Nov. 21- 27 Nov. 21 1871 - It's reported that a tenacious hen on a farm in Genoa that has been sitting on an egg since July, has finally given up and has abandoned her quest.
Oct. 3-9 Oct.3 1911- James Corbett “Hobo King” arrested in Toledo for the kidnapping of a 13-year-old boy in Shelbyville, Indiana. Corbett is acquitted a few months later.
1885 - Soldiers monument unveiled in Fremont at Fort Stephenson Park.
1908 - The new Secor Hotel in downtown Toledo opens for its first guests. The new hotel has 304 rooms, many with private bathrooms. It features a spacious new lobby with green and gold decor, a European dining room finished in Louis XIV style and large pillars in the dining area wrapped in grapevines laden with ripe white and black grapes.
1915 - Ohio Oil Company is formed to produce petroleum products from the oil being recovered in Northwest Ohio.
1916 - A sick camel given to the city of Toledo Zoo by Barnum and Bailey Circus dies an hour later after it is given a cold bottle of beer to drink by a city veterinarian.
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Urbana notable Joseph Brand Whitlock was born at this 510 S. Main St. site, although probably in an earlier house.
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The 2020 photo with this article is of the house at 510 S. Main St., Urbana. This Looking Forward is from the perspective of Joseph Brand Whitlock, who was born at this location, though probably in an earlier house, on March 4, 1869. His parents were Elias B. Whitlock and Mollie Brand Whitlock. Brand Whitlock’s maternal grandfather was Joseph C. Brand, whose house at 132 W. Reynolds St. was previously featured in this column.
As Brand’s father was a Methodist minister who served various Ohio churches, the family moved frequently. When Brand became a teenager, the family lived in Toledo, Ohio, where he worked for a time as a newspaper reporter. Later he turned to the law and practiced in Toledo, where he became active in community and political affairs. He was elected mayor of that city in 1905 and served three more terms before d