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Erie County Companies Contributed to the War Effort During World War II
Many of you might know about Erie County's contribution to the production of war munitions during the Second World War. From 1941 to 1945, the Trojan Powder Company manufactured explosives at the Plum...
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Elementary School Photos in Front of the Old High School
Two group pictures, taken by the Pascoe Gallery in the 1880s, are housed in the Schools Collection of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. Students are posed in a group in front of the old...
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Marjorie Anderson, Professor, Librarian, Poet and Author
Dr. Marjorie Anderson was born in 1892 to George F. Anderson and Mary Kingsbury West Anderson. She was the great granddaughter of Dr. George Anderson, an early Sandusky physician who died of cholera...
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A Funeral Notice from 1853
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 be held at David Adams' residence on September 8, 1853.At...
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Recipe Booklets and Other Helps for the Homemaker
A local resident donated several booklets of recipes and other household hints, ranging in dates between 1915 and the 1940’s, to the historical collections of the Follett House Museum and the Sandusky...
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S.S. Hosmer, Early Sandusky Merchant
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, when he moved to Sandusky. He was listed as a wholesale grocer...
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Convention of the Erie County Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Sandusky
The ninth annual convention of the Erie County Women’s Christian Temperance Union was held on Wednesday, September 20, 1916 at the Congregational Church in Sandusky, Ohio.The book, History of Erie...
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“The Most Approved Toilets”
One of the definitions of toilet, according to The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1993) is: the articles required or used in applying make-up, arranging the hair,...
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Dr. Hess Products were sold by Hoffman Coal
Dr. Hess products were claimed to help produce healthy flesh and milk in the animals consuming them, and hens were supposed to be more productive in laying eggs. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a...
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Caroline Sadler Donahue Remembers
When Caroline Sadler Donahue was in the hospital in 1953, she took time to write down some of her childhood memories, which was printed into a booklet. Caroline was born in 1878 to Mr. and Mrs....
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Record Book of the Commissioner of Insolvents, Erie County, Ohio
In the early years of Erie County government, the county kept records of the proceedings between debtors and their creditors. The record book shown below was given to the Sandusky Library from the...
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Mrs. William G. Moorhead
Image from Sandusky Library CollectionsSarah Elizabeth Cooke was the first child and only daughter born to Eleutheros and Martha Cooke in the state of New York in 1816. The Eleutheros Cooke family...
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Political Mementos from Joseph G. Cannon
Sandusky resident Leo Kugel donated two political mementos from Joseph G. Cannon’s unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1908 to the historical collections of the Sandusky Library. At the Republican...
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West Water Street Businesses from Behind in 1926
Sandusky photographer Ernst Niebergall took this picture of the rear side of the buildings along West Water Street between Columbus Avenue and Jackson Street about 1926. Today we know this area as the...
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Dance Party at the Odd Fellows Hall
N.J. Abele took this picture of a large group of people at a dance at the Odd Fellows Hall about 1912. A few people were identified in notes on the back of the original picture:The couple at the bottom...
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Violet Ray Generators Sold in Sandusky
During the first half of the twentieth century, thousands of “Violet Ray Generators” were sold in the United States for home use. Advertisements claimed that the device would cure heart disease,...
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When There Was an Undertaking Business in the Beecher House
You might recognize the Beecher House as it looks today on Washington Row, surrounded by commercial buildings, next door to the Odd fellows building:But when it was built around 1848 as the home of...
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The Former Lehrer Clinic on West Washington Street
In 1916 Dr. Henry William Lehrer opened his medical practice at 1015 West Washington Street in Sandusky, Ohio. He practiced medicine at that location until his retirement in 1977. During his long...
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With the 308th Engineers From Ohio to the Rhine and Back
In the military section of the Genealogical and Local History books at the Sandusky Library is a book entitled With the 308th Engineers From Ohio to the Rhine and Back. The book was published in 1923...
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Otto Schimansky, Member of the Grand Army of the Republic
In 1890 Otto Schimansky (sometimes spelled Shimansky) was the General Manager of the D. J. Brown Manufacturing Co., a company which manufactured hoops for barrels.He was born in Germany, and settled in...
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