A Century of Service A CENTURY OF SERVICE History of the Dayton Public Library, Dayton, Ohio, 1847-1947 by Elizabeth Faries “A great library cannot be constructed, it is the growth of ages You may buy books at any time with money, but you cannot make a library like one that has been a century or two a’growing though you had the whole national debt to do it with ” (1) In 1886 Robert W Steele, one of the
When the Cholera Plague Swept Dayton This article appeared in the Dayton Daily News on March 8, 1931 WHEN THE CHOLERA PLAGUE SWEPT DAYTON DAYTON-EPIDEMICS By Howard Burba “They died like flies!” It’s an expression as old as the hills themselves; an expression that has been used from time immemorial to describe violent or wide-spread epidemics of disease From the earliest scourge of Biblical days, down through the yellow
Illustrated History of the Dayton Fire Department DAYTON'S BIGGEST FIRES But Two of them Reached Enormous Sums Several Instances of Loss of Life Dayton has been fortunate in that she has suffered very few great conflagrations, when considered from the standpoint of financial loss There have been instances of fierce fires, difficult to manage, but the loss invariably has been kept at the lowest possible notch The greatest fire the city
The Patterson Log Cabin - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS The Patterson Log Cabin by Charlotte Reeve Conover Press of The N C R May 1906 (Quotation from Daniel Webster’s famous “Log Cabin” speech, 1840) “GENTLEMEN, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin Raised among the snowdrifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney