British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900
- ISBN-10
- 0873388437
- ISBN-13
- 9780873388436
- Category
- British Americans
- Pages
- 295
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press
- Author
- William E. Van Vugt
Description
How early British immigrants shaped Ohio? Because of their so similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, the English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the invisible immigrants assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their ethnic identities. Yet, of all of Ohio's immigrants the British were the most influential in terms of shaping the state's politics and institutions. Also significant were their contributions of farming, mining, iron production, textiles, pottery, and engineering. Until British Buckeyes, historians have all but ignored and neglected these Industrious settlers. Author William E Van Vugt uses hundreds of biographies from county archives and histories, letters, Ohio and British census figures, and ship passenger lists to identify these immigrants; and draw a portrait of their occupations, settlement patterns, experiences and to underscore their role in Ohio history.
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