American author, born at Gloucester, MA, on the 16th of February 1791; graduated at Harvard in 1811; studied theology; was for two years mathematical tutor in Cambridge; and in 1819 became, on his ordination, pastor of the Unitarian Church at Charleston, SC, remaining there until his death, which occurred at Kingston, MA, on the 9th of February 1858. Many of his contributions to the magazines were collected and published under the title, Contributions to Literature: Descriptive, Critical and Humorous, Biographical, Philosophical and Poetical (1856). He was the author of Memoirs of a New England Village Choir (1829); Pleasures and Pains of a Student’s Life (1852); and a poem, The History of a Ray of Light. He was a conspicuous worker in the temperance cause.
