The SEEANDBEE, once the largest and mostly costly inland steamer, began its career on the Great Lakes on 6 Nov. 1912. This 500', 6,381 gross tons all-steel ship could hold 1,500 passengers on its 4 decks. One of its features was an elegant ballroom.
SELDEN, GEORGE G. (13 Oct. 1915-18 Dec.
Selected List of Dance Halls and Ballrooms in Cuyahoga County
- Aragon (Olympic Winter Garden; Shadyside), 3179 W. 25th St., 1915-1993
- Argonne, 18810 Bridge Approach, 1930-
- Arnolds, 945 E. 152nd St.
- Banater Hall, 11934 Lorain Ave.
- Baumeils Hall, E. 34th & Woodland Ave.
- Bedford Glens, Glen Rd.
SELTZER, CHARLES ALDEN (15 Aug. 1875 - 9 Feb.
SEMENOFF, NIKOLAI PROKOFIEVITCH (12 Mar.
SEMON, JOHN (22 Feb. 1852-14 Dec. 1917) was a landscape painter associated with the group of 19th-century local artists known as the "Old Bohemians." Although he was born in Cleveland, little is known of his early life including his artistic education.
SENTER, GEORGE B. (1827-16 Jan. 1870), councilman, mayor, and military leader during the CIVIL WAR, was elected to Cleveland City Council from the 1st ward in 1858 and served as mayor from 1859-60. Senter, born in Potsdam, New York, was the son of David K. and Susan Senter.
SERBS. Although the Serbs are not one of Cleveland's largest ethnic groups, they have made themselves widely known throughout the city. Serbian immigration to Cleveland came in 2 main periods: from the beginning of the 20th century to the beginning of WORLD WAR I, and from the end of WORLD WAR II to the mid-1980s.
SERRAO, LUELLA A. VARNEY (11 August 1865–1935) was an American sculptor best known for her portraits of famous American figures. Her father was Joshua Davis Varney, a civil engineer. Luella was born in Angola, New York. She moved to Cleveland with her father in the late 1870s.
SETTLE, REV. DR. GLENN THOMAS (10 Oct. 1894-16 July 1967) was the pastor of GETHSEMANE BAPTIST CHURCH who organized and directed the famed African-American WINGS OVER JORDAN CHOIR. Born in Reidsville, North Carolina to Rubin and Mary Settle, he moved with his family to Uniontown, Pa.
SETTLEMENT HOUSES. Cleveland, along with Chicago, Boston, and New York, was one of the centers of the U.S. settlement-house movement. Local settlement work began in the late 1890s, and within a decade a half-dozen settlements operated in Cleveland neighborhoods.
SEVEN HILLS, originally part of Independence Twp., incorporated as a village in 1927 and as a city in 1961.
The SEVENTH NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS, held in Cleveland 23-27 Sept. 1935, drew 500,000 Catholics from around the nation. The congress was one of a series of such meetings held by the Roman Catholic Church to increase devotion to Jesus Christ present in the Eucharist. Bp.
SEVERANCE HALL debuted as the home of the CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA 12 years after the latter's formation in 1918. Initially, the Orchestra had performed at Grays Armory and Masonic Auditorium. Underwritten by JOHN L.
SEVERANCE TOWN CENTER, hailed as Ohio's first indoor shopping center, was erected at the corner of Mayfield and S. Taylor roads in CLEVELAND HTS. on the former site of the 161-acre estate of JOHN L. SEVERANCE (1863-1936) and later the residence of his nephew, Severance Millikin, who lived on the property until 1960.
SEVERANCE, CAROLINE M. (12 Jan. 1820-10 Nov. 1914), early feminist activist in Cleveland and known as America's first clubwoman, was born Caroline M. Seymour in Canandaigua, N.Y. Daughter of Orson and Caroline M. (Clarke) Seymour, she came to Cleveland with her family and at 20 married Theodoric C. Severance, a banker.
SEVERANCE, JOHN LONG (8 May 1863-16 Jan. 1936), industrialist, was born in Cleveland to Louis Henry and Fannie Benedict Severance. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1885 and returned to Cleveland to work for STANDARD OIL CO. In 1892 Severance left Standard Oil to work with the Cleveland Linseed Oil Co., a paint and varnish industry.
SEVERANCE, LOUIS HENRY (1 Aug. 1838-25 June 1913), treasurer of STANDARD OIL (1876-94), began his business career at the Commercial National Bank in Cleveland. Severance was the younger son of Solomon Lewis and Mary Long Severance. He attended the CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SEVERANCE, SOLOMON LEWIS (9 April 1812-13 July 1838) was the progenitor of one Cleveland's most prominent families and, also, one of Cleveland's earliest dry-goods merchants.
SEVERANCE, SOLON LEWIS (8 Sept. 1834-8 May 1915), banker and philanthropist, was born in Cleveland, the son of SOLOMON LEWIS and Mary Long Severance and grandson of Dr. DAVID LONG; was educated in district and private Cleveland schools; and became an office boy in a banking firm at 14.
SEWELL, JOSEPH WHEELER (9 Oct. 1898-6 Mar. 1990) outstanding CLEVELAND INDIANS baseball player for 11 years, was born in Wetumpka, Alabama, the son of Jabez Wesley and Susan Hannon Sewell, one of three brothers to play professional baseball.
SEWERS. See NORTHEAST OHIO REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT.
SHAKER HEIGHTS is a Cleveland inner-ring suburb 8 miles southeast of downtown. Originally part of WARRENSVILLE TWP., it covers 6.5 sq.
The SHAKER HEIGHTS COUNTRY CLUB, 3300 Courtland Blvd., SHAKER HTS., a private, invitational organization, was founded in 1913 as a result of dissension among the members of the Euclid Golf Club over long-range goals, possible relocation plans, and the restrictions on Sunday golf.
SHAKER HEIGHTS LANDMARKS are those buildings, sites, and areas of exceptional architectural or historical significance in that city. There are two types of landmarks in SHAKER HTS., those listed on the National Register, and those listed on the local level. The local landmarks are the result of designations by the Shaker Hts.
The SHAKER HEIGHTS RAPID TRANSIT, built by the VAN SWERINGEN brothers, provided a convenient transportation link from the residential properties they were developing in the suburb to the downtown commercial center.
The SHAKER HISTORICAL SOCIETY, at 16740 South Park Blvd. in SHAKER HTS., was founded on 21 Oct. 1947 to preserve the Shaker heritage and that of the area. The society also runs the Shaker Historical Museum, which is housed at the same address. Caroline Piercy, author of The Valley of God's Pleasure, served as the catalyst in establishing the society.
The SHAKER LAKES in Shaker and CLEVELAND HTS. are part of the Doan Brook Watershed. The 2 lakes were created in the mid-19th century by the NORTH UNION SHAKER COMMUNITY.
The SHAKER MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL was a small, community-oriented hospital that served as a lower-cost alternative for patients who did not require the services available in larger hospitals. Shaker Medical Ctr. was founded in July 1955 by Dr. Victor D. Ippolito as a voluntary, short-term general hospital.
SHAKER SQUARE is an early suburban shopping center in Cleveland built in 1927-29 in conjunction with the development of neighboring SHAKER HTS. Originally laid out as a traffic circle, the intersection of Shaker Blvd. and Moreland Blvd. was also the junction of the 2 branches of the SHAKER RAPID TRANSIT, the Green Rd.
SHAKER-LEE SYNAGOGUE grew out of a merger of two earlier Jewish congregations. Ohel Jacob was founded by Russian and Sephardic Jews in lower Woodland in 1915. In 1926 the congregation built a synagogue in Kinsman, where it remained until 1956, when it purchased a lot on Lee Rd. in SHAKER HTS.
The SHALHEVET INTL. FOLK ENSEMBLE was founded in 1968 by Paul and Carole Kantor to preserve and promote the folklore, dance, and music of all the lands in which the Jewish people have lived.
SHANKLAND, ROBERT SHERWOOD (11 Jan. 1908-5 Mar. 1982), physicist-educator and noted acoustical designer, was born in Willoughby, Ohio, to Frank N. and Margaret Jane Wedlock Shankland. After graduating from Willoughby High School, he attended Case School of Applied Science, receiving a B.S. in 1929 and an M.S.
SHANLEY, GIBSON "GIB" BERNARD (08 Aug. 1931- 06 Apr. 2008), longtime sports anchor for WEWS-TV and play-by-play announcer for the CLEVELAND BROWNS radio network, was born in Bellaire, Ohio, and grew up in Shadyside, a small nearby community.
SHAPIRO, EZRA ZELIG (7 May 1903-14 May 1977), attorney, Jewish community leader, and international Zionist figure, was born in Volozhin, Poland, to Esther (Brudno) and Rabbi Osias Shapiro. He was brought to Cleveland by his parents in 1906 and received his Jewish education in CLEVELAND HEBREW SCHOOLS.
The SHAUTER DRUG CO. was a small black-owned chain of drugstores established on 16 Apr. 1936 by ROBERT H. SHAUTER.
SHAUTER, ROBERT HARRIS (8 Oct. 1903-27 Dec. 1944), a successful black druggist and professional man, was born in Saybrook, Ohio, the son of Thomas J. and Florence L. Richardson Shauter.
SHAW, ELSA VICK (28 Jan. 1891-28 March 1974) was a Cleveland artist especially noted for her work in design. A native Clevelander, she and her future husband GLENN M.
SHAW, GLENN MOORE (6 Feb. 1891-22 Aug. 1981) achieved his reputation as a painter primarily on the strength of his murals. Born to Arthur B.
SHEPHERD, ARTHUR (19 Feb. 1880-12 Jan. 1958), prominent in Cleveland's musical community nearly 30 years, was born to Mormon parents, William Nathaniel B. and Emily Mary (Phips) Shepherd, in Paris, Idaho. He graduated from New England Conservatory of Music by 1897, and returned to Salt Lake City to organize and conduct the Salt Lake City Symphony Orchestra.
The SHEPPARD MURDER CASE (1954-66) assumed legal importance when Dr. Samuel Sheppard's 1954 conviction for the murder of his wife was set aside by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that the defendant was not sufficiently insulated from the excessive publicity surrounding the case, and thus was denied a fair trial in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
SHERA, JESSE HAUK (8 Dec. 1903-8 Mar. 1982), internationally respected librarian and library educator and dean of the School of Library Science at Western Reserve University (subsequently CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY), was born in Oxford, Ohio, the son of Charles H. and Jessie (Hauk) Shera. He received an A.B.
The SHERIFF ST. MARKET was the largest food market in Cleveland until completion of the WEST SIDE MARKET in 1912. Located on Sheriff (E. 4th) St. between Huron and Bolivar roads, it opened on Christmas Eve 1891. The market was built and operated by the privately owned Sheriff St. Market & Storage Co. with Jas. M. Jones as the first president.
SHERITH JACOB ISRAEL CONGREGATION (1899-1970), one of Cleveland's principal Orthodox Jewish congregations during the 1920s and 1930s, was established as Sherith Jacob Congregation on 20 October 1899 by 18 Jewish Hungarians who lived near East 20th Street and Orange Avenue. Services were initially held at Bernstein Hall on Perry and Orange streets.
The SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO., a pioneer in the development of the paint industry, was established in Cleveland in 1866 by Henry A. Sherwin. By 2005 the company's operations included over 2,600 paint stores, 139 automotive paint branches, and strong multi-brand paint franchises in architectural, industrial, and special purpose coatings. Business outside of the U.S.