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STOCK EQUIPMENT, a world leader in the design and building of bulk material flow-control equipment for the power and energy industry, was founded by Arthur J. Stock on 1 Oct. 1929. Stock, a mechanical engineer, secured patents for a distributor for use in stoker-fired boilers and he formed Stock Equipment to provide products for stoker-fired coal applications.

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STOCKYARDS is a neighborhood and statistical planning area on Cleveland's West Side. It is located between I-71 to the south, roughly Ridge Road to the west, West 44th Street to the east, and just south of I-90 to the north.

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STOKES, CARL B. (21 June 1927-3 April 1996) became the first AFRICAN-AMERICAN mayor of a major U.S. city when he was elected mayor of Cleveland in November 1967. He later became a news anchorman, judge, and a United States Ambassador.

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STOKES, LOUIS (23 Feb. 1925-18 Aug. 2015) was a prominent attorney and the first AFRICAN-AMERICAN congressman from Ohio when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968, a position he held for 15 consecutive terms.

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STONE, AMASA (27 Apr. 1818-11 May 1883) was a contractor, RAILROAD manager, financier, and philanthropist, born in Charlton, Mass. to Amasa and Esther (Boyden) Stone. He apprenticed in construction, and worked with his brother-in-law Wm.

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STONE, IRVING I. (5 Apr. 1909-17 Jan. 2000) was the founding chairman of AMERICAN GREETINGS CORP. who transformed a family business into a Fortune 300 company. Stone was born in Cleveland to Jennie (Kantor) and JACOB J. SAPIRSTEIN, who started the Sapirstein Greeting Card Company.

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STONE, MORRIS SAMUEL (15 March 1911-23 June 1989) was an executive at the AMERICAN GREETINGS CORP. who, along with his father (company founder, 1906) and two brothers, helped build American Greetings into the world's largest manufacturer of greeting cards and related products.

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STONE, SILAS SAFFORD (13 Feb. 1815-18 Feb. 1884), real estate dealer, leased property to the U.S. government for military use during the CIVIL WAR.

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STONEWALL CLEVELAND was a gay civil rights organization established in April, 1990 that operated through 1992 with the purpose of serving as the political voice of the lesbian and gay community in Northeastern Ohio.

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STORM, ROSA (18 July 1791-3 May 1867), doctor and an advocate of homeopathic medicine, was born in Coxsackie, N.Y. to Isaac and Agnes Storm. He attended and later taught at the village school; at age 22 began studying medicine under local doctors; and in 1816 received a license to practice from the Medical Society of Seneca County, N.Y.

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STOUFFER FOODS is a Cleveland-based corporation whose operations include a nationwide chain of restaurants, motor inns, frozen prepared foods, and food-service management. Stouffer's began in 1922 as a stand-up milk counter in the ARCADE, owned and operated by ABRAHAM E. AND LENA M. (BIGELOW) STOUFFER.

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STOUFFER, ABRAHAM E. (7 July 1875-16 Oct. 1936) and STOUFFER, LENA MAHALA (BIGELOW) (June 1880-8 Oct. 1953) were founders of the Stouffer restaurant chain. Abraham was born on a farm in Columbiana County, the son of James B. and Sarah Busbey Stouffer and received his education in public grade schools. Lena, the daughter of Orrin and Della M.

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STOUT AIR SERVICES, INC. was an early airline that provided transportation between Detroit and Cleveland in the late 1920s and 1930. The service was initiated by Wm. B. Stout, an engineer, a designer of toys, motorcycles, and automobiles, and an assoc. editor of Henry Ford.

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STOW, JOSHUA (1762-1842), an original shareholder in the CONNECTICUT LAND CO., who accompanied MOSES CLEAVELAND and later helped develop land in Summit County, was born in Middlefield, Conn.

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STRASSMEYER, MARY A. (5 Aug. 1929-20 April 1998) was a PLAIN DEALER reporter who wrote the widely read column, "Mary, Mary" and covered Cleveland's high society for 32 years. She was born in the OLD BROOKLYN section of Cleveland to Catherine A. (Mullally) and Frederick H. Strassmeyer, a furniture salesman.

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STRATEGIC HEALTH SYSTEMS. See MERIDIA HEALTH SYSTEM.


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STREET LIGHTING. In 1846 the Cleveland Gas Light & Coke Co. was organized, spelling the end for oil-fired lamps, which were noted by publications of the time to be in for their "final trimming." However, little real progress was made with gas development until the end of the decade, when the gas manufacturing company acquired new management.

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Cleveland's STREET NAMES historically denoted famous persons, Native American words or names, or regional geographic entities to mark routes, thoroughfares, and residential avenues. Examples include St. Clair Ave., named for Northwest Territory governor Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818), and the many downtown streets representing the Great Lakes, such as Erie St. (E. 9th), Superior Ave., Ontario Ave., and Huron Rd. Michigan Ave.

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STREET RAILWAYS. See URBAN TRANSPORTATION.


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The STREETCAR STRIKE OF 1899 began on 10 June 1899. Over 850 employees of the Big Consolidated Line of the CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. voted to strike for better wages and working conditions and union recognition.

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STREETS. In 1796 AMOS SPAFFORD and SETH PEASE plotted the first lots in the early "walking city" of Cleveland, with town lots west of Erie (E. 9th) St., 10-acre lots eastward to Willson (E. 55th) St., then 100-acre lots. Three main thoroughfares existed: the North Hwy. (St. Clair), Center Hwy. (Euclid), and South Hwy.

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STREIBLER, MARTIN (10 Feb. 1825-14 May 1864), a sergeant in Co.

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STRICKLAND, BENJAMIN (27 July 1810-21 Feb. 1889), Cleveland's first permanent dentist, was born in Montpelier, Vt., son of Benjamin Strickland. He received an M.D. degree from an eastern school, and practiced medicine for a short time before coming to Cleveland in 1835. He opened an office in the Central Bldg.

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STRIEBINGER, FREDERIC WILLIAM (22 Apr. 1870-30 Sept. 1941), an architect active in Cleveland from 1898-1940, was born in Cleveland to Martin and Anna Raparlie Striebinger, attended CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS until 1888, studied painting for 1 year with Wm.

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STRONG, ELEANOR PAINTER (12 Sept. 1891-3 Nov. 1947), singer, actress and author, settled in Cleveland after a 19-year career as an operetta star. Strong was born in Walkerville, IA. She spent part of her childhood in Colorado and later went to New York City to become a singer. She studied singing in Berlin, Germany (1912) and sang in Covent Garden in London the next year.

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STRONGSVILLE is a Cleveland suburb in the southwestern corner of Cuyahoga County.

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STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (SDS) of Cleveland, founded in the summer of 1964 as the Cleveland Community Project, was part of a national organization of radical college students attempting to build a new, broad-based political left. SDS's local work laid the foundation for the Cleveland Welfare Rights Movement and helped train local grass-roots leaders.

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STUPKA, LADDIE (4 March 1878-20 Feb. 1946), a peacetime recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for service in the United States Navy, was a native of Cleveland, Ohio, originally enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1899 at New York. Stupka was serving as a Fireman, 1st Class aboard the USS Leyden when the Civil War-vintage vessel foundered in a heavy fog off the coast of Rhode Island and sank 21 Jan.

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STURMAN, REUBEN (16 Aug. 1924-27 Oct. 1997) controlled a pornography empire that originated in Cleveland and included businesses in Nevada and California.

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SUBURBAN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. See SOUTH POINTE HOSPITAL.


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The SUBURBAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is made up of people from all walks of life who have blended their common hobby of music into a viable community experience. Its membership ranges from music professionals in nonperforming areas such as music therapy and teaching, to architects, doctors, businessmen, and others sharing a common avocation for classical music.

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SUBURBS. The history of suburban development is long and complex.

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WILLIAM SUDECK (1/26/1927-10/9/2000), known as "Bill," was a star basketball player at Kent State University and the coach of the basketball, track, and cross-country teams at the Case Institute of Technology.

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SULLIVAN, JEREMIAH J. (16 Nov. 1844-2 Feb. 1922), businessman and banker, was born in Ireland to Jeremiah and Mary (Moylan) Sullivan. Coming to the U.S. in the 1850s, Sullivan attended local schools, and in 1879 and 1885 was elected state senator representing Wayne, Knox, Holmes, and Morrow counties. He helped establish the Soldiers Home in Sandusky and was a trustee. In 1887, Pres.

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SULLIVAN, THOMAS C. (July 8, 1937-November 30, 2020) was a philanthropist and businessman who led his family’s coatings company, RPM Inc. through more than 50 years of growth and development. He was the youngest of six children born to Frank C. Sullivan and Margaret Mary Wilhelmy.

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SUN NEWSPAPERS grew from a single weekly into the dominant suburban newspaper chain of metropolitan Cleveland. Its nucleus was the Shaker Sun, founded by Harry Volk in 1946.

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SUNAR-HAUSERMAN, INC., formerly Hauserman, Inc., a leading producer of movable interior walls, was founded by Earl F. Hauserman, who bought out part of the building supplies dealer for whom he worked and organized the E. F. Hauserman Co. on 24 Mar. 1913. The company manufactured and installed finished, ready-to-use steel sashes—an innovation which produced an initial boom in sales.

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The SUNDAY POST was probably first issued on 26 Sept. 1875. By 4 June 1876 (No. 37), it was a 4-page sheet selling for $.05. Expansion to an 8-page format took place by 8 Apr. 1877. Published by the Post Printing Co., the paper had its offices on Seneca St. ORLANDO J.

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The SUNDAY STAR (ca. 1922-24) was a full-sized weekly newspaper devoted almost exclusively to sensational coverage of crime and scandal in Cleveland during the 1920s. Edited by Thomas J.

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The SUNDAY VOICE was Cleveland's first successful Sunday newspaper, surviving for 30 years as a weekly publication. It was founded 15 Oct. 1871 by 4 partners, with W. Scott Robison emerging as sole owner. Edited for a time by HARRY L.

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SUNDQUIST, GUSTAF ADOLF (4 June 1879-25 August 1918), recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for service during the SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, was one of nine children born to Anders Gustaf and Eva Sofia (Kullgren) Sundquist in Irsta, Sweden. Gustaf Adolf arrived in New York about 1895 and enlisted in the U. S. Navy 30 July 1897.

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