Moses C. Cleveland, eldest son of Moses and Parnel (Conklin) Cleveland, was born in Southold, L. I., July 4, 1795. He attended the school of Master Wines Osborn, an instructor of local fame, who taught during many years in "the Brick School House," a building owned by twenty-seven proprietors, of whom Moses Cleveland was one. They sold it, Dec. 30, 1816, to the Trustees of School Dist. No. 5, of the Town of Southold. It stood upon the site now occupied by the -Chapel of the Presbyterian Church. The building was taken down in 1844.
In December, 1812, he went to live as an apprenticed cordwainer for three years with Deacon Nathaniel Hubbard, who was doing a large business in tanning and currying, and in the manufacture of boots and shoes, at Mattituck, L. I. He faithfully fulfilled his obligations, won the confidence and esteem of the family in which he lived, and became a skillful workman. Afterwards, in August, 181, he went to Catskill, NY, where he wrought in fine work for a year in the employ of Mr. Gideon Reynolds. He subsequently enlarged his field of observation, and his practice as a skillful workman, in Madison, Hudson City, Goshen, and Newburgh, NY
On the 2nd of June, 1819, he was married by the Rev. Lathrop Thompson, to Sarah, the eldest daughter of Deacon Nathaniel and Sarah (Reeve) Hubbard, in whose family he had lived during his apprenticeship.
About the year 1823 a village began to spring up around the Suffolk
County Court House. This village has more recently become known as Riverhead. Mr. Cleveland made this the place of his residence in September, 1824. Judge Miller, in his Centennial History of the Town of Riverhead, speaks of Mr. Cleveland as being, in 1825, one of the active business men of the village. Mrs. Cleveland, after a few days illness, died there. May 3, 1832, aged 35 years. On the 11th of May, 1833, he was married by the Rev. Abraham Luce to Miss Ency Hubbard, sister of his first wife, who was born at Mattituck, Dec. 16, 1802,
From his earliest years his Christian principles were sound, his moral character was high, and his integrity in business and other relations strict and trustworthy; but it was not until July, 1838, that he made a public confession of his Christian faith and became a full member of the First Church of Southold. Five years later, he was elected to the office of Deacon, and he has fulfilled the duties of the office for thirty-six years.
Soon after he became a Deacon, he was chosen to be one of the Trustees of the Church. For a long course of years he has been a Director of the Suffolk County Mutual Insurance Company; and from the origin of
Southold Savings Bank, in 1858, his name has been prominent on its Board of Trustees. He has repeatedly filled various offices of public trust to which he has been called by the votes of his fellow townsmen; and his character and usefulness have often been manifest as the guardian of children whose orphanage has caused them to need some wise and faithful man to fill the fathers place. He has been especially active in the promotion of temperance throughout the county, and of religion on a far wider field. Perhaps there is no other man living who has attended so many of the meetings of the Suffolk County Temperance Association throughout its whole existence for the last twenty -nine years. He had but one child,
1. Nathaniel Hubbard Cleveland
(excerpt from Horace G Cleveland research/1871)
Contributed by Cathy Combs (#47990514).
In December, 1812, he went to live as an apprenticed cordwainer for three years with Deacon Nathaniel Hubbard, who was doing a large business in tanning and currying, and in the manufacture of boots and shoes, at Mattituck, L. I. He faithfully fulfilled his obligations, won the confidence and esteem of the family in which he lived, and became a skillful workman. Afterwards, in August, 181, he went to Catskill, NY, where he wrought in fine work for a year in the employ of Mr. Gideon Reynolds. He subsequently enlarged his field of observation, and his practice as a skillful workman, in Madison, Hudson City, Goshen, and Newburgh, NY
On the 2nd of June, 1819, he was married by the Rev. Lathrop Thompson, to Sarah, the eldest daughter of Deacon Nathaniel and Sarah (Reeve) Hubbard, in whose family he had lived during his apprenticeship.
About the year 1823 a village began to spring up around the Suffolk
County Court House. This village has more recently become known as Riverhead. Mr. Cleveland made this the place of his residence in September, 1824. Judge Miller, in his Centennial History of the Town of Riverhead, speaks of Mr. Cleveland as being, in 1825, one of the active business men of the village. Mrs. Cleveland, after a few days illness, died there. May 3, 1832, aged 35 years. On the 11th of May, 1833, he was married by the Rev. Abraham Luce to Miss Ency Hubbard, sister of his first wife, who was born at Mattituck, Dec. 16, 1802,
From his earliest years his Christian principles were sound, his moral character was high, and his integrity in business and other relations strict and trustworthy; but it was not until July, 1838, that he made a public confession of his Christian faith and became a full member of the First Church of Southold. Five years later, he was elected to the office of Deacon, and he has fulfilled the duties of the office for thirty-six years.
Soon after he became a Deacon, he was chosen to be one of the Trustees of the Church. For a long course of years he has been a Director of the Suffolk County Mutual Insurance Company; and from the origin of
Southold Savings Bank, in 1858, his name has been prominent on its Board of Trustees. He has repeatedly filled various offices of public trust to which he has been called by the votes of his fellow townsmen; and his character and usefulness have often been manifest as the guardian of children whose orphanage has caused them to need some wise and faithful man to fill the fathers place. He has been especially active in the promotion of temperance throughout the county, and of religion on a far wider field. Perhaps there is no other man living who has attended so many of the meetings of the Suffolk County Temperance Association throughout its whole existence for the last twenty -nine years. He had but one child,
1. Nathaniel Hubbard Cleveland
(excerpt from Horace G Cleveland research/1871)
Contributed by Cathy Combs (#47990514).
Moses C. Cleveland, eldest son of Moses and Parnel (Conklin) Cleveland, was born in Southold, L. I., July 4, 1795. He attended the school of Master Wines Osborn, an instructor of local fame, who taught during many years in "the Brick School House," a building owned by twenty-seven proprietors, of whom Moses Cleveland was one. They sold it, Dec. 30, 1816, to the Trustees of School Dist. No. 5, of the Town of Southold. It stood upon the site now occupied by the -Chapel of the Presbyterian Church. The building was taken down in 1844.
In December, 1812, he went to live as an apprenticed cordwainer for three years with Deacon Nathaniel Hubbard, who was doing a large business in tanning and currying, and in the manufacture of boots and shoes, at Mattituck, L. I. He faithfully fulfilled his obligations, won the confidence and esteem of the family in which he lived, and became a skillful workman. Afterwards, in August, 181, he went to Catskill, NY, where he wrought in fine work for a year in the employ of Mr. Gideon Reynolds. He subsequently enlarged his field of observation, and his practice as a skillful workman, in Madison, Hudson City, Goshen, and Newburgh, NY
On the 2nd of June, 1819, he was married by the Rev. Lathrop Thompson, to Sarah, the eldest daughter of Deacon Nathaniel and Sarah (Reeve) Hubbard, in whose family he had lived during his apprenticeship.
About the year 1823 a village began to spring up around the Suffolk
County Court House. This village has more recently become known as Riverhead. Mr. Cleveland made this the place of his residence in September, 1824. Judge Miller, in his Centennial History of the Town of Riverhead, speaks of Mr. Cleveland as being, in 1825, one of the active business men of the village. Mrs. Cleveland, after a few days illness, died there. May 3, 1832, aged 35 years. On the 11th of May, 1833, he was married by the Rev. Abraham Luce to Miss Ency Hubbard, sister of his first wife, who was born at Mattituck, Dec. 16, 1802,
From his earliest years his Christian principles were sound, his moral character was high, and his integrity in business and other relations strict and trustworthy; but it was not until July, 1838, that he made a public confession of his Christian faith and became a full member of the First Church of Southold. Five years later, he was elected to the office of Deacon, and he has fulfilled the duties of the office for thirty-six years.
Soon after he became a Deacon, he was chosen to be one of the Trustees of the Church. For a long course of years he has been a Director of the Suffolk County Mutual Insurance Company; and from the origin of
Southold Savings Bank, in 1858, his name has been prominent on its Board of Trustees. He has repeatedly filled various offices of public trust to which he has been called by the votes of his fellow townsmen; and his character and usefulness have often been manifest as the guardian of children whose orphanage has caused them to need some wise and faithful man to fill the fathers place. He has been especially active in the promotion of temperance throughout the county, and of religion on a far wider field. Perhaps there is no other man living who has attended so many of the meetings of the Suffolk County Temperance Association throughout its whole existence for the last twenty -nine years. He had but one child,
1. Nathaniel Hubbard Cleveland
(excerpt from Horace G Cleveland research/1871)
Contributed by Cathy Combs (#47990514).
In December, 1812, he went to live as an apprenticed cordwainer for three years with Deacon Nathaniel Hubbard, who was doing a large business in tanning and currying, and in the manufacture of boots and shoes, at Mattituck, L. I. He faithfully fulfilled his obligations, won the confidence and esteem of the family in which he lived, and became a skillful workman. Afterwards, in August, 181, he went to Catskill, NY, where he wrought in fine work for a year in the employ of Mr. Gideon Reynolds. He subsequently enlarged his field of observation, and his practice as a skillful workman, in Madison, Hudson City, Goshen, and Newburgh, NY
On the 2nd of June, 1819, he was married by the Rev. Lathrop Thompson, to Sarah, the eldest daughter of Deacon Nathaniel and Sarah (Reeve) Hubbard, in whose family he had lived during his apprenticeship.
About the year 1823 a village began to spring up around the Suffolk
County Court House. This village has more recently become known as Riverhead. Mr. Cleveland made this the place of his residence in September, 1824. Judge Miller, in his Centennial History of the Town of Riverhead, speaks of Mr. Cleveland as being, in 1825, one of the active business men of the village. Mrs. Cleveland, after a few days illness, died there. May 3, 1832, aged 35 years. On the 11th of May, 1833, he was married by the Rev. Abraham Luce to Miss Ency Hubbard, sister of his first wife, who was born at Mattituck, Dec. 16, 1802,
From his earliest years his Christian principles were sound, his moral character was high, and his integrity in business and other relations strict and trustworthy; but it was not until July, 1838, that he made a public confession of his Christian faith and became a full member of the First Church of Southold. Five years later, he was elected to the office of Deacon, and he has fulfilled the duties of the office for thirty-six years.
Soon after he became a Deacon, he was chosen to be one of the Trustees of the Church. For a long course of years he has been a Director of the Suffolk County Mutual Insurance Company; and from the origin of
Southold Savings Bank, in 1858, his name has been prominent on its Board of Trustees. He has repeatedly filled various offices of public trust to which he has been called by the votes of his fellow townsmen; and his character and usefulness have often been manifest as the guardian of children whose orphanage has caused them to need some wise and faithful man to fill the fathers place. He has been especially active in the promotion of temperance throughout the county, and of religion on a far wider field. Perhaps there is no other man living who has attended so many of the meetings of the Suffolk County Temperance Association throughout its whole existence for the last twenty -nine years. He had but one child,
1. Nathaniel Hubbard Cleveland
(excerpt from Horace G Cleveland research/1871)
Contributed by Cathy Combs (#47990514).
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"Forty years a Deacon of the First Church in Southold."
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