Federick Verner Cleveland
(1853 - 1936)
Page 2008, # 13263
Mr. Frederick Verner’ Cleveland, residence, Palmyra New York(1897), wholesale and retail grocer; much esteemed.
(Special to the Innkeeper.)
Palmyra, N. Y-, Jan. 6, 1894. One of the best known men among the dealers in Wayne county is Mr. P. V. Cleveland, whose picture the Innkeeper gives to-day. It shows him to be good-looking, and represents a man of liberal thought and generous disposition. The Innkeeper knows that he possesses these traits to an eminent degree. He made one of the best presidents that the Wayne County Beer and Liquor Dealers ever had, and only stepped down at the last annual election to let some of his brethren ” have a show at it,” as he jokingly remarked. Mr. Cleveland has views of his own, and does not hesitate to express them. He was a Murphy man at the last convention, and couldn’t be swerved either by Tekulsky or Kearns. In a recent letter to The Innkeeper., speaking of the New York and Brooklyn men whom he met at Syracuse, Mr. Cleveland says : “If any of them should happen to mention my name remember me to them, for they are all good fellows, although they were not all with us at the convention. I think they were wrong in dragging politics into that gathering, and in over-riding the rights of many delegates, and I further think that the very disgraceful manner in which the Syracuse Convention was ruled contributed to the defeat of the Democratic ticket this past fall.”
Mr. Cleveland, when he grew to boy’s estate, received a good education. But he was ambitious, and he was barely over fourteen years of age when he induced his father to allow him to try and earn his own living, and he went to work for Maurice Richards in Utica, and remained with him for four years, gaining, during that period, the full confidence of. his employer. He was called back to his home, however, by the illness of his father, and he then lived with his parents until the time of his father’s death ; and when the estate was settled up, young Cleveland moved to Palmyra, where he started in business in August, 1872, and has remained there ever since.
He has been 14 years in the retail and three in the wholesale business, and has developed a business tact and judgment which has caused the firm to be most favorably known throughout all of Wayne county. When the importance of organization to the liquor interest became apparent, Mr. Cleveland was one of the foremost men to urge action, and his activity in behalf of the general welfare of the trade throughout the country has been fully recognized and appreciated. The honor of the presidency of the association was unsought by Mr. Cleveland ; it was forced upon him for the simple reason that he was fully qualified for the responsibilities. The Innkeeper congratulates Mr. Cleveland, and in bestowing upon him the assurance of its most distinguished consideration, also takes the opportunity to wish him a happy new year.
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