Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. 1893. p. 598. CAPTAIN CLEVELAND ROCKWELL Chief of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey of Oregon, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1836, and represents the eighth generation by direct descent from Governor Bradford, of Puritan fame. The family have been distinguished in both the ministry and the law. The father of the Captain, Edward Rockwell, was born in West Winsted, Connecticut, was educated at Yale and admitted to the bar in his native State. He was married in New Haven, Connecticut, to Matilda D. Salter, of English descent; they were among the pioneers of that part of Ohio known as the Western Reserve. Four children were born to them, two of whom survive: Captain Rockwell and Mrs. Isaacs of New York city (1892.) Cleveland Rockwell was educated at the Polytechnic school at Troy, and at the University of New York; he was graduated in 1856, and engineering having been a special study he immediately received an appointment in the United States Coast Survey; he was stationed on the Atlantic coast, but in 1861 he was detailed to the War Department for topographical duty, and was attached to the staff of different commanding officers with the rank of Captain. He performed service of the highest value: first, at the headquarters of General McDowell before and after the battle of Bull Run he surveyed from Alexandria to Chain Bridge for the defense of Washington. On the Port Royal expedition he was attached to the staff of General I. I. Stevens at Beaufort; to the staff of General John G. Foster at Newburn, North Carolina, he surveyed the enemies country, and broke up the picket lines. He was afterward with General Schofield at Knoxville, Tennessee, and then with General Sherman on the Carolina campaign, and until the close of the war; in 1865 he was relieved from duty. Upon the request of the United States Columbia, South America, to our Government to make a survey and plans for navigation of the Magdalena river. Captain Rockwell volunteered to join the expedition under Colonel Gilbert and Captain West, and devoted seven months to this work; when this was completed he was ordered to California, and was there associated with Prof. George Davidson, making surveys about Point Conception and the channel and harbor of Santa Barbara. He was ordered to Oregon in 1868, as Chief of the Coast and Geodetric Survey, with headquarters at Astoria. He made many important surveys about the mouth of the Columbia river, and along the coast sixty miles south, which at that time was utterly wild and unknown. He made a careful survey of the Columbia river as far as Portland, and his charts have done much to lessen the dangers of navigation and to open it up to the shipping interests of the world. For several years the Captain has been stationed at Portland. He has given much attention to art and literature, and in these subjects finds great diversion and repose after the strain of mathematical calculation so necessary to his profession. The illustrations of capes, headlands and islands in "The Coast Pilot of California, Oregon and Washington," are the clever work of the Captain, and show great skill and taste in pen and ink drawing; his descriptive articles on the Columbia river, and his paper upon the "Physical Geography of the Northwest" manifest deep research and unusual literary ability. Captain Rockwell is commander of the Lincoln-Garfield Post, G. A. R., and of the Loyal Legion Commandery of Oregon. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.