Charles W. Chesnutt to Harry S. Day, 8 September 1924
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September 8, 1924
Harry S. Day, Esq.,
Treasurer of State,
P.O. Box 1367,
Columbus, Ohio
Dear Sir,
I enclose herewith check for $10.00, in payment of 1924 Domestic Franchise fee for the Chester Cliffs Company.1
Please return the receipted statement for my files.
Very truly yours, President CWC:WCorrespondent: Harry Sanderson Day (1871–1956) was a White Ohio Republican politician who served as Ohio State Treasurer from 1923 to 1927 and again from 1931 to 1937. In 1926, he lost the bid to become the Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio to Myers Y. Cooper (who lost the election to Democratic incumbent A. Victor Donahey).
1. The Chester Cliffs Club or Company was a small stockholding corporation founded in September 1903 by Chesnutt and ten friends who were "stockholders," in order to purchase eleven acres of land in Chester Township near Chesterland, Ohio, and Scotland, Ohio, twenty miles from Cleveland. Summer cottages were built by three of the parties in order to spend their summers away from the city, and in 1916 the Chesnutts purchased one of these. Stockholder meetings were called every fall, even as eventually only three families seem to have remained: the Chesnutts, the Donaheys (who were living in Chicago after 1905), and the Counts. In 1921, Frank Counts (1881–1946), a Cleveland lawyer who was the longtime secretary and treasurer of the Club and his wife Eulalie (Eula) (1869–1942) sold a lot with a cottage to Mary Ellen Delahunte (1870–1951) without consulting the other members, causing conflicts about property tax and upkeep for years. Shortly afterwards, Chesnutt, as the club president, took on the responsibility of reminding members of tax payments and calling the annual meeting. Some of the property was transferred to individual owners in 1923, but the corporation was never legally dissolved. [back]
