Brief Life History of Edward Hooker
When Edward Hooker Cleveland was born on 15 May 1827, in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Oren Cleveland, was 42 and his mother, Esther Allen, was 41. He married Mary Ann Broughton on 14 December 1852, in Thompson, Geauga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Mentor Township, Lake, Ohio, United States for about 30 years. He died on 14 June 1912, in Painesville, Lake, Ohio, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Mentor Municipal Cemetery, Mentor, Lake, Ohio, United States.
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- Edward Cleaveland, "United States Census, 1860"
- Edward H. Chauiand, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Edward H Cleveland, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1836 · The Bridge War
On Halloween, tension between Cleveland and Ohio City began to boil over. Both sides of the river armed themselves with muskets and a cannon over the Columbus Street Bridge. These tensions were brought about because the bridge's location was diverting commercial attention away from Ohio City completely and the way that their concerns were being treated. Cleveland's mayor tried to reason with the enraged citizens but was greeted with a volley of rocks. No deaths were recorded but three men were injured.
1851 · Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad
The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad started running in February 1851, 15 years after it was charted for construction. It later absorbed a small bankrupt railroad in 1861 to help expand its services beyond just Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. In May 1868, the railroad merged with the Bellefontaine Railway to connect the current cities with Indianapolis.
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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