1. Nevin M. Fenneman, Physiography of the Eastern United States (New York: McGraw Hill, 1938), p. 306.

2. Timothy, Flint, A Condensed Geography of and History of the Western States (2 vols.; Cincinnati: William M. Farnsworth, Printer, 1828), 2:293.

3. Kent R. Fielding, “The Growth of the Mormon Culture in Kirtland, Ohio,” Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1957, p. 208.

4. Harland Hatcher, The Western Reserve (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Company, 1949), p. 26.

5. Charles N. Glaab, “Jesup W. Scott and a West of Cities,” Ohio History 73 (Winter 1964): p. 3.

6. Flint, Geography and History, 2:482.

7. United States Department of Agriculture, Climate and Man, Yearbook of Agriculture, 1941 (United States Government Printing Office, 1941), pp. 997, 1061.

8. Flint, Geography and History, 2:294.

9. Flint, Geography and History, 1:66.

10. William W. Shideler, “A Geographic Analysis of the Ohio Road System,” Unpublished Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, p. 253.

11. Henry Howe. Historical Collections of Ohio, 3 Vols. (Columbus, Ohio: Henry Howe and Son, 1891), 2:53.

12. Flint, Geography and History, 2:53.

13. For a discussion of division of land see: Norman J. Thrower, Original Survey and Land Subdivision, Association of American Geographers Monograph Number Four (Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1966); Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, 2 Vols. (Cincinnati: State of Ohio, 1908), 1:128–36; and Ralph Brown, Historical Geography of the United States (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948), pp. 212–35.

14. Hatcher, Western Reserve, p. 18.

15. Drawing received from clerk of Thompson Township, Geauga County, Ohio.

16. Fielding, “Mormon Church in Kirtland,” p. 208.

17. Ross M. Robertson, History of the American Economy, 2nd Ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1964), p. 105.

18. John F. Edgar, Pioneer Life in Dayton and Vicinity (Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey, Publisher, 1896), p. 166.

19. Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, 1:534.

20. Brown, Historical Geography, p. 92.

21. Glaab, “Scott and West of Cities,” p. 6.

22. Ernest Bogart and Donald Demmerer, Economic History of the American People (New York: Longmans Green and Company, 1948), p. 260.

23. Flint, Geography and History, 2:296.

24. Harold E. Davis, “The Economic Basis of Ohio Politics, 1820–1840,” The Ohio State Archeological and Historical Quarterly 47 (1938): 290.

25. Davis, “Economic Basis Ohio Politics,” p. 303.

26. Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, 3:284.

27. Shideler, “Analysis Ohio Road System,” p. 253.

28. Robertson, History American Economy, p. 101.

29. Brown, Historical Geography, p. 103.

30. Glaab, “Scott and West of Cities,” p. 6.

31. Glaab, “Scott and West of Cities,” p. 11.

32. Edgar, Life in Dayton, p. 21.

33. John W. Reps, The Making of Urban America (Princetown University Press, 1965), p. 187.

34. Reps, Urban America, p. 231.

35. Fielding, “Mormon Church in Kirtland,” p. 217.

36. Joseph Smith Jr., History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1948), 3:109.

Robert Layton

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