Description: The county courthouse of Morrow County is located on Courthouse Square in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. It was placed on the National Register of Historical Places on July 25, 1974. The architect of this Greek Revival building was David Auld of Auld & Miller. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_062_001
Subjects: Morrow County (Ohio); Courthouses; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Government buildings
Places: Mt. Gilead (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Morrow County Courthouse located in Mount Gilead, Ohio. It was listed on the National Register of Historical Places on July 24, 1974. Morrow County, named for Jeremiah Morrow, was formed in 1848. Jeremiah Morrow was the ninth governor of Ohio and also served in the US Senate. He was a member of the House of Representatives at the time that Morrow County was formed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_036_01
Subjects: Morrow County (Ohio); Mount Gilead (Ohio); Courthouses; Government buildings
Places: Mount Gilead (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: This formal portrait depicts the Brimbee children: Florence, age 7, and Imogene, age 3, ca. 1909. Florence was the daughter of Bessie and William Brimbee, and Imogene may be her cousin or half-sister. Bessie was the sister of Evva Kenney Heath, a native of Cardington, Ohio, who attended Howard University Law School and went on to be an attorney in Washington, D.C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03823
Subjects: African American children; Families--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History
Places: Galion (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Bicentennial barn-painting program was an inexpensive, grassroots marketing campaign that painted the official logo of the Ohio Bicentennial on a highly visible historic barn in each of Ohio's 88 counties. Over 2,000 farmers and landowners submitted their barn descriptions to the committee for consideration. Beginning in 1998, artist Scott Hagan spent five years painting the logos, tailored to every barn's unique character. Typically, the barn owners hosted a celebration at the completion of their barn painting. This photograph is an exterior view of Barn #73, the 73rd barn that Hagan painted, located on State Route 95 east of Route 42 in Morrow County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08542
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Barns; Ohio Bicentennial, 2003
Places: Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: This postcard depicts the home where President Warren G. Harding was born on November 2, 1865, near the village of Blooming Grove, Ohio, in Morrow County. The house was built in 1856 and torn down in 1896. The reverse of the postcard includes a note that this image was "From one of his own camera plates, snapped by W.G. Harding, Compliments of Harding Jr, 1/30/24....to Chas. D. Schaffner, Marion, O." The printed portion includes information about the home sworn by C. W. Kramer, Notary Public in Marion County, Ohio on November 9, 1923. Harding graduated from Ohio Central College in Iberia at the age of sixteen. His family moved to Marion, where Harding taught school and briefly studied law. He worked occasionally as a reporter for a local paper before buying the Marion Star in 1884. Within five years, the Star was one of the most successful small-town newspapers in the state. Harding became popular as the leader of the Citizen's Coronet Band, which played at political rallies, and for his skill as an orator. Willing to follow the lead of political bosses, Harding advanced rapidly in Ohio politics, serving as state senator and lieutenant governor. In 1914 Harding was elected to the U. S. Senate. He launched his famous "front porch" 1920 presidential campaign from the porch of his Victorian home in Marion. He won the presidency with sixty percent of the popular vote, promising a "return to normalcy" following the wave of reforms begun during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. As president, Harding appointed several friends to federal office who proved untrustworthy. His administration was tainted by corruption, and the infamous "Teapot Dome" scandal (in which Harding's secretary of the interior leased a government petroleum reserve to a private oil company) nearly destroyed his presidency. After he died in office in August 1923, other scandals were uncovered, further tarnishing Harding's reputation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Architecture; Houses; Birthplaces; Presidents; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923
Places: Blooming Grove (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: Earl Sites, of Crawford County, was electrocuted January 30, 1931, for the murder of Ralph Wilcox, of Galion, Ohio. He was a white male, age 27 and his occupation was listed as a gang member. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08205
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Galion (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ray McCarthy, of Crawford County, was electrocuted January 30, 1931, for the murder of Ralph Wilcox, of Galion, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08206
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Death row
Places: Galion (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Fred Massa, of Crawford County, was electrocuted January 30, 1931, for the murder of Ralph Wilcox, of Galion, Ohio. He was a white male, age 27 and his occupation is listed as a gang member. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08207
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Galion (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Dated 1910, this photograph shows the farmhouse of Horatio Markley, with a man and two women sitting on the front porch. A barn and another farm building resides to the right of the house, and something is visible behind the home, possibly farming equipment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00462
Subjects: Morrow County (Ohio); Rural life; Farming; Agriculture; Barns; Farmhouses
Places: Mount Gilead (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Mordecai J. Benedict (1845-1927) outside of his home, "Valley Cottage," at the Alum Creek Friends' Settlement in Peru Township, Morrow County, Ohio. Daniel Benedict, Mordecai's father, kept an Underground Railroad station in the home, and Mordecai served as a conductor. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961), who began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03173
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Fugitive slaves
Places: Peru Township (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait depicting Aaron L. Benedict (1817-1905), who kept a station on the Underground Railroad in Alum Creek Friends' Settlement, Morrow County, Ohio. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03168
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Peru Township (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern photograph of the house where Abner Benedict kept fugitive slaves at Alum Creek Friends' Settlement in Peru Township, Morrow County, Ohio. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03172
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Peru Township (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)