Subject | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Antislavery movements -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Breck family. |
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| | • | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Building leases -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad Company. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Park Commissioners. |
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| | • | Cleveland Female Seminary. |
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| | • | Commercial buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Connecticut Land Company. |
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| | • | Deeds -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Deeds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Education, Secondary -- Connecticut -- Middletown -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Fitch family. |
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| | • | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Hill Clutch Company. |
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| | • | Installment land contracts -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
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| | • | Perkins family. |
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| | • | Perkins, Charles, -- Diaries. |
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| | • | Perkins, Douglas, 1855-1921 -- Archives. |
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| | • | Perkins, Jacob B. (Jacob Bishop), 1854-1936 -- Archives. |
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| | • | Perkins, Jacob, 1821-1859 -- Archives. |
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| | • | Perkins, Joseph, 1819-1885 -- Archives. |
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| | • | Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844. |
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| | • | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Real estate investment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Real property tax -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- 19th century. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
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| | • | Walker Manufacturing Company. |
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| | • | Warren (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | John Breck Family Papers, Joint Manuscript and Microfilm Edition
| | | | Creator: | Breck, John Family | | | | Dates: | 1782-1993 | | | | Abstract: | The John Breck family, natives of Massachusetts, purchased land in the Western Reserve from the Connecticut Land Company. By 1803, John Breck was sole owner of the family's land in what is now Brecksville, Ohio. He married Clarissa Allen and they had six children. Seth Paine and Alfred Wolcott surveyed the Breck family land in 1811. Paine and his family became Brecksville's first settlers. The first family member to live in Brecksville was John Breck's nephew, the Reverend Joseph Hunt Breck, who later settled in Newburgh, Ohio. John Breck's sons John Adams, Theodore, and Edward, came to Brecksville in 1830. Theodore Breck was a merchant in Brecksville, served as a Cuyahoga County commissioner, and represented the Brecksville area in the Ohio state legislature. Edward M. Breck setled in Huntsburg, Geauga County, Ohio, and in later years returned to Brecksville. His son, Edward King Breck, married Mary Louisa Oakes of Brecksville, and they had two children. Their son, Theodore Breck attended Oberlin College and Amherst College and received a medical degree from Wooster College. He served in World War I, was on the staff of Glenville Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, was a member of the Early Settlers Club, and president of the Brecksville Centennial in 1911. The collection consists of Consists of letters, diaries, poems, writings, newspaper clippings, obituaries, historical notes, receipts, accounts, contracts, deeds, land surveys, wills, powers of attorney, legal documents, certificates, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4675 | | | | Extent: | 0.90 linear feet (2 containers, 1 oversize folder, and 2 rolls of microfilm) | | | | Subjects: | Breck, John, 1770-1827. | Breck family. | Deeds -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Brecksville (Ohio) -- History. | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | 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* | | 3 | 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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