Charles D. Cleveland
(1802 - 1869)
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Prof. Charles Dexter Cleveland, LL.D., after passing 5 years in mercantile pursuits, entered Dartmouth college, grad. 1827. He was professor of Latin and Greek Languages and Literature in Dickinson college, Carlisle, 1830 to 1832; was appointed professor of Latin Language and Literature in the University of the City of N. Y., 1832 ; taught at New Haven 1 year.
In 1834 he established a young ladies’ high school in Philadelphia, which he conducted with marked success for 25 years until his health failed. The well-known author of Greek, Latin, and school text-books, and Compendiums of Literature, see Bibliography, Chap. IV. He was elected a resident member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Apr. 20, 1858. Ingham University in 1861, and University of N.Y., 1866, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. He was a ripe scholar
He was an early abolitionist. In 1844 he wrote the Address of the Liberal Party of Pa. to the people, which attracted considerable attention. He was appointed 1861 by Pres. Lincoln, U. S. Consul at Cardiff, Wales. He was honored and beloved wherever he was known, and his sudden death, so soon after his arrival at home from his official duties in Wales, cast a deep gloom over a wide circle of relatives and friends.
N.E. H. G. Reg., XXV : 389 ; Critical Dictionary of English Literature by S. Austin Allibone 1870 ; Drake’s Dictionary 196 ; Sketch of Dickinson College, By Charles F. Himes, Ph.D., 1879.
Prof. Charles D. Cleveland is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. Mrs. Alison Nisbet (McCoskry) Cleveland still resides (1895) with her son Dr. Samuel McCoskry Cleveland in Philadelphia, spending half of the year with her daughter, Mrs. Hardon, at Jamaica Plain, Mass., and Sugar Hill, Grafton co., N. H.
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