Category: Business and Industry

CATARACT HOUSE, a popular hotel, restaurant, and hostelry, was a landmark in the NEWBURGH area for many years. Located on the falls or cataract of MILL CREEK (near the current intersection of Broadway and Warner Rd.), the hotel was built in 1840 by Wm. Bergin and was a favorite local eatery, meeting place, and stopping place for visitors to Newburgh.

CEMETERIES, although meant for the dead, exist for the living, as artifacts of settlement effected by circumstances, custom, and style. Cuyahoga County's cemeteries, after 2 centuries, show variety. The more than 135 tallied recently include existing sites, cared for and abandoned, those relocated, and those only remembered.

CENTERIOR ENERGY CORP. See CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO.

CENTRAL MARKET, one of Cleveland's oldest markets, dates from Oct. 1856 when CLEVELAND CITY COUNCIL approved a market site at the intersection of Ontario, Woodland, and Broadway. The following year the council moved the Michigan St. Market there and built a markethouse completed by the city on 14 Sept. 1867.

The CENTRAN CORP. was one of the state's leading bank holding companies, with Central Natl. Bank as its principal affiliate. Central Natl., organized by JEREMIAH J.

The CHAGRIN HARDWARE COMPANY, originally known as Nettleton’s, was founded in January 1857 by Daniel Nettleton on Main Street in CHAGRIN FALLS, just north of the CHAGRIN RIVER. The original building was a three-story brick building, with the store on the first two floors and a Masonic Lodge on the third floor.

The CHANDLER & RUDD CO., specializing in fine foods and delicacies, has for many years been one of Cleveland's most distinctive grocery stores. The firm started as a grocery store in 1864 as the Jones-Potter Co. Wm. Rudd, one of the first employees, and Geo.

The CHANDLER-CLEVELAND MOTORS CORP. was established in 1926 by consolidating the Chandler Motor Car and Cleveland Automobile companies, both of which were founded by Frederick C. Chandler (12 July 1874-18 Feb. 1945). A native Clevelander, Chandler worked for the Cleveland Bicycle Co. of Henry A. Lozier, which began to make boats and later automobiles. In Jan.

CHARTER ONE FINANCIAL, INC., began in 1934 as First Federal Savings and Loan Assn. of Cleveland, with $75,000 in capital and an office at 5710 Portage Ave. Founded to serve the CZECH community, the association thrived under the guidance of Charles F.

CHARTER STEEL, a leading supplier of hot-rolled and processed steel rod, coiled bar, and wire, is a privately owned subsidiary of Charter Manufacturing Company of Mequon, Wisconsin, which also owns Charter Wire and Charter Automotive.

The CHASE BRASS & COPPER CO. was once one of the largest manufacturers of brass and copper products in the country. The company traces its origins to a firm incorporated in 1876 in Connecticut. In 1929 the company built its first midwestern plant, on Babbitt Rd. in EUCLID.

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY. For the first 60 years of its existence, Cleveland knew only the rather homespun chemical industries of a typical rural community, time-honored processes such as dyeing, tanning, soapmaking, and bleaching. Cleveland was essentially one of several small towns along Lake Erie.

The CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILROAD, controlled by entrepreneurs ORIS P. AND MANTIS J. VAN SWERINGEN at one time, was created by an act of the Virginia legislature on 18 Feb. 1826. The charter provided a capital of $300,000 and empowered the new road to lay tracks through Louisa County, VA. In a few years, the tracks extended from Hanover Jct.

CHISHOLM, HENRY (22 April 1822-9 May 1881), known as the "father of the Cleveland steel trade," was one of the leading iron and steel manufacturers in the United States during the nineteenth century. Henry Chisholm was born in Lochgelly, Fifeshire, Scotland, the son of Stewart Chisholm, a mining contractor, who passed away when Henry was ten years old.

CHURCH SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER, part of an effort to rebuild the inner city, was the first major retail development on the near-east side in 40 years. Planning for the site, bound by Euclid, E. 79th, Chester, and E.

CINECRAFT PRODUCTIONS, INC. is a film studio based in Cleveland.

The CITY BLUE PRINTING CO., a total reproduction printing firm, was founded in 1895 by John G. Sharp and John F. Schwanfelder and ownership continued to remain in the Sharp family through the 1990s. The company began when John F. Schwanfelder (1851-1913) and two employees set up shop as a manufacturer and importer of blueprint papers at 451 Pearl Rd. By 1902 the business moved to the Williamson Bldg. on Euclid Ave.

CITY PLANNING. Like most American cities, Cleveland began as a speculative venture in real estate. Conceived as the capital of New Connecticut, the city was laid out in 1796 by surveyors with the original Moses Cleaveland expedition. The plat, a faithful reproduction of a New England town, with its characteristic commons, failed to treat either river or lakefront as a public amenity.

The CLEAVELAND GAZETTE & COMMERCIAL REGISTER, Cleveland's first newspaper, appeared on 31 July 1818, 22 years after the settlement's establishment. It was a 4-column, 4-page weekly, edited, published, and printed by Andrew Logan of Beaver, PA, in a small shop at 220 Superior Ave. NW.

CLETRAC, INC., a manufacturer of tractors for military and civilian use, was organized by ROLLIN H. WHITE as the Cleveland Motor Plow Co. in 1916, with capital of $6 million.