Newton D. Baker to Charles W. Chesnutt, 11 August 1913
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CLEVELAND
NEWTON D. BAKER, MAYOR
W.J. MURPHYSECRETARY August 11, 1913. Mr. Charles W. Chestnut, 1105 Williamson Bldg., C I T Y. My Dear Mr. Chestnut:--
There will be a meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Perry Celebration, Tuesday, August 12th, at 2 o'clock P. M. at my office, to make arrangements and discuss the program for the four days of celebration.1
Very truly yours, Newton D. Baker Mayor.Correspondent: Newton D. Baker (1871–1937) was a White lawyer and Democratic politician born in West Virginia. He earned a law degree from Washington and Lee University in Virginia, and practiced law in West Virginia and then in Cleveland, Ohio, where he founded a prestigious corporate law firm, Baker, Hostetler, and Sidlo, in 1916. In Cleveland, he served as city solicitor (1901–1909) and mayor (1912–1915), then as U.S. Secretary of War (1916–1921). In early 1932 he was interested in being a presidential candidate, but did not publicly announce; his name was also circulated as a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee.
1. The Perry Centennial of 1913 was held across a number of cities along Lake Erie to commemorate the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813 during the War of 1812 under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785–1819). Cleveland held its celebration from September 17-21, 1913. Chesnutt was chair of the Committee on Colored Organizations and gave a speech at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church on the role of Black soldiers in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. See "Perry Centennial," Essays and Speeches, pp. 322–330, and Helen Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952), 259. [back]
