H. Burdett (Henry Burdett) Cleveland

Henry Burdett Cleveland, born in 1877, is a little-documented American engineer remembered today through Practical Methods of Sewage Disposal for Residences, Hotels and Institutions, written with Henry N. Ogden and published in 1912. Library and public-domain records consistently identify him as H. Burdett Cleveland or Henry Burdett Cleveland.

The book presents clear, applied advice on small-scale sewage treatment for houses, hotels, and institutions, which helps explain his appeal to modern readers interested in early environmental engineering and public-health practice. The title page identifies him as an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and as Principal Assistant Engineer in the New York State Department of Health, suggesting that his writing grew directly out of professional, hands-on work.

Reliable biographical details beyond that are hard to confirm from the sources I found, so it is safest to view him as a specialized technical author whose reputation rests mainly on this practical sanitation manual rather than on a large body of published books.