Rev. Robert Stansbury Van Cleve and Catharine Spencer

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Husband Rev. Robert Stansbury Van Cleve ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Oct 1842 - Beaver Meadow, Carbon Co, PA 3
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         Father: Aaron H. Van Cleve (1806-1880) 3
         Mother: Henrietta Chambers (      -1858) 3

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   Other Spouse: Lucy Carter White (      -      ) 4

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Wife Catharine Spencer ^{1 5}

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           Died: 25 Jan 1897 5
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         Father: Judah Colt Spencer (1813-1885) 6 7
         Mother: Lavinia Stanley Sanford (1817-1886) 6 7

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Children

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1 M J. Spencer Van Cleve ⁴

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         Spouse: Grace Reynolds (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Robert Stansbury Van Cleve

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He was reared principally at Trenton, New Jersey, and prepared for college at Lawrenceville. He entered Princeton College, taking the academic course, and graduated with the class of 1863, with degree A. B., three years later taking the A. M.; then entered Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in the Class of 1866. The Grove City (Pennsylvania) College conferred upon him, in 1895, degree of D. D. He entered the ministerial field at Westfield, New York, in October, 1866, and in 1870 removed to Leetsdale (Pennsylvania) Presbyterian church, the postoffice address of which was Sewickley, and continued at this place for seventeen years. He first came to Erie in 1866, intending to spend a vacation there, but was induced to take the pastorate of the Chestnut Street Presbyterian church. Soon after he took a year's vacation in Colorado, and on his return to Erie, again was induced to take it in charge, and continued as its pastor for many years, using his best efforts to build up and maintain a flourishing society, and has practically built the present church. He is stated clerk of the Erie presbytery, in which there are seventy-one churches, which office made him one of the most active workers in the Presbyterian church in that part of the state. He contributed his services to all church work in the city, and was leader of the crusade against vice, then being made an issue in municipal affairs. He was a member of the local Princeton Club, the American Whig Society of Princeton College, also the Greek letter society Zeta Psi.

1 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 954.

2 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 259, 696.

3 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 696.

4 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 697.

5 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 259, 697.

6 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Pg 945, 954.

7 John Miller, 20th Century History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 257.