a Presbyterian minister, was born in Jonesborough, Tennesee, June 28, 1812. He was a student of Washington College; graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1833; was ordained by the Lexington Presbytery, June 26, 1835; served as pastor at Lexington, Virginia, until 1840; stated supply at Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a short time; pastor at La Grange, Georgia, from 1841 until his death, March 3, 1870. See Genesis Cat. of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1881, page 75.