. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . hing atSag Harbor, Fresh Pond, and Smithtown, L. I.,he was called, in 1813, to the Presbyterian churchat Cambridge, Washington co., N. Y*., where heremained for seventeen years. For several yearsafter 1821 he was also principal of the countyacademy. In 1831 he established a seminary foryoung women in Sing Sing, under the charge ofhis daughter, and on its being destroyed by fire in1835, he removed it to Xcwburg. N. Y., where heremained eight years. On retiring at the end ofthat period, he did not again accept a pastoralcharge. Dr. Prime was an ea
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . hing atSag Harbor, Fresh Pond, and Smithtown, L. I.,he was called, in 1813, to the Presbyterian churchat Cambridge, Washington co., N. Y*., where heremained for seventeen years. For several yearsafter 1821 he was also principal of the countyacademy. In 1831 he established a seminary foryoung women in Sing Sing, under the charge ofhis daughter, and on its being destroyed by fire in1835, he removed it to Xcwburg. N. Y., where heremained eight years. On retiring at the end ofthat period, he did not again accept a pastoralcharge. Dr. Prime was an earnest advocate of allmoral reforms, and is believed to have preaehedin 1811 one of the first temperance sermons thatwas ever delivered. He was an enthusiastic elec-trician, and was instrumental in introducing Henry to public notice. Hereiei\ed tin-degree of D. D. from Princeton in 1^4S. BesidesA Collection of Hymns (Sag Harbor. 1S09». -AFamiliar Illustration of Christian Baptism (), and A History of Long Island (New York,. 1845). Dr. Prime published sermons entitled ThePernicious Effects of Intemperance (Brooklyn,1812); Divine Truth the Established MeansofSaiietification (Salem, 1817); and The Year ofJubilee, but not to Africans (1S25|.—Another son,Samuel IrenaMis. editor, b. in Ballston, N. Y., 4Nov., 1812; d. in , Vt., 18 July, 1885,was graduated at William- in ls2!l. taught threeyears at Cambridge and Sing Sing, N. Y., and en-tered Princeton theological seminary, but beforecompleting his first year he was attacked by a se-vere illness, andwas never able toresume his stud-ies. He was li-censed to preachin 1833, and heldpastorates atBallston Spa in1833-5. and atMatteawan, in the spring ofthe latter year hewa- compelled toabandon the pul-pit, owing to abronchial affec-tion, from whichhe never entirely reei >\ ered. Thereafter, till his death, he was editorof the New York Observer, except during 1849,when he acted as secret
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