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A SHORT HISTORY 
 
 THE WESTERN RESERVE 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 1867-1942 
 
 By 
 
 ELBERT JAY BENTON 
 
 Secretary of the Society 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 The Society: It's Corporate Organization Page 5 
 
 The Society's Homes Page 11 
 
 The Library Page 16 
 
 The Museum Page 22 
 
 What The Historical Society Means to Greater Cleveland Page 28 
 
 Who's Who in The Society's History Page 33 
 
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 Bt+LfxL THE SOCIETY 
 
 Ihe birthday of the Historical 
 Society is May 28th. Born on that day in 1867, its birth was the 
 result of yearnings of Clevelanders for an historical library and 
 museum, similar to those of the Historical Societies of the East — 
 the Massachusetts Historical Society of Boston, the New York 
 Historical Society or the American Philosophical Society of Phila- 
 delphia, the inspiration of Benjamin Franklin, organizations all for 
 collecting, preserving and communicating the antiquities of America. 
 The Cleveland Society had its conception early in the life of the 
 
 ~fc frontier community. In 1811 when Cleveland was an organized 
 village of eighteen families, representatives of sixteen of them met 
 
 - to form what they called a library association. Except for the 
 period of the War of 1812 and the hard times which followed, 
 
 _ Cleveland had successively (one and sometimes more than one 
 organization at a time) a library association, a lyceum, a reading 
 room association, the Young Men's Literary Association, the Ark, 
 the Academy of Natural Science, and the Cleveland Library Asso- 
 ciation. The last three proved to be institutions of considerable 
 significance in the intellectual history of the rapidly rising city of 
 the canal days. 
 
 The Cleveland Library Association, established in 1848, repre- 
 
 ^ sented the aspirations of the times in the most solid form. The 
 
 Ark, started a decade earlier, was never an organization with officers 
 
 . and by-laws. It was a coterie of congenial spirits who met to discuss 
 
 ^ natural science, play whist or chess or chat about sports. But its 
 ' informal meetings inspired much. They talked of libraries, museums, 
 of history and natural science. The Cleveland Library Association 
 had everything the Ark did not have, a charter, quarters, books. 
 It attracted many of the Ark to its board. 
 
 The first president of the Cleveland Library Association was 
 ^William Case, Mayor of Cleveland in 1850, 1851. Cleveland was 
 then a city of 11,000. The Library, the only library of the city, 
 
 -j was open to the public on Saturday from 2:00 to 5:00 P.M. In the 
 
 ^ early fifties Clevelanders were having a cultural awakening. Whether 
 
 ^ it was the exhileration which came from the expansion movement 
 
which followed the Mexican War or the gold inflation with rising 
 prices and industrial expansion following the mineral discoveries in 
 the Great West, or the new outlook for Cleveland as its citizens 
 began tapping the iron ore resources of upper Michigan, or the 
 effect of the new era in transportation as steam roads joined Cleve- 
 land with Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Columbus, and reached out 
 westward toward Toledo and Chicago, the fifties constituted an 
 epoch in Cleveland's cultural history. On the south side of the 
 Cuyahoga, on the heights overlooking the valley, where Ontario 
 Street if extended would strike the bluffs south of the river, Cleve- 
 landers were founding a University to constitute a new cultural 
 center with buildings, faculty and students — a University of 
 Cleveland, born, as it turned out, prematurely. The Civil War 
 caused an interruption in cultural affairs, as wars always have a 
 way of doing. 
 
 Those times over, one day in May, 1867 the Vice-President of 
 the Cleveland Library Association and others of that organization 
 met to form a branch which would emphasize the preservation of 
 the historical past in a museum and library. The trustees of the 
 Association accepted an amendment to their charter authorizing 
 the creation of two subordinate departments — ' 'historical and 
 scientific departments." The Kirtland Society of Natural History, 
 separately organized two years later, fell into the plan as the 
 scientific department.* On May 28, 1867, the historical section at 
 a meeting of twenty-one members of the Library Association, took 
 the first steps toward a permanent organization, agreeing upon 
 a name and drafting by-laws. A few days later, June 5th, the 
 organization was completed, by-laws adopted and officers elected. 
 Colonel Charles Whittlesey, a West Pointer and army officer turned 
 practicing attorney and promoter of the intellectual life of his 
 fellows, was elected President. A board of six Curators with the 
 President, Treasurer and Chairman of the Library Committee of the 
 parent society as ex-offfcio members became the governing body. 
 
 The by-laws gave to the "Department" the name that was to 
 stick — The Western Reserve Historical Society — and stated that 
 the principal object was "to discover, procure and preserve what- 
 ever relates to the history, biography, genealogy, antiquities and 
 statistics connected with the City of Cleveland and the Western 
 
 *The Kirtland Society of Natural History was organized May 15, 1869, a 
 successor to the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science of 1845, and was 
 in effect continued by the Cleveland Natural History Museum in 1920. 
 
The Society s First Home, Monumental Park, 1867-1898. 
 
 Reserve," and to make sure that all interests of Clevelanders would 
 probably come within its field, added "and generally what relates 
 to the history of Ohio and the Great West." The Directors of the 
 Cleveland Library Association provided the two departments — - 
 the Historical Society and the Kirtland Society — with quarters. 
 To the Historical Department it assigned "the splendid fireproof 
 room, 29 feet by 80 on the third floor of the "Savings Bank." The 
 collections of these Library Branches would constitute, the Direc- 
 tors said, "a valuable museum of history, mechanical arts, specimens 
 
The Home at University Circle, 1898-1941. 
 
 of natural history and natural science, maps, manuscripts, like- 
 nesses of the pioneers, relics, engraved views, etc." with emphasis 
 it may be assumed on the et cetera. The annual reports of these 
 days were a record of small beginnings. Only a few cases were 
 available to display the articles which were steadily accumulating. 
 But the reports exhibited no lack of optimism. The meetings of 
 the Society in these formative years were nearly always at the home 
 of some one of the curators, as the trustees were called, and largely 
 for social and literary intercourse. No business was transacted. 
 There was none to transact. The homes of Judge Samuel Stark- 
 weather, M. B. Scott and William Bingham were the usual meeting 
 places. Until 1892 the Society continued to be a branch of the 
 Cleveland Library Association, by this time the Case Library. 
 
 Cleveland in the eighties had entered into a new period of its 
 cultural history, with Western Reserve University and Case School 
 established four miles out into the country on Euclid Avenue. The 
 Historical Society entered into its second phase by securing a state 
 charter incorporating it as an independent organization. As if to 
 make clear its new status of freedom from parental entanglements, 
 it purchased at the same time the Society for Savings Building, 
 of which it had been occupying the third floor. The charter created 
 a Western Reserve Historical Society "to discover, collect and 
 preserve whatever relates to the history, biography, genealogy and 
 
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antiquities of Ohio and the West; and of the people dwelling therein, 
 including the physical history and conditions of that State; to 
 maintain a museum and a library, and to extend knowledge upon 
 the subjects mentioned by literary meetings, by publication and by 
 other means." In three respects the functions of the Society were 
 broadened. It was to have a wider outlook, Ohio and the West, 
 not Western Reserve and the West; it was to maintain a museum 
 and a library as coordinate agencies; and it was to employ literary 
 meetings, publications and "other proper means" of fulfilling its 
 educational mission. The charter was given the seal of state March 
 7, 1892. A new body of by-laws or regulations was adopted June 
 6th at a meeting of the Society in the residence of William Bingham. 
 The governing body was to consist of fifteen trustees, holding orifice 
 for five years each. Two days later the trustees elected Charles C. 
 Baldwin of the State Circuit Court, President of the new corpora- 
 tion. The office of Director was created in 1913, and Wallace H. 
 Cathcart, who was at the time President of the Society, became 
 the Director. 
 
 No further changes in the constitution of the Society occurred 
 until 1929. On April 22nd James R. Garfield, one of the trustees, 
 submitted revised by-laws, The New Regulations, to a special 
 meeting of the Board called for the purpose. The Board was en- 
 larged to include not less than twenty-one nor more than thirty 
 members of the Society, to be elected in three classes for terms of 
 three years each. Five members of the Board would constitute a 
 quorum for the transaction of business. Amendments to the New 
 Regulations in December, 1937 changed the fiscal year to correspond 
 with the calendar year, and in February, 1940 empowered the 
 Board to establish affiliated chapters in the Western Reserve area. 
 
 In the meantime, in December, 1935, the Garfield family offered 
 to give the former home of James A. Garfield at Mentor, with the 
 contents, to the Society to be maintained as a memorial to the 
 former President of the United States and Mrs. Garfield. The 
 arrangement was consummated. In 1940 the Lake County His- 
 torical Society was recognized as a chapter of the Historical Society 
 and given quarters in the Garfield home. It in turn agreed to keep 
 the shrine open to the public, carrying out the responsibilities of 
 the Western Reserve Historical Society. As a part of this new and 
 broader service of the society for Northern Ohio, the President of 
 the Society, Laurence H. Norton, his brother Robert C. Norton 
 and sister, Mrs. Fred R. White, placed the Harper home in Union- 
 ville, Ashtabula Countv, the oldest home in the Western Reserve, 
 
with its contents, under the general auspices of the Society as a 
 museum. 
 
 The functions of the Society as conceived by the founding 
 fathers fell into four fields: lectures on local history, publication of 
 papers on the same general subject, the development of a library 
 and of a museum. An annual series of historical lectures was for 
 many years a regular part of the Society's activities. As other 
 organizations took on this function in Cleveland, the Society's 
 responsibilities seemed to diminish, or at least the response of the 
 public fell off. Public lecture series were dropped with the Great 
 War, not to be revived. Other historical societies, those of the 
 East and of Chicago, have continued to regard public courses of 
 lectures, particularly on local history, as an important service to 
 their communities. The want of funds for their promotion and a 
 satisfactory auditorium were probably the decisive forces in drop- 
 ping the annual lecture series. 
 
 Publication of papers given at the meetings of the Society was 
 strongly emphasized in the early years when the Society's collec- 
 tions in the combined library and museum were scanty. Tracts, 
 the name given to the publications, were published annually, some- 
 times several each year, until 1929. Here again an activity was 
 abandoned, for a time at least, because funds for the purpose were 
 lacking. It meant that the other obligations of a growing Library 
 and Museum crowded out such services. The Tracts usually in- 
 cluded the President's or the Director's report and gave the mem- 
 bers an account of the progress of the Society in fulfilling its several 
 functions. The Secretary's or the Director's biographical sketches of 
 members of the Society who had died during the year would, if 
 assembled, constitute a valuable Dictionary of Cleveland Biography. 
 The annual reports frequently contain a list of the members of the 
 Society, an interesting cross-section of Cleveland's public spirited 
 citizens, a Who's Who of Cleveland for the year. Some of the 
 Tracts put on record an interesting or important contribution to 
 local history. Several have to do with Cleveland during the War 
 of 1812. One Tract, No. 5, is a paper by Colonel Whittlesey on 
 Ancient Works of the Cuyahoga Valley. Judge C. C. Baldwin was 
 the author of No. 25, a valuable article on the Early Maps of Ohio 
 and the West, a subject in which he took great interest. Many of 
 the Tracts reprinted considerable bodies of the Society's source 
 materials for Cleveland History. For example, Nos. 32, 94, 95, 96 
 have published the greater part of the Society's collection of 
 Connecticut Land Company Papers. 
 
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THE SOCIETY'S HOMES 
 
 Tor twenty-five years the Society's 
 facilities were limited to one room, the entire third floor of the 
 Society for Savings building which stood on the site now occupied 
 by the Cleveland College building. The contemporary Cleveland 
 Leader described it as having just been completed, fire proof, an 
 elegant stone edifice. The Society used its space as a combined 
 museum and library. In March, 1869, a reporter for the Leader 
 wrote of what he saw in an hour: war relics, archaeological speci- 
 mens, books, heirlooms and what-not. Contributions came in before 
 the Society could provide cases for exhibition. But furnishings 
 followed, and an orderly arrangement of the room soon encouraged 
 givers and officers alike. By 1892 more space had become absolutely 
 necessary. The Society for Savings, too, had come to require 
 a new building, and was constructing on the adjacent property. 
 The Historical Society bought the entire building in which it 
 had been located, paying for it $40,000, and thereby more 
 than tripled the space available for its collections. Possessed now 
 of a building of its own, the Leader declared that the Society 
 ' 'would come to be a truly metropolitan museum." Members of 
 the Society expressed the view that "the problem of room was 
 solved for all time," and as an afterthought added "if necessity 
 arises we could build three more stories. The air is free, but the 
 earth is dear. We could run a building up to any height we required." 
 The purchase money was raised by a subscription campaign. John 
 D. Rockefeller headed the list with $10,000 and Jeptha Homer 
 Wade II followed with $5,000, and Linda Thayer Guilford, a popu- 
 lar Cleveland teacher, closed the list with a gift of $5. In amounts 
 mostly from $100 up, 116 contributors provided the Society with 
 enough to buy the building and to make the needed alterations as 
 well, $52,850. 
 
 Three years later the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce offered 
 the Society a lot at Euclid and Fairmount Street (107th Street) 
 and $55,000 for its property. The removal from Memorial Park, 
 as they then called the Public Square, to the Wade Park area 
 adjacent to Case School and Western Reserve University meant a 
 
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The Garfield Memorial, East View, Showing President Garfield's Campaign Office 
 
 at the right. Lawnfield. 
 
 significant change. The Society would become a part of the new 
 cultural center. Some among the members thought the Chamber's 
 offer was not enough for the property, or they were not convinced 
 that the new center of operations would be as satisfactory as the 
 old. On October 22, 1895, the offer of the Chamber was accepted 
 by a decisive vote of the members, and the trustees set about 
 raising a guarantee fund of $15,000, which together with the 
 amount received from the old building would provide a building 
 fund of $70,000. Henry C. Ranney was President of the Society 
 at this time of adventure into new fields of service. 
 
 The new building was completed early in 1898 and immediately 
 occupied. The annual meeting was held there May 3, 1898, as the 
 echoes of the Battle of Manila Bay were still reverberating through- 
 out America. The new home of the Society was a three-story 
 terra-cotta brick building, fireproof as such buildings are said to be. 
 The mosaic floor on the ground level, where the museum was 
 located, was the gift of Jeptha Homer Wade II. On the second 
 floor was the library. The auditorium on the third floor had soon 
 to give place to the imperative needs of the growing library, and 
 the basement to the newspaper collection. Several members of the 
 Board of Trustees at their own expense replaced the old wooden 
 cases with suitable steel ones, improving the appearance and 
 diminishing any fire hazard. 
 
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When the Garfield family gave the former home of President 
 and Mrs. Garfield and its contents to the Society to be maintained 
 as a shrine and memorial, and the Nortons placed Harper House 
 under its auspices, the outlook of the Society and its influence were 
 greatly enlarged. These places, with the log cabin erected at 
 "Lawnfield" as a replica of Garfield's birthplace, were typical 
 homes of their periods — the log cabin a typical frontier home of 
 the early 19th century, the Harper house one of the 1830's and the 
 Garfield home one of the 1880's. 
 
 The Harper Home. Shandy Hall. 
 
 In 1938 President Norton led the trustees through the necessary 
 steps in the acquisition of the McKinney residence on East Boule- 
 vard, raising the purchase and improvement fund. The following 
 year the Museum collections, then partly housed in the old building 
 and partly in storage in nearby facilities, were established in their 
 new home. The McKinney house, originally built by Mrs. John 
 Hay in 1910 and for many years the residence of the Price McKinney 
 family provided the Society 26 exhibition rooms, an assembly hall, 
 work rooms and storage space. The building is an impressive 
 structure, surrounded by beautiful patios and gardens. The rooms 
 
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are large and well lighted, very suitable for exhibition purposes. 
 Events in the new phases of the history of the Society moved 
 rapidly in these years. Early in 1940 the Society exchanged its 
 building on University Circle for the Leonard C. Hanna residence, 
 adjacent to the Hay-McKinney house, bringing the facilities of the 
 Society in Cleveland into convenient proximity. The Hanna house 
 was built by Harry Payne Bingham in 1918 and was occupied later 
 by the Leonard C. Hanna, Sr. family. Like the Museum, the 
 Library building is Florentine in style and harmonizes with its 
 setting of terraces and formal gardens. The interior is both dig- 
 nified and beautiful with its lofty ceilings, iron grill work, immense 
 fireplaces, stately staircases and spacious rooms. Twenty-two 
 rooms and a large portion of the basement are occupied by the 
 extensive library collections. The Hanna house was opened to the 
 public on June 4, 1941. 
 
 Within five years the officers of the Society had brought about 
 a situation unique among the Historical Societies of the United 
 States, and extended its services into convenient locations for the 
 population of the northeastern part of the old Western Reserve. 
 This paper is primarily a record of the past. The problem of the 
 Society today is the adequate maintenance of its larger quarters and , 
 broader program. This is being carried on with a very modest budget. 
 Any plans for the future will depend entirely on increased member- 
 ship and on generous gifts and bequests from friends and well- 
 wishers of the Society. After the war, if conditions permit and funds 
 can be raised, the Society hopes to round out its Museum and 
 Library space with a central hall, fronting on East Boulevard, 
 mid-way between the two and joined with them by corridors. The 
 plan would provide centralized admission facilities and additional 
 exhibition rooms, desirable for certain very rare collections not now 
 adequately served. A stack building behind the Library is also 
 needed. It would bring together the main body of the Library 
 collections, partly to provide more adequate space, partly and 
 largely for convenience of handling books, and partly to release 
 some of the rooms in the Hanna house for reading rooms, conference 
 rooms and study places. The numerous patriotic societies would 
 then find special facilities for their needs. The gardens constitute 
 a charming addition to the facilities the Society can offer the public. 
 
 It is an important matter of record that the Society has never 
 had to borrow money to carry out its steady advance. It has no 
 debt of any kind. It has also built up over the years an endowment 
 fund of nearly $550,000. The larger gifts are represented by the 
 
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The Library and Museum, East Boulevard. 
 
 William Bingham, the Norton, Ambrose Swasey, Dudley P. Allen, 
 James B.Wilbur, O. J.Hodge, William P. Palmer and C. W.Bingham 
 funds. Among the smaller gifts are the Francis A. Hilliard, Simon 
 Perkins and Miss Selma Sullivan funds. A great many smaller gifts 
 and life memberships are included in the General Endowment Fund. 
 At present rates the income from the endowment is about $14,000. 
 Annual subscriptions by members constitute the other main source 
 of income. This is the property of the Society — five buildings, 
 adequate grounds for anticipated requirements and over a half 
 million dollars in endowments, the fruit of faith and effort over 
 three-quarters of a century. Such is the skeleton wherein are housed 
 the treasures which are the reasons for the Society's existence. The 
 challenge is for more endowment and more memberships. 
 
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TH E LI BRARY 
 
 When the Historical Society 
 announced a purpose to build up a Library in Cleveland, it was not 
 to be just another library, rivalling that of the Cleveland Library 
 Association. It proposed to assemble in one place books giving the 
 History of the West, and also, even more important, public docu- 
 ments, family letters, social and business records, newspapers — 
 the source materials out of which histories are made. It would be 
 a Historical Library in two divisions, that of printed books and 
 that of manuscripts. There was a reason for the distinction. The 
 accumulation and handling of manuscripts require a knowledge and 
 skill different from the ordinary process of going into the book 
 market for new books and recording them in a catalogue. For many 
 years the Society lacked the personnel to do much more than wait 
 for materials to drift in. However, given a safe housing and proper 
 care, books are sure to drift into such a place, and manuscripts too.^ 
 Every community treasures the evidences of its past and desires 
 to see these conserved. 
 
 The Cleveland Library Association started the Society off with 
 the books on its shelves relating to the History of Cleveland, Ohio, 
 and the West, so far as these books were not at the time on the 
 circulating list. It was an evidence of confidence in the future of 
 its offspring. For some things the officers of the Society were not 
 content to await the results of the drifting process. They aggressive- 
 ly sought the records of the Connecticut Land Company. In 1869 
 the County Commissioners authorized the Society to expend $500 
 in recovering those papers. While much of such material was 
 unobtainably lost, a great deal was found. The field notes, maps and 
 papers of early surveyors, including a part of Moses Cleaveland's 
 correspondence and papers, were found, and constitute a part of 
 the priceless treasures of the Society. The papers and correspond- 
 ence of Ephraim Root, Secretary of the Connecticut Land Com- 
 pany, of Judge Turhand Kirtland, one of the agents of the Com- 
 pany, and those of Samuel Huntington, one of the early settlers in 
 the Western Reserve, later a member of the Supreme Court and 
 Governor of Ohio, whose correspondence with Moses Cleaveland 
 and others of the Connecticut Land Company is particularly 
 
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The Entrance Hall in the Library. 
 
 valuable, were acquired. This much alone represented anything 
 but a drifting policy. 
 
 Judge Charles C. Baldwin was greatly interested in collecting 
 maps relating to early North America, and before his death pos- 
 sessed one of the finest collections of the kind in any library. In 
 1916 the family, represented at the time by Mrs. John P. Sawyer 
 and S. Prentiss Baldwin, gave this collection to the Society. To it 
 the Society has since continued to add. The Society began early to 
 assemble works relating to genealogy. Over the years it has built 
 up a library in which there are more than 14,000 volumes dealing 
 each with one family, not counting the many general works and 
 periodicals. The founders also early sought to collect so far as 
 possible the files of local newspapers. A history of the Society, 
 written in 1907, included a considerable collection of works on 
 early western travel. The first President of the Society, Colonel 
 Charles Whittlesey, author of a valuable History of Cleveland, 
 unique for the source material reprinted in it, left his papers 
 and correspondence to the Society. And still the statement stands 
 that through the years of the Society's existence as a Department 
 of the Cleveland Library Association it grew mainly by accretion, 
 small gifts by individuals, isolated items, at times of the utmost 
 value, but to be distinguished from the product of systematic 
 collectors. The history of the Library entered into a second phase 
 when Wallace H. Cathcart, at the present time Vice-President and 
 Director, became an officer of the Society. 
 
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Mr. Cathcart came to Cleveland in 1890, entering into the 
 employ of Taylor and Austin, book dealers on the Square. Seven 
 years later he transferred to Burrows Brothers, where he rose 
 rapidly in seventeen years from Secretary to Vice-President and 
 General Manager. His interest in books early attracted him to the 
 Society. Of this he became a life member in 1893, Secretary in 
 1894, President in 1907, and Director and Vice-President in 1913. 
 It was as Director that he came to devote his entire time to the 
 Society, and his new and greater career began. He had already 
 achieved a national reputation as a book man. He was stricken 
 with the book collector's fever while still a student in Denison 
 University and acting as its librarian. He started on the road to 
 his second career which later brought him national renown by 
 assembling everything he could secure by gift or purchase bearing 
 on the history of the Baptist Church in Ohio. His interests broad- 
 ened as he proceeded to include the works of other denominations, 
 and those that were not in the strict sense denominational. How 
 could he remain a Baptist without knowing why he couldn't be 
 something else! It was typical of his whole career as a book man. 
 He had soon included the Mormons and the Shakers. Whatever he 
 could obtain went into his Society's possession, unheralded gifts. 
 He won the confidence of the Shaker communities, and they gave 
 him freely of their books, manuscripts and relics. As a result, the 
 Cathcart Shaker Collection is easily the finest of its kind anywhere, 
 a mass of material, as yet almost entirely unexplored by scholars, on 
 the social conditions of a peculiar people, but throwing light on the 
 
 The Shaker Collection, Manuscripts almost all. 
 
social conditions of the pioneers in many parts of the United States. 
 
 In somewhat the same way the William P. Palmer collection of 
 books, pamphlets, newspapers and manuscripts pertaining to 
 slavery, the Civil War, and to Lincoln had grown into one of the 
 great national collections of its kind. The Palmer Collection came 
 to the Library while Mr. Cathcart was President of the Society. 
 William P. Palmer succeeded to the Presidency when Mr. Cathcart 
 became Director, and continued to add to his collection until his 
 death. In his will he left the Society $25,000, chiefly for the purpose 
 of maintaining and improving the portion of the Library bearing 
 on the Civil War. Two recent gifts of Lincolniana, one by Mrs. 
 George R. Lamb, whose husband had made a collection, and an- 
 other by the daughters of Stephen Wallis Tener and Katharine 
 Randall Tener, have filled many gaps in the Palmer Library. 
 Altogether, the Society may be proud of the Lincoln collection — 
 among the best. 
 
 Mr. Cathcart, as Director, pushed vigorously his policy of making 
 the Library one of great service for historical research. He visited 
 other older and greater libraries and to a remarkable degree was 
 successful in persuading the librarians to transfer duplicate files to 
 the Society. He went to Washington and to many state capitals 
 for files of public documents that were still available. The sections 
 of the Library on Colonial and State Public Records were built up 
 and are now remarkably complete. In a similar way he went after 
 complete files of the leading newspapers. This division of the 
 Library with more than 25,000 bound volumes and thousands more 
 of unbound and partial or fragmentary files is one of the notable 
 newspaper collections in the United States. Photostatic copies of 
 many newspapers published in the United States before 1800 have 
 been purchased. The division was greatly extended by Palmer's 
 purchase of newspapers published in the Confederate States, num- 
 bering 22,000 issues. Because of a growing confidence in Mr. 
 Cathcart's leadership other Cleveland book collectors turned over to 
 the Society the results of long years of building up of special libraries. 
 
 It seems invidious to select a few for enumeration. Sometimes 
 a small gift is in itself very valuable because it fills a gap not other- 
 wise now obtainable. To enumerate, much less to discuss at all 
 the endless succession of gifts which pour into the Library (hardly 
 a day passes without several accessions) is out of the question. 
 Among the accessions which, because of the completeness of the 
 collection, would be found in any important national listing is 
 Judge Henry C. White's library of Arctic Exploration. The Charles 
 
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The Reading Room in the Library. 
 
 G. King books on the history of costume, international in scope 
 and of every age, given to the Society by Ralph King, are notable 
 for the beauty of the bindings, for the great number of hand 
 painted plates, and as a whole for exhaustiveness. The collection 
 is in constant use by artists, designers and theatrical producers. 
 Other special collections which have come to the Society are 
 Palmer's on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Otto Miller's on the 
 War of 1812, and the priceless book and manuscript section of the 
 David Z. Norton Napoleonic collection. In 1914 Samuel 
 Mather gave the Society 200 volumes of the English Parish Regis- 
 ters, of obvious value to students of American Genealogy and of the 
 political and social background of American History. 
 
 The Director was very successful in securing support for his 
 program. Certain members of the Society agreed to underwrite 
 considerable annual purchases, each on a subject in which he had 
 a personal interest. For example, Samuel Mather continued for 
 years to support the purchase of English Parish Registers as they 
 could be found; F. F. Prentiss authorized additions of whatever 
 could be found on Ohio History; William McLauchlan on Maine, 
 L. A. Murfey on Pennsylvania, Jeptha H. Wade on New Jersey, 
 Henry S. Sherwin on Mormonism, Ralph King on Costume, Mrs. 
 Louisa J. Smith on Genealogy, Cyrus S. Eaton on American 
 Loyalists, H. A. Fuller on California and the Van Sweringens on 
 Virginia and Maryland, and later on Genealogy also. This process 
 
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was the most fruitful of Mr. Cathcart's policies toward the syste- 
 matic assembling of a great library. It lasted until the great de- 
 pression put an end to book buying on a large scale. The Director, 
 himself, built up over the same years an outstanding, almost per- 
 fect, collection of early Ohio laws, consulted by lawyers from over 
 the state. With the aid of the Hilliard Fund he accumulated an 
 extensive collection on early New England History. 
 
 In the Manuscript Division fourcollections are outstanding. There 
 is the correspondence and papers of the Hitchcock family. Those of 
 Elisha Whittlesey, an uncle of Charles Whittlesey, the first President 
 of the Society, were given to the Society by the family. Whittlesey 
 was a leading Ohio Whig, Congressman from Ohio, auditor and 
 later Comptroller of the Federal Treasury. In his collection are 
 more than 90,000 letters largely from his party associates on con- 
 temporary political matters. Senator Theodore E. Burton, active 
 in his day in the Society's interests, left his enormous correspond- 
 ence and large file of public papers to the Society, and recently Mrs. 
 Parmely Herrick and Parmely Herrick, Jr. have given to the 
 Society, besides personal mementos of various kinds, Myron T. 
 Herrick's correspondence with William McKinley, and others, 
 including the whole of his correspondence while he was Ambassador 
 in Paris 1913-14, 1921-29. It is one of the most valuable collections 
 of its kind in any library. 
 
 The Society has the Garfield Memorial Library in the Garfield 
 shrine, "Lawnfield," Mentor, Ohio, interesting because it represents 
 the choice of reading companions of President Garfield. It also 
 contains a large body of public documents. 
 
 Limitations of space preclude a description of the vast accumu- 
 lations that have come to the Society in the form of deeds, legal 
 papers, land grants, business records, broadsides, stamp collections, 
 coins and the like. Some of the special collections like the J. D. 
 Cox collection of Washington medals (largest in the world) , the 
 Brody amateur newspapers, the early American prints (especially 
 of Ohio), and Civil War music (sheet and broadsides, for the South 
 as well as for the North) are outstanding. 
 
 The value of the Library in dollars is hardly calculable, but it 
 has been estimated that it would cost two or three million dollars 
 to replace the collection of books and newspapers if the trustees 
 had to go into the open market to purchase them. No one pretends to 
 know the money value of the manuscripts. But such calculations are 
 vain, for much that the Society possesses would be irreplaceable if lost. 
 
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The Entrance Hall in the Museum. 
 
 THE MUSEUM 
 
 Uuring the period before 1892 
 when the Society was still a department of the Cleveland Library 
 Association its officers seem to have left to the Kirtland Society 
 the development of a museum. A few Indian relics, some historical 
 curiosities would drift in. Space for exhibition was very limited, 
 two or three cases, and even that dependent upon a prior claim for 
 the Library. In one room in the present Museum is a collection 
 of Indian relics, some of which are of the early years of the Society. 
 Other objectives — an historical library, the publication of papers 
 and the promotion of a series of lectures on historical subjects were 
 taken more seriously. Conditions for the development of a Museum 
 were only slightly better when the Society acquired the entire 
 Society for Savings building, or when it reached its next stage with 
 a new building at University Circle. In both buildings a portion 
 of the ground floor offered meager facilities for exhibitions, which 
 of course is the very essence of a museum service. A report by the 
 Society in 1907 enumerates some of the more important objects in 
 the Museum : relics of the homes of the early settlers of the Reserve; 
 instruments of Moses Cleaveland and the early surveyors; relics of 
 the aborigines picked up on the Western Reserve by the first 
 comers; war relics of the expeditions of Rogers, Bradstreet and 
 
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Bouquet; the campaign against the Indians; of the War of 1812, 
 the Civil War, the Spanish War; collections of anthropology, 
 gathered by citizens of the Western Reserve; coins, medals, paper 
 money, political badges, mementos; flags and implements of war 
 representing Ohio military life; articles deposited by civic and 
 patriotic organizations. It was typical of the development of all 
 museums of the United States that they grew like Topsy with a 
 purpose illy defined by those in control. 
 
 In spite of the discouraging situation at the University Circle 
 for the exhibition of museum objects and of the necessity of keeping 
 most such things in perpetual storage, rare gifts came. With an 
 appreciation of values in museums worthy of a P. T. Barnum, 
 President Liberty E. Holden while on a visit to Egypt secured a 
 mummy of a high priest of about 1600 B.C. in its original burial 
 case, and in 1902 formally presented it to the Society, to become 
 an object of perpetual interest. Mr. Cathcart's Shaker relics, 
 objects, furniture, collected from eighteen Shaker communities, 
 were presented in 1911, but they awaited the new day when they 
 would have a room to themselves. Similarly the remarkable 
 Mattoon M. Curtis collection of snuff boxes was given to the 
 Society to wait in storage until it would have a separate room. 
 William H. Hunt's fine collection of pre-Inca Peruvian pottery 
 came to the Society in the same waiting period. In 1929 Mrs. 
 Lillian Emerson Terry with fine faith in the future of the Society 
 presented the Franklin S. Terry World War Collection. Nela Park, 
 where it had been on exhibition, presented the equipment for 
 properly displaying this extensive collection of war relics, broad- 
 sides, cartoons, newspapers, books and pictures. Much of it finds a 
 proper place in the Library, but several rooms in the Hay-McKinney 
 house contain what the foresight of Mr. Terry brought together. 
 The Society seeks to duplicate this exhibition for the present World 
 War, and with experience should do more. The growing volume, 
 and the more valuable because more purposeful nature of the gifts, 
 challenged the Board of Trustees to give the Museum an oppor- 
 tunity to do for Cleveland what such organizations in Europe and 
 on the Atlantic seaboard have done for their people. 
 
 The answer came in 1938 with the purchase of the McKinney 
 house. An entire building, with large, well lighted rooms became 
 available. Such facilities were an assurance to all, past givers and 
 prospective ones, that what they had treasured but would require 
 a public trustee to care for, would serve their community well. On 
 entering the main hall, with exhibition rooms on the right and left, 
 
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The George W. Bierce Room of Washingtoniana. View of a case with objects from- 
 
 Washington s Times. 
 
 one will be impressed by the stairway, the product of the famous 
 wood carver and designer, John Herkomer. His portrait and kit 
 of tools are on the wall by the first landing. On the wall over the 
 fireplace is the original of the "Spirit of 76" by Archibald M. 
 Willard, and on the second floor other paintings by the same artist. 
 On the right is a very extensive exhibition of methods of home 
 lighting of other times, rare and almost exhaustive, presented to 
 the Society by George W. Bierce, one of the Society's Trustees and 
 a connoisseur of art and home decoration. On the wall are a few of 
 the more than one hundred Benjamin Franklin prints gathered by 
 Dr. H. K. Cushing. The room is appropriately called the Franklin 
 Room. On the left of the main hall is the George W. Bierce Wash- 
 ingtoniana, interesting for its many objects which were the personal 
 possessions of General and Mrs. Washington. 
 
 For lovers of beautiful china there are several cases in the hall, 
 one of blue Staffordshire, made in commemoration of Lafayette's 
 visit in 1824, and some miscellaneous objects from General Lafay- 
 ette's home, given by the President of the Society, Laurence H. 
 Norton. Another case of charming lustre ware was left to the 
 
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 A View in the David Z. Norton Napoleonic Collection. 
 
 Society in 1941 by the will of Mrs. William G. Pollock. From the 
 side hall you will enter the small suite occupied by the David Z. 
 Norton Napoleonic Collection, temporarily housed in its crowded 
 quarters, the gift of the three children of Mr. and Mrs. David Z. 
 Norton, Mrs. Fred R. White, Robert C. and Laurence H. Norton, 
 in memory of David Z. Norton, a trustee and benefactor in his 
 day. It is doubtful whether there have been brought together any- 
 where in the world, certainly not in the United States, as many 
 objects directly or indirectly connected with Napoleon's life as 
 there are here — pictures, furniture, objects of a personal nature, 
 documents, books in superb French bindings. Recently Mrs. F. F. 
 Prentiss has added a beautiful Vienna coffee set carried by Napoleon 
 
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A Lesson in Spinning. Class from Canterbury School, observing the spinning of flax. 
 
 on his campaigns. In the back hall, on the walls, is a remarkable 
 collection of paintings of early Cleveland from prints in the Society's 
 collections, the work of students of the School of Art, under the 
 supervision of Alfred Mewett. 
 
 On the second floor is the Hall of Busts, and the resting place of 
 the Egyptian mummy. To the left and off the back hall is the 
 William H. Hunt Peruvian room and a second room of Indian 
 relics. In the same suite is an Eskimo collection, bringing into the 
 group three types of Indian culture. At the western end of the 
 main hall on the second floor is the Mrs. William B. Sanders hat 
 collection, the gift of a Trustee, Harold T. Clark; costumes, many 
 the gift of Mrs. Fred R. White, others from Mrs. Harry Wheelock 
 King; a hat collection, the gift of Mrs. Charles W. Wason; and 
 other costumes by givers too many to enumerate here. In store 
 rooms on the third floor are costumes available for special exhibi- 
 tions from time to time. The costume collection is growing rapidly. 
 Passing around to the front rooms the exhibitions are more general, 
 objects connected with the Cleveland pioneers, a remarkable ex- 
 hibit of medical instruments, a room used for specialized loan 
 exhibits, changing each month. The last front room in this series is 
 devoted to objects from pioneer days in Ohio. In a small hall are 
 
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replicas of the pioneer log cabins of Lorenzo Carter, Job Stiles and 
 James Kingsbury, the earliest Cleveland homes. There follow the 
 M. M. Curtis collection of snuff boxes, the Wallace H. Cathcart 
 Shaker room, objects from the several Shaker communities of 
 America, and the children's room with dolls, games, books, furni- 
 ture, toys. The third floor is not open to the public, but it gives 
 the Society most valuable storage space for objects which will be 
 used in special exhibits. One large room contains over 700 portraits 
 of Clevelanders and early Cleveland pictures, neatly arranged in 
 cases and so indexed as to be easily obtained. 
 
 The basement is largely taken up with the several war exhibits, 
 the Civil War, the Spanish War, the Great War (the Terry collec- 
 tion), with the Tomlinson and Augustus ship models, and those of 
 other givers, and with miscellaneous tools and machines of early 
 Ohio days. 
 
 A general survey of the museum collections of the Society 
 should not omit the remarkable Harper house at Unionville, fully 
 equipped with all that a good home of Jackson's time possessed. 
 Not a thing seems to have been lost — not a rolling pin nor a hat 
 nor a chair. The family might return as nature started them and 
 set up living and housekeeping and hardly miss anything. And at 
 Mentor there is the Garfield log cabin of the President's childhood, 
 furnished as he would have seen it, and the fully furnished home of 
 his Presidential days. The Society possesses a wealth of materials 
 freely open to the public, evidences of the progress of civilized man. 
 
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WHAT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 MEANS TO GREATER CLEVELAND 
 
 Why have Americans been in the 
 habit of going abroad at every opportunity? Why, once abroad, 
 did they flock immediately around the art galleries, the general 
 museums, the libraries, the architectural monuments of European 
 cities? Why did every capital city, even provincial cities, in Eng- 
 land, France, Germany and Italy maintain these depositories for 
 the accumulated treasures of the past? That they were profitable 
 financially became evident to revenue seekers everywhere. But 
 Americans visited them for the satisfaction which came -from a 
 better understanding of history — the background of their own 
 history — for esthetic and professional reasons, for the pleasures 
 which came from a comparison of living conditions of successive 
 ages. The museums and libraries of Europe became, in short, a 
 part of the world's educational system. Teachers, to hold the 
 confidence of parents and students, were obliged to study abroad, 
 more or less. Just so, events of the day are emphasizing the im- 
 portance in the United States of preserving the full story of the 
 past in the form of books, manuscripts, pictures and other 
 relics of multiple forms. Intimations there are that none of us will 
 go to Europe again as we did formerly. But, whether or not, 
 America is culturally coming of age, as Europe had earlier. Those 
 who had gone abroad for inspiration and deeper knowledge may 
 have to depend in the future more on local resources. Moreover, 
 the masses in America never had the advantage of foreign travel. 
 They will rightly demand that American cities be provided with 
 cultural centers of the kind that made Europe attractive to the 
 fortunate classes that formed the annual pilgrimage abroad. Cul- 
 tural centers will maintain the morale of the whole people, will 
 inspire them to look ahead, will give them a better measure of 
 civilizations. City magistrates will discover that public halls and 
 auditoriums and beaches and parks are not the whole of a metro- 
 politan center. Museums of varied kinds, call them if you please 
 Museums of Art, of Natural History, of Health, of History as 
 
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Looking across the Library Court toward the Fountain. 
 
 Cleveland does, mark a more complete stage of civilization. Public 
 authorities will discover that they pay. Who would care to visit 
 London or Paris or Rome without the museums? They would 
 resemble Chicago or Detroit or Cleveland of a generation ago. Such 
 are the general reasons for a Historical Society. The founding 
 fathers in 1867 anticipated all this. They wrote in the 1850's of 
 a cultural center on Jefferson Avenue, College Avenue and Pro- 
 fessor Street. In the 1890's they had moved the center to Wade 
 Park. There are some special reasons, too, for this Society, reasons 
 inherent in the particular forms its collections have taken. 
 
 The Historical Society has become a part of the educational 
 system of Greater Cleveland. Children come with their teachers 
 from the schools by the thousands each year for a lesson in history, 
 made more realistic by the objects in the Museum. A preliminary 
 talk illustrated with Museum objects in a lecture room by a curator 
 starts the lesson. Then follows a tour of the Museum, using only 
 rooms with objects pertaining to the subject of the day — pioneer 
 methods of working or living, for example. After the tour a question 
 period in the lecture room summarizes the work and permits the 
 children to present any problems which are not clear. History 
 taught in that way becomes a living force in the children's lives. 
 Advanced students from the city's colleges and the University 
 visit the Museum for new points of view, and with the materials in 
 
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A Scene in the Gardens during the New England Society's Garden Party 
 
 May 23, 1942. 
 
 the Library carry forward work in the social sciences and history. 
 A day in the Museum may see an interior decorating class from 
 Mather College seeking illustrations of period furniture and decora- 
 tion; or an art class from the Cleveland School of Art for a study 
 of design; or a water color class from the same school, using the 
 Society's gardens for subject material. Classes from the Cleveland 
 Needlecraft Guild come to use the textiles or laces in costume 
 design; or from the high schools to use the costume collection in 
 the Museum and the costume books in the Library. Scholars from 
 abroad, amateur scholars from our midst, too, make use of the 
 Society's books, manuscripts, newspapers. One, for example, may 
 be studying the Shaker Music collection in preparing a thesis in 
 Music; another the newspapers for a History of the Theatre in 
 Cleveland a century ago; or a Professor may be working in the 
 Library on a History of Education in Ohio. The materials are 
 there. One is writing a biography of Joshua R. Giddings, quite a 
 figure in the Western Reserve before the Civil War; another the 
 life of John Sherman; and the newspapers and the manuscripts 
 contain the necessary sources. Another is going through certain 
 business records for the early history of the iron industry in Cleve- 
 land. In the genealogy reading room others will be at work on the 
 origin of some family in which they are interested. A lawyer may 
 be found tracing an early land title from the records of the Con- 
 
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The Garden and Reading Terrace, back of the Library. 
 
 necticut Land company which originally had title to all lands of 
 the Western Reserve except those of the Firelands. An officer of a 
 Baptist Church Association borrows the local church minutes in 
 order to secure evidence for a law suit involving property — prac- 
 tical and professional uses these all. 
 
 The Library and the Museum fill the needs of many kinds of 
 workers. The Society furnishes specialists to assist all kinds of 
 workers, and visitors as well. Visiting clubs may count on having a 
 guide. The Society provides educational exhibits for business or 
 professional organizations, or for patriotic societies. Its lecture 
 rooms are ideal spots for their meetings. More and more various 
 groups and societies use its other facilities for teas and other social 
 gatherings. The grounds will be opened for garden parties. The 
 Society seeks to make the buildings and grounds in many ways a 
 social and cultural center — a center of Americanization, for want of 
 a better word. It provides speakers for club groups and educational 
 organizations. Members of the staff are prepared to give counsel on 
 matters of historical interest, to give help to students carrying on 
 research, and advise as to the best historical works in any field of 
 American History. Much that is published as history or biography 
 fails to pass the tests of scholarship just as much that is written on 
 medicine or science is unworthy of the confidence of the reader. It 
 
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will be a pleasure for the staff if it may acquaint members of the 
 Society with the critical evaluations of new books which are pub- 
 lished in the scholarly journals to guide them in the purchase and 
 reading of the best in history and biography. The services of the 
 Society are, of course, free. There are no admission charges to 
 visitors to the Library or to the Museum. The Society is a public 
 institution. It is Cleveland's institution, supported by endowment in- 
 come and the subscriptions of more than 500 public spirited citizens. 
 
 A View Across the Court, in the rejr of the Museum. 
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WHO'S WHO 
 IN THE SOCIETY'S HISTORY 
 
 It is clear from the record that the 
 moving spirit in founding the Historical Society was Charles C. 
 Baldwin, a graduate of Wesleyan University, of the Harvard Law 
 School, a Cleveland attorney, later a judge of the Circuit Court of 
 Ohio, and at the time a trustee and vice-president of the Cleveland 
 Library Association. With him in the inner circle of organizers was 
 Colonel Charles Whittlesey, of a distinguished Ohio family, with a 
 reputation in military and legal affairs already established, and 
 therefore from the first the nominal head of the movement; and a 
 young Cleveland attorney, Alfred T. Goodman, a dynamic person- 
 ality, whose early death terminated a promising leadership of the 
 Society. Among those who constituted the membership within the 
 first year, the signers so to speak, were Joseph Perkins, Samuel 
 Williamson, for many years the Society's treasurer, Harvey Rice, 
 George Mygatt, Liberty E. Holden, Samuel Starkweather, and F. 
 M. Backus, all names well known in Cleveland history. Together 
 they constitute evidence that the new movement was deeply em- 
 bedded in the life of the community. John D. Rockefeller was a 
 Vice-President for many years and among the larger contributors 
 to the Society's early development. The earliest list of patrons, 
 that is the contributors to the early endowment funds, included 
 John F. Warner, a Cleveland business man, Leonard Case, by a 
 bequest about to cause a change in the name of the parent library 
 association, Joseph Perkins, banker and philanthropist, and William 
 J. Gordon, to be associated in the future with Gordon Park. Samuel 
 L. Mather was also associated with the supporters of the Society 
 at each call for aid. Few are the families distinguished in some 
 way with the history of Cleveland in the Nineteenth Century 
 that have not had some share in the history of the Society. 
 
 Colonel Whittlesey's death in 1886 brought to the Presidency 
 Judge Baldwin. President Baldwin steered the Society to its 
 independent status under a state charter in 1892 and its ownership 
 of a building of its own on Monumental Park. Henry C. Ranney, 
 
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an attorney, born of a Western Reserve family, reared in the at- 
 mosphere of the Giddings and the Wades at Jefferson, Ohio, suc- 
 ceeded Judge Baldwin in 1895. Ranney led the Society through the 
 transition from a home on the Square to another at University 
 Circle. Liberty E. Holden, owner and publisher of the Plain Dealer 
 was elected President in 1900, serving until 1907. From 1907 to 
 1913 Wallace H. Cathcart was President, though still carrying 
 heavy responsibilities with the Burrows Brothers. In 1913 when he 
 became Director of the Society, William P. Palmer, President of 
 the American Steel and Wire Mills, was elected President of the 
 Society. Through the tough years of the Great Depression, and 
 they were tough for the Society, Otto Miller, investment banker, 
 of the firm of Hayden, Miller and Company, was president, 1928-34. 
 Strangely enough from some points of view the late thirties proved 
 to be a time of great opportunities for the Society. In 1934 Laurence 
 H. Norton became President. With foresight, courage and the full 
 support of associates and friends he broke the spell which had 
 fallen over the Society during the depression. Step by step he led 
 it through new stages of corporate organization, through the difficult 
 financial problems involved in the transfer to the new properties 
 on East Boulevard, and into a larger sense of community service. 
 
 Embedded in the record of the Society's corporate organization, 
 the new homes, and the remarkable development of the Library 
 and the Museum is the part these leaders have had — but the 
 story is only partly told when it is broken down into presidencies. 
 There is the Board of Trustees, more or less a continuing body, 
 responsible in the last analysis for whatever is done. And back of 
 them is the large body of Members, Associates, Patrons, Fellows 
 and Benefactors, whose support makes possible the very existence 
 of such an organization. 
 
 The following Clevelanders have served as trustees in their 
 time, not including those on the Board at present: 
 Dr. Dudley P. Allen C. W. Bingham 
 
 Henry A. Allen William Bingham 
 
 John W. Allen George T. Bishop 
 
 Elroy M. Avery Wm. J. Boardman 
 
 Perry H. Babcock J. H. A. Bone 
 
 Charles C. Baldwin Chester C. Bolton, Jr. 
 
 D. C. Baldwin Miss Mary C. Brayton 
 
 S. Prentiss Baldwin A. T. Brewer 
 
 General James Barnett Sam Briggs 
 
 Levi F. Bauder Charles F. Brush 
 
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J. C. Buell 
 E. S. Burke, Jr. 
 H. M. Chapin 
 A. S. Chisholm 
 Willard M. Clapp 
 Stiles H. Curtiss 
 Henry G. Dalton 
 William G. Dietz 
 Dan P. Eells 
 Alfred T. Goodman 
 C. A. Grasselli 
 H. M. Hanna 
 Henry R. Hatch 
 Rutherford B. Hayes 
 Webb C. Hayes 
 G. E. Herrick 
 Peter M. Hitchcock 
 Liberty E. Holden 
 Henry N. Johnson 
 Ralph King 
 Lyman Little 
 Samuel Mather 
 Mrs. Alleyne Maynard 
 Price McKinney 
 David Z. Norton 
 Kenyon V. Painter 
 
 Wm. P. Palmer 
 Douglas Perkins 
 Henry B. Perkins 
 Jacob Perkins 
 Joseph Perkins 
 Francis F. Prentiss 
 Henry C. Ranney 
 Mrs. J. H. Sargent 
 M. B. Scott 
 John L. Severance 
 Chas. T. Sherman 
 Henry A. Smith 
 Ben A. Stannard 
 G. H. Stone 
 Ambrose Swasey 
 Charles F. Thwing 
 George A. Tisdale 
 George A. Tomlinson 
 Amos Townsend 
 M. J. Van Sweringen 
 O. P. Van Sweringen 
 Jeptha H. Wade, Jr. 
 Henry C. White 
 Mrs. George Willey 
 Samuel Williamson 
 Charles Whittlesey 
 Albert L. Withington 
 
 ROLL OF PAST BENEFACTORS, FELLOWS, PATRONS 
 
 ASSOCIATES AND LIFE MEMBERS 
 
 * * * 
 
 BENEFACTORS 
 
 Dudley P. Allen 
 Charles C. Baldwin 
 C. W. Bingham 
 Orlando J. Hodge 
 
 Ralph T. King 
 William P. Palmer 
 Ambrose Swasey 
 Jeptha H. Wade II 
 
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FELLOWS 
 
 S. Prentiss Baldwin 
 Samuel Mather 
 David Z. Norton 
 
 F. F. Prentiss 
 John D. Rockefeller 
 M. J. Van Sweringen 
 O. P. Van Sweringen 
 
 PATRONS 
 
 Perry H. Babcock 
 David C. Baldwin 
 Elbert Irving Baldwin 
 James Barnett 
 Chester C. Bolton 
 B. F. Bourne 
 Mrs. Mary S. Bradford 
 Alexander Brown 
 Stevenson Burke 
 Theodore E. Burton 
 Leonard Case 
 A. S. Chisholm 
 Mrs. Mary H. Chisholm 
 Mrs. Eliza Ann Clarke 
 Henry G. Dalton 
 J. H. Dempsey 
 Charles F. Glaser 
 Wm. J. Gordon 
 Truman P. Handy 
 D. R. Hanna 
 Edward S. Harkness 
 John Hay 
 Mrs. John Hay 
 Peter M. Hitchcock 
 James H. Hoyt 
 John Huntington 
 M. B. Johnson 
 Oliver G. Kent 
 
 Isaac Leisy 
 
 Price McKinney 
 
 Mrs. Flora Stone Mather 
 
 E. W. Ogleby 
 
 Samuel H. Parsons 
 
 Henry B. Payne 
 
 Douglas Perkins 
 
 Henry B. Perkins 
 
 Jacob B. Perkins 
 
 Joseph Perkins, Jr. 
 
 H. S. Pickands 
 
 James Pickands 
 
 Alfred A. Pope 
 
 Henry C. Ranney 
 
 R. R. Rhodes 
 
 John L. Severance 
 
 H. A. Sherwin 
 
 Mrs. Sophia Strong Taylor 
 
 George A. Tomlinson 
 
 Isaac N. Topliff 
 
 Amos Townsend 
 
 James J. Tracy 
 
 John F. Warner 
 
 Mary A. Warner 
 
 Thomas H. White 
 
 Mrs. Mary E. Whittlesey 
 
 John L. Woods 
 
 George H. Worthington 
 
 ASSOCIATES 
 
 M. Andrews 
 
 Elroy M. Avery 
 
 Mrs. Caroline P. Baldwin 
 
 David C. Baldwin 
 
 William Bingham 
 George T. Bishop 
 M. A. Bradley 
 Harvey H. Brown 
 
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ASSOCIATES {continued) 
 
 W. H. Caniff 
 Willard M. Clapp 
 Mrs. Maria B. Cobb 
 D. P. Eells 
 H. P. Eells 
 William J. Gordon 
 C. A. Grasselli 
 H. M. Hanna 
 Charles W. Harkness 
 
 Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness 
 
 W. L. Harkness 
 
 H. R. Hatch 
 
 L. E. Holden 
 
 O. H. Payne 
 
 Charles O. Scott 
 
 Mrs. Margarette Stone 
 
 Rollin C. White 
 
 William J. White 
 
 LIFE MEMBERS 
 
 Jarvis M. Adams 
 
 John W. Allen 
 
 M. Catherine Allen 
 
 Miss Sarah L. Andrews 
 
 Peter M. Arthur 
 
 Mrs. Brenton D. Babcock 
 
 Mrs. Lucy (Mygatt) Backus 
 
 Chambers Baird 
 
 Dudley Baldwin 
 
 John D. Baldwin 
 
 Norman C. Baldwin 
 
 Seymour Wesley Baldwin 
 
 Ohio C. Barber 
 
 Harley Barnes 
 
 Levi F. Bauder 
 
 Clifton R. Beach 
 
 Thomas S. Beckwith 
 
 Lucius B. Bierce 
 
 Frank Billings 
 
 Edward Bingham 
 
 Jesse P. Bishop 
 
 William K. Bixby 
 
 Henry C. Blossom 
 
 William J. Boardman 
 
 Ben P. Bole 
 
 E. H. Bourne 
 
 N. P. Bowler 
 
 W. W. Boynton 
 
 Mrs. S. A. Bradbury 
 
 Alvah Bradley 
 A. T. Brewer 
 Luther A. Brewer 
 O. A. Brooks 
 Fayette Brown 
 Arthur Bruce 
 John R. Buchtel 
 A. E. Buell 
 Charles H. Bulkley 
 Thomas Burnham 
 Jonathan F. Card 
 W. S. Chamberlain 
 Gertrude Rust Chandler 
 George N. Chandler 
 Herman M. Chapin 
 Oscar A. Childs 
 William Chisholm, Sr. 
 William Chisholm 
 Edward W. Claypole 
 Ahira Cobb 
 William C. Cochran 
 John L. Cole 
 William Collins 
 A. G. Colwell 
 Joseph Colwell 
 A. L. Conger 
 Mrs. W. H. Corning 
 Warren H. Corning 
 H. Colby 
 
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LIFE MEMBERS {continued) 
 
 David W. Cross 
 Stiles H. Curtiss 
 Kirtland K. Cutter 
 William M. Darlington 
 J. H. Devereaux 
 W. G. Dietz 
 Wilson S. Dodge 
 Lyman C. Draper 
 W. M. Duncan 
 A. M. Dyer 
 Harry R. Edwards 
 H. C. Ellison 
 George H. Ely 
 Heman Ely 
 John Erwin 
 A. W. Fairbanks 
 Harvey S. Firestone 
 William Perry Fogg 
 Manning F. Force 
 Mrs. Horatio Clark Ford 
 Julius E. French 
 H. A. Fuller 
 Samuel Augustus Fuller 
 James A. Garfield 
 Theodatus Garlick 
 George A. Garretson 
 Charles E. Gehring 
 James G. Gibbs 
 Charles Gordon 
 Eugene Grasselli 
 Irving Greenwood 
 E. S. Griffiths 
 Miss Linda T. Guilford 
 Cleveland C. Hale 
 John C. Hale 
 Orlando Hall 
 Leonard C. Hanna 
 Steven V. Harkness 
 H. A. Harvey 
 Mrs. P. W. Harvey 
 
 Rutherford B. Hayes 
 
 G. E. Herrick 
 
 Charles G. Hickox 
 
 Frank F. Hickox 
 
 Laura Hickox 
 
 Ralph W. Hickox 
 
 Addison Hills 
 
 Miss Mary Louise Hinsdale 
 
 Miss Mildred Hinsdale 
 
 Mrs. P. M. Hitchcock 
 
 Franklin B. Hough 
 
 Colgate Hoyt 
 
 George Hoyt 
 
 James M. Hoyt 
 
 J. L. Hudson 
 
 Mrs. Mary Ward Hunt 
 
 Mrs. Mariett L. Huntington 
 
 Miss Mary E. Ingersoll 
 
 Kent Jarvis, Jr. 
 
 Henry N. Johnson 
 
 M. M. Jones 
 
 Mrs. Frederick Judson 
 
 Myron R. Keith 
 
 Hermon A. Kelley 
 
 Horace Kelley 
 
 Thomas M. Kelley 
 
 Jared Potter Kirtland 
 
 Virgil P. Kline 
 
 William G. Lane 
 
 Increase A. Lapham 
 
 Benson G. Lossing 
 
 O. H. Marshall 
 
 David Meade Massie 
 
 Samuel H. Mather 
 
 Samuel L. Mather 
 
 Herbert McBride 
 
 John Harris McBride 
 
 Leander McBride 
 
 Philip R. McCurdy 
 
 Lewis Miller 
 
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LIFE MEMBERS {continued) 
 
 William C. Mills 
 James Monroe 
 E. W. Moore 
 Edmund P. Morgan 
 George W. Morgan 
 William J. Morgan 
 Mrs. Gouverneur Morris 
 Mrs. Seville H. Morse 
 George Mygatt 
 Eben Newton 
 William S. C. Otis 
 George W. Pack 
 
 E. S. Page 
 Chas. Paine 
 
 Mrs. William P. Palmer 
 Eugene H. Perdue 
 Edwin R. Perkins 
 Frederick W. Perkins 
 George T. Perkins 
 Joseph Perkins 
 L. Lewis Perkins 
 Mrs. Mary B. S. Pollock 
 William A. Price 
 William H. Price, Jr. 
 
 F. W. Putnam 
 Rufus P. Ranney 
 Miss Eva L. Reefy 
 Harvey Rice 
 Percy W. Rice 
 
 Mrs. Maria D. Rives 
 
 George F. Robinson 
 
 Henry C. Rouse 
 
 James F. Ryder 
 
 J. H. Salisbury 
 
 J. H. Sanders 
 
 John H. Sargent 
 
 John P. Sawyer 
 
 Mrs. Mary Baldwin Sawyer 
 
 Leonard Schlather 
 
 Ferdinand Schumacher 
 
 George J. Schwartz 
 
 George F. Scofield 
 
 W. C. Scofield 
 
 John F. Seiberling 
 
 Samuel W. Sessions 
 
 Louis H. Severance 
 
 John Sherwin 
 
 Ernest J. Siller 
 
 Stiles C. Smith 
 
 William H. Smith 
 
 Oliver M. Stafford 
 
 Mrs. F. W. Stecher 
 
 Silas M. Stone 
 
 Worthy S. Streator 
 
 Daniel R. Taylor 
 
 Robert W. Taylor 
 
 Henry B. Thompson 
 
 Charles F. Thwing 
 
 John Tod 
 
 Norton S. Townsend 
 
 Lyman H. Tread way 
 
 H. B. Tuttle 
 
 Mrs. Mary McArthur Tuttle 
 
 Washington S. Tyler 
 
 Jeptha H. Wade, I. 
 
 Randall P. Wade 
 
 Miss Ann Walworth 
 
 Miss Sarah Walworth 
 
 W. R. Warner 
 
 Horace P. Weddell 
 
 E. L. Whittemore 
 
 Charles Whittlesey 
 
 George Willey 
 
 E. M. Williams 
 
 Mrs. J. D. Williamson 
 
 Samuel E. Williamson 
 
 Edwin N. Winslow 
 
 Joseph Worden 
 
 G. Frederick Wright 
 
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THE SOCIETY'S MEMBERS AS OF JUNE, 1942 
 
 SUSTAINING MEMBERS 
 
 Mrs. Matthew Andrews 
 
 Fred P. Auxer 
 
 J. Burton Ayres 
 
 A. D. Baldwin 
 
 C. W. Blossom 
 
 James A. Bohannon 
 
 Mrs. B. P. Bole 
 
 Mrs. Frances P. Bolton* 
 
 Irving C. Bolton 
 
 Julian C. Bolton 
 
 John J. Boyle 
 
 Mrs. Alexander C. Brown 
 
 Alexander C. Brown f 
 
 E. S. Burke, Jr. J 
 
 Eckstein Case 
 
 Harold T. Clark 
 
 Sidney B. Congdon 
 
 G. W. Cottrell 
 
 Jacob D. Cox 
 
 S. H. Cox 
 
 E. G. Crawford 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Alton F. Davis 
 
 Edwin A. Dodd 
 
 Mrs. Francis E. Drury 
 
 Brooks Emeny 
 
 Mrs. S. Homer Everett 
 
 G. W. Grandin 
 
 Edward Grasselli 
 
 Mrs. E. R. Grasselli 
 
 E. B. Greene 
 
 Mrs. E. B. Greene! 
 
 George Gund 
 
 H. M. Hanna, Jr.f 
 
 Mrs. Gertrude H. Haskell 
 
 John H. Hordt 
 
 Mrs. A. S. Ingalls 
 
 Mrs. David S. Ingalls 
 
 H. H. JohnsonJ 
 
 Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride 
 
 George A. Martin 
 
 Mrs. Jessie Carter Martin 
 
 William G. Mather* 
 
 Mrs. Jessie W. Mercer 
 
 Mrs. J. Cox Morrill 
 
 James L. Myers 
 
 Laurence H. Norton* 
 
 Robert C. Norton* 
 
 Ralph Perkins 
 
 Henry F. Pope 
 
 Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss* 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Schmitt 
 
 Dr. Robert M. Stecher 
 
 Frederick C. Sterling 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Stone 
 
 Herman L. Vail 
 
 Mrs. Fred R. White* 
 
 Miss Mary Caroline White 
 
 Roland W. White 
 
 ASSOCIATES 
 
 Mrs. Frank Billings 
 
 E. S. Burke, Jr. 
 
 A. C. Ernst 
 
 Mrs. Edward B. Greene § 
 
 John H. Hord§ 
 
 H. H. Johnson § 
 Mrs. Harry D. Norvell 
 Mrs. R. H. Norweb 
 G. Garretson Wade 
 Rollin H. White 
 
 (Also a Benefactor) f — (Also a Life Member) % — (Also an Associate Member) 
 
 • — (Also a Patron) § — (Also a Sustaining Member) 
 
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PATRONS 
 
 Mrs. Lilian Hanna Baldwin 
 George W. Bierce 
 Wallace H. Cathcart 
 Cyrus S. Eaton 
 Abram Garfield 
 Harry A. Garfield 
 Irvin McDowell Garfield 
 James R. Garfield 
 Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.f 
 
 Mrs. Parmely Herrick 
 
 Parmely Herrick, Jr. 
 
 William H. Hunt 
 
 William G. Mather § 
 
 Otto Miller 
 
 Mrs. Joseph Stanley-Brown 
 
 Mrs. Corliss E. Sullivan 
 
 Mrs. J. J. Tracy 
 
 Mrs. Windsor T. White 
 
 Windsor T. White 
 
 BENEFACTORS 
 Harry Payne Bingham Laurence H. Norton § 
 
 William Bingham II Robert C. Norton § 
 
 Mrs. Dudley S. Blossom Mrs. F. F. Prentiss § 
 
 Mrs. Chester C. Bolton § Mrs. Lillian E. Terry 
 
 Mrs. Fred R. White § 
 
 LIFE 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Allen 
 
 George H. Beckwith 
 
 Elbert J. Benton 
 
 Newell C. Bolton 
 
 Henry E. Bourne 
 
 Alva Bradley 
 
 W. J. Brodie 
 
 Alexander C. Brown § 
 
 Mrs. Adele C. Chisholm 
 
 Arthur H. Clark 
 
 Harold T. Clark § 
 
 Henry W. Corning 
 
 Dr. George W. Crile 
 
 Mrs. Frank B. Dangler 
 
 Winchester Fitch 
 
 Mrs. Horatio Ford 
 
 Harry A. Garfield 
 
 Kermode F. Gill 
 
 Salmon P. Halle 
 
 H. M. Hanna, Jr. § 
 
 Fitch Haskell 
 
 Edward Howard 
 
 t — (Also a Life Member) 
 
 MEMBERS 
 
 W. D. Howells, Jr. 
 
 Elton Hoyt, II 
 
 Kent Jarvis, Jr. 
 
 Mrs. Hermon A. Kelley 
 
 Mrs. John S. Manuel 
 
 Mrs. B. L. Millikin 
 
 Miss Mary L. Morse 
 
 D. W. Myers 
 
 Eldress Emma Neale 
 
 John C. Pearson 
 
 Mrs. Claiborne Pirtle 
 
 Mrs. W. B. Rawson 
 
 Rollin T. Reefy 
 
 Frederick P. Root 
 
 Charles Baldwin Sawyer 
 
 David Pascal Sawyer 
 
 Dr. John Pascal Sawyer 
 
 Miss Mary H. Severance 
 
 Henry S. Sherman 
 
 Dr. Frederick K. Smith 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Strong 
 
 Mrs. Frank E. Taplin 
 
 § — (Also a Sustaining Member) 
 
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ANNUAL MEMBERS 
 
 Gardner Abbott 
 
 Mrs. Henry S. Abbott 
 
 W. S. Adams 
 
 George W. Andrews 
 
 Mrs. Horace Andrews 
 
 Sam B. Anson 
 
 Charles K. Arter 
 
 Ellsworth Augustus 
 
 Mrs. Wilbert J. Austin 
 
 A. Z. Baker 
 
 Robert E. Baker 
 
 Walter C. Baker 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Baldwin 
 
 Clare Walker Banta 
 
 Harold J. Barber 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Barkwill 
 
 Miss Lucy Barkwill 
 
 Amos N. Barron 
 
 T. C. Barrow 
 
 Mrs. Glen Bartshe 
 
 E. S. Bassett 
 
 Mrs. Myron E. Battles 
 
 William Bauer 
 
 W. I. Beam 
 
 Mrs. George Henry Beaumont 
 
 Mrs. William P. Belden 
 
 Miss Maude K. Bell 
 
 Paul Bellamy 
 
 George H. Bender, M.C. 
 
 G. D. Benes 
 
 Hubert D. Bennett 
 
 George P. Bickford 
 
 Mrs. Warren Bicknell 
 
 Warren Bicknell, Jr. 
 
 Hamilton F. Biggar 
 
 Louis S. Bing, Jr. 
 
 Robert F. Bingham 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bishop 
 
 Ernest J. Bohn 
 
 W. Birt Boom 
 
 Mrs. Walter S. Bowler 
 
 C. L. Bradley 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Brailey 
 
 Judge and Mrs. Nelson J. Brewer 
 
 Brigham Britton 
 
 Mrs. Chester K. Brooks 
 
 James C. Brooks 
 
 Mrs. Oliver K. Brooks 
 
 Fayette Brown 
 
 Harvey H. Brown, Jr. 
 
 Percy W. Brown 
 
 Dr. Abram B. Bruner 
 
 Dr. William Evans Bruner 
 
 Frank E. Bubna 
 
 Robert J. Bulkley 
 
 Dr. Alexander T. Bunts 
 
 Harry F. Burmester 
 
 Miss Elizabeth A. Burton 
 
 Robert M. Calfee 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Calhoun, Jr. 
 
 Joseph Carabelli 
 
 Mrs. Tyler W. Carlisle 
 
 George S. Case 
 
 Mrs. William T. Cashman 
 
 William Pomeroy Champney, Jr. 
 
 F. C. Chandler 
 
 John C. Chandler 
 
 Mrs. Laura Brown Chisholm 
 
 William Chisholm II 
 
 Mrs. Wilson B. Chisholm 
 
 Henry Hunt Clark 
 
 Robert H. Clark 
 
 Norris J. Clark 
 
 Cleveland Colony of Mayflower 
 
 Descendants 
 Mrs. J. D. Climo 
 Philip H. Coad 
 Mrs. A. B. Coates 
 Carl B. Cobb 
 Mrs. Louise B. Cobb 
 
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ANNUAL MEMBERS {continued) 
 
 J. Edward Cochran 
 
 Mrs. Bessie Champney Cole 
 
 Dr. H. N. Cole 
 
 Clarence L. Collens 
 
 Mrs. Charles A. Collins 
 
 William Collins 
 
 Mrs. Clucas Collister 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. George M. Comte 
 
 Paul B. Condit 
 
 Guy E. Conkey 
 
 W. C. Connelly 
 
 Dr. Wm. T. Corlett 
 
 Oscar Cox 
 
 Frederick C. Crawford 
 
 H. J. Crawford 
 
 Mrs. Harris Creech 
 
 J. S. Crider 
 
 Robert Crosser, M.C. 
 
 Benedict Crowell 
 
 Louis D. Cull 
 
 John F. Curry 
 
 Henry S. Curtiss 
 
 Mrs. Edward F. Cushing 
 
 Dr. E. H. Cushing 
 
 Miss Annie Spencer Cutter 
 
 W. A. Daley 
 
 Edward C. Daoust 
 
 N. L. Dauby 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. Davis 
 
 Charles G. Dawes 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. W. Dawson 
 
 Luther Day 
 
 John Q. DeKlyn 
 
 John DeMooy 
 
 Ernest C. Dempsey 
 
 John B. Dempsey 
 
 Robert F. Denison 
 
 Mrs. H. K. Devereaux 
 
 Howard Dingle 
 
 C. A. Donley 
 Spencer M. Duty 
 Miss Linda A. Eastman 
 J. O. Eaton 
 Richard T. Edison 
 Miss Harriet S. Eells 
 Mrs. H. P. Eells 
 Sam W. Emerson 
 Roscoe M. Ewing 
 William Feather 
 Walter S. Finley 
 John S. Fleek 
 Mrs. Preston Floyd 
 Daniel B. Ford 
 Mrs. George W. Ford 
 Mrs. James A. Ford 
 Mervin B. France 
 I. T. Frary 
 Harley L. Freeman 
 I. F. Freiberger 
 Carl D. Friebolin 
 Mrs. Ralph L. Fuller 
 C. C. Gale 
 Michael Gallagher 
 Abram Garfield^ 
 George E. Garretson 
 Hiram Garretson 
 Ray S. Gehr 
 Dr. James V. Gentilly 
 W. H. Gerhauser 
 Dr. H. J. Gerstenberger 
 Mrs. Frank R. Gilchrist 
 Donald B. Gillies 
 Mrs. Fred H. Goff 
 George C. Gordon 
 Joseph F. Gorman 
 Mrs. George W. Grandin 
 Miss Josephine Grasselli 
 Frederick W. Green 
 
 • — (Also a Patron) 
 
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ANNUAL MEMBERS {continued) 
 
 Mrs. David E. Green 
 Wm. M. Gregory 
 Robert Hays Gries 
 David C. Griese 
 Mrs. George C. Groll 
 John J. Gund 
 Mrs. John A. Hadden 
 Edgar A. Hahn 
 Samuel H. Halle 
 Carl H. Hanna 
 
 D. R. Hanna, Jr. 
 Col. D. J. Hard 
 Frank Harrison 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Harvey 
 Francis H. Haserot 
 Henry R. Hatch 
 
 E. F. Hauserman 
 Mrs. Emma B. Hawley 
 Mrs. Warren S. Hayden 
 W. Howard Haynes 
 Judge F. A. Henry 
 
 Dr. F. C. Herrick 
 
 Charles N. Hickok 
 
 Mrs. Charles G. Hickox 
 
 Dr. Walter C. Hill 
 
 Charles P. Hine 
 
 C. W. Hitchcock 
 
 Mrs. Reuben Hitchcock 
 
 H. Morley Hitchcock 
 
 Mrs. Lawrence Hitchcock 
 
 W. T. Holliday 
 
 H. William Holsinger 
 
 Mrs. Charles F. Hoover 
 
 W. R. Hopkins 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Clinton M. Horn 
 
 A. R. Horr 
 
 Allen C. House 
 
 Robert Housum 
 
 Nathaniel R. Howard 
 
 Gen. Charles Roscoe Howland 
 
 Paul Howland 
 
 Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes 
 
 Mrs. B. W. Huling 
 
 Miss Grace Hunter 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Husband 
 
 A. S. Ingalls 
 David S. Ingalls 
 H. L. Ingersoll 
 
 Miss Elisabeth Ireland 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. R. Livingston 
 
 Ireland, Jr. 
 Walter J. James 
 
 B. L. Jenks 
 
 I. L. Jennings 
 
 David L. Johnson 
 
 J. C. Jones 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Jontzen 
 
 Adrian D. Joyce 
 
 I. Theodore Kahn 
 
 Dr. Howard T. Karsner 
 
 George F. Kast 
 
 Miss Flora G. Kaufholz 
 
 Mrs. George W. Keim 
 
 Charles H. Kellstadt 
 
 George S. Kendrick 
 
 Wm. C. Keough 
 
 Morgan S. Ketchum 
 
 Ralph T. King 
 
 Woods King 
 
 George R. Klein 
 
 Thomas A. Knight 
 
 Mrs. Earl J. Knittle 
 
 Mrs. Josephine B. Kohler 
 
 Richard H. Kohn 
 
 Dr. E. J. Kuhlow 
 
 Charles H. Lake 
 
 Mrs. George R. Lamb 
 
 Jacob Laub 
 
 Frank J. Lausche 
 
 Dr. Clarence L. Law 
 
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ANNUAL MEMBERS (continued) 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Lenhart 
 
 Mrs. Ernest P. Lenihan 
 
 Dr. W. G. Leutner 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Loomis 
 
 John W. Love 
 
 Howard V. Luce 
 
 Donald F. Lybarger 
 
 Mrs. H. D. Marble 
 
 Mrs. Donald McBride 
 
 Charles F. McCahill 
 
 Miss Margaret McCarrens 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. A. A. McCaslin 
 
 C. C. McConkie 
 
 W. B. McDiarmid 
 
 J. C. McHannan 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. D. McGwin 
 
 Miss Ida P. McKean 
 
 John O. McWilliams 
 
 G. G. Marshall 
 
 Mrs. Selma K. Maschke 
 
 Philip R. Mather 
 
 S. Livingston Mather 
 
 Margaret K. Means 
 
 J. G. Meilink 
 
 J. W. Meriam 
 
 Wm. J. Mericka 
 
 Walter C. Merrick 
 
 George E. Merryweather 
 
 Clarence S. Metcalf 
 
 Mrs. Frederick Metcalf 
 
 Wm. M. Milliken 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte B. Morgan 
 
 Daniel E. Morgan 
 
 C. R. Morley 
 
 J. E. Morley 
 
 Louis A. Moses 
 
 Dr. F. S. Mowry 
 
 Ralph S. Mueller 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Munro 
 
 Maynard H. Murch 
 
 Mrs. Carl Narten 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Nash 
 
 Herman R. Neff 
 
 John E. Newell 
 
 Charles A. Nicola 
 
 J. R. Nutt 
 
 H. K. Oakes 
 
 M. F. O'Donnell 
 
 Crispin Oglebay 
 
 H. C. Osborn 
 
 Charles A. Otis 
 
 Misses Frances L. and 
 
 Grace L. Oviatt 
 H. D. Pallister 
 Wm. P. Palmer, Jr. 
 Miss Marion A. Parsons 
 Proctor Patterson 
 Thomas F. Patton 
 Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Payer 
 G. G. G. Peckham 
 Frank H. Pelton 
 Robert H. Perdue 
 Frederick Douglas Perkins 
 True Perkins 
 Drake T. Perry 
 Dr. A. Peskind 
 Harry A. Peters 
 E. A. Petrequin 
 R. G. A. Phillips 
 Mrs. Atlee Pomerene 
 Col. and Mrs. Daniel H. Pond 
 O. W. Prescott 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Vernon H. Pribble 
 Frank A. Quail 
 Mrs. Emma S. Raymond 
 Mrs. Walter J. Rich 
 G. Carlton Robinson 
 W. L. Robison 
 Mrs. Dawn W. Robinette 
 Miss Alice M. Rockefeller 
 
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ANNUAL MEMBERS {continued) 
 
 William Ganson Rose 
 
 Mrs. George T. Rowe 
 
 Albert W. Russel 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Schaefer 
 
 H. V. Schiefer 
 
 Mrs. Leonard Schlather 
 
 A. E. R. Schneider 
 
 George G. Schuele 
 
 Miss Harriet Scofield 
 
 Frank A. Scott 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Scott 
 
 Samuel Scovil 
 
 Warner Seeley 
 
 A. H. Seibig ' 
 
 C. W. Sellers 
 
 Louis B. Seltzer 
 
 Mrs. Belden Seymour 
 
 Lewis M. Shafer 
 
 A. H. Shaw 
 
 Mrs. Charles J. Sheffield 
 
 Henry E. Sheffield 
 
 Miss Belle Sherwin 
 
 Francis M. Sherwin 
 
 John Sherwin, Jr. 
 
 Charles E. Sniffer 
 
 Mrs. Asa Shiverick 
 
 Thomas L. Sidlo 
 
 Edward Smith 
 
 Franklin G. Smith 
 
 James A. Smith 
 
 Mrs. Samuel Lewis Smith 
 
 Mrs. H. F. Staples 
 
 Mrs. Frank B. Stearns 
 
 Dr. John Franklin Stephan 
 
 Ralph Stickle 
 
 Charles J. Stillwell 
 
 W. A. Stinchcomb 
 
 Mrs. Herbert W. Strong 
 
 Mrs. Samuel E. Strong 
 
 Mrs. F. L. Swetland 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Sykes 
 
 A. S. Taylor 
 Mrs. Frank Teagle 
 Mrs. Grace D. Terry 
 Amos Burt Thompson 
 Carmi A. Thompson 
 Mrs. Lyman H. Tread way 
 Lyman H. Tread way 
 
 B. C. Tucker 
 Robert B. Tuns tall 
 Mrs. Harry L. Vail 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Van Aken 
 
 Thomas F. Veach 
 
 Raymond C. Vietzen 
 
 John C. Virden 
 
 W. G. Vorpe 
 
 Ernest N. Wagley 
 
 Dr. Frederick C. Waite 
 
 F. R. Walker 
 
 Mrs. Albert R. Warner 
 
 J. W. Warwick 
 
 Mrs. Charles W. Wason 
 
 Robert A. Weaver 
 
 Abner G. Webb 
 
 George D. Webster 
 
 Leo Weidenthal 
 
 Reverend F. E. Wei fie 
 
 J. H. White. 
 
 Mrs. Philip T. White 
 
 Mrs. Walter C. White 
 
 Mrs. John F. Whitelaw 
 
 K. B. Wick 
 
 Mrs. H. H. Wilcox 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Goodyear 
 
 Wild 
 Judge and Mrs. Robt. N. Wilkin 
 Dr. Ernest H. Wilkins 
 F. F. Wilkison 
 Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Wiley- 
 Mrs. E. M. Williams 
 
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ANNUAL MEMBERS (continued) 
 
 Mrs. L. B. Williams Dr. Louis Clinton Wright 
 
 Arthur P. Williamson Mr. and Mrs. George B. Young 
 
 Ruth Ely Williamson Stephen M. Young, M.C. 
 
 Hamilton Wilson Mrs. W. Denton Young 
 
 Myron H. Wilson W. W. Young 
 
 Sidney S. Wilson Dean Zimmerman 
 
 Samuel D. Wise Jerry R. Zmunt 
 
 Charles A. Wolslagel Charles L. Zorbaugh 
 
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OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES FOR 1942 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 President Laurence H. Norton 
 
 Vice-President and Director Wallace H. Cathcart 
 
 Secretary Elbert J. Benton 
 
 Treasurer Julian C. Bolton 
 
 Field Secretary Thomas A. Knight 
 
 Assistant Treasurer Harry O. Adkins 
 
 TRUSTEES 
 
 Elbert J. Benton 
 George W. Bierce 
 Julian C. Bolton 
 Alexander C. Brown 
 Wallace H. Cathcart 
 Harold T. Clark 
 Jacob D. Cox 
 Edward H. Cushing 
 John B. Dempsey 
 James R. Garfield 
 Hiram Garretson 
 Edward Grasselli 
 
 Sidney S. 
 
 Charles N. Hickok 
 Elton Hoyt II 
 Wm. G. Mather 
 Otto Miller 
 Laurence H. Norton 
 Robert C. Norton 
 Ralph Perkins 
 Frank A. Scott 
 Henry S. Sherman 
 Herman L. Vail 
 G. Garretson Wade 
 Frederick C. Waite 
 Wilson 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 Herman L. Vail, Chairman 
 
 Elbert J. Benton 
 George W. Bierce 
 Julian C. Bolton 
 
 Wallace H. Cathcart 
 Dr. E. H. Cushing 
 Hiram Garretson 
 Laurence H. Norton 
 
 
 FINANCE COMMITTEE 
 
 Laurence H. Norton, Chairman 
 
 Julian C. Bolton 
 Wallace H. Cathcart 
 James R. Garfield 
 
 Otto Miller 
 Henry S. Sherman 
 Frank A. Scott 
 
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THE PERSONNEL OF THE OFFICES 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 Louise Oelschlager Secretary, Admissions and Memberships 
 
 Margaret Dempster Librarian 
 
 Mary Ruth Russell Assistant to the Director 
 
 Mrs. Edith Sherman Reference Librarian 
 
 {Genealogy and Vital Statistics) 
 
 Joseph Adams Newspaper Division 
 
 Joseph Nugent Custodian 
 
 MUSEUM 
 
 Mrs. Alberta Thorne Daywalt Curator 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor Stratton Assistant Curator 
 
 Roy Hulsebus Guard 
 
 Clarence Krause Guard 
 
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