Rev. James McCluskey Maxwell, D.D. and Gertrude A. Appleget

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Husband Rev. James McCluskey Maxwell, D.D. ¹

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           Born: 1 Aug 1837 - New Cumberland, Brooke Co, VA 2
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         Father: Samuel Maxwell (1776-1865) 1
         Mother: Jane McCluskey (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 26 Oct 1865 - Hightstown, Mercer Co, NJ 3

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Wife Gertrude A. Appleget ³

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            AKA: Gertrude A. Applegate 4
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. James McCluskey Maxwell, D.D.

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He was baptized in infancy by Rev. John W. Scott, president of Washington College, at the old Three Springs church, where his father, Sam­uel Maxwell, had been many years before ordained a ruling elder by Rev. Elisha McCurdy. At Cumberland, Ohio, and at Miller Academy, Washington, Ohio, Mr. Max­well was prepared for Washington College, where he graduated in 1860. The two years following he spent in the Western Theological Seminary, at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, going in the autumn of 1862 to Chicago, where, in the spring of 1863, he graduated from the McCormick Theological Seminary. Mr. Maxwell's student life was marked by faithfulness as well as brilliancy, and gave full promise of his subsequent successful and eminently useful career. He was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Pres­bytery of Zanesville at its session held at McConnellsville, Ohio, in April, 1862, and was invited, immediately after completing his theological course, to take charge of the Presbyterian Church at Fort Madison, Iowa, also to the pastorate of the Presby­terian Church at Kirkwood, in the vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri. The latter he accepted, and was in September, 1863, ordained a Gospel minister by the Presbytery of St. Louis, and installed pastor of the Kirkwood Church, which position he held until June, 1865, when he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Twelfth Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Maryland. The two years which Mr. Max­well passed at Kirkwood were the closing years of the war of the Rebellion, and in addition to his pastoral duties he gave attention to the physical and spiritual wants of the soldiers in the barracks, hospitals and prisons of St. Louis. He entered upon his labors as pastor of the Baltimore Church in August, 1865, and continued in that pastorate for nine years, when, on account of impaired health, he was advised by his physician to give up his work entirely for a year or two, or seek a field in which his duties would be much lighter; and in accordance with his advice he removed, in the fall of 1874, to the beautiful town of Belvidere, New Jersey, where he accepted a call to the Second Presbyte­rian Church, in the pastorate of which he contin­ued for six years.
Mr. Max­well was married in Hightstown, New Jersey, to a woman of rare natural endowments and broad culture, and she always, by her sweet, Christian spirit, and her efficiency and exceptional qualifications as a social leader and Christian worker, won a warm place in the esteem and affection of all with whom her position brought her into contact. The kindly, gener­ous and hospitable disposition of the husband has always met with the hearty sympathy and co-ope­ration of the wife, so that the parsonage always and everywhere was noted for its delightful hos­pitality.
Mr. Maxwell and his wife were twice abroad: first for four months in 1877, visit­ing Great Britain, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and France. The second visit abroad was made in 1880-81, including almost a year, and embraced Algeria, Spain, Italy, and, on the part of Mr. Maxwell, Egypt, Palestine, Greece. Constantinople, and westward by way of the Black Sea, the Danube, Hungary, Austria, Venice, and over the Simplon Pass. During this tour Mr. Maxwell was correspondent of such well-known newspapers as the New York Independent and Tribune, the Interior of Chicago, and was a valued contributor to the Christian at Work and the Christian Union. In 1882 Mr. Maxwell became editor of the Presbyterian Observer at Bal­timore, which position he held until the winter of 1885-86, much of the time supplying the Presby­terian Church of Harmony, Harford County, Maryland, and was earnestly solicited to become pastor there, but, though the mutual attachment was very great between the people of that church and himself, he did not see his way clear to assume its pastorate. In the meantime he was called to the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian Church at Sweet Air, Baltimore County, Maryland, and to that of Beaver, Pennsylvania, and also to the church of Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, which latter he accepted. Dr. Maxwell was a preacher of rare power-fresh, vigorous and suggestive-a pastor of exceptional tenderness and devotion-an organizer of peculiar tact-a friend whom one values and a companion of whom one never tires. [By Rev. John R. Sutherland, D. D., of Pittsburgh.] [CBRWC, 152]

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.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 152.

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