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1	Title:	Stone Family Papers
	Creator:	Stone Family
	Dates:	1894-1912
	Abstract:	Simon Stone came from England to America in 1635 with his wife, Joan Clarke, and their five children, Frances, Ann, Simon, Mary and John. They settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where Stone took an active part in church and town affairs. The collection consists of genealogical notes on Simon Stone's descendants, correspondence relating to the Stone family, and a printed history, family reports, a meeting announcement for the Stone Family Association, copies of receipts, and a cemetery deed.
	Call #:	MS 4264
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Stone, Simon, ca. 1585-ca. 1665 -- Family. \| Stone family. \| Watertown (Mass.) -- Genealogy.
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2	Title:	Mather Family Papers
	Creator:	Mather Family
	Dates:	1834-1967
	Abstract:	The Mather Family was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, family related to the early New England Mather family and descended through Samuel Livingston Mather (1817-1890), who moved to Cleveland from Connecticut in 1843. Family members were prominent in all areas of Cleveland's development, including business and industry, education, philanthropy, the arts, medicine, literature, and politics. Many became nationally and internationally noted in their fields. The Mather family is related by marriage to the Bishop, Stone, Woolson, Benedict and Hay families. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, legal and financial documents, copies of wills and estate records, genealogical charts and research notes, biographies, tributes, awards, diaries, account books, drawings, reports, and an autograph collection. Major topics of the correspondence include the travels and literary accomplishments of family members.
	Call #:	MS 3735
	Extent:	12.81 linear feet (29 containers, 4 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Mather family. \| Bishop family. \| Hayes family. \| Stone family. \| Woolson family. \| Benedict family. \| Benedict, Clare. \| Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894. \| Benedict, Clara Woolson, 1843-1923. \| Voyages and travels. \| Literature and society. \| Autographs -- Collections.
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3	Title:	Harry Stone Papers
	Creator:	Stone, Harry
	Dates:	1943-2006
	Abstract:	Harry Stone (1917-2007) was a business leader in Cleveland, Ohio, active in politics and philanthropy. He was the son of Jacob Sapirstein, the founder of American Greetings Corp., a manufacturer of greeting cards. Stone was a member of the Glenville High School Class of 1935. In addition to the positions he held at American Greetings, Stone also owned radio stations WIXY and WDOK and was engaged in real estate and international trade and finance. Among his many civic activities, Stone was a trustee of Brandeis University, the Jewish Community Federation, and the Cleveland Sight Center. Stone married Beatrice Farkas in 1936. The couple had three children, Phillip J, Allan D., and Laurie. After the death of Beatrice, Harry married Lucile Tabak Rose in 1960. Her children from a previous marriage were James M. Rose and Douglas B. Rose. In the 1960s Stone was campaign chairman for United States Representative Charles Vanik. His relationship with Vanik proved beneficial to the Jewish community in 1973, when Vanik asked Stone and his brother Irving for help in scheduling a vote on the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which required the USSR to allow Jewish emigration to the United States in order to qualify for most favored nation status. The Stone brothers asked Representative Wilbur Mills of Arkansas to schedule the vote; American Greetings was at the time the largest employer in Mills' Arkansas district. Stone also served as a consultant to the United States Departments of Commerce and State. the collection consists of annual reports, bulletins, certificates, correspondence, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, a petition, proclamations, a program, a speech text, a statement, and a yizkor (memorial) book.
	Call #:	MS 5099
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Stone, Harry, 1917-2007. \| Stone family. \| American Greeting Publishers, Inc. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews, Soviet -- Emigration and immigration. \| Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Greeting cards industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Memorial books (Holocaust) \| Grajewo (Poland) -- History. \| Grajewo (Poland) -- Genealogy.
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4	Title:	Jeptha Homer Wade Family Papers
	Creator:	Wade, Jeptha Homer Family
	Dates:	1771-1957
	Abstract:	The Wade family was a prominent nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, family with business interests in the telegraph and railroad industries, mining, manufacturing, and banking. Jeptha Homer Wade spent his early life as an apprentice to a tanner and as a carpenter. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1849, he organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the Western Union Telegraph Company's first general agent. His business interests were extensive in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. Randall Palmer Wade worked with his father in the telegraph business, moving with him to Cleveland in 1857. His business interests included the Cuyahoga Mining Company; the Citizens Savings and Loan Association; the Cleveland Banking Company; the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Jeptha Homer Wade II also worked in the telegraph industry; he later joined the banking community in Cleveland. He was an active philanthropist, serving as a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Western Reserve University, Adelbert College, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He was an incorporator of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913, and later established a purchasing fund for the Museum. The collection consists of correspondence, wills, diaries, autobiographical sketches, memoranda, deeds, contracts, drawings, financial records, passport documents, land grants, notes, receipts, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, relating to Jeptha Homer Wade and his role in the telegraph industry in the Midwest, and to his son, Randall Palmer Wade, and grandson, Jeptha Homer Wade, Jr. Includes letters from or about Ezra Cornell, Amos Kendall, Samuel F.B. Morse, and James A. Garfield. Personal correspondence related to members of the Wade family, including Ellen Howe Garretson Wade and Ellen Howe Garretson, is included, as is travel journals written by various family members. The Wade family interest in spiritualism, particularly that of Jeptha Homer Wade after the death of his son Randall in 1876, is well documented in his personal correspondence. A calendar of correspondence for the collection is available in the appendix to the register.
	Call #:	MS 3292
	Extent:	5.60 linear feet (15 containers and 17 reels of microfilm)
	Subjects:	Wade family -- Periodicals. \| Howe family. \| Buckminster family. \| Stone family. \| McGaw family. \| Garretson family. \| Wade, Jeptha Homer, 1811-1890. \| Wade, Randall Palmer, 1835-1876. \| Wade, Jeptha Homer, 1857-1926. \| Wade, Ellen Garretson, 1859-1917. \| Garretson, Ellen M. Howe. \| Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. \| Western Union Telegraph Company. \| Telegraph -- United States -- History. \| Railroads -- United States -- History. \| Mineral industries -- United States -- History. \| Spiritualism -- United States. \| Asia -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel. \| Alaska -- Description and travel. \| Europe -- Description and travel. \| Africa -- Description and travel.
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