The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Twichell, Joseph Hopkins

TWICHELL, Joseph Hopkins, American Congregational clergyman and author: b. Southington, Conn., 1838. He was graduated at Yale in 1859, and served as chaplain during most of the Civil War. In 1865 he accepted a call to the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn. His writings include &lsquo;John Winthrop&rsquo; (1891) and &lsquo;Some Old Puritan Love Letters&rsquo; (1893).