. . . has submitted to the legislature of the State his annual report for 1861. It contains some curious items. For instance: The average height of Ohio men is given as four inches above that of Belgians, two and a half above that of English recruits and one and a half inches above that of Highlanders. The average height per man is a fraction under five feet ten and a half inches. – Highland county showed the tallest and heaviest men. Twenty-one who were weighed averaged 182 pounds. Fair complexions predominate in Ohio. There are few of olive brunette, or dark complexion. The great majority are light or sanguine. The eyes are light in the proportion of three to two – including blue and grey in the light class, black and hazel in the dark. The hair is the only feature among Americans, and especially in Ohio, which approaches the characteristic of the dark nations. Even in this the majority of what may be fairly called light hair – including most of the brown hair.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 15, 1862, p. 2
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