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William Allen was a Democratic Representative, Senator and 31st Governor of Ohio.
Chillicothe is a city in and the county seat of Ross County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Scioto River 45 miles south of Columbus, Chillicothe was the first and third capital of Ohio.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is the administrative department of the Ohio state government that operates twenty-seven state prisons for adults and three facilities for juveniles. The sixth-largest prison system in America, at the end of 2018 it had 49,255 people in custody and a budget of $1.8 billion. It has its headquarters in Columbus.
Duncan McArthur was a military officer and a Federalist and National Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 11th Governor of Ohio.
Thomas Worthington was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the sixth Governor of Ohio.
Edward Tiffin was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio, and first Governor of the state.
No man who has occupied the gubernatorial chair of Ohio has possessed a greater genius for the administration of public affairs than Edward Tiffin, its first governor. He appeared upon the scene of action in the Northwest Territory in its creative period, when the work of moulding the destinies of a future commonwealth was committed to the care of a very few men. Head and shoulders above them all stood Edward Tiffin. His official life displayed a better general average of statesmanship than that of any of his successors. ... His work in advancing and developing Ohio has not been equalled by any man in its history.
The Chillicothe Gazette is Ohio's oldest newspaper, published daily at Chillicothe, Ohio, the seat of Ross County, Ohio, by the Gannett Company. The paper was founded as a weekly at Cincinnati, Ohio, then the capital of the Northwest Territory, November 9, 1793 as the Centinel of the Northwest Territory. It decamped to Chillicothe when the territorial government moved to that city c. 1800. The paper was owned until the 1990s by Gannett, who sold it to Community Newspaper Holdings who in turn sold to The Thomson Corporation. When Thomson exited the newspaper business in the late 1990s, Gannett bought it back.
State Route 104 is a north–south highway in Southern Ohio. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 23 in Portsmouth, Ohio and its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 33 in Columbus. The route passes through or close to the towns of Portsmouth, Waverly, Chillicothe, Grove City, and Columbus. From Waverly to Chillicothe, it overlaps U.S. Route 23.
Donald Neil Johnston was an American basketball player at the center position who played eight years in the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 1951 to 1959. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1990.
William Creighton was an attorney, banker and legislator. Creighton was Ohio's first Secretary of State and designer of the Great Seal of Ohio.
Richmond Dale is a census-designated place in central Jefferson Township, Ross County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 45673. It is located along U.S. Route 35 southeast of the county seat of Chillicothe.
Ohio University – Chillicothe (OU-C) is a non-residential regional campus of the University System of Ohio located in Chillicothe. Founded in 1946, OU-C is the first of Ohio University's regional campuses and the first regional campus in the state. It is located 45 miles (72 km) south of the state capital of Columbus. It has an enrollment of more than 2,500 students.
Albert Douglas was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Horatio Clifford Claypool was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, father of Harold Kile Claypool and cousin of John Barney Peterson.
Joseph Miller was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Lake White State Park is a state park located southwest of Waverly in Pike County, Ohio, United States. It contains 92 acres (37 ha) of land and 337 acres (136 ha) of water.
Albert Ernest Herrnstein was an American football player and coach. He played at the University of Michigan as a halfback and end from 1899 to 1902 and was the head football coach at the Haskell Indian School (1903–1904), Purdue University (1905), and Ohio State University (1906–1909).
Yellowbud is an unincorporated community in Ross County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
William Allen is a sculpture depicting the American politician of the same name by Charles Henry Niehaus. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of Ohio to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 1887, but later replaced with one of Thomas Edison. Allen's statue was relocated to the Ross County Heritage Center, in Chillicothe, Ohio.
