Addeline was the wife of H. Pelton and died at the early age of 22 years during childbirth. She is one the earliest recorded burials in Monroe, predating the sale of the property to Brooklyn Township in 1836. Her tombstone is the type that is . . . — — Map (db m297917) HM
Westel Weed was a ship's carpenter who lived in Cleveland with his wife Mary and commuted to Vermilion to the shipyards that once were an economic factor in that small town. They purchased a grave plot at Monroe Street Cemetery and invested in a . . . — — Map (db m297922) HM
This facility is named in honor of Christopher Clavius, S.J. (circa 1537-1612), mathematician, astronomer, and professor at the Jesuits' Roman College.
Referred to as "the Euclid of the sixteenth century," Clavius wrote many textbooks and . . . — — Map (db m297926) HM
Elias Sims was born in Onondaga, New York, and as a young man worked as a laborer on the Erie Canal. Later he entered the business of dredging and by 1856 had moved to Cleveland working as a contractor dredging the old river bed. In addition to . . . — — Map (db m297912) HM
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a national association of Union Civil War veterans, founded in Springfield, Il, in 1866. Ten states, including Ohio, and the District of Columbia sent representatives to the GAR's first national convention . . . — — Map (db m297908) HM
The type of stone used for a grave marker can indicate what year range the gravestone is from. The oldest stones are local Ohio sandstone because early on in Cleveland's history it was difficult and expensive to transport stone over long . . . — — Map (db m297913) HM
Gustav Schaefer was born in Willmenrod, Germany in 1845 and emigrated to the US in 1866. his wife, Maria (Mary) was born in 1847, also in Germany, and emigrated to the US in 1872. They gave birth to two sons, Henry and Ernst, and three daughters, . . . — — Map (db m297907) HM
Henry Lord Whitman was born December 12, 1815 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. His wife, Susan Tisdale, was born in New York ca. 1818. Henry and Susan married while they were teenagers when she was only 15 and he was 18 years old. They had two . . . — — Map (db m297905) HM
Irvine U. Masters was born in New York and moved to Ohio in 1851 with his wife Naomi A. Bronson. He became a trustee of Ohio City and, in 1854, helped William B. Castle negotiate the merger between Cleveland and Ohio City. Masters served on . . . — — Map (db m297924) HM
Jacob Baehr, a native of Heidelberg came to America in 1850. At the behest of a brother living in Cleveland Jacob came here and established a Cooperage on Carroll Avenue. From 1857 to 1866 Jacob worked in Iowa for the Leisy & Brothers Brewery. . . . — — Map (db m297906) HM
Here was born (October 3, 1869) the man after whom the Heisman Football Trophy is named. The College Football Hall of Fame enshrines him as superior coach. Important pioneer game innovator. Father of: forward pass; center snap; interference on end . . . — — Map (db m295774) HM
Here was born (October 23, 1869) the man for whom the Heisman Football Trophy is named. The College Football Hall of Fame enshrines him as a superior coach. An important pioneer and game innovator, Heisman is considered the "Father" of the . . . — — Map (db m295775) HM
This block of W. 29th Street was home to Cleveland’s vibrant LGBT community and central to the development of the modern LGBT civil rights movement. In 1988, the Striebinger Building, at 1418 W. 29th, housed Cleveland’s Lesbian-Gay Community . . . — — Map (db m136926) HM
Market Square, home to the Pearl Street Market, was located on the corner of Pearl and Lorain Streets (now West 25th St. and Lorain Ave.) in what was then known as the City of Ohio. The land that Market Square occupies was donated by local . . . — — Map (db m136944) HM
Born in Oneida County, New York, Standart, at the age of 21. Moved to Milan, Ohio. He was a partner in the firm of Standart & Hamilton, entering the shipbuilding business in Huron. In 1836, Standart moved his business to Ohio City. Standart built . . . — — Map (db m297919) HM
Ohio City. Ohio City was originally part of Brooklyn Township, which was founded by Richard Lord and Josiah Barber in 1818. The township population increased rapidly with the completion of the Ohio Canal in 1832. The “City of Ohio” became an . . . — — Map (db m296347) HM
Thome was born in Augusta, Kentucky, son of Arthur and Mary Armstrong Thome. His father was a slaveowner and when Thome attended college in Augusta in 1833, and entered into Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, he was influenced by abolitionists and . . . — — Map (db m297914) HM
Born in Connecticut, Richard Lord was the son of Samuel Phillips and Rachel White Lord. Samuel was an investor in the Connecticut Land Company, acquiring land that became known as Brooklyn Township, in 1807, Richard and his brother-in-law Josiah . . . — — Map (db m297918) HM
In 1886, Bishop Richard Gilmour (1824-1891) of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Cleveland requested that the Jesuit superior of Buffalo
establish a high school on Cleveland’s west side. The Jesuits, an
order of the Roman Catholic Church founded by . . . — — Map (db m229238) HM
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Called “Station Hope” by many freedom seekers on the
Underground Railroad, St. John’s was one of their final stops.
Though aiding freedom seekers was a crime and often could
not be described in public documents, Sheila T. . . . — — Map (db m140134) HM
Thomas Holmden's father emigrated to the US in 1824 and by 1837 had settled on a 650 acre tract of land in western Pennsylvania. When he died in 1849 his sons split the land between them. The soil was so poor the Holmdens lived in poverty . . . — — Map (db m297923) HM
Walter M. Prentice, physician and army surgeon in the Civil War, was born in 1820 in Unionville, Lake County, Ohio, to Athalia and Noyes B. Prentice. Walter's father was a saddler who, in 1837, took part in military affairs as a captain of a . . . — — Map (db m297921) HM
The grand Gothic Revival gateway arch that frames the entrance was constructed in 1874. The arch is virtually identical to the one constructed at the Erie Street Cemetery. These gateways were designed by the architect Joseph Ireland . . . — — Map (db m136936) HM
This marker is made of "white bronze." They were all produced within a forty year time span, ca. 1873 to ca. 1913 but are not found universally since many cemeteries banned their use. The Monumental Bronze Company, a foundry in Bridgeport, . . . — — Map (db m297920) HM
Castle was born in Essex, Vermont, moved to Toronto in 1815 and settled in Cleveland in 1827. Later that year, Castle, his father, and Charles Giddings opened Cleveland's first lumberyard. Upon his father's death Castle returned to Ontario, . . . — — Map (db m297916) HM
William Kirk was born in Scotland. He became a bandsman in the British Army, served in India, and later was stationed at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Castle. He married Margaret Ann Beatten, on his 21st birthday in 1872. William left the Army and came . . . — — Map (db m297915) HM
