Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 137. 1860-1890s; Front Street; The Gaylord Mill; Civil War; Ben B. Gaylord; John P. Terry; J.B. Greene; William Harris; Charles Price; Phineas Stone; Ben Fisher; Charles Simpson; Crad Phillips; Louis Bloneyer; Charles Sittner; Conrad Wamser; Peter Monaghan; Patterson Book Bindery; J.W. Dunham; F. C. Herms; William Bradley; Gaylord
Worn hardback green leather diary of Robert Alexander Bryan with strap enclosing gold image on flap with lettering "Diary 1866". It has lined pages and handwritten entries inside. Robert was born in 1839 in Adams County, then relocated to Scioto County and became an engineer and surveyor. He was the Scioto County Engineer from 1866-1869, 1880-1885, and then again in 1900, the County Surveyor in 1872, and the City Civil Engineer from 1880-1893. Robert is credited for many engineering projects in Scioto County including bridging the Scioto River at its mouth, overseeing the construction of the Scioto Valley Railway for 16 miles from Portsmouth, creating the 1889 map that hangs at the court house and library, and organizing the first street paving in Portsmouth in 1891. He died in 1913.
"Williams' Portsmouth City Directory for 1868-69
to which is appended a United States Post Office Directory.
Third Issue: Compiled by Williams & Co.
James Stephenson:
(Buckeye Block)
Portsmouth, Ohio
1868"
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: ypyed page talking about the Women's Suffrage Association
Pictured: andy Fisher, Chas. Schumann, A. Cramer, Philip Emrich, and Adam Bauer
T. B. Blake
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page 252.
Pictured is typed a list of prominent Portsmouth citizens and their professions in 1870. J. L. Treuhart; Harper and Searl; Samuel J. Huston; Martin Crain; John J. Glidden; Dr. J. R. McGlure; Homeopathy; Dr. H. McCarney; B. Silber; G. W. Anderson & Son; Densmore and Pratt; Lon McFarlin; W. L. Sickles, captain; E. B. Moore; Bostona; D. W. Young; Charles Holloway; Wash Honshell; B. P. Holmes; Will Holmes
Photo image of page scanned from scrapbook: typed page about an incident from 1874 when a boiler from a locomotive in the M. & C. (B. & O.) yard exploded and the aftermath with some citizens.
Pictured: Enos Reed and Ben Johnson
Photo image of scanned scrapbook page: typed page detailing events surrounding an incident in Greenlawn Cemetery, in 1876, involving the body of a woman and her twin babies looking untouched years after burial.
Pictured: S. J. Huston Jr., Meyer Seidenbach, and W. H. Angle
