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LH/CHA. Champaign County History

 Record Group Term
Identifier: LH/CHA

Staff Only

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Local Medical History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FSC-13
Scope and Contents

The core of his collection was donated by Dr. Homer E. Cassel. The collection consists of county histories, autobiographies, obituaries, directories, and the histories and annual reports of hospitals in the Miami Valley and southwest Ohio.

Dates: circa 1850-1985
Found in: Special Collections

Arnold Family Papers (MS-599)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-599
Abstract The Arnold Family Papers are a multi-generational account of the Kern, Baker, Arnold, Steinemann, Meyer, Enneking, and Decker families. These families included immigrants and individuals who resided in North America from before the Revolutionary War all the way until present day. Photographs, employment records, correspondence, school and legal documents, as well as Army documents from World War I and II tell the story of the lives of these people who settled in Fairfield, Franklin,...
Dates: 1800-2017
Found in: Special Collections

Dr. Robert Riordan Collection of Miami Valley Archaeological Surveys (MS-659)

 Collection
Identifier: MS-659
Abstract

This collection consists of approximately 70 archaeological surveys undertaken by Dr. Robert V. Riordan Professor Emeritus in the Wright State University Anthropology Department. A portion of the archaeological surveys were completed by Wright State University students through the Anthropology Department’s Archaeological Field School. Dr. Riordan completed the remaining surveys as a private contractor.

Dates: 1975-2014; Majority of material found within Bulk 1975-1998
Found in: Special Collections

Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Dayton, Ohio) Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-323
Abstract The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is a benevolent and charitable organization with high moral principles seeking to aid and improve the life of good men. Much of their philosophy was to aid and protect its members, with visiting the sick, aiding the distressed, educating the orphans and burying the dead. Throughout the years they have established over 60 retirement homes for the aged and orphans throughout the United States and Canada. The collection contains minutes, membership,...
Dates: 1865-1945
Found in: Special Collections

Matthews-Howard Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-248
Abstract Graduates of Wilberforce University, Rev. Wesley Matthews and his wife, Ruth "Pat" Matthews, were active in civil rights, church work, and community organizing in the Dayton, Yellow Springs, and Urbana, Ohio areas. After Rev. Matthews died in 1978, Pat Matthews remarried Wendell Howard, a Springfield pharmacist. Papers in this collection include business and personal correspondence from both families, records from a depression-era WPA education program in Clark County, family photographs, a...
Dates: 1908 - 1992
Found in: Special Collections

Urbana Typographical Union, Local 747 Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS-50
Abstract The material within the Urbana Typographical Union No. 747 collection is divided into two series dealing with administrative and financial records. The arrangement is chronological within the various folders.Series I: Administrative deals primarily with membership concerns, with materials dating between 1913 and 1976. Names of those in the union can be located in these books. Correspondence is not too extensive little material on the running of the union (operations...
Dates: 1913-1976
Found in: Special Collections

Charles Lanman's Collected Biographies of 19th-century Ohio Congressmen (SC-21)

 Collection
Identifier: SC-21
Abstract

This is a collection of autobiographical letters written from various local Congressmen to Charles Lanman.

Dates: 1831-1863
Found in: Special Collections

Champaign County Cemeteries Records (MFM-32)

 Collection
Identifier: MFM-32
Scope and Contents

Consists of six volumes of Champaign County cemetery listings, compiled in 1955 by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The volumes are indexed.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Special Collections

Daniel H. Espy Diary (MFM-14)

 Collection
Identifier: MFM-14
Scope and Contents

Diary of a Civil War soldier who served in the Sixty-sixth Regiment, Company G, of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Special Collections

Champaign County Cemetery Records

 Collection
Identifier: MFM-177
Dates: tbd
Found in: Special Collections
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