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��school. He entered Dartmouth Col- lege in advance, and graduated in 1813.

He spent one year at the Theologi- cal Seminary at Andover ; taught for a time in Andover ; was appointed tutor in Dartmouth College in 1820; taught in Bennington, Vt., and in the state of Maine. In 1832 he became the pastor of the church in Auburn, Me., where he remained for six years, and was pastor at Danville until he died in 1841. He was an accurate scholar, and a minister of great worth. He labored for years under a lung complaint, the family disease, of which he died.

Beriah Green, from Preston, Conn., entered the school in 1S15 ; graduat- ed at Middlebury College in 18 19. After teaching four years in different places, and spending one year at An- dover, he was settled in the ministry in Brandon, Vt., for six years, and afterward in Kennebunk, Me. For three years he was professor of sacred literature in Western Reserve College, and afterward president of the Oneida Literary and Theological Institute. He aided in the formation af the American Anti-Slavery Society in Phil- adelphia in 1833. He was the act- ing pastor in Whitesborough, N. Y., for a time, and resided there until he died in 1874. A rapid scholar, and a man of vigorous mind, but wanting, it was thought, in the controlling influ- ences of the gospel.

John Sessions, a native of Putney, Vt., but a resident in early life in

, Vt. He entered the school

in 1815 ; graduated at Dartmouth Col- lege in 1822 ; and studied theology at Princeton, N. J. He was settled in Adams, N. Y., in 1825. After six years he preached awhile in Cleveland, Ohio, Brownsville, Evans's Mills, where, in a revival, two hundred were added to the church." In 1835 he was in- stalled at Norwich, N. Y., where, in seven years, some were added to the church at every communion season, and more were received than in forty years previous.

��In 1848 he was elected professor ot English literature and logic in the in- stitute at Albany. After seven years a failure of health led him to seek a foreign voyage. He visited the Sand- wich Islands, where his daughter had become the wife of a missionary. There he preached abundantly to the natives, and has left this testimony : " Every where I found evidences of true Christianity." Family worship, the study of the Bible, the observance of the Sabbath, and attendance on pub- lic worship were very general. After a time, becoming nearly blind, he took up his abode, for a number of years, with his son, in Oakland, California ; but for the benefit of his health he re- turned again to the Sandwich Islands, which was the last we have heard of him. The degree of D. D. was con- ferred upon him in early life by Union College.

Jacob Goss, from Henniker, entered the school in 18 15, and Dartmouth College, in advance, in 181 7 ; graduat- ed at Andover in 1823 ; ordained pas- tor of the church in Topsham, Me. ; at Woolwich in 1835 > at Sanford in 1843 > at Wells in 185 1 ; in Randolph, Vt., in 1856. In 1858 he yielded to the lung disease which had been prey- ing upon him, and took up his abode in Concord, N. H., made provision for his family, and died in i860. He was a man thoroughly devoted to his work, had been greatly blessed in it, and was known as one of the best pastors in the state.

Christopher Marsh, from Campton, entered the school in February, 1816 ; at Dartmouth College, in advance, in 1817; graduated in 1820. His pro- fessional studies were with Rev. Mr. Rand, of Gorham, Me. ; ordained pas- tor of the church in Sanford, Me., in 1823 ; in Biddeford in 1828 ; in West Roxbury, Mass., in 1837 ; agent of the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society in 185 1 ; pastor again at Sanford, Me., in 1857, until he died in 1859.

Samuel Stone, from Barre, Vt., was connected with the school in 18 16 ; in 1 8 1 8 he entered the seminary at Bangor

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