Fam. Family and Personal Papers

Abstract The Kettering Family Papers contain materials documenting the life of Charles F. Kettering, as well as his son Eugene Kettering, daughter-in-law Virginia Kettering, and their children. The Kettering family was heavily involved in the industrial and, later, philanthropic make-up of the city of Dayton during the 20th century, and were greatly influential in the city's more recent history. Made up primarily of photographs, correspondence, family keepsakes such as holiday cards, photo albums and...

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The Gladys Chaney Wessels Papers are comprised of documents, photographs, scrapbooks, correspondence, and audiovisual materials, all relating to the life and work of Gladys Chaney Wessels, a prominent educator and social activist in the Dayton, Ohio area. The papers include items from her personal life as well as the numerous institutions and women's rights groups of which she has been a part.

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The collection includes photographs, registration cards, newspaper clippings, West Carrollton Reading Club records, postcards, and scrapbooks. It was created by Mildred Baker who lived in the Dayton area in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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The Charles A. Kline Papers contain letters to and from Kline, a soldier from Ohio during WWI. The collection is a source of information for research relating to WWI, soldier life, and Camp Sherman located in Chillicothe, Ohio. Also, this information could be used for genealogical purposes for descendents of the Kline Family.

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Letters, diaries, clippings, articles, and other family papers of a pioneer Greene County family with much material on frontier and pioneer life.

The collection consists of private letters, obituaries, histories, files of Xenia Female College Literary Society 1866-1868, Xenia Academy of Medicine 1879-1889, Civil War memoirs of Clark Galloway, Collection book of Wilberforce University 1856-1857, miscellaneous newspapers.

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Scrapbook contains family photographs, obituaries, notes, and genealogical materials for a family from the Germantown and Dayton, Ohio area.

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Consists of the letters of a Clark County soldier who served in the Spanish-American War.

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The microfilm contains clippings dating 1917-1977, which follow Paul Katz's musical career as a performer and composer, as well as the founder and Musical Director of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.

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The microfilm contains genealogical notes and working papers collected by Bishop Milton Wright (1828-1917), the father of the Wright Brothers. The materials date between 1779-1973 and cover the following families: Reeder, Wright, Brown, Koerner, Croddy, Brader, Andrews, Freeman, Harris, Benham, Stokes, Convenhoven, Van Cleve, Swaynie, Fry, Porter, Moody, Lake, Eudaly, Dover, Holt, Baker, and Gano.

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Contains Captain James Riley's log of the brig, James Madison, 1832-1835, as well as family letters, legal documents, petitions, clippings, biographical sketches, and photographs. Riley was a ship's captain, Ohio pioneer, and founder of Celina, Ohio. His family subsequently became prominent in Mercer County.