Rev. Dr. John McCluskey, D.D.

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Husband Rev. Dr. John McCluskey, D.D. ¹

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           Born: 17 Jun 1795 - Chester Co, PA 2
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           Died: 31 Mar 1880 - ? Wooster, Wayne Co, OH 2
         Buried:  - Neshaminy Cemetery, Hartsville, Bucks Co, PA

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         Father: [Father] McCluskey (      -      )
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Dr. John McCluskey, D.D.

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He was, for over a quarter of a century, the active and successful pastor of the church of West Alexander, Pennsylvania. At the age of thirty-three years he came to it, a licentiate from the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and was ordained by Washington Presbytery as pastor, October 8, 1828. He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, though his youth was spent in Washington County, the future sphere of his labors. Jefferson College sent him forth in the class of 1822, adorned with her culture, and better still as a new man in the purpose of his life; for while an under-graduate he made his confession of Christ in the Chartiers Church, then under the pastoral care of Dr. John McMillan. Not a little of his mental development, before and after his collegiate training, came through his own efforts as a teacher, and the habit thus acquired increased and widened his influence throughout his pastoral work. He received his theological training partly under the instruction of Dr. Ezra Stiles Ely, of Philadelphia, and, for one year, in the Princeton Seminary. Dr. McCluskey was more a man of action than of severe study. His preaching was plain, Scriptural, sound and spiritual, abounding in illustrations from daily life. It was attended with steady ingathering to the communion of the church, and often with special revivals. He was pre-emi-nently a man of affairs, even at times taking the temporal as well as spiritual interests of his people into his care. Thus, under his influence, the gen-eral advancement of society kept pace with the progress of his church. He was a special friend of liberal education. He established the West Alexander Academy, and conducted it with much success and reputation during the pastorate, send-ing forth from its walls about fifty students who became ministers, besides many candidates for the other professions. He was also an active trustee of Washington College. Dr. McCluskey's resigna-tion, April 15, 1854, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, was not for the purpose of inglorious ease, but rather for a change of work. After a year spent in the service of the board of education, he supplied the pulpit of the church of Neshaminy, Pennsylvania, and afterward that of Smyrna, Delaware, through a period of five years. In 1859 he found-ed a church-school in West Philadelphia. In 1864 he established an institution at Hightstown, New Jersey, for the free tuition of the children of ministers, and especially of missionaries. Returning to Phil-adelphia in 1870, he acted for a time as associate principal of the Mantua Academy. The evening of his declining life was spent among friends at Wooster, Ohio. On March 31, 1880, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, his life work came to its end in Philadelphia, and he ascended to the upper skies. [From the "History of the Presbytery of Washington."]
His body was laid to rest in the old Neshaminy Cemetery at Hartsville, Pennsylvania, where, since, at his side was placed the body of his most estimable and greatly beloved wife.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 150.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 151.