Van Stavoren, Abraham

Van Stavoren, Abraham a Presbyterian minister, was born in Delaware in 1828; graduated at Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1851; studied theology in Lane Seminary, near. Cincinnati, O.; was licensed by Cincinnati Presbytery in 1855; and ordained by Schuyler Presbytery as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Warsaw, Ill., in 1857. Here he labored about a year, when he accepted a call to the Church at Montrose, Ia., where he labored earnestly and faithfully until his death, April 22, 1860. "A good writer, and an earnest and useful preacher." See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1862, p. 198.