2nd Regiment, 70
12th Regiment of the U.S. Infantry, 32
Abbey, Edward, 216
Achorn, Edward, 92
Adams County, 181–83, 191, 192–93
Advance Aircraft Company, 150–52
Akron: dirigibles made in, 122; naval station, 113
“Alabam” (Copas), 191
Alabama (Confederate raider), 42
Alcoa, 115
Alley, John B., 54–55
Alta California, 33–35
American Airlines, 134
American Association (baseball league), 92, 93, 98, 100–101
Amery, John, 174
Andrew, Maggie, 117
Anson, Adrian C. “Cap,” 98, 100
Arcier, Francis, 155
Aristocraft (airplane), 163
Arlington Cemetery, 87
Armstrong, G. W., 119
Army of the Potomac, 41
Arnold, General, 161
Arthur, C. L., 110
“As Advertised” (Copas), 200
Associated Press, 119, 131, 140, 155, 175, 178
Atlantic, 216
Aviation Hall of Fame, 141
Baker, Kim, 4
Ball, Clifford, 126
Ballard, Hank, 200
Barden, Judy, 173–74
Bass, Ralph, 201–2
Battle of Bennington, 88
Battle of Cedar Creek, 82
Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain, 81
Battle of Corinth, 40
Battle of Fort Sumter, 69
Battle of Memphis, 40
Battle of South Mountain, 75–77
Battle of Winchester, 81
Baumgartner, Celeste, 59
Bayley, Carol, 141
Bayley, Mrs. Elden, 141
Bayne, Walter J., 154
Beard, Henry, 5
Beech, Olive Ann, 136, 138, 139
Belle Valley, 110
Bendix Transcontinental Race, 136–39
Benjamin Hanby Memorial Association, 29
Beverly Hills Supper Club (Kentucky), 198
Bigler, John, 33–35
Birchard, Sardis, 65, 66, 70, 72, 73–74, 77, 78–79, 84, 86
Blasé, Darren, 190
Bliss, P. P., 26
Blue Jacket (Shawnee war chief), 4
Bogan, Dallas, 4
Bond Hill (Cincinnati neighborhood), 196
Bones, William, 60
Boone, Joseph, Sr., 8
Boone County Jamboree (radio program), 184–85
Bostic, Earl, 201
Bowsher, Anthony, 47
Bowsher & Green, 47–48
Bradford, Forest, 198
Brandley, Raymond H., 146
Brent, George, 128
Brethern Church (Lewisburg), 20
Brethern Church (New Paris), 22
Brooklyn Dodgers (baseball team), 92, 94
Brower, Barbara, 21
Brown, John, 38–39
Browning, Robert, 217
Brukner, Clayton, 145–64; biographical information, 145–46; celebrity customers of, 152–54, 155–57; characterization of, 153–54, 157–61; death of, 164; early companies of, 146–53; flying by, 159–60; international sales by, 154–55, 160; legacy of, 158; non-airplane inventions of, 163; WACO reputation and, 145, 154 (see also WACO Company); World War II gliders by, 161–63
Bryan, Guy M., 70
Buchanan, James, 37
Bureau of Air Commerce, 136, 139
Burgess, John W., 85
“Butternuts,” 81
Cadiz, Opera House, 102
Cady, Chauncey M., 24
Caesar Creek State Park, 3, 4–5, 8, 9, 10–11
Caesar (escaped slave): places named for, 3–5, 8, 9, 10–11; stories and evidence of, 3, 5–12
Cahokia, 7
California, 33–35
Call, “Cactus” Jack, 191
Calvert, Elvira, 148
Calvert, Howard, 148
Camp White, 78
Cannon, Annie, 209, 211, 212, 216, 218
Cannon, Grant, 210–17
Cannon, Terence, 210, 211, 214, 218
Carpenter, Frank G., 54–55
Carroll (baseball player), 96
Carter, Ulish, 101
Carter, W. H., 33
Chamberlain, Ryan, 34
Chapel Gems for Sunday Schools (Root, Hanby), 29
Chase, C. M., 38
Chicago, Hanby and, 24–26
Chicago White Stockings (baseball team), 99, 100
Choctaw (Native Americans), 42
Choose You This Day (Custer), 29
Christian Repository (newspaper), 16
Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 16
Cincinnati: King Records and, 186, 195–205 (see also Nathan, Sydney); music of, 182; Negro Leagues and, 101; Spring Grove Cemetery, 79; Wesleyan Female College, 67
Cincinnati Enquirer, 41, 111, 213
Cincinnati Law School, 32
Cincinnati Literary Club, 70
Cincinnati Red Stockings (baseball team), 93–94
Circle of Seasons, The (Johnson), 217
“Circle Rock” (Copas, Robbins), 190
Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), 140
Civil Rights Act of 1866, 83
Civil War: Harpster and, 40–42, 46; Hayes family and, 69–82. See also individual names of battles; specific battles Clara, “Aunt,” 69
Clark, George Rogers, 5
Clarke, George Washington, 38
Cleveland: Chronicle House, 127, 168; Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, 134; Hopkins Municipal Airport, 126, 128; International Women’s Air and Space Museum, 142; Lansdowne as recruiter in, 112; NASA-Plain Dealer Science Fair, 141; Negro Leagues and, 101
Cleveland, Frances, 86
Cleveland, Grover, 43
Cleveland Air Races, 129
Cleveland Forest Cities (baseball team), 100
Cleveland Whites (baseball team), 96
Cline, Patsy, 191–92
Clinton County Historical Society, 35
Columbus: Camp Jackson, 70, 71; Hocking Valley & Toledo Railroad Company, 49
Columbus Dispatch, 178
Conkling, Roscoe, 84
Connelley, William Elsey, 39
Cook, Edward Magruder, 43
Cook, Isaac, 86
“Cootie” (airplane), 147–48
Copas, “Cowboy” Lloyd Estel, 181–93; birthplace of, 181–83; death of, 191–92; Dot Records and, 190; early career of, 183–86; King Records and, 182, 186–89, 192, 199, 200, 201; legacy of, 192–93; marriage of, 185; Starday Records and, 191
Copas, Elvin (father), 181
Copas, Forrest (brother), 190
Copas, Kathy (daughter), 191, 193
Copas, Lola (mother), 181
Copas, Lucille Markins (wife), 185, 191
Copas, Lula (sister-in-law), 190
Copas, Marion Andrew (brother), 184
Corn Island, 6
Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC; U.S. Army), 173
Country Music Hall of Fame (Nashville), 193
Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The (movie), 119
Cowley County, Kansas, 50
Crawford, Frederick C., 128
Crazy ’08 (Murphy), 92
Crittenden, John J., 69
Crosby, Frances Jane, 25
Crosson, Marvel, 131
Crothers, Dug, 101
“Crowding Awfully” (Hanby), 24
Crump, William T., 77
Custer, Dacia, 28–29
Dahlem, Valentine, 146, 152, 163
Daily Advocate (newspaper), 117
Daily Union (newspaper), 60
Dalhart, Vernon, 116–17
Dalton, Dennis, 8
D’Aquina, Iva Toguri “Tokyo Rose,” 177, 179
Darke County, 21, 108, 121, 140
Darke County Historical Society, 116–18
Dark Traveler, The, 213–14
Dark Victory (movie), 128
“Darling Nelly Gray” (Hanby), 15, 17–19, 29
Davis, Jack, 178
Davis, T. R., 109–10
Day, Fannie, 62
Dayton, McCook Field in, 146
DBJ Aeroplane Company, 147
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 83
Delaware, 168. See also Ohio Wesleyan University Delmore, Alton, 186, 187
Democratic Nomination for 1884, A, 43
Dennis, Cecil W., 59–60
Denver, James W., 31–43; biographical information, 31–33; Civil War commission of, 40–42; duel with Gilbert, 31, 33–35; law career of, 32, 42; legacy of, 36–37, 39–40, 43; political career of, 35–36, 37–40, 42–43
Denver, James W. (son), 36
Denver, Katherine (daughter), 36
Denver, Louise Rombach (wife), 31, 35–36, 40, 42–43
Denver, Mary Louise (daughter), 36
Denver Post, 39
Dick, Charlie, 192
Dingley Wool Tariff (1897), 63
Dirigible (British periodical), 113
Dixmude (French dirigible), 116
Do and Dare (movie), 150
Dog House Restaurant, 151
Donaldson, Nancye Caesar, 10
Dorman, Walter, 171
Dot Records, 190
Douglas, Stephen A., 38
Drummond-Hay, Lady Grace, 155–57 du Pont, Felix, 157
Duralumin (Alcoa), 115
Earhart, Amelia, 129, 130, 131–33, 134–35, 136–39
Early, Jubal, 82
Eckert, Allan, 8
Edison, Thomas, 27
Eliza Jane (servant), 68
Elyria, 168
Emancipation Proclamation, 41–42
Equator (newspaper), 102
Erickson, Fern, 55–56, 59, 60–61
Euclid, 142
Evans, Fred, 183
Evanston (Cincinnati neighborhood), 196
Ewing-Gibbins, Vinnie, 11
Fairfield County, 16
Falls of the Ohio, 6
“Famous American Duels” (Austin), 35
Famous Flames, 201
Farm Quarterly, 211
Federal Communications Commission, 173
Federal Reformatory for Women (Alderson, West Virginia), 177
“Fever” (John), 200
“Filipino Baby” (Copas), 186
First Brigade, 80–81
Fleet Walker’s Divided Heart (Zang), 91
Fleischman, John, 218
Ford Reliability Good Will Tour, 151
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Nashville), 192
Fort Patrick Henry, 7
Fort Sackville, 7
Fowler, C. R., 49
Fowler City, 48
Francis, Dale, 151, 161–62, 164
Franklin County, 179
Fremont: Hayes family in Lower Sandusky, 67, 70; Spiegel Grove mansion, 84, 88–89
Frémont, John C., 71
Friend of Iran (airplane), 160
Frontiersman, The (Eckert), 8
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, 69, 95–96
Galbreath, Charles B., 19
Gamary, Andy, 109–10
Gambier, 66
Gambier, Kenyon College in, 66
Garker, Harvey, 112
General Denver Hotel, 36–37
Giddings, J. R., 19
Gilfillan, Merrill C., 27
Gillars, Edna Mae (sister), 167–69, 175, 176, 177, 178
Gillars, Mae Sisk, 167–69, 174
Gillars, Mildred “Axis Sally,” 167–79; biographical information, 167–69; death of, 179; “Midge at the Mike,” 171; teaching career of, 178–79; trial and incarceration of, 173–77; World War II radio career of, 169–73
Gillars, Robert (stepfather), 167–68
Gingham Girls, 150
“Glass Mountain, The” (Johnson), 214
Globe House (Washington, D.C.), 42–43
Goering, Herman, 156
Golden West Cowboys, 185
Gold Star Rangers, 184
“Goodbye Kisses” (Copas), 191, 192
Gordon Square Theater, 127
Graf (zeppelin), 156
Graham, Will, 33
Grand Ole Opry (radio program), 182, 184
Grant, Julia, 78
Gray, Lewis H., 115–16
Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, 134
Great Lie, The (movie), 128
Great Men of Modern Agriculture (Cannon), 215
Green, Ed, 152
Greenville, 108, 112–14, 116–18, 140
Greenville Daily News-Tribune, 117
Grove, Louis W., 128
Grove, Reverend Bobby, 196
Grove, Rick, 58
G17R Staggerwing (airplane), 137
Hall, James, 48
Hall, Rachel S. (Harpster), 48, 49
Halle Brothers Department Store, 130, 132, 168–69
Halper, Dorothy, 199
Hamilton, 20
Hamilton, Henry, 7
Hampton College, 87
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 109
Hanby, Ann (mother), 16–17
Hanby, Brainerd (son), 20
Hanby, Elizabeth (sister), 28
Hanby, Mary Katherine “Kate” Winter (wife), 19–20, 26, 28
Hanby, Minniehaha (daughter), 20
Hanby, Reverend Benjamin Russel, 15–29; biographical information, 16–17, 19–20; as church pastor, 20–21, 22–23; death of, 26; legacy of, 15, 21–22, 27–29; songwriting by, 15–16, 17–19, 23–27
Hanby, Reverend William (father), 16–17, 28
Hanby, William O. (brother), 28
Hanby House museum, 18, 22, 28–29
Hancock, T. E., 102
Harless, Don, 108
Harper’s Bazaar, 214
Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 39
Harpster, Catharine (mother), 47
Harpster, David, 45–63; biographical information, 47; businesses of, 45–46, 47–50; death of, 62–63; modern-day Harpster (town) and legacy of, 55–62; as “Wool King,” 46, 50; on wool tariffs, 46–47, 50–55
Harpster, George Thomas (father), 47
Harpster, Ivy (daughter), 48, 60
Harpster, Jane (wife), 49–50
Harpster, Rachel S. (wife), 48, 49
Harpster, Sarah (daughter), 48, 60
Harpster General Store, 56
Harpster (town): modern-day, 55–62; name of, 45–55, 62–63
Harpster United Methodist Church, 59
Harrison County, 46
Hart, Hugh, 22
Hartzell Propellor Company, 107
Harveysburg, 10
Hawk, Gretchen, 158
Hawkins, Hawkshaw, 191–92, 199
Hayes, Birchard Austin “Birch” (son), 68, 85
Hayes, Fanny (president’s daughter), 83–84, 87, 88
Hayes, Fanny (president’s sister), 66, 68
Hayes, George (son), 82
Hayes, Joseph (son), 79
Hayes, Lucy Webb, 65–89; biographical information, 65–68; Civil War events and, 69–82; death of, 88–89; early marriage of, 68–69; as first lady of Ohio, 83–84; as first lady of U.S., 65, 84–88; husband’s election to Congress and, 81, 82–83; as “Lemonade Lucy,” 86
Hayes, Manning Force (son), 84
Hayes, Rutherford, Jr. (father), 66
Hayes, Rutherford B. “Rud” (husband): biographical information, 66–68; Civil War service of, 69–82; death of, 89; early marriage of, 68–69; as Ohio governor, 83–84; as U.S. president, 65, 84–88; as U.S. representative, 81, 82–83; wife’s death and, 88–89
Hayes, Rutherford Platt “Ruddy” (son), 68
Hayes, Scott Russell (son), 84, 85, 88
Hayes, Sophia Birchard (mother), 66, 67, 69, 82
Hearst newspapers, 156
Hell’s Angels (movie), 128
Hencacklers String Band, 183
Herrick, Edna Mae Gillars, 167–69, 175, 176, 177, 178
Herzog, E. T. “Bucky,” 196
Hickory Grove Country Club (Harpster), 56
Hill, John S., 140
Hinde, Thomas S., 5
Hindenburg (dirigible), 122, 157
History of Wyandot County, 50
Home Sweet Home Hour (radio program), 170–71
Hoover, J. Edgar, 113
Howard, Benny, 139
Hughes, Bela, 32
Hughes, Denver & Peck, 42
Hughes, Howard, 128
Hughes, Randy, 191
Hughes, Thomas, 48
Hutchison, Barbara, 22
Illustrated American, 35
Indiana, Vincennes (former town) of, 5, 6, 7
Ingalls, Laura, 139
Inland Island, The (Johnson), 214–15, 216
International League (baseball), 100, 101
International Women’s Air and Space Museum, 142
Jefferson Township, 182
Jewel Theater, 150
John, “Little” Willie, 200
Johnson, Josephine, 207–18; biographical information, 207–8; characterization of, 212; death of, 218; fiction writing of, 207–10, 213–14; magazine writing of, 214, 218; marriages and family of, 210–12; nonfiction writing of, 214–17; Pulitzer Prize awarded to, 207, 208–9. See also individual book titles Jones, “Grandpa,” 196, 199
Jordanstown (Johnson), 210
Joyce, William, 174
Junkin, Elwood “Sam,” 146–49, 150–52
Junkin, Hattie Meyers Weaver, 147–49, 150–52
Junkin, Janet, 152
“Just Before the Battle, Mother” (Root), 24
Justified by Honor (Cook), 43
Kaltenbach, Fred J., 174
Kansas Territory, 37–40
Karlson, Paul, 169
Kaskaskia, 7
Kelley, John M., Jr., 175–76
Kent, 148
Kenton’s Trace, 4
Kentucky: Caesar in, 5, 8; as slave state, 69
Kenyon College, 66
Kerrigan, Father Thomas, 178
Kessel, Howard, 188
Kingham, Willard, 158
King Records: Copas and, 182, 186–89, 192, 199, 200, 201; demise of, 205; success of, 199–204; “The King of Them All” slogan, 199. See also Nathan, Sydney Kirkwood, Missouri, 207–8
Knox, Harry, 112
Knox, John, 112
Knox County, 5
Kobernuss, Fred O., 159–60
Koischwitz, Max Otto, 169–72, 174, 176
Koischwitz, Stella, 172
Koishwitz, Max Otto, 172
Korda, Michael, 213
Korean War, WACO planes and, 163
Lakehurst, New Jersey, 108, 112, 115, 118, 119, 122
Lakewood, 126
Lane, James Henry “Jim,” 37–38
Lansdowne, Elizabeth Knox (mother), 112, 117, 120
Lansdowne, Ellen MacKinmon (first wife), 112
Lansdowne, Falkland “Mac” (son), 112
Lansdowne, Harry (brother), 112
Lansdowne, James M. (father), 112
Lansdowne, John (brother), 112
Lansdowne, Margaret “Betsy” Seldon, 113–14, 119–20
Lansdowne, Peggy (daughter), 114
Lansdowne, Zachary, 107–22; biographical information, 112–14; death of, 109–11; USS Shendoah construction and mission, 114–16; USS Shendoah crash and, 107–8, 109–11, 116, 118–21; USS Shendoah legacy, 121–22; USS Shendoah publicity and, 108–9, 116–18
Last of the Husbandsmen, The (Logsdon), 58–59
Laughlin, James, 170
Leeds Race Trophy, 134
Lewis, Charles Henrickson, 60
Lewisburg, 20
Little Sandusky, 49, 55–56, 59
Lockbourne, 179
Locke, Kimberly, 29
Logan, Benjamin, 4
Lorain, 147
Louisville, 6
Louisville Courier-Journal, 5, 96
Louisville Eclipse (baseball team), 92, 96–97
Lund, “Fearless” Freddie, 153, 159
Luscombe Aircraft Company, 161
MacKinmon, Ellen, 112
Magoto, Florence, 120–21
Malone, Ted, 18
Mann, Lois, 200
Marietta, 88
Markham, Beryl, 139
Martens, Barry, 36–37
Maryland, Battle of South Mountain in, 75–77
Maxwell, Jane (Harpster), 49–50
McClellan, George, 41
McCook Field, 146
McCoy, Eva, 119
McGarey, Mary, 178
McGuire, Jimmy, 99
McKinley, William, 53, 62, 71, 80
Medina, 148
Methodist Episcopal Church (Steubenville), 95
Mexico War, 32
Meyers, Charlie, 146–49, 152–53
Middletown (Maryland), 76
“Midge at the Mike,” 171
Mifflin Township, 48
Miller, David, 48
Miller, Emmeline, 29
Miss Cleveland (airplane), 130–33
Mississippi, Battle of Corinth in, 40
Mississippi River, 7
Missouri: Denver and, 32, 33, 39; Johnson and, 207–8
Mitchell, William “Billy,” 108, 119
Mix, Tom, 150
Moffitt, Charles, 153–54, 157–58, 159–60, 162
Moltrup, Merle, 125
Monroe, Winnie, 69
Morgan, John H., 79
Morton, Charlie, 98
Mount Pleasant, 95
Mulane, Tony, 99–100
Murdock, James, 48
Murphy, Cait, 92
Murray, Patrick “Curly,” 102
Mussolini, Benito, 149
NASA-Plain Dealer Science Fair, 141
Nathan, Sydney, 195–205; biographical information, 195–96, 197–98; characterization of, 189, 196–97; Copas and, 182, 186–89, 192; death of, 205; early businesses of, 198–99; King Records and, 199–205
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 135–36
National Air Races (1936), 135
National League (baseball), 93, 98
National Soldiers’ Home, 87
Negro Leagues (baseball), 101
Nelson, Reverend David, 25
Newark Little Giants (baseball team), 100
New Castle, Indiana, 22
Newcomb, Charles M., 168
Newtown, 211
New York Times, 53, 111, 140, 218
New York Times Book Review, 216
New York Tribune, 51
New York World, 54
Nichols, Ruth, 129
Niemenen, Edna Mae Gillars Herrick, 167–69, 175, 176, 177, 178
Niemenen, Edwin, 178
Ninety-Nines, 134, 135, 136, 140, 141, 142
Noble County, Shenandoah crash in, 107–8, 109–11, 116, 118–21
Noble County Bicentennial Commission, 110
Noel, Tom, 40
North American Newspaper Alliance, 173–74
Northwestern League (baseball), 97
Now in November (Johnson), 207, 208–9
Noyes, Blanche Wilcox, 125–43; air-marking work by, 135–36, 139–40; Bendix Transcontinental Race won by, 136–39; biographical information, 127–28; competitive flying by, 129–33; death of, 142; early twentieth century aviation and, 128–29, 133–34; flight training of, 126–27; husband’s death and, 135; instrument flying by, 134–35; legacy of, 141–43; marriage of, 125–26
Noyes, Dewey, 125–27, 134–35, 142–43
Oak Hill Cemetery, 63
Oberlin (village), 96
O’Donnell, Gladys, 133
Ohio Democrat, 51
Ohio Department of Natural Resources, 27
Ohio Division of State Parks, 4
“Ohio Manners and Morals” (New York Times), 111
Ohio State Archaelogical and Historical Society, 29
Ohio Wesleyan University, 66, 168, 179
Ohio Wool Growers’ Association, 50, 52
Old House (Newtown), 211
Old Town (Shawnee community), 9
Oliver Ditson Company, 17–18
Opera House, 102
Order of the Poor Child Jesus, 178–79
Ordinance of 1787, 8
Otterbein Cemetery, 26
Our Home Colony (Walker), 102–3
Our Lady of Bethlehem Convent, 178–79
Our Song Birds (Hanby, Root), 26
Packard (motor manufacturer), 107
Palace Theater, 183
Parker, James, 80
Paulina (Johnson), 210
Pauline (songwriter), 26
Pearson, Wallace, 149
Pecos (Texas) airport, 132
Peebles, 183
“Penelope’s Web” (Johnson), 214
Pfeffer, Fritz, 96–97
Philip Phillips & Company, 22
Pike, Lipman “Lip,” 93–94
“Pilot’s Psalm” (Noyes), 142–43
Pioneer Pole and Shaft Company, 150
Pistols, Politics and the Press (Chamberlain), 34
Pitcairn (autogyro), 134
Pittsburg Courier, 101
Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 141
Platt, William (father), 76–77
Platt, Willie (son), 68
Platters, 204
Pleasant Grove, 47
“Please, Please, Please” (Brown), 201–2
Polk, Sarah, 86
Pony Express, 32
Price, John, 96
Proclamation of 1763, 6
Providence Grays (baseball team), 92
Pryfolgle, Larry, 18
Pugh, Ronnie, 193
Putnam, G. P., 135
Quantrill, William Clarke, 39
Rall, Lawrence, 61
Raney, Wayne, 200
R-34 (dirigible), 113 23rd Ohio Volunter Infantry, 70–82, 88
Reccius, Johnnie, 96–97
Reck, Henry, 158
Regan, Barry, 102
Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG), 170–79
“Rented Room, The” (Johnson), 214
“Revellers’ Chorus” (Hanby), 24
Richey, Helen, 139
Richfield Aviation Field, 146
Richmond (Indiana), 23
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 153
Rickman, Sarah Byrn, 142
Robbins, Hargus “Pig,” 190
Roberts, John B., 87
Robin, The (Hanby), 29
Robinson, George F., 4
Rockefeller, John D., 134
Rogers, Roy, 185
Rogers, Will, 130
Rombach, Louise, 31, 35–36, 40, 42–43
Rombach Place (Wilmington), 35
Root, A. I., 148
Root, Ebenezer, 24
Root Bee Supply Company, 148
Root & Cady, 24–26
Rosecrans, William S., 70
Rothwell, Mildred, 185
Rushville, 16
Sammon, Helen, 142
Santa Fe New Mexican, 122
Schurz, Carl, 89
Scioto County, 185
Sears, Francis (Lewis), 60
Secrest, William, 33
Selby, Joseph, 17
Seldon, Margaret “Betsy,” 113–14, 119–20
Seven Houses (Johnson), 208, 211, 212, 217
Seven Mile Academy, 20
Shaw, Reverend Fred, 9
Shawnee (Native Americans), 4, 9
Shoemaker, Dacia C., 22–23, 28
Sigler, Roberta “Robbi,” 57, 58
“Signed, Sealed, and Delivered” (Copas), 200
Simmons, “Icewater” Joe, 101
Simon & Shuster, 209–10, 213, 214, 217
Sisk, Vincent, 167
Slye, Leonard, 185
Smoot, Thurlow, 210
Sorcerer’s Son and Other Stories, The (Johnson), 214
Spiegel Grove (Fremont), 84, 88–89
“Spirit of Otterbein” (historical pageant), 28
Sporting Life, 94, 96, 97, 100–101
Sporting News, 103
Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati), 79
Square Dance Jubilee (movie), 187
St. Joseph’s Cemetery, 179
St. Petersburg Times, 133
Stalag IIB (POW camp), 172
Stalter, John, 50–51
Standard Oil Company of Ohio, 134
Starr, Ray, 200
Stewart, Redd, 189
Storer, John Earl, 183
Storer, Vernon “Natchee the Indian,” 183–84, 187
Stovey, George, 93
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 18–19
“Strange Little Girl” (Copas), 189
Sugar Grove Cemetery (Wilmington), 43
Summer of Beer and Whiskey, The (Achorn), 92
Sutter’s Camp (California), 33
Swallows, 204
Sycamore, Illinois, 38
Syd’s Record Shop, 198
Syracuse Stars (baseball team), 100–101
Taylor, Ednah, 102
“Tennessee Waltz” (Copas), 182
“Tennessee Waltz” (Copas, King, Stewart), 189
Texas: Harpster’s land in, 45; Pecos airport in, 132; Richfield Aviation Field, 146
Thackston, Joyce, 37
Thaden, Louise, 129, 132–33, 134, 136–39
Thomas Jefferson (newspaper), 32
Thompson Trophy Race, 129
Tilden, Samuel J., 84
Toledo Blue Stockings (baseball team), 92, 97–100
“Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching” (Root), 24
Travel Air (airplane), 130, 151
Troy: Troy Business Men’s Association, 149; WACO Company in, 145, 149, 150 (see also WACO Company); WACO Historical Society (WHS) museum, 145, 158
Troy Daily News, 149, 151, 164
True Republican and Sentinel (Sycamore, Illinois), 38
Truth Is Stranger Than Publicity, The (Delmore), 187
“Twist, The” (Ballard), 200
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 18–19
Union Association (baseball league), 93, 98
Union Cemetery, 103
United Methodist Hymnal, 25
University of Colorado-Denver, 40
University of Iowa, 210
University of Michigan, 97
“Up on the Housetop” (Hanby), 15, 21, 23, 26–29
U.S. Army, 173
U.S. Army Air Corps, 149
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 4, 10
U.S. Department of Commerce, 133, 136, 139
U.S. Department of the Navy, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112–13, 114–22
U.S. Justice Department, 171, 174, 175
U.S. Postal Department, 126
USS Akron (dirigible), 122
USS Lansdowne (ship), 114
USS Los Angeles (dirigible), 114, 118
USS Macon (dirigible), 122
USS Patoka (ship), 116
USS Roma (dirigible), 109
USS Shenandoah (dirigible): construction and mission of, 114–16; crash of, 107–8, 109–11, 116, 118–21; publicity about, 108–9, 116–18
USS Virginia (ship), 112
Van Dyne, Edward, 170–71
Vermont, Battle of Bennington in, 88
Vidal, Gene, 136
Vietnam War, Johnson on, 213–15
Viking, 217
Virginia: Battle of Cedar Creek, 82; Battle of Winchester, 81; Harpers Ferry, 39
Vision of Invasion (Koishwitz) (play), 172, 176, 177
Voltz, William, 97 von Wiegand, Karl Henry, 156
WACO Company: “Ask Any Pilot” slogan, 145; celebrity customers of, 152–54, 155–57; “Cootie” (airplane), 147–48; early companies leading to, 146–53; employees of, 158–59; international sales by, 154–55, 160; production ended by, 163; reputation of, 145, 154; WACO 5, 148; WACO 7, 151; WACO 8, 151; WACO 9, 125, 126; WACO 10, 126–27, 151–52; WACO Historical Society (WHS) museum, 145, 158; WACO Model N, 159; WACO Taperwing, 153; World War II gliders by, 161–63
Walker, Arabella “Bella” (wife), 97, 102
Walker, Caroline O’Harra (mother), 95–96
Walker, Ednah (wife), 102
Walker, Moses Fleetwood, 91–104; arrest of, 101–2; baseball career of, 91–95, 96–101; biographical information, 95–96; marriages of, 97, 102; Our Home Colony, 102–3; patents and businesses of, 101, 102
Walker, Moses W. (father), 95–96
Walker, Weldy Wilberforce (brother), 95, 100, 102
Walker, William, 33
Walmsley, Nick, 113–14
Walter, Elwood M., 135
Washington, Martha, 78
Washington Star, 119
Washington University, 208
Waterbury Brassmen (baseball team), 100
Wayne County, 47
Waynesville, 10
Weaver, George “Buck,” Jr., 147, 151
Weaver, George “Buck,” Sr., 146–49, 150
Weaver, Hattie Meyers, 147–49, 150–52
Weaver Aircraft Company, 147–49. See also WACO Company Webb, James, 66, 68, 70, 79
Webb, Joseph, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 78, 84
Webb, Maria Cook, 66, 67, 68, 72, 78–79, 82
Weeks, Edward, 216
Wellington, 96
Wesleyan Female College, 67
Western League (baseball), 100
Western Rhythm Boys, 200
Westerville Historical Society, 16, 29
West Virginia: Camp Reynolds, 77–78, 88; Camp White, 78; Civil War events in, 72; Kanawha Valley, 80
White, William Edward, 92
White Sewing Machine Company, 96
“Who Is He in Yonder Stall” (Hanby), 15, 25
“Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me” (Raney), 200
Wilbur, Curtis Dwight, 118, 120
Wildwood (Johnson), 211
Williams, D. E., 53
Williams, Hank, 186
Williams, Otis, 204
Williamson, Ned, 94
Willis, Don, 145, 158, 160, 163
Winder, Kurt, 113
Winfield (Kansas) Courier, 50
Winter, Mary Katherine “Kate” (Hanby), 19–20, 26, 28
Winter Orchard (Johnson), 210
WLW (radio station), 184–85, 199
Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia, 87
Women’s Air Derby, 130–33
Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 86–87
Women’s Emergency Fund Committee, 129
Women’s International Aerobatics, 141
Wood, John, 49
Woodruff, Harry, 147
Wool Tariff (1897), 63
Wool Tariff Act (1867), 46–47
Works Progress Administration, 29, 136
World War I, Lansdowne and, 113
World War II: Brukner and WACO gliders, 161–63; Cannon’s service and, 211; early commercial flying and, 140; Gillars (“Axis Sally”) and, 167–79; record pressing and, 199
Worthington, 178–79
“Wreck of the Shenandoah, The” (Dalhart), 116–17
Wright, Thomas C., 4–5
Wright Field (U.S. Army Air Corps), 149, 161
Wright Whirlwind (engine), 153
WSM (radio station), 182
Wyandot County: Harpster and, 47–63; History of Wyandot County, 50
Year’s End (Johnson), 210
Young, Clarence M., 133
Zang, David W., 91
Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand Graf von, 108–9
Zucca, Rita “Sally,” 175