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1	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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2	Title:	Erie Land Company Records
	Creator:	Erie Land Company
	Dates:	1801
	Abstract:	The Erie Land Company was organized to purchase, subdivide, and resell land in the Western Reserve. The collection consists of lists of lands in the Western Reserve sold to various persons.
	Call #:	MS 3422
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Erie Land Company. \| Land companies -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Real property -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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3	Title:	Connecticut Land Company Miscellaneous Records
	Creator:	Connecticut Land Company
	Dates:	1765-1835
	Abstract:	The Connecticut Land Company (1795-1809) was a syndicate of 35 groups representing 58 individuals who purchased on credit the majority of Connecticut's Western Reserve land as a speculative venture. Proceeds from the sale of the Reserve were used to establish the Connecticut School Fund. The Western Reserve was that area of northeastern Ohio which Connecticut reserved for her citizens in 1786 in exchange for ceding the remainder of her western land claims to the newly-formed United States government. Settlers were slow to purchase Reserve lands, and many of the original proprietors did not make any profits due to company mismanagement. The collection consists of correspondence of Elias Perkins, Joseph Perkins, Oliver Phelps and various other interested people as well as an historical sketch of the Western Reserve lands, land records of New Lisbon, Ohio, and will and estate records. This collection pertains primarily to the efforts of company members to sell the land and settle the frontier known as Connecticut's Western Reserve.
	Call #:	MS 4240
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Connecticut Land Company. \| Real property -- Ohio -- New Lisbon. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Decedents' estates -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| New Lisbon (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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4	Title:	Perkins Family Papers
	Creator:	Perkins Family
	Dates:	1823-1937
	Abstract:	Joseph and Jacob Perkins were sons of Simon Perkins, general land agent in the Western Reserve. They came from Warren, Ohio, to Cleveland in the 1850s to engage in banking, railroad building, real estate and various businesses. Together they organized and operated the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad. Joseph was president of the Bank of Commerce (1852-1872), a leading benefactor of Cleveland charities, the first president of Cleveland City Hospital, and a trustee for Western Reserve College (1846-1885). Jacob, also a businessman and president of the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad, was a prominent Ohio politician as well, serving as a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1850. His son, Jacob Bishop Perkins, was a large real estate owner and builder in Cleveland. Joseph Perkins' papers include business correspondence, building construction contracts, land, tenement, and office leases, financial statements and business records, maps and surveys, cancelled land contracts and cancelled checks. Jacob Perkins' papers include voluminous correspondence, and accounts and receipts of business affairs. Jacob Bishop Perkins' papers include correspondence, legal papers, contracts, deeds, leases, maps, and surveys, all pertaining primarily to his affairs as a real estate owner and builder in Cleveland. Other family papers include school books, letter books, estate papers, genealogical information, a scrapbook on the early settlement of the Western Reserve, business papers of Joseph's son Douglas and a Civil War diary by another son Charles. Also included are photographs, diaries, trip journals, correspondence from Simon and Nancy Perkins, financial journals, ledgers and account books of Stephen E. Brooks, as well as material relating to the Cleveland, Warren & Pittsburgh Railroad, the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad, the Cleveland Female Seminary, the Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners, the Hill Clutch Company and the Walker Manufacturing Company.
	Call #:	MS 3107
	Extent:	22.00 linear feet (46 containers)
	Subjects:	Perkins family. \| Perkins, Joseph, 1819-1885 -- Archives. \| Perkins, Jacob, 1821-1859 -- Archives. \| Perkins, Jacob B. (Jacob Bishop), 1854-1936 -- Archives. \| Perkins, Douglas, 1855-1921 -- Archives. \| Perkins, Charles, -- Diaries. \| Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844. \| Fitch family. \| Cleveland Female Seminary. \| Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad Company. \| Hill Clutch Company. \| Walker Manufacturing Company. \| Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Park Commissioners. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property tax -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real estate investment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Installment land contracts -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Building leases -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Commercial buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Education, Secondary -- Connecticut -- Middletown -- History -- Sources. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Warren. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Warren (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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5	Title:	Moses Cleaveland Papers
	Creator:	Cleaveland, Moses
	Dates:	1780-1805
	Abstract:	Moses Cleaveland (1754-1806) was a Connecticut lawyer, legislator and army officer who became the Director and agent for the Connecticut Land Company and agent for the Erie Land Company. He led its first surveying and exploring party into the Western Reserve in 1795 and founded the City of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1796. The collection consists of correspondence, land memorandums, journal abstracts, and military, financial and legal papers.
	Call #:	MS 3233
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cleaveland, Moses, 1754-1806. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Erie Land Company. \| Land companies -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Real property -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Exploring expeditions. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Ohio -- History -- Sources.
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6	Title:	Joshua Stow Papers
	Creator:	Stow, Joshua
	Dates:	1795-1832
	Abstract:	Joshua Stow was an original shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company and commissary on the Moses Cleaveland surveying party in the Western Reserve. The ollection consists of a summary of expenses for surveys in the Western Reserve for the Connecticut Land Company; letters from Jared Mansfield, Samuel Storrs, Joseph Beebe, Oliver Beebe, Leonard Case, Noah Newton, and from Henry Champion, a director of the Connecticut Land Company, concerning the southwest boundary of the Western Reserve; and papers concerning the survey of the Firelands by Maxfield Ludlow.
	Call #:	MS 1100
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1)
	Subjects:	Stow, Joshua. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Surveying -- Ohio. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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7	Title:	John Morgan Papers
	Creator:	Morgan, John
	Dates:	1788-1801
	Abstract:	John Morgan was a Hartford, Connecticut resident who, along with John Caldwell and Jonathan Brace, was one of the original trustees of the Connecticut Land Company. The deed of trust to them from the 35 company proprietors was the original title source to most of the property in the Connecticut Western Reserve, the area in what is now northeastern Ohio consisting of over 3 million acres which was bought by the company on credit in 1795 for $1.2 million. The collection consists of contracts, agreements, and quitclaim deeds pertaining to land in the Western Reserve. Parties involved in the transactions include John Morgan, Daniel L. Coit, Samuel Hinckley, Joseph Howland, Elias Morgan and Ephraim Root.
	Call #:	MS 1138
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Morgan, John. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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8	Title:	Isaac Mills Papers
	Creator:	Mills, Isaac
	Dates:	1795-1937
	Abstract:	Isaac Mills (1767-1843) was an agent for the Sufferers' Land Company (also known as the Connecticut Firelands Company) who concluded a treaty with the Indians of the Northeast for the purchase of half a million acres of land at Fort Industry, Ohio in 1805. The collection consists of a copy book of correspondence concerning Mills' Western Reserve land dealings, his work as agent for others, and lawsuits involving Mills or his clients. Correspondents include Heman Ely, Timothy Hawley, Turhand Kirtland, Jared Kirtland, and James Monroe. Also included are miscellaneous documents such as an act setting up the Sufferers' Land Company (1803) and Mills' report to the company directors on the conclusion of the treaty with the Indians (1805).
	Call #:	MS 3776
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Mills, Isaac, 1767-1843. \| Land companies -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Indians of North America -- Ohio. \| Real property -- Ohio. \| Sandusky (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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9	Title:	Elijah Wadsworth Family Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Wadsworth, Elijah family
	Dates:	1702-1910
	Abstract:	General Elijah Wadsworth (1747-1817) was a prominent figure in the early history of Ohio's Western Reserve who served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He was a captain in the 2nd continental light dragoons in the Revolutionary War and was the commander, major-general, of the 4th division of the Ohio Militia during the War of 1812. Wadsworth was also the largest land owner in Canfield during its early years, and its first postmaster, and its tax collector during the early years. Elijah Wadsworth's two descendants who are most frequently encountered in the collection are Maria C. Wadsworth and Henry Wadsworth. Maria C. Wadsworth was the daughter, and only child, of Elijah Wadsworth's son George. She lived in Canfield and married William B. Dawson. Henry Wadsworth (1784-1830) was a son of Elijah Wadsworth. He stayed behind in Litchfield, Connecticut, when Gen. Wadsworth moved to Canfield, and stayed in the general area all his life. Frederick, (1786-1869) George (1793-1832), and Rhoda Wadsworth (1748- ?) were other children of Elijah. The collection consists of letters and documents relating to the Wadsworth family starting with Gen. Elijah Wadsworth, and continuing on through his children and grandchildren, with some items from family friends, like Elisha Whittlesey, and life/society in this period. The collection includes personal letters, official correspondence, receipts, other financial records, land sale/purchase contacts, wills and other estate management documents, land surveys, and other miscellaneous documents.
	Call #:	MS 4979
	Extent:	0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Wadsworth, Elijah, 1747-1817. \| Wadsworth family \| Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863. \| Hinde, Thomas S. (Thomas Spottswood), 1785-1846. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Ohio. Militia -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Postmasters -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Ohio -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Trumbull County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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10	Title:	Diary of Turhand Kirtland During His Visits to Ohio
	Creator:	Kirtland, Turhand
	Dates:	1798-1800
	Abstract:	Turhand Kirtland (1755-1844) was a land agent for the Connecticut, Big Beaver, and Union land companies, and founder of Poland, Ohio. Kirtland owned almost 2,000 acres in the township named after him, although he never permanently resided there. Kirtland Township was an "equalizing" township used by the Connecticut Land Company to compensate for losses of those settlers or investors who received swampy or poor land throughout the Western Reserve. The collection consists of a copy of a diary kept by Kirtland on his travels throughout the Western Reserve.
	Call #:	MS 0737
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Kirtland, Turhand, 1755-1844. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- Diaries. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Kirtland (Ohio : Township) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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11	Title:	Amzi Atwater Field Notes
	Creator:	Atwater, Amzi
	Dates:	1797
	Abstract:	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).
	Call #:	MS 1693
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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12	Title:	Amzi Atwater Journal
	Creator:	Atwater, Amzi
	Dates:	1796
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 0735
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- Diaries. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel.
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13	Title:	Albion Morris Dyer Papers
	Creator:	Dyer, Albion Morris
	Dates:	1904-1912
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 2830
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Dyer, Albion Morris, 1858-1912. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Sources.
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14	Title:	Walworth Family Papers
	Creator:	Walworth Family
	Dates:	1774-1884
	Abstract:	The Walworth family was one of the most influential families in the early history of the Western Reserve of Ohio. John Walworth and his family settled in Painesville, Ohio, in 1800. While there, he served as a deputy postmaster, justice of the peace, and judge. In 1806, the family moved to Cleveland to facilitate John Walworth's posts as Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Cuyahoga and Collector for the District of Erie. He also served as a judge in the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas and as postmaster of Cleveland. His son, Ashbel W. Walworth, assumed many of his father's business responsibilities and official posts, including postmaster and collector of customs at Cleveland. He was treasurer for the Corporation of the Village of Cleveland and the Cuyahoga County Civilization Society. His son, John Walworth, continued his business interests in Cleveland. Several brothers of Ashbel W. Walworth, including J.P. (John Periander) Walworth, moved to the southern United States and established a branch of the family along the southern Mississippi River. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, legal records, official documents, architectural drawings and various ephemera. Contains detailed correspondence concerning land transactions for the Connecticut Land Company; records of the post offices of Painesville, Ohio, and Cleveland, Ohio; records of the Port of Cuyahoga; records of the Circuit Court of Geauga County, Ohio, Corporation of the Village of Cleveland, and the Cleveland School House; records of the Cleveland Branch of the Erie Bank of Pennsylvania; land valuations and tax lists for Cleveland and the Fire Lands; and legal records of Litchfield County, Connecticut, and New London County, Connecticut. Correspondents include William Eldredge, Frederick Miner, Gideon Granger, Calvin Pease, Samuel Huntington, David Abbott, Nathaniel Ledyard, Lewis Cass, Oliver Phelps, Charles P. Barnum, Lewis Morgan, and Oliver Forward. A calendar of correspondents is included in the register to the collection. Insight into the social relations of the Walworths and their relations, including the Dunlap, Beattie, Strickland, Keyes, Wren, and Avery families, is seen through the correspondence between the women in the Walworth family.
	Call #:	MS 1901
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Walworth family. \| Walworth, John, 1765-1812. \| Walworth, Ashbel W., 1790-1844. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Erie Bank of Pennsylvania. \| Postal service -- Ohio -- Painesville. \| Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Customs administration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Land value taxation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Lighthouses -- Ohio -- Fairport. \| Court records -- Ohio -- Geauga County. \| Court records -- Connecticut -- Litchfield County. \| Court records -- Connecticut -- New London County. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Painesville (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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15	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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16	Title:	Bernard Rich Hollander Papers
	Creator:	Hollander, Bernard Rich
	Dates:	1894-1976
	Abstract:	Bernard R. Hollander (1927-1975) was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, attorney who was a leader in many legal, civic, Jewish and educational organizations, including Anshe Chesed Congregation, the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods and Expo Israel '70. The collection consists of correspondence, notes, writings, appointment calendars, clippings, memorabilia, papers relating to Hollander's activities in various Jewish organizations, and business or legal papers of Sidney and Helen Rich Hollander, Hollander Drug Company and Louis Rich.
	Call #:	MS 3979
	Extent:	4.30 linear feet (5 containers)
	Subjects:	Wadsworth, Elijah, 1747-1817. \| Wadsworth family. \| Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863. \| Hinde, Thomas S. (Thomas Spottswood), 1785-1846. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Ohio. Militia -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources. -- Sources. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Postmasters -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Ohio -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Trumbull County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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17	Title:	William Law Papers
	Creator:	Law, William
	Dates:	1795-1838
	Abstract:	William Law (1779-1856) was an attorney and land agent in the Western Reserve for his father, William Law of Cheshire, Connecticut. The collection consists of correspondence, deeds, legal papers, journals, field notes, and records of William Law's real estate and business interests in the Connecticut Western Reserve that were managed by his son, William Law (1779-1856).
	Call #:	MS 0594
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Law, William, 1779-1856. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Burton. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Poland. \| Burton (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Youngstown (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Poland (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Poland (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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18	Title:	Samuel L. Egbert Account Book
	Creator:	Egbert, Samuel L.
	Dates:	1830-1850
	Abstract:	Samuel L. Egbert (1801-1885) was an early resident of the Western Reserve of Ohio, arriving at Fairport, Geauga County, Ohio in 1828. By 1830 he was a resident of Chagrin Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (later Willoughby Township, Lake County, Ohio). Egbert married Frances Miller (1793-1880) and had several children. He worked as a carpenter and joiner. He also served as postmaster of Willoughby, ca. 1853-1861. The collection consists of one volume of business accounts concerning his carpentry and joiner business and general household accounts. The book was also used by his son, William Henry Egbert, as a copy and notebook.
	Call #:	MS 0454
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 volume)
	Subjects:	Egbert, Samuel L., 1801-1885. \| Account books -- Ohio -- Lake County. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Willoughby (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Carpenters -- Ohio -- Lake County.
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19	Title:	Turhand Kirtland Papers
	Creator:	Kirtland, Turhand
	Dates:	1794-1880
	Abstract:	Turhand Kirtland was an agent of the Connecticut Land Company who led a survey party into the Western Reserve in 1798 and founded Poland, Ohio. He moved his family there in 1803. He also constructed the road from Youngstown to Grand River and surveyed Burton, Poland and Youngstown. He supported roads, schools and libraries in the area and became a judge and state senator. The collection consists of correspondence, letter copybooks, legal contracts, wills, powers of attorney, an account book, account notebooks, receipts, tax receipts, land surveys, field notes, probate records and election materials.
	Call #:	MS 3237
	Extent:	3.10 linear feet (8 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Kirtland, Turhand, 1755-1844. \| Kirtland family. \| Cleaveland, Moses, 1754-1806. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Real property -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Real property -- Ohio. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Poland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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20	Title:	Zalmon Fitch Papers
	Creator:	Fitch, Zalmon
	Dates:	1781-1866
	Abstract:	Zalmon Fitch (1785-1860) was an early Ohio attorney and land agent, and a leader in the financial circles of Cleveland and Warren, Ohio. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Fitch established the second general store in the Western Reserve in Canfield, Ohio, in 1810. He moved to Warren in 1813 and served as the land agent for several of the original stockholders of the Connecticut Land Company. Fitch was cashier of the Western Reserve Bank when it was established in 1816 and served in that capacity for 23 years until he became president. Fitch was the trustee appointed by the receivers of the Bank of Cleveland to settle its affairs after its collapse in the Panic of 1837. Fitch also served on the board of directors of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad in 1859. The ollection consists of correspondence, contracts, surveys, financial calculations, tax records, receipts, promissory notes, sight drafts, insurance policies, powers of attorney, and miscellaneous legal papers, relating to Fitch's activities as a land agent; records of the Bank of Cleveland and the Western Reserve Bank; correspondence concerning the Banks of Geauga, Geneva, Orleans, and St. Clair, the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, and the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad; correspondence and transactions of Simon Perkins, Elihu Spencer, and William Williams; and copies of letters, a will, affidavits, and an essay pertaining to John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat.
	Call #:	MS 0581
	Extent:	7.00 linear feet (15 containers)
	Subjects:	Fitch, Zalmon, 1785-1860. \| Bank of Geauga (Geauga, Ohio) \| Bank of Geneva (Geneva, Ohio) \| Bank of Orleans (Orleans, Ohio) \| Bank of St. Clair (St. Clair, Ohio) \| Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad. \| Bank of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. \| Western Reserve Bank of Warren, Ohio. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Railroad companies -- Ohio. \| Real property tax -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Installment land contracts -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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