TY - BOOK AU - Sawyer,Susan TI - Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Ohio History T2 - Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Histo Series SN - 9781493018925 AV - F491.6 .S299 2016 U1 - 977.1 PY - 2016/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Globe Pequot Press, The KW - Ohio-History-Anecdotes KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5265991 ER -