http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f162-subject%3DVeterans%20--%20United%20States%20--%20Societies,%20etc. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f162-subject=Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3877.xml The United Czechoslovak Legion of America was a national organization formed by veterans who volunteered to fight with the Czechoslovak Legions during World War I. After the war, the Legion cared for its physically disabled veterans. The National Invalid Collection was a local organization affiliated with the Legion whose purpose was to care for wounded and disabled soldiers in Cleveland, Ohio. Reverend Oldrich Zlamal was a prominent member. The collection consists of minutes, special minutes from a 1929 meeting in Detroit, a volunteer ledger from the campaign of 1917, an annual report (1926), financial ledgers, cashiers books, account books, copies of the official newspaper Czechoslovensky Legionar, correspondence, and other materials. Also included are minutes and financial records of the National Invalid Collection (1923-1933). http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3877.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5049.xml The United Spanish War Veterans was established in 1904 and included members who had served in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War, and the Chinese Relief Expedition. The organization survived until 1992 when the last member passed away. The Women's Auxiliary was organized during the time of the Spanish-American War to aid soldiers and minister to the sick. Membership was open to mothers, wives, daughters, and sisters of Spanish War veterans, and nurses and women who performed patriotic service during the Spanish-American War. The collection consists of by-laws and rosters, campaign literature, general orders, membership lists, minutes, programs, publications, reports and proceedings, general reports, rituals, and rules and regulations. The core of the collection is comprised of matter emanating from Cleveland, Ohio, branches of the organization. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5049.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2152.xml William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was President of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio (1913-1927). The collection consists of American Civil War documents collected by Palmer, including military and personal correspondence, muster rolls, official orders, ordnance and quartermaster reports, casualty lists, memoirs, diaries, descriptions of the engagements in which various regiments took part, and papers dealing with veterans' organizations after the war. Half of the collection relates to Ohio volunteers, but there are papers from Union and Confederate regiments of thirty States. Includes material concerned with Negro regiments enlisted in the Southern States occupied by Union Armies, and a few references to the Mexican War and the 1850s. Collection features the James E. Taylor Sketchbook. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2152.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3194.xml William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was a steel company executive and collector of Civil War materials. He served as president of the Western Reserve Historical Society (1913-1927). The collection consists of letters, telegrams, commissions, discharge papers, general and special orders, circulars, broadsides, maps, drawings, naval papers, and scrapbooks, relating to Union and Confederate armed forces and veteran's organizations and Confederate medical services; and newspaper clippings accumulated by Governor Reynolds of Missouri on politics and the American Civil War, a scrapbook including speeches of Mayor Richardson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, registers of 3 Confederate ships, and papers relating to several military units and battles. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3194.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5086.xml Dr. Henry Justus Herrick was born on January 20, 1833 in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio. He was the son of Justus Tyler Herrick (1801-1882) and Caroline J. Herrick (1808-1847). The family moved to Twinsburg when he was a child where he worked on the family farm and attended school. He graduated from Williams College in 1858 and Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, in 1861. After medical school he came to the Cleveland area to work at the U.S. Marine Hospital under Dr. Martin L. Brooks. Dr. Herrick was commissioned assistant surgeon and then promoted to surgeon with the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He was captured at the battle of Chickamauga and spent two months as a prisoner of war at Libby Prison. After his exchange he served with General William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta campaign and march to the sea. After the war ended, Dr. Herrick returned to Cleveland to practice medicine. He was a professor and became chair of gynecology and hygiene in the medical department of Western Reser... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5086.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT