Detailed Description of The Collection
Series I: Hosea Paul's Personal and Family Records, 1874-1936; undated
Box 1 / Folder 1
Diary, Hosea Paul and Emma Paul, 1874-1875
Box 1 / Folder 1
Diary, Hosea Paul, 1882
Box 1 / Folder 2
Diary, Hosea Paul, 1903-1904
Box 1 / Folder 3
Diary, Hosea Paul, 1907
Box 1 / Folder 4
Diary, Emma Plum Paul, 1876-1877
Box 1 / Folder 5
Birthday Book with notations, kept by Emma Paul, 1883
Box 1 / Folder 6-8
Correspondence, personal and business related, 1886-1923
Box 2 / Folder 9
Certificates of marriage, county recorder, county commissioner, and others, 1875-1915
Box 2 / Folder 10
Memberships, Cleveland Board of Education, Cleveland Automobile Club, Civil Engineers Club of Cleveland,
Cleveland Engineering Society, 1885-1913
Box 2 / Folder 11
Resumes, Hosea Paul, 1901-1917
Box 2 / Folder 12
Miscellaneous personal material, including invitations, funeral notices, and manuscripts related to
Katie Paul, 1875-1921
Box 2 / Folder 13
Account books, Hosea and Emma Paul, including
Citizen's Bank, Wabash, Indiana, 1875-1876;
Savings and Trust Co., Cleveland, 1894-1902;
Citizens Savings and Trust Co., Cleveland, 1905-1907;
Depositors Savings and Trust Co., Cleveland, 1907-1908;
Licking Co. Bank and Trust Co, Newark, Ohio, 1909-1910;
Commercial National Bank, Coshocton, Ohio, 1910; and
First National Bank, Canton, Ohio, 1909-1913, 1875-1913
Box 2 / Folder 14
Miscellaneous personal expenses, 1908-1909
Box 2 / Folder 15
Financial records regarding personal property on Poverty Hill, Harmony, Pennsylvania, and other property, 1914-1918
Box 2 / Folder 16
Speeches and writings of Hosea Paul, 1918
Box 2 / Folder 16
Publicity for addresses, 1914-1919
Box 2 / Folder 17-18
Research notes for address on "The Romance of Oil", undated
Box 2 / Folder 19
Research notes for address on Old Time Map and Atlas Men, undated
Box 3 / Folder 20
Research notes, Cleveland history, undated
Box 3 / Folder 21
Research notes, prehistory of Cuyahoga River, undated
Box 3 / Folder 22
Research notes, petroleum industry, railroads, automobile, reminiscences, undated
Box 3 / Folder 23
Research notes, Portage county, Taylor School, and miscellaneous topics, undated
Box 3 / Folder 24
Research notes and related correspondence, miscellaneous, 1874-1906
Box 3 / Folder 25
Genealogical research, Paul family, undated
Box 3 / Folder 25
Genealogical research, Hosea Paul, Sr. family, undated
Box 3 / Folder 25
Newspaper clippings, Paul family, 1886-1921
Box 3 / Folder 26
Genealogical research, correspondence, Paul family, 1883-1920
Box 3 / Folder 27
Genealogical research and newspaper clippings, Plum family, 1895-1936
Box 3 / Folder 27
Genealogical research and newspaper clippings, Jewitt family, Lodge family, Halloway family, and Gamble and Couch families, undated
Box 4 / Folder 28-30
Newspaper clippings, related to Paul family, Cuyahoga Falls, Cleveland city government, and Cuyahoga County
government, 1867-1922
Folder 41
Oversize Folder 1: Genealogical charts, Paul family, including "Genealogy of the American Paul Family,
1615-1879," and "Descendants of Robert S. Paul,", undated
Volume 1
"No. 5, Hosea Paul, Local History," containing newspaper clippings pasted to pages of the Atlas to
Wabash County, Indiana by Hosea Paul, regarding history of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and the region
around Akron, Ohio, 1877-1881
Series II: Hosea Paul's Career as Surveyor and Cuyahoga County Recorder, .
Box 4 / Folder 31
Financial accounts, employee rosters, survey notes, business cards, 1872-1911
Box 4 / Folder 32
Expense account books, Wabash expenses, 1874-1878
Box 4 / Folder 33
Proposals, H. Paul Bros. Company, Akron, 1876-1880
Box 4 / Folder 34
County Recorder Office materials: job description, business cards, publications, 1912-1919
Box 4 / Folder 34
Financial records, campaign expenses submitted a county recorder candidate, 1916-1918
Box 5 / Folder 35
Railroad survey project material, including:
Akron and Newcastle railroad report for belt terminal and industrial development, maps, surveys, slope
measurement tables, undated;
Toledo and Western Railway, undated;
"Railroad Gazette" article, 1906;
financial material involving railroad surveys, 1886-1900; and
miscellaneous railroad maps, undated, 1886-1906
Box 5 / Folder 36
Miscellaneous railroad slope measurements, six rolls, including Toledo and Western Railway Co., Williams
Co., Ohio, 1890-1891;
Toledo-Chicago Line, 1891; and
Steuben Co., 1890, 1890-1891
Box 5 / Folder 37
Torrens System, draft copy of "Lank Title Division Transfer", undated
Box 5 / Folder 38-39
Torrens System, pamphlets, articles, booklets on laws, 1881-1922
Box 5 / Folder 40
Torrens System, newspaper clippings, 1908-1923
Folder 41
Oversize Folder 1:
Blueprints of Hosea Paul Bros. Co. projects, including:
West Point, Avon Lorain Co., Ohio, 1903;
Lot 28, Stow Township, Summit Co., Ohio, 1904;
Part of Block 34, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 1910;
Copy of map of City of Cleveland, undated;
Surveys at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Lots 13-15, Block M, undated;
Plan of the Municipal Water and Light Plant, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 1906;
The Willetts Allotment, Cuyahoga Falls, 1908;
Survey of Parts of front, North, Bailey, and Paine Sts, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 1906, 1903-1908