BRIEF ARTICLES - Chillicothe Families

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Mr. Garrett S. Claypool, Democratic executive committee chairman, announced Tuesday that county Democratic headquarters are now open in Room 3, Carlisle Block.

Mr. Louis Hibbler, former Chillicothe auditor, and Miss Mary Herlihy have been assigned to duty at headquarters, Mr. Hibbler will have charge of men's activities, while Miss Herlihy will handle women's activities.

The News Advertiser
Chillicothe OH; 02 Oct 1940

A man named Pete Malone owned a canal boat, called Two Sisters. The boat sank in a canal just south of Chillicothe.

A man named Faddy Swartz, owned a canal boat named Duck. He lived on his boat along Water Street, in the area west of Paint Street near where the Sherman Theater was built in 1918.

Chillicothe had a car company named Logan Car Company. (Probably after the Logan family?)

Chillicothe had a canning factor named the Sears Nichols Canning Factory.

ARBENZ: There was a furniture factory with this name in Chillicothe and later a Touring Car Manufacture with this name in Chillicothe. President William Howard Taft road in the back seat of one of the Arbenz touring cars when he was campaigning in Chillicothe in 1912. The furniture company was located on Washington Avenue on the east side of town.

Hotel Information:

Clinton House (burned in the fire of 1852)

Madeira Hotel (burned in the fire of 1852, The NIPGEN building built in the location in 1876.

Carson Hotel (later became the McCarthy Hotel)

A hotel without a name on the corner of North Paint Street was destroyed in a fire in 1851. A new hotel was built in the same location in 1855. The rebuilding took this long, even though it was started right after the fire in 1851, because of a shortage of labor and material after the fire of 1852. The new hotel was called the Valley House and later, with a new owner, it was called the Emmitt House. Then Jack Warner remodeled in and renamed in the Warner Hotel.

A hotel on Walnut Street was called New Nelson Hotel

Families connected to beer making:

Wagner, Wissler (Wissler family was also involved in a hardware company), Knecht

Families connected to Bakeries

C. Hartmeyer, Eighenlaub (on East Main Street)

The Bonner family apparently had several different businesses: a livery stable (this business was burned down in 1905), a furniture business, and earlier a funeral business.

Another one of Chillicothe's families from Germany, the Fromm family was in the printing business.

Dan Delong owned a bicycle shop on North Walnut Street. A family named Laycock was also in the Bicycle business.

GROCERIES: Maders, on Walnut after the fire of 1852
Mosers, on Paint Street
The Hunn family ran a meat market on East Main Street, at the corner of Hickory on the south side of Main Street

Colonel Richard Enderlin was a Civil War veteran.