. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . mpelled to retire from all publicduties. In 1814 he received from Harvard the de-gree of D. D. He held high offices in his church,and from 1816, the date of the founding of Hart-wick seminary, he was at the head of its board of (Hudson, X. Y., 1814); and Sermons on the Ref-ormation (1X17): and edited the Hymn-Book ofthe Ministerium of Xew York (1817).—His son,John Anthony, soldier, b. in Rhinebeck, X. Y.,1 Sept., 1799; d. in Xatchez, Miss., 17 July, 1858,was designed by his father for the Lutheran min-istry, and, on the completion of his studies
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . mpelled to retire from all publicduties. In 1814 he received from Harvard the de-gree of D. D. He held high offices in his church,and from 1816, the date of the founding of Hart-wick seminary, he was at the head of its board of (Hudson, X. Y., 1814); and Sermons on the Ref-ormation (1X17): and edited the Hymn-Book ofthe Ministerium of Xew York (1817).—His son,John Anthony, soldier, b. in Rhinebeck, X. Y.,1 Sept., 1799; d. in Xatchez, Miss., 17 July, 1858,was designed by his father for the Lutheran min-istry, and, on the completion of his studies at I seminary in 1816, was appointed tutor in itsclassical department. In 1818 he accepted a pro-fessorship in Mount Airy college, Germantown, inclination always had been for the legal pro-fession rather than the ministry, and during hisstay hrrr he decided in favor of the former. Hewent to Ohio in 1819 at the invitation of PlattBrush, a member of congress, in whose family hebecame a tutor, and with whom he studied law. In. 1821 he settled in Xatchez, Miss., where he soon be-came well known. He served as a trustee of theacademy and of the state university, was presidentof an anti-gamblingsociety, an anti-duel-ling society, and ofnumerous other asso-ciations that were es-tablished to amelio-rate the condition ofhis fellow-men. In1825 he was electedto the legislature ofMississippi, in 1828-34 he was chancel-lor of the state, andhe afterward becamepresident of the statesenate. In 1832 hewas a delegate to theconvention to framea new constitution for the state. While a member of the state senatein 1835, he was chosen its president, and chargedwith the functions of governor, that office havingbecome vacant. In 1836 he raised a body of men toaid the Texans against the incursions of the Mexi-cans, and after the capture of Santa-Anna returnedto his home in Xatchez, where he became major-general of the state militia. In 1846 he was ap-pointed brigadier-general in th
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