Cleveland

city, county-seat and. port of entry of Cuyahoga Co., O. It is the first city in population and importance in Ohio and seventh in the United States in 1900. The city has a harbor secured by artificial breakwaters. Pop. (1910) 560,663. The principal industries, according to the value of the products, are the manufacture of iron and steel ($24,276,197); foundry and machine shop products ($15,428,053); slaughtering and meat packing, wholesale saad malt liquors ($4,- 033,915). Cleveland is the center of the malleable iron trade in the United States, and surpa es all other lake ports in the building of iron and steel ve els, some having been built 380 feet in length and costing $500,000. Cleveland was settled in 1796, under the direction of Gen. Moses Cleave land, agent of the Connecticut Land Company. It was situated in the “ Western Reserve” of the State of Connecticut, and its early settlers were mostly from that State.