Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Leavenworth Conservative says . . .

. . . the real name of the great jayhawker, Cleveland was Metz.  He used to drive a stage out of Cleveland, Ohio and hence adopted that name.  He was born in that vicinity.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 1

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