American scholar, born at New Haven, CT, on the 23rd of February 1813, and died at Princeton, NJ, on the 17th of February 1883. He graduated at Yale in 1831, at the theological seminary there in 1834, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Fairfield, CT, in 1835, remaining there for nineteen years. In 1854 he became professor of mental and moral philosophy in Princeton, and in 1869 was made professor of logic and of moral and political science. He edited the Princeton Review, and published a Manual of Elementary Logic (1876).
