11/01/2011

REFERENCE MATERIALS LIST

ARCANUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY

123 WEST GEORGE STREET

ARCANUM, OH  45304

CALL 937-692-6462 FOR APPOINTMENT

 

ARCANUM BOOKS

Arcanum Centennial Celebration 1949-1950

BOOKS

Historic National Road in OH By the OH Historical Society

The Dean of Steam Fire Engine Builders By Ed Hass

OH Statistics- 1879

History Richland Co., OH 1807-1880

Ridpath’s History of United States

The American People and Their Old World Ancestors by Vollintine

Ancient History by Rollin

History of Colony of New Haven, Connecticut Vol. 1 & 2 by Edward Atwater

Fort Nesbit by Donald Asman

Newton Twp. Civil War Monument Pleasant Hill, OH 1895-1995

Tipp city Tippecanoe Sesqui-Centennial 1840-1990

Tracing Your Irish Ancestors by John Grenham

History Castine 1822-1976

1976 Bi-Centennial Pitsburg

Families from Gordon, OH 1949-1998 by Abraham Lincoln

Kids from Gordon by Abraham Lincoln

Historical Vol. 1 Memories of Miami Valley

Anthony Wayne & OH Indian Wars

Families of Darke Co OH

History of Darke Co, OH 1880 by W. H. Beers

Down Memory Lane by Jeanette Burke (stories from Ithaca, OH)

CENSUS

1870 Mercer Co. OH

CHURCH

Arcanum Methodist Church Board Meetings Minutes 1948-1959

DEEDS

John & Ethel Delaplane abstract land title 1937

Mattie Ivester to Carl Rosser

Administrator deed for J.M. Bickel, executor for Mattie Ivester 1924

DIRECTORIES

1925 Directory for Monroe, Franklin, Twin, & Van Buren Townships

1936 Darke County Directory

Eldorado, New Paris, & West Manchester 1957

Reference Book for Darke Co., OH for 1996

Robinson’s Darke Co. Rural Directory for 1964, 1969-70,1979, 1981, 1985

Greenville City Directories for 1965,1985,1989,1992,1996

FAMILY BIBLE’S

Anna Shepherd

FAMILY HISTORIES

Loy Family 1732-1965

Johann Werner Ohlwein 1756-1826; His Descendents in America By Lena Belle Olwine Mullen 1987

Joseph Leander Fourman Family Tree by Phyllis E. Fourman Shields and David Shields

Levi Frazee 1640-1999 By Carolyn Frazee

Bradberg & Hawkey Families by Mary E. Pearce & Carolyn Frazee

Fourmans of Darke County (Descendents of Johannes Fourman & Catherine Stager) by Darrell Delk

Troutwine Family by Fred and Carolyn Troutwine (Besecker,Oswald,Carroll,Ditmer,Fourman,Dohner)

GATEWAY TO THE WEST

Is a fully indexed and searchable version of the Ohio genealogy magazine Gateway to the West, which was published by Anita Short and Ruth Bowers from 1967 to 1987. From common pleas court records, guardianships, naturalizations, and deed abstracts to the more conventional births, marriages, deaths, cemetery records, and wills, Gateway offered a range of genealogical source material spanning 76 of Ohio's 88 counties.  1800-1850 time frames.

GERMAN BAPTIST VINCIATOR

Obituary Index-Issues to 1987

Oak Hill District 1996

Obituary Index-September 1991

Index to July 1983

Index-All issues to ?

LETTERS

Correspondence involving Lizzy Perrin, Dottie Rench,  Corrin Perrin, & Katie Krelp 1884-1886

Civil War Letter

Letter from Miami Co. to extend Rt. 55

Letter Ondo Ivester death 1889

Album about John F. Rosser including civil war letters to wife Lucy

Ithaca families (Wert,Brock,Burke,Unger,Kiblinger,Ridenour,Cromwell) Two Vol.’s of letters, photo’s, obits, and hand written family genealogy names and notes.  Donated by Jean Baldwin Price.

NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY

1977:  December

1980:  September

1981:  March & September

1982:  March

1985:  March, June, & September

1978:  March

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Stephens Saw Mill supplying large timbers for the U.S. Constitution

Pretty Ritz Movie House

Numerous other articles about Arcanum and sports

Actual Arcanum Times newspapers

Arcanum News from 1888-1896 copies from Greenville newspaper

Greenville Daily Advocates from 4-1-1964 through 6-30-1964

Greenville Daily Advocates from 9-1-1966 through 10-31-1966

OH ARCHEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS

PLAT BOOKS

1875-1888

1956

1967

PHOTOGRAPHS

We have a large assortment of Arcanum area pictures along with Arcanum school pictures, graduation classes, sports events.

Pitsburg business and school photos and advertisements.

Besecker Reunion 1915 picture with list of attendees at Ed Altic Home

The Brumbaugh, Sease, Culbertson, Michael, Hofacker, Fourman, Etzler, and Young families

Class 1942 and 1943 Monroe High School

1910 Delisle School

Betty Sease, Drum Major of Monroe High School

Arcanum class of 1927 and 1929

Arcanum Ball team 1908-1909

Arcanum Booster Day 1912

Don and Barbara Sease Wedding

Employees of Tobacco Warehouse 1890-1900

Jack Weaver ,Larrey Fry, Mart Wild, CF Mundhenk, Jim Heck hunting

Pitsburg School-Identified is Clara Fourman Fasick and Mary Fourman

REVOLUTION WAR

Rolls & Lists of Connecticut Men In Revolution 1775-1783 By Connecticut Historical Society

WORLD WAR 1

Official Roster of OH-Soldiers, Sailors, Marines from 1917-1918.  23 Volumes

CIVIL WAR INFO

Samuel H. Culbertson

John George Sprecher

Henry McEowen

John F. Rosser

Harrod & William Mills

Henry Cromwell

James Bell

Jesse Hyer

The Weary Boys about the 110th OH Infantry by Thomas Pope

YEARBOOKS-ARCANUM BUTLER SCHOOLS

1921     1924            1925            1926            1937            1938            1949

1957     1958            1959            1960            1961            1962            1963            1964            1965            1966            1967            1968            1969

1970     1971            1972            1973            1974            1975            1976            1977            1978            1979

1980     1981            1982            1983            1984            1985            1986            1987            1988

Elementary School Yearbooks

1977     1978            1981            1982            1983            1984            1985            1986            1987

Souvenir Booklet 1921-1922 Delisle School, District #5

MONROE HIGH SCHOOL YEAR BOOKS (Pitsburg)

1947     1949

Autograph book of Lydia Fourman late 1800’s

 Micro-film reader with following reels:

Darke Co. Births 1889-1908

Darke Co. Deaths 1867-1905

Arcanum Weekly Times May 11 1899-July 25 1901; August 1 1901-Jan 2 1902; Aug 27 1903-Mar 30 1905

Miami Valley Local History 1921-1937 Dayton Daily News Magazine

Miami Valley Families Genealogy 1933-1939 newsclippings from Dayton Sunday Journal

Micro-fisch reader with following films:

Census records

War of 1812

Records from OH and other states