League of Women Voters-Cleveland
“The Voter” January 2002
Cleveland Heights From Fresh Water Cleveland
Section on Cleveland Heights from Fresh Water Cleveland
Detroit Shoreway from Fresh Water Cleveland
Section on Detroit Shoreway from Fresh Water Cleveland
Cleveland African American History Map
Cleveland African American History Map from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Historic Jewish Neighborhood and Congregation Migration
Historic Jewish Neighborhood and Congregation Migration from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Cyrus Eaton – from Promises of Power: a political autobiography by Carl B. Stokes
Chapter 1 from Promises of Power: a political autobiography. Carl Stokes meets multi-millionaire Cyrus Eaton and the two develop a legal and political relationship
Wings Over Jordan
from NPR. A story about Wings over Jordon, A Cleveland African-American singing group of the 1930s and 1940s started by Rev. G.T. Settle that appeared on Network Radio and according to Dave Davis of the Plain Dealer…
“traveled the nation during the Jim Crow era and played to sold out audiences everywhere. The group was popular with both blacks and whites and the Rev. Settle refused to allow audiences to be segregated.”
Cyrus Eaton – The Mike Wallace Interview
From the University of Texas. Cyrus Eaton, a successful Cleveland industrialist and businessman and outspoken critic of the United States’ foreign and military policies, talks to Wallace about how Americans’ freedoms are being destroyed by the Cold War. 5/17/1957
The Ohio Constitution – Is It Time For a Rewrite?
The Ohio Constitution – Is It Time For a Rewrite? From the Plain Dealer 12/17/06
Cyrus Eaton from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
From the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
EATON, CYRUS STEPHEN (27 Dec 1883-9 May 1979), a controversial capitalist who promoted better U.S.-Soviet relations, was born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, son of Joseph H. and Mary A. (McPherson) Eaton. He graduated from McMaster University (1905) and came to Cleveland to work for the EAST OHIO GAS CO. With the help of JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER†, he went into business in 1907, securing natural-gas franchises in Manitoba, Canada for a New York banking syndicate, which collapsed. With the franchises, Eaton organized the Canada Gas & Electric Corp., consolidating his companies into the Continental Gas & Electric Corp. in 1912. Eaton settled in Cleveland in 1913 and diversified, in 1916 joining Otis & Co. banking firm, in 1926 organizing Continental Shares, Inc. investment trust, and in 1929 consolidating the Republic Steel Corp. His 1929 wealth was an estimated $100 million, most of which he lost in the Great Depression.
Eaton rebuilt his fortune in the 1940s and 1950s, becoming a director (1943), then board chairman (1954), of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad; and also board chairman of the West Kentucky Coal Co. (1953). In 1955, Eaton transformed his boyhood home in Pugwash into a “Thinker’s Lodge,” inviting scholars for a week’s retreat. He invited a Soviet scholar in 1956, and in 1957 the first Pugwash Conference of Nuclear Scientists brought scientists from around the world to discuss international issues. During the Cold War, Eaton cultivated friendships with Soviet leaders and urged the U.S. and Soviet Union to develop better relations, receiving the Lenin Peace Prize in 1960.
Eaton was active in Cleveland. He was a founder and trustee of the CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY; helped transform the YMCA night school into FENN COLLEGE; and was a trustee and benefactor of Case School of Applied Science. Eaton married twice; first, in 1907, to Margaret House; then to Anne Kinder Jones in 1957. He had seven children: Margaret Grace, Mary Adelle, Elizabeth Ann, Anna Bishop, Cyrus S. Jr., Augusta F., and MacPherson. Eaton died at his home and was buried in Nova Scotia.