Tuesday, March 29, 2022

A Teacher's Notebook

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Lora A. Bing, who resided at 804 Mills Street in the early twentieth century, was a teacher in the Perkins and Margaretta Schools in 1901 an...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Alonzo W. and Jane Hendry

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  According to the book History of Erie County, Ohio , edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich (Mason & Co., 1889), Alonzo W. Hendry was born in Er...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

The Other Kerber Grocery

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Many people in Sandusky are familiar with Kerber Marine Grocery located on Tiffin Avenue, but not many people know there was another Kerber ...
Sunday, March 20, 2022

Prominent Sanduskians

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The image below is of a group of prominent Sandusky men, taken sometime between 1910 and 1920. The picture was anonymously mailed to the San...
Thursday, March 17, 2022

A St. Patrick's Day Celebration

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In honor of St. Patrick's Day we are reposting this article from 2014. On the evening of St. Patrick’s Day, most likely in the 1880s or ...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Mr. and Mrs. William V. Latham

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  These oil paintings of Mr. and Mrs. William V. Latham are on display in the second floor hallway of the Follett House Museum . Both nat...
Friday, March 11, 2022

A German Edition of an American Periodical

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The Sandusky Library has an issue of the German edition of   Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper , dated October 22, 1881, in the historica...
Monday, March 07, 2022

Online Local History Resources

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We know it's not always easy to get to the library for your local history research, but thanks to the internet, dedicated volunteers, an...
Friday, March 04, 2022

Miss Agnes Stankard, Business Owner

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  In the early twentieth century, Miss Agnes Stankard operated a hairdressing  manicuring salon on Washington Row, next to the Beecher House...
Monday, February 28, 2022

William Ayres Simpson and Mary Denman Simpson

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  William Ayres Simpson was born in New Hampshire in 1812. After working in Boston and Detroit , he moved to Sandusky in 1834. In Sandusk...