Showing posts with label Conn Baker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conn Baker. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2016

David Beers - Union Cemetery

David Beers
Union Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Early settler of Columbus. Built a log cabin that is the currently the oldest known home still standing in the city.

Columbus Dispatch article from 2012 on the David Beers log cabin
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/home_and_garden/2012/02/12/208-years-logged.html


Thursday, December 25, 2014

Conn Baker - Union Cemetery

Union Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Conn Baker
1870-1944

Conn Baker would do a loop-da-loop on a bicycle. His stage name was Diavolo. Italian for devil.

A picture of Baker doing his act.

Conn Baker at Lookout Mountain around 1900.

Here is a link about the oldest house in Columbus, a house Baker helped save. Article is from 2012.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/home_and_garden/2012/02/12/208-years-logged.html