HISTORY. In 1795 the Connecticut Land Com pany bought from Connecticut a large part of that State's Western Reserve (q.v.), and in the following year sent out a party under Gen. Moses Cleaveland to survey their purchase. Cleave land selected the mouth of the Cuyahoga as the site for a settlement, and in July, 1790. laid out on the east bank a village, which took his name, though the spelling was changed in 1831 to meet the exigencies of a newspaper editor's head-lines. In 1800, by act of Congress. the Western Reserve was included for administrative purposes in the Northwest Territory, and Trumbull County was s erected to include the land about the mouth of the Cuyahoga. Of this, Cleveland. then having a population of about 57, became the county seat in 1809. In 1814, Trumbull County having previously been subdivided, the village of Cleave land, in the county of Cuyahoga, was incorpo rated with a population of less than 100. In 1818 the first newspaper, Time Cleveland Gazette and Commercial Register. began publication, and in 1827 the Ohio Canal, which five years later was completed to the Ohio, was opened between Cleveland and Akron, giving such an impetus to the former that her population increased tenfold (from 600 to 6000) between 1825 and 1835. In
1836 Cleveland was chartered as a city. 111 the early fifties it was first connected by rail with the East and with the other cities in Ohio, and from this period dates its marvelously rapid growth. In 1853 Ohio City, which had been founded in 1817, awl for many years had been a great rival, was united to Cleveland. During the Civil War a number of manufacturing estab lishments were set up here, and in the interval 1861.65, owing to its ability to supply articles for which there was then an extraordinary de mand. Cleveland attracted many investors; its lake traffic was doubled, and its population in creased 50 per cent. In 1872 it annexed East Cleveland. in 1873 Newburg, and in 1893 \Vest Cleveland and Brooklyn.
Consult : Robison, history of the City of Cleve land (Cleveland, 1887) ; Avery, Cleveland in a Nutshell (Cleveland, 1893) ; Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio (Columbus, 1889-01) ; Ken nedy, History of Clerrland (Cleveland, 1896).