Preble County (Ohio) -- History

Contains a variety of materials on the establishment and growth of the Red Cross in Dayton as well as the records of the Greene and Preble County Chapters prior to their merger with the Dayton Chapter in 1960. The collection includes Board of Directors and committee meeting minutes, annual reports, programs, extensive correspondence, financial records, audio materials, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Homer and Elsie Hardy lived in Dayton, Ohio, but travelled the world in the 1920s and 1930s, possibly as part of Homer's job as a manager in the foreign department of the Delco-Light Company. The Homer and Elsie Hardy Collection contains 8 scrapbooks and numerous other postcards and photographs documenting their family life and travels.

Handwritten letter from Joseph Hawking to Charles Redman, pertaining to the people of Eaton, OH, erecting a monument to Major James Lowry, dated May 21, 1846.

Dr. Tillson was born in Darke County. He graduated in 1862 from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute. He practiced in West Alexandria, Ohio. The ledger lists visits and accounts of patients.

The collection contains a single ledger used by Dr. Tillson to record information transferred from other ledgers concerning his patients, visits, and accounts therein. The ledger was also used by his wife after his death to record grocery lists of different people.