We always focus on women from the Cleveland during Women’s History Month. For 2023 we look at Bernice Goetz, Nina F. Gibans, Frances Payne Bolton and Dorothy Dandridge. Bernice Goetz Bernice Goetz was born in Cleveland in 1909. She graduated from West Commerce High School and used the money from her first job at an […]
For 2023 Black History, as usual we focus on Cleveland Black History, but this year we focus on some famous African-Americans in the field of entertainment who are from Cleveland. Cleveland has no shortage of famous actors and musicians. Here we look at four of them. Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman was born in Cleveland. She […]
March is Women’s History Month and once again we will look at Cleveland Women’s History, focusing on six Cleveland women who have made a difference here in our city and beyond. Stephanie Tubbs Jones Stephanie Tubbs Jones (1949 – 2008) was the first African-American woman elected to the U. S. Congress from Ohio. She was […]
As we do each Black History Month, we focus on Cleveland Black History and highlight local African-Americans who have shaped Cleveland’s history. We will highlight one of these individuals each week on the company’s social media this month. For 2022 we take a look at George Peake, Harry E. Davis, Charles H. Garvin and Garrett […]
Joanne Siegel (born Jolan Kovacs) was born in Cleveland in 1917. She wanted to be a model and placed an ad in the paper looking for modeling work. Joe Shuster and his partner, Joel Siegel hired Joanne to model for sketches for a character in a comic book they were creating. That character would be […]
Margaret Bourke-White is known as a pioneer in industrial photography. She was born in New York City in 1904 and graduated from Cornell in 1927. She moved to Cleveland to be near her mother and this is where her interest in industrial photography began. Cleveland Years She went to the owner of the Otis Steel […]
George A. Myers is often referred to as Cleveland’s best barber. But his influence extended beyond the chair and the shop. Myers was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1859. He graduated high school but was denied entrance into the city college because of his race. He would learn to become a barber and move to […]
Jane Edna (Harris) Hunter was born in South Carolina in 1882, the daughter of sharecroppers. She trained to become a nurse and eventually moved to Cleveland where she attended the Marshall Law School and passed the Ohio Bar exam. Her Work In 1911, she organized the Working Girls Association, which later would become known as […]
John Patterson Green was born in North Carolina in 1845 but he and his family moved to Cleveland in 1857. He attended Central High School in downtown Cleveland in the late 1860’s. He studied law and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1870. John Patterson Green has the distinction of being the first African […]
Riverside Cemetery was created for the residents on the west side of Cleveland in 1875. Prior to this there were only small cemeteries in the area and the residents wanted to establish a larger cemetery that could accommodate future generations. Titus N. Brainard would sell around 100 acres his land to establish Riverside. It was […]
