http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dcompany%20OR%20business%20OR%20manufacturing%20OR%20corporation;facet-format%3DManuscript%20Collection;facet-format%3DPhotograph%20Collection;f1-format%3DManuscript%20Collection Results for your query: freeformQuery=company OR business OR manufacturing OR corporation;facet-format=Manuscript Collection;facet-format=Photograph Collection;f1-format=Manuscript Collection Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4250.xml The 171st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company E, was an American Civil War regiment mustered in May 7, 1864 and mustered out Aug. 20, 1864. The regiment fought at Kelly's Bridge against General Morgan. The collection consists of four volumes of military ledgers, listing names, descriptions, and rank of the company's men, official and special orders, activities engaged in, and clothing issued during their service. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4250.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1673.xml The 171st Ohio Infantry Regiment was a company commanded by Captain Peter Hitchcock. The regiment, which consisted of several Ohio National Guard units, was organized at Sandusky, Ohio, in May 1864, to serve 100 days. It served guard duty at Johnson's Island and fought Confederate General John H. Morgan's forces in Kentucky during the American Civil War in June, 1864. The collection consists of a roster book, and clothing and ordnance book. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1673.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3456.xml The 187th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an army regiment organized at Camp Chase, Ohio, on March 2, 1865. It was ordered to Georgia where it performed provost duty at Macon until it was mustered out on January 20, 1866. The collection consists of volunteer description lists and accounts of pay and clothing for Company A. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3456.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1628.xml The 19th Ohio Infantry Regiment Records, 1861-1864, consist of a roll book kept by Captain Solomon J. Firestone during the American Civil War. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1628.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3355.xml A. A. McCaslin lived in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, Florence T. McCaslin, a former student of Western Reserve University. The collection consists of financial receipts from Cleveland businesses, and several checks signed by and letters addressed to Mrs. McCaslin. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3355.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0680.xml Aaron Olmsted was an original shareholder of the Connecticut Land Company and early settler of the Western Reserve (Ohio). He owned and sold off all the land in Franklin Township, Portage County, Ohio. He also founded Poland, Ohio, and gave his name to North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls, and Olmsted Township, three suburbs of Cleveland. The collection consists of notes taken during a survey of Franklin Township, Portage County, Ohio, which commenced in 1803. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0680.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4787.xml Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963) was the rabbi at The Temple, Cleveland, Ohio, and prominent leader of the Zionist movement for a Jewish homeland. The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, sermons, writings, speaking engagements files, scrapbooks and miscellaneous personal material. The bulk of the material is in the correspondence series and includes minutes, publications, reports, financial statements and confidential notes relating to Rabbi Silver's participation in numerous local and national organizations, especially Zionist groups. Important material relating to the American Zionist Emergency Council, the Zionist Organization of America, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the United Jewish Appeal, United Palestine Appeal and the American Zionist Policy Committee is found in the collection. Also included is significant material relating to Cleveland Jewish organizations and other civic groups, such as The Temple (Temple-Tifereth Israel), Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education,... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4787.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4548.xml Abe M. Luntz was a Cleveland and Canton, Ohio, businessman who ran Luntz Iron and Steel Company. Born in Akron, Ohio, of Polish Jewish immigrant parents, he was raised in Canton where he joined his father's scrap-metal business. Over the years the business expanded into a multi-state corporation. He married Fanny Teplansky in 1916, and in 1940 they moved to Cleveland. Luntz served as president of the Temple-Tifereth Israel in Cleveland from 1950-1960, and supported a wide assortment of civic, cultural, medical, religious, and benevolent groups in Canton and in Cleveland. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and family documents pertaining to Abe M. Luntz and his sons, Robert and William, who were also involved in numerous service organizations. Of particular note are materials pertaining to Abe Luntz's leadership, on the local and regional level, in the National Conference of Christians and Jews. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4548.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5082.xml Abe M. Luntz (1893-1981) was born in Akron, Ohio, on March 6, 1893 of Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Samuel and Rebecca Wolf Luntz. He and his family moved to Canton, Ohio, when he was around 6 years old. He attended public schools in Canton, was very active in sports, and graduated from Canton's Central High School in 1913. After graduation, he went to work for his father's company, the Canton Iron and Metal Company. With his brother Darwin, he founded the Luntz Iron and Steel Company in 1916 due to the growing need for scrap with the onset of World War I. He held several positions in the Luntz Iron and Steel Company before becoming president in 1951. The company became one of the United States' premiere scrap and steel brokerage firms and expanded into Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Kentucky. Abe Luntz married Fanny Teplansky on October 10, 1916. They had five children, Robert, Richard, William, Theodore, and Joan. The family moved to Cleveland in 1939 for business purposes as well as for more varie... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5082.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4985.xml Abe Silverstein (1908-2001) a giant in the field of aerospace engineering and development, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, in 1929, and a Mechanical Engineering professional degree, in 1934, at Rose Polytechnic Institute. Silverstein began his professional career with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in 1929, at the Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. There, he helped design and, later, was placed in charge of the full-scale wind tunnel. In this facility he directed important research that led to increased high-speed performance for most of the United States combat aircraft of World War II. In 1943, he was transferred to the NACA Aircraft and Engine Research Laboratory (later named, NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory) at Cleveland, Ohio. As chief of the Wind Tunnel and Flight Division, Silverstein directed research in propulsion aerodynamics in the Altitude Wind Tunnel. These investigations led to significant im... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4985.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5183.xml The Abeyton Realty Company was created by John D. Rockefeller in 1909 to manage and control his real estate interests throughout the United States. The company was created initially to protect the real estate interests of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York City and then expanded to develop Rockefeller's property interests in New York, Ohio, and elsewhere. The collection consists of construction specifications and contracts for property developed in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, including the homes in the Forest Hill Subdivision and the store, office, and apartment building at the corner of Lee Boulevard and Mayfield Road. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5183.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5137.xml The Abington Foundation (f. 1983) was created by David Knight Ford (1894-1993) and Elizabeth Kingsley Ford (1896-1990) to support organizations, generally in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, dedicated to promoting education, health care, economic independence, and cultural activities. The foundation's grant-making philosophy was devised by Mr. Ford and his four sons who comprised the original board of trustees. Each funding area had a particular focus. The educational focus is pre-primary through higher education, and thus the foundation has supported a vast array of educational institutions and programs such as Early Childhood Options of University City, museums (e.g. Cleveland Museum of Natural History), historical societies (e.g. Moreland Hills Historical Society, and the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad) and universities, including Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University Foundation, Inc. The foundation's healthcare focus is on geriatrics and nursing with grants going to the Eliza Bryant Center... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5137.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5299.xml The Abington Foundation (f. 1983) was created by David Knight Ford (1894-1993) and Elizabeth Kingsley Ford (1896-1990) to support organizations, generally in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, dedicated to promoting education, health care, economic independence, and cultural activities. The foundation's grant-making philosophy was devised by Mr. Ford and his four sons who comprised the original board of trustees. Each funding area had a particular focus. The educational focus is pre-primary through higher education, and thus the foundation has supported a vast array of educational institutions and programs such as Early Childhood Options of University City, museums (e.g. Cleveland Museum of Natural History), historical societies (e.g. Moreland Hills Historical Society, and the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad) and universities, including Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University Foundation, Inc. The foundation's healthcare focus is on geriatrics and nursing with grants going to the Eliza Bryant Center... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5299.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1270.xml Abraham Skinner (1755-1826) was a merchant, lawyer and land agent of East Hartford, Connecticut, and of New Market, Ohio; and co-founder of Grandon (now Fairport), Ohio. The collection consists of business and legal correspondence, as well as land deeds, financial accounts, estate, and other legal papers relating primarily to land transactions in and around Painesville, Ohio, especially involving Skinner's service as counsel to Henry Champion. Includes material on road surveying, horse breeding and tavern keeping. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1270.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4056.xml Abraham Stern was a Cleveland, Ohio, born philanthropist and financier. He joined Moses, Levy and Co., a fancy goods and toy store, in 1868. It became Levy and Stearn in 1872 and Stearn and Co., ca. 1905. Stearn was a director of the Society for Savings, the American Savings Bank and other institutions. He was a trustee of the Foundation of Jewish Charities and of the Jewish Orphan Asylum. He married Bertha Rohrheimer in 1876. The collection consists of a financial journal, lists of expenses, an advertisement, the marriage contract of Abraham Stearn and Betha Rohrheimer (1876) and a letter book detailing Stearn's stocks, investments, and his interest in the National Acme Manufacturing Co. Other topics include Levy and Stearn, charitable organizations and family affairs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4056.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5316.xml The Achievement Centers for Children is a non-profit organization based in the Cleveland, Ohio, area helping to provide programs, services, and support to children with a wide array of physical, emotional, neurological, or developmental disabilities. It was founded as the Society for Crippled Children of Cuyahoga County on July 7, 1940. It was an offshoot of the Society for Crippled Children founded by Edgar Allen in Elyria, Ohio in 1919. The founders of the Cuyahoga County society included William B. Townsend, Tris Speaker, George Gund, and Frederick T. McGuire. The main goals of the Society for Crippled Children were to address needs of children with polio and cardiac disorders and to provide vocational training and recreational opportunities. The collection consists of advertisements, brochures, certificates, correspondence, flyers, forms, inventories, lists, magazine articles and clippings, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, press releases, programs, sc... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5316.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4961.xml The collection consists of firsthand accounts of a group of twenty-five women who were, or had been, leaders in the Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish community. The women were selected by contemporary female Jewish leaders, and the project was funded by the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4961.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4507.xml The Acme-Cleveland Corporation was formed In Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger in 1968 of Cleveland Twist Drill Company, a manufacturer of high-speed drills and metal cutting tools, and the National Acme Company, a manufacturer of automatic multiple-spindle lathes and screw machines. Cleveland Twist Drill was founded in 1876 by Jacob D. Cox II, son of a Civil War general and former governor of Ohio. The company became a leader in the manufacture of superior-grade high-speed twist drills and pioneered the development of steels made of molybdenum as a substitute for tungsten. By 1936 it was the world's largest maker of high-speed drills and reamers, flourishing under Jacob D. Cox, Jr., who pioneered profit-sharing and authored two books on wage theory. National Acme originated as the Acme Screw Machine Company in 1895, makers of the first commercially successful automatic multiple-spindle screw manufacturing machine. Acme Screw merged with National Manufacturing Co. in 1901 to become National Acme Manufacturing Co... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4507.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5378.xml The Acme-Cleveland Corporation was formed In Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger in 1968 of Cleveland Twist Drill Company, a manufacturer of high-speed drills and metal cutting tools, and the National Acme Company, a manufacturer of automatic multiple-spindle lathes and screw machines. Cleveland Twist Drill was founded in 1876 by Jacob D. Cox II, son of a Civil War general and former governor of Ohio, and Francis F. Prentiss. The company became a leader in the manufacture of superior-grade high-speed twist drills. By 1936 it was the world's largest maker of high-speed drills and reamers, flourishing under Jacob D. Cox, Jr., who pioneered profit-sharing and authored two books on wage theory. National Acme originated in Hartford, Connecticut, as the Acme Screw Machine Company in 1895, makers of the first commercially successful automatic multiple-spindle screw manufacturing machine. Acme Screw merged with National Manufacturing Co. in 1901 to become National Acme Manufacturing Company, which purchased the Windsor M... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5378.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3316.xml Ada Watterson Yerkes was related to three families who settled early in the Western Reserve. The Harper family came from New York in 1798 and founded Harpersfield, Ohio. The Norton family came from New York before 1839 when Ada Yerkes maternal grandparents were married in Harpersfield. The Watterson family came from England in 1826 and settled in Warrensville, Ohio. Various family members served in the Civil War and were active in a number of business ventures, including the Gardner Gun Company of London, England and the Ogleby-Norton Company of Cleveland. The collection consists of correspondence, receipts, insurance policies, legal papers, genealogical material, drafts of a family history, diaries and notebooks relating to the Harper, Norton and Watterson families. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3316.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3353.xml Adelaide Rudolph (1858-1953) was a niece of President and Mrs. James A. Garfield who was a teacher and librarian at Columbia University. After her retirement, she worked on a history of Hiram, Ohio, at the Cleveland Public Library. Her father, Joseph Rudolph, was a soldier in Company A, 23rd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the American Civil War. The collection consists of letters, a journal, genealogical data, and newspaper clippings of the Garfield and Rudolph families. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3353.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2980.xml Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869-1950) was a musical impresario and founder and manager of the Cleveland Orchestra. Her grandparents were leaders in various charitable and religious institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. the collection consists of correspondence, land deeds, genealogical data, poems, music programs, religious tracts, circulars, broadsides, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, legal documents, journal, diary, account books, and other papers, relating to the activities of Mrs. Hughes, her parents, Loren and Ellen Prentiss, and her maternal grandparents, Benjamin and Rebecca Rouse. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2980.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0883.xml The collection consists of general, departmental, and special orders of the United States Army, Eastern Division, Company D, 4th Artillery Regiment. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0883.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5208.xml Adolph Wunderlich (ca. 1869-1942) was an inventor, engineer, and businessman who was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, as a child. He held patents for inventions and improvements on electric arc lamps, hoisting and lowering mechanisms, suspension devices for electric arc lamps, winches, lubricating devices, and caulking devices. He lived in England from 1898-1912 where he installed London's first street lights and headed his own electrical firm. He founded the Western Reserve Manufacturing Works in Cleveland in 1914. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, apprenticeship records, catalogs, certificates, correspondence, extracts, financial documents, instructions, legal documents, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, patents, a scorecard, and a will. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5208.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5487.xml The African American Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of African Americans, Cleveland, Ohio, and Northeast Ohio. The collection consists of advertisements, articles, audiovisual material, autobiographies, biographical sketches, certificates, church bulletins, correspondence, fliers, genealogies, histories, letters, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, maps, meeting material, membership cards, notes, pamphlets, papers, photographs, poems, postcards, a poster, program and souvenir books, reports, scrapbooks, statistics, speeches, transcripts, and other material. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5487.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 4939.xml Henry "Hank" LoConti, started the Agora in 1966 and it operated primarily as a dance club for a number of years. The organization grew and evolved over the 1970s and 1980s to focus more on concerts and it became a prominent player in the world of professional music, booking acts that revitalized the rock'n'roll genre and created the core for progressive rock. In 2023, The Agora continued to put on concerts that highlight new musical trends, young and upcoming touring acts, and local bands. This collection consists of advertisements, announcements, contracts, guest lists, financials, office files, performer files, photographs, press releases, newspaper and magazine articles, venues and event files. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 4939.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3976.xml Agudath B'nai Israel is a conservative congregation founded in 1925 by the merger of Agudath Achim and Beth Israel, two existing Jewish congregations in Lorain, Ohio, and a B'nai Bʻrith group about to establish a third congregation. A new temple was built to house the congregation and also to serve as a center for the Lorain Jewish community. In 1983 membership accounted for over ninety percent of Lorain's Jewish population. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, membership ledgers, due cards, financial statements and ledgers, legal documents, programs, publication, and drawings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3976.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3971.xml The AHS foundation was established in 1968, by Leland and Helen Schubert, to provide financial aid to educational, religious and health organizations, primarily in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. The collection consists of correspondence and business records of 263 organizations which received foundation money, and AHS Foundation annual reports, ten-year report, grant rejection and moratorium letters, and an alphabetical list of grantees. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3971.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5173.xml The AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland is a non-profit organization that strives to provide a compassionate and collaborative response to the needs of people infected, affected, and at risk of HIV/AIDS. It provides direct services, education, and advocacy training to consumers, funders, social service professionals, volunteers, and government agencies throughout Cleveland and northeast Ohio. The collection consists primarily of advertisements, agendas, agreements, annual reports, articles, articles of incorporation, brochures, budgets, bylaws, charts, contracts, correspondence, educational literature, financial records, flyers, forms, grant files, ledgers, licenses, lists, manuals, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, play scripts, press releases, programs, publicity material, reports, research, resource materials, rosters, and statistics, and tax records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5173.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4105.xml The Air Foundation was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1945 to award scholarships to aeronautical engineering students and prizes to winners of air races. It also organized the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio (1946-1949) and subsequent air shows there, and sponsored the annual National Plane and Space Model Show. It was dissolved in 1970. The collection consists of minutes, articles of incorporation, correspondence, financial records, reports, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4105.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5187.xml The Ajax Manufacturing Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1875 by John Rollin Blakeslee (1843-1906). Ajax manufactured forging equipment and cold drawing equipment for the cold-heading industry. Ajax forging machines were used in the railroad, agricultural, and automotive industries. In 1925, Ajax moved to Euclid, Ohio. The company was family-owned and operated until 1987 when it was sold to the Crawford Group. In 1996, Ajax was again sold, this time to Park-Ohio Industries. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, biographies, bulletins, catalogs, correspondence, histories, lists, manuals, photographs, purchase orders, reprints, and a term paper. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5187.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4825.xml Al Russ was a Cleveland, Ohio, popular music orchestra leader, composer, arranger, string bass player, and producer. His career spanned the 1940s-1990s. In addition to his work as leader of the Al Russ Orchestra, Russ conducted, arranged music, and contracted musicians for performances featuring nationally known artists at the Front Row Theater. He also wrote and arranged music for such nationally known performers as Perry Como and Steve Lawrence, and composed polkas for polka band leader Frank Yankovic. His work as a composer of advertising commercials and jingles for local and national companies included Cleveland's best-known jingle, "Garfield one, two-three, two-three." The collection consists of orchestral and vocal arrangements of popular music, his original compositions, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and Cleveland Federation of Musicians contracts between Russ and hired players. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4825.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4676.xml Albert Arthur Levin was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer and developer of commercial and industrial real estate. A native of Pennsylvania, he moved to Lorain, Ohio, at the age of 10. In 1918, he assumed operation of the family clothing store. After graduation from college in 1934, he became active in Democratic Party politics. He moved to Cleveland and established a law practice in 1938. He later became involved in major real estate developments, including the Marshall and Public Square buildings and the Parmatown and Shoreway shoppong centers. Levin was also a leader in fund drives for the United Jewish Appeal and Bonds for Israel, and was involved in various civic affairs, including serving as foreman of the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury (1962), trustee of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, and co-chair of the national fund drive for Wilberforce University. He married Maxine Goodman in 1945. Maxine Goodman Levin was a civic activist and philanthropist in her own right. Born in Cleveland, she was a descendant o... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4676.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2659.xml Albert Gaillard Hart (1821-1907) was a physician of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, a diary (1864), lectures, reminiscences, land contracts and deeds, certificates, newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly relating to Hart's service as a surgeon for the 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Includes school papers from Western Reserve College, papers relating to land in Clarkesville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and reunions of the Bushnell family. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2659.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4760.xml Albert M. Brown was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Brown became involved in social work in the Cleveland Jewish community, working at the Kinsman branch of the Council Educational Alliance from 1923-1929. After working at a New York City settlement house from 1930-1938, he returned to Cleveland and worked at the National Youth Administration and Bellefaire. In 1942, he became director of the Toledo Jewish Community Center. After returning to Cleveland in 1955, he served as executive director of the Community Temple (Beth Am) until 1963, when he was appointed the founding director of Council Gardens in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a senior adult housing community. During his retirement, he worked part-time as the social director of his own residence, the Concord Apartments in Cleveland Heights. Brown wrote and produced many one-act plays. He was also authored The Camp Wise Story: 1907-1988, published in 1989. The collection consists of certificates, correspondence, programs, newspa... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4760.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3743.xml Albert Pennybacker was a civil rights activist and pastor of Heights Christian Church in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Shaker Heights. The collection consists of correspondence with civil rights workers and organizations, including the Cleveland Board of Education, the League of Women Voters of Shaker Heights, the Welfare Federation, and Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld. Also included are committee minutes and reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and news releases of groups including the Citizens' Commission of Shaker Heights, the Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation, the Emergency Clergy Committee on Civil Rights, Laymen for Civil Rights, and the Ludlow Community Association. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3743.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5442.xml Albert B. Ratner, was born in Cleveland in 1927. Albert married Faye Katz (1931-1978) in 1950 and had two children, Deborah Ratner (b. 1959) and Brian Ratner (b. 1957). Faye was killed in an automobile accident in 1978. Albert later married Audrey Gilbert Pritzker (b. 1928) in 1981. In the 1950s, Albert joined the family business, Forest City Materials, which had been established as a lumber and building materials company back in the 1920s. He continued to serve in numerous positions at Forest City until the company was purchased by Brookfield Asset Management in 2018. Albert has served on the governing boards of numerous local, state, and international business and cultural organizations. His community involvement and philanthropic activities have been widely recognized by organizations and agencies such as Builders Magazine, the Business Hall of Fame of Cleveland, Financial World Magazine, Harvard Business Club, the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, and the United States ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5442.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5452.xml Albert "Al" Stern was born in 1927 in Toronto, Ohio, and grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia with his parents and two brothers. After serving in the Navy at the end of World War II, he attended Indiana University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He moved to Cleveland in 1951 and for several years worked as a sales agent in the door and window industry. He then started his own manufacturers' representative sales firm. Over the next 30 years, Al built A. Stern & Co. into a very successful agency. Al was very active in various peace and justice organizations, ranging from civil rights to integrated housing, anti-nuclear activities, and the anti-war movements. Al and his wife Merle (nicknamed Mickey) also helped found the secular Jewish Sunday School in Cleveland, which evolved into the Jewish Secular Community. Al had a deep emotional attachment to Israel and its survival. For over thirty years, Al was a passionate proponent of peace in the Middle East. He ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5452.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2031.xml Albert Trovillo Siders Barnitz was a colonel, Company G, 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry (later 7th U.S. Cavalry). The collection consists of orders, circulars, muster and pay rolls, quarterly and monthly returns of quartermaster stores, invoices, vouchers, and other papers, dealing primarily with Barnitz's military activities. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2031.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5212.xml Albert Yeomans (1826-1890) was an attorney and probate judge in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio. He was the Captain of Company B of the 125th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. The collection consists of appointment papers, correspondence, election certificates, a journal entry, a list, a muster role, obituaries, pension certificates, reports, speeches, and statements. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5212.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3975.xml Albina Cermak was active in Republican Party politics. She was vice-chairman and secretary of the Cuyahoga County Republican Central and Executive Committees, chairman of the Republican Women's Organization of Cuyahoga County, member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, a Cleveland precinct committeewoman, and a member of the Ohio Federation of Republican Women's Clubs. She was a United States Customs Collector before running unsuccessfully for Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, state senator and Clerk of the Cleveland Municipal Court. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, minutes, rosters, reports and printed matter, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, appointment books and personal correspondence. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3975.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2830.xml Albion Morris Dyer (1858-1912) was a Curator of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of research notes and copies of documents relating to the early history of the Western Reserve, primarily the Connecticut Land Company. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2830.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5182.xml The Alburn Realty Company was created in Mahoning County, Ohio, in 1928 by L. E. Alburn to manage the property inherited by the Alburn family. The company owned property in Boardman and Youngstown, Ohio, that was developed for commercial and residential use. The residential developments included Mill Creek Part, Newport Village, and Forest Glen Estates in Mahoning County. The collection consists of account books, correspondence, deeds, invoices, legal documents, memorada, pamphlets, plat maps, and stock certificates. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5182.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1209.xml Alexander A. Tayor was a resident of Cambridge, Ohio, who served as a Captain of Company H, 122nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. He was taken prisoner during the battle of Winchester, Virginia, on June 15, 1863. The collection consists of autographs of prisoners of war in Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, collected by Taylor. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1209.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3590.xml Alexander Bunts was a Cleveland, Ohio, neurosurgeon, amateur historian, and Trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society. He traced his descent from Virgil C. Taylor, an American Civil War soldier and Cleveland realtor, and from Levi Johnson, an early settler of Cleveland. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, genealogies, autograph books and scrapbooks of Bunts family members, and several monographs collected by Dr. Bunts. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3590.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3230.xml Alexander C. Brown was the Director of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company (1928-1960). the collection consists of a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company honoring Brown upon his retirement. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3230.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5211.xml Alexander Cochran Robinson II (1864-?) was the father of Cleveland, Ohio, architect Alexander Cochran Robinson III (1891-1985). Robinson II was a banker in his family's banking firm Robinson Bros. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The collection consists of travel diaries in the form of letters written by Robinson II and Charles Brown as they traveled on the R. M. S. Laconia to the Philippines, Japan, Java, China, East Indies, Singapore, Egypt, India, and Ceylon from 1922-1923; and a diary kept by Robinson II for his children while on a trip to Algeria, Tunisia, and Italy in 1928. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5211.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3231.xml Alexander Harper, a Revolutionary War officer, brought his family to settle in Ashtabula County, Ohio (then a part of the Western Reserve) in 1798. The settlement was named Harpersfield by the family after their hometown in New York. After Alexander Harper's death in September 1798, his widow Elizabeth Harper was joined in 1799 by Alexander's brother Joseph and by her daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Aaron Wheeler. Elizabeth's children; William, Elizabeth, John A., James A., Alexander, and Robert, all became prominent members of the community. In 1814, the Harpers were among those who organized the Harpersfield Commercial Company. Most prominent of the Harper brothers was Robert, who married Polly Hendry in 1815 and began construction of the family homestead, Shandy Hall. Robert was a lawyer, farmer, businessman, Superintendent of the Public Works at Cunningham Creek, and a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. His nephew, Rice Harper, was also a prominent lawyer and businessman, and was involved ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3231.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4349.xml Alexander Ostrow was an award-winning investigative reporter, working for the Cleveland Press, 1951-1964. He later became a public relations officer and then an administrative aide to Congressman Ron Mottl. His wife, Thelma Swank Ostrow, was an employee counselor for Vultee Aircraft Corporation, developing a counselor training course designed to aid women entering the work force during World War II. She later worked for Cleary Realty in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of biographical material, a diary, and scrapbooks of newspaper articles written by Alexander Ostrow, primarily on Cleveland topics. Also, clippings and speeches of Thelma Ostrow and a 1944 counselor's manual for Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, San Diego. The collection pertains primarily to Al Ostrow's career as a journalist at the Cleveland Press and specifically to his coverage of the Sam Sheppard murder trial, the 1951 concrete "shakedown" of Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson, and the expose of conditions at Cleveland State Ment... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4349.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5080.xml Alexander L. "Sonny" DeMaioribus (1898-1968) was born in the Little Italy neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, and lived there on Coltman Rd. until the late 1930s. He was a bachelor who had four sisters and one brother. DeMaioribus attended Murray Hill School and East High School in Cleveland. In 1917, he became a messenger for the Cleveland Home Brewing Company. By the time the company closed in 1953, he had become its president and chief owner. DeMaioribus' interest in politics prompted him to run for city council in 1925. Despite a loss in that election, support from his fellow Italians in the 19th Ward (Little Italy), got him elected as their councilman in 1927. This made DeMaioribus the first Italian American elected to serve on the city council. DeMaioribus held many positions throughout his career in politics, including Ward Leader (1932-1960), Council President (1934-1942), Chairman of the National Committee (1945), and County Chairman of the Board of Elections (1960). He was a major leader in the Republi... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5080.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3141.xml Alexander Varion (1841 or 1842-1864) was a Union Army officer who served as a corporal, and later 1st Lieutenant, in Company D, 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. The collection consists of letters from Varian to his family while serving with the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia during the Civil War. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3141.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3124.xml Alfred Mewett was the registrar of the Cleveland School of Art (1925-1943) and dean of the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute of Cleveland, Ohio (1930-1953). The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, account books, deeds, newspaper clippings, and other papers reflecting Mewett's interest in the local history and early settlements of the area around Gates Mills, Ohio, in the Western Reserve. The bulk of the collection consists of notes and articles written by Mewett on many historical subjects, including genealogical notes and accounts of interviews with and recollections of old settlers. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3124.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4277.xml Allen E. Cole (1883-1970) was a Cleveland, Ohio, photographer who produced over 50,000 photographs of Cleveland's African American community. Cole opened his first studio in 1922, supplementing his income with commercial work and commission work for eight white-owned studios, and earned prizes and commendations at state and local exhibitions. His photographs were frequently published in The Call and Post. The collection consists of personal correspondence, which includes postcards, greeting cards, and membership cards; business correspondence, which includes bills, receipts, orders, customer lists, address book, advertising, and description of events photographed; and notebooks and appointment books. The collection pertains largely to Cole's photography business, including his struggle to earn a living during the depression. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4277.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3205.xml Allen Trimble (1783-1870) was the Governor of Ohio (1822, 1826-1830) who had served as a colonel in the War of 1812, an Ohio state congressman and senator (1816-1819), and a commissioner of the Canal Fund. His brother, William A., was a United States Senator The collection consists of correspondence, deeds, bonds, wills, receipts, army discharges, surveys, land warrants, petitions, account records and newspaper clippings relating to Governor Trimble and his family. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3205.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1425.xml The Alling & Brother Company were merchants in Twinsburg, Ohio. the collection consists of correspondence, receipts, vouchers, and manufacturers' advertisements received by Francis A. and George H. Alling. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1425.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5373.xml The Alpha Omega Cleveland Alumni Chapter Women's Auxiliary was the Women's Auxiliary of the Alpha Omega Jewish dental fraternity, open to all wives and girlfriends of Alpha Omega fraternity members. The Cleveland branch of the Alpha Omega Women's Auxiliary promoted cultural, social, and philanthropic growth among its members, hosting fundraisers, meetings, parties, and an annual scholastic competition for Jewish dental students at Case Western Reserve University. The collection consists of agendas, board highlights, brochures, bylaws, correspondence, guidelines, lists, minutes, order forms, policies, proposals, receipt forms, reminders, reports, schedules, scrapbooks, scripts, and summaries from the activities of the Women's Auxiliary. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5373.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4086.xml Alta House was established in 1895 as a day care nursery for working mothers in the "Little Italy" neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It quickly grew into a full service community center, offering recreational and social activities as well as social services. The collection consists of board minutes, correspondence, financial records, papers relating to the centers' programs, and records of the Little Italy Development Corporation and the Little Italy Redevelopment Project. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4086.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3658.xml Altenheim is a home for the aged established in 1890 by the Westseite Frauenverein (West Side Women's Society) in Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally open only to aged of German background. The collection consists of minutes and financial records of the Home and the Westseite Frauenverein, and records relating to the Home's residents. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3658.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4121.xml The Altrusa Club of Cleveland, Ohio, is a chapter of the oldest classified service club for executive business and professional women in the U.S. Since its organization in 1921, the Cleveland branch has supported a wide range of charitable and service projects. The collection consists of by-laws, clippings, correspondence, membership materials, rosters, yearbooks, and a scrapbook. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4121.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4496.xml The Alva Bradley Family was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, family active in shipbuilding and the real estate business. Alva Bradley was a partner in the shipbuilding company of Bradley & Cobb, which eventually became Bradley Transportation Company, a prominent member of the Lake Carriers' Association. Alva's son, M.A. (Morris A.) and grandson Alva were part of the company. In 1910, they started the Bradley Realty Company which became the largest holder of real estate in downtown Cleveland. The collection consists of accounting journals, ledgers, letter copy books, and other volumes documenting the financial interests of the Bradley family and their business concerns, especially the Bradley Realty Company. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4496.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5259.xml Amasa Stone, Jr. (1818-11-1883) was a contractor, railroad manager, financier, and philanthropist of Cleveland, Ohio. Collection consists of four bound letter books of correspondence. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5259.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5297.xml The Amateur Music Makers was a network of nonprofessional musicians in Cleveland, Ohio, sponsored by the Cleveland Public Library. Members, many of whom were immigrants, used the network to meet other musicians and to play informally in community orchestras, bands, and chamber groups. The collection consists of correspondence, directories, meeting minutes, and membership lists. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5297.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3499.xml Ambrose Swasey was an engineer and business leader, of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a co-founder of the Warner & Swasey machine tool company. The collection consists of 157 letters of congratulation addressed to Swasey on the 85th anniversary of his birth, from leading business and political figures throughout the U.S. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3499.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4368.xml Amelia Marx (1849-1900) was a Cleveland, Ohio, Jew, the daughter of Feist Marx and the wife of Joseph Strauss. Her three brothers, Charles, Edward and Moses, all served in the Civil War. The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence and miscellaneous documents, including naturalization papers, report cards, business agreements and recipes, all relating to the Marx, Strauss and Hawkins families. The collection is relevant to the study of 19th century American Jews, with special attention to their participation in the Civil War. Included is a letter to Edward Marx that refers to Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination. Another letter, dated 1865, comments on the oil boom near Meadville, Pennsylvania. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4368.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5047.xml The American Civil Liberties Union was founded in 1920 by Roger Baldwin and a group of associates formerly of the National Civil Liberties Bureau. The Cleveland, Ohio, chapter of the union was founded in 1922 and remained active throughout the 1920s and 1930s focusing on cases concerning unionization, Communism, and religious freedom. The chapter closed during World War II, but was revived in 1950 with the advent of McCarthyism. In 1954, the national ACLU recognized the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio as the official affiliate responsible for helping local Ohio chapters coordinate more easily on larger statewide cases and issues. The Cleveland chapter continued to struggle with budget woes and lack of membership following its revival. In the 1950s and 1960s the chapter focused its efforts on political rights; in the 1960s and 1970s the group became concerned with the rights of educators, students, prisoners, the mentally ill, and women. Among other initiatives, the Cleveland chapter completed an extens... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5047.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0371.xml The collection consists of letters (1821-1842) to Robert Stuart, agent of the American Fur Company; papers and letters addressed to Samuel Abbott, notary public in Michilimackinac, Michigan, relating to trade and Indian affairs; shipping bills (1834-1839); and agreements and certificates relating to trade. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0371.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5155.xml American Greetings was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, by Jacob Sapirstein in 1906. Starting out as a seller of Cleveland picture postcard scenes, he later expanded the business to include greeting cards. By 1932, the Sapirstein Card Company began designing and manufacturing its own cards. In 1938, the company changed its name to American Greetings Publishers, and in 1952 to American Greetings Corporation. Joseph Oster was the Vice President of American Greetings in the 1960s. American Greetings printed the official White House Christmas cards for President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965-1967. In gratitude, the White House sent Oster oversize prints of the Christmas cards from those years. The collection consists of three oversize prints of White House Christmas cards. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5155.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4135.xml American Home Publishing was the publisher of Ameriska Domovina, a major Slovene-language daily newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio, which began as Narodna Beseda in 1899. In 1900 it was renamed Nova Domovina. In June, 1908 it became Clevelandska Ameriska, and in 1919 it changed its name to Ameriska Domovina. The collection consists of financial records such as account books, ledger books, daily cashbooks, and order books. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4135.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4120.xml The American Institute of Architects, Cleveland, Ohio, Chapter was founded in the early 1880s as the Cleveland Architectural Club in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1890 it affiliated with AIA, a national professional organization for architects. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, membership information, reports, notices of events, resolutions, memorials to members, essays, addresses, survey questionnaires, newsletters, correspondence, notices from national headquarters, and information from other organizations. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4120.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4750.xml Ameritrust Corporation began in 1894 when The Cleveland Trust Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Trust then assumed the contracts of the Security Safe Deposit and Trust Company, also located in Cleveland, Ohio. Beginning in 1903, Cleveland Trust acquired or merged with several other savings banks, including The Windemere Savings and Trust Company and The Western Reserve Trust Company. Cleveland Trust promoted innovative operating policies and procedures, including the establishment of an advertising department in 1913. It increased its number of branch offices through additional mergers, including Lake Shore Banking and Trust Company and The Garfield Savings Bank. Growth continued during the 1920s with the acquisition of the Pearl Street Savings and Trust Company. Two more banks were acquired in the 1930s; Midland Bank and South Euclid Bank. A new six story office building at East 9th Street and Huron Road was constructed in 1962. An adjacent office tower was completed in 1971. In 1974, CleveTr... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4750.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5149.xml AMIT Women is an organization of orthodox Jewish Zionist women, providing support for poor children in Israel. Throughout the history of the organization AMIT built up a network of vocational schools, homes for children, surrogate family residences and other projects for youth in Israel. In the Cleveland area the organization used to consist of three separate chapters, Ra'anana B'noth, University/Beachwood, and Batya, which eventually merged into one united Greater Cleveland Chapter in 1996. In Cleveland, AMIT was and is a very active part of the Jewish community, organizing numerous fundraising dinners, luncheons, and other events along the Jewish holidays to support both the local Jewish community and to raise money for their numerous projects in Israel. The collection consists of bulletins, newsletters, certificates, correspondence, invitations, member and donor lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, programs of luncheons, dinners, and jubilees, and a script. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5149.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5358.xml AMIT Women (Mizrachi Women's Organization of America, Hebrew acronym for Association of Volunteers for Israel and Torah) was founded at the Mizrachi Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1925 as Mizrachi Women of America (MWoA) and later named AMIT Women in 1983. AMIT Women is an organization of orthodox Jewish Zionist women that provides support for poor children in Israel. Throughout the history of the organization AMIT built up a network of vocational schools, homes for children, surrogate family residences and other projects for youth in Israel. In Cleveland, AMIT has been an active part of the Jewish community, organizing numerous fundraising dinners, luncheons, and other events along the Jewish holidays to support both the local Jewish community and to raise money for their numerous projects in Israel. The collection consists of reports, brochures, catalogues, correspondence, instruction booklets, invoices, manuals, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, proclamations, programs, publications, recog... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5358.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1693.xml Amzi Atwater (1776-1850) was an assistant surveyor in Moses Cleaveland's Western Reserve surveying party of the Connecticut Land Company. The collection consists of field notes for surveys of land in eastern Cuyahoga County, near Lake Erie (townships 6 and 7, range 11). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1693.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0735.xml Amzi Atwater (1776-1850) was an assistant surveyor in Moses Cleveland's Western Reserve surveying party. The collection consists of a journal containing a description of the Western Reserve in 1796 as recorded by Atwater. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0735.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5287.xml Anastasia Pantsios is a Cleveland, Ohio, based writer and photographer whose work has appeared in local and national publications including the Cleveland Scene, the Free Times, Village Voice, Spin, Creem, Hit Parader, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. She has photographed hundreds of major national and local acts since the 1970s, and is a former staff photographer for the Cleveland Opera. In 2011, her 44-piece solo show, "Girls on Film: 40 Years of Women in Rock," premiered at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum before touring to Pennsylvania and Chicago. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, ephemera, event programs, photographs, and promotional materials. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5287.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5042.xml Andrew A. Ryan, a police detective for the city of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1872. He moved his family to Cleveland around 1897 and joined the Cleveland Police Department in 1899. As a detective, Ryan investigated crimes ranging from petty larceny to murder. His regular beat was in and around the west side immigrant neighborhoods of Cudell, Detroit Shoreway, Ohio City, Tremont, and downtown. Ryan spent over twenty years with the Cleveland Police Department. He died on August 21, 1930. The collection consists of bulletins, drawings, field notebooks, a ledger, memoranda of arrests, newspaper clippings, a photograph, a postal receipt, reports, statements, and statistics. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5042.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2066.xml Otto Miller (1874-1950) was a businessman and civic leader of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence of Andrew Jackson, letters about him, financial accounts (1804-1833), list of Jackson's land holdings (1793-1801), estate papers (1867), and other papers collected by Otto Miller. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2066.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5024.xml Angelo Fausto Vasquenz was born in Cerchio, Abruzzo, Italy, in 1879. He immigrated to Republic, Pennsylvania, in 1910, where he worked as a coal miner. He married Celestina Ciofani in 1913 in Republic, and continued to live in that community until his death in 1942. The collection consists of sixty-nine letters and one draft contract. Most of the letters are from Angelo's father, Antonio Vasquenz, who resided in Cerchio. There are also a small group of love letters to Angelo from his cousin Marietta Vasquenz, and three letters from Angelo's sisters, Maria Di Domenico Vasquenz and Pasqua Chichiarelli Vasquenz. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5024.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5479.xml Angus Robert Arrington Jr., was one of the first African American Boy Scout leaders in Ohio. This collection consists of Boy Scout applications, correspondence, a family tree, "Jackson's International Almanac 1942: A pocket encyclopedia of the darker races," membership cards, programs for the Boy Scouts of America ceremonies, church, and memorial services; newspaper clippings, photographs, promotional pamphlets, a scrapbook, and scripts from a radio broadcast. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5479.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5479.xml Angus Robert Arrington Jr., was one of the first African American Boy Scout leaders in Ohio. This collection consists of Boy Scout applications, correspondence, a family tree, "Jackson's International Almanac 1942: A pocket encyclopedia of the darker races," membership cards, programs for the Boy Scouts of America ceremonies, church, and memorial services; newspaper clippings, photographs, promotional pamphlets, a scrapbook, and scripts from a radio broadcast. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5479.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3813.xml Anna M. Sotak (ca. 1893-1976) was an Officer of State Savings and Loan in Cleveland, Ohio, which was instrumental in assisting area Slovaks acquire real estate. She was also active in local Slovak fraternal organizations. The collection consists of correspondences, speeches, and financial records relating to Slovak fraternal organizations and activities, and to Sotak family business and personal transactions, including minutes of the Slovak Catholic Federation of America, reports to conventions, radio talks from the Slovak Hour, and articles for "Zornicka." http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3813.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3941.xml Anshe Chesed Congregation is the oldest existing Jewish congregation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1841 when 30 members seceded from the Israelitic Society of Cleveland. The two congregations merged again in 1845 under the name Israelitic Anshe Chesed Society of Cleveland. It is also popularly known as Fairmount Temple, reflecting its current location on Fairmount Boulevard in Beachwood, Ohio. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, dues books, dues cards, building fund materials, curriculum and other educational materials, rabbis' papers, legal and financial documents, publicity files, publications, clippings, scrapbooks, architects drawings and specifications, membership lists and applications and directories, correspondence of the United Jewish Cemeteries, records of the United Jewish Religious Schools, correspondence, addresses and sermons of Rabbi Wolsey, sermons of Julius J. Nodel and Rabbi Lelyveld, and records of various constituent groups in the congregation. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3941.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4709.xml Anshe Chesed is the oldest existing Jewish congregation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1841 when 30 members seceded from the Israelitic Society of Cleveland. The two congregations merged again in 1845 under the name Israelitic Anshe Chesed Society of Cleveland. It is also popularly known as Fairmount Temple, reflecting its current location on Fairmount Boulevard in Beachwood, Ohio. The collection consists of minutes, reports, bulletins, correspondence, programming records, and publicity materials. Included are the Jordan Band papers, an attorney who served Anshe Chesed as a vice president, member of the Board of Trustees, and in other leadership capacities. Records of the Men's Club and the Sisterhood are also included. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4709.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5165.xml Anshe Chesed Congregation is the oldest existing Jewish congregation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1841 when 30 members seceded from the Israelitic Society of Cleveland. The two congregations merged again in 1845 under the name Israelitic Anshe Chesed Society of Cleveland. It is also popularly known as Fairmount Temple, reflecting its current location on Fairmount Boulevard in Beachwood, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, directories, sermons, books of remembrance, booklets, brochures, bulletins, guidebooks, flyers, proclamations, programs, tickets, and speech. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5165.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4995.xml The Young People's Congregation was a congregation within Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (Beachwood, Ohio) for younger members of the temple. Activities include services for young families, drama productions, social get-togethers, community outreach and interfaith programs, youth education and enrollment in the religious school, publication of a newsletter, The Mosaic, and the Free-a-Family program to help Soviet Jewry. The collection consists of audio tapes, awards, correspondence, clippings, flyers, lists of members, financial records, programs, newsletters, play scripts, photograph album, posters, and a scrapbook. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4995.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4500.xml Anson Hardman was the general advertising manager of Ohio Bell Telephone Company, 1924-1951. Hardman initiated many advertising campaigns which were adopted by other utilities and were recognized by the advertising industry. Hardman directed Ohio Bell's weekly radio program, the "Ohio Story", contributing historical research and script composition as well as directing the show. Hardman began his own public relations and advertising company, Anson F. Hardman and Associates, in 1951. He also served in various editorial and advertising capacities for the periodical Inside Ohio. The collection consists of scripts and script drafts, administrative papers, correspondence, story ideas and suggestions, research articles, subject lists, broadcast material, clippings, music scores, photographs, and biographical information relating to the activities of Anson Hardman. The collection pertains largely to the development of radio programing, from original idea to final casting, broadcast, and publicity. In addition, the s... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4500.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4516.xml The Ante-bellum Cleveland Jewish Immigrants Database Collection was assembled as part of a research project sponsored by the Cleveland Jewish Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The project, organized to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Cleveland, Ohio's Jewish community, resulted in the traveling exhibit "Founders: Cleveland's Jewish Community Before the Civil War," which opened at the Western Reserve Historical Society Museum in 1990. The collection consists of computer printout data sheets of 850 (primarily German) Jews known to have emigrated from Europe to Cleveland, Ohio between the 1830s and 1861. Each data sheet includes an individual's earliest known name and variant spellings. Categories of additional potential information include sex, country, region, and village of origin; arrival date and arrival age in America and in Cleveland; birth date, death date, and cemetery name; marital status, name of spouse(s), marriage date(s), and number of children; home and business address(es)... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4516.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3884.xml Anthony J. Celebrezze (1910-1998) was the son of Italian immigrants to Cleveland, Ohio, who had a long career in law and government, serving as an Ohio state senator, Mayor of Cleveland, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and a federal judge. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, legal briefs and opinions, financial documents, speeches, ordinances, resolutions, lists, charts, maps and miscellaneous printed matter relating to the administration of Cleveland's municipal government during Celebrezze's five terms as Mayor (1953-1962). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3884.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4046.xml Anthony J. Celebrezze (1910-1998) was an Ohio state senator (1950-1953), mayor of Cleveland (1953-1962), Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1962-1965), and federal judge for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (1965-1980). The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, honorary certificates and resolutions, publications, speeches, and scrapbooks, covering Celebrezze's political and judicial career, and relating to Cleveland's budgetary, city planning, civil defense, public transportation and urban renewal issues during the 1950s and 1960s, and to the anti-poverty, civil rights, education, and health insurance programs of Presidents Kennedy & Johnson. Includes correspondence of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Frank Lausche, Stephen M. Young, Michael DiSalle, Thomas Burke, Jack P. Russell, and Ralph Locher. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4046.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3790.xml Anthony DiSantis (b. 1910) was a journalist who covered labor news for the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1941 to 1960 before becoming its labor negotiator, industrial relations director, and assistant to the publisher. The collection consists of DiSantis' columns and articles as labor writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, notes and supporting materials, negotiation notes of the Cleveland, Ohio, newspaper strike (November 1962-April 1963), and correspondence to DiSantis. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3790.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5189.xml Anthony Palermo, Jr. (b. 1926) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland. After serving in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, Palermo attended the Case Institute of Technology, graduating in 1949 with a degree in electrical engineering. He worked for the Picker X-Ray Corporation, developing x-ray and CAT scan systems. Palermo had an avid interest in local history, and he founded the South Euclid Historical Society and wrote the history of St. Gregory the Great Church (now known as Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish). The collection consists of Palermo's research and written recollections of the history of the South Euclid, Ohio, aircraft beacon; Bluestone Quarries; and Euclid Beach Park/Collinwood neighborhood baseball teams. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5189.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4953.xml The collection consists of various materials relevant to Jewish life and anti-semitism in the first half of the twentieth century. Included are magazines, pamphlets, and books. There are numerous publications relevant to Henry Ford and the Dearborn Publishing Company, a small pamphlet issued by the National Jewish Welfare Board explaining Jewish history to those in the armed forces, and a publication by the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany on post-World War II Germany. Included are a number of original periodicals from National Socialist Germany. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4953.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4444.xml Anton L. maresh was a Cleveland, Ohio, musician, piano store owner, Republican politician, and collector of Abraham Lincoln material, who was also known as Anthony L. Maresh. His piano store on East 55th Street became the Republican political headquarters for Cleveland's southeast side, and in 1913, Maresh and his associates helped launch the political candidacy of Harry L. Davis for mayor. Maresh retired from the piano business in 1937, but actively pursued his hobby of collecting Lincoln memorabilia, building one of the largest private collections of Lincoln documents and lecturing on Lincoln lore to various groups. He served as long-time president of the local branch of the Lincoln Association of Ohio. The collection consists of personal correspondence, files on Cleveland politics and the music business, clippings, and financial and legal documents. Included is a collection of Lincoln material, consisting of copies of documents and facsimiles, addresses and writings about Lincoln by Maresh, writings on Li... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4444.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4122.xml Armond Robinson (1911-1973) was a lawyer, businessman, and civic leader who was active in the affairs of Cleveland's African American community. He helped found the Cleveland Small Business Opportunity and Development Corporation and the Minority Economic Developers Council. The collection consists of biographical materials, certificates, correspondence, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, programs, speeches, and files of the Citizens for Better Housing, the CSBODC, and the Minority Economic Developers Council. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4122.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3300.xml Arnold C. Saunders was a Cleveland, Ohio businessman. The collection consists of letters, reports, abstracts, charts, memoranda and copies of legal documents relating to the genealogy of the Saunders family, and miscellaneous business letters and legal documents. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3300.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4439.xml Arthur and Murtis Taylor were community leaders active in Cleveland, Ohio, African American organizations. They both worked at Karamu House and Outhwaite Homes Housing Project. Arthur then became an insurance underwriter and Murtis became director of Mount Pleasant Community Center and coordinator of the Federation for Community Planning's Project on Aging. Their son Bruce was a biomedical engineer researching artificial arteries at Akron City Hospital. Their son Howard became associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University in 1969. The entire family was named Outstanding Family of the Year in 1968 by the Urban League. The collection includes biographical items, correspondence, clippings, writings by Murtis, Bruce, and especially, Howard F. Taylor, and miscellany, including a marriage license, programs and certificates. The collection pertains largely to the careers and community activities of a Cleveland Afro-American family and includes some materials on social work, sociology, and medicine. Includ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4439.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5075.xml Arthur J. Naparstek (1939-2004) was a faculty member and administrator at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), serving as Dean from 1983 to 1988. He remained on staff until his death in 2004. His interests were varied, but much of his research and activity focused upon the plight of the urban poor and urban revitalization. Among his professional activities prior to his affiliation with CWRU, Naparstek directed the University of Southern California's Washington (D.C.) Public Affairs Center. He also directed policy and research at Catholic University's Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs and was the Associate Director of Purdue University's Urban Development Institute where he was a key advisor to Gary Hatcher, the first African American mayor of Gary, Indiana. the collection consists of applications, awards, catalogues, correspondence, curricula vitae, lists, minutes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, proposals, publications, reports, syllabi, transcripts, a... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5075.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0325.xml Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818) was a soldier, Pennsylvania political leader, and Governor of the Northwest Territory. The collection consists of correspondence, financial accounts, receipts, military resolutions, and other documents, chiefly 1790-1818. Mainly the accounts of St. Clair with merchants, grocers, lawyers, laborers, and the Hermitage Furnace and Mill Creek Iron Works in Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania. Includes papers relating to the handling of the estate of St. Clair (1818) and financial accounts and several letters of Daniel St. Clair, Louisa St. Clair Robb, and Robert Graham. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0325.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4146.xml Asael Adams (1786-1852), born in Canterbury, Connecticut, migrated to Liberty, Ohio, near Warren, in 1802. Was succesively hunter and trapper, Cleveland's first full-time school teacher, mail carrier from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, and owner of general store. Married Lucy Mygatt of Canfield, Ohio. Became involved in the Western Reserve real estate market prior to his death in 1852. Adams' second son, Comfort Avery Adams, born in 1816 in Warren, Ohio, succeeded Asael as proprietor of the general store until after 1852. He then was successively a postmaster, tax collector, newspaper editor, and then started a clothing manufacturing business in Cleveland. He died in 1901, and is buried in Lakeview Cemetary. The collection consists of a memorandum and account book, receipts, promissory notes, agreements, and stock certificates. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4146.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5314.xml In 2013, the Asian Indian Heritage Project and the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) launched an oral history project with funding from the Smithsonian Institution's Young Historians Living Histories Program (part of the Youth Access Grants Program). High school and middle school students under the direction of Dr. John Grabowski and Ms. Jane Mason of WRHS conducted interviews with ten Asian Indians who had settled in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s. The interviews document the unique immigrant experience of Asian Indians in northeast Ohio and explore issues of professional, family, and religious life. The collection consists of seven oral history recordings, biographies of the interviewees, and release statements signed by the interviewees. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5314.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT