Columbian High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Tiffin, OH)

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, - .-.1 ,- Supt. Paul V. Brown and the daughter of Thomas Alva Edison, Mrs. Madelaine Edison Sloane, taken in the living room of the Edison birthplace, Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1947, during the 100th Anniversary celebration. Milan, Ohio February 11, 1947 To the Students of Tiffin Columbian High School: I have been asked by your superintendent, Mr. Paul V. Brown, to send to you my greetings from Milan, Ohio, on this, the 100th anniversary of the birth of my father, Thomas Alva Edison. I am happy to do this, especially since I have been told of the theme of your 1947 yearbook. It is nice to know that you are using Thomas A. Edison as such a theme. My very best wishes to you from this, the birthplace of my father. As he lived a life of service to hisfellowmen, I am wishing for you something of the samenideal. May you remember that doing for others is what counts most in life, after all. lhank you for..this-opportunit3Lto..greet.yuu,.and-I.,send you my every good wish. x Q.A..D-.4,:,g,, Mason Dionne... ,

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3332, the Gllasianf 1947, habitats this hunk ini ' Fllguxnzra A. Whisnlr who, as ll boy, had an insatiable thirst for knowledge . . C C' ,301-an Sh QE ss-- i ANU as? EDISON AT FOURTEEN EDISON AT EIGHTY-ONE who, as a man, gave us the many con- veniences that we consider common- place. His life is proof that in America a humble beginning is no deterrent to success.

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fffcfucml Jawa A tiny, red-brick cottage on the edge of a broad, wooded ravine at Milan, Ohio, has taken its place among the historic shrines which commemorate great Americans. It is the 100-year-old birthplace of Thomas Alva Edison, the Ohio genius who invented the electric light, the phonograph, the moving and talking picture, and many other marvels we take for granted today. Thirty acres of adjacent ravine, through which runs the Huron River, have been purchased by Mrs. Edison and will in time become a memorial park to her husband, who died in 1931 at the age of 84, The land is pastoral and quiet today, but 100 years ago it rang with pounding and sawing, for Milan then was the second largest grain port in the world, with six shipyards and sixteen grain warehouses along a canal teeming with trade. Imports and exports totaled more than 351,500,000 a year. Here the boy Edison lived the hrst seven years of his life, before his family mov-ed to Port Huron, Michi- gan. Through the century, the old home, occupied by relatives, underwent many changes. Eighteeen months ago Mrs. Edison commissioned an old friend of the family to restore the birthplace. Soon the only modern traces will be the electric lights and the oil furnace. -'L 4