Aaron Cleveland
American clergyman
Aaron Cleveland (29 October 1715 – 11 August 1757, Philadelphia) was a clergyman. He established the first Presbyterian church in Canada. He was a great-great-grandfather of United States President Grover Cleveland.
Biography
His father was also named Aaron Cleveland. At the time of Aaron's birth, his father was making a modest living as a publican in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Aaron was born, and was also working in construction. His father would later become a militia captain and a man of some wealth. The son graduated from Harvard in 1735. He was a man of great physical strength and activity, and the best skater, swimmer, and wrestler in the college in his day. In 1739, he was made pastor of the church in Haddam, Connecticut, where his father possessed landed property. In the same year, he also married Susannah, the daughter of Aaron Porter of Medford, Massachusetts.
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