The General Relief Committee Records, 1871-872, consist of correspondence, shipping orders, lists of donors, and receipts relating to the activities of the committee and of its chairman, Gen. James Barnett.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and its charitable and philanthropic activities in the nineteenth century. Those interested in disaster relief efforts in the United States, especially in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, will find this collection useful. Those studying the charitable leadership of James Barnett will find this collection useful. Genealogists might find the donor lists useful.
The collection is arranged by document type and then chronologically.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 151 General Relief Committee Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of the General Relief Committee.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.