Historic Books Collection

WARS


Civil War

Official Record of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion: Series 1

Volume 9
Operations: North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Volume 13
Operations: Operations: South Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Volume 14
Operations: South Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Volume 19
Operations: West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Volume 20
Operations: West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Volume 21
Operations: West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Volume 24
Operations: Naval Forces on Western Waters

Volume 25
Operations: Naval Forces on Western Waters

Volume 26
Operations: West Gulf Blading Squadron
 

 

Official Record of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion: Series 2

Volume 1
Parts 1-4

Volume 2

Volume 3
 

 

The Union Army

Volume 1
Illustrated
States and Regiments

Volume 2
Illustrated 
States and Regiments

Volume 3
Illustrated
States and Regiments

Volume 4
Illustrated
States and Regiments

Volume 5
Illustrated
States and Regiments

Volume 6
Illustrated
States and Regiments

Volume 7
Illustrated
States and Regiments

Volume 8
Illustrated
States and Regiments

 

Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion: 1861-66

Volume 2: 1st-20th Regiments-Infantry

Volume 3: 21st-36th Regiments-Infantry

Volume 4: 37th - 53rd Regiments-Infantry

Volume 5: 54th - 69th Regiments-Infantry

Volume 6: 70th - 86th Regiments-Infantry

Volume 7: 87th - 108th Regiments-Infantry

Volume 9: 141st - 184th Regiments-Infantry

Volume 10: 185th- 198th Regiments-Infantry and Heavy & Light Artillery

Volume 11: Cavalry

 

World War I

Officers and Enlisted Men of the United States Naval Service Who Died During the World War: 1920

 

Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the World War 1917-18

Volume 1: AAB-BEI

Volume 2: BEI-BRU

Volume 3: BRU-COL

Volume 4: COL-DIC

Volume 5: DIC-FIN

Volume 6: FIN-GON

Volume 7: GON-HEI

Volume 8: HEI-JAC

Volume 9: JAC-KOE

Volume 10: KOE-LUC

Volume 11: LUC-MEE

Volume 12: MEE-NES

Volume 13: NES-POK

Volume 14: POK-ROS

Volume 15: ROS-SHA

Volume 16: SHA-STE

Volume 17: STE-TYS

Volume 18: TYS-WIL

Volume 19: WIL-ZYW

Volume 20: AAB-LAU

Volume 21: LAU-ZWI

Volume 22

Volume 23

 

World War II

Combat Connected Naval Casualties

World War II
By States
1946
U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard
Volume 1: Alabama through Missouri
 

Combat Connected Naval Casualties

World War II
By States
1946
U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard
Volume 2: Montana through Wyoming and other areas
 

History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II
*Volume 1: The Battle of the Atlantic
                    September 1939-May 1943
*Volume 2: Operations in North African Waters
                    October 1942-June 1943
*Volume 3: The Rising Sun in the Pacific
                    1931-April 1942
*Volume 6: Breaking the Bismarks Barrier
                    22 July 1942-1 May 1944
*Volume 7: Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls
                    June 1942-April 1944
*Volume 8: New Guinea and the Marianas
                    March 1944-August 1944
*Volume 9: Sicily-Salerno-Anzio
                    January 1943-June 1944
*Volume 10: The Atlantic Battle Won
                       May 1943-May 1945
*Volume 11: The Invasion of France and Germany
                       1944-1945
*Volume 12: Leyte
        June 1944-January 1945
*Volume 13: The Liberation of the Philippines
                      1944-1945
*Volume 14: Victory in the Pacific
                       1945

 

Korean War


US Marine Operations in Korea
Volume 1: The Pusan Perimeter
Volume 2: The Inchon-Seoul Operation
Volume 3: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign
 

GENEALOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS


DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONISTS


Lineage Book of the Daughters of the American Colonists
*Volume 1: 1929
*Volume 2: 1930
*Volume 3: 1931
*Volume 4: 1936
*Volume 5: 1939
*Volume 6: 1943
*Volume 7: 1946
*Supplements
 

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION


Lineage Book
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American
 Revolution
Volume 1

 

Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Volume 10: 1895
Volume 13: 1896
Volume 14: 1896
Volume 15: 1896
Volume 16: 1896
Volume 17: 1896
Volume 18: 1897
Volume 19: 1897
Volume 20: 1897
Volume 21: 1897
Volume 22: 1897
Volume 23: 1898
Volume 24: 1898
Volume 25: 1898
Volume 26: 1898
Volume 27: 1898
Volume 28: 1999
Volume 29: 1899
Volume 31: 1900
Volume 32: 1900
Volume 36 1901
Volume 39: 1902
Volume 40: 1902
Volume 41: 1902
Volume 42: 1903
Volume 43: 1903
Volume 44: 1903
Volume 45: 1903
Volume 46: 1903
Volume 47: 1904
Volume 48: 1904
Volume 49: 1904
Volume 50: 1904
Volume 51: 1904
Volume 52: 1905
Volume 53: 1905
Volume 54: 1905
Volume 55: 1906 & Volume 56: 1906
Volume 57: 1906 & Volume 58: 1906
Volume 59: 1906 & Volume 60: 1906
Volume 61: 1907 & Volume 62: 1907
Volume 63: 1907 & Volume 64: 1907
Volume 65: 1907
Volume 66: 1908 & Volume 67: 1908
Volume 68: 1908 & Volume 69: 1908
Volume 70: 1908 & Volume 71: 1908
Volume 72: 1909 & Volume 73: 1909
Volume 74: 1909 & Volume 75: 1909
Volume 76: 1909 & Volume 77: 1909
Volume 78: 1910 & Volume 79: 1910
Volume 80: 1910 & Volume 81: 1910
Volume 82: 1910 & Volume 83: 1910
Volume 84: 1910 & Volume 85: 1910
Volume 86: 1911 & Volume 87: 1911
Volume 88: 1911 & Volume 89: 1911
Volume 90: 1911
Volume 91: 1912 & Volume 92: 1912
Volume 93: 1912 & Volume 94: 1912
Volume 95: 1912 & Volume 96: 1912
Volume 97: 1912
Volume 98: 1913 & Volume 99: 1913
Volume 100: 1913 & Volume 101: 1913
Volume 102: 1913 & Volume 103: 1913
Volume 104: 1913 & Volume 105: 1913
Volume 106: 1913
Volume 107 & Volume 108: 1914
Volume 109:1914 & Volume 110: 1914
Volume 111: 1914 & Volume 112: 1914
Volume 113: 1914
Volume 114: 1915 & Volume 115: 1915
Volume 116: 1915 & Volume 117: 1915
Volume 118: 1915 & Volume 119: 1915
Volume 120: 1915
Volume 121: 1916 & Volume 122: 1916
Volume 123: 1916 & Volume 124: 1916
Volume 125: 1916 & Volume 126: 1916
Volume 127: 1916 & Volume 128: 1916
Volume 129: 1917
*Volume 130: 1917
Volume 131: 1917
Volume 132: 1917
Volume 133: 1917
Volume 134: 1917
Volume 135: 1917
Volume 136: 1917
Volume 137: 1917-1918
Volume 138: 1918
Volume 139: 1918
Volume 140: 1918
Volume 141: 1918
Volume 142: 1918
Volume 143: 1918-1919
Volume 144: 1919
Volume 145: 1919
Volume 146: 1919
Volume 147: 1919
Volume 148: 1919
Volume 149: 1919
Volume 150: 1919
Volume 151: 1919 & Volume 152: 1919
Volume 153: 1920
Volume 154: 1920
Volume 155: 1920
Volume 156: 1920
Volume 157: 1920
Volume 158: 1920
*Volume 159: 1920
Volume 160: 1920
Volume 161: 1920
Volume 162: 1920
Volume 163: 1921
*Volume 164: 1921
Volume 165: 1921
Volume 166: 1921
 

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume 43: July 1913-December 1913; Volume 44: January-June 1914;  Volume 45: July-December 1914
*Volume 60: Part 1: January-June 1926
*Volume 60: Part 2: July-December 1926
*Volume 61: Part 1: January-June 1927
*Volume 62: Part 1: January-June 1928
*Volume 62: Part 2: July-December 1928
*Volume 63: Part 1: January-June 1929
*Volume 63: Part 2: July-December 1929
*Volume 65: Part 2: July-December 1931
*Volume 66: Part 1: January-June 1932
*Volume 66: Part 2: July-December 1932
*Volume 67: Part 1: January-June 1933
*Volume 68: Part 1: January-June 1934
*Volume 68: Part 2: July-December 1934
*Volume 69: Part 1: January-June 1935
*Volume 69: Part 2: July-December 1935
*Volume 70: Part 1: January-June 1936
*Volume 70: Part 2: July-December 1936
*Volume 72: Part 2: July-December 1938
*Volume 73: Part 1: January-June 1939
*Volume 73: Part 2: July-December 1939
*Volume 75: Part 1: January-June 1941
*Volume 75: Part 2: July-December 1941
*Volume 76: Part 1: January-June 1942
*Volume 76: Part 2: July-December 1942
*Volume 77: Part 1: January-June 1943
*Volume77: Part 2: July-December 1943
*Volume 78: Part 1: January-June 1944
*Volume 78: Part 2: July-December 1944
*Volume 79: Part 1: January-June 1945
*Volume 80: Part 1: January-June 1946
*Volume 80: Part 2: July-December 1946

Daughters of the American Revolution
*Ohio State Conference: Dayton, Ohio 1984
*Ohio State Conference: Columbus, Ohio 1986 (2 copies)
*Ohio State Conference: Toledo, Ohio 1987 (3 copies)
*Ohio State Conferences: 1988 and 1989 (2 copies)
*Ohio State Conference: Independence, Ohio 1990
*Ohio State Conference: Dayton, Ohio n1991
*State Conference: Columbus, Ohio: March 8-10, 1996
*State Conference: Columbus, Ohio: March 14-16, 1997

*Daughters of the American Revolution
Patriot Index
1966
2 copies

Genealogical Guide
*Master Index of Genealogy in the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volumes 1-84
*Supplement to Genealogical Guide

*Ohio Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution History 1946-1978

The Loomis Family in America by Elias Loomis (updated in 1908 by Elisha S. Loomis)

Origin and History of the Rittenhouse Family by Daniel K. Cassel
Volume 1

Some Account of Jacob Oberholtzer by Elisha S. Loomis

*Kelton Family Items by Dwight H. Kelton, LLC

*Biographical History and Genealogy of the Woodling Family by Dr. Charles A. Fisher

Pennsylvania German Society: The Proceedings and Addresses at Harrisburg, PA, October 20, 1911

*The 1958 Lineage Book of the Cincinnati Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution

*Early Pennsylvania Births (1675-1875) compiled by Dr. Charles A. Fisher, FIAG

*Early Wills and Administrations of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Also Same of Union, Mifflin and Indiana Counties by Dr. Charles A. Fisher, FIAG

*The Detroit Society For Genealogical Research Magazine
September-October 1946

*Descendants of William Thomas, Revolutionary Soldier by Francis Marion Ammon

*Genealogical Memoranda by Rev. William Andrew Snively

 

PRESIDENTS


Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Volume 1: 1-446
Volume 2: 447-918
Volume 3: 919-1361
Volume 4: 1362-1807
Volume 5: 1808-2280
Volume 6: 2281-2753
Volume 7: 2754-3229
Volume 8: 3230-3706
Volume 9: 3707-4184
Volume 10: 4185-4625
Volume 11: 4626-5071
Volume 12: 5072-5517
Volume 13: 5518-5962
Volume 14: 5963-6407
Volume 15: 6408-6852
Volume 16: 6853-7300
Volume 17: 7301-7746
Volume 18: 7747-8187
Volume 19: Encyclopedia Index: A-M
Volume 20: Encyclopedia Index: N-Z

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant 
Volume 1
Volume 2
 

The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover
Volume 1: 1874-1920: Years of Adventure
Volume 2: 19260-1933: The Cabinet and the Presidency
Volume 3: 1929-1941: The Great Depression

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
*Volume 1
*Volume 2
*Volume 3
*Volume 4

*Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman by Harry J. Sievers, S.J.


The Life and Times of William Howard Taft by Henry P. Pringle
*Volume 1
*Volume 2

*Great Presidential Decisions: State Papers that Changed the Course of History edited by Richard B. Morris

Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children edited by Joseph Bucklin Bishop

Life and Death of James A. Garfield by J.S. Ogilvie
 

STATES


Maryland


Revolutionary Records of Maryland: Part 1 by Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh & Margaret Roberts Hodges

New Jersey


Archives of the State of New Jersey: First Series:  Abstracts of Wills
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1730
Volume 1

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1730-1750
Volume 2

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1751-1760
Volume 3

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1761-1770
Volume 4

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1771-1780
Volume 5

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1781-1785
Volume 6

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1786-1790
Volume 7

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1791-1795
Volume 8

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1801-1805
Volume 10

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., 1806-1809
Volume 11

 

Ohio


Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion: 1861-66
Volume 2: 1st-20th Regiments-Infantry
Volume 3: 21st-36th Regiments-Infantry
Volume 4: 37th - 53rd Regiments-Infantry
Volume 5: 54th - 69th Regiments-Infantry
Volume 6: 70th - 86th Regiments-Infantry
Volume 7: 87th - 108th Regiments-Infantry
Volume 9: 141st - 184th Regiments-Infantry
Volume 10: 185th- 198th Regiments-Infantry and Heavy & Light Artillery
Volume 11: Cavalry

The Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain  1898-1899


History of Ohio: The Rise and Progress of an American State by Emilius O. Randall & Daniel J. Ryan
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

History of the City of Cleveland by James Harrison Kennedy

Frontier Ohio 1788-1803 by Randolph Chandler Downes, PhD.

*A Guide to Lima and Allen County, Ohio

Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes: An Encyclopedia of the State by Henry Howe, LLD
Volume 1 
Volume 2

A History of Northwest Ohio by Nevin O. Winter, LITT D
Volume 2
Volume 3

The Ohio Blue Book OR Who’s Who in the Buckeye State: A Cyclopedia of Biography of Men and Women of Ohio   
Compiled under the direction of CS VanTassel (1917)

*Freemont and Sandusky County  1940


*Lake County History 1940

History of West Central Ohio by Orton G. Rust
*Volume 1
*Volume 2
*Volume 3

The Biographical Annals of Ohio
1902-1903
A Handbook of the Government and Institutions of Ohio

*The Ohio Gateway by D.E. Crouse

*This Is Ohio: Ohio’s 88 Counties in Words and Pictures
Copyright 1953

*60 Years of Lima Locomotives by Earle Davis  1939

*City of Lima: Annual Reports of City Auditor  1913

*The Story of the Democratic Ox Roast as Told by Dr. Baxter at the Pioneer Picnic

*It Happened Here: The History of Lima, Allen County Northwestern Ohio by Frank M. Hackman

*Lima Illustrated by Frank H. Smith

*History of the Police Department of Lima Ohio by the Lima Police Department 1909

*Rural Directory of Allen County Ohio  1916-1921

*History of Allen County Ohio 
Dated 1885 & 1905

Pennsylvania


Pennsylvania Archives: Second Series
Volume 1
Minutes of the Board of War from March 14, 1777 to August 7, 1777

Volume 2
Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania 
Previous to 1790

Volume 3
Names of Persons Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania Between the Years of 1776 and 1974

Volume 4
Papers Relating to What Is Known as the Whiskey Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania, 1794

Volume 6
Papers Relating to the French Occupation in Western Pennsylvania

Volume 7
Papers Relating to Provincial Affairs in Pennsylvania, 1682-1750

Volume 8
Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810, Volume 1

Volume 9
Record of Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1810, Volume 2

Volume 10
Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution: Battalions and Line, 1775-1783, Volume 1

Volume 11
Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution: Battalions and Line, 1775-1783, Volume 2

*Mothers of Erie by Marjorie Loomis Cherry  1932


*Early Pennsylvania Births (1675-1875) compiled by Dr. Charles A. Fisher, FIAG

*Early Wills and Administrations of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
 

 

MISCELLANEOUS HISTORIC BOOKS


Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents
1783-1854
Edited by Donald Jackson

Marriage Notices
1785-1794
For the Whole United States

Public Libraries in the United States of America: A Special Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Education: 1876
Part 1: Volume 1 & 2 : Their History, Condition & Management
Part 2: Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog

*Come Reminisce with Me: Stories of Growing Up in the 1930s in the Midwest by Dr. Emmett Murray

*In the Company of Friends: Adventures in Comradery by Dr. Emmett Murray (3 copies)

*Nouvelle Anthologie Francaise by Schinz, Robert & Giroud

*Fils de Personne by Henry de Montherlant

French Poems by Arrthur Graves Canfield & Warner Forest Patterson

Anthology of French Prose and Poems by Williamson Updike Vreeland & Regis Michaud

*Thomas Cromwell, Tudor Minister by BW Beckingsdale

*Mad Anthony Wayne and the New Nation by Glenn Tucker

*Albert Schweitzer: A Biography by James Brabazon

Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer & Thomas Commerford Martin
Volume 1
Volume 2

*Obeying the Commandment, You Shall Not Kill: Trusting the Beattitude Blessed Are the Peacemakers by Charles F. Cooley

*The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of Charles de Gaulle by Charles Williams

*Mumbet: The Life and Times of Elizabeth Freeman by Mary Wilds

*The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving

The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving
Volume 6
Volume 7


*=available upon request at the ASK HERE desk at the Main Library