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Mount Pilgrim Church 100th Anniversary 1923-2023
No full textThis commemorative book celebrates the first one hundred years of the Mount Pilgrim Church in Toledo, Ohio. Published in 2023 by the Mount Pilgrim Commemorative Booklet Committee, it details the organization's beginnings as a prayer meeting in 1923, its first church building in 1929, devastating fire in 1991, and the opening of a senior housing facility in 2007 called Pilgrim Port. The history includes photographs, newspaper articles, biograhies, and a list of centennial legacy honorees
The Kent Historian, Kent Historical Society Newsletter, Number 110, Spring 2024
No full textTHE KENT HISTORIAN
The Newsletter ofthe Kent Historical Society Spring, 2024
Number 110
Finding balance between growth and preservation
West Main Street presents cooperative opportunity
Howard T. Boyle
KHS Board of Trustees
We are all aware, ifyou have studied anything about our city, that Zenas Kent was a generational influence on our city.
We think ofhim as a wealthy landowner and merchant, born in Connecticut in 1786, who through shrewd business dealings and perseverance came to own the vast majority of Franklin Township.
His son Marvin first worked for his
father in the family dry goods store in
Ravenna, then settled in the up-and-coming
community of Franklin Mills (later
named Kent in Marvin's honor). He likely
came with his father's blessing to oversee
properties and investments the family had
made there.
Zenas remained in Ravenna and didn't
move to Franklin Mills, Kent, until 1851.
Zenas Kent, son Marvin Kent, both built homes in vicinity of other prosperous men; Zenas in Cleveland, his son in Kent. In, this article, Howard Boyle looks at the historical significance of these men and their mansions on Euclid Avenue of Cleveland and West Main Street of Kent, Ohio.
He closed his dry goods store to concentrate more on his real estate investments in and around this new and progressive city.
He built a house at the top of the hill on East Main Street at the Northwest corner of DePeyster Street, where the Kent Stage is today. He made it their family home in Kent for the rest ofhis life.
These are all facts that have been widely known for years to historians and anyone interested in our community's past. What most people don't know is that in 1858 Zenas and his wife Pamelia built a grand mansion on Cleveland's Euclid Avenue.
Once discovering that, I wanted to know where. See Legacies, page 2
2025 brings 150th anniversary of Depot's opening
Celebration plans in progress
Sandra Halem
KHS President Emeritus
In 1971 the Kent Historical Society was founded. Its first mission was to help preserve the historic Erie Depot for the community. It would take nearly ten years for KHS to purchase the Depot, find an architect with a plan for saving it, and finally secure a suitable tenant to ensure that there would be a good use for it and a financial base for its preservation.
Since then, it has become one of the most important buildings in Kent -and probably one of the most photographed! Next year, the Kent Historical Society will lead the community in celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Depot's opening on June 1, 1875. A committee has been working on plans for some celebratory activities. Some will be educational or historical and some just meant to be fun for all ages. It will be a great time for the city of Kent to come together.
We want to collect stories, photos and films from the Depot or railroad yards when they were in operation. Ifyou or someone in your family has a story to tell
about working for the railroad or
has any historical photos of the
railroad yards or Depot prior to
1970, we would love to talk to
you and share what you have.
We have already videotaped an oral history of a former worker from the Kent railroad yards and we hope to get more from others.
Announcements will be coming this
Waiting at the Depot freight house under annex awning (ca. 1900).
Fall about Depot and railroad centered activities. Ifyou would like to help us, please send your name, email or phone number,
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Legacies, from page 1 If you have ever been to Cleveland's Playhouse Square, you have been to ZeZenas
Kent and Cleveland's Euclid Ave.
nas' s home, or at least to the land of hisCleveland was the center of commerce
home.
as well as the arts and fine culture for
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1 Street to the light and glancing just slightly to the right you would have seen the beautiful sandstone Tuscan style villa of Zenas and Pamelia Kent.
Built in 1858 by Irish immigrant William McIntosh, a popular Euclid Avenue builder, and designed by the New York
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architectural firm of
Thomas and Sons, itanyone living between New York City and was a showplace.
Chicago. Euclid Avenue was New York's The home featured a large elegant recepFifth
Avenue and Paris's Champs-Elysees tion hall, parlor, dining room, bedroom
all rolled into one place. At the time, living and bath on the first floor as well as seron the Avenue was the place to show the vants' quarters, kitchen and laundry in the
world that you were a success. rear. Also, to the rear were the stables and
Only 35 miles from his real estate carriage house that were also a necessity ofholdings, Zenas would find a place to meet the period .
and socialize with the barons of industry and take part in the city's finest clubs and The sweeping open staircase was elegant culture. pine with carved doors and cornices. All
To what extent the Kents did all that the rooms had hot and cold running water. is still unknown. However, the house is The house had a central heating system and known and has an interesting story. See Legacies, page 3
Introducing our new Collections Manager
I. K rth and Information Science degree at
By Ju 1e enwo y K S U . .
ent tate mvers1ty.
KHS Director
On her passion for the field of We are pleased to introduce our museum collections, Echo says, "I
newest addition to the "behind the like connecting objects with hisscenes" team, Collections Manager tory. It's like a puzzle. What is this Echo Malleo. thing and how can I find out evShe
joined us spring
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how does it fit into the cused role of organizgrand
scheme of things. ing and documenting In the short time our vast collection of Malleo has been with artifacts.
us, she has already She first came to
made great strides in Kent in 2009 to study
cataloging and cleaning at the university, where
up our physical storageshe earned an underand
digital database.
graduate degree then Our goal to make our an MA in Art History collections accessible
in 2023, and is curonline is far more atrently
working towards
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Spring 2024
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Legacies, from page 2 sons' home, as well as John Getz's home, on Euclid Avenue. Hats off to Marvin a cupola on the roof from which you could is now the location ofMain Street Auto for not following his father in moving toRepair. The Kent Court House was where Cleveland. Also, thanks to the Masonic
see all the way to the lake and downtown as well as the entire neighborhood. the Tim Parsons house once stood. All of Lodge for taking such good care ofthethese are examples ofcreative destruction. home since purchasing it in 1923 from the
Unfortunately, Zenas and Pamelia did
A growing city should grow from the William Kent estate.
·not live long enough to truly enjoy their
center oftown outward, but that doesn't West Main Street should only get better.
magnificent home. Pamelia died in Kent
mean that preservation ofpreviously hisI would recommend that the property
in October of 1864. Zenas moved back
toric areas is not meaningful or desirable. owners combine and form a homeowner's
to Kent after Pamelia's death and died in
We have been able to save the four association to preserve what they have
October of 1865.
Queen Anne style homes on the north and petition for improvements that wouldIn 1865 his house on the Avenue was side ofEast Main Street which includes enhance the livability and property valuessold to Samuel L. Mather. His family the Kent Historical Society Museum, with in the area. People are fixing the homes uplived in the home and saw much ofthe adaptive reuse. They are stately and, for the and turning them into family living as theygrandeur ofEuclid Avenue. Samuel's son most part, still appealing and handsome. were built. William lived in the house with his mother And so, it goes, or does it? The homes are for the most part reauntil 1909. It was then demolished for My concern now is West Main Street. It sonably priced and with improvementsfurther commercial development ofEuclid is for the most part untouched by developand updates, they become very desirableAvenue, as were all the once priceless grand ment or creative destruction. A couple of single-family homes in Kent's hottesthomes ofanother time. examples ofconcern were the destruction neighborhood. Some improvements to theof the Farnam/Graham home at the corner infrastructure, such as period lighting and
Kent City's West Main Avenue
The story ofCleveland's Euclid Avenue ofMain and Mantua Street for use as a gas street trees, could go a long way to identifystation. its historic nature.
is a sad story for preservationists but in The later destruction ofthe Scott WilWith the proper enthusiasm and coopeconomics
we describe what happened there as creative destruction. It is in many liams-Ira Harriff home west ofChestnut eration, almost anything is possible. I hope areas unavoidable, and it is evident here in Street was another blow to the street. It is to see it all come together someday. Let's Kent as well. now a grouping ofapartments, and while not let what happened to Euclid Avenuecertainly useful and desirable, they could happen to our great city.
Our first grand homes were close to town, due to their easy walking distance never replace the grandeur ofthe original Now is the time to begin our efforts. Let
to the businesses that were growing in our home. this be a call to action! central city. Most ofthe merchants and While not all the homes on West Main Editor's note: Our thanks to Howard businessmen ofthe era lived in them. Street are historically significant, many are. Boyle (below) for contributing this Charles H. Kent's home on the corner of West Main Street is Kent's Euclid Avenue. It article.
Main and Depeyster Street, now the Fireis ironic that, as with the Playhouse Square Boyle has been, area ofEuclid Avenue, both were anchored and continues to be,
stone store, as well as John Getz's home by a home occupied by the Kent family: a staunch supporter
across the street. Doctor J. W. Shively's
Zenas in Cleveland and Marvin in Kent. ofhistorical
home, formerly the home ofZenas, is now
preservation and the
Marvin's home is perhaps the only home
the site ofthe Kent Stage at the corner of
mission ofthe Kent
in Kent that would have been at home
Main and Depeyster Streets. Edward Par-
Historical Society.
Spring 2024
3 Artifact Bengt George comes across manyfascinating artifacts ofKent history as he works in KHS Museum's varied collection. Here, he delves deeper into the background o an item from a current exhibit.
Spotlight
Medical instrument journeys through time, place to Kent
Leitz earned a reputation as potential trouhelping hundreds ofJewish employees and
By Bengt George
blemakers in the state's eyes. their families safely flee Germany, even
KHS Administrative Assistant
assisting in securing similar work in cities
Nevertheless, company head Ernst Leitz
As one would expect from a museum as far away as New York in the US.
II and his daughter Dr. Elsie Kuehn-Leitz
oflocal history, most ofour artifacts tell a
spent much ofthe 1930s and early 1940s The company is still in operation today,
purely local story-one that ties directly to
having rebranded as Leica in 1986 and
the unique development ofKent and the
pivoting towards the manufacture of
lives ofits citizens. For this issue's Artifact
high-quality camera lenses.
Spotlight, however, we wanted to feature So why a German microscope in a
an artifact with a story that begins halfway across the world and is connected to Northeast Ohio history museum? Well, one ofthe most studied periods ofglobal as we learned while creating this exhibit, many doctors and pharmacists themhistory.
selves are prolific collectors of medical
In the corner ofour exhibit on pharantiques.
The Ernst Leitz microscope was
macies and medicine in Kent, there is a
owned by Dr. Walter Lang, the longmicroscope
inside a raised display case.
time pediatrician in Kent fondly rememThis
antique instrument ofbrass and glass
bered by generations oflocal families.
was manufactured in 1929 by the Ernst Leitz company ofWetzlar, Germany. This piece, along with a wide array ofsimilar artifacts, came as a generous
It was not long afterwards that their
donation by his daughter Julie. We
leading optical scientist Max Berek ran
are happy to preserve and display the
afoul ofthe rising Nazi party for refusing microscope, as a reminder of the jourto
cooperate with the new government. neys a physical object can have and the
He was stripped ofhis qualifications
depth ofstories it can hold.
( though they were restored in 1946) and
Pioneer Cemetery spring
cleanup details announced
Informative Meeting at KHS, 1111,111111,1111 May 9th at 5 p.m. Rocl~RIIICleanup at cemetery, May 19th from 2-4 p.m.
Congratulations to Chas Madonio! (photo, left) Also, we thank all ofyou who have purchased one, two, · or even more, copies! And, yes, you can still purchase through the online shop See more about Pioneer Cemetery on
(https://kentohiohistory.org/shop). our website: https://kentohiohistory.org/
Spring 2024
The Kent Historian, Kent Historical Society Newsletter, Number 111, Fall 2024
No full textTHE KENT HISTORIAN
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FALL 2024
VOLUME 111
Depot Celebration Will Honor Railroad History
Sandy Halem President Emeritus
On Sunday June 1st, 2025, Kent Historical Society will lead the community in celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Depot. From
3:00 -5:00 the people of Kent are invited to a birthday party in the Depot, now home to the restaurant Over Easy. The program will include games, food, music, and an educationa l program recognizing the importance of the railroad and Marvin Kent in our town's development.
Local educator and railroad historian Bruce Dzeda is
working to complete an updated history of rail
transportation systems in Kent. Dzeda's previously
published book, Railroad Town, has been a bestseller
at KHS ror years. Keep an eye out for news about his
new book as we get closer to Depot 150.
Also on deck for pubI ication is our very speciaI
coloring book -a collaborative efforl between KHS
and Stanton Middle School art teacher Mr. Knepper.
The coloring pages are based on work by Knepper's
s tudenls and the book wi II also include rail roadthemed
games to help bring both fun and local history to kids in elementary school.
Depot 150
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The celebration will also kick off a fundraising
campaign to aid in our continued preservation of the Depot and the historic Clapp-Woodward house, home of KHS' Museum and archival space.
Finally, a new railroad-themed exhibit will open at our Museum in June. The exhibit will feature custom replicas of clothing from that era and highlight Kent's early historian Charlotte Weaver. We are working with a talented costume designer lo recreate what a woman like Weaver would have worn and carried when
traveling by train.
If you would like to be involved in some of these events please contact KHS and we will help you get started.
Haymaker Family Artifact Finds New Home at KHS
Echo Malleo Collections Manager
The repetition of the name throughout the area provides
[n June, KHS acquired a special piece related to d family whose name is likely familiar to Kent residents. some indication of the importance of the fami ly to our
Visitors to our Museum may recall our display on the city's history.
Haymaker family, but if not, it is still likely that at
Story continued on page 2
some point you have driven along Haymaker Parkway or attended the Haymaker Farmer's Market. Story continued from page 1
The desk complements a number of other Haymaker Family artifacts in our front exhibition rooms. Plan a visit soon to take a closer look!
The Haymakers were among the first settlers in the Kent area and built the first grist mill in 1807, leading to the town's early name of Franklin Mills. Other notable firsts belonging to the Haymaker family include the first nonIndigenous child born in the area in 1807 and the first recorded death in 1810. Members of the Haymaker family have been active in the town since, participating in many clubs and even acting as part of city council
over the years.
Earlier this summer, KHS was contacled by a
descendent of Sarah Haymaker Elgin (another notable family name) about donating a piece of furniture previously owned by Sarah. The item in question was a piano Lhat Sarah had had converted into a desk. KHS doesn'L often accept donations of furniture due to limited ability to care for and slore such special pieces. But this desk, related to two such important families to Kent history, was a welcome addition to our collections.
St. Patrick's School Building Now One Century Old
Tim DeFrange Contributing Writer
Thirty-eight years ago, in 1986, Saint Patrick's School on Portage Street turned 100 years old. To mark that anniversary, Record Courier staff writer Elaine Schwinn wrote a sixteen-page special supplemental article about the history of the school. 2024 now marks another anniversary for Saint Patrick's school: 100 years since the 1924 construction of the "old" eightclassroom building.
Plans began in 1920, after the Humility of Mary Sisters had spent 30-plus years educating the parish school children in an 1886 wooden four-classroom clapboard building. Not only was lhe building painfully overcrowded, but its wooden floor was full of holes and a coal furnace burned below. The sisters wou ld often send the boys down below the floor lo sloke the coal rurnace. Mary Armstrong Bissler remembered how some of Lhe boys would come up wilh their eyebrows singed.
Eleanor McCombs recalled the fundra ising effort of selling bricks to make the new school building a reality. Children in the parish were sent out to sell lhem for the wa lls of the school. For just a dime. a donor could own a portion of a brick and a whole brick cost 90,000.
1952 photograph showing the schoolhouse building to the right of the old Church on Portage Street. The building's construction cost of 1. 7 Million today.
By 1928 nearly two-thirds of the cost had been paid. Unlike the old school, bathrooms were inside the building. 350 students were housed in the eight brandnew classrooms in the fall of 1924. Three decades later by 1964, twelve more classrooms had been added to the origi naI eight. The origi na I eight-classroom portion sti 11 serves, providing the school office, classrooms, computer instruction, and the library for Saint Patrick's school children in 2024.
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Picturing the Past: The Shively House
The Northwest corner of Main and Depeyster Streets has long been home to the Kent Stage, a building with its own fascinating history. But what came before it? Until 1927, on that very same plot of land stood the palatial residence of Dr. Joe Shively. Originally built for Zenas Kent himself, this house was the very first of the "mansions" of Kent. This 1874 artist's rendering shows the home in all its splendor.
Keeping Pioneer Cemetery Beautiful
As part of our stewardship of local historical sites. KHS hosts regular cleanup days of the Stow Street Pioneer Cemetery. We were very excited to have special volunteers at our most recent one on Saturday, November 2nd.
Aicien Ziots. local prospective Eagle Scout, has been working with us since .July to organize cleanup efforts, conduct a tree inventory or the site with Davey Tree, and arrange for a new commemorative plaque at the cemetery's entrance (you'll be able to see it this coming spring!). John Burnell, stone masonry expert, has done an amazing job at headstone restoralion and taking utmost care to preserve details of th~se artifacts.
Big thanks to both of them and everyone else who came to help out!
Top: Before and after headstone restoration work by Burnell Bottom left: Burnell loading stones to the Cemetery Bottom right: Led by Ziots, young volunteers carry raked leaves
The Mission of the Kent · · Histor«:al Soci~:t)' is to plthe primary Kent history resource
and reference center, leading the co.mmunity in .the.col/ectign,
· ' preservation, and~/nterpretation of Kents heritage. The Soriety offers educational programs to
schools, bw.sinesses, civio . .. organizations, ·and individ'iiais. .
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· · Staff Bengt George, Communication~
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Museum Hours:
Fridays and Satur~ys lOAM~2PM or by appointment . Last Chance to See Liquid Crystals Exhibit
Save the Date: Winter Open House
On Saturday, December 7th. we will have our regular public hours wilh a feslive twist! From I0AM-IPM we wi ll have free refreshmenls and ramily-friendly crafts!
As we near our seasonal close starting December 15th, we would like to encourage members to come see our most recent temporary exhibt. Modern Vision: Liquid Crystal Technology in Kent.
A collaboration belween KHS. Kenl Stale Universily, and local tech company Kent Displays, this exhibit has stood out for a couple or reasons. First, with artifacts and pholos dating from the 1960s through to present day. it is our most modern exhibit ever. Second, il is our most interactive exhibit lo date. Visitors are invited to take a mood ring (which technically makes use of Liquid Crystal technology) and try a variety or Kent Displays' innovative Boogie Board products.
Liquid Crystal Displays, mosl notably used today in phone and TV screens, have an importanl history in Kent. Kent State has been a major international player in
the development in this technology since 1965 when Professor Glenn H. Brown founded the Liquid Crystal Institute. His colleague. .I. William Doane, would go on to author many patents and secure government funding for important work in the field. He would also found Kent Displays in 1993. The company thrives today creating affordable resuable writi ng surfaces for schools, hospitals, and lhe general public. Plan a visil soon before we inslall a new exhibil for spring!
Holiday Book Sale!
Have you read our bestseller Bars, Bands, and Rock 'n Roll by Chas Madonia? Interested in Bruce Dzeda's Railroad Town: Kent and the Erie Railroad?
Stop by the Museum or visit KentOhioHistory.org/shop to pick up a gift for the local history lover in your lire
Other title: Synthesis study on methods for collection of traffic data
No full textFinal report; Sponsoring agency: Ohio Department of Transportation, Office of Statewide Planning & Research; Contract or grant no.: 39174; "September 2024."; Additional information provided in email: Project ID number 118095 ; Sate job number 136682; "Author(s) ... Zhixia (Richard) Li..."--Technical report documentation page; "Performing organization ... University of Cincinnati"--Technical report documentation page; "Prepared in cooperation with the Ohio Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration"--page ii; Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-28 of Final report)Final report (5 unnumbered pages, 94 pages) -- [Fact sheet] (2 unnumbered pages)The report presents a summary of traffic data collection technologies used by local public agencies (LPAs) to collect various types of traffic data, such as hourly traffic volume, daily traffic volume, speed, classification, and turning movements. The research has four main objectives. First, a comprehensive literature review of the state-of-the-practice traffic data collection technologies and AI-based technologies was conducted. Following this, different agencies were identified for further surveys and interviews. The results of these surveys and interviews present the distribution of traffic data collection technologies among various agencies. Finally, a decision tree was constructed for the selection of traffic data collection technologies under different conditions. It is recommended to conduct further experimental research on different traffic data collection technologies under various environmental condition
Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation
No full text"Dave Yost, Attorney General"; "Protecting the Unprotected"; "Created: 3/1/2024 ..."--Document properties screen; Palm card.Laboratory Division -- Investigations Division -- Identification Division -- OHLEG DivisionThe Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation is officially charged with serving the state’s criminal justice community and helping to protect Ohioans
World War II Clippings Card File, Sem - Smie
No full textAn index of cards and newspaper clippings of Toledo-area soldiers in World War II, created by the Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Local History and Genealogy Department. This index is organized by the last name of the soldier. The cards may include a newspaper clipping from a local newspaper, direct a researcher to a different card within the index, or only list a discharge date. This resource has not yet been transcribed. Keywords: World War 2, World War Two, World War I
Chinese Association of Greater Toledo spring picnic, 2024
No full textThis photograph is from the Chinese Association of Greater Toledo spring potluck picnic on May 18, 2024. The event took place at the Mary Jane Gill Shelter at Swan Creek Metropark in Toledo, Ohio
Bailes : A Celebration of Traditional Folkloric Dance, Sofia Quintero Art and Cultural Center, 2024
No full textThis collection of photographs document the exhibit Bailes: A Celebration of Traditional Folkloric Dance at Sofia Quintero Art and Cultural Center in Toledo, Ohio. On display were examples of traditional dress worn by performers of folkloric dance in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. The exhibit ran from May 17 to October 11, 2024
Jefferson Avenue and Summit Street, Toledo, Ohio, ca. 1880
No full textThis photograph of Jefferson Avenue and Summit Street in Toledo, Ohio was taken from the Hall Block Tower. The photo dates around 1880
100 Glimpses : the Circus
No full text100 Glimpses is a series of short documentaries produced by the Sight Center of Northwest Ohio. The series explores the organization's history. The Sight Center was founded in 1923 as the Toledo Society for the Blind. Located in Toledo, Ohio, the Center provides programs and services for people with visual impairment or blindness. In episode 60, Jim Snyder discusses the circus visits formerly arranged by the Sight Center twice a year