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<p> a Protestant Episcopal minister, was born at Champion, Jefferson County, N.Y., October 26, 1804. He received his preparatory education at Guilford, and graduated at [[Hamilton]] [[College]] in 1827. He then taught one year at Freehold, N.J.; entered [[Princeton]] Theological Seminary in November 1828, where he remained nearly two years; then studied one year with the [[Reverend]] [[Thomas]] H. Skinner, D.D., in Philadelphia; was licensed by the [[Presbytery]] of Philadelphia, October 30, 1830, and taught three years in Philadelphia. Having united with the Protestant Episcopal Church, he was admitted to deacon's orders, August 4, 1833, and ordained a presbyter, August 27, 1839. He taught in Morristown, N.J., from 1834 to 1836; preached and taught in Bordentown, from 1837 to 1839; was missionary in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1839 and 1840; taught privately at Gulf Mills, [[Montgomery]] County, from 1840 to 1842; was rector of St. Andrew's Church, West Vincent, and St. Mark's, Honeybrook, both in [[Chester]] County, from 1842 to 1845; of [[Christ]] Church, Towanda, from 1845 to 1847; at Pike, from 1847 to 1849; of St. Peter's Church, Montgomery County, St. Paul's, Point of Rocks, and minister of Zion's Parish, Urbana, Indiana, from 1849 to 1854; taught and supplied several vacant parishes at Wilmington, Delaware, from 1854 to 1859; and afterwards resided at Princeton, N.J., preaching occasionally until his death, August 19, 1881. See Necrol, Report of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1882, page 22. </p>

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