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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 303 | Title: | Holmes Township, Ohio, General Records
| | | | Creator: | Holmes Township, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1829-1849 | | | | Abstract: | Holmes Township is located in Crawford County, Ohio. It was settled ca. 1823. The collection consists of election results, minutes of trustee meetings, records of indentures, treasurers' accounts and various other financial records, record of surveyor's plot, reports of school directors, and list of names of residents of Holmes who were subject to military call. | | | | Call #: | MS 1124 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Holmes (Crawford County, Ohio : Township). | Elections -- Ohio -- Holmes. | Schools -- Ohio -- Holmes. | Holmes (Crawford County, Ohio : Township ) -- Appropriations and expenditures. | Holmes (Crawford County, Ohio : Township) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 304 | Title: | Cleveland Citizen's Petition to the City Council
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Citizen's Petition to the City Council | | | | Dates: | ca. 1892 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a petition urging the Cleveland, Ohio, City Council "to at once take proper action to provide for the purchases of sufficient suitable land for park purposes," signed by hundreds of Cleveland residents. | | | | Call #: | MS 1125 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 305 | Title: | E. B. Finley Scrapbooks
| | | | Creator: | Finley, E. B. | | | | Dates: | 1881-1899 | | | | Abstract: | Ebenezer Byron Finley (1833-1916) was a United States congressman, 1877-1881, judge of the third circuit of Ohio, and attorney from Bucyrus, Ohio. He served as Adjutant General of Ohio, 1884-1886. The collection consists of two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings concerning the assassination of President James A. Garfield, 1881, and speeches delivered by General Finley. | | | | Call #: | MS 1126 | | | | Extent: | 0.30 linear feet (2 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Finley, E. B. (Ebenezer Byron), 1833-1916. | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination. | Presidents -- United States -- Assassination.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 307 | Title: | Columbiana County, Ohio, Records
| | | | Creator: | Columbiana County, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1803-1854 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of Columbiana County, Ohio, court case records, copies of laws of the Ohio legislature, abstracts of votes by township, list of justices of the peace, 1803-1832; record book of the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, 1817-1839; minutes of meetings of the County Commissioners, 1829-1838; Center Township records, including minutes of trustee meetings, treasurers' records, copies of agreements, and militia rolls, 1824-1854. | | | | Call #: | MS 1134 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Court records -- Ohio -- Columbiana County. | Elections -- Ohio -- Columbiana County -- Statistics. | Justices of the peace -- Ohio -- Columbiana County. | Columbiana County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Center (Columbiana County, Ohio : Township) -- History -- Sources. | Columbiana County (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Center (Columbiana County, Ohio : Township) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 309 | Title: | John Morgan Papers
| | | | Creator: | Morgan, John | | | | Dates: | 1788-1801 | | | | Abstract: | John Morgan was a Hartford, Connecticut resident who, along with John Caldwell and Jonathan Brace, was one of the original trustees of the Connecticut Land Company. The deed of trust to them from the 35 company proprietors was the original title source to most of the property in the Connecticut Western Reserve, the area in what is now northeastern Ohio consisting of over 3 million acres which was bought by the company on credit in 1795 for $1.2 million. The collection consists of contracts, agreements, and quitclaim deeds pertaining to land in the Western Reserve. Parties involved in the transactions include John Morgan, Daniel L. Coit, Samuel Hinckley, Joseph Howland, Elias Morgan and Ephraim Root. | | | | Call #: | MS 1138 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Morgan, John. | Connecticut Land Company. | Deeds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 311 | Title: | Aaron and Moses Wilcox Papers
| | | | Creator: | Wilcox, Aaron and Moses | | | | Dates: | 1772-1827 | | | | Abstract: | Aaron and Moses Wilcox were twins who were born in Killingworth, Connecticut, in 1772. They settled in Summit County, Ohio, and in 1819 gave six acres of land for a public square in the village which was named Twinsburg in their honor. The collection consists of a journal containing financial accounts and an autobiographical account of the lives of Aaron and Moses Wilcox; and a sermon and newspaper clippings (1827). | | | | Call #: | MS 1142 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wilcox, Aaron, 1772-1827. | Wilcox, Moses, 1772-1827. | Twinsburg (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 315 | Title: | Joseph W. Gaskill Record Book and Diary
| | | | Creator: | Gaskill, Joseph W. | | | | Dates: | 1862-1865 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph W. Gaskill (b. 1843) was a corporal in Company B, 104th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. The collection consists of a descriptive roll of Company B, 104th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry (1862-65), a history of the Company by Gaskill, and Gaskill's diary for 1864, during which time he saw action in Tennessee and Georgia. Includes an unpublished, incomplete manuscript of a book about Abraham Lincoln, written by Gaskill. | | | | Call #: | MS 1158 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Gaskill, Joseph W., b. 1843. | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. | United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 104th (1862-1865). Company B. | Soldiers -- Ohio -- Diaries. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 318 | Title: | Nineteenth Ohio Battery Association Records
| | | | Creator: | Nineteenth Ohio Battery Association | | | | Dates: | 1873-1919 | | | | Abstract: | The Nineteenth Ohio Battery Association was an association of American Civil War veterans of the 19th Battery of Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, which met annually and semi-annually in reunion. The 19th Ohio Battery was recruited in 1862 in Cleveland, Ohio by Captain Joseph C. Shields, and trained in University Heights, Ohio. The battery went by railroad to Cincinnati, and entered the war in Kentucky in pursuit of Confederate cavalry leader Col. James Hunt Morgan. The battery was mustered out of service in June 1865. Many of the reunions were arranged and administered by Frank Gilbert. The collection consists of a minute book of annual reunions, beginning with the 7th (1873) and ending with the 51st (1916), when the association dissolved. The book includes lists of attending members and deceased members. Included is a volume containing a history of the battery during the war, with accounts of battles and campaigns, along with minutes of 14 mid-winter reunions, 1902-1915. Also included is a scrapbook containing reunion programs, obituaries and newspaper clippings, as well as correspondence, postcards, photographs and miscellany. | | | | Call #: | MS 1163 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | Shields, Joseph C. | United States. Army. Ohio Light Artillery Battery, 19th (1862-1865) | Nineteenth Ohio Battery Association -- Archives. | Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Archives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Ohio Light Artillery Battery, 19th. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 319 | Title: | Christopher and William Leffingwell Papers
| | | | Creator: | Leffingwell, Christopher and William | | | | Dates: | 1790-1831 | | | | Abstract: | Christopher Leffingwell (1734-1810) was a resident of Norwich, Connecticut, and William Leffingwell was a resident of New Haven, Connecticut. The collection includes correspondence and associated papers concerning Ohio Company land, and field notes for a survey of a township in the Ohio Purchase. Correspondents include Wheeler Coit, Samuel H. Parsons, David Putnam, Israel Putnam, Henry Strong, Peter Williams, and Dudley Woodbridge. | | | | Call #: | MS 1164 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Leffingwell, Christopher, 1734-1810. | Leffingwell, William. | Ohio Company (1786-1795) -- History -- Sources. | Land companies -- Ohio. | Real property -- Ohio. | Northwest, Old -- History -- Sources. | Marietta (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 320 | Title: | McIlrath Tavern Account Book
| | | | Creator: | McIlrath Tavern | | | | Dates: | 1809-1846 | | | | Abstract: | The McIlrath Tavarn was a tavern and well-known hostelry and general store established in 1804 by Alexander McIlrath, and located on the northwest corner of Euclid and Superior in East Cleveland, Ohio. McIlrath's brother Abner opened a tavern at the same location in 1837, which distinguished itself as a local meeting place and important community center for many decades. People came from Doan's Corners and Euclid Township to listen to candidates and vote. It was torn down ca. 1890. The collection consists of an account book listing customers' accounts. | | | | Call #: | MS 1165 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | McIlrath Tavern (East Cleveland, Ohio) | Taverns (Inns) -- Ohio -- East Cleveland. | East Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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