Author: Nehemiah Cleaveland
Alternate names: N. Cleaveland; Nehemiah Cleveland
Born: 1796
Died: 1877
Bio: 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).