Page 549, He received his education in the common schools and at Parsonsfield Academy, and was a teacher in early life. He embraced religion in 1842 and soon after began to preach. The twofold and wonderfully woven mantle of his parents had fallen on him; that part received from his father, coarse, hard twisted and substantial, proved a panoply of security amid the storms that sometimes gathered about the minister’s pathway; that inherited from his saintly mother and dyed by her gentle spirit, was of soft and silken texture designed to keep the heart warm and tender. This sacred mantel was “reversible” and sometimes changed in the pulpit, alternating between the rough and silken sides. He was ordained at Saco, in August 1856, his mother preaching the sermon to a vast assembly of people in the town hall. He says “I have preached in various towns of Maine and New Hampshire, sometimes in a fine pulpit, sometimes in school house and sometimes standing on stone walls; wherever I had a thus saith the Lord.” He has always preached what he believed and lived as he preached. In personal appearance both commanding and attractive; his voice pleasant and melodious, and his language plain and pure. He has been a very useful man, who was widely known and much beloved; now passing the snowy years of venerable age, cheered by the sunshine of the Christian’s undying hope. He has been incapacitated for active service from paralysis, and says he “lives by praying”; resides in Biddeford, Maine.58
Page 261, indicates Ord. 1856160