WEST PARK, is a section of Cleveland’s west side that comprises four distinct neighborhoods (Statistical Planning Areas) as delineated by the Cleveland Planning Commission: RIVERSIDE,
The WEST SHORE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, an offshoot of the First Unitarian Church organized in 1867, is one of a pair of Unitarian churches on the city's extreme east and west sides. The West Shore Church began its independent existence with a series of lectures given by the minister of First Unitarian (then at Euclid and E. 82nd St.), Rev. Everett M. Baker, in 1945 at the Lakewood Community Ctr.
The WEST SIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE, a settlement house serving Cleveland's near west side which opened in May 1922, has roots in the Methodist Episcopal Deaconness Home. The Women's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened the home in Apr. 1890 (inc. Jan. 1892). Located at 1058 E. Madison Ave. (E.
The WEST SIDE ECUMENICAL MINISTRY, founded in 1966, is dedicated to making the west side a better place to live. This community and service organization serves a multi-cultural constituency through 12 core programs. The ministry is an ecumenical agency where churches from different denominations work together through social development programs.
The WEST SIDE FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSN. was one of Cleveland's oldest savings and loans. Founded by GERMAN immigrants, the Cleveland West Seite Bauverein Co. began in 1886 with a capital of $439,000 and an office at 2621 Lorain Ave.
WEST SIDE IRISH AMERICAN CLUB. See IRISH AMERICAN CLUB WEST SIDE.
The WEST SIDE JEWISH CENTER was organized as B'nai Israel in 1910 by 10 Orthodox families, who rented a hall at 2525 Lorain Rd. for services. The center was the second Jewish congregation founded on the west side. The first was Oheb Zedek Hungarian Congregation, an Orthodox synagogue established about 1883 at the southwest corner of Lorain Ave. and Root (W. 47th) St.
The WEST SIDE MARKET, Cleveland's oldest publicly owned market, began in 1840 when JOSIAH BARBER and RICHARD LORD gave OHIO CITY a tract of land at the corner of Pearl (W. 25th) and Lorain streets with the stipulation that it always be kept as a public market site.
WEST, THOMAS DYSON (31 Aug. 1851-18 June 1915), pioneer in factory safety and authority on foundry practice, was born in Manchester, England, the son of William H. and Sara (Faraday) West who came to America when he was an infant. After receiving a grammar school education, he began work in a foundry at age 12.
WESTERN ELECTRIC CO., the manufacturing and supply subsidiary of AT&T, was founded in Cleveland in 1869. The company evolved from a telegraph supply shop bought by Geo. W. Shawk in 1856. Shawk sold out to Enos M. Barton and Elisha Gray in 1869, who then formed Gray & Barton to manufacture fire and burglar alarms and telegraph equipment at 93 St. Clair (498 W. St. Clair). The partnership, which soon included Gen.
The WESTERN FRATERNAL LIFE ASSN. is a Czech-American fraternal-benefit society based in Cedar Rapids, IA. Known until 1971 as the Western Bohemian Fraternal Assn., the organization was founded in 1897 by lodges of the Czech-Slavonic Benevolent Society which left that organization to form a new association that admitted women as equal members and based insurance premiums on the age of the policyholder.
The WESTERN RESERVE (aka New Connecticut, or the Connecticut Western Reserve) encompassed approximately 3.3 million acres of land in what is now northeastern Ohio. Bounded on the north by Lake Erie and on the east by Pennsylvania, it extended 120 miles westward to Sandusky Bay.
The WESTERN RESERVE AREA AGENCY ON AGING (WRAAA), established in 1973 under the mandate of the federal Older Americans Act, has planned and coordinated community-based services for persons 60 years and older living in Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, and Cuyahoga counties. WRAAA is one of 12 regional agencies on aging in Ohio, all part of the National Network on Aging.
The WESTERN RESERVE BUILDING, 1468 W. 9th St., is one of 3 tall office buildings designed by the firm of Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham built in Cleveland between 1889-93. Erected in 1891-92, its structure is transitional between that of the other two, the Society Natl. Bank Building (1889-90) and the CUYAHOGA BLDG. (1892-93, demolished 1982).
The WESTERN RESERVE CHILD WELFARE COUNCIL (1911-17) represented the first organizational effort to regulate services for CHILDREN AND YOUTH in Cleveland. The council resulted from the Western Reserve Conference on the Care of Neglected and Dependent Children, held on 17-19 November 1910, a year after the White House Conference on Dependent Children.
The WESTERN RESERVE CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE (WRCWRT) was founded in 1965 by Dr. William Mahoney of Olmsted Falls, OH.
The WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY is Cleveland's oldest existing cultural institution. Founded 28 May 1867 as the Western Reserve & Northern Ohio Historical Society, it was initially a branch of the CLEVELAND LIBRARY ASSN.
The WESTERN RESERVE NUMISMATIC CLUB, an organization of coin collectors, was established 9 Nov. 1921 by 6 numismatists, meeting at Weber's Restaurant in downtown Cleveland. It was the third club ever to register with the American Numismatic Association. Moses Marcusson, the club's first president, served until 1924.
WESTERN RESERVE PRESBYTERIAL ASSN. See PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN.
The WESTERN SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY, the western branch of the American Seaman's Friend Society, organized in Cleveland on 10 Nov. 1830 and was chartered by the Ohio Senate on 9 Mar.
The WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP., established by Geo. Westinghouse in 1886, was an early manufacturer of electrical equipment that evolved into a multipurpose engineering firm. Westinghouse became a manufacturer in Cleveland partly as the result of an 1894 patent-infringement lawsuit against the Cleveland-based Walker Mfg. Co.
WESTLAKE, originally part of Dover Twp. (org. 1810), incorporated as Dover Village in 1911, was named Westlake in 1940, and incorporated as a city in 1957. It is 12 mi.
WESTLAKE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. See FRANKLIN CIRCLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST).
The WESTLAKE HOTEL, built in 1925 and dubbed the "pink palace" by locals, was one of the first luxury suburban hotels in the nation. Located at Detroit Ave.
WESTLAKE REED LESKOSKY, an architectural firm, was founded in 1905 by ABRAM GARFIELD, son of President JAMES GARFIELD. In 1897, Garfield moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to work with fellow architect FRANK MEADE after completing his studies at M.I.T.
WESTON, JACK (21 August 1924-3 May 1996), was a well-known Broadway, TV, and film actor. He was originally named Jack Weinstein, born to parents Morris Weinstein and Anna Tizer, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, with his brother, Sam.
WESTROPP, CLARA E. (7 July 1886-25 June 1965), cofounder of WOMEN'S FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK and a leading supporter of Roman Catholic missions, was born in Cleveland to Thos. P. and Clara Stoeckel Westropp, graduated from West High School and Dyke School of Commerce, and later studied at the Savings & Loan Institute in Mercersburg, Pa.
WESTROPP, LILLIAN MARY (9 May 1884-15 Aug. 1968), Cleveland Municipal Court judge and cofounder of WOMEN'S FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK, was born in Cleveland to Thos. P.
The WESTSIDE TORNADO OF 1953 hit the westside neighborhoods of Cleveland on June 8,1953.
WESTVIEW VILLAGE, southwest of Cleveland, was bounded by BEREA on the east, the Cuyahoga County Line on the south, OLMSTED TWP. on the west, and OLMSTED FALLS and Olmsted Twp. on the north. The village occupied 2.45 sq. mi.
WEWS (Channel 5), the first television station in Ohio and only the 16th in the nation, went on the air officially on 17 Dec. 1947. Owned by the E.W. Scripps Co., publishers of the CLEVELAND PRESS, its call letters were chosen to represent the initials of the company's founder, EDWARD WYLLIS SCRIPPS.
WEY, ALEXANDER JOSEPH (12 Dec. 1896-17 Nov. 1981) was an influential Catholic layman who devoted half a century to the service of the religious press. The son of John and Barbara Way of Cleveland, he attended St. Mary High School and in 1917 began working for the Catholic Bulletin, a weekly founded in 1911 by his brother, Linus G. Wey. At the request of Bp.
WEYGANDT, CARL (14 June 1888-4 Sept. 1964), lawyer and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio 30 years, was born near Wooster, Ohio to Cora (Mock) and Common Pleas Judge Wm. E. Weygandt. He graduated from Wooster College in 1912. After teaching 3 years he entered Western Reserve University Law School, graduated and was admitted to the bar in 1918.
WGAR radio was founded in 1930 by Geo. A. Richards, a Michigan millionaire and owner of WJR in Detroit. After an hour of congratulatory messages on 15 Dec. 1930, WGAR switched over to "Amos `n' Andy," on the NBC Blue Network. Operating from a penthouse studio in the Hotel Statler, WGAR broadcast on 500 watts at 1,450 kilocycles. Under general manager John F.
WHAT SHE WANTS, "Cleveland's Monthly Feminist and Lesbian Newspaper," published its first issue in May 1973. It began as an effort by a group of WOMEN to provide a voice for the woman's movement in Cleveland. The paper was at first distributed on a small scale, in places like Coventry Books in CLEVELAND HTS.
The WHEELING & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD, planned to run from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to ports on Lake Erie, was founded in 1871. By 1877 only 13.5 mi. of track had been laid.
The WHIG PARTY in Cleveland was made up of former Federalists, anti-Masons, and national Republicans who opposed the limited government policies of the Democratic party and Pres. Andrew Jackson. The Whigs favored an activist national government that would support internal improvements and advocated a broad program of humanitarian reforms.
WHISKEY ISLAND is a triangular piece of land 1 mi. long and one-third mi. at its widest. On the near west side of Cleveland, the peninsula is bounded by Lake Erie to the north, (approx.) W. 54th St. on the west, and the CUYAHOGA RIVER to the south and east. The first piece of solid land amid the swamps lining the river, it was located nearly one-quarter mi.
WHITAKER, MAY TARBELL CANNON (15 Oct. 1858-14 July 1944) writer and civic leader, was elected to the Cleveland School Council (1900-04), served on the executive committees of both the state and the CUYAHOGA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY, and was an associate editor for the Cleveland PRESS in 1915.
WHITE CHARITABLE TRUST. See THOMAS H. WHITE CHARITABLE TRUST.
WHITE CITY was an amusement park located on Lake Erie at E. 140th St. Established in 1900, it was operated by Wm. R. Ryan, the former manager of EUCLID BEACH PARK. White City First known as "Manhattan Beach," its name was changed to White City soon afterward. Among the park's attractions were Bonavita the lion trainer and Madame Morelli the leopard trainer.
The WHITE CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION, INC., was founded in 1951 by WHITE CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES, INC., and the Tappan Co.
WHITE CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES, INC., a diversified conglomerate, was originally founded by THOS. H. WHITE as the White Mfg. Co. in 1866. Ten years later it was known as White Sewing Machine Co., with 600 employees producing the White Rotary Bobbin sewing machine in a 5-story factory on Canal St. Sales at the company reached $2.5 million by 1878.
The WHITE MOTOR CORP. was created out of the White Sewing Machine Co. (see WHITE CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES), begun by THOS. H. WHITE in 1876.
WHITE, CHARLES MCELROY (13 June 1891-10 Jan. 1977) was chairman and chief executive officer of REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION with a reputation as a tough labor negotiator opposing any intervention in collective bargaining.
WHITE, CHARLES W. (December 26, 1897-August 21, 1970), lawyer and civic servant, was the first AFRICAN AMERICAN common pleas judge in Ohio, appointed January 16, 1955 by Democratic governor Frank J.
WHITE, JOHN GRISWOLD (10 Aug. 1845-26 Aug. 1928), lawyer and bibliophile, was born in Cleveland to lawyer Bushnell White and Elizabeth Brainard (Clark)White. In 1865 White graduated from Western Reserve College and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He went into partnership with Robt. E. Mix and Judge Conway W. Noble in 1870.
WHITE, MOSES (25 Feb. 1791-1 Sept. 1881), early settler and very active in Cleveland's early religious life though a layman, was born in Warwick, Mass., son of Jacob and Catherine (Penniman) White. He trained as a tailor, and with his wife, Mary (Andrews), came to Cleveland in 1816 and operated a tailor shop for several decades.