American educator, born in Newburyport, MA, on the 23rd of November 1797; graduated with high honors from Bowdoin, 1818; studied theology at Andover, and in 1822 was licensed to preach as a Congregationalist; in 1823 became tutor in Bowdoin, and subsequently principal of the Gardiner Lyceum. From 1827 to 1835 he was professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Dartmouth. He joined the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he took orders, and from 1836 to 1858 was president of Hobart College, Geneva, NY, resigning in the latter year on account of feeble health. He wrote Introduction to the Mechanical Principles of Carpentry (1827); Scriptural Illustrations of the Liturgy (1835); and Education in Its Relations to a Free Government. His Life, with selections from his works, published (1883) by Rev. Malcolm Douglass. He died at Newburyport on the 15th of July 1863.
