Author and educator, born at Pittsfield, MA, on the 2nd of January 1784; graduate of Harvard (1802); licensed to the Congregational ministry (1804); succeeded to his father’s charge in Pittsfield (1810); president of Dartmouth University (1817–20), and of Bowdoin College (1820–39); retired to Northampton, MA, where he died, July 16, 1868. He was a prolific writer, but his American Biographical and Historical Dictionary was his most noticeable publication and went through several editions. He was the author or compiler of several volumes of devout verse.
