. Contemporary American biography . a volume entitledConciones ad Clerum, which reached several editions. In November, 1880, he deliveredbefore the University of Cambridge, England, a series of discourses on Individualism, pub-lished immediately after at the University Press. In acknowledgment of this service, theuniversity conferred upon him the degree of During the spring of 1884 the bishopdelivered a course of lectures at the General Theological Seminary of New York on The Chris-tian Ministry at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. These lectures were subsequently pub-lished. Besides
. Contemporary American biography . a volume entitledConciones ad Clerum, which reached several editions. In November, 1880, he deliveredbefore the University of Cambridge, England, a series of discourses on Individualism, pub-lished immediately after at the University Press. In acknowledgment of this service, theuniversity conferred upon him the degree of During the spring of 1884 the bishopdelivered a course of lectures at the General Theological Seminary of New York on The Chris-tian Ministry at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. These lectures were subsequently pub-lished. Besides these the bishop has contributed many elaborate articles to reviews and peri-odicals and published many addresses and charges delivered to the clergy at the annualconventions of his diocese. He is an official visitor of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y.; trusteeof St. Stephens College, Annandale, N. Y.; also a trustee of Columbia College in the city ofNew York, and ex-officio, a trustee of the General Theological Seminary in New <zrz. ^- -J CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 159 GROVER CLEVELAND. Grover Clevelaot), twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States,was born at Caldwell, Essex County, N. J., March 18th, 1837. The family migrated fromSuffolk County, England, early in the seventeenth century and settled in Clevelands father was Eichard F. Cleveland, a Presbyterian minister, who married aMiss Neal, the daughter of a Baltimore book publisher, and who named their son after Grover, a Presbyterian clergyman at Caldwell. From the latter place the familyremoved, in 1S41, to Fayetteville, N. Y., where the boy went to school and thence to a countrystore, in which he served as a clerk. From Fayetteville the Cleveland family again removed toClinton, Oneida County, and here young Grovers education was further advanced and to thatdegree that when he was in his seventeenth year he was appointed assistant teacher of theNew York In
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