Category: Lost and Restored History
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Favorite Family Recipes
About 1988, Cinda Baldwin gathered all her favourite recipes and used an early word processor program on an IBM 286/386 home computer to create a recipe booklet. She printed the booklet and made multiple spiral bound copies at a Kinko’s Printing Center. These recipe booklets were distributed as Christmas gifts to friends and family.
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Zacharias Sickels VanWeenen – the Patriarch
Rarely, in American genealogical research, does one find a single person from whom sprang the sum total of all descendants of a family. Zacharias Sickels Sr is solely responsible for all people in the United States who have a Sickels surnamed ancestor. Here’s his story.
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Richard Charles Chladek – a forgotten and restored life
Multi-talented musician, composer, author, editor, landscape architect, choir-master; Richard Chladek was a restless polymath with wide ranging skills and a knack for self promotion.
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Buel C Robinson – an exceptional life
The Robinson and Johnson families knew that Lt. Buel Robinson had been shot down and taken prisoner in July, 1944. But, the details of that event, before and after, have been shrouded in mystery. Let’s rewind the years and open this forgotten page of history and see exactly what happened.
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Alonzo Hunt – a wrongful death investigation gone wrong
Alonzo Hunt was struck and killed by an automobile in May, 1925, in Marion, OH. His death sparked a wrongful death investigation that quickly and quietly ended. Did someone get away with murder?
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IndyEthnicFood 1999-2016 – a chronological history
In Indianapolis, IN, before Yelp and Google and other restaurant and entertainment review systems, there was IndyEthnicFood. Co-developed by the author, in its day, IndyEthnicFood was the “go to” source for ethnic restaurant, market, and festival information.
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Solomon Maness-Baldwin – a discovered history restored
Who were the biological parents of Solomon Baldwin, the author’s paternal 2nd grandfather? For over 200 years, no one knew. It took the author four decades of patience and perseverance plus advancing technology to determine the answer.
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Atwood Ice Cream Company – a forgotten history restored
The success of the Atwood Ice Cream Company can be attributed to one person: Ella Atwood-Woolsey. Ella was a pioneer in many ways; woman owner and manager of a manufacturing and retail business, tough competitor, innovator, promotor.
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The Way West, 1857 – Ohio to Missouri and Beyond
In April 1857, Harrison Jenkins and family started westward from Jackson County Ohio leading a party of 3-4 other families. Their destination was NW Missouri. Let’s take a brief trip back in time, reassemble the lives of these western migrating pioneers, and see what happened to them.
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