The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . his father, was at the age ofseventeen thrown upon his own resources, and thusearly in life developed that independence of charac-ter which so signally marked his subsequent dependent upon his own exertions formeans he resolved to enter the ministry, and after his primary education completed his preparatorycourse of study at Norfolk, Connecticut, under thetuition of Rev. Ralph Emerson. He entered YaleCollege in 1819, and graduated with honor in theological st
The United States biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men; Wisconsin volume . his father, was at the age ofseventeen thrown upon his own resources, and thusearly in life developed that independence of charac-ter which so signally marked his subsequent dependent upon his own exertions formeans he resolved to enter the ministry, and after his primary education completed his preparatorycourse of study at Norfolk, Connecticut, under thetuition of Rev. Ralph Emerson. He entered YaleCollege in 1819, and graduated with honor in theological studies were pursued partly underthe direction of Mr. Emerson and partly at Prince-ton, New Haven and Auburn theological seminaries,and on the 22d of February, 1826, he was ordainedpastor at Euclid, Ohio. During the seven years ofhis ministry in this place his work was greatlyblessed, and one sermon especially is said to havebeen the means of numerous conversions, includingfive prominent lawyers. While here he becamedeeply interested in the sailors on the westernwaters, and- the work so grew upon him that he. <2^.— ^^^, THE UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARV. 167 resigned his pastorate and devoted himself exclu-sively to it. While engaged in the Bethel cause,between 1835 and 1837, he resided at Buffalo, NewYork, and in addition to his other duties edited the Bethel Magazine and the Buffalo Spectator, areligious paper, afterward merged in the New York Evangelist. In October, 1837, he removed to Green Bay, Wis-consin, and became pastor of the only Presbyterianchurch then existing within the present limits of theState. Two years later he secured the erection of ahouse of worship at a cost of three thousand dollars,and heard the tones of the first church bell in theState, it being the gift of John Jacob Astor, and val-ued at five hundred dollars. In 1839 he made atour through the Territory in the interests of theAmerican Home Mission Society, seeking out itsmoral destitutions
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