BlockOpera House, Defiance
A opera house in Defiance, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1893 and 1899.
Where it appears
| Atlas | Read as | Sheet |
|---|---|---|
| 1893 | Iyer's Opera House,:: | the scanned index |
| 1899 | Mver's Opera House | the scanned index |
How the name was read
Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.
| Opera House |
| Iyer's Opera House,:: |
| Mver's Opera House |
Named in the 1883 county history
The history of Defiance County was published 10 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.
| Miss Hattie D. Clarke, of Beloit, Wis. this marriage has been two children - Frank Mills Oliver, Emeline, Celistie, Lorrin J. and Alonzo M, | and which is still standing on Front street, in the rear of the Opera House Block. On November 13, 1855, he was married to Miss Martha Parkhurst Adams. of St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Mrs. Lorrin Shead was born in Royalton, Vt., A. D. 1833, and at the age of about three years her parents, David A. and Hannah (Parkhurst) Adams, moved from Royalton, Vt., to St. Lawrence County. In 1856, Mrs. Shead's parents moved to Beloit, Wis., at which place they died, her mother August, A. D. 1875, at the age of sixty-nine, her father in July, A. D. 1850, at the age of seventy-nine years. Five children survive them - David A., Harry Adams, Mrs. C. Miller, Mrs. W. C.
Named in the same survey
1 establishmentThe surveyors walked Defiance County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.
| Index line | Establishment | Trade | Atlas |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gibson, W., Machine Shop | machine shop | 1893 |
Other opera house in the atlases
1Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Defiance County, with the years each one appears.
Provenance
Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Defiance, Ohio, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.