Identifier: ohioarchologic30ohio (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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(396) EDWIN COPPOC. BY C. B. GALBREATH. Among many villages of our state that pursue theeven tenor of their way so peacefully and quietly thatthey earn their way to honorable obscurity, is Winona,Columbiana County. This name was chosen fromLongfellows Hiawatha, for the citizens of this placefind time to read, enjoy what we dignify as literatureand are in a very useful and unpretentious way cul-tured. The church and the school are liberally patron-ized. The moral standard of the community is high. Through the bellum and ante-bellum days this villagewas simply a crossroads, unnamed as yet, with little todistinguish it from the surrounding country, which isrolling, well watered and fertile. It was not christenedWinona until the year 1868. Hither in pioneer days at the opening of the last cen-tury came the Quakers, chiefly from North Carolina.The admission of Ohio as a free state in 1803 made itattractive to these people. They were uncompromis-ingly opposed to slavery. They did not seek c

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