Congregational clergyman, college president, b. Hinsdale, Mass. He graduated from Williams College (1850) and Union Theological Seminary (1854). He was ordained in the Congregational ministry in 1857, and from 1857 to 1860 did pastoral work in Batavia, Ill. In 1860 he movd to Wisconsin, was pastor at Green Bay (1860-1863), and in 1863 accepted an offer to become the first president of Ripon College. He served in this capacity until 1876 when he moved to Boston. He remained in the East, and served various pastorates until his death. J. W. Stearns, ed., Columbian Hist. of Educ. in Wis. ([Milwaukee] 1893); Ripon Free Press, Aug. II, 1892.Learn More
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