American clergyman, born in Boston on the 8th of October 1816, and died on the 12th of September 1891, in Schenectady. He graduated at Harvard in 1833, and in 1842 was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. For a time he acted as bishop’s chaplain in the Bermuda Islands, and afterward was rector of a parish at Bay Roberts, NF, where, during the famine of 1846, he rendered humane service as a medical man and missionary. In 1847, owing to failing health, he returned to the United States and conducted a poor-mission in Newark, NJ. From 1859 to 1869 he was rector of Christ Church, Duanesburg, NY, and later on was for four years headmaster at St. Mark’s School, Southboro, MA. He afterward became Latin professor at Union College, and contributed considerably to current periodical literature. He wrote Antony Brade, a tale of school-boy life; a volume of poems, entitled Fresh Hearts that Failed Three Thousand Years Ago; and A Story of Two from an Old Dutch Town. His most meritorious work, however, is a novel of Newfoundland life, told with much ability and delicacy of thought and expression, and called The New Priest of Conception Bay. See also “The Relief of Lucknow,” “The After-Comers” and “The Brave Old Ship, the Orient.”
