…y respect the equal of her husband, Frederick Harris Goff. A woman of character and intelligence, she came from a family that helped to settle the portion of northeastern Ohio called the… Read Bio in Timeline Dorothy Ruth Assistant to the Foundation’s First Four CEOs Dorothy Ruth was, for many Clevelanders, the face of the Cleveland Foundation for more than 40 years. A graduate of Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University,…
…mes R. Garfield Mary Coit Sanford The Cleveland Foundation: A Community Trust The Cleveland Foundation is established on January 2 The Community Foundation Movement 1915 Groundbreaking Strategy Landmark Public Education Study 1917 James D. Williamson 1919 Community Trusts First designated grant awarded First discretionary grants awarded Keeping City Playgrounds Open Launch of the Cleveland Metroparks Raymond C. Moley 1920 The First Century of…
Malcolm Lee McBride (1878–1941) counted among his ancestors an Irish immigrant who in 1785, after losing a lawsuit to George Washington, was ejected from property owned by the general. McBride’s father was president of the Root & McBride Company, a wholesale dry-goods firm in Cleveland that had become one of the Midwest’s largest such concerns. After graduating from University School, McBride attended Yale (B.A., 1900; honorary M.A., 1920)…
…University (LL.B., 1878). He took up law practice in Cleveland, eventually joining the firm headed by John Griswold White, and served as president of the Cleveland Bar Association from 1912 to 1914. A local history written in 1917 described Johnson’s career as “one of quiet and undeviating devotion to his profession. He has never cared to take an active part in political affairs, although, as a citizen interested in good government, he has…