Statewide County NJ Archives Obituaries.....CRAVEN, Rev. Dr. Elijah Richardson January 5, 1908
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Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. 1, New Series, 1916, Page 103.

  REV. DR. ELIJAH RICHARDSON CRAVEN, died in Philadelphia on January 5, 1908.  
He was born in Washington, D. C., on March 28, 1824, and graduated from 
Princeton University when eighteen years of age.  He took up the study of law 
but not finding himself adapted to that profession returned to Princeton in 
1849, and entered the theological seminary.  For some time he was pastor of 
the Second Presbyterian church of Somerville, N. J., and for thirty-three 
years pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark.  He resigned this 
pastorate in 1888 to accept the position of secretary of the Presbyterian 
Board of Publications and Sabbath-school Work, with headquarters in 
Philadelphia, later becoming secretary emeritus.  For forty-five years he was 
a trustee of Princeton University and at one time moderator of the General 
Assembly.  He was twice married.  His first wife was a great-grand-daughter of 
of Commodore Tingey, and his second wife a daughter of Van Ransselaer Moore, 
of New York, and grand-daughter of Bishop Moore, of Virginia.  He was survived 
by two sons and two daughters : Commander John E. Craven of the U. S. church 
of Mattituck, N. Y.; Miss Margaretta T. Craven, of Newark, and Miss Evelina 
Green Craven, of Philadelphia.  He became a life member of this Society on May 
20, 1858.

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