People Index Page

Learn about the men and women that lived in Shelby County, Ohio and had a significant impact on its development.  From the establishment of this community and the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s, to the politics and conflicts throughout the 1900s, discover the memorable people that made us what we are today.  

• Joseph Altenbach:  Architectural Legacy Still Lives on in Shelby County
• Alfred Artis:  Rumley Man Convicted of Killing, Only Person Publicly Executed Locally
• Fragmented in 1976, Sgt. Baker Twin in Richland County Restored to Duty
• Ralph 'Pee Wee' Baumann:  Man Gives Life in Football Game to Raise Funds for Wilson Memorial Hospital
• India Boyer:  Shelby County Woman is First Female Architect in Ohio
• Pearl Bretches:  Land Development Once Scene of Franklin Township Tragedy
• John Carey:  Volunteers Restore Long Neglected Hardin-Area (Carey) Cemetery
• Joshua Chamberlain:  Opposite Career Paths:   'Stonewall' Jackson and Joshua L. Chamberlain
• Sir Winston Churchill:  A Legend in His Own Time
• Birdie (Dickas) Breaks His Bike - 1881
• Dilbones:  Indian Massacre Took Place in 1813 in Northern Miami County
• Frank Earl:  Man Executed After 1907 Sidney Murder
• Franz Eicher:  Pioneer Faced Long Road from Germany to Shelby County, Ohio
• Sidney Helped Launch "Long Bob" Ewing's Career
• Jeremiah Ferree:  Sidney Soldier Part of Civil War Search
• Clyde Fisher:  Sidney Man Touches the Last Frontier
• Freirott:  Wooden Shoe:  A Brewing Tradition in Ohio's Dutch Country
• W.S. Furman:  Two Men Made County Hub of Cycling in Ohio
• Ida Goode:  Prominent Female Leaves Legacy
• Winnifred Haslup Gearhart:  Tragic Deaths Part of Local History
• Frank Hemmert:  Botkins Man was Railroad Veteran
• Charles Hess:  Gold Rush Lured Sidney Attorney to Alaska
• Stonewall Jackson:  Opposite Career Paths:   'Stonewall' Jackson and Joshua L. Chamberlain
• Andrew Johnson:  Impeachment in Past Not So Different
• Byron Joslin:  Last Shelby County Civil War Veteran Recalled
• Bernie Kerns:  Student Golfer Never Lost a Regular Match
• Kermit Kuck:  Monarch Machine Tool Company Important Partner in Community
• Ben Lefevre:  Shelby County Produced a Noted Politician
• Jonathan Lewis:  Lincoln's Last Surviving Bodyguard Lived in Plattsville After the War
• Lois Lenski:   Return to Skipping Village - Anna, Ohio 
• John Loughlin:  The Sidney School Furniture Company
• Loramie's Life After Shelby County Detailed by Missouri Educator
• Loramie Had No Tender Feelings for Americans
• Luther McCarty:  Sidney Native Named World Heavyweight Boxing Champion in 1913
• McGinnis:  Civil War Casualty, Honored, But Poorly Spelled  
• Carry Nation:  Temperance Movement Had Roots in Shelby County
• O.W. Nisewonger:  Two Men Made County Hub of Cycling in Ohio
• Chief O'Leary:  A Fixture in City Law Enforcement for 60 Years
• Rosa Bertsch Phillips:  Medicine Shows, Vaudeville...Starring Rosa & Eddie Phillips
• Rosa Phillips:   Meat to the Table - No Trip to the Grocery Required
• Randolph Slaves
• C.H. Roman's Grave Marker Considered Controversial
• Florence Sanders:  Perry Township Woman Experienced Internship by Japanese During W.W.II
• Buddie Shang:  A Black Man Accused of Murder
• Henry Sherman:  History of Himself and His Family, A Story of Immigration from Germany to Shelby County, Ohio
• Sir Philip Sidney:  A Renaissance Man
• Philip Smith:  Early Industrialist Helped Transform Sidney
• Charles Starrett:  Sidney's Founder Made Land Donation
• Lafayette M. Studevant:  People's Building Product of City Man's Vision
• Aaron & Alfred Swander:  Letters Home From Fallen Heroes
• Herman Tappe:  Sidney Man Helped Set Fashion Trends
• I.H. Thedieck:  A Man of Vision
• I.H. Thedieck:  A Merchant Who Helped Shape Sidney's Industrial Development
• Sgt. William Van Fossen Did It All
• Lewis Warbington:  50th Anniversary of "Neighbors in Action" - Shelby County's Foreign Aid Program
• Wendell Whipp:  Monarch Machine Tool Company Important Partner in Community
• Farida Wiley:  Orange Township Girl Grows Up to Become Renowned Ornithologist
• Harry Williams:  Sidney's Lost Civil War Era Diary Comes Home

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