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1	Title:	John Johnson Elwell Papers
	Creator:	Elwell, John Johnson
	Dates:	1862-1900
	Abstract:	John Johnson Elwell (1820-1900) was an American Civil War general and Cleveland, Ohio attorney. The collection consists primarily of letters received by Elwell, mostly from or about Clara H. Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. Also, a notebook containing copies of poems and newspaper clippings.
	Call #:	MS 2285
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Barton, Clara, 1821-1912. \| American Red Cross. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
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2	Title:	United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) Records
	Creator:	United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch
	Dates:	1842-1878
	Abstract:	The United States Sanitary Commission (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) was established in 1861 in Cleveland, Ohio, to provide for the physical needs of soldiers by improving camp hygiene and diets, collecting and disbursing hospital stores, inspecting hospitals and other medical facilities, caring for sick and wounded soldiers, registering and burying the dead, building and supporting a soldiers home, and conducting a special relief system and employment service. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, receipt, cash, and memoranda books, acknowledgements of equipment received, bank drafts, insurance policies, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Includes invoices and other papers concerning the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, 1864, and a memoir of Caroline Younglove Abbott concerning the work of the organization.
	Call #:	MS 1012
	Extent:	22.00 linear feet (41 containers, 41 oversize volumes, and 1 wrapped package)
	Subjects:	United States Sanitary Commission. Cleveland Branch. \| Soldiers' homes -- Ohio. \| Veterans -- Employment -- Ohio. \| Veterans -- Medical care -- Ohio. \| Women in charitable work -- Ohio. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
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3	Title:	Medical Department and Hospital Papers Collection: Union and Confederate Armies
	Creator:	Union and Confederate Armies
	Dates:	1846-1866
	Abstract:	William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was President of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. He collected documents related to the history of the American Civil War and donated them to the historical society. The collection consists of correspondence, copies of orders, original reports of the sick and wounded, lists of the dead, invoices and reports of medicines and other hospital supplies and equipment, and other papers relating to the medical departments and hospitals of the Union Armies along the Atlantic coast and in Louisiana, and to Confederate hospitals in Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia. The six Army physicians to whom the papers principally relate are: Robert Battey (1828-1895), Renley S. Butler (b. 1834), William A. Carrington, Benjamin Franklin Harrison (1811-1886), Henry M. Kirke (d. 1876), and John Payne Logan (1820-1891).
	Call #:	MS 2121
	Extent:	1.0 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Confederate States of America. Army -- Registers. \| Confederate States of America. Army -- Surgeons. \| United States. Army -- Surgeons. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers of dead.
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4	Title:	Samuel Hollingworth Stout Papers
	Creator:	Stout, Samuel Hollingworth
	Dates:	1861-1865
	Abstract:	Samuel Hollingworth Stout (1822-1903) was a physician who served as Medical Director of the General Hospitals of the Army and Department of Tennessee during the American Civil War. The collection consists of papers concerning Stout's activities in the hospitals of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. The bulk of the papers cover the period 1863-1864 and give a detailed report on the conditions and daily life of Confederate Army hospitals, mostly in Georgia. Includes special orders, lists of medical officers, hospital stewards or managers, train surgeons, field nurses, and other employees, and reports of supplies of medicines and foods, hospital equipment and furnishings, and patients admitted.
	Call #:	MS 2175
	Extent:	2.80 linear feet (7 containers)
	Subjects:	Stout, Samuel Hollingworth, 1822-1903. \| Confederate States of America. Army. -- Surgeons. \| Hospitals, Military -- Southern States. \| Physicians -- Southern States. \| Confederate States of America -- Hospitals, charities, etc. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
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5	Title:	Albert Gaillard Hart Papers
	Creator:	Hart, Albert Gaillard
	Dates:	1830-1907
	Abstract:	Albert Gaillard Hart (1821-1907) was a physician of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, a diary (1864), lectures, reminiscences, land contracts and deeds, certificates, newspaper clippings, and other papers, chiefly relating to Hart's service as a surgeon for the 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Includes school papers from Western Reserve College, papers relating to land in Clarkesville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and reunions of the Bushnell family.
	Call #:	MS 2659
	Extent:	1.81 linear feet (4 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Hart, Albert Gaillard, 1821-1907. \| Hart family. \| Bushnell family. \| United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 41st (1861-1865) \| United States. Army -- Surgeons. \| Physicians -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
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6	Title:	Richards Family Papers
	Creator:	Richards Family
	Dates:	1852-1973
	Abstract:	The Richards family settled in Hinckley Township, Medina County, Ohio, prior to 1838. Willard Richards married Alvira Ann Whedon in 1838, and they raised seven children. In 1861, their eldest son, Myron, enlisted in Battery A, First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. He returned to farming in Hinckley Township in 1865, and the following year, married Romelia Noragon. They raised two children, Oliver Richards and Margie Richards. In 1891, the Richards family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. In the 1910s, Margie Richards became a physical education instructor at the University of California, Southern Branch (University of California, Los Angeles). The collection consists of correspondence, certificates, journals, genealogical notes, wills, military papers, and legal documents.
	Call #:	MS 4785
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Richards family. \| Richards, Myron, 1840-1912. \| Richards, Willard, 1804-1876. \| Richards, Alvira Ann Whedon. \| Richards, Margie, 1883-1973. \| Noragon, John. \| United States. Army. Ohio Light Artillery Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) \| Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. \| Hinckley (Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy.
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7	Title:	William P. Palmer Collection of Civil War Manuscripts
	Creator:	Various
	Dates:	1761-1977
	Abstract:	William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was the President of American Steel and Wire Company, a director of U.S. Steel Corporation, and President of the Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, Ohio) from 1913-1927. Palmer had an intense interest in the American Civil War and acquired an extensive collection of manuscript material related to the war, the memories of that conflict, and slavery. This collection is one of several Palmer collections from the Civil War era owned by the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of dozens of different types of documents in three distinct categories: civilian, governmental, and military. The document types created by civilians are: academic records, autographs, bills of lading, bills of sale, biographical sketches, circulars, diaries, dissertations, envelopes, essays, financials, funeral records, invitations, letters, manifests, memoirs, minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, petitions, plantation records, obituaries, poetry, postcards, prayers, reminiscences, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, sermons, ship's papers, slave rolls, song lyrics, speaker's notes, speech texts, unpublished books, and yearbooks. Governmental documents types are: affidavits, certificates, contracts, coroner's reports, court documents, depositions, diplomatic documents, financials, indentures, legislation, letters, licenses, notes, pardons, probate records, proclamations, resolutions, subpoenas, telegrams, and warrants. Military documents types are: battlefield dispatches, charts, code books, commissions, courts martial documents, discharges, drawings, furloughs, inventories, letters, maps, manuals, muster rolls, notes, orders, passes, payroll records, pension records, materials by and related to prisoners of war, reports, service records, shipping documents, telegrams, and vouchers.
	Call #:	MS 3947
	Extent:	18.40 linear feet (46 containers)
	Subjects:	Confederate States of America -- History, Military -- Sources. \| Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography. \| Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography. \| Generals -- United States -- Biography. \| Johnson Island Prison. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. \| Plantations -- Florida -- History -- Sources. \| Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- History -- Sources. \| Slave trade -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| United States. Army -- Biography.
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8	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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