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1	Title:	Asa Scott Brelsford Papers
	Creator:	Brelsford, Asa Scott
	Dates:	1864-1916
	Abstract:	Asa Scott Brelsford was a soldier from Champaign County, Ohio, who saw action in Georgia while fighting with the Second Regiment of the Ohio Volunteers during the American Civil War. His younger brother, Harry, attended Wittenberg College after the war and later became a teacher. The collection consists of military papers, including orders to relieve the Second Regiment Ohio Volunteers, discharge papers, and a commission in the Grand Army of the Republic in Ohio. Also included are a diary and a debate program of Harry Brelsford.
	Call #:	MS 3810
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Brelsford, Asa Scott. \| Soldiers -- Ohio. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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2	Title:	Dwight H. Woodard Civil War Letters
	Creator:	Woodard, Dwight H.
	Dates:	1863-1988
	Abstract:	Dwight H. Woodard (1823-1893) was a resident of Kirtland, Ohio. He enlisted in the Union army in August 1862 and served until being mustered out in 1865. The collection consists of 55 letters, a photocopy of a typed transcript, and a fragment of an ancestry chart.
	Call #:	MS 5397
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Soldiers -- Ohio -- Kirtland. \| Sherman's March through the Carolinas. \| Atlanta Campaign, 1864.
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3	Title:	Charles B. Smith Papers
	Creator:	Smith, Charles B.
	Dates:	1858-1867
	Abstract:	Charles B. Smith was a Lieutenant with the 61st Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving as a Judge Advocate General at Camp Dennison, Ohio, through most of 1863. Smith was involved in military court proceedings, as well as being responsible for the issuing of general and special orders and the collection of unit muster sheets. In November 1864, Smith was reassigned to the Office of United States Military Telegraph, Mobile, Alabama, as a telegraph operator. In 1867, Smith submitted several invention patents for the improvement of spring beds and seats. The collection consists mainly of military legal correspondence relating to criminal charges, pleadings, proceedings, and sentencing of soldiers under the jurisdiction of the military headquarters of Ohio located at Camp Dennison, Ohio, particularly during 1863. There are also requests for unit muster rolls, regulation books, telegrams, routine inspection announcements, general orders, special orders, a deed, and petitions for invention patents.
	Call #:	MS 2076
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Smith, Charles B. \| United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 61st (1862-1865). \| Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| Beds -- Patents. \| Patent licenses. \| Camp Dennison (Ohio).
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4	Title:	Aquila Wiley Papers
	Creator:	Wiley, Aquila
	Dates:	1861-1901
	Abstract:	Aquila Wiley (b. 1834 or 1835) was a colonel of the 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Missionary Ridge (1863) during the American Civil War. Wiley was appointed commandant of Camp Cleveland in 1864, where he oversaw the rendezvous and training of several new infantry regiments, and as a Major became the chief mustering officer at Cleveland, where he administered the discharge of some 11,654 Union troops. Wiley later practiced law in Wooster, Ohio and served 1 term as probate judge in Wayne County. He was nominated for Congress in 1878, and was opposed by William McKinley. The collection consists of correspondence, bounty claims, muster rolls, invoices, and returns, mostly pertaining to Wiley's activities in the 41st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1865. Includes articles and speeches on Civil War topics; lists of voters and their political affiliations in Wayne Co., Ohio, in the 1890s; and correspondence and maps (1893-1901) relating to the Ohio Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission.
	Call #:	MS 2127
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Wiley, Aquila, b. 1834 or 5. \| Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park (Ga. and Tenn.) \| Wayne County (Ohio) -- Voting registers. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Ohio Infantry -- 41st.
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5	Title:	Anton L. Maresh Papers
	Creator:	Maresh, Anton L.
	Dates:	1899-1956
	Abstract:	Anton L. maresh was a Cleveland, Ohio, musician, piano store owner, Republican politician, and collector of Abraham Lincoln material, who was also known as Anthony L. Maresh. His piano store on East 55th Street became the Republican political headquarters for Cleveland's southeast side, and in 1913, Maresh and his associates helped launch the political candidacy of Harry L. Davis for mayor. Maresh retired from the piano business in 1937, but actively pursued his hobby of collecting Lincoln memorabilia, building one of the largest private collections of Lincoln documents and lecturing on Lincoln lore to various groups. He served as long-time president of the local branch of the Lincoln Association of Ohio. The collection consists of personal correspondence, files on Cleveland politics and the music business, clippings, and financial and legal documents. Included is a collection of Lincoln material, consisting of copies of documents and facsimiles, addresses and writings about Lincoln by Maresh, writings on Lincoln by other authors, magazine articles and clippings. The collection pertains primarily to Maresh's interest in Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, as well as Maresh's activities in the local Lincoln Association. Additional materials pertain to Maresh's music business and political activities.
	Call #:	MS 4444
	Extent:	1.10 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Maresh, A. L. (Anton L.) b. 1877. \| Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. \| Music trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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6	Title:	Political Experiences of Major General Jacob Dolson Cox
	Creator:	Cochran, William Cox
	Dates:	1940
	Abstract:	Jacob Dolson Cox was a Union Army general and politician from Ohio. During the American Civil War, Cox headed the Department of the Kanawha, commanded the IX Corps of the Army of Virginia, and in 1863, assumed command of the District of Ohio and of the 3rd Division, XXIII Corps. After the war, he was Governor of Ohio (1866-1867) and was President Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1869-1870). He was also president of the Wabash Railroad and was elected to Congress in 1876. He authored Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (1900). The collection consists of a bound, ribbon copy of William Cox Cochran's(1846-1936) unfinished biography of his stepfather, Major General Jacob Dolson Cox (1828-1900). This unpublished manuscript was prepared after William Cox Cochran's death in 1936.
	Call #:	MS 2757
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cox, Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. \| Generals -- United States. \| Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877). \| Governors -- Ohio. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900.
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7	Title:	David G. Swaim Letters
	Creator:	Swaim, David G.
	Dates:	1861-1874
	Abstract:	David G. Swaim (d. 1897) was a captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as assistant adjutant general and chief of the secret service during the Chickamauga Campaign under Brigadier General James A. Garfield. He reentered the army in 1867 as a second lieutenant, serving as acting judge advocate for the fourth military district in Vicksburg, Miss. From 1868-1869, he supervised the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. As a Major, he presided as judge advocate at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was appointed Judge Advocate General of the United States Army in 1880, holding this position until 1895. Swaim maintained a close personal friendship with Garfield and was at his side in 1881 at the President's death. The collection consists of two bound letterbooks, the first 1861-1874, and the second 1865-1870.
	Call #:	MS 3263
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Swaim, David G., d. 1897. \| Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. \| United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Dept. \| United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. \| Credit Mobilier of America. \| Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States. \| Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877). \| Salish Indians. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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8	Title:	Anna Wing Family Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Wing, Anna Family
	Dates:	1793-1932
	Abstract:	Anna Wing (ca. 1837-?), born in Ohio, was married to Cyrus Fernando Wing (d. 1865) in Sandusky County, Ohio, in 1859. Cyrus Fernando Wing died during the Civil War while serving with the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Their daughter, Anna E. Wing Mowry (ca. 1860-?) was married to Richard E. Mowry (1858-1904) of Sandusky County, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence of Anna Wing and Anna E. Wing Mowry, diaries of Anna E. Wing Mowry, genealogical material, newspaper clippings, pension documents, poems, a probate petition, publications, and Fraktur documents.
	Call #:	MS 4766
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Wing family. \| Wing, Anna. \| Wing, Cyrus Fernando, d. 1865. \| Mowry, Anna E. Wing. \| United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 72nd [1861-1865] \| Fraktur art. \| Women -- United States -- Social life and customs. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories. \| Sandusky County (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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9	Title:	G.W. Morgan Papers
	Creator:	Morgan, G. W.
	Dates:	1819-1926
	Abstract:	George Washington Morgan (1820-1893) was a soldier, lawyer, and politician, from Mt. Vernon, Ohio. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, a partial manuscript history of the Texas war for independence, a scrapbook of European postcards and invitations, a notebook of Morgan's brother, Duane, and miscellaneous documents.
	Call #:	MS 3772
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Morgan, G. W. (George Washington), 1820-1893. \| Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875. \| United States. Congress. House -- Contested elections. \| Gold standard. \| Silver question. \| Currency question -- United States. \| African Americans -- Civil rights. \| Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States. \| Psychiatric hospitals -- United States. \| Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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10	Title:	Michael Mulcahy Papers
	Creator:	Mulcahy, Michael
	Dates:	1862-1908
	Abstract:	Michael Mulcahy (1839-1908) was enrolled as a private in the 6th United States Calvary in 1862 and was later promoted to sergeant, serving in the United States Civil War. Mulcahy received acclaim for his involvement in the famous Winchester Ride where he fought with General Sheridan in the Battle of Winchester. He was honorably discharged from the United States Army on January 13, 1865. Mulcahy was born in County Cork, Ireland. After his soldier days, he came to Cleveland, Ohio, worked as a carpenter, and joined the volunteer fire department. He married Elizabeth Brennan on February 27, 1865 in St. Patrick's Church, Cleveland, Ohio. He later joined the first paid fire department organized in Cleveland. The collection consists of Civil War records pertaining to Michael Mulcahy's service, including register of enlistment, affidavits, and pension documents; a death certificate; newspaper clippings; and a letter.
	Call #:	MS 4857
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Mulcahy, Michael, 1839-1908. \| Cleveland (Ohio). Dept. of Fire. \| Winchester, 3rd Battle of, Winchester, Va., 1864. \| Military pensions -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Fire fighters -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Cavalry operations. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Irish American. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Fire fighters.
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11	Title:	William C. McFarland Papers
	Creator:	McFarland, William C.
	Dates:	1855-1930
	Abstract:	William C. McFarland (b. 1838-?) was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, of Scots-Irish extraction. He was a descendant of the McFarlane Clan of Loch Sloy, Scotland. He was educated in Pennsylvania, and taught in Kentucky from 1859-1861. He then attended Ohio State and Union Law College of Cleveland, Ohio, graduating with a degree of A.B. In 1862 McFarland practiced law in Cleveland until 1864, when he joined the Quartermaster's Department of the Union Army at Nashville, Tennessee. He resumed his law practice in Cleveland after the war. He was elected by the Republican Party as a representative from Cuyahoga County to the Ohio General Assembly in 1871, serving until 1873. In 1875, he formed the law firm Critchfield & McFarland, engaging in corporate and commercial law. It was in business for two years, and following its demise, McFarland traveled to Europe. He wrote many letters during time spent overseas, detailing his experiences and observations to the Cleveland Herald. McFarland was a conservative Republican politician. In addition, he was ranked among the most successful lawyers in Cleveland. The collection consists of anecdotes, articles, essays, newspaper clippings, postcards, and speeches.
	Call #:	MS 4862
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	McFarland, William C., b. 1838. -- Speeches. \| American essays -- 19th century. \| Slavery -- United States -- 19th century. \| African Americans -- Art -- 19th century. \| African Americans -- Music -- 19th century. \| American poetry -- African American authors -- 19th century. \| Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- 19th century. \| Law -- United States -- 19th century. \| Agriculture -- United States -- 19th century. \| United States -- History -- 19th century. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1877. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century.
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12	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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13	Title:	Western Reserve Manuscripts (Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscript Vertical File)
	Creator:	Various
	Dates:	1636-1991
	Abstract:	The Western Reserve Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society since its founding in 1867. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the region of northeast Ohio known as the Western Reserve. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, applications, articles, autobiographies, autograph books and autographs, biographical sketches, certificates, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, envelopes, genealogies, histories, indentures, invoices, letters, lists, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, scripts, speech transcripts, telegrams, and other material. Western Reserve Historical Society library staff began to describe these manuscripts in this finding aid in 2015. This is an ongoing project that will be updated for public access as the project progresses in real time.
	Call #:	MS 5362
	Extent:	27.80 linear feet (29 containers)
	Subjects:	Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- 19th century. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. \| Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. \| Antislavery movements -- Ohio.
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