The Ohio Blue Book: Who's Who in the Buckeye State

This is *The Ohio Blue Book: Or Who's Who in the Buckeye State*, a 1917 biographical reference cyclopedia compiled by C. S. Van Tassel of Toledo, Ohio. The volume contains concise biographical entries—presented alphabetically—of living Ohioans active in business, industry, education, science, literature, art, music, and the professions. Each entry includes birth date and place, parents' names, education, college degrees, marriage information, professional positions with dates, religious affiliation, club and society memberships, and home address. The introductory materials explain that the work aims to document those "doing things" in Ohio in 1917, containing significantly more biographical sketches than prior Ohio publications. Entries sampled include clergy, businessmen, attorneys, manufacturers, educators, and bankers across the state.