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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Aaron Cleveland (1744–1815)

Cleveland, Aaron. An American writer of prose and verse; born in Haddam, CT, Feb. 3, 1744; died in New Haven, CT, Sept. 21, 1815. In 1763 was written his best poem, ‘The Philosopher and Boy.’ In 1775 he published a poem on ‘Slavery’; also a number of fugitive verses. He was the great-grandfather of President Cleveland.