CROWELL, BENEDICT (21 Oct. 1869-8 Sept. 1952), assistant secretary of war under NEWTON D. BAKER during WORLD WAR I, was born in Cleveland, the son of William and Mary Benedict Crowell. He attended Case Institute of Technology, and earned his Ph.B. (1891) and M.A. (1918) in chemistry from Yale.
CROWELL, JOHN (15 Feb. 1801-10 Mar 1883) was a well-known attorney, supporter of the Republican Party, and public speaker.
CROWLEY, JOSEPH HERRON (23 Dec. 1893-16 Nov. 1984) chief legal council for the City of Cleveland for 24 years and scholar in the field of municipal law, was born in Long Island City, New York, the son of John Francis and Elizabeth Herron Crowley. After his father's death, his maternal grandfather Patrick Herron brought Joe, his older brother John Francis, and his mother to Cleveland in 1895.
CSX CORP., a natural resources and transportation company, is one of 2 major railroad systems (the other being the NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP.) serving Greater Cleveland. CSX Corp.
CUDELL is a neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA) on Cleveland’s west side. It was named after FRANK (FRANZ) E. CUDELL who bequeathed property to the city when he died in 1916.
CUDELL, FRANK (FRANZ) E. (1844-25 Oct. 1916), of the important architectural firm of Cudell & Richardson, was born at Herzogenrath, near Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany, to Dr. Karl and Louise Krauthausen Cudell. He emigrated in 1866, came to Cleveland in 1867, and formed a partnership with John N. Richardson (1837-1902) in 1870.
CULLEY, PAUL EUGENE (18 June 1924 – 12 Jan.
CULLEY, RAY (12 Oct. 1904 - 18 Sep. 1983) and BETTY (BUEHNER) CULLEY (16 May 1914 – 4 June 2016) are the founders of Cleveland-based CINECRAFT PRODUCTIONS.
CULTURAL GARDENS. See CLEVELAND CULTURAL GARDEN FEDERATION.
CUNIN, JOHN (11 Sept. 1924-18 July 1993), who served as the chairman and chief executive officer of BEARINGS, INC., was also known for his involvement with numerous civic and charitable causes.
CUNIN, MARILYN McGUIGAN (August 15, 1930 - April 4, 2017) served as chair of the Distribution Committee for the EVA L. AND JOSEPH M. BRUENING FOUNDATION from 1993-2008.
The CUNNINGHAM SANITARIUM was located at 18485 Lakeshore Blvd. at 185th St. The sanitarium was a 5-story-high spherical steel structure designed to maintain a pressurized atmosphere to aid in the treatment of various diseases, especially diabetes. Although oxygen therapy had been in use for over 8 years, this sphere, allegedly the only one of its kind in the world, was the first to conduct such therapy on a large scale.
CUSHING, ERASTUS (15 July 1802-4 Apr. 1893), one of Cleveland's most respected physicians, was born in Cheshire, Mass., to David, Jr. and Freelove Brown Cushing. He attended New York College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City, and was certified to practice in 1823.
CUSHING, HARVEY W. (8 Apr. 1869-7 Oct. 1939), son of Betsey M. Williams and HENRY CUSHING, was America's first neurosurgeon. He was born in Cleveland and received his medical degree from Harvard in 1895. He began as a general surgeon, only gradually becoming interested in brain and spinal cord surgery.
CUSHING, HENRY KIRKE (29 July 1827-12 Feb. 1910), a prominent Cleveland physician active in raising the professional and educational standards of the medical profession, was born in Lanesboro, Mass. to Mary Ann Platt and Dr. ERASTUS CUSHING. The family moved to Cleveland when Cushing was 8.
CUSHING, HENRY PLATT (10 Oct. 1860-14 April 1921) was a prominent geologist who taught for 30 years at Western Reserve University (see CASE WESTERN RESERVE). He was born into a prominent Cleveland family, being the grandson of early settler Dr.
CUSHING, WILLIAM ERASTUS (23 Sept. 1853—19 Dec. 1917), a lawyer, served on the Ohio State Board of Commissioners on Uniform Laws (1902-05) and on the American Bar Association committee on uniform state laws. He was related to at least 6 Cleveland physicians. Cushing was born in Cleveland, one of 9 children (and the oldest son) of Betsey M.
CUTLER, CARROLL (31 Jan. 1829-25 Jan. 1894) presided over Western Reserve College (see CASE WESTERN RESERVE) during that institution's removal from Hudson, O., to Cleveland. The son of Rev. Calvin and Rhoda Little Cutler, he was a native of Windham, N.H.
CUTLER, ELLIOT CARR (30 July 1888-16 Aug. 1947), internationally known for his work in heart and brain surgery, was born in Bangor, Maine, to George Chalmer and Mary Franklin Wilson Cutler. He received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1909 and his M.D. degree in 1913. He was a surgeon at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and in 1915, at Massachusetts General Hospital, both in Boston.
CUTLER, HANN
CUTTER, ANNIE SPENCER (20 Feb. 1877-26 Mar. 1957), teacher and librarian, extended CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY services to junior and senior high schools throughout the city. Cutter was born in Cleveland to Charles Long and Annie Spencer Cutter. She grew up on Woodland Ave. and attended CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.
The CUYAHOGA BUILDING was one of 3 office buildings in Cleveland (the others being the Society for Savings Bldg. and the WESTERN RESERVE BLDG.) designed by Burnham & Root or Daniel H. Burnham & Co. of Chicago.
CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE opened in Sept. 1963, 2 years after the Ohio legislature passed enabling legislation to create a statewide system of community colleges. Tri-C was designed to meet the need for low-cost, convenient, skill-oriented career and academic training among minorities, women, older students, and displaced workers.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY AIRPORT is the main airport in the county servicing private- and corporate-owned aircraft: it is also a regional center of aviation-related industries. With the increase in private aviation during the 1940s, the Cuyahoga County Commissioners issued general obligation bonds to develop a county airport, which led to the purchase of the former Herrick Airport on Richmond Rd. in Dec. 1946.
The short-lived CUYAHOGA COUNTY ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY was organized on 4 July 1837 at a meeting in FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, but had disappeared by the 1840s. "The object of this society," according to its constitution, was "the entire abolition of slavery throughout the U.S.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY ARCHIVES, created in June 1975 as a department of the Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners, are the repository for the historical records of Cuyahoga County, and for current records requiring temporary maintenance.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY BAR ASSN. (CCBA) was organized in 1927 as the Cleveland Law Assn. The association was founded by 64 former members of the CLEVELAND BAR ASSN. (CBA) dissatisfied with the operations of the CBA.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS was organized in 1886 to supervise elections and administer Ohio's new voter registration law, passed the previous year. Cleveland's city council re-divided the city into 40 wards, established precincts, and appointed two registrars (a Democrat and a Republican) in each precinct where, at stated times, they were stationed at the voting place to register the voters who appeared.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY CENTENNIAL was observed with a week-long celebration, 10-15 Oct. 1910. Daily features of the centennial celebration included afternoon and evening band concerts on PUBLIC SQUARE, a carnival and sideshows on the Mall, and an Indian village of 3 teepees and 14 Chippewas brought in from an Indian reservation in Michigan and erected on the Square.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY COLONIZATION SOCIETY formed at the Academy on 8 Jan. 1827. The society favored ending slavery by colonization: the U.S. government would buy slaves from their masters and transport the freed blacks (see AFRICAN AMERICANS) to Africa.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at Lakeside and Ontario streets, is the fifth such structure serving that purpose. The first was a 2-story log building constructed in 1813. Containing jail cells, a living room for the sheriff, and a 2nd-floor courtroom, it was replaced in 1830.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY, dominant in the City of Cleveland since the New Deal, gradually organized as the national Democratic party began to take shape in the early 1800s. The first recorded Cuyahoga County meeting was held 18 Sept. 1818 at the Commercial Coffee House to nominate candidates for the state legislature.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, formed 1 Jan. 1948 as the Welfare Dept., assists and supervises the county's disabled and disadvantaged. The governmental division was preceded by several private and governmental efforts at providing WELFARE/RELIEF. The Welfare Dept.'s establishment by county commissioners John F. Curry, John J. Pekarek, and Joseph F.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY DEPT. OF WELFARE. See CUYAHOGA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY DISTRICT BOARD OF HEALTH was created to respond to the growth of the greater Cleveland community beyond Cleveland's city limits. The health problems of the suburbs and townships were first addressed in 1920, when a full-time county health commissioner was appointed due to efforts at the state level. The first health commissioner was Dr. Robert Lockhart, who served into the 1930s. Arthur J.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT, established in 1920 as the Domestic Relations Bureau, is a subdivision of the Court of Common Pleas. It has full equitable power and jurisdiction over all domestic-relations matters, including authority to terminate marriages, divide property, and determine child custody and support payments.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY FAIR in BEREA has run every summer since 1893 except for 1932 (because of the Depression), 1942, and 1943 (because of World War II). Before that time, fairs were held in several scattered areas throughout the county (see FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS).
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY FARM BUREAU was organized in 1915 to provide farmers in the county with a vehicle for collective action in representing, promoting, and protecting farm interests. Located at 285 E. Bagley Rd.
CUYAHOGA COUNTY GOVERNMENT. On 16 July 1810, the General Assembly of Ohio approved an act calling for the organization of the county of Cuyahoga. The state constitution had established that the general assembly would provide, by general law, for the government of all Ohio counties according to the same organization.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY HOSPITAL SYSTEM (CCHS), recognized as the nation's first public hospital system, consisted in 1994 of the MetroHealth Medical Center, the MetroHealth Center for Rehabilitation, the MetroHealth Center for Skilled Nursing Care, the MetroHealth Clement Center for Family Care, the MetroHealth West Park Medical Bldg., and the MetroHealth Downtown Center. In 1993 its MetroHealth Life Flight (est.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY JAIL is a detention facility for people who are charged with crimes and awaiting trial in Cleveland, Ohio. The jail has been housed in six different facilities since 1813, with its current facility located in the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, which also houses the Cleveland Police Headquarters and the Cuyahoga County and Cleveland Municipal Courts.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY JUVENILE COURT, the second of its kind in the U.S., was based on the Illinois Act of 1899 which created a juvenile court in Cook County, IL. It initiated new concepts in the juvenile justice movement and was instrumental in setting national standards for more enlightened treatment of juvenile offenders. Created by the Ohio legislature on 8 Apr.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY MAYORS AND CITY MANAGERS ASSN. acts as a clearing house for discussion, study, and action on issues of municipal governance affecting Greater Cleveland. Organized informally during the Depression, the political leaders exchanged ideas on ways to cut municipal expenses in order to live within their shrinking budgets.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY (1859-1902) organized to carry out the functions of the defunct NINETEENTH DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETY to assure the competence of medical professionals in Greater Cleveland. The society emphasized continuing medical education; quarterly afternoon meetings featured a paper by one of 25 members.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY MILITARY COMMITTEE was formed by order of Gov. William Dennison, Ohio's first Civil War governor, in 1861. Each of Ohio's 88 counties had such a committee, with members appointed by the governor to oversee recruitment of volunteers for service in the Union Army and Navy. Committees served without pay.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY NURSING HOME, at 2905 Franklin Ave., first opened in 1938 as an experimental shelter for relief patients who were permanently and totally disabled. BELL GREVE, director of the Cuyahoga County Relief Bureau, was aware that during the Depression, many ill and disabled persons lived under adverse circumstances in attics, cellars, and low-quality nursing homes.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM (CCPL), established by referendum in Nov. 1922, was the nation's seventh busiest library system in 1993.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION (RPC) was established in 1947 to offer advisory services to member communities and operate as a regional planning agency. Earlier efforts at regional planing were made by the Cleveland Metropolitan Planning Commission, formed in 1921; the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, appointed in 1924; and the Regional Association of Cleveland, a nonprofit citizens' organization.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY began in Ohio with a statewide convention held in Columbus 22 March 1854 to oppose the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act, by allowing the two territories to decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery, in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited slavery in those western territories.