a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Portland, Maine, January 2, 1812. In 1833 he joined the Ohio Conference, and served as a pastor until 1860, when he became colonel of the Seventy-fourth Ohio regiment. He served until May 1863, when illness forced him to resign. He. again enitered the pastorate, and served as pastor and presiding elder until 1882, when he took a supernumerary relation, which he held until his death, June 4, 1887. See Minutes of Annual Conferences (Fall), 1887, page 366; Appletons' Cyclop. of Amer. Biography.