The SOUTHWORTH HOUSE located at 3334 Prospect Ave. was built in 1879 for W. P. Southworth Company Founder, William Palmer Southworth and his wife Louise M. Stark. W. P.
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET IMMIGRATION. The growing community of immigrants from RUSSIA and the former Soviet Union is becoming a palpable presence in Cleveland.
SPACES provides a venue for emerging artists as Cleveland's principal alternative art gallery. Launched by visual and performance artists who shared a sense of exclusion from commercial galleries and museums, it opened in June 1978 in the Stouffer's Bldg. on PLAYHOUSE SQUARE.
SPAFFORD, AMOS (11 Apr. 1753-5 Aug. 1816), surveyor for the CONNECTICUT LAND CO. who performed one of the earliest surveys of Cleveland and made the first map detailing its original plan ("Original plan of the town and village of Cleaveland, Ohio, October 1, 1796,"), was born in the city of Sharon in Litchfield Co., Connecticut.
SPALDING (SPAULDING), RUFUS (3 May 1798-29 Aug. 1886), lawyer, judge, congressman and a vocal opponent of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law, was born on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., son of Rufus and Lydia Paine Spalding. He was educated in Presbyterian schools, and studied at Yale, 1813-17. He moved to Cincinnati in 1818, and the following year to Little Rock, Ark., to practice law.
SPANG BAKING CO. See J. SPANG BAKING CO.
SPANGENBERG, CRAIG (18 Feb. 1914-17 March 1998), nationally known as a premier trial lawyer, founded and served as the first president of the International Society of Barristers and was past president of the CITY CLUB and CUYAHOGA COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION. Spangenberg was born in Yonkers, N.Y. to Albert F.
SPANGLER, BASIL L. (1822-19 Jan. 1876), dry-goods merchant who served as assistant quartermaster in the U.S. Army during the CIVIL WAR, was the son of Michael and Elizabeth Miller Spangler, who came to Cleveland from Stark County in 1816 and entered the tavern, hotel, and real-estate business. Another son, Miller M.
The SPANISH AMERICAN COMMITTEE, 4407 Lorain Ave., is Cleveland's oldest and largest social service agency serving the area's Latino population. Its mission is to enhance the capacity of Latinos to achieve economic well being, to participate fully in society and to enjoy a full and productive life. SAC opened in 1966 at 4407 Lorain Ave., teaching English as a second language.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. Clevelanders were active, enthusiastic supporters of U.S. foreign policy as practiced by Ohioans Pres. Wm. McKinley, Secretary of State Wm. R. Day, and his successor, JOHN HAY. They lamented the national loss when the battleship Maine exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, in mid-Feb.
SPARLIN, ESTAL EARNEST (7 Aug. 1907-21 Aug. 1998) was the director of the CITIZENS LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND and a lifelong advocate for good government. He was born in Osage County, Indian territory, in Oklahoma to "Burthie" (Ryan) and Oscar Sparlin and graduated from Ponca City High School.
SPAULDING, FRANK ELLSWORTH (30 Nov. 1866-6 June 1960), an educator of national stature, left an indelible imprint on the CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS despite a relatively brief tenure as superintendent. The son of William and Abby Stearns Spaulding, he was a native of Dublin, N.H.
SPEAK IN TONGUES was an underground music venue located on Lorain Road and West 44th Street that operated between 1994 and 2001.
SPEAKER, TRISTRAM "TRIS" (4 Apr. 1888-8 Dec. 1958), "The Gray Eagle," centerfielder for the CLEVELAND INDIANS (1916-26), was born in Hubbard City, Tex., to Archie and Nancy Peer Speaker. By 1909 he was centerfielder for the Boston Red Sox, and the American League's Most Valuable Player when Boston won the 1912 World Championship.
SPECTOR, SIDNEY (16 Sept. 1915 - 24 Jan. 1999) was a national authority on the housing and healthcare needs of the elderly. He was born in Cleveland to Eva (Crystal) and Abraham Spector, a tailor in a clothing factory. He attended Glenville High School and Miami University where he received a B.A.
SPEEDIE, MAC CURTIS (12 January 1920-5 March 1993) was an original member of the CLEVELAND BROWNS.
SPELLACY, HON. LEO M. (5 Nov. 1934 - 28 May 2021) was the longest-presiding judge in the history of Cuyahoga County and was very active in service initiatives throughout his lifetime. He was the fourth of five children born to William Spellacy and Margaret Kelly.
SPENZER, JOHN GEORGE (6 Sept. 1864-28 July 1932), an expert in forensic medicine who introduced the latest European toxicological techniques to Cleveland, was born in Cleveland to Peter Ignatius and Mary Theresa (Molloy) Spenzer.
SPERO, HERMAN ISRAEL (24 July 1924-7 Sept. 1979) was an independent television producer who specialized in music programs as disparate as POLKAS and ROCK 'N' ROLL. The son of Phillip and Rebecca Saperstein Spero, he was born in Cleveland and graduated from Glenville High School.
The SPIETH, BELL, MCCURDY & NEWELL CO., LPA, is a law partnership located in the Huntington Bldg. at EUCLID AVE. and E. 9th St. Incorporated in 1975, Spieth Bell dates to 1867, when the law partnership of Mix & Noble opened at 150 Superior Ave. In 1870 Mix & Noble became Mix, Noble & White when JOHN G.
SPIRA, HENRY (21 June 1862-10 Apr. 1941) was a banker whose principal customers were the immigrants settling in Cleveland during the first 3 decades of the century. Spira, son of Bernath and Esther (Deutsch) Spira, was born and educated in Richwald, Hungary, immigrating to the U.S. in 1879. He and worked as a laborer for a steamship company before migrating to central Ohio where he worked as a peddler and shopkeeper.
The SPIRIT OF '76, depicting a flag bearer, drummer boy, and fifer marching across a battlefield during the American Revolution, is perhaps the most famous painting produced in Cleveland. The 8' x 10' oil painting was created by ARCHIBALD WILLARD at the suggestion of Cleveland photographer JAS. F.
SPITALNY, PHIL (7 Nov. 1890-11 Oct. 1970), composer, conductor, and clarinetist, was born in Odessa, RUSSIAN EMPIRE (in present-day Ukraine), to Jacob and Rachel Spitalny.
The SPITZER ORGANIZATION, one of the oldest automobile dealerships in Northeast Ohio, was established by George Spitzer (1881-1945) a 1904 graduate of WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY.
SPONSORED FILM production was a significant industry in Cleveland and an essential part of its FILM HISTORY.
SPORTS. The earliest inhabitants of the WESTERN RESERVE lacked the time, energy, and resources for any but the most basic recreations, and too few people were available for team sports. For many people, what little time could be spared from farming was spent in Sabbath devotions. Even so, the severity of frontier life required some tempering.
SPORTS HALL OF FAME. See GREATER CLEVELAND SPORTS HALL OF FAME.
SPORTS MEDICINE became established in Cleveland in 1969 with the creation of a Sports Medicine Section in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, one of the first such units in the country. A group of orthopedic surgeons conceived the idea.
SPRINGVALE GOLF COURSE AND BALLROOM are public facilities located on Canterbury Rd.
SQUIRE'S CASTLE is a picturesque castellated and turreted ruin on Chagrin River Rd. in the N. Chagrin Reservation of the CLEVELAND METROPARKS. The irregular stone structure was originally built as part of the estate of Feargus B. Squire (1850-1932), vice-president and general manager of the STANDARD OIL CO. until 1909.
SQUIRE, ANDREW (21 Oct. 1850-5 Jan. 1934), corporation lawyer who planned the organizational structure of numerous companies, was born in Mantua, Ohio to Andrew Jackson and Martha Wilmot Squire, graduated from Hiram College in 1872 with the LL.B. degree, and came to Cleveland with a letter of introduction from Congressman JAS. GARFIELD.
SQUIRE, SANDERS AND DEMPSEY, born out of a partnership formed in 1890, is a Cleveland-based law firm with a national reputation in corporate and municipal law. One of the few major local law firms operating under its original name, in 1994 its practice included international, environmental, labor, and public LAW.
SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS PARISH, 12608 Madison Ave., was established to serve Roman Catholic Slovak immigrants living in southeastern LAKEWOOD, an area called the BIRD'S NEST. Since the closest church for Slovak Catholics was ST.
The congregation of SS. PETER AND PAUL CHURCH was formed when Ukrainian Byzantine Rite Catholics from Galicia withdrew from ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH over nationality differences. The parish was founded in 1902 and a church built in 1910 at W.
ST. ADALBERT PARISH was established by Bishop RICHARD GILMOUR in 1883 to serve the growing population of Bohemian (CZECH) Catholics living east of Willson Avenue (East 55th Street). Rapid industrialization in the west Broadway neighborhood surrounding ST.
ST. AGNES PARISH was established in 1893 to serve upper middle-class Catholics residing in the HOUGH neighborhood, but became a majority AFRICAN-AMERICAN parish by the 1950s.
ST. ALEXIS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER. See ST. MICHAEL HOSPITAL.
ST. ANDREW ABBEY in Cleveland received the status of an independent Benedictine community on 12 Aug. 1929 and was designated an independent abbey on 13 July 1934. The Benedictines, the oldest Roman Catholic monastic community in the world, came to Cleveland in 1922 when 2 monks from the Slovak community at St. Procopius Abbey in Lisle, IL, responded to a request from Bp.
ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH was the elite black church in Cleveland at its founding in 1890. Formerly a mission that grew out of Trinity and Grace Episcopal churches, St. Andrew's was accepted as a parish by the Diocesan Convention of EPISCOPALIANS in 1892 (formally inc. 25 June 1926).
ST. ANDREWS, HELENE (20 Apr. 1912-29 Mar. 1993) during her 55 years with the Higbee Company (see DILLARD DEPARTMENT STORES), influenced the tastes and styles of thousands of women in Greater Cleveland.
ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH (1886-1961) was the first Roman Catholic parish to serve Italian immigrants in Cleveland's HAYMARKET area. Fr. Pacifico Capitani first held services for Italians at ST. JOHN CATHEDRAL. A search was begun for a suitable church, and a frame hall on Ohio St.
ST. BERNARD'S was a small parish that evolved into the congregation that built ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH on Woodland Ave. near East 23rd St. St. Bernard's began in 1855 as an outreach of St. Peter's Church, as a school in rented quarters on Irving (E. 25th) St.
ST. CATHERINE PARISH obtained parish status from the Diocese of Cleveland in 1898 and chose its name to honor the mother of Cleveland's third bishop, the Right Reverend IGNATIUS F. HORSTMANN.