Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Cleaver, Augustus M. September 3, 1852 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

AUGUSTUS M. CLEAVER, a prominent farmer of Douglass 
township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, was born 
September 3, 1852, in Berks county, Pennsylvania, being the 
son of Isaac F. and Catherine (Motz) Cleaver.

Isaac F. Cleaver (father) has resided most of his life in 
Berks county, where he still lives at the age of 
seventy-four years. He was a blacksmith and a farmer during 
his active life. He worked for Bailey & Shoemaker for 
thirteen years. His wife died in 1889 at the age of 
sixty-five years and was buried at Hill church, Berks 
county. He served in the war of the rebellion. In politics 
he was a Republican, and although often asked to accept 
office, he invariably refused, although his popularity 
practically guaranteed his election. The couple had nine 
children, of whom six are living, as follows: Edwin, married 
Annie Miller, living in Lower Providence, he being a brick 
manufacturer, they have one child; Isaac, married Catharine 
Hornetter, and is a farmer in Pennsburg, they having four 
children; John, married Alice Drumheller, he being a 
furnaceman in Pottstown, and they having six children; 
Catharine, married Abner Johnson, a merchant in Pottstown, 
they having four children; Susan, married Henry Kleiser, a 
clerk in the court house at Reading, they having two 
children; Amelia (deceased), married Adam C. Stetler, a 
butcher in Douglass township, they having had four children; 
Hannah M. (deceased), died unmarried; Augustus M., the 
subject of this sketch.
 
John Cleaver (grandfather) married Miss Dutterer and they 
resided in Berks county where he was a farmer. Both died at 
an advanced age and were buried at Hill Church cemetery, 
Berks county, Pennsylvania. Adam Motz (maternal grandfather) 
lived in Berks county. He died at an advanced age, and was 
buried at Hill Church cemetery, Berks county. He was a 
farmer in that county all his life.

Augustus M. Cleaver attended school until he had reached the 
age of nineteen years, and then became a farmer, spending 
several years on the Fagley estate in Pottstown. He has been 
engaged in the occupation of farming ever since that time, 
and has lived in Montgomery county.

In January, 1882, Augustus M. Cleaver married Agnes, 
daughter of William E. and Mary Ann (Gresh) Yoder. Mr. and 
Mrs. Yoder were farmers in Montgomery county. He died many 
years ago, and his wife still survives, residing upon the 
homestead. He was a Republican in politics. They had nine 
children. The children of Augustus M. and Agnes Cleaver: 
William Isaac, born April 19, 1884, resides with his 
parents; Daniel Augustus, born 1886; James E., born 
September 8, 1888; John Y., born 1894; Edwin, born 1897; 
Eva, died young, and one died in infancy.

Mr. Cleaver is a Republican in politics, but not an aspirant 
for public position. He has lived upon his present property 
since 1889, and has been very prosperous in farming 
pursuits, being one of the leading agriculturists of his 
section of the county.


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