His son, also named Aaron, became a Congregational minister.

Two of the sons of the younger Aaron became ministers, one of them an Episcopalian like his grandfather.

Another son, William, who became a prosperous silversmith, was for many years a deacon in the church in which his father preached.

William sent his second son, Richard, to Yale, where he graduated with honors at the age of nineteen.
He turned to the Presbyterian church, studied theology at Princeton, and upon receiving ordination began a ministerial career which like that of many preachers was carried on in many pastorates.

He was settled at Caldwell, New Jersey, in his third pastorate, and there Stephen Grover Cleveland was born, on March 18, 1837, the fifth in a family of children that eventually increased to nine.