Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Record Book of the Commissioner of Insolvents, Erie County, Ohio

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In the early years of Erie County government, the county kept records of the proceedings between debtors and their creditors. The record boo...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Caroline Sadler Donahue Remembers

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  When Caroline Sadler Donahue was in the hospital in 1953, she took time to write down some of her childhood memories, which was printed in...
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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Dr. Hess Products were sold by Hoffman Coal

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  Dr. Hess products were claimed to help produce healthy flesh and milk in the animals consuming them, and hens were supposed to be more pro...
Monday, September 21, 2020

“The Most Approved Toilets”

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  One of the definitions of toilet, according to The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1993) is: the articles...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Convention of the Erie County Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Sandusky

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The ninth annual convention of the Erie County Women’s Christian Temperance Union was held on Wednesday, September 20, 1916 at the Congregat...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

S.S. Hosmer, Early Sandusky Merchant

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Sidney Smith Hosmer was born in LeRoy, New York in 1808. As a young boy he moved to Buffalo, and was active there in business until 1838, wh...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Recipe Booklets and Other Helps for the Homemaker

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 A local resident donated several booklets of recipes and other household hints, ranging in dates between 1915 and the 1940’s, to the histor...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

A Funeral Notice from 1853

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This funeral notice for David Adams invites friends of the young man’s parents, Thomas P. and Eliza Hurst, to the funeral of David Adams, to...
Sunday, September 06, 2020

Marjorie Anderson: Professor, Librarian, Poet and Author

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Dr. Marjorie Anderson was born in 1892 to George F. Anderson and Mary Kingsbury West Anderson. She was the great granddaughter of Dr. George...
Thursday, September 03, 2020

Elementary School Photos in Front of the Old High School

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Two group pictures, taken by the Pascoe Gallery in the 1880s, are housed in the Schools Collection of the Sandusky Library Archives Researc...
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