Parker Cleaveland’s copy of C.H. Cleaveland’s “Pronouncing Medical Lexicon: containing the correct pronounciation and definition of most of the terms used by speakers and writers of medicine and the collateral sciences with addenda.” Cincinnati: Longley Bros., 1855.
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A descendant of the early Puritan settlers of northern New England, Parker Cleaveland was born in Byfield, Massachusetts, in 1780. He entered Harvard at age 16 and graduated in 1799 with the highest honors in his class. He then taught in secondary schools at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and York, Maine, vacillating during this period on whether he should enter the ministry or the legal profession.