American educator and author, born in North Yarmouth, ME, on the 4th of January 1813; graduated at Dartmouth in 1831, at Andover Theological Seminary in 1837, and ordained a Congregational minister in 1852. He was appointed professor of oratory and belles-lettres at Dartmouth in 1839, of intellectual philosophy and political economy in 1863, and president of Hamilton College in 1867, resigning in 1881. His works include Biography of a Self-Taught Man (1847) and Life of Rufus Choate (1862). He died in Utica, NY, on the 5th of November 1885.
