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A HISTORY
OF
THE CITY OF CLEVELAND
ITS SETTLEMENT, RISE AND PROGRESS .
1796-1896
BY
JAMES HARRISON KENNEDY,
Editor of "The Magazine of Western History;"
Author of "The Early Days of Mormonism;"
"The American Railroad;" "Three Witnesses
of the Book of Mormon;" "The Bench and Bar
of Cleveland," etc. Corresponding Member of the
Western Reserve Historical Society, etc., etc.
Illustrated with Maps, Portraits and Views.
CLEVELAND: The Imperial Press.
MDCCCXCVI
1896
Copyright 1896
By THE IMPERIAL PRESS,
Cleveland
No. 185
TO THE MEMORY OF
MOSES CLEAVELAND,
AND HIS ASSOCIATES OF 1796,
IS DEDICATED
THIS RECORD OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS, AND OF THE
CITY WHOSE FOUNDATIONS THEY LAID
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
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I hear the tread of pioneers
Of nations yet to be;
The first low wash of waves, where soon
Shall roll a human sea.
Each rude and jostling fragment soon
Its fitting place shall find,
The raw material of a State,
Its muscle and its mind!
John Greenleaf Whittier.
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