American educator, born in Providence, RI, on the 17th of January 1820; graduated at Yale in 1840; in 1842 at Harvard Law School, and in 1845 from Andover Theological Seminary. From 1850 to 1859 he was pastor of the Congregational Church at Salem, MA, and two years later became professor of homiletics in Yale; in 1879 became professor of the history of art at Yale. He was the author of Notes of a Theological Student (1854); Old England (1867); Office and Work of the Christian Ministry (1869); The Early Renaissance (1892).
