| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Wade, Jeptha Homer Family |
| Title: | Jeptha Homer Wade Family Papers |
| Dates: | 1771-1957 |
| Extent: | 5.60 linear feet (15 containers and 17 reels of microfilm) |
| Abstract: | The Wade family was a prominent nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, family with business interests in the telegraph and railroad industries, mining, manufacturing, and banking. Jeptha Homer Wade spent his early life as an apprentice to a tanner and as a carpenter. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1849, he organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the Western Union Telegraph Company's first general agent. His business interests were extensive in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. Randall Palmer Wade worked with his father in the telegraph business, moving with him to Cleveland in 1857. His business interests included the Cuyahoga Mining Company; the Citizens Savings and Loan Association; the Cleveland Banking Company; the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Jeptha Homer Wade II also worked in the telegraph industry; he later joined the banking community in Cleveland. He was an active philanthropist, serving as a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Western Reserve University, Adelbert College, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He was an incorporator of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913, and later established a purchasing fund for the Museum. The collection consists of correspondence, wills, diaries, autobiographical sketches, memoranda, deeds, contracts, drawings, financial records, passport documents, land grants, notes, receipts, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, relating to Jeptha Homer Wade and his role in the telegraph industry in the Midwest, and to his son, Randall Palmer Wade, and grandson, Jeptha Homer Wade, Jr. Includes letters from or about Ezra Cornell, Amos Kendall, Samuel F.B. Morse, and James A. Garfield. Personal correspondence related to members of the Wade family, including Ellen Howe Garretson Wade and Ellen Howe Garretson, is included, as is travel journals written by various family members. The Wade family interest in spiritualism, particularly that of Jeptha Homer Wade after the death of his son Randall in 1876, is well documented in his personal correspondence. A calendar of correspondence for the collection is available in the appendix to the register. |
| MS Number | MS 3292 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English, French and Latin |
Although members of the Wade Family settled in America in the seventeenth century, the bulk of this collection is primarily nineteenth century material concerning three members of the Wade family whose lives impacted on the city of Cleveland, Ohio: Jeptha Homer Wade (1811-1890); his son, Randall Palmer Wade (1835-1876); and Randall's son, Jeptha Homer Wade II (1857-1926). The role of the Wade family in the corporate and cultural growth of the city of Cleveland was one of great importance.
Jeptha Homer Wade (1811-1890) was born in Seneca County, New York, on August 11, 1811, the youngest of nine children born to Jeptha and Sarah Allen Wade. At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to a tanner and later worked in a brick factory. At age 18 he moved to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a carpenter. After returning home a year later to Seneca Falls, New York, his skill as a woodworker led to a partnership in a sash, blind and door company by 1831. Ill health forced a change in occupation and in 1837, following in the steps of his friend Randall Palmer, Wade became a portrait and landscape artist, a calling which he followed for more than a decade. He began his painting career in New York state. He continued this work after moving his family to Michigan in 1840, and spent the winters of his last painting years in the Mississippi Valley, particularly Louisiana and Mississippi. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1847, as a sub-contractor to J. J. Speed, he constructed a telegraph line between Detroit and Jackson, Michigan, part of the Buffalo and Milwaukee Telegraph Company, the first line in operation west of Buffalo, New York. After his work in Michigan, Wade continued as a sub-contractor in the telegraph field. He moved his family to Milan, Ohio, in 1849, where he set up a telegraph office. That same year he decided to go into business for himself. He organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, retaining control as majority stockholder. A line between Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio, was built utilizing the Morse telegraph system. This line was later extended to St. Louis, Missouri. Wade also acted as an agent for the Morse system in Ohio with an office in Columbus, Ohio, his home after 1850. He was instrumental in the construction of the "Lake Line" between Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In 1853 competing regional telegraph lines in Ohio and Michigan were consolidated into the Cornell-Wade-Speed Telegraph lines with Wade, John James Speed Jr., and Ezra Cornell joined in a loose partnership. In April 1854, Wade and Speed sold their holdings in the lines, including unsold interest in the Morse patent rights in the old Northwest region, to the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company. Additionally, Wade was named principal agent for the company, responsible for the construction of new lines and issuance of patent licenses in the Midwest. Two years later, in 1856, the New York and Mississippi Valley Telegraph Company, after consolidation with other small independent lines, changed its name and became the Western Union Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the company's first general agent. He built two adjoining houses on Huron Street for himself and his son, Randall Palmer Wade, who had followed him to Cleveland from Columbus. Wade was instrumental in the growth and organization of Western Union, as illustrated in his negotiations with four independent telegraph companies to consolidate and then the terms for the construction of a transcontinental telegraph line from California through Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, in 1860. The line was completed in less than one year. In 1866 Wade became president of Western Union, succeeding Hiram Sibley. Ill health forced his retirement after one year and he returned to his home in Cleveland, Ohio.
Wade's business interests were extensive in Cleveland. He was an incorporator of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company in 1863 and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association in 1867. He also had large real estate and railroad holdings, serving on the board of directors of eight different lines. Wade was active in community enterprises, including the development of Lake View Cemetery. In 1881, he offered the City of Cleveland seventy-five acres of land near East 107th Street and Euclid Avenue for a public park, and in 1882 the land was deeded to the city. Wade was also instrumental in the founding of Case Institute of Applied Science in 1880. Jeptha Homer Wade married Rebecca Loueza Facer (?-1836) in 1832 and had one son, Randall Palmer Wade, born in 1835. After Rebecca Wade died in 1836, he married Susan Maranda Fleming (?-1889) in 1837. Wade died August 9, 1890, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
Randall Palmer Wade (1835-1876) was born on August 26, 1835, in Seneca Falls, New York. He spent his youth on the Michigan frontier working as a telegraph messenger. In 1850, when he was seventeen years of age, the family moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he worked as a telegrapher with the Cleveland-Cincinnati Telegraph Company until he entered the Kentucky Military Institute in 1852. In 1856 Randall Palmer Wade graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute and rejoined his father's company, moving with his father to Cleveland the following year. The same year Randall Palmer Wade was elected secretary of the Cleveland- Cincinnati Telegraph Company. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Randall Palmer Wade became chief clerk of the United States War Department's military telegraph operations. After his resignation from the War Department in 1862, Wade returned to his business activities in Cleveland, including his association with the Cuyahoga Mining Company, a concern he wholly owned by 1873. He was also involved as a partner in Cleveland's largest jewelry store, Hogan and Wade, from 1867 to 1870. He was a director of the Citizens Savings and Loan Association and of the Kalamazoo-Allegan and Grand Rapids Rail Road Company, president of the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and secretary- treasurer and director of the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Randall Palmer Wade married Anna Rebecca McGaw (?-1910) in 1856. They had two children, Jeptha Homer Wade Jr. (also known as Jeptha Homer Wade II and Homer) and Alice L. Wade Everett (?-1916). Randall Palmer Wade died June 24, 1876, and was buried in Cleveland, Ohio.
Jeptha Homer Wade II (1857-1926) (Homer/ Jeptha Homer Wade Jr.) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 15, 1857, the son of Randall Palmer Wade and Anna Rebecca McGaw Wade and the grandson of Jeptha Homer Wade. He was a graduate of Mt. Pleasant Academy in Ossining, New York, and Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. After work in the telegraph industry, he joined the banking community in Cleveland. Upon the death of his father in 1876 he developed a close relationship with his grandfather Wade and became his confidante and business associate. During his lifetime Wade served as an executive in more than forty-five companies, including eleven railway firms, nine mining companies, eight manufacturing concerns, and four banking institutions.
Jeptha Homer Wade II was an active philanthropist, serving as a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Western Reserve University, Adelbert College, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He was an incorporator of The Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913, served as its president in 1920, and established a purchasing fund for the Museum. In 1877 Wade married Ellen Garretson (1859-1917), daughter of Hiram and Ellen Howe Garretson. Upon her death in 1917, a memorial fund was established in her name to benefit charities that the Wade family supported. Jeptha Homer Wade II and Ellen Garretson Wade had three children: Jeptha Homer Wade Jr. (Jep), George Garretson (Garretson or Garry), and Helen Wade Green. Jeptha Homer Wade II died at Mill Pond Plantation, Thomasville, Georgia, in March 1926.
The Jeptha Homer Wade Family Papers, 1771-1957 and undated, consist of correspondence, wills, diaries, autobiographical sketches, memoranda, deeds, contracts, drawings, financial records, passport documents, land grants, notes, receipts, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.
This collection is of value to researchers studying the financial, business, philanthropic and social life of a prominent family residing in Cleveland, Ohio, from the mid-1850s through 1930 in general, and Jeptha Homer Wade, Randall Palmer Wade, Jeptha Homer Wade II, Ellen Garretson Wade, and Ellen Howe Garretson in particular. The business papers of Jeptha Homer Wade are an excellent source of information pertaining to the telegraph industry, from its inception in the 1840s as a group of independent regional systems through the creation and operations of the Western Union Telegraph Company in the 1860s. They provide a day-to-day view of Jeptha Homer Wade's involvement in the development and construction of some of the first telegraph systems in the Midwest. His extraordinary entrepreneurial prowess is evident throughout this time period. Additionally, the correspondence between Wade and Amos Kendall, attorney for Samuel F. B. Morse, Wade, and Hiram Sibley, president of Western Union and its forerunner, the New York and Mississippi Valley Telegraph Company, and Wade and Isaac R. Elwood, secretary of The New York And Mississippi Valley Telegraph Company, provide a behind-the-scenes perspective of an emerging, unregulated industry in the mid-nineteenth century. Jeptha Homer Wade's personal correspondence with his son, Randall Palmer Wade, during this time period also provides information on Wade's dealings with Ezra Cornell regarding the telegraph companies controlled by Cornell after the breakup of the Cornell-Wade-Speed alliance in 1854. A copybook of letters written by Jeptha Homer Wade while he was in California in 1860-1861 detail his negotiations in the consolidation of several telegraph companies which would become part of the network that would help build parts of the first transcontinental telegraph system.
Genealogists will find materials related to the Wade family and the Howe, Stone, McGaw, Garretson, and Buckminster branches of the Wade family.
The Wade family interest in spiritualism, particularly that of Jeptha Homer Wade after the death of his only son in 1876, is well documented in his personal correspondence. The journals of family members, especially those of Ellen Howe Garretson and Jeptha Homer Wade II, detail travels aboard the family owned yacht, S. S. Wadena, as well as other land and sea trips undertaken in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Personal correspondence of Jeptha Homer Wade II details the administration of a trust set up by his grandfather to assist extended family members in times of financial need, and his interest in Wade family history.
Series I: Family Histories and Genealogies contains correspondence in response to Wade family members in Cleveland, Ohio, seeking family history information. Series II: Personal Papers generally consist of letters received by members of the Wade family and are arranged according to Wade family members. Series III: Business Papers contain correspondence received by Jeptha Homer Wade and drafts and copies of some his communications. The series also contains letters to Jeptha Homer Wade II and the estate of Jeptha Homer Wade.
While there are no access restrictions on this collection, researchers will be asked to use the microfilm of this collection. This finding aid serves as a guide to both the physical manuscript collection and the microfilm.
Related MaterialThe researcher should also consult MS 3934 Randall Palmer Wade Travel Journals; MS 3486 George Armstrong Garretson Papers; MS 5228 Jeptha Homer Wade Family Papers, Series II; PG 59 Jeptha Home Wade Family Photographs; and PG 597 Jeptha Homer Wade Family Photographs, Series II.
Separated MaterialAll photographs have been removed to PG 59 Jeptha Homer Wade Family Photographs.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, folder ___ ] MS 3292 Jeptha Homer Wade Family Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gifts of George Garretson Wade in 1964, and Jeptha H. Wade III in 1966.
Processed by Mark S. Olcott in 1973; reprocessed for microfilming by Patricia J. Stahley in 1998. Microfilmed by Bernard Watford in 1998.
A Calendar of Correspondence for this collection is available at the Reference Desk of the WRHS Research Library.
Series I: Genealogies and Family Histories 1847-1951 undated |
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| Reel | Box | Folder | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Correspondence, Howe family 1847-1951 undated | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Correspondence, Buckminster and Stone families undated | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | Correspondence, McGaw and Garretson families 1881-1889 undated | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 3 | Correspondence, pertaining to genealogy, Wade family, Wade family 1853-1881 undated | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 4-5 | Correspondence, Wade family 1881-1912 | ||||||||
| Reel | Box | Folder | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 6-8 | Correspondence, Wade family undated | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 9 | Journal, Wade family genealogy, compiled by Jeptha Homer Wade II 1881 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 10 | Notebook, Wade and McGaw family genealogy, compiled by Jeptha Homer Wade II 1881 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 10 | Notebook, Wade family genealogy 1881 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 11 | Notes of Russell H. Anderson for article on Jeptha Homer Wade I undated | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 12 | Pamphlet, Wade genealogy, in French 1897 | ||||||||
Series II: Personal Papers 1771-1957 undated |
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Sub-series A: Early Wade Family Papers 1771-1853 undated |
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| 2 | 2 | 13 | Letters and correspondence, including land indentures, bills of sale, and promissory notes 1771-1813 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 13 | Family letters 1806-1853 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 13 | Receipt, Allen Wade 1816 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 13 | Bill of sale, one Negro slave named Boston, Halifax County, [North Carolina or Virginia] 1832 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 13 | Receipt of transfer of aforementioned slave 1833 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 13 | Hand bound pamphlet, Mr. Elijah Paine's Writings, copybook of selected writings [paper and ink indicate ca. 1840s] undated | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 13 | Sheepskin document, in Latin undated | ||||||||
Sub-series B: Jeptha Homer Wade 1813-1928 undated |
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| 3 | 2 | 14 | Correspondence, Jeptha Homer Wade to Randall Palmer Wade 1852-1871 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 14 | Correspondence, Anson Stager, letter to Wade, detailing pressure on General George McClellan to engage enemy 1862 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 14 | Correspondence, Andrew Carnegie, letter to Wade 1870 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 15 | Correspondence, including rough drafts, pertaining to the establishment of a theological school in Cleveland, Ohio, in conjunction with the American Universalist Association 1880-1884 undated | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 16 | Correspondence, communications with the "spirit world" through various mediums 1880-1882 undated | ||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 17 | Correspondence, communications with the "spirit world" through mediums, particularly James V. Mansfield and V. Rowley 1883-1889 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 18 | Correspondence, transfer of stock 1885 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 19 | Correspondence, handwritten autobiographical sketch to Jeptha H. Wade II 1889 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 19 | Typewritten copy of autobiographical sketch 1928 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 20 | Journals (2), including portrait clients and expenses, notes on photography 1837-1847 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 20 | Journal, travel notes, voyage from New York City to San Francisco, California 1860-1861 | ||||||||
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| 4 | 3 | 21 | Journals, including trip to Europe, and 1889, including commentary on death of Susan M. Fleming Wade, August 1889 1877-1886 1889 | ||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 22 | Miscellaneous, including lock of hair and piece of shroud, Jeptha Wade, father of Jeptha Homer Wade, died 1813; Tiffany Jewelers receipt, list of purchases, 1864; tickets, National Democratic Convention, 1880 and Inauguration Ball program, March 4, 1881; memorial resolutions; death of Jeptha Homer Wade, 1890, (originals housed in Container 15, Folder 131, Oversize Materials); photocopies of front covers, pamphlets removed to the pamphlet collection, undated 1813-1890 undated | ||||||||
Sub-series C: Randall Palmer Wade 1853-1902 undated |
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| Reel | Box | Folder | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 23 | Correspondence, with his parents, Jeptha H. Wade I and Susan Fleming Wade, and letters from Anna Rebecca McGaw, including marriage license for Randall P. Wade and Anna McGaw 1853-1859 | ||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 24 | Correspondence 1854-1875 | ||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 25 | Diary, Kentucky Military Institute 1855-1856 | ||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 26 | Financial journal, personal assets 1857-1875 | ||||||||
| 4 | 3 | 26 | Financial journal, assets of estate 1877-1902 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 27 | Financial journal, personal assets 1870-1876 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 27 | Account book, kept for Jeptha H. Wade Jr. 1862-1871 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 27 | Account book kept for Alice L. Wade 1868-1872 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 28 | Last will and testament 1875 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 28 | Estate inventory 1876 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 28 | List of estate investments 1877 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 28 | Personal property inventory undated | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 29 | Passport document (original housed in Container 15, Folder 134, Oversize Materials) 1865 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 30 | Sketchbook, sketches of Cleveland, Ohio, including Wade family property at 103 Huron Street, 1862-1864; and bridge, Wheeling, Virginia, 1862 1862-1864 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 30 | Sketchbook 1865-1875 undated | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 31 | Telegraph cipher code book 1861 | ||||||||
Sub-series D: Jeptha Homer Wade II 1856-1926 undated |
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| 5 | 4 | 32-35 | Correspondence 1866-1904 undated | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | 36 | Correspondence 1905-1909 | ||||||||
| Reel | Box | Folder | |||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 37-38 | Correspondence 1910-1920 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 39 | Diary 1869 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 39 | Account book 1873-1875 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 39 | Account book 1875 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 39 | Two notebooks ca. 1874 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 40 | Diary, including entries on the death of Randall Palmer Wade 1876 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 40 | Diary, wedding trip 1878 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 40 | Diary, wedding trip 1878 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 40 | Diary 1879 | ||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 40 | Notebook, wedding party list 1878 | ||||||||
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| 7 | 5 | 41 | Inventories, including Wade-Garretson wedding gifts 1878 | ||||||||
| 7 | 5 | 41 | Inventories, annual investments 1889-1925 undated | ||||||||
| 7 | 5 | 41 | Inventories, home furnishings, jewelry, and art purchases, including estate inventory of Ellen Garretson Wade 1892-1926 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 42 | Journal, financial investments 1885-1890 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 43 | Journals, including travel purchases 1881-1900 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 43 | Journal, investments 1885 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 43 | Journal, mining site trips 1885-1902 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 43 | Journal, memoranda 1885 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 43 | Journal, Paris Exposition 1889 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 44 | Journal, Florida trip 1891 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 44 | Journal, New York to Algiers 1891-1892 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 44 | Journal, Algiers to Venice, Italy 1892 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 44 | Journal, Venice to New York City 1892 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 44 | Journal, yachting trips 1893-1901 | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 44 | Journal, notebook 1890 | ||||||||
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| 8 | 6 | 45 | Journal, Cleveland, Ohio-Bangkok, Thailand 1894 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 45 | Journal, Bangkok-Delhi, India 1894-1895 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 45 | Journal, Delhi-Florence, Italy 1895 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 45 | Journal, Florence-New York City 1895 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 45 | Journal, travel memoranda 1894-1895 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 45 | Journal, Russia-Switzerland-Germany 1896 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 45 | Journal, Maine camping trip 1897 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, London-Paris trip 1896 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, Yellowstone Park 1899 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, California trip 1903 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, Florida trips 1899-1902 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, world cruise 1922 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, Egypt, Algiers, Tunis and Italy 1898-1899 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, Paris and England 1900 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, West Indies trip 1901 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, Hudson Sound yachting trip 1902 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, France trip 1903 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, Paris, Riviera, and Italy 1904 | ||||||||
| 8 | 6 | 46 | Journal, Florence, Italy 1904 | ||||||||
| Reel | Box | Folder | |||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, travels aboard the S. S. Wadena 1901-1905 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, mining trips 1902-1907 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, Pacific coast trip 1906 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, England and Scotland 1907 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, New York-Berkshires trip 1911 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, motor trips 1908 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, trip memoranda 1908 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, mining trips 1909-1918 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, Alaska 1925 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 47 | Journal, memoranda book 1925 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 48 | Journal, France and Italy by motorcar 1912 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 48 | Journal, travels 1914 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 48 | Journal, travels 1918 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 48 | Journal, Cleveland Cliffs directors' trips 1919-1922 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 48 | Journal, Montreal 1924 | ||||||||
| 9 | 7 | 48 | Journal, world cruise 1922-1923 | ||||||||
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| 10 | 7 | 49 | Ledgers, purchases and memoranda, cost of jewelry and paintings undated | ||||||||
| 10 | 7 | 49 | Ledgers, purchases undated | ||||||||
| 10 | 7 | 49 | Ledgers, listings of ceramic, porcelain, lacquer, jade, crystal, ivory and wood carvings undated | ||||||||
| 10 | 7 | 50 | Miscellaneous, including passport document, 1856; military pass, 1862; marriage certificate, 1878; passport documents, 1891 and 1903, (originals housed in Container 15, Folder 132, Oversize Materials), newspaper clippings, undated, and valentines, undated 1856-1903 undated | ||||||||
| 10 | 7 | 51 | Poetry, maps and stories 1872-1911 undated | ||||||||
| 10 | 7 | 52 | Powers of attorney 1885-1895 | ||||||||
| 10 | 7 | 52 | Trust agreements 1917-1920 | ||||||||
| 10 | 7 | 53 | Testimonials, memorial resolutions, death of Jeptha H. Wade II, including Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland Medical Library Association, Cleveland Museum of Art, Guardian Trust Company, Lake View Cemetery Association, University Hospital, and Western Reserve University 1926 | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 54 | Testimonials, memorial resolution, death of Jeptha H. Wade II, Union Trust Company 1926 | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 55 | Testimonials, memorial resolution, death of Jeptha H. Wade II, Union Trust Company 1926 | ||||||||
Sub-series E: Wade Family Members 1866-1957 undated |
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| 10 | 8 | 56 | Wade, Alice L., (Mrs. Sylvester T. Everett), death notice 1916 | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 57 | Wade, Anna Rebecca McGaw, correspondence 1882-1901 undated | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 58 | Wade, George Garretson, travel journal, 1896, correspondence, 1905, memorial resolutions, death of George Garretson Wade, 1957, (including materials housed in Container 15, Folder 130, Oversize Materials) 1896-1957 | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 59 | Wade, Jeptha H. Jr., correspondence related to hot air balloon races, 1910-1911, 1913-1914, 1922, 1927, and 1933; and Croix de Guerre certificate, 1928, (materials housed in Container 15, Folder 133, Oversize Materials) 1910-1933 | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 60 | Wade, Jeptha H. Jr. hunting trips, article, "Moose Hunting in Wyoming" by R. W. Everett in Outdoor Life, March 1917; travel journal, Alaskan bear hunting trip, May 1925 and article, "The Diary of An Alaskan Bear Hunter" by R W. Everett in Outdoor Life, February-March 1926 1917-1926 | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 61 | Wade, Jeptha H. Jr., trust agreements, estate of Alice Wade, 1920; Jeptha H. Wade Jr. trust agreement No. 2, 1930, 1933 and 1935; New York State tax return, Jeptha H. Wade Jr. and Elizabeth J. Wade, 1931 and 1935 1920-1935 | ||||||||
| 10 | 8 | 62 | Wade, Susan M. Fleming, correspondence 1866-1889 | ||||||||
Sub-series F: Ellen Garretson Wade 1874-1917 undated |
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| 11 | 8 | 63 | Correspondence 1874-1913 undated | ||||||||
| 11 | 8 | 64 | Correspondence, with Anna R. McGaw Wade 1878-1896 undated | ||||||||
| 11 | 8 | 65 | Passbook, Citizens Savings and Loan Association 1886-1892 | ||||||||
| 11 | 8 | 65 | Christian Science lesson notes undated | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 66 | Newspaper clippings regarding her death, and warranty deed for property in Thomasville, Georgia 1916-1917 | ||||||||
Sub-series G: Garretson Family Members 1849-1921 |
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| 11 | 9 | 66 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, last will and testament, including probate papers 1917 1921 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 67 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, autograph book 1849-1852 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 67 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, travel journal 1891-1892 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 68 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, travel journal, aboard S. S. Wadena 1892 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 69 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, travel journal 1894 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 69 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, travel journal 1895 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 70 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, souvenir postcard album, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1892 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 70 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, souvenir postcard album, Rome, Italy 1892 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 71 | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe, souvenir postcard album, India 1894 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 72 | Garretson, George Armstrong, death of, memorial tribute 1916 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 73 | Garretson, Hiram, correspondence 1874-1909 | ||||||||
Series III: Business Papers 1845-1951 undated |
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Sub-series A: Jeptha Homer Wade 1845-1951 undated |
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Sub-sub-series 1: Telegraph Industry 1845-1951 undated |
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| 11 | 9 | 74 | Early telegraph companies, typescript, summary of letters pertaining to the formation of Western Union Telegraph Company 1845-1852 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 74 | Early telegraph companies, handwritten summary of letters 1854-1856 | ||||||||
| 11 | 9 | 74 | Early telegraph companies, handwritten summary of omitted letters from previous documents undated | ||||||||
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| 12 | 9 | 75 | Early telegraph companies, correspondence, early formation and construction of telegraph companies in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, including the Ohio and Pennsylvania Telegraph Company, bills of sale, purchase agreements and construction agreements 1845-1853 | ||||||||
| 12 | 9 | 75 | Early telegraph companies, railway map 1850 | ||||||||
| 12 | 9 | 76 | Early telegraph companies, Curtis vs. Wade, Knox County Ohio, Court of Common Pleas, license of Morse patent 1853-1855 | ||||||||
| 12 | 10 | 77 | Wade Lines, Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinnati Telegraph Company, articles of association; and journal, including Articles of Association and subscription list 1848-1849 | ||||||||
| 12 | 10 | 77 | Wade Lines, Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, articles of association 1849 | ||||||||
| 12 | 10 | 77 | Wade Lines, journal, expenses of J. S. Bristol, construction of telegraph lines 1849-1850 | ||||||||
| 12 | 10 | 78 | Wade Lines, Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, account ledger (edger also contains personal assets inventory, 1855-1890) 1849-1890 | ||||||||
| 12 | 10 | 79 | Wade Lines, Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, ledger, subscription list 1850 | ||||||||
| 12 | 10 | 80 | Wade Lines, Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, annual reports 1851-1854 | ||||||||
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| 13 | 10 | 81 | Wade Lines, Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, ledger, including memorandum of stock issued 1851-1866 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 82 | Wade Lines, Cincinnati and St. Louis Telegraph Company, bond made out to Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company 1853 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 83 | Wade Lines, handwritten partnership agreement between Jeptha H. Wade and Thomas Eckert to construct telegraph line along the O and P Rail Road right-of-way 1852 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 83 | Wade Lines, addendum concerning profit sharing with J. J. Speed 1853 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 84 | Other telegraph lines, Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, formation and construction 1850-1853 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 84 | Other telegraph lines, St. Louis and New Orleans Telegraph Company, articles of incorporation, bylaws, history, reports and financial statements 1852 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 84 | Other telegraph lines, Illinois and Mississippi Telegraph Company, charter amendment 1852 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 84 | Other telegraph lines, Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company, statement of accounts 1853 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 85 | Other telegraph lines, Western Union Telegraph Company, formation and consolidation notice 1853 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 85 | Other telegraph lines, Magnetic Letter Printing Telegraph, patent agreement 1853 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 86 | Other telegraph lines, pamphlet, The Great Telegraph Case: Decision of the Supreme Court: O'Rielly et al vs. Morse et al 1853 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 86 | Other telegraph lines, Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company, title abstract 1853 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 87 | Other telegraph lines, Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company, articles of incorporation 1855 | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 87 | Other telegraph lines, Delaware and Hudson Telegraph Company, Act of Incorporation, State of New Jersey 1855 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 88 | Other telegraph lines, Western Telegraph Company vs. Magnetic Telegraph Company et al, injunction notice 1857 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 89 | Other telegraph lines, New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company and F. Morris et al, articles of agreement and contracts 1851 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 89 | Other telegraph lines, New York and Mississippi Printing Telegraph Company and Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company, consolidation agreement 1855 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 90 | Other telegraph lines, Western Union Telegraph Company, act to incorporate, 1855; change of name, 1856; and telegraph instruction book, 1856-1857 1855-1857 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 91 | Other telegraph lines, Buffalo and Erie Railroad Company, telegraph instruction book 1856 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 91 | Other telegraph lines, Cleveland and Erie Rail Road Company, telegraph department, Instructions to Operators 1856 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 91 | Other telegraph lines, The Decision of the Great Telegraph Suit of S. F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail vs. Francis O. J. Smith 1857 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 91 | Other telegraph lines, Western Union Telegraph Company and Cincinnati-Hamilton and Dayton Rail Road Company, articles of agreement 1857 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 92 | Other telegraph lines, North American Telegraph Association, Proceedings 1857-1860 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 92 | Other telegraph lines, Atlantic Telegraph Company, pamphlets and newspaper clippings related to the construction of sub-marine telegraph cable 1857-1861 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 92 | Other telegraph lines, New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph Tariffs 1858 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 93 | Other telegraph lines, The New York, Albany and Buffalo Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company and New York Central Rail Road Company, articles of agreement 1885 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 93 | Other telegraph lines, New York State Printing Telegraph Company and The New York, Albany and Buffalo Magnetic Telegraph Company, agreement 1856 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 94 | Other telegraph lines, The American Telegraph Company, pamphlet concerning government regulation of the telegraph industry 1858 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 94 | Other telegraph lines, The American Telegraph Company and the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Company, articles of agreement and stockholder's letter 1859-1860 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 95 | Other telegraph lines, pamphlet, The American Telegraph Company and The Press: A Reply To The Falsehoods of The Executive Committee by Hudson and Andrews, Executive Committee of New York Press Association 1860 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 96 | Other telegraph lines, correspondence, development of the telegraph industry 1854-1858 | ||||||||
| 13 | 11 | 97 | Other telegraph lines, correspondence, development of the telegraph industry and formation of Western Union Telegraph Company 1856-1858 | ||||||||
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| 14 | 11 | 98 | Other telegraph lines, correspondence, formation and consolidation of Western Union Telegraph Company 1859 | ||||||||
| 14 | 12 | 99 | Other telegraph lines, correspondence, formation and consolidation of Western Union Telegraph Company 1860-1888 undated | ||||||||
| 14 | 12 | 100 | Other telegraph lines, correspondence, copy book of Wade's letters from San Francisco, California, consolidation of western lines preparatory to construction of overland line through Salt Lake City, Utah Territory 1860-1861 | ||||||||
| 14 | 12 | 100 | Other telegraph lines, newspaper article containing text of first telegram sent, Brigham Young to Jeptha H. Wade, 1862 and rate schedule 1862 | ||||||||
| 14 | 12 | 100 | Other telegraph lines, retirement proclamation (materials housed in Container 15, Folder 131, Oversize Materials) 1867 | ||||||||
| 14 | 12 | 100 | Other telegraph lines, newspaper clipping, Western Union Hundredth Anniversary 1951 | ||||||||
Sub-sub-series 2: Financial Ventures 1853-1890 undated |
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| 14 | 12 | 101 | Beers, S. A., correspondence regarding business loan 1873-1875 | ||||||||
| 14 | 12 | 102 | Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company, correspondence 1880-1884 undated | ||||||||
| 14 | 12 | 103 | The Cleveland Banking Company, articles of incorporation 1868 | ||||||||
| Reel | Box | Folder | |||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 104 | Expenses and investments, ledger 1871-1889 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 105 | Mining investments, Schoolcraft Mining Company, correspondence 1871-1873 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 105 | Mining investments, Cherry Valley Mining Company, correspondence 1879 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 106 | Municipal bonds, Brady Township, Michigan 1868 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 107 | Promissory notes, demand notes, stock deposit and transfer receipts 1853-1889 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 108 | Railroads, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, sale of dock footage, Cleveland, Ohio 1889-1890 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 109 | Railroads, Kalamazoo and Allegan Rail Road Company, articles of association 1867 1869 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 109 | Railroads, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Rail Road Company, articles of association, 1868 and directors' minutes, 1867-1868; directors' and stockholders' minutes, 1869-1871 1867-1871 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 109 | Railroads, Kalamazoo, Allegan and Grand Rapids Rail Road Company, indenture, sale of controlling stock to Jeptha H. Wade I, 1871; and correspondence, stock sale, 1890 1871 1890 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 110 | Railroads, Ohio and Mississippi Valley Rail Road Company, financial statement, 1858, annual meeting notes, 1861, special meeting notice, 1863 1858-1863 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 110 | Railroads, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road Company, stockholders' notice, 1869, and notice of change in organizational structure, 1862 1862 1869 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 111 | Railroads, Wade vs. The Town of Lemoille (Illinois), petition for rehearing, March term 1885 | ||||||||
| 15 | 12 | 112 | Real estate, Latham Lease, Cozad property in East Cleveland, usage rights 1865-1880 undated | ||||||||
| 15 | 13 | 113 | Real estate, mortgage deeds, warranty deeds and property transfers 1853-1890 | ||||||||
| 15 | 13 | 113 | Reel estate, deed book of properties owned (original housed in Container 15, Folder 131, Oversize Materials) undated | ||||||||
| 15 | 13 | 114 | Real estate, Wade building, construction journal 1886 | ||||||||
| 15 | 13 | 115 | Scrapbook, transportation passes 1856-1890 | ||||||||
| 15 | 13 | 116 | Scrapbook, loose contents, transportation passes 1890 | ||||||||
| 15 | 13 | 117 | Tax returns and receipts 1858-1869 | ||||||||
Sub-series B: Randall Palmer Wade 1852-1887 undated |
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| 15 | 13 | 118 | Account book, personal expenses 1852-1855 | ||||||||
| Reel | Box | Folder | |||||||||
| 16 | 13 | 119 | Land grants, stock lists and reports 1855-1875 undated | ||||||||
| 16 | 13 | 120 | Ledger, United States in Account With R. P. Wade, 1863-1864 and trial balance sheets (trial balance sheets appear to be Jeptha Homer Wade I handwriting) 1878-1887 | ||||||||
Sub-series C: Jeptha Homer Wade II 1859-1920 undated |
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| 16 | 14 | 121 | Correspondence, Barnes, O. M., regarding settlement of Jeptha Homer Wade I estate 1893-1901 | ||||||||
| 16 | 14 | 122 | Correspondence, Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Syndicate, stock transfer authorization 1890-1891 | ||||||||
| 16 | 14 | 123 | Correspondence, Ely, Samuel P., estate of 1894 1901 | ||||||||
| 16 | 14 | 124 | Correspondence, Everett, S. T., estate of Jeptha Homer Wade I, stock dispute 1883-1891 | ||||||||
| 16 | 14 | 125 | Financial, including promissory notes, demand notes , stock deposits and transfers 1878-1925 | ||||||||
| 16 | 14 | 126 | Financial, shipping investments, bills of sale and mortgage deeds of enrolled vessels 1886-1899 | ||||||||
| 16 | 14 | 127 | Financial, stock certificates, purchased or inherited by J. H. Wade II 1859-1903 | ||||||||
| 16 | 14 | 128 | Financial, tax returns and receipts 1887-1889 | ||||||||
| 16 | 14 | 128 | Financial, Cleveland Riding School Academy, annual report 1888 | ||||||||
| Reel | Box | Folder | |||||||||
| 17 | 14 | 129 | Financial, title abstracts, land contracts, quit claims and mortgage deeds 1878-1920 | ||||||||
| 17 | 14 | 129 | Financial, plat book, Wade Park Allotment, Cleveland, Ohio, annotated (original housed in Container 15, Folder 132, Oversize Materials) undated | ||||||||
Series IV: Oversize Materials dates vary |
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| 15 | 130-134 | Oversize material described elsewhere in the collection (this material was not microfilmed) dates vary | |||||||||