A HISTORY

OF

THE CITY OF CLEVELAND

 

ITS SETTLEMENT, RISE AND PROGRESS.

1796-1896

BY

JAMES HARRISON KENNEDY,

Editor of "The Magazine of Western History;"
Author of "The Early Days of Mormonism;"
"The American Railroad;" "Three Witnesses
of the Book of Mormon;" "The Bench and Bar
of Cleveland," etc. Corresponding Member of the
Western Reserve Historical Society, etc., etc.

Illustrated with Maps, Portraits and Views.

CLEVELAND: The Imperial Press.

MDCCCXCVI

1896

 


 

Copyright 1896

By THE IMPERIAL PRESS,

Cleveland

No. 185

 


 

TO THE MEMORY OF

MOSES CLEAVELAND,

AND HIS ASSOCIATES OF 1796,

IS DEDICATED

THIS RECORD OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, AND OF THE

CITY WHOSE FOUNDATIONS THEY LAID

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

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I hear the tread of pioneers
Of nations yet to be;
The first low wash of waves, where soon
Shall roll a human sea.

Each rude and jostling fragment soon
Its fitting place shall find,
The raw material of a State,
Its muscle and its mind!

John Greenleaf Whittier.