a Presbyterian minister, was born in Greenville District, S.C., July 31, 1805. He graduated from Centre College, Kentucky in 1830; studied one year each in Princeton Theological Seminary and Union Seminary, Virginia; was engaged in the Creek Indian mission from 1833 to 1837, and thereafter as an evangelist, organizing churches in Alabama and Mississippi, and at times (1860-61, 1867-74) as superintendent of public- schools in Morgan County. He died at Hartsells, Alabama, March 12, 1885. See Necrol. Report of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1885, page 22.