Frederic Augustus Barton
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Frederic Augustus Barton [1]
a Congregational minister, was born at Chester, Vt., Jan. 24, 1809. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1831, at Andover Theological Seminary in 1836; was ordained pastor at Collinsville, Conn., in 1839; was pastor there 1838-43; Chicopee Falls, 1843-46; Indian Orchard, Mass., 1858-61; East Boston, 1868-71; and Newtonville, Mass. 1871-81. During the interval of 1846-58 he was engineering in South America and elsewhere; in 1861-62 he was chaplain of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteers, and from 1862 to ‘ 68 he lived without charge at Nashua, N. H. He died in his last charge, Feb. 23, 1881. See Necr. of Andover Theol. Sem., 1880-81, s.v.