a minister of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennyslvania, and in 1842 from the theological seminary at New Brunswick, N.J. He was licensed by the Classis of New York the same year; served the Church at West Farms, N.Y., until 1845; Ponds, Bergen County, N.J., until 1867, and thereafter was without a charge till his death, in 1877. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref Church in America, 3d ed. page 218.