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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2381 | Title: | WELCOME Records
| | | | Creator: | WELCOME | | | | Dates: | 1971-1987 | | | | Abstract: | WELCOME (Westsiders and Eastsiders Let's Come Together) was founded in 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio, by teachers, parents, and concerned citizens to create an atmosphere of peace and racial cooperation in response to the possibility of violence during the desegregation of the Cleveland Public Schools. WELCOME activities, which involved community centers and churches, included a series of bridgewalks across the Detroit Superior Bridge, the distribution of tee-shirts, the establishment of WELCOME committees at each school, and WELCOME wagons that visited neighborhoods. Once desegregation took place, WELCOME clubs were formed in the newly desegregated schools. The most active students in each club formed the citywide WELCOME Leadership Institute in 1980, funded by the Cleveland and Gund Foundations. In 1984, funding ended, and the Leadership Institute evolved into Youth United to Oppose Apartheid. WELCOME and the Leadership Institute ceased to exist. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, bylaws, desegregation studies, financial materials, minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, permits, petitions, press releases, foundation proposals, reports, testimonials, and newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4796 | | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | WELCOME. | WELCOME Leadership Institute. | Cleveland Public Schools. | Office on School Monitoring & Community Relations. | School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Segregation in education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2382 | Title: | Na'amat USA, Cleveland Council Records
| | | | Creator: | Na'amat USA, Cleveland Council | | | | Dates: | 1942-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Na'amat USA is a Labor Zionist women's organization originally called Pioneer Women. The Cleveland Council was founded in 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio, one year after the national organization came into being. As the organization grew, it was divided into numbered chapters. At its peak, there were fourteen chapters. In 1999, there were four chapters in the Cleveland Council, serving 650 women. Pioneer Women was organized to provide training, educational services, and social services to women, children, and families in Palestine. The Cleveland Council raised funds and sponsored programs that informed the Cleveland community of social service and educational needs in Israel. The national organization also promoted Habonim, a youth organization, and sponsored Jewish and cultural activities. In 1985 the name Pioneer Women was changed to Na'amat USA, in order to more closely match its sister organization in Israel, Na'amat. The collection consists of minutes, bulletins, donor program books, newspaper clippings and magazine articles, membership lists, correspondence and financial records. | | | | Call #: | MS 4797 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Na'amat USA (Organization) Cleveland Council. | Pioneer Women (Organization : U.S.). Cleveland Council. | Na'amat (Organization : Israel). | Habonim (Organization). | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor Zionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Working-women's clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2383 | Title: | Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Records, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Martha Holden Jennings Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1991-1998 | | | | Abstract: | The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation is an education foundation promoting elementary and secondary teaching, teacher training, curriculum development and school evaluation studies, including educational TV programs and in-service conferences and seminars. The collection is of interest to researchers exploring trends and developments in education in Ohio, 1963-1992. The records document the foundation's activities in teacher training and staff development, curriculum development, materials development and equipment purchase, information sharing, conferences and retreats, enrichment programs, scholarship and awards, and evaluation and research. The material also supports research into foundation management. The collection consists primarily of grant and program files, but also include minutes and publications. The grant files include award letters, grant proposals, proposal reviews, correspondence, project reports, photographs, and project evaluations. Program files consist of correspondence, meeting materials, and program descriptions. | | | | Call #: | MS 4798 | | | | Extent: | 3.80 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Martha Holden Jennings Foundation. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education -- Ohio. | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Education -- Research -- Ohio. | Education -- Research -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Educational evaluation -- Ohio. | Educational evaluation -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Educational innovations -- Ohio. | Educational innovations -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Educational surveys -- Ohio. | Educational surveys -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Curriculum enrichment -- Ohio. | Curriculum enrichment -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School improvement programs -- Ohio. | School improvement programs -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Teachers -- Training of -- Ohio. | Teachers -- Training of -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Teachers' workshops -- Ohio. | Teachers' workshops -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2384 | Title: | Henry X. Kutash Papers
| | | | Creator: | Henry X. Kutash | | | | Dates: | 1923-1987 | | | | Abstract: | Henry X. Kutash was an attorney, sportsman, and Jewish community leader in Cleveland, Ohio. After service in the Navy during World War II, he joined the Cleveland law firm of Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, where he practiced estate administration, corporate law, and litigation. He was a partner until his retirement in 1973. He was active in the Cleveland Bar Association and the Cleveland Law Library Association. As a sportsman he was an active sailor, participating in races at the Mentor Harbor Yachting Club. He taught sunday school at The Temple-Tifereth Israel and was a volunteer counselor at Camp Wise in the 1930s. He served on the boards of many organizations, including the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, the Jewish Convalescent Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and the Jewish Family Service Association. The collection consists of correspondence, certificates, brochures, financial records, minutes, reports, and notes. | | | | Call #: | MS 4799 | | | | Extent: | 6.00 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Kutash, Henry X., 1907-1996. | Cleveland Bar Association. | Cleveland Law Library Association. | Jewish Community Council (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish Convalescent Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio). | Mentor Harbor Yachting Club. | Mount Sinai Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio) | Temple-Tifereth Israel (Cleveland, Ohio). | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sailing clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2385 | Title: | Carl Stokes Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Stokes, Carl | | | | Dates: | 1947-1992 | | | | Abstract: | Carl Stokes was the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1967-1971. Stokes was the first African American mayor of a major American city and the first African American Democrat in the Ohio State Legislature, where he served three terms from 1962-1967. As mayor, Stokes launched a number of programs to alleviate the problems of urban decay. Chief among these was Cleveland: NOW!, a joint public and private program with plans to raise $177 million in its first two years to revitalize Cleveland. The program was discredited due to the Glenville Shootout in July, 1968. Under Stokes, Cleveland City Council passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Ordinance, and HUD resumed funding projects aiding in the construction of over 3,000 new low- and middle-income housing units. Stokes became a newscaster with NBC television in 1972, and returned to his law practice in Cleveland in 1980. In 1983, Stokes was elected a municipal court judge. The collection consists of speeches, correspondence, datebooks, budgets, lectures, newspaper clippings, publications, telegrams, reports, resumes, agendas, press releases, programs, flyers, certificates, legal documents, newsletters, transcripts, proposals, lists, minutes, and a yearbook. | | | | Call #: | MS 4800 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Stokes, Carl. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2386 | Title: | John Huntington Fund for Education Records
| | | | Creator: | John Huntington Fund for Education | | | | Dates: | 1889-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The John Huntington Fund For Education was created in 1953 in Cleveland, Ohio, upon the sale of the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute and from annual grants from the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust. These annual grants terminated in 1971, when the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust gave the John Huntington Fund For Education a one-time grant of 9 million dollars. The John Huntington Fund For Education gave individual scholarship grants to students pursuing scientific and vocational education until 1972, after which they gave grants to educational institutions and scholarship programs. The collection consists of minutes, annual reports, financial statements, correspondence, grant proposals and reports, articles of incorporation, legal petitions, newspaper clippings, tax returns, histories, and photocopies of the will and codicil of John Huntington. The majority of the records are concerned with the John Huntington Fund for Education, with a small amount of material from the John Huntington Arts and Polytechnic Trust and the John Huntington Benevolent Trust, as they relate to the John Huntington Fund for Education. | | | | Call #: | MS 4801 | | | | Extent: | 4.40 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Huntington, John, 1832-1893. | John Huntington Fund for Education. | John Huntington Arts and Polytechnic Trust. | John Huntington Benevolent Trust. | John Huntington Polytechnic Institute. | Cleveland Foundation. | Cleveland Museum of Art. | Cleveland Scholarship Services, Inc. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Science -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Vocational education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Universities and colleges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States. | Art museums -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2387 | Title: | Charles Beard Papers
| | | | Creator: | Beard, Charles | | | | Dates: | 1919-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Charles Beard was born in Georgia and raised in Newport, Rhode Island. He enlisted in the United States Air Force during World War II, serving as a fighter pilot, after training at Tuskegee Air Force Base. In 1945, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Western Reserve University. In 1946, he served as a junior city planner for the City Planning Commission, and in the 1950s worked for the Cleveland Urban Renewal Agency. In the late 1950s, he was promoted to Chief City Planner for Cleveland, and in the 1960s, became the Director of Plan of Action for Tomorrow's Housing (PATH). From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, he held a position as a government liaison with the Federation for Community Planning. He also was founder of the Friends of Shaker Square and Fair Housing, Inc. He helped organize the North Coast Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., in 1993. The collection consists of reports, speeches, proposals, correspondence, agendas, annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, notes, ordinances, bibliographies, booklets, tables, pamphlets, publications, lists, and maps. The majority of the material relates to Beard's career as Chief City Planner for the City Planning Commission. | | | | Call #: | MS 4802 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Beard, Charles, 1923-1993. | Cleveland (Ohio). City Planning Commission. | Federation for Community Planning. | Plan of Action for Tomorrow's Housing (Cleveland, Ohio). | Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) | Friends of Shaker Square. | Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. North Coast Chapter. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2388 | Title: | David Morrow, Sr. Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Morrow, David Sr. Family | | | | Dates: | 1818-1938 | | | | Abstract: | David Morrow Sr. was the son of John Morrow and brother of John Morrow Jr. and William Morrow. The family originated in Knock, parish of Castlenagh, County Down, Ireland. William Morrow emigrated to Virginia, and with family friend Alexander J. Stewart, who had settled in New York City, corresponded with the remaining Morrow family members in Ireland. The David Morrow Sr. family, including David Sr., his wife Abigail, and their children, David Jr., William, and Abigail, emigrated from Belfast, Ireland in 1832, and were settled in Euclid, Ohio, by 1833, where they farmed. David Morrow Jr. and his brother William, continued to farm after the death of their father in 1836, eventually acquiring their own land in Glenville, near Cleveland, Ohio. David Morrow Jr. married Eliza Shade, and they had three children; David Wilson, Abigail, and Eliza Lillie. David Wilson Morrow attended Shaw Academy in East Cleveland, and graduated from the Case School of Applied Science in 1890. He went into practice in Cleveland as a civil and architectural engineer, establishing the firm of Morrow and Cross. He was an active member of the Cleveland Engineering Society, the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, and the Cleveland Automobile Club. He married Ruby Jessamine Adams in 1905, and they had four children, two of whom survived, Ruth and David. The collection consists of genealogical and biographical sketches, correspondence, appointment books, tax returns and other financial papers, probate record journals, wills, deeds, trust and estate agreements, land plats and other real estate papers, minutes, transcripts, and other legal documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 4803 | | | | Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Morrow, David Sr. d. 1836. | Morrow family. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women immigrants. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Politics and government. | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2389 | Title: | Charles W. Fleming Papers
| | | | Creator: | Fleming, Charles W. | | | | Dates: | 1943-1994 | | | | Abstract: | Charles W. Fleming was a Cleveland, Ohio, Municipal Court Judge, an Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, a special assistant to the Attorney General of the State of Ohio, senior partner of the Fleming, Hubbard, and Davis Law Firm in Cleveland, and a professor at Case Western Reserve University. Fleming was also involved in Masonry. The collection consists of agendas, certificates, correspondence, biographies, court cases, newsletters, booklets, newspaper clippings, lists, financial statements, minutes, schedules, reports, notes, pamphlets, programs, and resolutions. | | | | Call #: | MS 4804 | | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (4 containers and 4 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Fleming, Charles, W., 1928-1994. | American Judges Association. | National Bar Association. | Cleveland (Ohio). Municipal Court. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American freemasonry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Freemasonry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2390 | Title: | McGorray Brothers Funeral Home Records
| | | | Creator: | McGorray Brothers Funeral Home | | | | Dates: | 1876-1935 | | | | Abstract: | The McGorray Brothers Funeral Home was founded by Mark McGorray in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, as the McGorray Funeral Home. The name was changed to McGorray Brothers Funeral Home after the death of Mark McGorray in 1891, when two of his sons, James W. McGorray and Joseph McGorray, took over the business. Mark McGorray was an Irish immigrant, coming to the United States in 1844. He and his family settled in Cleveland in 1864. McGorray Brothers Funeral Home became a prominent Irish Catholic funeral home, and was located first on the west side of Cleveland, and by 1922, in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland. James W. McGorray II took over the business ca. 1919. His son, James W. McGorray III, assumed leadership of the business on the death of his father in 1968. He served as President until his death in 1994, when he was succeeded by his daughter and current president, Mary Susan McGorray. The collection consists of funeral account ledgers, funeral record books, inventory records, carriage and coach ledgers, correspondence, death certificates, burial permits, and other receipts. This collection provides the genealogical researcher with much information, particularly those interested in Irish Catholic family history of Cleveland, Ohio. The funeral account ledgers provide the name of the deceased, name the account is being billed to, date of death, and date and location of burial. The majority of these ledgers contain an alphabetized index of names. The funeral record books include the name of the deceased, date of death, age, sex, cause of death, residence of the deceased, place of burial, name the account is being billed to (often next of kin), that person's address, and the attending physician and his address. Also contained in these volumes are receipts, burial permits, and death certificates for individuals. The collection also contains business records, including carriage, coach, and inventory volumes, detailing the funeral home business of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. click here to view the searchable index to the burial records contained in this collection | | | | Call #: | MS 4805 | | | | Extent: | 5.40 linear feet (14 containers) | | | | Subjects: | McGorray, Mark, 1829-1891. | McGorray, James W., d. 1919. | McGorray, Joseph, d. 1910. | McGorray, James W. II, 1892-1968. | McGorray, James W. III, 1923-1994. | McGorray, Mary Susan, 1957- | McGorray Brothers Funeral Home. | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Lakewood. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Lakewood. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Lakewood. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Lakewood -- Genealogy. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Lakewood. | Lakewood (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Lakewood. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2391 | Title: | Arthur J. Lelyveld Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Lelyveld, Arthur J. | | | | Dates: | 1884-1999 | | | | Abstract: | Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld served as senior rabbi of Anshe Chesed Congregation (Fairmount Temple) in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, from 1958-1986. Throughout his career he played key roles in national and local Jewish organizations and actively fought for civil rights. A native of New York City, Lelyveld received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1933, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College in 1939. From 1939-1944, he served congregations in Hamilton, Ohio, and Omaha, Nebraska. From 1944-1946 he was Executive Director of the Committee on Unity for Palestine, and from 1946-1956 served as Associate National Director, and then National Director, of B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundations. He also played leadership roles in a number of other national Jewish organizations, including American Jewish Congress, Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Synagogue Council of America. On the local Cleveland level, he served in various capacities on the Cleveland Jewish Welfare Fund, the Jewish Community Federation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cleveland Chapter, and the Cleveland Board of Rabbis. Lelyveld was also the author of Atheism is Dead and of numerous monographs and articles. He was active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, participating with other Cleveland clergy in voter registration efforts in Mississippi and serving as a minister-counselor to the Council of Federated Organizations under the auspices of the Commission on Race and Religion of the National Council of Churches. While serving in this capacity, Lelyveld was severely beaten. He also delivered the eulogy at the funeral of slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman in 1964. The collection consists of correspondence, sermons, speeches, writings, and family material. | | | | Call #: | MS 4806 | | | | Extent: | 4.01 linear feet (4 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1996. | Lelyveld family. | Anshe Chesed Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish sermons -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Reform Judaism. | Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2392 | Title: | Albert G. Jones Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jones, Albert G. | | | | Dates: | 1851-1930 | | | | Abstract: | Albert G. Jones was an American Civil War veteran born in Lake County, Ohio. Jones served as a 2nd Lieutenant, 27th United States Colored Troops, a unit primarily composed of Ohio soldiers, from January 1864-September 1865. He was appointed 1st Lieutenant in September 1864, and in 1865 was appointed Assistant Adjutant General. The 27th USCT participated in the campaign that captured Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina. After the war, Jones returned to Cleveland, where he worked as a laborer, clerk, and sewer inspector. In 1870, he was appointed Assistant Marshal, Northern District of Ohio, 9th United States Census. He was a charter member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Forest City Post Number 556. The collection consists of correspondence, deeds, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4808 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Jones, Albert G., 1842-1919. | United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 27th (1864-1865). | Grand Army of the Republic. Forest City Post, No. 556 (Cleveland, Ohio) | United States. Army -- African American troops. | Afro-American soldiers -- Ohio. | Soldiers -- Ohio. | African Americans -- Ohio. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Afro-American, [Indian, etc.] | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2393 | Title: | Pease Funeral Home Records
| | | | Creator: | Pease Funeral Home | | | | Dates: | 1883-1975 | | | | Abstract: | The Pease Funeral Home was founded in the early 1870s by James A. Pease and his brother, Calvin Pease, in Dover (now Westlake), Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Following the death of James Pease, his son Clifford Pease took over the operation of the funeral home. A civic and business leader in Dover, he remained head of the business until his death in 1944. His wife, Alice Minerva Osborn Pease, and daughter, Marion E. Pease took over the firm upon his death. In 1955, the business was sold to Glen A. and Melvin Jenkins, father and son, and renamed the Jenkins Funeral Home. The collection consists of calendars and journals; daybooks; business account ledgers and inventories; funeral account ledgers, register and record books; financial records, including tax returns, receipts, and bank statements; real estate records, including census of business, acquisition and sale of property; and death records, including burial permits, correspondence, state death certificates, provisional death certificates, funeral notes of records, Ohio obituaries, and military death records. The funeral account and records books contain much information useful to genealogists, including birthplace, state of residence, location and cause of death, and names and birthplaces of parents of the deceased. The records also include a significant number of individuals of Scandinavian, Italian, and German heritage; many of them contain personal notes handwritten by the Pease family pertaining to the deceased and obituaries listing maiden names and next of kin. click here to view the searchable index to the burial records contained in this collection | | | | Call #: | MS 4809 | | | | Extent: | 5.20 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Pease family. | Pease Funeral Home (Westlake, Ohio). | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy. | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- History. | Westlake (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Westlake (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2394 | Title: | Clifford B. Pease Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Pease, Clifford B. Family | | | | Dates: | 1811-1991 | | | | Abstract: | Clifford B. Pease was a funeral home director and civic leader in Dover (later Westlake), Ohio. In 1929 he took over operation of the Pease Funeral Home in Dover founded by his father, James Pease. In addition to operating the funeral home, Pease was active in the business and civic affairs of Dover; serving as town clerk, as a member of various clubs and lodges, and as a leader in numerous state and national funeral industry organizations. He married Alice Minerva Osborn in 1909 and had two children, Marion Elizabeth Pease and Kenneth Osborn Pease. Marion Pease became a licensed funeral director, and along with her mother, continued to operate the funeral home business after the death of Clifford Pease in 1944. When the business was sold to Glen A. Jenkins in 1955, she continued on as a licensed funeral director with the newly-named Jenkins Funeral Home, into the 1980s. The collection consists of address and birthday books; correspondence; daybooks; genealogies and canine pedigrees; financial and tax records; legal records, including deeds, wills, estate inventories, land partitions and purchases, divorce papers, and lawsuits; birth and death certificates; diplomas and certificates; newspaper clippings and notes, including birth, death and wedding announcements; poetry and recipe books; academic catalogs and directories; pamphlets; and bulletins. | | | | Call #: | MS 4810 | | | | Extent: | 1.75 linear feet (4 containers and 5 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Pease, Clifford B., 1879-1944. | Pease, Marion Elizabeth, 1910-1991. | Pease, Alice Osborn, 1888-1959. | Pease family. | Abell family. | Carter family. | Crocker family. | Osborn family. | Pease Funeral Home (Westlake, Ohio). | Jenkins Funeral Home (Westlake, Ohio). | College of Wooster. | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Westlake. | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy. | Dover (Cuyahoga County, Ohio : Township) -- History. | Rockport (Ohio : Township) -- History. | Rockport (Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy. | Westlake (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Westlake (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2395 | Title: | George J. McMonagle Papers
| | | | Creator: | McMonagle, George J. | | | | Dates: | 1910-1989 | | | | Abstract: | George J. McMonagle was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1906 of Irish descent. A graduate of Cleveland Marshall Law School in 1930, he practiced law for 34 years. In 1964, he was appointed a judge in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, winning election to that office in 1966. He retired in 1997. McMonagle has been active in Irish organizations in Cleveland, including as a charter member of the Irish Civic Association, founded in 1942, and as a member of the Irish Goodfellowship Club. An annual activity of the Irish Civic Association was the organization of the St. Patrick's Day parade and banquet. The two groups maintain a close relationship; the Civic Association's banquet also serves to honor the Goodfellowship Club's "Man of the Year." the collection consists of personal papers of George J. McMonagle and also records of the Irish Civic Association, which he served as secretary and president. Included is general correspondence concerning the Irish Civic Association, specific correspondence concerning that group's articles of incorporation, a statement of continued existence, eleven issues of the newspaper The Irish-American covering the years 1939-1944, a membership list (1942) of the Irish Civic Association, articles of incorporation for the Irish Goodfellowship Club (1910), a compilation of Irish nicknames, speeches by George J. McMonagle, and newspaper clippings concerning Judge James C. Connell. | | | | Call #: | MS 4811 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | McMonagle, George J. | Connell, James C. | Irish Civic Association. | Irish Goodfellowship Club. | Knights of Equity. | United Irish Societies. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Saint Patrick's Day -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2396 | Title: | Libbie L. Braverman Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Braverman, Libbie L. | | | | Dates: | 1923-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Libbie L. Braverman was a nationally prominent teacher, author, lecturer, and consultant in the field of Jewish education. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, while in high school. She received a teaching certificate from Cleveland Normal School (ca. 1920) and a B.S. in Education from Western Reserve University in 1933. From 1946-1952 she was director of the Euclid Avenue Temple School and in 1945, became the first woman elected to the Board of the National Council for Jewish Education. She wrote numerous books and articles, including many co-authored with Nathan Brilliant. She was married to architect Sigmund Braverman in 1924. The collection consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, correspondence, teacher institute programs, synagogue bulletin articles, a certificate, and a curriculum vitae. | | | | Call #: | MS 4812 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Braverman, Libbie L. (Libbie Levin), 1900- | Anshe Chesed Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish educators -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2397 | Title: | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1941-1975 | | | | Abstract: | The Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland is interdenominational organization founded in 1911 as the Federated Churches of Cleveland to coordinate the community welfare and education activities of 67 Cleveland, Ohio, churches. In 1934, a new constitution was adopted, which officially changed the name of the organization to the Cleveland Church Federation. A new constitution in 1958 changed the Federation's name to the Cleveland Area Church Federation. In 1965 the Cleveland Area Church Federation adopted another new constitution and new name, Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland, and in 1985, the Council adopted its present name, Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland. The Metropolitan Affairs Commission was one of three commissions organized within the Council of Churches ca. 1965. It was responsible for issue-centered action programs during the 1960s in three areas; race, civil rights, and poverty. The collection consists of agendas, minutes, reports, memos, notes, correspondence, rosters, budget ledgers, contracts, financial statements, income tax forms, insurance policies, posters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, press releases, newsletters, schedules, and transcripts. | | | | Call #: | MS 4813 | | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (4 containers and 3 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland. | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Affairs Commission. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Local church councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Interdenominational cooperation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious aspects. | Urbanization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2398 | Title: | United Freedom Movement Freedom Schools Records
| | | | Creator: | United Freedom Movement Freedom Schools | | | | Dates: | 1963-1965 | | | | Abstract: | The United Freedom Movement Freedom Schools was a mass boycott in protest of the racial segregation of Cleveland, Ohio, public schools held on April 20, 1964. The United Freedom Movement of Cleveland directed the school boycott. Students from Cleveland public schools were directed to attend Freedom Schools for one day, held at area churches and with a curriculum consisting of black cultural and civil rights history, art, and music. The collection consists of applications by volunteers to staff schools, curricula, organizational charts, flyers, newspaper clippings, and lists of schools, students, teachers, supervisors, and demonstrators. | | | | Call #: | MS 4814 | | | | Extent: | 0.50 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United Freedom Movement Freedom Schools. | Cleveland Public Schools. | United Freedom Movement. | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Segregation in education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2399 | Title: | Karl F. Bruch, Jr. Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bruch, Karl F., Jr. | | | | Dates: | 1951-1973 | | | | Abstract: | Karl F. Bruch Jr. was active in church, politics, and civil rights in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, particularly during the 1960s-1970s. He was president of Fair Housing Inc., a real estate company committed to integrating neighborhoods in the Cleveland area. He was also a member of the Greater Cleveland Council of Churches and a director of its Metropolitan Affairs Commission, and the United Presbyterian Church's Synod of Ohio Evangelism and Social Witness and the Commission on Religion and Race. Bruch was also a member of the Fenn College Board of Trustees at the time it was incorporated into Cleveland State University. The collection consists of agendas, minutes of meetings, reports, a roster, newspaper clippings, newsletters, correspondence, announcements, legal documents, press releases, and financial documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 4815 | | | | Extent: | 3.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Bruch, Karl F., Jr. | Fenn College. | Cleveland State University. | United Presbyterian Church of North America. | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race. | Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland. | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Affairs Commission. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious aspects. | Urbanization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Local church councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Interdenominational cooperation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2400 | Title: | Sylvia Geegan Ingham Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Ingham, Sylvia Geegan Family | | | | Dates: | 1838-1983 | | | | Abstract: | Sylvia Geegan Ingham was a descendant of the Woodford, Geegan, and Wehr families. A branch of the Woodford family settled in Youngstown Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, where Elmer Woodford married Emmelein Wehr. Their daughter, Cora Dell Woodford was the mother of Sylvia Woodford Geegan. Cora Dell Woodford married James Gordon Geegan. The Geegan family were originally from County Clare, Ireland. Sylvia Woodford Geegan married Roger Ward Ingham in 1946. The collection consists of family genealogies of Sylvia Woodford Geegan; her mother, Cora Dell Woodford; and her father, James Gordon Geegan. Genealogical charts for the Woodfords, dating back to 1667, are included. Historical anecdotes relating to the Wehr and Woodford families, and the birth certificate of Emmelein Wehr from Trumbull County, Ohio are also included. | | | | Call #: | MS 4816 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Ingham, Sylvia Geegan. | Woodford family. | Geegan family. | Wehr family. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Trumbull County. | Trumbull County (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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