Caesar a Carrino

Remembering Wadsworth: from Pioneers to Streetcars Caesar a Carrino

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-126). Table of Contents: Foreword / Lynda C. Carrino -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Wadsworth Is Born -- The First Settlers: Bewildered in the Wilderness -- Pioneer Embalmers: The Party's Over -- Sylvia Beach: Lost, Never Found -- John Brown's Origins: Why He Went by His Middle Name -- Early Business Center: Not a Mall Hangout -- The Pardee Brothers: From Store to More -- Pardee Mansion on Watrusa: A Nail-Biding Time -- The Early Blacksmiths: Red-Hot Craftsmen -- Hotels for a Small Town: Adjoining Bath Outside -- The Sheepshed: Pioneer Answer to an Inside Mall -- The Buggy Works -- Pioneer Mills: On the Cutting Edge -- Erastus Loomis: Turned Black Coal Green -- Coming of the Railroad: Full Steam Ahead for Wadsworth -- Part II. Coal Mining Town: Buried Treasure -- The Silver Creek Mine -- Life of the Miner -- The Great Coal Mine Strike -- Part III. Wadsworth Churches: Faith, Bricks and Mortar -- The Congregational Church -- Ephriam Hunsberger -- The Old Mennonite Church -- The Lutheran Church -- The Methodist Church -- The Disciple Church -- The Emanuel Church: The High Church -- Jerusalem Lutheran Church -- Sacred Heart Church -- First Baptist Church -- Part IV. Education in Wadsworth: From Bleak to Greek -- The Early Schools -- The Union School -- The First School Bus -- The Wadsworth Academy -- Higher Education -- The Mennonite College -- The Dague Collegiate Institute -- The Western Reserve Normal College -- Burke Hinsdale -- Part V. The Press -- The Wadsworth Enterprise: All the News that Fits...to Print -- The Young Folks Gem: All that Litters Brings in Gold -- Part VI. The 1900s: Motoring into the Future -- Andy Auble -- The First Streetcar: The Sugar Bill -- The First Telephone: Number Please -- City Government and a New Town Hall -- The Opera House, Joe Bender and the First Picture Show -- Part VII. Early Medical Professionals: Corn Plasters and Country Doctors -- The Physicians -- Early Dentists -- Early Veterinarians, Horse Doctors, Horse Thieves and Horse Insurance -- The Horse Barn: Wadsworth's New Hospital -- Part VIII. The Beginning of Industry: Lighting the World on Fire -- The Wadsworth Salt Company -- The Ohio Injector Company -- The Ohio Match Company: Its Birth and Death Made Wadsworth a Matchless City -- The Ohio Boxboard Company -- The Wadsworth Brick and Tile Company -- The Excel Rubber Company -- Part IX. Personalities that Grew Wadsworth -- Tommy Lucas, the One-Man Show -- Nellie Harter -- Ella Everhard -- Bibliography -- About the Author.