Sac-Marion County IA Archives Biographies.....Cleveland, Benjamin 1814 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

BENJAMIN CLEVELAND, a highly respected citizen, residing on a farm in Coon
Valley township, Sac county, Iowa, dates his birth in Otsego county, New York,
in 1814. His father, Benjamin Cleveland, Sr., had a brother in the war of 1812,
and their father, Joseph Cleveland, was a Revolutionary soldier. The Clevelands
are descended from English ancestry. Our subject's mother was, before her
marriage, Miss Lydia Cooper. She was born in Rhode Island and was a daughter of
Joseph Cooper. They had nine children, six sons and three daughters, namely:
Stephen, Joseph, Benjamin, George, Lafayette, Christopher, Laura, Lydia and
Percilla. When Benjamin was sixteen years old, in 1828, the family moved to Erie
county, Pennsylvania. From there they moved to Huron county, Ohio, thence to
Miami county, same State, thence to South Bend, Indiana, afterward to St. Joseph
county, Michigan, and then to Dane county, Wisconsin. Near Madison, in Dane
county, the father died, aged seventy years. He was in politics a Whig, and in
religion, a member of the Christian Church. The mother died in Marion county,
Iowa, at the age of eighty-five years.

  Previous to his coming to Sac county, in 1880, Mr. Cleveland had lived in
Marion county, this State. Upon his arrival here he bought 560 acres of land,
all in one body, a portion of which he has since divided among his children,
giving to each of them a farm. He retains for himself 160 acres, located in
section 17.

  In 1843 Mr. Cleveland married Miss Matilda Hayden, a native of Cuyahoga
county, Ohio, born near Mentor, Garfield's old home. Her parents, John and
Louisa (Babcock) Hayden, were natives respectively of Vermont and Grand Island,
in Lake Champlain. Her father died in Michigan, at the age of fifty-four years;
and her mother, in Jones county, Iowa, aged ninety-one. They had a family of
thirteen children. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have five children, namely: C. C,
Auditor of Sac county; Benjamin P., Coon Valley township; E. V., also of Coon
Valley township; Emily, wife of James Neal; and Electa, wife of N. S. Lyon. They
lost their first-born, Louis, at the age of thirteen months.

  Mr. Cleveland is identified with the Republican party, and he and his wife are
members of the Christian Church. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic order,
Union Grove Lodge.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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