Cleveland
was a Wofford College graduate who first worked as an attorney
before becoming a successful businessman and private
banker. He
was a director of the National Bank of Spartanburg, Fidelity
Loan & Trust, as well as the Arkwright, Whitney, Tucapau,
Saxon, Enoree and Spartan Mill cotton mills.
A
prominent and influential business man of Spartanburg.
Is a native of that city. Was born November 9,
1848. He is a graduate of Wofford College. After
finishing school he studied law in the office of Evins &
Bomar, a leading firm of Spartanburg. In 1871, he was
admitted to the bar, forming a partnership for the practice of
law with Major D. R. Duncan, and for ten years, this firm did
a very successful business. In 1880, Mr. Cleveland
dissolved his connection with this firm, and turned his
attention to other business. For the next ten years, he
had done a private banking and brokerage business, in which he
met with great success. He was a delegate to the
National Convention in Chicago in 1884, and nominated Grover
Cleveland for president. Director in the National Bank
of Spartanburg, Fidelity Loan & Trust Company, Arkwright,
Whitney, Tucapau, Saxon, Enoree and Spartan Mill cotton
factories. Vice-president of the National Bank of
Spartanburg. President of the Lime Stone Springs Lime
Company, Home Water Supply Company, Whitney Manufacturing
Company, and the Charleston and Western Carolina
Railroad. A trustee of Wofford College and also of
Converse College. For several years one of the trustees
of the city schools, and a prime mover in establishing the
graded school system in his native city. He was married
in 1871, to Miss Georgia A. Cleveland. His reputation
among business men is very high, and socially, he enjoyed the
highest esteem and respect of his fellow citizens.
