Ohioans techncially created Uncle Tom, the fictional black man in Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe moved to Ohio when she became a writer and influenced by Ohio's ultra-Christian movements as the state was a major Underground Railroad state and base of the abolitionist movement, and then later a bulwark of the Union in the Civil War providing many common soldiers and many of the top generals. Grant is famous, but realyl Sherman was most skilled, both Ohioans.
