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1	Title:	McGorray Brothers Funeral Home Records, Series II
	Creator:	McGorray Brothers Funeral Home
	Dates:	1935-1936
	Abstract:	The McGorray Brothers Funeral Home was founded by Mark McGorray in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, as the McGorray Funeral Home. The name was changed to McGorray Brothers Funeral Home after the death of Mark McGorray in 1891, when two of his sons, James W. McGorray and Joseph McGorray, took over the business. Mark McGorray was an Irish immigrant, coming to the United States in 1844. He and his family settled in Cleveland in 1864. McGorray Brothers Funeral Home became a prominent Irish Catholic funeral home, and was located first on the west side of Cleveland, and by 1922, in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland. James W. McGorray II took over the business ca. 1919. His son, James W. McGorray III, assumed leadership of the business on the death of his father in 1968. He served as President until his death in 1994, when he was succeeded by his daughter and current president, Mary Susan McGorray. The collection consists of a funeral account record book.
	Call #:	MS 5128
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	McGorray Brothers Funeral Home. \| Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Lakewood -- Genealogy. \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Lakewood (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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2	Title:	McGorray Brothers Funeral Home Records
	Creator:	McGorray Brothers Funeral Home
	Dates:	1876-1935
	Abstract:	The McGorray Brothers Funeral Home was founded by Mark McGorray in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, as the McGorray Funeral Home. The name was changed to McGorray Brothers Funeral Home after the death of Mark McGorray in 1891, when two of his sons, James W. McGorray and Joseph McGorray, took over the business. Mark McGorray was an Irish immigrant, coming to the United States in 1844. He and his family settled in Cleveland in 1864. McGorray Brothers Funeral Home became a prominent Irish Catholic funeral home, and was located first on the west side of Cleveland, and by 1922, in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland. James W. McGorray II took over the business ca. 1919. His son, James W. McGorray III, assumed leadership of the business on the death of his father in 1968. He served as President until his death in 1994, when he was succeeded by his daughter and current president, Mary Susan McGorray. The collection consists of funeral account ledgers, funeral record books, inventory records, carriage and coach ledgers, correspondence, death certificates, burial permits, and other receipts. This collection provides the genealogical researcher with much information, particularly those interested in Irish Catholic family history of Cleveland, Ohio. The funeral account ledgers provide the name of the deceased, name the account is being billed to, date of death, and date and location of burial. The majority of these ledgers contain an alphabetized index of names. The funeral record books include the name of the deceased, date of death, age, sex, cause of death, residence of the deceased, place of burial, name the account is being billed to (often next of kin), that person's address, and the attending physician and his address. Also contained in these volumes are receipts, burial permits, and death certificates for individuals. The collection also contains business records, including carriage, coach, and inventory volumes, detailing the funeral home business of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. click here to view the searchable index to the burial records contained in this collection
	Call #:	MS 4805
	Extent:	5.40 linear feet (14 containers)
	Subjects:	McGorray, Mark, 1829-1891. \| McGorray, James W., d. 1919. \| McGorray, Joseph, d. 1910. \| McGorray, James W. II, 1892-1968. \| McGorray, James W. III, 1923-1994. \| McGorray, Mary Susan, 1957- \| McGorray Brothers Funeral Home. \| Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Lakewood -- Genealogy. \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Lakewood (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Lakewood. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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3	Title:	Chambers Funeral Home Records
	Creator:	Chambers Funeral Home
	Dates:	1935-1955
	Abstract:	Chambers Funeral Home was founded in 1933 by William F. Chambers, Sr. and his wife, Agnes. Located on the west side of Cleveland, Ohio, the funeral home served the needs of Irish Catholics. Agnes Chambers continued running the funeral home after her husband's death in 1950 and then passed along the business to her children. Today Chambers Funeral Home is operated by the third generation of the Chambers family and continues to serve Irish Catholic and Polish Catholic families. The collection consists of cemetery records, correspondence, court documents, cremation records, death certificates, death notices, financial statements, forms, funeral arrangement records, holy cards, legal documents, lists, memorial cards, military discharge records, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, payment arrangements, photographs, and purchase orders. click here to view the index to burial records contained in this collection
	Call #:	MS 5073
	Extent:	1.40 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Death certificates -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Obituaries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Polish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy.
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4	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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