Coming Together: Portrait of a Family

This book tells the story of how it was that the author’s ancestors, coming from a variety of countries and creeds and at different times, met in the northwest corner of Ohio and how it was that finally this movement across time and space would bring two people from widely differing backgrounds, her parents, together.

Before northwest Ohio was officially opened to settlement by non-Indians, the author’s paternal ancestors moved onto these lands, which in 1817 had been legally set aside as a...