The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-16
THE NEW COMMANDERY.
ONE FORMED IN THIS CITK BY
 THE K. G. E.

SpOnsOr-Charter List Numbers 4l-
 Sketch of Honored Man Whose Name
 1t WIm Bear.
 The new commandery of the Knights of the Golden Eagle of this city is to be known as the Jocelyn Plant Cleaveland Commandery, No. ? in honor of the lamented Jocelyn Plant CleaVeiand, brother of Judge Livingston w. Cleave- land, of this city. The commandeTy starts with forty-one charter members, and will make their first appearance or parade in their uniforms in few weeks.
 The next meeting of the commandery will be held on August 18th at D. nl., at the conlmandery headquarters in the Conner building.
 A sketch of the beloved citizen whose name the commandery will bear is as follows:
 Jocelyn Plant Cleaveland, IL. B., lawyer, son of Rev. James Bradford and ElizabethH. (Jocelyn) Cleaveland, was born in Ned Haven, August 22, 1855, in York street, where he lived and died. at what had been for many gene rations the ancestral home, The ances- tral line of the subject of this sketch dates back not only to five of the "Mayflower" pilgrims, among them Governor William Bradford and John Rowland, but to those of an earlier age, the Alsopps, of King Johns time, the Drakes, of Exmouth fame, and the Honeywoods, of the time of Henry II.
 Moses Cleaveland, from whom MT. Cleaveland was descended, was the first American ancestor of the Cleave- land family He came from Ipswich in the county of Suffold, England, in 1885, locating in Woburn, Mass; married Ann, daughter of Edward Vim, and died about 1701. Several of his sons settled in what is now Canterbury, Conn.,, about the close of the seven- teenth century and to them many of the name in, Connecticut trace their an- cestry. Moses Cleaveland's son, Sam uel, from whom Mir. Cleaveland was de- scended, was one of the seven who founded the first church at Canterbury, June 13, I'll.
 Our subjects father, Rev. James B. C1eaveland, who died in 1889, was a Congregational clergyman of talent and courage. He was pastor over churches in Connecticut for many years. having been previously pastor of the Congre- gational church of South Egremont, Mass.
 .Tan,oe D fNIaoxyaIaI1d or,a dlIa fad frnno Yale in 1S47, and from Yale seminary several years later. By common an- cestry MT. Cleaveland was related, fra formally, to three presidents of the Uni ted States, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Groved Cleveland, and to one Connecticut governor, Governor Chauncey F. Cleveland, the latter be- ing also descended from Moses Cleve- land.
 | MT. Cleaveland's mother is a woman of culture and a poetess of recognized ability her poem, NO Scots in Heav- en-" having been widely read in both this country and England. Her father Nathaniel Jocelyn, was a noted por- trait painter and engfaver.
 MT. JoceIyn P. Cleaveland's genealog- ical record is directly traceahle to sev' eral early stttlers of distinctly local in terest, among them William Peck Richard Miles and Richard Baldwin. | William Peck, who came to this coun- l try in 1887 with Governors Eaton ant Hopkins and Rev. John Davenport signed the first compact for the New Haven colony in June, 1639, and was ar original proprietor and freeman, ant deacon of the original church, the Firs church of New Haven.
 Richard Miles, also deacon of tht First churchfi, was prominent in, tn affairs of both New Haven and Milford where he was one of the judges in civi affairs, Stone No. 4, in the Milford Me morial Bridge, being specifically SC apart to his memory.
 Richard Baldwin was one of the set tiers of Milford, member of the Gene ral court and one of the committee 'ro ye consummating of matters betwix Connecticut and us" when the two col onies were joined in 1864. His name i perpetuated by Stone No. in the Mil ford Memorial Bridge.
 The subject of this sketch, after pre- liminary work in the New Haven pre- paratory schools, and course of stud in the Scientific department of Yal college, entered Yale Law school, iron which he was graduated in 1876, bein admitted to the New Haven Count Bar, the same year. Here in his nativ city he practiced his profession for fiv years, being for four years connecte with the firm of Wright and Harrison
 in the National New Haven Ban
 building, and for one year precedin his death in business for himself in tn
 Cutler building. His career, brigh
 with hope, came to a sudlen end at tn age of twenty-seven, his death, WhicI occurred June 15, 1884, being the resul of over-exertion in the sun. He was member of the North Congregations church and of it's choir, and musical di rector in it's mission Sunday school. H was connected with the state militia serving in Company F, Second regi
 ment, c. N. G.. (New Haven Grays and was a member of Hiram Lodge
 No. i, F. and A. M.
 At the time of his death MT. Cleave
 land was contemplating publishing
 book relative to the rights and duties 0 police officers and the board of polio commissioners. Especially intereste in the dangers encountered by brake I I,a oro h