History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ey July 19, 1799, graduated atBowdoin College, 1821, was dismissed from the Tab-ernacle Church May 14, 1834. His successor, the eighth in the pastoral line,was Rev. Samuel Melanchthon Worcester, son ofRev. Samuel, chronicled above as the fifth inthe line. He was born iu Fitchburg, September4, 1801 ; graduated at Harvard College, 1822 ;from 1823 to 1834 professor in Amherst Col-lege ; settled in Salem December 3, 1834; resignedJanuary 31, 1860; died August 16, 1866. His tastes,though
History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ey July 19, 1799, graduated atBowdoin College, 1821, was dismissed from the Tab-ernacle Church May 14, 1834. His successor, the eighth in the pastoral line,was Rev. Samuel Melanchthon Worcester, son ofRev. Samuel, chronicled above as the fifth inthe line. He was born iu Fitchburg, September4, 1801 ; graduated at Harvard College, 1822 ;from 1823 to 1834 professor in Amherst Col-lege ; settled in Salem December 3, 1834; resignedJanuary 31, 1860; died August 16, 1866. His tastes,though scholarly, and his training, though directed toservice in the church, did not limit his sympathiesand activities to scholastic or ecclesiastical lines. Hewas a true patriot and took a profouud interest in thenational crisis which the country passed through inthe years from 1860 to 1865. He had representedthe town of Amherst, the city of Salem and EssexCounty in the State Legislature. His orthodoxy wasstanch and positive, but his spirit was genial andkind, and his bearing was courteous and friendly iSUurud^jC SALEM. 49 A new church—the present building—was erectedin 1854, on or near the site of the old, and a largenew chapel, of two stories, was built in its rear andin connection with it, in 1868,—the ample size andcommodiousness of these buildings attesting theprosperity of the society, and the largeness of thewants they were designed to meet. Mr. Charles Ray Palmer was ordained pastor of thechurch August 29, 1860, and dismissed June 13, Palmer was born in New Haven, Conn., May 2,1S34; graduated at Yale College, 1855, and, after hisdismission from the Tabernacle Church, became thepastor of a church in Bridgeport, Conn. From June,1872 to Dec. 31,1873, the church was without a the last-named date Bev. Hiram B. Putnam wasinstalled. His health failed, causing him to seek adismission, which took place March 15, 1877. was born in Danvers J
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