Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential
Center
Patty Dahm Pascoe
LH-328
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Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory
Introduction
The Pascoe Collection was donated to the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in
June 2004 by Patty Dahm Pascoe, Sandusky, Ohio. The Pascoe Cup Race (LH-319) is a
related collection.
Biographical Sketch
Patty Ann Dahm Pascoe was born in Cincinnati, Ohio July 24, 1943, to Christopher
Junior Dahm and Mary Davis Dahm. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from
Jacksonville University (Florida) and a Master’s degree from Bowling Green State
University (Ohio) in Health and Physical Education. She has taught in the public school
systems in both Florida and Ohio and also worked in the Human Resources Department
for Erie County, Ohio. She married John Thomas Pascoe in 1972. She has researched
and written about many aspects of genealogy and Erie County, Ohio, history.
Scope and Content
The photographs, clippings, documents, and correspondence in the Pascoe Collection fall
under two subjects: Sandusky city and Erie County, Ohio and family genealogies.
The city and county material was gathered by Ms Pascoe for use in her book Elected to
Serve, published in 2003. The book provides biographies and photographs for elected
officials in Erie County, Ohio from 1838 to 2002.
Christ and Anna, published in 1980, presents the genealogies of her grandparents
Christopher (Christ) Clarence Dahm (born December 25, 1896) and his wife Anna Marie
Yocum Dahm (born September 30, 1898). Allied families are Damm (an earlier spelling
of Dahm), Bach, Yocum/Yocom, Kremer/Kreamer, Konzen, Zimmer, and Hartman.
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Genealogies of Pascoe, Scheid, Maunus of Welsh, German, Finnish, Descent, published
in 2000, presents the genealogies of her husband John Thomas Pascoe’s parents: Marie
Sophia Maunus Pascoe and Milton Charles Scheid Pascoe. Allied families are Gilbert,
Greenaway/Greenway, Dorn, Mylander, Tuuri, and Minni.
Miscellaneous items in the collection include sheet music of the piano arrangement of the
“G.A. Boeckling March,” photos of boats on Lake Erie and the Sandusky Sailing Club,
information about the Pascoe Cup Race, directories and anniversary booklets from St.
John Lutheran Church at Union Corners, a tintype of George James Pascoe (1876-1957),
and four Finnish-language books printed between 1809 and 1913.
The Rutherford B. Hayes Library has copies of Ms Pascoe’s three books.
Inventory
Ac. 5623
2 linear ft.
BOX 1
Folder 1. Overview of Elected to Serve
2. Auditors
3. Clerks of Court
4. County Commissioners
5. Common Pleas Judges – General Division
6. Common Pleas Judges – Family and Juvenile Division
7. Common Pleas Judges – Probate Division
8. Coroners
9. County Court
10. County Engineers
11. Erie County Infirmary
12. Letters from elected Erie County officials – 2003
13. Photographs of leaded glass transoms naming Erie County political
subdivisions
14. Prosecutors
15. Recorders
16. Sheriffs
17. Treasurers
18. Sheet music: “G.A. Boeckling March”
19. Photographs of boats on Lake Erie
20. Names and locations of Erie County communities and neighborhoods
21. Letterheads – Erie County businesses: post-1900
22. Letterheads – Erie County businesses: pre-1900
23. Letters to judges 1906 – 1932 (seven letters)
24. Historic photographs of Erie County sites and events
25. Perkins Township, Erie County, Ohio history
26. Plumbrook Ordnance Works (later NASA), Perkins Township, Erie
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County, Ohio
27. Copy of Sandusky Register newspaper: March 28, 1899
28. Photographs of the Sandusky Sailing Club
29. St. John Lutheran Church, Union Corners, anniversary booklets 1865 – 1965
and 1865 – 1990; directories 1983 and 1987 – 1988
30. Wilmer/Wittmer Cemetery
31. Overview of author’s books of family genealogies
32. Dahm family
33. Zimmer family
34. Yocum family
35. Maunus family
36. Gilbert family
37. Minni family
38. Pascoe family
Encased tintype of George James Pascoe
Four Finnish-language books: one belonging to J.E. Maunus dated 1809; a Lutheran
Catechism dated 1831; one-possibly a hymnal with verses only-dated 1836; a New
Testament dated 1913
BOX 2
Folder 1. Scheid family
2. Tuuri family
3. Photographs:
-G. Vergn Pascoe standing by car
-Grandma Julia Sheid Pascoe in front of house
-G. Vergn Pascoe in front of house
-Milton C. and his wife Marie (Maunes) Pascoe at sailing club
-Charles, James and Tom Pascoe
-Miss S. Rohrbacher; Sandusky, Ohio
-Charlie and James Pascoe
-Carl and Alta Lesser; Ged and Clara Pascoe, Julia and Milton, C.J. and
Mary Jane Pascoe; and G. Vergn photographed by tree
-Carl and Alta Lesser, Grandma Pascoe, Pearl Pascoe, Marion and
Florence, Elmer Johnson, and Ged and Clara Pascoe on a boat
-John Thomas Pascoe, 1961
-Marion and Florence Johnson, children of Pearl Pascoe; Milt and John
Pascoe
-Milton and Marie (Maunus) Pascoe sitting on couch
-Julia Scheid Pascoe
-Uncle Charlie
-G. Vergn Pascoe standing in yard
-16 unidentified photographs
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Addendum
Ac. 5830
Folder 4. Vintage Postcards (Cedar Point, Put-in-Bay, Marblehead, Sandusky)
5. Elected To Serve Erie County, Ohio 1838-2003
6. History of Sandusky, Ohio-Booklets (4)
Ac.5849
Folder 7. Two war-date Western Union telegrams; Obituary of Christopher J. Dahm,
2006; Eulogy and original brochure from Celebration of Life service for Christopher J.
Dahm, 2006; Five black and white war-date photographs of Christopher J. Dahm, wife,
and daughter Patty Dahm Pascoe with notations and identification by Patty Dahm Pascoe
Photocopies of WWII military documents of Christopher J. Dahm; Originals and
photocopies of letters and postcards by Christopher J. Dahm to his daughter “Butchie”
written during his WWII service
First Ladies, by Betty Boyd Carolli
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