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Amy Ruth Kelly, Biographer of Eleanor of Aquitane
An article about Amy R. Kelly appeared in the June 9, 1911 issue of the Sandusky Register. While on faculty at WellesleyCollege, she and Laura E. Lockwood edited the book, Letters That Live. Over one...
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Laura Jones, Sandusky Businesswoman
From 1935 until her retirement in 1970, Mrs. Laura Jones was the owner-operator of a dress shop located at 162 Columbus Avenue in Sandusky, Ohio. Laura Jones was the daughter of Martin and Mary (Pulch)...
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The Building at 604 West Washington Street Has Served Many Roles
Before the Erie County Chamber of Commerce moved to its location at 604 West Washington Street, this building was home to the Frey-Groff Funeral Home for several decades. According to the Ohio Historic...
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Michael A. McAdams, Musician and Printer
Michael A. McAdams was born in Quebec, Canada in 1856. He came to Sandusky, Ohio in 1891 to play with the Cedar Point band. He can be seen with his tuba in the back row of the Ackley Band at Cedar...
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Trench Coats Were Popular in Sandusky in 1917
Inspired by military apparel, trench coats were sold by the Wilcox Company in Sandusky in the fall of 1917. An ad from the Fram read, in regards to military and trench coats for girls: Here’s to the...
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Emily Skillman and Her Brother Alva Halt
Emily Johanna Halt was born in 1889 to Frederick and Louisa Frey Halt. Sadly, Emily’s father was killed in a railroad accident when she was just a child. Emily marred Harry Hickman Skillman on October...
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Yvonne Fievet, Sandusky Businesswoman
Yvonne Fievet was born on March 8, 1891 in Fostoria, Ohio, to Pierre and Hyacinth (Desgain) Fievet, both natives of Belgium. By 1930, she lived on Central Avenue in Sandusky, Ohio, with her widowed...
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Sandusky and the Great Influenza of 1918
As we are living through a world-wide pandemic today, so were the people living in 1918. What is often called the Great Influenza struck the nation, and the world, briefly in the Spring of 1918, and...
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Mary Elizabeth Seibert Fernau
Below is a tintype of Mary Elizabeth Seibert, who was born in Sandusky about 1865. By 1904, Mary Elizabeth Seibert had become the wife of Henry Fernau, who was a painter and interior decorator. They...
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A Trade Show in Sandusky, Circa 1951
Several pictures from a Trade Show in Erie County, probably from 1950 or 1951, are on file in the historical collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center.Representatives from the Singer...
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William H. H. Herbert, Businessman and Civic official
William Henry Harrison Herbert was born on April 24, 1839 in Hagerstown, Maryland. As a young man, he moved to Paw Paw, Virginia where he made his home with his sister. When the Civil War broke out, he...
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Dairies in Sandusky
Ohio dairy farms have been providing milk and milk products to residents for many years. In the nineteenth century, milk was made primarily by local farms and delivered to homes. Lewis Neill, Jr.'s...
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Signs, Signs (A Preview of an Upcoming Library Program)
Before television, the internet, and even radio, we still had advertising. But how did advertising reach its potential customers without the media we take for granted today? Newspapers, of course, had...
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Judge George Morton and Dr. George Morton
In the 1800s, there were two well-known gentlemen, both named George Morton, who called Sandusky home. This excerpt from a page from the 1855 Sandusky City Directory lists both George Mortons along...
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Clara Bock, Restaurant Proprietor
Clara Halawachs was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Halawachs in Germany in 1856. She came to the United States in 1865, according to U.S. Census records. On October 27, 1874, Clara Halawachs married Joseph...
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D.C. Powers, Pioneer Merchant
Dewitt Clinton Powers was born in 1844 in Jefferson County, New York. After he came to Sandusky in 1865, he began working as a clerk in the dry goods store of Charles E. and George A. Cooke. After...
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Platt's Cemetery Stereographs
An article appearing in the May 20, 1875 issue of the Sandusky Register read:Those who neglect to have stereographs of their cemetery lots taken while Mr. Platt is on the grounds will regret it when...
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Frances Lockwood Davis, Civic Leader and Suffragist
Frances Lockwood was born in Elyria,Ohio in 1849, the oldest daughter of Judge and Mrs. William F. Lockwood. She married Thomas H. B. Davis, a successful businessman, in 1872. They had two children,...
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Knapp’s Balsamic Cough Syrup
The advertisement above appeared in the Sandusky Register on February 8, 1875. John Knapp was associated with the Sandusky Medicine Company, which had its offices in the Sandusky Register building on...
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Miller's Milwaukee Beer
Fred Zander was the manager of the Sandusky branch of the Fred Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee, according to the 1906-1907 Sandusky City Directory. The building was located at the southwest corner...
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