Western Reserve

noun

1. a tract of land in NE Ohio reserved by Connecticut (1786) when its rights to other land in the western U.S. were ceded to the federal government; relinquished in 1800.

Example Sentences

Lowrie has a degree in accounting, not economics, from Case Western Reserve University.

From The Daily Beast

Susan Helper, Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University The SP is not justified in its downgrade.

From The Daily Beast

I had been brought up on the Western Reserve, Ohio, and inherited intense anti-slavery convictions.

From Project Gutenberg

He was born in the Western Reserve district of Ohio, a section noted for its strong anti-slavery sentiment.

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Here landed in 1796 the first settlers from Connecticut, who entered the "Western Reserve," as all this region was then called.

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He attended Western Reserve College, but through ill health did not graduate.

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He came from the Western Reserve, and said "cut" when he meant coat, and "hahnt" when he meant heart.

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