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Jo-Ann Stores Inc., the nation’s largest fabric and craft retailer, is headquartered in Hudson (pop. 22,439). The company has more than 1,100 stores in 49 states.

first appeared: 10/14/2001

William H. McGuffey, who became president of the University of Ohio in 1839, wrote McGuffey’s Reader, the primary textbooks for millions of children, which were first printed in 1836 and used until the 1920s.

first appeared: 10/7/2001

On Oct. 23, 1934, Jeanette Piccard landed near Cadiz (pop. 3,308), ending a 300-mile-long balloon flight during which she became the first woman to reach an altitude of 57,539 feet.

first appeared: 9/30/2001

Thomas Hendricks, born Sept. 7, 1819, in a log cabin near Zanesville (pop. 25,586), was elected vice president in 1884 as Grover Cleveland’s running mate.

first appeared: 9/23/2001

Beach Boy Al Jardine was born in Lima on Sept. 3, 1942.

first appeared: 9/16/2001

Famed travel writer-lecturer-showman Lowell Thomas was born in Woodington on April 6, 1892. His home is now a museum in Greenville (pop. 13,294).

first appeared: 9/9/2001

Formed in 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first professional baseball team. Pitcher Asa Brainard earned $1,100 for the team’s first season.

first appeared: 9/2/2001

The village where the first white woman in the Ohio Territory lived was called White Woman’s Town, a few miles west of Coshocton (pop. 11,682). Mary Harris had been captured by American Indians as a child in Deerfield, Mass., and was raising a family with them when visited by white explorers in the 1750s.

first appeared: 8/26/2001

Painesville (pop. 17,503) was named after Revolutionary War Gen. Edward Paine, who later became one of the state’s first settlers.

first appeared: 8/19/2001

In 1929, Lauretta Schimmoler became the first woman in the United States to operate an airport when she began managing the airfield at Bucyrus (pop. 13,452).

first appeared: 8/12/2001

John Mercer Langston, an 1849 graduate of Oberlin College, is believed to have been the nation’s first African-American elected to public office. He was elected clerk of Brownhelm Township in 1855.

first appeared: 8/5/2001

Oberlin College, founded in 1833 in Oberlin (pop. 8,195), was the nation’s first college to admit women and one of the first to admit blacks.

first appeared: 7/29/2001

Clarence Darrow, one of America’s most famous lawyers, was born April 18, 1857, in Kinsman (pop. 800). Among his famous courtroom dramas was the Scopes “Monkey” Trial in Tennessee in which he faced William Jennings Bryan.

first appeared: 7/22/2001

Actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall married on the farm of their friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield, near Mansfield on May 21, 1945.

first appeared: 7/15/2001

Opened in December 1803 by Jonas Seaman, the Golden Lamb Inn in Lebanon (pop. 14,966) is the state’s oldest operating inn.

first appeared: 7/8/2001

Herb Tanner of Mayfield Heights (pop. 18,313) became the oldest person to skydive solo when he parachuted from a plane at 3,500 feet on June 19, 1998, at the age of 92. Even with two artificial knees, he landed safely.

first appeared: 7/1/2001

Ohio license plates carry the motto “Birthplace of Aviation” to honor aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, who built their first glider in their Dayton bicycle shop in 1900.

first appeared: 6/24/2001

The first home installation of a bathtub in America took place in Cincinnati in 1842. It was made of mahogany lined with sheet metal.

first appeared: 6/17/2001

The largest American aircraft ever made were manufactured for the U.S. Navy by Akron’s Goodyear-Zepplin plant in the 1930s. The twin dirigibles USS Akron and USS Macon were 785 feet long, three times the length of a Boeing 747.

first appeared: 6/10/2001

The Buckeye Furnace near Wellston (pop. 7,523) is among the last 19th-century charcoal-fired iron ore furnaces. Along with five other buildings of the furnace complex, the Buckeye Furnace was built in 1851 and operated for 43 years.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

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