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“A Hero in Rags” Presented by the Social Footlight Club
In May of 1909 the Social Footlight Club presented a play entitled “A Hero in Rags” at the Sidley Memorial Hall. Victor W. Brown was the leading man in the play. Other cast members were: William A....
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Ruggiero Ricelli was a “Man of Many Jobs”
Ruggiero Ricelli was born in Italy in 1879, and emigrated to Sandusky around 1893. Beginning in 1895, he operated a fruit and confectionery cart at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Market Street in...
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Sandusky's Montgomery Ward Illustrates the Evolution of Retail
The Montgomery Ward company began in 1872 as a mail-order business selling goods from an annual catalog. Facing stiff competition from its catalog sale competitor, Sears Roebuck, it began opening...
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Memorial Day: Memorials to Local Soldiers
The archival collections at the Sandusky Library contain a number of items that memorialize soldiers of the United States. The poster above is dedicated to Company I of the Third Regiment Ohio...
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Bremer Groceries and Saloon
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, members of the Bremer family operated grocery stores in Sandusky. J.D. Bremer was listed as a saloon keeper in the 1880 U.S. Census. In 1902, he ran both...
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James Ross, Educator and Author
From 1916 to 1933, James Ross was a history teacher at Sandusky High School. For several of those years, he also served as the faculty treasurer of the athletic department. Prior to moving to Sandusky,...
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Painting by Charles H. Hubbell
The painting above was created by Charles H. Hubbell for Reinhardt N. Ausmus. (The library owns a photograph, but not the original painting.) The monoplane was designed, built, and flown by Ausmus in...
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Helen Gallup Pyle
Helen Gallup was the daughter of Frank Gallup and the former Fannie Walker, born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1892. Both Helen’s father Frank and her paternal grandfather Mozart Gallup were associated with the...
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C.L. Alspach, Minister and Community Leader
Clement L. Alspach was born in 1867 in Van Wert, Ohio, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alspach. He attended Heidelberg University in Tiffin, graduating from the literary department in 1890 and from the...
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Sandusky Souvenir Letter Tablet
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the Alexander Manufacturing Company published a "Souvenir Letter Tablet," which featured scenes from Sandusky and the surrounding area. Since the Lake Erie...
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Edward H. Marsh, Friend of William Howard Taft
Edward H. Marsh was born in Cincinnati in 1851, and came to Sandusky with his father in 1872. Edward Lockwood Marsh, the father, was a pioneer in the gypsum business. Both Marsh men were involved with...
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John C. Zollinger, Civil War Veteran, Businessman, Humanitarian
According to the October 28, 1924 issue of the Sandusky Register, John C. Zollinger was one of the oldest native born Sandusky residents at the time of his death at age 82 in 1924. He was the son of...
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Tribute to John J. Carroll of G and C Foundry
John Joseph Carroll, former president of the G. and C. Foundry, died on June 26, 1936. Funeral services were held first at his home at 1412 Columbus Avenue, and then at Saint Peter and Paul’s Catholic...
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Marriage of John A. Strobel and Mattie E. Bretz
Rev. J. G. Enzslin of the Emmanuel German Evangelical Protestant Church officiated at the wedding of John A. Strobel and Mattie E. Bretz on June 20, 1894. The marriage license was recorded at the Erie...
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Jay Vaughn McFall, Artist
Elementary student Vaughn McFall was listed as number 35 in the class photograph from 1883, taken on the steps of the old Sandusky High School on Adams Street. Jay Vaughn McFall was born in Sandusky,...
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Vincent Nusly, Swiss Immigrant, Inventor
Vincent Nusly was born in 1817 in Switzerland. He came to the United States around 1847, where he settled in Sandusky, Ohio with his wife and children. Mr. Nusly operated a jewelry store in Sandusky,...
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When Yontz’s Hall Was in the Cable Block
Razed in the 1970s, the Cable Block was at the northeast corner of Jackson and Market Streets in Sandusky, Ohio. Laurence Cable had this structure built in 1893 to house his real estate business and...
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Robert W. Traver, Former Chief of Police
Robert W. Traver died at the age of 57, but he lived a long life, filled with service to his country and local community. A lifelong resident of Sandusky, he joined the Sandusky Police Department in...
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Finding Information When All You Have is a Name
The only information that was found associated with the photograph below is the name of the young lady, Jessie Boor.When the name “Jessie Boor” is entered into the database Heritage Quest, a database...
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The Mystery of the Missing Follett House!
For the last couple of months, I have been trying to figure out more information about the parts of the Follett House that are no longer a part of it, or as I have started calling it in my mind, the...
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