Acknowledgements
But for the assistance of many Ohio women—and some men—this history- biography of the state could never have been written.
Invaluable aid was given by officers and members of the Ohio Newspaper Women’s Association, by which organization the unique project was sponsored. Ohio club women helped greatly, as did other outstanding citizens whose first aid is hereby gratefully acknowledged.
Among these were Florence Ellington Allen, Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court for the Sixth Circuit; Allan M. Bailey, secretary, Public Relations Bureau, Oberlin College; Mayme Bennett Beebe (Mrs. Carl V. Beebe), Mt. Gilead ; Marion Brogan, Cincinnati, former president Ohio Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs; Katharine Kennedy Brown (Mrs. Kleon T. Brown), Dayton, Republican National Committeewoman for Ohio; Mary Rudd Cochran, reference department librarian, Cincinnati Public Library; Martha Kinney Cooper (Mrs. M . Y. Cooper), Cincinnati, founder of Ohioana Library; Linda Eastman, former librarian Cleveland Public Library; Mary Quigley Elliott (Mrs. A . W . Elliott), Mt. Vernon, Ohio, author of literary history of Knox county; Mildred R. Jaster (Mrs. John Jaster), Columbus, Democratic National Committeewoman for Ohio ; Elizabeth McCann, Zanesville, publicity director of Ohio Commission for Northwest Territory Celebra tion; Sara McCarthy (Mrs. Eugene McCarthy), Cleveland, director for Ohio, National Council of Catholic Women; Claire L. Newcomer (Mrs. Chauncey L. Newcomer), Bryan, president of Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs; Bertha Richardson (Mrs. G . B . Richardson), Willoughby, St. Andrews School; Pauline Sager (Mrs. P . H . Sager), Newark, writer; Dr. Douglas E. Scates, Bureau of School Research, Cincinnati; Belle Sherwin, Cleveland and Washington, D. C . , former president of National League of Women Voters; Martha Taft (Mrs. Robert A. Taft), Cincinnati, member of advisory board of Ohio League of Women Voters; The Department of Education, State of Ohio, Columbus Public Schools; Ruth Young White, Columbus, editor of “We, Too, Built Columbus"; and to all writers of that book.
