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Served in the American Revolution and as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1799 he introduced a bill for the abolition of slavery.⁵

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