An eminent Presbyterian divine, was born at Cedar Hill (now in New Haven), Connecticut, February 23, 1813. He graduated from Yale College in 1831, spent the ensuing year at the head of the classical department of Mount Hope Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, and then entered Yale Divinity School. At the end of the first year he was appointed tutor of mathematics in Yale College, where he remained two years, continuing his theological studies. He was licensed to preach in 1834, and became pastor of the First Church in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he remained twenty years. In 1854 he was appointed professor of intellectual and moral philosophy in Princeton College... McClintock and Strong Enclopedia