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1	Title:	Grace Doering and John W. "Jack" McCord Papers, Series II
	Creator:	McCord, Grace Doering and John W.
	Dates:	1925-1981
	Abstract:	Grace Doering McCord (1890-1983) was a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney who served as Assistant City Law Director, 1935-1942. Her husband, John W. (Jack) McCord (1883-1967) was involved in the exploration and development of the Alaskan frontier and was instrumental in the move for Alaskan statehood. The collection consists of correspondence, biographical materials, speeches, writings, legal materials, and reminiscences. The collection mainly relates to Grace McCord's early law career and tenure as Cleveland's Assistant Law Director, as well as Jack McCord's involvement in the development of the Alaskan frontier.
	Call #:	MS 4119
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	McCord, Grace Doering, 1890-1983. \| McCord, John W., 1883-1967. \| Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City attorneys -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959.
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2	Title:	Grace Doering and John W. "Jack" McCord Papers
	Creator:	Doering, Grace and McCord, John W.
	Dates:	1900-1981
	Abstract:	Grace Doering McCord (1890-1983)was a Cleveland, Ohio-born teacher, journalist, lawyer, and law professor who became Assistant Director of Law for the City of Cleveland. She was active in many legal, business, and women's organizations. In 1957 she married John W. McCord (1883-1967), an Iowa native who moved to Alaska and spent his life prospecting for gold, speculating in oil, exploring for the Army Air Force, running a ranch and lobbying for Alaskan interests in Washington, D.C. The collection consists of personal correspondence, biographical materials, class notes, newspaper clippings, papers from Mrs. McCord's tenure as Assistant Director of Law for the city of Cleveland, minutes, correspondence and reports from many of Mrs. McCord's professional organizations, and a copy of McCord of Alaska by Jack Long.
	Call #:	MS 3959
	Extent:	5.20 linear feet (7 containers)
	Subjects:	McCord, Grace Doering, 1890-1983. \| McCord, John W., 1883-1967. \| Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City attorneys -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Alaska -- History -- 1867-1959.
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3	Title:	Mary P. Hutchings Papers
	Creator:	Hutchings, Mary P.
	Dates:	1931-1991
	Abstract:	Mary P. Hutchings (1915-1991) was a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney and for ten years the Chief Referee of the Cleveland Civil Service Commission. She was born in Union City, Tennessee. Her family moved to Cleveland and she attended the Cleveland City Schools before graduating from Cleveland Heights High School. She returned to Tennessee and graduated from Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis and later received a graduate degree from Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Science. In 1951 she joined future jurist Lillian Burke as a graduate of Cleveland Marshall Law School. In addition to private law practice, Hutchings served as an assistant state attorney general for mental hygiene and corrections and a guidance counselor at the Cleveland Job Corps for Women. In her civic life she served on several boards and was active with the NAACP, Women's City Club, National Association of Black Women Attorneys, Americans for Democratic Action, the Glenville YWCA, the Phillis Wheatley Association, Jack & Jill of America and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Her local political activism earned her invitations to Lyndon Johnson's 1965 presidential inauguration and state of the union message to Congress. She supported Carl Stokes' 1965 and 1967 mayoral campaigns. She served as a precinct committeewoman for Wards 19 and 25. In 1938 she married George Hutchings and had one son, Phillip. The collection consists of agendas, cards, certificates, correspondence, invitations, memos, newsletters, newspaper clippings, postcards, proclamations, programs, reports, a resume, speeches, subpoenas, telegrams, and a yearbook.
	Call #:	MS 4851
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Hutchings, Mary P., 1915-1991. \| Stokes, Carl. \| Democratic Party (Cleveland, Ohio). \| LeMoyne-Owen College. \| African American women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Political activity -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women political activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1964. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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4	Title:	Marie Remington Wing Family Papers
	Creator:	Wing, Marie Remington Family
	Dates:	1846-1980
	Abstract:	Marie Remington Wing was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer who served on the Cleveland City Council (1923-1927), as Solicitor for the Village of Mentor, Ohio (1929-1936), and as Regional Attorney for the Social Security Board (1936-1953). She was also involved in numerous professional, civic, and health organizations in Cleveland and in Mentor. Wing came from a distinguished Cleveland family, which included her uncle, George Clary Wing, an author and attorney who served in several United States government departments. Marie's father, Francis Joseph Wing, was a judge in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and in the United States District Court for Northern Ohio. Her older sister, Virginia Remington Wing, was, like Marie, a social activist, working for the Red Cross, the Cleveland Anti-Tuberculosis League, and the Cleveland Health Council's Health Education Department. She was also the secretary of both the Brush Foundation and the Sight Saving Council. Marie's longtime companion, Dorothy Smith, worked with the YWCA, founded an insurance business, and was an executive for the East End Neighborhood House. Marie Wing's niece, Stephanie Ralph, was a school psychologist, and her husband, Paul Ralph, was also prominent in the academic world. The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous memorabilia, financial and legal papers, and records of Marie Wing and her family, and those of the organizations they served. Included are the diaries of Wing's grandfather, Stephen Remington, who served in the Civil War as a private in the 19th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery.
	Call #:	MS 4655
	Extent:	5.00 linear feet (5 containers and 4 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Wing, Marie Remington, 1885-1982. \| Wing family. \| Remington family. \| Ralph family. \| Consumers League of Ohio. \| Democratic Party (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Democratic Party (Mentor, Ohio). \| East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cuyahoga County Relief Administration. \| United States. Federal Security Agency. \| Lake County Committee on Aging. \| Legal Services Association of Lake County (Ohio). \| Lake County Bar Association. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Mentor. \| Women in politics -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women in politics -- Ohio -- Mentor. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Mentor. \| Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio. \| Lake County (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Mentor (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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