a Presbyterian minister, was born at Sweden, N. Y., in 1825. He entered Hamilton College, and graduated in 1847; after which he entered the Union Theological Seminary, in 1848; from whence he graduated in 1851. He was ordained with a view of his entering the foreign field as missionary, and on Nov. 7, 1851, departed for Marsovan, in the Turkish Empire. His service was brief, as he had but scarcely begun his labors when he was called to the heavenly world.