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1	Title:	United Czechoslovak Legion of America Minutes and Financial Records
	Creator:	United Czechoslovak Legion of America
	Dates:	1917-1943
	Abstract:	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).
	Call #:	MS 3877
	Extent:	2.30 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	United Czechoslovak Legion of America. \| Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. \| Veterans, Disabled -- Rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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2	Title:	United Spanish War Veterans and Women's Auxiliary Records
	Creator:	United Spanish War Veterans and Women's Auxiliary
	Dates:	1901-1931
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 5049
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	United Spanish War Veterans. \| United Spanish War Veterans. National Auxiliary. \| China Relief Expedition (1900-1901) -- Veterans -- Societies, etc. \| Fraternal organizations -- United States. \| Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Veterans -- Societies, etc. \| Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. \| Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902 -- Veterans -- Societies, etc.
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3	Title:	Regimental Papers of the Civil War
	Creator:	Palmer, William Pendleton
	Dates:	1846-1908
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 2152
	Extent:	16.00 linear feet (36 containers and 17 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Palmer, William Pendleton, 1861-1927. \| Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. \| Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Afro-Americans. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848 -- Sources.
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4	Title:	Civil War Miscellany
	Creator:	Palmer, William Pendleton
	Dates:	1812-1912
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3194
	Extent:	3.80 linear feet (10 containers and 15 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Confederate States of America -- History, Military. \| Confederate States of America -- History, Naval. \| Confederate States of America -- Hospitals, charities, etc. \| Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. \| Chickamauga, Battle of, 1863. \| Missionary Ridge (Tenn. and Ga.), Battle of, 1863. \| Missouri -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. \| Missouri -- Politics and government -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
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5	Title:	Bayanne Herrick Hauhart Collection
	Creator:	Herrick Family
	Dates:	1837-1969
	Abstract:	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 Reserve University. He was a member of several medical societies and wrote articles for various medical journals. He died in 1901. Dr. Henry Justus Herrick married Mary Brooks (1841-1909) on December 8, 1863. They had four children, Frances Hope Herrick (1865-1929), Henry Justus Herrick (1867-1932), Frederick Cowles Herrick (ca. 1872-1943), and Leonard Brooks Herrick (1876-1946). Both Henry and Frederick became medical doctors. Mary Brooks was born in March of 1841 to Martin Luther Brooks and Frances Rebecca Hope. She died in 1909. Henry Justus Herrick Jr. was born September 12, 1867. He graduated from Worchester University in 1891 and Western Reserve Medical College in 1894. He married Henrietta Wilkes in September of 1896 in Wellington, Ontario, Canada. Their daughter, Mary Herrick, was born in 1897. He was a doctor in Cleveland and a member of the faculty of the medical department at Western Reserve University. At the time of his death in 1932, he was a resident of Hudson, Ohio. Frederick Cowles Herrick was born on October 31, 1872 (some sources say October 30, 1871). He attended public high school in Cleveland and graduated from Amherst College in 1894. He received his medical degree from Western Reserve University in 1897. He did some post-graduate work at the University of Goettingen, Germany, from 1898-1900 and practiced medicine in Cleveland afterwards. He did more post-graduate work at London General Hospital Medical School from 1905-1906 and returned to Cleveland. Some of the positions he held were as a doctor specializing in surgery at Cleveland City Hospital and Charity Hospital as well as teaching at Western Reserve University Medical School. He served in WWI as a captain in the medical corps, was promoted to the rank of major, and served in France during the Argonne offensive. He married Annie Bayard Crowell on July 22, 1908 in Paris and they had four children, Henry Crowell Herrick (1911-1969), Frederick Cowles Herrick (1913-1999), Bayard Brooks Herrick (1918-1946), and Anne Frances Herrick (1920-2012). Dr. Herrick passed away on April 5, 1943 and is buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. Annie Bayard Crowell Herrick was born on May 3, 1883. Her father was Henry Crowell. She studied music in Vienna around the time of Frederick Cowles Herrick's post-graduate studies in Germany. She was active in many Cleveland organizations including the Campfire Girls, University Hospitals, the Women's City Club of Cleveland, the Junior League, and the Phillis Wheatley Association. She died in October of 1972. Leonard Brooks Herrick was born on August 28, 1876. He served in the Naval Reserve of Ohio from 1895-1898 and became a hardware manufacturer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He married Ethel Maud Tucker on October 1, 1901. Their son, Leonard Tucker Herrick, was born March 18, 1903. Ethel died in 1909 and Leonard later married Audra Donovan. Leonard Brooks Herrick died in March of 1946 and is buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Henry Crowell Herrick was born on October 25, 1911 to Frederick Cowles and Annie Bayard Crowell Herrick. He attended University School in Cleveland, Avon Old Farms Preparatory School in Avon, Connecticut, and Western Reserve University, Fenn College, and Cleveland College. He graduated from Cleveland School of Advertising and worked in advertising and marketing first for Perfection Stove Company and then Curtiss-Wright Corporation. During WWII he was a naval flight instructor. After the war he became a security analyst. He died in March of 1969. Bayard Brooks Herrick, another son of Frederick Cowles and Annie Herrick, was born January 26, 1918. He married Suzanne Hiller on November 16, 1946 at St. Clement's Episcopal Church in Berkeley, California, and they had three children including the donor of this collection, Bayanne Herrick Hauhart, Bayard Brooks Herrick, Jr., and H. Crowell Herrick II. Bayard Brooks Herrick died on November 22, 1995 in San Rafael, California. The collection consists of admission tickets, agreements, applications, biographical records, by-laws, certificates, church programs, contracts, a constitution, correspondence, forms, genealogy documents, inventories, invitations, land deeds, letters of recommendation, licenses, membership cards, a memorial book, military orders and paperwork, a military pass, newspaper articles, obituaries, pamphlets, play bills, programs, a resume, stock certificates, and telegrams.
	Call #:	MS 5086
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Herrick family. \| United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 17th (1861-1865) \| Libby Prison. \| Cleveland Play House (Organization : Cleveland, Ohio) \| Case Western Reserve University. School of Medicine. \| Camp Fire Girls. \| Sons of the American Revolution. \| Sherman's March to the Sea. \| Medicine -- Practice -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 19th century. \| Medicine -- Practice -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 20th century. \| Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Veterans -- United States -- Societies, etc. \| World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans. \| World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
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