a Baptist minister, was born at Vernon, N. Y., in August, 1815. He pursued his collegiate studies at Hamilton College, and studied theology at the Hamilton Theological Seminary. For three years he was pastor of the Church in his native town. Here he remained until called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Cleveland, O., in 1846, which office he held fourteen years, and was greatly respected and beloved in the community. He died Oct. 29, 1864. See Appletons' Annual Cyclop. iv, 621.