MISS E. A. CLEVELAND
MISS
E. A. CLEVELAND, Principal of Rincon grammar school, is recognized as one of
the most competent educators of San Francisco.
She is a native of Vermont, and received her education in New England,
where she also began teaching. She came
to California in 1864, and for several years conducted a school of her
own. One of her patrons, P. B.
Cornwall, persuaded her to except a position in the public schools, and she
became head assistant in the principal room of the Lincoln grammar school, and
the following year became a teacher of mathematics in the Girls' high school,
and afterward taught mathematics, literature and all branches of her
class. She remained there with Mr.
Ellis Holmes six years, and was then appointed principal of Rincon grammar
school by the Board of Education, being the second lady, if not the first,
honored with that position in San Francisco; and for the past seventeen years
she has filled the position with credit to herself and to the acceptance of the
Superintendent of Schools and the Board of Education. Miss Cleveland has taken an active part in the teachers' meetings
and conventions. She is also a charter
member of the Century Club.
Source:
"The Bay of San Francisco" Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company 1892.
Page 480.
Submitted
by: Nancy Pratt Melton.
© 2004 Nancy Pratt
Melton
San Francisco County California Biography Project