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Cleveland, Aaron – Clifton, William

Cleveland, Aaron

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 3, 1744, in Haddam, Conn. He was a poet who late in life became a congregational minister. He was the great-grandfather of President Cleveland. He was the author of The Philosopher and Boy, and Slavery Considered, both productions in verse. died Sept. 21, 1815.

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Cleveland, Henry Russell

author, was born in 1809. He was the author of The Classical Education of Boys; and Life of Henry Hudson. He died June 12, 1843, in St. Louis, Mo.

CLEVELAND, HORACE WILLIAM SHALER, author, was born Dec. 16, 1814, in Lancaster, Mass. He is a noted landscape gardener of Minneapolis; and the author of Hints to Riflemen; Landscape Architecture; and Voyages of a Merchant Navigator.

Cleveland, Jesse

merchant, patriarch, was born in February, 1785, in Spartanburg, S. C. He settled in Spartanburg in 1810; opened the second store in that place, and was its leading merchant for forty-one years. He became the patriarch of the county, and the founder of the largest, wealthiest and most influential families of northern South Carolina. He died Dec. 3, 1851, in Spartanburg, S. C.

Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth

author, poet, was born in 1846 in Fayetteville, N. Y.; and is the daughter of the Rev. Richard Cleveland, a noted presbyterian clergyman. She received her education at the Houghton seminary. She was the mistress of the White House during the first administration of her brother, ex-President Grover Cleveland. She is the author of a number of essays, poems and novels, the principal of which are George Eliot's Poetry and Other Studies; and The Long Run, a novel.

Clevenger, Shobal Vail

physician, author, was born March 24, 1843, in Florence, Italy. He is a physician of Chicago, and son of the noted sculptor of the same name. He is the author of Treatise on Government Surveying; Comparative Physiology and Psychology; and Lectures on Artistic Anatomy and Sciences Useful to the Artist.

Clever, Charles P

lawyer, congressman, author, was born Feb. 23, 1830, in Germany. He filled the offices in New Mexico of United States marshal, attorney-general, adjutant-general, as well as several others; and was elected a delegate from New Mexico to the fortieth congress.

In 1868 he published a small work on the Resources of New Mexico.

Clifford, John Henry

lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born Jan. 16, 1809, in Providence, R. I. He was a member of the legislature in 1835; and attorney-general of Massachusetts from 1849 to 1853, and from 1854 to 1858. He was governor of the state in 1853-54; and president of the state senate in 1862. He died Jan. 2, 1876, in New Bedford, Mass.

Clift, Joseph Wales

physician, congressman, was born Sept. 1, 1836, in Marshfield, Mass. He was appointed register of that city, and was elected in 1868 a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress.

Clifton, Josephine

actress, was born in 1813, in New York city. She was the first American actress to visit England as a star, and her reception was a very cordial one. In 1837 N. P. Willis wrote for her the tragedy Bianca Viscante, which was first produced at the Park theater of New York city. She died Nov. 22, 1847, in New Orleans, La.

Clifton, William

poet, was born in 1772 in Philadelphia, Pa. During the excitement produced by Jay's treaty, Clifton used his pen in support of the administration, contributing to the newspapers many satires in prose and verse. His poems were collected and published after his death with Introductory Notes of His Life and Character (New York, 1800). He died in December, 1799.