Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer
Aetna Machine Works was founded in 1880 by Frank I. Freeman as a reorganization of the Douglas Machine Works and employed 18 hands in 1882. They made sawmills, pumps and 10 to 125 H. P. vertical & horizontal steam engines…
Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer
Est. 1918 - Pheonix Rd. - moved to Dietz Rd.
This company was founded by J.C. Masternach and some investors from Cleveland. It opened with a workforce of 30 people and eventually grew to 700 employees.
The original product…
Submitted by Andrew Olson & Richard K. Fleischer
The Atlantic and Great Western Railway (1865-1871)/Railroad (1871-1880) Company
On March 10th 1851 Marvin Kent, a merchant from Franklin Mills OH (now Kent) chartered the Franklin and Warren Railroad to connect the two named local business communities.…
Submitted by Gary Moss
Joseph Badger was one of the first and most prominent Congregational itinerant missionaries in the part of northeast Ohio first created and settled as the Connecticut Western Reserve.
Born in 1757, Badger was a Revolutionary War veteran from Massachusetts who…
Submitted by Det. Brian E. Crites, Warren Police Department
Warren Police Patrolman living L. Baker died on January 6, 1933 from injuries sustained while subduing a local drunk at a Downtown Warren speakeasy in December 1932.
Patrolman Baker was sent to a speakeasy on…
Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Lake Branch and the Painesville & Youngstown Railway
The B&O Lake Branch was the first narrow gauge line in the state for common carrier business, and was built within two weeks of the Denver &…
Frank R. Bodor was born August 18, 1931, in Warren, Ohio, to parents Anthony and Mary Kohler Bodor. He graduated from Warren G. Harding High School in 1950, and in 1953 received a B.A. Degree from Capital University in Voice and Choral Conducting. In 1956, he earned…
Leigh Brackett was a famous science fiction writer who became known as the Queen of Space Opera. She was also a noted Hollywood screenwriter who worked on such films as The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959) and The Long Goodbye (1973). She also…
Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer
Est. Circa 1918 Located originally at Paige Ave. and Griswold St. Eventually moved to Larchmont Ave. NE.
When owner J.W. Brainard retired this company was sold to a private firm headed by E. T. Sproul, who had formerly been…
Submitted by Kathy Seemann
In 1806, two years after Bristol Township in Trumbull County, Ohio was first settled by Abraham Baughman, Jonathan Walkley (born in Connecticut on November 11, 1783, died October 19, 1828) built the first frame home in the township on the south…
Submitted by the Girard Historical Society
Henry and Susan Banhisel’s second daughter Clara married her school sweetheart, William Carey (W.C.) Bunts in 1858. W.C. raised a unit in the Civil War and served until 1866. He took his family to Cleveland after the War to…
Submitted by Gary Moss
Joseph Badger was one of the first and most prominent Congregational itinerant missionaries in the part of northeast Ohio first created and settled as the Connecticut Western Reserve. Born in 1757, Badger was a Revolutionary War veteran from…
Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer
Railroad freight car roofs like this one were made by the Chicago Cleveland Car Roof Co. in Warren, Oh. The building on Thomas Road in Warren had changed hands a few times. Being a Packard Electric motor…
Submitted by Niles Historical Society
Margaretta Thomas Clingan (1869-1952), daughter of John R. Thomas(1834-1898), founder of the Niles Fire Brick Company, and Margaret Morgan(1834-1918) and sister to Congressman W. Aubrey Thomas. She married Thomas Omar Clingan, a medical doctor, in 1888 and the family had…
Submitted by Mike Zador
The Clinton Air Line* was a proposed railroad that was one segment of a railroad that was to extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Missouri River.
Conceived by DeWitt Clinton Jr., son of DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York and…