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a Baptist minister, was born in Cortland County, N. Y., in 1813. He was converted in 1830, and united with the Free Communion Church in Virgil, N. Y. In 1833 he was licensed, and was ordained in 1838 in Chenango County, where he spent most of his time preaching in different churches until the spring of 1853, when he removed to Illinois. A brief illness closed his life at his residence in Sherman, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Nov. 17,1874. He was a faithful pastor and a man of prayer. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1856, p. 91. (J. C. S.)