Madison Historical Society Library Holdings

Some highlights of our collection:

Historic Personal Ledgers, Journals and Diaries:

Horace Miner Account Book, 1822-1838

Joseph Allen Daybook, 1866-1869

H. Whipple Diary, 1862

Paige House Hotel Guest Ledger

McDonald Hall General Store Ledger

Brewster Farm Account Ledger, 1913-1937

Farm Account Ledger, estate of Laura S. Bartram, 1884-1920

Madison Press Expense Ledger, 1954-56

Memorial Scrapbook re: Homer Nash Kimball

Lucyette Dearing Recipe Book, 1906-1907

Autograph Album, “Nellie”, 1894

Smead Family Bible

D.H. Young Family Bible

Historic Documents:

Handwritten contract, Madison Village cemetery fence, 1842

Maurice G. Wood Collection; property deeds, 1798-1833, eleven pieces

Kimball Family Papers Collection

Lemuel Kimball Papers

John Chapman Papers, 1815

Brewster Papers

F.M. Stearns Papers, Berea Stone Company, c. 1866

Original Early Deeds and Abstracts:

Benedict/Wright

Crowl

Ross/Bailey/Quayle/Smythe

Smead/Parke

Smith/Hyden

Collins/Talcott

Cowin

Keyse/Bissell

Sweet

Thomas

Farrar/Sweet/Winchest/Bennett

Transcribed: Assessor’s Return Taxable Personal Property in Lake County, 1859-1861

Assessment of Real Property for the Year 1910, Madison Township; booklet

Original Government Records

Various original ledgers and dockets, Madison government:

Madison Township Court Docket Ledger, 1872-1914, with index

Madison Cemetery Fund Ledger, 1887-1902; includes some lot numbers and dates

Madison Village Plats, Eagle and Union Streets, 1948-1951

Madison Village Taxes, 1954

Madison Village Water Department Receipts Ledger, 1938-1973

Madison Volunteer Fire Department, secretary’s notebook

Madison Volunteer Fire Department, account book 1932-1943

Madison Village Fire Department, early 20^th century papers

Original Records, Madison Schools:

“Records of the Madison Education Association in the County of Lake”; 1845 handwritten secretary’s journal (establishment of Madison Seminary)

Original Attendance Record Books:

District 11, Middle Ridge Road, 1870-1878

Various Madison School Attendance Ledgers; 1872-1884, 1879, 1904, 1922, 1894-1914

Unionville School Ledgers District 4; 1916-1918, 1920-1922

North Madison School, 1916-1919

Madison Village School; 1878-1880, 1880-1882, 1883-1886, 1900-1901

South Madison School, 1916-1917

Summary Book, District 12, North Madison High School; 1895-1920, 1920-1922

Township High School Individual Attendance Books, 1906-1915

Superintendent’s Record Book, 1892-1893, by Homer Nash Kimball, Superintendent

Madison High School Attendance Record, 1873-1878

Madison Township District 4 Primary Grades 1-4; 1899-1905, two books

Madison Township District 9 (Middle Ridge); 1899-1905

Madison Schools Annual Enumeration Return, 1922; includes “all unmarried youths between 5 and 18 years”, with parents and address

Folder- copies, “Portions of the Journal of the Madison Board of Education, 1853-1876

Madison Public Schools Books, etc.

Madison High School Yearbook Collection, “The Caldron”, 1929-1991, some years missing

“The Bouquet”, Arcola School newsletter, 1849

Jennie Preston, students autograph books, 1878 and 1885

Personal school “Memory Book”, Alta Hathaway, 1925

Personal book “Graduation Memories”, Hazel Gygli, 1926

Oral Interview History Book, Madison Public Schools

School Recollections, memory book by class of 1944

Homer Nash Kimball Elementary yearbook, 1959

Madison Public Schools newsletters, 1976-1989

Madison High School Alumni Directory, 2002

Lake County Schools Teachers Directories, 1975-2000

Madison Local School District Survey 1935-1963, two copies

Ohio Schools Report, 1887 and 1895, two volumes

Ipswich (Massachusetts) Female Seminary catalogue, 1838 (Mary S. Kimball)

Organization Records

Ohio Christian Temperance Union membership log book, 1929-1949

Ohio Christian Temperance Union receipts ledger, 1931-1944

Ohio Christian Temperance Union meeting minutes book, 1930-1949, by Elizabeth Ensign

Atlases and Gazettes

1874 Atlas of Lake and Geauga Counties

1898 Atlas of Lake County

1911 Lake County Atlas, includes “Some of the Farms That Made Lake County Famous” (biographies)

1840 Lake County Land Owner Map with index

1857 Lake County Land Owner Map with Index

Lake and Geauga Counties Street Atlas, 1992

Directories

1935 Directory of Madison, eight copies

Lake County Farm and Business Directory, 1951-1952

Geneva-on-the-Lake Telephone Directory, 1951-1952

Geneva/Madison Telephone Directories, 1942, 1961, 1964

Cleveland Street Directory, 1936

Newspapers

Madison Press, 1938-1979

The Madison News, 1983-1984

Tri-County Chronicles, 1991-1992

The Tribune, 1993-1998, on microfilm

Photographs

Kimball Family Photograph Album

Brewster Family Photograph Album

Binder Collection; Vintage photographs by category: Madison Village, Madison Township, Madison Businesses, Citizens, School Pictures

Collections

Vintage Postcards

Vintage Greeting Cards

Vintage Books

A large collection of early books with topics including Bibles, religious studies, reference books, novels, poetry, and histories – titles include:

Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke Among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, 1846

Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss, 1877

History Reference Books

Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Lake County

Roster of Ohio Soldiers 1861-1866, Vol. 3-10

Twenty Years of Congress 1861-1881, Vol. 1

Service Record, World War I and II, Madison Township

Historical Collections of Ohio, Centennial Edition, Vol. I and II, several sets

Cleveland – the Making of a City

Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society Publications, Vol. 1-23 and 25

The Encyclopedia of Ohio, 1999

The Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places, Vol. 1 and 2

The Western Reserve, Vol. I-III, Upton

Architecture of the Western Reserve 1800-1900, Campon

Ohio’s Western Reserve: A Regional Reader, Lysold and Haddad

The Western Reserve, Hatcher

The Western Reserve, 1900, Mills

The Mapping of Ohio, Smith

Pioneers of Geauga County – 1800

Ashtabula County, Ashtabula County Genealogical Society

History of Geauga and Lake Counties Ohio, 1878, several copies

The Ohio Gateway, Crouse

Cradle of Greatness, Hoover

The Frontier Republic, 1780-1825

Buckeye Women, Booth

Historical Highlights, History of the Flats, DePetro

The Ordinance of 1787 and the Northwest Territory

Ohio Lands – A Short History, State of Ohio

Ohio Land Grants, State of Ohio

This is Ohio, Goulder and Izant, three copies

History of Agriculture in Ohio to 1880, Jones

Ohio Farm Laws – 1910

Ohio Builds a Nation, Stille

Early Homes of Ohio, Frarry

A Guide to Historic Homes in Ohio

History and Geography of Ohio, 1929, Gregory and Guitteau

Lake Erie, Hatcher

The Great Lakes Reader, Havinghurst

Ohio Water Firsts, Vol. 2

Ohio Water Titans, Vol. 3

The Great Lakes Blizzard of 1913, Cook, Ashtabula Star Beacon

New Northern Ohio’s Interurbans, Vol. 5, Christiansen

Here is Lake County Ohio, Lake County Historical Society, 1964, two copies

Lake County History, Bicentennial Edition, 1976, Lake County Historical Society, four copies

Guide to the Painesville Telegraph (newspaper) 1822-1829 (Index), Stebbins

The History of Madison, Billington

Arcola – Arcole, Ellensburg, Madison Dock, Shuld

Buried Treasures, the Story of the Stones, Madison Historical Society

Cunningham Creek Light, Tag

Anthology of Historical Articles, Vol. 1 and 2, Madison Historical Society and Perry Historical Society

This is Madison Ohio, League of Women Voters Lake County

Pillars to Pikes, (history of taverns), Billington, Keairns

Unionville - Harpersfield Bicentennial History

Travels of Happy Hooligan, Frederick B. Opper, 1906

The Story of Happy Hooligan, Kinnaird, 1932

Happy Hooligan 1904-1905, Opper and Marschall, 1977

Bill Nye’s Comic History of the U.S., illustrated by Frederick Opper, 1894

Cartoon Cavalcade, Craven, 1943

Clipping Files

A wall of cabinet files holds clippings divided by subject matter:

Property/ includes National Register of Historic Places original applications

Clubs and Organizations

Genealogy

Businesses

Cemeteries

Churches

Schools

General Madison history, by topic