Bios: E. E. CLEVELAND, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      E. E. CLEVELAND
  
  [p. 780] is proprietor of the Lawrence Hotel, of Ellwood City, Pa., one
  of the best establishments in Western Pennsylvania, and one which enjoys
  great popularity among the traveling public. The hotel was established
  in 1891, at a cost of $75,000, the building being erected at a cost of
  $60,000; it is owned by a Pittsburg company, of which S. A. Roelofs is
  vice-president, secretary and treasurer. The building consists of
  eighty-five rooms, has a dining room, with seating capacity of 100
  persons, and is adorned with a veranda extending 170 feet along the
  front and 100 feet along the side. The building was built mainly of
  brick and stone, 224xl90 feet in dimensions, and is an attractive
  structure. The hotel lobby, 72x30 feet, large and well furnished, is
  another feature which has met with the approval of its patrons, and the
  cuisine is everything that could be desired. Mr. Cleveland has presided
  over the destiny of this institution two years, and has established a
  prestige second to none other in this section of the state.
  
  E. E. Cleveland was born in Washington, D. C., September 15, 1862, and
  is a son of Erastus L. and Louisa J. (Owen) Cleveland. His grandfather,
  George Wilbur Cleveland, was a native of New York State, but lived at
  Baltimore, Md., at the time of his death. Erastus L. Cleveland was born
  in Canandagua County, New York, March 13, 1824, and died in Pittsburg,
  Pa., in 1895, at the age of seventy-two years. He was a locomotive
  engineer for a period of more than thirty-five years, and ran a
  locomotive for the Union Army during the Civil War, meeting with many
  interesting as well as exciting experiences while in the country of the
  enemy. He was united in marriage with Louisa J. Owen, who was born in
  Laurel, Md., October 27, 1837, and died in 1906. She was a daughter of
  George and Annie Owens, both of whom died at Laurel, Md., she living to
  reach the advanced age of ninety years. They were parents of the
  following children: E. E., Erastus, who resides at Norwalk, Ohio;
  Malvern Hill, of Ithaca, N. Y.; Catharine Elizabeth, of Washington, D.
  C.; Annie Sophia, wife of Frank M. Scott, of Los Angeles, and Louisa
  Owens, wife of James Sampson Owens, of Lake Harbor, N. J. Erastus L.
  Cleveland had one son by a former marriage, namely, George Wilbur.
  
  E. E. Cleveland was about ten years of age when his parents moved to
  Pittsburg, and there he attended the public schools of the Seventeenth
  Ward. He played professional baseball for a period of twelve years,
  attained considerable prominence and commanded a good salary. He was
  then, for a period of seven years, engaged in the manufacture of high
  polished steel. He moved from Pittsburg to Nantigo, Cambria County, and
  eight months later to Boswell, where he erected a three-story brick
  hotel, which had sixty-eight rooms. This he successfully conducted three
  years, then conducted a similar business in Ohio Pyle, Pa., one season.
  His next move was to Johnstown, Pa., and from there he moved to Ellwood
  City, Pa. His success as a business man is well known to the people,
  among whom he is exceedingly popular.
  
  Mr. Cleveland was united in marriage with Caroline Elizabeth Brown, of
  Johnstown, Pa., a daughter of August Brown, her parents being of German
  extraction. They have no children, but with parental care are rearing a
  niece, Mary Elizabeth Cherry. Fraternally, Mr. Cleveland is a member of
  the Beaver Falls Lodge No. 348, B. P. O. E.; Star of the Valley Lodge,
  K. P., of Pittsburg, and Saratoga Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., No. 262.
  Politically, he is a Republican.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 22 Dec 2001