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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

New Englanders on the Ohio Frontier: The Migration and Settlement of Worthington, Ohio. By Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1998. xii, 356 pp. $39.00, isbn 0-87338-586-1.)

Virginia E. McCormick and Robert W. McCormick's account of the settlement and development of Worthington, Ohio, during the first three decades of the nineteenth century is a thoroughly researched and engaging addition to the new scholarship on the early Midwest. As the title suggests, the authors emphasize the New England origins of the town, focusing on the original proprietors and their descendants. Worthington, now a suburb of Columbus and the McCormicks' hometown, was organized and settled when Ohio achieved statehood in 1803, by about forty men, mostly from Blandford, Massachusetts, and Granby and Simsbury, Connecticut, who organized themselves as the Scioto Company. The town grew rapidly: a subscription library, school, church, and Masonic lodge were established in the first year, and a thriving market economy developed after the War of 1812. The depression that followed the panic of 1819, however, soon dashed many hopes. The collapse of the Worthington Manufacturing Company, as well as the town's failure to become the state capital, to secure a canal route to the Great Lakes, or to establish a successful college sealed Worthington's fate as a small market town. . . .

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