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a minister of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, was born in Hunterdon County, N.J., May 5,1800. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1817, and at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary 3 1822, when he was licensed as a minister. He was missionary to several towns in New York in 1823; pastor at Philipsburg, Pa. (Presbyterian), from 1824 to 1827; and teacher at Easton from 1827 to 1854. He died in 1878. His school at Easton was famous for more than a quarter of a century, and his pupils carried with them pleasant memories of their intercourse with their teacher. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref. Church in America, s.v.