When Ebenezer Cleveland was born about 1746, in Peagscomsueck, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Elisha Cleveland, was 30 and his mother, Ruth Paine, was 24. He died on 15 May 1929, at the age of 184.
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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.
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