Sunday, November 28, 2021

M. Schields Godfrey, Milliner

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Mary Schields was born in Sandusky in September, 1862, to Edmund and Salome Schields, both natives of Germany . She married George Godfrey ...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Giving Thanks

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  This is the menu that Sgt. Wilford T. Schleicher was served at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, on Thanksgiving day, November 29, 1917.  H...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Sanborn Maps, An Invaluable Historical Resource

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  The Sanborn Map Company  published maps between 1867 and 1970 to help fire insurance companies determine potential risks for buildings in ...
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Friday, November 19, 2021

C.F. Denzer Office Supply Business

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  C.F. Denzer sold office supplies at his store at 210 Columbus Avenue, near East Market Street, for many years. By 1940, the business had ...
Tuesday, November 16, 2021

The Bully Roarer Songster

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In 1848, the publisher D. Campbell & Sons of Sandusky, Ohio produced  a comic songbook, the third  in a series of publications. David Ca...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Confederate P.O.W.’s: Soldiers & Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North

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In 1984 Frances Ingmire and Carolyn Ericson compiled into a book the names, rank, regiment, death dates, and burial location of Confederate ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Rev. George H. Peeke

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George Hewson Peeke was born on March 18, 1833 in Rotterdam, New York. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1857, and from the Reformed Dutc...
Sunday, November 07, 2021

The Three Sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Rieger

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Pictured above are the three sons of John L. and Mary (Biehl) Rieger, in a photograph taken by C.W. Platt. Standing is Edward F. Rieger, bor...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Victor S. Malinovsky, Coach and Educator

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Victor S. Malinovsky was born in 1917 to Mr. and Mrs. Simon Malinovsky, who were both natives of Czechoslovakia. He grew up in Lorain County...
Monday, November 01, 2021

Women’s Gym Class in the 1930s

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  In the 1930s, Gladys A. Hoffman taught a Women’s Gym Class at the Sandusky High School gymnasium (now Adams Junior High School.) Sponsored...