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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Clement, Edwin, Rev.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1819-1885
History
Reverend Edwin Clement was born in Plymouth England on June 2, 1819. He married Mary Couch Pope (1825-1910) in Plymouth on August 4th, 1847. The same year they couple left England for North America, landing in the United States. They later settled in Ontario where Rev. Clement would spend a few years in different cities preaching his ministry. Together he and Mary had seven children: John James Clement (1848), Catherine Louise Clement (1850), Mary Alice Clement (1851), Edwin Perry Clement (1853), Margaret Elizabeth Clement (1856), William Henry Pope Clement (1858) and George Thomas Clement (1860). Rev. Clement died, possibly of liver disease, in the Parkdale area of Toronto on April 4, 1885 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.