The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . RICHARD J. OGLESBY. OHARA —OHIO 277 He was elected governor of Illinois in 1864; re-elected in 1872; chosen United States Senator in1873 for a term of six years. From 1885 to 1889hewas againguvernor ol Illinois. DiedAp. 24,1899. OHARA, Theodore, an American poet andsoldier; born in Danville, Kentucky, Feb. 11,1820; was admitted to the bar in 1845, and tookpart in the Mexican War. He was for a time afterthe close of the war editor of papers in Louisvilleand Frankfort, Kentucky, and Mobile, the Civ
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . RICHARD J. OGLESBY. OHARA —OHIO 277 He was elected governor of Illinois in 1864; re-elected in 1872; chosen United States Senator in1873 for a term of six years. From 1885 to 1889hewas againguvernor ol Illinois. DiedAp. 24,1899. OHARA, Theodore, an American poet andsoldier; born in Danville, Kentucky, Feb. 11,1820; was admitted to the bar in 1845, and tookpart in the Mexican War. He was for a time afterthe close of the war editor of papers in Louisvilleand Frankfort, Kentucky, and Mobile, the Civil War he served in the Confederatearmy. He is known, however, for his poems,especially for the Bivouac of the Dead and TheOld Pioneer. He died in Bullock County, nearGuerryton, Alabama, June 6, 1867. OHIO had a population in 1900 of 4,157,545,a gain of 485,229 over 1890. From 1840 to. STATE SEAL OF OHIO. the taking of the census of 1890 Ohio had occu-pied the third place in rank of population, butthe eleventh census placed it fourth, and afterIllinois. The number of inhabitants was the square mile, a greater density than thatof any other of the states of the north centraldivision, the average of which was only cities of Ohio having a population of 8,000or more numbered 29, in which resided 1,159,342inhabitants, making the urban population cent of the state. The male inhabitants num-bered 1,855,736, the female 1,816,580, a moreequal division of the sexes than in any other stateof the group to which Ohio belongs. The per-centage of native-born citizens was , of for-eign-born The number of negroes was87,113, a decrease since 1880 of 133. The popu-lation also included 183 Chinese, 22 Japanese and193 civilized Indians. Ohio has been near the center of population ofthe United States since 1830. In that year thecenter was in the neig
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