A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . Moses Cleaveland Statue of the story of how Cleveland came to be what it is. To the EarlySettlers Association, and the personal efforts of Father Addison,is also due tlie bronze statiu> of the fouiidcf of tlie city tliat stands iitthe southwest section of th^ Public S(|uarc. As the ninety-secondanniversary of General Cleavclaiurs first ari-ival at the mouth of theCuyahoga fell on Sunday, tlie unveiling of the statue took i)lace onMonday, the twenty tliini of .Inly, 1888. 1880-81] POPULATION AND BE


A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . Moses Cleaveland Statue of the story of how Cleveland came to be what it is. To the EarlySettlers Association, and the personal efforts of Father Addison,is also due tlie bronze statiu> of the fouiidcf of tlie city tliat stands iitthe southwest section of th^ Public S(|uarc. As the ninety-secondanniversary of General Cleavclaiurs first ari-ival at the mouth of theCuyahoga fell on Sunday, tlie unveiling of the statue took i)lace onMonday, the twenty tliini of .Inly, 1888. 1880-81] POPULATION AND BENEFACTIONS 271 Tis licre, when Nature reigned suprome,That General (Meaveland trod the wild:And saw an infant in his dream,And with his name haptized the eliild. —Ilarveij Rice. In 1870. (levehuids population was 92,825 and that of Buffalowas 117,714; in IS^SO. BulVahis i)opnlation was 155,134, and that ofCleveland, 1(30,146. As Cincinnati had gained less than thirty-ninethousand while the younger eity on the lake had gained more thansixty-seven thousand, Cleveland again swelled


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