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Mosquitoes and the Changing Landscape of Northern Ohio

by Mary Garvin


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1 For a more detailed description of this site, see Thomas F. Sherman, A Place on the Glacial Till (New York: Oxford Uiniversity Press, 1997).

2 Basil M. Meek, 20th Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio (Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing, 1909), p. 43

3 David F. Sayre, "Early Life in Southern Wisconsin," in Wisconsin Magazine of History 3 (1919-20), p. 424

4 The Porstmouth Scioto Telegraph (11 March 1820) reported on the Scioto River bottoms in autumn 1819.

5 M.E.Pickard and R.C.Buley, "The Midwest Pioneer, His Ills, Cures and Doctors" (Crawfordville, Ind.: Banta, 1945), p.16

6 Ibid., p. 18.

7 R.C.Buley, The Old Northwest (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1950), p. 246

8 Ruth Hoppin, "Personal Recollections of Pioneer Days," in Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections 38 (1912), p. 414

9 Pickard and Buley, "The Midwest Pioneer," p. 17.

10 Ibid., p. 13.

11 Ibid.

12 R.C.Buley, The Old Nothwest, p. 243.

13 Cleveland Herald, 23 November 1827.

14 N.J.Major, The Pioneers of Morgan County (Indianapolis: Hecker, 1915), p. 304.

15 W.V.King, G.H.Bradley, C.N. Smith, and W.C. McDuffle, A Handbook of the Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States, Agricultural Handbook No. 173 (United States Department of Agriculture, 1960).

16 R.C.Buley, The Old Northwest, p. 247.

17 J. Kukla, "Kentish agues and American distempers: The transmission of malaria from England to Virginia in the seventeenth century," Southern Studies 25, no.2 (1986), pp. 135-47.

 

 

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