The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mpton, N. Y., May 6, 1809, third son of Ly-man and Roxana (Foote) entered Yale college in hisfifteenth year, and was graduatedin the class of 1838. He studiedfor the min
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mpton, N. Y., May 6, 1809, third son of Ly-man and Roxana (Foote) entered Yale college in hisfifteenth year, and was graduatedin the class of 1838. He studiedfor the ministry in the Yale di-vinity school, under the of Dr. Nathaniel W. Tay-lor, of whom he was an ardentadmirer and devoted friend. In1832 he went with his Lyman Beecher, then the president of Lanetheological seminary, to Cincin-nati, 6. A little later, after anexciting contest over his case,between the advocates of theold and the new school viewsin theology, he was licensed topreach the gospel by the Pres-bytery of Cmcinnati. His firstcharge was at Batavia, O., his second in Rochester,N. Y., and his third in Chillicothe, O. He was anenthusiastic lover of music, poetry, and the naturalsciences, a devoted pastor and an inspiring married Sarah Sturges Buckingham, of Zanes-ville, O., July 13, 1837. He died by the accidentaldischarge of a gun on the 1st of July,
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