BRATENAHL, incorporated as a village in 1903, is a residential community on Lake Erie about 6 miles east of downtown Cleveland. Approx. 4 mi. long and less than 1/2 mi. wide, it occupies 552 acres (less than 1 sq. mi.), surrounded by the city of Cleveland.
BRAVERMAN, LIBBIE LEVIN (20 Dec. 1900-10 Dec. 1990) was a teacher, educational consultant, and writer. Braverman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Rabbi Morris A. and Pauline Drucker Levin. She and her brothers, Sol and Harry, attended school in various locations.
BRAVERMAN, SIGMUND (22 May 1894-27 Mar. 1960), was a prominent Jewish architect who designed more than 40 synagogues in the U.S. and Canada, and many diverse structures in Cleveland. Born in Austria-Hungary, to Bernard and Fannie (Weiss) Braverman, he came to the U.S. at age 10 and settled with his family in Pittsburgh. Braverman received a B.S.
BRECKSVILLE, 14 miles south of Cleveland on the southern border of Cuyahoga County, borders INDEPENDENCE on the north,
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.
BREITENSTEIN, JOSEPH C. (30 July 1884-19 Aug. 1974), attorney, served as special assistant U.S District Attorney (15 Nov. 1922-15 Mar. 1923) and was a leader in the the CUYAHOGA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY and the Ohio Democratic party. As assistant district attorney, he handled U.S. v. Eugene Debs, among other cases.
BRETT, WILLIAM HOWARD (1 July 1846-24 Aug. 1918), librarian of CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY and founder of the Western Reserve University Library School, was born in Braceville, Ohio to Morgan Lewis and Jane Brokaw Brett. He became the school librarian at Warren High School at 14.
BREWING AND DISTILLING INDUSTRY. Cleveland's distilling industry dates almost to the city's founding. In 1800 David and Gilman Bryant are said to have operated a secondhand distillery, brought from Virginia, on the banks of the CUYAHOGA RIVER at the foot of Superior St.
The BREWSTER & STROUD FINE FURNITURE COMPANY in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was founded as a joint furniture and undertaking business in 1870 by A.J. Cole. In 1887, Cole sold the business to Clinton Eggleston. In 1889, Eggleston sold the business to Milton Brewster.
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.
BRICKNER, BARNETT ROBERT (14 Sept. 1892-14 May 1958), the rabbi at ANSHE CHESED for 33 years, was born in New York City to Joseph and Bessie (Furman) Brickner. He received his bachelor''s (1913) and master''s (1914) degrees from Columbia University Teachers College; and was ordained in 1919 following graduation from the Hebrew Union College. He received a Ph.D.
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.
BRIDGES. Cleveland, split firmly though unequally by the CUYAHOGA RIVER, is deeply dependent on bridges. The city's east and west sides are joined today by both high fixed spans and lower-level opening bridges. Trains cannot climb steep grades, and their frequency of crossing is low enough to permit the use of opening spans of various sorts.
BRIGGS, JAMES A. (6 Feb. 1811-22 Aug.
BRIGGS, JOSEPH W. (5 July 1813-23 Feb. 1872) instituted free home mail delivery in Cleveland and was later appointed to a postal job in Washington to establish this system throughout the U.S. Born in Claremont, N.Y., and raised by his uncle, Geo.
BRIGGS, PAUL WARREN (23 Nov. 1912-10 Nov. 1989), Superintendent of the CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS (1964-1978), made physical improvements and recruited BLACKS as teachers and administrators but opposed integration by busing. Briggs was born in Mayville, Michigan, and graduated from Western Michigan College.
BRILLIANT, NATHAN (4 Sept. 1894-Nov. 1983) was a leader in Cleveland's Jewish educational activities for more than 3 decades. He came from New York, where he had graduated from City College of New York and earned a master's degree in education from Columbia Univ. Besides teaching English for 6 years in the New York City Public Schools, he served as teacher and administrator in 2 Jewish schools there.
BRITISH IMMIGRATION. Immigrants from England, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and Wales were among the earliest to arrive in Cleveland. Because American society was, and is, culturally and linguistically derived from Great Britain, they found in Cleveland a home that was familiar and into which many readily assimilated, leaving few traces such as neighborhoods, churches, or clubs.
The BRITTON FUND was incorporated in 1952 in Cleveland by Gertrude Hanna Britton, Brigham Britton, and M. J. Mitchell. The fund donates about 20% of its monies annually to UNITED WAY SERVICES and makes approx. 50 other grants in the range of $1,000-$20,000.
BRITTON, BRIGHAM (20 June 1907 - 12 Nov.1979) was a businessman and philanthropist who helped found and was board chairman of CARLON PRODUCTS CORP., the first American company to produce plastic pipe. He also helped establish the BRITTON FUND.
BRITTON, CHARLES SCHUYLER II (6 July 1932-13 May 1993) was a ship manufacturer and founder of Douglass & McLeod Plastics Co., later known as Tartan Marine Co., the world's first fiberglass-sailboat manufacturer. He also served as president of the BRITTON FUND, incorporated in 1952 by his parents and M.J. Mitchell.
BRITTON, GERTRUDE HASKELL (21 May 1909-18 July 1992) was a philanthropist, civic and social leader, volunteer with many civic organizations, and an artist. She was a founder of the BRITTON FUND, and a founder and president of the CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Women's Committee.
BROADBENT, BIRDSALL HOLLY (27 Sept. 1894-23 Dec. 1977), a Cleveland dentist and orthodontist, invented a head positioning device used in taking radiographs of the face and teeth. Born in Lockport, New York, to James F. and Mabel Holly Broadbent, he graduated from Western Reserve University Dental School in 1919 and began specializing in orthodontia. During the 1920s, Broadbent and Dr. T.
The BROADVIEW FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK began operation in 1919 with $350,000 and grew to be one of the country's top 100 savings and loans, with assets of nearly $2 billion. Broadview opened for business on 19 July 1919 at the corner of Broadview and Pearl roads with August E. Reister as president. It moved to larger quarters at 3344 Broadview Rd. in 1924. Under the direction of Edward J.
BROADVIEW HEIGHTS is located 15 mi. south of Cleveland. It comprises 13 sq.
The BROADWAY & NEWBURGH STREET RAILROAD CO. (chartered on 26 Aug. 1873) began service on Christmas Day, 1873, providing transportation for workers of the Newburgh steel mills, running from Woodland Ave., where it met with other lines, east on Broadway to the Newburgh city limits.
BROADWAY CENTER HOUSE. See UNIV. SETTLEMENT.
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.
BROCK (SLOMOVITZ) PHILIP (ca. 1890-?), one of the finest lightweight boxers in the early 1900s, was the son of Russian immigrants Abraham and Anna Slomovitz. Brock, who fought in the era of the padded glove, was noted for the effectiveness of his left-hand punch and his staying power in the ring. Managed locally by Dave Langdon, Brock participated in boxing matches all over the country.
BROEMEL, CARL WILLIAM (5 Sept. 1891-23 May 1984) was noted as a watercolorist associated with the Cleveland School of artists. The son of Anna (Vlasteck) and Fred Charles Broemel, an architectural sculptor, Carl was born in Cleveland's old German district around Scovill and East 22nd St.
BROOK PARK, originally part of MIDDLEBURG TWP., was founded in 1914 and incorporated as a city in 1961. It occupies 11 sq. mi., located 14 mi.
BROOKLYN, a Cleveland suburb, is located 6 miles southwest of downtown. Its borders are Cleveland to the north, east and west, and PARMA to the south.
The BROOKLYN ARTILLERY, also called the Brooklyn Light Artillery, was an artillery militia company from Brooklyn Twp. Organized prior to 1853, the BLA drilled in company with the CLEVELAND LIGHT ARTILLERY and Ohio City Artillery in unison, forming a complete battery of 6 field pieces with 75 horses and 96 officers and men. In 1860 the BLA, commanded by Capt.
BROOKLYN CENTRE is a Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). It is bounded on the north by Daisy and Poe Aves., on the south by Big Creek, on the west by W. 44th St. (called Gauge St. before 1906) and on the east by the Jennings Freeway (St. Rt. 176).
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, incorporated as a village on 28 Feb. 1903, is a 1.73 sq. mi. residential-industrial suburb southeast of Cleveland.
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.
BROOKLYN TOWNSHIP, created in 1818, marked the beginning of an organized governmental structure on the west side of the CUYAHOGA RIVER.
The BROOKS & STAFFORD INSURANCE AGENCY agency can trace its origins as far back as 1850, when John G. Jennings arrived in Cleveland to begin work as an agent for Mutual Life Insurance of New York. In the 1860s, Jennings was joined by James L. Higgins and Henry M. Brooks, creating the firm of Jennings, Higgins & Brooks, which operated from the Atwater Building on Superior Avenue.
BROOKS, CHARLES STEPHEN (25 June 1878-29 June 1934) was an essayist and playwright who was instrumental in the founding of the CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE. A Cleveland native, and the son of Stephen E.
BROOKS, MINERVA KLINE (1893-5 May 1929) campaigned for suffrage for WOMEN in the 1910s, helped organize the precursor of the CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE (1915), and introduced interpretive dance in both Cleveland and New York City. Born in Cleveland to Virgil P.
BROOKS, OLIVER KINGSLEY (21 May 1845 - 14 Sept. 1914) was a prominent Cleveland businessman who had served in the Union Army during the CIVIL WAR. His father, Oliver Allen Brooks, was a grandson of Joshua Brooks, who was a Minute Man—one of those who "fired the shot heard round the world"—at Concord Bridge on 19 Apr. 1775.
BROOKSIDE RESERVATION, located in the southwestern part of the city at Fulton Road and Denison Avenue, is one of Cleveland's oldest municipal parks. Purchased in 1894 by the Second Park Board, and initially named Brooklyn Park, the 81-acre site in wooded Big Creek Valley provided a natural setting for a playground.
The BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS, founded as the Brotherhood of the Footboard by Michigan Central Railroad engineers in 1863, is the oldest labor organization in the U.S. In 1870 the BLE chose Cleveland as its headquarters city, due to its central location for servicing U.S. and Canadian members. The union was conservative in nature, often eschewing strikes notwithstanding rank-and-file sentiments.
BROUGH, JOHN (17 Sept. 1811-29 Aug. 1865) was a newspaper publisher, state auditor, railroad president, and CIVIL WAR governor of Ohio, Brough was born in Marietta, Ohio. Orphaned at 11, he became an apprentice printer. After paying his way through Ohio University, he edited and published newspapers in West Virginia and Ohio.