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One House’s Story: The Stocksdale Family

The Stocksdale Family house on Beaver Dam Avenue in New Philadelphia, Ohio, 2019. (Source: google.com)

Never let the size of a house fool you into believing there is no history to be found. The home of Elisha and Sarah Stocksdale is the perfect example of just such a house. William Stocksdale (1819-1894), a cooper by trade, and his wife Margaret (1831-1915) moved to Dover, Ohio in the 1850s. They startedContinue reading “One House’s Story: The Stocksdale Family”

Runaway to Hero: The Life of Henry T. Danforth

Advertisement placed by William Shear for his runaway apprentice, Henry T. Danforth, March 1842. (Source: newspaperarchive.com)

I stumbled across a runaway apprentice advertisement from 1842 and my curiosity got the better of me. I wanted to find out what happened to the apprentice whose master only offered one cent for his return. I was surprised by what I found. If we are to believe the 1842 advertisement for runaway saddler apprenticeContinue reading “Runaway to Hero: The Life of Henry T. Danforth”