When Mary Clarissa Cleveland was born on 8 April 1817, in Winchester, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Oren Cleveland, was 31 and her mother, Esther Allen, was 31. She married Edwin A. Hope Sr. on 14 April 1864, in Huntsburg, Geauga, Ohio, United States. She lived in Burton, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Claridon Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 17 September 1903, in Huntsburg, Geauga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Huntsburg Township Cemetery, Huntsburg, Geauga, Ohio, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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