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Shot in a Dover Coffeehouse: The 1921 Murder of Mike Lambros

AI generated image depicting Steve Manos waiting to kill Mike Lambros in a Dover, Ohio coffee house in March 1921. (Source: Microsoft Designer)

A confrontation between Greek immigrants in Dover, Ohio, over an alleged insult toward one the men’s wife resulted in a murder. Michael (1894-1921) and Alec (1896-1985) Lambros immigrated from Greece in 1914 and, by 1920, owned and operated their own barber shop on the 300 block of West 3rd Street in Dover, Ohio. The brothers’Continue reading “Shot in a Dover Coffeehouse: The 1921 Murder of Mike Lambros”

A Life for Two Dollars: The 1907 Murder of Joseph Yerian

AI generated image depicting Shedrick Penn and Joseph Yerian playing cards in J.B. Ewing's saloon in Bolivar Ohio in 1907, 2024. (Source: Microsoft Designer)

A deadly altercation over a $2 bet between two transient railroad workers in Bolivar, Ohio led to the town’s first murder. The Yerian family arrived in Ohio from western Pennsylvania in the early nineteenth-century and, by the time Joseph A. Yerian (1883-1907) was born, a branch of that family lived in Washington County, Ohio. JosephContinue reading “A Life for Two Dollars: The 1907 Murder of Joseph Yerian”