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Ohio Central College (formerly Iberia College). Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the United States, graduated in 1882 from the college formerly located here. While a student, Harding and a friend founded the school newspaper, “The Iberia Spectator.”
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Birthplace of Myrtle Page Fillmore, who with her husband, Charles Fillmore, founded Unity School of Christianity, Unity Village, Missouri. Born August 6, 1845, Mary Caroline Page, known as Myrtle, was the daughter of Marcus and Lucy Page, who founded Pagetown. Unity is a nondenominational, nonsectarian religious organization which teaches the practical application of spiritual principles taught by Jesus Christ.
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The author of fifteen novels, ten plays, and more than 100 stories, Dawn Powell was born in 1896 in Mount Gilead at 53 West North Street and grew up in Shelby. She graduated from Lake Erie College in Painesville and moved to New York in 1918. Although some of her early works, such as She Walks in Beauty (1928) and The Bride’s House (1929), draw from her life in small-town Ohio, she is best known for her satiric portrayals of life in New York, including A Time to Be Born (1942) and The Wicked Pavilion (1954). Often compared to Dorothy Parker and associated with contemporaries John Dos Passos, Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, and Gore Vidal, Powell received the Marjorie Peabody Waite Award for lifelong achievement in literature in 1964. She died in New York in 1965.
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The Ohio War Savings Committee presented the Victory Shaft to the people of Morrow County for winning a special statewide campaign held during the summer of 1919. The contest involved buying war savings stamps, issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, that helped to finance America’s participation in World War I. The stamps allowed citizens, regardless of wealth or age, to contribute directly to the war effort and encouraged the importance of savings and thrift. Sold as a good return on investment, the tax-free stamps could be accumulated while earning four percent interest compounded quarterly. An estimated 10,000 people attended the Victory Shaft dedication on December 4, 1919. Keynote speakers at the event included Morrow County natives, Ambassador William Graves Sharp and Senator Warren G. Harding. (Continued on other side)
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Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, was born on this site November 2, 1865.