Brief Life History of Alexander Douglas
When Alexander Douglas Cleveland was born on 3 October 1860, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Alexander Dennison Cleveland, was 27 and his mother, Amanda Jane Spiver, was 25. He married Sarah E Traul on 20 September 1881, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States. He lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920 and Redding, Shasta, California, United States in 1930. He died on 17 February 1938, in Shasta, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Redding Memorial Park, Redding, Shasta, California, United States.
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- Alex Cleveland in household of Elizabeth Heischauer, "Iowa State Census, 1885"
- Alex. D. Cleveland, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Alexande D Cleveland, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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