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1	Title:	James R. and Helen N. Garfield Papers
	Creator:	Garfield, James R. and Helen N.
	Dates:	1881-1948
	Abstract:	James Rudolph Garfield was the son of President James Garfield. He became a lawyer and U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1907-1909). He married Helen Newell in 1890. The collection consists of genealogical materials, including correspondence, wills, property statements, notebooks, and charts, relating to the Garfield, Rudolph, Newell, Hills, Stanley-Brown, Glenn, Dodge and Wyatt families.
	Call #:	MS 3314
	Extent:	1.60 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Garfield family. \| Rudolph family. \| Newell family. \| Hill family. \| Stanley-Brown family. \| Glenn family. \| Dodge family. \| Wyatt family.
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2	Title:	Wade Family Papers
	Creator:	Wade Family
	Dates:	1862-1891
	Abstract:	Benjamin F. Wade, an Ashtabula County, Ohio, lawyer and zealous abolitionist, was one of the foremost Radical Republican United States Senators of the American Civil War. Wade demanded that Lincoln make the war a crusade to free the slaves, and he led the charge to keep control of Reconstruction in the hands of Congress. His family, descended from Jonathan Wade, a 1632 immigrant to Massachusetts, was one of the most prominent families of Ashtabula County during the 19th century. The first of the family to settle in Ashtabula County was James Wade, father of Benjamin, who arrived there in the 1820s. The collection consists of correspondence, wedding invitations, genealogy notes, newspaper clippings, and a freight receipt. The collection pertains to the views of Radical Republicans during the early stages of the Civil War. Caroline Wade's letter strongly expresses her (and probably her husband's) negative views of President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan. The genealogical material is also useful for information on the Wade family of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as the families of Dudley, Newhall, Hills, Upham, Wigglesworth, and Leonard.
	Call #:	MS 4181
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Wade family -- Periodicals. \| Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. \| McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885. \| Dudley family. \| Newell family. \| Hill family. \| Upham family. \| Wigglesworth family. \| Leonard family. \| Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
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3	Title:	Helen Newell Garfield Papers
	Creator:	Garfield, Helen Newell
	Dates:	1882-1930
	Abstract:	Helen Newell Garfield was the daughter of John Newell, president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and Julia Poore Hills. She married James Rudolph Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, in 1890, and had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph H., and Newell. Helen was an advocate for the education and treatment of deaf children. She herself had become deaf around 1918. She ran the Lake Erie School of Speech Reading, and was an officer of the Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing and the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing. Helen Newell Garfield died in 1930. The collection consists of speeches, notebooks, reprints, programs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks. One of the scrapbooks was compiled by Helen Newell Garfield on her father, John Newell, detailing his career as president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad and containing many family photographs. The other scrapbook provides a picture of the social life of Helen Newell Garfield as an upper class Chicago, Illinois school girl and debutante. Also included is material detailing her work with the American Federation of Organizations for Hard of Hearing, and her personal notebook on speech lessons.
	Call #:	MS 4572
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Newell, John. \| Garfield family. \| Newell family. \| American Hearing Society. \| Lake Erie School of Speech Reading. \| Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing. \| Hearing impaired -- United States. \| Hearing impaired -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hearing impaired children -- United States. \| Hearing impaired children -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Deaf -- Means of communication. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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4	Title:	James Rudolph Garfield Papers
	Creator:	Garfield, James Rudolph
	Dates:	1879-1909
	Abstract:	James Rudolph Garfield was the son of United States President James A. Garfield and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. He graduated from Williams College and Columbia Law School, and practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, with his brother, Harry Augustus Garfield. James married Helen Newell in 1890. They had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph, and Newell. He served in the Ohio Senate 1896-1900, and was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the U.S. Civil Service Commission in 1902, and to the Department of Commerce and Labor, as the first commissioner of Corporations, 1903-1907. He then served as Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior from 1907-1909. He backed Roosevelt's New Progressive Party in 1912, and was defeated as the reform candidate for Ohio governor in 1914. He resumed his Cleveland law practice, became prominent in local Republican politics, and was a member of several civic organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce, the Western Reserve Historical Society, the Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing, and the Cleveland Foundation. The collection consists of three scrapbooks of photographs, mementos, invitations, programs, reprints, family history, correspondence, newspaper clippings, political cartoons, and cards from his college years, early married life, and life in Washington. The scrapbooks also cover the career of Garfield's father-in-law, John Newell, president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and contain reprints, memorials, and photographs of Poore, Hills, Garfield, Rudolph, and Ballou family members, and of Lawnfield, the Garfield family home in Mentor, Ohio. The scrapbooks provide a picture of Garfield's college life and early career, and of Washington social life during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, as well as cartoon and newspaper commentary of Garfield's activities.
	Call #:	MS 4573
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. \| Newell, John. \| Garfield family. \| Newell family. \| Poor family. \| Hill family. \| Rudolph family. \| Ballou family. \| Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. \| James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) \| United States. Dept. of the Interior. \| Cabinet officers -- United States.
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5	Title:	James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Garfield, James A. Family
	Dates:	1871-1937
	Abstract:	James Abram Garfield was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow, Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politician and member of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, and Abram, a Cleveland architect. The collection consists of correspondence, a quit claim deed, memoirs, certificates of appointments, stock certificates, and genealogical charts. The collection is of interest to students of the Garfield, Rudolph, and Newell families. Certificates of appointment of James Rudolph Garfield signed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover are included. Helen Newell Garfield, daughter of John and Julia Poore Hills Newell and wife of James Rudolph Garfield, compiled her family's genealogy. Her mother's recollections of the Chicago Fire of 1871 are also included. An unsigned copy of a 1937 quit claim deed transferring Lawnfield to the Western Reserve Historical Society is included. Of interest is a tally sheet made at the telephone of "Uncle Joe" Davidson's general store, Burlington, Ohio, during the 1880 Republican National Convention. Other correspondents include Phillip Holland and W.H. Clapp. A letter of recommendation for Joseph Rudolph, brother-in-law of President Garfield, for service in the Spanish-American War is included, as is a letter signed in 1880 by President Garfield regarding a life insurance policy.
	Call #:	MS 4579
	Extent:	0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. \| Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. \| Garfield family. \| Newell family. \| Rudolph family. \| Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. \| Rudolph, Joseph. \| James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) \| Western Reserve Historical Society \| Presidents -- United States -- Family.
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6	Title:	Emily Newell Blair Family Papers
	Creator:	Blair, Emily Newell Family
	Dates:	1785-1972
	Abstract:	Emily Newell Blair was a suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party official, mother and writer. During World War I she worked in the press department of the Missouri Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, eventually becoming vice chair. Representing Missouri on the Democratic National Committee, Blair was chosen national vice chair responsible for organizing women voters and women's activities, and eventually rose to first vice president, organized 2,000 plus Democratic women's clubs, and helped found the Woman's National Democratic Club. In 1935, she was appointed to the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and, in 1942, was appointed chief of the Women's Interest Section of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau. Her husband, Harry Wallace Blair, was U.S. Assistant Attorney General in the Land Div. of the Justice Dept. in the 1930s and later served with the President's Loyalty Review Board. The collection consists of personal, professional and family correspondence, published and unpublished writings by and about Emily Blair, diaries, speeches, personal and family memorabilia, and clippings. Series I and II form the bulk of the collection, Series II being largely Emily Blair's personal writings, such as diaries, speeches, published articles, typescripts of fiction and non-fiction, and typescripts of her autobiography. Blair family material consists of the papers of Harry Wallace Blair (husband), Harriet Blair Forsythe (daughter), James Patton and Anna Gray Newell (parents), and her McDowell family ancestors of Pennsylvania, particularly the correspondence of Alexander McDowell. The collection is useful for researching the history of women and the family in the early 20th century, the issues of feminism and women's suffrage, and the emergence of women as politicians within the Democratic Party. Notable correspondents include Cordell Hull, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. McDowell family materials chronicle pioneer life on the 18th-century Pennsylvania frontier.
	Call #:	MS 4342
	Extent:	7.50 linear feet (18 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Blair, Emily Newell, b. 1877 -- Archives. \| Blair family. \| Newell family. \| McDowell family. \| United States. Council of National Defense. Woman's Committee. \| Democratic National Committee (U.S.) \| Democratic Party (U.S.) \| Feminists -- United States -- Archives. \| Authors, American -- United States -- Archives. \| Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| Women in politics -- United States. \| Women -- Suffrage -- United States. \| Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs. \| Journalism, Consumer -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1932. \| World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Venango County. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1923-1929.
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