Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Cholera Victims of 1849: in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio

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In the fall of 1986, Mrs. Katharyn L. Wunderley completed a project which resulted in a compilation of information about hundreds of i...
Friday, July 26, 2013

The Knights of the Maccabees

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Mrs. Paul Bogert donated this picture, taken by W.A. Bishop, of a local chapter of the Knights of the Maccabees, taken around the turn ...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Pitt Cooke

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Pitt Cooke was the son of Sandusky’s first lawyer, Eleutheros Cooke , and his wife, the former Martha Carswell. He was born on July 23,...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Leather Post Cards

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Popular from about 1904 to 1909, leather post cards were a popular novelty item. The United States Postal Service banned leather post cards...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Program Announcement: Author Presentation and Book Signing - Faded Lines of Gray (Novel of Johnson's Island)

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Monday July 22, 6:30PM, in the Library Program Room Faded Lines of Gray is a historical novel based on the Johnson's Island Conspi...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Program Announcement: Brown Bag Lunch Series - Lime Industry in Sandusky

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Wednesday, July 17 at noon in the Library Program Room Join us in the Sandusky Library as local historian Jim Miller discusses the gr...

Samuel B. Caldwell

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This painting of Samuel B. Caldwell, now at the Follett House Museum , was painted by a strolling artist, according to the donor, Mrs. ...
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Friday, July 12, 2013

William F. Peters, Composer

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William Frederick Peters was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1871 to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Peters; he graduated from Sandusky High School in 189...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Commercial House in 1898

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Pictured above is a wagon from the Consumers’ Ice Company in front of the Commercial House hotel in 1898 on the west side of Jackson St...
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Sunday, July 07, 2013

William H. Gilcher, Lumber Dealer

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William H. Gilcher was born in Sandusky, Ohio on July 2, 1843 to Peter and Christina (Boos) Gilcher. Peter Gilcher was a native of Germ...