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- Title
Nahum Ward to Scottish Farmers: Have I Got a Deal for You.
- Authors
Baker, David B.
- Abstract
The article chronicles the marketing strategy used by businessman, civic leader, land owner and benefactor of the Unitarian Church, Nahum Ward, in selling the lands he had acquired in Ohio to farmers from Scotland during the 19th century. Excerpts from a broadside advertising include the geographic location of Marietta, its population and economic profile. It is noted that many setted arrived in Ohio in 1823 and were taken cared of by Ward during an epidemic.
- Subjects
MARIETTA (Ohio); WARD, Nahum; HISTORY of land tenure; LANDOWNERS; UNITARIAN churches -- History; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Tallow Light, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 3/4, p90
- ISSN
0049-2914
- Publication type
Article