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The old family of Cleveland, ancient and honorable, throughout the line made history of its lineal descendants, among whose number were clergymen, an army chaplain, Revolutionary soldier, physician and liberty-loving and liberty-seeking members. The family name Cleveland means "of Cleveland," a hamlet in the parish of Ormsby, County of York, Eng- land. Johannes de Clyveland is recorded in the poll-tax of Yorkshire, A. D. 1379, his name giving trace of its derivation, "Cliff-land." The Cleveland family coat- of-arms is of singularly interesting design as denoting the inherent strength and longevity of the Clevelands, and their lofty aim and pureness of purpose of life. The description follows :
Arms-Per chevron sable and ermine, a chevron engrailed counterchanged.
Crest-A demi-old man proper, habited azure, having on a cap gules turned up with a hair front, holding in the dexter hand a spear headed argent, on the top of which is fixed a line proper, passing behind him, and coiled up in the sinister hand.
Motto-Pro Deo et patria. (For God and country.)
(I) Moses Cleveland, the common an- cestor of all the Clevelands, or Cleave- lands, of New England origin, came when a youth from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England. According to tradition, he embarked from London, arriving in Mas- sachusetts, 1635, and settled at Woburn. He was born, probably at Ipswich, Eng- land, about 1625. He died at Woburn, January 9, 1701 or 1702. He married, September 26, 1648, Ann Winn, born in 1626, died before May 6, 1682. They were the parents of seven sons and four daugh- ters.
(II) Josiah Cleveland, son of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleveland, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, February 26, 1666 or 1667, died in Canterbury, Connec- ticut, April 26, 1709. He followed his brother Samuel, in 1693, to Plainfield, now Canterbury, set off in October, 1703. He married, at Chelmsford, Massachu- setts, about 1689, Mary Bates, daughter of John and Mary Bates. They had eight sons and three daughters.
(III) Josiah Cleveland, son of Josiah and Mary (Bates) Cleveland, was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, October 7, 1690, and died in Canterbury, Connecti- cut, February 9 (N. S. 20), 1750. He married, at Canterbury, August 7, 1710, Abigail Paine, daughter of Elisha and Rebecca (Doane) Paine, of Eastham, Massachusetts (1686-1762) ; they had six sons and four daughters.
(IV) John Cleveland, son of Josiah and Abigail (Paine) Cleveland, was born April 11-12, 1722, in Canterbury, Connec- ticut, and died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, April 22, 1799. He was a distinguished clergyman, a public-spirited man, a force- ful writer and speaker. He entered Yale College, 1741, preached two years to a Separatist Society at Boston, but was or- dained minister of a new church at Che- bacco, Ipswich, Massachusetts. February
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25, 1747; he witnessed a great revival among his people, 1763-64. He was in the French and Indian War, 1756-60. He married (first), at Ipswich, July 15, 1747, Mary Dodge (1723-68), only daughter of Parker and Mary (Choate) Dodge. He married (second), at Salem, Massachu- setts, September 28, 1769, Mrs. Mary (Neale) Foster, widow of Captain John Foster; there were four sons and five daughters, all by the first marriage.
(V) Nehemiah Cleveland, son of Rev. John and Mary (Dodge) Cleveland, was born in Ipswich, August 26, 1760, and died in Topsfield, Massachusetts, Febru- ary 26, 1837. He served with the Con- tinental Army, 1775, with the regiment of which his father was chaplain; studied medicine. He married (first), in Ipswich, October 6, 1787, Lucy Manning, daugh- ter of John and Lucy (Bolles) Manning. He married (second), at Pomfret, Con- necticut, July 1, 1792, Experience Lord, daughter of Dr. Elisha and Tamarson (Kimball) Lord; there were no children of the first union, but there were nine by the second.
(VI) Nehemiah Cleveland, son of Ne- hemiah and Experience (Lord) Cleveland, was born August 16, 1796, in Topsfield, Massachusetts, and died in Westport, Connecticut, April 17, 1877. He married (first), at Ipswich, September 8, 1823, Abby Pickard Manning. He married (second), in Brooklyn, New York, No- vember 25, 1842, Katherine Atherton Means; there were seven children by the first marriage and one by the second.
(VII) Dr. Joseph Manning Cleveland, son of Nehemiah and Abby Pickard (Man- ning) Cleveland, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, July 22, 1824, died in Poughkeepsie, New York, January 21, 1907. It was early determined in the minds of parents and son that Joseph Manning Cleveland should become a phy-
sician. His training was therefore admin- istered with that objective in view. He attended Dummer Academy, South By- field, Massachusetts, and was graduated, 1846, from New Jersey College, Princeton, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He soon settled in New York City, where he studied medicine, unders Drs. Manning and Smith, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons; graduated in the class of 1850 with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. He began his professional career in the old New York Hospital on Broad- way, where he remained three years. Later he accompanied Dr. Agnew, of New York, one of the world's most famous physicians, to Great Cliff mine, Lake Su- perior, in the medical care of 1,200 miners. Dr. Cleveland first gained attention for his work among the insane at the Utica Hospital, Utica, New York, as assistant to Dr. Gray. His skill and progressive ideas in the line he had chosen to special- ize were brought to the attention of the New York State authorities, and he was commissioned to go to Poughkeepsie to superintend the establishment of the new State Hospital in that city and was a member of the committee that chose the site. He personally supervised the con- struction of the building and the installa- tion of the appointments. It was during his incumbency that Dr. Cleveland shat- tered the rule of force and substituted the rule of reason coupled with kindness in the treatment of insane patients. He was untiring in his efforts to smooth the lot of his unfortunate charges and remove, as far as in his power lay, the rasp from the knowledge of relatives that members of their families were removed from free spheres of society because of the sore affliction that had befallen them. To do these things, now the dearest to his great heart, he set himself assiduously to work. When kindness walked within the hospi-
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tal's walls, where bruitality formerly stalked, there came also a change in the character name of the institution. Dr. Cleveland was one of the first in the move- ment, which resulted successfully, in alter- ing the name of the hospital from "State Institution for the Care of the Insane" to "State Hospital for the Insane." As showing Dr. Cleveland's insistence upon the application of his new treatment of patients, the one offense against the rules of the hospital that he refused to overlook, in employee or staff officers, or anybody serving under him, was that of unkind- ness to a patient.
Dr. Cleveland retired from the State service in 1893, having served faithfully and well for more than twenty-five years. He was president and one of the original Board of Trustees of Vassar Brothers' Hospital, founded in 1882 at Poughkeep- sie. In honor of the memory of this man, one of the leading physicians of the world in his line, the trustees of the Hudson River State Hospital have voted to give Dr. Cleveland's name to the new nurses' and attendants' home, which is to become a part of the hospital plant. Dr. E. W. Merriman, the assistant superintendent, said: "Dr. Cleveland's administration compassed most of the building of the main hospital and much construction was done. Because of his long years of serv- ice and his contribution to the original planning of the hospital, it has been de- cided to name this home after him," who was the hospital's first superintendent, 1871-95. In the latter year he was suc- ceeded by Dr. Charles W. Pilgrim as superintendent. The latter took over the management of a hospital, whose site had been purchased about 1866, and to which, in 1872, sixty patients were admitted. Most of the roadways were planned under Dr. Cleveland's administration and the general plan of the hospital was conceived
and furthered under his direction. Dr. Cleveland served as president of the Board of Managers of Vassar Brothers' Hospital. He was a Democrat in politics. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie.
Dr. Cleveland married, at Poughkeep- sie, October 17, 1877, Cornelia Frances Barculo, daughter of the Hon. Seward and Cornelia A. (Talman) Barculo, a sketch of whom follows. Three children were born to them; Barculo, born August 18, 1878, died March 5, 1880; Manning, a sketch of whom follows; and Frederic Howland, a sketch of whom follows. Mrs. Cleveland, the mother, died in 1882, and in her memory were built the beautiful chapel and Sunday school of St. Paul's Church, Poughkeepsie.
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CLEVELAND, Manning, Realtor, Builder.
Eighth in the line of descent from Moses Cleveland, the common ancestor of all the Clevelands, Manning Cleveland, of Poughkeepsie, the son of a great father and himself an integral factor in the life and growth of his city, has exhibited over a period of many years a rare talent for the construction of buildings of architec- tural worth for both residential, commer- cial and religious purposes. He has served the city, State and Nation in offices of trust and responsibility. He did not allow his business to interfere with devo- tion to his country, for when the Federal Government desired him for service as Deputy United States Marshal during the World War, he responded. In all his walks of life, varied as they are or have been, he has acquitted himself with dis- tinction and given valued service to what- ever duty came to his hand.
He was born February 12, 1880, in Poughkeepsie, son of Dr. Joseph Manning
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and Cornelia Frances (Barculo) Cleve- land, a sketch of whom precedes this. Manning Cleveland was educated at Riverview Academy, a military school, and entered the University of Wisconsin Law School. At the age of twenty-three he engaged in the real estate business, with its combining building. With two exceptions he built the entire block of buildings standing on the east side of Academy Street, Poughkeepsie. He has bought, sold and remodeled many of the finest buildings of the city. In 1910 he built the Flatiron Building, on Main and Church streets, that city, and at that time that section was virtually undeveloped. About the year 1910 he started a taxicab service, which he operated for a number of years. Mr. Cleveland is a strong Dem- ocrat and takes pride in his political affili- ation. He was president of the Pough- keepsie Board of Police Commissioners for three years, and has been a deputy sheriff of Dutchess County continuously since the days of Sheriff Bob Chanler. He was appointed Special Deputy United States Marshal during the administration of the late President Wilson, and occu- pied a special office in Poughkeepsie.
Mr. Cleveland married, at Fishkill Land- ing, New York, October 3, 1903, Nora Orr, and seven children were born to them: Helen Cornelia, born July 4, 1907; Isabel May, born March 5, 1909; Man- ning, Jr., born March 20, 1910; Paul, born February 14, 1911, died in infancy; Mar- ion, born May 6, 1912; Raymond, born August 2, 1913 ; and Shirley Barculo, born April 8, 1924. Mr. Cleveland's children are in the ninth generation of the Cleve- lands of America.
CLEVELAND, Frederic Howland, Realtor, Agriculturist.
Frederic Howland Cleveland, in the eighth generation from the progenitor of
the Cleveland family in the United States, son of Dr. Joseph Manning and Cornelia Frances (Barculo) Cleveland, a sketch of whom precedes this, was born May 4, 1881, in Poughkeepsie, New York.
He was educated at Riverview Acad- emy and under a private tutor. On the completion of his studies he took up agri- culture and made a specialty of fruit growing. At the present writing he owns five fruit farms in Dutchess County on which are about 24,000 trees, apples, peaches and pears of about eighteen varie- ties. He is also one of the largest real estate owners in Poughkeepsie. He at one time owned a large farm for the breeding of Arabian horses, which were noted for their beauty. Mr. Cleveland was the owner of two sons of the Arabian horses presented to General Ulysses S. Grant by the Sultan of Turkey on General Grant's famous trip around the world. Mr. Cleve- land is a member of the New York State Horticultural Society, and St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Poughkeepsie.
BARCULO, Seward, Jurist, Horticulturist.
Although cut short in life while still in his prime, Judge Seward Barculo left an imperishable impression on both legal and social life, accomplishing much for his own fame and for the good of others.
The family of Barculo is an ancient one from the Netherlands. On the River Ysel, there is a small town called Borculo ; it is near Zutphen, which a famous town in the Province of Gelderland, on the right bank of the Ysel, and at the influx of the Berkel River. Trade is brisk in this part of busy Holland, timber floats down the Ysel from the Black Forest. The soil is good for grain, and there are many industries. In the Middle Ages Zutphen was the seat of a line of counts
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who ruled this district. Many notable wars were fought in Gelderland, and the people of the province were all staunch upholders of what they deemed their rights
The Barculo family were established in Gelderland from very ancient times. Their name is spelled in various ways on old records, the most common spelling being Borkelow or Brochelloo. William James Van Borkeloo came to America in the seventeenth century. He settled in Flatlands, Long Island, and died in 1683. He married twice, his second wife being Lysbeth janse, a widow. He had seven children probably all by his first wife, whose name is unknown. Among his children was Willem Willense, who lived at New Utrecht, Long Island. He took the oath of allegiance in 1687, and made his will on April 2, 1745. He married Marie Cortelyou and had a son Har- manus, who married Sarah Terhune. He made his will September 8, 1752, and had several children, among them being Har- manus Barculo, who married Elizabeth Duryea in 1765. They were the parents of the following children: Sarah, born 1766, married Rev. Peter Stryker; Cath- erine, born 1768, died young ; Catherine, born 1770, married John Van Dyck; Har- manus, born 1772, died young. Harmanus H, born 1773, married Maria Suydan ; John, born 1778, married Catherine Lott; William, born in 1780; Elizabeth, born in 1780; Nancy, born in 1786, married Cor- nelius Duryea ; George, of whom further.
George Barculo, son of Harmanus and Elizabeth (Duryea) Barculo, was born at New Utrecht, Long Island, in 1775. He was graduated from Columbia in 1795, and licensed to preach in 1798. He was made minister of Hopewell and New Hackensack, which position he held from 1805 to 1810. He died in 1832 at Preak- ness, New Jersey. He married, Decem-
ber 16, 1806, Hannah Seward, daughter of the Rev. William Seward, who was of English descent, the emigrant ancestor being William Seward, who was born in England in 1627, and came from Bristol to New England, settling first in New Haven, later in Guilford, Connecticut, but he spent the later part of his life at New Hackensack, Dutchess County, New York, where he lived in a house which is still standing. He was by trade a tan- ner, and he was commander of the train band, and a member of the General As- sembly. He died March 29, 1689. He married Grace Norton, of Guilford, and they were the parents of Captain John Seward, born February 14, 1653-54. Cap- tain Seward removed from Guilford to Durham, and died December 6, 1748. He married Abigail Bushnell, daughter of William Bushnell, of Saybrook, and they were the parents of Deacon William Sew- ard, born March 25, 1683-84. Deacon Seward spent some of his life in Killings- worth, and died May 31, 1764. He mar- ried, September 19, 1710, Damaris Pun- derson, daughter of John Punderson, Jr., of New Haven, Connecticut. They were the parents of the Rev. William Seward, born July 27, 1712. He took his Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale, and died Febru- ary 6, 1782. He married Concurrence Stevens, daughter of Jeremiah Stevens, and was the father of the Rev. William Seward, born Novembr 19, 1747, who, fol- lowing in his father's steps, went to Yale, and took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1769. He died in 1822. He married Thankful, surname unknown, and they were the parents of four children : Ann R., who married Jacobus I. Swartwout; Elec- tra, born in May, 1786, married James Dodge; Philander, born in June, 1791, married Susan Manfort; and Hannah, who married George Barculo.
Judge Seward Barculo, the eminent
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Jurist and horticulturist of Dutchess County, was born at Hopewell, New York, September 22, 1808, and died in New York City, June 20, 1854, while on his return from a trip to Europe. He was a favorite of his uncle, Jacobus I. Swartwout, with whom he spent much of his time in boyhood, and who adopted him and provided for his education. As a boy he was remarkable for the active and mischievous turn of his mind, while he was at the same time truthful, gen- erous, fearless and firm. He began his academic course in 1826, at the academy in Fishkill Village, under the charge of the Rev. Cornelius Westbrook. He pre- pared for college at Cornwall, Connecti- cut, and entered the freshman class at Yale in September, 1828, remaining until August, 1830, when, owing to some diffi- culty with the faculty, he received an hon- orable discharge and entered Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, from which he graduated. He then studied law with Stephen Cleveland, of Poughkeepsie, was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1834, and became a partner of Mr. Cleveland. The junior partner rapidly acquired confidence and began to try his skill, unaided by senior counsel, and as Mr. Cleveland was in New York much of the time he gradually assumed the business of the office, with credit to himself and satisfaction to his clients. In April, 1845, on the unanimous recom- mendation of the Dutchess County bar, Governor Wright appointed him County Judge, in 1846 he was appointed Circuit Judge by Governor Wright, and in 1847 he was elected one of the justices of the Supreme Court for the long term, the youngest man ever on this bench, but still looked back to and quoted as one of its greatest judicial minds. Judge Barculo had no negative characteristics; none of
the easy and facile utterances of non- committal expressions which marked the weak and mediocre man who aims at political "availability." He was an ex- tensive reader, possessed of fine literary taste, and took great interest in the pub- lic library of the city of Poughkeepsie. Horticulture was a favorite pursuit with him, and his variety of strawberries, peaches, pears and other fruits became quite celebrated in this section. To the culture of the grape he paid especial at- tention, and to the manufacture of wine, of which he left some fine varieties. Some valuable papers were written by him for the "Horticulturists" on the varieties and management of fruit. In 1846-50-54 he visited Europe. His death occurred June 20, 1854, in New York City, and he was buried with the solemn ritual of the Epis- copal Church, of which he was a member.
On May 12, 1834, Judge Barculo mar- ried Cornelia A. Talman, daughter of John H. and Sarah (Somerindyk) Talman, of New York City, their children were: I. Caroline T., who married Judge Charles W. Wheaton, of Poughkeepsie. 2. Marion. 3. Cornelia Frances, who mar- ried Dr. Joseph Manning Cleveland.
It is one of the consolations of a good man that his memory shall not die, that the remembrance of his services and vir- tues shall be preserved as an inheritance to his children, and as an incentive to others who may be treading the arduous path of public life. The sentiment which seeks its gratification in the desire for honest fame while we live may legit- imately be extended to posthumous re- nown. It is a premonition and prophecy that we are not all mortal, but that some- thing survives and claims a consciousness of the character it leaves behind. Judge Barculo well merited the epitaph in- scribed on his monument :
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In Society an Ornament ; In the State, a Judge, fearless, dignified and incorruptible. In habit, simple and pure. He died young, but mature in usefulness and fame. Adorning Jurisprudence by the clearness of his decisions And illustrating religion by The strength of his Faith.
WILBUR, Hon. Daniel W., Ex-Mayor of City of Poughkeepsie.
Twice honored by his fellow-citizens with election to the office of mayor of Poughkeepsie, New York, highly es- teemed for his many notable public acts, his deeds of charity, and meriting the re- spect of the community for his integrity in business affairs and financial matters, Hon. Daniel W. Wilbur has gone in and out among his people for a quarter of a century, a recognized leader of men. He is a direct descendant of an ancient Eng- lish family granted by the Crown the right to bear arms.
Arms-Sable, on a fesse between two boars pas- sant, a javeline point of the field.
Crest-The upper part of a spear proper through a boar's head erased argent.
Motto-Animo non astutia. (By wisdom not by craft.)
(I) From Doncaster, Suffolk County, England, there came to Boston, Massa- chusetts, in December, 1633, one Samuel Wildbore, the founder of the Wilbur family in America, and the spelling of whose surname was changed by the fifth in the line of descent to its present form. From this progenitor sprang Ex-Mayor Wilbur, among whose ancestry were many worthy men of strongly indepen- dent religious views and the pioneer in- stinct, who made not a little of the history of their day and generation. Samuel Wildhore himself was a shining example of the desirable elements in this hardy
race, for he was a close and cooperative friend of Roger Williams, of revered memory, and acting on his advice added another to the number of the American Colonies by joining in the purchase from the Narragansett Indians of the island of "Aquednek," now the Rhode Island of the New England States. Samuel Wild- bore was made a freeman of Boston, March 4, 1634. He was the owner of con- siderable property in Taunton, Massa- chusetts, and also possessed large realty holdings in Boston. It is inferred that he had two residences, spending part of the year in Boston and a part in Taunton. Samuel Wildbore was one of the party that was banished in November, 1637, from Massachusetts Bay Colony because they held religious views strongly at vari- ance with those held by the ruling major- ity. Then it was that adopting the hope- ful suggestion of that man of independent thought and action, possessing the spirit- ually impelling force of the true colonizer, Roger Williams, Samuel Wildbore and the others of his banished party fled to what is now Providence, Rhode Island, and there, under divine guidance, they negotiated with the Indians for the pur- chase of "Little Rhody" and set up within its confines a little realm of spiritual free- dom for God's freemen and his kin. This landmark in American history was made by Samuel Wildbore and those of like aims and purposes in 1638, in which year this forebear of the Wilburs moved his family to their new refuge. There came, evidently, a time when the rulers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony softened in their attitude toward these holders of new and strange religious views, for Samuel Wildbore returned to Boston, 1645, and it is supposed that he renewed business relations with its people. Then back to Taunton, his "other home," he later re-
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turned, and there built the first iron fur- nace known to New England. Samuel Wildbore was an all-round man of affairs, whose deeds and services to his fellows seem to have been emulated by his de- scendants. He was clerk of the Town Board, 1638; constable, 1639; and ser- geant, 1644. Samuel Wildbore married Ann Bradford, daughter of Thomas Brad- ford. The line of descent is through their son, William, of whom further.
(II) William Wildbore, son of Samuel and Ann (Bradford) Wildbore, of Little Compton, Rhode Island, was born in 1630, and died at Tiverton, Rhode Island, 1710. He married and was the father of Samuel, of whom further.
(III) Samuel (name changed to Wil- bor), son of William Wildbore, was born in 1664, and died in 1749. His wife, Mary (Potter) Wilbor, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Starks) Potter, bore him a son, Samuel, of whom further.
(IV) Samuel Wilbor, son of Samuel and Mary (Potter) Wilbor, was born No- vember 7, 1692, and died April 28, 1752. His wife, Elizabeth (Carr) Wilbor, bore him a son, Esek, of whom further.
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