| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Case, Leonard Sr. |
| Title: | Leonard Case, Sr. Family Papers |
| Dates: | 1795-1917 |
| Extent: | 3.10 linear feet (5 containers and 2 oversize volumes) |
| Abstract: | Leonard Case, Sr. (1786-1864) was a land agent, bank and railroad executive, and politician in Cleveland, Ohio. His sons, Leonard Jr., a noted philanthropist, and William, a politician, were active in local civic and business affairs. His brother Zophar was a lawyer and politician in Clinton County, Illinois. His nephew Eckstein was a lawyer and Secretary-Treasurer of the Case School of Applied Science. The collection consists of maps, plats, surveys, and deeds to land in Cuyahoga County and Cleveland, three account books of the Connecticut School Fund, memoirs of Leonard Case Sr., ca. 200 federal land grants to U.S. veterans (1848-1857), histories of the Western Reserve and Trumbull County, reminiscences of Benjamin Lane, a diary and correspondence of William Case, a field book of Zophar Case, and letters from Cleveland businessmen to Eckstein Case. |
| MS Number | MS 2871 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The Leonard Case, Sr. Family Papers, ca. 1795-1903 and undated, consist of maps, plats, surveys, and deeds to land in Cuyahoga County and Cleveland, three account books of the Connecticut School Fund, memoirs of Leonard Case Sr., ca. 200 federal land grants to U.S. veterans (1848-1857), histories of the Western Reserve and Trumbull County, reminiscences of Benjamin Lane, a diary and correspondence of William Case, a field book of Zophar Case, and letters from Cleveland businessmen to Eckstein Case.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the early history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the Western Reserve. Those seeking early land surveys of the Western Reserve and evidence of military land grants will find this collection useful.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 2871 Leonard Case, Sr. Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gifts of Leonard Case, Jr., in 1875 and 1876; Eckstein Case in 1943; and Karl O. Thompson in 1951 and 1952.
Leonard Case, Sr. Family Papers ca. 1795-1917 undated |
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| 1 | 1 | Leonard Case, Jr., master list of military land grants undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 2-8 | Military land grants awarding land in Michigan to veterans of the War of 1812, the Seminole War, and the War with Mexico issued when Leonard Case was a land commissioner for the State of Ohio 1848-1853 | |||||||||
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| 2 | 1-6 | Military land grants awarding land in Michigan to veterans of the War of 1812, the Seminole War, and the War with Mexico issued when Leonard Case was a land commissioner for the State of Ohio 1853 | |||||||||
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| 3 | 1-6 | Military land grants awarding land in Michigan to veterans of the War of 1812, the Seminole War, and the War with Mexico issued when Leonard Case was a land commissioner for the State of Ohio 1854-1857 | |||||||||
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| 4 | 1-2 | Memoranda of Leonard Case, Sr. 1853-1863 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Diary of Leonard Case, Sr. containing his memoirs for the period 1778-1863 and including genealogical data on the Case and Eckstein families 1853-1863 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4 | Newspaper clippings and Leonard Case, Sr.'s notes that include an account of the reminiscences of Benjamin Lane, who settled in Warren in 1799; and histories, including manuscripts on the "Early Settlement of Warren, Trumbull County," and a manuscript on the history and settlement of the Western Reserve 1860-1863 | |||||||||
| 4 | 5 | Leonard Case, Sr. correspondence, legal documents, and receipts 1806-1864 | |||||||||
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| 1 | Oversize Volume 1: Leonard Case, Sr. volume of maps, plats, surveys, and deeds to tracts of land in the Western Reserve, but particularly in Cuyahoga County, Ohio ca. 1795-1881 | ||||||||||
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| 2 | Oversize Volume 2: Leonard Case, Sr. volume of maps, plats, surveys, and deeds to tracts of land in the Western Reserve, but particularly in Cuyahoga County, Ohio ca. 1795-1881 | ||||||||||
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| 5 | 1 | Leonard Case, Jr. passport, correspondence, receipts, and college biography 1856-1878 1897 | |||||||||
| 5 | 2 | Leonard Case, Jr. land documents 1862-1878 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Administrative documents of the Leonard Case, Jr. estate 1879-1884 | |||||||||
| 5 | 4 | William Case (1818-1862, son of Leonard Case, Sr., mayor of Cleveland, railroad executive, and civic leader) and Leonard Case, Jr. land documents 1844-1877 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | William Case documents, including financial material 1851-1862 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | William Case correspondence and legal agreements, including correspondence concerning politics and business and the sinking of the steamship Griffith in Lake Erie in 1850 1834-1850 | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | William Case receipts, cancelled checks, and notebooks of the Connecticut School Fund 1838-1856 | |||||||||
| 5 | 8 | Echstein Case (secretary-treasurer of the Case School of Applied Science) papers, including letters from various Cleveland businessmen 1887-1917 | |||||||||
| 5 | 9 | Zopher Case (brother of Leonard Case, Sr., a lawyer and political leader who settled in Clinton County, Illinois) papers, including a field book 1852-1871 | |||||||||