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Black, John (3),

a Scotch Congregational minister, was born at Ceres, Fifeshire, April 1, 1780. He attended Mr. James Haldane's class to prepare for the ministry. In 1809 he was ordained at Montrose, where he remained five years, and then went to Dunkeld, Western Highlands, remaining there forty-four years. His death occurred July 27, 1857. He was a man of eminent piety, of catholic spirit, and breadth of benevolence in relation to all the public institutions of the day. See (Lond.) Congregational Year-book, 1858, p. 192.