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1	Title:	David Morrow, Sr. Family Papers
	Creator:	Morrow, David Sr. Family
	Dates:	1818-1938
	Abstract:	David Morrow Sr. was the son of John Morrow and brother of John Morrow Jr. and William Morrow. The family originated in Knock, parish of Castlenagh, County Down, Ireland. William Morrow emigrated to Virginia, and with family friend Alexander J. Stewart, who had settled in New York City, corresponded with the remaining Morrow family members in Ireland. The David Morrow Sr. family, including David Sr., his wife Abigail, and their children, David Jr., William, and Abigail, emigrated from Belfast, Ireland in 1832, and were settled in Euclid, Ohio, by 1833, where they farmed. David Morrow Jr. and his brother William, continued to farm after the death of their father in 1836, eventually acquiring their own land in Glenville, near Cleveland, Ohio. David Morrow Jr. married Eliza Shade, and they had three children; David Wilson, Abigail, and Eliza Lillie. David Wilson Morrow attended Shaw Academy in East Cleveland, and graduated from the Case School of Applied Science in 1890. He went into practice in Cleveland as a civil and architectural engineer, establishing the firm of Morrow and Cross. He was an active member of the Cleveland Engineering Society, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and the Cleveland Automobile Club. He married Ruby Jessamine Adams in 1905, and they had four children, two of whom survived, Ruth and David. The collection consists of genealogical and biographical sketches, correspondence, appointment books, tax returns and other financial papers, probate record journals, wills, deeds, trust and estate agreements, land plats and other real estate papers, minutes, transcripts, and other legal documents.
	Call #:	MS 4803
	Extent:	0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Morrow, David Sr. d. 1836. \| Morrow family. \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women immigrants. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| United States -- Emigration and immigration. \| Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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2	Title:	Soviet Jewish Oral History Collection
	Creator:	Cleveland Jewish Archives Advisory Committee, Western Reserve Historical Society
	Dates:	1954-2016
	Abstract:	Cleveland's Jewish community played an active role helping Soviet Jews emigrate from the Soviet Union and resettle in the United States, and especially in Cleveland, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Approximately 12,000 Soviet Jews came to Cleveland during these years. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the emigration continued, though at a slower pace. This collection, a project of the WRHS Cleveland Jewish Archives Advisory Committee, includes oral histories with Soviet Jews from the Greater Cleveland area and related materials. The collection consists primarily of abstracts, article drafts, correspondence, descriptions of the project, a dissertation, information sheets, interview protocols, lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, oral history user agreements, procedures, programs, progress reports, reports, a script, a student paper, and transcripts of interviews.
	Call #:	MS 5389
	Extent:	1.60 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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3	Title:	Cleveland Worsted Mills Company Records
	Creator:	Cleveland Worsted Mills Company
	Dates:	1890-1946
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Worsted Mills Company was founded as the Turner Worsted Mill in 1878 by Joseph Turner, and, after a period of restructuring beginning in 1893 led by Kaufman Hays, became the Cleveland Worsted Mills in 1902. The mill was able to handle all steps of the production of various types of woolen cloth. Besides its Cleveland, Ohio, facility, the company also operated eleven other plants in Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Rhode Island. Many Czech, Polish, and Lithuanian immigrants were employed by Cleveland Worsted Mills. During the Depression, employees became dissatisfied with working conditions and organized as part of the United Textile Workers. Two strikes in the 1930s were unsuccessful. The company was forcibly closed by the federal government during World War II for refusal to produce cloth for uniforms. It opened again only after agreeing to the government's terms. Following another strike in 1955, company president Louis O. Poss closed the company for good. The empty building was destroyed by fire in 1993. The collection consists of appraisal inventories, blueprints, and a pamphlet.
	Call #:	MS 5050
	Extent:	0.81 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Worsted Mills Company. \| United Textile Workers of America. \| Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Woolen goods industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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4	Title:	Kazdin-Levine Papers
	Creator:	Kazdin-Levine Family
	Dates:	1910-1975
	Abstract:	Nathan Levine immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, from Russia ca. 1900. He and his wife Leah Levine founded two Cleveland, Ohio companies, U.S. Wallpaper Company, and Levin Brothers, Inc. Their daughter, Betty, married Sol Kazdin, also a Russian immigrant. Sol's brother, Max Kazdin (born Max Gothelf) was a horse trainer and Talmudic student who came to Cleveland, Ohio from Russia, ca. 1911. the collection consists of an English-Yiddish study guide belonging to Max Kazdin, newspaper clippings relating to Nathan and Leah Levine and Betty and Sol Kazdin, a citizenship guide, and a poem and correspondence of Nathan Levine.
	Call #:	MS 4994
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 folder)
	Subjects:	Kazdin, Sol, 1906-1975. \| Kazdin, Betty Levine, 1908-1973. \| Kazdin, Max. \| Levine, Nathan, 1874-1935. \| Levine, Leah, d. 1960. \| Kazdin family. \| Levine family. \| U.S. Wallpaper Company. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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5	Title:	Hiram House Social Settlement Records
	Creator:	Hiram House Social Settlement
	Dates:	1893-1972
	Abstract:	Hiram House is a pioneer Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1896 by a group of Hiram College students led by George Bellamy, who later became Commissioner of Recreation for the city of Cleveland. During the height of its growth the settlement offered a full range of social, educational and recreational activities, but since 1948 it has concentrated its resources on Hiram House Camp in the suburb of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Before 1948 its primary service area was centered in a neighborhood populated primarily by Jews, Italians and African Americans. The collection consists of minutes, resolutions, financial statements, ledger books, legal papers, correspondence, and employment and administrative policy materials of Hiram House, correspondence and legal and financial papers of George Bellamy, and correspondence from Samuel Mather and other supporters of the settlement.
	Call #:	MS 3319
	Extent:	38.00 linear feet (78 containers and 17 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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6	Title:	City Infirmary, Cleveland, Ohio, Records
	Creator:	City Infirmary, Cleveland, Ohio
	Dates:	1867-1876
	Abstract:	The City Infirmary was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1855 to house and assist the poor, aged, mentally ill, and handicapped. The State of Ohio authorized county governments to build and administer poorhouses and infirmaries to provide long-term care for the poor and homeless in 1816. Cuyahoga County was the only county that did not establish a poorhouse, so Cleveland built a combined poorhouse/infirmary in 1827 behind Erie Street Cemetery that accepted referrals from throughout the county. As the population of Cleveland expanded rapidly, its City Council voted in 1849 for a tax levy to pay for a separate workhouse and infirmary. In 1855 the new City Infirmary was built on the site of the current Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. A few years later, Cleveland was experiencing the consequences of a national economic panic which included an influx of "inmates" to the City Infirmary that included newborn babies, the elderly, and the infirm. Immediately after the American Civil War, Ohio changed its infirmary law to require the election of infirmary directors and boards, thus injecting politics into the management of the City Infirmary. Cleveland's population doubled between 1860-1870, its economy rapidly industrialized, and its immigrant population increased dramatically. The City Infirmary cared for the poorest, most vulnerable citizens of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County during this era, including destitute individuals and families, the mentally ill, the aged, children too young to be apprenticed, alcoholics, and those suffering from mental and physical disabilities. During the 1870s, Cleveland was again mired in an economic panic that did not begin to ease until 1878. The City Infirmary again experienced a flood of impoverished and ill individuals and families seeking aid. Increasingly, those seeking help at the City Infirmary were recent immigrants to the United States, including Germans, Irish, and Eastern Europeans. At the turn of the century, the City Infirmary was transformed into Cooley Farms which became a national model for service delivery and rehabilitation. The collection consists of one intake ledger.
	Call #:	MS 5134
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cleveland (Ohio). City Infirmary. \| Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Public health -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Elderly poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Orphans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Homeless persons -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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