MySource:In genealogist/Hardesty, Hiram H.

ABBR Hardesty, Hiram H.TEXT Hiram H. Hardesty (born December 18, 1833) was reared in Carroll County, Ohio, and his first known atlas was of that county, in 1874. This and two immediately successive works for Hancock and Ottawa counties were published in Chicago, under the title of ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL ATLAS ... The one for Ottawa County also appeared in a German edition. Each measured 17-1/2" x 14-1/2".

...(In) 1875, ... published .. his HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD....

... Hardesty's Ohio county atlases... Defiance, Fulton, and Henry counties. ... Wood ("Compiled and Editied (sic) by Charles H. Jones, assisted by Theodore F. Hamilton") (Jones' name also appeared in connection with the Fulton County atlas) -- and Allen counties. All were issued at Chicago in 1875 by "H. H. Hardesty & Co., Publishers, Lakeside Building," and measured 19-1/2" x 14-1/2".

... he reappeared in Ohio in 1880. He was now publishing a smaller folio, bearing the cover-title HISTORICAL HAND-ATLAS" ILLUSTRATED "GENERAL AND LOCAL. ...The quality of the local content is equal if not superior to the material in his HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD."

During 1880 and the next two years Hardesty produced these atlases for a few West Virginia and Ohio counties (including ... Monroe (Oh)), and for at least one county in Indiana. Most measured about 14-1/2" x 11". Then in 1883, keeping the same format, he changed the title of his works to HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. Most of his West Virginia atlases were published with this heading. He issued at least two county atlases for Ohio and at least three for Virginia under this title. They also measured 14-1/2" x 11".

... he published in 1887 his MILITARY HISTORY OF OHIO. ...to which he added the Civil War rosters of soldiers from specific counties... (...supplied by the State & others..)

Hardesty apparently had made Toledo (Oh) his home, for he was listed in that city's directories from 1879 until his death ther