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moral philosophy, 18G8-G!). He was president of Northwestern university, Evanston, 111., Ib69- 7"2; eorresjHjnding secretary of the board of edu- cation of the M.E. church, 1872-80; a delegate to the Wesleyan conference, London, England, 1878; chancellor of Syracuse university, 1874-80, and a member of General conference in 1880. when he was elected bisliop of the M.E. church, and his residence lixed by the conference at San Fran- cisco, Cal. He held conferences in Ohio, Ken- tucky, Tennessee and Texas in 1880, and early in 1881 removed with his famih- to the Pacific coast. He received the degrees D.D. from Union college in 1854. and LL.D. from Ohio "Weslej-an univer- sity in 1863. He was married July 28, 1846, to Mary Frances, daughter of the Rev. George Coles of New York city. Their son Otis Erastus (born July 27, 1849, died Feb. 3, 1898), was a graduate of the University of Michigan, 1870, and of Rush medical college. 1883; another son Alfred Coles, born at Maiden, Mass., Sept. 30, 1857, was gradu- ated at S^-racuse miiversity, A.B., 1877, M.D., 1880; was surgeon on Pacific mail steamers to China and Japan, 1881-82. and settled as a prac- tising physician at Lake Forrest, 111., in 1882. The youngest son Theodore Woodruflf (born at Maiden. Mass., March 1, 1862 J, was graduated at University of S.vracuse, A.B., 1881; A.M., 1884, and at Boston vmiversity, S.T.B., 1884, and be- came a Methodist clergyman. Bishop Haven is author of The Young Man Advised (1855): The Pillars of Truth (1866); Bhetoric a Text-Book^ &c. (1869); and numerous pamphlets, books and periodical contributions the titles to which make two pages of the bibliography of Wesleyan Alumni Record. See his AuiohifK/raphy edited by the Rev. C. C. Stratton. D.D. ri883). Be died at Salem, Oregon. Aug. 2. ixsi.

HAVE.N, Gilbert, M.E. bishop, was born in Maiden, Mass., Sept. 19, 1821; son of Gilbert and Hannah (Burrill) Haven, and grand.son of Jotham Haven, Jr. He was prepared for college at Wes- leyan academy, Wilbraham, Ma.ss., graduated at Wesleyan university in 1846, and became a teacher of Greek and German in the Amenia seminary, N.Y.. of which his cousin Era.stus Otis Haven had just been made principal, and he suc- ceeded to the principalship, serving, 1848-51. He joined the New York conference of the M.E. church in April. 1851; was stationed at Northamp- ton, Mass., 1851-53; at Wilbraham. 1853-55; at Westfield. 1855-57: at Roxbury, 1857-.59. and at Cambridgeport. 1859-61. He was married in 1851 to Mary, daugliter of George Ingraham of Amenia, N.Y. His wife died in 1860. He was chapLiin of the 8th Mas.sachusetts militia mus- tered in for three months' service, and his com- mission was the first issued to a chaplain in the volimteer service, bearing date April 18, 1861.


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He was pastor of the Clinton Street church, New- ark, N.J.. 1861-62; and was appointed to the church at Maiden, Mass., 1862. but was allowed to travel in Europe for rest and recreation during the year. He was stationed at the North Ru.ssell Street church, Boston, 1863-65, and established the congregation in ^^^-^ __

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ple street, in 1864, and in seven months freed it from debt. In April, 1863, he be- gan a movement to provide religious in- struction for the freedmen in the south and he was api>oiuted a missionary in Vicksburg, Miss., but declined to serve as his policy to make no distinction of classes and colors in reorgan- izing the church did not accord with that of the ruling bishops. His health failed in 1865. and he gave what .service he could as a contributor to the cliurch journals and in ^larch. 1867, he was unanimously elected editor of Z)<>h'.^ llcrnhl, the organ of New England Methodism and in addi- tion to enlisting the best talent of his own church in contributing to its columns he welcomed as contributors Drs. Cuyler, Nehemiah Adams, F. D. Huntington and H. N. Powers, leaders out- side the Methodist church. In May, 1872, he was elected bishop of the M.E. church, making his official home at Atlanta, Ga., and was active in educational work among the freedmen. and later in his episcopacy returned to his home in Maiden, Mass. He travelled all over the United States and founded missions in Mexico, 1872-7§, and in AfricJi, 1876-77. He was a delegate to the general conference in 1868 and 1872. and a trustee of Wesleyan university, 1879-80. His son Wil- liam Ingrahatti Haven, born Jan. 30, 1856. in Westfield, Mass.. was graduated A.B. at Wes- lej-an university in 1877. and B D. at Bo.ston uni- versity in 1881; was stationed at Egleston Square, Boston, Mass., 1881-82, and at Brookline, Mass., 1895-96, and edited with notes his fatlier's " Christus Consolator "" (1893). Bi.shof) Haven is the author of: The Pihjrim's Wallet, or Scraps of Travel gathered in England, France and (iermany (1866); National Sermons (1869); Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher (with the Hon. Thomas Russell, 1872); Our Xext Door Xeighhor; and .1 Winter in Mexico (1875). See Memorial of (Hlhcrt Haven, edited by W. H. Daniels (1880); and The Life of Gilbert Haven by George Prentice. D.D. (1883). He died in Maiden, Ma.ss., Jan. 3, 1880.