Elijah VanCleve
Elijah VanCleve is a son of Asher, who came to Colerain township, Hamilton county, in 1802. He was a local preacher, a justice of the peace, and a highly respected and very public-spirited citizen of the county. He was killed by a runaway team in 1844. Elijah was born in 1832; and after some years of maturity had come upon him, he flat-boated from Cincinnati to New Orleans for about five years. He enlisted in the Mexican war, went south one time, but was discharged on account of sickness. In the late war he entered the service of company K in 1861, as second lieutenant in the Fifth Ohio cavalry, was promoted to the first lieutenancy, and mustered out as captain, December, 1864. His regiment formed part of the army of the Tennessee. When twenty years of age he learned the carpenters' trade and has followed the same business ever since. In 1862 he was married to Miss Adda Cummings, of New York. They are comfortably located in Glendale, and are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. VanCleve is also a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity of his place.
From History of Hamilton county, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881