Our family has a story that Grandpa Frederick H. SANEHOLTZ, owner of Riverside Brickyard in Napoleon, went to Chicago to help re-build after the fire, leaving Grandma at home with their 10 children. The Chicago fire was in 1871, their marriage was in 1876 and the 10th child was born in 1896. We recently learned there was a fire at the World Colombian Exposition (fair) which was held in 1893 in Chicago (the exposition required 40,000 skilled laborers to construct the buildings) and many structures needed rebuilding. Libby Glass of Toledo built a working glass furnace there in 1893. Were there any workers in Henry County that went to Chicago around 1893 to help build or rebuild the fair?
– Anita Butler, Cincinnati, OH 45347