Biography
Bio from Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography - "Nehemiah [CLEAVELAND], b. in Topsfield, Mass., in 1796; d. in 1877 (a son of Dr. Nehemiah, a physician of Topsfield), was prepared for college in the family of his cousin, Parker, graduated at Bowdoin in 1813, began the study of theology at Andover, and taught school at Gorham, Me. He had charge of Preble street school, Portland, in 1816-'7, was then, for three years, a tutor at Bowdoin, from 1821 till 1889 was preceptor of Dummer academy, Byfield, and afterward professor of ancient languages at Phillips Exeter academy. He was head of the high school at Lowell, Mass., and from 1842 till 1848 principal of a school for young ladies in Brooklyn, N. Y. "
"He was the author of:
- a descriptive and historical account of Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn;
- "The Flowers Personified," a translation from the French; and a
- "History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates," left unfinished by him, but completed by A. S. Packard (Boston, 1882).
"He was the author of:
- a descriptive and historical account of Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn;
- "The Flowers Personified," a translation from the French; and a
- "History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates," left unfinished by him, but completed by A. S. Packard (Boston, 1882).
Books by Nehemiah Cleaveland
Address, Delivered at Bowdoin
Address, Delivered at Bowdoin College
Rules and Regulations of the Green-Wood Cemetery; with a Catalogue of Proprietors
Green-Wood Illustrated, Issue
Green-Wood Illustrated, Issue 1
A history of Dummer Academy
History of Bowdoin college
A hand-book for Green-wood
Address made at the opening of
Address made at the opening of the Cleaveland Cabinet of Bowdoin College, July 10, 1873
Green-wood Cemetery
Address delivered at Lawrence,
Address delivered at Lawrence, September 27th, 1865, before the Essex Agricultural Society
The first century of Dummer academy
Hints concerning Green-Wood
An address delivered at Topsfield in Massachusetts, August 28, 1850
An address delivered before the New-England society of Brooklyn, N.Y., December 21, 1849
The rural cemeteries of Americ
The rural cemeteries of America