User:Valfontis/E. H. Cleaveland

Dr. E. H. Cleaveland

Hiram Edward Cleaveland/Cleavland/Cleveland/Clevland


 * August 11, 1823, born in Vermont, had his medical training
 * 1850 and 1851, several mentions [adverts in Democratic State Register] from Watertown, Wisconsin (behind paywall)
 * April 4, 1850 dissolved partnership w/S.P. Thornhill (DSR April 16) [Maj. Dr. Samuel Payne Thornhill (1821-1879) 8th Wisc.]
 * To Wisconsin, then overland to O.T. per
 * June 1853, elected Jackson County Treasurer
 * 1853, at military hospital in Jacksonville as surgeon and medical director (Jacksonville Oregon Volunteers Hospital, established for the care of Rogue River Indian War volunteers)
 * December 17, 1853, mentioned in letter from Jacksonville and printed in the Watertown, Wisconsin Chronicle, by S.H. Taylor, Esq, who later officiated at Cleveland's wedding
 * July 7, 1854, E.H. Cleavland, councilman elect signatory of C.S. Drew letter re: militia
 * August 1854, married Maria Ann Vandine (Decatur, Ill, 1831-1867) in Jackson County per *
 * December 4, 1854 to February 1, 1855 member of 6th Oregon Territorial Legislature
 * December 1854, meeting of Whigs
 * February 18, 1855, married Mrs. Marilla Fouseman** in Jackson County per Sacramento Daily Union*
 * June 9, 1855, mention in letter re: hospital records
 * September 8, 1855, founding member of Masonic lodge in Jacksonville
 * December 15, 1855 special election held to replace Cleveland, due to the removal [sense 5] (see John E. Ross) (resigned)
 * 1855 Jackson Co. Census, E.H. and Maria (1853, 1854)
 * 1855 Jackson Co. tax roll (1854)
 * August 25, 1856, daughter Mary Bell born
 * Planned to return to Lafayette, Indiana
 * December 21, 1856, murdered in St. Louis at the Virginia Hotel by W.T. Alexander, reported in the December 31, 1856 Times-Picayune, originally in the December 22, 1856, St. Louis Intelligencer report says he left a wife and 2 children
 * Buried at Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette
 * February 25, 1861 Mary Bell died at age 4 per
 * Maria married Adoniram Judson Cleveland (1832-?) in 1858, E.H.'s brother, had 3 children
 * Harry E Cleveland 1859-1859
 * O K Cleveland 1861-Unknown
 * Jessie Cleveland 1864-Unknown

* Who did he marry and when? Possible scandal? OOW birth and this is why he was replaced as Councillor? Or Maria/Marilla same person with dates mixed up (Marilla a widow)?

** Probably "Houseman", due to misreading manuscript