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This Month In Ohio History - August 2009 with image mapped links to Ohio History Central online encyclopedia entries Link to Ohio History Central web page regarding Warren Harding, AUGUST 2, 1923 President Warren G. Harding died while in office. During a cross-country trip, he became ill and died a week later of either a heart attack or a stroke in San Francisco. Taken to his hometown of Marion, Harding was entombed in the receiving vault of the Marion Cemetery. Following Mrs. Harding’s death on November 21, 1924, she was interred next to her husband. Both bodies were moved in December 1927 to the newly completed Harding Tomb in Marion, which was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover in 1931. The lapse between the final interment and the dedication was partly because of the aftermath of the Teapot Dome scandal. Harding Tomb is an Ohio Historical Society site. Link to Ohio History Central web page regarding Wilberforce University, AUGUST 30, 1856 Wilberforce University became the first institution of higher education owned and operated by African Americans. Founded in Greene County by the African American Episcopal Church, it was named for William Wilberforce, an 18th-century English statesman who was an abolitionist. Today, Wilberforce enrolls about 850 students. The old Wilberforce campus was acquired by the state in 1982 for construction of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, an Ohio Historical Society museum. Link to Ohio History Central web page regarding Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, AUGUST 27, 1912 The Ohio Women’s Suffrage Association, founded in 1885, held the first women’s suffrage parade in Columbus. That same year, the association also began to campaign for a state constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. Although they were unsuccessful in obtaining their goals prior to the war, women ultimately received the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920. Ohio was the fifth state to ratify this amendment. Link to Ohio History Central web page regarding the Spanish-American War, AUGUST 12, 1898 President William McKinley ends the Spanish-American War 110 days after it began. In April, the president issued a call for volunteers to fight the war with Spain. Ohioans rushed to volunteer, filling the state’s quota in a few days. Although Ohio provided six infantry regiments and four batteries of light artillery for the war effort, only two regiments were sent to combat zones - the 8th Ohio Infantry, called 'McKinley's Own' because they came from the president's hometown of Canton, went to Cuba while the 4th Ohio Infantry invaded Puerto Rico. Link to Ohio History Central web page regarding the Phoebe A. Mozee, AUGUST 13, 1860 Annie Oakley, one of the greatest sharpshooters ever, was born Phoebe Anne Mozee in Darke County. At 8 years old, she taught herself to shoot her dad’s rifle to hunt game. At 16, she won a contest in Cincinnati against famed marksman Frank Butler. They married and went on the road together demonstrating their skills. She adopted the stage name of Oakley from a Cincinnati neighborhood. She joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1885 and traveled with it for 17 years. Link to Ohio History Central web page regarding the Anthony Wayne, AUGUST 20, 1794 Gen. Anthony Wayne and his troops of 2,000 regulars and 1,500 militiamen defeated a force of 1,000 warriors from a confederation of Native American tribes commanded by Shawnee Chief Blue Jacket. It became known as the Battle of Fallen Timbers because it took place along the Maumee River, south of presentday Toledo, where a storm had downed many trees. Wayne’s men returned to Fort Greenville. After a hungry winter, the Indians made peace by signing the Treaty of Greenville the following August. Link to Ohio History Central web page regarding the Treaty of Greeneville (1795), AUGUST 3, 1795 Treaty of Greenville was signed by the U.S. government and various Indian tribes opening Ohio for white settlement. Signers of the peace treaty at Fort Greenville, in what is now Darke County, included Gen. Anthony Wayne, Lt. William Henry Harrison, Little Turtle of the Miami and Blue Jacket of the Shawnee. Violence continued as many white settlers disregarded the boundaries and some Native Americans also refused to honor the agreement. Link to Ohio Historical Society home page


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