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Jeptha H. Wade II was also a founder of the Cleveland Museum of Art, which houses two paintings [1] [10] by Jeptha Wade I. A grandchild of Jeptha Homer Wade II was Jeptha Homer Wade III (December 26, 1924 – August 8, 2008), son of George Garretson and Irene Love Wade, who was a prominent Boston attorney assisting in the formation of the ...
Wade Memorial Chapel is a Neoclassical chapel and receiving vault located at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.It was donated to the cemetery by Jeptha Wade II in memory of his grandfather, cemetery and Western Union co-founder Jeptha Wade.
Greene married Helen Wade, daughter of Cleveland industrialist Jeptha Homer Wade II, on November 18, 1909. [1] [164] During the last years of his life, Greene suffered from poor health. He was confined to his home in the months before his death. He died at his home on October 10, 1957. [1]
Wadena was a steel-hulled yacht built in 1891 as the personal yacht for Jeptha Home Wade II by the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Wade was the grandson of Jeptha Home Wade, the founder of Western Union Telegraph. Wadena was outfitted with a triple expansion steam engine and was also rigged as a schooner for traveling under ...
20th Governor of Illinois: Hometown was Chicago John Ashcroft: May 9, 1942: U.S. Attorney General Born in Chicago Henry Moore Bates: Mar 30, 1869: Apr 15, 1949: Attorney Born in Chicago Rod Blagojevich: Dec 10, 1956: Congressman; governor of Illinois: Born in Chicago James Bowler: Feb 5, 1875: Jul 18, 1957: Chicago alderman; U.S. Congressman ...
Demand for American iron ore hit peaks during World War I, World War II, and the post-World War II consumer boom. In 1933, Edward B. Greene (the son-in-law of Jeptha Homer Wade II) replaced William G. Mather as the head of the company. The Mather A Mine opened in the early 1940s and the Mather B shaft in the 1950s.
Chicago: An Intimate Portrait of People, Pleasures, and Power, 1860-1919. (1973). 547 pp. popular; Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (1997), popular epic; excerpt and text search; Pacyga, Dominic A. Chicago: A Biography (2011), 472pp; detailed history by a scholar, based on secondary sources.
John Putnam Chapin (April 21, 1810 – June 27, 1864) served as the 10th Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1846–1847) for the Whig Party.. Chapin left his hometown to enter the mercantile business in Haverhill, New Hampshire before moving to Chicago in 1832. [4]