MONROE, WILLIAM T. (May 18, 1926 - November 23, 2015) practiced law for sixty years, serving as the Law Director for the City of Euclid and donating legal work for 35 years to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, a Catholic diocesan missionary initiative.
MONTENEGRINS settled in Cleveland during three periods: the turn of the century (1890-1914), after World War II (1945-1922), and after the dissolution of Socialist Yugoslavia in 1992 (Montenegro became officially independent from the State Union of Serbia-Montenegro in 2006). Most Montenegrin immigrants who arrived in the first wave were uneducated peasants.
MOTIVASIANS FOR CLEVELAND--a social, cultural and networking group--emerged in the early 2000s to try and connect young Asian professionals to one another and to the larger community, with the aim of fostering their success in Northeast Ohio.
MUELLER, ERNST W. (13 Oct. 1851-15 Jan. 1931) was a prominent local German-American civic leader and one of Cleveland's leading brewers.
Mueller was born in Alsenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. His father, Peter, took the family to America in 1856, settling in Cleveland where 3 of Peter's brothers (including JACOB MUELLER) already lived.
MUELLER, JACOB (9 Mar. 1822-31 Aug. 1905) was a German emigre who became a civic leader in Cleveland's German-American community, active in local, state, and national politics. He was elected lieutenant governor of Ohio serving 1 term, 1872-74.
MUELLER, WERNER DIEBOLT (17 August 1925 – 10 September 2001) was a lawyer specializing in trusts, an avid outdoorsman, and philanthropist. Born in Cleveland to Omar Eugene Mueller and Elsa Louise Weideman Mueller, Werner was a descendant of JACOB M
MULLALLY, EILEEN MURPHY (December 7, 1920 - December 22, 2014) was a nurse and educator before becoming an active civic volunteer. She was the oldest of five children born to William R. and Mary (Kenny) Murphy in St. Louis, MO. Mullally graduated from Trenton College, a high school that later became North Central Missouri College, and attended St. Louis University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in nursing.
MURPHY, BISHOP MICHAEL (July 1, 1915-April 3, 2007) was a Roman Catholic priest who served as a seminary administrator, Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland, and Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania. Born in Cleveland, he was the only child of William and Mary Bridget (Patton) Murphy.
MURPHY, SR., MURLAN J. “JERRY” (June 27, 1918 - April 18, 2009) was a philanthropist and businessman who developed Murphy Oil Soap into a national brand, as president of The MURPHY-PHOENIX COMPANY.
NADAS, JOHN B. (28 Jan. 1903-25 Aug. 1992) won honors from Cleveland mayors George Voinovich and Ralph Perk for his international contributions in ethnic affairs.
NEWBURGH HEIGHTS, organized and incorporated as a village in 1904, is a .5 sq. mi. residential community south of Cleveland between the industrial valley of the CUYAHOGA RIVER and the village of CUYAHOGA HTS.
The NIGHT IN BUDAPEST was a celebration with an ethnic flavor to commemorate the Hungarian Freedom Fighters who defied Russian tanks in their homeland in 1956. The gala event, begun in 1957 by Cleveland council president JACK RUSSELL, focused attention on Hungarian culture and on Hungarian-Americans.
NORTH BROADWAY is a southeast Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). Previously (and still periodically) referred to as Kinsman, its borders are, roughly, I-77 on the west, Union Ave. on the south, E. 79th St. on the east and an irregular line on the north that runs south of, but parallel to, Kinsman Ave.
The NORTH ITALIAN CLUB is a social and mutual-aid organization on Cleveland's west side, near ST. ROCCO PARISH. For many years, membership was open only to those with a northern Italian background. The club was founded in 1927 as a nonpolitical fraternal and social organization.
NORWEB, RAYMOND HENRY (31 May 1894-1 Oct. 1983), a diplomat who held posts around the world, was born in England to Henry H. and Jeannie Norweb. The family moved to Elyria, Ohio, in 1907. Norweb received his B.A. from Harvard in 1916, and entered the diplomatic service that same year, taking the post of 2d secretary to France in Paris.
NOVY SVET (New World) was organized 16 Sept. 1950 to provide Cleveland with a Czech-language daily newspaper after the demise of the SVET-AMERICAN. Edited by John Kratky and Anton Sustr, it was first located at 12020 Mayfield Rd.
The ON LEONG TONG, also known as the Chinese Merchants Assn., has served the local Chinese-American community as a bank, welfare agency, mutual benefit society, cultural preservation group, and trade association. First established in New York in 1904, the Cleveland branch was formed in 1910. By 1916 it established headquarters in the city's Chinatown, moving to a new facility at 2150 Rockwell Ave. in 1930.
ORLANDO BAKING CO., headquartered in Cleveland, is the largest wholesale specialty bakery between New York and Chicago. The company traces its origins to a bakery of the same name which opened in Castel di Sangro, Italy, in 1872.
O’DONNELL, KEVIN (June 9, 1925 - February 29 2012) was president and CEO of SIFCO INDUSTRIES, INC. and served as Director of the Peace Corps of the United States of America.
PALESTINIANS. See ARAB-AMERICANS.
PANKUCH, JAN "JOHN" (1869 - 28 Feb. 1952), newspaper editor and publisher active in Slovak organizations, was born in Saris County, Slovakia, came to the U.S. in 1886 and worked as a laborer, grocer, and coal dealer in Cleveland while trying to establish a publishing business. In the beginning he tried to establish newspapers that would appeal to Slovaks throughout the U.S.
PERK, RALPH J. (19 Jan. 1914-21 Apr. 1999) a Depression-era ice peddler who organized and headed the American Nationalities Movement rose to the city's highest office with the support of blue collar, ethnic voters. He was born in Cleveland to Mary B. (Smirt) and Joseph C. Perk, a tailor.
PIEN, WEI TIEN (10 July 1926 - 2 April 1999) was a leader in Greater Cleveland's CHINESE-American community (See ) and a physician who ran a family medical practice. He was born in Mukden, Manchuria,, in the northeast corner of China, to Xing-Ling (Shao) and Pei-Bing Pien. After graduating from medical school in Mukden in the late 1940s, Dr.
PIRC, LOUIS J. (4 July 1888-29 June 1939) became a leader in Cleveland's ethnic community through the means of teaching citizenship classes and editing a Slovenian newspaper. A native of Llubljana, Slovenia, he came to Cleveland in 1906 and immediately became involved in the affairs of the Slovenian neighborhood.
POLES. Poles formed one of Cleveland's largest nationality groups in the 20th century and had an important influence on the city, particularly during its period of heavy industrial growth.
