a Presbyterian minister and missionary, was born at Chambersburgh, Pa., Jan. 18, 1819, and was educated at the Military Academy, West Point. While serving as lieutenant of artillery he made a religious profession, and went to the Theological Seminary at Princeton, where he graduated in 1844. In that year he was licensed and ordained as missionary to China; He labored, together with Bridgeman, for several years in preparing a revised translation of the Scriptures in Chinese; and wrote Darkness in the Flowery Land, or Religious Notions and Popular Superstitions in North China (N.Y. 1857, 12mo). He died of cholera, August, 1862. — Wilson, Presb. Almanac, 1863, p. 163.