About Ed Lentz
Ed Lentz has been teaching, writing and exploring the history of central Ohio for more than 40 years.
When he isn’t doing that sort of thing, he teaches history in general and Ohio history in particular at various local colleges and universities.
He writes for local newspapers, consults in history and historic preservation and keeps company with his wife, three cats and occasionally resident two children.
Lentz holds degrees in history from Princeton University and Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including Columbus – The Story of a City (2003), A Home of their Own (2010) and Historic Columbus (2012).
Foresight, grace made Gills a power couple
John Loriman Gill came into central Ohio after this area had been initially settled and the new capital city of Columbus had been established in 1812. So he was not part of that pioneering generation that blazed the trails, fought the early battles and eventually made this place their own.
More as it were
- Joseph Sullivant and the riflemen
- Early days in Merion Village neighborhoods
- Home reached out to city's 'fallen women'
- 1913 flood changed Columbus
- St. Pat brings stormy spring to 1913
- Streetcar history could repeat itself
- Some found bloomers immodest
- Keeping order in early Columbus
- City born as, remains a meeting place
- Columbus has its first birthday
- The naming of Columbus' streets
- African-American community grew with city
- Third year of Civil War begins
- City saw busy beginning to 1913
- Settlement came slowly to Dublin area
- Grandview: where the river bends
- Johnstown’s settlement spans millennia
- Thanksgiving 1812: Cold and unforgiving
- Pickerington is area's first town
- Grant looms large in Grove City history
- Halloween 1912 style
- A place determined to be a town
- Local riding clubs date to 1892
- 1852 lithograph touches up Statehouse
- Whitehall owes its success to wars
- Labor Day preceded big vote in 1912
- Colorful characters mark Marysville’s past
- City’s first graveyard a gift from Kerr
- The benefits of a very big ditch
- Working women in Columbus, circa 1912
- The Deshlers come to Columbus
- College founder reveled in swagger
- A little war leads to a little town
- Anti-German sentiment changed life in Columbus
- Equine disease once ravaged horse-dependent Columbus
- Immigrant Peter Ambos was an American success story
- Local river names have convoluted origin
- Summer 1833 was a time of cholera in Columbus
- Northland community isn't defined by the mall
- Youngest Sullivant son left a rich local legacy
- Clintonville: a community known by its state of mind
- Columbus’ first mayor was a man of many interests
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