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Speaking Ill of the Dead : Jerks in Ohio History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Histo SeriesPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Globe Pequot Press, The, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781493018925
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Ohio HistoryDDC classification:
  • 977.1
LOC classification:
  • F491.6 .S299 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Dr. John Cook Bennett The Diploma Peddler 1804-1867 -- John Chivington The Fighting Parson 1821-1894 -- George H. Devol King of the Riverboat Gamblers 1829-1903 -- Nancy Farrer Insane Poisoner or Witless Dupe? 1832-185? -- Victoria Claflin Woodhull Scandalous Suffragette 1838-1927 -- Stephen Wallace Dorsey Senator and Swindler 1842-1916 -- Cassie Chadwick Con Artist 1857-1907 -- Alfred Knapp Serial Strangler 1863-1904 -- Dr. James Howard Snook Gold Medal Murderer 1879-1930 -- Eva Brickel Kaber Murderer for Hire 1881-1931 -- Martha Wise The Poison Widow of Hardscrabble 1884-1971 -- Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd Public Enemy Number One 1904-1934 -- Anna Marie Hahn Arsenic Anna 1906-1938 -- Edythe Klumpp Murderous Seamstress 1918-1999 -- Jean Struven Harris The Scorned Headmistress 1923-2012 -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: Each volume in this series features fifteen to twenty short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given city, state, or region of the U.S. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books.
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Intro -- Dr. John Cook Bennett The Diploma Peddler 1804-1867 -- John Chivington The Fighting Parson 1821-1894 -- George H. Devol King of the Riverboat Gamblers 1829-1903 -- Nancy Farrer Insane Poisoner or Witless Dupe? 1832-185? -- Victoria Claflin Woodhull Scandalous Suffragette 1838-1927 -- Stephen Wallace Dorsey Senator and Swindler 1842-1916 -- Cassie Chadwick Con Artist 1857-1907 -- Alfred Knapp Serial Strangler 1863-1904 -- Dr. James Howard Snook Gold Medal Murderer 1879-1930 -- Eva Brickel Kaber Murderer for Hire 1881-1931 -- Martha Wise The Poison Widow of Hardscrabble 1884-1971 -- Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd Public Enemy Number One 1904-1934 -- Anna Marie Hahn Arsenic Anna 1906-1938 -- Edythe Klumpp Murderous Seamstress 1918-1999 -- Jean Struven Harris The Scorned Headmistress 1923-2012 -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Each volume in this series features fifteen to twenty short biographies of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of a given city, state, or region of the U.S. The villainous, the misguided, and the misunderstood all get their due in these entertaining yet informing books.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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