”MONTGOMERY COUNTY MEMORIAL BUILDING.

Recognizing the great debt which Montgomery county, in common with the whole nation, owes to the patriotism, the valor and the great sacrifices of the men who left their fire-sides in Montgomery county to offer themselves as willing sacrifices on the altar of patriotism, the citizens of Montgomery county voted, in 1906 by a majority of six thousand, four hundred and twenty-seven votes, to expend two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the erection and equipment of a Memorial building which shall remain a fitting memorial to our heroes.

Under the wise and careful supervision of a building commission, appointed by the governor, the building was completed in a most satisfactory manner in November, 1909. The committee was comprised of the following public spirited citizens: President, J. C. Reber; Secretary, Albert Kern; Charles Ware, Charles Wuichet and Jacob Linxweiler.”

Reference Data:

History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio, by Augustus Waldo Drury, 1909, page 744