What is included with this book?
Foreword | p. 9 |
Acknowledgements | p. 11 |
Wadsworth Is Born | |
The First Settlers: Bewildered in the Wilderness | p. 13 |
Pioneer Embalmers: The Party's Over | p. 15 |
Sylvia Beach: Lost, Never Found | p. 17 |
John Brown's Origins: Why He Went by His Middle Name | p. 19 |
Early Business Center: Not a Mall Hangout | p. 21 |
The Pardee Brothers: From Store to More | p. 24 |
Pardee Mansion on Watrusa: A "Nail-Biding" Time | p. 26 |
The Early Blacksmiths: Red-Hot Craftsmen | p. 28 |
Hotels for a Small Town: Adjoining Bath Outside | p. 30 |
The Sheepshed: Pioneer Answer to an Inside Mall | p. 32 |
The Buggy Works | p. 34 |
Pioneer Mills: On the Cutting Edge | p. 36 |
Erastus Loomis: Turned Black Coal Green | p. 38 |
Coming of the Railroad: Full Steam Ahead for Wadsworth | p. 41 |
Coal Mining Town: Buried Treasure | |
The Silver Creek Mine | p. 45 |
Life of the Miner | p. 48 |
The Great Coal Mine Strike | p. 49 |
Wadsworth Churches: Faith, Bricks and Mortar | |
The Congregational Church | p. 51 |
Ephriam Hunsberger | p. 52 |
The Old Mennonite Church | p. 54 |
The Lutheran Church | p. 56 |
The Methodist Church | p. 58 |
The Disciple Church | p. 59 |
The Emanuel Church: The High Church | p. 60 |
Jerusalem Lutheran Church | p. 61 |
Sacred Heart Church | p. 61 |
First Baptist Church | p. 63 |
Education in Wadsworth: From Bleak to Greek | |
The Early Schools | p. 65 |
The Union School | p. 67 |
The First School Bus | p. 69 |
The Wadsworth Academy | p. 70 |
Higher Education | p. 72 |
The Mennonite College | p. 72 |
The Dague Collegiate Institute | p. 74 |
The Western Reserve Normal College | p. 75 |
Burke Hinsdale | p. 75 |
The Press | |
The Wadsworth Enterprise: All the News that Fits...to Print | p. 79 |
The Young Folks Gem: All that Litters Brings in Gold | p. 81 |
The 1900s: Motoring into the Future | |
Andy Auble | p. 85 |
The First Streetcar: The Sugar Bill | p. 87 |
The First Telephone: Number Please | p. 89 |
City Government and a New Town Hall | p. 92 |
The Opera House, Joe Bender and the First Picture Show | p. 94 |
Early Medical Professionals: Corn Plasters and Country Doctors | |
The Physicians | p. 97 |
Early Dentists | p. 101 |
Early Veterinarians, Horse Doctors, Horse Thieves and Horse Insurance | p. 102 |
The Horse Barn: Wadsworth's New Hospital | p. 103 |
The Beginning of Industry: Lighting the World on Fire | |
The Wadsworth Salt Company | p. 107 |
The Ohio Injector Company | p. 108 |
The Ohio Match Company: Its Birth and Death Made Wadsworth a "Matchless" City | p. 110 |
The Ohio Boxboard Company | p. 113 |
The Wadsworth Brick and Tile Company | p. 113 |
The Excel Rubber Company | p. 115 |
Personalities that Grew Wadsworth | |
Tommy Lucas, the One-Man Show | p. 117 |
Nellie Harter | p. 119 |
Ella Everhard | p. 122 |
Bibliography | p. 125 |
About the Author | p. 127 |
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