Noah Elwood Weaver ca 1917 West Carrollton Paper Factory
Recently Terry from the West Carrollton OH Historical Society contacted me about using some of my grandfathers images for the Christmas Season at museum. It is always fun for me to reflect on my grandfather, as he was an early adopter of technology and used the large format camera for taking early photos.
Here is a photo of my dad, Paul Henry Weaver, Christmas of 1912, 100 years ago, when he was 2 years of age. Noticing the inside of the home at 321 E Main St in West Carrollton, that I remember visiting as a boy from Minnesota too. Noah Elwood lived in West Carrollton for many years raising my dad there, with his first wife, Edna Eicher (Weaver) and then hosting us grandkids with his second wife, Virginia Magee.
A Weaver cousin of mine, recently discovered, Andy Snow of Dayton, is working on a photo exhibit of the 1913 Great Flood of the Greater Miami River. This is a photo Noah Elwood Weaver took of Shannon Ave in West Carrollton.
This is one photo he took at West Carrollton High School 1913 (Top Photo) near his home of the students. Below are some of the names recalled by Martha Werth in 1984 labeled when I visited.
Lower picture at West Carrollton High School 1913 taken by NE Weaver.
Refer to the names below recalled by Martha Werth in 1984.
Names of people in the photos above, written by Martha Werth in 1984.
Some entertainment on Aug 1, 1914 included a "race" between Lincoln Beachey in the biplane
and Barney Oldfield who left bicycle racing for car racing.
Men around Lincoln Beachey and his plane at the Fairgrounds in Dayton OH next to NCR.
Lincoln Beachey taking off.
Barney Oldfield in his racing car.
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Lincoln Beachey's plane above a crowd of onlookers.
The Dayton Fairgrounds with crowd for the event.
Label in cursive on the back "Beachey landing after Looping the Loop, Dayton Fairground, 8/1/1914"