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From the ashes of the most terrible war in American history began the agonizing process of restoring the Union that became known as Reconstruction. Like the War Between the States itself, Reconstruction lasted longer and produced more tragedy than ever anticipated. This work explores the era's important events in a year-by-year digest. These events reflect the unintended and tragic consequences of excessive government intervention in the liberties of the people. They also illustrate how such intervention has helped transform America from a constitutional republic to the centralized empire that it is today. Key events that shaped both Reconstruction and subsequent American history include: Th...
John Henry Christian Goodyear was born in Weresberg, Saxony, Germany in 1714, and immigrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He married Margaretha Roesner in 1746, and died in 1799.
The Geauga county history and most of the biographical sketches were prepared by A. G. Riddle.
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