Kansas History and Heritage Project-Sumner County Biographies

Sumner County Biographies
"Portrait and Biographical Album of Sumner County"
Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1890


H. D. CLEVELAND. This gentleman is the proprietor of the Capital Livery, Feed & Sale Stable, in Wellington, and has one of the finest establishments of the kind in Sumner County. His stables are located on Lincoln Avenue, and there he usually keeps for work sixteen to twenty horses, and he also has a fine line of trade in boarding. He has been carrying on the establishment here since 1878, and is one of the oldest livery men now in the city. He has also been quite extensively engaged in buying and selling stock. He is quite an old settler of this State, having landed in Wichita in 1872, when that prosperous city was but a small village, and there engaged in the grocery business, in which he continued some three years. He then changed his employment to that in which he is now engaged, and a few years later removed his stock to this city, of which he is now a prominent business man.

Mr. Cleveland is a son of Joseph and Sallie (Barrett) Cleveland, natives of Niagara County, N. Y., where they were married and where for many years the father was engaged in farming. In 1856, they removed to Stephenson County, Ill., about eight miles from Beloit, Wis., thence removing to Sheboygan County, Wis., where Mr. Cleveland continued his former occupation until elected Sheriff, which office he held four years. He also served as Supervisor six years. In 1869 he removed to Iowa, and in 1874 came to this State, and is now living in Pawnee County. His wife died in Wisconsin in 1868.

The subject of this brief biography was born in Niagara County, N. Y., February 24, 1848, and remained in his native county until eight years old when he accompanied his parents farther West. Young as he was at the breaking out of the Rebellion, Mr. Cleveland was anxious to devote his youthful energy to the cause of the Union, and therefore placed his name on the muster-roll of Company F, Second Wisconsin, the date of his enlistment being March 22, 1861. He was first sent to Washington and then went to the front, being present at the first battle of Bull Run. After the expiration of his first term of enlistment he entered the Thirty-sixth Wisconsin, as Captain of Company F, which he had raised. This command was also sent to Washington and thence to the seat of conflict, and Mr. Cleveland participated in all their engagements, from the battle of the Wilderness through to Richmond. His services included participation in the battles of Spottsylvania Courthouse, Cold Harbor and Welton Railroad, and many smaller engagements, with the usual amount of hard marching and camp duties. At Spottsylvania Court-house, he received a flesh. wound in the leg, and was an inmate of the field hospital for a time. He attended the Grand Review at Washington and was mustered out at Chicago, June 18, 1865.

At the cessation of his soldier's life, Mr. Cleveland returned to Wisconsin and there engaged in buying horses for the Western markets until the fall of 1869, when he removed to Iowa and engaged in the livery business in Cedar Falls, also owning a farm in Grundy County. From Iowa he removed to Austin, Minn., where for three years he was engaged in the sale of agricultural implements, after which he became a resident of this State and employed as before noted.

The lady in whom Mr. Cleveland found the companion he desired was Miss Anna Porter, who was born in Cumberland County, Ky., June 23 1856, and there made her home until about six years of age, when her father, R. Porter, was killed, after which her home was in Bowling Green. In that city the rites of wedlock were celebrated between herself and Mr. Cleveland June 5, 1883. Their happy union has been blessed by the birth of three children � Alida P., Grover and Chester. Mr. Cleveland belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and to the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a reliable citizen, an honest man, kindly in his domestic relations, and receives his due measure of respect from his associates.



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