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a Congregational minister, was born at Bangor, Maine, in 1803. He graduated: from Bowdoin College in 1823; taught for a year in Hallowell; graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1827, and, June 11, 1828, was ordained pastor in Castine; resigned in 1831; labored for a year in Pennsylvania as agent of the American Colonization Society; then went to Savannah, Ga., and subsequently to Barbadoes, where he died, May 26, 1833. See History of Bowdoin College, pages 261, 262; Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, page 74. (J.C.S.)