Martin Clever and Mary Magdelina Menich

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Husband Martin Clever ¹

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           Born: 10 Apr 1795 2
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           Died: 20 Jan 1880 2
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         Father: Martin Clever (      -Bef 1826) 1
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: Abt 1817

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Wife Mary Magdelina Menich ²

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           Born: 1802 - near Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 2
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Children

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1 M Simon Clever ²

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           Died: Abt 1861-1865
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2 M Martin Clever ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1915
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         Spouse: Elizabeth De Graph (      -      ) 2

         Spouse: Nancy Mercer (      -      ) 2

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3 F Mary Clever ²

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           Born: Abt 1822
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           Died: 1907 2
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         Spouse: Thomas Silk (      -      ) 2

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4 M Jacob Clever ²

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           Died: Bef 1915
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         Spouse: Frances Silk (      -      ) 2

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5 F Catherine Clever ²

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           Died: Bef 1915
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         Spouse: George Hoffman (      -Bef 1915) 2

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6 M David Clever ²

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Stoddard (      -      ) 2

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7 F Rebecca Clever ²

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         Spouse: Prof. Thomas Taylor (      -      ) 2

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8 M Andrew Pierce Clever ²

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           Born: 18 Feb 1838 - Robinson (later Kennedy) Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Emma Stoddard (1842-      ) 2
           Marr: 30 May 1861 2

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General Notes: Husband - Martin Clever

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After the death of his father, he, with his mother and his family removed from the eastern part of Pennsylvania to Allegheny County, the journey being made by wagon in the summer of 1826, and the elder children being paid at the rate of two cents a day for any walking they could do. Robinson township was their choice of a location and there, after disposing of their old farm at Chambersburg, they bought in September, 1826, six hundred acres of land from one Paul Pierce, at the rate of nine dollars an acre. Upon this property Mr. Clever built a large, red brick house, still standing into the twentieth century, and in 1844 he purchased the Gates farm, on which he lived until the spring of 1879. It was about five acres of this land which he donated for a cemetery, which was known as Clever Cemetery. Although at the time of his coming to Allegheny County, he was a poor man, by dint of intelligence, hard labor and thrift, he made himself one of the most prominent figures of his community, and became a man of large substance. His farming was conducted on a very extensive scale, particularly for those days, and he often had as many as fifty hands working for him at once during the summer time. He gradually bought up a large tract of land in the neighborhood, acquiring finally some seven or eight large farms which his children inherited.
He was vitally interested in public affairs and political issues. In early life he was a Democrat, but later joined the new Republican party during the time of Lincoln's leadership. He and his family were all Lutherans in religion and attended the Mount Calvary Church of that denomination in Robinson township.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Magdelina Menich

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She was married when she was just fifteen years of age, her mother saying she was already a fairly good housekeeper, and would be taught to be a perfect one before the marriage took place.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 497.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 498.