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NAME CLEAVELAND 228 CLENDENIN be changed to that of hospital, and the one offense against the rules o£ the institution which Dr. Cleaveland with all of his well- known kindness of heart could not be per- suaded to overlook in employe or staff officer, or anyone else under him, was that of unkind- ness to a patient. The story is told of a contractor who once approached him with an offer of several thousand dollars as a commission. He was asked by the doctor if he could really afford to give all that out of his contract, and when told that arrangements had been made by which it could be done. Dr. Cleaveland replied, "Very well, take that amount from your contract and let the state have the bene- fit of the saving. I am paid for my work and it is my place to see to it that you are not overpaid for yours." For twenty-five years he remained in charge of the hospital, rarely taking even a day's vacation, but resigning in March, 1893, he passed the remainder of his days in the quiet, of his own home in the city of Poughkeepsie, New York, where he died on January 21, 1907. James E. Sadlier. Cleaveland, Parker (1780-18S8) Parker Cleaveland, chemist, mineralogist and geologist, came of a family noted in the history of Massachusetts. His grandfather, John Cleaveland (1722-1799), and his great- uncle. Ebenezer Cleaveland (1726-1805), were expelled from Yale University for attending a meeting of the Separatists, but years after- wards were given their degrees and their names listed in the catalogue with the class to which each belonged; both became min- isters, serving with zeal, and were chaplains in the Revolutionary War. Parker Cleave- land (1751-1826), father of the subject of our sketch, settled at Byfield, a parish of Rowley, Massachusetts, to practise medicine ; he was surgeon in the Revolution and was a member of the Massachusetts legislature. The younger Parker Cleaveland was born in Rowley January IS, 1780, and graduated at Harvard University in 1799; he taught school and studied law, therr in 1803 became tutor in mathematics in his alma mater for two years. He was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Bowdoin College (1805- 28) and professor of mineralogy and natural philosophy .(1828-58). He made a geological and mineralogical survey of part of New Eng- land. In 1816 he published his "Mineralogy and Geology," which brought him into notice as a mineralogist and he was offered a chair at Harvard University which he declined. The honorary M.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth College in 1823 and LL.D. by Bow- doin College in 1824. The presidency of Bow- doin College, offered him in 1839, was declined. Dr. Cleaveland was a member of the Amer- ican Philosophical Society, The American Academy, the Geological Society of London and of the Imperial Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg. He died October 15, 1858. Universities and their Sons, Joshua L. Cham- berlain, Boston, 1899, 3 vols. American Biographical Dictionary, William Allen, Boston, 1857. Gen. Cat. Bowdoin Coll., 1794-1912. Cleaves, Margaret Abigail (1848-1917) Margaret Abigail Cleaves, electro-therapeut- ist, was born in Iowa in 1848, daughter of John T. Cleaves, M.D., and Elizabeth Stronach. She was educated at Iowa College and graduated in medicine at the Medical Department, Iowa State University, in 1873. She began to prac- tise in her native State in 1873; in Illinois in 1876; in Pennsylvania in 1880; and in New York in 1890; she had the benefit of hearing lectures and attending clinics in Paris, Leipsic, and Berlin. She was assistant physician at the State Hospital for the Insane, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 1873-1876; and was a member of the Board of Trustees ; she was physician- in-charge of the Woman's Department of the State Hospital for the Insane, Harrisburg, 1880-1883. Dr. Cleaves was founder and chief of the Electro-Therapeutic Clinic Laboratory and . Dispensary, New York City; she was president of the Woman's Medical Society, New York. She was author of "Light Energy: Its Physics, Physiological Action -and Therapeutic Appli- cation," and American editor of the Journal of Physiological Therapeutics, London. Dr. Cleaves died in a hospital in Mobile, Ala- bama, November 7, 1917. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 1917, vol. Ixix. 1813. Woman's Who's Who. J. W. Leonard, 1914. Clendenin, William (1829-1885) The son of William and Mary Wallace Clendenin, William was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, his people originally coming from Dumfries, Scotland. He had the hard fight which falls to the lot of many a student ; he worked on his father's farm, was clerk in a dry-goods store, and finally attained his wish by being able to study medicine under Dr. John Gemmiel and, in 1848, to enter the Medical College of Ohio, graduat- ing therefrom in 1850. When he settled in Cincinnati to practise he became intimate