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BUYING. I sell ONLY
ORIGINAL items and NOT ANY reproductions.
This sale is for ONE
advertising LETTERHEAD
from
THE TEACHOUT COMPANY
Plate & Window
Glass, Mouldings & Interior Finishes
Sash, Doors and
Binds Glazed Windows Fine Mantels & Fireplace Goods
located at 42-48 Michigan Street
located in
Cleveland, Ohio
during the year of 1902
This letter "appears" to be signed (by facsimile
signature) of
E.J. Leavenworth.
It has interesting content about an artist sketch pricing!
I would assume they are lithographers of the letterhead as well
Company officers notes
as:
Abraham Teachout president,
A.R. Teachout as vice president
and C.E.
Crawford as secretary and treasurer.
Historical notes:
In 1886, 69-year old Abraham Teachout, a fierce supporter
of the Prohibition movement gave a speech at the party's annual Cuyahoga County
convention which he ended with the words: "The saloons must go but I am
afraid I will not see the day." Teachout, who had been the
Prohibition Party's district congressional candidate in 1884, did not live
to see the age of Prohibition--but it was not for lack of trying. The owner and
builder of the Teachout house at 4514 Franklin Boulevard, lived 26 more years
after giving that speech, dying in 1912 at the age of 95 years old. America's
short-lived Prohibition era would not begin until the passage of the Eighteenth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920--some 8 years after Teachout's
death.
Abraham
Teachout, one of Cleveland's wealthy nineteenth century businessmen and a close
friend of John D. Rockefeller, was born in western New York in 1817. In 1836, he moved with his family to
northeastern Ohio, settling in North Royalton, where the Teachouts are
considered to be one of that suburb's early pioneer families. Over the course
of the next 20 years Abraham engaged in a number of businesses moving to
several cities, including Painesville, Columbus and Chattanooga, Tennessee,
before achieving success as a Cleveland lumber merchant. Teachout
was one of the first to ship lumber out of the South by rail to
urban centers north of the Ohio River. He also was founder of the A. Teachout
Co., which specialized in the manufacture of doors, sashes and other related
building construction materials. The company, which was eventually headed by
three generations of the Teachout family, had its offices on Prospect Avenue
(formerly Michigan Street) in downtown Cleveland for many years.
The Teachout
House is one of the most interesting houses on Franklin Boulevard. The house
has over 5,000 square feet of living area and is notable for its impressive
windows and its somewhat onion-shaped cupola. Teachout purchased the land upon
which the Teachout house was built in 1883. At the time, he and his family
lived on Fulton Road. It is unknown how long the house was under construction,
but the family moved into the house shortly after construction was completed in
1887. Abraham lived in the house until his death in 1912. During his 25 years
of residence on Franklin Boulevard, the elderly businessman was often seen
being driven in his carriage by his African-American carriage driver, Mack
Henry, a former slave. After Abraham's death, his widow (who was his third
wife--the first two wives predeceased him) remained in the house another
decade, selling the house to the Michael and Mary Malloy family in 1924.
Abraham Teachout
was a notable supporter of Hiram College. Hiram was founded in 1850 by the
Christian Disciples of Christ congregation of which Teachout was a long time
member. He worshiped at the Franklin Circle Christian Church for nearly 50
years and served as superintendent of the church's Sunday school program for 25
years. Abraham sat on the Hiram College Board of Trustees for
many years, as did his son Albert and later his grandson David. It was as a
result of a $10,000 gift by Abraham Teachout that Hiram College built its first
college library in 1900. Prior to the construction of a new library building in
1995, Hiram College's library was known as the Teachout-Cooper Memorial
Library. Abraham Teachout and many members of his immediate family and other
family relatives are buried in the Teachout family plot at Riverside Cemetery.
Condition: Normal letter folds, good condition. The
EBAY ITEM" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached
to the item for sale.
It is approximately
8" x 7" is the size.
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