CLAY, CLEMENT 0. 



ported to l>o 2,700, and the board of publica- 

 tion \vas conditionally authorized to puhlish a 

 monthly Sumlay-srlmol paper, to commence- the 

 1st day of January, 1867. J. F. Weishampel 

 to publish a (id-man paper. A 

 of resolutions on loyalty, against slavery, 

 and in favor of equal rights of all racn, irrc- 

 vo of color, were adopted. It was "re- 

 sohvd that the executive hoard be instructed 

 to apply to the Legislature of Ohio for an act 

 of incorporation of the general eldership of the 

 Chuivh of (iod in North America.'' The next 

 triennial meeting is to he held in Lancaster, 

 I 'a., in May, 1869. The brethren of Kansas 

 wore authorized to form themselves into an 

 eldership, if they deem it practicable. At the 

 annual meeting of the Texas eldership, held in 

 1866, a desire was expressed Jto reunite with the 

 general eldership, but no definite resolutions 

 were adopted. 



CLAY, CLEMENT COMER, an American states- 

 man, born in llalifax. County, Va., December 

 17, 1789, died at Ilimtsville, Ala., September 9, 

 1866. He was the son of 'William Clay, an 

 officer of the Revolutionary army, who after 

 the close of the war removed with his family to 

 ( ! ranger County, Tenn. Young Clay completed 

 his education at the University at Knoxville, 

 studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 

 1809, soon after which he removed to Hunts- 

 ville, Alabama (then a territory), where he 

 resided until his death. His legal attainments 

 \vere such that he rapidly built up a good and 

 lucrative practice, but hi 1813, upon the com- 

 mencement of the troubles with the Creek 

 Indians, he volunteered as a private soldier in 

 the army. In 1817 he was elected a member of 

 the territorial council ; two years after was ap- 

 pointed one of the Judges of the Circuit Court, 

 and in 1820 Chief Justice of that Court, which 

 position he resigned in 1823. In 1828 he was 

 sent to the State Legislature and chosen Speaker. 

 The following year ho was elected to represent 

 the State in the lower branch of Congress, and 

 occupied his seat until 1835, in which year he 

 was chosen Governor of Alabama, serving two 

 years. Before the expiration of his term ho 

 was called to the United States Senate, where 

 he served until the close of the extra session of 

 1841, when sickness in his family induced him 

 to resign. From that time he devoted himself 

 to the practice of his profession and lived in 

 comparative retirement. During the war he re- 

 mained quietly at home, rather as a spectator 

 of passing scenes than taking any part in them. 



CLEAVELAND, ELISHA LORD, D. D., an 

 eminent Congregational clergyman, born at 

 Topsfield, Essex County, Mass, April 25, 1806, 

 died in New Haven, Conn., February 16, 1866. 

 He was the youngest son of Dr. Nehemiah 

 Cleaveland, a distinguished physician of Tops- 

 field, and, until about sixteen years of age, re- 

 mained at home working upon the farm and 

 attending the common school. Ho then began 

 his preparation for college at Dummer Acad- 

 emy, in the neighboring town of Nowbury, a 

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well-known institution then under the core of 

 hjs eldest brother. In h ia nineteenth year he 

 d Bowdoin College, where his distin- 

 guished relative, Professor Parker Cleaveland, 

 was then in the height of his celebrity and usc- 

 fii!ne^>. IK; graduated in 1829, and during tho 

 last year of his course was hopefully converted. 

 From the college at Brunswick ho entered tho 

 Theological Seminary. at Andover, and during 

 his third year was licensed to preach. In 

 January, 1888, attracted by .the fame of the 

 late Dr. Taylor, he entered Yale Seminary with 

 the intention of continuing his studies another 

 year, but, on the second Sabbath after, ho was 

 invited to supply tho pulpit of the Third Con- 

 gregational Church, made vacant by the dis- 

 mission of the pastor, and was speedily chosen 

 to the pastorate. In July of that year ho wiw 

 ordained, and under his wise and skilful ad- 

 ministration the church greatly increased in 

 numbers and power, and became finally one of 

 the leading churches in tho denomination in 

 that city. Thoroughly conservative by the 

 natural constitution of his mind aBd his early 

 training, Dr. Cleaveland took decided ground 

 against what were denominated the New School 

 views of Drs. Taylor and Fitch, but his position 

 on those questions was also compatible with 

 dignity and courtesy toward those who differed 

 from him in opinion, holding their friendship 

 while discarding their theological views. ^ icn 

 it became necessary to 'erect a new church 

 edifice, he exerted himself to the utmost 'to 

 raise the necessary funds, and it was mainly 

 owing to his perseverance and indomitable 

 energy that the enterprise succeeded. In 

 November, 1864, Dr. Cleaveland went to Eu- 

 rope, and during his tour of eight months did 

 much to explain the views of the Government 

 with regard to the struggle in which the coun- 

 try was engaged, the resources of tho people, 

 and the determination to destroy slavery at all 

 hazards. At Paris, in an assembly of Protestant 

 pastors and delegates from all parts of France, 

 he gave, through an interpreter, an idea of the 

 conflict from which the nation was emerging ; 

 and subsequently at London, in the annual as- 

 sembly of the English Congregational Union, 

 he defined tho Northern position with the ut- 

 most clearness, creating conviction of the suc- 

 cess of the Union cause in the understanding 

 of many who from ignorance or prejudice were 

 embittered toward the North. 



Returning with health and strength some- 

 what renewed, he resumed his work among 

 the people of his charge, who were enjoying a 

 hif. r h degree of prosperity as a church, when 

 after a short and not alarming sickness he was 

 suddenly called to his final rest. Dr. Cleave- 

 land was a man of vigorous and comprehensive 

 intellect, sound, practical judgment, decided 

 executive and administrative ability, and above 

 all possessed that active and deep-toned piety 

 which was the key to his eminent success in 

 his long pastorate. His only published works 

 were some occasional sermons. 



