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Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA

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Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles (100 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location at the head of numerous canals and railroad lines. With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Cleveland's businesses have diversified into the service economy, including the financial services, insurance, and healthcare sectors. Cleveland is also noted for its association with rock music; the city is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

As of the 2000 Census, the city proper had a total population of 478,403, and was then the 33rd largest city in the nation and the second largest city in Ohio. It is the center of Greater Cleveland, the largest metropolitan area in Ohio, which spans several counties and is defined in several different ways by the Census Bureau. The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area which in 2000 ranked as the 23rd largest in the United States with 2,250,871 people. Cleveland is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area, which in 2000 had a population of 2,945,831, and ranked as the country's 14th largest.

In studies conducted by The Economist in 2005, Cleveland and Pittsburgh were ranked as the most livable cities in the United States, and the city was ranked as the best city for business meetings in the continental U.S. The city faces continuing challenges, in particular from concentrated poverty in some neighborhoods and difficulties in the funding and delivery of high-quality public education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland,_Ohio

Events/Places of Interest

Article genealogybank.com  "An enterprising voter of Cleveland, Ohio, voted three times for a sheriff of Cuyahoga county in the late election. Of course, a candidate so ably voted fro was elected, and the voter, having been convicted of voting, was sent to the penitentiary for three years. One good turn deserves another, and the sheriff for whom the voter voted saw him safely to the prison." Date: December 25, 1874 Location: Louisiana Paper: New Orleans Times

Article genealogybank.com  "Arrests are being made in Cleveland, Ohio, under the school laws prohibiting employers from having children under fourteen years of age in their employ during school hours, when not compelled to work on account of poverty." Date: March 05, 1880 Location: Georgia Paper: Macon Weekly Telegraph

Article genealogybank.com  "They are having a cholera scare in Cleveland, Ohio. Two members of the same family died after an illness of twelve hours duration. The disease certainly resembled cholera. Three other members of the same family were stricken, with every prospect of a fatal termination in their cases." Date: April 16, 1885 Location: North Dakota Paper: Bismarck Tribune

DEATH IN A STORM. Loss of Life and Property in a Hurricane.   FOUR KILLED IN CLEVELAND. Number of Others Injured, Some of Whom May Die - Many Buildings Destroyed and Crops Damaged - CLEVELAND, May 24. - A terrific windstorm struck this city a 9 o'clock yesterday morning. Four men were instantly killed and many injured in the numerous casualties. Two men were killed at the Cleveland rollingmills in Newburg during the cyclone. The new steel cupola was blown down and four men who were on the scaffold fell 80 feet. Jake Bavish was killed instantly. An Italian, named Mike, was caught by a steel beam and crushed to death. It required jacks to lift the beam from his body which was horribly crushed. Tommy McGucc had both legs and back broken and will die. Another unknown man was severely injured, but will recover. The steel cupola is a total wreck. A scaffolding at the New Bradley building, corner of Erie and Superior streets, was blown down and four men were injured: William O'Neill, Miles Johnson, Michael Murphy and Michael Hughes. The injured were taken to a hospital. Telephone, telegraph, electric light and street railway wires were terribly mixed up. The trolley current was grounded in the public square by a broken guyrope of the electric light masts, causing a pyrotechnic display and blockade of cars. Another casualty caused by the severity of the storm was the destruction of a 2-story frame house at the corner of Doan and Superior streets. It was blown down and John Cole buried beneath the debris. When taken out the man was in a terrible condition, and death soon followed after intense suffering. Reports from nearly all the cities and towns in northern and eastern Ohio show that the wind played havoc. Houses were unroofed and trees blown down and wheat injured. No deaths in Columbus. The wind unroofed the dormitory of the state university. Daily Advocate, Newark, OH 24 May 1893

1898 - Struck by a Motor.    Had it not been for the rude action of a horrid, old, Big Consolidated motor Martin Wing of Rhodes avenue would not have been carried to Charity hospital in McGorray’s ambulance last night. There was a sort of ambulance men’s convention on the Superior street viaduct shortly after Wing tried to drive in front of the moving motor in his new spring wagon at about 5:30 p. m. Pedestrians who saw the accident immediately ran in all directions for the telephone in order to get an ambulance. Their combined efforts succeeded in starting all the business portion of town, as people naturally inferred when they saw the hospital wagons running by in twos and threes that some great calamity had happened. McGorray’s arrived first, however, to find Wing with his head bruised and his forehead cut above the eye. Wing’s wagon was still good for burning purposes and the horse was all right. Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 28 May 1898

A Massachusetts Man's Big Luck - Gate Tender on a Railroad to Get a Large Slice.   The Times Special Service. WORCESTER, Mass., Saturday, June 7. - Family records expected daily from the parish priest at Lanoraie in Quebec are expected to establish the claim of Joseph A. Demars, a gate tender of the Boston & Albany Railroad to a share of the $8,000,000 which has been in possession of the city authorities of Cleveland, O., since 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Demars, in case they are able to prove their claim, will have to share the fortune with the families of Mrs. Loiuse Caisse, Alfred Caisee, Henry Caisse and three sisters, and Mrs. Frank Belville. Fiction never furnishes a stranger romance than that of the Caisse millions and the efforts of the Caisse family to prove their kinship to the mysterious real estate man who died in Cleveland nearly forty years ago. Men and women have grown old in hope of eventually becoming wealthy, families have increased and multiplied until now, should the fortune be divided, a liberal estimate would give those having claims only about $300,000 each. Family Came from Canada. The family comes from Canada. So did Leonard Caisse, the multi-millionaire of Cleveland. After his death heirs were advertised for, and over 200 put in claims, but were unable to establish them. Further proofs of the family of this millionaire have come to light which has caused the Cleveland authorities to issue another call for heirs to the millions to appear and put in their claims. A dispatch from Middletown, N. Y., gives details of the death of owneres of real estate which constitutes the property. Pierre Bourdon, a real estate man of 1122A de Mountigny street and Joseph Prud'homme, a carpenter of 265 Plessis Street, Montreal, were grandsons of the brother of Leonard Caisse, who died at Sarah Scorskending, Huron County, Ohio, leaving to his sons, Absolon and Leonard, his fortune, which he made by speculating in Cleveland real estate when the city was young. Proofs in an Old Bible These two sons of the Canadian millionaire died intestate and without direct heirs, the last in 1880. Many have Americanized the name from Caisse to Case, and it was despaired of ever locating the rightful heirs until J. E. Durham of Huron County, Ohio, discovered the proofs. He was demolishing an old barn on a newly acquired piece of property when he discovered in ruins and old Bible. The fly leaves of this book contained the genealogy of the millionaire's family in complete detail and in his handwriting. From the details it was learned that a brother had lived in Lanoraie, a small town between Montreal and Quebec. The brother was a farmer, Antoine Caisse and was the heir to the property after the two sons died. He evidently never knew of the fortune left by his brother, and later by his nephews. It is through their relationship with this Antoine Caisse that Prud'homme and Bourdon of Montreal expected to get the money, as they are the grandchildren of Antoine Caisse on the meternal [sic] side. Mayor is Asked to Act. These Montreal men have applied to the Mayor, asking him to inform the Mayor of Cleveland of their relationship to Antoine Caisse, and to assist them in getting the $8,000,000. "This old Lanoraie farmer, Antoine Caisse," said Mr. Demars, "was my wife's father's uncle. I knew him well, as I was born in Lanoraie. My wife and all her people, with the exception of one brother, Camille, were born in this little town, too. There has been much talk over this property. "We felt for years that we were the real descendants of the Canadian millionaire, but had nothing to prove it with more than the family name. About eighteen or twenty years ago the matter came up, but we could do nothing, and when I read this story I knew in a minute the necessary proofs had been found. "This Antoine Caisse is the very link in the family which gives us the proof. We believed all the time that he should have had the money, but he could not establish a relationship, or did not try, and when my wife's people tried, they could not do it. "The finding of the genealogy written by the millionaire furnishes just the proof we wanted." Date: June 07, 1902 Location: Washington Paper: Seattle Daily Times

Ancestors Who Were Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA

Agacki
Donald Joseph Agacki (28 Sep 1929,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-24 May 2001,Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)	Joseph Agacki (4 Jun 1927,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-9 Dec 1929,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)	Joseph John Agacki (25 Jul 1907,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-09 Jan 1938,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)
Bowen
Lyman Leavitt Bowen (04 Apr 1894,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-,)
Cullen
Frank T Cullen (abt. 1900,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-aft. 1940,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)
Hausmann
Adam Charles Hausmann (23 Aug 1880,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-17 Mar 1939,Hollywood, Broward, Florida, USA)
Kreuzberg
Celia M Kreuzberg (1892,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-aft. 1941,)
Olsavsky
Elizabeth E Olsavsky (6 Aug 1911,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-5 May 2001,Westlake, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)	Margaret Olsavsky (15 Feb 1908,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-25 Mar 1992,Lake County, Ohio)

Ancestors Who Died in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA

Agacki
Joseph Agacki (4 Jun 1927,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-9 Dec 1929,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)	Joseph John Agacki (25 Jul 1907,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-09 Jan 1938,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)
Cullen
Frank T Cullen (abt. 1900,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA-aft. 1940,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)
Dodson
Thomas Dodson (4 Feb 1840,Armitage, Yorkshire, England-28 Feb 1920,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)
Korch
Mae Alice Korch (4 May 1908,Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA-3 Sept 1972,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)
Kovacs
Mary Kovacs (abt. 1882,Austria-25 Dec 1942,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)
Olsavsky (Olsowski)
Andrew Olsavsky (Olsowski) (1881,Austria/Hungary (Slovakia)-29 Dec 1927,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)
Theinert
Gladys E Theinert (09 Sep 1898,Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, USA-15 Nov 1922,Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA)

Cemeteries

Calvary Cemetery

West Park Cemetery

Reference Sources

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