Official Records
The records of the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Ohio are included among Record Group 21 at the:
National Archives at Chicago
7358 South Pulaski Road
Chicago, Illinois 60629-5898
Email: chicago.archives@nara.gov
A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/chicago/holdings
A finding aid for a portion of the records is available at: https://www.archives.gov/chicago/finding-aids/courts/us-courts-cincinnati.html
A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).
Bibliography
Alexander, Roberta Sue. A Place of Recourse: A History of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 1803-2003. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005.
Finkelman, Paul, and Roberta Sue Alexander, eds. Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie: A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012.
Murnane, M. Susan. Bankruptcy in an Industrial Society: A History of the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2014.
Rhodes, Irwin S. "The History of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio." University of Cincinnati Law Review 24 (Summer 1955): 338-54.