Cleaveland, Parker
educator, scientist, author, was born Jan. 15, 1780, in Rowley, Mass. In 1799 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and then entered educational work. In 1805 he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Bowdoin college; and subsequently lectured extensively on the sciences of chemistry and mineralogy. He was the author of a work on Mineralogy; and contributed extensively to scientific journals. He gained the title of the father of American mineralogy.
He died Oct. 15, 1858, in Brunswick, Maine.
CLEAVELAND, WILLIAM WALDO, manufacturer, was born Jan. 8, 1864, in Lake City, Fla. In 1893 he organized a stock company to handle and manufacture furniture on a scale never before attempted in Florida. CLEAVES, HENRY BRADSTREET, lawyer, legislator, governor. He was educated in the common schools of Maine, and at Bridgton and Lewiston Falls academies. He served under Grant and Sheridan in the war for the preservation of the union, and at its close was offered a commission in the regular army by secretary of war Stanton, which was declined. He served as city solicitor of Portland, Maine, and represented that city in the state legislature two terms. He served five years as attorney-general of Maine. In 1893 he was elected governor of Maine, and served with distinction for two terms, and upon Governor Cleaves' retiring from this office in January, 1897, both branches of the legislature unanimously passed resolutions commending his honorable service.