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Jesse Owens

James Cleveland Owens was born in 1913 in a small town in Alabama to Henry and Emma Owens. When J.C. was eight, his parents decided to move the family to Cleveland, Ohio. They did not have much money, and J.C.'s father was hoping to find a better job. When they arrived in Cleveland, J.C. was enrolled in a public school. On his first day of class when the teacher asked his name, she heard Jesse, instead of J.C. He would be called Jesse from that point on.

Cleveland was not as prosperous as Henry and Emma had hoped and the family remained very poor. Jesse took on different jobs in his spare time. He delivered groceries, loaded freight cars and worked in a shoe repair shop. It was during this time that Jesse discovered he enjoyed running, which would prove to be the turning point in his life.

One day in gym class, the students were timed in the 60-yard dash. When Coach Charlie Riley saw the raw, yet natural talent that young Jesse had, he immediately invited him to run for the track team. Although Jesse was unable to participate in after-school practices because of work, Coach Riley offered to train him in the mornings. Jesse agreed.

At Cleveland East Technical High School Jesse became a track star. As a senior, he tied the world record in the 100-yard dash with a time of 9.4 seconds, only to tie it again while running in the Interscholastic Championships in Chicago. While in Chicago, he also leaped a distance of 24 feet 9 5/8 inches in the broad-jump.

Many colleges and universities tried to recruit Jesse; he chose to attend Ohio State University. Here Jesse met some of his fiercest competition, and not just on the track. The United States was still struggling to desegregate in 1933, which led to many difficult experiences for Jesse. He was required to live off campus with other African-American athletes. When he traveled with the team, Jesse could either order carryout or eat at "blacks-only" restaurants. Likewise, he slept in "blacks-only" hotels. On occasion, a "white" hotel would allow the black athletes to stay, but they had to use the back door, and the stairs instead of the elevator. Because Jesse was not awarded a scholarship from the university, he continued to work part-time jobs to pay for school.
 
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 ? January 17, 1893) was an American politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President of the United States (1877?1881). Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, on October 4, 1822. His parents were Rutherford Hayes (January 4, 1787 Brattleboro, Vermont?July 20, 1822 Delaware, Ohio) and Sophia Birchard (April 15, 1792 Wilmington, Vermont?October 30, 1866 Columbus, Ohio) and was the youngest of four children, however two of them, Lorenzo Hayes (1815?1825) and Sarah Sophia Hayes (1817?1821) died young.
 
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Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863?December 27, 1914) was an American inventor and engineer. He is best known for his discovery in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron. Charles Hall was born the son of Rev. Heman Bassett Hall and Sophronia H. Brooks in December 6, 1863 in Thompson, Ohio. He had one brother and three sisters, one of whom died in infancy. His family moved to Oberlin, Ohio in 1873, and he graduated from Oberlin High School. In 1880 he enrolled in Oberlin College, where the received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1885. Hall was encouraged in his scientific experiments, which took place in a woodshed behind his family home, with ideas and materials from Professor of Chemistry Frank Fanning Jewett (1844-1926). The Jewett home is preserved in Oberlin as the Oberlin Heritage Center. The center features an exhibit called Aluminum: The Oberlin Connection, which includes a re-creation of Hall's 1886 woodshed experiment. The Hall House is also preserved in Oberlin, although the woodshed was demolished long ago.
 
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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 ? 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist, today best known for his Devil's Dictionary.
Bierce's lucid, unsentimental style has kept him popular when many of his contemporaries have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." Such was his reputation that it was said his judgment on any piece of prose or poetry could make or break a writer's career. Among the younger writers whom he encouraged were the poet George Sterling and the fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce was born in rural Meigs County, Ohio, and grew up in Kosciusko County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat of Warsaw.
 
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Paul Brown
Paul Eugene Brown (September 7, 1908 - August 5, 1991) was an athletics coach of American football and a major figure in the development of the National Football League. A seminal figure in football history, Brown is considered the "father of the modern offense," with many claiming that he ranks as one of if not the greatest of football coaches in history. Such claims are backed by significant evidence: Brown dominated as a gridiron general on every major level -- high school, college, and professional.
Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Brown's family moved to Massillon when he was nine. His father Lester, a dispatcher for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, was described as "very meticulous, serious-minded and highly-disciplined," all of which characterized Brown's later approach to coaching. Brown graduated from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio in 1925,
With avid support from influential groups including the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association and future Purdue University head coach Jack Mollenkopf of Toledo Waite High School, Brown moved into the college ranks by becoming head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes on January 14, 1941. Under Brown, the Buckeyes went 18-8-1 (1941-43). Brown's players were known for speed, intelligence, and contact; his teams for execution and fundamentals; and he was dubbed "Precision Paul"[5] at Ohio State.
 
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This may be the coolest person yet. I LOVE THE SIMPSONS. GREATEST SHOW OF OUR TIME.
Nancy Campbell Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American voice actress. She is best known and most famous for providing the voice of Bart Simpson; she also provides the voices of Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders and Kearney, as well as Maggie Simpson's squeaks and giggles, on the animated television show The Simpsons. A graduate of Fairmont High School, Cartwright attended Ohio University before transferring to UCLA where she earned a degree in theatre.BornOctober 25, 1957
Kettering, Ohio
 
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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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Most importantly, the elder Schlesinger was a Buckeye (B.A. 1910)
 
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Wayne Woodrow ?Woody? Hayes (February 14, 1913 ? March 12, 1987) was a college football coach who is best remembered for his 28-year tenure at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from 1951-1978.
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Born in Clifton, Ohio, Hayes played center on his Newcomerstown, Ohio, high school football team and tackle at Denison University, under coach Tom Rogers. He majored in English and history during his undergraduate days and was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.Ohio State head coach
As head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Hayes led his teams to a 205-61-10 record (.761), winning five national championships] 13 Big Ten conference championships and four of the team's eight Rose Bowl appearances. He is the only coach to send a team to four consecutive Rose Bowl games. Hayes considered the "greatest victory" of his career the 42-21 win over USC during the 1974 Rose Bowl. Three time winner of the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award, Hayes was "the subject of more varied and colorful anecdotal material than any other coach past or present, including fabled Knute Rockne," according to biographer Jerry Brondfield.
Hayes' basic coaching philosophy was that "nobody could win football games unless they regarded the game positively and would agree to pay the price that success demands of a team." His conservative style of football (especially on offense) was often described as "three yards and a cloud of dust"; in other words, a "crunching, frontal assault of muscle against muscle, bone upon bone, will against will."
Despite this seeming willingness to avoid change, Hayes became one of the first major college head coaches to recruit African-American players (He wasn't the first to recruit African-Americans at Ohio State, but the first to recruit and start African-Americans in large numbers at Ohio State, along with being one of the first in the nation.) and hire African-American assistant coaches. One of those players, Archie Griffin, was one of four Heisman Trophy winners to have played under Hayes and remains the only two-time winner in seven decades of selections. With four Heisman Trophy winners, Hayes is tied for the most with Notre Dame coach Frank Leahy. Heisman winners included Archie Griffin, Vic Janowicz, and Howard "Hopalong" Cassady. In addition, Hayes saw 58 players earn All-America accolades under his tutelage, while many notable football coaches, such as Lou Holtz, Bill Arnsparger, Bill Mallory, Bo Schembechler and Woody's successor, Earle Bruce, served as his assistants.
Hayes would often use illustrations from historical events to make a point in his coaching and teaching. When Hayes was first hired to be the head coach at OSU, he was also made a "full professor of physical education," having earned an M.A. degree in educational administration from Ohio State in 1948. The classes that he taught on campus were usually full, and he was called "Professor Hayes" by students.
During his time at Ohio State, Hayes' relationships with faculty members were particularly good. Even those members of the faculty who believed that the role of intercollegiate athletics was growing out of control respected Hayes personally for his commitment to academics, the standards of integrity with which he ran his program, and the genuine enthusiasm he brought to his hobby as an amateur historian. Hayes often ate lunch or dinner at the university's faculty club, interacting with professors and administrators.
As a coach and an educator, Hayes was one of the first to use the motion picture as a teaching and learning tool. He was also memorable as a professor that could be seen walking across campus, taking the time to visit with students. When talking to young people, Hayes treated all of them equally and with respect, without regard to race or economic class. (This behavior by Hayes was helpful to Ohio State in avoiding the violence and damage that other college campuses suffered in the late 60's/early 70's. He would actually take the time to communicate with student leaders. Hayes was considered one of the few authority figures that students then had respect for.) His enthusiasm for coaching and winning was such that many across the nation consider the following maxim to be true: "What Vince Lombardi was to professional football, Woody Hayes was to college football."
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And we owe damn near everything we have in transportation to this guy.
Benjamin Franklin Goodrich (November 4, 1841 - August 3, 1888), was an American industrialist in the rubber industry.
Dr. Goodrich was born to Anson and Susan Goodrich in Ripley, New York. He was educated as a physician; he received his M.D. from Western Reserve College in Cleveland, Ohio. B. F., as he was known, served as a surgeon with the Union Army in the Civil War.
After the war he reached a licensing agreement with Charles Goodyear, and bought the Hudson Rubber Company in partnership with J.P. Morris. The company, located in Melrose, New York, failed. In 1870 he moved to Akron, Ohio to found the company that still bears his name, BF Goodrich. The radial tire was designed by an advertizing employee in his company.
 
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R. L. Stine


Born:January 8, 1943 (age 64)
Columbus, OhioOccupation:WriterNationality:AmericanGenres:HorrorRobert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, known mainly for books targeted at younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.
 
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Edward Tiffin (June 19, 1766 ? August 9, 1829) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio, and the first Governor of that state.
Sources indicate that he was born in Carlisle, England; however he may have been born in or near Workington, England. He emigrated with his parents and siblings to Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), where he opened a medical practice. Tiffin headed westward, along with Thomas Worthington, in 1798, settling in Chillicothe, Ohio.
He arrived with a letter addressed to the governor of the Northwest Territory, Arthur St. Clair from George Washington, recommending him for public office. Tiffin served as the Speaker of the Territorial House of Representatives from 1799?1801 and as president of the 1802 Constitutional Convention. Tiffin was the obvious choice for the governorship when Ohio was admitted to the Union the next year. He was elected almost without opposition to a first term and re-elected by similarly overwhelming numbers two years later.
Tiffin was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1806 and resigned the governorship in March 1807 to take his seat. He served only two years, however, resigning after the death of his wife. He spent only a few months at home, however, before being elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, where he served as speaker from 1809?11. Tiffin became the first commissioner of the General Land Office, which managed allocations of Federal lands.
He quickly helped remove the Federal records from Washington before it was sacked during the War of 1812. In 1814, he became the Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory, exchanging positions with Josiah Meigs so that he might spend more time near his home in Chillicothe. Tiffin served in the post until a few weeks before his death.
The city of Tiffin in northwestern Ohio is named after him.
Tiffin and his family immigrated to America in 1791.
 
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