User:Ohiohistorygeek

= Ohio History Geek =

About Me
I'm a writer and tour guide in Northeast Ohio.

My favorite topics include geology, archaeology, literature, Ohio natural features; people of note; and topics of inclusiveness.

Projects

 * Finding and correcting typos, dead links, or creating links previous editors missed.
 * Edith Anisfield Wolf
 * Margaret W. Wong
 * The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies
 * Historical men and women
 * Noted Bibliophiles
 * George Adomeit
 * Nicholas A. Basbanes
 * Charles W. Chesnutt
 * Frederick C. Crawford
 * John DePol
 * Abram Garfield
 * Harry Augustus Garfield
 * William Henry Gaylord
 * Fredrick Harris Goff
 * George Gund II
 * Briton Hadden
 * John Hay
 * Myron T. Herrick
 * Charles S. Howe
 * Dard Hunter
 * Don Knowlton
 * Arthur Loesser
 * Henry Luce
 * William G. Mather
 * David Z. Norton
 * Charles Orr
 * John Penton
 * James Rorimer
 * Paul T. Ruxin
 * Viktor Schreckengost
 * Charles F. Schweinfurth
 * Henry Sherwin
 * Jan Sobota
 * John Griswold White
 * Edward Williams (businessman)
 * Steven Swiniarski
 * The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies
 * Ohio natural features
 * help build Ohio stubs
 * muralist Ora Coltman & other Cleveland School artists
 * City of Waite Hill, Ohio needs history section - see

Work to be done on the Wolf page:


 * Obtain birth month and day. This information not on websites of Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Cleveland Public Library, or Cleveland Encyclopedia. It may be in the Cuyahoga County Archives. May require either physical visit there or county employee request.  It may also be available at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
 * Get permission from either the Cleveland Foundation or the Cleveland Public Library for use of a photo. I found one on the Cleveland Public Library site.
 * I put four refs into Steven Swiniarski's page, but will at some point add a section for "Awards Nominations" referencing his record on the "sfadb" aka the Science Fiction Awards Database.

I got information from the Cleveland Foundation. They gave me some detailed information, and other not. They suggested I hold onto and further research the non-specific info about Edith Anisfield Wolf's high school and collegiate experience -- they told me the schools, but they don't know when she attended them, nor whether she graduated from them. That may require going directly to the schools for the primary information or

Work to be done on Wong's page:


 * Research more of her awards, etc

I researching more on her, and found she was the first recipient of the Cleveland Public Library's "Saluting the Dreamers" in 2010. Lots of sites refer to the event:


 * {http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/chinese/2010/wong-cpl.htm}
 * {http://cpl.org/TheLibrary/News/NewsArticle/tabid/109/ArticleId/187/Saluting-the-Dreamers-Tribute-Honors-Margaret-Wong.aspx}
 * {http://www.asiaohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Dreamers_flyer.pdf}


 * She received the 2013 Jaeckle Award from University at Buffalo Law
 * The Belle Sherwin Democracy in Action Award is awarded annually by the league of Women Voters of Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Margaret W. Wong (1999)

Work to be done on the Swiniarski page:


 * Just look - lots to be done! Mostly supporting links, but good bio, too.