Montgomery County Historical Society Collection 1867-2005

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Montgomery County Historical Society Collection 1867-2005

The collection includes the records of the Pioneer Association of Montgomery County, the Dayton Historical Society and the Montgomery County Historical Society Collections covering the period from 1867 to the present. The collections include minutes, records of relics, scrapbooks, legal documents, membership lists, financial statements, correspondence, printed material and unpublished papers.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6396385

Dayton Metro Library

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Arnold, James Oliver

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Kuhns, Miles Standish

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Montgomery County Historical Society (Ohio)

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Although the Dayton Historical Society is known to have been formed in 1897, organized interest in Dayton history goes back twenty years earlier to "The Pioneer Association of Dayton," which was formed Nov. 25, 1867 and lasted until 1888. After the first Centennial, on Sept. 30, 1896 the Dayton Historical Society was formed through the efforts of James O. Arnold. The meetings were taking place at Newcom Tavern (the first building to be erected in 1796), which was in the possession o...

Fitzgerald, Roy G. (Roy Gerald), 1875-1962

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Roy Gerald Fitzgerald (August 25, 1875-November 16, 1962) was an attorney, a soldier, a preservationist, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. Roy G. Fitzgerald was a son of Michael Gerald Fitzgerald and Cornelia Maria Avery, and was born in Watertown, New York. His father was a business executive who moved to Dayton in 1890 with the Davis Sewing Machine Company, which had been purchased by George P. Huffman and relocated from Watertown to...

Sullivan, Charles Ferguson

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