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Cleveland City Directory 1940 printed page 897 lists Donald D. Ponceby, with Jane N. in parentheses, residing at 1890 E. 97th, apartment 2.
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Cleveland City Directory Page for Donald and Jane N. Ponceby, 1940
Cleveland City Directory 1940 printed page 897 lists Donald D. Ponceby, with Jane N. in parentheses, residing at 1890 E. 97th, apartment 2.
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It connects Donald Edwin Ponceby, Jane Nevin Ponceby to the public evidence trail.
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- donald name as recorded
- Donald D Ponceby
- spouse or household name as recorded
- Jane N
- residence as recorded
- 1890 E 97th apt 2
- Donald Name As Recorded
- Donald D Ponceby
- Spouse Or Household Name As Recorded
- Jane N
- Residence As Recorded
- 1890 E 97th apt 2
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- CONTENTdm full-text search located "Ponceby" in the 1940 Cleveland City Directory. The page-level OCR reads "Ponceby Donald D (Jane N) h1890 E 97th apt 2."
- Visual review confirms the Ponceby entry and Jane N. household notation; the middle initial may be a directory or OCR/visual ambiguity because the 1942 directory records Donald E. Ponceby.
- The repository filename includes "page-916" from an initial page estimate; the actual CONTENTdm compound page is 905 and the printed directory page is 897.
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Source: Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery Title: Cleveland City Directory 1940 CONTENTdm collection: p16014coll29 CONTENTdm page id: 48442 CONTENTdm parent id: 49618 Compound page: 905 Printed page: 897 Page metadata URL: https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/api/singleitem/collection/p16014coll29/id/48442 Download URL: https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/api/collection/p16014coll29/id/48442/download Repository file: 05_raw/pdfs/cleveland-city-directory-page-916-ponceby-donald-jane-1940.pdf Accessed: 22 April 2026 OCR/transcription: Ponceby Donald D (Jane N) h1890 E 97th apt 2 Notes: The middle initial is recorded from OCR and visual review as D, but this may be a directory or reading error. The 1942 Cleveland directory records Donald E. Ponceby with Jane N.
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- city
- Cleveland
- county
- Cuyahoga
- state
- Ohio
- country
- USA
- place
- Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
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- repository
- Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery
- title
- Cleveland City Directory 1940
- contentdm collection
- p16014coll29
- contentdm page id
- 48442
- contentdm parent id
- 49618
- compound page number
- 905
- printed page number
- 897
- page url
- https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/api/singleitem/collection/p16014coll29/id/48442
- download url
- https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/api/collection/p16014coll29/id/48442/download
- publisher
- Cleveland Directory Co.
- accessed
- 22 April 2026
Notes
Research notes
- Treat this as a residence and spouse-clue source, not final proof of a marriage.
- This extends the Jane N. clue back from the 1942 Cleveland directory to the 1940 Cleveland directory.
- Jane N. is linked to person-jane-nevin-ponceby-1900 after acceptance of her 1941 NARA naturalization file, which records the same 1890 East 97th Street residence.
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