Background
Cleland, Robert Wickliffe was born on January 26, 1846 in Lebanon, Kentucky, United States. Son of Review Thomas Horace and Mary Rossanna (Gibbs) Cleland.
Cleland, Robert Wickliffe was born on January 26, 1846 in Lebanon, Kentucky, United States. Son of Review Thomas Horace and Mary Rossanna (Gibbs) Cleland.
Grandfather (Thomas Cleland), a noted pioneer preacher of Kentucky, who preached in Kentucky 55 years, and father preached in same state 50 years. Bachelor of Arts, Centre College, (now Central U.), Danville, Kentucky, 1867. Graduate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1870.
(Doctor of Divinity, Occidental College, 1911).
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1870. Pastor Warren Church, Louisville, Kentucky, 1870-1874. Stated supply, Hopewell, 1874-1876, Paris, 1874-1879.
Pastor Nebraska City, Nebraska, 1879-1882.
Stated supply, Mount Sterling, Kentucky, 1883. Evangelist Louisville Presbytery, 1883-1886.
Pastor Owensboro, Kentucky 1886-1889. Stated supply, Monrovia, California, 1889-1892, Azusa, 1889-1892.
Evangelist, Los Angeles, 1900-1905.
Assistant pastor Long Beach, 1905-1909. Stated supply Mount Washington Church, Los Angeles, since 1909.
Married Sallie Steele Glass, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, October 17, 1877.