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241	Title:	Connecticut School Fund Managers Record Books
	Creator:	Connecticut School Fund Managers
	Dates:	1801-1810
	Abstract:	The state of Connecticut created a school fund from the proceeds of the sale of the state's Western Reserve land to the Connecticut Land Company in 1795. This company, a syndicate of 35 purchasing groups representing 58 individuals, paid $1.2 million on credit, with each purchasing group issuing personal securities. The Connecticut General Assembly empowered the school fund managers to take mortgages on lands in the Reserve as collateral security on personal bonds to the fund. Due to poor planning and company mismanagement, resale of Reserve lands was slow and few of the original proprietors made profits. An 1810 report on the school fund showed that $162,533 of interest on the company's debt was unpaid and that the collateral of the original debt was not safe. The school fund was managed throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and by 1957 had earned over $17 million since its founding in 1795. The collection consists of reports of the "Subscribers managers of the School Fund" empowered by the Connecticut General Assembly in 1800 to manage the Connecticut school funds produced from the sale of the Western Reserve lands. The collection consists of two volumes (1801-1803 and 1807-1810) of copies of regulations for the disposition of bonds, including account listings of bonds by number and original bondholder, the amount and location of lands placed as collateral security for the bonds, and listings of bond transfers and delinquent interest payments due. John Treadwell, Jonathan Brace, Hezekiah Ripley, and Andrew Kingsbury were managers of the fund. Included is a report by the commissioner of the school fund in 1810.
	Call #:	MS 0800
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Connecticut. School Fund Managers. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| School lands -- Connecticut. \| Public land sales -- Connecticut. \| Land tenure -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real estate investment -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- Finance. \| Bonds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Mortgage bonds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Education -- Connecticut -- Finance. \| Connecticut -- Public lands. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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242	Title:	Connecticut Land Company Records
	Creator:	Connecticut Land Company
	Dates:	1795-1817
	Abstract:	The collection consists of covenants, bonds, articles of agreement, and indentures involving the directors of the Connecticut Land Company and its shareholders (1795-1796); financial accounts and receipts (1796-1807); proceedings of the company and the drawings through which the company's land holdings were divided up among its shareholders (1798-1817); and bids and contracts relating to the cutting of a road through the Western Reserve in 1798.
	Call #:	MS 0802
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Connecticut Land Company. \| Land companies -- United States. \| Real property -- Ohio. \| Roads -- Ohio -- Design and construction. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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243	Title:	Severance Family Papers
	Creator:	Severance Family
	Dates:	1826-1843
	Abstract:	Members of the Severance family were prominent bankers and industrialists in Cleveland, Ohio. Solon L. Severance was the son of Solomon Lewis and Mary Long Severance and the grandson of Dr. David Long, Cleveland's first physician. Severance organized the Euclid Ave. Natl. Bank, which later became the First Natl. Bank. One of the most notable members of the Severance family was John Long Severance (1863-1936) who worked for the Standard Oil Co. and the Cleveland Linseed Oil Co., a pioneer paint and varnish industry. Severance was president of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Musical Arts Assoc., and in 1929 gave Cleveland the funds to build Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra. Severance Center (Cleveland Heights), Ohio's first indoor shopping mall, was built on the site of John Long Severance's 161-acre estate "Longwood". The collection consists of seven volumes of autographs, poetry, and notes, including five autograph albums belonging to members of the Severance family, a book of autographs and poems of Mary Long Severance, 1827-1843, and a notebook of Solon L. Severance, 1840s.
	Call #:	MS 0805
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Severance family. \| Autograph albums -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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244	Title:	John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder Diaries
	Creator:	Heckewelder, John gottlieb Ernestus
	Dates:	1786-1789
	Abstract:	John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) was a Moravian missionary who worked to Christianize Indians in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Heckewelder, David Zeisberger, and Christian Delaware Indians migrated from Pennsylvania to the Ohio territory and laid out Schoenbrunn ("Beautiful Spring") in 1772 along the Tuscarawas River. They also founded Gnadenhutten ("Tents of Grace") further downstream, where nearly 100 Christian Indians were murdered by whites in 1782. The collection consists of a diary kept while journeying with Sarah and Anna Heckewelder from the "Cayahoga river" to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 5-Nov.ember 15, 1786; diary kept while journeying with Abraham Steiner from Bethlehem to Pettiquotting near the Huron River and Lake Erie, and back to Bethlehem, April 17-June 20, 1789; and a church history of the Moravians, undated.
	Call #:	MS 0813
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. \| Moravians -- Ohio. \| Missionaries -- United States -- Diaries. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Moravian Church -- United States -- History. \| Ohio -- Description and travel. \| Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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245	Title:	William H. Eckman Papers
	Creator:	Eckman, William H.
	Dates:	1865-1885
	Abstract:	William H. Eckman was probably a member of the Cleveland Art Club, formed in 1876 by Archibald M. Willard, the celebrated painter of The Spirit of '76, the most popular painting of The Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. Primarily a group of young artists, the Art Club (also known as the Old Bohemians) provided Cleveland with its first nucleus of notable artists, most of them the sons of German immigrants. The members met at Willard's studio in the Union Natl. Bank Bldg. to discuss art and draw from live models, and club members fostered the Cleveland Art School, which operated out of the clubrooms until 1868. Frederick Carl Gottwald, the dean of Cleveland painters and a long-time instructor at the Cleveland School of Art (later the Cleveland Institute of Art), founded the Art Club along with Willard in 1876. George Grossman later left Cleveland to found a New York City artists colony, and Daniel Wehrschmidt eventually taught and painted in Bushey, near London. The collection consists of a journal (1870) containing brief notes on Eckman's daily activities, scrapbook containing drawings, sketches, and watercolors by members of the Cleveland Art Club, and other papers. Persons represented in the scrapbook include Otto H. Backer, George P. Bradley, William H. Eckman, George Grossman, George C. Groll, Daniel A. Wehrschmidt, Sion L. Wenban, and Archibald M. Willard. Includes manuscripts on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
	Call #:	MS 0820
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Eckman, William H. \| Willard, Archibald M., 1836-1918. \| Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination. \| Artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Drawing -- 19th century -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Watercolor painting -- 19th century -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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246	Title:	Freeman Harlow Morse Papers
	Creator:	Morse, Freeman Harlow
	Dates:	1848-1888
	Abstract:	Freeman Harlow Morse (1807-1891) was a state legislator, United States Representative from Maine, and United States consul in London. The collection consists of correspondence from Charles Francis Adams, John Bigelow, James D. Bulloch, and William Pitt Fessenden; copies of affidavits made by seamen aboard the U. S. S. Kearsarge and the C. S. S. Alabama, June 19, 1864, and a printed letter (1888) from Morse to W. L. Putnam of Portland, Maine, concerning Morse's claim of $38,189 against the United States.
	Call #:	MS 0823
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Morse, Freeman Harlow, 1807-1891. \| Alabama (Confederate cruiser) \| Consuls -- United States -- Correspondence. \| United States -- Diplomatic and consular service -- Great Britain. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
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247	Title:	Frederick Kinsman Papers
	Creator:	Kinsman, Frederick
	Dates:	1854-1877
	Abstract:	Frederick Kinsman (1807-1877) was Director of the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad. The collection consists of general correspondence (1866-1877) and accounts, agreements, and mortgage bond receipts (1854-1867), relating to the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad. Includes references to Dudley Baldwin, Reuben Hitchcock, Jacob Perkins, Charles L. Rhodes, Charles Smith, David Tod, directors of the railroad.
	Call #:	MS 0825
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Kinsman, Frederick, 1807-1877. \| Baldwin, Dudley. \| Hitchcock, Reuben, 1806-1883. \| Perkins, Jacob, 1821-1859. \| Rhodes, Charles L. \| Smith, Charles. \| Tod, David, 1805-1868. \| Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad. \| Railroad companies -- United States -- Management. \| Railroads -- United States -- Management.
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248	Title:	Calvin Pease Papers
	Creator:	Pease, Calvin
	Dates:	1798-1841
	Abstract:	Calvin Pease (1776-1839) was a lawyer, legislator and judge, of Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Pease came to the Western Reserve from Connecticut in 1800. He was admitted to the bar and was appointed the first clerk of the court of quarter sessions, a position he held until 1803. He served as judge of the Third Circuit, Court of Common Pleas (1803-1810), and justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1816-1830). Pease also served as a tax collector, primarily in Trumbull County, from 1801-1819. He served in the Ohio state legislature from Trumbull County, and also was the official agent for the U.S. postmaster-general in northeastern Ohio. He was a delegate to the canal convention meeting in Warren in 1833. Pease continued the private practice of law until his death at Warren in 1839. The collection consists of correspondence; personal papers including land records, tax records, bank notes and accounts; business papers including bills, receipts, agreements, and deeds; field notes and land records; and legal documents from the court.
	Call #:	MS 0827
	Extent:	1.40 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Pease, Calvin, 1776-1839. \| Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. \| Western Reserve Bank of Warren, Ohio. \| Judges -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| Lawyers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property tax -- Ohio -- Trumbull County. \| Postal service -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Court records -- Ohio. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Warren. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Trumbull County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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249	Title:	Caleb Emerson Family Papers
	Creator:	Emerson, Caleb Family
	Dates:	1795-1905
	Abstract:	Caleb Emerson was a Marietta, Ohio lawyer, journalist and abolitionist, and co-founder of the Marietta Branch of the Washington Benevolent Society. He married Mary Dana, the daughter of an early settler of Washington County. Their son, George Dana, was a captain in the 1st Michigan Engineers during the Civil War. Their son-in-law, William D. Bailey was Treasurer of Warren Township, Ohio. The collection consists of personal and business correspondence; legal papers, financial papers (receipts and accounts); historical, political, and biographical sketches; public letters and addresses; notes and articles on slavery, abolition, religion, and temperance; minutes and journals of the Washington Benevolent Society; civic records of Warren Township; and original poetry.
	Call #:	MS 0830
	Extent:	1.75 linear feet (4 containers and 3 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Emerson family. \| Emerson, Caleb, 1779-1853. \| United States. Army. Michigan Engineers Regiment, 1st (1862-1865) \| Washington Benevolent Society. \| Soldiers -- Michigan. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Washington County. \| Antislavery movements -- United States. \| Abolitionists -- Ohio -- Marietta. \| Temperance. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Washington County. \| Northwest, Old -- History -- 1775-1865. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| Marietta (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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250	Title:	Wayne, Medina & Cuyahoga Turnpike Road Company Records
	Creator:	Wayne, Medina & Cuyahoga Turnpike Road Company
	Dates:	1824-1851
	Abstract:	The Wayne, Medina & Cuyahoga Turnpike was the second toll road after the Wooster Turnpike along what is now Pearl Road (Rt. 42) in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It ceased operations ca. 1852, when a railroad built a depot in Berea, which diverted the traffic to it. Toll roads were once common in the county as a means of advancing transportation for commodity goods and services to the large market centers. The collection consists of lists of subscribers, their addresses, and number of shares bought (1824), and accounts of tolls collected and receipts (1829-1851).
	Call #:	MS 0831
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Wayne, Medina & Cuyahoga Turnpike Road Company. \| Roads -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Toll roads -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County.
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251	Title:	Mentor Library Company Records
	Creator:	Mentor Library Company
	Dates:	1820-1850
	Abstract:	The Mentor Library Company was a book-lending company founded in 1819 in Mentor, Ohio. It dissolved in 1850. The collection consists of bylaws (1820), and account records (1826-1850).
	Call #:	MS 0832
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 volume)
	Subjects:	Mentor Library Company (Mentor, Ohio) \| Libraries -- Ohio -- Mentor.
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252	Title:	Ohio General Assembly, Investigating Committee Journal
	Creator:	Ohio General Assembly, Investigating Committee
	Dates:	1836
	Abstract:	The collection consists of a journal of the proceedings (May 18-December 7, 1836) of the examination of the books and vouchers of the canal commissioner and of the canal fund commissioners as ordered by the Ohio General Assembly.
	Call #:	MS 0833
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Ohio. General Assembly. Investigating Committee. \| Ohio. Board of Canal Commissioners. \| Ohio. Board of Canal Fund Commissioners. \| Canals -- Ohio -- History. \| Canals -- Ohio. \| Canals -- Ohio -- Finance. \| Governmental investigations -- Ohio.
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253	Title:	Asa Coleman Letters
	Creator:	Colman, Asa
	Dates:	1811-1818
	Abstract:	Asa Coleman was a resident of Troy, Ohio. He was elected as a representative to the Ohio state legislature in 1816. The collection consists of letters from Asa Coleman to his father, Dr. Asaph Coleman, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, dated: Troy, Miami County, Ohio, December 6, 1811-May 24, 1818; and a letter from Julius Coleman to his father, Asaph Coleman, Glastonbury, Connecticut, dated: Troy, March 4, 1817.
	Call #:	MS 0843
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Coleman, Asa. \| Troy (Ohio) -- Social life and customs.
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254	Title:	Doolittle Family Account Books
	Creator:	Doolittle Family
	Dates:	1797-1837
	Abstract:	The collection consists of account books of Eunice, Daniel, John, Oliver, and Seth Doolittle.
	Call #:	MS 0844
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Doolittle family. \| Account books.
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255	Title:	Jeremiah Kinsman and Roswell Adams Papers
	Creator:	Kinsman, Jermiah and Adams, Roswell
	Dates:	1804-1851
	Abstract:	Jeremiah Kinsman was a resident of Plainfield, Connecticut Roswell Adams was a resident of Lisbon, Connecticut. The collection consists of letters and account statements (1825-1851) addressed to Kinsman and Adams from Douglas Putnam, land agent of Marietta, Ohio; letters (1804-1807) from Kinsman's brother, John Kinsman, founder of Kinsman, Ohio; and surveys of the land of Robert Kinsman.
	Call #:	MS 0846
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Kinsman, Jeremiah. \| Adams, Roswell. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Marietta. \| Marietta (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Kinsman (Ohio : Trumbull County) -- History -- Sources.
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256	Title:	C. M. Eldredge Journal
	Creator:	Eldredge, C. M.
	Dates:	1833
	Abstract:	The collection consists of a journal kept by Tolland, Connecticut, resident C. M. Eldredge on a "tour North, visiting Montreal & Quebec," containing Eldredge's observations on these two cities and on other towns in Canada, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
	Call #:	MS 0859
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Eldredge, C. M. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Montreal (Quebec) -- Description. \| Quebec (Quebec) -- Description. \| Canada -- Description and travel -- 1763-1867. \| Massachusetts -- Description and travel. \| Vermont -- Description and travel.
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257	Title:	William Eldredge Papers
	Creator:	Eldredge, William
	Dates:	1798-1832
	Abstract:	William Eldredge was a merchant of New London, Connecticut, and land owner in Huron County, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence and travel journals, together with deeds, lists of proprietors, and lists of land for sale in the towns of Eldredge and Huron, Huron County, Ohio. Correspondents include John Walworth of Cleveland, Ohio.
	Call #:	MS 0870
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Eldredge, William. \| Walworth, John, 1765-1812. \| Merchants -- Connecticut -- Correspondence. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Huron County. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Huron County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Huron County. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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258	Title:	Haskell Golf Ball Company Records
	Creator:	Haskell Golf Ball Company
	Dates:	1901-1917
	Abstract:	The Haskell Golf Ball Company was founded by Coburn Haskell Work, who, with Bertram G. Work, patented an improved rubber-wound core for golf balls. The collection consists of a record of proceedings, minutes of meetings, financial statements, a journal and ledger book, incorporation documents, and certificate of dissolution.
	Call #:	MS 0879
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Haskell Golf Ball Company (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Golf equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Golf balls.
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259	Title:	Meigs Creek Baptist Association, Southeastern Ohio, Records
	Creator:	Meigs Creek Baptist Association
	Dates:	1826-1836
	Abstract:	The Meigs Creek Baptist Association Records consist of minutes of 11 annual meetings, including reports on the contributions of member churches, and on other church activities held in various counties in southeastern Ohio.
	Call #:	MS 0880
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Meigs Creek Baptist Association (Ohio) \| Baptist associations -- Ohio. \| Baptists -- Ohio -- Government. \| Baptists -- Ohio -- Meigs Creek.
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260	Title:	Huron Baptist Association Records
	Creator:	Huron Baptist Association
	Dates:	1822-1877
	Abstract:	The collection consists of minutes of meetings, statistics, contribution tables, and lists of pastors, delegates and clerks of the Huron Baptist Association of Huron County, Ohio.
	Call #:	MS 0881
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Huron Baptist Association (Huron County, Ohio) \| Baptist associations -- Ohio -- Huron County. \| Baptists -- Ohio -- Huron County.
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