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Whitworth and Quinn Grocery Store
After having been associated with the Whitworth and Free grocery store for a number of years, in about 1878 John Whitworth began a partnership with Patrick H. Quinn in a store in the 200 block of...
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Erie County Children’s Poultry Show
The Erie County Children’s Poultry Show was held December 30, 1921 to January 1, 1922, in the garage of the E. Lea Marsh residence, at 609 Wayne Street in Sandusky, Ohio. The event was sponsored by...
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Tools of a Notary Public
This historic Ohio notary seal was donated to the Sandusky Library in 1933, and is now in the collections of the Follett House Museum. It is much larger than the notary seals in use today, probably...
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Daniel Kunz, German Immigrant and Business Owner
Daniel Kunz (sometimes spelled Kuntz) was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1845 to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Kunz. He emigrated to the United States as a youngster. In 1866, he married Christine Gilcher, the...
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Abner Lyman, Portland Township Justice of the Peace
On September 11, 1830, Abner Lyman was appointed Justice of the Peace for the township of Portland, in Huron County, Ohio. (Portland Township and the city of Sandusky were effectively the same at that...
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Buildings on the 100 Block of West Market Street in the 1990s
The photograph above was taken in the 1990s by a member of the Erie County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. The Thrift Shop of Grace Church was then located at 136 East Market Street in a...
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Robert Wagar, Former Sandusky City Manager
Robert Lincoln Joseph Wagar was born in Lakewood, Ohio on February 12, 1880, to David and Margaret Wagar. He was a descendant of one of the earliest settlers of Lakewood, Mars Wagar.At first he studied...
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Victorian Era Trade Cards
Here are a some Victorian era trade cards, which were used to advertise products in the late nineteenth century. These cards were given out by businesses in downtown Sandusky. Greetham & Son.,...
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Dr. James K. Douglas, Native of Berlin Township
Dr. James K. Douglas was born in August 1869 to James and Cornelia (King) Douglas. He grew up on his parents’ home along Lake Erie in the northern portion of Berlin Township of Erie County, Ohio.In...
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Petition from Sandusky Residents Requesting Purchase of Library Materials
Sometime in the first decade of the twentieth century, local residents gave a petition to the Carnegie Library Committee (Sandusky Library) requesting that the library purchase the title International...
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Theodore and Hermine Goessling
In the 1880 U.S. Census, Theodore Goessling was listed as single and aged 30, with his birthplace as Germany. He lived in Sandusky, where he worked as a retail grocer. His store was located at 727...
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Second Baptist Church: Sandusky's Pioneer African American Church
In May 1949, the Second Baptist Church, then led by the Rev. R.T. Booker, celebrated its centennial anniversary of service to the African American community in Sandusky. (The Sandusky Library Archives...
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Dr. Bartel H. Reinheimer, Episcopal Bishop
Sandusky High School graduation photoBorn in Sanduskyin 1889, Bartel H. Reinheimer was the son of Alfred and Beatrice Reinheimer. Alfred was the son of German immigrants, and made his living by...
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A Sandusky Native’s Connection to President Lincoln
Howard Hill Morton was born in Sandusky, Ohioin 1840, to Dr. and Mrs. George R. Morton. When Howard was a young man, he and George Doll published a small leaflet which they called The SanduskyGazette....
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Happy Valentine's Day
This four-piece Valentine’s Day card was donated to the Follett House Museum by the family of George Gilbert. The Valentine features a poem which reads:Dreams of LoveI think we love the chief...
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The Kilbourne Family Had Many Ties to Sandusky
In the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center is a book entitled The New Eden: James Kilbourne and the Development of Ohio, by Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers, Jr. (University Press of America,...
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Photographs of the Children of Andrew and Louise Biemiller
Andrew and Louisa Biemiller, both natives of Germany, had a son and two daughters born in Sandusky. Mr. Biemiller worked in the fish business, as well as being the original owner of the Sandusky Opera...
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Birth Announcement of Margaret Belle Ainslie
On February 23, 1911, Ned and Sadie Ainslie sent a postcard announcing the birth of their daughter, Margaret Belle Ainslie to Mrs. Mary Ainslie of East Adams Street in Sandusky.The birth announcement...
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Erie County African American Soldiers in the First World War
The book Honor Roll of Ohio: Erie County Edition is a compilation of Erie County residents who served in military or civilian activity during World War I. Soldiers and sailors who served during the...
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William Ayres Simpson and Mary Denman Simpson
William Ayres Simpson was born in New Hampshire in 1812. After working in Boston and Detroit, he moved to Sanduskyin 1834. In Sandusky, William Simpson was a partner of Horace Aplin in the grocery...
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