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He was educated in the schools of his native town. He was in Havana, Cuba, 1829-30, where his father was U.S. consul; was a clerk in Boston, Mass., 1830-31, and was secretary to his father at Havana. 1831-33. He was in Illinois and Maine engaged in surveying in 1833-34, and in 1841-53 was a farmer at Burlington, N. J. In 1853 he became a landscape gardener, entering into partnership with Morris Copeland in Boston, Mass. In 1860 the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Cleveland continued in the same work at Danvers, Mass., 1860-71; in Chicago, Ill., 1871-83; and in Minneapolis, Minn., 1883-94. He was corresponding secretary of the New Jersey Horticultural Society for twelve years and was elected an honorary member of the Massachusetts Horticulturist Society, of the Massachusetts Rifle Club and of the National Park and Out-door Art Association. As a landscape gardener, Mr. Cleveland laid out cemeteries at Yarmouth, N. S; Bangor and Farmington, Maine; Gloucester, Waltham, Concord, and Lancaster, Mass; Geneva, N.Y; Chicago, Dwight, Lincoln, Petersburg, Washington Heights, Ill; Geneva Lake and Rice Lake, Wis; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Junction City, Kan; St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn; the grounds of Butler hospital, Roger Williams park and the pumping station, Petacouset, R. I; Prospect park, Brooklyn, east of main drive; Natural bridge, Va; Jekyl island, Ga; Brookside, Indianapolis, Ind; South park and Drexel boulevard, Chicago, Ill; Winetka Highland Park, Hinsdale, and Downer's grove, Ill; the capitol, Madison, Wis; Bethesada mineral springs, Waukesha, and Asylum, Menomonie, Wis; Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; capitol, Topeka, Kan; Como park, Moniton island, and Lake Elmo residence park, St. Paul, Minn; Shattuck school and Seabury institute, Faribault, Minn; the park system of Minneapolis, Minn; University of Minnesota and Park system of Omaha, Neb. The foregoing list, greatly abridged, does not specify private grounds which comprised a very large portion of his work. He published Hints to Riflemen (1864); Landscape Architecture as Applied to the Wants of the West (1871); Voyages of a Merchant Navigator of the Days that are Past (1886); Social Life and Literature Fifty Years Ago (1888).¹

Cleveland graduated from Yale in 1824; was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1827. Some years after his wedding the family removed to Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey, where their third son was born, and he was given the name of Stephen Grover, after his father's predecessor in the Caldwell church. In 1841 the family removed to Fayetteville, Onondaga County, New York. In 1853 he was called to the Presbyterian church at Holland Patent, Oneida County, where he died a few weeks after his installation.^1,4

He was author of A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises. 2 vols. 1842.

She was educated at Houghton seminary, Clinton, N.Y., and became a teacher there. She removed to Lafayette, Ind., two years later and was principal of the Collegiate institute. Afterward she taught in Pennsylvania in a private school. She delivered a course of historical lectures at Houghton seminary which brought her before the public as a lecturer before schools for young women. This vocation she followed for some time, meanwhile purchasing with her earnings the homestead at Holland Patent and devoting herself to the comfort of her aged mother, who died in 1882. In 1885 upon the accession of her brother, Grover Cleveland, to the presidency, she became the mistress of the White House and dispensed its hospitalities until relieved by the President's wife, June 2, 1886, when she returned to her home at Holland Patent, N.Y., and devoted herself to literature, spending her winters in her Florida home. She was for a short time editor of Literary Life, Chicago, Ill. She made an extended journey in the Old World, 1893-94.¹