Morgan Index of Ohio People, Businesses and Institutions, 1796-1850 | OhioLINK Home | OhioLINK Databases
The Morgan Index of Ohio People, Businesses and Institutions, 1796-1850 lists the names of Ohio people, businesses and institutions that appear in the books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in Ohio from 1796 through 1850 which are catalogued in the Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850. To date, the titles indexed are primarily school catalogues, city directories, annual conventions, and many other individual titles.
The Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints maintains the Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850, which lists books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in Ohio from 1796 through 1850, and is the authority file for the Morgan Index of Ohio People, Businesses and Institutions
| Choose a meaningful word or phrase or name | student franklin house ackley |
| You can use the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT in searching. The operators are not case sensitive | gebhart and marshall physician or attorney miami not university |
| Without an operator, words are AND'ed together | mary stebbins same as: mary and stebbins |
| Use double quotation marks for a phrase of adjacent words | "western reserve college" |
| Use * for truncation | Oberlin colleg* |
| Use double quotation marks to search for AND, OR, NOT as a word rather than as a Boolean operator | all three words: brooks "and" ames exact phrase: "brooks and ames" |
| Include apostrophes and hyphens | O'Shaunessy masons by-laws |
You can view the entire database alphabetically by Name or Occupation. Each option presents a list of alphabetical ranges to browse. Pick a range to view the individual entries. Some lists are very long, and the "Find" feature is recommended to speed searching.
Persons who have a residence address and a business address are listed twice. For example, Joseph Miller appears as a person under "Miller" in the browse table for Miller, Joseph, and under "Joseph" as a business for Joseph Miller.
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April 2008