| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 161 | Title: | International Brotherhood of Electrical Works, Local Union 1377 Records
| | | | Creator: | International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 1377 | | | | Dates: | 1939-1972 | | | | Abstract: | Local 1377 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers was the Cleveland (Ohio) local of electrical manufacturing workers originally set up to represent employees of the Leece-Neville Company. By the mid-1950s, however, the local had absorbed several units of Local 38, and included manufacturing units, maintenance units and radio and sound units, including appliance repairmen and mobile/microwave technicians. Peter J. Zicarelli served as business manager, 1950-1970s. The local was involved in jurisdictional disputes with Local 38 and representational disputes with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America and with independent workers' organizations such as the Electrical Workers Alliance at Leece-Neville and the Picker X-Ray Employees Union. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, contracts and agreements, financial records, membership rosters, grievance and arbitration proceedings, civil litigation records, organizing files, newspapers and periodicals. The collection focuses on the day-to-day operations of an amalgamated local, with the various problems accompanying a mixed membership, and includes material on the jurisdictional disputes with IBEW Local 38 and the representational disputes with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, as well as labor-management conflicts and general conditions in the Cleveland electric industries, especially General Electric, Leece-Neville, Westinghouse and Picker X-Ray. The collection includes extensive material relating to the AFL-CIO Committee on Collective Bargaining, established in 1966 to negotiate an industry-wide contract with GE and Westinghouse and the eight major unions it represented. Also includes files of Local 1377 officials Peter J. Zicarelli, Gordon M. Freeman, Joseph Keenan, and H.B. Blankenship and material regarding the role of women in the local. | | | | Call #: | MS 4502 | | | | Extent: | 18.0 linear feet (18 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Zicarelli, Peter J. | Freeman, Gordon M. | Keenan, Joseph D. | International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 1377 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 38 (Cleveland, Ohio) | United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Local 707 (Cleveland, Ohio) | General Electric Corporation. | Leece-Neville Company. | Westinghouse Electric Corporation. | Electric industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industry workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industry workers -- Labor unions -- United States. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Jurisdictional disputes. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recognition. | Collective bargaining -- Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Electric industries -- United States. | Collective labor agreements -- Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Employee fringe benefits -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Wages -- Electrical industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in trade-unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 162 | Title: | McLeod Company of Painesville, Ohio Records
| | | | Creator: | McLeod Company of Painesville, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1921-1928 | | | | Abstract: | The McLeod Company was a tailor shop located at 333 Main Street in Painesville, Ohio. The company was founded in 1891 by George K. McLeod. During the 1920s it was managed by Daniel McLeod. George McLeod served as a member of Painesville city council in the 1910s The collection consists of one ledger book. | | | | Call #: | MS 5276 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 volume) | | | | Subjects: | Painesville (Ohio) -- History. | Tailoring. | Business -- Painesville (OH).
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 163 | Title: | Cleveland Crane & Engineering Company Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Crane & Engineering Company | | | | Dates: | 1906-1956 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Crane & Engineering Company was a manufacturer of overhead material handling cranes located in Cleveland, Ohio. The company was organized in 1899 by Edward I. Leighton, George A. Armington, Albert L. Assmus, and Charles E. Thomas as the Cleveland Crane & Car Company. The collection consists of blueprints, drawings, and plans, company newsletters, correspondence, marketing literature and sales notes, photographs (approximately 125), project proposals, and specifications. | | | | Call #: | MS 5395 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cranes, derricks, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 164 | Title: | Northern Ohio Lumber and Timber Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Northern Ohio Lumber and Timber Company | | | | Dates: | 1922-1947 | | | | Abstract: | The Northern Ohio Lumber and Timber Company was founded in 1922 and located at 1895 Carter Road in The Flats neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. The company was incorporated by Charles Nicola, E. E. Teare, A. L. Stone, C. H. Carleton, and D. W. Mills. The company manufactured wood products and bought and sold wholesale and retail lumber, and traces its roots back to The company moved to West Third Street on the west side of The Flats in 2003. The collection consists of two bound minute books that include minutes of directors' meetings, minutes of stockholders' meetings, and articles of incorporation. | | | | Call #: | MS 5280 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Lumber trade -- United States. | Building materials industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 165 | Title: | Cleveland, Ohio, Fire Department, Engine Company No. 20 Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland, Ohio, Fire Department, Engine Company No. 20 | | | | Dates: | 1939 | | | | Abstract: | Engine Company No. 20 of the Cleveland, Ohio, Fire Department was located at 4316 Clark Avenue on Cleveland's west side. John J. Curran was the company captain in 1939. The collection consists of one log book. | | | | Call #: | MS 5295 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 volume) | | | | Subjects: | Fire departments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fire stations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 167 | Title: | Carabelli Company Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Carabelli Company | | | | Dates: | 1850-1999 | | | | Abstract: | Giuseppe (Joseph) Carabelli (1850-1911) founded The Carabelli Company in the late 1880s under the name Lake View Granite & Monumental Works. It was located at 12317 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, directly across from The Lake View Cemetery. The Carabelli Company operated under successive generations of the Carabelli family until the early 1970s when it was sold to the Johns (Iacobucci) family of Mayfair Memorials. The Lake View Cemetery contains a large number of monuments created by The Carabelli Company. Among its most recognized works at Lake View are the Wade Memorial Chapel and the Brush, John Hay, Rockefeller, and Steinbrenner monuments. The company also contributed to the creation of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument, and similar monuments in Elyria and Willougbhy, Ohio, and Muskegon, Michigan. The collection consists of agreements, birth records, blue prints, brochures, catalogs, certificates, a constitution, contracts, correspondence, court documents, deeds, directories, estimates, financial records, forms, indices, inventories, leases, legislation, lists, memoranda, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notebooks, obituaries, order books, patterns, programs, published books and guides, real estate documents, reports, sketches, tax records, templates, time books, tracings, and wills. The records also contain 685 black and white photographs, 24 color photographs, 70 negatives, 131 slides, and six audio tapes, and 13 cassette tapes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5315 | | | | Extent: | 14.20 linear feet (16 containers and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | Sepulchral monuments industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 171 | Title: | Women's Law Fund Records
| | | | Creator: | Women's Law Fund | | | | Dates: | 1968-2002 | | | | Abstract: | The Women's Law Fund was a nonprofit organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1972 dedicated to eradicating gender discrimination in employment, education, government benefits, and housing. Under the direction of Jane M. Picker and Lizabeth A. Moody, the organization secured attorneys and provided funding for litigation related to women's issues. Most notably, the fund supported LaFleur, et al. v. Cleveland Board of Education, et al., a case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark ruling concerning mandatory maternity leave for female employees. In the 1990s the fund focused on female age discrimination and discrimination faced by American women employed overseas by American companies. The Women's Law Fund disbanded in 2006. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, memorandums, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, reports, resumes, and video tapes. | | | | Call #: | MS 4970 | | | | Extent: | 91.94 linear feet (99 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Women's Law Fund (Cleveland, Ohio) | Sex discrimination against women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sex discrimination against women -- United States. | Women's rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's rights -- United States. | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States. | Women -- Employment -- Law and legislation. | Women in education -- Legal status, laws, etc. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 172 | Title: | David K. Ford Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Ford, David K. Family | | | | Dates: | 1791-1993 | | | | Abstract: | The Ford family were prominent lawyers, philanthropists, and businessmen of Cleveland, Ohio, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection consists of genealogies, biographical sketches, correspondence, diaries, journals, account books, appointment books, ledgers, stock certificates, minutes, leases, articles of incorporation, wills, deeds, corporate inventories, maps, newspaper and magazine clippings, tax assessments and returns, diplomas, certificates, military orders, and discharge papers. Material is included on several banking institutions, including Garfield Savings Bank, The Western Reserve Trust Company, Metropolitan National Savings Bank, and the East End Savings and Trust Company. Material on Ford family involvement in the construction and management of the Williamson Building is included, as is family involvement in other real estate enterprises, including The New Amsterdam Company, One Euclid Company, and the Ford McCaslin Company. Involvement in various legal firms by H. Clark, Horatio, and David K. Ford is well documented, as is David K. Ford's role in the organization and operation of the Lubrizol Corporation and Lubrizol Foundation. Family involvement with the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, and with other philanthropic and social service organizations, such as the American Red Cross, the Maternal Health Association, University Hospitals, and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, is documented. Family members were also involved with the Congregational City Missionary Society, the Congregational Home Missionary Society, the Schauffler Missionary Training School (later Schauffler College of Religious and Social Work), and the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States. David K. Ford's involvement with Defiance College is documented. David and Elizabeth Brooks Ford's commitment to community service and social reform is well documented in this collection, including correspondence with others sharing their interests, such as Ralph Hayes of the City Club, Dorothy Adams Hamilton Brush with the Maternal Health Association, Agnes Brooks Young with the Cleveland Playhouse, and Katherine Gill Brooks of the Visiting Nurse Association. Of particular interest is the correspondence of H. Clark Ford with the notorious swindler Cassie Chadwick. The majority of the genealogical and family history materials included is the work of Oliver Kingsley Brooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4730 | | | | Extent: | 36.91 linear feet (40 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Thorpe family. | Ford, David K., 1894-1993. | Ford, Horatio, 1881-1952. | Ford, Horatio Clark, 1853-1915. | Ford, Elizabeth Kingsley Brooks, 1896-1990. | Ford family. | Brooks family. | Gill family. | Dunn family. | Shyrock family. | Keith family. | Reynolds family. | Schauffler College of Religious and Social Work -- History. | Euclid Avenue Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | Congregational City Missionary Society (Cleveland, Ohio). | Congregational Home Missionary Society (Cleveland, Ohio). | Defiance College (Defiance, Ohio). | Maternal Health Association of Cleveland, Ohio. | New Amsterdam Company. | One Euclid Company. | Williamson Company. | Ford-McCaslin Company. | Lubrizol Corporation. | Lubrizol Foundation. | Cleveland Trust Company. | Garfield Savings Bank. | Western Reserve Trust Company. | Metropolitan National Savings Bank. | East End Savings and Trust Company. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Missions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 173 | Title: | Butler Aerial Surveys, Inc. Records
| | | | Creator: | Butler Aerial Surveys, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1929-1968 | | | | Abstract: | Butler Aerial Surveys, Inc., was a Cleveland, Ohio, company which conducted aerial surveys throughout Ohio, during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection consists of client accounts and business files, including financial records, flight reports, correspondence, and a photograph index notebook. The collection pertains largely to the operation of an aerial survey company, whose clients included many Ohio coal and mining companies. | | | | Call #: | MS 4454 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Butler Aerial Surveys, Inc. -- Archives. | Surveying -- Ohio. | Mine surveying. | Photography, Aerial.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 174 | Title: | International Association of Machinists, District #54 Records
| | | | Creator: | International Association of Machinists, District #54 | | | | Dates: | 1903-1965 | | | | Abstract: | The International Association of Machinists, District 54, is the district lodge founded in 1913 to coordinate the interests and activities of various Cleveland, Ohio, IAM locals. It was led by President Matthew DeMore, 1939-1961. District 54 was known for its progressive social philosophy and it set the standards on issues of medical insurance, pension plans and other benefits which were models for other unions. District 54 also initiated several cooperative programs for its members, including the Cleveland Homes Committee to provide low cost quality housing, the Co-op of Cleveland, a consumers' cooperative, and the Union Eye Care Center. The collection consists of minutes, newsletters, correspondence, reports, contracts, financial records, membership rosters, business agents' weekly reports, grievance and arbitration proceedings, organizing files, scrapbooks, newspapers and periodicals relating to the day-to-day activities of a major Cleveland union and its relationship to the International headquarters, subordinate locals and the Cleveland industrial community, particularly during and after World War II. | | | | Call #: | MS 4466 | | | | Extent: | 117.10 linear feet (126 containers) | | | | Subjects: | DeMore, Matthew. | Reed, Marie J. | International Association of Machinists. District 54 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | International Association of Machinists. | Jack & Heintz, Inc. | Warner & Swasey. | Picker X-Ray Corporation. | Machinists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Juristictional disputes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Political activity -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective labor agreements -- Machinery industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Grievance procedures -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Machinery industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Electric machinery industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Wages -- Machinery industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women labor union members -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions and communism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Open and closed shop -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Machine-tool industry -- Prices -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Wage-price policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fawick Airflex Strike, Cleveland, Ohio, 1949. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 175 | Title: | Western Reserve Manuscripts (Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscript Vertical File)
| | | | Creator: | Various | | | | Dates: | 1636-1991 | | | | Abstract: | The Western Reserve Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society since its founding in 1867. 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 Cleveland, Ohio, and the region of northeast Ohio known as the Western Reserve. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, applications, articles, autobiographies, autograph books and autographs, biographical sketches, certificates, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, envelopes, genealogies, histories, indentures, invoices, letters, lists, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, scripts, speech transcripts, telegrams, and other material. Western Reserve Historical Society library staff began to describe these manuscripts in this finding aid in 2015. This is an ongoing project that will be updated for public access as the project progresses in real time. | | | | Call #: | MS 5362 | | | | Extent: | 27.80 linear feet (29 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. | Connecticut Land Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. | United States -- History -- 19th century. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. | Antislavery movements -- Ohio.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 176 | Title: | Service Employees International Union, Natural Gas Workers Union Local 555
| | | | Creator: | Natural Gas Workers' Union, Local 555 | | | | Dates: | 1963-1978 | | | | Abstract: | Local 555 of the Service Employees International Union, Natural Gas Workers' Union, was a trade-union organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1937 to represent employees of East Ohio Gas Company and led initially by Francis O'Rourke, and later, by John Nagle and William J. McCarthy. It became affiliated with the Building Service Employees' International Union in 1962, now known as the Service Employees International Union. In 1990 the local had a membership of 1,850. The collection consists of correspondence, constitutions, labor agreements, annual reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and publications. The collection primarily relates to the East Ohio Gas Company, including Ohio Public Utilities Commission hearings on rate increase requests and service cutbacks during the 1970s energy crisis. There is minimal material dealing directly with union business, but the collection does include some items on organizing tactics and strike procedures issued by the international union. | | | | Call #: | MS 4524 | | | | Extent: | 0.75 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Service Employees International Union. Natural Gas Workers Union Local 555 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | East Ohio Gas Company. | Consolidated Natural Gas Company. | Gas industry -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio. | Gas companies -- Ohio. | Gas companies -- Ohio -- Rates. | Gas companies -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Collective labor agreements -- Public utilities -- Ohio. | Collective bargaining -- Public utilities -- Ohio. | Strikes and lockouts -- Public utilities -- Ohio. | Energy policy -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 177 | Title: | John Spence Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Spence, John Family | | | | Dates: | 1866-1968 | | | | Abstract: | John Spence immigrated from England in the mid-nineteenth century and worked as a stone contractor. John M. Spence was the first mayor of Cleveland Heights, Ohio (1904-1907), served eighteen years on the Cleveland Heights Board of Education and was active in the state Republican Party executive committee. Along with his three brothers he operated Spence Brothers Construction Company. His nephew, Stanley L. Orr served with Troop A Cavalry Regiment in the Texas-Mexican border dispute of 1916-1917 and was a judge and chairman of the Cleveland Chapter of the Red Cross during World War I. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial records, and a scrapbook. The collection illustrates the activities of Troop A during the Southwest Expedition, 1916-1917, the business activities of John Spence in the late nineteenth century, and the growth and development of the Spence Brothers Construction Company. | | | | Call #: | MS 4411 | | | | Extent: | 3.01 linear feet (12 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Spence family. | Ohio. National Guard. Cavalry Squadron, 1st. Troop A. | United States. Army -- History -- Punitive expedition into Mexico, 1916. | Spence Brothers Construction Company -- Archives. | Construction industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 178 | Title: | E.F. Hauserman Company Records, Photographs, and Audio Materials
| | | | Creator: | Sunar-Hauserman, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1856-1989 | | | | Abstract: | The E.F. Hauserman Company was a leading producer of of movable interior walls for offices, factories, and schools, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The company was founded by Earl F. Hauserman (1885-1943) who bought out part of the building supplies dealer for whom he worked and organized the E.F. Hauserman Co. in 1913. The company became a leading manufacturer of interior steel partitions and was a major defense contractor during World War II. Following the war, E.F. Hauerman's sons, Fred M. Hauserman (1909-1972) and William F. Hauserman (1920-2012) led the company, including expansion into Canada and Europe. In the mid 1970s, E.F. Hauserman Company consolidated with its principle subsidiaries to become Hauserman, Inc., In 1978 the company acquired Sunar, a Canadian office furniture manufacturer and in 1983 became Sunar-Hauserman, Inc. The company closed in 1989 due to changing economic conditions. The collection consists of correspondence, financial reports, project and patent files, product literature, organizational materials, photographs, and audio recordings. | | | | Call #: | MS 5361 | | | | Extent: | 30.02 linear feet (27 containers, 8 oversize volumes, and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Prefabricated interior architecture. | Wall panels. | Landing mats. | Pontoon bridges. | Steel plate deck bridges -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 179 | Title: | Elmer Van Sickle Papers
| | | | Creator: | Van Sickle, Elmer | | | | Dates: | 1931-1945 | | | | Abstract: | Elmer Van Sickle was a professional pilot and businessman. He became a professional pilot in 1929, flying amphibian aircraft from Cleveland, Ohio, to Detroit, Michigan, for Thompson Aeronautical Corporation. He later flew the Cleveland to Nashville, Tennessee run for American Airlines. Van Sickle began a small machine shop, called Cleveland Aircraft Products Company (CAPCO), in his home in Rocky River, Ohio. By 1945, office headquarters had moved to Ontario Street in downtown Cleveland. The company produced wheel and brake mechanisms for aircraft. Van Sickle married Edith Newman of Cleveland in 1931. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, Cleveland Aircraft Products Company newsletters, mechanical drawings, memorabilia, and Van Sickle's 1931 wedding announcement. | | | | Call #: | MS 4597 | | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Van Sickle, Elmer. | Cleveland Aircraft Products Company. | Aircraft industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aircraft supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 180 | Title: | Jeptha Homer Wade Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Wade, Jeptha Homer Family | | | | Dates: | 1771-1957 | | | | Abstract: | The Wade family was a prominent nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, family with business interests in the telegraph and railroad industries, mining, manufacturing, and banking. Jeptha Homer Wade spent his early life as an apprentice to a tanner and as a carpenter. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1849, he organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the Western Union Telegraph Company's first general agent. His business interests were extensive in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. Randall Palmer Wade worked with his father in the telegraph business, moving with him to Cleveland in 1857. His business interests included the Cuyahoga Mining Company; the Citizens Savings and Loan Association; the Cleveland Banking Company; the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Jeptha Homer Wade II also worked in the telegraph industry; he later joined the banking community in Cleveland. He was an active philanthropist, serving as a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Western Reserve University, Adelbert College, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He was an incorporator of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913, and later established a purchasing fund for the Museum. The collection consists of correspondence, wills, diaries, autobiographical sketches, memoranda, deeds, contracts, drawings, financial records, passport documents, land grants, notes, receipts, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, relating to Jeptha Homer Wade and his role in the telegraph industry in the Midwest, and to his son, Randall Palmer Wade, and grandson, Jeptha Homer Wade, Jr. Includes letters from or about Ezra Cornell, Amos Kendall, Samuel F.B. Morse, and James A. Garfield. Personal correspondence related to members of the Wade family, including Ellen Howe Garretson Wade and Ellen Howe Garretson, is included, as is travel journals written by various family members. The Wade family interest in spiritualism, particularly that of Jeptha Homer Wade after the death of his son Randall in 1876, is well documented in his personal correspondence. A calendar of correspondence for the collection is available in the appendix to the register. | | | | Call #: | MS 3292 | | | | Extent: | 5.60 linear feet (15 containers and 17 reels of microfilm) | | | | Subjects: | Wade family -- Periodicals. | Howe family. | Buckminster family. | Stone family. | McGaw family. | Garretson family. | Wade, Jeptha Homer, 1811-1890. | Wade, Randall Palmer, 1835-1876. | Wade, Jeptha Homer, 1857-1926. | Wade, Ellen Garretson, 1859-1917. | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe. | Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. | Western Union Telegraph Company. | Telegraph -- United States -- History. | Railroads -- United States -- History. | Mineral industries -- United States -- History. | Spiritualism -- United States. | Asia -- Description and travel. | United States -- Description and travel. | Alaska -- Description and travel. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Africa -- Description and travel.
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