| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Hays, Joseph Family |
| Title: | Joseph Hays Family Photographs |
| Dates: | 1874-1977 |
| Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) |
| Abstract: | Joseph Hays (1838-1916) was the son of Abraham and Bertha Hexter Hays of Storndorf, in the German state of Hesse Darmstadt. After Joseph's mother died in 1844, he and other family members immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, from Germany in 1856. Joseph Hays started as a peddler and eventually became involved in the clothing, scrap iron, and real estate business. He married Rosetta Schwarzenberg, and had five children. His daughter, Bertha, married Charles Eisenman, co-founder of Kastriner and Eisenman, later Kaynee Ccmpany, a clothing manufacturer. Eisenman was also a founder and first president of the Federation of Jewish Charities (later known as the Jewish Community Federation). Joseph Hays' sons, Louis and Eugene Hays, later purchased Kaynee Company from Eisenman. Louis Hays, who had served as a vice president and trustee of Mt. Sinai Hospital, was president of Kaynee at the time of his death in 1918. His son, Robert, was president of Kaynee from 1937 until 1954, when the company was sold. Robert Hays was also a founding member of Suburban Temple. Louis Hays' wife, Jessie Seligman Feiss, was the niece of Julius Feiss, owner of Joseph and Feiss Company, which manufactured clothing. His son, Paul Louis Feiss, served as chairman of the company, beginning in 1925. He was also a founder and first president of Mt. Sinai Hospital. The collection consists of individual portraits of the Hays, Eisenman, Feiss, Halle, Heiner, Maschke, and Seligman family members. Also included are views of early automobiles in northeast Ohio; Edgewater and Gordon Parks and Shaker Heights, Ohio; parties and dances; the Excelsior Club; the Federation of Jewish Charities first Board of Trustees; the 1914 cornerstone laying of Mount Sinai Hospital; McDonald & Company; and stereoviews of the Kaynee Clothing Company factory |
| PG Number | PG 503 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
Joseph Hays (1838-1916) was the youngest of the six children of Abraham Hays and Bertha Hexter Hays of Storndorf in the German state of Hesse Darmstadt. After Joseph's mother died in 1844, members of his immediate family gradually moved to America and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. By the time Joseph and his father arrived in 1856, Joseph's siblings Rosa, Fanny, Kaufman, and Yetta were in Cleveland. Betty (Bella) and her husband, Rabbi Moses Oppenheimer, arrived between 1856 and 1859. Joseph Hays married Rosetta Schwarzenberg (1847-1914), daughter of Louis H. Schwarzenberg and Phoebe Bloch, and had five children including Bertha (1867-1941) and Louis Henry (1874-1918). Bertha married Charles Eisenman (1865-1923). Louis married Jessie Seligman Feiss (1881-1971) who was the daughter of Sigmund Seligmann and Maria Anna Feiss, and had been adopted by her uncle Julius Feiss (1848-1931) when her mother died in childbirth. Louis and Jessie Hays had two children, one of whom, Robert Jay Hays (1903-1984), who later changed his name to Robert Louis Hays, married Lois Charlotte Mendelson (1913-1987). One of the two children of Robert and Lois Hays was Michael Louis Hays (b. 1940), the compiler of the materials in this collection.
Members of the Joseph Hays family have played significant roles in the Cleveland business community and have also been active in Jewish and general philanthropy. Joseph Hays started his life in America as a peddler. Over the course of his career he was involved in various businesses including clothing, scrap iron, and real estate. He was also a founder of the Hebrew Relief Association. Bertha Hays' husband, Charles Eisenman was, in 1888, co-founder of Kastriner and Eisenman (K and E), a manufacturer of boys' shirts which underwent various changes in ownership and in name. In 1914 the company became known as Kaynee. Eisenman was also a founder and first president of the Federation of Jewish Charities (later known as Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland). Eisenman's brothers-in-law Louis and Eugene Hays later purchased Kaynee. Louis Hays, who had served as a vice-president and trustee of Mt. Sinai Hospital, was president of Kaynee at the time of his death in 1918. Louis's son, Robert, was president of Kaynee from 1937 until the company was sold in 1954. Robert Hays was also a founding member of Suburban Temple. Louis Hays' wife's uncle (and adoptive father), Julius Feiss, from Mussbach, Bavaria, joined the clothing manufacturing firm of Koch, Levi, Mayer and Company in 1865. By 1889 the company was known as Goldsmith, Joseph, Feiss and Company, and then by 1907 as Joseph and Feiss Company. Julius's son, Paul Louis Feiss (1875-1952), became chairman of the board of Joseph and Feiss in 1925. He was also a founder and first president of Mt. Sinai Hospital, a position he held for ten years. At the time of his death he was Mt. Sinai's 2nd vice-president.
The Joseph Hays Family Photographs, 1874-1977 and undated, consists of 404 images. There are 362 black and white and 13 color photographs, and 36 stereoviews. The black and white photographs include 9 cartes-de-visite and 3 tintypes.
The collection is of value to researchers seeking illustrative materials on the Hays family, the Halle family, the Feiss family, the Eisenman family, the Maschke, the Seligman family, and the Heiner family. The collection is also of value to researchers seeking illustrative materials on early automobiles in northeast Ohio, 1901-1907; Edgewater and Gordon Parks, 1904-1905; and Shaker Heights, 1905. Stereoviews of the Kaynee Clothing Factory will be of interest to researchers seeking illustrative material about clothing manufacturing in northeast Ohio.
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Related MaterialThe researcher should also consult MS 4595 Joseph Hays Family Papers.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] PG 503 Joseph Hays Family Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
These photographs were removed from MS 4595 Joseph Hays Family Papers. That collection was a gift of Michael Louis Hays in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, and 1991.
Processed by Evy Rosenblum in 1999.
Series I: Portraits 1874-1977 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Eisenman, Bertha Hays, portraits, individual 1882 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Eisenman, Charles, portrait, individual undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Eisenman, Charles and Bertha, portrait, group undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Feiss, Julius, portraits, individual undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Halle, Emmy Seligman, portraits, individual undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Halle, Eugene, portrait, individual undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Halle, Will, portraits, individual undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Halle Family, group, including one carte-de-visite and two tintypes 1901 1906 1948 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Hays, Abraham, portrait, individual 1870s | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Hays, Clarence, portrait, individual undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Hays, Eugene, portrait, individual 1882 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Hays, Eugene and Edna, portrait, group undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Hays, Jessie Feiss, portraits, individual and group 1893 1933 1943 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Hays, Joseph, portrait, individual 1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Hays, Joseph, portrait, individual, oversize (original stored in Container 2, Folder 34) 1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Hays, Rosetta, portrait, individual 1882 1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Hays, Louis, portraits, individual, including 5 cartes-de-visites (oversize portrait, undated, original stored in Container 2, Folder 35) 1877 1882 1896 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Hays, Robert, portraits, individual 1915 1921 1938 1968 1970-1971 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Hays Family, portraits, group 1911-1970 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Hays Family, scrapbook, portraits, individual and group 1903-1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Hays Family, scrapbook, portraits, individual and group, and views of Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Edgewater and Gordon Parks, Cleveland, Ohio (original stored in Container 2, Folder 36) 1905-1917 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Hays Family, scrapbook pages, portraits, individual and group, including views of Painesville, Ohio (originals stored in Container 2, Folder 37) 1904-1933 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Hays Family, scrapbook pages, portraits, individual and group, and views 1903-1910 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Heiner, Marie Hays, portrait, individual, pencil drawing (original stored in Container 2, Folder 38) 1915 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Heiner Family, portraits, individual and group 1915 1920 1927 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Maschke, Alfred and Selma, portraits, individual undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Seligman, Sigmund and Maria Feiss, portraits, individual and group 1874 ca. 1881 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Seligman, Emmy, Hugo, Jessie, and Susie Feiss, portraits, individual and group undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Stillman, H. O., individual portraits, including three cartes-de-visite and one tintype. Two portraits, undated, originals stored in Container 2, Folder 39 1885 1890 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Unidentified portraits 1977 | |||||||||
Series II: Subjects 1901-1972 undated |
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| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Automobiles, Waverly 1901 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Automobiles, Baker, first electric car in Cleveland 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Costume parties (original of 1936 Hai Resh Dance at the Oakwood Club stored in Container 2, Folder 40) 1924-1936 undated | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Excelsior Club, Farewell Stag Party (original stored in Container 2, Folder 41) 1931 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Federation of Jewish Charities (Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland), first Board of Trustees (original stored in Container 2, Folder 42) 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Hays Automatic Stop, phonograph accessory invented by Louis Hays 1910 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30-31 | Kaynee Company, stereoviews 1950s 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | McDonald & Company 1969 1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, cornerstone laying 1914 | |||||||||