Overview
Correspondence, articles, minutes, etc., of Lillian Mary Westropp and Clara E. Westropp, sisters and founders of the Women’s Savings and Loan Company of Cleveland, Ohio.
Dates
- Creation: 1922-1968
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Lillian and Clara Westropp is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.63 linear feet ((1+1/2 file boxes) plus 8 oversize volumes, 1 oversize folder, 1 folio+ folder)This collection consists mainly of scrapbooks containing newsclippings and some photographs and correspondence.
BIOGRAPHY
Lillian Mary Westropp (1884-1968) and Clara E. Westropp (1886-1965) founded The Women's Savings and Loan Company of Cleveland, Ohio in 1922 to provide a bank run by women for women. Lillian Mary Westropp was president, Olive Joy Wright vice-president and Clara E. Westropp secretary. In 1935 the bank's name was changed to Women's Federal Savings and Loan Association and it continues under this name.
Lillian Mary Westropp was also judge of the municipal court of Cleveland from 1931 to 1959. Clara E. Westropp became president of the bank in 1958. She was also first woman president of the Cuyahoga County Savings and Loan League (1952), and was active in Catholic missionary fund-raising work, for which she was made Catholic Woman of the Year posthumously in 1965.
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 1639
The papers of Lillian and Clara Westropp were deposited with the Schlesinger Library in July 1969 by Thomas Westropp, President of The Women's Federal Savings and Loan Association.
CONTAINER LIST
- Box 1: 1-8, volume 2, volume 9
- Box 2: 3v-7v
INDEX
Numbers refer to volumes unless otherwise indicated.
- Chapman, Jessie 4, 5, 6, 7, folder 1
- Clark, Georgia Neese 1o, 8o, 9o
- Dominican Sisters of St. Rose of Lima 5
- Gabriel, Mother M. 11o
- Grant, Jennie 8o, 4
- Marche, Gertrude 8o
- Marman, Ida M. 8o
- Moore, Helen 8o
- Ollie, Anne 11o, 10o
- Priest, Ivy Baker 8o, 9o
- Sands, Eleanor H. 11o
- Sheen, Fulton J. 10o, 11o, 13o, folder 3
- Sherren, Nina 1o, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Siegenthaler, Minnie F. 8o
- Westropp, Clara E. 1o, 4, 5, 9o, 10o, 11o, 12o, 13o, 14o, 15o, folder 7
- Westropp, Lillian Mary 1o, 4, 11o, folders 5, 6, 7
- Winterich, Anges, H. 8o
- Woldman, Albert A. folder 3
- Wright, Olive Joy 1, 4, 5, 6, 7
Processing Information
Processed: February 1975
By: Nancy Wagner
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Westropp, Lillian Mary, 1884-1968. Papers of Lillian and Clara Westropp, 1922-1968: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00961
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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