Riley - Mingo Ohio - 1784

Looking for proof of my Riley ancestors and came across this tidbit on Google Books. The books on Google Books have been great for looking up information. 

From the Ohio archaeological and historical quarterly, Volume 6 - By Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society

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The Chicago American Newspaper

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Patrick J. Dunne
Dunne got a job at the Chicago American, where he befriended a tough Chicago-born Irishman who’d sold newspapers since he was a kid: Arthur “Mickey” McBride. In 1911, during a strike against the American, McBride was named the paper’s circulation manager. Two years later, the Cleveland News hired McBride away. Dunne followed McBride to Cleveland and joined his streetwise army of newsstanders, who waged a circulation war against the Cleveland Press.

Nore Riley 1880 / 1980 100 yrs old

Looking for information on this woman. Her photo -- ripped down in size before I got it -- is all I know with the information written on the back: 1880 / 1980 Nore Riley 100 yrs old.

Was she a Riley by birth or by marriage? Am boldly guessing she is from Indiana or Ohio based on where my Riley family hails from.

Any help is greatly welcomed and appreciated!

Ohio, Indiana and Johnny Appleseed

I am currently reading several books by Michael Pollan and in Botany of Desire, he mentions John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed and his impact on Ohio. Thought some of the information was worth sharing. Hope you enjoy it.

Johnny Appleseed is a real person, John Chapman. Chapman, was a real historical figure who played a very important role in the frontier in the Northwest territory. In addition to learning that he was a real individual, he also turns out to be quite a character.

In learning more about Chapman, I learned an interesting botanical fact about apples, which is, if you plant the seeds of an apple, like a red delicious or a golden delicious, the offspring will look nothing like the parent, will be a completely different variety and will be inedible. You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. Apples apparently must be grafted, cloned.

Apples, although thought of in a representative way as a product of the United Sates are really from Kazakhstan and has made its way here and changed a lot along the way. Johnny Appleseed insisted on planting lots of apples from seed (he felt grafting was wicked) and those planted seeds meant the trees produced inedible apples. The upside of this is these apples were meant to become hard cider. Apparently you can use any kind of apple for making cider. Johnny Appleseed was bringing alcohol to the frontiers of Ohio and Indiana.

Apples were an excellent source of sweetness and an essential staple of the diets of those forging into unsettled, remote territory, and in some cases, the law required an orchard as a prerequisite for land ownership. Apples were also used for bartering in a time when cash was limited -- perhaps this will happen again. Using apple seeds from the cider mills of Pennsylvania, Chapman would move ahead of the homesteaders, on routes along which he guessed they were likely to settle, planting saplings from which they could start their orchards.

Chapman, aka “Johnny Appleseed” by the frontiersmen who experienced his "benevolence", continued planting spiritual seeds and apple seeds until his death on 18 March 1845. He died at the home of a friend, William Worth, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana. The site traditionally believed to be his grave is north of that city in Archer Cemetery, part of Johnny Appleseed Memorial Park is most likely a memorial spot. It is believed that Chapman's grave is located along the St. Joseph River in Fort Wayne in the middle of "Johnny Appleseed Park", where a giant festival is held every year in his honor. To this day the actual site has never been found.

Additional Links:

http://www.lostindiana.net/html/johnny_appleseed.html Lost Indiana

Google Books

http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Chapman__John.html

http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/heritage/ Johnny Appleseed — A Pioneer Hero

http://appleseed.org/johnny.html

http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-00166-print.html

http://www.swedenborg.com/

Belvoir Elementary School - Ohio

Belvoir School in Ohio. Sadly, there are no names on the back so all I know is me. If you can identify anyone please let me know.

The Cleveland House

These photos are from the MLS and show the former residence of Patrick Dunne, Bridget Gannon and Agatha Gannon in Ohio. Such a colorful story surrounds these people and this house.