Edmund Kricker's Challenge Gift reported in the Portsmouth Daily Times (15 May 1978).

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Edmund Kricker's Challenge Gift reported in the Portsmouth Daily Times (15 May 1978).

Photo courtesy of the Shawnee State University Digital History Lab, the Portsmouth Daily Times, and Google News.

This file appears in: Southern Ohio Museum & Cultural Center

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
“The Kricker family’s long-term faith in the economic strength of Scioto County is a matter of historical record,” noted the Portsmouth Daily Times in May of 1978. Edmund J. Kricker, the seventy-nine year old chairman of the board and chief…