| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Devereux Family |
| Title: | Devereux Family Papers |
| Dates: | 1808-1932 |
| Extent: | 25.0 linear feet (54 containers and 28 oversize volumes) |
| Abstract: | John Devereux was a sea captain of Marblehead, Mass. John H. Devereux was an American Civil War general, engineer, railroad executive, and philanthropist, of Cleveland, Ohio. Henry K. Devereux was an engineer, real estate agent, industrialist, philanthropist, and harness-horse fancier, of Cleveland. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, business, financial, and legal documents, genealogical data, ship's logs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers, of John Devereux, John H. Devereux, and Henry K. Devereux. Bulk of the collection relates to railroad construction and John H. Devereux's career with several railroads. Includes records (1895-1916) of the Gentlemen's Driving Club, and material relating to Henry K. Devereux's interest in trotting horses and harness racing and his activities as an official of several businesses. The collection also documents the role played by the railroad for the Union during the American Civil War. |
| MS Number | MS 2415 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English and German |
John Devereux (1802-1881) was born in the Devereux manor house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in April 1802, the eldest son of John Devereux. For a century and a half his Devereux ancestors had been born and died there. Young John was the sixth generation directly descended from an ancestor who came to Salem, Massachusetts, from England in the early seventeenth century. The latter had much to do with the purchase, founding, and governing of Marblehead in the middle and latter part of the seventeenth century.
The War of 1812 disrupted the Devereux estate and altered john Devereux's father's plans for a college education and subsequent pursuit of a professional career for young John. When his father died at an early age, John was left to his own resources. In 1818, he elected to go to sea, making his initial voyage from Marblehead to Java. He advanced rapidly as a young seaman, becoming master of his own vessel at the age of 19. John Devereux married Matilda Burton, of New Orleans, in 1830. Matilda accompanied her husband on many of his voyages. The couple had one child, John Henry Devereux. One source notes John Devereux's permanent retirement from sailing in 1863 while another notes that his final voyage was made from New York to Gloucester, England in 1868. His ships' logs in this collection run through 1864.
In 1865, John Devereux ran for the Massachusetts state legislature as a Democrat. One source states that he had previously been a Whig; another, that he was a Jacksonian Democrat and had contributed to the local Democrat party for many years. John Devereux died in Marblehead in February 1881, survived by his wife and son. At the time of his death it was said that he was the oldest living member of the Boston Marine Society.
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John Henry Devereux (1832-1886) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of John and Matilda (Burton Devereux. He was educated in the Portsmouth Academy in New Hampshire as a civil engineer. He came to Cleveland, Ohio, as a youth while the railroad industry was in its infancy to apprentice as a civil engineer on the city-financed Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad. In 1851 while working on the cleveland, Painseville & Ashtabula Railroad as a construction engineer, John Henry Devereux married Antoinette Kelsey, daughter of Lorenzo A. Kelsey, a former mayor of Cleveland. The couple had two sons and two daughters, including Henry Kelsey Devereux.
In 1852, construction on the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad was completed, and John Henry Devereux moved to Tennessee to become Division and Resident Engineer of the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad. He held that job for eight years, and was a prominent resident of Nashville, eventually becoming that city's Civil Engineer.
In 1861, John Henry Devereux made several public speeches sympathetic to the Union cause. At the outbreak of the Civil War he terminated his affairs and returned to Ohio. When the federal government took over the operation of the war, Devereux's knowledge of the South and Southern railroads led to his appointment as United States Military Engineer for the Shenandoah Valley in April 1862. In May 1862 he was given the job of Superintendent, with military rank, of Virginia railroads. He accomplished the arduous task of rebuilding the Virginia railroads, previously in unsatisfactory condition, for military use. Logistically, his organizational abilities played a major role in supporting the Army of the Potomac, bringing special notice from President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
John Henry Devereux resigned his official position with the Union Army in March 1864 and returned to Cleveland, Ohio, to serve as Superintendent of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad. He was quickly promoted to vice president, and resigned in 1868 to accept a comparable position with the Lake Shore Railroad. He was soon appointed President of Lake Shore, and remained in that capacity until all railroad lines between Buffalo and Chicago were consolidated into the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. Devereux became General Manager of this new railroad system in May 1870, a position he held until June 1873 when he accepted the presidency of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad, a position he held until his death. He also accepted presidency of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, the "Bee Line," succeeding ex-Union General George B. McClellan in that position. He moved into other railroad executive positions as well. He was a director of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and vice president of the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny Railroad. He also served as a director of the Dayton and Union Railroad and the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad.
In 1873, John Henry Devereux built a mansion along Cleveland's "Millionaire's Row" on Euclid Avenue. The home later became the Cleveland Fine Arts Building. He was one of the incorporators of the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was a member of the Cleveland Humane Society, and contributed to many Cleveland charities. He was an Episcopalian and held high rank in the Masonic Order. He twice refused a nomination to the United States Congress.
When the Atlantic & Great Western railroad went into receivership in December 1874, John Henry Devereux was appointed receiver. He re-organized the line as the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad in January 1880, and became the President of the new company until his retirement in November 1881.
John Henry Devereux was a friend and confidant of William K. Vanderbilt. In 1882, he served as Vanderbilt's agent in negotiations through which the Vanderbilt railroad system acquired the Nickel Plate line.
In June 1885, John Henry Devereux appeared before the Untied States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce. During his appearance, he advocated government control to protect railroad investments and the establishment of an interstate commerce commission to maintain fair rates.
John Henry Devereux died of cancer in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 17, 1886.
Sources are indefinate with respect to the exact year of birth for Henry Kelsey Devereux. He was born in the Cleveland mansion of his railroad magnate father, John Henry Devereux and Antoinette Cecilia (Kelsey) Devereux on October 10, 1859 or 1860. He received his early education in Brooks Military Academy of Cleveland, where he was selected by noted Ohio artist Archibald MacNeal Willard to pose for "The Spirit of '76" painting. This painting was being prepared for the Philadelphia Centennial commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Henry Kelsey Devereux graduated with distinction from Yale in 1883, having prepared for a career in engineering. He became a division engineer with one of his father's railroad enterprises, the "Big 4," and eventually its real estate agent. he became an official of the Winslow Car Roofing Company (later known as the Chicago-Cleveland Car Roofing Company).
Henry Kelsey Devereux married Mildred Abeel French in 1885, and the couple had three children. In 1889 he became treasurer of the Paige Car Wheel Company,. This company became part f the Steel Tire Wheel Company in 1897, and Devereux served as a director and Western Representative for this firm. Additionally, he served as treasurer for the Cleveland Railway Supply Company; vice president and director of the Brady metal Company of New York; Cleveland Representative for the Franklin Castings Company; sales agent and Cleveland manager for the Chicago-Cleveland Car Roofing Company; director of the Railway Steel Spring Company of New York; and a director of the Paterson-Sargent Paint Company.
On June 1, 1895, Henry Kelsey Devereux was one of the organizers of the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Cleveland. In 1908 he organized (and served as lifetime president) the Forest City Live Stock and Fair Company. This firm built the North Randall race track for harness horses. Devereux was an avid promoter of the fine harness horse, having been interested in trotting races while in his youth. In a day when wealthy sportsmen drove their own trotting horses at race tracks, he won many races and accumulated countless trophies and ribbons in competition with other gentlemen amateur contemporaries. He was president of a chain of race tracks known as the Grand Circuit Racing Association, President of the League of Amateur Driving Clubs, and the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Cleveland. he served as secretary and president of the American Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, and was a member of the review board of the National Trotting Association. In company with others, he formed the Cleveland Pastime Stable. Aside from being an internationally known horse fancier and philanthropist, he belonged to several clubs. He was a member of the Delta Psi fraternity, "Troop A" of the Ohio National Guard, and the Episcopal Church.
Henry Kelsey Devereux retired from business in 1911 to devote full time to the breeding and racing of trotting horses. He established a winter residence in Thomasville, Georgia, that developed into a winter colony for several other prominent Cleveland families. His Ohio estate was at Nutwood Farm in Wickliffe, not far from Cleveland. Devereux died at his Thomasville estate on May 2, 1932, due to a heart condition.
The Devereux Family Papers generally encompass a period from 1808-1932, not including some genealogical material for the Devereux ancestors dating back well into the the Medieval period. The family traces its ancestry back to Robert D'Evreux, one of the Norman Conquerors.
The three principle members of the family to whom the Papers largely reltae are John Devereux (1802-1881), sea captain of Marblehead, Massachusetts; John Henry Devereux (1832-1886), Civil War general, engineer, railroad industrialist, and philanthropist of Cleveland, Ohio; and Henry Kelsey Devereux (1860-1932), industrialist, harness horse fancier, and philanthropist, also of Cleveland. These three men were, respectively, grandfather, father, and son. For the first-named, John Devereux, there is the least amount of material in the Papers.
The Papers consist of correspondence (including telegraphic messages), business and legal documents, letter copy books, diaries, volumes of financial records and scientific data, stallion service records, pedigrees and pedigree registrations for trotting and stable horses, ships' logs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, pamphlets and other printed items, and framed, cased, and unmounted photographs, photograph albums, Daguerreotypes and film plates, engravers' plates, and engravings. The collection likewise contains a number of charts and related genealogical material, both in printed and manuscript form.
It will be noted, among the Papers, that the name "Devereux" is sometimes spelled with an "A" (Devereaux"). For the sake of brevity and consistency, the "A" has been omitted for the purposes of the finding aid and for the folder and container descriptions.
The researcher will find items concerned with nineteenth century sea voyages; secessionist sympathies; railroad engineering and railroad management in the antebellum South; the management of Union military railroads during the American Civil War in embattled Virginia and the southeastern border area; and railroad expansion in the United States During the 1860s-1880s, involving the railroad "tycoons" of the East. An abundance of material is to be found on the organization and development of fine harness racing, with particular emphasis on the promotion of this genteel sport in Cleveland, Ohio, during the latter part of the 1890s and the first three decades of the twentieth century. Finally, there is a good deal of genealogical material for the Devereux family and some items relating to the role of Henry Kelsey Devereux as a youthful model for the drummer boy in Archibald MacNeal Willard's famous painting, "The Spirit of '76." Willard was an Ohio artist.
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Related MaterialThe researcher should also consult PG 61 Devereux Family Photographs.
Separated MaterialAll photographs from Containers 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 52 have been removed to Picture Group 61 Devereux Family Photographs. While these containers were originally described in the 1963 finding aid to this collection, these descriptions have been omitted here.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 2415 Devereux Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
A portion of the Devereux Family Papers was acquired by the Western Reserve Historical Society, presumably after the death of Henry Kelsey Devereux in 1932. Another collection of the Papers came to the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1952 from Mrs. Edwin M. Ashcraft III (nee Mildred Winslow) and Mrs. A. Winslow Powell (nee Aileen D. Winslow), two sisters, daughters of Aileen V. (Devereux) Winslow, and granddaughters of Henry Kelsey Devereux. The two groups have been combined to form the Papers. A special grouping within the Papers consists of the "records" (specifically, scrapbooks of mounted and unmounted material) of the Gentlemen's Riding Club of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1895-1916. These have been kept in their original leather cases.
Processed by John Large, Jr. in 1963.
Devereux Family Papers 1808-1932 undated |
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| 1 | 1-2 | Manuscript genealogical material undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 3-4 | Bound, printed genealogical material. Note photograph of John H. Devereux in Folder 3 dates vary | |||||||||
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| 2 | 1-5 | Genealogical material, illustrated, including prints and etchings of English subjects: "The Lives of the Earls of Essex and Their Times" dates vary | |||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | Financial documents related to the activities of John Devereux, including a policy written "By the Marblehead Marine Insurance Company, 1808" 1808-1860 | |||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Financial records related to the activities of John Devereux 1831-1860 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Financial records related to the activities of John Devereux 1832-1837 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Financial records related to the activities of John Devereux 1834-1840 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Financial records related to the activities of John Devereux 1837-1850 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Financial records related to the activities of John Devereux 1844-1851 | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Financial records related to the activities of John Devereux 1856-1862 | |||||||||
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| 4 | 1 | Ships' logs belonging to John Devereux 1818-1819 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Ships' logs belonging to John Devereux 1835-1843 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Ships' logs belonging to John Devereux 1839-1847 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Ships' logs belonging to John Devereux 1847-1849 | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | Ships' logs belonging to John Devereux 1849-1855 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | Ships' logs belonging to John Devereux 1855-1859 | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | Ships' logs belonging to John Devereux 1859-1864 | |||||||||
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| 5 | 1 | Biographical newspaper clippings for John, John H. and Henry K. Devereux, mostly in the nature of obituary items dates vary | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Biographica-obituary material for John H. Devereux contained in newspaper sections: Harper's Weekly, March 27, 1886; the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, March 19, 1886; the (New York) Daily Graphic, March 19, 1886; and the (Cleveland) Bee Line Gazette, April 1886 1886 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Kennedy, J. H., "General J. H. Devereux," Magazine of Western History, Illustrated, IV June 1886 | |||||||||
| 5 | 4 | Cleave, Egbert, Biographical Cyclopaedia of the United States. Ohio Volume. City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County (Philadelphia, J. B. Lipincott & Co.); see pages 10-13 for sketch of John H. Devereux 1875 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | General correspondence belonging to John H. Devereux, including General Devereux's postwar correspondence from Gould, Vanderbilt, Flagler, and Field 1839-1860 1868 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | General correspondence belonging to John H. Devereux 1869-1879 | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | General correspondence belonging to John H. Devereux, including a letter to Mrs. John H. Devereux, not of a condolence nature, written after the General's death 1880-1886 | |||||||||
| 5 | 8 | Miscellaneous items relating to John H. Devereux, including astrological summaries, profile of Ohio and Lake Erie Canal; map of shore line at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River; and figure showings land slides along Lake Erie at Cleveland undated | |||||||||
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| 6 | 1-9 | Civil War correspondence of John H. Devereux 1861-1862 | |||||||||
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| 7 | 1-8 | Civil War correspondence of John H. Devereux January-August 1863 | |||||||||
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| 8 | 1-6 | Civil War correspondence of John H. Devereux August-December 1863 | |||||||||
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| 9 | 1-5 | Civil War correspondence of John H. Devereux 1864 | |||||||||
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| 10 | 1 | Miscellaneous material relating to John H. Devereux's official duties during the Civil War, including financial and statistical data 1861-1864 | |||||||||
| 10 | 2 | Miscellaneous material relating to John H. Devereux's official duties during the Civil War, including correspondence and financial and statistical data, specifically unidentified as to date undated | |||||||||
| 10 | 3 | Miscellaneous material relating to John H. Devereux's official duties during the Civil War, including railroad passes and blank railroad company letterheads 1861-1864 | |||||||||
| 10 | 4 | Miscellaneous material relating to John H. Devereux's official duties during the Civil War, including cardboard railroad passes, for the most part approximately 6 x 10 centimeters ca. 1861-1864 | |||||||||
| 10 | 5 | Miscellaneous material relating to John H. Devereux's official duties during the Civil War, including printed items (railroad schedules, military documents, blank forms, and a pamphlet report for the United States Sanitary Commission dated October 1, 1863) 1861-1864 | |||||||||
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| 11 | 1-8 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period April-July 1862 | |||||||||
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| 12 | 1-6 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period July-August 1862 | |||||||||
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| 13 | 1-9 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period September-November 1862 | |||||||||
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| 14 | 1-9 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period December 1862-April 1863 | |||||||||
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| 15 | 1-6 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period April-June 1863 | |||||||||
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| 16 | 1-5 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period July-August 1863 | |||||||||
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| 17 | 1-7 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period September-October 1863 | |||||||||
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| 18 | 1-6 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period November-December 1863 | |||||||||
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| 19 | 1-5 | United States Military telegraphic messages (telegrams), for the most part sent and received by John H. Devereux during the Civil War period January-February 1864 | |||||||||
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| 20 | 1-5 | Railroad documents, including legal and financial, in printed and manuscript format (folder 5 has an undated cash bond agreement) 1866-1886 undated | |||||||||
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| 21 | 1-3 | Condolences received by his widow at the death of John H. Devereux, arranged alphabetically by surname 1886 | |||||||||
| 21 | 4 | Memorial items for John H. Devereux 1886 | |||||||||
| 21 | 5 | Memorial resolutions tendered to Mrs. John H. Devereux from the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis and the Indianapolis and St. Louis railway companies, Cleveland, Ohio March 22, 1886 | |||||||||
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| 22 | 1-4 | Personal correspondence letter copy books of John H. Devereux, including alphabetical indices 1873-1879 | |||||||||
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| 23 | 1-4 | Personal correspondence letter copy books of John H. Devereux, including alphabetical indices 1879-1884 | |||||||||
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| 24 | 1 | Personal correspondence letter copy book of John H. Devereux 1884-1886 | |||||||||
| 24 | 2 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Trustee" 1877-1886 | |||||||||
| 24 | 3 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "President, Vice President and General Manager" 1873-1874 | |||||||||
| 24 | 4 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "President, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1874-1875 | |||||||||
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| 25 | 1 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Jas. B. Hodgeskin, Vice President and Treasurer 1873 | |||||||||
| 25 | 1 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "J. H. Devereux, Vice President and General Manager" 1873-1874 | |||||||||
| 25 | 2 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Receiver, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1874-1875 | |||||||||
| 25 | 3 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Receiver, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1875-1876 | |||||||||
| 25 | 4 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Receiver, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1876-1877 | |||||||||
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| 26 | 1 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Receiver, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1877 | |||||||||
| 26 | 2 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Receiver, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1877-1878 | |||||||||
| 26 | 3 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Receiver, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1878-1879 | |||||||||
| 26 | 4 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Receiver, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1879 | |||||||||
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| 27 | 1 | Letter copy books relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Receiver, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1879-1881 1885 | |||||||||
| 27 | 2 | United States Congressional reports, "Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the Secretary of War, 1853-1854, according to acts of Congress. . ." 1855 | |||||||||
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| 28 | 1 | United States Congressional report, "Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in 1854-1855, according to acts of Congress. . ." 1857 | |||||||||
| 28 | 2 | United States Congressional report, "Report of the commercial relations of the United States with all foreign nations. . .Prepared and printed under the direction of the Secretary of State. . ." 1857 | |||||||||
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| 29 | 1 | United States Congressional report, "Results of meteorological observations, made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress" 1864 | |||||||||
| 29 | 2 | Government report, "The fisheries and fishing industries of the United States. . ." 1884 | |||||||||
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| 30 | 1 | United States Congressional report, "Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River; upon the protection of the alluvial region against overflow; and upon the deepening of the mouths: Based upon surveys and investigations made under the acts of Congress. . ." 1861 | |||||||||
| 30 | 2 | Smithsonian Institution publication, ". . .An account of a collection of plants. . .in an expedition from Texas to New Mexico, in the summer and autumn of 1849. . ." 1852 | |||||||||
| 30 | 3 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Observations on terrestrial magnetism. . ." June 1852 | |||||||||
| 30 | 4 | Smithsonian Institution publication, Researches on electrical rheometry. . ." June 1852 | |||||||||
| 30 | 5 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Memoir on the extinct species of American ox. . ." December 1852 | |||||||||
| 30 | 6 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "A flora and fauna within living animals . . ." April 1853 | |||||||||
| 30 | 7 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Winds of the northern hemisphere . . ." November 1853 | |||||||||
| 30 | 8 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "A memoir of the extinct sloth tribe of North America . . ." June 1855 | |||||||||
| 30 | 9 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "On the relative intensity of the heat and light of the sun upon different latitudes of the earth . . ." November 1856 | |||||||||
| 30 | 10 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Observations on Mexican history and archaeology, with a special notice of Zapotec remains" December 1856 | |||||||||
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| 31 | 1 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Illustrations of Surface Geology . . ." April 1857 | |||||||||
| 31 | 2 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Catalogue of North American birds, chiefly in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution . . ." October 1858 | |||||||||
| 31 | 3 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Grammar and dictionary of the Yoruba language, with an introductory description of the people and country of Yoruba . . ." December 1858 | |||||||||
| 31 | 4 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "On certain storms in Europe and America, December, 1836" March 1860 | |||||||||
| 31 | 5 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "On fluctuations of level in the North American lakes . . ." July 1860 | |||||||||
| 31 | 6 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Palaeontology of the upper Missouri. . ." April 1865 | |||||||||
| 31 | 7 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "On the fresh-water glacial drift of the northwestern states . . ." December 1866 | |||||||||
| 31 | 8 | Smithsonian Institution publication, "Physical observations in the Arctic seas . . ." June 1867 | |||||||||
| 31 | 9-11 | German language publication, having to do with the science of engineering 1853-1855 | |||||||||
| 31 | 12 | "Contributions to the Fauna of Chile" by Charles Girard undated | |||||||||
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| 32 | 1-5 | Diaries of John H. Devereux, mostly concerned with his activities as an engineer in the South, including observations of men and events 1851-1856 | |||||||||
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| 33 | 1-5 | Diaries of John H. Devereux, mostly concerned with his activities as an engineer in the South, including observations of men and events (folder 5 includes descriptions of some of the excitement which Devereux observed in connection with impending secession and the Civil War in the South) 1857-1862 | |||||||||
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| 34 | Diaries of John H. Devereux; a collection of 40 pocket-size diaries, apparently kept simultaneously, for a time, with those in preceding Containers 23 and 33; each bears the initials "JHD" and is appropriately dated 1847-1886 | ||||||||||
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| 35 | Diaries of Antoinette (Kelsey) Devereux; this is a collection of 19 pocket-size and 2 folders of cardboard-bound diaries which were kept by the wife of John H. Devereux. The 3 diaries in Folders 1 and 2 are undated, though were apparently kept by Mrs. Devereux prior to her marriage in 1851; each of the pocket-size diaries bears the initials "AKD" and is dated with the appropriate year 1859-1876 1886 undated | ||||||||||
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| 36 | 1 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Atlantic & Great Western and other railroads" 1880-1882 | |||||||||
| 36 | 2 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Atlantic & Great Western Railroad" 1882 | |||||||||
| 36 | 3 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad" 1880-1882 | |||||||||
| 36 | 4-6 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Ohio railway controversy" 1881-1882 | |||||||||
| 36 | 7 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Lake Shore, Michigan & Southern Railroad" 1882 | |||||||||
| 36 | 8 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Nickel Plate Railroad" 1882 | |||||||||
| 36 | 9 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Bee Line (C. C. C. & I.) Railroad" 1882 1885-1886 | |||||||||
| 36 | 10 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Saratoga conference - interstate committee (speech before) and preliminary meetings which resulted in formation of Central Traffic Association" 1885 | |||||||||
| 36 | 11 | Unmounted newspaper clippings relating to the railroad interests of John H. Devereux, "Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad" undated | |||||||||
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| 37 | 1 | Assorted, unmounted newspaper clippings and news sections relating to the activities and interests (including railroad) of John H. and Antoinette (Kelsey) Devereux (contemporaneously dated), news of Civil War episodes involving John H. Devereux in his capacity as a Superintendent of United States Military Railroads; and President Abraham Lincoln's assassination and funeral 1862-1865 | |||||||||
| 37 | 2 | Assorted, unmounted newspaper clippings and news sections relating to the activities and interests (including railroad) of John H. and Antoinette (Kelsey) Devereux (contemporaneously dated), recipes, poetry and miscellaneous items (could have been accumulated by either General or Mrs. Devereux) dates vary | |||||||||
| 37 | 3-5 | Assorted, unmounted newspaper clippings and news sections relating to the activities and interests (including railroad) of John H. and Antoinette (Kelsey) Devereux (contemporaneously dated), miscellaneous matters dates vary | |||||||||
| 37 | 6 | Assorted, unmounted newspaper clippings and news sections relating to the activities and interests (including railroad) of John H. and Antoinette (Kelsey) Devereux (contemporaneously dated), church clippings dates vary | |||||||||
| 37 | 7 | Assorted, unmounted newspaper clippings and news sections relating to the activities and interests (including railroad) of John H. and Antoinette (Kelsey) Devereux (contemporaneously dated), "social" clippings dates vary | |||||||||
| 37 | 8 | Assorted, unmounted newspaper clippings and news sections relating to the activities and interests (including railroad) of John H. and Antoinette (Kelsey) Devereux (contemporaneously dated), family clippings dates vary | |||||||||
| 37 | 9 | Assorted, unmounted newspaper clippings and news sections relating to the activities and interests (including railroad) of John H. and Antoinette (Kelsey) Devereux (contemporaneously dated), railroad and other clippings dates vary | |||||||||
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| 38 | 1 | Henry K. Devereux, correspondence, legal documents, and other items (note letter from governor of Ohio Myron T. Herrick to Devereux dated May 23, 1904) 1889-1908 | |||||||||
| 38 | 2-3 | Henry K. Devereux, correspondence, legal documents, and other items (includes letters addressed to the father-in-law of Henry K. Devereux, Julius E. French, dated 1856 and 1865) 1909-1928 undated | |||||||||
| 38 | 4 | Henry K. Devereux, newspaper clippings, including experience as a boy model for Archibald Willard's painting, "The Spirit of '76" dates vary | |||||||||
| 38 | 5-6 | Henry K. Devereux, newspaper clippings, sections, and periodical clippings relating to various activities, particularly harness horses dates vary | |||||||||
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| 39 | 1-2 | Letter copy books of Henry K. Devereux 1907-1912 | |||||||||
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| 40 | Diaries of Henry K. Devereux 1876-1894 | ||||||||||
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| 41 | Diaries of Henry K. Devereux 1895-1906 | ||||||||||
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| 42 | Diaries of Henry K. Devereux 1907-1916 | ||||||||||
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| 43 | Diaries of Henry K. Devereux 1917-1926 | ||||||||||
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| 44 | Diaries of Henry K. Devereux 1927-1932 | ||||||||||
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| 45 | Stallion service records, pedigrees, registrations, and prize ribbons of horses belonging to Henry K. Devereux 1905-1927 | ||||||||||
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| 46 | Odd account, memoranda books, charts, and manuals belonging to members of the Devereux family dates vary | ||||||||||
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| 53 | Oversize parcel, 53 x 65 centimeters, including charts, genealogical material, and a probable replica of the 1648 Marblehead, Massachusetts deed of sale dates vary | ||||||||||
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| 54 | Parcel of memorial scrolls, 16 x 45 centimeters, prepared in memory of John H. Devereux and were presumably sent to Mrs.Devereux. They are from the Vestry of St. Paul's Church; the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railway Company; and the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway Company 1886 | ||||||||||
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| 1 | Letter copy book of John H. Devereux, "Special Master Commissioner," includes alphabetical index of correspondents 1879-1880 | ||||||||||
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| 2 | Minutes of the executive committee, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad 1871-1876 | ||||||||||
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| 3 | Minutes of the board, Atlantic & Great Western Railroad 1871-1875 | ||||||||||
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| 4 | Stockholders journal, Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroads 1845-1886 | ||||||||||
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| 5 | Directors journal, Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad 1867-1886 | ||||||||||
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| 6 | Financial and executive committee records, Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad, and Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad 1869-1886 | ||||||||||
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| 7 | Railroad engineering data and illustrations belonging to John H. Devereux undated | ||||||||||
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| 8 | "Album" scrapbook of illustrations, manuscript and printed data on horses, probably belonging to Henry K. Devereux undated | ||||||||||
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| 9-11 | Scrapbook of Henry K. Devereux with illustrations and printed data relating to the Pastime Stable and Gentlemen's Driving Club 1917-1921 1923 | ||||||||||
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| 12-28 | Records of the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Cleveland, Ohio. Henry K. Devereux was prominently associated with the Club, organized June 1, 1895, to further the then popular sport of matinee harness racing. Interest in the Club died out around the time of World War I, largely due to the lack of adequate public transportation facilities to the new North Randall track where the races were held. The North Randall track later became the scene of automobile and airplane races 1895-1916 | ||||||||||