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Bolles, Augustus

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a Baptist minister, was born at Ashford, Conn., Dec. 28, 1776. He began to preach in 1810, and was ordained pastor of the Church at Tolland in May, 1814, where he remained until 1818, when he became pastor of the Church at Bloomfield, continuing in office until 1825. That year he took up his residence at Hartford, and supplied, for a number of years, churches without pastors. For nearly four years he had charge of the Christian Secretary. After an absence of two years in Indiana, where he organized a Church at La Porte, he returned to Connecticut,. and. began, in 1839, to preach for the Church at Colchester, and supplied them for several years. He died in that place some time after 1859. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pul., 6, 478; Cathcart. Bapt. Encycl. p. 110. (J. C.S.)

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Bolles, Augustus'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​b/bolles-augustus.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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