Early American Presbyterians -- S

Rev. Samuel Sackett (b pre 1731)

Rev. Nathanael Welshard Sample (b. pre 1779-1834)

Rev. Richard Sankey (b. pre 1715-1788)

Rev. George M. Scott

Rev. John W. Scott (b. pre 1780)

Rev. John W. Scott, Jr. (1800-1883)

At sixteen years of age, after completing his preparatory education, to which his father had limited his school, and not wishing to graduate at so early and immature an age, he began to teach. The first year was in Eastern Ohio, and the last two years in Beaver and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania, the last eighteen months as principal of the Beaver Academy. In the Fall of 1821 he entered Washington College as a junior, and was graduated in September, 1823. His intention was to go into Kentucky and make a little money teaching, but as he was about to leave, the venerable Dr. Wylie, president of the college, came to him and told him that it was his desire that he should prepare himself for the chair of mathematics and natural sciences, in place of Professor Reed, the incumbent at that time, who was so feeble that Mr. Scott was often employed by the board to give him assistance. Professor Reed died in the course of the succeeding Winter. Dr. Wylie proposed that Mr. Scott should proceed at once to Yale, entering as a resident graduate, and prepare himself by taking a course of lectures, more especially in chemistry, under Professor Sillyman, who was then at the head of this department in the United States. He accordingly went to Yale, received the necessary aid, and graduated in 1824, with the degree of A. M.; and in 1826 he returned to Washington and entered upon the duties which had been assigned him in his absence.

During his stay at Washington he married Miss Mary P. Neal, daughter of John Neal, cashier of the Branch Bank of Philadelphia. These two good people lived happily together until about six months after they had celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, when Mr. Scott died, March 1, 1876.

Dr. Scott continued in the professorship for four years and a half, and in the Fall of 1828 received a call to a professorship from the Miami University, the same that he was then occupying in Washington College. He accepted this call, and reached Oxford shortly after the commencement of the Winter term of 1828 and 1829. This position Dr. Scott occupied for seventeen years and a half, till the Spring of 1845. In 1830, two years before, the board had created two new professorships, relieving Dr. Scott of the lower mathematics, and he was also licensed and ordained to the Gospel ministry, afterwards preaching occasionally.

But the institution in the midst of its prosperity and high promise fell upon evil times. His own account of his troubles there, from History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio  (1882)

"I went to Oxford, by invitation of the board of trustees of Miami University, to the professorship of mathematics and natural science, made vacant by the retirement, on account of broken-down health, of Professor Annan, in the Fall of 1828. Every thing there presented, at that time, a rather primitive and rude appearance. The buildings of the town were limited, with but two or three exceptions, to the space bounded on the east by the street that forms the west boundary of the college campus; on the west, by the street running north and south in front of the building erected for a female institute; on the north, by the street running past the Presbyterian and the United Presbyterian churches; and on the south, by the street forming the south boundary of the college campus and grove. The campus, which was mainly a naked and open common, in which many of the stumps were still standing, was unprotected by any kind of inclosure, and the grove was still in the primitive state of nature. The plat of land south of the town was principally, except during the Summer and early Fall months, a rich, fat morass, through the eastern end of which, when at all passable, the citizens used to shorten distance by winding their way, among the stumps and fallen timber, to the Hamilton road, at the south-east corner of the corporation line.

"With the exception of the college buildings, which consisted of the great, tall, uncouth old center building and its disproportioned little western wing (which has since been enlarged and improved), and the north-east building, which had just been erected, I have a recollection of but five or six brick houses in the town. Such was something of the physical appearance and condition of things at that day. In regard to the social condition, the mass of the population was correspondingly primitive. Apart form the college faculty, the cultivation and refinement of Oxford was confined to a very small number of families, not exceeding six or eight at most, and the proportion in the surrounding township was, perhaps, very much the same. The manner in which the farming lands of the township were disposed of was not favorable to its settling up with a first-class farming population; namely, on mere leasehold title, for which no purchase money was paid, but which was held on the condition of payment, annually, of the interest of the nominal price, at six percent forever, as a permanent revenue for the support of the university. There was, at the early day of the first settlement, a strong prejudice in the minds of emigrants of means, who were able to purchase their lands in fee simple, against holding them on the tenure of a mere lease, liable at the end of any year to forfeiture and sale without redemption, in case the rent or tax was not paid within three months after due. The consequence was, they would turn aside and purchase elsewhere, while any poor penniless wight, who could not pay for land outright, found it rather a temptation to take a lease and settle upon it for a few years, and if he could only make out to keep his six per cent of the college rent paid up, and was worthless and unprincipled enough to do so, turn in to cutting and slashing away at the timber, and making all he could off the land, without regard to its residual or ultimate value, as was said, in certain cases, to have been done; and then if he had an eye to accumulation of means, all he had to do was to forfeit, and leave land in its denude and depreciated condition, and go father West to make the best of his ill-gotten gains. If he did not care to accumulate, but spent as fast as he made, he would continue to remain the same poor, shiftless, penniless creature as before.

"The result was that the township, at the first sales, became largely filled up with a poor, and in too many cases, not very honest, population; indeed, at an early day of the settlement it almost passed into a common saying that if any property was lost in any of the adjoining townships it was but necessary for the loser to obtain a search-warrant and go over into Oxford Township, and he would find it. This was, of course, an exaggerated report, and yet there is reason to apprehend that the character and conduct of too many of the early settlers afforded too much ground for its currency. This state of public feeling and opinion may be illustrated by an amusing anecdote.

"At the inauguration of Dr. BISHOP as president of the university, the duty of making the inauguration prayer was assigned to the venerable Rev. Mr. PORTER, a member of the board. In the course of his prayer - as I was told years after by a very respectable old Scotch-Irish Presbyterian elder, a citizen of the township, who was present on the occasion - the old father made allusion, in some manner or form, to the reputed state of society in the township - praying for a change, by which the college might be surrounded by more favorable influences. My informant told me that the next day he met another old Scotch-Irish friend and neighbor, just over the line in an adjoining township, a rather quizzical genius, who had also been present at the inauguration, who asked him, ‘Did you iver hear sich a foolish prayer

as Father PORTER made yisterday at Oxford?’ ‘Why do you call it foolish?’ he answered. ‘Faith,’ said he, ‘and I think it was the foolishest prayer I iver hard in me life. Why, he prayed the Lard that he wad move aff all that riff-raff population from Oxford Township, and fill it up wi’ a good population. He might better have prayed the Lard to convart them on the ground, and save the movin’.’

"In process of time, however, by industry, thrift, and intellectual, moral, and religious culture, Oxford Township nobly redeemed her character; although, even at as late a day as when I arrived there, an element of the old rude, disorderly, intemperate, and vicious pioneer population, so characteristic of an earlier day, still remained, who would occasionally, of a Saturday afternoon and evening, collect together at a low groggery or two in the village, called (by grace) hotels, to drink and carouse, and to disturb the quiet and orderly citizens by ‘making night hideous’ with their noisy and drunken orgies, brawls, and fights. All this state of things, however, at length passed away. But I have, by this episode on the social and physical state of Oxford and Oxford Township, and their inhabitants, been diverted from the main subject; namely the early history of the college.

"I went to Oxford, as I have already stated, in the Fall of 1828. The college had then been in existence just four years. True, there had been an academy or classical and high school commenced, as a foundation or incipient step towards the establishment of a college several years previous, in the little old west wing of the main, or, as it as called, the center building. That great tall uncouth edifice was erected, I believe, in 1820-21, but the university was not organized in regular college form until the Fall of 1824, when the Rev. Dr. Bishop was inaugurated as its first president. It commenced operations with a faculty of three, the doctor as president and professor of all the branches of intellectual, moral and political science; John E.Annan, professor of mathematics and natural science, and William Sparrow, professor of languages.

"In 1826 Professor Sparrow, who seems to have been a very popular and successful professor, resigned, and devoted himself to the Episcopal ministry. He afterwards, if I mistake not, was connected as a professor with a theological seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. His place was supplied by the election of William H. McGuffey, a graduate of Washington College, Pennsylvania, who afterward acquired a considerable celebrity as the compiler of a series of English readers for the ‘Eclectic System of Books for Common Schools’. He was a man of considerable talent, though not of very general scholarship, especially in the departments of mathematics and natural sciences; of active mind and fond of abstract and metaphysical investigation and discussion; an ingenious and plausible, but not always a fair and safe reasoner; a very popular lecturer and public speaker, from his fluency and command of language, though never rising to the higher and bolder flights of oratory; a man withal of a good deal of personal vanity and ambition.

"In the summer of 1828 the health of professor Annan failed to such a degree that he was obliged to retire, and I succeeded to his place. He afterwards recovered his health so far as to enter the Presbyterian ministry, and preach for a year or two to a Church in Petersburg, Virginia, but died while yet a very young man. He was reputed a man of a high grade of natural talent, and of large and general attainments in scholarship for one of his age, and had he lived would have doubtless made his mark in the literary and scientific world; but on account of real or apparent rigidity and stiffness of manner, he does not seem to have been very popular as a professor.

"During the first four years of its existence the institution seems to have flourished very much in public popularity and patronage, the number of students having risen from a comparatively very small number to very well up towards one hundred. It might be observed that the grade of scholarship for a diploma was set high (the full curriculum was patterned very much after that of Yale); and its palmiest days, which were from 1830 till near 1840, when its number of students rose some years to near two hundred and fifty, it obtained from its alumni, patrons, and friends, the soubriquet of ‘the Yale of the West’.

"In 1832 the board were encouraged to increase the number of faculty, by the addition of two new members. My professorship was relieved of the pure mathematics, and a new department of those branches was established, and Samuel W. McCracken, a graduate of the institution of a previous year, was appointed to it. The department of languages was divided into that of Greek, with an appendage of philosophy and general literature, which Professor McGuffey still retained; and a professorship of Latin and Latin literature, with the addition of Hebrew, to which Rev. Thomas Armstrong, another graduate of the institution, was appointed. Both the young professors had been among our best scholars, and were men of talent, particularly the latter, who gave much early promise, but died, much lamented, in the Summer of 1835, after less than three years’ service, in which he had already made his mark.

"On the decease of Professor Armstron a change was made by which Professor McCracken was transferred from the mathematical department to that of Latin; and Albert T. Bledsoe, a graduate of West Point Military Academy, was appointed professor of mathematics in his place. Professor Bledsoe was a man of vigorous and, except in the department of ancient languages, well trained and well stored mind. He had an especial talent and penchant for metaphysical study and discussion, and was unusually well read and well posted on such topics, as was manifested in a work which he published in more advanced life, entitled, ‘The Theodicy,’ in which he undertook to answer President Edwards’s celebrated ‘Treatise on the Will,’ and in which, if he does not refute the great and world-renowned metaphysician, he shows great skill and resources in matters of abstract investigation and reasoning. He is said to have published also another book to defend, or at least palliate, slavery (as I have been told, for I have never seen the book) from the Bible; although before he went back to his native South, he was very decidedly antislavery in his expressed opinions. Such is sometimes the vacillation and inconsistency of men of great minds. But with all his learning and ability he did not succeed in making himself popular as a professor. His difficulty was in the matter of discipline. Having been educated under the arbitrary rigidity of a military school, he did not seem to realize and appreciate the difference between military discipline and that appropriate to a civil institution.

"I must not forget, nor neglect to mention in this historical sketch, that in this successful period of the institution, somewhere about 1833 or 1834, the board took a first step toward making the institution in reality what it was in name, a university, by establishing a medical department in Cincinnati, under the title of the Miami Medical College. Dr. Daniel Drake, of Cincinnati, a gentleman of considerable celebrity in his day, both in medical science and general literature, having fallen out with his co-professors in the Ohio Medical College, applied to the board to establish in Cincinnati, under their university charter, a medical department, which was granted. Accordingly, with a faculty of his selection, consisting, with himself, of Dr. Mussey (the elder), Drs. Rives, Eberle, Stoughton, and Harrison, some of them very eminent in their profession, such a school was commenced, and carried on for some years with considerable spirit and success. What was its final fate I am not apprised of. My impression is that the doctor, in the course of a few years, disagreed with the faculty of his own selection and left it. Whether the organization finally disbanded, or still continues its existence in some one of the medical schools which Cincinnati contains, I am unable to say.

"In the midst of this prosperity a train of untoward influences began to set in. In the Fall of 1836 Professor McGuffey, who had previously shown signs of restiveness and dissatisfaction, resigned, leaving a month or so before commencement, for the professed purpose of visiting Clinton, Mississippi, with the view of the presidency of a new college (which he said had been tendered him), about to be established there. But the whole project of such a college proving a failure, he engaged with Professor O. M. Mitchell, of astronomical celebrity, for a time, in an institution in Cincinnati, under an old charter for a Cincinnati college. Afterwards he was elected to the presidency of the ‘Ohio University’ at Athens; but after serving there for three or four years, the institution not flourishing, nor likely to flourish to satisfaction, and his social surroundings not being entirely happy, he resigned in 1845, and accepted a professorship of mental and moral philosophy in the Virginia University, at Charlottesville, where he spent the rest of his life, dying within the last three or four years.

"At the close of the session Professor Bledsoe, who had never seemed entirely satisfied in the institution, ‘followed suit,’ as it is said in a rather slang phrase, by handing in his resignation. Having taken orders in the Episcopal Church he went South, having originally come from Kentucky. Whether he devoted himself to the work of the Gospel ministry exclusively or immediately, or not, I am unable to say; but my impression is that he still continued in the educational department in some academy or school in one of the Southern Gulf States. He was afterwards elected to a chair (I believe of mathematics) in the University of Virginia, not very far from the same time with the accession of Professor McGuffey. During the rebellion he is said to have been connected with the military department of the confederacy in the capacity of chief of ordnance, I think. I have understood, too, that towards the close of the war, he was sent over to England by the Confederate Government, as one of the commissioners to solicit ‘comfort and aid’ in the straits and penury of its latter day. I think also I have heard of his death since the close of the war. The vacancies produced by the resignations of Professors McGuffey and Bledsoe were supplied by the appointment of Samuel S. Galloway and Chauncey N. Olds, both of them graduates of the institution. The institution still continued to move on prosperously till between 1838 and 1840, as the catalogues of the period, of which I left a pretty complete list with Professor Bishop, I think will show.

" In 1838, perhaps in 1837, for my memory is not very distinct in regard to minutia during that period of numerous and frequent changes, Professors Galloway and Olds resigned. A Rev. John McArthur, of Cadiz, Ohio, was elected to the professorship of Greek, and I believe, at the same time, a Professor John Armstrong was elected professor of mathematics. Professor McArthur was a man of some eminence as a preacher and as a man of literature. Professor Armstrong was an excellent mathematician of the old style, and a very good and worthy man, but hardly modern enough in manners and mode of instruction to exert a commanding influence among our ‘Young America’ students. After three or four years he resigned, and was succeeded in the Fall of 1843 (I think) by George A. Westerman, a young gentleman who was highly recommended by Professor O. M. Mitchel. In the mean time other malign influences had begun to operate, to add to the force and effect of the former in disturbing the quiet and prosperity of the institution—entirely extraneous in their character, and which ought not to have been lugged into the college. These were the antislavery agitation, or, as it was called, the abolition excitement; and the troubles in the Presbyterian Church, between old and new school parties, which finally, in 1837-8, split the great Presbyterian Church in the United States into two distinct branches, which remained separate for thirty years, both of which causes were rife, and in some cases very intense about that time. Each had its faction in the board. The one was determined to exterminate all abolitionism, by which was meant all decided antislavery sentiment from the institution, or as I once heard one of the members of the board, at one of their meetings, with a good deal of bitterness, express it, that ‘no abolitionist or sympathizer with abolition should ever, with his consent, be a professor in the university.’ These were the politicians of the board. The other, or as it might be denominated, the ecclesiastical, faction was composed of a very few members, clerical and laical, of one or two of the older branches of the Presbyterian Church, of strong theological prejudices, who were as decided in their ‘opposition to all new schoolism; and these two factions, as is related of Herod and Pontius Pilate, the Gentiles and the people of Israel,’ on a certain memorable occasion, conspired together ‘to effect their particular object.’ The other members of the board having no special prejudices or partialities to gratify, in other words ‘no axes to grind,’ simply yielded unsuspectingly to their plans and management. This I know from one of these same members himself, who in the result had his eyes opened.

A variety of unworthy causes and motives produced agitation and commotion, resulting finally in the reconstruction of the faculty, in which Drs. Bishop and Scott were displaced from their former positions. Dr. Bishop was the father of the Miami University; Dr. Scott was the next in age, and the injustice done to these worthy teachers was very great. Shortly after Professor Bishop was called to assist in Cary's Academy, and insisted that Dr. Scott should give him his aid. He also gave his attention to the female college, as already stated in the history of that institution, but in 1859, resigned, because of the pecuniary embarrassments of that seat of learning.

Now, becoming satisfied that it was time to cease active life, he returned with his wife to Princeton, New Jersey, where he had a widowed daughter, to spend the remainder of his pilgrimage in ease and comfort. But in the Fall of 1874, when on an extended visit in Western Pennsylvania, he happened upon the village of Jefferson, where he found a small Presbyterian Church, unable to support a pastor, and a Baptist college just organized wanting a professor of natural sciences, but unable alone to support one. These two, the college and the Church, joined hands in their common necessity, and Mr. Scott remained with them in their common poverty. He was at this point in October, 1880, having been fifty-two years in the Gospel ministry and fifty-six as a teacher in the various grades of school and higher institutions, and shortly, if spared, will be eighty-three years old.

His wife was buried where she was married. An unmarried son, who died in 1877, after twelve years of suffering from the results of hardships and exposure in the late war, lies by her side.
 

Rev. Samuel T. Scott (b. pre 1782-1827)

Rev. William Nelson Scott (1789-1857)

Rev. Andrew A. Shannon (pre-1789-1842)

Rev. Samuel Shannon (d. 1822)

Rev. William Sickles (1795-1864)

Rev. John Slemons (b. pre 1756)

Rev. Caleb Smith (1723-1762)

John Blair Smith D.D. (1756-1799)

Dr. Smith was an extemporaneous and impassioned preacher, and powerful revivals occurred under his ministry. Like others of his compatriots, he showed his faith by his works, and marched at the head of his students and other youths of his congregation, in pursuit of the enemy in the lower parts of Virginia. He exerted also a great influence in opposition to Patrick Henry, in preventing the unequal taxation and assessment of the Presbyterian churches in Virginia. He left no printed works behind him. Dr. Smith was the Moderator of the General Assembly in 1798.

Rev. Joseph Smith (b. pre 1690)

Rev. Joseph Smith (pre-1747-1792)

But now he was about to enter upon the great work of his life, in Western Pennsylvania. Here he became prominent for piety and energy, and was one of the fathers of the Presbyterian Church in that region. The Revs. James Power and John McMillan had already preceded him. His first charge was Buffalo and Cross Creek, where he was settled in 1780. A revival soon began in his church, which never ceased until the day of his death, more than twelve years. Mr. Smith died April 19th, 1792.

Rev. Joseph Smith (1796-1868)

Robert Smith D.D. (1723-1793)

Dr. Smith was a man of superior gifts, an able theologian and profound casuist, a plain preacher but active pastor, and all that he published was a small treatise on faith. The school which he established at Pequea acquired a great reputation, but he is better known to posterity as the father of those two great lights of the Church, Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith, of Princeton College, and Dr. John Blair Smith, of Union College. The fact of a father and two sons successively elevated to the Moderator's Chair in the General Assembly is without a parallel.

Samuel Stanhope Smith D.D., LL.D. (1750-1819)

"Dr. Smith," says the Rev. Philip Lindsley, D.D. who was Tutor in the College at Princeton and student of theology from 1807 to 1810, "throughout the Middle and Southern States was regarded as the most eloquent and learned divine among his contemporaries ."

Rev. Thomas Smith

Rev. William B. Smith

Rev. James Snodgrass (pre-1763-1846)

Rev. Gilbert Tennent Snowden (d. 1797)

Rev. Nathanael Randolph Snowden (b. pre 1767-1850)

Rev. William Speer (1764-1829)

He was pastor of this church until the meeting of Washington Presbytery at Cincinnati October, 1802, when the relation was dissolved and he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Carlisle. When he left, the congregation owed him a substantial arrearage, which took several years to pay and the presbytery would not allow it to install Speer's successor, Robert G. Wilson, until a settlement had been reached. From 1803 until his death in 1829, he labored in the united congregations of Greensburg and Unity in the Presbytery of Redstone, which Presbytery he joined April 9, 1803, and therefore did not present his certificate to the Presbytery of Carlisle. While in our Presbytery at the meeting at Red Oak, April 14-15, 1701, "Mr. Speer was appointed treasurer. He served in this office until October 7, 1802, when upon his resignation, John Poage Campbell was elected treasurer.
 

Rev. Elihu Spencer (1721-1784)

Mr. Spencer was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, February 7th, 1750, in which relation he continued about six years.  In 1752, he wsa elected one of teh corporate guardians of the College of New Jersey, then temporarily placed at Newark, and held this office as long as he lived.  In 1756 he became pastor of the Church at Jamaica, Long Island under the care of the Presbytery of Suffolk, where he remained, acceptably and usefully, two years or more, when, although the congregation gave a reluctant consent to his leaving them, he accepted an appointment of Governor DeLancy of New York, to the chaplaincy of the New York troops, then about to march and take their place in the French War, still raging.  When his services as chaplain were closed, he labored several years in the contiguous congregations of Shrewsbury, Middletown Point, Shark River and Amboy, New Jersey.  In the year 1764, the Synod of New York and Philadelphia, having reason to believe that a number of their congregations in the Southern parts of our country, and especially in North Carolina, were in an unformed and irregular state, sent Mr. Spencer and Rev. Alexander McWhorter, of Newark, New Jersey, to inform, counsel and guide them aright, and prepare them for a more orderly and edifying organization.  This arduous service they rendered with much skill and efficiency.

Subsequently Mr. Spencer was pastor of the congregation of St. George's in Delaware for five years, greatly to the acceptance and benefit of the congregation.  In October, 1769, he became pastor of the Church in Trenton, New Jersey, and continued so until his death, greatly popular, useful and beloved.  In 1775, at the request of the Provincial Congress of that colony, he again visited North Carolina, accompanied by Dr. McWhorter, and their service to the cause of independence was very valuable in the influence they exerted upon several important settlements in that region which were in favor of the British Government.

Dr. Spencer's tomb stands in the cemetery connected with the church in Trenton, and bears the following inscription:--

"Beneath this stone lies the body of the Rev. Elihu Spencer, D.D., pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and one of the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, who departed this life on the 27th of December, 1784, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.  Possessed of fine genius, of great vivacity, of eminent, active piety, his merits as a minister and a man stand above the reach of flattery.  Having long edified the Church by his talents and example, and finished his course with joy, he fell asleep, full of faith and waiting for the hope of all saints."

Rev. Benjamin F. Spilman (1796-1859)

Rev. Thomas A. Spilman

Gardiner Spring, D.D. (b. 1785)

During his long and useful pastorate, he continually used the press as an auxiliary to the preaching of the gospel. Among the more important works which he published are: the "Life of Samuel J. Mills" (1820); "The Sabbath a Blessing to Man," "Internal Evidences of Inspiration" (1826): a "Dissertaion on the Means of Regeneration" (1827); "Fragments from the Study of a Pastor" "The Obligations of the World to the Bible," "The Attractions of the Cross," "the Bible not of Man," "The Power of the Pulpit," "The Mercy Seat," "The Contrast" (1855); "The Mission of Sorrow" (1862); and "Pulpit Ministrations" (1864). Dr. Spring was a graceful and vigorous writer, and some of his works beside their popularity at home, were republished abroad.

James Sproat, D.D. (1722-1793)

His only publication was a "Sermon on the death of Whitefield." He was the last clergyman who appeared in public with cocked hat and wig.

Rev. Samuel Stanford (bef 1773-1826)

Rev. Archibald Steel

Robert Steel, D.D. (1794-1862)

Rev. Robert Steele (d. 1810)

Rev. James White Stephenson (pre 1769-1832)

In March, 1808, the company set out upon their journey. They reached the place of their destination and began the foundation of the "Frierson Settlement." As years passed by the kind and degree of influence exerted by Mr. Stephenson upon the young community became more distinctly marked. His preaching was solid and instructive, and sometimes highly impressive. His good sense, consistenet life, gravity of deportment, and devoted piety were reflected in the manners and character of thepeople. Few churches in the State maintained thenceforth so enviable a reputation, particularly for the faithful. The pastor possessed in a high degree the missionary spirit, and was especially intent upon evangelical labors among the Indian tribes. Under his training a Christian colony was established, and the tree planted was known by its fruits. To the ripe age of seventy-six years he continued his labors among a people, a portion of whom had been his parochial charge for forty-two years. He died in 1832.

Rev. William Steward (b. pre-1703)

Rev. Barton W. Stone

Rev. John Storrs (b pre 1767)

Rev. Richard Salter Storrs (b pre 1788)

Rev. Alexander Straith (c 1761-1837)

Rev. Julian M. Sturtevant