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Prepared for college
at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass. Graduated there in 1861.
Entered Wesleyan University the same year, graduating in '65.
1865, Studied at Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H. (now School of Theology,
Boston University), graduating in 1867.
1866-7, Professor of English Literature and Mathematics in the New Hampshire
Conference Seminary, Tilton, N. H. (Later declined to leave the pastorate
and accept the Presidency of the Seminary.)
1867, Joined the New England Conference. Appointments: 1867-8,
Hyde park; 1869071, Medford; 1872-4, Gloucester, Elm Street; 1875-7, Chelsea,
Mt. Bellingham; 1878-80, Boston, Dorchester Street; 1881-3, Lowell, Worthen
Street; 1884-6, Providence, R. I., Matthewson Street (New England Southern
Conference); 1887-90, Portland, me., Chestnut Street (Maine Conference); 1891-5,
Lynn, Mass., Common Street (New England Conference); 1896-7, Fitchburg, First
Church; 1898-1901, Chelsea, Mt. Bellingham; 1892-4, South Framingham; 1905- ,
Marlboro.
At Worthen Street, Lowell, the church edifice was completely renovated, and
700 persons converted.
At Matthewson Street Church, Providence, R. I., succeeded in securing to the
church the church edifice from control of a private stock company, making more
recent changes possible.
At Chestnut Street Church, Portland, Me., church edifice was improved and
enlarged at a cost of over $10,000.
One of the managers of the Maine Conference Seminary, Kent's Hill, Me.
1891, Transferred back again to New England Conference.
At Lynn, Common Street, an old debt of $30,000 was paid, and a new parsonage
costing $9,000 was built.
1895, Spent three months traveling in Great Britain and Europe.
In 1898, declined to leave the pastorate for the Presidency of Kents [sic]
Hill Seminary, Maine.
1894, D. D., New Orleans University, Mississippi.
1905, Ph. D., Boston University, Boston, Mass.
Have written a few pamphlets. Have a book nearly ready for the press.
Married, Sept. 8, 1867, Miss Helen S. Locke of Concord, New Hampshire.
Children: Samuel Edgar, born June 3, 1871. Married Miss Edith,
daughter of Rev. C. H. Wilder, Wesleyan Class of '65. Graduate of Boston
University, and Institute of technology, Boston. Then took "Expert
Course" with Thompson & Houston, Lynn, Mass. Now general manager
of Portland & Yarmouth Electric Railroad in Maine.
Ethel, born Sept. 10, 1882; died suddenly, July 29, 1885.
Address: 50 Church Street, Marlboro, Mass.
Source: History of Class
of 1865 Wesleyan University, Fortieth Reunion, Middletown
Connecticut, June 27, 1905.
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