ABSTRACT
Many families achieved prominence in Cleveland during which industry cut a wide swath across the city—industry that would leave as deep and permanent a mark on this place as it had on Milwaukee. The Industrial Revolution happened about ten years earlier in Cleveland, but its form would be in most respects the same. The new industrial enterprises shook the settlement to its very foundations, with reverberations felt far and wide. Men who previously had been successful leaders in the city, owing to their commercial acumen gave way to both men and to enterprises that were the leaders in the great Industrial Revolution. Political institutions expanded in the wake of the economic revolution in the city. The municipal government of Cleveland gradually assumed a set of specific departments in order to meet the demands of the new citizens of Cleveland until the turn of the twentieth century; it would remain a minor player on the scene.
