a Presbyterian minister, was born in Landisburg, Perry County, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1808. He graduated from Dickinson College in. 1828; was soon afterwards converted, and studied theology under Reverend Geo. Duffield, D.D., and at Princeton Seminary; was licensed by the Presbytery of Carlisle; ordained pastor of the Upper West Conococheague Church at Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1831 and continued there with great zeal, fidelity, and usefulness until his sudden death, April 21, 1880. See Necrol. Report of Princeton College, 1881, page 37. (W.P.S.)