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 CLEVELAND

CLE V INLAND

1836-40; judge of the otli circuit of the state, 1840-46; quartermaster, U.S.A., 1846-47; attor- ney-general of tlie state, 1849-1854; judge of the 5th circuit, 1854-1861 ; associate justice of the supreme court of the state, 1866, but was de- prived of his office by the reconstruction acts ; and judge of the 5th circuit, 1874-76. He died at Little Rock, Ark., July 4, 1876.

CLEVELAND, Charles Dexter, educator, was born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 3, 1802; son of the Rev. Charles Cleveland (1772-1872) ; grandson of the Rev. Aaron and Abiah (Hj'de), great-grand- son of the Rev. Aaron (1715-1757) and Susannah (Porter), great^ grand.son of Capt. Aaron and Abi- gail (Waters), great ^ grandson of Aaron and Dorcas (Wilson), and great* grandson of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleaveland. He was gradu- ated at Dartmouth college in 1827, and held the chair of Latin and Greek at Dickinson col- lege, 1832-34. In the latter year he became pro- fessor of Latin in the University of the city of New York, holding the chair one year and after- ward teaching in Philadelphia. He was ap- pointed U.S. consul at Cardiff, Wales, in 1861, and remained there six years. He received the hono- rary degree of A.B. from Harvard in 1827, and that of LL. D. from Ingham in 1861, and from the University of the city of New York in 1866. He was a member of the American philosophical society. Among his published writings are nu- merous classical text books: Compendium of Gre- cian Antiquities (1836) ; A Compendium of EnrjJish Literature from Sir John Mandeville to Covper (1848) ; English Literature of the Nineteenth Century (1854) ; A Compendium of American Literature Chronologically Arranged (1859) ; and A Complete Concordance to the Poetical Works of John Milton (1867). He died in Philadelpliia, Pa., Aug. 18, 1869

CLEVELAND, Chauncey Fitch, governor of Connecticut, was born in Hampton, Conn., Feb. 16, 1799; son of Silas and Lois (Sharjae) Cleve- land; grandson of Silas and Elizabeth (Hyde) Cleveland, and a descendant of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleaveland. He was educated in the public schools, taught .school 1814-19; and was admitted to the bar in 1819. He passed through all the grades in the state militia from pri- vate to major-general, was judge of probate for Windham district for five years and prosecuting attorney of the county for several years. He represented his district in the state legislature, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1833, 1836, 1837, 1839, and served as speaker of the hou.se in 1836-37. He was bank commissioner in 1838, and was de- feated for representative in the 26th and 27th congresses, 1838 and 1840. In June, 1841, he removed his law office and residence to Nor- wich, Conn. He was elected governor of Con-

necticut in 1842 and again in 1843. He was a state representative in 1848-49, a Democratic representative from Connecticut in the 31st and 32d congresses, 1849-53, and there opposed the extension of slavery. He helped to form the Republican party, was a delegate to the Republi- can national conventions at Philadelphia, 1856, and at Chicago, 1860; was a presidential elector in 1860; a member of the peace convention at Washington in 1861 ; speaker of the Connecticut assembly in 1863 ; and again a state representative in 1866. He was married Dec. 13, 1821, to Dian- tlia, daughter of Dr. Jacob Hovey of Hampton, Conn. She died Oct. 29, 1867, and he was mar- ried Jan. 27, 1869, to Helen C, daughter of Dr. Eleazer and Mariana L. (Hovey) Litchfield. He died in Hampton, Conn., June 6, 1887.

CLEVELAND, Cynthia Eloise, author, was born in Canton, N.Y., Aug. 18, 1845; daughter of Erin and Laura (Marsh) Cleveland ; grand- daughter of Frederick Cleveland; great-grand- daughter of Frederick Cleveland, a Revolutionary soldier: and a descendant in the eighth genera- tion from Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleaveland. She acquired a common school education and entered into business life at Medina, N.Y. In 1866 she removed to Pontiac, Mich., and in 1880 to Dakota. Becoming interested in the Woman's Christian temperance union she did much to further its interests, and was its president in 1880-82. In 1883 she was admitted to the bar at Pierre, S. Dak., and in 1884 entered upon the Democratic presidential campaign, thus inaugurating politi- cal speaking among her sex. In 1885 she received the appointment of law clerk in the treasury de- partment at Washington, D.C., making her resi- dence in that city. She ■was elected a member of the society of the Daughters of the American Revolution ; a life and charter member of the American authors" guild, and was also a member of the executive committee of the National relief association for Cuba in 1898. Among her pub- lished writings are See- Saw ; or Civil Sen-ice in the Departments (1887) ; His Ilonor ; or, Fate's Mysteries (1888).

CLEVELAND, Frances Folsom, wife of President Cleveland, was born at Buffalo, N.Y., July 21, 1864; daughter of Oscar and Emma C. (Harmon) Folsom. Her father was the law partner of Grover Cleveland, and was killed by an accident in 1875. She attended the Central school, Buffalo, and in 1881 entered Wells col- lege, where she was graduated A.B. in June, 1885, Mr. Cleveland, who was then President of the United States, sending flowers from tlie White House conservatories to grace the occasion. She spent the summer of 1885 with relatives at Folsom- dale, N.Y., and in the autumn accompanied her mother to Europe. They returned home May 27,