The CLEVELAND WOMAN'S CLUB provided Cleveland women with a place to hold meetings, entertain guests, and attend lectures and musical entertainments for more than 30 years. Set up as the not-for-profit Womens' Club House Assn. in 1908, the organization changed its charter to become a for-profit body in 1910 so as to realize its objectives.
The CLEVELAND WOMEN'S ORCHESTRA was formed in 1935 to give women with a desire for a musical outlet the opportunity to participate in an orchestral experience. HYMAN SCHANDLER, the founder, was motivated by the dearth of women then participating in symphony orchestras. The Cleveland group survived to become the oldest women's orchestra in the United States and the world.
CLIFFORD, CARRIE WILLIAMS, (Sept. 1862- 10 Nov. 1934) was a noted orator, poet, suffragist, and an activist for women and AFRICAN AMERICANS.
The CLYTEAN CLUB is a women’s book club that has met continuously since its founding in Cleveland in 1897. Its original name, The Twelve, reflected a membership cap of twelve people, while the name "Clytean” pays homage to the Greek myth of the nymph Clytie, who according to myth was transformed into a flower to always face the sun, which the club interpreted as an ongoing quest for knowledge.
The COLLEGE CLUB OF CLEVELAND, located at 2348 Overlook Road in CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, was founded in 1898 as a social, civic, educational, and philanthropic organization of and for women who had graduated from accredited colleges.
COPE, BETTY (20 Dec. 1925 – 14 Sep. 2013), a Cleveland native, was a woman director in the male-dominated early days of television. She led the way to found WVIZ TV (Channel 25) and bring educational television to Northeast Ohio. She was the first woman to become the president and general manager of a major market TV station in the US.
CORLETT, SELENE (13 Oct. 1864-8 Feb.1943) was a milliner and dressmaker who organized a training school which prepared 260 women to work in hospitals, factories, at the AMERICAN RED CROSS, CLE CHAPTER, and on streetcars during WORLD WAR I.
CORRIGAN, LAURA MAE (2 Jan. 1879-22 Jan. 1948), an international socialite, was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Charles and Emma Whitrock. She married, then divorced, physician Duncan R. MacMartin in Chicago. In 1917 she married Jas. W. Corrigan, son of a founder of the Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co.
COTNER, MERCEDES R. (March 1905-29 Nov.
COYLE, GRACE LONGWELL (22 March 1892-8 March 1962), sociologist, author, and educator, specialized in social reform through group activity while professor at the School of Applied Sciences of Western Reserve University (WRU, later CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY) for almost 30 years.
COYNE, MARY FRANCES (June 8, 1933-January 15, 2023) was a businesswoman, civic volunteer, and active charitable organizer. She was born to Irish immigrant parents James O’Rourke and Mary Burke, who hailed from Counties Down and Galway, respectively.
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CUTTER, ANNIE SPENCER (20 Feb. 1877-26 Mar. 1957), teacher and librarian, extended CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY services to junior and senior high schools throughout the city. Cutter was born in Cleveland to Charles Long and Annie Spencer Cutter. She grew up on Woodland Ave. and attended CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.
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.
DEIKE, CLARA L. (1881-13 March 1964) was a distinguished Cleveland artist and art teacher. Born in Detroit, Mich., she came to Cleveland as a child to receive her education at CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, the Cleveland Normal Training School, and the Cleveland School of Art (see CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART).
DEVINE, MARGARET CRILE GARRETSON (2 Feb. 1901-17 Jan. 1993), civic leader, helped train WOMEN to work in war plants during WORLD WAR II. Devine was born in Cleveland, the 1st child and oldest daughter of Grace McBride and GEORGE W. CRILE, SR.
DEWALD, LOUISE (3 Nov. 1877-12 Oct. 1954) was, for many years, the highest-ranking woman in Cleveland's city government. She rose through the department ranks to become Commissioner of Cemeteries (1925-42), possibly the only woman cemetery commissioner in the U.S. Daughter of William and Catherine (Klump) Dewald, she was a Cleveland native and public school graduate.
DIXON, ARDELIA BRADLEY (3 June 1916-16 Oct. 1991) served on the CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY (CPL) board of trustees (1980-88), as chair of both the personnel and community services committees and as secretary.
The DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA were organized in Cleveland in 1965 as a nonprofit association to study and respond to the workers' personal, economic, and social needs. It was the first successful attempt to organize noncommercial domestic workers in the country and operated as an employment referral service for area day workers.
EASTMAN, LINDA ANNE (7 July 1867-5 Apr. 1963) became in 1918 the first woman in the United States to head a metropolitan library system. She oversaw the construction of the main library on Superior Avenue in the 1920s and led the system through the darkest days of the Depression.
ELLSLER, EFFIE (4 Apr. 1854-8 Oct. 1942), a member of the famous Ellsler theatrical family and known as "Cleveland's Sweetheart" from the 1870s to 1900s, learned to perfect the art of emotional distress and extravagant gesture so popular during the pre-Ibsen period of stage and screen.
The ELOISE FLAGLER VAIL-KNIGHT RESIDENCE, located at 2193 Harcourt Dr.
EVANS, DINA REES (DOC) (19 June 1891-20 Jan.
