1885 - Soldiers monument unveiled in Fremont at Fort Stephenson Park. 1908 - The new Secor Hotel in downtown Toledo opens for its first guests. The new hotel has 304 rooms, many with private bathrooms. It features a spacious new lobby with green and gold decor, a European dining room finished in Louis XIV style and large pillars in the dining area wrapped in grapevines laden with ripe white and black grapes. 1915 - Ohio Oil Company is formed to produce petroleum products from the oil being recovered in Northwest Ohio. 1916 - A sick camel given to the city of Toledo Zoo by Barnum and Bailey Circus dies an hour later after it is given a cold bottle of beer to drink by a city veterinarian.