Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Founder of the City of Cleveland, and Other Sketches
The founder of the city of Cleveland the Beautiful City that not only inherit-s his name, but cherishes his memory with a sincere feeling of pride and reverence. His ancestry is of historical interest, and has been traced to a remote period. The name Cleaveland is shown to be of Saxon origin, and was the name of a distinguished family in Yorkshire, England, before the Norman con quest. This family originally occupied an extensive landed estate whose soil - hard clay -was singularly marked by Open fissures, known to the Saxons as clefts or eleves. This peculiarity of the estate induced the rural population of the vicinity to Speak of its occu pants as the f'cleiilands, a name which the family accepted. This name, like many others, as time elapsed, came to be Spelled in a vari 3.
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