John McIntire, son-in-law of Ebenezer Zane, was a founder and a visionary for the town’s development, and his legacy lives on in the McIntire Scholarship Fund; he died in 1815 at age 56. Noah Norris was a patriot who enlisted in the first black regiment recruited in Ohio during the Civil War; he died in 1942 at age 98. Zane Grey was a writer whose novels popularized cowboys of the “old west,” and he later became a staunch conservationist; he died in 1939 at age 64. John H. Glenn, Jr., was an astronaut, the first American to orbit Earth, a four-term senator from Ohio, and he returned to space at age 77.