The New International Encyclopædia/True, Charles Kittredge

TRUE, (1809-79). A Methodist Episcopal clergyman. He was born in Portland, Maine; graduated at Harvard University, 1832, and entered the New England Conference, 1833. He was agent of the New England Education Society, 1834; principal of Amenia Seminary, 1835; entered the New York Conference, 1836; was transferred to the New England Conference, 1838; was professor of intellectual and moral science in Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., 1849-61: and financial agent of Wesleyan University, 1870-73. He published: The Elements of Logic (1840); Shawmut; or, the Settlement of Boston by the Puritan Pilgrims (1845); John Winthrop and the Great Colony (1875); The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1877); The Life and Times of John Knox (1878); Memoirs of John Howard (1878); The Thirty Years' War (1878); Heroes of Holland (1882); Life of Captain John Smith (1882).