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1Title:  George and Margaret Knowles Papers     
 Creator:  Knowles, George and Margaret 
 Dates:  1870-1974 
 Abstract:  George Knowles was a Cleveland, Ohio, patent attorney who served as assistant executive in charge of patents in the Engineering Department of Materiel Command at Wright Field Air Corps Base (Dayton, Ohio) during World War II. Margaret Knowles was his wife. The collection consists primarily of correspondence, organizational materials, journals, and military files. The collection pertains primarily to George Knowles' military experience, involvement with patents, and organizational activities with the Cleveland Patent Law Association, Exchange Club of Euclid and the Wildwood Yacht Club. Included is a small amount of material relating to Knowles' wife, Margaret, and his nephew, Myles Knowles. 
 Call #:  MS 4447 
 Extent:  0.60 linear feet (2 containers) 
 Subjects:  Knowles, George H. 1909-1965. | Knowles, Margaret Keal. | United States. Army Air Forces -- Diaries. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States. | Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries. | Patents -- United States. | Evidence, Expert -- United States. | Patent and government-developed inventions -- United States.
 
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2Title:  Russell Cartwright Stroup Papers     
 Creator:  Stroup, Russell Cartwright 
 Dates:  1942-1970 
 Abstract:  Russell Cartwright Stroup was a Methodist minister and later a Presbyterian minister who spent his early years in East Cleveland, Ohio. He was the son of Ner Wallace Stroup and Emma Cartwright Stroup. In 1914, his father was killed and his mother crippled in a trolley accident, and in 1918 Emma Stroup moved with her three children to California. Russell Stroup attended Stanford University and Drew Theological Seminary. He served two Methodist churches in California from 1927-1934. He moved to Virginia with his mother and brother in 1934, and served as the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. Although a pacifist, he enlisted in the United States Army in World War II, serving as a chaplain in the South Pacific. In 1947 he married Louis Wells Baker. He was pastor of Georgetown Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. 1950-1970, and died in 1977. His nephew, Richard Cartwright Austin, edited a book based on Stroup's letters, entitled Letters from the Pacific: a Combat Chaplain in World War II. Austin is the great-grandson of the founder of the Cleveland, Ohio, firm, the Austin Company. The collection consists of certificates, a diary, envelopes, letters, newspaper and Congressional Record clippings, programs, publications, and service records related to Russell Cartwright Stroup's World War II service in the South Pacific as an army chaplain. 
 Call #:  MS 4839 
 Extent:  0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Stroup, Russell Cartwright, 1905-1977. | Stroup family. | Austin family. | United States. Army -- Chaplains -- Correspondence. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. | Chaplains, Military -- United States -- Correspondence. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean -- Correspondence. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- United States -- Correspondence. | Methodist Church -- Clergy. | Presbyterian Church -- Clergy.
 
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3Title:  Michael Kowan Family Papers     
 Creator:  Kowan, Michael family 
 Dates:  1942-1987 
 Abstract:  Michael Kowan and his wife, Rachel Howitz Kowan, owned and operated Kay's Book and Magazine Supermarket in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Michael served in World War II and was in England, 1943-1945. The collection consists of family materials, including photograph albums and volumes of Michael's poetry; scrapbooks of Michael and Rachel's travels, particularly to New York City; letters, photographs and articles relating to Kay's Book and Magazine Supermarket; and scrapbooks of souvenirs, photographs and letters relating to Michael's military service and London during World War II, including aerial shots taken in the skies of Great Britain during the war. 
 Call #:  MS 4944 
 Extent:  2.00 linear feet (4 containers) 
 Subjects:  Kowan, Michael. | Kowan, Rachel Howitz. | Howitz, Morris. | Kowan family. | Howitz family. | Kay's Book and Magazine Supermarket. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish soldiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Bookstores -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. | World War, 1939-1945 -- England. | World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London. | Voyages and travels. | Poetry. | Scrapbooks. | New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel. | London (England) -- Description and travel.
 
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