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Journals of the Girls' Industrial Home, a reform school in White Sulphur, Delaware County, Ohio, 1894-1895. Recorded are daily transactions at the school, from chores and meals to visits of the chaplain and board members. The journal documents predominantly the management and administration of the reform school. Occasionally it mentions the arrivals of new girls. Also documented are arrangements for holiday meals and entertainment, supplies ordered, crockery broken, gifts received. A few pages in the front and toward the back of the journal were used in the years 1924-1929 and 1946 as a farm journal or diary for "Hillcrest," most likely in the same area, as a wedding in Rome, Delaware County is mentioned.

Diary of Samuel A. Fate of Marits, which is a part of Denmark, Morrow County, Ohio. Daily entries record weather, farm chores like feeding livestock, taking cows to pasture, and others, like painting the school house, cutting ice, assisting with a funeral or an election. Fate comments on the economical difficulties of the time. Also described is a trip to the 1893 Chicago World Fair. Some accounts are listed at the back of the diary. Some of the Ohio place names mentioned are: Gilead, Caledonia, Marion, Lakeside, North Canaan, Iberia, Otter Creek. Some of the names mentioned are: Thomas Gist, Otto Gist, Andy Jackson, Adam Clouse, James G. Blaine, Jacob Dickens, Frank Lyons, Mitch Bradford, Lizie Mills, James Amick, Will McKinstry, Hail Glathart, Elias Rice, Willie Baird, John Fate, Peter Baird, Willie Gist, Bruce Williams, George Martin, Frank Jackson, Harry Williams, George Rice, Hall Bratton, Jud Clouse, Laura Slagle, Jack Ireland, Alf Worden, Elmer Sexton, Andrew Jackson, Wallace Lindsey, Sam Worden, John Dickens, Daisy Christy, Charles Giddis, Henry Jackson, Will Walter .

Journals of the Girls' Industrial Home, a reform school in White Sulphur, Delaware County, Ohio, 1894-1895. Recorded are daily transactions at the school, from chores and meals to visits of the chaplain and board members. The journal documents predominantly the management and administration of the reform school. Occasionally it mentions the arrivals of new girls. Also documented are arrangements for holiday meals and entertainment, supplies ordered, crockery broken, gifts received.A few pages in the front and toward the back of the journal were used in the years 1924-1929 and 1946 as a farm journal or diary for "Hillcrest," most likely in the same area, as a wedding in Rome, Delaware County is mentioned.

Diary, 1893, of Samuel A. Fate of Marits, which is a part of Denmark, Morrow County, Ohio. Daily entries record weather, farm chores like feeding livestock, taking cows to pasture, and others, like painting the school house, cutting ice, assisting with a funeral or an election. Fate comments on the economical difficulties of the time. Also described is a trip to the 1893 Chicago World Fair. Some accounts are listed at the back of the diary.The following information was provided by the seller:Some of the Ohio place names mentioned are: Gilead, Caledonia, Marion, Lakeside, North Canaan, Iberia, Otter Creek.Some of the names mentioned are: Thomas Gist, Otto Gist, Andy Jackson, Adam Clouse, James G. Blaine, Jacob Dickens, Frank Lyons, Mitch Bradford, Lizie Mills, James Amick, Will McKinstry, Hail Glathart, Elias Rice, Willie Baird, John Fate, Peter Baird, Willie Gist, Bruce Williams, George Martin, Frank Jackson, Harry Williams, George Rice, Hall Bratton, Jud Clouse, Laura Slagle, Jack Ireland, Alf Worden, Elmer Sexton, Andrew Jackson, Wallace Lindsey, Sam Worden, John Dickens, Daisy Christy, Charles Giddis, Henry Jackson, Will Walter .