Francis Hiram Case
Francis Hiram Case [1]
a Congregational minister, was born at West Simsbury (now Canton), Conn., Oct. 1, 1797. He graduated at Yale College in 1822, and at the Yale Divinity School in 1825. Feb. 1, 1826, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Goshen. From this charge he was dismissed, Sept. 30, 1828. He was then for eighteen months an magnet of the American Tract Society in the Southern States. Returning to Connecticut, he was installed pastor of the Congregational Church in Avon, Dec. 22,1830. He was dismissed April 28, 1840, and soon, after removed to Whitewater, Wis., where he supplied the pulpit from 1842 to 1844, and where he resided until 1863. He died at Cold Spring, Wis., Dec. 20, 1872. See Obituary Record of Yale College, 1873.
