American missionary, born in Northford, CT, on the 15th of September 1801. He studied at Yale and Andover theological schools, graduating from the latter in 1826, and in the same year went to Malta, where he superintended the American Board’s printing-office. After serving for a time as a missionary in Syria, and traveling through Greece with Dr. Anderson, and through Georgia and Armenia with Dr. Dwight, he settled at Beirut in 1833, and was the companion of Professor Edward Robinson in his explorations of Palestine. His intimate knowledge of Arabic enabled him to render important service in the production of a new and improved form and font of Arabic type, which was cast under his supervision at Leipsic in 1839. He published Missionary Researches in Armenia, and from 1847 until his death he was engaged in translating the Bible into the Arabic language, which work was subsequently completed by Dr. Cornelius V. Van Dyke, New York (1866–67). He died at Beirut on the 11th of January 1857.
