What to see in America . over a far greater amount ofland than had been flooded before since the white men cameto the region. Hundreds of lives were lost. The placethat suffered most was Dayton, a city of 100,000 inhabitants,at the confluence of the Mpd River with the Great Miami. Torrents of muddy waterraged through the streets,and the estimated loss inthat county alone was1150,000,000. Ohio ranks next toVirginia as a mother ofPresidents. Half of thosewho have occupied theWhite House since Lin-colns death have beenOhio born. Gen. Grantwas born beside the Ohioin 1822 at Point Pleasant,thirty m
What to see in America . over a far greater amount ofland than had been flooded before since the white men cameto the region. Hundreds of lives were lost. The placethat suffered most was Dayton, a city of 100,000 inhabitants,at the confluence of the Mpd River with the Great Miami. Torrents of muddy waterraged through the streets,and the estimated loss inthat county alone was1150,000,000. Ohio ranks next toVirginia as a mother ofPresidents. Half of thosewho have occupied theWhite House since Lin-colns death have beenOhio born. Gen. Grantwas born beside the Ohioin 1822 at Point Pleasant,thirty miles southeast ofCincinnati. Hayes wasborn the same year atDelaware, twenty-fivemiles north of was born in 1831in Orange Township, fif-teen miles east of Cleveland. Benjamin Harrison was bornin 1833 at North Bend, ten miles west of Cincinnati. Mc-Kinley was born in 1843 at Niles, fifty miles southeastof Cleveland. Taft was born in 1857 in Cincinnati. Among other famous Ohioans are Gen. Sherman, born in. Looking out op Put-in-bay towardTHE Scene of Perrys Victory onLake Erie Ohio 229 1820 at Lancaster, thirty miles southeast of Columbus;Thomas A. Edison, born in 1847 at Milan, a dozen miles southof Sandusky; and W. D. Howells, born in 1837, at MartinsFerry just across the Ohio from the West Virginia city ofWheeling. Much of Mr. Howells boyhood was spent inHamilton, twenty miles north of Cincinnati, and his experi-ences there are embodied in his delightful A Boj^s Ohio writer whose novels bid fair to have a per-manent place in our literature is Mrs. Mary S. Watts, bornin Delaware County in 1868 and now a resident of Cincin-nati. Ohio entirely lacks mountains. Its highest point, 1550feet, is near Bellefontaine, fifty miles northwest of Columbus.
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