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1	Title:	Asahel Porter and Leverett Johnson Papers
	Creator:	Porter, Asahel and Johnson, Levert
	Dates:	1809-1864
	Abstract:	In 1810, Asahel Porter and his nephew, Leverett Johnson, settled in Westlake, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland), where Johnson became a justice of the peace. The collection consists of land deeds and contracts, financial accounts, and miscellaneous notes of Asahel Porter and Leverett Johnson, including inventories and accounts of Porter's estate (1820s), subpoenas and other legal documents of Johnson, and Cuyahoga County tax receipts of members of the Foot(e) family (1813-1865).
	Call #:	MS 3030
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Court records -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Taxation -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County.
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2	Title:	Asher Miller Coe Family Papers
	Creator:	Coe, Asher Miller Family
	Dates:	1830-1934
	Abstract:	Asher Miller Coe (1789-1867) was a resident of North Olmsted, Ohio beginning in the 1820s. The collection consists primarily land deeds of Asher M. Coe. Includes a biography of Wait Cornell of Long Mill, Conn., financial accounts, a biography of Asher M. Coe by Asher M. Coe II, a "Genealogy of the Coes," and notes on the David Lyman family.
	Call #:	MS 1877
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Coe, Asher Miller, 1789-1867. \| Cornell, Wait. \| Coe family. \| Lyman family. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real property.
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3	Title:	Bassett Family Papers
	Creator:	Bassett Family
	Dates:	1810-1887
	Abstract:	Homer F. Bassett resided in Rockport (now Rocky River), near Cleveland, Ohio. John M. Bassett served in the 1st Connecticut Volunteer Artillery Regiment during the Civil War. The collection consists of correspondence, contracts, and land agreements and deeds to tracts of land in Brooklyn and Rockport, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Includes letters (1861-1863) from John M. Bassett to his family, written while he was stationed in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, giving his personal impressions of the Civil War. Other persons represented include Henry D. Bassett, Homer F. Bassett, Charles R. Jordan and Stephen Jordan.
	Call #:	MS 2094
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Bassett family. \| United States. Army. Connecticut Artillery Regiment, 1st (1862-1865) \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Soldiers -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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4	Title:	George Lord Chapman Papers
	Creator:	Chapman, George Lord
	Dates:	1797-1893
	Abstract:	George Lord Chapman, a native of East Haddam, Connecticut, moved to Brooklyn Township in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, before 1820. In 1835 he was appointed coroner for Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and in 1836 was elected marshal of Ohio City. The collection consists of correspondence, receipts, inventories, and agreements (1797-1807), relating to the estate of Selden Chapman of East Haddam, Conn.; land deeds and agreements (1820-1850), frequently involving Richard and Samuel Lord and Josiah Barber, realtors in Brooklyn Township, Ohio; record book (1824-1854) of Wayne, Medina & Cuyahoga Turnpike Road Company, of which Chapman was a director; and record book (1835-1840) of the New Harbour Company, a joint-stock company dealing in the sale of land which was organized in Ohio City. Also includes several letters of John Hay (1882), William McKinley (1887 and 1893), and John Sherman (1883).
	Call #:	MS 3055
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Chapman, George Lord. \| Chapman, Selden -- Estate. \| Brooklyn (Ohio : Township). \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Ohio City (Cleveland, Ohio).
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5	Title:	Odell and Cozad Abstracting Companies Search Books
	Creator:	Odell and Cozad Abstracting Companies
	Dates:	1870-1900
	Abstract:	The Odell and Cozad Abstracting Companies were two land title search companies owned, respectively, by Jay Odell and Justus L. Cozad, and which operated in Cleveland, Ohio, in the late nineteenth century. Merged for the period 1870-1875, these companies were usually competitors in the business of supplying summaries, or abstracts, of the public records pertaining to land titles in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The collection consists of 269 bound volumes pertaining to the process of abstracting land titles in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. They consist specifically of 163 volumes of Odell search books and 98 volumes of Cozad search books; two indexes; four subdivision books, in which the conveyances of numbered lots in recorded subdivisions are listed; an Odell copy book, which includes a collection of formal abstracts written for clients; and a Cozad foundation book, in which are copied the founding documents of the Connecticut Land Company.
	Call #:	MS 4598
	Extent:	50.00 linear feet (269 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Odell Abstract Company. \| Cozad Abstract Company. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Abstracts of title -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County.
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6	Title:	Leonard Case, Sr. Family Papers
	Creator:	Case, Leonard Sr.
	Dates:	1795-1917
	Abstract:	Leonard Case, Sr. (1786-1864) was a land agent, bank and railroad executive, and politician in Cleveland, Ohio. His sons, Leonard Jr., a noted philanthropist, and William, a politician, were active in local civic and business affairs. His brother Zophar was a lawyer and politician in Clinton County, Illinois. His nephew Eckstein was a lawyer and Secretary-Treasurer of the Case School of Applied Science. The collection consists of maps, plats, surveys, and deeds to land in Cuyahoga County and Cleveland, three account books of the Connecticut School Fund, memoirs of Leonard Case Sr., ca. 200 federal land grants to U.S. veterans (1848-1857), histories of the Western Reserve and Trumbull County, reminiscences of Benjamin Lane, a diary and correspondence of William Case, a field book of Zophar Case, and letters from Cleveland businessmen to Eckstein Case.
	Call #:	MS 2871
	Extent:	3.10 linear feet (5 containers and 2 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Case family. \| Eckstein family. \| Case, Leonard, 1786-1864. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Land titles -- Michigan. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real property -- Michigan. \| Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865. \| Ohio -- Maps. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Maps. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Maps. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Clinton County (Ill.) -- Surveys.
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