DAYTON,  OHIO

An  Intimate  History

 

By

CHARLOTTE  REEVE  CONOVER

 

WITH  ONE  HUNDRED  AND

TWENTY-SIX  ILLUSTRATIONS

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COMPLETE  IN  ONE  VOLUME

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REPRINTED  FROM

“DAYTON  AND  MONTGOMERY  COUNTY”

 

PUBLISHED  BY

Lewis  Historical  Publishing  Company,  Inc.

New  York 1932
 

 

CONTENTS                                                                                     

                                                                                                                

Title and Acknowledgements
Prelude- 3   

Chapters:

     I - Dayton – The Real Settlement - 7     

   II – The First Decade - 17   

  III  - Weddings and Wars - 27     

  IV – Railroads, Markets and Other Things - 37     

   V -  Politics, Pestilence and Pleasanter Things - 47     

  VI – The Early F. F. D.’s - 57       

  VII – The ‘Forties and the ‘Fifties - 69      

 VIII – Dayton in the ‘Sixties: The War Years - 83      

  IX – The Later F. F. D’s - 95     

   X – The Ramblings of an Ancient Daytonian - 109     

   XI – Other Daytonians and Some Things They Did - 123     

  XII – The Gay ‘Seventies – A Decade of Beginnings - 133    

  XIII – Dayton in the ‘Eighties and ‘Nineties - 147   

 XIV – Record of Transportation in and Around Dayton - 163   

  XV – Dayton Writers and Their Work - 177   

 XVI – A Short Anthology of Dayton Verse - 191   

XVII – The Development of Art in Dayton and Its Culmination In the Dayton Art Institute - 211 

XVIII – Clubs and the Club Movement - 229 

  XIX – Music and Musicians in Dayton - 249  

  XX – The Great Flood and Flood Prevention - 267 

 XXI -  The Medical Profession in Dayton and Montgomery County - 277 

 XXII -  Dayton and the Cradle of Aviation - 293 

XXIII -  Dr. Charles Reeve, M.D., LL.D. (1826 – 1920) - 309