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Payson, Charles Henry, D.D.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Presbyterian minister, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, September 28, 1831. He graduated at Amherst College in 1852, and from the Union Theological Seminary, N.Y., in 1857; was ordained pastor of the mission chapel connected with the Madison Square Chapel in 1860, where, with the exception of a year and a half spent at Berlin and Heidelberg, he labored uninterruptedly with great zeal and success until his death, January 24, 1877.