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0139 - The Ohio Story: "Under the Oberlin Elm"

History of the founding of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio

Tags: John J. Shipherd, Lorain County, Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio, Philo Penfield Stewart

The tale of an exciting incident that involved the active Underground Railroad in Oberlin before the Civil War.

Tags: Abolition, Abolitionist, Anderson Jennings, Ansel Lyman, Charles Langston, Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, James Harris Fairchild, John Price, Lew Boynton, Lorain County, Oberlin Ohio, Poor Stranger, Simeon Bushnell, Slavery, Underground Railroad, Western Reserve

The story of Charles Martin Hall of Oberlin, Ohio and his work to make commercial production of aluminum practical.

Tags: Aluminum, Aluminum chloride, Aluminum Company of America, Charles Martin Hall, Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio