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Lewis Frederick Cleveland
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Lewis Frederick Cleveland

Birth
Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey, USA
Death
22 Oct 1872 (aged 31)
Central Abaco, Bahamas
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Holland Patent, Oneida County, New York, USA Add to Map
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MR. CLEVELAND'S BROTHERS
They Lived in Nassau and Died at SeaTwenty Years Ago
New York Times -- A gentleman from Nassau, who is visiting the United States, has an old newspaper, the Nassau Guardian, in which the names of Cleveland and Stephenson are associated in this fashion:
NOTICE - All persons having demands against the estate of the late Lewis G. Cleveland, deceased. are request ed to render statements thereof, duly attested, on or before the 1st day of May next, to John S. Darling, esq. And all persons who are indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the said J. S. Darling, January 20, 1873.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
W. W. STEPHENSON.
Lewis G. Cleveland. who kept the Nassau Hotel, and B. C. Cleveland were brothers of Grover Cleveland, and were lost on the steamer Missouri, burned off Abaco Island on the 22d day of October 1872. Mr. Grover Cleveland went to Nassau to settle their estates.
Lewis G. was a man of strong personality, much liked by the islanders and by his guests in the hotel, although a martinet as a landlord. He fixed his rules against "tipping." and once discharged a favorite head waiter for receiving a New Year gift. "I will not allow," he said, "any guest in my house to be put to a disadvantage for the lack of willingness or ability to overpay my servants."
It is said that when he was on his way to the ill-fated Missouri, he told his friends
that he was embarking on his last voyage.
So, it proved. Not only to him, but to the seventy-eight of the eighty-five passengers who sailed with him. The Washington Post (Washington, DC), October 3, 1892, p 4
MR. CLEVELAND'S BROTHERS
They Lived in Nassau and Died at SeaTwenty Years Ago
New York Times -- A gentleman from Nassau, who is visiting the United States, has an old newspaper, the Nassau Guardian, in which the names of Cleveland and Stephenson are associated in this fashion:
NOTICE - All persons having demands against the estate of the late Lewis G. Cleveland, deceased. are request ed to render statements thereof, duly attested, on or before the 1st day of May next, to John S. Darling, esq. And all persons who are indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to the said J. S. Darling, January 20, 1873.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
W. W. STEPHENSON.
Lewis G. Cleveland. who kept the Nassau Hotel, and B. C. Cleveland were brothers of Grover Cleveland, and were lost on the steamer Missouri, burned off Abaco Island on the 22d day of October 1872. Mr. Grover Cleveland went to Nassau to settle their estates.
Lewis G. was a man of strong personality, much liked by the islanders and by his guests in the hotel, although a martinet as a landlord. He fixed his rules against "tipping." and once discharged a favorite head waiter for receiving a New Year gift. "I will not allow," he said, "any guest in my house to be put to a disadvantage for the lack of willingness or ability to overpay my servants."
It is said that when he was on his way to the ill-fated Missouri, he told his friends
that he was embarking on his last voyage.
So, it proved. Not only to him, but to the seventy-eight of the eighty-five passengers who sailed with him. The Washington Post (Washington, DC), October 3, 1892, p 4

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lost at sea by the burning of the steamer Missouri off the Isle of Abaco, age 31 yrs

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