| Author | Austin, Linus, 1817-1887.
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| Title | Journal of Linus and Louise Austin, 1872-1905.
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| Description | 1 v.
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| Summary Note | Summary: Journal consisting of entries of Linus Austin, 1872-87, continued by those of his wife, Louise Collins Avery Austin, 1887-1905. Notable topics include the business aspects of powder manufacture and Austin's friendship with Rutherford B. Hayes.
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| Reproduct. Note | Microfilm. Cleveland, Ohio : Western Reserve Historical Society, 1989. 1 microfilm reel : positive and negative ; 35 mm.
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| Loc. Orig/Dup. | Holds originals: Ms. Barney Bakken.
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| Historical Note | Linus Austin was a prominent industrialist in Cleveland and vicinity who owned the Austin Powder Company, the oldest manufacturing enterprise in Cleveland and one of the few remaing U.S. manufacturers of black powder used in military ammunition. The company was begun in 1833 to produce explosives used in blasting rock to build the Ohio and Erie Canal. It had plants in Akron and Cleveland, the latter located at the 5 Mile Lock of the Ohio Canal. That facility, which was bought from the Cleveland Powder Co. in 1867, blew up in 1907.
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| Subjects | Austin Powder Company -- History -- Sources.
Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Diaries.
Gunpowder industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893.
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| Other Authors | Austin, Louise Collins Avery, b. 1828.
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| | WRHS Research Library: Microfilm (Cab. 56:8)
22487395: Positive microfilm, microform room [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 6215] |
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