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OUR WEDDING day
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Evening at a Glance
The Day
July 25, 2026
Dinner Time
5:30 PM
The Location
Graze Restaurant, 1 South Pinckney St, Madison, WI 53703
Local Legends & Innovations of Ohio
Ermal Fraze & Soda Tabs
Ermal Fraze, a longtime Kettering resident, invented the pull-tab beverage can in 1959 after showing up to a picnic without a bottle opener. Frustrated, he came up with the idea for a can that could be opened by pulling a built-in tab.
Birthplace of Aviation
Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright developed the ideas and engineering that made powered flight possible while working in their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio. Their hands-on experimentation, problem-solving, and craftsmanship in that bike shop laid the foundation for modern aviation.
The Traffic Stop Light
Garrett Morgan, an African American inventor from Cleveland, created one of the earliest three-position traffic signals, adding a “caution” phase that helped prevent crashes at busy intersections. His design became a key step toward the modern red-yellow-green traffic light system used around the world today.
NCR (National Cash Register)
The first successful mechanical cash register was developed in Dayton, Ohio, in 1879 by saloon owner James Ritty, who wanted a way to stop employees from skimming cash. His invention, nicknamed the “Incorruptible Cashier,” later evolved when the company he started was purchased and improved into what became the National Cash Register (NCR) Company, headquartered in Dayton.
LexisNexis
LexisNexis has roots in Ohio—its major U.S. operations developed in the Dayton area through its connection to Mead Data Central, which pioneered digital legal research tools. What started as a way to make legal documents easier to search evolved into one of the world’s most powerful databases for legal, business, and risk information used by lawyers, journalists, and investigators around the globe.
First Professional Baseball Team
The roots of the Cincinnati Reds go back to the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, who are widely recognized as the first fully professional baseball team in history. That means they were the first team to openly pay all of their players a salary, helping launch professional baseball as we know it today—and cementing Cincinnati’s place in baseball history.