In 1903 , Stage married a physician , Miriam Gertrude Kerruish , and they had four children . He had married into a successful family . Kerruish cared for women and children , many of them indigent . She was one of the first women to practice medicine in Cleveland and was the first woman credentialed to practice at Cleveland City Hospital . Kerruish 's father William was an immigrant from the Isle of Man and , like Stage , had worked his way through Western Reserve to become a lawyer . Miriam Kerruish 's brother , Sheldon Quayle Kerruish , was also an attorney . Miriam Kerruish died in the Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929 . A few years after his wife 's death , Stage inherited a large tract of land from the Kerruish family located in what is now known as Cleveland 's Lee – Miles neighborhood . Stage donated the land to the city and Kerruish Park was established . He retired when the Great Depression destroyed the Von Sweringens ' holdings and he died in 1946 , never having remarried
Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929
Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929
Charles W. Stage