Solomon Cleaver (1855–1939) was a Winnipeg minister and storyteller best known for his adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, published in 1935 as Jean Val Jean. Cleaver was a well-known orator; and actor Raymond Massey is said to have practiced Cleaver's sermons as a child.
Solomon Cleaver's remaining relatives are his great grandsons John Cleaver Barnes and Douglas James Edgar Barnes.
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| Name | Cleaver, Solomon |
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| Date of birth | 1855 |
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| Date of death | 1939 |
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Famous quotes containing the words solomon and/or cleaver:
“I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens. As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 2:1-3.
“In prison, those things witheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)