Ashtabula County, Ohio

Ashtabula County
County
Ashtabula County Courthouse
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Congressional district	14th
Website	www.co.ashtabula.oh.us

Ashtabula County (

At the time of contact, Ashtabula County appears to have been divided between the Erie people in the east and the Whittlesey culture in the west.^[10] The Erie were an Iroquoian people, who were organized like the Iroquois, believed in a similar religion and lived in longhouses in palisaded villages and may have had a burial ground at what is now Erie, PA, whereas the uncontacted Whittlesey are mostly believed to have been Algonquians, who also lived in longhouses at the time of contact (after having gone through prior periods of living in wigwams and Fort Ancient style houses) in villages surrounded by earthen berm walls and had smaller, local burial grounds near each settlement. The French were the first to explore the Great Lakes by ship and, having never met the inhabitants, saw the continuation of longhouses and mistakenly assumed the entire region had belonged to the Erie.^[11] Both tribes were likely eradicated by the Iroquois Confederacy during the Beaver Wars (approx. 1630–1701), which later bled into the first of the myriad conflicts collectively called the French-Indian Wars, probably specifically some time during the 1650s. The Jesuit Relations claim rumors of infighting between the Erie and an unknown nation to the west of them who were similar to other Algonquian peoples the French had already encountered in the years prior to both tribes' eradication. Three known village sites have been documented by archaeologists from this period in Windsor ^[12] (located inside what is now a private children's Summer Camp) and two at Conneaut.^[13] Following the Beaver Wars, and the first conflict of the French-Indian Wars coming to an end in 1701, an official border between England and France was established at what is now the Ohio-PA border, leading to English forts being erected all along the Pennsylvania side that became crucial in the later conflicts of the French-Indian Wars over the next 50 years.

After Europeans arrived in the Americas, the land that became Ashtabula County was originally part of the French colony of

According to the

• Erie County, Pennsylvania (northeast)
• Crawford County, Pennsylvania (east)
• Trumbull County (south)
• Geauga County (southwest)
• Lake County (west)

As of the

There were 39,397 households, out of which 32.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.80% were married couples living together, 11.40% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.50% were non-families. 24.80% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 3.05.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 26.20% under the age of 18, 7.60% from 18 to 24, 28.00% from 25 to 44, 23.60% from 45 to 64, and 14.70% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 95.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.10 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $35,607, and the median income for a family was $42,449. Males had a median income of $33,105 versus $22,624 for females. The

As of the

Of the 39,363 households, 31.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.2% were married couples living together, 12.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 32.7% were non-families, and 26.9% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.01. The median age was 41.0 years.[32]

The median income for a household in the county was $42,139 and the median income for a family was $50,227. Males had a median income of $40,879 versus $30,156 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,898. About 11.8% of families and 15.7% of the population were below the

According to the accompanying table, Ashtabula County voted for the Democratic candidate for president in every election between 1988 and 2012. Prior to that, however, no fewer than 19 Republican candidates won the county with greater than 61% of the vote. In 2020, incumbent President Donald Trump carried the county with 60.8%.

Ashtabula County (along with neighboring Lake County) fostered a very large Finnish American community around the turn of the twentieth century, and as a result, the area is home to many Finnish Americans.

Ashtabula County has eighteen extant

• Ashtabula
• Conneaut
• Geneva

• Andover
• Geneva-on-the-Lake
• Jefferson (county seat)
• North Kingsville
• Orwell
• Roaming Shores
• Rock Creek

• Austinburg
• Edgewood
• Kingsville
• Saybrook-on-the-Lake

• Dorset
• Eagleville
• Footville
• Kelloggsville
• Pierpont
• Unionville
• Williamsfield
• Windsor

• governor of Nebraska
  1911-1913
• Cleveland Indians
  pitcher, originally from Geneva
• John Brown Junior (1821–1895), son of the abolitionist John Brown, lived in Ashtabula County during the Civil War period, and his brother Owen (1824–1889) took refuge with him..
• United States congressman from Indiana^[38]
• Tammy Cochran, country music singer from Austinburg; biggest hit was "Angels in Waiting"
• Edwin Cowles (1825–1890), born in Austinburg, publisher of The Cleveland Leader, vice-president of the 1884 Republican National Convention^[38]
• Charles DeBarber, a cyber intelligence analyst on CBS's Hunted (2017 TV series)
• U.S. House of Representatives and prominent opponent of slavery
• Rosetta Luce Gilchrist (1850-1921), physician, writer, president of the Ashtabula Equal Rights Club
• Francis Joseph Hall
  , was an American Protestant Episcopal theologian and author.
• Ken Meyer, head coach of the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers in 1977
• Urban Meyer, head football coach at the University of Florida (2005-2010), head football coach at The Ohio State University (2012-2018), head coach of the National Football League's Jacksonville Jaguars (2021–2021)
• James Montgomery, (1814–1871), born in Ashtabula County, colonel in the American Civil War, raided several towns in Missouri and the American South^[38]
• Dangerfield Newby (c. 1820–1859), a freed slave who was killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
• Danielle Nicolet, television, film, and voice actress born in Ashtabula
• Larry Obhof, attorney and former President of the Ohio Senate
• Ransom Eli Olds
  , pioneer of the American automobile industry, for whom both the Oldsmobile and Reo brands were named
• Glenn W. Salisbury, agricultural scientist
• Louis C. Shepard, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient from Ashtabula County, buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio
• Decius Wade, attorney, judge, writer, and politician who has been called the "Father of Montana Jurisprudence" for his role in establishing the common law and statutory law of the U.S. state of Montana
• Clarence Darrow, American lawyer who became famous in the early 20th century for his involvement in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial and the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
• Connie Schultz, an American writer and journalist and wife of United States Senator Sherrod Brown.^[39]
• Doug Tompkins, co-founder of The North Face and Esprit

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Ashtabula County, Ohio

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Ashtabula County.

• Ashtabula County Government's website
• The Ashtabula County District Library

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