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Helen Keating Ott

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Mrs. Ott received her degree in library science from Case Western University and became the first children’s librarian at the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library. She would later serve four terms as president of the library board and serve as…

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baxter

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Thomas, founder of the Baxter Stove Company, and his wife, Isabella, had 9 children, all boys, while in Columbiana County: John (b. 1841), James (b. 1843), Robert (b. 1845), William (b. 1847), Thomas (b. 1850), Emmett (b. 1853), Cassius (b. 1856),…

John Baxter

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In 1882 John and Emmett Baxter arrived in Mansfield to check out available land to relocate their father's factory. The Baxter Stove works would be located on Bloom Street, today East Fifth, past the tracks once the street was extended. John Baxter…

Emmett Baxter

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In 1882 John and Emmett Baxter arrived in Mansfield to check out available land to relocate their father's factory. The Baxter Stove works would be located on Bloom Street, today East Fifth, past the tracks once the street was extended. Emmett…

Dr. Mary Jordan Finley (1896)

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Dr. Mary Jordan Finley was born November 26, 1849, in Pennslyvania to Agustus Finley and Amanda Jane Irwin/Erwin. She practiced medicine in Mansfield, Ohio between 1881 and 1900 after graduating from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. She…

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Charles Taylor Sherman

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Charles T. Sherman was the eldest child of Charles Robert Sherman And Mary Holt. Charles was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on February 3, 1811 and brought to Lancaster, Ohio about a year later. Charles began attending Ohio University in Athens…