| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ohio (2551 words) |
 | Ohio was discovered by La Salle about 1670 and formal possession of the territory including the state was taken by the French in 1671. |
| In 1787 an organization known as the Ohio Company of Associates was formed in New England by a number of those who had served in the American Revolutionary War and under their negotiations a purchase of a large tract of land in the territory northwest of the Ohio River was made from the Government. |
| The Ohio courts have held, however, that a bequest to a Roman Catholic priest "for the saying of Masses for the repose of my soul and the soul of my husband" is not within the statute and is good although made within less than a year of the testator's death. |
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