December 29, 1906 (Saturday)
"HON. HARLAN CLEVELAND DIES SUDDENLY.
Hon. Harlan Cleveland, Ex - U. S. District Attorney of Cincinnati, died rather suddenly, on Monday [December 24]. He was the son of the Hon. Francis L. Cleveland, of Augusta, Ky., and Mrs. Laura Harlan Cleveland, who was a sister of Justice John M. Harlan.
Mr. Cleveland was born in this city January 21, 1865. He was educated at Princeton College, and at Berlin, Germany. He studied law at Columbian [sic] University and under his distinguished uncle. He was appointed by President Cleveland (who was a relative) Assistant U. S. District Attorney for Ohio, and afterwards to the District Attorney's place. He served with distinction. He married the daughter of Justice Stanley Mathews of the U. S. Court. He had five children.
Mr. Cleveland suffered from acute Bright's disease.
He was a splendid lawyer and a magnificent specimen of Kentucky manhood." END
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The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
December 26, 1906 (Wednesday)
"CLEVELAND'S COUSIN DEAD.
Cincinnatian Also Related to Three Supreme Court Justices.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Dec. 25. [James] Harlan Cleveland, one of the leading lawyers of the Cincinnati bar, died Monday [December 24] at his residence in Glendale [Hamilton County] from Bright's disease. Mr. Cleveland served as United States district attorney for the Southern district of Ohio by appointment of President Cleveland. He was a cousin of the President and a nephew of Justice [John Marshall] Harlan, of the Supreme Court of the United States, a son-in-law of the late Stanley Matthews of the same court, and a brother-in-law of Associate Justice Gray, also of that court." END
December 29, 1906 (Saturday)
"HON. HARLAN CLEVELAND DIES SUDDENLY.
Hon. Harlan Cleveland, Ex - U. S. District Attorney of Cincinnati, died rather suddenly, on Monday [December 24]. He was the son of the Hon. Francis L. Cleveland, of Augusta, Ky., and Mrs. Laura Harlan Cleveland, who was a sister of Justice John M. Harlan.
Mr. Cleveland was born in this city January 21, 1865. He was educated at Princeton College, and at Berlin, Germany. He studied law at Columbian [sic] University and under his distinguished uncle. He was appointed by President Cleveland (who was a relative) Assistant U. S. District Attorney for Ohio, and afterwards to the District Attorney's place. He served with distinction. He married the daughter of Justice Stanley Mathews of the U. S. Court. He had five children.
Mr. Cleveland suffered from acute Bright's disease.
He was a splendid lawyer and a magnificent specimen of Kentucky manhood." END
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The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
December 26, 1906 (Wednesday)
"CLEVELAND'S COUSIN DEAD.
Cincinnatian Also Related to Three Supreme Court Justices.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Dec. 25. [James] Harlan Cleveland, one of the leading lawyers of the Cincinnati bar, died Monday [December 24] at his residence in Glendale [Hamilton County] from Bright's disease. Mr. Cleveland served as United States district attorney for the Southern district of Ohio by appointment of President Cleveland. He was a cousin of the President and a nephew of Justice [John Marshall] Harlan, of the Supreme Court of the United States, a son-in-law of the late Stanley Matthews of the same court, and a brother-in-law of Associate Justice Gray, also of that court." END
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