http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f1-subject%3DFriendly%20societies%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland.;smode%3Dadvanced;subject%3DClubs%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland.;subject-join%3Dexact Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f1-subject=Friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland.;smode=advanced;subject=Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.;subject-join=exact Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0146.xml The Barber's Benevolent Union of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded in 1874 to provide sick and death benefits to its members. The collection consists of a preamble, constitution, bylaws, and minutes. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0146.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4133.xml The Polish Library Home was located on Kenilworth Avenue in the Cleveland, Ohio, Tremont neighborhood. It housed a large collection of Polish literature and served as a meeting place for Polish groups, including several lodges of the Polish National Alliance, a fraternal insurance organization which sought to preserve Polish culture and worked for the re-establishment of a free Poland. The home closed in 1984. The collection consists of minute books, dues books, and an account book of the home. Also included are minute books, ledger books, dues books, and insurance rolls of the Polish National Alliance, Groups 171, 229, 861 and 2584. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4133.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4173.xml The Slovenian Benefit Society Slovenija is an independent Slovene-American benefit society formed ca. 1895 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a splinter group from Marijn Spolek, the first Slovenian lodge in the city. It provided insurance and organized both the first Slovenian men's chorus (Zora) and a gymnastics group which developed into the Slovenian Sokol (Slovenski Sokol). The collection consists of bylaws, minute books, account books, membership books, a ledger book, and a dues book. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4173.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4234.xml The Independent Mezricher Association is an organization of Cleveland, Ohio-area Jews whose origins were in Mezrich (Miedzyrzec), Poland. The association maintains cemetery plots for members, sponsors social events, maintains contact with other Mezricher groups, and contributes to projects in Israel. The collection consists of minutes, 1964-1986, correspondence, financial statements, a cemetery account book, membership lists, newspaper clippings, commemorative booklets, a constitution, and a map. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4234.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4175.xml The Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) is a socialist-oriented fraternal insurance society. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1904 and has several branches in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1941 it absorbed another fraternal insurance society, the Slovene Progressive Benefit Society (Slovenske Svobodomiselne Zveze). The collection consists of constitutions, bylaws, minutes, account books, ledger books, membership rolls, dues books, sickness and hospital benefit records, funeral service records, and publications of the national society and four of its lodges in Cleveland, Ohio. Includes minutes of Lodge 120 of the Slovene Progressive Benefit Society (1919-1941). http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4175.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4683.xml The Swiss Society was created in 1872 as the Schweizerischen Unterstuetzungs Verein by a group of members from the Swiss male chorus, then known as the Schweizer Gesang Verein Gruetli Bund, in Cleveland, Ohio. A mutual aid society for those of Swiss descent, the Swiss Society provided not only insurance to members, but also sought to preserve and nurture the German-Swiss culture, language, and literature. In 1873, the Swiss Society affiliated itself as a branch society with the Gruetli Bund der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika, which later became the North American Swiss Alliance. In 1881, the Society reorganized as the Schweizer Verein von Cleveland, Ohio. In 1885, the Swiss Society in Cleveland was elected as the executive society for the North American Swiss Alliance. By 1942, the group officially adopted the English name of Swiss Society and was still in operation in 1994. The Swiss Ladies Aid Society was closely associated with the Swiss Society and was originally known as the Schweizer Frauen Unters... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4683.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4834.xml The Knights of Equity is a Roman Catholic Irish social group first established in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Knights of Equity Supreme Council. It then grew into a national organization. The Cleveland group was active from 1895 to 1905. Three courts were founded in Cleveland, one of which eventually had 5,000 members. After 1905, the group disintegrated in Cleveland, but continued to grow in other cities. In 1954, bylaws first included women in the organization. In 1960, the National Daughters of Erin were officially accepted by the Knights as an auxiliary. The collection consists of copies of the articles of incorporation, constitution and bylaws, ritual and installation ceremony program, an anniversary booklet, and miscellaneous newsletter copies. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4834.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4811.xml 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 t... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4811.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT