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About this Book:
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Forest Cemetery holds the key to the founding of Toledo, its pioneers, and the establishment of all of its major institutions such as city and state government, businesses, banking, police and fire departments, and military veterans’ organizations. Forest Cemetery is the final resting place of the pioneers and early settlers who founded the City of Toledo, Ohio, and its many businesses, banks and institutions. Burials there also include military veterans, Medal of Honor recipients, early Great Lakes ship captains, police and fire chiefs, mayors, and ordinary citizens who performed extraordinary things behind the scenes. The full history of the cemetery and life stories of more than 100 of its inhabitants are told here.
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About the Author:
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Becky Visser and Gary L.Franks are local historians and long-time residents of Perrysburg, Ohio, a Toledo suburb. Both are active in many local and state historic organizations and have served on their boards of directors. They are founding members of the Perrysburg Area Historic Museum. Becky has authored a book about the history of Toledo's Woodlawn Cemetery; d Gary has authored five other local history books about Perrysburg.
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Book Review:
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This book is an easy read as it contains short chapters and interesting biographies with more than 130 color pages of portraits, gravestones, maps, and other documents relative to the cemetery.
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