John Payne Cleaveland		From "A Plea for the Smaller College: by David Mack Cooper, 1898"
Born: 19 Jul 1799 Byefield Parish, Rowley, MA
Married: 06 Nov 1827
Died: 07 Mar 1873 Newburyport, Essex, MA
Buried: Newburyport, Essex, MA	Rev. John P Cleaveland Fifty years an earnest Labourer in the service of the Master entered into rest on the morning of the 7, of Mar. 1873 Aged 73 years	Gravestones & History of Byfield, Essex Co., Massachusetts

FATHER

Parker Cleaveland

MOTHER

Abigail Cleaveland

WIFE

Susan Heard Doyle
b. 19 Apr 1800

CHILDREN

Susan P. Cleaveland b. Abt 1829
married name Susie Child

Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature By John McClintock
By John McClintock
Published 1889
Harper & brothers

Cleaveland, John Payne, D. D. a Congregational minister, was born at Byfield, Mass., July 19, 1799. His father was the distinguished Parker Cleaveland, M.D., and his brother, professor Parker Cleaveland of Bowdoin College. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1821, and spent one year (1823-24) in theological study at Andover. He was ordained at Salem, Mass., Feb. 14, 1827, pastor of the Tabernacle Church in that city, where he remained seven years. Shortly afterwards he went to Michigan, and was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Detroit from June 15,1835, to Nov. Î, 1838, at which date he became president of Marshall College, Michigan. He held this office five years, during a part of this period acting as pastor of the Church of which, previously, he had been the preacher. Early in 1844 he was called to the Cleaveland, where he remained two years, and then removed to Providence, R. I., where he was pastor of the Beneficent Church from April 22,1846, to March 30, 1853. He there distinguished himself as a strong advocate of temperance and anti-slavery, and gained many warm friends. After leaving Providence he was pastor of the First Church, Northampton, Mass., from April 20, 1H53, to July 11,1855; from Oct. 2,1855, to Jan. 15,18Ü2, of the Appleton Street Church, Lowell. During a part of 1802 he was chaplain of the 30th Massachusetts Volunteers. On leaving the army he was for some time a supply of the Park and Salem Streets churches, Boston. He also preached for brief periods in one or two other churches. He died at Newburyport, Mass., March 7, 1873.

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A Plea for the Smaller College: by David Mack Cooper, 1898

After the delivery of the preceding address I learned to my great satisfaction and greater surprise that a daughter of Mr. Cleaveland—she who used to be called "Susie"—was still alive and residing in the City of Utica, N. Y. I immediately put myself in communication with her, and at my request, she prepared the sketch of her father's life, which I subjoin. Through her agency also I procured the engraving of her father, which adorns this pamphlet. At first I hesitated to use it at all. It was disappointing to look upon a face so sad in contrast with the bright, cheery countenance and sparkling eye of his early manhood as it lingers in my boyhood memory. In answer to my first letter requesting a picture, his daughter, Mrs. Child, wrote: "So soon as I return to my home in Utica I will attend to the matter in request with pleasure. The sunny, genial character of my dear father so illuminated his face, I marvel not that, if you remember him at all, the memory should be an alluring one. I fully agree with you in regard to the engraving as most unsatisfactory in its entire failure to express the sunshine of a nature so rare; though it may be a more accurate exponent of the mental strength which increased with the years. The work is good enough, but there is an expression of the mouth which could never have rested there for a moment, for my father was so genial, so sunny, so charitable, nothing contemptuous ever sullied thought or face—a face exceedingly
difficult to portray, for it was full of varying lights, not to be caught by the photographer even, at the time of my father's life. I cannot say where the ivory miniature painting was executed, but as it was done in Boston, the presumption is that it was not far from the time of my father's removal to Detroit. Last winter,