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Collection: Jule Ritchey Collection

Title: Jule Ritchey Collection

Object ID: MG0913

Date Range: 1916, 1918, 1983

230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Jule Ritchey Collection Object ID: MG0913 1 folder Repository: LancasterHistory (Organization) Shelving Location: Archives South, Side 19 Scope and Content Note: This collection contains ephemera

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Collection: Jule Ritchey Collection

Title: Jule Ritchey Collection

Description: This collection contains ephemera related to Julius J. "Jule" Ritchey of Lancaster and his career as a middleweight boxer.

Admin/Biographical History: Julius J. "Jule" Ritchey was born in 1895 in Lancaster's Cabbage Hill neighborhood. During his career as a middleweight boxer, he fought 75 bouts, won 65 of them and had 4 KOs. He fought alongside local contemporaries Leo Houck, Rosey Stoy, and Tim Droney. He trained in various places around the world, including Havana, Cuba. Ritchey later worked from Armstrong until he retired in 1960. He died 9 January 1983 in Lancaster.

Date Range: 1916, 1918, 1983

Year Range From: 1916

Year Range To: 1983

Date of Accumulation: 1916-1983

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Adams, Billy; Austin, Richard L.; Berger, Billy; Black, Bill; Britt, Monte; Brown, Madison; Donan, Tommy; Droney, Tim; Ferguson, Danny; Franklin, Willie; Greiner, Johnny; Hensel, Harry H.; Houck, Leo; Passmore, E. Pusey; Putt, Allen; Rieker, Charles A.; Ritchey, Julius J. "Jule"; Taylor, Buck; Wilson, Billy; Wright, K. O.

Subjects: Boxing

Search Terms: Banks; Boxing; Cabbage Hill; Eighth Ward Baseball Team; Eighth Ward Theater; Finding aids; Lancaster Athletic Club; Liberty Loans; Manuscript groups; Menus; Prince Street Hall; Pugilism; Restaurants; Rieker Star Brewery; Sports; Washington Bar and Café

Extent: 1 folder

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0913

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: Johnny Hauck Collection (MG0063); Johnny Hauck Photograph Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Jule Ritchey Collection (MG0913), Folder #, (or Object ID), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. URL if applicable. Date accessed (day, month, year).

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Accession Number: Unknown.MG0913

Other Numbers: MG-913

Classification: MG0913

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Transferred from Boxing Information File, 13 May 2003. Transferred from Document Collection, Box 32, Folder 9, Items 1-7, 13 April 2022.