Excerpt from History of the City of Columbus, Ohio: From the Founding of Franklinton in 1797, Through the World War Period, to the Year 1920In the subsequent chapters, devoted to special features of city life, there is a similar effort: to tell the story of each chronologically. For instance, Chap ter XIV. Presents in order the various forms of government under which the people have lived from 1812 to 1920 and the names of the principal officials. Two chapters are given to public utilities, their origin and development. Four chapters are given to Federal, State, county and city institutions, Universi ties, puhlic and private schools. The story of the religious life of the commu nity occupies three chapters, while glimpses of the professions of law, medicine and journalism, of charitable work, of manufacturing, banking, transporta tion, literary, musical and art endeavor, and social and fraternal organizations are to be found in other chapters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.