American author and educator, born in Grafton, VT, on the 5th of January 1840. He was graduated at Williams College in 1863, and after a term of study at Hartford Theological Seminary was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church; was pastor of churches at Fitchburg, MA, and Lawrence, KS, 1868–81. He became professor of English literature at the University of Kansas in 1881, and in 1886 Morris professor of rhetoric at Williams College. He published Kansas, in the American Commonwealth Series (1885), and Mark Hopkins, Teacher (1885).
