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.

Mary Barnard Bowman

• My Quest for Song: Select Poems by Mary Barnard Bowman

Bishop William Montgomery Brown, DD

• Communism and Christianism

Arthur Holly Compton

• Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative

Fanny K. De Vine

• A Star on His Shoulder: A Book of Poems by Fanny K. De Vine

Earl Meadow Dunbar

• Earl Meadow Dunbar February 25, 1899-August 31, 1937

Marion Carrington Ellenwood

• Songs of the Outdoors

Sherlock Holmes Evans

• Father Owned a Circus: A Biographical Novel

Rev. J. J. Excell

• Lights and Shadows of Life
• Mysteries and Beauties of Redemption

Vergilius Ferm

• Basic Philosophy for Beginners
• Inside Ivy Walls; Observations from a College Professor's Notebook
• Their Day was Yesterday
• What can we believe?

Stanley B. Graham

• The Next Train to Chicago: The Story of the Life and Loves of a Century Woman

Julia Halloran

• Murder at the Nationals: a Novel

Otis Earl Hawkins

• Memories of 95 Years

Phyllis Kathryn Kult

• Through My Eyes: The Amish Way

Howard F. Lowry

• College Talks

Levi Miller

• Our People: The Amish and Mennonites of Ohio

Frank B. Notestein

• A Wandering Rockhound

Lucy Lilian Notestein

• Hill Towns of Italy

Newt Oliver

• One Basketball and Glory...

Edward E. Palmer

• Forty Years of Hustling

William W. Pennell

• The Buckeye Doctor: A Tale for Physicians and for Physicians' Patients
• Not the King's Will

Jack Perkins

• Parasols of Fern: A Book About Wonder

Glenna Robbins Post

• Summer is Over

Jone U. Marthey

• Patches of Rainbow

Ben Roy Shaw

• Poems by B. R. Shaw
• Songs in the Night

William R. Westhafer

• Nine-thirty: Seven Talks to Students

Gordon B. White

• As Summer's Mask Slips and Other Disruptions

Charles F. Wishart

• New Freedom in the Natural Order