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Miamisburg's early brewers made more than beer. In their own small-but sometimes large-ways, they shaped the growth of their Miami Valley community from a tiny settlement on America's western frontier to a modern manufacturing town. Their lives reflected the great trends and events that swept the United States, Ohio and Miamisburg throughout the nineteenth century-the digging of the Miami and Erie Canal, the American Civil War, the temperance movement and more. These brewers were never famous. Their names are long forgotten. In some cases their stories were nearly lost to history. This book brings them back from obscurity and reveals Miamisburg as they saw it in their times.

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Timothy R. Gaffney was born in Dayton, Ohio and has lived most of his life in Ohio's Miami Valley, more than half of it in Miamisburg. He attended Dayton public schools and studied journalism at The Ohio State University. He worked at the Piqua Daily Call and the Kettering Oakwood Times before settling at the Dayton Daily News, where he mainly covered military affairs, aviation and space. He retired at the end of 2006 and worked additional years in communications and marketing for nonprofits. He holds a private pilot's license. His wife Jean is retired from Dayton Metro Library, where she was both branch manager and children's librarian for more than thirty years, and later assistant director of collection development for the library system. They have four grown children, two grandchildren and two dogs. This is his seventeenth book.

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