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Otto Bardon served in the 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. he was captured by the Confederates along with a large portion of his regiment and sent to a prison camp at Cahaba, Alabama. Upon his release he survived the Sultana…

One of the College of Wooster’s prominent early professors who taught Latin and Greek from 1873 to 1928. After his death, his daughter, Lucy L. Notestein, compiled a book of his notes on the college, Wooster of the Middle West, published in 1972.

William Given, who served as Wooster's judge, organized the recruitment efforts in the city when the Civil War broke out. He hosted meetings to encourage young men to join the Union Army, and later joined himself, serving as the colonel of the 102nd…

This portrait of William Given was painted by Wooster artist, Michael Nachtrieb. Given had organized the recruitment of volunteers in Wayne County and even served as Colonel of the 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Weakened by his wartime…

Edmund Secrest: Known as “the father of forest conservation in Ohio,” this man was made director of the OARDC in 1937. The beautiful Secrest Arboretum on the OARDC campus is named after him.

Howard Lowry: The College of Wooster president responsible for adding the requirement of Independent Study to the curriculum.

Charles E. Thorne: This man was the first director of the OARDC.

Herman Freedlander: This man was the proprietor of the immensely important Freedlander’s department store.

After Prohibition, beer is once again brewed at the JAFB Wooster Brewery, opened in 2012. The brewery is located at 120 Beall Ave. in the building that used to house Gertsenslager's Co.

Wooster’s Christmas Run Park has links to Prohibition. The city originally paid for the land on which the park is built with fines collected from violators of the prohibition laws.

The home of Emeline Stibbs on E. Bowman Street (now part of the Wayne County Historical Society) acted as a meeting place for women of the Soldiers Aid Society during the war.

1968 Rubbermaid advertisement depicting a women scooping flour from a "space-saving cannister"

1950 Rubbermaid advertisement with the slogan "to lighten & brighten your housework"

Stanley Gault and other Rubbermaid executives pose with a poster depicting sales growth and emblazoned with the words, "The Billion Dollar Team 1987," appeared in the Daily Record on February 4, 1988

1920 Daily Record announcement of Wooster Rubber Company's incorporation

Photoraph of James and Madeleine Caldwell's 1933 patent for the colored rubber dustpan

"Everything Rubbermaid" sign changes to "Everything Newell-Rubbermaid," photograph appeared in the Daily Record June 20, 2000

The Wooster Rubber Company building at its original location on East Bowman Street, circa 1937

1942 Wartime Production Board poster proclaiming "America needs your scrap rubber" and describing what military products that rubber is used to produce

Photograph Rubbermaid's headquarters and plastics department in Wooster, circa 1969

1918 photograph of Colonel Houston Snyder, a Creston man who was killed in action during WWI

Captain Redick Leads Company D, 146th Infantry down High St. in Columbus, Ohio upon their return from France in 1919

Certificate acknowledging that Captain Fred Redick was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroic actions at Montfaucon, dated March 5, 1919.

Portrait of Colonel Frank C. Gerlach in officer's uniform, circa 1918

Portrait of Captain Fred Redick in officer's uniform, circa 1918

Wooster Daily Republican Article, dated August 15, 1917, describing the farewell ceremony held in honor of Wooster's first volunteer company to depart for service in WWI

Wooster Daily RepublicanArticle, "Wooater Boys in Region of New Drive," dated September 9, 1918, announcing Copmany D's participation in the capture of Verdun

1917 Wooster Daily Republican article entitled, "Station Helps in Food Crisis," decribing the Ohio Experiment Station's efforts to ameliorate the food shortage of WWI