http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dgovernment;expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3DPortage%20County%20(Ohio)%20--%20History%20--%20Sources. Results for your query: freeformQuery=government;expand=subject;f1-subject=Portage County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0104.xml The Harmon family moved to Mantua, Portage County, Ohio from Suffield Connecticut, in 1799. Elias Harmon held several public offices and was land agent for many Connecticut residents. His son, Orrin, was active in the land business and was surveyor for Portage County and the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. Julian Harmon was the son of Orrin. The collection contains the papers of Elias, Orrin, Julian and Martin Harmon. Includes correspondence, diaries, financial accounts and receipts, land deeds and memoranda of sales, legal documents, estate papers, powers of attorney, tax records, notebooks, surveys, and other papers, documenting their note collection and land agency business. Also, includes material on the Protection Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, the Franklin and Warren Railroad, the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, the Independent Knights of Temperance, and the fur trade and anti-slavery movement, with references to state and national politics, banking policies, and anti-masonic movements. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0104.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4010.xml Portage County, Ohio, was organized in 1808. Early inhabitants included David Hudson, Turhand Kirtland, Benjamin Tappan, Calvin Austin and Owen Brown, father of the abolitionist John Brown. Hudson and Brown were county commissioners, thus frequent signators to these documents. The collection consists of fifty-seven documents relating to the early administration of the county, including seven booklets of county treasurer's records dated 1810-1818, a tax list, legal agreements, receipts, petitions, bills and land surveys. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4010.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT