"Ohioan" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were costly, and they were even fewer than they were costly; but those who longed for them got them somehow, and many a boy who studied them by the cabin fire became afterwards a great statesman, a great lawyer, or a great preacher. In fact, almost every distinguished Ohioan of the past generations seems to have begun life in a log cabin, and to have found his way out of the dark of ignorance by the light of its great hearth fire. Their stories are such as kindle the fancy and touch the heart; but now they ...
— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells
... to testify to you, from these remote nations, the pardonable pride of an Ohioan, and a veteran ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman
... mandate of the election, as the Republicans saw it, to revise the tariff in the interest of protection. It chose as Speaker Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, and revised its rules so as to expedite legislation. William McKinley prepared a revision of the tariff in the House, while another Ohioan, John Sherman, took up the matter of the trusts ...
— The New Nation • Frederic L. Paxson |
