History of Clymer, (Chautauqua County) New York United States of America

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Biographies:

John Fitch Cleveland Biographical Sketch

John Fitch Cleveland, journalist, was born in Clymer, N.Y., Feb. 4, 1819. He was educated at an academy, became a practical printer and in 1844 found employment in the office of the New York Tribune. As a boy he had known Horace Greeley in western New York and in 1846 he was married to Mr. Greeley's sister Esther. He filled the position of Albany correspondent and in 1848 became a stockholder in the Tribune. He then assumed the editorship of the Weekly Tribune and under his management it became the largest circulating weekly political paper in the United States. He was assessor of U.S. internal revenue from 1862 to 1871, when he resigned to take the editorship of the financial columns of the Tribune and made that department of the paper a conveyance of unprejudiced and reliable information. He also edited the Tribune Almanac. He died in New York city, Oct. 9, 1876.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor