Showing posts with label Clyde Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clyde Ohio. Show all posts
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Ohio Andersonville Monument

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  Ohio Andersonville Monument Courtesy of National Park Service The Ohio Andersonville Monument Commission was authorized by House Bill No. ...
Friday, June 7, 2024

Andrew Jackson Ellison, Company C 88th US Colored Troops

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Andrew Jackson Ellison was born in Ohio March 4, 1835. He was one of 12 children of John and Sarah Ellison who were both born in Virginia. S...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Clydesdale Motor Truck Company

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Clydesdale Motor Truck  Courtesy of the Clyde Public Library The Clydesdale Motor Truck Company built truck bodies in Clyde, Ohio, between 1...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Anniversary of the Death of Civil War General James B. McPherson

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On this day in 1864, Clyde, Ohio native General James Birdseye McPherson was killed in the opening rounds of the Battle of Atlanta. Th...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

George Burton Meek, Clyde, Ohio: First American Killed in the War with Spain

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  George Burton Meek Killed aboard the USS Winslow Thaddeus B. Hurd Collection   Fireman 1st Class George Burton Meek of Clyde,...
Monday, October 3, 2011

Pvt. John Grabach: Third Ohio Cavalry at Lovejoy's Station

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During a visit to Clyde, Ohio for a family reunion, John Grabach, then living in Grand Island, Nebraska, related his experience after saving...
Friday, September 9, 2011

Hughes Granite Company Created Ohio's Enduring Civil War Memorials

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The name Hughes Granite is long gone from Clyde, Ohio, but the exceptional markers, monuments, and memorials the company created remain a ph...
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Friday, February 1, 2008

General James B. McPherson Monument at Clyde, Ohio

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General James B. McPherson Monument On August 22nd, 1881, 10,000 individuals - Civil War veterans, U.S. congressmen, military officers, area...
Monday, January 28, 2008

James Albert Wales - Political Cartoonist

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For 19th-century Americans, politics was entertainment. There was no TV, radio, cable, video, or You Tube, but just the same, everyone knew ...