Place of Origin

United States

Date of Composition

presumed 1840s-1860s

Description

This recipe book, which contains both culinary and medical material, is part of the library's collection of the papers of Frank A. Scott (1873-1949), who was a prominent businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, and was active in numerous local civic, cultural, charitable, and educational affairs. The recipe book likely belonged to James Warr (ca. 1809-ca. 1874), who was the father of Frank A. Scott's mother, Sarah Ann Warr Scott (1840-1916).

According to "Find-A-Grave," James Warr was born in England and emigrated to Boonton, New Jersey, in 1820. James married Lavinia Bickley Hodgkins in Boonton, and the couple  subsequently lived in Boonton; Manayunk, Pennsylvania; Troy, New York: and, finally, in Cleveland, Ohio, where James died. The couple had sixteen children. James was a skilled iron worker at the following places: Boonton Iron Works; Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York; and Lake Shore Iron Works in Cleveland, Ohio.