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Title: An address delivered at Topsfield in Massachusetts, August 28, 1850 : the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Cleaveland, N. (Nehemiah), 1796-1877
Subjects: Topsfield (Mass.) -- History
Publisher: New York : Pudrey & Russell, printers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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y surgeon atCambridge, returned to the practice of his profession, in Rowley, (ByfieldParish,) where, in 1827, he closed a life of distinguished usefulness. Profes-sor Cleaveland—a name identified with the fame and with the entire existenceof Bowdoin College, in Maine,—and the Rev. Dr. John P. Cleaveland, of Pro-Tidence, R. I., are his sons. The youngest of the above-named brothers first saw something of theworld, during the memorable summer, autumn and winter of 1775. He wasthen a tall stripling of sixteen years,—and during the siege of Boston, hewas in attendance upon his father. In 1777 he enlisted in the army, andcontinued in the service for nearly a twelvemonth. The remaining years ofhis minority were spent at home, in hard toil upon his fathers little farm.WTien a boy, he had been encouraged to expect a college education, and itwas the object of his fond desire. But the hardness of the times forbade. Hewas no sooner of age, than he proceeded to make up, so far as he could,
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vpp.M ,\ PORTRAIT EY COLE MlMlAll rLK/\TE!Ui^:D.M, ■^t APPENDIX. XIX vmder private tuition, his literary deficiencies. Having prosecuted for sometime the study of medicine, with his brother at Byfield, and with Dr. JohnManning, of Ipswich, he entered on the practice at Topsfield in 1783. Herehe found immediate employment, though it was neither extensive, nor lucra-tive. He soon received a commission as Justice of the Peace,—an office ofsome distinction in those days, and was thus led to engage, to a certain ex-tent, in concerns of a civic character. He became known and highly appre-ciated as a man of good judgment and prompt business habits, and was muchemployed in the public affairs of town and county. He was a politician,likewise, earnest and ardent. In 1811, he was elected by Federal votes to aseat in the State Senate. The year following, he failed to be chosen throughthe operation of that famous districting act, known ever since as the Gerryman-der law. But in 1815, the Federa

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