Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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together with a number of young menfrom Connecticut, lie visited the ConnecticutWestern Reserve in Ohio, in which his father,Governor Edwards, had considerable posses-sions through Pierpont Edwards, who was oneof the original proprietors. Most of theseyoung men remained in the Western Reserveand helped form that highly intellectualcommunity of which Garfield, Giddings,Wade, Tod and Whittlesey were representa-tives. Mr. Edwards had many importantpositions and was connected with various news-paper enterprises during his life and was oneof the founders of the first newspaper pub-lished in the Mahoning Valley. He wrotefrequently for publication, principally on his-torical subjects. He was the leading spirit ofthe Mahoning Valley Historical Society andcollected a large amount of valuable informa-tion concerning the early history of Ohio andits people. He was a deeply studious man anda learned and able lawyer. He died suddenlyat his residence in Youngstown, December 8VJ 886, aged 81 years.
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Father. Daughter,JUDGE JAMES BROWNLEE. KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD. Kate Brownlee Sherwood, the poetess of patriotism, is the daughter ofJudge James Brownlee, of Poland, where she was born. While yet in her teens, in 1859, she was married with Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood and early becameassociated with him in journalistic work, writing items, reading proofs, andthen sometimes With dainty fingers deftly picked, Their clean-cut faces ranged in telling lines, The magic type that talks to all the world. As a school-girl in Poland she had shown fine literary capacity, and if there is MAHONING COUNTY, 443 anything that could have given added brightness and breadth to her intellect itwas just this employment of journalistic work, coming, too, just at the openingof the stupendous events of the great civil war. Her youthful husband enlisted and the old Covenanters blood in her, veinsbecame heated by the spirit of intense patriotism, which soon found expressionin patriotic verse, which has thrilled multi

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