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an Episcopal clergyman, was born at Falmouth, Massachusetts, July 9, 1822. He studied at the academy in his native place and at Phillips Academy in Andover; graduated from Brown University in 1843, and from the theological seminary at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1846. He was ordained deacon the same year, took charge of a mission station in Johnston, R.I., was ordained a presbyter in 1848, had charge of a Church in Chicopee,: Massachusetts, then became rector of St. Paul's Church in Brunswick, Me., where he remained till the spring of 1853, and then removed to Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, and was rector of St. Mary's Church in that place three-years. He afterwards resided in Cambridge for a time; out of his efforts grew St. James's parish, North Cambridge, of which he was rector till the spring of 1871. He died on Cushing's Island, near Portland, June 30, 1879. See Brown University Necrology, 1879, 1880; Prot. Episc. Almanac, 1880, page 171. (J.C.S.)