MS-138
TERRY WRIGHT COLLECTION
INTRODUCTION
MS-138, the Terry Wright Collection, was added to the Flesh Public Library Archives and Special Collections in February, 2006. It is contained in two boxes with 26 Series and 272 file folders. The collection comprises Echoes of the Miami Valley, 1991, a history of Piqua and the Miami Valley, as well as Terry Wright’s newspaper articles and reminiscences. There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
MS-138, the Terry Wright Collection, is divided into two boxes containing 26 Series and 272 file folders. Box 1 contains 19 Series with 229 file folders, while Box 2 has 7 Series with 43 file folders.
BOX 1:
SERIES NO;
I. |
Articles |
II. |
People |
III. |
Piqua utilities |
IV. |
Piqua stores & companies |
V. |
Transportation |
VI. |
Buildings |
VII. |
Churches |
VIII. |
Schools & sports |
IX. |
Military |
X. |
Rossville – slaves – Black history |
XI. |
Piqua Miami & Erie Canal |
XII. |
Covington, Ohio |
XIII. |
Sidney, Ohio/Shelby Co. |
XIV. |
Tipp City, Oh. |
XV. |
Troy, Oh. |
XVI. |
Waco Aircraft Co., Troy |
XVII. |
Miami County |
XVIII. |
Miami Conservation & River Corridor |
XIX. |
Miami Valley – Dayton & north of Piqua |
BOX II
SERIES:
I. |
Ohio history |
II. |
United States |
III. |
Wildlife & flowers |
IV. |
Photography |
V. |
Travel brochures |
VI. |
Miami-Erie Canal |
VII. |
Snapshots – Piqua |
HISTORY
Terry Wright is an historian, educator, and journalist from the Miami Valley. His columns, “Echoes of the Miami Valley” and “Back in Time” have appeared in the Troy Daily News, Piqua Daily Call, and Miami Valley Sunday News.
He has served as Director of the Miami County River Corridor Committee, where his job was to “preserve the history of the river and promote recreation along the river.”
Wright earned his Bachelor’s degree at Wright State University, and his Master’s degree in political science at the University of Dayton.
Terry’s interests include photography and involvement with the Piqua Amateur Radio Club, and the Don Gentile Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol in Piqua. He has been a photographer for the Piqua Daily Call sports department, a teacher in Vandalia and New Lebanon school districts, and an active Miami Valley historian for many years.
His collection includes various newspaper articles on the history of the Miami Valley, as well as numerous photographs, brochures and pamphlets. The time period of the collection is from pioneer life in Piqua in the 1700’s to the present day.
CONTAINER LISTING
BOX 1
SERIES I – ARTICLES
FILE NO.
1. Echoes of the Miami Valley, 1991
SERIES II – PEOPLE
FILE NO.
2. Robbery
3. First licensed optometrist – 1902
4. Women of Piqua – early 1900’s
5. Hilliards of Huntersville
6. Joe Gard
7. Frank Hardy & William Rayner
8. John F. McKinney
9. Piqua opera star Francis Mac Clennan
10. William P. Orr
11. Black Hoof – Shawnee leader
12. Twightwee clan of Miami Indians
13. O’Ferrell House
14. The Dilbone Massacre
15. William McKinley & John Battelle
16. Harding Presidential Campaign
17. Charles Wiltheiss, archaeologist
18. Admiral S. C. Rowan Monument – 1909
19. William Jennings Bryan visits Piqua, & Wm. Taft, & T. Roosevelt
20. Mills Brothers
21. William McCulloch
22. Helen Wellmeier
23. Charles Householder
24. John S. Garbry, Ohio Conservation Hall of Fame
25. W.P. Lear
26. Charles Kettering “Bug” Story, first airplane of its kind
27. President James Garfield
28. A.B. Graham, Lena-Conover
29. Thomas Harbaugh, dime novels-Casstown
SERIES III – PIQUA UTILITIES
30. Electric Co. -1864
31. Municipal Power Plant, 1885
32. Water Works, 1876
33. Sewage Treatment Plant, 1957
34. Fire – 1924/new fire engine – 1904
35. New motorcycle for police – 1910
36. Working men of Piqua, 1907-1925
SERIES IV – PIQUA STORES & COMPANIES
37. Store Ads, 1921-22
38. Cottage Bakery
39. S. Zollinger& Co., 1915
40. Ice Co., 1879
41. Winans Candy, 1960
42. Thoma& Sons, 1840
43. Tin Plate Co. – late 1800’s
44. Favorite Stove & Range Co. – 1881
45. Wood Shovel – 1902
46. Newspapers – 1st in Ohio, 1793
47. Brewing Industry in Miami Co.
48. L.C. & W.L. Cron Co. – early 1900’s
49. Early Industries – late 1800’s
50. Montgomery Ward & Underwear Bldg.
51. Pope’s Grocery – 1920’s
52. H.H. Oda Grocery – 1920’s
53. Grocery business in 1900’s
54. Limestone pictures
55. Ice harvesting – early 1900’s
56. Val Decker Packing Co. – 1873
57. Atlas Underwear – 1899
58. National Bank – 1847
59. Fire Station pictures – 1900
60. French Oil &Cron Co. – 1900’s pictures
61. Buildings construction – c. 1887
62. Ohio Marble Co. – Piqua Quarries, Inc. – 1894
63. Piqua Granite & Marble Co. – 1882
64. Manufacturing history c. 1887 (companies established)
65. Landman Mill – 1840
66. Hartzell Propeller’s race – 1924, story of 6-blade bi-plane
SERIES V – TRANSPORTATION
67. From Buggy Whips to Steering Wheels
68. Local Interurban systems by Scott Trostel, 1869-1930
69. Trolley Service, Darke Co. –1905
70. Before cars & Interurban trolleys, 1889
71. Railroads, 1867
72. Western Ohio railroads
73. Troop train wreck in Piqua, 1945
74. Camp car-1913, picture by Scott Trostel
75. Early auto accident, 1904
76. Trip down Wayne St., c. 1900’s
77. Ash St. Bridge, early pictures
SERIES VI – BUILDINGS
78. Library moved to Piqua Club, 1930
79. Library popular in 1930
80. Piqua Museum – the Library takes over-1984
81. Piqua’s past revisited at Museum
82 New Town Hall – Piqua, 1904
83. “Hotel of Many Names” – Tamplin – early 1800’s
84. Benkert Building – 1889
85. Hotels in Piqua – 1820-1940
86. House – 502 Caldwell, 1884
87. Scott House – 528 Caldwell, 1837
88. American Legion Home dedicated, 1946
89. Forest Hill Cemetery – 1846
90. Cemetery monuments – Forest Hill, 1869
91 Piqua, Ohio – booklet
92. Piqua chronology – 10,000 B.C.-1874
SERIES VII – CHURCHES
93. Anti-Saloon rally of Piqua church – 1904
94. Rift among Presbyterians – 1836
95. St. Boniface – 1855
96. St. Boniface & St. Mary’s merge – 1987
97. Cyrene A.M.E. Church – 1853 (African Methodist Episcopal)
98. Old cemetery – c. 1811
SERIES VIII – SCHOOLS & SPORTS
99. Early teachers had to pass exam – 1830
100. Park Ave. School – 1874
101. Drake School – District 7, Washington Twp., 1914
102. Blasting in school zone – 1911
103. Jerome C. Smiley Collection to schools – 1920
104. Piqua High School – 1912
105. Piqua – 1st to teach impaired – 1927
106. Frank P. Irvin – President, Piqua Bd. of Ed – 1930
107. School year opens – 1932
108. “Early Education” to Miami & Shelby Co. &Midwest – 1880
109. Chautaqua –Early education in US. – 1880
110. Bennett Jr. High handbook – 1988-1989
111. Piqua – semi-pro ball, 1883
112. Heavyweight champ of America son of Piqua medicine show man – 1913
SERIES IX – PIQUA MILITARY
113. Miami County - soldiers of Revolution
114. Lewis Boyer – 1775 (bodyguard to George Washington
115. Major James Shellenberger – 1904 – Army doctor
116. Miami Co. men & Mexican War –1846
117. “Camp Piqua” – 1862
118. Piqua’s 94th Regiment – 1864, March to Atlanta
119. Battle of Murfreesboro – 1862, the 94th
120. Renovated armory – 1904
121. Piqua National Guard started as Cavalry unit – 1920
122. War rationing – 1942
123. Colonel William Baugh – POW – 1967-1973 in Vietnam
124. Don Gentile, Piqua, W.W. II Ace Pilot
125. “Civil Air Patrol”- started in 1941
SERIES X – ROSSVILLE – SLAVES – BLACK HISTORY
126. Miami & Erie Canal & Randolph slaves – 1840
127. Miami Valley pathway background
128. Troy Crossroads for Underground Railroad – 1920
129. Vanished black rural communities in Western Ohio & map
130. Rossville Museum – through efforts of Helen Gilmore – 1982
131. Historic Inventories on Rossville – 1981
132. Randolph slaves in Miami County & North, by Helen Gilmore
SERIES XI – PIQUA MIAMI & ERIE CANAL
133. William Combs – one of last canal boat captains –b. 1867
134. Capt. G. Edward McConnell – born 1850, boat captain
135. Canal – opportunities for Piqua – 1840
136. Northern extension of Miami & Erie Canal, 1837-1842
137. “Passing of Miami & Erie Canal” by F.C. Simon
SERIES XII – COVINGTON, OHIO
138. Covington, Ohio – 1794
139. Farrington Lock, pre 1837
140. Rowdy town – 1835
141. Lloyd Reck – 1917 (Boy Scout leader)
142. Memorial Day 1986 (list of names of war veterans, War of 1812-Vietnam)
143. Bradford, Oh. Railroad, YMCA – 1906
144. Blue Jacket – Shawnee Indian – 1771
SERIES XIII – SIDNEY, OHIO/SHELBY COUNTY
145. Mayors – 1834-1982
146. Cardo family – 1850
147. Edward Lyons – 1881
148. Joseph Altenbach – 1839 (architect)
149. Monumental building –1873 (for Civil War veterans)
150. “The Spot” – 1907
151. Opera House – 1876
152. Fort Loramie, Ohio electric car – 1911
153. Post Office – 1917
154. Sheets Mfg. Co. – 1890 (Botkins, Oh. )
155. Robertson Bldg – 1892-1917
156. Wagner House Hotel – 1873
157. Old Infirmary – 1869
158. Shelby House – Botkins, Oh.on National Register – 1864
159. Shelby Co. 1st railroad system – 1840’s
160. Rhine & Port Jefferson – 1838 & 1814
161. Archaeological dig
162. Turtle Creek – twin culverts – Shelby Co., 1838
163. Demise of Turtle Creek Culvert – 1980
SERIES XIV – TIPP CITY, OHIO
164. Old Mill site – 1891
165. Seed Co.(Saunders) – 1906
166. Old Tippecanoe business district, 1840-1917 booklet
SERIES XV – TROY, OHIO
167. Troy Belle – canal boat, 1840’s
168. Miami County Jail
169. “The Noted Doctor Hays” – 1840
170. Mayor John F. Somerville, 1811
171. Genealogy of John F. Somerville
172. Troy Fire Dept. c. 1824
173. Hobart Brothers – 1863
174. Gene Shockey c. 1986 builds own plane
175. Soldiers in Troy & Miami Co.- 1855
176. “The Last Steam Trains” – 1956
177. The Underground Railroad in Troy – 1840’s
178. Miami County Courthouse – 1885/rededicated – 1982
179. Miami County Courthouse & Powerhouse & Safety Bldg. – 1885-1971
180. Old Miami County power plant – 1885
181. Use of Great Miami River – 1870’s
182. Lease of canal lands to Ken M. Sullenberger – 1976
183. Governor’s deed of land to Dettmer Hospital, Troy – 1963
184. Map of Miami-Erie Canal through Troy; canal newsclippings: 1824, 1827, 1835
185. Twin arch culvert on County Rd. 25-A, National Register – 1971-78
186. Troy, Ohio, USA booklet
187. Miami & Champaign Co. “Ohio Review” – 1980
188. New Resident Guide, c. 1988
SERIES XVI – WACO AIRCRAFT CO., TROY, OHIO
189. Waco (thru times) booklet
190. Early beginnings – 1923
191. Waco aircraft, quality & performance – 1923
192. Waco model 8 – 1924
193. Crop dusting – early 1920’s
194. Tex LaGrove (1st salesman & C. Lindburgh picture)
195. Waco Cg – 13A glide – 1943
196. WW II pictures of glider functions
197. “Wacos attack Japan”- 1932
198. “Silent squadrons”, gliders in WW II history – 1940
199. Waco gliders in an attack of Burma – 1943
200. Forgotten heroes, the glider pilots c. 1940
201. Drawings for the Taylor-Craft TG -6
202. Volksmarch – Troy, among 1st ones – 1985
SERIES XVII – MIAMI COUNTY
203. Mail delivery – 1804
204. Transportation: rivers & roads
205. Lorimer of Shawnee Bridge – Piqua, 1915
206. City of Piqua – many bridges, 1820
207. Robert W. Smith, Miami County covered bridge builder – 1867
208. Eldean Bridge – third longest in Ohio
209. Miami County covered bridges
210. 5 covered bridges: Chatter – 1983 newsletters with pictures
211. Farming in Miami County c. early 1800’s
212. Threshing machine, 1833
213. Early lumber business in Miami County – 1700’s
214. Stone quarries c. 1880
215. Booklets: Piqua Memorial Medical Center; Dettmer Hospital; Stouder Hospital; Red Cross’s 50th Anniversary
216. Miami County water mills, Leonard Hill
SERIES XVIII – MIAMI CONSERVATION & RIVER CORRIDOR
217. Annual Report – 1982 – Dayton district
218. Terry Wright – River Corridor coordinator
219. Soil conservation know-how’s
220. Great Miami River story
221. Miami River Canoe Classic
222. Piqua Volksmarch– 1985
SERIES XIX – MIAMI VALLEY - DAYTON & NORTH OF PIQUA
223. Dayton homes
224. Wright Cycle Co.- Dayton, 1900
225. Area’s architectural assets – 1980
226. 1913 Flood – Dayton
227. Delco Products, 1899-1927
228. St. Mary’s Lake
229. Ohio Review magazine
BOX II
SERIES I – OHIO HISTORY
FILE NO.
1. Northwest Ordinance to mark 200th year
2. Indians in Ohio history
3. Shawnee nation
4. Ohio chronology
5. Election of 1824 important to Ohio
6. Ohio Historical Review
7. Ohio Department of Transportation
8. Bills (2) Congress & General Assembly
9. The Great Lakes Inland Waterway
10. Ohio River navigation
11. Ohio land grants
12. Ohio canal system
13. The Buckeye Trail; fish identification
SERIES II – UNITED STATES
14 .United Nations
15. Soviet strategic defense programs
16. CIA factbook on Intelligence
17. Memorial of the Battle of Normandy
18. The St. Lawrence River Canal Vessel
19. Ellet and Roebling
20. Morris Canal – bold scheme
21. Washington dreamed of canal
22. Halley’s Comet
23. Fighting ships into museums of Naval history
SERIES III – WILDLIFE & FLOWERS
SERIES IV – PHOTOGRAPHY
24. Early photography a popular business
25. Photographers & photographic process
26. The photo subject was A. Lincoln
BOX II
SERIES V – TRAVEL BROCHURES
SERIES VI – MIAMI-ERIE CANAL
27. Operating on the canal
28. Canal workers led rugged lifestyles
29. Early history of the canal
30. Engineering difficulties hamper construction
31. The Miami & Erie Canal locks – Lockington, Ohio
32. The Captain was a storyteller
33. Miami & Erie towpath open
34. The Miami – Erie Canal
35. The canal in Minster
36. Canals on National Register
37. Miami Canal & the Warren County Canal
SERIES VII – SNAPSHOTS – PIQUA
38. The Waco World– July ’82-Aug. ‘89
39. Ohio Cues – May, ’88-‘92
40. American Canals – Aug, 80-May, ‘89
41. Canal Currents – spring, ’82-winter, ‘83
42. The Fighting Fourth – Sept.,’86-Sept. ‘90
43. Shelbyana – Jan., ’85-Oct., ‘88