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<p> a Congregational minister, was born at Holden, Massachusetts, August 19, 1807. He graduated from Williams College in 1834; studied two years at the Theological Institute of Hartford; and, having been appointed missionary to South Africa by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was ordained at his native place, November 9, 1836. [[Changing]] his plans, he afterwards engaged in home missions in south [[Michigan]] and north Indiana. In 1845 he labored in the American Peace Society; in September 1846, was installed pastor at Ashburnham, Massachusetts; in 1849 was sent as a delegate to the World's Peace Convention in Paris; in 1850 became secretary of the American Peace Society; for fourteen years was pastor in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; then, for a time, secretary of the American Misssionary Association; and from 1869 to 1879 pastor in Auburn, Massachusetts, where he died, April 9, 1881. See Hist. Cat. of Theol. Inst. of Con. 1881, page 15. (J.C.S.). </p>
<p> a [[Baptist]] minister, was born in [[Maryland]] in 1739. In 1757 he moved to North Carolina, and was ordained in 1764; labored in that state thirty-four years, and then went to South Carolina, while he served his [[Master]] in the ministry till his death, the date of which does not appear. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 311. (J.C.S.) </p>


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<ref name="term_36757"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/davis,+elnathan+(2) Elnathan Davis from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_36759"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/davis,+elnathan+(1) Elnathan Davis from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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Elnathan Davis [1]

a Baptist minister, was born in Maryland in 1739. In 1757 he moved to North Carolina, and was ordained in 1764; labored in that state thirty-four years, and then went to South Carolina, while he served his Master in the ministry till his death, the date of which does not appear. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 311. (J.C.S.)

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  1. ↑ Elnathan Davis from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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