Leipsic (Ohio)
Putnam County
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Leipsic is a 1874 founded Village in Putnam County, Ohio, United States. It lies in the fertile and intensively farmed level of former Great Black Swamp. At the 2000 census, the town had 2,236 inhabitants.
Demography
The population Leipsics consists of 80.6 % White, and both 0.4 % Black or African Americans, Native Americans and Asians. 15.7 % reported from other races, and 2.5 % from two or more races. 23.9 % counted themselves among the Hispanic or Latino. Hundreds of residents are of Mexican descent. The high proportion of Hispanics was created by the influx of seasonal workers, who settled in the town. After Leipsic in every summer continue to migrant workers who take on the surrounding farms cereal or tomato harvest.
Economic and working conditions
The Agricultural Workers' Union Farm Labor Organizing Committee, founded in Toledo by Baldemar Velasquez in 1967 is committed to improving the working conditions of migrants in the Midwest and North Carolina. After years of unsuccessful negotiations with the farmers she organized in 1978 by Leipsic from a boycott of the canneries, in turn, the landowners dictated prices. But until 1986, the union reached an agreement with Campbell and the farmers in Ohio and Michigan, among other things, guaranteed to migrant workers wage increases and health insurance. In Leipsic itself a Summer Migrant Education Program has been set up for the children of the workers. It is aimed at primary school children and to especially improve their reading and English skills.
Primarily for the transportation of agricultural products ensures the rail freight traffic. Leipsic is supplied by lines of CSX, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National - GTW. In the town itself also industrial companies have excellent transport connections settled, a galvanizing plant for automotive steel and since 2008 a biodiesel refinery.
Personalities
- Charles Haskell, first governor of Oklahoma, was born in 1860 in Leipsic.
- Karl Joseph age, later chairman of the U.S. Bishops Conference, had from 1910 to 1914 in the parish of St. Mary Church
- James Cloyd Bowman (January 18, 1880 - September 27, 1961 ), children's author, was born here.
Literature and links
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Walter Kenneth Barger, Ernesto Mendoza Reza: The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest. University of Texas Press, 1994, p 105
- Daniel Nelson: Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990. Indiana University Press, 1995, p 180
- Judith A. Gouwens: Migrant Education: A Reference Handbook. ABC -CLIO, 2001, p 106
- Location in Ohio
- Location in North America
- Putnam County ( Ohio)