a minister of the German Reformed Church, was born in Bucks County, Pa., March 1, 1776. After having pursued a course of classical studies, he was taught theology by his father, then pastor in Rockaway. N.J. He was licensed and ordained in 1801. In 1802 he became pastor of churches in Montgomery and Bucks counties. In this charge he spent a long life. In 1846, in the seventieth year of his age, he was compelled by increasing infirmities to quit the active duties of the ministry. He died Feb. 17, 1856, after a ministry of fifty-nine years. He was a man of great simplicity of heart, which with age made him a patriarch in the Church. He was able to preach in German and English.