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1Title:  Frederick J. and Samuel B. Prentiss Papers     
 Creator:  Prentiss, Frederick and Samuel 
 Dates:  1825-1888 
 Abstract:  Frederick (1816-1895) and Samuel (1807-1894) Prentiss were brothers and partners in a Cleveland, Ohio, law firm, S.B. & F.J. Prentiss. Frederick later became Clerk of the Common Pleas and District Courts, while Samuel became Judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas (1867-1882). The collection consists of correspondence, legal records and financial papers relating to the Prentiss brothers' law firm and its client transactions; and family correspondence. 
 Call #:  MS 3350 
 Extent:  6.80 linear feet (18 containers) 
 Subjects:  Prentiss family. | Prentiss, Frederick James, 1816-1895. | Prentiss, Samuel Blake, 1807-1894. | Legal documents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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2Title:  Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis Records     
 Creator:  Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis 
 Dates:  1917-1959 
 Abstract:  Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, law firm which specializes in corporate law. The collection consists of 72 bound volumes, each relating to a specific legal or financial activity engaged in by a Cleveland business or industry, and each containing all documents relevant to the action, including letters, memoranda, deeds, indentures, contracts, stock certificates and the like. 
 Call #:  MS 3206 
 Extent:  9.00 linear feet (20 containers) 
 Subjects:  Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis (Cleveland, Ohio) | Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Corporation law -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Corporate divestiture -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Business records -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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3Title:  James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series III     
 Creator:  Garfield, James A. Family 
 Dates:  1859-1990 
 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, election tallies, essays, book inscriptions, legal papers, corporate records, scholarly and political notes, a minute book, scrapbooks, receipts, invitations, sympathy cards, calling cards, newspaper clippings, notebooks, pamphlets, phrenology charts, a eulogy, a presentation album, a resolution, a lock of hair, broadsides, programs, poems, sheet music, drawings, lithographs, and paintings. 
 Call #:  MS 4790 
 Extent:  3.10 linear feet (3 containers and 10 oversize folders) 
 Subjects:  Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. | Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. | Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942. | Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. | Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941. | Garfield family. | Rudolph family. | James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) | Garfield & Garfield (Cleveland, Ohio). | Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) | Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Presidents -- United States -- Family. | Political campaigns -- United States. | Mourning customs -- United States.
 
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