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

Oliver Everett

Everett was educated at St Aubyn's Preparatory School Woodford Green Essex having been Captain of the 1st XVFelsted, the Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio and at Christ's CollegeCambridge, and he has a masters degree in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and did post-graduate work in international relations at the London School of Economics.

Osee M. Hall

Born in Conneaut, Ohio, he attended the local public schools and graduated from Hiram College in Ohio and from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1868.

Philip Sugden

In 1990, Philip and his wife were awarded grants from the Ohio Joint Projects in the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, to create a Public Television presentation and companion book based on their 1988 Cultural Arts Expedition to the Himalaya and Tibet.

Preble County, Ohio

College Corner Union School (grades K-5) is physically located in both Ohio and Indiana (the state line runs through the middle of the building) and serves students from both College Corner, Ohio, and West College Corner, Indiana.

René Laurentin

Throughout Father Rene's life he has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities in both the United States and Europe including summer tenure at the University of Dayton in Ohio as a visiting lecturer for well over twenty years and Marymount University in Washington D.C. He is also a member of the Theology Faculty at the University of Florence and the University of Milan.

Robert Pinn

The range, used by the university's ROTC component and NCAA rifle team, is one of the premier shooting facilities in the state of Ohio.

Samuel Campbell

Samuel B. Campbell (1846–1917), Republican politician in the state of Ohio

Scott Bullock

He was also co-counsel in the Ohio Supreme Court case Norwood, Ohio v. Horney.

Sorta

SORTA, the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority serving the Greater Cincinnati area.

Stun belt

Introduced in the United States in the early 1990s, by 1996 it was reportedly in use by the US Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshals Service, and 16 state correctional agencies including those of Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington.

Sunnyslope Mountain

John C. Lincoln, an Ohio inventor and industrialist who founded Lincoln Electric, relocated to the Sunnyslope district in 1931 with his wife Helen, to treat her tuberculosis; almost immediately, the Lincolns became major financial supporters of Desert Mission and took on key leadership roles in the organization for most of the remainder of their lives.

Violence Against Women Act

However, several of them, including Steve King (R-Iowa), Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), Tim Walberg (R-Michigan), Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Keith Rothfus (R-Pennsylvania), and Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania), later claimed to have voted in favor of the act.

Walter Stone

Walter F. Stone (1822–1874), Republican politician and judge in Ohio

WLWD

WDTN channel 2, a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States that previously held the WLWD callsign

WLYT

WKRK-FM, a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States, which carried the WLYT callsign from 1971 to 1983

Xavier Newswire

The Xavier Newswire (established 1915) is an independent newspaper published weekly during the academic year by the students of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.