Local Authors

Most of the books below were donated to the Genealogy and Local History Department by Dan Ackerman. Dan Ackerman passed away on 24 January 2020. He had a love for local history and was quite the story teller. It was his desire to see a local author collection housed in the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department.

Arthur Holly Compton

• Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative

Sherlock Holmes Evans=

• Father Owned a Circus: A Biographical Novel

Vergilius Ferm

• What can we believe?

Edward E. Palmer

• Forty Years of Hustling

Charles F. Wishart

• New Freedom in the Natural Order

• Basic Philosophy for Beginners
• The Buckeye Doctor: A Tale for Physicians and for Physicians' Patients
• College Talks
• Communism and Christianism
• Inside Ivy Walls; Observations from a College Professor's Notebook
• Lights and Shadows of Life
• Murder at the Nationals: a Novel
• My Quest for Song: Select Poems by Mary Barnard Bowman
• Mysteries and Beauties of Redemption
• Patches of Rainbow
• Songs of the Outdoors
• A Star on His Shoulder: A Book of Poems by Fanny K. De Vine
• As Summer's Mask Slips and Other Disruptions
• Their Day was Yesterday