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Gen. Moses Cleaveland.
MEMORIAL RECORD OF
CUYAHOGA COUNTY.
ENERAL MOSES CLEAVELAND, the founder of the city of Cleveland, Ohio, was born Jannary 29, 1754, at the town of Canterbury, Windham county, Con- necticut, the second son of Colonel Aaron and Thankful (Paine) Cleaveland.
Colonel Aaron Cleaveland was the fifth son and tenth child of Josiah Cleaveland, who mar- ried Abigail Paine. Colonel Cleaveland was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, November 27, 1727. Ilis father, Josiah Cleaveland, was born in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, October 7, 1690, and was the eldest son and child of Josiah and Mary (Bates) Cleaveland. With his parents he removed to Connecticut when he was a child of four years. He is said to have been a man of great ability, prominent in the affairs of the town of Canterbury, both in a civil and eecle- siastical way, and there died February 9, 1750, leaving a good estate. ITis father, Josiah Cleave- land, the first, was the fifth son and eighth child of Moses and Ann (Winn) Cleaveland, and was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, February 16, 1667, and, as did his brother, Samuel, he set- tled in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and later removed to Canterbury, Connecticut, which remained his home till his death, April 26, 1709. He served in the Indian wars and was a much respected eitizen.
Ilis father, Moses Cleaveland, who died at Woburn, Massachusetts, Jannary 9, 1701, is said to bo the ancestor of all the " Cleavelands," or "Clevelands," in America who are of New
England origin. It has been written by an eminent antiquarian that the Clevelands of America have descended from William Cleve- land, who removed from York to Hinckley, in Leicestershire, England, where he died and was buried in January of 1630. Thomas Cleve- land, his son, became Viear of Hinckley. William Cleveland also had a son, Samuel, and it appears that this Samuel Cleveland was the father of Moses Cleaveland, the emigrant to America in 1635. The name "Cleaveland " it appears is of Saxon origin, and was given to a distinguished family in Yorkshire, England, prior to the Norman conquest. The family occupied a large landed estate whieli was peen- liarly marked by open fissures in its rocky soil, styled " clefts " or " cleves " by the Saxons, and by reason of the peculiarity of the estate its occupants were called " Clefflands," which name was accepted by the family. The name was written with every possible variety of orthog- raphy, and at last the almost universal spell- ing of "Cleveland " became established; but General Cleaveland never wrote his name other than " Cleaveland."
Moses Cleveland, the parent tree of the fam- ily in America, landed at Boston in the year 1635, where he resided for seven years, and then, with Edwin Winn and others, founded the town of Woburn, in 1610, and there he per- manently settled. In 1613 he became what was called a " freeman," the qualifications of which required that one should be of " godly walk and
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conversation, at least twenty-one years of age, take an oath of allegiance to the government of Massachusetts Bay Colony, be worth two hun- dred pounds, and consent to hold office, if elected, or pay a fine of forty shillings, and vote at all elections or pay the same fine." So onerons were these conditions and restrictions that many who were eligible preferred not to become freemen, being more free as they were; but Moses Cleveland, born of noble ancestry, became a freeman, and, thinking that the an- eestral blood in his veins was of superior quality, considered it proper that it should be trans- mitted; so after a brief courtship he wedded, in 1648, Anne Winn, a daughter of his es- teemed friend, Edwin Winn. Ile beeame the father of eleven children, and from hin have descended a raee not only numerous but also noted for great moral worth and excellent traits of character. This worthy progenitor was a man of intelligence and great enterprise. Ile was a honsewright, or builder, by trade.
Colonel Aaron Cleveland, the father of him whose name forms the caption of this personal mnemoir, served as a captain in the French and Indian war, and at Fort Edward was with his command in the winter of 1756-'57. IIe bore a conspicuous part in the struggles of the Rev- olution as a gallant soldier and efficient officer. Ile witnessed Governor Tryon's assault npon HIorse-neck, and the plunge of General Putnam down the steep bluff, as bullets from the baffled dragoons whizzed by him, even piereing his hat. Colonel Cleveland lived to see the suc- cessful close of the war, and on the 14th day of April, 1785, died, at his native town.
HIe married, in Canterbury, June 7, 1748, Miss Thankful Paine, a woman of culture, who survived him many years, dying in 1822, at the age of eighty-nine years. They had ten chil- dren, of whom Moses was the second son and ehild.
When but a child Moses Cleaveland gave evi- dence of a strong mind and excellent traits of character, which fixed the determination of his parents to give him a liberal education. When
he arrived at the proper age they sent him to Yale College, where he graduated in 1777. His tastes and character of mind probably led him into the legal profession. At his native town he began the practice of law and very soon beeame a successful advocate. Ile gained prominenee, and his abilities soon attracted public attention. In 1779 Congress recognized his merits by appointing him captain of a com- pany of sappers and miners in the United States army. Under this commission he served sev- eral years, and then resigned to take up again the .practice of law. Subsequently he served several terms in the State Legislature, with dis- tinetion. Aside from gaining prominence in his profession and as a legislator, he was also a prominent Mason, and was once Grand Marshal of the Grand Lodge of Connectieut.
In Canterbury, Connecticut, he married, March 21, 1794, Miss Esther Champion, dangh- ter of Henry Champion, Esq., by whom he had four children, named Mary Esther, Francis Moses, Frances Augusta and Julius Moses. Through the subordinate military grades he was promoted, and in the early part of 1796 he was advanced to the Generalship of the Fifth Brigade of the State militia.
As a colony, Conneetient acquired by grant from King Charles II., of England, in 1662, that vast tract of territory lying between the same parallels forming the northern and soutli- ern boundaries of the colony and extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. The geography of the king was bad, for in granting lands to the various colonies lie gave conflicting grants, and upon the formation of the Federal government several States set claim to western territory. In 1786 Connecticut relinquished her claim, Congress allowing her to retain only that part of the territory now known as the " Western Reserve," and which embraces the northeastern part of Ohio, covering 3,800,000 aeros. During the Revolution there were many citizens who had suffered great losses of prop- erty by fire, and in 1792 Connectient donated to such citizens 500,000 acres of this land,
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afterward known as the "fire lands; " and in 1795 the State authorized the sale of the re- maining part of the Western Reserve, and a committee to effeet the sale was appointed. The "Connecticut Land Company " became the purchasers, paying the price of $1,200,000, which became a permanent fund for the sup- port of common schools in Connecticut.
To look after the interests of this company there was appointed a board of general man- agers, among whom was Moses Cleaveland, who was a shareholder in the land company. This board of directors, on the 12th of May, 1796, commissioned General Cleaveland to go on to said land as superintendent over the agents and men sent to survey, and make locations on the lands, and to make and enter into friendly rela- tions with the natives on the land, and their neighbors. He was also instructed to secure such friendly intercourse amongst those who had any pretended claim to the lands as would establish peace, quiet and safety in the survey- ing and settling of such lands also as were not ceded by the natives under the authority of the United States. To accomplish this work he was authorized and empowered to act and transact the business by making contracts and to make such drafts on the treasury as might be necessary. The commission also placed under his directions all agents and men sent out to survey and settle the lands. Thus it is seen that to the skill, judgment and tact of General Cleaveland was completely left the management of the affairs of the company.
The Western Reserve was then called " New Connecticut," and into the wilds of this terri- tory General Cleaveland led the first surveying and exploring party. This party numbered fifty persons, of whom there were General Cleaveland, land agent; Angustus Porter, prin- cipal surveyor; Seth Pease, astronomer and surveyor; Moses Warren, Amos Spafford, John M. Holley, and Richard M. Stoddard, assistant surveyors; Joshua Stow, commissary; Theodore Shipherd, physician; Joseph Tinker, boatman; Soth Hart, chaplain; thirty-seven employes and
a few immigrants. In the party there were but two women, and they were married and came with their husbands. Along with them the party brought to the wilds of the Western Reserve thirteen horses and several head of cat- tle, of which a few of the party took charge, and started ont on their trip from Schenectady, New York, where the whole party had concen- trated in June, 1796. Others of the expedi- tion, including General Cleaveland, passed by boats up the Mohawk river to Fort Stannix (now Rome), where they transferred their boats over - the portage to Wood creek, down which they passed to Oneida lake, thence over the lake and its outlets to Oswego river and on to Lake Ontario. Passing in their boats along the sonthern shore of Ontario, they reached the mouth of the Niagara river, up which they passed to Queenstown; they then crossed the seven-mile portage to Chippewa; then, again ascending the Niagara, passed into Lake Erie and on to Buffalo, where they joined those of their party who had gone by land, in charge of the horses and cattle.
At Buffalo General Cleaveland was greeted by an opposition from a delegation of Seneca and Mohawk Indians, under Red Jacket and Colonel Brant, who in anticipation of his arrival had awaited him for the purpose of preventing him from progressing on his expedition to the Western Reserve, to which territory they set claim. The Indians, however, consented to hold a conference with General Cleaveland, who was successful in quieting their claims by pre- senting them with goods valued at about $1,200.
Along the southeastern shore of Lake Erie the expedition was continued, and on the 4th of July, 1796, the mouth of Conneaut creek, in the Western Reserve, was reached. Here the party gave evidence of joy and patriotism by giving three deafening cheers and namning the place Port Iudependence, and the day and event were likewise appropriately celebrated. The American flag fanned the breezes, a bountiful dinner of baked pork and beans and other luxuries was spread, their muskets were fired in
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salute, and speeches were made. The shades of night closed a day of celebration, the first of it kind to occur on the Western Reserve.
The next day these pioneers built a log cabin or so for the immediate accommodation of the party and their supplies. This occasioned in- quisitiveness on the part of the Indians in the vicinity, who sought to know why white men had encroached upon their domains. A conn- cil was provided for and General Cleaveland as the "Great White Chief" was the "chair- man; " and the work of the conneil began with smoking the " pipe of peace." An address to the "Great White Chief" was delivered by Cato, the son of the old Indian chief, Piqua. The Indians were conciliated by gifts of a few glass beads and a keg of whiskey, and the work of the surveyors was begun, cach detachment of surveyors being assigned special work and in- structed where to begin their survey by General Cleaveland.
During the next few weeks General Cleave- land, with a select few of his staff' in boats, passed along the shore of Lake Erie to what he supposed was the mouth of the Cuyahoga river, but in an attempt to ascend the river fonnd obstruetions in the way of sandbars and fallen trees, and the water being shallow he became convinced that it was not the Cnyahoga river; and such was his chagrin that the name " Cha- grin " was given to the stream, by which it has since been known.
July 22d of the same year (1796) he reached the Cuyahoga river and landed on the eastern bank near its mouth. He and his staff ascended the steep bank, and for the first time they be- held a beautiful and elevated plain extending to the cast, west and south, and covered with a dense forest of graceful trees. This beautiful plain, tonched by the Cuyahoga river on the west and Lake Erie on the north, impressed him as being a favorable site for a eity, no doubt to become of great commercial impor- tance. An area of one square mile was sur- veyod and laid off in city lots.
In October, 1796, the surveys were com- pleted by the surveyors, who gave to the pros- pective eity the name " Cleaveland," in honor of their chief, who accepted the compliment with characteristie modesty. Three log cabins for the accommodation of the surveyors were erceted on the hillside near the river and a spring pouring forth an abundant supply of water.
In 1796 four souls constituted the resident population of Cleveland; in 1797 the population increased to fifteen, and in 1800 it was reduced to seven by removals elsewhere. In 1820 one hundred and fifty people lived in Cleveland, and in 1830 the first census taken by the United States showed it to have a population of 1,075. The completion of the Ohio eanal, with its northern terminus at Cleveland, gave better commercial advantages to the place, and, giving confidence also, assured the city's future pros- perity.
In 1830 the first newspaper was established in Cleveland, and was known as the Cleaveland Advertiser; but so small was the sheet that in order to give room for the " heading," which was too long for the " form," the letter " a " in the first syllable of the word " Cleaveland " was dropped and thus the adoption of the spelling "Cleveland," which the publie at onee accepted.
Within less than a century the city of Cleve- land has grown to such gigantie proportions as to now possess a population of 300,000, and this beautiful city that inherits the name of its founder cherishes his memory with a pride that approaches reverence. In honor of him and in appreciation of his character and publie services the city has erected on its beautiful public square a statue to his memory. The accom- panying portrait of General Moses Cleaveland is from a likeness said to be an excellent one of him.
In his bearing General Cleaveland was manly and dignified. IIe wore such a sedate look that strangers often took him for a clergyman. Ho had a somewhat swarthy complexion, which in- ineed the Indians to believe him akin to their
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own race. Ile had black hair, quick and pene- trating eyes. Ile was of medium height, erect, thick-set and portly, and was of musenlar limbs and his stop was of a military air, all of which indicated that he was born to be a leader of men. He was a man of few words and of prompt action. The rigid, pure morality of his puritan fathers characterized this good man. He did not only achieve a great work in the founding of a great city, but many were his achievements and an honorable and useful life he lived. In life he had a purpose and lived for a purpose. He was of a decisive character, positive and firm, yet socially he was both pleasant and agrecable, and was everybody's friend, and everybody seemed to be his friend. He was of strong conrage and amid threatening dangers he was as cahn as he was shrewd in his taeties and management. He died at Canter- bury, Connectient, November 16, 1806, at the age of fifty-three years. Ile was born to lead a career of unusual interest, and his commission was to transform a wilderness into a civilized land.
W ILLIAM II. HUMISTON, M. D .- One of the most exacting of all the higher lines of occupation to which a man may lend his energies is that of a physician. A most sernpulous preliminary training is de- manded and a nicety of judgment little under- stood by the laity. Then again the profession brings one of its devotees into almost constant association with the sadder side of life -- that of pain and suffering-so that a mind capable of great self-control and a heart responsive and sympathetic are essential attributes of him who would essay the practice of the healing art. Thus when professional success is attained in any instance it may be taken as certain that such measure of success has been thoroughly merited.
The subject of this resume, who ranks with the eminent and successful practitioners of Cleveland, was born in Wellington, Lorain
county, Ohio, July 27, 1855, the son of Henry D. and Miranda L. (Davison) Inmiston, who are now residents of New Haven, Connecticut, and from prominent New England ancestry. The family is of Scotch, Irish and English ex- traction and Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, was the abiding place of the lineal descendants for many generations.
Onr subject grew to maturity and received his preliminary educational training in Lorain and Wayne counties, Ohio. Ilis supplementary literary education was secured in Wayne county and at Worthington, Minnesota. From Worth- ington he went to the University of Michigan, where he passed two years as assistant to Cory- don L. Ford, professor of anatomy. He then went with Professor Ford to the Long Island College Hospital, New York, where he se- cured the highest honors with the graduating class of 1879, and was soon thereafter tendered the position of house surgeon, simply upon merit.
The Doctor began the practice of his profes- sion in the city of Cleveland in the fall of 1879, and his enterprise and marked ability soon se- cured recognition in the way of bringing to him a large and representative clientele. In the spring subsequent to his location here he was elected a member of the Board of Health, being the youngest representative in that important body. In this capacity he served for six years, when his health became impaired. He went abroad for a season of recuperation and for the purpose of further prosecuting his studies and especially pressing forward his investigations in the line of gynecology. Ile was absent two years, which time was passed in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Dublin. In 1887 he was made a fellow of the British Gynecological Society, and also of the British Medical Asso- ciation. After his return to his home he opened a private hospital for the treatment of the diseases of women, with especial attention to those disorders which demand the interven- tion of surgery. He is still conducting this hospital, which is located at No. 874 Seranton avenne.
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Dr. Humiston is president of the Cleveland Medical Society, a member of the American Medical Association, of the Ohio State Medical Society, of the Cleveland Society of Medical Sciences and the Northeastern Ohio Medieal Association, consulting gynecologist to the City Hospital and vice-president of the Hospital Staff.
In social and fraternal affiliations the Doctor is identified with I. O. O. F., with that notable organization, the First Cleveland Troops, and with the Union Club. He is vice-president of the Pearl Street Loan and Savings Company.
He was married at Circleville, Ohio, in 1884, when he wedded Miss Harriet Miller, the ac- complished daughter of Adam Miller, a promi- nent resident of that place. Dr. and Mrs. Hum- iston have two children: Florence L. and Will- iam T. The attractive family home is located at 1047 East Madison avenne, and the Doctor also has a very delightful summer cottage at Dover Bay Park.
R EV. F. WESTERHOLT, who is pastor of the St. Peter's (German) Catholie Church of Cleveland, was born in West- plalia, Germany, May 31, 1827, and has been Rector of the above church for twenty-six years, having become its pastor in 1867. Rev. Westerholt is the son of Hermann II. and Ger- trude (Panning) Westerholt. His father died in 1829, at the age of forty-nine years, and his mother died at the age of fifty-seven years. Having lost his mother when a child, he was subsequently indneed to come to Cleveland, by an nnele, a brother of his mother, and here he lived from 1851 to 1855. He became a priest in Defiance in that year, and remained there for three years, and during this time he had nine missions. In 1858 he went to Delphos, Allen county, Ohio, where he remained nine and a half years, and had one large congregation of over 300 families, besides several missions. Before coming to America Rev. Westerholt had received a fair education in Germany, but on coming to this country he completed his ccele-
siastical education at St. Mary's Theological Seminary. For a time he lived with his unele, G. H. Panning, in Mercer county, Ohio, during which time he taught one term in the Catholic schools of that county.
Hle was ordained priest, July 8, 1855, and from Delphos, Ohio, he returned to Cleveland to become pastor of St. Peter's Church and Vicar General. He was installed in this position Jan- uary 16, 1868, the successor of Rev. J. II. Enhr, the first pastor, and has retained the rectorship of this church from that date to this.
In 1869 Rev. Westerholt accompanied Right Rev. Bishop Rappe to Rome, Italy, to assist in the Vatican Conneil, as companion of Bishop Rappe. Before returning to America a visit was paid Egypt and the Holy Land, many places of historic importance being visited. In June, 1870, they returned to America and at once Rev. Westerholt resumed his duties as pastor at Cleveland.
On taking charge of the parish in 1868 the congregation was small and the house of wor- ship was inferior; now the congregation is one of the largest, and the church building is one of the best in the State of Ohio. At first the con- gregation consisted of abont 200 families; now there are over 600 families.
Rev. Westerholt was the originator of the St. Francis (German) Catholic Church on Superior street near Becker avenue, and has done much effectual work in the upbuilding of the Catholic Church in Cleveland. When he first came to Cleveland there were but two little frame church buildings of their church in the city; now there are twenty-nine flourishing congregations, all having good chnreh buildings. Ile was the one to introduce in Cleveland the Sisters of Notre Dame, who have an academy here. It is remembered that their work was highly praised and admired at the World's Fair at Chicago. In the success of introducing the Sisters of Notre Dame in Cleveland Father Westerholt can take just pride, for they have done much good for education in the city. Since 1870 he has had an assistant.
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Father Westerholt is one of the oldest and most worthy fathers in the Catholic Church of Cleveland. Hc has noted remarkable changes and a marvelous growth in his church, indica- tive of hard work and snecessful laborers, in which he has always taken just pride. IIe has served his church longer, in point of time, than any father now in the city. He is a man of worth and is highly estcemed for many ster- ling qualities of head and heart.
JOHN WALKER. - Longfellow wrote: " We judge ourselves by what we feel cap- able of doing, while others judge ns by what we have already done." If this golden sentence of the New England poct were universally ap- plied, many a man who is now looking out of himself with haughty stare down upon the noble toilers on land and sea, sneering at the omission of the a-pirate, the cut of his neighbor's coat, or the humbleness of his dwelling, would be voluntarily doing penance in sackeloth and ashes, at the end of which he would handle a spade, or, with pen in hand, burn the midnight oil in his study, in the endeavor to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew be- fore, or to widen the bounds of liberty, or to accelerate the material and spiritual progress of his race.
A bright example of one of the world's workers, is the man whose name introdnees this biographical sketch. Mr. Walker was born in old England, in the broad-acred county of York- shire, noted for its hospitality. The date of his birth was August 3, 1847, and the town Middlesborough-on-Tees. His father, James Walker, was a son of a blacksmith and was born August, 1824, in the factory town of Keighley. Yorkshire. He was one of six brothers, all mechanies. James Walker was a plain iron founder, who could sleek a mold, fix a core, pour a casting, or make a contract as well as any man in the iron districts of England. He died at Middlesborough, January 6, 1877.
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