Remembering Wadsworth

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ISBN: 9781596296329 | 1596296321
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/30/2009

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Battling wolves and wilderness, the settlers of 1814 were the first in a long line of daring and ingenious souls to call Wadsworth home. With a wry but gentle humor, former mayor Caesar A. Carrino regales his readers with tales of these colorful characters, including politically biased embalmers and a swindling tabloid entrepreneur whose ghost still haunts the streets of Wadsworth. Carrino spins a beguiling yarn as he chronicles the history of his city, from the sometimes tragic fate of early pioneers to the coming of a new century with rail, steam, coal and automobile.

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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