On Saturday, February 13, 1971, Dr. and Mrs. Donald B. Cameron hosted the First Scholarship Ball in their Bratenahl home to raise funds for the Bratenahl School scholarship program.\u00a0 It was a memorable event.\u00a0 As reported by Mary McLaughlin in The Plain Dealer the following Monday:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cDuring the evening a number of guests performed the \u2018Sirto,\u2019 a fast tempo Greek dance.\u00a0 Music was by the Drachmas, and joining in the combo on the trumpet for a few minutes was Chris T. Jelepis, the school superintendent.\u00a0 Music for the rest of the evening was by the Ed Cole Quartet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
A program was distributed to all residents and guests attending the ball, including an article entitled \u201cThe History of Bratenahl School.\u201d\u00a0 In the program, the first year that school classes were conducted in the Village of Bratenahl is summarized as follows:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAfter the local county school board was formed and plans were made to build a school building, the Bratenahl school was held in temporary quarters in 1906-07 in the summer home of Mr. Hoban (an undertaker) on the land at the northwest corner of Lake Shore Boulevard and Bratenahl Road (formerly East 105th Street and even earlier Doan Street.)\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The statement that the first school year in Bratenahl was held at the summer home of \u201cMr. Hoban (an undertaker)\u201d appears in a number of subsequent articles discussing the history of the Bratenahl schools, probably copied from the First Scholarship Ball program.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, a search of Bratenahl land records from the early 1900s and other contemporaneous documents, has failed to identify any Bratenahl landowner or resident from the time period with the name of \u201cHoban.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 (Edward Francis Hoban, Archbishop of Cleveland, purchased Lakehurst in 1945, long after the time period in question.)\u00a0 Although the Bratenahl Historical Society has numerous records detailing the history of the Bratenahl School, none of these documents identify where classes were held during the first school year.<\/p>\n
So where did the schoolchildren attend classes during the first year of the Bratenahl School?<\/p>\n
It turns out that during part of that first school year, classes were held in the newly-built Bratenahl School.\u00a0 While the historical record shows that the Bratenahl School was dedicated on June 6, 1907, the school was forced to open on February 4, 1907 thanks, in part, to Bratenahl\u2019s winter weather.\u00a0 As reported in The Plain Dealer on February 5, 1907:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBratenahl school was occupied for the first time yesterday. . . .[A]n emergency building has been utilized for school purposes, but its heating arrangement was not what it might have been, and when the cold snap came the pupils were dismissed and the teachers went home.\u00a0 There was no school at all last week and most of the children were happy.\u00a0 Seating arrangements were provided at once in the new building and it was thoroughly warmed Sunday so that classes resumed yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The location of the \u201cemergency building\u201d where classes were held from September 1906 to January 1907 is not identified in the article.\u00a0 Since the heating arrangements were \u201cnot what it might have been\u201d in the building, could this describe a \u201csummer home\u201d as referenced in the First Scholarship Ball program?\u00a0 Possibly, but where was the \u201cemergency building\u201d or \u201csummer home\u201d located?<\/p>\n
One explanation could be the result of a simple typographical error:\u00a0\u00a0 Hogan, not Hoban.\u00a0 In the early 1900s, Jerimiah P. and Mary A. Hogan owned a number of parcels in Bratenahl Village.\u00a0 Jerimiah P. Hogan was born on February 1, 1852 in Cleveland, the son of parents born in Ireland.\u00a0 He died, after Mary, on February 19, 1933 at the age of 81.\u00a0 Although retired at the time of his death, Hogan\u2019s profession is identified on his death certificate as \u201cFuneral Director.\u201d\u00a0 A Cleveland business directory from 1901 shows that Jeremiah Hogan owned Hogan & Company (identified as \u201cFuneral Directors\u201d) with a main office at 717 Superior in Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Both Jeremiah and Mary Hogan owned property in Bratenahl along Lake Erie west of Doan Street (now Bratenahl Road) in the Haldeman allotment in 1900, approximately where 10401 Lakeshore Boulevard is today.\u00a0 Cuyahoga County records show, however, that the Hogans sold their property on the lakefront to Lennox Realty Company on July 25, 1901.\u00a0 Although no longer owners of the property, is it possible that a building on the parcel was still referred to as the \u201cHogan summer home\u201d five years later, just as residents still refer to the \u201cGwinn Mansion\u201d today?\u00a0 Could recollections have confused \u201cMr. Hoban (an undertaker)\u201d with \u201cMr. Hogan (an undertaker)?\u201d If not Jeremiah Hogan, how many other undertakers lived in the Village in the early 1900s?<\/p>\n
Whether the Bratenahl School actually met in Jeremiah and Mary Hogan\u2019s summer home cannot be verified from the currently available records of the Bratenahl Historical Society.\u00a0Where did the Bratenahl students actually meet in the autumn of 1906?\u00a0 If anyone has any information that could definitively solve this mystery, please contact the Bratenahl Historical Society.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Schools\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSee list\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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