There are thousands of historical photographs in the
collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center, and of course
many of them include men who were fathers. Above is a picture showing Daniel Hoffman, Sr. and five of his sons as they were inducted into
the Masonic lodge in 1904.
Here is a portrait of former Judge Ulysses Thompson Curran.
Judge Curran was judge of the Probate
Division of Erie County Court of Common Pleas from 1899 to 1905, and he had
served as superintendent of schools in Sandusky 1872 to 1880. He was
the father of well-known artist Charles Courtney Curran.
Below is a picture of George Schade
as a young man. Mr. Schade was the father of Julian Schade and Christine Schade
Mylander, and the grandfather of George Mylander.
He was associated with the coal business
in Sandusky, as well as the Schade Theatre, and served as a Sandusky City
Commissioner for many years in the 1920s and 1930s.
Pictured on the 1903 postcard below are Horatio
Linn and his young daughter Gertrude.
Mr. Linn was an educator in Erie
County in the 1890s, and later he was a
newspaper publisher in Cleveland, Tennessee.
The Rev. George Hewson Peeke was the
minister of the Congregational Church in Sandusky in the 1880s. He was the
first clergyman in Sandusky to advocate for the prohibition of liquor. He and his
wife Margaret were the parents of attorney and author Hewson L. Peeke.
Visit the Sandusky Library Archives
Research Center to learn more about the past residents of Sandusky and Erie
County.
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