Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-23
nEv. CEEAvELAND.

Death of FstthfuI Pasxor-Weu Known In This Ciry and We'll Be- loved by Ills Congregatio ns-Once Principal or Washington School. It is with deep sorrow that we publish the death of Rev. James B. Cleavelsnd, who breathed his last on Tuesday night after brief illness. During the past year Mir. Cleaveland has resided at 40 Winthrop ave- nue, during which time he has preached only occasionally The fact that ten years of his early life were spent in this city, and his many associations with our citizens during 1 his later years, have identified him with this city and gained for him a large circle of friends.
 Mir. Cleaveland was born in Sharon in 1891. He entered Yale college in 1S4S, grad l uating in 1S47, and from the Theological I seminary in 1851. While connected with | the seminary he was principal of the Wash ington school, which position he retained for ! year after he had completed his studies. As teacher he was exceptionally success- | ful, as many of his former pupils now resid- ! ing in this city will attest The board of visitors for the first school society in New ! Haven repol ted in October, 1851, the condi- | tion of the Washington school as follows: ! "We have never been able to give our hearty | | now highly creditable to the district MT. | Cleavelsnd has succeeded in mastering the ! turbulent and securing the confidence of the ! well-disposed. The exercises of the school l have all been very pleasing since he has had
 charge of it. He has Latin o,ela class L of ten who practice composition-an invaluable ex- | ercise which should be more extensively pur- | sued in other schools" While in college he
 acted ss leader of the Beethoven choir, which | corresponded to the present Glee club. ! During the last year with the school he re- ceived a call to the pastorate of the Congre- gstional church in Durham, the church agreeing to wait for him till the close of his school, nearly year later. He was or
 dained and installed pastor of this church
 in 1852. Trouble with his eyes caused him
 to resign the more confning duties of his pastorate to accept the agency of the Amer { ican Sunday school union of this State. In | 1855, he accepted call to the Congrega-
 tional church at South Egremont, Massa- chusetts, where he was installed as paator
 in July of that year. After 8 pastorate of
 seven years he removed to Goshen, in this
 State,- where he preached until he ac-
 cepted call to the North
 church in New Hartford. While at New
 Hartford he was made member of Northern Star lodge No. 5S, F. and A. M., and he was | chaplain of the Masonic lodge at Bloomfield I for many years. After ministering to this | people for four years he accepted 8 call to Bloomfield, where he lived eight years. While at Bloomfield he was an associate edi-
 tor of the Meriden Recorder. His next pas- | torate was over the First Congregational | church of Berlin in the village of Kensing- ! ton. Ia 1880 he was called to the First Con- ! gregational church at Granby, where he re-
 sided until 1885. Before taking up his resi- | dence once more in this city he preached ! about three years in Oxford.
 | MT, Cleaylaud was an honest earnast abIe \ and faithful minister of the gospel. The con- | gregation of which be had charge during 8 | long life spent in the service of his master ! will remember him with love and reverence.
 In the early days of the anti-slavery move- ! ment he was an ardent advocate of abolition,
 and at the time when it most needed sup porters. At South Egremont many of his practitioners were southern sympathizers and frequently showed their disapproyaI of their youthful pastors patriotic sermons, but he continued to speak burning words for the ! liberation of the slave. He was ever ready to l advocate the cause of temperance and during i all his life took an unusual interest in l the public schools of the towns in which he I resided. Mir. Cleaveland at the time of his death was member of the United church,
 having joined the old North church in 1873, | and many times occupied it's pulpit as well
 as that of the Center church. The deceased ! leaves wife, daughter of the late Nathaniel
 Jocelyn, of this city, daughter, Mrs. Robert l.. Rice, of Granby, and son, Attorney
 Livingston, of this city. Another son, At
 torney Jocelyn P. Cleaveland, died in this I city in 1881.
 | The funeral services will be held at the ! United church tomorrow afternoon at 8 I o'clock.