[Charles Augustus]. American clergyman and author, born at Ridgefield, CT, in 1790; graduated at Yale in 1812; studied theology, and was pastor in the First Congregational Church, in Worcester, MA (1816–20); in Berlin (1820–48); and afterward in Hartford, CT. He published, among other works, Lives of the Signers (1829); History of the United States of America (revised edition, 1867); Geography of the Chief Places Mentioned in the Bible (1855); Child’s History of the United States (1855); Great Events of American History; etc. He died at Hartford, CT, on the 4th of January 1862.
