Description:
A history of Miamisburg and its brewers in southwestern Ohio during the 19th century, as the city grew from a frontier settlement to a thriving manufacturing town.
Brief description: 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.