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    Marion
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    Marion

    By Stuart J. Koblentz

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    Best known as the home of President Warren G. Harding and his Front Porch Campaign of 1920, Marion was also home to many other national leaders. As early as 1839, Judge Ozias Bowen made the landmark decision to free an escaped slave, almost sparking a civil war. Marion was also home to these prominent and influential women: First Lady Florence Kling Harding; Miss America of 1938, Marilyn Meseke Rogers; and 40th Treasurer of the United States, Mary Ellen Withrow. Marion has contributed to the progress of the United States in industry, nation building, and politics unlike any other community its size. Named in honor of General Francis Marion, the town of Marion was established in 1822 and soon after became the county seat. Located at the center of the agriculture-based county, it became a main stopover for supplies and social events, encouraging bustling commerce and industry. Edward Huber designed revolutionary harvesting equipment and supplied capital for the Marion Power Shovel company, whose power shovels dug the Panama Canal and whose creepers move NASA's rockets. Today, Marion's contributions are appreciated in many facets of American life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439631485
    Marion
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    Stuart J. Koblentz

    With the assistance of the Marion County Historical Society and individual collectors, Stuart J. Koblentz has assembled a unique look back at Marion and its community. Raised in Marion, Koblentz is a member of the Marion Historical Society�s Publications Committee and the Marion Area Genealogy Society.

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      AROUND AND ABOUT MARION

      MAIN STREET, LOOKING SOUTH FROM CENTER STREET. Downtown Marion at the turn of the 20th century was the center of Marion County’s economy. Horses and buggies shared the crowded streets with early automobiles, street cars, and interurban cars, making crossing the main streets a perilous undertaking in an age before modern traffic control. (Photograph courtesy of the author.)

      WEST CENTER STREET, JULY 1920. Once Senator Warren G. Harding received the 1920 Republican Party nomination for presidency, news services began circulating photographs of Harding’s hometown. This view shows West Center Street, looking eastwards towards the courthouse from the Frank Brothers’ store at the corner of South Prospect Street. Businesses operating at the time included The New York Shop, Tender’s Candies, Warner & Edwards Company, Hugh’s Menswear (advertising men’s suits from $18), and the National City Bank & Trust Corporation.

      Interestingly, both of the major party presidential nominees in 1920 were newspaper publishers from the same state. Senator Harding owned and published the Marion Star, and Ohio Governor James Cox (the Democratic nominee), of Dayton, was the publisher and founder of Cox Newspapers. (Photograph courtesy of the author.)

      MAIN STREET, NORTH OF EAST CHURCH STREET. One’s eye is drawn to the large brick Diebold building in the forefront that later housed the Schaffner Furniture and Mortuary Company—cabinetry and coffins had a great deal to do with one another in those days. However, the small two-story building to its immediate left shouldn’t be overlooked: it was the birthplace of First Lady Florence Kling Harding. Mrs. Harding’s birthplace was torn down in the 1910s and replaced by a small, two-story brick business block. (Photograph courtesy of Gary Barnhart.)

      WARREN G. HARDING, CAL ROGERS, AND THE VIN FIZZ. On September 30, 1911, Cal Rogers (grandson of Oliver Hazard Perry) paid a visit to Marion while in a contest sponsored by the Hearst Newspaper Chain to fly coast to coast in 30 days. His flight aboard the Vin Fizz won the contest, even though it took 82 hours of airtime spread over 49 days, as he was the only one to make it to California. This was the first time that a plane flew over and landed in Marion County. Upon landing in Marion, Rogers was interviewed by Warren G. Harding for the Marion Star. (Photograph courtesy of Gary Barnhart.)

      MARION , WEST THE COURTHOUSE IN 1912. Looking west from the bell tower of the courthouse in the winter of 1912, Marion looks as if was in for a very cold day. Draymen wait with their wagons along West Center Street, and D.A. Frank’s new departement store sits opposite of the Huber block. Beyond is west Center Street, still a residential neighborhood. (Photograph courtesy of author.)

      NORTH MAIN STREET. This image of North Main Street in the 1920s was taken from the Bennett Block. Cars, people, and trains all converged in the area near Jim Dugan’s, the Courthouse, and the Pilgrim Inn. In the days before the current overpass system was instituted in the 1960s, the only clear passage connecting north Marion to points south was the Leader Street underpass. (Photograph courtesy of the Marion County Historical Society.)

      HOTEL HARDING CONSTRUCTION BEGINS. Following the presidential election of 1920, community leaders saw a need to construct a modern hotel of sufficient size and grandeur to suit the hometown of Warren G. Harding. A public campaign urged citizens to invest in the Hotel Building in order to help raise the first half of the capital needed to finance the structure. Work began on the site of the new hotel at West Center and Orchard Streets across from the Henderson-Campbell home, which itself would be replaced by the Palace Theatre by 1928. (Photograph courtesy of the Marion County Historical

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