Description: A ten-page folder advertising the sale of items from the John M. Waddel Manufacturing Company of Greenfield, Ohio. Eight of the pages feature various models of coffee mills. Two of the pages describe the "Latest and Best" rat trap, called the "Surprise," complete with a list of features of the trap and visual instructions showing how to arm the trap for use. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: PA526_70_01
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Businesses; Advertisements; Mills;
Places: Greenfield (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 41-year-old Cecil Yankey of Greenfield. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Yankey was the 280th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 280 -- Cecil H. Yankey of Highland County, Legally Electrocuted September 12, 1950, for the Murder of LeRoy Woodland.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08332
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Greenfield (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows rubber manufacturer Harvey Firestone, automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, and inventor Thomas Edison in Marion, Ohio for the funeral of President Warren G. Harding in 1923. Edison (1847-1931) was born in Milan, Ohio and is known for his many inventions, including the phonograph and the light bulb. Firestone (1868-1938) was born in Columbiana County, Ohio and began to manufacture rubber tires in 1896. He founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in 1900 and moved it to Akron, Ohio. Ford (1863-1947) was born in Greenfield, Michigan and worked with the Edison Company from 1890 to 1899, when he founded the Detroit Automobile Company in Detroit, Michigan. Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1525_1505702_001
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Funeral rites & ceremonies; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Firestone, Harvey Samuel, 1868-1938; Ford, Henry, 1863-1947
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of General Charles Pomeroy Stone, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Charles Pomeroy Stone was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts on September 30, 1824. He attended Westpoint and graduated in 1545, seventh of forty-one cadets. He served in the Mexican-American War and on the Union side of the American Civil War. He died in New York, New York on January 24, 1887. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04358
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Mexican-American War, 1898; Portrait photography