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- According to Glenda Thayer, Leonard was founder of the Western Reserve.
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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:18:17 +0000
From: lycru605@att.net
To: Case-Family-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [CASE mail list] Case Western Reserve Univ.
In reply to msg of Laurie Donovan-Case of 25 Sep and for other interested Cases. In 1877 Leonard Case, Jr., contributed the property in Cleveland on which was to be built the Case School of Applied Science, later combining with the Western Reserve College of Hudson, OH, which moved to Cleveland and they became "Case Western Reserve University." Leonard, Jr., died in 1880 owning downtown Cleveland and alot of acreage west, along with with other interests in Marquette, MI, area. He died not having married, but had a number of
relatives, nieces, nephews, etc.
Prior to establishment of the Case School, Leonard Case, SENIOR, born in PA Jul 29, 1786, married Elizabeth Gaylord in 1817 at Stow, Portage County, OH, and had two sons, Leonard, Jr., and William. William went into the family business with Leonard, Sr, who died in 1864. But William died in 1862 from TB, so Leonard, Jr., inherited the business. However, both William and Leonard, Jr., never married, and my thought is the holdings were passed on to other relatives (I do not know for sure, except that Leonard Jr.'s cousin, Eckstein
CASE was Secy-Trsrr, of Case Univ. for over 50 years, having probably inherited at least part of the interests, as he died a millionaire).
So, anyway, Leonard, Sr., was the son of Meshach CASE and Magdalene ECKSTEIN, AND DESCENDS FROM HENRY CASE and Martha CORWIN of Long Island through Theophilus; Theophilus, Jr.; Butler (one of the 4 brothers who went to NJ, the others being Christopher, Reuben and Theophilus (No. 3)); and then Meshach.
References: (1)"Case Western Reserve, A History of the University, 1826-1976," by C. H. Cramer
(2) "Diary (Journal) of Zophar Case," Ohio Historical Society
(3) Anne Goddard, who has more info on Long Island Cases on the Case family site
(4) LongIslandGenealogy.com and possibly others which are not at hand at the moment.
I hope this helps, and am willing to share more info from Zophar (father of Eckstein and brother of Leonard, Sr.) from his journal, if anyone's interested. Oscar Case
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From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:
ERIE ST. CEMETERY, preserving E. 9th St.'s original name, has been a municipal cemetery of controversy since 1826. Cleveland village trustees, desperate to replace the informal community burial ground south of PUBLIC SQUARE with a permanent site, purchased the location for $1 from LEONARD CASE, SR. So remote and spacious was the land that the council permitted a gunpowder magazine (1836)
and a poorhouse-hospital on the unused portion. Disgruntled heirs of the original lot owners, claiming infringement of a covenant restricting use to burials, fruitlessly sued Cleveland in federal court (1836-42). Since there were no other church or private CEMETERIES nearby, this city cemetery buried all faiths until the Israelitic Society established WILLETT ST. CEMETERY (1840).
Even after WOODLAND CEMETERY opened in 1853, the old city cemetery retained favor with Cleveland's pioneer generation; but no improvement--such as plantings, fencings, and a formal gateway--could disguise Erie St.'s infirmities. For Progressives, beginning with Mayor TOM L. JOHNSON, the cemetery mocked an efficient city. His administration, which developed Highland Park Cemetery (1904), reinterred bodies there, not without opposition, and reclaimed land from Erie St. for city streets. The struggle resulted in the Pioneers'
Memorial Assn. (1915), which was influential in the decision of City Manager WM. HOPKINS in 1925 to build the proposed Lorain-Carnegie Ave. Bridge around rather than through Erie St. Cemetery. Following this, serious attempts to remove the cemetery ended. Complaints of neglect inspired WPA action, including erecting a fence fashioned from the demolished Superior Ave. viaduct's sandstone. In 1940 the refurbished cemetery of historic graves, including that of Sauk Chief JOC-O-SOT, was rededicated.
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