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a promising though short career as a novelist. The son of an Italian immigrant, the family lived at 906 Literary Avenue in the 1920’s. De Capite played baseball in the shadows of the industrial smokestacks in the Flats and graduated from Lincoln High School. He attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and graduated in 1938. He met his future wife Natalie Whiting while attending college. The couple had two children Philip and Suzanne. De Capite broke into writing as a newspaperman, serving as feature editor of the Claremont (New Hampshire) Daily Eagle and as a police reporter in Chicago. During World War II, he joined the U. S. Army, where he became a writer for Yank and the Army News Service. His first novel, Maria (1943) was based on his memories of immigrant live during his Cleveland childhood. It was followed in 1944 by No Bright Banner, for which he drew upon his Chicago experiences. His last novel, The Bennett Place (1948), set in a fictitious Ohio college town suggestive of Athens, was awarded a $1,000 prize by the Friends of American Writers. In 1947, De Capite went to work as an information officer for the United Nations. He was Chief of Editorial Services of the UN’s Department of Public Information when he died from injuries received in an automobile accident near Mexico City. He was buried near his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and was survived by his wife Natalie and two children. ********* Obituary from the Plain Dealer, January 23, 1958. Obtained from the Cleveland Public Library Obituary collection: Mrs. Carrie De Capite, his mother and Marie De Capite, his sister, will fly to Dobbs Ferry, New York to attend the funeral of Michael De Capite, a former Cleveland novelist, who died Tuesday in Mexico City. Mr. De Capite was fatally injured in an auto crash. His home was in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. His relatives here reside at 1209 Fairfield Avenue, S. W. Mr. De Capite recently had been chief of the Central Editorial Services for the United Nations in New York. He was author of several novels, including, No Bright Banner, The Bennett Place and Maria. He graduated from Lincoln High School and of Ohio University. Surviving him besides his mother and sister are his wife Natalie, two children, Philip and Suzanna, and a brother, Raymond in New York. Two of his books can be obtained from the Cleveland Public Library: The Bennett Place and No Bright Banner, a Novel. Sources: 1920 Federal Census, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Ward 7 Probate Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio—Historical Marriage License Index: http://probate.cuyahogacounty.us/ml/ Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: http://ech.case.edu/index.html Cleveland Necrology File, Cleveland Public Library: www.cpl.org |
born in Yaroslav, Russia to Alexander and Mary Kalleta Teyral. The family moved to Cleveland when Teyral was one. Growing up on the near west side, he took to art as a young boy. He was twelve when he submitted a drawing at a branch library (Jefferson Branch) that won him admission to Saturday classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Each year while a student at Lincoln High School, he won the Cleveland School of Art's high school competition. In 1934, he graduated from the Cleveland School of Art and received an Agnes Gund traveling scholarship to study at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. In 1938, he attended Ecole Grande Chaumiere in Paris. During World War II, Teyral served in the Army. Following the war, he studied at the Academia di Bella Arti in Florence, Italy through a Fulbright grant. He made a series of study trips to Europe, North Africa, Mexico, and the Caribbean Islands throughout his career. Teyral was an award-winner in the May Show of the Cleveland Museum of Art for decades. The museum has many of his paintings, and other museums in the country have collected his work. Mr. Teyral also painted portraits of many prominent Clevelanders. He taught painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art for 40 years. In addition to fine arts painting,Teyral did commercial art for McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency in the 1930s and 1940s. He moved to North Carolina in the 1970s and continued painting until shortly before his death. During his life, Teyral married three times. His first wife, Hazel (Janicki) was a local artist who studied at the Cleveland School of Art with Teyral. In 1951, he married Joan (Kempsmith). Teyral married Valerie Howard Albel after moving to North Carolina. *************** (** Obituary for John Teyral’s father Alexander, from the Cleveland Public Library, Necrology File Collection. Source—Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1964.) TEYRAL, ALEX, late residence, 813 College Avenue, beloved husband of Mary, father of John, Alex, Walter and grandfather of four. Friends received at the Paul Holowczak Memorial Chapel, 1208 Kenilworth Avenue, Wednesday, and Thursday, 2-5 and 6-10 p.m. Funeral services Friday, February 14, at 2 p.m. Interment Brooklyn Heights Cemetery. Sources: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: http://ech.case.edu/index.html Cleveland Necrology File, Cleveland Public Library: www.cpl.org |
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A longtime figure in Cleveland's underworld, Joseph Filkowski led the Polish bootlegging gang, the Flats Mob. In October 1930, he and two other gang members held a police officer captive after the patrolman (responded) during the gangs hold up of the Dixie Shoe Company (and) relieved him of both his gun and uniform. Although successfully escaping, the incident resulted in gaining the attention of local law enforcement. Escaping from another police trap on December 6, Filkowski associate Joseph Stazek was killed by Cleveland detectives the following day. Two days later, on December 9, a Patrolman Patrick McNeely accidentally shot Joseph Fortini, a district circulation manager of the newspaper Plain Dealer, who McNeely had mistaken for Filkowski. The "Fortini shooting" would begin a lengthly, yet ultimately unresolved, inquiry into use of police firearms. The majority of the gang were eventually captured by authorities and sentenced to life imprisonment with the exception of Filkowski who was sentenced to death. Filkowski's death mask is on display in the Cleveland Police History Museum. Sources: Morton, James. Gangland International: The Mafia and Other Mobs. Warner Books, 1998. ISBN 0-7515-2237-6. "Reprinted 2000, pages: 235-236, Chapter 10: Cleveland. (This book is not available from any local library systems.) Wikipedia on-line Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Filkowski Celebrating One Hundred Years of God’s Blessings, St. John Kanty (Cantius) 1898-1998. Cleveland, Ohio, page 42. (See Books and Links.) See also, Susan Mandzak, Memories. |
| A "Notable Person" did not have to be born on the Southside. Contributing to the notoriety of the area, either negatively or positively, is the basis of having that person included here. |
| Karl Mackey: (August 25, 1924 - October 13, 2002) (Under Construction) |
| Ambrose Paliwoda: (Under Construction) |
northwest of Mansfield, Ohio. "His earliest introduction to art was provided by an itinerant professor of drawing and ornamental penmanship who boarded with the Coltman family for a few months in 1870. From him, Ora, who was then twelve, picked up an elementary knowledge of perspective and architectural drawing and a love of making pictures." Moving to Cleveland after passing the Ohio Bar examination, he took a position with a law firm as a "debt collector." Painting was a hobby at this time but as he grew older his hobby would eventually take over his life. After years of working and painting in his spare time, he found himself at a crossroad. Depressed, mourning the death of a close friend, unable to paint and in debt, Coltman took a full-time civil service job in March 1913, as a building inspector for Cleveland's monumental new city hall. His long-term relationship with John Griswold White, who sat on the board of the Cleveland Public Library, helped him secure a position of supervising architect and building inspector in charge of planning and supervising the construction of three Andrew Carnegie funded branch libraries. One of these branches was on the Southside of Cleveland. This branch, Jefferson, still stands today. He left both positions by 1921 to concentrate again on his painting. Coltman continued to paint, accepting positions with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and gaining notoriety as a internationally known local artist in his later years. He died on July 2, 1940, in Cleveland. Source: Haverstock, Mary and Ann Olszewski, Timeline, a Publication of the Ohio Historical Society, January-February, 2002, Volume 19/Number 1. |
| Raymond De Capite: (Under construction) |
| Helen Phelan: (Under Construction) |
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