Cleveland Salter Rockwell

Place: Youngstown

Born: 1837

Death: 1907

Biography:

Cleveland Salter Rockwell was born in 1837 in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of a lawyer who was involved with the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad. After the death of Rockwell's father, the family moved to Cleveland, where Rockwell attended school. He later studied engineering at the University of Vermont. Rockwell spent his professional career as a survey engineer in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. He conducted numerous coastal surveys and mapped harbors and river systems on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, as well as in South America. During the American Civil War, Rockwell served as a captain in the Union Army. After retiring from the Coastal Survey, he became a successful investor and landscape painter. Today, Cleveland Rockwell's topographical maps are important historical documents and his art work is well known in the Pacific Northwest.