a Congregational minister, was born at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, March 6, 1797. He studied in his native town, graduated from Brown University in 1819, pursued his theological studies with Reverend Holland Weeks, of Abington, and became pastor at Northfield, N.H., where he remained fourteen years. His subsequent pastorates were in Hebron, for nine years, Canaan, Groton, and Oxford, all in New Hampshire. He spent the closing years of his life in Bristol, where he died, April 3, 1881. See Necrology of Brown University, 1880-81. (J.C.S.)