BIRD, PHILIP SMEAD (9 Nov. 1886-10 June 1948), a clergyman and civic leader, was born in Newtonville, Mass., the son of Joseph Edward and Gertrude Hubbard Smead Bird. He graduated with an A.B. from Pomona College, Claremont, Calif. (1909); from the University of California with a Master of Literature degree (1910); and from Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1913.
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BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH. See ST. PATRICK'S PARISH.
BOEHM, CHARLES (1853-9 Apr. 1932), was a missionary to Hungarian immigrants in America. Born in Selmecbanya, Hungary, to Felez and Julia Boehm, he entered the minor seminary at Esztergom, and was sent to the University of Vienna, where he completed his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained on 16 July 1876.
BOLIVAR ST. AME CHURCH. See ST. JOHN'S AME (AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL) CHURCH.
BOLLES, JAMES A. (2 May 1810-19 Sept. 1894), controversial rector of Trinity Church from 1855-59, was born in Norwich, Conn., the son of Ralph and Happy (Branch) Bolles. After graduating from Trinity College in Hartford (1830) and studying at the General Seminary in New York, in 1834 Bolles became an Episcopal priest and rector of St. James Church in Batavia, N.Y. In 1853, primarily through Samuel L.
BOLTON AVE. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. See CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
BRASCHER, NAHUM DANIEL (24 May 1880-14 January 1945), a prominent AFRICAN AMERICAN journalist, educator, and community leader, active in Cleveland during the early decades of the twentieth century.
BREED, WALTER (1867-9 Mar. 1939), was the rector of ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH for over 30 years, leading the church's move from E.
BREWSTER, WILLIAM H. (16 June 1813-7 Mar. 1894), a Methodist minister who guided a Congregational church in Cleveland (1859-68), was a prominent advocate of abolition and temperance. Born in New Hampshire, son of Isaac and Betsey (Dike) Brewster, he bucked many of the city's clergy and left Euclid Ave.'s Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church to become the first pastor of the University Hts.
The BRICKNER-DARROW DEBATE, between attorney Clarence Darrow and Rabbi BARNETT R. BRICKNER, took place on Thursday evening, 9 Feb. 1928, before a standing-room-only crowd at Cleveland's Masonic Auditorium. An estimated audience of 500,000 Greater Clevelanders listened to the 2-hour debate over radio station WHK.
The BROADWAY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH congregation was organized as a mission church and Sunday school in 1872 to meet the religious and social needs of Czech immigrants in the Broadway area. The original frame church (built 1873) was at Broadway and Gallup streets. The church had a nationwide reputation for its outreach to the surrounding neighborhood and newly arrived immigrants.
BROOKLYN MEMORIAL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. See BROOKLYN MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
BROOKLYN MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, organized in 1818 as Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Church, developed out of Methodist classes meeting as early as 1814 in members' homes. The first church organized in BROOKLYN Twp., it is considered the oldest Methodist congregation in the Cleveland area. Church founders included Oziah Sylvanus, and Seth Brainard and Ebenezer Fish.
BROOKLYN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. See BROOKLYN MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
BROWN, RUSSELL S., REV. (31 Aug. 1889-Aug. 1981), pastor of MT. ZION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (1925-33), was elected to fill the unexpired term of THOMAS W. FLEMING on the CLEVELAND CITY COUNCIL (1929).
BUCK, REV. FLORENCE (19 July 1860 -12 Oct. 1925) served with MARION E.
BUDDHISM. The two major ethnic groups that have preserved Buddhist culture in Cleveland are the JAPANESE and the CHINESE. Each of these groups has its own temple. The largest, the Buddhist Temple of Cleveland, founded in 1944, is located at E. 214th St. and Euclid Ave. and is attended by approx. 90 families.
BURROUGHS, NELSON MARIGOLD (12 July 1899-19 December 1998), was bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio (1949-52) and bishop of Ohio (1952-68). As both bishop coadjutor and bishop, he based his operation at Cleveland's TRINITY CATHEDRAL and was a prominent member of the city's clergy. Born in Bridgeport, Conn.
BURTON, LEWIS (3 July 1815-9 Oct. 1894), was a prominent Episcopal rector in the Cleveland area for 47 years, where he founded or managed a number of parishes. Born just south of Erie, Pa., the son of John and Hannah (Miller) Burton, he followed his brother into the Episcopal priesthood, graduating from Allegheny College in 1837. He married Jane Wallace in 1841; they had 3 children: Amelia, Eliza, and Lewis.
BYZANTINE RITE CATHOLICS. The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church resulted from efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Eastern Orthodox Christians in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries. A new institution was preferable to direct absorption into Roman Catholicism, unacceptable to many from EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES.
CALLAHAN, REV NELSON J. (1927-January 15, 2013) was a priest for 60 years; a pastor, archivist, historian who wrote about ethnicity and the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, and author of Irish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland (1978), the first book-length study of the Irish in Cleveland. He was one of three children born to Nelson J. and Mary (Mulholland) Callahan.
CALVARY CEMETERY, which straddles the Cleveland-GARFIELD HTS. border, was established in the 1890s due to the growing need for a new and extensive burial ground for Catholics in the Cleveland area. For many years it was the largest Catholic cemetery in Ohio. The original purchase, of approx. 105 acres, was in Oct.
CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH began before 1880 as a mission of FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (OLD STONE). Calvary Mission (also called Calvary Chapel) was established by Old Stone's pastor, HIRAM C. HAYDN.
CALVARY REFORMED CHURCH, 1920 W. 65th St., developed from the Second Reformed Church, which was established to permit the Dutch-speaking members to hold services in their own neighborhood. The church was officially organized in 1890, and the first pastor, Rev. A. Westveer, was installed. Services were conducted in a chapel on College Ave. and W. 61st St. for the next 20 years.
CANFIELD, SHERMAN BOND (25 Dec. 1810-5 Mar. 1871), was the first pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, later to become CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. Canfield was born in Chardon, Ohio, the son of Norman and Susannah Bond Canfield. He attended Western Reserve College, receiving his master's degree in 1838.