American clergyman and author, born near Peekskill, NY, on the 29th of November 1809. He graduated at Wesleyan College in 1837. Subsequently he was principal of Troy Conference Seminary and a professor in the female college at Macon, GA. He entered the Methodist ministry in 1841, and was pastor of churches at Athens, Savannah and Columbus. On the separation of the Northern and Southern branches of the Methodist Church he became a member of the New York Conference, filling pastorates at New Haven, Hartford, Brooklyn and New York. In 1864 he was elected editor of the Christian Advocate, the official organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and continued at the head of that paper until 1876. From 1876 to 1880 he was the editor of the National Repository. From 1880 to 1884 he engaged in pastoral work, and then became editor-in-chief of the Methodist Review, which office he held at the time of his death. Besides his laborious editorial work, he published New York: A Historical Sketch (1853); Life-Story of D. W. Clark (1873); Fragments, Religious and Theological (1880); Platform Papers (1880); The Book of Job (1888); etc. He received the degree of D.D. from Wesleyan University in 1852, and the degree of LL.D. from Syracuse University in 1878. He died in New York City on the 17th of August 1887.
