Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — GROVER’S REVEREND BROTHER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GROVER’S REVEREND BROTHER.

Refused to Resign, and the Presbytery Sustained Him. The recent differences between the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Chaumont Jefferson County, N. Y.,

and members of his congregation caused. considerable comment throughout the United States, for the reason that the pastor : is Rev. William N. Cleveland, brother of the | President, and that politics was alleged to be the

cause of the trouble. A number of the members of the church asked Mr. Cleveland to resign, bnt he refused to do so upon the ground that the majority of the congregation desired him to remain. The Presbytery was appealed to, and Its verdict continues Mr. Cleveland in his pastorate. Rev. W illiam N. Cleveland was born In Willimantic, Conn., April 7, 1832, and was one of nine children. William Is five years older than Grover, and was considered .the most promising of the four boys by Cleveland pere, who said that the brightest boy should go to college, and William was the boy who went. He was a conscientious student, and at the early age of 19 years was graduated from Hamilton College in the class of 'sl. He took a course of lectures at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and was principal of the School for the Blind in that city for five years. During this time he secured a position for Grover in the institution, and the future President served as clerk for a year or two. After he was ordained Rev. Mr. Cleveland was called to the church in Southampton, L. I. He remained there four years and then conducted a classical school in Brooklyn, for five years. He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Eaton, N. Y., for eight years, rode a ten-mile circuit at Forestport, Oneida County, N. Y., for ten years, and during this time Grover was elected Mayor of Buffalo, Governor and President. From Forestport Mr. Cleveland removed to his present pastorate, where he has labored six years. Like his brother, the pastor is very fond of fishing, and is often seen with his tackle hard at work in Chaumont bay. He has published several books and is ambitious to do even more than he has done in the literary world.

REV. CLEVELAND.