Everett Neukom Papers

Correspondence, photographs, newspapers, a map, and other flood related materials provide researchers with personal experience enduring and recovering from the 1913 Dayton Flood, as well as the perspective of a photographer visually documenting the flood for publication. The Everett Neukom papers fall into two series: Series I: Personal, and Series II. 1913 Flood Newspapers and Map.

Series I Personal, contains correspondence of Everett and his family and deals mainly with Everett moving to Dayton and with other common family occurrences. Researchers concerned with the Flood, would want to examine the correspondence of Edward and Nellie Neukom who lived in Dayton with Everett, as their letters provide some insight into that event. Correspondents Edward and Nellie Neukom were Everett's parents; Vinnie Bacher became his wife; and Lisetta Neukom was Everett's sister. Also included in this series are photographs of the family, and miscellaneous flood items from their experience, such as sanitary notices. Please see oversize folder 6, file 8 for a Dayton Journal newspaper with the article "Well-Known Young Couple Wedded in Tiffin Saturday" on Neukom's wedding announcement.

Series II 1913 Flood Newspapers and Map, contains flood coverage from Dayton and other major cities, such as Detroit and Philadelphia. Also included is a 1913 map showing the flood affected areas in Dayton.

"Dayton Hope for Miracle of Only 200 Flood Dead", The Philadelphia Record, 1913 March 28

"Dayton's Greatest Need at this Hour is Able-Bodied Workers", Dayton Daily News, Flood Extra, 1913 March 30

"Pestilence Hovers About Dayton", The Detroit Free Press, 1913 March 30

"Estimates on Dayton Dead Bring Total Down to 400; May Be Considerably Less", The Richmond Palladium, 1913 March 30

"Dayton Grasps Situation Splendidly", Dayton Evening Herald, 1913 March 31

"Zone of Martial Law is Extending...", The Commercial Tribune (Cincinnati), 1913 March 31

"A Telephone Story of the Flood", Dayton Daily News, 1913 April 16

"Freaks and Tragedies of Storm and Flood", Leslies' Illustrated Weekly, 1913 April 17

"Facing Forward: the progress and future of flood prevention in the Miami Valley", The Dayton Evening Herald, 1914 March 5

"Well-Known Young Couple Wedded in Tiffin Saturday" Dayton Journal , 1915 April 4

"Miami Conservancy District Village to be Sold on Auction Block", The Dayton Journal, 1922 March 5

"Ninth anniversary of Flood First to Find All Five Miami Conservancy Dams Ready to Furnish 100 Per Cent Protection", Dayton Daily News, 1922 March 25