| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Hart Family |
| Title: | Hart Family Photograph Album |
| Dates: | 1900-1953 |
| Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) |
| Abstract: | Charles C. Hart, Sr. was a member of the Hart family of Cleveland, Ohio. He was married to Susan Tucker Hart, whose father, William Tucker, was the first African American police officer in Cleveland. The collection consists of one photograph album containing photographs of various members of the Hart and Tucker families in and around Cleveland, Ohio, and other locations. Most of the photographs are identified and/or dated. |
| PG Number | PG 162 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Charles C. Hart, Sr. (1885-1966) was a member of the Hart family of Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in South Charleston, Clarke County, Ohio, and moved to Cleveland where he joined Shiloh Baptist Church. Hart was ordained to the ministry in 1911 and held degrees from the Payne Theological Seminary of Wilberforce University in addition to coursework at Ohio University, Wittenberg College, and Cleveland College. He held several pastorates in Ohio, and helped to found the Second Baptist Church in Washington Court House. Hart joined Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland where he taught the Veterans Bible Class and served in the pulpit with other ministers during the illness and after the death of Pastor McKinney. He also served as the associate pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church. During the 1930s, Hart served as a supervisor in the Adult Education Department of the Cleveland Public Schools.
Hart's wife, Susan Tucker Hart (d. 1956), was the daughter of one of Cleveland's pioneer African American families. The Tucker family moved from Vermont to Cleveland sometime before 1880. Her father, William M. Tucker (1841-1915), was born a slave in Virginia and became the first African American police officer in Cleveland when he was appointed in 1881. William Tucker worked a downtown beat out of the Central Station until his retirement in 1903.
Susan Tucker was the first African American to graduate from the Old Stone Church Bible School in 1910. Her sister, Ella Tucker Morris, was the assistant pastor of Arnett AME Church in Chicago, Illinois. Her oldest brother, William Tucker, Jr., was killed in the 1898 crib explosion while installing the crib and five miles of tunnel under Lake Erie.
The Hart Family Photograph Album, ca. 1900-1953, consists of one photograph album containing photographs of various members of the Hart family in and around Cleveland, Ohio, and other locations. Most of the photographs are identified and/or dated. The album measures 7 x 12 inches and contains 140 black and white photographs.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of the African American community in Cleveland, Ohio, particularly the Hart and Tucker families.
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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 ___ ] PG 162 Hart Family Photograph Album, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Charles Hart, Jr. in 1977.
Hart Family Photograph Album ca. 1900-1953 |
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| 1 | 1 | Worn, black leather covered album containing portraits and views of various members of the Hart, Tucker, Wiggins, Wallace, Pullen, Taylor, Black, Strauder, and Morris family in and around Cleveland, plus numerous other places in the United States. Most of the photographs are identified and/or dated ca. 1900-1920 | |||||||||