The nucleus of the Morley Library on Phelps Street was provided by the local Women's Christian Temperance Union, which established a temperance library and reading room in 1878. After librarian Mary Dean's death in 1898, friends set about fulfilling her dream of a free public library.
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Frederick William Ashley, 1863-1942
This genealogy was begun in 1999, as part of the centennial celebration of Morley Library, in Painesville, Ohio.
Naturalization records for Lake County, Ohio, covers the period of 1860-1975.
A project of the Lake County Genealogical Society, it is an alphabetical abstract of the naturalization petitions from Lake County Probate Court (1860-1906) and Lake County Common Pleas Court (1906-1975). This includes Declarations of Intention and petitions that failed for a variety of reasons.
Morley Library has archives of the following newspapers, mostly on microfilm, that can be used for doing genealogy and local history research:
Statue of General Edward Paine
Charter Oak Park
Painesville, Ohio
Note: This page is under construction.
Morley Library offers the following resource for researching early Ohio probate records:
Ohio Wills and Estates to 1850: An Index.
Page last updated 21 MARCH 2013.
