Sunday, April 30, 2023

Maryette Goodwin Mackey, Educator

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Maryette Goodwin was born in 1865, the daughter of Sandusky attorney Homer Goodwin and his wife, the former Marietta Cowles. She graduated ...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Benwood Food Products, Processed in Sandusky

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Pictured above is a wooden codfish box packed by the Bender-Woodward Company in Sandusky, Ohio. The Benwood brand name was a combination of ...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Stereograph Cards of the Lake Erie Islands, by A.C. Platt

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A.C. Platt was a popular photographer in Sandusky, Ohio in the 1870s and 1880s. The stereograph image above shows the A.C. Platt photographi...
Monday, April 17, 2023

I.J.P. Tessier

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Israel J.P. Tessier was born in 1848 in Ontario, Canada. As a young man he moved to Ohio, where he learned the printer’s trade. He was an ap...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Scott Paper Company in Sandusky

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1972 aerial picture of Scott Paper Co. from the Thomas F. Root Collection From 1945 until it closed in 1981, Scott Paper Company did busines...
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Saturday, April 08, 2023

Harry L. Cole, Erie County Sheriff

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Harry Lewis Cole was born in Huron, Ohio in 1879 to Mr. and Mrs. Angus Cole. For twenty years, he was a conductor on the Lake Shore Electric...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Ernestine Weier Waldock

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Ernestine Weier, sometimes known as Helen Ernestine Weier, was born in Sandusky in 1900, to Henry Weier and his wife, the former Elizabeth P...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Gertrude Schnaitter, American Red Cross Nurse in the Great War

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Gertrude Schnaitter was born in Sandusky in 1884, to Frank and Christina Schnaitter. In the 1910 U.S. Census, Gertrude was listed as pupil s...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The Zurma Brothers

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Image courtesy of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library, Fremont, Ohio From the 1920s until 1945, two brothers of Italian descent, Ur...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Mrs. Josephine Leeson, Descendant of Pilgrims

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Josephine Adelia Cook was the daughter of Dr. Thomas M. Cook , who was the surgeon of the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War...