Subject | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | [X] | | • | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(5)
| | • | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(4)
| | • | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(4)
| | • | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(3)
| | • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(3)
| | • | Antislavery movements -- Ohio. |
(1)
| | • | Architects and builders -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Beilstein-Young Company. |
(1)
| | • | Białystok (Poland) -- Genealogy. |
(1)
| | • | Boley family. |
(1)
| | • | Building materials industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Cities and towns -- Ireland -- Limerick (County) |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). City Infirmary. |
(1)
| | • | Connecticut Land Company. |
(1)
| | • | Croatian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
(1)
| | • | Death certificates -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Elderly poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Ethnic groups -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Forest City Enterprises, Inc. |
(1)
| | • | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
(1)
| | • | Gormelly family. |
(1)
| | • | Gormley family. |
(1)
| | • | Grdina Funeral Home (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Grdina, Anton, 1874-1957 |
(1)
| | • | Grdina-Cosic Funeral Home (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Hayes family. |
(1)
| | • | Hayes, Michael, of Hospital, County Limerick, Ireland. |
(1)
| | • | Homeless persons -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. |
(1)
| | • | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. |
(1)
| | • | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. |
(1)
| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. |
(1)
| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
(1)
| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Lillian and Betty Ratner School (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Limerick (Ireland : County) -- Genealogy. |
(1)
| | • | Limerick (Ireland : County) -- Maps. |
(1)
| | • | Mahoney family. |
(1)
| | • | Mahoney, Timothy. |
(1)
| | • | Marriage records -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | McCarthy family. |
(1)
| | • | McCarthy, Margaret, of Kildimo, County Limerick, Ireland. |
(1)
| | • | Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Miller, Ruth Ratner, 1926-1996. |
(1)
| | • | Morrow family. |
(1)
| | • | Morrow, David Sr. d. 1836. |
(1)
| | • | O'Leary family. |
(1)
| | • | Orphans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
(1)
| | • | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Public health -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Ratner family. |
(1)
| | • | Ratner, Albert B., 1927- |
(1)
| | • | Ratner, Leonard, 1896-1974. |
(1)
| | • | Real estate developers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
(1)
| | • | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. |
(1)
| | • | Slovak Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
(1)
| | • | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. |
(1)
| | • | Thorman family. |
(1)
| | • | United States -- Emigration and immigration. |
(1)
| | • | United States -- History -- 19th century. |
(1)
| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. |
(1)
| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
(1)
| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. |
(1)
| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. |
(1)
| | • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
(1)
| | • | Women immigrants. |
(1)
|
| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Early Families in Cleveland Project Records
| | | | Creator: | Early Families in Cleveland Project | | | | Dates: | 1996 | | | | Abstract: | The Early Families in Cleveland project was sponsored by the Genealogical Committee of the Western Reserve Historical Society as part of Bicentennial celebration of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1996. The purpose of the project was to document those individuals who resided in Cuyahoga County, or whose ancestors resided in Cuyahoga County, at least ten years prior to the date of settlement of their (or their ancestor's) ethnic group. Each verified applicant to the project received an award certificate presented at the Family History Fair in May 1996, or during Family Days in November 1996. The collection consists of adoption records, application forms, baptismal certificates, birth certificates, census forms, church records, correspondence, court records, death certificates, deeds, descendancy charts, diplomas, estate ledgers, family trees, interviews, magazine articles, maps, marriage certificates, marriage licenses, naturalization records, newspaper articles, photograph copies, real estate records, receipts, recognition certificates, records of interment, statements, tax lists, vital records, and wills. | | | | Call #: | MS 4935 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Ethnic groups -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Marriage records -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | 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.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Thorman Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Thorman Family | | | | Dates: | 1873-1961 | | | | Abstract: | Simson Thorman was one of the first Jews to settle in Cleveland, Ohio, coming in 1837, and was responsible for the migration of 19 other Jews from Unsleben, Bavaria, known as the Alsbacher Party, the first major settlement of Jews in Cleveland. His grandson, Harold Thorman, the principal family member represented in the collection, was founder of H.M. Thorman, a women's coat-making firm, and was also associated with the brokerage firm of Joseph Mellen & Miller, Inc. The collection consists of genealogical notes, clippings, correspondence, certificates, wills, and record books. Includes wills of Simson and Regina Thorman, as well as a land title, correspondence regarding property, and record books relating to Simson Thorman; clippings, a memorial tribute to Abba Hillel Silver, and birth, marriage, army discharge and death certificates for Harold Thorman. The collection has value for the study of the origins and development of the Jewish community in Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4228 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Thorman family. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Beilstein-Young Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Beilstein-Young Company | | | | Dates: | 1907-1930 | | | | Abstract: | The Beilstein-Young Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was a funeral home firm. Fred Beilstein operated as an undertaker at 3311 Prospect Avenue as early as 1907, and in 1913 the Beilstein-Young Company was incorporated. The funeral home was located at 7508 Carnegie Avenue from 1918-1921. The firm moved to 1795 Crawford Road in 1921. Fred Beilstein died in 1926, and his partner William W. Young became president and treasurer, with W. E. Beilstein as vice president. The collection consists of bound funeral registers. The registers list details about the deceased including name, date of birth, occupation, marital status, religion, place and cause of death, certifying physician, and name and birthplace of parents. The details of the funeral service include location, resider, place of burial, style of casket, and a diagram of the cemetery lot. The name and address of the party paying for the funeral is also listed, with an itemized list of services and expenses, and payment schedule. An introduction to each register describes the duties and ethics of the funeral director. | | | | Call #: | MS 4557 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Beilstein-Young Company. | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Hayes and McCarthy Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hayes and McCarthy | | | | Dates: | 1897-2003 | | | | Abstract: | The Hayes family was originally from Hospital, County Limerick, Ireland. Michael Hayes emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901. Margaret McCarthy was one of seven children of the McCarthy family which originated in Kildimo, County Limerick. These papers were compiled by Jim Hayes, great, great grandson of Michael Hayes, and Patricia Boley, granddaughter of Margaret McCarthy. The collection consists of correspondence, a family directory, family history, genealogical documents, including reports from Ireland, census records, certificates, maps, and passenger records, an in memoriam card, newspaper clippings, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4952 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Hayes, Michael, of Hospital, County Limerick, Ireland. | McCarthy, Margaret, of Kildimo, County Limerick, Ireland. | Mahoney, Timothy. | Hayes family. | McCarthy family. | Mahoney family. | O'Leary family. | Gormley family. | Gormelly family. | Boley family. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cities and towns -- Ireland -- Limerick (County) | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Limerick (Ireland : County) -- Genealogy. | Limerick (Ireland : County) -- Maps.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 8 | Title: | Grdina Funeral Home and Grdina-Cosic Funeral Home Records
| | | | Creator: | Grdina Funeral Home | | | | Dates: | 1912-1991 | | | | Abstract: | Grdina Funeral Home was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1909 by Anton Grdina (1874-1957). The funeral home primarily served the Yugolav immigrant community in the St. Clair and Lake Shore neighborhoods of Cleveland. Immigrants from Slovenia and Croatia primarily used the funeral home. The collection consists of funeral ledgers, mortuary records, receipts, and tax documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 5188 | | | | Extent: | 10.80 linear feet (10 containers and 7 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Croatian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Grdina Funeral Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Grdina, Anton, 1874-1957 | Grdina-Cosic Funeral Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 9 | 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.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Ratner Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Ratner Family | | | | Dates: | 1891-2007 | | | | Abstract: | The Ratner (formerly Ratowczer) family has been prominent in the Cleveland, Ohio, area since the mid-twentieth century. The family immigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Cleveland in 1921. Leonard Ratner began his business career by opening two creameries in the Glenville neighborhood. He then formed the Buckeye Material Company in 1924, later merging it with his brother Charlie's business, Forest City Material Company, in 1929, to form the B & F Building Company, a major builder of prefabricated homes in the east side suburbs. The family consolidated their business interests into Forest City Enterprises, Inc. in 1960. Leonard Ratner married Lillian Bernstein in 1924 and had two children: Ruth Ratner Miller and Albert B. Ratner. Leonard Ratner held many important positions on community boards during his lifetime, including the positions of honorary life trustee at the Jewish Welfare Federation, the Jewish Community Federation, and Mount Sinai Hospital. His children were also heavily involved in philanthropy. The Ratner family was particularly instrumental in establishing the Cleveland Jewish Archives at the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1976. The collection consists of advertisements, annual reports, census reports, certificates, correspondence, reports, lists, newspaper clippings, newsletters, programs, scrapbooks, ship manifests, songs, and speeches. | | | | Call #: | MS 5044 | | | | Extent: | 9.00 linear feet (2 containers, 14 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder,) | | | | Subjects: | Ratner, Leonard, 1896-1974. | Miller, Ruth Ratner, 1926-1996. | Ratner, Albert B., 1927- | Ratner family. | Forest City Enterprises, Inc. | Lillian and Betty Ratner School (Pepper Pike, Ohio) | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Building materials industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Architects and builders -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate developers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Białystok (Poland) -- Genealogy.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 11 | 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.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
|
