[Henry Clay]. American author, born in Stonington, CT, on the 8th of June 1830; educated at Williston Seminary; in 1851 moved to Hartford and went into the railroad business; was appointed Sunday school missionary for Connecticut in 1858. During the war he served in the Tenth Connecticut Regiment as chaplain, having been ordained preacher in the Congregational Church; in 1865 was appointed missionary secretary of the American Sunday School Union for New England, and in 1872 normal secretary; in 1875 settled in Philadelphia and became the editor and chief owner of the Sunday School Times; was appointed Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale in 1888. He published, among others, Some Army Sermons (1864); The Knightly Soldier (1865); The Captured Scout of the Army of the James (1869); Teaching and Teachers (1884); The Sunday School (1888); and Studies in Oriental Social Life. In 1881, while traveling in Arabia, he located the site of the Biblical Kadesh Barnea. See also Friendship the Master-Passion.
