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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]General George Washington Crile, Sr.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]George Washington Crile was born on November 11th, 1864 on a farm near Chili, Ohio. His life spanned the two most horrific events in American history: the civil war and WW II. Military medicine and combat surgery proved to be a seminal laboratory for Crile, an experience that had application to civilian medicine.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]He served in the Spanish American War as a Brigade Surgeon with the rank of Major. It was in this war that Crile saw hundreds of soldiers suffering from exhaustion, shock, and fear. Prior to his military service, Crile had conducted research experiments on animals and noted the relationship between shock, blood pressure, and the onset of death. In 1906 he performed the first successful human to human blood transfusion at St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]The Great War (1914-1918) was horrific, but a vital laboratory for the advancement of field surgery, triage, and a team approach to treatment. Dr.Crile established the first detachment of the American Expeditionary Force and was subsequently put in charge of research for the AEF. Crile's cousin, Dr. William Lower joined the Unit as Commanding Officer, as did Dr. Fred Bunts. After the War, these three surgeons were joined by Dr. John Phillips and in 1921 this group practice was organized as a non-profit corporation known as the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Crile's internationally distinguished career demonstrated the vital relationship between research and application to patient treatment. Specifically, with thousands of patients to examine and treat as a result of war, Crile applied the techniques of combat medicine to civilian surgery. In medical terms Crile was one of the first research surgeons to define surgical physiology. He was a founder of the American College of Surgeons in 1912, chairman of the governing board of that organization for 26 years, authored 24 books, and over 400 articles. George Washington Crile retired in 1941.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Crile and his son George Crile Jr., "Barney" practiced together at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. At the time of his death the senior Crile had experimented with a pressure suit that was the prototype of those needed for high altitude supersonic speeds. [/FONT]​

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]It was therefore appropriate that when the Army sought a name for its general hospital in the Cleveland area they chose Crile. The hospital, formally dedicated in April 1944, became known as Crile Hospital for the next 20 years. At the dedication, according to press reports, 100,000 attended the opening ceremonies, featuring General Norman Kirk commanding officer of the Army Medical Department. Grace Crile, the widow of General Crile was also present. Son "Barney" was on active duty in the Pacific.[/FONT]​

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Dr. George W. Crile, Sr. (1864-1943).
For more on Dr. George W. Crile, Sr., visit History ​
 
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Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 ? November 24 or November 25, 1958), also known as "Boss" Kettering, was born in Loudonville, Ohio, USA. He was a farmer, school teacher, mechanic, engineer, scientist, inventor and social philosopher. He had poor eyesight, but acquired an electrical engineering degree from Ohio State University in 1904. He held that new ideas can be developed through cooperative team efforts and applied this to a broad range of interests.
Kettering held more than 300 U.S. patents. He invented the all-electric starting, ignition, and lighting system for automobiles. All-electric starters replaced crank (manual) starting of automobiles. First incorporated in the 1912 Cadillac, all-electric starting aided in the growth of the U.S. auto industry. His patents included a portable lighting system, Freon, a World War I "aerial torpedo," a treatment for venereal disease, an incubator for premature infants, and an engine-driven generator called the "Delco".
He developed the idea of Duco paint and ethyl gasoline. He helped develop diesel engines and ways to harness solar energy. He was a pioneer in the application of magnetism to medical diagnostic techniques.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kettering
 
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Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 ? November 24 or November 25, 1958), also known as "Boss" Kettering, was born in Loudonville, Ohio, USA.
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Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 - December 9, 1965) was an innovative Major League Baseball executive best known for two things: breaking baseball's color barrier by signing the African-American player Jackie Robinson, and later drafting the first Hispanic superstar, Roberto Clemente; and creating the framework to the modern minor league farm system. His many achievements, and somewhat theatrical religiosity, earned him the nickname "The Mahatma". . . . Rickey was born outside of Portsmouth, Ohio, the son of Frank W. and Emily Brown Rickey. He was a catcher on the baseball team at Ohio Wesleyan and, in 1903, signed a professional contract with Terre Haute, Indiana of the Class B Central League, making his professional debut on June 20, 1903.
 
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Zane Grey
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]by Dr. Joe Wheeler[/FONT]

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Zane Grey, the Western writer, shaped the way the world will forever perceive the "Old West." Zane Grey's name on theater marquees was a bigger draw than the top Hollywood stars of his day. In 57 novels, 10 books of Western nonfiction, and 130 movies, Grey, who died in 1939 at age 67, almost single-handedly created the "Myth of the West." His respectful treatment of Indians was ahead of its time; his word paintings of some of the worlds most spectacular country may never be equaled.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Grey celebrated the natural beauty of the West and the character and frontier values of its people - the so-called Code of the West. Senior Fellow Joe Wheeler wrote his doctoral thesis on Zane Grey at Vanderbilt University in 1975, and in 1983 he founded the Zane Grey's West Society. Each June the 300-member Society hosts a convention of scholars and others whose aim is to keep alive the West as Grey saw it. In the following essay, Wheeler examines the Code of the old West - and its influence in the today's New West.[/FONT]

Zane Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio. His father was a farmer and preacher, and mother Quaker, of Danish background. Grey graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in dentistry in 1896, and practiced in New York City until 1904. During these years he started to write. Grey's first book, BETTY ZANE, was turned down by several published, and in 1904 Grey published it privately. The colorful frontier story was based on his ancestor's journal. After the book gained a critical success, Grey continued his family story in THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDER (1905). In his writing Grey was encouraged by his wife, Lina Elise Roth. They married in 1905. She supported his aspirations to become a professional writer.
 
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Here is another important Ohioan.
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 Kinsman Township, Trumbull County, Ohio - March 13, 1938 Chicago) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenaged thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the so-called "Monkey" Trial (1925), in which he opposed the famous statesman William Jennings Bryan. He remains notable for his wit, compassion, and agnosticism that marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.
 
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 ? October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life around the world. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and therefore is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.
Some of his inventions were not completely original but amounted to improvements of earlier inventions. Also, many of the inventions attributed to him were actually created by one or more of the numerous employees working under his direction. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,097 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1804?1896) (born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada) and Nancy Matthews Edison nee Elliott (1810?1871). His family was of Dutch origin.[1]
 
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Since this thread started with a cartoonist, how about another one?

Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28, 1907-May 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.

Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. He was an Eagle Scout and a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Caniff had done some cartoons for local newspapers as a teenager. Shortly after matriculating at the Ohio State University, from which he graduated in 1930, Caniff began a career in journalism by applying to the Columbus Dispatch. There he worked with the noted cartoonist William "Billy" Ireland until Caniff's position was eliminated.
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Caniff was one of the founders of the National Cartoonist Society and served two terms as its President, 1948 and 1949. He also received the Society's first Cartoonist of the Year Award in 1947, nominally for his new comic strip, "Steve Canyon," but since the award covered work published in 1946, it embraced "Terry and the Pirates" as well. Caniff would be named Cartoonist of the Year again, receiving the accompanying trophy, the Reuben, in 1972 for 1971, again for "Steve Canyon." He was also named to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1988. He received the National Cartoonist Society Elzie Segar Award in 1971, the Award for Story Comic Strip in 1979 for Steve Canyon, the Gold Key Award (the Society's Hall of Fame) in 1981, and NCS has since named the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in his honor.
Caniff died in New York City.

Wiki page on Caniff

This one is sentimental for me, because I used to read Steve Canyon in the Dispatch comics section when I was a youngster.
 
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Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier); and Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier), Jr.

(born Feb. 27, 1888, Xenia, Ohio, U.S. ? died Oct. 30, 1965, Boston, Mass.) (born Oct. 15, 1917, Columbus, Ohio ? died Feb. 28, 2007, New York, N.Y.) U.S. historians. The elder Schlesinger taught at Harvard University for three decades beginning in 1924. He helped to broaden the study of U.S. history by emphasizing social and urban developments. His books include The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763 ? 1776 (1917) and Rise of the City, 1878 ? 1898 (1933), and he coedited (with Dixon Ryan Fox) the series A History of American Life (1928 ? 43). His son taught at Harvard (1946 ? 61) and the City University of New York (1966 ? 94). Long active in liberal politics, he was an adviser to Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy during their presidential campaigns and served as Kennedy's special assistant. His books include The Age of Jackson (1946, Pulitzer Prize), The Age of Roosevelt, 3 vol. (1957 ? 60), A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (1965, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize), The Imperial Presidency (1973), The Cycles of American History (1986), and War and the American Presidency (2004).
 
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Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Harshman Winters III, generally known as Jonathan Winters (born November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American comedic actor. Winters is descended from Valentine Winters, founder of the Winters National Bank in Dayton, which is now part of JPMorgan Chase.

After attending public school in Springfield, Ohio, Jonathan enlisted in the Marines at age 17 and served in the South Pacific during World War II. After his discharge he studied cartooning at Dayton Art Institute, where he met Eileen Schauder, whom he married in 1948. He began comedy routines and acting while studying at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He was also a local radio personality at WIZE in Springfield,Ohio.

Winters has to date appeared in nearly 50 movies and several television shows, including particularly notable roles in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and in the dual roles of Henry Glenworthy and his dark, scheming brother, Rev. Wilbur Glenworthy, in the film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One. His fellow comedians that starred with him in "Mad World", such as Arnold Stang, claimed that, in the long periods while they waited between scenes, Winters would entertain them for hours in their trailer by becoming any character that they would suggest to him.

On television, he appeared in his own show The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1972-1974) and as Mork's infant son Mearth in the television program Mork & Mindy. Robin Williams calls Jonathan Winters his idol and greatest influence. Winters has also done some dramatic work, as evidenced in the Twilight Zone episode "A Game of Pool" (episode # 3.5) 13 October 1961). Winters was also the narrator in Frosty Returns and recorded Ogden Nash's The Carnival of the Animals poems to Camille Saint-Sa?ns' classical opus.
 
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My baseball team had its first scrimmage Monday, so in honor of that I give you Cy Young.

Denton True Young (March 29, 1867 ? November 4, 1955) was an American baseball pitcher during the 1890s and 1900s. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Young in 1937 and he won one championship in 1903 as a member of the Boston Americans. An accomplished athlete, Young won the 1901 AL Triple Crown for Pitchers. The annual award given for the pitcher of the year in each league is named the Cy Young Award. Young played twenty-two years of professional baseball. He set the records for most wins all-time, most innings pitched all-time, most games started all-time, and most complete games all-time. His longevity also allowed him to set the record for the most career losses, despite winning 62% of his decisions.
There are several different stories as to how Young earned the nickname "Cy", however they all acknowledge that it is short short for "Cyclone." One version is that when pitching he twisted his body around and whipped around with such speed, it resembled a cyclone. Another story says that barns and fences would show cyclone-like damage after Young hit them with a throw.[citation needed] He was born in Gilmore, Ohio, and raised in Newcomerstown, Ohio. Young later died in Newcomerstown, where the local park bears his name and a memorial to the pitcher stands.
 
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William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 ? November 16, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor.
In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 7.Clark Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, on February 1, 1901 to William Henry "Bill" Gable, an oil-well driller[1][2] and former Adeline Hershelman.[3] When he was born he was mistakenly listed as a female on his birth certificate. His original name was probably William Clark Gable, but birth registrations, and school records, and other documents contradict one another.
 
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