CUYAHOGA COUNTY SOLDIERS & SAILORS MONUMENT. See SOLDIERS & SAILORS MONUMENT.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY SOLDIERS' RELIEF COMMISSION is a county agency, organized in 1886 as the Soldiers' & Sailors' Relief Commission under the provisions of a state law first passed in 1886 and since revised. The commission provides relief for indigent military veterans and their families, although its responsibilities diminished as government-sponsored welfare expanded.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY TEMPERANCE SOCIETY, organized on 31 Mar. 1830, was the first recorded temperance group in Cleveland. It was a branch of the American Temperance Society, the first national temperance group, organized in 1826. In Oct. 1841, the society became the Cuyahoga County Total Abstinence Society, but contemporary newspapers called it by its old and new names.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY UNIT OF THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY has raised money for cancer research, both locally and nationally, educated the public on cancer, and served those suffering from cancer. The Cuyahoga County Unit developed from the Cleveland advisory board of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Inc. It became a chapter of the newly formed American Cancer Society in the mid-1940s.
CUYAHOGA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. See CUYAHOGA COUNTY DISTRICT BOARD OF HEALTH.
CUYAHOGA HEIGHTS, originally part of NEWBURGH Twp.
The CUYAHOGA METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY (CMHA), the nation's first such organization, was established as the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority in 1933, largely through the efforts of ERNEST J. BOHN, its director until 1968. Also instrumental in the formation of CMHA was Monsignor ROBERT B.
The CUYAHOGA RIVER divides the east and west sides of Cleveland. It originates in springs in the highlands of Geauga County, in the adjoining townships of Hambden and Montville. The 2 sources, forming the East and West branches of the river, are 35 mi. east of Cleveland.
The CUYAHOGA RIVER FIRE (22 June 1969) dramatized the extent of the river's pollution and the ineffectiveness of the city's lagging pollution abatement program. The fire, which witnesses reported reached as high as 5 stories, began at 12 P.M. and lasted about 20 minutes before it was brought under control.
CUYAHOGA SOAP, a small family-owned rendering firm, became a major domestic producer of tallow. The company was a major consumer of the waste from Cleveland's stockyard operations. Cuyahoga Soap & Rendering, as the company was originally called, was begun by August W. Stadler in 1876 with $98 capital.
The CUYAHOGA STEAM FURNACE CO. was the first iron manufacturer in the Cleveland area. Chas. Hoyt started the company in the Cuyahoga Valley in 1827 at Center and Detroit Sts. in Brooklyn Twp. It was the first shop to utilize steam power in the region. On 3 Mar. 1834, it became Cleveland's first incorporated manufacturing plant.
The CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK (formerly the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area) was created by an act of Congress sponsored by Rep. John F. Seiberling and signed by Pres. Gerald Ford on 27 Dec. 1974. It designated 32,000 acres along 22 mi.
The CUYAHOGA VALLEY NEIGHBORHOOD is a Cleveland Statistical Planning Area (SPA). Comprised largely of the northernmost 8-10 mi.
The CUYAHOGA VALLEY SCENIC RAILROAD (formerly the Cuyahoga Valley Line) is a tourist railroad that provides historical rail excursions from Cleveland (Independence) to Akron during the summer months. The trackage was originally part of the Cleveland, Terminal & Valley (later the BALTIMORE & OHIO) railroad, which hauled coal and coke to Cleveland's steel mills.
CVS CLEVELAND MARATHON AND 10K. See RITE AID CLEVELAND MARATHON AND 10K.
The CZECH CATHOLIC UNION is a national fraternal benefit society with its national headquarters located in Cleveland at 5349 Dolloff Rd. Organized in 1879 in Cleveland's St. Wenceslaus parish by Rev. Anthony Hynek, the union developed from that parish's St. Anne's Society, organized in 1867, and was known originally as the Bohemian Roman Catholic Central Union of Women. The union's first 2 branches were St.
CZECHS. Cleveland's Czech community forms one of the city's oldest and largest ethnic groups. Approximately 37,000 people of Czech birth or background resided in the metropolitan area in the 1990s. The term Czech refers collectively to Bohemians, Moravians, and Silesians. Czechs immigrated to America and settled in Cleveland in three distinct waves.
CZELUSNIAK, MARY ELLEN (14 Oct. 1935 - 23 Sep. 2020) was a proud deaf woman who ministered to the Catholic hearing impaired community of Cleveland. One of three siblings, Czelusniak was born to Edward Martin and Catherine McDonnell Kenneley.
CZOLGOSZ, LEON F. (1873-29 Oct. 1901), the assassin of Pres. Wm. McKinley, was born in Detroit to Polish immigrants. The family settled in Cleveland in 1891.
D'AMICO, ARNOLD (3 September 1923 - 2 August 1996) was mayor of SOUTH EUCLID for 20 years. Born in Warren, Ohio, to Anna (Rossi), a homemaker, and Joseph D'Amico, a steelworker and bartender, he graduated from Kent State University in 1949.
D’ARCY, EAMON (July 17, 1928 - May 16, 2014) was a master stonecutter and Irish American community leader who created the Irish Famine Memorial in the FLATS.
DA SILVA, HOWARD (4 May 1909-16 Feb. 1986) regarded his native Cleveland as a "second city" long after he had left to achieve stardom as an actor on Broadway and in films. Moving with his family from Cleveland at the age of 1, he was raised in the Bronx, N.Y., and completed his education at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.
The DAILY CLEVELANDER gave Cleveland its first penny newspaper on 1 Oct. 1855. It was edited by William J. May, formerly of the CLEVELAND HERALD, who provided its 4 5-column pages with some lively writing.
The DAILY FOREST CITY was founded on 26 Apr. 1852 by Joseph Meharry Medill, who had moved to Cleveland after brief publishing experiences in Coshocton and Newark, OH. A penny paper of 4 pages, it supported Whig politics and soon claimed a circulation of 5,000. By its second year, Medill was joined by his brother, Jas. C. Medill, as partner and coeditor. On 15 Oct.
The DAILY GLOBE followed the Cleveland Times (1845) and the DAILY NATIONAL DEMOCRAT (1859) as the third attempt to displace the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER as the area's chief Democratic newspaper. Its backers ranged from Jefferson and S. B. Palm of Warren, OH, to U.S.
The DAILY LEGAL NEWS publishes all court activity, including mandatory legal advertising, as the official reporter of Cuyahoga County. It was started on 28 Nov. 1885 as the Daily Court Record by Edmund W. Bowers, a newspaper reporter, and Francis M. Chandler, a deputy county clerk. Located originally in the former county courthouse at Rockwell and Seneca (W. 3rd) St.
The DAILY MORNING MERCURY was one of the half-dozen publications that made their debuts in the local media explosion of 1841. Specializing in police reports, it was started in early September by Edward Burke Fisher and Calvin Hall.
The DAILY MORNING NEWS may have been a regeneration of the EAGLE-EYED NEWS-CATCHER, since publisher Gage Mortimer Shipper had been associated with David L. Wood in the publication of that newspaper. Further evidence is provided by a reference in the CLEVELAND HERALD of 2 Aug.
The DAILY NATIONAL DEMOCRAT, established by pro-administration Democrats protesting the pro-Douglas position of the PLAIN DEALER, first appeared on 3 Jan. 1859. Benjamin Harrington, who also replaced Plain Dealer publisher JOSEPH W.
The DAILY TRUE DEMOCRAT began as the True Democrat, a weekly published in OLMSTED FALLS, OH, in 1846. From its first daily issue of 12 Jan. 1847, however, it carried a Cleveland dateline.
DAISY HILL was the country estate and farm of O. P. AND M. J. VAN SWERINGEN, developers of SHAKER HTS. and the CLEVELAND UNION TERMINAL complex.
DALEY, MARY DOWLING (July 20, 1923 - February 12, 2010) was a freelance writer who helped create and lead Peoples and Cultures, a group dedicated to fostering mutual respect among Cleveland’s ethnic groups.
DALL, ANDREW JR. (30 Mar. 1850-4 Feb. 1923) was a building contractor who, with his father, ANDREW DALL SR. (1821-1887), formed ANDREW DALL & SON, prominent building contractors during late 19th-and early 20th-century Cleveland.
DALL, ANDREW SR. (ca. 1821- 22 Nov. 1887) was a building contractor, stone cutter and mason who, together with his son, ANDREW DALL, JR. (1850-1923) formed ANDREW DALL & SON, building contractors, prominent during late 19th-century Cleveland.
DALTON, HENRY GEORGE (3 Oct. 1862-27 Dec. 1939) was an industrialist, business and civic leader and philanthropist.
Dalton was born in Cleveland to Frederick and Ellen (Gordon). He attended Cleveland public schools until age 14 when he went to work on WHISKEY ISLAND for the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad.
DAMERON, TADLEY “TADD” EWING was born Tadley Ewing Peake (February 14, 1917- March 8, 1965) in Cleveland to Ruth Harris Dameron (then Ruth Harris Peake) and Isaiah Peake. By 1924, his parents had divorced and his mother remarried Aldophus Dameron, who adopted Dameron.
DAN DEE PRETZEL & POTATO CHIP CO., was a family-run snack food business for over 70 years, and was a major brand throughout Ohio, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and New York. It began in 1913 when childhood friends Harry Albert Orr and Charles V. Pike started manufacturing and distributing pretzels by hand in Braddock, Pennsylvania.
DANCE. Since the turn of the century, dance as a performing art has had a steady growth in Cleveland. Cleveland's initial exposure to dance was through international touring artists who performed in local theaters. Over time Cleveland created support for dance through patrons of the arts, local arts organizations, colleges, and universities.
DANCE HALLS. During much of the 20th century, social dancing was one of the major recreational activities in industrial cities such as Cleveland. During the peak years between the 1920s and the 1950s, there were over 150 dance halls accessible to Greater Clevelanders, not including several hundred more dance floors in HOTELS, nightclubs, and private halls.
DANCECLEVELAND was established in 1956 as the Cleveland Modern Dance Assn. to promote modern dance in Greater Cleveland. A nationally recognized organization headquartered at 1148 Euclid Ave., it has, from the outset, focused its classes and programs on progressive concepts in dance and defined its purpose in public involvement and performance presentation. By donating its reference collection of books to the Cleveland Hts.
DANDRIDGE, DOROTHY (9 Nov. 1923-8 Sept. 1965), Cleveland-born black nightclub entertainer and movie actress, who earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination in 1954, was influenced by her mother, Ruby, a screen and radio actress. Dorothy entered show business at 5 as part of a singing trio with her mother and sister, Vivian.
The DAUBY CHARITY FUND was founded in 1944 in Cleveland by NATHAN L. DAUBY, to support general charitable causes, primarily in Cuyahoga County. Upon Dauby's death, grants from his estate went to Western Reserve Univ. (see CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV.), the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Ctr., and the Natl.
DAUBY, NATHAN L. (31 May 1873-17 May 1964), who built the MAY CO. into the city's largest department store, was born in Cleveland to David and Lena Loeb Dauby. He started work at 15 as a clerk in shoe store, and became its manager 2 years later. In 1892, Dauby and Emil Strauss opened Dauby & Strauss, the city's first one-price shoe store.
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. See PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES.
DAVID N. MYERS UNIVERSITY has a long history as a private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher education awarding associate and baccalaureate degrees, mainly in occupational programs in business and commerce technologies, although it recently expanded to include an MBA program beginning in January 2000.
DAVIES, THOMAS D. (3 Nov.1914-21 Jan. 1991), set a long distance aviation record in 1946 by flying nonstop from Perth, Australia to Columbus, Ohio, and invented the sky compass for navigation near the Earth's magnetic poles.
DAVIS CUP MATCHES have been played in the Cleveland area 10 times in the history of the international tennis competition, and in 1964, it was the site of the first Davis Cup final played in the Midwest. In all, greater Cleveland has been the site of 6 preliminary rounds (1960, 1961, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1979) and 4 championship matches (1964, 1969, 1970, 1973). Robert S.
DAVIS, ALAN (10 March 1925 - 18 Sept. 1999) was the executive director of the CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND and an activist preacher who devoted his life to fighting for the oppressed and serving the poor. Davis was born in Shelby, Ohio, to Dorthy (Judkins) and Thoburn Davis.
DAVIS, BENJAMIN OLIVER JR. (18 December 1912 - 4 July 2002) was an AFRICAN AMERICAN pilot, Airforce General, and WW2 commander who temporarily served as Cleveland’s