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Blurb: “Charlotte Reeve Conover is the foremost biographer of Dayton. A member of one of the founding families, she writes about her beloved city with warmth, humor and knowledge.
Author of numerous books about the city, this volume is one of her best, a condensation and distillation of eight decades of observation and experience.
She covers Dayton's first century with charm, insight and eloquence.
Originally published in 1931, this is the third edition of this basic Dayton book, revised and edited by Alexander Kaye in time for Celebration '96, the city's Bicentennial.
An articulate feminist, no other book captures so engagingly the people, the events and the spirit of yesteryear's Dayton.
She was born in Dayton on June 14, 1855 and died here in 1940. Her father was a prominent Dayton physi-cian. She attended Cooper Seminary, Central High School and, later after her family was grown, the University of Geneva.
Her other books include the story of the Patterson family called Builders in New Fields; a four volume history of Montgomery County, and Some Dayton
Saints and Prophets.
This is the first volume of a projected multi-volume series called The Bicentennial Bookshelf celebrating the 200th anniversary of Dayton's founding in 1796.
Some of the books may be reprints of classics, like this one, others are being written specially for the city's Bicentennial.
This book covers Dayton's first
125 years and is by someone who lived through many of them.
Book Two, A History of Dayton by Virginia and Bruce Ronald, brings the story up to date while casting some new light on the early years.
Dayton Sports by baseball Hall of Fame writer Ritter Collett is Book Three, and is the first comprehensive book ever written about sports in our town.
The city's robust industrial and commercial life, and its effect on the world, is the subject of Book Four, Business Dayton, and will gather in one place for the first time the saga of creativity, innovation and enterprise that has characterized Dayton's work.“