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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2421 | Title: | Jacob Muskin Papers
| | | | Creator: | Muskin, Jacob | | | | Dates: | 1940-1990 | | | | Abstract: | Jacob Muskin (1920-1990) was a Cleveland, Ohio, rabbi affiliated with the Orthodox movement of Judaism. Born in Chicago, Muskin attended the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore. After World War II, he was the associate national director of Va-ad Ha-Hatzalah (the rescue committee, in Hebrew), an organization that saved children and scholars from the Holocaust. He began his pulpit career in Cleveland as the rabbi of the Kinsman Jewish Center in 1950, where he established the first synagogue-sponsored nursery school in the city. In 1959 he helped to orchestrate the merger of Kinsman Jewish Center with other small Orthodox congregations to form Warrensville Center Synagogue in Cleveland Heights. He served as rabbi at Warrensville Center Synagogue until his death in 1990. Muskin was active in many local Jewish organizations. He served on the Kashruth Board, the chaplaincy committee, and the Central Fund for Traditional Institutions, all of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. He was on the board of directors and served on the educational committees of Yeshiva Adath B'nai Israel, the Telshe Yeshiva, and the Bureau of Jewish Education of Cleveland. As a member of the Merkaz Harabonim, the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of Cleveland, he served as chair for six years, often articulating the views of the Orthodox community on issues such as Kashruth, divorce, cemetery practices, holiday observances, and Zionism. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, ledgers, lists, synagogue programs, and legal documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 4837 | | | | Extent: | 1.01 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Muskin, Jacob, 1920-1990. -- Archives. | Kinsman Jewish Center (Cleveland, Ohio). | Nvai Zedek Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Warrensville Center Synagogue (Cleveland Heights, Ohio). | Orthodox Rabbinical Council of Cleveland. | Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- 20th century. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious life -- 20th century. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives. | Jews -- Dietary laws. | Orthodox Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 20th century. | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 20th century. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 20th century. | Jewish law. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2422 | Title: | Woodruff Foundation Records
| | | | Creator: | Woodruff Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1986-1996 | | | | Abstract: | The Woodruff Foundation was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1986 with proceeds from the sale of Woodruff Memorial Institute programs to Saint Vincent Charity Hospital and Health Center and the sale of the Institute's land and buildings to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Founded in Cleveland in 1935 by Mabel Woodruff as Ingleside Hospital, it was a private psychiatric hospital. After bankruptcy and closing in 1968, Ingleside Hospital reopened in 1969 as the Woodruff Memorial Institute (also known as Woodruff Hospital). The Woodruff Foundation gives grants to organizations that provide substance abuse services, mental health/crisis services, and alcoholism services to adults and adolescents in northeastern Ohio. The collection consists of agendas, architectural drawings, budgets, correspondence, financial statements, grant proposals, memoranda, minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs, publications, reports, and rosters. | | | | Call #: | MS 4838 | | | | Extent: | 2.40 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Woodruff Foundation. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Mental health services -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Psychiatry -- Research -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Adolescent psychotherapy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Substance abuse -- Treatment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Alcoholism -- Treatment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music therapy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Art therapy -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2423 | Title: | Russell Cartwright Stroup Papers
| | | | Creator: | Stroup, Russell Cartwright | | | | Dates: | 1942-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Russell Cartwright Stroup was a Methodist minister and later a Presbyterian minister who spent his early years in East Cleveland, Ohio. He was the son of Ner Wallace Stroup and Emma Cartwright Stroup. In 1914, his father was killed and his mother crippled in a trolley accident, and in 1918 Emma Stroup moved with her three children to California. Russell Stroup attended Stanford University and Drew Theological Seminary. He served two Methodist churches in California from 1927-1934. He moved to Virginia with his mother and brother in 1934, and served as the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. Although a pacifist, he enlisted in the United States Army in World War II, serving as a chaplain in the South Pacific. In 1947 he married Louis Wells Baker. He was pastor of Georgetown Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. 1950-1970, and died in 1977. His nephew, Richard Cartwright Austin, edited a book based on Stroup's letters, entitled Letters from the Pacific: a Combat Chaplain in World War II. Austin is the great-grandson of the founder of the Cleveland, Ohio, firm, the Austin Company. The collection consists of certificates, a diary, envelopes, letters, newspaper and Congressional Record clippings, programs, publications, and service records related to Russell Cartwright Stroup's World War II service in the South Pacific as an army chaplain. | | | | Call #: | MS 4839 | | | | Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Stroup, Russell Cartwright, 1905-1977. | Stroup family. | Austin family. | United States. Army -- Chaplains -- Correspondence. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. | Chaplains, Military -- United States -- Correspondence. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean -- Correspondence. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Chaplains -- United States -- Correspondence. | Methodist Church -- Clergy. | Presbyterian Church -- Clergy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2424 | Title: | Mount Sinai Hospital Records
| | | | Creator: | Mount Sinai Hospital | | | | Dates: | 1903-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Mount Sinai Hospital had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1900, they changed their name to the Jewish Women's Hospital Association. A 29-bed facility, named Mount Sinai Hospital, opened in 1903 at 2373 East 37th Street. In 1916, a new, larger facility was opened at East 105th Street and Ansel Road. Innovations included outpatient clinics for pediatrics and mental hygiene, established in 1915. A nursing school was included. Mount Sinai affiliated with Western Reserve University for the training and education of its nurses in 1930, and its doctors in 1947. Medical research was given a high priority. The Women's and Junior Women's auxiliaries provided important assistance to the medical staff and patients, including a nursery school for children of nurses and volunteers. Mount Sinai served as a major medical resource for Cleveland's east side throughout its history. Expansion included a twelve-story building and a kidney dialysis center (1960), a new laboratory facility (1970), and an outpatient clinic in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood (1972). A new medical wing was added to the hospital in the 1980s, and in 1993 an integrated medical campus was opened at the Beachwood facility. In 1996, the nonprofit hospital was sold to a for-profit company, Primary Health Systems (PHS). In March 1999, PHS filed for bankruptcy, and in February 2000, Mount Sinai Hospital closed. The collection consists of reports, minutes, histories, newspaper and magazine articles, booklets, financial records, staff publications, bulletins, medical case histories, drawings, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4840 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Mount Sinai Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish Women's Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio). | Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick (Cleveland, Ohio). | Case Western Reserve University. School of Medicine. | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Medical care. | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Administration. | Nursing schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Nurses -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Medical personnel -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2425 | Title: | John Walsh Papers
| | | | Creator: | Walsh, John | | | | Dates: | 1880-2000 | | | | Abstract: | John Walsh was born in England of Irish-born parents. Along with his wife, Anna Markey, he immigrated to the United States in 1880, and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked in a weaving business. He later taught at Immaculate Conception School in Cleveland, and worked for 18 years at the United States Post Office. After leaving the post office, he became the assistant to the Cuyahoga County Treasurer and in 1911 was appointed a bailiff at the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, a position he held until 1949. During the 1890s, he organized and was first president of the Cleveland branch of the Catholic Knights of Ohio. In 1895, he became a member of the Parnell Branch of the Irish Land League. He also served as president of the MacNeven Club, organized in 1867 chiefly by Irish American veterans of the Civil War. Walsh served as the county president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and secretary of the John Mitchell Council of the Irish National Association. The collection consists of a biography, a booklet with copies of Walsh's marriage certificate and newspaper articles about him, correspondence, program books of the MacNeven Club and Ancient Order of Hibernians honoring John Walsh, miscellaneous newspaper articles, and four copies of Irish Heritage Magazine. Genealogical information about John Walsh is also included. | | | | Call #: | MS 4841 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Walsh, John, 1856-1951. | Ancient Order of Hibernians. | MacNeven Club (Cleveland, Ohio). | Catholic Knights of Cleveland. | Land League (Ireland) | Irish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2426 | Title: | Abba Hillel Silver Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Silver, Abba Hillel | | | | Dates: | 1894-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Abba Hillel Silver was the Rabbi at The Temple, Cleveland, Ohio, and prominent internationally known leader of the Zionist movement for a Jewish homeland. The collection consists of biographical materials including certificates, drawings, journal articles, passports, naturalization papers, oral history transcripts, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and rabbinical materials including notes for sermons, writings, and eulogies. | | | | Call #: | MS 4842 | | | | Extent: | 1.71 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963. | Horkheimer, Louis. | Silver family. | Temple (Cleveland, Ohio) | United Palestine Appeal (U.S.) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism. | Zionism -- United States. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish sermons -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Palestine -- Politics and government. | Israel -- Politics and government. | Kefar Silver (Israel).
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2427 | Title: | Windermere United Methodist Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Windermere United Methodist Church | | | | Dates: | 1899-1988 | | | | Abstract: | The Windermere United Methodist Church of East Cleveland, Ohio, was informally organized in the 1890s. In 1899, the society to establish a permanent church was organized. Services were held 1902-1909 in the Old Euclid Avenue Road House at Euclid and Holyoke Avenues, as the Windermere Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1909, a new church, designed by architect J. B. Fulton and located at the Euclid and Holyoke Avenues site, was dedicated. Early pastors included Reverends Ner W. Stroup, E. A. Jester, Harry B. Lewis, W. B. Armington, and Battelle McCarthy. By 1915 it had 910 members. In the 1920s, a parsonage and hall were built. In 1939, with a merger on the national level of various Methodist bodies, the name was changed to Windermere Methodist Church. Membership grew to over 1800 by 1958. In 1946, the church, with the exception of the church tower and hall, was destroyed by fire. A new church, designed by the architectural firm of Maier, Walsh, and Dickerson, was completed in 1954. The Austin Memorial Chapel, designed by Travis Gower Walsh and Associates, was dedicated in 1962. In 1968, with another national church merger that created the United Methodist Church, the name was changed to Windermere United Methodist Church. In the 1960s, Windermere United Methodist Church struggled to develop an integrated church, and joined the East Side Cooperative Ministry in order to coordinate a ministerial plan for the rapidly changing population. Services included halfway houses, daycare, and neighborhood recreation programs. Predominantly African-American in membership by the 1980s, Windermere United Methodist Church was well known for its community outreach efforts, including Cleveland Food Rescue, anti-drug and gang programs for youth, daycare services, and other community redevelopment efforts. In 2000 the Austin Memorial Foundation gave the Windermere Taskforce-East Cleveland Initiative a grant to utilize the church facilities to expand community programs. In 2013, the church building was deemed unsafe by the church trustees, and the remaining 50 church members voted to move to Church of the Savior Methodist Church in Cleveland Heights. The Windermere church property was turned over to the North Coast District of the United Methodist Church in 2013. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, blueprints, construction specifications, contracts, correspondence, directories, financial document, histories, legal documents, lists, membership books, minutes, newspaper clippings, programs, proposals, publications, reports, a scrapbook, and surveys. | | | | Call #: | MS 4843 | | | | Extent: | 1.81 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Stroup family. | Austin family. | Windermere United Methodist Church (East Cleveland, Ohio) | Churches -- Ohio -- East Cleveland. | Methodist Church -- Ohio -- East Cleveland. | Methodist church buildings -- Ohio -- East Cleveland. | Methodists -- Ohio -- East Cleveland. | African American churches -- Ohio -- East Cleveland. | East Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history. | East Cleveland (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2428 | Title: | Rachel Diane Landy Papers
| | | | Creator: | Landy, Rachel Diane | | | | Dates: | 1913-1999 | | | | Abstract: | Rachel Diane Landy was a Jewish nurse from Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Lithuania, she and her family immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890. After graduation from nursing school, she worked in Cleveland with Dr. George Crile as an operating room nurse. In 1907 she began her association with Harlem Hospital in New York City. In 1913 she began a visiting nurse program in Palestine sponsored by the newly organized women's organization, Hadassah. In 1915 she returned to Cleveland to nurse her parents. In 1916, she relocated to New York City, becoming assistant superintendent of nurses at Fordham Hospital, and in 1917, superintendent of nurses at the Montefiore Home County Sanitarium in Bedford Hills, New York. In July 1918 she entered the United States Army Nursing Corps. During her army career she was stationed in Europe, in the Philippines, and at various army installations throughout the United States. In 1940 she became one of four assistant superintendents of the Army Nurse Corps. Her final army assignment, in 1943, was as the chief of nurses at the Crile Army Hospital in Cleveland. She retired from the army in 1945, and died in Cleveland in 1952. She is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The collection consists of photocopies of certificates, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, writings, and speeches. | | | | Call #: | MS 4844 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Landy, Rachel Diane, 1884-1952. | Crile, George Washington, 1864-1943. | United States. Army Nurse Corps. | Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Nurses -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Medical care -- Palestine. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care. | Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2429 | Title: | Links of Cleveland, Incorporated Records
| | | | Creator: | Links of Cleveland, Incorporated | | | | Dates: | 1946-1991 | | | | Abstract: | The Links of Cleveland Incorporated was established in 1950 as a local chapter of a national non-profit, non-partisan volunteer organization of African American women. Beginning with its first president, Rosalind Garvin, the organization committed to educational, cultural, social, and civic activities to raise funds for charitable causes. Recipients of this fundraising have included the Cleveland National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Karamu House; the Eliza Bryant Home; Forest City Hospital; the Jewish Welfare Fund; and, the Phillis Wheatley Association. The collection consists of administrative files, correspondence, budgets, financial records, minutes, memoranda, membership lists, newsletters, reports, programs, press releases, subject files, statements, histories, bylaws, guest books, handbooks, publications, transcripts, articles of incorporation, agendas, project files, and presidential files. | | | | Call #: | MS 4845 | | | | Extent: | 3.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Garvin, Rosalind. | George, Zelma, 1903-1994. | Jones, Adrienne Lash. | Madison, Leatrice. | Links of Cleveland, Inc. | Cleveland Museum of Art. | Karamu House. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Exhibitions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2430 | Title: | Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation Records
| | | | Creator: | Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1987-1999 | | | | Abstract: | The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation was established in 1987 in Cleveland, Ohio, through the estate donations of Joseph M. Bruening and his wife Eva L. Bruening. It is an independent foundation which provides grants to agencies in the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area. The foundation's focus areas are education and social services, with an emphasis on care for the elderly, disabled, and disadvantaged. Proposals funded include those in the fields of early childhood education, primary and secondary education, higher education, domestic violence and child abuse prevention, human services, and children and youth services. Special consideration is given to Roman Catholic organizations and institutions that provide these types of programs and services. Joseph M. Bruening founded the Ohio Ball Bearing Company in Cleveland in 1923, later known as Bearings Inc. The collection consists of agendas, budgets, correspondence, financial statements, grant proposals, memoranda with attachments, minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs, press releases, publications, reports, and trust disbursement authorizations. | | | | Call #: | MS 4846 | | | | Extent: | 4.20 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Bruening, Joseph M. | Bruening, Eva L. | Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Catholic Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2431 | Title: | Kenyon Stevenson Genealogical Collection
| | | | Creator: | Stevenson, Kenyon | | | | Dates: | 1646-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Kenyon Stevenson was a Cleveland, Ohio, sales manager and advertising executive and an avid genealogist who compiled family records and wrote genealogies. The collection consists of genealogical correspondence; compiled genealogies; photocopies of deeds, indentures and wills; abstracts and transcripts of vital records, deeds, indentures, letters of reference, church parish records, and wills; books, pamphlets, and articles; newspaper clippings;lineage records; census records; tax lists; transcribed narratives; biographies; state and county histories; land grant and petition lists; tombstone transcriptions; militia and muster rolls; Quaker and Baptist records; lawsuits and court case transcripts; and slave vital records and names in various documents. Family names include Anderson, Archer, Jordan, Beeson, Bohannon, Brittain, Parks, Bunker, Bush, Carroll, Crow, Crunkleton, Davidson, Coyle, Dooley, Durham, Everett, Finney, Foote, Francis, Gaines, Garland, Gentry, Glasscock, Gregory, Hardwick, Hervey, Hodgson, Hudson, Hutson, James, Johns, Kelso, Powell, Kyle, Lambert, Lane, Lusk, McCarty, McClaine, Reed, Shelburne, Shelton, Skeel, Stevenson, Stodghill, Struman, Sutherland, Swearingen, Cresap, Tomlinson, Waugh, Wells, Williams, Wood, Herman, Wortman, and Yates families. | | | | Call #: | MS 4847 | | | | Extent: | 9.20 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Stevenson, Kenyon, b. 1895 | Lane family. | Shelton family. | Stephenson family. | Yates family. | Anderson family. | Kelso family. | McClaine family. | Cresap family. | Lambert family. | Tomlinson family. | Shelburne family. | Waugh family. | Williams family. | Reed family. | Wortman family. | Wood family. | Wells family. | Herman family. | Gregory family. | Skeel family. | Struman family. | Stodghill family. | Sutherland family. | Powell family. | Swearingen family. | Lusk family. | Hodgson family. | McCarty family. | Kyle family. | Davidson family. | Hudson family. | Hardwick family. | Archer family. | James family. | Hervey family. | Johns family. | Coyle family. | Francis family. | Durham family. | Gaines family. | Jordan family. | Garland family. | Everett family. | Gentry family. | Dooley family. | Glasscock family. | Finney family. | Beeson family. | Foote family. | Bohannon family. | Brittain family. | Park family. | Bunker family. | Bush family. | Carroll family. | Crow family. | Crunkleton family. | Genealogists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Sources. | African Americans -- History. | Indians of North America -- History. | Delaware -- Genealogy. | Indiana -- Genealogy. | Kentucky -- Genealogy. | Maryland -- Genealogy. | New England -- Genealogy. | New Jersey -- Genealogy. | New York -- Genealogy. | North Carolina -- Genealogy. | South Carolina -- Genealogy. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources. | Ohio -- Genealogy. | Pennsylvania -- Genealogy. | Tennessee -- Genealogy. | Virginia -- Genealogy. | West Virginia -- Genealogy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2432 | Title: | Jonathan Warner Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Warner, Jonathan Family | | | | Dates: | 1804-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Jonathan Warner (1782-1862) was an early pioneer settler of Jefferson, Ashtabula, County, Ohio, in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Born in Connecticut, he traveled to the Western Reserve in 1804, and permanently settled in the Jefferson area in June 1805, where he farmed. He married Nancy Frethy in 1807, and they had 11 children. Jonathan Warner served as an Ashtabula County justice of the peace, county recorder, and county treasurer. In 1822, he helped organize the Ashtabula County Agricultural Society. He was very active in the antimasonry movement and the Antimasonic Party, and helped establish and run the Ohio Luminary, an antimasonry newspaper in Jefferson. Warner also was an Ohio state legislator, served as the first mayor of Jefferson, and was elected a judge of the Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas, serving until 1846. The collection consists of correspondence, a biographical sketch, typed transcriptions, deeds, agreements, contracts, surveys, a lease, a petition, a record transcript, lists, indentures, wills, genealogies, newspaper clippings, account sheets, county treasurers' reports, receipts, powers of attorney, a wolf scalps subscription list, and obituaries. The letters of Jonathan Warner to his family in Connecticut describe in great detail the land, weather, crops, wildlife, social events, and fellow settlers of the Western Reserve. Descriptions of Warner family journeys back and forth from Ohio to Connecticut are also included, as is commentary on events and battles of the War of 1812, political discussions, descriptions of land transactions and business opportunities, farming conditions, and financial concerns of Jonathan Warner. Correspondence of the women of the Warner family often includes commentary on family life, religious and social activities, work, and other facets of daily life in the Western Reserve. Jonathan Warner's political involvement, particularly with the antimasonic movement, is well documented. Correspondence of Warner with James Moorhead, Alfred Kelley, Cyrus Smith, and Henry Dana Ward is included. | | | | Call #: | MS 4848 | | | | Extent: | 1.90 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Warner, Jonathan. | Warner family. | Frethy family. | Antimasonic Party. -- Ohio. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Ashtabula County. | Women pioneers -- Western Reserve. | Women -- Ohio -- Jefferson. | Farmers -- Ohio -- Jefferson. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Biography. | Jefferson (Ashtabula County, Ohio) -- History -- 19th century. | Ashtabula County (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century. | Ashtabula County (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | United States -- History -- War of 1812.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2433 | Title: | William Bingham Foundation Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | William Bingham Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1955-1999 | | | | Abstract: | The William Bingham Foundation was established in 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Elizabeth Bingham Blossom with the proceeds of an inheritance from her brother, William Bingham 2nd. Grants were originally given to institutions of learning, hospitals, and public charities in Ohio. The foundation also contributed to the establishment and development of Blossom Music Center. After the death of Elizabeth Bingham Blossom in 1970, other family members maintained control of the foundation, and the focus of grantmaking changed to include organizations in the fields of the environment, the arts, education, health, and welfare. Projects related to urban revitalization, adult psychological development, and nuclear issues were also undertaken. Environmental issues took center stage in grants funding by the William Bingham Foundation in the 1980s, with several significant grants being made to the Environmental Defense Fund. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, annual reports, articles of incorporation, blank letterhead, budgets, certificates, codes of regulations, correspondence, financial statements, genealogical chart, grant proposals, histories, investment reviews, journal clippings, legal documents, lists, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, pamphlets, photographs, publications, receipts, reports, resolutions, rosters, speech texts, summaries, and tax records. | | | | Call #: | MS 4849 | | | | Extent: | 18.01 linear feet (18 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Bingham, William, 2nd, 1879-1955. | Blossom, Elizabeth Bingham, 1881-1970. | Bingham family. | Blossom family. | Gale family. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Environmental protection.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2434 | Title: | Daniel Jeremy Silver Papers
| | | | Creator: | Daniel Jeremy Silver | | | | Dates: | 1907-1993 | | | | Abstract: | Daniel Jeremy Silver was a Reform rabbi at the Temple-Tifereth Israel in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the son of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, who preceded and served with him at The Temple. Prior to his years at The Temple, Daniel Jeremy Silver was rabbi at Congregation Beth Torah of Chicago Heights, Illinois. He became senior Rabbi of The Temple in 1963, serving until his death. He was active in local Cleveland Jewish and secular affairs, particularly with Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Jewish Community Federation's Public Welfare Committee. He was also active in the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Zionist Organization of America. Silver was the author of four books and many popular and scholarly articles, and also edited books and journals. The collection consists of appointment books, correspondence, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, programs, sermons, notes, and writings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4850 | | | | Extent: | 23.20 linear feet (24 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Silver, Daniel Jeremy. | Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963. | Silver, Adele Z. | Silver, Virginia. | Moses (Biblical leader). | Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. | Temple-Tifereth Israel (Cleveland, Ohio). | Case Western Reserve University. | Cleveland Museum of Art. | Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Central Conference of American Rabbis. | National Foundation for Jewish Culture (U.S.). | Zionist Organization of America. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish sermons -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sermons -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism. | Arab-Israeli conflict. | Civil rights -- United States. | Jews -- History. | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975. | Biblical scholars -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2435 | Title: | Mary P. Hutchings Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hutchings, Mary P. | | | | Dates: | 1931-1991 | | | | Abstract: | Mary P. Hutchings (1915-1991) was a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney and for ten years the Chief Referee of the Cleveland Civil Service Commission. She was born in Union City, Tennessee. Her family moved to Cleveland and she attended the Cleveland City Schools before graduating from Cleveland Heights High School. She returned to Tennessee and graduated from Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis and later received a graduate degree from Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Science. In 1951 she joined future jurist Lillian Burke as a graduate of Cleveland Marshall Law School. In addition to private law practice, Hutchings served as an assistant state attorney general for mental hygiene and corrections and a guidance counselor at the Cleveland Job Corps for Women. In her civic life she served on several boards and was active with the NAACP, Women's City Club, National Association of Black Women Attorneys, Americans for Democratic Action, the Glenville YWCA, the Phillis Wheatley Association, Jack & Jill of America and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Her local political activism earned her invitations to Lyndon Johnson's 1965 presidential inauguration and state of the union message to Congress. She supported Carl Stokes' 1965 and 1967 mayoral campaigns. She served as a precinct committeewoman for Wards 19 and 25. In 1938 she married George Hutchings and had one son, Phillip. The collection consists of agendas, cards, certificates, correspondence, invitations, memos, newsletters, newspaper clippings, postcards, proclamations, programs, reports, a resume, speeches, subpoenas, telegrams, and a yearbook. | | | | Call #: | MS 4851 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Hutchings, Mary P., 1915-1991. | Stokes, Carl. | Democratic Party (Cleveland, Ohio). | LeMoyne-Owen College. | African American women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Political activity -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women political activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1964. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2436 | Title: | Thomas Vail Papers
| | | | Creator: | Vail, Thomas | | | | Dates: | 1949-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Thomas Vail, son of attorney Herman L. Vail and Delia B. White, both members of prominent Cleveland families, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 23, 1926. Vail was educated at University School in Cleveland and Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton University in 1948. He joined his family business, the Forest City Publishing Company, and later transferred to its morning paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In 1963, Vail assumed duties as publisher and editor of the Plain Dealer. For over twenty five years, Vail oversaw the transition of the Plain Dealer from the city's runner up publication to the largest daily and Sunday newspaper in Ohio. Vail retired from the paper in 1992. Vail was also active in other interests such as the Cleveland Foundation, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and was the co-founder of Cleveland Tomorrow, an organization formed in 1982 to promote economic growth. He was also president of the Cleveland Convention and active in the Visitor's Bureau and the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. On a national level, he served on the boards of the Associated Press and the Newspaper Advertising Bureau. Collection consists of correspondence, certificates, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, publications, speech texts, and inventories. | | | | Call #: | MS 4852 | | | | Extent: | 2.41 linear feet (4 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | American newspapers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Newspapers -- 20th century. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Cleveland Clinic Foundation. | Cleveland Convention and Visitors' Bureau. | Cleveland Foundation. | Cleveland Plain Dealer | Cleveland Tomorrow (Organization). | Greater Cleveland Growth Association. | Plain Dealer (Firm).
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2437 | Title: | David Bernard Guralnik Papers
| | | | Creator: | Guralnik, David Bernard | | | | Dates: | 1935-2001 | | | | Abstract: | David B. Guralnik was was an internationally-known lexicographer and the editor of the Webster's New World Dictionary, published by the World Publishing Co. of Cleveland, Ohio. He was also a leader in Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish communal organizations and activities, particularly known for his work preserving and using the Yiddish language. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs, speeches, and writings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4853 | | | | Extent: | 5.01 linear feet (5 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Guralnik, David Bernard, 1920- | Guralnik, Shirley. | World Publishing Company. | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lexicographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lexicography -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | English language--Lexicography. | English language -- Dictionaries. | Yiddish language -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Yiddish drama -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Theater, Yiddish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2438 | Title: | Dorothy E. Smith Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Smith, Dorothy E. Family | | | | Dates: | 1865-1995 | | | | Abstract: | Dorothy E. Smith was a Cleveland, Ohio, African American music teacher and the first African American member of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra. A violinist, she was a 1931 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a music teacher at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Phillis Wheatley Association, the Friendly Inn Settlement, and Knoxville College. She was also a supervisor for the Ohio State Department of Aid for the Aged until her retirement in 1973. Dorothy E. Smith was the daughter of Joseph W. Smith and Elizabeth Rayner. Joseph W. Smith moved to Cleveland in the late 1880s. He established a barbershop on Central Avenue in Cleveland, managed baseball teams in the 1890s and early 1900s, and was also a musician. The collection consists of correspondence, letters, cards, cemetery records, funeral programs, obituaries, legal files, memberships, a deed, certificates, newspaper clippings, student newspapers, playscripts, postcards, programs, reports, receipts, sheet music, yearbooks, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4854 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. | Smith (Dorothy E.) family. | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. | Cleveland Women's Orchestra. | Gilpin Players. | Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) | Knoxville College. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American soldiers -- Correspondence. | African American sailors -- Correspondence.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2439 | Title: | Bartley J. Kilkenny Papers
| | | | Creator: | Kilkenny, Bartley J. | | | | Dates: | 1935-2000 | | | | Abstract: | Bartley J. Kilkenny (1901-1993) was involved in the Irish American community in Cleveland, Ohio, and was an active member of several Irish American Clubs. He was involved in the founding of the East Side Irish American Club and served as president for a term. He was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland. He met his wife, Winnifred L. Kilkenny, nee Padden (1899-1995) during his days at Bofield school in Ballina, County Mayo. He immigrated to the United States on June 3, 1920 and lived with his aunt, Mrs. Quigley, until he married Winnifred on June 23, 1926. They settled originally in East Cleveland, Ohio and later in Euclid, Ohio. He met the Irish president Eamon De Valera during his visit to the United States, and also during his own visit to Ireland in 1960. Bartley J. Kilkenny was the father of five children, grandfather of eighteen children, and great-grandfather of twenty-six children. Winnifred L. Kilkenny worked with the Firestone family as their nanny and friend until her wedding day. During World War II, she joined the work force and continued working until she reached retirement age. The collection consists of memorial books, death notices and obituaries for both Bartley and Winnifred; newspaper clippings pertaining to St. Patrick's Day Parades and the Kilkenny family; identified photographs; and a brief history of the East Side Irish American Club, Cleveland, Ohio, originally known as the Euclid Irish American Club. | | | | Call #: | MS 4855 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Bartley family -- History. | Kilkenny, Bartley J., 1901-1993. | East Cleveland Irish American Club -- History | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- East Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Irish Americans -- Societies, etc. | Irish Americans -- Archives. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2440 | Title: | Frederick C. Crawford Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Crawford, Frederick C. Family | | | | Dates: | 1727-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Frederick C. Crawford (1891-1994) was a Cleveland, Ohio, industrialist and philanthropist. Crawford headed Thompson Products, Inc. (later TRW Inc.) as it moved from an automotive and aircraft parts manufacturer into the aviation and aerospace industries. A leader of Cleveland's philanthropic community, Crawford served on the boards of many cultural institutions. He was appointed to the Western Reserve Historical Society Board of Trustees in 1944 and later served as it's president. He was instrumental in the transfer of the Thompson Auto Album and Aviation Museum collection to WRHS in the 1960s, which became the nucleus of the Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of WRHS. Crawford was married twice; to Audrey Cecelia Bowles in 1932, and to Kathleen M. Saxon in 1975. The collection consists of genealogies, biographical sketches, correspondence, appointment diaries and calendars, ledgers, annual financial summaries, bank statements, trust deeds, tax assessments, returns and other financial documents, stock certificates, wills, real estate inventories, diplomas, award certificates, military discharge papers, corporate annual reports, speeches and broadcast transcripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, articles of incorporation, minutes, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4856 | | | | Extent: | 76.84 linear feet (77 containers and 4 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Crawford, Frederick C., 1891-1994 | Crawford family. | Thompson, Charles E. 1870-1933. | Thompson, Edwin deGroot. | Thompson family. | TRW Inc. | Steel Products Co. | Thompson Products, inc. | Western Reserve Historical Society | Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. | Case Institute of Technology. | Florida Institute of Technology. | American School of Classical Studies at Athens. | International Aeronautic Federation | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aircraft supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aerospace industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile supplies industry -- United States. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States. | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives. | Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe. | International relations. | Aeronautics -- History. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Nonprofit organizations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aerospace industries -- United States. | United States -- History -- 1933-1945. | United States -- History -- 1945-1953.
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