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The story of Letha E. House, a Medina County, Ohio philanthropist who was abandoned as an infant and raised in Medina County by foster parents. In 1900, when she was twenty-years-old, Letha discovered her biological family, the Corrigans of Cleveland. They were a major force in the development of the iron, steel and shipping industries in Cleveland. In time, she connected with her family, was accepted into the fold and eventually inherited a great deal of money from their estates. Living simply, she chose to let her estate accumulate until just prior to her death when she established a series of three trusts that continue to fund education, historic preservation and green space projects in Medina County.
Enjoy local stories celebrating family, faith and democratic values. The history of Medina County brims with tales revealing the colorful and admirable character of its communities and people. For a while, locals observed living in two time zones simultaneously while also ignoring a federal law mandating Daylight Saving Time. The world-famous Giant of Seville, Captain Martin Van Buren Bates, had a brief but violent vigilante episode in Civil War-era Kentucky before finding peace and Christianity--and a home--in Ohio. The county's most prominent political family, the Batchelders, had ties to a pig farm in Brunswick that drew national attention and statewide reform. Author Stephen D. Hambley shares insightful and entertaining stories, many never heard before, from Medina County's past.