Lakewood, Ohio

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Named for Thomas Hird, an English immigrant of 1818 whose courtship of Hope Randal Lord, niece of wealthy landowner Richard Lord, ended happily.

Hird managed 320 acres of the Lord estate near West 117th Street; the family disapproved of his poor background, but he studied at night and persisted. Richard Lord gave him the 320 acres as a wedding gift. In 1852 he got a silver medal from the Board of Agriculture for the best wheat in Ohio.

Named for

Thomas Hird (arrived 1818; medal 1852). English immigrant who married Hope Randal Lord and received her uncle's 320-acre estate.

Homestead: 320 acres near West 117th Street

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