The Wolcott House Museum Guild, in conjunction with the Maumee Branch of the Lucas County Public Library, will sponsor, “An Evening with John Pray, Esquire: The Founder of Waterville,” at 501 River Road, on Thursday, March 30, at 10 a.m. It will be presented by Jim Conrad, Waterville Historical Society president, as a living historian.

Born in Rhode Island, Mr. Pray (1783-1872) moved to the Maumee …