A tract of land in Northern Ohio, reserved by the state of Connecticut for the purposes of a school fund, when it ceded (in 1800) its claims on western lands. See James A. Garfield’s address before the Historical Society of Geauga County, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1873.—‘Harper’s Encyclopædia of United States History,’ iv. 17, s.v. GARFIELD.
1822. It was also called New Connecticut.—See Zerah Hawley, ‘Tour’ [of Ohio, &c.], passim.
1823. This tract is known by the name of the Connecticut Reserve, or New Connecticut.—Geo. W. Ogden, ‘Letters from the West,’ p. 79 (New Bedford).
1859. [Mr. Dennison] was made Governor of Ohio, by the votes of the Western Reserve men to whom he bowed in the dust.—S. S. Cox, ‘Eight Years in Congress,’ p. 80 (1865).
1861. See FOREST CITY.
1861. I will accept the amendment; and I will also, for the benefit of my friend from Ohio [Mr. Cox] add that all the butter and cheese be produced in the Western Reserve.—Mr. Justin S. Morrill ot Vermont, House of Repr., July 19: Cong. Globe, p. 214/2.
1862. Measures that only had an existence in the distempered brain of some abolitionist of New England or the Western Reserve.—Mr. James R. Morris of Ohio, the same, July 7: id., p. 3162/2.
1862. We do not go to Carolina for cheese, nor to the Western Reserve for cotton.—S. S. Cox, ut supra, p. 221.
