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CLEAVER, HIRAM T., physician and surgeon; office in Estes House Block; the Doctor was born in Centerville, Washington Co., Penn., Feb. 17, 1822; in 1841, he graduated from the Friends Seminary, at New Lisbon, Ohio; he afterward read medicine with Dr. Tillinghast Green, of New Lisbon; was located at New Lisbon four years, and in August, 1848, he came to Wapello, Louisa Co., Iowa; engaged in practice there until he came to Keokuk in 1862; while a resident of Louisa Co., he represented his district in the State Senate four years, from 1854 to 1858; in 1862, he graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, and, in 1871, he also graduated from the Chicago Medical College; he is a member of the American Medical Association, State Medical Society and Keokuk Medical Association; he has been President of the State Society. He was sent as a delegate to the Convention of Physicians and Surgeons lately held in Europe, at which nearly all the leading nations were represented; he is Vice President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Keokuk, and has filled the chair of obstetrics in that institution since the session of 1862-63. He is now City Treasurer, and has held that office for three years. Dr. Cleaver has been married three times; his first wife was Anna Hanna, daughter of Benj. Hanna, of New Lisbon, Ohio; second wife was Lydia Frances Appleton, daughter of Etherington Appleton, of Pittsburgh, Penn.; one daughter survived her — Laura Matilda — now the wife of H. J. Lander, of Muscatine; the Doctor’s third wife was Miss Garrett, daughter of Col. Elisha Garrett, of Garrettsville, Portage Co., Ohio ; they have five children — Emma R. (now the wife of Dr. A. G. Scroggs, of Muscatine), Mary G., Nellie, John and Hiram; present wife is Clarissa, daughter of Solomon Bracken, of Brownsville, Fayette Co., Pa. Dr. Cleaver and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.