Wilmington College Quaker Archives

Wilmington College Quaker Archives

Wilmington College – Ohio Archivists Lee Bowman and Elizabeth House enlightened and entertained us at our regular October genealogy meeting by showing us college historical materials and early Quaker records that are preserved in the WC Library Archives....
Throwback: 4-H Tree Planting

Throwback: 4-H Tree Planting

Throwback Thursday: Howard and Robert Doster with trees planted as 4-H club project July 21, 1949. Can you tell us more? UPDATE: We were given the following update from their brother, John Doster… These trees were planted on their family farm land on Doster...
World War I veterans remember

World War I veterans remember

Originally written by Beth Mitchell and published online in the Wilmington News Journal on 11/10/2022. Online link here: https://www.wnewsj.com/opinion/columns/223056/world-war-i-veterans-remember   On Monday, November 11. 1918 the Wilmington Daily News printed a...
Throwback: WHS Majorettes 1941

Throwback: WHS Majorettes 1941

Pictured: Wilmington High School Majorettes, September 30, 1941. From left: Adele Raizk, June Brandenburg, Anna Mae Schramm, and Yvonne Raizk. The additional two girls were unfortunately not named. The following was submitted to the Wilmington News Journal as a follow...
More WNJ on Newspapers.com

More WNJ on Newspapers.com

Thanks to the hard work and help of Tom Barr, Editor at the Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal, we are excited to share that TONS of new WNJ stories and clippings have been added to Newspapers.com as a result of digitization of News Journal microfilm. Some stories are as...