Journal of Linus and Louise Austin, 1872-1905.

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Journal of Linus and Louise Austin, 1872-1905.

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Journal consisting of entries of Linus Austin, 1872-87, continued by those of his wife, Louise Collins Avery Austin, 1887-1905. Notable topics include the business aspects of powder manufacture and Austin's friendship with Rutherford B. Hayes.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Austin, Louise Collins Avery, b. 1828.

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Austin Powder Company

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Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...

Austin, Linus, 1817-1887.

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Linus Austin was a prominent industrialist in Cleveland and vicinity who owned the Austin Powder Company, the oldest manufacturing enterprise in Cleveland and one of the few remaing U.S. manufacturers of black powder used in military ammunition. The company was begun in 1833 to produce explosives used in blasting rock to build the Ohio and Erie Canal. It had plants in Akron and Cleveland, the latter located at the 5 Mile Lock of the Ohio Canal. That facility, which was bought from the Cleveland ...