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The Kentennial, Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society, Volume 34, March 1999
No full textMarch 1999
A Note from
the Director
I am pleased to announce
the appointment
Lisa Mertel
as our new Administrative
Assistant at
Kent Historical
Society. Lisa replaces
Bev Thome,
who left us De-
Lisa is a native of
Geauga County. She
holds a B.A. in EngUsh
and a M.A. in
History from Kent
State University.
Currently a Kent resident,
Lisa has re-
• cently begun class
work toward a Master
of Library and Information
Science degree
at Kent State.
We1re an pleased to
have her aboard and
hope you'll an stop
by soon to meet her.
James Woodard:
Sheriff, Mayor, Citizen
James Woodard was
one of Kent's most influential
citizens in the
century. Born in
Ravenna on July 31,
18101 he moved with his
parents, Joshua and Rebecca
Woodard, to
Franklin Mills
in 1818. He
remained a
resident of
the town
the rest of
his life.
While
with his parents
in 1825,
he assisted his father in
helping a party of fugitive
slaves on their journey
north toward Cleveland.
After marrying Maria
Hopkins in 1834, he, as
his father before him, ran
a hotel in the Carthage
area. Woodard served
many years as a Justice
of the Peace for Franklin
Mills and in November of
1850, began serving as
the Sheriff of Portage
County, a post he would
hold for four years.
It was during his time as
Sheriff that Woodard
helped to apprehend the
notorious Cuyahoga Valley
counterfeiter, Jim
Brown. part due to
Woodard's actions,
Brown
was sent to
prison, efectively
ending
the phony
money
schemes which
had plagued
the region. In
his history of Portage
County, William Henry
Perrin says of Woodard
"It has been often and
truthfully said that
Portage County never
had a more efficient
Sheriff. He was strictly
honest, brave and courageous
... "
In 1878, James
Woodard was elected
Mayor of Kentr and he
Continued on p. 2
Woodard (from p. 1)
held office until 1880. His administration
was noted for its
integrity and efficiency.
Captain Brady is a wellknown
legend to most local
residents. but few are
aware of the real story surrounding
the famous leap
across the Cuyahoga
River. James Woodard died in Kent
on September 2, 1882 and is
buried at Standing Rock
Cemetery. Brady, as a captain in the
-------------- newly formed U.S. Army,
... _ led a band of men on mis-sions
throughout the Ohio
-- BOLTON TO SPEAK - country. His job was to dis-
-- ON BRADY' s LEAP _ cover the lndiansf plans to
attack the settlers who
-- APRIL 28 -were quickly encroaching
------------------------- on native lands. It was dur-
The Kent Historical Society
s first membership
meeting of 1999 will be
held Wednesday, April 28
at 7:15 p.m. at the Kent
Free Library. Our featured
speaker will be Brad
Bolton, who will present an
illustrated program on Captain
Samuel Brady and his
famous Leap.
Kent resident Brad Bolton
is a musician, wild bird enthusiast1
3D photographer,
and amateur local historian.
While rambling
through the woods near his
new house in 1989, he
came upon remnants of an
old canal. Researching the
canal opened a window to
Portage County's rich history,
which Brad decided to
share. His historic interest
piqued, Brad's next research
topic was obviousthe
most legendary of men
in these parts, Captain
Samuel Brady.
ing such a mission in our
area that things went awry
for Brady.
In his presentation, Brad
will relate the events
around Brady's leap as
well as give some background
to the man and a
taste of pioneer times.
Brad·s focus on local topography
gives a fresh
perspective to the descriptions
of the event in old
documents.
The program is free and
open to the public. Contact
the Society offices at (330)
678-2712 for more information.
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Governor Fairchild
Quick-what Wisconsin
governor was born in
Kent? The answer is Lucius
Fairchild who was
born in Franklin Mills on
December 31, 1831. In
1847f he moved with his
family to Wisconsin and in
1849 went to California in
sE,arch of gold. Having
failed to find riches, he
went back to Wisconsin.
Serving in the 2nd Wisconsin
during the Civil War, he
was at the second battle of
Bull Run. Fighting at Gettysburg,
he lost an arm.
In 18651 he was elected
Governor· of Wisconsin and
served for 3 terms. In
1866, he was elected
Commander-in-Chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Later he served as a
diplomat in Europe, with
positions including consulgeneral
in Paris and minister
to Spain.
Remembering
When:
The Downtown
Fire of 1937
ware store at 132 North
Water, Kneifers Grocery
Store at 142 North Water,
Frank Burns Barber and
Beauty Shop at 150 North
Water, Portage Dairy, and
other shops and apart-ments.
As with most towns of its What made this fire even
size, Kent has had its more memorable was that
share of fires. Certainly! a full-service hardware
though, the fire that broke store was involved. The
out on North Water Street Kent Evening Record for
on February 20, 1937was February 22, 1937 re.:.
one of the most spectacu- ported that "Exploding
lar. shotgun shells and rifle
The fire broke out around bullets11 came from Getz
11 :00 p.m. in the kitchen of Brother~. The ~aper ~nt
the Knights of Pythias Hall- on to say ~hat, a 30 mileSoon
it spread throughout an-hour wr nd, an exces-sive
drain on the water the block, causing over a
quarter of a million dollars supply, and th e fierce heat
damage. Affected were of the flames all added to
the Getz Brothers Hard- the difficulties firemen
faced Jn battling the blaze."
Despite the loss to the
businesses in the block, it
could have been worse. As
did many hardware stores
at the time, Getz Brothers
kept dynamite in stock. In
fact, on· the night of the
fire, 90 pounds of dynamite
was on hand. Thinking
quickly, Bm Getz and
Bruce Kellogg reportedly
drc1gged the dynamite out
of the burning building b~fore
the fire could touch it.
Employees spraying the
roof kept the fire from
spreading to the Williams
Brothers Mills at 162 North
Water.
Most of the damaged area
was under repair by that
autumn.
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Single
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Kentennial p.3
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The Kent Historian, Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society, Volume 66, Summer 2009
No full textTHE KENT HISTORIAN
Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society
HISTORY FEATURE
Summer2009
Number66
Cool Ice Cream Treats Sweeten Warm Summer Days in Kent
0 n Main Street in Kent, Charles
Young Sr. was making his own
ice cream at Young's Pharmacy,
which he later sold to Eddie Hoard.
Jean Jacobs remembers going there
after school in the 1940s for the chocolate
cookies served with the ice
cream. This site was part of the building
complex (known as the Kent
Block and built in 1837) destroyed by
fire in the 1972.
In 1938, Charles Young Sr. bought
a majority interest in Thompson's
Drug Store from Hale B. Thompson
Thompson's Drug Store soda fountain.
with whom he had interned while at
Western Reserve University. Another
partner was Merrill Thompson, not related
to Hale. According to Kathy
Lilley, Young's daughter, their ice
cream was "the best in town." Her father
now used Telling-Belle Vernon ice
cream, a product so good he no longer
needed to make his own. She served
"counter meals" of milk shakes or sundaes
with pretzels for 25 cents, cones
for 5 cents or 10 cents and Coca-Cola
with cherry, lime, or chocolate syrup to
ake ice cream sodas.
Lilley recalls a special feature
sold at holidays: A small, colored ice
cream Christmas tree or Easter bunny
that had been extruded through the
center of a brick of vanilla ice cream.
Every guest at a holiday dinner could
enjoy the design in their slice.
Francis Griebling Chastain,
another former employee, recalled
certain businessmen, perhaps from
the Davey Tree Expert Company offices
on the floor above. They always
ordered their idea of a nutritious
lunch: a malted with an egg beaten
into it. Customers could buy cardboard
containers of "hand -packed" or
"read-packed" with a
little wire handle over
the top. Hand-packed
ice cream was harder
and more expensive
because more ice
cream could be
jammed in. Readypacked
was fluffier
and less expensive because
more air was
mixed in.
Chastain and the
other soda jerks were
not forbidden to partake
of the treats; but when they did, it
was just a few spoons of ice cream with
a dab of butterscotch or hot-fudge
sauce. They were usually too busy or
embarrassed to eat more. Chastain
earned 371/2 cents per hour and
thought herself lucky to earn this
amount and get to see her friends from
high school coming in. Thompson' s
Drug Store became a local hangout
with the addition of booths in the back
of the store. Some young people never
seemed to go home. The booths became
crowded, noisy and messy.
Young, the owner, would get irritated
and frown a lot. He finally moved the
whole soda fountain to the center aisle
of the store with stools on each side.
In 1950, Jim Myers began working
at Thompson's to see if he would
like the field of pharmacy. After graduating
from Ohio Northern School of
Pharmacy in 1954, he came to work at
Thompson's and started at the soda
fountain. That made him a soda jerk,
and he remained with Thompson's
until its closing on January 2, 2004.
Another popular spot for ice
cream was Isaly's at 716 S. Water St.
inside Hahn's Bakery. Kay Burgess,
whose family owned Hahn's related
that because bakery s;;tles fell during
the depression, they added an Isaly's.
She recalled the special skyscraper
cone, which had to be filled using a
long cone-shaped scoop. Isaly's offered
32 flavors.
Kay Burgess remembers that the
ice cream also was sold "handpacked
and as prepacked bricks. Burgess remembers
that Klondikes were a favorite
because "if you got one with a
pink center, you got another one
free." Cones and Klondikes were 5
cents, and every Sunday there was a
long line of customers. "There were
12 to 15 high school employees behind
the counter making cones-you
could hold up to six in one hand." A
fire destroyed Hahn's in 1973. Bur-
See ICE CREAM, p. 3.
Inside ...
Tribute to William Birkner ... ...... .. 2
Garden Tours ... . .. .......... . .... 2
Ice Cream Scoops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Save the Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
KHS Volunteer Spotlight ............ 3
In Memoriam: Russell Green . . ....... 4
Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A Tribute to William Birkner
March 25, 1927-March 9, 2009
M embers of the board and v olunteers
and friends of the Kent
Historical Society would like to extend
condolences to William' s wife
Carol, his children, grandchildren and
the many members of his extended
family.
Founding member, past president
(1981-1995) and director of the Kent
Historical Society's Row Museum,
Birkner was born in Kent to Hugo E.
William Birkner
and May Louise (Richards) Birkner.
After serving in the Navy during
World War II he returned to Kent and
graduated from Kent State University.
He was employed in industry for 21
years (Davey Tree, Goodyear and
Morgan Adhesives). He retired in
1989 from Field Local Schools, where
he taught industrial arts for 18 years.
Birkner' s important role in the
development of the Historical Society
may have been best described by
another founding member, Loris
Troyer. These words, taken from an
article for the society' s July 1989
newsletter are as true today as they
were 20 years ago: "The Kent Histori-cal
Society was organized and incorporated
in 1971. Concerned that several
of Kent's historical buildings and
sites faced demolition, particularly the
1875 downtown railroad depot, jeweler
Sam Apicello called a meeting of
seven business and community leaders
to consider the establishment of a
society to work toward their preservation.
Apicello was elected temporary
chairman and later president. Besides
Apicello, the original group of
organizers, and then trustees
were teacher Bill Birkner, insurance
executive Reed Strimple,
pharmacist Jim Myers, Mayor
John Carson, attorney Titus
Jackman and editor Loris Troyer
[banker Leland Keller, another
original trustee, joined later] ....
"Bill Birkner (who became
President on November 11,
1973) was a virtual one-man director
of the renovation effort.
He spent many hours of on-hands
labor, an effort the community
recogni zed in 1982 when he
was awarded the Kent Area Chamber
of Commerce Public Service Medal.
The depot's central tower is named in
his honor."
Birkner worked at building an
historical society and collecting its
earliest artifacts and helping to raise
money and awareness about the importance
of preserving the history of
the Kent community. On March 14,
2009, the Historical Society Board of
Trustees voted unanimously to create
the "William Birkner Tower Preservation
Fund." All of the donations to
this fund will continue Birkner 's mission
of saving the beloved depot.
Tickets for Garden Tours Still Available for June, July
2
Tickets for the Kent Historical Society's garden tours are still available. The tickets allow you
to view 1 O beautiful Kent-area gardens slated for touring on June 27 and July 11. One 15. They can be purchased at
the KHS office , 234 S. Water St.; Sue Nelson Designs , 156 S. Water St.; and Home Savings
Bank, 142 N. Water St. Tickets also may be purchased in Ravenna at Home Savings Bank,
100 E. Main St.; and in Brimfield at Home Savings Bank, 4023 S.R. 43. For additional information,
call 330-678-2712 or 330-678-5671.
Kent Historical Society
THE KENT HlsTORIAN is a quarterly
publication of the Kent Historical Society,
a nonprofit organization that strives to be
the primary Kent history resource and
reference center, leading the community
in the collection, preservation and interpretation
of Kent's heritage through exhibitions,
educational programs and activities.
The society brings educational
programs to schools, businesses and
civic organizations and collaborates with
the Main Street Kent and other historic
preservation projects in the community.
Board of Trustees
Sandra Halem, President
Scott Flynn, Vice President
Jack Amrhein, Treasurer
Audrey Cielinski Kessler, Secretary
John Benedik
Howard Boyle
Rebecca Dunlap
Matt Metcalf
Pat Morton
Jim Myers
Carol Stroble
John Wunderle
Staff
Mary Ann Green, Administrator
Newsletter Staff
Audrey Cielinski Kessler, Editor
Museum Hours
Thursday: 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Friday: 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Groups and special tours
by appointment
Direct inquiries to
Kent Historical Society
P.O. Box663
Kent, OH 44240
330/678-2712
[email protected]
www.kentohiohistory.org
Summer 2009
ICE CREAM
Continued from p. 1
gess' family also owned the Brady
from 1969 to 1985. A Cleveland com.___;'
pany provided ice cream there.
Burgess also remembers the Cardinal,
located next to the theatre at the
corner of Main and DePeyster streets,
selling ice cream. The Cottage on the
south side of Main Street halfway be-
Sotddard's Frozen Custrad in 1948.
tween DePeyster and Water streets
sold ice cream as did the Perfection
Dairy on Gougler Avenue near the
present Dale Adams building. Also,
, _
1.Mrs. Van Allen had a confectionary
store on North Mantua Street and
may have had ice cream, though Kay
isn't sure. She does remember, however,
that most of the stores had fountains
where you mixed carbonated
water with flavors to make ice cream
sodas and fountain drinks-CocaCola,
root beer and other soft drinks
that were all concentrated syrups that
came in gallon bottles. "The most fun
was making banana splits with a split
banana, three scoops of ice cream
Ice Cream Scoops
[and] three toppings: whipped cream,
chopped nuts and a cherry"
Stoddard's Frozen Custard
opened in 1947 just up from the present
Huntington Bank building. After
one year, the small building was literally
lifted and moved to its present
location bn West Main Street because
business had grown so
much. Lea and Lyle
Stoddard rented the
new site from Redmond
Greer for 19
years. In 1967, they
sold it to Daniel Kaye
Sr., who died in 1983
in a tractor accident.
The business was inherited
by Lisa, Tracey
and Daniel Jr.
The business continues
to be family
owned and operated.
The custard is still made with machines
that were manufactured in the 1940s.
Once turned on, the machines run continuously
and must be watched while
making the mixture of milk and butterfat
into frozen custard. During the process,
the custard absorbs about half as
much air as frozen custard made on a
standard frozen-custard machine. Besides
chocolate and vanilla, Stoddard's
offers a variety of other flavors as their
flavor of the day posted on the message-
board pole sign in front of the
building.
Note: This article was researched and written
by Jean Giulitto.
In 1920, Harry Burt , a Youngstown, Ohio, candy maker, created a special
treat called the Jolly Boy Sucker, a lollypop on a stick . That same year,
while working in his ice cream parlor, Burt created a smooth chocolate coating
that was compatible with ice cream. It tasted great, but the new combination
was too messy to eat. As a solution, Burt's son, Harry Jr., sug-gested
freezing the wooden sticks, used for Jolly Boy Suckers, into the ice
cream. It worked!
In 1774, a caterer named Phillip Lenzi announced in a New York newspaper that he had just
arrived from London and would be offering for sale various confections, including ice cream .
Dolley Madison, wife of U.S . President James Madison, served ice cream at her husband's
Inaugural Ball in 1813.
Source: The History of Ice Cream, written by the International Association of Ice Cream
Manufacturers (IA/CM), Washington D.C., 1978, and www.icecreamusa.com.
Summer 2009
Save the Date ...
Every year hundreds of people visit
the Kent Historical Society museum
and gift shop as part of the
annual Kent Heritage Festival to
mark the July 4 holiday.
This year, the all-day festival will
on Saturday, July 4. Volunteers will be
helping visitors discover the joys of the
Historical Society's artifacts
collection from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Children
will be able to play with
Thomas the Train, see the HO scale
model of early Kent built by John
Wunderle. Other museum attractions
include the Haymaker quilt and a letter
sent from postmaster George DePeyster.
Merchandise (including a picture
post card and a train hat) will be available
for purchase. Be sure to stop by.
KHS Volunteers
in the Spotlight
V olunteers in the spotlight for the
summer are Holly Frazier (left)
and Chris Metesh (right).
Holly: "I love the idea that history is being preserved,
documented, and presented so a new
generation can learn where it came from. I
love being a part of Kent's history , even if it
means only admiring it instead of leaving a
legacy of great accomplishments. I just love
being there!"
Chris: "The Kent Historical Society is such an
amazing asset to the community of Kent, and I
think its a priceless opportunity to learn how to
present history to the public, especially to kids
and teenagers (which is what I'll be doing as
an educator after college). Its a treasure trove
of knowledge here, just waiting to be discovered!"
3
World War II Veterans Add Their
Stories to Oral History Project
Nearly a dozen oral histories from World War II veterans
from the Kent community will become part of the Historical
Society's oral history collection.
Tom Fowler, a KHS student intern from the History Department,
has been conducting interviews with veterans about
their wartime experiences as well as their memories of Kent.
At right, Steve Messino displays the medals he was awarded
for his military service during World War II.
Also needed are interviews of women who remained at
"home" during the war years and have memories of what life
was like at home or at their workplace or while a relative,
friend or spouse was serving. If you would like to contribute
an oral history, call Mary Ann Green at 330-678-2712 to schedule
one at your home or in the Visitors Center.
In Memoriam: Russell Green (1950-2009)
The Kent Historical Society Board and the members of
the KHS family extend their deepest sympathy to the
society's administrator, Mary Ann Green, on the
recent loss of her husband of 19 years, Russell Green
( 1950-2009). Russell was a great supporter of the society,
and he will be missed.
Kent Historical Society
P.O. Box 663
Kent, OH 44240
Steve Messino
Correction ...
The last issue of The Kent Historian was inocrrectly labeled as
"Summer 2009." It should have been labeled "Spring 2009."
The Kent Historical Society regrets the error.
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The Kentennial, Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society, Volume 43, Summer 2001
No full textKent Historical Society has a deep
commitment to
historic preservation
in our city .
After all , its roots
lie in the enormous
effort to
save the old Atlantic
and Great
Western Depot
A Note from
the Director
Remember that we will
have the historical soci-ety
open from 9:00
a.m. to 5 p.m. during
the Kent Heritage Fes-tival
on July 7 .. Take . . - . . - . I
- frH m t"i-P.-si n -tr:t iAA- --. -~ ·--· ~nd see the-- -·
As part of ou r
commitment to
preserving
Kent's architectural
heritage. we
are forming a
historic preservation
committee
within the society
. In July. we
will be holding an
organizational
meeting to set
the committee·s
goals and beg i n
planning. If you
would like to be
a working member
of this committee.
call o ur
office at (330 )
678-2712
new displays.
For ~he past two and a
half years, Lisa Mertel
has been the historical
society's administrative
assistant. Lisa will be
receiving a Masters of
Library and lnfonnation
Science from Kent
State University in Au-gust;
and is leaving· us
at the end of July to
pursue her career as a
full-time librarian.
Lisa has been a main-stay
in -the smooth op-etation
of the society
and will be sorely
missed. We congratu-late
her on her new de-
-gree and wish her sue-cess
in her qareer as a
professional librarian.
An Interview with Albert Ciccone
(Conducted -November 1994)
· Part Ill
lntervievver: Let's get a they sold everything in
little more technical here. the pork. He started out
What did you guys do? by going house to house
Did you purchase your selling bread, home-supplies
all from one big made bread. And then
company in the-area, or he'd bring a little bit of
did they ship stuff in ev- sausage around to the
eryweek? house, and theyd buy
Mr. Ciccone: We had de- sausage. And then he
Jhteries _ One~y lft.rent into the butchering
came every week and business. That was
then maybe two to three Oleski's."
-companies came from
Youngstown ... maybe The interviewer then
once a month. And they asked howthe goods ar-knew
what we would rived. Mr. Ciccone
use, more or less .... replied:
They knew what we " ... Oleski had the horse
needed and theyd stand and wagon he went
there and theyd ask you around in. I mean we're
"did you need this, this talking back in the '30's,
and that?" and you could you know, '29, 30's ... The
tell them a hundred atmosphere was a lot
times "no, no, no" but different. You told a kid
theyre going to ask you to behave or do some-anyhow.
We had thing, he did it.' I mean, if
Youngstown Wholesale he didn't, he knew about
and we had a Garramoni it when he got home. I
Wholesale from mean, he'd be disci-
Youngstown. And we plined. They don't do
bought our meats from that today like they
Akron Standard. Oleski, should ... l know one
that was the local thing. If you got called up
butcher. They were in to the principal's office at
Tallmadge. They did school, when you got
strictly pork. They didn't home you got a beating
sell beef or nothing, but Continued on P .2
Glass· Sales Continue had a job working at Gougler Machine Shop,
and I was mad because I was 17 and they
made me go home at ten o'clock. I couldn't
The Kent Historical Society continues to offer get all of my hours in until June 30th. Then I
·of hand-blown glass inspired by the colors got to stay till midnight, and work Friday. You
and forms of historic-glass produced in our worked Friday and Saturday, all one shift. I
area. Each piece is marked by its creators at couldn't get that while I was 17. But then I fig-
Hale Farm and these designs will be mar- ured I could go to college and pay my way.
keted exclusively by the Kent Historical Soci- Although my dad told me, "Hey, you pick the
ety. There wm be no mail sales: all glass items school and don't worry about it." He'd take
must be picked up at the Kent Historical Soci- care of it. But then, I could't do it. I couldn't
ety offices. We're above the Pufferbelly at work till midnight, do my studying, and go to a
152 Franklin Avenue and our office hours are nine o'clock class. I just couldn't get it done.
9-4 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We And then I got a notice, a draft notice, and so
have bowls and pitchers in these four colors: 1 went in the army ... they had the registration
cobalt blue, amber, green , and amethyst. day on my 19th birthday, so I couldn't tell
The .Kent Pitcher them I was 18 yesterday. I was 19 today. And
Member price 2~50 for Ohio that, by January 2nd, I was in the army, the
sates tax = 45.00 plus 47.81 good stuff on my aptitude test. Professor
Pringle was in my class in the army. We got
The Kent Bowl drafted together. He was a professor, Ph.D.,
Member price 1.25 Ohio sales up at Kent State at the time, Mr. Pringle. ~ut I
tax= 25.00 plus 26.57 _ away u·nexpectedly and I got roped into the
-----------------,grocery business. As a kid, I said I'd never be
Ciccone (Continued from P. 1) a grocer. I would never have rentals, because
they were a pain. My dad had a couple of
because you got called into the office. Be- rentals ... The sewer would clog up, you'd have
cause we were told, you do what you're told, to go plug it up, unplug it. You had a leak in
or else. And that's it. That's what we did. I the ·roof, you had to get up on the roof, spout-know
J had a theory, if I was in a situation I ing, and do all that. And I said,, I'm going to
didn't know what to dO:-whether to go or have one house. I'm going to have an -eight
stay, or go do this or that-I would stop and hour a day job. I'll get home from school, from
think, if my dad was standing next to me, what work, I'll sit out and read the paper, and I
would I do? And that's what I would do be- won't have to worry about nobody's sewer or
cause that would be just like telling you what roof or spouting or anything else. Didn't work
you're supposed to do. I mean, I don't know, out that way. " . ·
. ·famillies were a lot tighter than they are today.
You had respect fo·r·each other. We didn't get To Be Continued
much about groceries in there, did we?"
·_ · There are still copies of Kent, Ohio: the Dy-
The interviewer then asked Mr. Ciccone abt>ut namic Decades and of our children's his-his
~ducatic;>nal and military background. He tory of Kent, The Story of Kent, Ohio avail-
~ephed: . • able for sale. Pick up an extra. copy during
I graduated from high school. My dad wanted the Kent Heritage Festival! ·
to send me to college, and I didn't want to. I
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A large percentage of the Kent Historical
Society's annual budget comes
from our lease agreement with the
Pufferbelly Ltd.- Every time you eat at
the 'Pufferbelly, it not only means a
nice meal, but you are also helping
your local historical society!
The-Ohio- Memory Project is a way of
celebrating Ohio's up-coming bicentennial
by creating a virtual scrapbook from
communities all around the state. Recently,
the Kent Historical Society nominated
a 1890 signature quilt from the
Universalist Church that is in our collection
to have its image included in the
project. On June 11, we were informed
- that our nomination was accepted!
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Kent Historical Society
Board of Trustees: ·
Jack Amrhein
Howard Boyle (President)
Dawn Carpenter
Ralph Darrow (Secretary)
Margaret Garmon
- Sandra Halem
Jim Myers
Reed Strimple (Treasurer)
Loris Troyer
John Weiser ·
Bill .Wilen
John Wunderle
Staff:
. James F. Caccamo, Executive Director
Lisa Mertel, Administrative Assistant
John Cheges, Museum Docent
The Kent Historieql Society
P~O. Box663
152 Franklin Avenue
Kent OH 44240
(330) 678-2712
We wish to thank the following businesses
for their membership and in-kind
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Ametek~ Inc.
The Art Annory
Baker Publishing
Bissler & Sons Funeral Home
City Bank Antiques_
Copy Print ·
Davey Tree Expert Co.
Diversa, Inc. ·
Doug Garmon Photography
DuBois Book Store
Emerald Environmental
Escott & Co .
Euclid Garment Mfg.
Home Savings Bank
Kent. Office Supply & Business Machine
Land 'O Lakes, Inc.
Pufferbelly Ltd.
Ray's Place
Record Courier
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Siefer Electric
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The Kentennial, Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society, Volume 39, June 2000
No full textA Note from
the Director
Thethreattotheintegrity
of our historic
infrastructure in Kent is
growing. · Despite being
on the National Register
of Hist9ric Places,
the arched dam on the
Cuya~oga River be- ·
neath the Main Street
bridge may soon be
nothing more than a
Built in 1836, it has
withstood many crises,
but it now faces its
greatest threat-:--pro_
posed demolition by
agencies who fail to
recognize ,hat historic
structures ~re equally
important to other concerns.
While everyone
warits a _clean Cuyahoga
River, is destroy
·ing our historic heritageth~
only way to achieve
that goal?
If you value Kent's _history,
I urge you to let ·
City CouncH know how
you feel -about preserving
the dam and its wa-terfall.
· ·
Loris Troyer Honored
If any one individual
epitomizes the study of
local history in Kent
and in Portage County,
it is Loris Troyer. A
noted journalist, Troyer
has spent much of his
careet providing his
readers with a chronicle
of our historic her-itage.
He is
the author of
the popular
b~ok,
Portage Pathways,
and
donated all
his royalties
from the book
to benefit the
Kent Historical
Society.
He helped to
found the
Kent H istorical
Society
and has
served . with
distinction as
a trustee
since the so- ·
ciety's founding.
On Friday, August 11,
2000, the KentHistorical
Society will pay
tribute to Loris Troyer
in a gala event to be ·
held at the Kent State
University Ballroom.
Continued on P. 2
Glass Goes on Sale Troyer ( from P. 2)
The Kent Historical Society is offering
a new line of hand-blown glass · Dinner will be 40.00 plus 42.50 . ·
,Non-member price 2.81 for Ohio sales tax= 20.00 plus 21.25
Non.;.member price 1.57 sales tax= 8.00 each plus 8.50 activities. From Scouting to football,
No~-member P.rice .57 from fraternal organizations to the
Ohio sale~ tax = ~-~7 Soap Box Derby, "Sport and Leisure
For more mformat1on, call us at (330) in Kent" is an enjoyable look into our
678-2712. community's pastimes.·
Ke nt enn ,al June 2000 p. 2
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Laura Cheges. Retires from
Soard ·.
Long-time Kent Historical Society
trustee Laura Cheges recently re-
. tired from the Board of Trustees
after 11 years of service. One _of
Laura's biggest accompl.ishments
during her time on the Board was
the "Adopt a Pioneer''_ program at
the Pioneer Cemetery.
Our thanks go out to Laura for all
the time she invested in the Kent
Historical Society and for -all the
support ·she has given us through-
. out the years.
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Make Checks Payable to the Kent Historical Soeiety and send them to
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Your continued support through ·your membership dues and through contributions helps us
maintain the day-to-day operations of our historical society and enables us to undertake
projects such as Kentennial. Thanks to all for ydur generosity.
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Kentennial June 2000 p.3
Kent Historical Societv
Board of Trustees:
Jack Amrhein
Howard Boyle (President)
Dawn C~upenter ·
· Ralph Darrow (Secretary)
Sandra Halem
· . JfmMyers
Reed Strimple (Treasurer)
Loris Troyer ·
John Weiser
Bill Wi.len
John Wunderle
Staff:
James F. Caccamo, Executive Director
'Lisa Mertel, Administrative Assistant
John Cheges, Museum Docent .
The Kent Historical Society
P.O. Box663
· 152 Franklin Avenue
Kent OH ·44240
(330) 678-2712
We wish to thank the following busi- .
nesses for their membership and in-kind
services:·
Ametek, Inc.
Baker Publishing
Sissier & Sons Funeral Home
City Bank Antiques
Copy Print
DaveyTree Expert Co.
Diversa, Inc.
DuBois Book Store
EMC Computers
Emerald Environmental
. Escott & Co.
Euclid Garment Mfg.
Home Savings Bank
Kent Offi_ce Supply & Business Machine
Land . 'O Lakes, Inc. ·
f>ufferbelly Ltd.
Ray's Place
Record Courier
R. W. Martin & Sons, ·Inc.
Seal Master Corp.
Shallenberger & Associates
Siefer Electric
Smithers Oasis
Sue Nelson Designs, Ltd.
Wright Heating & Air Conditioning
Nonprofit Organization
U.S. Postage
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Kent OH 44240
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The Kent Historian, Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society, Volume 65, Summer 2009
No full textTHE KENT HISTORIAN
Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society
Summer2009
Number65
PROGRAM FEATURE
Progressive Garden Tour Dates Set
I f you are longing for summer and
lo ve peeking at other people's gardens,
the Kent Historical Society has
the p erfect event for you.
A progressiv e garden tour-three
dates with different gardens on each
date-will take participants through
a wonderful series of woodland and
shade gardens, perennial and water
gardens, interesting
city gardens,
sprawling
summer gardens
and a few
unique surprises
along the way.
its most beautiful time of the season.
The early shade and w oodland gardens
may still have some spring flowers
such as Jack-in-the-Pulpit, v arieties
of Columbine, Sweet woodruff
and Forget-me-nots, while the growing
canopy of trees provides the perfect
environment for shade-loving foliage
such as Hosta, ferns, Astilbe and
Coral bells.
Roses are
most prev al ent
in mi d to late
June, w hile fav
orite perennials
such as Shasta
daisies, Bee
balm, Veronica,
Lilies and Phlox
highlight the late
June and early
July summer
gardens. Wonderful,
dependable
annuals
provide splashes
of color throughout
the gardens
from June
through September
and October.
The garden
tour will be June
6, June 27 and
July 11. One 15
ticket allows
participants access
to 15 different
but equally
beautiful Kentarea
gardens.
Each self-guided
tour date is a
Saturday, with
the following
day being reserved
as a rain
date. Tickets
(which would
Kathy lmler's informal cottage gardens feature
winding walkways, beautiful perennials , a multitiered
water feature and great ideas for a sloping
lot. lmler's garden will be open on June 27 .
In recent
y ears , water fea tures
have become
very popumake
a perfect Mother's Day
gift) will be available April 30 at the
Kent Historical Society, 234 S. Water
St., and at Home Savings Bank, 142 N.
Water St., in downtown Kent. Because
some yards include steps, narrow
pathways and sloping terrains, the
ry-arden tour cannot offer handicap ac-
.ssibility.
A progressive garden tour offers
participants the opportunity to view
different gardens when each is near
lar, and the tours include a variety of
appealing ideas that you can use in
your own home garden. You will find
everything from small bubbling fountains
and waterfalls to fish ponds and
even picturesque lakes . Each one is an
oasis of nature with strokes of color to
brighten the day for persons of all ages.
For additional information, call
garden tour coordinator Pat Morton at
330-678-5671 or the Kent Historical So ciety
at 330-678-2712.
Kids Komer
Coming to KHS
A 11 children ages 6 to 12 are invited
to participate in the Kent Historical
Society's new Kids Komer on the
last Saturday of ev ery month. Hav e fun
while learning about Kent and its
many stories. The first Kids Komer is
April 25.
The Historical Society will be offering
many different activities so
participants can learn more about the
city where they live. In April, Kids
Korner will be celebrating Earth Day,
talking about Gov. Martin Dav ey and
making a cherry tree to take home.
Call Mary Ann Green at 330-
678-2712 for more information. Historical
Society volunteer and teacher,
Beth Pasciak, will coordinate the
monthly program.
Artifact Added
to KHS Collection
T he Kent Historical Society's latest
addition to its museum collection
is a letter with a postmark of Franklin
Mills. It has been archivally framed in
glass so that the entire contents of this
1831 correspondence are on view. The
letter is signed by George DePeyster,
who was appointed postmaster in
1820. His flourishing script dots both
the front and back, and the letter seem
to be an inquiry into a parcel of land
that had gone into foreclosure .
Inside ...
Speaker Series Features Martin Davey . . 2
Mother's Day Gift Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Young Martin Davey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
World War II Memories Wanted . . . . . . 3
Historic Log Cabin .. . . . . .. . . ... .. . . 4
In Memoriam : Trudy Crawford .. . . .. . 4
94 Club Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A Portrait of Young Martin Davey: A Budding Entrepreneur
Editor's No te: Th e fo llowing is an exwpt
from Politician Extraordina ire by frank P.
Vazza na. It is repri nted with permission frnm
Kent S ta te Univers ity P ress .
I f God ever spoke to Martin Davey
during his boyhood, it was to tell
him not that he was nev er meant to
be a farmer. Nobody worked harder
or faster than John Dav ey, and he ex pected
the same
from his children.
Still trying
to make a living
growing vegetables,
the elder
Davey had
bought a small
farm about two
Martin Davey miles outside of
Kent. Here he planted celery and
onions, and because his landscaping
work dominated his time, he expected
his sons to handle the onion
and celery business. The work was
hard; Martin hated digging the celery
out of the cold, wet ground during
the fall. Gloves were useless in the
muddy celery field and his fingers
froze. Wellington (his brother) was
luckier. While Martin picked in the
cold and the mud, his older brother
trimmed the celery in the nearby outbuilding
warmed by a stove.
Early on, Martin recognized how
utterly dependent his farming father
was on economic and weather conditions
. The vegetable market was frequently
glutted, and more than once
John Davey barely made expenses.
When unfavorable market conditions
Railroad and trolley traffic ground to
a halt. Snow piled ten feet high on
some places on the tracks. Telephone
and te l egraph lines dangled from
poles throughout town. For two da y s
Kent w as cut off from the outside
world. By Sunday afternoon the sun
broke through and undid in a few
hours what the storm had taken the
entire weekend to do. The trains and
trolley cars started running again, and
soon Kent was back in business. The
same was not true of John Davey. His
onion crop, once so promising, lay
dead under three or four feet of snow.
Daydreaming allowed Martin escape
from such tribulations and the
drudgery of garden toil. During brief
breaks in the workday and after
lunch, he would lie on his back, gaze
into the summer sky, and speculate
about the world beyond Kent. As the
cars of the Wheeling and Lake Erie
Railroad clattered past the family
farm, he wondered what the people
who lived in the towns and villages
between Cleveland and Wheeling,
West Virginia, were like. That world
opened a bit to him and other Kentites
in N ovember 1895 when the town
completed its first electric street car
line . Inter-urban cars now left Kent
every hour between 6:15 A.M. and
10:15 P.M. For a dime, Kentites could
ride to Cuyahoga Falls seven or eight
miles to the west, and for twenty cents
they could ride all the way to Akron.
Not surprisingly, the celery and onion
farm grew too confining, and Martin
began thinking of his future and a life
bey ond Kent. failed to wreak havoc
with John
Davey's livelihood,
bad weather often
did. In April 1901,
when Martin was
sixteen, his father
grew a bumper crop
of onions. Just as the
Daveys began to anticipate
a nice (and
rare) profit, Kent
was hit by a devas- The Kent Interurban Trolly was snowed-in
following a four-day snowstorm in April 1901 .
There remained,
however,
pleasant local div
ersions sufficient
to keep a
young boy occu -
pied. One summer
a merry-goround
operator
brought his carousel
to Kent.
:ating spring snow-storm.
The snow began falling on
Thursday night, April 18 and did not
stop until the next Sunday morning.
Summer 2009
The town chil-dren,
Martin Dav ey among them,
flocked to pay their nickel s to ride the
snorting and prancing wooden horses
for a few moments. But while other ·
children just rode, young Martin al r
eady w ell acquainted with entrepreneurship,
talked the operator into al lowing
him to sell tickets to would be
rides. He could keep one nickel for
ev ery five he took in. He hustled and
made a fair profit for his time and energy.
But there was more than monetary
reward that accomplished his
deal with the merry-go-round operator.
As a "partner" in the concession,
Martin could ride for free and he took
great delight in jumping on and off
the carousel whenever he chose. Before
long he was doing it not just for
the enjoyment of the ride but because
he could show off before envious
friends. His pleasure ended quickly
though. One day, while leaping on
and off the merry-go-round before an
admiring audience, a sharp voice cut
through the air. "Martin!" It was his
father. John Davey lectured his son
about the dangers of jumping on and
off the moving carousel, and that ended
Martin's entry into the world of
merry-go-rounds. After settling his
affairs with the operator, he returned
home, sadly, with his father.
World War II ...
Where Were You?
The Kent Historical Society's Oral
History project is looking for stories
from those who served in World War
II. If you served your country during
any part of the war years (1941-
1945), please leave your stories with
the Historical Society.
The society can arrange for you to
either video tape or audio tape your
personal recollections . It can be
done at the Historical Society or in
your home . Call Henry Halem at
330-673-8632 or send an e-mail to
[email protected] to make arrangements
.
If you have photographs of family
members who were serving in the
war effort , these can become part of
the society's archives. The photos
will be scanned and the originals returned
to you . All photographs
should be captioned with information
about the person , the place and the
activity (or service) .
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Continued fmm p. 1
gess' family also owned the Brady
from 1969 to 1985. A Cleveland company
provided ice cream there.
Burgess also remembers the Cardinal,
located next to the theatre at the
corner of Main and DePeyster streets,
selling ice cream. The Cottage on the
south side of Main Street halfway be-
Sotddard's Frozen Custrad in 1948.
tween DePeyster and Water streets
sold ice cream as did the Perfection
Dairy on Gougler Avenue near the
present Dale Adams building. Also,
Mrs. Van Allen had a confectionary
store on North Mantua Street and
may have had ice cream, though Kay
isn't sure. She does remember, however,
that most of the stores had fountains
where you mixed carbonated
water with flavors to make ice cream
sodas and fountain drinks-CocaCola,
root beer and other soft drinks
that were all concentrated syrups that
came in gallon bottles. "The most fun
was making banana splits with a split
banana, three scoops of ice cream
Ice Cream Scoops
[and] three toppings: whipped cream,
chopped nuts and a cherry"
Stoddard' s Frozen Custard
opened in 1947 just up from the present
Huntington Bank building . After
one year, the small building was literally
lifted and moved to its present
location on West Main Street because
business had grown so
much. Lea and Lyle
Stoddard rented the
new site from Redmond
Greer for 19
years. In 1967, they
sold it to Daniel Kaye
Sr., who died in 1983
in a tractor accident.
The business was inherited
by Lisa, Tracey
and Daniel Jr.
The business continues
to be family
owned and operated.
The custard is still made vvith machines
that were manufactured in the 1940s.
Once turned on, the machines run continuously
and must be watched while
making the mixture of milk and butterfat
into frozen custard. During the process,
the custard absorbs about half as
much air as frozen custard made on a
standard frozen-custard machine. Besides
chocolate and v anilla, Stoddard's
offers a variety of other flavors as their
flavor of the day posted on the message-
board pole sign in front of the
building.
Note: This article was researched and written
lnj Jean Giulifto.
In 1920, Harry Burt, a Youngstown , Ohio , candy maker, created a special
treat called the Jolly Boy Sucker, a lollypop on a stick . That same year ,
while working in his ice cream parlor, Burt created a smooth chocolate coating
that was compatible with ice cream . It tasted great, but the new combination
was too messy to eat. As a solution , Burt's son , Harry Jr. , sug-gested
freezing the wooden sticks , used for Jolly Boy Suckers , into the ice
cream. It worked !
In 1774, a caterer named Phillip Lenzi announced in a New York newspaper that he had just
arrived from London and would be offering for sale various confections , including ice cream .
Dolley Madison, wife of U.S. President James Madison, served ice cream at her husband's
Inaugural Ball in 1813.
Source: The History of Ice Cream, written by the International Association of Ice Cream
Manufacturers (IA/CM), Washington D. C. , 1978, and www.icecreamusa.com.
Summer 2009
Save the Date ...
Every year hundreds of people visit
the Kent Historical Society museum
and gift shop as part of the
annual Kent Heritage Festival to
mark the July 4 holiday.
This year, the all-day festival vvill
on Saturday, July 4. Volunteers will be
helping visitors discover the joys of the
Historical Society's artifacts
collection from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Children
vvill be able to play with
Thomas the Train, see the HO scale
model of early Kent built by Jolm
Wunderle. Other museum attractions
include the Haymaker quilt and a letter
sent from postmaster George DePeyster.
Merchandise (including a picture
post card and a train hat) ½rill be available
for purchase. Be sure to stop by.
KHS Volunteers
in the Spotlight
V olunteers in the spotlight for the
summer are Holly Frazier (left)
and Chris Metesh (right).
Holly: "I love the idea that history is being preserved,
documented, and presented so a new
generation can learn where it came from. I
love being a part of Kent's history, even if it
means only admiring it instead of leaving a
legacy of great accomplishments . I just love
being there!"
Chris: "The Kent Historical Society is such an
amazing asset to the community of Kent , and I
think its a priceless opportunity to learn how to
present history to the public, especially to kids
and teenagers (which is what I'll be doing as
an educator after college) . Its a treasure trove
of knowledge here, just waiting to be discovered!"
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THE KENT HISTORIAN
Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society
HISTORY FEATURE
Summer2009
Number66
Cool Ice Cream Treats Sweeten Warm Summer Days in Kent
0 n Main Street in Kent, Charles
Young Sr. was making his own
ice cream at Young's Pharmacy,
which he later sold to Eddie Hoard.
Jean Jacobs remembers going there
after school in the 1940s for the chocolate
cookies served with the ice
cream. This site was part of the building
complex (known as the Kent
Block and built in 1837) destroyed b y
fire in the 1972.
In 1938, Charles Young Sr. bought
a majority interest in Thompson's
Drug Store from Hale B. Thompson
Thompson's Drug Store soda fountain.
with whom he had interned while at
Western Reserve University. Another
partner was Merrill Thompson, not related
to Hale. According to Kathy
Lilley, Young's daughter, their ice
cream was "the best in town." Her father
now used Telling-Belle Vernon ice
cream, a product so good he no longer
needed to make his own. She served
"counter meals" of milk shakes or sundaes
with pretzels for 25 cents, cones
for 5 cents or 10 cents and Coca-Cola
with cherry, lime, or chocolate syrup to
ake ice cream sodas.
Lilley recalls a special feature
sold at holidays: A small, colored ice
cream Christmas tree or Easter bunny
that had been extruded through the
center of a brick of vanilla ice cream.
Every guest at a holiday dinner could
enjoy the design in their slice.
Francis Griebling Chastain,
another former emplo yee, recalled
certain businessmen, perhaps from
the Davey Tree Expert Company offices
on the floor above. They alw ays
ordered their idea of a nutritious
lunch: a malted with an egg beaten
into it. Customers could buy cardboard
containers of " hand-packed" or
"read-packed" with a
little wire handle o ver
the top. Hand-packed
ice cream was harder
and more expensive
because more ice
cream could be
jammed in. Readypacked
was fluffier
and less expensive because
more air was
mixed in.
Chastain and the
other soda jerks were
not forbidden to partake
of the treats; but when they did, it
was just a few spoons of ice cream with
a dab of butterscotch or hot-fudge
sauce. The y were usually too busy or
embarrassed to eat more. Chastain
earned 37 1 / 2 cents per hour and
thought herself lucky to earn this
amount and get to see her friends from
high school coming in. Thompson's
Drug Store became a local hangout
with the addition of booths in the back
of the store. Some young people never
seemed to go home. The booths became
crowded, noisy and messy.
Young, the owner, would get irritated
and frown a lot. He finally moved the
whole soda fountain to the center aisle
of the store vvith stools on each side.
In 1950, Jim Myers began working
at Thompson' s to see if he would
like the field of pharmacy. After graduating
from Ohio Northern School of
Phannacy in 1954, he came to work at
Thompson' s and started at the soda
fountain. That made him a soda jerk,
and he remained with Thompson's
until its closing on January 2, 2004.
Another popular spot for ice
cream was Isaly' s at 716 S. Water St.
inside Hahn' s Bakery. Kay Burgess,
whose family owned Hahn' s related
that because bakery sales fell during
the depression, they added an Isaly' s.
She recalled the special skyscraper
cone, which had to be filled using a
long cone-shaped scoop. Isaly' s offered
32 flavors.
Kay Burgess remembers that the
ice cream also was sold "hand packed
and as prepacked bricks. Burgess remembers
that Klondikes were a favorite
because " if you got one with a
pink center, you got another one
free." Cones and Klondikes were 5
cents, and every Sunday there was a
long line of customers. "There were
12 to 15 high school employees behind
the counter making cones-you
could hold up to six in one hand." A
fire destroyed Hahn's in 1973. Bur-
See ICE CREAM, p. 3 .
Inside ...
Tribute to William Birkner . .. . . ..... . 2
Garden Tours .... . ...... . . . ... . .. . 2
Ice Cream Scoops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Save the Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
KHS Volunteer Spotlight .. . .... . .... 3
In Memoriam: Russell Green ... . ... . . 4
Correction .. . ..... . .............. 4
The Kent Historical Society
Speaker Series Presents
'' All About Kent"
Noted educator and author of the newly published book
Politician Extraordinaire
The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey
Will Speak on
Fonner businessn1an, Mayor of Kent, US Congressman, and Governor of Ohio
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Doors open: 6:30 p.1n. - Talk at: TOO p.1n.
Where: The First Christian Church
Corner of West Main & Mantua St., Kent, 0 H
Light refreshments will be served
History of church and tour \\rill follow.
Sponsored by the Kent Historical Society
2,34 S. Water St. , Kent, OH
330.678.2712
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Save the date:
Spec1a[ programs for spec1a[ people and spec1a[ 1nterests
l
r;;centennial Ball dinner and
~ awards program set for June 30
at Twin Lakes Country Club
A Bicentennial Ball celebrating Kent's 200th
birthday will be held at the Twin Lakes
Country Club on Friday, June 30.
The festivities will begin at 6 p .m.
with hors d ' oeuvres and a cash bar, followed
by a delicious dinner at
7 p.m. A short awards
program will honor
Kent State University
for its front campus
renovation and former
Kent Mayor John
Carson for his
outstanding individual
leadership.
Popular
singing artist Helen Welch and her orchestra
will provide music for dancing.
Tickets are 7 5 per person or 800 plus utilitie s.
For an appointment or more information , call
Sandra Halem , KHS president, at (330) 673-8632, or
Howard Boyle , KHS board member , at (330) 673-
9827.
l(ent His tori ca[ Society Board
Sandra Halem, President
Dawn Carpenter, Vice President
Reed Strimple, Treasurer
Bill Wolcott, Secretary
Jack Amrhein
Howard Boyle
Doug Fuller
Margaret Garmon
Pat Morton
Jim Myers
John Wunderle
Scott Flynn
Guy M. Pemetti, Executive Director
Mary Ann Green, Administrative Assistant
The Kent Historical Society
P.O. Box 663
234 South Water Street
Kent, Ohio 44240
Did you know?
l(ent Bicentennial Facts
ot:y~
March 1863: The Atlantic D Great
Western Railroad1 founded by Ma
The Kentennial, Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society, Volume 40, September 2000
No full textA Note from
the Director
What memories do you
have of your time by the
nver? Did you propose
to your sweetheart
by the waterfall?
Did you fall in once
while you were fishing?
Do you remember hiking
along the bank with
your dad among the
·autumn leaves?
The Kent Historical Society
asks you to put
your memories of the
dam and waterfall area
into writing and send
them to us. We'll then
look at the submissions,
pick our favorites,
and publish
them in a booklet to be
called "Dam Writes"
with a target date of
publication some tinie
next year
Send your submissions
to the Kent Historical
Society, P.O. Box 663,
Kent OH 44240: All
pieces submitted become
the property of
the Kent Historical Society.
Town Hall Players
by Ralph Darrow
Fairly early in its existence,
Kent became a
hot bed of entertainment
with musical groups, discussion
groups and acting
groups. Among the
last was a home-talent
dramatics club named
Jown Hall Players,
around 1934. The name
was taken from Kent's
-town hall.
The "players" started as
a community project
with the idea of advancing
cultural interest. The
players presented three
performances each year
with the aim of staging
one performance outdoors.
The inside performances
were staged at
the University Theatre.
The organizers were Cecile
Crosser, Elizabeth
Johnson, Helen Hughey,
and Stanley Nickar. A
Record-Courier story of
June, 1939, listed that
year's officers as Mrs.
Mildred Mozena, president;
Mrs . Cecile
Crosser, vice-president;
Miss Elizabeth Johnson,
secretary; Mrs. Helen
Hughey, treasurer; and
Stanley Nickar, memberat-
large.
The June, 1939, playbill
listed performers as .
· Jane Crecraft, Bob Harrington,
Elizabeth Johnson,
Cecile Crosser,
Frieda Sturgill, G. Harry
Wright, Peggy Conrad,
Frank Amodio, and
Martha Hallenbeck.
Over the years many
persons were involved
as officers, actors and
production staff members.
Among the support
staff members listed in
the 1939 playbill were
Lucius Lyman, Helen
Hughey, Virginia Horning,
Elizabeth Clark, Cecile
Crosser, ldabelle
Hoose, Jean Johnson;
Alice Sturgill, Henrietta
Leebri•ck, Janet Bowman,
Virginia Horning,
Stanley Nickar, Helen
Lussen, Virginia
Novotny, Lila Wright,
Dorothy Kirk and Jane
Gibson.
By 1954, interest in the
group waned arid it disbanded.
Glass Sales Strong Kent Cannon U.pdate
,
The Ke·nt Historical Society is offer-ing
a n~w line of ha nd-blown glass Now that the Kent Cannon has been ·
: inspired by the colors and forms of ·
. historic glass produced in our area. brought back tp the community, . has
been restored, and has its new-car-
. Each piece is marked by its creators riage, that doesn't me~n that the -
at Hale Farm and these designs will Kent Historical Society's obligations
be marketed exclusively by the Kent to it are over. The Save the cannon!
·His~orical ~ociety~ T~ere wiU be no · Fund ·continue40.00 _plus 42.50 ·
Non-member price 2.81 for-Ohio sales tax= 20.Q0 plus 21.25 ·
Non-member price 1.57 sales tax = 100 savings bond to the first person
to present us with · concrete evidence
about how the .cannon came to Kent
after the Civil War. -Mail your irifor- .
mation to us at P.O. Box .633, Kent
OH 44240~ We will determine the
winner based on the date of the post~
mark · · ·
Kentenn,al September 2000 p 2
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Kent O,r,al <Hist~ry Program .. .. community's history.through inter-views.
They are the·n·transcribed ,
The Kent Historicai Society's · ,and .ke,:?t on file at the society's "ref-
Oral History· Program has ere- - , erence center. If you wo4ld like to·
ated almost 150 interview~ since participate in the program by being
the. t980's. Under the direction of , interviewed about your memories of ,
Kent Historical Society trustee _ . ~ent's bygon~ days, please call us
Bi_ll ~iten, ttie• program continues : at the historical society ~t (330) ·
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Kentenn 1al September 2000 p.3
Kent Historical S.ocietv
Board of Trustees: -
Jack Amrhein
Howard Boyle (President)
Dawn Carpenter
· Ralph Darrow (Secretary)-
Sandra Halem · ·
Jim Myers
Reed Strimple (Treasurer)
Loris Troyer
John Weiser
Bill Wilen
John Wunderle
Staff:
James F. Caccamo, Executive Director
Lisa Mertel, Administrative Assistant
John Cheges, Museum Docent
The Kent Historicar Society
P.O. Box663
152 Franklin Avenue
We wish to thank the following busi.:; "
nesses for their membership and in-kind
servi-ces:
Ametek, Inc.
Baker Publishing
Sissier & Sons Funeral Home
City Bank Antiques
Copy Print
Davey Tree Expert Co.
Diversa, Inc.
DuBois Book Store
EMQ Computers
Emerald Environmental
Escott & Co.
Euclid Garment Mfg.
Home Savings Bank
Kent Offi~ Supply & Business Machine
Land 'O Lakes, Inc . .
Pufferbelly Ltd.
Ray's Place
Record Courier ·
R. W. Martin & Sons, Inc.
· Seal Master Corp.
Shallenberger & Associates
Siefer Electric
Smithers Oasis
Sue Nelson Designs, Ltd.
Wright Heating & Air Conditioning
Nonpront Organization
U.S. Postage
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The Kentennial, Newsletter of the Kent Historical Society, Volume 41, December 2000
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IVldlK yuu,
calendars for
Thrusday. January
25 . That
evening. from 5-
9 p m .. the
Pufferbe lly Ltd .
helps c elebrate
Kent history with
their first Kent
Hist orical Society
Night. The
evening will feature
--o ld-old-
fashioned
prices ... A iive
band . Double
Eagle. will perform
old-time
fa vorites and
children under
12 wi ll re cei ve a
free sundae with
dinner. The museum
will be
open that
evening from 6-8
for you to complete
your
evening of history
. The Kent
Historical Society
will gain
3.5 % of the
gross receipts for
support us . too'
A Note from
the Director
We at the Kent Histort-cal
Society are justifi-·
abl·y proud of our long-running
oral history
program. Beginning
with this issue of Ken-tennial,
we are going to
begin sharing some of -
these memories with
you. We hope you en-the
memories.
Maintaining a historic
structure such as our
wonderful Atlantic and
Great Western depot is
one ·of the main finan-cial
obli,gations of the
Kent Historica_l Society.
We also keep our of-fices
open with profes-sional
staffing three
days a week.. Utility
costs, insurance, an~
po~tage continue to
rise. While your annual
membership ·helps us
to keep up basie- oper':1-
tions,- it doesn't leave
much extra for many of
the other activities that
we would like-to en-
·Qc;1ge. ,Please consider
-donating to the soci-ety's
Endowme·nt _Fund.
An Interview· with Albert Ciccone
(Conducted November 1994)
_ Interviewer: Mr. Ciccone; runn·er up to the house
why don't you give me a to tell him he had to go
little bit of _your ba:ck- to work the next day. But
ground? · it was a little different
than your supermarket
Mr. Ciccone: I was born today. When a man
in Kent on the south end walked in your store, you·_
of Kent down on Pine ·kn~\Y him by name, he
Street. I was born June . knew you by name. It
30th, 1923. My dad ran a wasn't a manager or
small grocery store. It somebody, · it was some-was
one of them comer one you knew. -It was a
stores with a mama- -.small store, but it was a
papa deal. And the living ...
_ house. was attached, so
the kids was involved The interviewer then
shortly after we could asked Mr. Ciccone about
walk and talk. But things his family background.
changed a lot since then.
-rt used to be the comer Mr. Ciccone: My Uncle
store was more than just Steve was in _ town first,
a store. It.was a place to and my dad left home
pick up messages, meet when he was about
. people, and find out ~elve_, fourteen years
what was going on old and went to work in
around town. The Erie · Germany. He got to Ger-
Shop used to be on the m·any, he had to learn
end of Pine Street and it how to talk German. He
caught fire. And Erie car was there a couple
· barns-shop was moved years, and then his
to Susquehanna. And brother Steve ... wrote
when the men had to be and told him about com-called
there was-very ing to Kent, and he come
few telepones in that over to Kent. Uncle
area at the time. They -Steve ... had a store also,
would call the store, and but they were in partner-thenwe'd
have to send a Continued on P.2
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Glass Sales Continue in 1957, ai 402 Harris Street, except for the
. . . . . . . tour in the army ... The people, like I told you ·
.~he Kent H1stoncal Soc1~ty is_ offenng a new before ... it was a hands-on thing. I mean, them
hne of hand_-bl~wn _glass msp,red by t~e colors days, it was a lot different. We had credit,. and
. and forms of h1st~nc glass pro~uced In our you knew when payday was because every-area.
Each piece 1s ma~~d by •~s crea~ors at body come in and took care of their accounts.
Hale Farm a~d these. designs ~•II b~ mar- . You didn't have to go chase them ... oh, there
keted exclusively by. the Kent H1stoncal Soc,- was the two deadbe~ts but ·not like to-ety.
There_will be no mail sales: ~II gl_ass ite~s day .. .lt's justthat the m~ral~ of the people
must ~e picked, up at the Kent H1stoncal Soc,- was a little different. they knew they owed you
ety offices._ We re above the Pufferbelly at the money and_ you did .help them by giving
152 Fr-ankhn Avenue and our Qffice hours are them stuff to eat for two weeks or a month.
9-4 Mondays, Wedne~days,_ and Fridays. Cur- Some of them got monthly, some got semirently,
~e have some items m cobalt blue_ and monthly-checks. So, that was our payday.
amber 1n stock. When they got-paid, we got paid. That isn't
- The Kent Pitcher always true today.
Member price 2.50 for Ohio sales tax
. =45.00 plus 47.81
The Kent Bowl
· Member price 1.25 Ohio sal~s tax = ·
25.00 plus 26~57
Inkwells
Member price .75 Ohio sales tax=
15.00 plus 15.95 · ·
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The interviewer then asked how things were ·
different in Kent in the old-day-s from the way _
things are now. Mr. Ciccone replied:
Well ... they had stores just about on every, corner
in the south end of kent. You know, I
coul.d name you Paskey's,• Doogle Brothers,
there was Ross and Loos, there was· Cerani's,
-there was Ciccone's ... and that's all within .
blocks ~f each other. Everybody had a small
. store, and they had their own clientele. They'd
come in, mostly ... th~y talk about discrimina- ________________ _____.
tion and separation today-back in them days
the Italians went to the Italian store, the Gership
in a small grocery store downtown,· more man~ went to the German stor~s,_ and that
Ciccone (Continued from P. 1)
or less on Franklin A venue-. But then they split was it. They had streets. I mean, if a boy from
up. They divtded the inventory and he stayed Elm Street-he was probably German, and he
downtown and my dad went down south. He come date a girl on Harris Street, they'd run
· went to Harris Street. At that time it was him out of town! They'd run him back to his
known as the flats .. There was no flats then, ~treet, because that was their girls. But each
but it was the south end- of Kent. But started street more or less had th~ir own nationality.
out very small, stayed small. we never got There was.the Polish on Dodge Street, there
_ big, bufw~ made a .little store, that's all ... My was the Germans on Elm Street. I don't know,
dad moved down south end of town, and he we-were Italian, we was on Harris Street. But
had ·a small store on the comer of Cherry and it was a little different. The ·people more or
-Pine Street, but it caught fire and he moved less stuck together. The nationalities stuck to-
- up one block. He moved up to the comer of gather because they was stranded here, and
Harris and Pine Street, and we started there. -1 - like my dad, they had to learn all over again to
think I was two years old, so that must've talk American .. .they was a big group and they
been 1925 when we moved up there. and I trusted each other.
spent my whole life, until I built my house here To Be Continued
Kentenn1al December 2000 p. 2
Margaret Garmon Joins
Board
We are pleased to announce that
Margaret Garmon has joined the
Board of Trustees of the Kent
Historical Society. A resident of
Kent, -she has been active in the
society, most recently serving on
the committee which helped arrange
the Loris Troyer Scholarship
benefit. At Kent State University,
she functioned as the Coordinator
of University Communications and
Technology. We all look forward to
working with her as we move forward
in enhancing our society's
role in the community.
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Your continued support through your membership dues and through contributions helps us
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Kent e nnial D ece mber 2000 p 3
· Kent Historical Society
· Board of Trustees:
Jack Amrhein
Howard Boyle (President)
Dawn Carpenter ·
, Ralph Darrow (Secretary)
Margaret Garmon
Sandra Halem
Jim Myers
Reed Strimple "(Treasurer)
Loris lroyer
John Weiser
Bill Wilen
John Wunderle
Staff:
J_ames F. Caccamo, Executive Director
Lisa Mertel, Administrative Assistant
John Cheges, · Museum Docent
The Kent Historical Society
P.O. Box663
·152 Franklin Avenue
- . Kent OH 44240
(330) 678-2712
We wish to thank the foll.owing busi- •
nesses for thei'r membership and in-ki'nd
services:
Ametek, Inc.
Baker Publishing
Sissier & Sons Funeral Home
City Bank Antit1ues
Copy Print
Davey Tree Expert Co.
- Diversa, Inc.·
DuBois Book Store
EMC Computers
Emerald Environmental
Escott & Co.
Eu clid Garment Mfg.
Home Savings Bank
Kent Office Supply & Business Machine
Land 'O Lakes, Inc.
Pufferbelly Ltd.
Ray's Place·
Record Courier
R. W. Martin & Sons, Inc.
Seal Master Corp.
Shallenberger & Associates
Siefer Electric
.Smithers Oasis
Sue Nelson Designs, Ltd.
Wright Heating & Air Conditioning
Nonprofit Organization
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Kent OH 44240
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