Farm Collector

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Remembering a special restoration

Very impressed by the articles by Fred Hendricks and Sam Moore about Ohio (see Farm Collector, October 2020)! I believe every city in the north part of Ohio had something to do with the progress of the farm. I drive by the homestead of Isaac Hoover (inventor of the commercial potato digger) every day. So much history here, as my mother, Donna Dahs, was the local historian for the township for more than 60 years.

The picture of the Sandusky tractor ( October 2020, page 17) caught my eye as my father, Eugene Dahs, and

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