Cleveland, Richard Falley

Cleveland, Richard Falley, a Congregational minister, was born at Norwich, Colin., June 19, 1804. He graduated at Yale College in 1824, and studied theology for a time at Princeton, was ordained at Windham, Conn., in 1829, and served there three years; afterwards at Portsmouth, Va.; Caldwell, N. Y. Fayetteville, and Holland Patent, where he died, Oct. 1, 1853. Mr. Cleveland was for three years secretary of the central agency of the American Home Missionary Society, and was a frequent contributor to periodicals. See Cong. Quarterly, 1861, p. 264.