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Jeptha Wade II, as well as many members of his family, wrote travel journals during their trips around the world. In this journal, Wade, his wife Nellie, his son Jeptha "Jep" Homer Wade, Jr., and his mother-in-law traveled to Germany, and later to Britain, from July to October, 1914, and experienced the beginning of World War I as it erupted while the family was in Germany.
This transcription is part of various existing initiatives to make the Wade family papers accessible online. A primary goal of the is to disseminate information and enable students and scholars to explore aspects of family and intellectual life that are illustrative of the complex, and often conflicting, decisions involved in the creation of America’s urban cultural centers in the late 19th century. The driving need of such families to create cultural legacies characterized a particular aspect of American philanthropy and determined the role the visual arts would have in the American city.
For more information about the Wade Family you can follow Holly Witchey, PhD, Executive Director of Cleveland Philanthropy or join the History of the Wade Family in Cleveland Facebook page. Legacy information from The Wade Project at the Cleveland History Center can be found here.