a Congregational minister, was born in Hancock, N.H., September 28,1798; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1822, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1827; was pastor, 1828-37; agent of the American Tract Society. 1835-36; district secretary of the A.B.C.F.M. for northern New England, 1840-56; secretary of the N.H.M. Society, 1856-74; member of the legislature, 1867-68; chaplain of the House of Representatives in 1869, and resided at Amherst, Massachusetts, from 1856 until his death, January 26, 1887.