Brief Life History of Downer
When Downer Cleveland was born on 25 August 1793, in Bridgewater, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, his father, John Cleveland, was 33 and his mother, Sally Kidder, was 29. He married Ruth Parker about 1820, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 24 October 1851, in Alden, Alden, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 58.
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- Downer Cleaveland, "United States Census, 1840"
- Downer Cleveland, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Downer in entry for John D Cleveland and Nancy Jarvis, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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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