Nehemiah Cleaveland

N. Cleaveland

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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).

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Rules and Regulations of the Green-Wood Cemetery; with a Catalogue of Proprietors
Representative edition published 2022
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The first century of Dummer academy
Representative edition published 2018
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A history of Dummer Academy
Representative edition published 1914
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History of Bowdoin college
Representative edition published 1882
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A hand-book for Green-wood
Representative edition published 1873
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Green-wood Cemetery
Representative edition published 1866
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Hints concerning Green-Wood
Representative edition published 1853
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An address delivered at Topsfield in Massachusetts, August 28, 1850
Representative edition published 1851
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An address delivered before the New-England society of Brooklyn, N.Y., December 21, 1849
Representative edition published 1850
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Green-wood
Representative edition published 1850
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Green-wood illustrated
Representative edition published 1847
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Address, Delivered at Bowdoin College
Representative edition published 2023
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Green-Wood Illustrated, Issue 1
Representative edition published 2020
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A history of Dummer Academy
Representative edition published 1914
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Address made at the opening of the Cleaveland Cabinet of Bowdoin College, July 10, 1873
Representative edition published 1873
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Address delivered at Lawrence, September 27th, 1865, before the Essex Agricultural Society
Representative edition published 1865
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The rural cemeteries of America
Representative edition published 1847
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