St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-23

the first public merrymaking held on
the green was monster bean-bake. the
EOlian eSculentS being cooked there III
huge iron pot and served piping hot
under the leafy canopy of the trees,
Just before one comes to the turn in
the road by the Methodist church tina
fronts the common, is
The Cleveland Homestead.
standing close to the sidewalk in the
shade of two more of the frequent elmS
that struck root into the soil two centur-
les ago. On the south of the porch is
all apple orchard, and beyond it
meadow that slopes upwards to hills
crlSScroSsed by stone walls and dotted
with cOnical dwarf cedars.
1t is comfortable looking two-story
dwelling, about forty feet square with
shingled gambrel. or hip roof. and a
chunky chimney TO each corner, slug
costing the reflection that the winters
must indeed be bleak where so many
freplaceS are required.
The clapboard sides are painted a
sober drab, relieved by trimmings of
reddish-brOWn. A bit Of grass plat fills
in the space between the sidewalk and
the door way, which is oddly and notice
ably attractive with its triangular cor
nice and tiuted COrnthian pilasters
along the sides. A broad fiagstone of
smooth gray gneiSS-a younger brother
10 the New England GRANTEES placed
before the two steps of the same ma
terial that lead TO the threshold.
Stepping within, one is immediately
brought to face with the front stairway
that leads to the sleeping rooms above.
On either hand are the parlor and sitting
room, whose principal features are the
black marble mantels and wood fire
places, the recessed windows, with solid
wooden inside shutters, and the low
ceilings, crossed and supported by
heavy. enclosed floor beams. 1t ranks
with the best family mansions in Bean
Hill.
seems to know. More than century.
of course, for il is the current belief that
1t was built by William Cleveland's
father, Aaron Cleveland. Certain it is
that the house had been occupied for
many years when the deacon purchased
it from his brother-in-law. d. L.. Dodge,
in 1912, when the latter moved to New
York, where his descendants became
merchants OF national fame, the late
William e. Dodge being one of them.
1t was the deacOn'S home until his four
children went away or married, Richard
coming there with his father at the aye
vi SCNSu duu ISiudtllluS ulltll dllSi HIS
graduation from Yale college, in 1924, at
the age of nineteen.
Deacon Cleveland
led a placid, contented. dignified and
honorable life in this vicinage. blest by
reason of his honest thrift in his basket
and his store, happy in his family rela-
| tiOnS, and fortunate among men in his
marriage with Margaret FalIey, a Nor
witch lady. What he might have been
| had any stirring events reused the
| latent forces of his character into action
| is largely matter of conjecture.
But his father. Aaron Cleveland. lived
| IN different times and left a different
record behind him. He was born in
East Haddam in 1744. Coming to Nor
wlch few years before the outbreak of
| the Revolution. he Immediately took an
active part i'll the affairs OF the commu-
nifty. AS religious eXhorter, a lecturer
and a writer he eXerted a powerful in
| fluence. a local history speaks of him
as "a man of wit and a ready writer
! who contributed many pieces to the
newspapers that had the ringing sound
| of genuine PATRIOTISM"
One of his articles, published in the
| Norwich Packet in 1773, was an essay in
| the form of a sermon upon the text:
Touch not mine annointed." He
| claimed that mot kl2gs but the people
are the Amounted of God. and kings are
! forbidden 10 touch Them" 1t was pretty
| bold talk IN those days of Subservicency
! to George Ill.
All through his writings he shows an
| aptness of Characterization which, while
| not quite equal to such inspirations as
"pernicious activity" and ''ghoulish
| glee," is not far behind them. During
| the great struggle he was TO be found
serving on committees with the leading
dignataries of the town and forwarding
! the cause of the patriots by every means
| in his power.
Another title to distinction with him
was the warfare he waged against slav-
cry both with tongue and pen. He was
| the
| Earliest Known Anti-Slavery Man
| in the state of Connecticut, and in l779,
| being elected for that purpose. intro
| duced bill into the legislature to abol-
| ish the evil. Soon after that he rounded
| out his career by becoming minister
in the Congregational church, and died
atNew Haven n 1915.
1t is worth noting that his father, an
other clergyman also named Aaron. the
third in descent from Moses Cleveland,
who was the first conner TO America,
landing in Massachusetts in 1635-iu the
course of his pulpit ministratlons be-
came convinced that be ought to Join