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Alfred Edgerton and daughter B & O Railroad Depot and Viaduct B & O Railroad Section Gang (ca. 1921) E.U.B. Sunday School Class East Hardware Co. (later known as Gorrell Hardware). Armory Company Headquarters Daeida Hartle Wilcox Beveridge Defiance County Fair Grandstand Defiance County Fair Board Early Downtown Hicksville Fire Department (ca. 1923) First Hicksville High School First Presbyterian Church (postcard) First Presbyterian Church Grand Army of the Republic Statue Greetings from Hicksville (postcard) Band Leader O. V. Hart (ca. 1920) Hart's Boy Band - O. V. Hart, director Hart's Jewelry Store - interior Hart's Girl Band and Amelia Bingham Logs at the Handle Factory Henning and Crook Residences Hicksville High School (postcard) Hicksville High School Football Team Hicksville High School Football Team Hicksville High School Class of 1898 First National Bank (interior) Downtown - East High Street Huber Opera Block (postcard) Kerr and Ainsworth Residences Evangelical Church on Cornelia Street One of Hicksville's Big Trees Patriotic Float at the Faitgrounds St. Paul's Episcopal Church St. Paul's Episcopal Church St. Paul's Episcopal Church St. Paul's Episcopal Church St. Paul's Episcopal Church St. Paul's Episcopal Church B & O Train Depot (postcard)
A. P. Edgerton and his daughter Ann at their High Street home This group of men was responsible for raising the level of the tracks two feet, at the highest point from Rosedale to the St. Joe crossing. This task was accomplished by manually tamping stone beneath the ties, raising the tracks no more than two inches at a time. Pictured are (left to right) front row: Harold Mohr, Reginald Moore, unknown, Charles Rhoades, Charlie Jonesback. Second row: Ned Gessner, James Panico, Marvin Cole, Ambrose Kenner, Ward Bell, Milo Miller, Charles Jones. Back row: Edward Potter, John Higgenbottom, Roscoe Etchen, John Stauffer, Walter Hootman. From The History of Defiance County Ohio Illustrated 1976. Photo says: B & O Section Gang. Foreman, Ambrose Kenner, unknown, Jim Rhodes, Walter Hootman, Roscoe Etchen or John Higginbottom, John Fulmer or Roscoe Etchen. Note the track is not elevated here. Photo (ca. 1905 or 1906) of the United Brethern Church Childrens Class, now known as Trinity United Methodist Church. It was taught by Mrs. Wallace (Maggie) Bricker. Pictured are (left to right) front row: Portia Smith, Dwight Fletcher, unidentified, unidentified, Herbert Willit, unidentified, unidentified, Edith Frover Harkey, Helen Arrowsmith, Helen Dowell, Vance Bricker, Gertrude Dowell. Second row: Elva Hilbert Hook, Erma Hilbert Hedges, unidentified, Marguerite Blythe, Berdena Kline, Catherine Smith, Marie Thompson, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified. Third row: Pauline Rath, Nora Steele, Ruth Willit Eiser, unidentified, Esther Howenstine, Florence Kleckner, Lois Kleckner, Jennie Horn, Emily Arrowsmith Reed. Back row: Mrs. Wallace Bricker (teacher), unidentified, unidentified, Norbert Everett, Fordyce Moore, Forest Johnson, unidentified, Horton Arrowsmith. Pictured are (left to right) Mark Gorrell, George Hently, Wayne Gorrell, Glen Brush, Howard Jolly, Bill Tustison, George Byroads, Fred Rohrs, and Iro Morhart. South Main St., old M. E. Church Five-yr-old double gated gelding, sired by Ed S 2:10 to be given away to the one holding the lucky number. Drawing to take place Christmas. Bernath & Post, Hicksville, O. Front row: Willaim Harter (president), J. M. Ainsworth, L. E.Griffin (secretary), Kelly, Robert Dorsey, B. S. Pettit (treasurer). Back row: Mel Hootman, George Knight, W. D. Wilson, Nate Fuller, J. Blosser, R. M. Simmons News-Tribune January 2, 1991: This photo, taken circa 1931, depicts the full membership of Eck Greer's Band, a village resident and musician, led the band for a few years as they performed concerts throughout the village. The boys rehearsed in the building which now houses Bruce Guilford Real Estate. Front row: Dick Ames and Estel "Eck" Greer. Standing: Ted Karageorge, Bob Triplet, Max Greer, Claron Laub, Bob Macauley, Frank Macauley, George Wilderson, Walter Belknap, Max Miller, Lee McCartney, Max Elder, Gerald Ames, Paul Kerr, David Husted, Allen Hilbert, and E.L. Elliott. Joseph Ketchum Edgerton (left), Alfred Pelig Edgerton (center), Lycurgus Edgerton (right). The Farmers of yesteryear used a different form of horsepower as evidenced by W. T. Elliott, Carl Tract and Evert Day who display Elliott's Clay, Brandon and Rummer. photo ca. 1913. Front row: Estel Myers, William West, John Clinger, Frosty Moore, Punch Driver, Kenny Driver, Merle Wells, Orley McDonald, Tellis Carey, Clare Cahill. Second row: Ray Easterly, Arch Dotts. Back row: Terri Johnson, William Keener, Alf Wonderly, Guy Wilson, mascot, Forrest Monroe, Allan Poper, Layton Roan, Forest McCalla. This was said to be the first high school. The photo was taken while the building was being torn down. At The Love Nest - Atlantic City, NJ In the Defiance County Fairgrounds' Grandstand One of our favorite Hicksville Photos. Amelia Bingham is in the car. The girls are playing away, and the town is gathered we think to celebrate the end of WWI and/or dedicate Meuse Argonne to the memory of fallen Hicksville soldiers. Wm. Lash 1882-1960, Earl Lash 1889-1980, Wm. Lash was Grace Doubs father; Earl was her uncle. Top Row 3rd from right: George (lefty) Gilbert.....played for the House Of David, seems to be a religious group, not a school team. (later Tuttle and Wittig Feed Mill and Hardees location) 1920's Artists rendering of the restoration and renovation project Above rear: Katheryn Ferris, Hazel Greer, Hazel Seibert, Carma Rowe. Front: Mood Mastin and (unknown) out for a West High ride. Land Office at Opening of Museum Hicksville's oldest landmark at corner of Fountain and Edgerton Front row: George Gaston, Wayne Edgar, Virgil Cleland, Clara Gaston, Virgil Hofmeister. Second row: Ruth Dickerhoff Rosenick, Wanda Warfriend Evans, Arlina Dickerhoff Harmon, Grace Lash Doub, — Rohrs, Emma Bruggeman Scranton, (unknown). Back row: William R. Cleland, Luther Harkey, Elmer Lash, Pauline Fry Abbott, Donald O'Neil, Raymond Hofmeister. S.S. Teacher, Tracie Weber Repp. Back of photo says "West High Street by Elevators" Line drawing by Edith Hart Smith Cross, Altar, and Alpha and Omega Windows Elizabethan windows imported from England
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