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Mansfield| Industrial city and administrative headquarters of Richland County, north-central Ohio, USA, 100 km/62 mi northeast of Columbus; population (2000) 49,300. It is situated in a winter-sports area; industries include the manufacture of electrical machinery, car parts, and steel and rubber products. It is the home of Ohio State University Mansfield Branch (1958). |
| Mansfield was laid out in 1808 and incorporated as a city in 1857. It is named after Jared Mansfield, US Surveyor General. During the War of 1812, the US pioneer and folk hero John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) raced to Mansfield to warn of an American Indian attack. Malabar Farm, the home of novelist Louis Bromfield, who was born here in 1896, is 19 km/12 mi southeast of Mansfield, and is now an ecological centre and experimental farm. |
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Arnim, Elizabeth Mary, Countess von Arnim
Austen, Jane
diary
Green Mountains
Lauterbur, Paul Christian
Mansfield judgment
Mansfield Woodhouse
Mansfield, Arabella
Mansfield, Katherine
Mansfield, Mike
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Mansfield, Richard
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of
Merriam, Mansfield
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Richland County
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slave trade
Somersett's Case
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| Soon afterwards there came another, and another, and then the first returned again, and so, by little and little, their tale was this:-- That the mob gathering round Lord Mansfield's house, had called on those within to open the door, and receiving no reply (for Lord and Lady Mansfield were at that moment escaping by the backway), forced an entrance according to their usual custom. About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. Humphry Ward's new book to Shaw's latest play, through the future of the drama to reminiscences of Mansfield. |