Library Archives

Local newspapers on microfilm, census records, school yearbooks, city and county directories, and other historical documents are available at the library archives. All archival documents are for in-library use only and cannot be checked out.

MICROFILM AVAILABLE 

Newspapers:

  • Kenton Times 
  • Kenton Daily Democrat 
  • Kenton Graphic News
  • Kenton Graphic News Republican
  • Kenton News-Republican
  • Kenton Weekly Republican
  • Hardin County Republican
  • The Kenton Daily News
  • The Kenton Press
  • Kenton miscellaneous (Hardin Intelligencer, Fair Daily Democrat and others) 
  • Forest News/Forest Review
  • Forest Review/Forest Advertiser

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Kenton Illustrated 1890 Historical and Biographical Collections of Hardin County 1898

     
  • 1890 special  - Schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows of Civil war: Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene and Hardin Counties, Ohio

     
  • Hardin County Recorder and Deed records- December 1881 - March 1886

     
  • The Greenlaw Index of the New England Historic Genealogical Society

CENSUS RECORDS

Hardin County - 1820 through 1930

We have many other Ohio counties census records. Please ask if you are looking for a particular county or year. We also have census records for Pennsylvania and Virginia.

OHIO COUNTY HISTORIES

SCHOOL YEARBOOKS

  • Kenton City Schools
  • Ohio Northern University

KENTON & HARDIN COUNTY DIRECTORIES

  • Moore's Standard Directory of Kenton 1908-1909
  • The Ideal Directory of the city of Kenton, Ohio 1912-1913
  • The Farm Journal Directory of Hardin County 1916
  • Kenton Ohio Directory 1930
  • Kenton Con Curvey Directory 1954, 1959, & 1965

     
  • Robinson's Hardin County & Kenton City Directory:
    • 1957          1981
    • 1963          1983
    • 1966          1984-1985
    • 1968          1986-1987
    • 1971          1989
    • 1974          1991
    • 1975          1993
    • 1977          1996
    • 1979          1999

       
  • Kenton Telephone
    • 1972          1980        
    • 1973          1981
    • 1975          1982
    • 1976          1984
    • 1977          1989
    • 1978          1990
    • 1979          2004

       
  • Dickman Directory (Tri-County)
    • 1996
    • 1997
    • 2002
    • 2003
    • 2004
    • 2010
    • 2014

       
  • Polk City Directory
    • 2003
    • 2004
    • 2005
    • 2006
    • 2007 
    • 2013