108 CLEVELAND, CHAELES. 



COLOMBIA, UNITED STATES OF. 



nal delegates were appointed to attend the 

 next General Conference of the Free- Will Bap- 

 tists. It appeared that some irregularities had 

 taken place in one of the Annual Elderships 

 in designating the name of the Church in the 

 Eldership titles. In view of this fact, the 

 General Eldership directed that the singular 

 form of the word church should always he 

 used. The preservation and perpetuation of 

 the German Eldership were recommended. 

 Permission was granted for the organization 

 of an eldership in Maryland. Measures were 

 taken for the collection of material relating to 

 the early history of the Church, particularly 

 to the labors of John "Winebrenner, its founder. 

 The Board of Publication were advised to pub- 

 lish annually a Church almanac. The next 

 meeting of the General Eldership will be at 

 Smithville, Ohio, on the last Wednesday in 

 May, 1875. 



CLEVELAND, Rev. CHAELES, widely known 

 as "Father Cleveland," a missionary to the poor 

 in the city of Boston and its vicinity for more 

 than fifty-five years, born in Norwich, Conn., 

 June 21, 1772; died in Boston, June 5, 1872. He 

 lived in Norwich till he was twelve years old, 

 when he became an inmate of the family of an 

 uncle who resided at Salem, Mass. His sur- 

 roundings at that place incited a fancy for a 

 seafaring life, which, however, a single voyage 

 to the Cape of Good Hope effectually banished. 

 After having passed through a mercantile ap- 

 prenticeship of two or three years, he was ap- 

 pointed deputy-collector at the Salem Custom- 

 House, which position he retained until 1802. 

 Removing to Charlestown in the same year, he 

 became a clerk in the employ of Mr. Henry 

 Iligginson, with whom he remained until seven 

 years later, when he commenced business for 

 himself in Boston as a stock and exchange- 

 broker at No. 21 State Street. This occupa- 

 tion he continued until 1822, when the firm of 

 Cleveland & Dane, of which he was the senior 

 partner, was formed. Their shop was at No. 

 43 Market Street, since changed to Cornhill, 

 where they dealt, as the Directory of the year 

 informs us, in "English goods," a style of com- 

 modities that would now be classed under the 

 head of dry goods. In 1829 the partnership 

 was dissolved, and Mr. Cleveland resumed his 

 old employment as a broker at No. 40 State 

 Street. Here he continued for four or five 

 years, and until he finally abandoned all labors 

 but those of charity. In September, 1816, the 

 Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction 

 of the Poor, in the formation of which he was 

 one of the prime movers, was organized at his 

 house. lie applied himself at once to the work 

 of collecting funds for the erection of a mis- 

 sion-house for the use of this Society, which, 

 through his exertions, was finally built, and 

 was dedicated in May, 1821. Nine years later 

 he entered upon the duties of a missionary to 

 the poor of Boston, being associated with Revs. 

 Ethan Smith and D. D. Rossiter. He was not 

 as yet a formally-authorized clergyman, but in 



1835 he received a license to preach from the 

 Harmony Association at Upton, and on the 10th 

 of July, 1838, he was ordained as an evangelist. 

 From that time until his final sickness he was 

 incessantly employed in charitable undertak- 

 ings, his field extending throughout the whole 

 city, and his strength being the only limit to his 

 efforts. Throughout all the districts where pov- 

 erty and wretchedness abound his familiar step 

 was heard, and his liberal bounty and words of 

 comfort and cheer lightened the sufferings and 

 smoothed the path of innumerable despairing , 

 souls. He was at one time or another inti- 

 mately connected with all the benevolent in- 

 stitutions with which the city abounds, and 

 has contributed in no small degree to their 

 success. His work was, however, independent 

 of them, and he was not formally accredited 

 by any. He had a long list of wealthy and in- 

 fluential gentlemen, who were in the habit of 

 placing in his hands a certain fixed sum annu- 

 ally. These he called his "patrons," and he 

 published a report each year of the way their 

 benefactions had been disposed of. This cus- 

 tom of furnishing a report he had kept up for 

 a great number of years, the last, that of 1871, 

 being the thirty-eighth. His domestic rela- 

 tions were very happy. He was married for 

 the first time, when twenty-six years of age, to 

 a lady with whom he lived in unbroken sym- 

 pathy and affection until her death, which oc- 

 curred forty-three years after. At the age of 

 sixty-nine he again married, and this second 

 partner he also survived, although she was his 

 companion for twenty-seven years. She died 

 in November, 1869. Her death was a severe 

 blow to him, and it was soon followed by an- 

 other scarcely less trying the loss of his son, 

 Prof. Charles Dexter Cleveland, LL. D., of 

 Philadelphia, who was cut off in the vigor of 

 his powers and at the summit of his usefulness. 

 Through all his trials he preserved a hearty 

 interest for the class whom he affectionately 

 termed "my poor," and his care for them was 

 never relaxed. He was widely known by all 

 conditions of society, and universally respect- 

 ed. No man, it is probable, ever lived who 

 had done so much to create a fellow-feeling 

 between the favored and the unfortunate in re- 

 spect to worldly possessions, and to build up a 

 mutual interest. His decease was caused as 

 much by old age as by sickness. He suffered 

 but little, and calmly passed away, leaving a 

 host of sincere mourners to sorrow for his de- 

 parture. 



COLOMBIA (UNITED STATES OF), an inde- 

 pendent republic of South America, lying be- 

 tween latitude 1 37' south and 11 25' north, 

 and longitude 69 30' and 83 west. It is 

 bounded north by the Caribbean Sea; east 

 by Venezuela and Brazil ; south by Ecuador ; 

 west by the Pacific ; and northwest by Costa 

 Rica. The territory of the republic is divided 

 into nine States, which, with their areas and 

 population (1870), are given in the following 

 table : 



