Frazier Reams, Sr. and Frazier Reams, Jr. papers

 Collection – Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0055

Collection Organization

The Frazier Reams, Sr. and Frazier Reams, Jr. papers are organized into two main series:

The Frazier Reams, Sr. papers span the period circa 1901-1962, and mainly document his terms as Prosecuting Attorney for Lucas County, Public Welfare Director, and Congressman from Ohio's 9th District. Reams' scrapbooks, the major portion of the collection, contain numerous articles pertaining to life in Ohio and the city of Toledo. Articles may be found documenting criminal injustices, hospital and penitentiary conditions, and campaign activities. Limited primary materials include speeches and correspondence.

The speeches, given before audiences of political, religious, and educational orientation, contain information on Ohio's penitentiary system, religion, patriotism, and various other topics. A portion of the correspondence deals with Bowling Green State University and Reams' congressional campaign. All other letters are of a miscellaneous character.

The scrapbooks are arranged according to their number and date. The speeches, correspondence, and other miscellaneous items are indexed according to their original provenance within the collection. Correspondence about Reams' personal life is virtually non-existent.

The Frazier Reams, Jr. papers span the period circa 1963-1971 and primarily document his unsuccessful run as the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio in 1966, along with a small number of materials from his tenure as an Ohio state senator from 1963-1966. Materials relating to Reams, Jr.'s guberatorial campaign include correspondence, speeches, schedules, newsletters and other publications, photographs, scrapbooks, and campaign memorabilia. Materials relating to Reams, Jr.'s term as Ohio state senator include reports from the Mental Health Associations of Cleveland and Cincinnati concerning the state of mental health services in Ohio. A few items on Reams, Jr.'s nonpolitical activities, such as a pamphlet on Reams Broadcasting Corp. and the Toledo Epworth ME Chapel 1965 dedication program, are also included.

Frazier Reams, Sr. papers, circa 1901-1962, undated

 Series – Multiple Containers
Dates
Creation: circa 1901-1962, undated
Extent
4.59 Cubic Feet (3 legal archive boxes, 3 record cartons)
9 Volumes (9 scrapbooks)
2 Flat Files
2 Items

Literary productions, 1935-1953, undated

 Sub-Series – Multiple Containers
Dates
Creation: 1935-1953, undated

Statement to Glenn Everett of Frazier Reams' background, July 30, 1953

 File – Box 1, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: July 30, 1953

Biographical sketch, compiled November 1953

 File – Box 1, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: compiled November 1953

Congressional record, accomplishments, and biographical sketch, undated

 File – Box 1, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: undated

Lakeside Bible class teaching notes, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, 1948-1952

 File – Box 1, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: 1948-1952

Lakeside Bible class teaching information, July 20, 1952

 File – Box 1, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: July 20, 1952

Report on the location of penal institutions of the Post-War Program Commission, December 19, 1945

 File – Box 1, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: December 19, 1945

Speech before the Kiwanis Club, Dayton, Ohio, July 1, 1947

 File – Box 1, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: July 1, 1947

Speech before the Ohio Welfare Conference, November 26, (1946?)

 File – Box 1, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: November 26, (1946?)

Speech to the Mental Hygiene Institute of Greater Cleveland, February 19, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: February 19, 1946

Speech for Mother's Day before the Liedertaufel Class, May 11, 1947

 File – Box 1, Folder: 10
Dates
Creation: May 11, 1947

Speech before the Akron Conference of Health, Welfare, and Recreation, April 25, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 11
Dates
Creation: April 25, 1946

Speech before the Ohio Probation Association, May 10, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 12
Dates
Creation: May 10, 1946

Speech delivered at the 55th Annual Ohio Welfare Conference, November 26, 1945

 File – Box 1, Folder: 13
Dates
Creation: November 26, 1945

Speech before the Ohio Welfare Department, November 18, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 14
Dates
Creation: November 18, 1946

Speech entitled The Damned Politicians: address delivered by Claris Adams before the Torch Club, February 4, 1943

 File – Box 1, Folder: 15
Dates
Creation: February 4, 1943

Speech for Memorial Day delivered at the cemetery of the Boy's Industrial School, May 30, 1945

 File – Box 1, Folder: 16
Dates
Creation: May 30, 1945

Speech entitled "Your Children and the Atomic Age", undated

 File – Box 1, Folder: 17
Dates
Creation: undated

Speech before the Prosecutor's Section of the Ohio Bar Association, November 30, 1945

 File – Box 1, Folder: 18
Dates
Creation: November 30, 1945

Speech given at the luncheon in honor of Dr. D. R. Sharpe, June 6, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 19
Dates
Creation: June 6, 1946

Speech given to the Class of Criminology at the Randolph Macon Women's College, November 15, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 20
Dates
Creation: November 15, 1946

Message to the Congress on the State of the Union at the Congress for High School Students, April 18-19, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 21
Dates
Creation: April 18-19, 1946

Speech before the Toledo Chamber of Commerce, 1945

 File – Box 1, Folder: 22
Dates
Creation: 1945

Speech given to the Columbus Community Chest, October 23, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 23
Dates
Creation: October 23, 1946

Speech, opening remarks, "On the Columbus Town Hall of the Air", May 26, 1946

 File – Box 1, Folder: 24
Dates
Creation: May 26, 1946

Announcement of candidacy for the office of Attorney General of the State of Ohio, December 11, 1947

 File – Box 1, Folder: 25
Dates
Creation: December 11, 1947

Paper, Our Father, undated

 File – Box 1, Folder: 26
Dates
Creation: undated

Paper, Moses, the Great Leader and the People He Led, undated

 File – Box 1, Folder: 27
Dates
Creation: undated

The Role of the Independent in Congress, undated

 File – Box 1, Folder: 28
Dates
Creation: undated

Speech given on radio, announcing candidacy for re-election, 1952

 File – Box 1, Folder: 29
Dates
Creation: 1952

Manuscript (original) of Frazier Reams: His Life and Time, by Don Wolfe, April 1978

 File – Box 2, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: April 1978

Manuscript (final) of Frazier Reams: His Life and Time, by Don Wolfe, April 1978

 File – Box 2, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: April 1978

Report of Proceedings Inquiring into Conditions Existing in the Ohio Penitentiary and Other State Penal Institutions, pp. 1-244, January 22, 1935

 File – Box 2, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: January 22, 1935

Report of Proceedings Inquiring into Conditions Existing in the Ohio Penitentiary and Other State Penal Institutions, pp. 245-446, January 22, 1935

 File – Box 2, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: January 22, 1935

Report of Proceedings Inquiring into Conditions Existing in the Ohio Penitentiary and Other State Penal Institutions, pp. 447-746m, preface and index, January 22, 1935

 File – Box 2, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: January 22, 1935

Correspondence, 1936-1954

 Sub-Series – Box 1, Folder: 30-35
Dates
Creation: 1936-1954

Correspondence between Reams and Bruce Rhodes, February 1954

 File – Box 1, Folder: 30
Dates
Creation: February 1954

Correspondence and notes concerning the Ohio-Michigan boundary dispute, 1936-1937

 File – Box 1, Folder: 31
Dates
Creation: 1936-1937

Correspondence relating to the campaign, 1951-1953

 File – Box 1, Folder: 32
Dates
Creation: 1951-1953

Correspondence between Reams and Bowling Green State University, January 16, 1953-December 7, 1954

 File – Box 1, Folder: 33
Dates
Creation: January 16, 1953-December 7, 1954

Correspondence, miscellaneous topics, November 12, 1936-March 13, 1942

 File – Box 1, Folder: 34
Dates
Creation: November 12, 1936-March 13, 1942

Correspondence from Reams to Irving C. Reynolds, September 27, 1954

 File – Box 1, Folder: 35
Dates
Creation: September 27, 1954

Printed materials, 1901-1962, undated

 Sub-Series – Multiple Containers
Dates
Creation: 1901-1962, undated

Scrapbook on prayer, 1947-1954

 File – Box 3, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: 1947-1954

Loose papers extracted from scrapbook on prayer, undated

 File – Box 3, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: undated

Journal, 1953-1954

 File – Box 3, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: 1953-1954

Newspaper clippings from unidentified scrapbook, December 27, 1941-February 2, 1942

 File – Box 3, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: December 27, 1941-February 2, 1942

Newspaper clippings from unidentified scrapbook, February 1, 1942-February 19, 1942

 File – Box 3, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: February 1, 1942-February 19, 1942

Newspaper clippings from unidentified scrapbook, February 19, 1942-February 21, 1942

 File – Box 3, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: February 19, 1942-February 21, 1942

Newspaper clippings (unidentified) from scrapbooks, volumes 1-10, undated

 File – Box 3, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: undated

Newspaper clippings from scrapbooks, volumes 1-10, undated

 File – Box 3, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: undated

Correspondence (miscellaneous) from scrapbooks, December 7, 1917

 File – Box 3, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: December 7, 1917

Miscellaneous pamphlets and journals, 1931-1962, undated

 File – Box 3, Folder: 10
Dates
Creation: 1931-1962, undated

Newspaper clipping, Toledo Blade, "Chinese Plan for Language Reform", December 25, 1955

 File – Box 3, Folder: 11
Dates
Creation: December 25, 1955
Related Names
Toledo Blade

Land contract; Lease agreement, September 1923; September 1939

 File – Box 3, Folder: 12
Dates
Creation: September 1923; September 1939

Newspaper clipping on Winston Churchill from The Inlander, February 1901

 File – Box 3, Folder: 13
Dates
Creation: February 1901

Democratic National Convention material, 1948

 File – Box 3, Folder: 14
Dates
Creation: 1948

Notes on Major General George H. Thomas (1816-1870) and John Bell Hood (1831-1879), undated

 File – Box 3, Folder: 15
Dates
Creation: undated

Publication, On the Record, from the Ohio State Mental Hygiene Services, March 1945-December 1946

 File – Box 3, Folder: 16
Dates
Creation: March 1945-December 1946

Scrapbook, January 26, 1933-August 13, 1933

 Item – Box 4, Volume: 1
Dates
Creation: January 26, 1933-August 13, 1933

Scrapbook, August 14, 1933-October 15, 1933

 Item – Box 4, Volume: 2
Dates
Creation: August 14, 1933-October 15, 1933

Scrapbook, October 16, 1933-January 3, 1934

 Item – Box 4, Volume: 3
Dates
Creation: October 16, 1933-January 3, 1934

Scrapbook, January 3, 1934-May 12, 1934

 Item – Box 4, Volume: 4
Dates
Creation: January 3, 1934-May 12, 1934

Scrapbook, May 15, 1934-October 6, 1934

 Item – Box 4, Volume: 5
Dates
Creation: May 15, 1934-October 6, 1934

Scrapbook, October 6, 1934-March 5, 1935

 Item – Box 5, Volume: 1
Dates
Creation: October 6, 1934-March 5, 1935

Scrapbook, March 5, 1935-September 13, 1935

 Item – Box 5, Volume: 2
Dates
Creation: March 5, 1935-September 13, 1935

Scrapbook, September 13, 1935-February 29, 1936

 Item – Box 5, Volume: 3
Dates
Creation: September 13, 1935-February 29, 1936

Scrapbook, March 3, 1936-September 12, 1936

 Item – Box 5, Volume: 4
Dates
Creation: March 3, 1936-September 12, 1936

Scrapbook, September 14, 1936-December 8, 1936

 Item – Box 5, Volume: 5
Dates
Creation: September 14, 1936-December 8, 1936

Scrapbook, 1940s

 Item – Box 6, Volume: 1
Dates
Creation: 1940s

Scrapbook, personal, 1936

 Item – Box 6, Volume: 2
Dates
Creation: 1936

Scrapbook, personal, 1932-1935

 Item – Box 6, Volume: 3
Dates
Creation: 1932-1935

Scrapbook, penitentiary investigation, 1935

 Item – Box 6, Volume: 4
Dates
Creation: 1935

Scrapbook, penitentiary investigation, 1935

 Item – Box 6, Volume: 5
Dates
Creation: 1935

Scrapbook, August-December 1950

 Item – Volume 1
Dates
Creation: August-December 1950

Scrapbook, January 1951-December 1952

 Item – Volume 2
Dates
Creation: January 1951-December 1952

Scrapbook, August 2, 1954-January 16, 1955

 Item – Volume 3
Dates
Creation: August 2, 1954-January 16, 1955

Scrapbook, January 1, 1955-October 21, 1955

 Item – Volume 4
Dates
Creation: January 1, 1955-October 21, 1955

Scrapbook (indexed), December 28, 1944-June 16, 1945

 Item – Volume 5
Dates
Creation: December 28, 1944-June 16, 1945

Scrapbook (indexed), June 13, 1945-October 25, 1945

 Item – Volume 6
Dates
Creation: June 13, 1945-October 25, 1945

Scrapbook (indexed), October 5, 1945-March 15, 1946

 Item – Volume 7
Dates
Creation: October 5, 1945-March 15, 1946

Scrapbook (indexed), March 15, 1946-September 11, 1946

 Item – Volume 8
Dates
Creation: March 15, 1946-September 11, 1946

Scrapbook (indexed), September 11, 1946-June 13, 1948

 Item – Volume 9
Dates
Creation: September 11, 1946-June 13, 1948

Frazier Reams papers oversized

 File – Flat_file Oversize 2

Frazier Reams Appointment to Tax Collector, 1941

 Item – Flat_file Oversize 3, Item: 1
Dates
Creation: 1941

Photographs, 1951-1955, undated

 Sub-Series – Multiple Containers
Dates
Creation: 1951-1955, undated

Harry S. Truman photograph, autographed, August 26, 1955

 File – Box 6, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: August 26, 1955

Dwight D. Eisenhower photograph, autographed, undated

 File – Box 6, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: undated

John F. Kennedy photograph, autographed, undated

 File – Box 6, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: undated

Lyndon B. Johnson photograph, autographed, undated

 File – Box 6, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: undated

Photograph album, November 1951 congressional delegation in Vienna, Austria, 1951-1953

 File – Flat_file Oversize 1
Dates
Creation: 1951-1953

Part of Battery C 58th PA Camp Jackson, SC, 1919

 Item – Flat_file Oversize 3, Item: 2
Dates
Creation: 1919

Frazier Reams, Jr. papers, circa 1963-1971, undated

 Series – Multiple Containers
Dates
Creation: circa 1963-1971, undated
Extent
0.74 Cubic Feet (2 letter archive boxes)
3 Volumes (3 scrapbooks)
2 Items (2 signs)
1 Folders

Two photographs, Hubert Humphrey with Frazier Reams, Jr., autographed, undated

 File – Box 6, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: undated

Program, Ten Outstanding Young Men of 1964, 1964

 Item – Box 7, Item: 1
Dates
Creation: 1964

Program, Young Democratic Festivities Committee of the 1965 Presidential inaugural Committee, 1965

 Item – Box 7, Item: 2
Dates
Creation: 1965

Campaign correspondence, February 7, 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: February 7, 1966

Campaign correspondence, circa 1964-1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: circa 1964-1966

Telegrams, 1966, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: 1966, undated

Campaign speeches, 1966, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: 1966, undated

Campaign schedule, July 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: July 1966

Campaign schedules, August 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: August 1966

Campaign schedules, September 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: September 1966

Campaign schedules, October 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: October 1966

Programs, speeches, 1966, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: 1966, undated

Campaign schedules, August-September 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 10
Dates
Creation: August-September 1966

Campaign newsletter, May 2, 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 11
Dates
Creation: May 2, 1966

Campaign newsletter, April 1966, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 12
Dates
Creation: April 1966, undated

Campaign newsletter, March 10, 1966, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 13
Dates
Creation: March 10, 1966, undated

"The Commentator" magazine, October 29, 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 14
Dates
Creation: October 29, 1966

Reams Broadcasting pamphlet, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 15
Dates
Creation: undated

Campaign cards, buttons, circa 1966

 File – Box 7, Folder: 16
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

"Report to the Community: Arthur W. Judge," Cleveland Mental Health Association, August 19, 1963

 Item – Box 8, Item: 1
Dates
Creation: August 19, 1963

Addendum to study "Where Does Ohio Stand Re: Resources Devoted to the Care of the Mentally Ill and Retarded?", Mental Health Association of the Cincinnati Area, April 1965

 Item – Box 8, Item: 2
Dates
Creation: April 1965

Epworth ME Chapel Dedication, Rev. Herschel B. Reams, September 24, 1965

 File – Box 8, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: September 24, 1965
Related Names
Epworth United Methodist Church (Toledo, Ohio)
Reams, Frazier, 1897-1971
Reams, Henry Frazier, Jr., 1929-2020

Photograph, "Reams for Governor" bus, circa 1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

Newspaper clippings, Columbus, May 1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: May 1966

Newspaper clippings, NW Ohio

 File – Box 8, Folder: 4

Newspaper clippings, October 1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: October 1966

Newspaper clippings, Columbus, November 1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: November 1966

Newspaper clippings, Columbus, November 1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: November 1966

Magazine, "Ohio Schools", October 1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: October 1966

Photograph - Frazier Reams, Jr. and Susan Reams with Hubert Humphrey and Ohio Governor John "Jack" Gilligan, circa 1971

 File – Box 8, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: circa 1971

Photographs - With others, miscellaneous, circa 1965-1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 10
Dates
Creation: circa 1965-1966

Photographs - With Ted Kennedy, undated

 File – Box 8, Folder: 11
Dates
Creation: undated

Photographs - With Robert Kennedy, undated

 File – Box 8, Folder: 12
Dates
Creation: undated

Photographs - With wife, parents, undated

 File – Box 8, Folder: 13
Dates
Creation: undated

John Fitzgerald Kennedy memorial, 1963

 File – Box 8, Folder: 14
Dates
Creation: 1963

Campaign material (litter bags), circa 1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 15
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

Campaign materials, circa 1966

 File – Box 8, Folder: 16
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

Campaign buttons, circa 1966

 File – Box 8, Envelope: 1
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

Campaign pins, circa 1966

 File – Box 8, Envelope: 2
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

Scrapbook, circa 1966

 Item – Volume 10
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

Scrapbook, circa 1966

 Item – Volume 11
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

Scrapbook, circa 1966

 Item – Volume 12
Dates
Creation: circa 1966

22" x 28" Blue Frazier Reams, Jr. Gubernatorial Campaign Sign, 1966

 Item – Flat_file Oversize 3, Item: 3
Dates
Creation: 1966

14" x 22" White Frazier Reams, Jr. Gubernatorial Campaign Sign, 1966

 Item – Flat_file Oversize 3, Item: 4
Dates
Creation: 1966