Speaking Ill of the Dead : Jerks in Ohio History.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Histo Series .
- Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Histo Series .
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.